So I've been told. It seems that, most often, when people "die" here they die, but if it's true that I died, memory loss may be another symptom.

[He shakes his head.]

It sounds as though I wasn't ill, and from what I've heard none of my shinki know what happened. I doubt an accident would be quite that subtle. Still -- without my memory or their knowledge, it's a mystery.

[Someone would have heard or seen something, if he'd simply been hit by a car or fallen off a cliff. Wouldn't they?]