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I repeat. Today at approximately 10:20 a.m.,
all contact was suddenly lost with JAL flight 538,

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which was requesting an emergency landing due to engine trouble...

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experienced right after the take-off from Narita airport, with a total of 225 passengers and crew on board.

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This is the second accident involving aircraft this month following the Air Zimbabwe incident yesterday.

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This has been the news at noon.

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Fish?

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Fish!

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Fish!

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Fish!

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Next, today's top story.

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Today at approximately 2:35 p.m., JAL flight 005,

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en route to Narita airport from the Netherlands via Anchorage,

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suddenly lost contact in mid-flight.

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A search is still being conducted on land and sea,

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but as of 6 p.m., nothing has been discovered.

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This incident is the 17th aircraft disappearance this month alone.

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This has been the evening news.

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Stay tuned for the time signal.

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This story has been prepared for you, my successor...

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who should be visiting this room in due time.

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I know that you, who is reading this now, are not only
an impoverished private investigator,

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but have also accepted a case of unclear purpose.

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And continued your investigation and surveillance of myself and this little girl.

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In order to explain why I know this, and what thoughts and doubts drove you to break the unspoken rule...

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that you must never directly meet the subject of your investigation by entering this room, I begin my story.

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That summer, high above the city, aircraft continued to vanish one after another.

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With the break of day, the sun beat down upon the heads of people with all the heat it could muster,

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making the hours drag on until noon and searing off the boiling drops of sweat it itself had caused.

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When all shadows disappeared from the ground, people grew tired of discussing,

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"When will this summer end?"

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And the sun would waver, as if it needed to be talked about to exist, and dissolved into a haze.

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Once more, people in this newly-created ghost town forgot about their clocks and watches,

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losing sight of yesterday and not caring about tomorrow...

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and cradled in their belief in the fact that they were truly alive, repeating the same daily routine.

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At the time, I, being a private investigator, put down roots in that city...

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and waited for a job that might never come.

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A colleague?

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Perhaps not.

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Incidentally, there is one and only one ability,

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which is absolutely necessary to keep oneself well fed in this business.

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It is not one's kung-fu skill or pistol marksmanship,

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nor is it some 3-D ability to spot a criminal hiding in a web of complex riddles and intrigue.

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I believe that you, being in the same line of work as myself, know what it is.

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Yes, it is the ability to locate a client.

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One stakes his career on this ability, doesn't he?

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I held that to be true for a very long time.

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That's just how much time I had on my hands.

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Enough time to wonder when my last case was...

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whether it was so far in the past that I had simply forgotten,

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or whether I had never actually had
a single case since the day I was born.

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Work was scarce enough to make one think that way.

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Still, as odd as it may seem,

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I never once entertained the thought of washing my hands of this occupation.

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My groundless conviction that I was a private investigator and my willingness to wait...

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for an interminably long time undoubtedly speaks volumes about my personality and life,

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but for the time being, let's move the story along.

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Setting aside for the moment the issue of faith in one's role as a detective,

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authority is what's really necessary to make a living.

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Pressed upon by the daily pressures at the office,

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having even my phone line, the detective's lifeline, disconnected...

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and lacking the income to even afford the noodles...

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that I ate at the ramen stand for every meal,
I was stretched to my utmost limits.

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This is no joke.

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I was just beginning to think that there was nothing else open to me,

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barring possibly becoming a pro at eating at noodle stands,

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when the case I had long awaited finally came in.

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It was a surveillance assignment monitoring a father and child...

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living in a certain run-down apartment in a certain city,

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namely the residents of the very room in which you now stand.

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Yes, it is identical to the case you yourself accepted.

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Suppose you must have come to think it's an odd coincidence by now.

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At this point you could simply stop reading this text, return home, eat cold noodles and go to sleep if you'd like.

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Whether you continue onward or return...

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is a decision you may make (although it's not a very
meaningful phrase here) of your own free will.

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From this point onward, there is no turning back.

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I feel compelled to praise your tenacity in coming this far,

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but speaking from personal experience,

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it is that very tenacity which dragged me into this labyrinth in the first place.

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This being something I would eventually come to realize only much later,

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I began my investigation that very same day.

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It was a strange father and child that I researched.

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As it is customary for this sort of investigation,

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I started with a background check into family records.

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However, this turned out to be a complete dead-end from the start.

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I had already given up on the idea of pinning down their true names.

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It goes without saying, but in order to make a living in the city one needs a name.

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Even if only an alias, one must have some sort of appellation in order to carry on a normal life in society.

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There should have been any number of ways of discovering the real names of my subjects.

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However...

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In the case of this parent and child, no mail ever arrived, even by direct delivery.

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Aside from those two, the apartment had no other residents to question...

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and even the identity of the superintendent was unknown.

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Gas, water, electricity...

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While evidence of their use was obvious, not a single account or overdue bill was to be found.

