Bullet Train (Assassins #2)

by Kōtarō Isaka

Even though the term trauma had become a cliché and suddenly everyone’s traumatised by something, people still had to cope with the pain of their past.

‘I don’t believe that people are born inherently good or bad.’ ‘They just become one or the other, is that it?’ ‘No, I think good and bad depend on your point of view.’

But when things aren’t so clear-cut, when dealing with a vaguer sort of evil, laws don’t work as well.

You’re what, fourteen, fifteen, you think you can make it another fifty years? Say whatever you want, but you won’t know whether you can last that long until you get there.