Fly, Grasshopper, Fly! 
Seizō Tajima

At last, the snake found her after all.

Just at that moment, a praying mantis leapt at him.

He tore through the spider's web and the spider itself — and the grasshopper flies on.

The grasshopper burst through the clouds high above her and climbed higher than anything else. But she could go no further. She began to fall… lower and lower.

But the grasshopper didn't care what anyone said. She was so happy to be flying on her own strength that she could barely contain her joy. She flew higher and higher. On her own wings, wherever she wanted to go, carried by the wind, she flew on.

The grasshopper flew across the wasteland.

She flew on into the far distance.

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