I dunno if you can call it culture. -Satsuki shrugged.- But is it weird to say I feel... more Japanese since I spent all that time there? Like it wasn't just for my career, I felt like...

So the other me is Japanese, too, but she has like... no connection to it. -Because there was no longer a Japan to connect to.- And I realize I was kind of like that before I went, you know? Just like... Japan was a place. My grandparents on my dad's side were born and live there. It's where my language comes from. It was just another spot on the globe, you know? I didn't feel... I don't wanna say 'connected' again, but that's how it is, right?