The Devotion of Suspect X

Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.

It’s more difficult to create the problem than to solve it. All the person trying to solve the problem has to do is always respect the problem’s creator.

Watching people is a bit of a hobby of mine. It's quite fascinating, really.

Even when you’re at the top, there’s always something higher,

he presented me with a mathematical conundrum,” he said. “It’s a famous one, the P = NP problem. Basically, it asks whether it’s more difficult to think of the solution to a problem yourself or to ascertain if someone else’s answer to the same problem is correct.

Kusanagi had met plenty of good, admirable people who’d been turned into murderers by circumstance. There was something about them he always seemed to sense, an aura that they shared. Somehow, their transgression freed them from the confines of a mortal existence, allowing them to perceive the great truths of the universe. At the same time, it meant they had one foot in forbidden territory. They straddled the line between sanity and madness.

A veces, una persona puede salvar a otra por el hecho mero de existir.

That's what happens when you free people from the restraints of time. They make their own rigid schedule.

The sun had set. Night had come to the city. How easy it would be if everything went dark, and the world ended right here, right now. What a relief it would be.

You’re familiar with the P = NP problem, right?” Yukawa asked from behind him. Ishigami looked around. “You’re referring to the question of whether or not it is as easy to determine the accuracy of another person’s results as it is to solve the problem yourself—or, failing that, how the difference in difficulty compares. It’s one of the questions the Clay Mathematics Institute has offered a prize to solve.

He held no aspirations of ever being anything to them

It seems to me that you have two options: hide the fact that anything happened, or hide the fact that you had anything to do with it.

A feeling rose inside him, making him queasy, as though an elaborate formula he’d thought was perfect was now giving false results because of an unpredictable variable.

Murder isn't the most logical way to escape a difficult situation. It only leads to a different difficult situation.