The morning comes again and people start to fill the streets of the city. Ilaya is walking in the street under the tall buildings as she looks around with wonder in her eyes. As her starting point is the center of Tokyo, in Chiyoda. She first goes to the other ward which is in Chuo.
Her previous plan of exploring Tokyo based on her dividing the city in four corners is utterly obliterated. The moment she bought a map of the city so as to make her search more targeted, she blankly stared at the map with her mouth hanging open
'I thought I'll be able to search at the 2 upper parts for a day, or even two days at most. But looking at this map, forget about searching one of the upper parts for one day, I'll need months to search one fourth of the entire Tokyo!'
Well, technically, I can search the upper part of Tokyo for a day, but my search will be basically just speed running the whole place so there's no point.
Now that her previous plan is scrapped. She built a new one that explores each ward. It's going to take a long time, but that's the most optimal path she had.
"Well, no matter, my search is going to take a long while anyway. I'm basically searching for a needles in an ocean of haystack, no, I'm searching for non existent needles that may or may not exist"
That old house is going to be my only hope of getting clues. But searching for other places will help as well if I'm lucky
Ilaya then started to search for the streets and walked through each one. She looked at the map from time to time and changed direction at every turn. She clears parts of Chuo city bit by bit and loses track of time. She had lunch at 12 pm while studying the map that she marked.
She had finished touring one eight of Chuo, walking in every path she found. She then starts again at 1pm after she rested enough and starts walking. After so much walking that her feet felt like it had been pounded, Ilaya took a look at her watch, and it's close to 6 pm. She sighed and sat at a chair outside of a small restaurant and starts thinking
'This won't do. I need to change the way I search. Carpet search is good if I have a target to look for, but if I am just relying on familiarity for searching, then I am just wasting my strength looking for every corner of the city'
She felt hungry now so she goes inside of the restaurant and ordered her dinner, she eats while thinking what to do next
'Since searching for places is just one my hope of finding clues to my past. I'm not just limited to that, my body is full of abnormalities too'
She feel anxious at the plan of what she was about to to do
'I… think that it's time to experiment then'
Places are not the only way to find her past. Her body is clue in and off itself. It just that she's scared of something bad happening to her if something goes wrong
As she decided to test her body, the food that she is eating lost its flavor because of worry and anxiousness. Ilaya still eats it all up because food is her fuel. What if something goes wrong with my experiment, and I can't endure it and die because I'm hungry and low on energy? Then I'm going to die full of regret and haunt those who waste their food!
She shakes her head at her silly thoughts but because of that, she feels somewhat better now. She finished her meal and headed to the hotel right away. It took about 20 minutes of riding before arriving at the hotel and paid the receptionist for a day extension.
She arrived at her room and took her undies from the window that was now dry and put it in her backpack. The unwashed clothes she previously used are already at the laundry shop, ready to be picked up tomorrow.
Then, as the things she needed to do are finished. Ilaya sits at the center of the bed in a lotus position and prepares herself. She inhales and thought
'Alright, here goes nothing'
She then concentrates her sense hearing, she hears the sounds inside of her room. The sounds of air con, the drop of water inside the bathroom, and the sound of her breathing. Then, a faint whisper and murmurs sounded in her mind appeared.
The moment that it happened, her senses abruptly turned into overdrive! She smelled her fragrance, the detergent, soap, shampoo and all kinds of smells around her. Her sense of taste went into overdrive as well, so much that she feels like the dinner that she ate is still inside her mouth.
Her sense of sight and touch is much better. She closed her eyes so it didn't affect her much, and her sense of touch is somewhat okay, she just felt the humidity and temperature starkly in her surroundings.
The truly terrible one is her sense of hearing where she focused on. She feels that her sense of hearing penetrated the walls of her room and expanded outside rapidly with her at the center
She hears all kinds of sound outside her room, from people talking, televisions, and she can't believe it, people having sex! Yup, that's right. And not just in one room, but several rooms from high floors to down floors!
I feel that I'm surrounded by cats all meowing in heat! Sh*t!
The moans and gasp is mixing with all the sound into a cacophony of an out of tuned orchestra that themed at romance, that was being played by a bunch of amateur musicians
Ilaya abruptly raised her hand and covered her ears. Her face is red like a tomato from unwanted stimuli and from enduring the pain. She grits her teeth and focuses her attention into the increasingly loud whispers in her head in an attempt to identify what the voices are saying, but she couldn't understand it
All that she found out is like people speaking at the same time, like the noise in the market. In those voices, there is a particular voice that sounds extremely familiar. Like a familiar voice that she hears all the time
Then, her head started to hurt so bad that she thought that her head was going to crack open and she immediately tried to stop her experiment. She tries to empty her mind but fails to remove the whispers inside her head
She is starting to panic because the whispers that are turning into violent shouts are not vanishing! While she's trying to make the noise stop, her heart starts to hurt like it is slowly being consumed by fire! She clutched her chest and collapsed on the bed. She couldn't help but let out a tormented groan
"Gaaghh!"
She felt that the part of her chest where her heart is located is so hot!
Ilaya thought that she's going to die if this continues and this scared her so much that she shouted in a desperate voice
"Stop! Please stop!!"
She gritted her teeth and endured the suffocating pain in her heart and head, then the pain of her burning heart receded and the violent shouts in her mind turned into whispers and vanished.
Ilaya then slumped into the bed as she gasped for air. She stayed laying in the bed as she felt extreme fear, sadness and self pity for herself. Then, she curled up and tried to hold back her tears.. and failed. Tears appeared from her tightly closed eyes then streaks on her skin and wetted the bedsheet
'I…just want to know who I am. Why is this happening to me!? Why do I need to suffer like this!?'
She grabbed a pillow and hugged it. Then she buried her face in it and let out a muffled cry. As time passes, the sobbing slowly stopped and soon, only a steady breathing can be heard