「collapse」の検索結果

地球ではない世界にある国、『シューメル』。そこでは『マイア』と呼ばれるエネルギーによって人類が繁栄していた。マイアは熱、電気、水といった生きる上で必要なものをもたらし、人々はそれを享受していた。 その平和は、突如崩れた。 国営のマイアの実験施設が謎の勢力によって襲われる事件が相次いで起こった。人々は混乱に陥り、多数の死傷者も出た。 リーゼ・カールトンも例外ではなく、彼女が住んでいる村もまた被害に遭った。そこで二人の傭兵と出会うことで、彼女はこの国全体の未来がかかった戦乱に巻き込まれてしまう――。 ――過ちの氷河を砕け ――氾濫に溺れろ

Shinichi Takahashi wandered through the entertainment districts almost every night. Though he worked for a major corporation in the heart of the city and held the impressive-sounding title of section manager, his home life had collapsed. His wife and child had left for the countryside. What remained was nothing but the endlessly swelling stress of work and the exhaustion that sank deep into his body. Every weekend he went to brothels. Drawn by the glittering neon lights, he would pay for a woman’s warmth in a cramped private room. Yet even in the act itself, his heart remained parched. Money drained away, emptiness piled up. For a man already past his mid-thirties, it was nothing but consumption. One evening, as he sat in a dim room, cigarette smoke curling around him, Shinichi thought: I’m only pouring money into desires that others hand me. What if, instead, I could turn my very own desire into a business?