1 : Hitagi Crab, Part 1 【Desktop】

Instead of recoiling, Koyomi looked her in the eye. He didn't see a monster; he saw someone who was drowning in a vacuum.

The impact should have knocked the wind out of him. He expected the heavy thud of a teenage girl, the strain on his muscles, perhaps a tumble to the floor. Instead, Hitagi Senjougahara landed in his arms with the sickening lightness of a dried leaf. She felt like nothing. She felt like a handful of feathers wrapped in a school uniform. 1 : Hitagi Crab, Part 1

The air in the private school hallway felt heavy, a stagnant mixture of floor wax and the approaching summer heat. Koyomi Araragi was just trying to survive another day of his senior year when the impossible happened. Instead of recoiling, Koyomi looked her in the eye

"I know someone who can help," he said, ignoring the blade in his mouth. "A man named Oshino Meme. He’s a specialist in 'oddities.' He helped me when I stopped being human. Let me take you to him." He expected the heavy thud of a teenage

As he bounded up the stairs, a figure blurred in his peripheral vision. A girl was falling—plummeting from the upper floor like a broken doll. Instinct took over. Koyomi braced himself and caught her.

Senjougahara hesitated, the first crack appearing in her porcelain mask. For the first time in years, the girl who had lost everything to a silent god faced the possibility of feeling the weight of the world once again.

Later that afternoon, Senjougahara cornered him in a deserted corridor. Before he could speak, he felt the cold, jagged edge of a utility knife pressed against the inside of his cheek, and the sharp point of a stapler biting into his skin.