City Series:Volume7 Layer 1
Status: Incomplete
1/11 parts completed
Layer 1: Thoughts
11/15/1998
17:58
You and I walked back from school together on a major road’s sidewalk as the winter gas lights began to turn on.
“Do you think thoughts are real?”
“If I thought they were…would that thought be real?”
When I answered you, you groaned a little, wrinkled your well-formed brow, and tilted your head.
“Y’know, thoughts can be tricky, so let’s set them aside for now. …Now, memories: those were real at one point.”
“Well, yeah. Memories are when your thoughts get outside.[1] You could call it a real thoughtful ejection.”
“Then where do those memories ‘get out’ from to become memories?”
Hmm. Where do they get out from? Your ears or your butt sound like some unpleasantly realistic options…
But before I could decide, you circled in front of me and asked another question.
“You were thinking about them getting out from some place really dirty, weren’t you?”
“Sorry, I hadn’t gotten that far yet.”
Before I could actually say that, you used your skill as a Tokyo Special Duty Officer to elbow me in the gut. Oww, what the hell do you think you’re doing to the Vice Chancellor’s precious belly? As I grew angry, the gas lights lining the sidewalk starting sending out their night-colored lights.
Our surroundings were illuminated up by the winter-exclusive darkness and the smell of winter filled the area.
I rubbed my stomach and looked forward where the North Wind was walking from the other side of the road with his black hair fluttering behind him.
As he passed us, he saw where I was rubbing my stomach and spoke.
“That’s not where.”
Author Comment:
Commenting on this stuff is pretty difficult, but try to follow along.
Anyway, all of Layer 1 is what I wrote well before the serialization began. I think it might have been a year before. I wrote fifteen passages and the ones that didn’t fit here were put in other parts of the story. That’s why these ones feel a little different from the rest of the story. The title story was the only one I wrote after we decided to serialize this.
The title story had the Tokyo-ish layout of the gas lights, the North Wind, and the night. At the start, I wanted to make the night and the wind be artificial things. In the illustration’s background, you should be able to see a number of things attached to the gas light.
Chapter 108
Chapter 119
Chapter 1
Chapter 86
Chapter 95
Chapter 42
Chapter 38
Chapter 72
Chapter 92
Chapter 99
Notes
- ↑ Based on a literal interpretation of the Japanese word for memories.
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