Noboru Wataya’s violation of Creta Kano is revealed through Creta’s retrospective account to Toru Okada. Although relations with Noboru had originally been arranged, she says what happened was against her will and left her changed; the distinction between prior arrangement and actual consent is central to her testimony and to the encounter’s lasting significance.

Disclosure and Circumstances

During a conversation with Toru Okada, Creta says she wants to know more about Noboru, then explains that he had violated her long before. She does not recount the incident in detail, saying she will speak about it on another occasion. Her account nevertheless establishes the essential circumstances: an encounter had been arranged, but what Noboru did was not wanted by her. She therefore rejects the idea that the arrangement made the violation acceptable, even as she distinguishes it from rape in the ordinary sense of the word.

Consequences for Creta

Creta says the experience changed her in important ways and describes the danger that she might have been lost forever. She also says she eventually recovered, with help from Malta Kano, and reached what she calls a higher level. Recovery does not erase her judgment of the act: she identifies Noboru’s conduct as wrong and dangerous. Her account holds harm and later transformation together without making the transformation a justification for what was done to her.

Contrast with Toru Okada

Creta distinguishes her past experience with Noboru from her later relations with Toru Okada. She says the latter took place for a proper purpose and did not defile her. Okada is startled by the disclosure that they had been intimate, and Creta explains that a woman in his second dream had taken her place. She presents the dream as a message intended for him, though he says he does not understand it. The contrast makes her account depend on consent, purpose, and her own interpretation of what happened, rather than on the mere fact of sexual relations.

Telling, Witness, and Significance

The violation reaches the reader through Creta’s testimony rather than a dramatized account of the original encounter. Her measured disclosure names the harm while withholding its details, and Okada’s failure to understand her underscores the limits of his immediate comprehension. Later, Creta asks him to hold her; he does so despite uncertainty, and she cries silently in his arms. The scene offers a moment of physical comfort, not a claim that the earlier violation has been undone. The episode’s significance lies in Creta’s insistence that an arranged encounter can still be against a person’s will, and that the effects of violation remain hers to describe and interpret.