If you ask me what the essence of human beings is, I will say that it is helpless.
raw, confused. death, indescribable.
Everything seems to be in your own hands, as if hard work will pay off; everything seems to be fate, you just fill in piece after piece of puzzle——
Imagine a jigsaw puzzle. You can choose to put a piece here, put a piece there, these are all free. However, the pattern presented after completion is already doomed.
Many of the newly built danchi in Tama City are deserted. Although the habitat of so many creatures has been destroyed, and despite the prosperity during the high-speed growth period of the bubble economy, it is now an inconspicuous afterimage next to the Tama River.
——A great effort was spent to build an uninhabited city. No, not only is there no one, but there are no more lively rabbits and weasels. And children born and raised in the city no longer have the memory of nature. The destruction of nature not only destroys the "ecological environment", but also disappears, as well as the baptism of human beings from the universe.
The bald master who lived to be nine hundred and ninety-nine years old and experienced the Genpei war, the treasure ship of gold and silver coral that recites scriptures every day and boarded the bliss early, may not be old and confused, but has an epiphany, no matter what he does. Useless helplessness.
—Like a spring night dream. The lusts of spring, the joys of summer, the foraging in autumn, the dormancy of winter, the new-born civet cats, the jolly tanuki games, and the jubilant tanuki celebrations are like a spring night's dream.
There are so many high-rise buildings, subways, buses, cars coming and going, people coming and going, but in the eyes of civet cats, what they want more is mountains, rivers, forests, and fields, because they live happier.
——“It’s really admirable that a human being can endure a life like this.”
Tanuki also likes to eat fried chicken and chips made by humans. Once upon a time, humans and civet cats also coexisted peacefully. Therefore, the tanukis who can transform have no intention of exterminating all humans. But now, we don't see civet cats anymore.
——Yeah, only when Masaki takes off his suit and leather shoes and human skin, and runs and jumps into the tanuki party of the punks, we will have a happy game again.
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