Bavel's Book
バベルの本
A boy and his younger sister are playing in a park when they notice a strange book left on a bench. Driven by curiosity, they open it and discover that its pages contain something far beyond ordinary stories. As they flip through, a small but detailed Tower of Babel rises from one of the pages, complete with tiny windows and a spiral staircase. Intrigued, the children peer into the tower and see an old man sitting alone in a vast room filled with towering shelves of books. The man is reading intently, and with every turn of a page, fantastic creatures emerge from the illustrations: a griffin takes flight, a dragon coils around a pillar, and a phoenix bursts into flames before fading away. The boy and his sister watch in awe as the boundary between the book's world and their own begins to blur, drawing them deeper into a realm where imagination and reality intertwine.