Let's say we don't know what time in the world today would belong to. Let's say we are just living a peaceful life in this small town, going to school, having a crush on someone, going out and buying gifts in the city, and the city suddenly explodes from a bombing. We don't know why, but war has definitely struck. You see the friend you were with die. You look up at the sky and see what looks like a tiny star finish the enemy in one sweep. The star falls to the ground. The mist clears, and in the star's place, you see her. Not a star, but a girl, morphed into a weapon of mass destruction.

Can't believe it? Let's flash to a few days back. You were dating with this cute timid girl in class. Didn't take her seriously. She just desperately wanted to be with you. You are hot, after all, the jock. You go your separate ways after the date, and she trots back to her little house.

The day after the bombing, after your friend's death, you meet your girlfriend in school. She has many bruises, cuts and scratches all over her. She tells you it's nothing. Days pass, and more news about attacks and counter-attacks around the place reach you. But nothing happens in your peaceful town. And you see less of your girlfriend, and if you do, you see more bruises, more cuts, more scratches.

You get curious and decide to visit her at her little home. And just before you get there, you see the star landing in front of her house, the girl whose body has morphed into a weapon of mass destruction. Shutting off and returning to her human self, she becomes this cute timid girl you went out with. Your girlfriend. Bruised, cut, and scratched.

She was abducted by the military, and became a test subject that cannot help but respond to the call of war.

You notice that the world around you is changing, ravaged by this war. Yet your little town stays peaceful like it was before. And she tells you it's because she's there that you are able to live this peaceful life. So she kills, and destroys the enemies that threaten your little town. She is bruised, cut and scratched. And you witness her transform slowly into a weapon scarier than she was before. And all you can do is live this peaceful life she protects.

What can you do after all? Just watch her slowly become a heartless weapon, used to preserve your pathetic little life. Because you are all she has to feel human. It is your love that makes her human.




Saishuu Heiki Kanojo: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet
by Shin Takahashi

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