Chapters 1-5 Summary
This is a story about a guy named Hiro, who starts traveling in some part of Europe, It maybe was Belgium to Germany.
Hiro is a 20 year-old Japanese who is traveling because of his school, at first he describe how he remembered his ex-girlfriend by a text message, the broke up was not long ago, he told us that he kept some text messages.
Later, in the train station, he met a girl, who had a short talk with him, they talked about themselves, where they going and the reason of their travels, then, the girls receive a phone call and started to talk in german, as Hiro explained, finally the girl took her way and Hiro too.
For a while, Hiro took his phone and appeared a photo of his loved dog, than he turned to the side, and there was his girlfriend, a photo which was taken in her birthday, and Hiro started to talk about how they broke up.
When he arrived to his destiny, he took another train, in which a weird man sat next to him.
At first Hiro looked at him and discovered that he had small eyes y sharp teeth, just like a shark.
The shark guy was the one that started the conversation asking if he can seat on the side, Hiro said yes while he was thinking about his appearance, inside of him he said that this guy wasn’t human, because the white color and the wet seemed on his skin.
In an unexpected event the shark guy and Hiro exchanged them phones, the shark guy got to the restroom while Hiro was sat on his place, curiously these guys had the same phone, that’s why the confuse happened.
Hiro realized fast that the phone wasn’t his, this because a text message came, thinking that phone was his, he immediately opened it and read an strange text, about a meeting and a payment like a murderer job or something.
Hiro could realize that he was reading his messages too, so when the shark guy left the restroom, he said to Hiro that the girl of the message was his girlfriend, to which he replied asking to forgive him for read his incoming message.
They stay in silence by a few moment, then the shark guy decided to introduce himself and start a conversation with Hiro, who was starting to feel fear about this.
When the train arrive to the place, the shark guy offered himself to give recommendations to take bahns in the station, for that moment, Hiro just wanted to go away from him, so he said yes and the shark took him to the bahn.
While they were waiting for the bahn, Hiro suspected that the shark was trying to kill him by pull him in front of the bahn, so Hiro just kept away from him to be safe, the last thing the shark said was like “Try not to be killed in Berlin, leave it alive”.
He just got to an hotel and took a rest, at the morning he was thinking about leave Berlin, but he just wanted to beat that phrase the shark guy said.
Character Sketch
The Shark guy
We know that he looks like a shark, with small eyes and sharped teeth, he has white and pretty wet skin. He is probably blond because of its characteristics, even we know he is a German.
He would probably be kind of weird, because he has a strange personality, he could be angry inside about the reading message scene, but outside he seemed normal or even optimistic.
If he is a murderer, he must be like that, not to generate suspects, in conclusion, he has a normal personality, not very funny, not very serious.
There is only one thing I didn’t like about him, the insistence in help Hiro when he doesn’t want
to be with him anymore, I don’t know, for instance I though the shark guy was going to kidnap
Hiro, It wasn’t normal because the difference in ages, they just supposed to have a little
conversation about a summary of them lifes.
The Shark guy didn’t talk about his family or hobbies, even Hiro, but we can imagine that the
shark guy may be an alone person that only spend his time working or what he do, he has not a
wife and children.
I felt attracted by this character because, in fact was the most strange, so I, like all readers, want
to know more about this guy, like who the hell he really is or what are his really job, what does
the message means… There are lots of questions involved in this character.
