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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story about Tōru, Honda, Momoko entitled The Decay of the Angel.
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conversations.value: The Decay of the Angel: A retired judge, Shigekuni Honda, adopts a teenage orphan, Tōru Yasunaga, whom he believes to be a dead schoolfriend\'s third successive reincarnation.\nThe novel opens on Saturday, 2 May 1970, with a seascape off the coast of the Izu Peninsula.\nTōru Yasunaga is an orphaned 16-year-old boy working in Shimizu as a signalman, identifying ships by telescope and notifying the offices at Shimizu harbour.\nHe works a 24-hour shift every third day, from a high platform on the Komagoe shore, built on top of a strawberry farmer\'s water tank.\nHonda, walking along the shoreline, notices it in passing.\nLater, that night, Tōru is visited at his post by his friend Kinue, a mad girl who believes that she is incredibly beautiful and that all men are after her.\nKinue tells him a long story about how a boy molested her on the bus.\nAfter midnight, at his house in Hongō, Honda dreams about angels flying over the Miho Pine Grove, which he had visited that day.\nAt 9am, Tōru\'s shift ends and he takes the bus home to his apartment.\nHe has a bath, and we see that he has the same three moles as Kiyoaki.\nIn Chapter 7, it is explained that Honda\'s wife Rie has died and that Keiko, a happily single lesbian, has become a platonic companion for him.\nThey have gone travelling together to Europe, and hold canasta parties.\nHonda is preoccupied with his dream life and with the past, and has trouble with his housekeeper and maids.\nIn her old age, Keiko is devoted to the study of Japanese culture, but her knowledge is second-hand and superficial, and Honda calls it a "freezer full of vegetables".\nThey visit the Miho Pine Grove, a tourist-trap Honda already saw and disliked.\nThey have their picture taken, sticking their heads through holes in a board painted to make them look like Jirōchō and his wife Ōchō, who were bosses of Shimizu Harbour in the 19th Century.\nThey see the giant dying pine, where, according to Zeami\'s Robe of Feathers, an angel supposedly left her robe, and had to dance for the fisherman who stole it in order to get it back.\nThey also go to Mio Shrine.\nOn the drive back home, they stop at the signal station Honda saw several days ago.\nHe is strangely drawn to it, and they go inside to look around.\nBecause Tōru is only wearing an undershirt, Honda sees the moles on his side.\nBack in the car Honda announces his intention to adopt the boy.\nIn Keiko\'s hotel room on Nihondaira, Honda explains to her the significance of the moles and tells her the whole story of Kiyoaki\'s two previous reincarnations.\nShe reluctantly accepts this story.\nHonda makes her promise to tell no-one, especially not Tōru.\nOn 10 August, Tōru becomes aware that he is being investigated by detectives through a story of Kinue\'s, and later that month he is visited at home by the superintendent, who announces Honda\'s intention to adopt.\nIn Chapter 16, the extent of Honda\'s wealth is revealed; through prudently investing the fortune he came into after the war, he has become a millionaire.\nBy October, Tōru has moved to the house in Hongō and is receiving lessons in table manners and other social skills.\nHonda is eager to protect him from premature death and tries to inculcate the cynicism that Kiyoaki, Isao and Ying Chan lacked.\nThree tutors are employed for Tōru.\nIn late November the literature tutor, Furusawa, takes him to a local coffee-house and tells him a political parable about the nature of suicide and authority.\nTōru suddenly feels dislike for him and engineers his dismissal.\nRelishing the feeling of power this gives him, he casts around for a more amusing victim.\nIn late spring of 1972, two friends of Honda try to arrange a marriage between Tōru and their daughter, Momoko Hamanaka.\nAfter dinner, Momoko shows Tōru photo-albums in her room and he makes up his mind to hurt her.\nThe two families go on holiday to Shimoda; it is there that Honda realises that Tōru is secretly hostile to Momoko.\nAs the demure relationship progresses, Tōru analyses Momoko and, while talking to her in the Kōrakuen Garden a year or so after their first meeting, he decides to make her jealous by acquiring a second girlfriend.\nAt a go-go hall on his way home from school, he picks up a 25-year-old who calls herself "Nagisa" (Miss Brink) and they have sex a few days later.\nNagisa gives him a medallion with her monogram on it.\nMomoko does not notice it until they go swimming together, and she gives the "N" an innocuous interpretation.\nIt is only when Nagisa approaches Tōru in the coffee-house that her jealousy is aroused.