Vol 2 Prologue (1/2)

Prologue

That renowned us hides it away, causes it to vanish behind life’s make-believe We, to the contrary, love its abrasiveness, its unruliness, its rag doll ungainliness Behind each gesture, each movement, we like to see its exertion, its torpor, its sweet ursinality

Bruno Schulz [A treatise on mannequin or The Next Book of Genesis], Station Yukio Kudou, Heibon Company Library, [all Schultz’s novels] 2005

Relative translation to [マネキン人形論あるいは創世記第二の書]: Mannequin’s theory or The Second book of Genesis

In the middle of the rain

Young Kasugai Yuu walks alongside grown up Kasugai Yuu while squeezing his hand

What wonders him wasn’t the fact that there were two of him, but his awareness of the texture of his own hand He never experience as it like to have his own hand pulled by himself before, he should never have

Think, think, think

Then her -self kneas his mother’s

Reine what he holds with his hand, and created new sensation

By the ti-self transformed This time it’s a hand that he once held before

Kodzuchi Fuyufu

With a younger body just like when she was in ele black colour children’s clothes like the colour of the dark rain

During the early years of elementary school, her body eak and Yuu was asked by her mother to acco, they walked together while holding hands

As tiot swapped and Fuyufu, who had become healthy, was the one who pulled Yuu’s hand

It ht also still be the case

Fuyufu’s hand that Yuu held was only that of her younger self

Because, Yuu doesn’t know the sensation of grown-up Fuyufu’s hand—

──This dream will most likely appear under the back of his eyelids By the ti Fuyufu disappeared, and the gentle sunlight and fareets his eyes

It’s good that he woke up, but the after self, young Fuyufu, Fuyufu’s hand, Fuyufu’s fingers……

He can feel his cheek burning up thanks to the unusually vivid dream he had

(…Could this mean that I wanted to touch Fuyufu?)

It’s hard to think that it’s a physiological issue or anything; it ht just simply be a result of frustration

Having bad thoughts right away in thehe directs his eyes to the side── It felt like his heart was about to stop

In front of his eyes was a girl’s sleeping face

She wasn’t his childhood friend whoirl like a Zashi+kiwarashi+[1] but the girl in front of his eyes has long hair, in contrast to Fuyufu’s sht and considerably well-rounded and rich body

Their faces were only dozen centimeters away from each other, and he can see her lips treh

An early su

A quiet

Between two bodies in the sa out His throat went dry He experienced a small fever

Kugimiya Miharu

She was the girl he began to live together with for the past week Actually last as the first tiether

However, they had spent over two ether in another world…

Regardless, they weren’t in a relationshi+p that forces theether like was thanks to a certain person with complicated circumstances

As if trying to prevent each other fro on Yuu’s hand As soon as he recognizes the warmth he quickly pulled his hand in a hurry

(Why is this other person’s body so hot……?)

While holding down his shock ── also the fact that the one in front of him wasn’t Fuyufu makes his sides hurt ── Yuu tried to raise his upper body without waking up Miharu It will be problematic if she wakes up now Furthermore, the “circumstances” that forces them into this situation somehoasn’t in the room

Miharu has a tendency to distrust the opposite sex which also directed towards Yuu In this situation where that girl isn’t here, for the but a problem

Fortunately Miharu slept deeply; even if he tries to talk to her she will just reply with gentle breathing

Miharu was the one who chose that brand new pajama so it should match her own size, but it appears that she feels cramped as she heavily breathes up and down── and by the ti his eyes from her

“Daaaaaaddy~~!!!!!”

The ether caetic voice

In front of the left-open door A child i a shout of victory

“Haruha was able to go to the toilet alone!”

“Nnn… U…”

Theto the clearly loud voice was from none other than the awakened Miharu

Several seconds later, Miharu screa aware of the solidified Yuu as in a position of peeping at her face Haruha lively blinked her eyes and stared blankly, still holding her pose