Human beings are just one among an infinite number of entities, living or otherwise, that exist on the earth. "But I don't necessarily understand why it's evil per se. "I understand why murder is considered a crime," the Nietschean-in-the-making Shuya explains, with cold theatricality, later in the tale. These include Shuya, a seemingly narcissistic boy with a knack for electronics and a masochistic mother fixation, and his more guilt-prone accomplice Naoki, a sort of Japanese Leopold and Loeb who, for reasons that become clear only slowly, murder the beloved 4-year-old daughter of their middle school teacher. As its title suggests, "Confessions" is a pulp-fiction tell-all of sorts: a collection of unburdenings by participants in a series of chillingly calculated crimes that come to seem less the work of psychopaths than of ordinary (if extraordinarily wounded) people, some of whom happen to be 13-year-olds.
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