I... I don't know! I don't KNOW! Nothing... it all makes no sense! None of this should have happened... If I'd been more diligent... no, if I'd just listened to my own instinct for once in my goddamn life! I...

...no. No matter how I look at it, no matter how unscientific it is, it all comes back to that ceremony... Everything started that night... but why? I... I cannot believe in Shigetsuna. I CAN'T! There has to be... something...