He had one clear thought, small as a splinter and as certain as bone: if the book finished, the spiral might finish too. He remembered—without the stuttering interference of fear—the first line he'd read: "Once a town learns to love the curl, it never forgets the pattern." That final clause sat like a key. He began to read aloud faster, voice a steady tremor. The paragraphs accelerated as if hungry, then emptied. The lines on the page bled outward and traced themselves along the windows and across the floor, an inked lattice of inevitability.

Ito famously draws every spiral by hand. In the digital .cbr format, zoom in on the "Medusa" chapter. The protagonist’s hair doesn't just look curly—it looks like it is actively pulling her skull inward. The high contrast between black ink and white space in the digital scan creates a flickering effect on OLED screens, mimicking the hypnotic motion of a real spiral.