City Series:Volume8b Afterword
Afterword[edit]
Kawakami Minoru’s Sight Mode: Afterword – Game Over[edit]
<Kawakami Minoru’s Over Reload>
Okay, here’s the second afterword.
I wanted to take it easy with this afterword, but when I typed in “Kawakami Minoru’s Sight Mode”, the IME got it all wrong and I fell back onto the floor where an analog joystick happened to be. It jabbed me right in the spinal cord for a very complex sort of attack that left me writhing on the floor at 5 in the morning. That crafty thing targeted me where training won’t help. I really need to Over Zoom what’s behind me and what I’m typing, huh?
Anyway, this is the end of DT. I hope this gave you the data – and the corresponding feelings – for what the City World is like in the modern day. I’m really grateful I got to use many pages for both books in this one. I have all of you readers to thank for that one.
Now for the usual late-night chat.
Kawakami Minoru: “Hi. Whether you’re in a good mood or not, I’m overjoyed about the ice cream I’m eating as a reward for finishing this book. The custard flavor is so good!! So how are you?”
Friend Y: “You’re pretending to be someone you’re not, aren’t you? I don’t like it.”
Kawakami Minoru: “Yeah, but I felt like I was being too samey in these things.”
Friend Y: “The guest is already different each time, so the host doesn’t need to be different too.”
Friend Y: “But anyway, this was the first of your novels I’ve read since Hong Kong.”
Kawakami Minoru: “Here I am celebrating getting Part B done and you’re already making this afterword incredibly rude.”
Friend Y: “Don’t let it bother you, idiot.”
Friend Y: “Besides, you only summoned me because I work in electronics, but I’m really just an ordinary person making a living at a boring job. If only I had stories as exciting as H does.”
Kawakami Minoru: “Ordinary people don’t say ‘summoned’ in everyday conversation.”
Kawakami Minoru: “Besides, I heard you turbo-boosted a railway crossing in your moped last month. Was that testing for something you’re developing, or were you just trying to be Michael?”
Friend Y: “It was dark out and I wasn’t looking where I was going. The next thing I knew, I was sitting there on the track, but then I saw my moped spinning away through the air. It was totaled.”
Kawakami Minoru: “What it is with my friends and flying through the air?”
Friend Y: “Oh, shut up. But to get back on topic…was this DT volume’s theme supposed to be, well, you know.”
Kawakami Minoru: “What?”
Friend: “The process by which athletes get hooked on 18+ games.”
Kawakami Minoru: “Are you sure you aren’t just making things up now?”
Friend Y: “C’mon, honesty is the best policy.”
Not always. But let’s ignore that idiot and get on to the announcements.
The next city I plan to write is London, but before that, I want to finish up SF and release the new series I’ve mentioned here and there.
This new series is part of the Ahead listed on the back cover.
It’s going to be a school action story set in the modern day…which doesn’t make it sound all that different from City, does it? But I can’t fight my style or my desire to write this, so I think that’s what I’ll do next.
I keep talking about things I plan to do, but I’m going to do everything I can to make this actually happen.
Okay, I finished up the editing of this one while listening to Bump of Chicken’s Stage of the Ground and wondering, “Who was the loser?”
Now, then. Next up is SF and my new series.
February 2002. A morning with a critical hit to the back.
-Kawakami Minoru
Satoyasu Page[edit]
This ends the long ears festival without issue. I’m satisfied.
See you next time.
-Satoyasu
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