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.

As I was walking amidst those buildings that I see day in, day out, someone came crashing down. A wet crushing sound that you would 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 features that remained were the dark, black hair, and the thin, white, fragile arms and legs. And then, that broken, damaged face. The whole scene was surrounded by the old summer, and it reminded me of a pressed flower, flattened between the covers of a heavy tome.

I knew who it was. Hypnos returned after all by turning into Thanatos. I ignore the rapidly-growing swarm of bystanders and continue walking. 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 anyone can have an interest in that.

"I heard there was a lot of that last year, but is it still occurring a lot? I don't get what goes on in these peoples' minds. Do you know, Tohko-san?"

"Yeah,"

I again answer vaguely while gazing 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."