Daisuke Igarashi

Little Forest #1

Nica

"Cooking's a mirror that reflects your mind. Stay focused. Wouldn't want to hurt yourself either."

Childhood experiences are important. Mom used to mix lies with the truth whenever she felt like it back then. There might be many more lies that I just haven't found out about yet. Once you start doubting, it never ends. That might be the reason I don't feel right about things unless I do them for myself. I just can't trust words, but I believe what I feel with my body.

"But, you know, there's something different about the words that get spoken here in Komori, and the ones over there. And I'm not talking about like, dialects and stuff. I mean about, like, the things that you've... actually experienced and done yourself. And what you felt or thought as a result of them. Those are the only things that you can really talk about with a sense of responsibility, right? And people who can do that for all sorts of things are the ones that you respect. They're the ones you trust. All those people who pretend like they know everything, even though they haven't actually done anything, acting all high and mighty, just for passing along something that someone else made... I just got sick of hearing those shallow people spouting their empty words."

"And so... I thought, you know, I didn't want to lead the kind of life where I was making other people do the killing first, and then complaining about the way they did it."

"After I left here, it was the first time that I really started to respect the people of Komori... and my parents too. I realized that they've lived their lives in a way where they can speak words that have substance to them."

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