Crack—!

The smell of something burning grazed the tip of my nose.

This place—who could say what it originally looked like?

Everything had burned and burned again, so the original appearance had long been lost.
It was impossible to imagine what it had once been.

All that remained was a world of blackened ash and embers still smoldering.

‘What a mess.’

I let out a brief chuckle as I looked around.

It wasn’t somewhere else; this was the inside of my own heart.

The fact that the world looked like this—
It meant that my insides were as …