Kagerou Project Light Novel

Kagerou Daze -in a daze- [Kagerou Daze I]

Kagerou Daze I

My eyes are disoriented. The world changes to monochrome in an instant. In the middle of all of that, the blue of the clear cloudless sky and the red…… red, sign, and……! The intense contrast emitting from just those two colors burn the back of my retina.

Just what is this spreading out in front of my eyes right now, I wonder.

The sound of the cicada’s foolish crying voice pierces my ears.

The smell of iron mixes with your scent.

Without realizing it, all of my feelings directly stimulate the inside of my brain like a punch.

In the pedestrian crossing were tire marks that seemed burnt and your small body that was about the same size as that red line drawn to it. It wasn’t as if I was going to try and do something at this point but once I ran over to your side, I could feel the heat enveloping in my throat, eyes, nose, head, and reality slamming into me hard.

The person in front of me isn’t you.

It wasn’t you who I was just talking to moments earlier.

It’s just a red lump of something.

No matter what anyone says, this thing isn’t you.

……I began to feel nauseated and my head ached horribly. My vision was blurred as if I were trying to open my eyes underwater, water dripping, leaving marks behind on the asphalt. It appears that the water seemed to be trickling down from both of my eyes.

I move my mouth to try to talk to you but, I’m not sure whether it was drowned out by the sounds of the cicada’s voices or if my voice didn’t come out right from the beginning but I couldn’t hear anything at all.

I have to tell you.

I just decided recently to try and tell you.

I have to hurry and tell you.

The swaying heat haze (kagerou) was standing awfully close.

He just stood there, as if he were ridiculing us or trying to get in the way between you and me.

Please don’t get in the way. I can finally convey this to her right now.

You can laugh at me as much as you want later. That’s why, please, just leave us alone for now.

This is really late, and you might feel disgusted but……

The way that you’re just a little bit selfish,

And your bad habit of hitting me whenever you get embarrassed,

And the scent of your fluttering hair, all of it,

――I really loved you.