Kara no Kyoukai:Chapter01 07

That day, I chose to take the main street to go home. It was just on a whim, a very rare thing for me to do.

When I was walking through the buildings I see everyday, someone came crashing down. A wet crushing sound that you will normally never hear. It was obvious that the person died after falling off one of the buildings. A crimson color spreads across the ground. The only thing that's left noticeable was the dark, black hair, and the thin, white, weak-looking arms and legs... And the smashed up face. The whole scene was surrounded by the old summer, and it reminded me of a pressed flower that has flattened out from being in between a book.

I knew who it was. Hypnos (Sleep) returned after all by turning into Thanatos (reality). Walking on ignoring the people gathering, Azaka catches up to me.

"Tohko-san. She committed suicide by jumping off that building."

"Yeah, I guess so," I answer vaguely.

To be honest, I had no interest. No matter what the will of the person is, a suicide will be treated as a suicide. Her last will can be summed up with one word, not flight or floating, but by the word "fall". What's there is only misery, and there's no way you can be interested in that.

"I heard there was a lot of that last year, but is it still occurring a lot? I don't get what these people think about. Do you know, Tohko-san?'

"Yeah," I answer vaguely again

I answer while looking up at the sky, as if looking at an image not there.

"There's no reason for suicide. It's just that she wasn't able to fly today."