\"Basket Worm\" translation by Hazuki no Yume It sucks. Even when I lock myself up in my room, the noise outside is still turning my head into a mess. I’m definitely not going to look. I don’t want to look. But I still want to take a peek. Thus ever so quietly, I reached out my hand toward the curtain. Come on, make a weekend trip with someone to those lands obscenely standing along the National Highway, as if springing from the ground. That someone being whomever’s there by your side. I’ve burned up all of the letters from once upon a time, so that I won’t end up developing things I can’t give up on; so that I won’t cry, even when I wake up from my sleep. Crafting a piece of work by my bedside. Aah, you’ve appeared in my dream again. “I believe you” have such a lame sound to them. If only you had been more like me— like a threadbare, worn out piece of rag. It scares me to change the way I feel about things, that’s why I’m just doing everything haphazardly, miles away. Not having learned my lesson, after some time has passed, an idea would get into my head again, and I’d wish I could have you. Exactly for whose sake do I want to burn it all up and throw it away? I’ve lost everything to a self-centered, self-serving sort of kindness. Yet I’ve forgotten all that as I allowed myself to sink lower, in my self-generated misery. Truly, I’m a hopeless case. See, I’d be overcome by the early summer wind, and I’d stage an oh-so-coincidental coincidence, coming up with some lines like some sort of trap, only to start feeling this self-hatred again. Goodbye, my beloved inhaler. I’ve already gotten quite afraid of hurting someone else, so I’m just going to go on living as I trip and fall, get up, only to trip and fall again at a place no one knows of, without telling anyone about it.