5:10
AM.
Shi
Seien's room.
The room is no longer vacant. Seien is back on this side now.
His head faces the ceiling. His face is calm. The minimal rise and fall of his chest still strikes us as irregular. Even with what transpired on the other side, he remains whole and undisturbed, but his consciousness remains locked away in a disturbing slumber.
How did he manage to get back? Was his apparent doom on the other side instrumental to his return? But, if that is so, how come he comes back alive on this side? We look at his head – his scalp isn't bloodied, his neck isn't crooked. Though we are observers, and our judgement is bestowed on us from the above, we are not omniscient. We do not have all the answers.
So, we have no choice but to eliminate all these questions from our shapeless existence, and accept that Shi Seien did escape from the TV room, away from the murderous grasp of The Man With No Face, and made it safely, spirit, soul and body, into his room. It is useless to be confused, more so remain confused. We won't be able to fulfill the task we are set off to do with these distractions.
We notice that a faint light has broken into the room. The sun's rays are starting to show on the horizon, marking the arrival of daytime. With this, the eerie shadows of this room will surely be broken, and Seien will remain asleep in a room that takes respite from the troughs of darkness.
But, will things really end this way?
