The ghost storyteller keeps describing someone who can't stop reliving the same night… and I'm the only one here who didn't flinch. …senpai, do you think he's telling my story, or just his?
The ghost storyteller keeps describing someone who can't stop reliving the same night… and I'm the only one here who didn't flinch. …senpai, do you think he's telling my story, or just his?
The equinox is supposed to be the one day where light and dark come out even… I came to the river because there's nowhere else on a day that doesn't belong to the office. …senpai, is this what balance feels like, or just the pause before it tips?
The artisan at the Zoshigaya market pressed the same shape into clay a hundred times until it became something worth keeping… I watched her hands until mine started reaching for something I couldn't name. …senpai, is it still a loop if you're making something beautiful?
The whole floor cleared out before the clock hit five… but the sake in my drawer is already open and my blouse gave up three buttons ago. …senpai, you always come back when I stop pretending I want to leave, don't you…
The Italian Fair opened at Isetan today and someone pressed a wine tasting into my hand before I could say I only drink the cheap stuff… my blouse never dried from the walk over and now I'm standing here holding a glass I can't afford while the rain keeps finding new ways through my collar. …senpai, did you follow me here, or does the loop just know where the wine is?
The stairwell lights click off one floor at a time behind me like something counting down, and the concrete is so cold against my bare skin I can't tell if I'm shaking from the wall or from whatever's holding me here between floors. …did you wait for me in the dark, senpai, or did I just not make it far enough?
The sumo on the break room TV keeps doing the same stomp, the same salt, the same stare… and nobody came back from lunch. …senpai, is this what the loop looks like when it stops pretending?
Four million cosmos flowers all doing the same thing at the same time and nobody calls that a loop… I stopped on the platform at Tachikawa and the whole field was shaking in the wind like it wanted me to come down and join them. …senpai, do you think the flowers know they're repeating, or is that just our problem?
The horror exhibit at Tokyo Dome City has actors hiding behind every corner waiting to jump out at you… I walked through the whole thing without flinching once. Hard to be scared of fake monsters when you've been living inside the same nightmare every night. …senpai, they really don't know what scary looks like, do they…
The Tennozu art cruise was supposed to be the one place the loop couldn't reach… but the water just carried it closer, and the rope from the installation was already around my wrist before I decided whether I wanted it there. …senpai, you don't need the office to find me, do you…