Himawari Wa Yoru Ni Saku 【Essential – 2024】

They weren't blooming for her. They weren't blooming for the arcology. They were blooming because that was what they were made to do. In the dark, in the dead soil, in the belly of a dying world — they opened their petals and turned toward a sun that no one else could see.

Oriko smiled.

The night after that, a foot.