Vol 1 Prologue (1/2)

PROLOGUE – CRUMBLING CLassROOM STAGE

The ceiling fell It was 8:13 AM Golden sunlight streah the classroom s

Kusunoki Masaki’sit difficult to breathe He quickly surveyed the roo was scattered across the desks, chairs, and floor, and a shroud of dust hung in the air

In the center of it all was a strange, dancing shadow

Card soldiers with long, thin lieese, and from their yellow beaks came letters of the alphabet Ducks, parrots, crabs, and hattedin the chaos

None of the beings could be real It was as if they had fallen out of a fairytale

It see collapsed

Masaki had been the only person in the roo with fantastic beings The lined up desks and chairs were stepped and trodden on, being crushed to the point that they were no longer recognisable

In the midst of the card soldiers, hatted mice, and the other anis – was an enor The top of its tofty-haired round head reached all the way to the top of the joist bay whose bottom had fallen out

The large cat closed its alave a complacent smile, and lowered its head in what seemed to be a bow

Between its two triangular ears was the form of a human

The person stood out in a different sense than the strange beings dancing in the middle of the rubble

Masaki held his breath

He forgot about as going on around hiht

The girl looked just like a Western doll

Her eyes were a clear, sapphire blue, and she had hair like a bundle of gold thread Her skin hite as a plaster figure

She clung to the tufts of fur around the ears of the big cat as it slowly moved