What kind of world will be there tomorrow? "No one knows the answer to that," Fuka-Eri said.

“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings …”

“She was short, and even in a good mood she talked like she was half a step away…”

“I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to R…”

“You know something?" she said."What?""I'm completely empty.""Yeah?""Yeah.”