Mushi:Vol4 Author's Notes

Author's Notes

According to the Bible, Noah seemed to be already more than 600 years old when the Great Flood happened. Moreover, the original human, Adam, appeared have lived for 903 years. Mmm - dear religious leaders, before you discuss whether it was an apple leaf or a fig leaf that covered Adam's loins, why don't you reveal the secret of longevity?

That aside -

Hello, I am Akira.

I here present the fourth volume in the Mushi to Medama series - "Mushi, Eyeballs, and Lovesong". My daily life has been very chaotic lately. I'm sleeping less, becoming picky in my diet, and my life is wearing away little by little.

"You should eat apples at such times!"

Apples in reality won't give us immortality when we eat them, but they seem to be able to cleanse the blood through anti-oxidant activities and slow down aging.

Apples are incredible fruits. The ethylene compounds they contain can speed up the aging process of plants in its vicinity, causing their flowers to wilt, their leaves to droop, or even stopping their growth altogether. It is veritably a plant killer.

Apples absorb the life force of other plants and use it to slow down human aging. It could be considered a radical in the plant world.

"Ah, how many beautiful flowers died to create this one apple... Hehehehe, they are necessary sacrifices to maintain my youth!"

Whenever I think like this when I'm eating an apple, I would feel as if I am Elizabeth Bathory.

The vampire countess Elizabeth Bathory believed in similar things as Joker in this story, with both believing they should 'rob others of their lives to prolong [their] own.' She was particularly notorious for absorbing blood, the symbol of life. It is said that Elizabeth killed countless people and bathed in the blood from 600 virgins to maintain her youth.

But we can't bathe in or absorb others' blood or eat others' hearts to prolong our own lives in reality. Don't move towards a path of perverted crimes, everyone.

You can't gouge out people's eyeballs either.

Hmm, but since I wrote this story, my words on this matter aren't really convincing.

The rest of this are my acknowledgements.

I inconvenienced executive producer Satō-san again with my procrastination this time. My sincerest apologies.

I will try my best and not give you any more trouble before the final volume.

Please feel free to tell me off if I start to get lazy again.

Then, I have to thank Mitsuki Mouse-san, the illustrator.

I write stuff that makes scenes cringe-worthy to draw all the time, and I always add extra things in. Even so, your unique art made this work all the richer. Thank you!

I really want to show the readers that picture with faces all over Joker's body...

Ah, right. The manga version of "Mushi to Medama" has started being serialized on Monthly Comic Alive.

I would like to thank the manga artist Asami Yuriko-san, and the original executive producer Kindaichi-san for giving this series the chance to go into different forms of media.

We will reach the final volume soon. No matter what, please stay with me till the end, everyone.

Akira

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