The first 3 panels are stuff Kaiji sees/thinks in the first volume (for people that haven't read it.)
Ahh... I can... see it...5.7 billion individuals...!!Person after person, walking along the sky...Hearts are separated by such a large distance...We cannot truly come to understand each other...
No... That's not true at all...
I'd forgotten... Something so obvious...Before any of us are born unto this world...I'm sure...We were connected... to our mothers, weren't we...?Humans can never connect with each other... can they...?