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Even more surprising, fund-raisers for national public television never once knocked at their door.

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In my search for this parent and child whose every detail was unknown,

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I engaged the services of a contact in the real estate industry,

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while I personally made myself intimately familiar with the daily habits of these two.

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To tell the truth, I had already figured out from the start...

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that these two were some sort of counterfeit parent and child, unrelated by blood.

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I'm certain that you had the same impression, and you were correct.

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This is because the father of this girl, who you have investigated so diligently,

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is none other than myself, your colleague.

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However, at the time there was nothing I could do to confirm my suspicion but to see what was going on with my own eyes.

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You must have been the same.

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After all, as another who has spent a full week in an empty apartment building...

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with his ear pressed to the wall of the next room,

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alone with the unknown subject of his investigation, I applaud your efforts.

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At this point, I should have simply washed my hands of this whole ridiculous case...

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and taken my losses, but I became stubborn.

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Naturally, I had already marked the father as suspect.

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The kid was just a kid after all, and something about this old man clearly stank.

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Supporting my assumption, the two did nothing all day but eat and sleep.

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Rarely setting foot outside the room, and showing no indication of ever taking a bath.

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Even going to the toilet was a simple act completed from the window.

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With no opportunity of investigating the room while they were out,

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a week passed with no success,

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until, just as I was beginning to consider starting over from scratch, that incident occurred.

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Fish! Fish!

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I don't suppose that anyone can explain exactly what happened on that day...

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in a clear blue sky which nobody was watching.

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No, even if I had somehow taken everything in with my own eyes,

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it would only be comprehended as the truth in a fairytale, something that would forever reside in my imagination alone.

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That evening, the man took his little soldier girl and went off to battle.

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That was the first and most ideal chance I ever had to enter the room.

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I couldn't bring myself to believe that this was the room I had spied on every day from the other side of the wall.

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While the two were absent, it was as if they had disappeared back into the tapestry of time.

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The room's interior returned to its original dilapidated state...

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and no one looking at it would believe that anyone had ever lived there.

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It was a ruin in every sense of the word.

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When the two were not around, this room, no, this whole apartment returned to its original state of ruin.

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Standing in the stale, lethargic air strong enough to rob the entire body of its strength...

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I finally began to become aware of the true nature of this bizarre case.

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However, it only hinted at a more horrible truth...

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which would eventually rear its ugly head before me.

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The next day, I stopped by the office and found a report from my real estate contact.

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In a very concise manner, it provided an answer to part of the incomprehensible riddle...

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that the condemned apartment presented,

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while at the same time pushing the rest of the riddle further from my grasp.

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The apartment in which I held my daily vigil was located in one of several areas...

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selected for use in a land reclamation project several years ago.

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However, due to some sort of financial problem that arose,

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the plan was never realized and everything ended without incident.

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That's right. According to all maps, the place where you, who is reading this story, now stand...

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is nothing but open sea.

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Jets continued to disappear frequently in the sky over that city,

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but people gradually ceased to take note,

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as if they had completely forgotten what an airplane was.

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Despite feeling a strange unease and knowing full well that I was rapidly losing interest...

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in everything outside of that father and child,
I pressed on in my investigation.

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It was as if those two were magical creatures, a false father and child,

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living alongside other people, yet inhabiting a realm outside of reality.

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Quietly continuing to live in a condemned apartment which doesn't exist on any map, unknown to anyone else.

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The little girl who shows unusual interest in airplanes, calling them "fish".

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The great number of jets which seem to just vanish.

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When put into words, it sounds far too unrealistic and very unbecoming to a private eye,

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but I developed a hypothesis regarding these two.

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The aircraft disappearances being concentrated in an area directly above that reclaimed land...

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A giant fish scale found by a search party...

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A statement by one of the scramble fighter pilots,

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claiming that he saw a giant ornamental carp floating 10,000 meters up in the air...

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Every last shred of evidence lent unanimous, decisive support to my unrealistic hypothesis,

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propelling this whole case into the realm of utter fantasy.

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On top of that, the "reality" I had been so carefully trying to preserve,

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started to change day by day into something vague and formless.

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Yes, that odd uneasiness I felt from the outset of this case turned out to be the fear...

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that this riddle enfolded with a greater riddle, and again swallowed up by yet another,

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greater riddle until it became impossible to answer,

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might someday encroach upon my own existence, and that I would discover that my very life...

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was in fact nothing but one of the parts of the riddle I continued to chase.

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I was already aware of it by this time.

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Since I had started pursuing this pair... Just how much time had actually passed?

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Several days?

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Weeks?

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No, had several months even passed?

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Was that summer still not over yet?

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And what was the name of this town?

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No, more importantly, what was my name?

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Age? Birthplace?

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I finally realized that, with the sole exception of my conviction that I was a detective,

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I was losing every last memory from my life before I got involved with this case,

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including my own name and history.

