Consciousness

And one day, something happened. It suddenly seemed as if I was in the sky above the hospital courtyard, the one
outside my window. I could look down on everything. My body and mind
were still in the room, but I felt my vision fly in the sky. But I still couldn’t
move from here, and my vision didn’t go anywhere beyond this hospital.”
“Your mind must have gained correspondence with the surroundings,
considering how long you’ve been here. Your spatial awareness must have
been quite strong.” For the second time now, she pauses before she says,
“Is that the time when you started to lose your eyesight?”

It seems there is little about me this woman doesn’t know even before
she entered the room. It’s true, though. I will soon be fully blind. I nod my
answer.
“Yes. I could do nothing as the world slowly turned into nothingness. At
first, I thought that everything was just turning into a deep darkness. But it
was the void I was gazing into. But this didn’t bother me, because my real
eyes were floating high up in the sky. I can only see the view around the
hospital, but I was never going to get out of here anyway. Nothing really
changed, if you think about it. Nothing ever changed…”
I have a short coughing fit. It’s been such a long time since I talked to
anyone for this long, it hurts my throat and lungs, and focusing too much
makes my eyes burn.

“I see,” she replies after I compose myself. “You projected your consciousness in the sky. But if that was your consciousness, then you should truly be dead, since Shiki killed your ‘ghost’ consciousness.”

In truth, I’ve actually been thinking that as well. This woman keeps saying the name Shiki, who I assume to be my assailant. How was that person
able to stab me? The me floating in the Fujō Tower can’t touch anything,
but also cannot be affected in turn. Yet this Shiki slashed me as if that was
my real body.

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