Toko

“Connected”? In what way?

Lain

It probably wouldn’t make sense if I tried to explain it to you.

Toko

That’s called psychosis, Lain. Believing yourself to be a unique “chosen” person or that you are God. That’s a serious disease.

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Don’t kids your age know that? When I was a kid, whenever we made a promise, we said, “If I break the promise, I will drink 1000 needles.”

Lain

Wouldn’t that hurt?