When the Stars Fall, the Eternal Catastrophe Blooms in the Eyes

Hidden in Tokyo's steel forest are buildings that cry. Chiba Hoshika, a frequent visitor to the rooftop of the private Hoshimi Academy, can see the "sad colors" of the city with her right eye. Those abandoned old school buildings, midnight-circulating tram stops, and mysterious kitchens that always smell of baked apple pie are all "mental afterimages" condensed by strong human emotions. As a purifier holding a star-shaped birthmark, she travels between reality and memory with a hand-made starry sky lollipop, but in every tearful moment, she hears her own name from the heartbeat of the building. "How many times do you have to repeat the rescue that is doomed to fail?" The black-haired girl Kiriko Kujo always appears suddenly, with the memories of 37 world lines locked in her pocket watch. When Xingxia discovers photos of past students with the same appearance as hers in the yearbook, when a boy from the Ministry of Astronomy takes a picture of the inhuman silhouette in her shadow, when the victims who should be strangers whisper the nickname she should have forgotten - the past that has been deliberately erased is gradually emerging with the gear clock tower emerging above Tokyo. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.