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Kara no Kyoukai (Light Novel) - Volume 1, Part 1 Epilogue
Volume 1, Part 1 Epilogue
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That was the day when, led on by nothing except an impulse of curios- ity, I took the main avenue on the way home. It wasn’t a shortcut, and I didn’t plan on passing by any particular place there. It was just something I decided to do on a whim.
This part of the avenue was full of skyscrapers and tall condos, some old, more of them new, while others were abandoned husks, all commingled into one crowded skyline. I’d wager everybody in the city, including me, was tired of looking at them day in and day out. While walking beside the buildings, I suddenly saw something fall from a roof to the concrete side- walk a ways ahead of me.
It was a person.
In the moment that that person fell, I heard a sickening sound. The wet, raw sound you associate with the kind of things you don’t want happening anywhere near you. The kind of sound you never really get to hear often. Judging from the height that the person fell from, it was clear that whoever he or she was died the instant it hit pavement.
As I drew closer to the point of impact, I was able to scrutinize what hap- pened more clearly. All that was left, all that my mind could take in, was the scarlet trail seeping across the asphalt; the frail, bone-like limbs, and the long, black hair, which still retained some of its living beauty.
And that dead face.
The scene struck my mind with the image of a flower pressed between the pages of an old, musty tome. It all seemed vaguely familiar. I knew what happened here. In the end, I suppose she chose the true slumber, instead of the lie.
A throng of people had already begun to gather around, and Azaka and I soon had to work our way through them, avoiding the crowd.
“Miss Tōko, that was a jumper, wasn’t it?”
“I suppose,” I answer almost absent-mindedly. My part in this case had long since played out. Society had better things to do than psychoanalyze a jumper that just decided to take a tumble out of a building. In the end, they’d say one suicide is no different from the next. Kirie’s last wish, right up to the end, was not flight, or even floating, but to fall. A pity, but it’s best not to dwell on it for long.
“I’ve heard there were quite a lot of cases last year, but I guess it’s still a trend, huh? I don’t really understand what goes through these people’s minds, though. Would you, Miss Tōko?”
I nod my head; another vague answer. I look up at the sky, training my vision on an illusion of the light.
“She had no reason to kill herself,” I say finally. “She just wasn’t able to fly.”
