Durarara!! Light Novel Volume 03/Chapter 01

You Know Perfectly Well is the first chapter of the third Durarara!! light novel.

Synopsis
Two years ago, Izaya Orihara visits a hospital ward where a young teenage girl lies unconscious. He tells her boyfriend that he cannot run from or escape her, because the guilt and distress that consume him will affect his future actions, and the past - and the girl - will become his god. When she wakes up two days later, the boy does not visit.

In the present, Masaomi Kida is visiting Anri Sonohara and other friends in the hospital frequently in the days following the slasher attacks. After their release, he comes to visit the girl, Saki Mikajima. She asks if he is returning to "that side," and he insists they are over and leaves. She quietly encourages him to date other girls, knowing that he will choose her over the others when the times comes "because that's what Izaya said."

Quotes

 * Saki: "Because no matter what, Masaomi will still return to my side in the end, right? And then... yes, that's right... with the experience from his time with those other lovers, he will love me even more than before. Definitely... this is definitely how it will go... because- because that's what Izaya said."
 * "When the girl woke up -- the boy was not present. But in the end, Kida Masaomi did not escape from the girl's side. He clearly understood, as Izaya had said, that he could not escape. But besides escaping, he could find no other answers, and it was simply because of this reason that he did not see the girl. And then, time continued to pass. The girl was indeed his past, and it shackled Masaomi's heart. Thus, she became the living past."