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Without a doubt, you have done the right thing. But your act must not go uncompensated. Do you understand why?"
"No, not really", Aomame replied honestly.
"Because you are neither an angel nor a god. I am quite aware that your actions have been prompted by your pure feelings, and I understand perfectly well that, for that very reason, you do not wish

Age has nothing to do with it", Aomame snapped back. "It's a question of how you live your life. The important thing is to adopt a stance of always being deadly serious about protecting yourself. You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.

Like it or not, I'm here now, in the year 1Q84. The 1984 that I knew no longer exists. It's 1Q84 now. The air has changed, the scene has changed. I have to adapt to this world-with-a-question-mark as soon as I can. Like an animal released into a new forest. In order to protect myself and survive, I have to learn the rules of this place and adapt

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

-Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law