Evil and the Mask

by Fuminori Nakamura

“By ‘cancer’ I mean a being that will make this world miserable. That will make everyone wish that they had never been born, or at least make everyone think that the light of virtue does not shine in this world.”

Usually carp live to a ripe old age, but for some unknown reason on our estate they never lasted long.

To show decay

To make me a cancer I had to learn to mix with a wide range of people.

I couldn’t afford to let them discover that I was the kind of boy who regularly threw lizards and other small creatures off the cliff