Editing Mushi Uta:Volume 9 Chapter 4 (section)

== 4.00 Paradigm Shift ==
While watching the girl he liked from high above, it started thinking.

That girl was cowering in a corner of the city. It was some sort of meeting place or the like. Built on top of the premises surrounded by a thicket, it was a musty old building with rain shutters fully open.

The space between the backside of the building and the thicket wasn’t even two meters. The girl was hugging both knees and sitting there. She was watching the park near the assembly hall on the other side of the thicket intently. There were children running around the park and idly chatting housewives there.

Although it’d met the girl after following the nostalgic smell, this didn’t mean she herself was anything special. But even after the nostalgic smell passed, it still kept tailing the girl.

Why did it find this girl so curious?

At first the girl was so lively, then reached ecstasy.

And this time—she became empty.

She had the eyes of a person who lost it all.

Everything robbed from her, only despair pushed onto her—that was the form of the person there.

A lump of emptiness.

Just a being that lived in vain.

Why was she robbed?

Why was she there?

Not understanding anything, she couldn’t help but try to escape the cage of absurdity.

And she had given up on resisting against that fate. Blown away by the enemy’s strength, she could only despair at her own powerlessness.

Seeing the girl, it recalled.

It had the feeling that her form was somewhat similar to someone else.

It resembled the people that were observing it in the past.

At the same time, the girl right now also resembled itself.

Even now that it could freely fly through the heavens, it couldn’t help but escape the thing that bound it.

Not moving a single step from where it was, observing the scenery viewed by its Eye. —So that it wouldn’t have to look back at its own miserable self.

Ironically feeling a sense of camaraderie, it decided to watch over where the girl was heading.

At this rate, would she—just like itself right now—be swallowed whole by the era’s darkness?

Or perhaps…

Perhaps she would save herself by overturning fate enough for a large change—for a Paradigm Shift?

Overlapping itself with the girl, it kept staring down at her.