Editing Mushi Uta:Volume 10 Afterword (section)

== Afterword ==

Hello, this is Iwai Kyouhei.



It really has been a long time since I continued this series.

I apologize to all the readers that I kept waiting. To those of you who started getting interested in the series due to this release, I would be happy if you could keep reading it to the approaching climax.



“Lie”.

Starting from a small lie said without thinking about it and to a big lie that could mess one’s life, probably everyone had the experience of being manipulated by some false happening.

A lie is a magic spell that allows you to deceive your opponent, be deceived by them, and at times even deceive yourself.

When you add evil and kindness or emotions like fear and enjoyment to it, the term changes.

Excuse, bluff, joke, scam, self-defense, and delusion. If you just so happen to realize “oh, I just told a lie,” you can try naming it. I believe it’s a theme everyone can relate to.

The magic called lies increases its effectiveness by being repeated again and again, painting it over. At the same time, it also tightens the noose around your neck and it’s natural for seams to open up in it, but still—it might approach reality and become reality itself at some point.

Perhaps “truth born from a lie born from a lie” might be more powerful than normal truth?

I think it also resembles dreams.

Both become reality once they come true, anyway.



From the time from my previous work to this one, the side story series “Mushi Uta Bug” has been concluded. And the creator himself was also busy with another work’s novelization, and I’ve been learning a lot from being in charge of writing a manga, but finally all the final pieces for the main series have been gathered.

I think about going on this last spurt without taking any break.

I am grateful to the editor and the editorial department who have supported me for this purpose, and to llo-sama, who drew such wonderful illustrations.

Most importantly, to you the readers with the book in your hands.

Thank you very much.

I hope we will meet in the next volume.



Iwai Kyouhei



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