Fangaku:Volume1 Afterword
Afterword[edit]
“Well, that ended nicely.”
“Now, hold on!”
“What, did you want it to end badly?”
“I don’t think that’s what she meant… Anyway, a lot of people helped make this book a reality. Thank all of you. And this was only possible thanks to the support from the readers. Thank all of you too.”
“So what should we discuss for the afterword?”
“How about what we had for dinner last night?”
“Imagine being a reader who paid for two pages of that.”
“Especially when we eat pretty much the same thing every day…”
“Oh, come to think of it, I bought that thing.”
“What thing?”
“A PC-98 DO+.”
“A what?”
“It’s a computer from the 90s, so you don’t need to know about it.”
“Hey! I would get ‘you wouldn’t know about it’, but why did you say she ‘doesn’t need to know about it’!?”
“You’re not even trying to communicate, are you? The readers are going to complain about all the references they don’t get.”
“Wait! I am to trying to communicate! I mean, I can talk about 88 stuff and 98 stuff, so that’s double the communication!”
“What does that even mean?”
“This idiot is driving off readers at double the speed.”
“The thing is, antique artifacts like that are pretty common drop items in the Depths and there is a demand for them.”
“Really!?”
“Yeah. After all, it’s based on 1999 Tokyo and the whole world too. The things that existed back then – or at least the ‘impressions’ or ‘images’ of them – were apparently greedily consumed and mixed together. You even sometimes find the possessions of people who went missing, so the drop items actually get more attention from people outside the Depths Region than those of us inside.”
“Yeah, but items like that are rare and you tend to find them as-is.”
“I should add that you acquire those drop items as a data entity. They’ve turned into something like a crystal, so they aren’t hard to recognize. You have to bring them back with you and get them appraised.”
“Sounds like there’s a lot to it, but this just goes to show it can be useful to bring up these topics.”
“Anyway, the work background music this time was Utah Saints Take On The Theme From Mortal Kombat. That’s the theme to the Mortal Kombat movie, but not the new one – the ‘95 one.”
“For the usual question, let’s go with ‘who underwent the most change?’ Until next time.”
2024. A sweltering morning.
-Kawakami Minoru
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