"So if this isn't life, then what is life? Don't be fooled by this little herb garden; it contains the entire vast world. There are endless entanglements between the herbs here, yet they don't realize it's not their own fault for their suffering—it's mine."
"If I hadn't dragged them into this herb garden, if I hadn't forcibly pieced them together, they would have been forever untouched by the mortal world. But now they've forgotten this fact, each desperately grabbing nutrients from the garden like a pitiful, helpless mad dog, afraid they're going to lose out to the person next to them."
"Little do they know, this is precisely the effect I intended."
"You can't provide too many nutrients. If all the herbs lie around fully satisfied, then they can never achieve true happiness. Out of a hundred herbs, I only supply nutrients for ninety-nine, dooming one to be eliminated. This is merely the arrangement of the herb garden's owner, yet those that win rejoice complacently."
