-oyasumi- Nhk Ni Youkoso - Welcome To The Nhk - ❲Proven – ROUNDUP❳

And for one second—just one—you believe that tomorrow might be a different episode.

"The call was from my mom. Or a satellite. Same thing."

The 6:00 AM news chimes from a broken clock radio. A cheerful NHK announcer reports on rising stock prices. You turn the volume down. It sounds like a conspiracy. -Oyasumi- NHK ni Youkoso - Welcome to the NHK -

The NHK fee collector hasn't come in three weeks. That's the longest he's ever waited. He's training. Next time, he'll bring a battering ram shaped like a TV license.

Oyasumi, oyasumi.

Oyasumi.

You pull the blanket over your head. The blanket is a bunker. Underneath it, the world shrinks to the size of a manga panel. You hear the old woman next door watering her plants. She waters them every morning. You imagine the roots drinking, growing, plotting. She is probably a scout for the Hikikomori Eradication Project . The water is actually a pheromone that makes you want to join a cult. And for one second—just one—you believe that tomorrow

The whisper comes from the corner of the room. Not from you. From the other you—the one who lives in the mold stain that looks like a map of Hokkaido.

Oyasumi, oyasumi.

"Did you answer your phone?"

Oyasumi, sekai (Goodnight, World)