The next day.
The same morning, the same office, the same sofa, the same people, and the same event—storytelling.
The difference is that the storyteller has changed, and the protagonist of the story has also changed, becoming a young girl.
The story is not complicated and does not contain any deep emotions. It is just the wish of a girl who has been bedridden for many years.
The girl lost her family very early. Not long after she was hospitalized for an incurable disease, her father, mother and younger brother lost their lives in an accident.
Since then, she has been living in the hospital, year after year, day after day, and she even forgot how long she has lived here.
The girl became an outlier in this hospital. No one could hear her even if she spoke, and she couldn't do anything even if she stretched out her hands. All she could do was to linger in the ward.
What accompanied her was the scenery outside the ward window: the forest that colored the four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the people who came and went in the hospital.
This was the only scenery in the girl's eyes, year after year, until she lost consciousness.
I don’t know since when, this scenery has been forever fixed in the girl’s heart, and the girl began to curse this unchanging scenery, curse the outside world, and at the same time yearn for it, yearn for the boundless sky.
Because the sky has no boundaries, maybe somewhere under the sky there is a world that the girl doesn't hate.
The scenery in my mind becomes clearer and clearer, while the scenery that my eyes can see becomes more and more blurred.
When the girl's eyesight dropped to a freezing point, she found that she had an extra pair of "eyes" floating in the air.
No, the girl has more than just eyes, but also a body.
Lying on the sickbed, he looked up at the sky, and from the sky he looked down at the earth. It was the same person, the same consciousness, but two different ways of existence.
The girl in the sky floats in the air every night, overlooking the city. She begins to feel lonely and wants someone to accompany her to overlook the scenery together.
During this time, she met a boy.
The boy said he wanted to be her friend, and would overlook the scenery with her in the sky, and also look up at the sky with her on the ground.
The girl's name is Mujo Kirie, one of the protagonists of the first chapter of "Kara no Kyoukai" "Overlooking the Scenery", one of Ryougi Shiki's opponents, and a person as pitiful as Asagami Fujino.
The boy is the narrator of the story—Shinji Matou.
"I see... Same consciousness, different container, dual existence. It seems that this Wujo Kirie comes from an ancient pure-blood family. This family is likely to be experts in prayer. The surname Wujo may refer to the impure generation."
Orange is knowledgeable and has analyzed a lot of things just from Shinji's few words.
"Prayers and curses are the same thing in a sense. This peculiarity is the answer to your prayers. However, just praying cannot truly make her a dual existence. It seems that someone gave her another container. Shinji, if you want to get her attention, you must be careful of this person."
"I know. I'm ready to face that person."
This is not only for Mujo Kirie, but also for Shinji himself. He wants to use this person to test his strength and test his growth over the past three years.
Sensing the determination hidden in the calm words, Orange said no more and just asked: "What is the purpose of you telling me this?"
"I would like you to help her."
"How? Heal her body."
"That's just one of the reasons. More importantly, I want you to help her resolve her worries. You know, I'm not good at guiding others. Sometimes, what I'm saying turns into ridicule and criticism." Shinji laughed at himself.
The two chatted for a long time last night, and Mujo Kirie was indeed happy about Shinji's arrival, but until her body could no longer support her and she slowly fell asleep, Shinji was unable to untie the two knots in her heart.
Is she floating or flying
Can a butterfly catch up with a dragonfly
"Well... Is there a difference between floating and flying? Is there any meaning in a butterfly catching up with a dragonfly?" Ganya said he was completely confused.
"Right, right, that's what I thought too." Shinji held Kan'ya's hand and shook it up and down as if he had found a soulmate. "Both floating and flying are moving in the air, why are you fussing about that? And dragonflies and butterflies are two different species."
"Alas, you two guys who don't understand women's hearts are really hopeless." Orange sighed, "Listen carefully, two pieces of wood, what Wu Tiao Wu Hui wants to express is not something on the physical level."
"What she really wants is probably to escape, escape from the monotonous ward, escape from the monotonous scenery, escape from the sad fate. There are two kinds of escape, escape without purpose, and escape with purpose. The former is floating, the latter is flying, the former is death, the latter is life. Which kind of scenery she overlooks is decided by her alone."
"Her answer to this question is whether a slow-flying butterfly can catch up with a fast-flying dragonfly."
"Wouldn't that be terrible?"
"That's right, how can a butterfly catch up with a dragonfly?"
Orange covered her face, finally freeing herself from the speechless mood towards the two idiots.
"If we compare speed, the butterfly is certainly not as fast as the dragonfly, but this is not a race. Can't the dragonfly wait for the butterfly? To be more exaggerated, if you fly with the butterfly, won't it be faster than the dragonfly? In the final analysis, neither the butterfly nor the dragonfly can fly across the ocean, but with the help of a boat, they can fly across the ocean and head to another sky."
"Why does it sound more and more philosophical?" Shinji began to feel a headache.
"Survival is a philosophy." Chengzi lit a cigarette, the trajectory of the smoke was unpredictable, "It seems that you can't figure it out in a short time. Leave the matter of Wujo Wuhui to me. I am also a little interested in her dual existence. She is in the same hospital as Ryougi Shiki, so it doesn't matter if I take care of her. However, your family is an expert in matters related to consciousness and soul, so let her come over when you have time."
"Okay, I'll arrange it as soon as possible." Shinji would naturally not refuse such a thing.
"Come to think of it, why do we always encounter such peculiar beings? And they are all women. Ryougi Shiki, Mujo Kirie, Fujino, and—" Orange glanced at Kan'aya and swallowed the name "Kurotoshige Hana". That was also a peculiar being.
"Who knows, maybe this is your fate." Shinji sighed. Although he was the one who brought Fujino and Kirie to Orange, he knew very well that even without his intervention, the fate of these two people would have intersected with Orange's because of the man sitting next to him.
—In the story called "The World of Kara".
PS: For those who haven't watched "Kara no Kyoukai", let me briefly explain that the butterfly and dragonfly are the dreams that Kurokuni Kan'ei had about Mujo Kirie after the end of "Overlooking the Scenery". The general idea is that a group of dragonflies are flying busily, and a butterfly is following closely behind, but the speed of the dragonfly does not slow down. The butterfly gradually couldn't keep up, and at the moment when it was about to disappear from the horizon, it fell down powerlessly - used to refer to the story of Mujo Kirie. Mujo Kirie was looking for a companion who could fly with her and lead her to fly, but at the end of "Overlooking the Scenery", she never got it. Even if she used hints to lure the girls to jump off the building and turned them into ghosts, she didn't notice the existence of Kirie. In the end, Kirie set her sights on Mikiya, who she saw by chance in the hospital and fell in love with at first sight. She took away Mikiya's soul, and then was found by Shiki. Mikiya's ordinariness has an extraordinary attraction to abnormal existence. Shiki, Fujino, Kirie, flowers and Shirajun Rio are all attracted to Mikiya. Well, the first four are female, and the last one is male. (As for the daughter Ryougi Mina's statement that she wants to defeat her mother and take her father away... well, let's just ignore it for now.)