\nMomoko throws the medallion into a canal and insists that Tōru must leave Nagisa.\nTōru claims that he cannot do it alone, and dictates a letter for Momoko to send to Nagisa.\nIn the letter, Momoko is made to lie that her family is in financial difficulties and that she needs to marry Tōru for his money.\nMomoko hopes to inspire guilt in Nagisa.\nAfter the letter is delivered, Tōru goes to Nagisa\'s apartment, snatches it from her, and takes it to Honda.\nThe marriage is off.\nSeveral months later, in early October 1973, Honda and Tōru visit Yokohama, and at the harbourside have a conversation.\nTōru realises that Honda has guessed that the letter was fake, and that he takes satisfaction in the guile his adopted son displays.\nTōru is furious at being seen through so easily, and throws his diary into the water.\nAt the end of 1973 he finishes school, and is accepted into university.\nIn the spring of 1974, Tōru enters his majority and drops all pretences.\nHe becomes violent with Honda and intimidates him into getting his way on everything, moving Kinue into a hut at the bottom of the garden, spending money freely and abusing the maids.\nOn 3 September 1974, Honda is caught spying on couples in the park, and the incident makes the newspapers; Tōru moves to have him declared senile.\nOn 20 December, Tōru goes to a Christmas party at Keiko\'s.\nTo his amazement, he is the only guest.\nKeiko reveals Honda\'s true motivations for adopting him, and cheerfully explains that if he does not die in 1975, he must be a fraud.\nTōru returns home and demands Kiyoaki\'s dream diary.\nOn 28 December, Tōru burns the diary and tries to commit suicide by drinking methanol, but it only blinds him, and he survives.\nHonda discovers that Keiko has betrayed him, and he breaks off contact with her.\nTōru loses all motivation and spends his days with Kinue in her cottage.\nHonda eventually concludes that Tōru was not, in fact, Kiyoaki\'s reincarnation.\nAt about this time, Honda is afflicted by pains which he does nothing about for months.\nOn 22 July 1975, just before a hospital appointment, Honda goes to Gesshū Temple for the first time since February 1914.\nSatoko, who is now the Abbess, admits him, but during their conversation he mentions Kiyoaki, and she claims that she never knew anyone of that name.\nBaffled and desolate, Honda replies "Perhaps then there has been no".
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conversations.value: The Decay of the Angel: A retired judge, Shigekuni Honda, adopts a teenage orphan, Tōru Yasunaga, whom he believes to be a dead schoolfriend\'s third successive reincarnation.\nThe novel opens on Saturday, 2 May 1970, with a seascape off the coast of the Izu Peninsula.\nTōru Yasunaga is an orphaned 16-year-old boy working in Shimizu as a signalman, identifying ships by telescope and notifying the offices at Shimizu harbour.\nHe works a 24-hour shift every third day, from a high platform on the Komagoe shore, built on top of a strawberry farmer\'s water tank.\nHonda, walking along the shoreline, notices it in passing.\nLater, that night, Tōru is visited at his post by his friend Kinue, a mad girl who believes that she is incredibly beautiful and that all men are after her.\nKinue tells him a long story about how a boy molested her on the bus.\nAfter midnight, at his house in Hongō, Honda dreams about angels flying over the Miho Pine Grove, which he had visited that day.\nAt 9am, Tōru\'s shift ends and he takes the bus home to his apartment.\nHe has a bath, and we see that he has the same three moles as Kiyoaki.\nIn Chapter 7, it is explained that Honda\'s wife Rie has died and that Keiko, a happily single lesbian, has become a platonic companion for him.\nThey have gone travelling together to Europe, and hold canasta parties.\nHonda is preoccupied with his dream life and with the past, and has trouble with his housekeeper and maids.\nIn her old age, Keiko is devoted to the study of Japanese culture, but her knowledge is second-hand and superficial, and Honda calls it a "freezer full of vegetables".\nThey visit the Miho Pine Grove, a tourist-trap Honda already saw and disliked.\nThey have their picture taken, sticking their heads through holes in a board painted to make them look like Jirōchō and his wife Ōchō, who were bosses of Shimizu Harbour in the 19th Century.\nThey see the giant dying pine, where, according to Zeami\'s Robe of Feathers, an angel supposedly left her robe, and had to dance for the fisherman who stole it in order to get it back.\nThey also go to Mio Shrine.\nOn the drive back home, they stop at the signal station Honda saw several days ago.\nHe is strangely drawn to it, and they go inside to look around.\nBecause Tōru is only wearing an undershirt, Honda sees the moles on his side.