Regarding the children's rhyme "Where Are You?", Little Deer and Tsurumi have actually studied it.
Initially, it was a Temari Song.
It was a song sung by children while playing with a ball.
In the game, the children represent the hunters in the lyrics, and the ball symbolizes a raccoon dog. The thumping sound of the ball likely represents the gunshot during the chase.
Later, the game evolved into jumping within a tic-tac-toe-like grid. Two children would jump facing each other inside the grid, still creating an effect where one side is pursuing and the other is dodging bullets.
If the children playing the game collide, the ending represented is the raccoon dog running into the hunter's gun; if not, it signifies the raccoon dog escaping.
Thus, in repetition, it is inherently a game symbolizing hunters constantly chasing their prey.
And in this endless pursuit and hunt, the "raccoon dog" evidently holds resentment towards the "hunter," doesn't it?
