The Chronicle of One Who Watched an Age Rot to the End

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This is the record of one

who watched the corruption of an age

all the way to its bitter end.

I am good at obsession,

relentless,

and once I bite down,

I do not let go.

If my sacrifice can be used

to catch a giant rat,

I am the kind of person

who would accept that fate.

I may look weak,

but in truth

I am the most tenacious of all.

And so, at last,

I trapped the largest mole-rat in the world

inside a poisoned jar.

That mole-rat

is the one who darkens the world

with a cute and gentle tone.

Every place it passed through

has rotted away;

now all that remains

is scorched earth and dust.

If corruption cannot be cleansed,

then it must be driven

to rot even faster,

so that it may at least become

fertile ground for the next generation.

The place where that mole-rat,

which crawled all the way

to the very peak of corruption, now sits

will also, someday, turn to dust.

What is rotten

must collapse more quickly.

Perhaps it is a strange kind of mercy

that some places turned to dust first.

It means we can begin

a little sooner.

What I do best

is to write stories like this.

And so I write,

hoping that the next generation

will not have to walk

through the same darkness.