My body hurt so much...
Where was I? Was I having a nightmare?
My mind was perfectly clear, but why couldn't I move my body at all?
In a classroom at Chiba Academy, a gray-haired girl knelt on the floor, a trace of pain showing on her face. Her body hurt terribly... yet she couldn't move at all. Green vines covered her from head to toe.
No one knew where the vines were coming from. Or perhaps... they weren't growing from her flesh at all, but from somewhere invisible to the naked eye.
At that moment, the girl felt as if she were a plant, and the vines covering her were beyond her control.
"Mom..."
The girl softly murmured the word for her mother.
She remembered. In her memory...
She had school that day, but she seemed to have overslept that morning and gotten scolded by her mother. Then she'd come to school, and during first period... math class, because she couldn't concentrate, her attention had wandered elsewhere.
That was when she spotted the white-haired transfer student leaning by the classroom window. He was dozing off again, as if it had become a habit.
Then... then she heard screams coming from the school corridor. The class monitor suddenly stood up, and when the teacher questioned her, she rushed straight to the podium and bit down on the teacher's neck...
After that... she couldn't remember...
The girl realized her memories were incomplete, full of blank spots. She couldn't remember what had happened next. In fact... she couldn't even remember who she was.
"Ah! My head hurts!"
Suddenly... waves of agony surged through her head. The girl, who had been unable to move, abruptly raised her hands and clutched her skull.
As she moved, the vines spreading from her body grew denser,