Starfish Hotel Page #3

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Stop it!

PIease!

They toId me not to say anything.

Look, I'll pay you okay?

I heard she got beaten up.

Beaten up...?

Knocked about by a trick.

Look, don't ask me any more.

What do you mean, "beaten up"?

I don't know anything.

I don't know!

Who hit her?

I thought you weren't coming.

I nearly didn't.

Not here.

Are you Yuichi Arisu?

Yes.

Did you find out anything

about my wife?

Can we come in? We have some

questions we need to ask.

Okay.

It looks like someone burnt down

the WonderIland Club, Mr. Arisu.

They recovered three bodies

from the place...

But there was no way to

identify the remains.

One Chinese woman just

managed to get away.

According to her, someone broke

into the cIub and started a fight.

Mr. Arisu, your phone number

was in her wallet.

The poor girl died this morning.

Identification is going to be

extremely difficult.

It might be impossible.

Could my wife be one of them?

Do you have a recent photo

of your wife, Mr. Arisu?

Yes.

Here.

Something still doesn't add up...

A world taken too much for granted.

people think they can be happy being

cogs in a machine like you.

Unable to see what they should see...

Unable to see what they have lost...

And among all the things they have lost...

Their most important possession.

His stories are like fairy taIes:

always the same pattern.

Children love hearing the same story

time and time again.

They're like children's picture books.

You can't compare them like that.

Now I see what turns you on.

I bet I could write something like this.

"He lay down and reached

for her hand..."

"She brushed his neck with

her right hand..."

"Then her white fingers slipped

inside the collar of his shirt..."

"A look of ecstasy..."

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"A look of ecstasy crossed her face

as she yielded to his thrust..."

shouldn't you get it?

When you sleep with your wife...

Do you ever think of me?

I bet you do.

Cut it out.

Does it excite you?

Do you get all mixed up inside?

Am I in the bed as well?

I've never asked about who you see.

It's best not to.

Why not?

You never talk about your wife either.

It's better this way - we can keep

our two worlds separate.

If we don't, we'll get confused.

I can't go on lying.

It isn't the same as a lie.

As long as you keep

the two worlds apart...

The Tokyo "you" and the "you" here

are different people.

There's no need to lie.

Hey!

My daughter...

Did she work here as well?

She was only nineteen.

It's not safe in here -

Iet's go outside.

It's nice here - it's just

the place for a rabbit.

Was it you?

Did you start the fire?

Fire.

Fire!

Have to go back to the Darkland.

These aren't my hands.

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