It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.

But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.

Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened one after another, to the point where, if I try to think about them in order, I lose track.