I can't help it. I never got along with them. They're the ones that invited some strange child into the house and said she could bring someone, they're the ones that made me move to Sotoba. They're the ones that refused to let me lock the doors, and they're the ones that took down all the protection my team put up to try and save my life. I wish I didn't think of it that way, but it's true. If they hadn't done those things, I would have never died in the first place.

[He sighs.]

And I feel guilty, because they got my mother too and my father was driven to madness because of our deaths and the fact I'm hanging around, undead, in his home.

[He should feel more guilty and he knows it.]

It wasn't just out in the country, the same kinds of things were said in the city as well. Perception, especially in the village, is what it was all about. I hated that village. All I wanted to do was run away and leave.