She believes he grew up with a violent family. She writes that Nakata was one of her brightest students, but he never seemed happy or cracked a smile.

She was confused and distressed when he wouldn’t wake up, and then the other children collapsed too. He collapsed while all the children stood watching in shock. She became livid and began slapping and hitting the boy. She hid the towels, but soon Nakata was walking towards her with the towels in his hands. Embarrassed by the amount of blood, she went to the woods and cleaned herself up with towels.

While out picking mushrooms with the schoolchildren, she suddenly began menstruating. Setsuko admits she had a sex dream about her husband the night before the incident, and woke up feeling as though she had really made love. Setsuko Okamochi writes to a psychology professor to say that when they met during the investigation, she couldn’t be fully honest because of the military officers present. The twelfth chapter picks up the Rice Bowl Hill plot with a letter from October 1972. Kafka tidies the apartment up, calls the hotel to say he won’t be returning, and sets out for Komura Library, where he feels fate is drawing him. In the morning, she leaves a note saying there was nothing on the news about blood or a shrine. Sakura says it isn’t sex, she’s just helping him relax. She rubs his penis until he ejaculates into a tissue. She pulls down his boxers and strokes his penis while asking him if he wants to meet his sister, who is six years older. Despite this, she holds him, and Kafka gets an erection. They go to bed together, but she says she has a steady boyfriend in Tokyo and so won’t have sex with him. Sakura gives him a clean T-shirt and guesses that maybe the blood came from a nosebleed he had. Kafka admits that he sometimes flies into a violent rage. In Sakura’s apartment, Kafka finishes telling her about how his mother left home with Kafka’s older sister, who was adopted, when Kafka was four. He watches the lot, drifting off as he waits. Nakata goes to the grassy lot to wait for Goma to appear. Mimi guesses he uses them for scientific experiments and warns that the man, who wears a tall hat and long leather boots, is highly dangerous. Mimi informs Nakata that Goma has been seen in the area, but also that a “bad person” has been taking cats and stuffing them into a bag. The human and cats discuss a shared fondness for eel and tuna. Out searching for Goma, Nakata chats with a brown striped cat he decides to call Kawamura, and a Siamese named Mimi.

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