[Monica doesn't consider herself to be too different from the rest. She was an odd ball, certainly; people called her that, and she was determined not to get tied down to anything too strongly. Connections become weight. Weight will drag you down when you need to get away and kill you faster than if you lived just to survive. Either way, it was a formulated, boring, pathetic fate that waited for all the kids that wound up here. Seki's hair tickles her face as she holds on to him during the ride, but she presses her face to his shoulder to avoid it and swears that if it came down to it, she would leave him behind and prioritize her own survival.

Sentimentality and self-sacrifice were unnecessary and just a burden around here. She was only with this guy because he provided stimulation -- if the city were an aquarium and she was the fish, he was pump that kept the water turning. Without a current, water turns stale and loses oxygen and suffocates the fish living inside. (Not that he was a lifeline or anything; if this pump broke, she just has to find another one.)

She smiles brightly as walks through the door.]

You were really cool until that last sentence, Seki. You shouldn't admit to your weakness on a date or you'll never wow a girl.

[But the city was a small aquarium, in the end. Their lives won't go like in the movie. Unlike N**o, there was no way to escape outside the glass to go home to the large ocean, and they were destined to die here.]