Thank you for this inspiring and very interesting interview translation, tenshi. I really appreciate your work with these.
As for those parts of running away, I felt it pretty strongly last year. I felt really disconnected with her even if I thought that COLOURS was a great album. After overplaying that album I just kinda thought that something didn't feel right at all, and it made me feel annoyed because I had no idea of what it was. But then she released Last minute and I felt connected again, which was only a good thing. I can feel the "Ayu spirit" in A ONE. Step by step and other songs from sixxxxxx that I have heard also has that feeling in them, and I love it~