- Akashi: The day ends in quiet meditation, imagining one's final hour and the various ways of dying: by bow and arrow... gun... spear... cut down by a sword... swallowed up by the sea... jumping into a fire... being struck by lightning... crushed by an earthquake... falling off a cliff... sudden death!
- Akashi: No one will kill Hayaki. No one
- Mickey Delano: Well, if that's what you believe.
- Akashi: Not while I'm around.
- Mickey Delano: You're not American, are you?
- Akashi: I am Akashi. I am the brother of Hayaki's mother. I'm Japanese. I live in Tokyo.