Sumireko and Adashino work and chat together in the quiet of the bookshop where they're employed. Their manager appears and gives Sumireko a strange book of unknown origins. Just after midnight, she casually picks it up to read it, and then...
What you'll read now is the complete 
chouka that it summarized.
ما ستقرئينه الآن هي قصيدة
.التشوكا الملخّصة
Diesmal musst du das Langgedicht lesen,
zu dessen Zyklus dieses Kurzgedicht gehört.
Ahora tendrás que leer el chouka
completo que eso resumía.
Ahora tendrás que leer el chouka
completo que eso resumía.
Cette fois-ci, tu vas lire
le poème long qu’il complète.
Quello che devi leggere ora
è il chouka che lo precede.
O que você lerá agora é o chouka
que acompanha o primeiro poema.
А в этот раз вы прочитаете стих,
который его предваряет.