Hello everyone, I've recently finished reading Sharin no Kuni, and I have some doubts (regarding the succession of events in the past) I'd like to clear:
As I understood we have:
1.Kenichi, Ririko and Saborou live together in the town.
2.Ririko goes to study in the city where she meets Touka and Kyouko (Ririko will eventually leave).
3.Kenichi meets Natsumi and becomes her friend.
4.Kenichi becomes friend with Isono and Sachi too.
5.The revolution starts.
6.Kenichi runs away and some time later he meets Houzuki.
7.Kenichi starts studying to become a Special High Class Individual.
Here are my doubts:
1) Kenichi and everyone else refers at the time of the revolution as "7 years ago", but it is stated that the revolution itself lasted for over a year thanks to Saburou's efforts. So, did the revolution start 7 years ago and ended one year later, making 6 years ago the time of Kenichi's run-away; or did it actually start 8 years ago, making the time of the running 7 years ago?
2) At a certain point, Houzuki claims that he kept Saburou in prison for 5 years before killing him. So, was Saburou still alive after the revolution ended, while Kenichi was being trained? Or what?
3) How many years ago did Ririko leave town to study? How many years did she stay at university? When did she leave, parting from Touka and Kyouko? Touka says that they have last seen each other 10 years ago, so I suppose it was around that time that she left the city, but what did she do between that time and the time the revolution started?
4) How much time passed between Ririko leaving the town and Kenichi becoming friends with Natsumi, and how much from then until the revolution's start?
I don't know, I have some big confusion inside my head. Some questions may be stupid, maybe I didn't pay attention to certain details, maybe I didn't read certain passages carefully.
Hope you can help me with this!