Summary

“Part Six: Invisible People” contains the subtitle: “Sei-ichi, the author’s eldest brother." Again, his interview is presented as a narrative directed toward an interviewer who removes all trace of herself from the section. Sei-ichi proclaims that he was never very close with his siblings. He never quite understood his sister, either. Once, she had told him she wished she could be someone else. He did not know what she meant until he heard her talking on the phone with clients and using a different persona for each call. When he and his mother asked her about it, she said that she was just pretending to be their aunt and a girl at the yogurt shop. Soon after the murders, Sei-chi’s parents ended up getting a divorce. His father had been cheating on his mother for quite some time. The murders...