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I was finally drawing close to the heart of the problem.

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Who on earth was I?

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In order for that town which I believed I had lived and worked in to be real,

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this landfill and its residents must not exist.

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That would even include me, the man investigating these two as well, I suppose.

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Thinking that I would know with certainty which was true...

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only if I myself saw the two inhabitants of that place which wasn't supposed to exist,

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I turned and slowly began making my way towards the apartment.

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The man, and the little girl, were both there.

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I don't need to tell you what happened after that.

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After all, you are repeating now what I and my predecessors experienced.

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By now it should bear no explanation,

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but the man who I investigated, the man who pretended to be this little girl's father,

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was in reality my client, and a former detective himself.

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Now I have become the same thing to you.

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There was no way I could possibly have determined the origin of this horror story,

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in which the client turns out to be not only the subject of the investigation,

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but a former investigator as well, no way to know when it started or when it will end,

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nor how many men lived with this girl before me...

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God alone knows.

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However, I can picture one thing clearly.

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Both I and the man before me were not victims,

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who through their own helpless curiosity ended up in this plight, being a father to this little girl...

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We were created because we were destined to play this role.

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I, as an investigator, did not select this case of my own volition.

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Rather, this case required an investigator and selected me.

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It is not a matter of what is fact and what is fiction.

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It is a matter of which better explains your existence.

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I humbly suggest that, in the same way as I and my predecessors did,

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you continue to play the father for this little girl,

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eventually writing your own story on this word processor for the sake of your successor,

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who will come someday to relieve you.

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As for the hypothesis I developed concerning this girl's true nature,

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I think I will leave that for you to look forward to discovering yourself.

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You'll understand once you live together with her for a while.

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Finally, regarding the fish which is probably still lying there on the floor:

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If you have enough courage, please boil it in a pot and eat it.

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I ask only that you do not think about the other face
in the aquarium as you do so.

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Although this girl requires very little special attention, please wake her up to go to the bathroom once during the night.

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The little goddess has a habit of wetting the bed.

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I pray for your investigation.

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Today at approximately 10:20 a.m.,
all contact was suddenly lost with JAL flight 538,

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Hello? Is this Urayama-san?
It's me.

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which was requesting an emergency landing due to engine trouble...

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Yep, I finally finished it.

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experienced right after the take-off from Narita airport, with a total of 225 passengers and crew on board.

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I really sweat it out this time.

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Huh?
No, really?

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This is the second accident involving aircraft this month following the Air Zimbabwe incident yesterday.

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Again?

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No way!

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Content? It's so full that filling's coming out of both ends!

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I repeat. Today at approximately 10:20 a.m.,
all contact was suddenly lost with JAL flight 538...

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Hang on a sec.

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Okay, so a private dick who can't get enough to eat accepts a case,

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only to find that, lo and behold, he's spying on a goddess.

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No, goddess. Goddess, the Great Maker, creator of Heaven and Earth and all that.

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Anyway, this goddess just happens to be what you'd call a dim little brat,

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who turns one airplane after another into ornamental carps.

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Not crap, carp! One in a million, black spots on a white and or—

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No, it's nothing. Just got bit by my kid, that's all.

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It's the same thing everyday.

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Anyway, back to what I was saying:

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As this private eye goes around investigating various stuff,

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he becomes aware that he doesn't know anything at all, not even his own name!

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Yeah, yeah, yeah!

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Exactly!

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When he finds out that the middle-aged guy who lives with this girl used to be a private eye as well,

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he realizes not only that he must have been created specifically to be a father for this little brat,

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but that the entire world including himself has been created just for her...

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and is completely crushed!

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And she's continued doing this for hundreds, maybe thousands of years!

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Of course, that's because one day to a goddess is a real long time to us,

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and she's still a little brat with a very poor memory.

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Hold on a sec, okay?

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So what do you think? Not bad, huh?

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This is gonna really sell!

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I call it... "The Eternal Case."

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...A more normal story?

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You don't get it?

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What do you mean you don't get it?

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After I pulled an all-nighter checking it over one last time...

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That's enough!

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I don't need you anymore!

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We may be eating cold noodles, but we're nobility at heart!

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As long as we two have each other, nothing can stop us...

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Not enough protein?

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Screw you!

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Burn in hell!

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It's dinner time.

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Today we're having your favourite – fish!

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Doesn't get it...

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If it's not one thing, it's another...

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A bird with no soul dropped a single egg...

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...which was swallowed up by the night and lost

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A little lost fish in the sea...

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...runs into it among the coral

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Sky is the sea of the sea

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Sea is the sky of the sky

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Birds and fish trade places with one another...

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...never having even said hello

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Sky is the sea of the sea

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Sea is the sky of the sky

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The birds and the fish pretend not to notice each other

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Won't it be nice when they learn to get along someday?