The following chapter is written in journal entry format. The journals were used as key evidence for the defense of Honda Kiku at his trial for the deaths of 812 people. These entries were found in the many journals found at the mansion and were written by Honda Kuro.

Day 1 (Day after the massacre of the 32):

I watched as Kiku continued to digging the last holes. I told him that I was going to make sure we hadn't missed any of them. The truth was I wanted to leave the rest of the work to him. It's easy to fool him into believing stuff. Ever since the day he received that beating he hasn't been the same. I managed to learn English and he wasn't able to. I can count, read, and write. He can count (up to ten), and he can't read or write, except in our native language. Better go help him, before he decides to go look for me.

Day 6:

Hikari has started to hallucinate. He keeps talking to all of them. I can hear him talking to them right now. And from what I am getting he is talking to Yao. I have been trying to get him to stop talking to things that are not there. He does stop, but when I am around. He has started to get that glint in his eyes and I am freaking out. I managed to stop him from killing me last time, but I have begun to catch him holding that knife again. I have to do something! I cannot let him kill me next. He did us both a huge favor in killing them all, but he won't survive not even for a day if he is left alone. I have a plan, but for that I will need to leave him alone for a while…

Day 7:

Plan worked. I managed to lure someone in to the mansion. I made up a story about me and my brother being abandoned in a mansion deep in the forest. The person out of sympathy fell into my trap. Then I left the person alone and went and got Hikari. I told him that a crazy person had followed me when I went to get food from town (we were starting to run low). Not surprisingly, he believed my story and he asked me what we should do. I told him that the only thing we could do was turn the person into a flower since they were going to harm us like everyone else had. He took the bait and we disposed of him. Digging another hole was out of question, so we both managed to cut the arms off and plant them. I told him to stay put, got rid of the body, changed clothes, and went and bought food for us (using the money I found in the person's wallet).

Year 1

It's been a year since he killed them. This has been the best year ever. In order to make sure Hikari doesn't get any ideas I have been luring people in weekly. I have started to do it as well, I don't know what Hikari feels about it all, but it is a great feeling that I get whenever Hikari, or I take someone' s life away. It's the sweetest thing ever. I did ask him once, but all he said was that he enjoyed adding more flowers to his garden, and also made more friends to talk to. Friends? What friends? The only person he has is me. And it should forever stay like that.

Year 5 Day 169

I decided to take Hikari out to the forest for a picnic today. We eventually reached a clearing and I just sat there and watched him as he ran around laughing, acting like the happy child he never got to be. Heck, I didn't get to be that happy child either. But he usually was the one that got the worst of everything. I defended myself against them, and I tried to get him to do it too. But when that bastard left him near-death… I looked up when he shrieked and suddenly he was behind me. I looked in the direction and spotted three people standing there. I quickly stood up and confronted them. After we talked I forced myself to invite them to join, which they did. I could tell they were noticing all of Hikari's 'odd' behavior. Despite my protests they got me to agree to meet up with them so that they could examine him. Great… Maybe I should add them to the garden?

Year 5 Day 190

Ludwig and Feliciano have started Hikari's schooling. I refused to have anything to do with the bastards that are now rotting underground, so I had Ludwig use our mother's maiden name, Honda. I also refused to be checked like Hikari. He's the one with the mental problems, not me. Ludwig practically hospitalized him in that hospital place. I have continued adding to the garden while he is over there. I had Gilbert help me falsify most of our personal information. I don't want anyone to connect us with the people that ruined our lives, but at the same time they gave us a purpose. Or at least to me. For all I know Hikari will never be the same again. Not that I mind. I actually like the fact that he thinks he needs me for his survival. It makes him much more fun to manipulate.

Year 6 Day 345

I don't have the plainest idea what that potato bastard was thinking! Next thing I know Hikari says he will no longer be living with me in the mansion. When I asked him why he says that Ludwig had also gotten people to train him to own and operate a small flower shop. How in the world… How in the world did that bastard manage to get through my brother's child-like mind and get him to understand the necessity to have his own life! We had an argument about that. Even though I won I let him go to the location that Ludwig had chosen for him. He was surprised that I let him go. The only condition I gave him was that on the day we chose for gathering a new flower was the day he was to come visit me. He agreed. I am seriously starting to think that there is something more to this…

Year 7 Day 280

Hikari told me that he made a new friend. I just stared at him in surprise. The child that once depended on me… was getting further and further away from me. And I wasn't going to allow it. We argued again, but it was cut short when he suddenly grabbed his head and passed out in front of me. He had gotten another headache, but I cause this one. Loud noise plus the constant pain he suffers from that beating make a wonderful combination. I drove him insane when he woke up. I played very loud music through a pair of headphones that he couldn't take off since I had chained him. At first he screamed at me to take them off, but after a while he began begging for me to make the noise go away. I think I left him like that for over an hour… when I finally took them off I told him that he was to turn one into a flower. He agreed immediately, but I think he did it just so I could make the noise go away, and to give him his pain killers back. It's fun to have people at your mercy.

Year 13 Day 245

I argued with Light today… again. This time it's because he has found someone else. I demanded why he allowed someone else into his life. I was the only person he needed. The only one! I had already managed to make him stop taking his medication on the days that he came to visit. I had already made him turn a 'friend' into a flower. I demanded for him to bring the person and turn them into a flower. He refused saying that he needed someone to be at the shop to help him. He said he hated being alone over there. Doesn't he think I feel alone over here? When I asked him that he told me I wasn't alone. He said that all of his friends stayed whenever he went back to the city. Eventually I agreed, but the only reason why I agreed was because I was trying to see how I could turn this to my advantage…

Year 14 Day 40

The bastard is a cop. I don't understand why Hikari doesn't understand that. But then again he doesn't think that we are doing anything illegal. Fourteen years of that has made him think that what we do is ok. I don't mind though. I gave him the pills that Ludwig gave me for my insomnia years ago. I can sleep fine without them now. I told him to find ways to make sure the bastard takes them on the nights that he comes to visit. I told him that I didn't want him to find out about my or the garden's existence. When he asked why I told him that he would lock him up and leave him if he saw the garden. When he asked why, I told him it was because he will destroy our garden since this garden was the garden of gardens. I told him that the person that owned the garden would be locked up so that they wouldn't interfere. I fed him a bunch more lies and he believed me.

Year 14 Day 343

I told Hikari that I was going to back to Japan. He almost freaked out when I told him to stay. I told him I was coming back. I told him that the sign had come. I told him that the day a child found the garden I had to take the child to our homeland. I made up a bunch of lies so that he would understand I wanted him to stay. What I didn't tell him was that I had been spotted when I had abandoned the last body. Thankfully the person didn't get that much of a good look at me. But I know that if the person thinks I am Hikari everything will collapse. I plan to take the child with me to see our family that we have in Japan. But I will need to do some stuff so that the child will not turn against me… Sorry Hikari. But I refuse to pay for what you started. I may have continued it, but I refuse to pay the consequences. Just like when we were children…

Just like when we were children… you should once more pay for everything that I have done…