Kataribe no Shoujo
Summary
The Girl originated from a lineage descending from the Girl of the Moon following her descent to Earth. Much like humanity’s decline, she lacks the capacity to comprehend love in a conventional manner. She harbors no dislike for humans who cherish this emotion, including groups aiming to restore it as a central value, yet she cannot grasp the pleasure they derive from it. She maintains a pragmatic view that blind love inevitably leads to failure, believing instead that relationships require tangible benefits and clear objectives for mutual support. Because she cannot see into another’s heart, she imposes impossible tasks on her suitors, hoping they will measure the love she cannot. If a suitor retrieves something more valuable than herself to exchange for her hand, she accepts this as proof of their need for her and vows to stay with them for life. Despite her inability to understand love, she finds happiness as long as people can live with sun, air, and water, though she sometimes feels slight guilt that this indifference may be the cause of humanity’s decline. She is a form of life that inherits her ancestors' memories as her own, experiencing their "original emotions" as if etched into her genes. Although she differs from them and may fundamentally disagree with their principles, she cannot stray from their core beliefs. Consequently, when recounting the story of her "grandmother" from her own perspective, she suffers from a bias toward those inherited memories.
