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He awoke to the faint sound of grating bone.In the dead of the night, when he opened his eyes, he lost his sense of feeling in his arms and legs.He was mimicking a transparent chrysalis. He became a dwarf, no biggerthan the palm of a hand, locked inside the brain. However much he moved hislimbs, his sleeping corpse would not budge.Only his left arm was connected to his trapped mind. The blood beating inthose veins was transformed into information. He felt the illusion of a mere partreplacing his whole. Being only able to move his left arm meant that theexistence of

石

Ishi

杖

zue

所在

Arika

was concentrated in his left arm."——ah"His body, is in pain.He hears the sound of grinding.He feels the chill of his body being scraped away,The pleasure of his entirety being chewed.The realization that he was being eaten.He

The arm

faded away and he finally regained himself

his freedom

. In the darkness, he heardslurping. He removed the blanket.On top of the bed was the sight of complete red. The girl, stained in purered from the nose down, smiled at him with her shattered jaw."Onii-chan, it hurts doesn't it?"The girl was taken a hold of by something

wrong

.On his left arm which had been gobbled up quickly, there was no pain,there were no bite marks. The girl licked the severed surface with her shattered jaw. As if to fill in the large hole of one who has lost someone.It was a silent night of grating bone.The sound of budding, beautiful life.