![]() ![]() However, this family life of hers was destroyed when she took on a neighbor's thirteen year-old daughter as a piano student outwardly the girl was angelic, but as Reiko discovered too late, inwardly she was a pathological liar. ![]() Though she forfeited her dream, she nonetheless seemed to return to life when she married a man who promises to take care of her. Once a young aspiring concert pianist, Reiko was stricken by a psychological disorder and committed to mental institutions. Naoko begins to talk about why she wasn't able to sleep with Kizuki but then breaks down in tears Reiko suggests that Toru take a walk while she calms Naoko, and after he returns Reiko joins him and tells him her life story. Later she returns with Reiko, and the three eat dinner together before returning to their house to chat and listen to Reiko playing guitar. Reiko shows him to the small house where she and Naoko live and then leave him there Toru dozes off but is awoken when Naoko unexpectedly visits him for a short talk before slipping off again. He meets Reiko Ishida, a woman in her late-thirties who is Naoko's roommate, and over lunch with her hears about how the sanatorium encourages honesty and the acceptance of one's own problems, such that the line between patients and doctors is blurred and all help each other. Situated in the middle of a forest, it immediately strikes him as a very peculiar, self-secluded world where all is incredibly peaceful and clean. The day after receiving Naoko's letter, Toru sets out for the outskirts of Kyoto, where Ami Hostel is located. ![]()
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