Chapter 4 This Wormy World Kousaka put on gloves, leaned back deep in his work chair, and opened a magazine. As one might expect, it was a science magazine concerning parasites. The cover read “The Journal of Parasitology,” and the contents were all written in English. Kousaka was impressed. So she could read English as complex as this at her age. Flipping through, he found a page with a tag on it. A paper by Norman R. Stoll, titled This Wormy World. Kousaka wasn’t sure how to translate it. Did it mean a worm-eaten world? Or a world that was like a worm? No, he couldn’t forget that this was a paper on parasitology. So then, perhaps “this world brimming with parasites” might be most correct. The sound of showering from the bathroom ceased. About five minutes later, Sanagi appeared, changed into pajamas. Seeing her with a black towel on her head, Kousaka muttered a “huh” of some surprise. “What is it?”, Sanagi asked. “Oh, it’s nothing big… I just thought that with your silver hair covered like that, you looked like a normal girl.” Sanagi’s eyes flickered, and she pointed to her head. “Oh, this? Sorry for being a non-normal girl.”