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Lain: You don’t want to do anything? How about your research?
Touko: No one will want to read my paper anyway.
Lain: What’s wrong? It’s not like you to play a victim.
Touko: Not like me! What am I?
Lain: You’re just Touko-san, Touko-san.
Touko: I’ve been severed from society. I’m no longer connected.
Lain: That’s not true. I’m connected to you. I’m connected to society. That’s why you’re connected, too.
Touko: Something’s wrong with me, isn’t there? The times when I talk to you and the time I spend with everything else are separate. From your point of view, my life must be a contradiction.
Lain: My point of view?
Touko: From your point of view, this world doesn’t exist.
Lain: No. That’s not true. I’m connected to this world.
Touko: I can’t take it anymore. I can’t even stand this moment. That’s not all. My memories of tomorrow...the memories I’ll have in the future are in disarray. Is this a delusion caused by worrying? Am I experiencing something I shouldn’t be experiencing?
Lain: That’s you, isn’t it?
Touko: It is me! Because it is me!
Lain: Wouldn’t you be better off if you were just being yourself?
Touko: I can’t understand my sense of self from moment to moment!
Lain: The judgment you have exactly at that moment is you, Touko-san. The rest is...
Touko: The rest is...
Lain: Ordinary data.