\nBack in the car Honda announces his intention to adopt the boy.\nIn Keiko\'s hotel room on Nihondaira, Honda explains to her the significance of the moles and tells her the whole story of Kiyoaki\'s two previous reincarnations.\nShe reluctantly accepts this story.\nHonda makes her promise to tell no-one, especially not Tōru.\nOn 10 August, Tōru becomes aware that he is being investigated by detectives through a story of Kinue\'s, and later that month he is visited at home by the superintendent, who announces Honda\'s intention to adopt.\nIn Chapter 16, the extent of Honda\'s wealth is revealed; through prudently investing the fortune he came into after the war, he has become a millionaire.\nBy October, Tōru has moved to the house in Hongō and is receiving lessons in table manners and other social skills.\nHonda is eager to protect him from premature death and tries to inculcate the cynicism that Kiyoaki, Isao and Ying Chan lacked.\nThree tutors are employed for Tōru.\nIn late November the literature tutor, Furusawa, takes him to a local coffee-house and tells him a political parable about the nature of suicide and authority.\nTōru suddenly feels dislike for him and engineers his dismissal.\nRelishing the feeling of power this gives him, he casts around for a more amusing victim.\nIn late spring of 1972, two friends of Honda try to arrange a marriage between Tōru and their daughter, Momoko Hamanaka.\nAfter dinner, Momoko shows Tōru photo-albums in her room and he makes up his mind to hurt her.\nThe two families go on holiday to Shimoda; it is there that Honda realises that Tōru is secretly hostile to Momoko.\nAs the demure relationship progresses, Tōru analyses Momoko and, while talking to her in the Kōrakuen Garden a year or so after their first meeting, he decides to make her jealous by acquiring a second girlfriend.\nAt a go-go hall on his way home from school, he picks up a 25-year-old who calls herself "Nagisa" (Miss Brink) and they have sex a few days later.\nNagisa gives him a medallion with her monogram on it.\nMomoko does not notice it until they go swimming together, and she gives the "N" an innocuous interpretation.\nIt is only when Nagisa approaches Tōru in the coffee-house that her jealousy is aroused.\nMomoko throws the medallion into a canal and insists that Tōru must leave Nagisa.\nTōru claims that he cannot do it alone, and dictates a letter for Momoko to send to Nagisa.\nIn the letter, Momoko is made to lie that her family is in financial difficulties and that she needs to marry Tōru for his money.\nMomoko hopes to inspire guilt in Nagisa.\nAfter the letter is delivered, Tōru goes to Nagisa\'s apartment, snatches it from her, and takes it to Honda.\nThe marriage is off.\nSeveral months later, in early October 1973, Honda and Tōru visit Yokohama, and at the harbourside have a conversation.\nTōru realises that Honda has guessed that the letter was fake, and that he takes satisfaction in the guile his adopted son displays.\nTōru is furious at being seen through so easily, and throws his diary into the water.\nAt the end of 1973 he finishes school, and is accepted into university.\nIn the spring of 1974, Tōru enters his majority and drops all pretences.\nHe becomes violent with Honda and intimidates him into getting his way on everything, moving Kinue into a hut at the bottom of the garden, spending money freely and abusing the maids.\nOn 3 September 1974, Honda is caught spying on couples in the park, and the incident makes the newspapers; Tōru moves to have him declared senile.\nOn 20 December, Tōru goes to a Christmas party at Keiko\'s.\nTo his amazement, he is the only guest.\nKeiko reveals Honda\'s true motivations for adopting him, and cheerfully explains that if he does not die in 1975, he must be a fraud.\nTōru returns home and demands Kiyoaki\'s dream diary.\nOn 28 December, Tōru burns the diary and tries to commit suicide by drinking methanol, but it only blinds him, and he survives.\nHonda discovers that Keiko has betrayed him, and he breaks off contact with her.\nTōru loses all motivation and spends his days with Kinue in her cottage.\nHonda eventually concludes that Tōru was not, in fact, Kiyoaki\'s reincarnation.\nAt about this time, Honda is afflicted by pains which he does nothing about for months.\nOn 22 July 1975, just before a hospital appointment, Honda goes to Gesshū Temple for the first time since February 1914.\nSatoko, who is now the Abbess, admits him, but during their conversation he mentions Kiyoaki, and she claims that she never knew anyone of that name.
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conversations.value: What could be a category for this story?
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conversations.value: A category could be 'Sea of Fertility Series Book'