You were born at the International Private Hospital in Shanghai, China, when you were one year old. Your father named you Aoi after the sunflowers in your hometown.
It's very cold in Tokyo at Christmas. When the police find you, you're squatting in the Clock Hotel with your eyes blank and your limbs trembling like an abandoned baby.
Here you have no friends, no identity, no one to love you.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
