Editing Mushi Uta:Volume 4 Chapter 1 (section)

==1.04 Chiharu Part 2==

Stopping her bicycle in front of Urban Dome, Chiharu widened her eyes at the scene.

“''Uwaah'', did an earthquake or a typhoon passed by here?”

Large chunks of ground were gouged out in front of the passage leading into Urban Dome. A large hole was opened up into the wall of the tower, as if a bulldozer had rammed its way through. If a natural disaster like what Chiharu said herself had happened, there was no way that she would not know living so close to this area.

Her surroundings were already wrapped in darkness. As she had left the dome late in the night yesterday, she could not tell what the condition was like in the complete darkness.

“Maybe the construction work has resumed? If that’s the case, perhaps they’re redoing the pavement.”

After locking her bicycle, she walked towards the dome.

The entrance to the dome was the same as yesterday, unlocked, and she entered unhindered. Chiharu walked across the floor while humming, and ascended the halted escalator.

Although the outsides have been reduced to rubbles mysteriously, the paradise in the lounge of the second floor was unchanged.

As were the verdant trees standing in the darkness of the night.

Similarly, the soil that looked as soft as a bed was untouched.

And also—.

“I’ve come again. So as to meet with you.”

Similar to yesterday, the long-haired girl was lying on her side. Her arms and legs were folded like that of a foetus, looking like she was very snuggly and cosily sleeping.

—How nostalgic.

Once again, a strange sensation welled up in Chiharu.

Chiharu did not recognise the face of the girl which looked like that of a princess of some fairy-tale. However, she can’t erase the sense of nostalgia that she inexplicably felt.

Chiharu could somehow guess the reason for it.

“There are a lot of things that I want to ask you… but, once I see your sleeping face, I just can’t get myself to wake you up.”

With a smile, Chiharu laid down in the paradise matching the girl face to face. Turning around 180 degrees, Chiharu laughed.

“You know. I… do not have memories from beyond that of five years ago.”

She muttered out this secret which she had never told anyone before apart from her mother.

“I have a feeling that the things I can’t remember was something terribly bad. There’s a feeling of guilt, one that was as if I had done something very horrible to someone else. I feel like I shouldn’t achieve happiness for myself having forgotten about what I had done… as though there are some things I have left undone. That’s the kind of feeling I have.”

Chiharu spoke out loud, as if to somebody.

Isn’t that right? I have surely forgotten about what was most important…

She turned her upwards facing head towards the girl.

“Hey, wouldn’t you know who I am?”

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But, the girl only breathed out softly.

With a soft smile, Chiharu let the drowsiness take over her body and closed her eyes.

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