Kara no kyoukai:Chapter04 01

This place is dark, and the floor is pitch black.

When I realised that the only thing around me was the darkness I accepted the fact that I was dead.

I'm floating in a sea with no light or noise. Naked, without any covering, the human being called Ryougi Shiki is sinking into the depths.

There's no light here. No I suspect I never fell in the first place.

Since there's nothing here.

It's not just that there's no light, there isn't even any darkness. Since there is nothing here nothing is visible. THere is no meaning to the concept of falling.

Inside the 「　　」within which even form is meaningless, just my body keeps sinking. The naked me, I'm a poisonous shade which makes me want to turn my eys away. Because everything 「here」 bears such a poisonous aura.

"--- This is death."

Even the sound of my muttering seems like a dream.

Then, I observe something like time. Time has no meaning inside「　　」but I become able to observe it.

As naturally as flowing water, as grossly as putrefaction, I am just counting the time.

There is nothing here.

Even if I keep continuously looking in the distance I can't see anything.

Even if I keep waiting continuously for something I can't see anything.

It's very nice and peaceful.

No --- Since nothing has meaning, just 「being」here makes everything perfect.

This is death.

The world which only the dead can reach. The world which the living cannot see.

But, I'm still alive ---.

I thought I would lose my mind.

For 2 years I sat there in the midst of the concept called death. Rather then observation, it was closer to the struggle of battle.