Fuminori Nakamura

Turn this page, and you may give up your entire life.

Judging from the testimony, at times like this he would migrate from the self watching from behind into the self beside the girl.

he no longer had a reason to disconnect.

If this perception fell apart (when a girl fought back and cried), thus revealing the girl’s “individuality,” Miyazaki experienced a chaotic anger, furious about her breaking things apart.

He converted this terror into the courage to commit the murder, on the reasoning that it was kill or be killed.

He had spent more of his life near violence than the average person.

He did not recall the criminal act of strangling the girl as something he had done himself.

Brutal experiences urge people to repeat them.

Even the tamest among us, if subjected to attacks from society or other people—or if, in the parlance of this example, we allow the Rat Men to infiltrate our body—has the potential to become a criminal.

Returning to the “eruptive personality” mentioned earlier, in many cases people with dissociative identity disorder will reassign their “angry” feelings to a separate personality (the physical embodiment of anger).