Utsuro no Hako:Volume 6 Author’s Notes

Hi, I’m Eiji Mikage and you’ve just read Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria 6. I visualized the end of this tale long ago, so actually writing it down is deeply touching.

This may be a bit random, but my motto is that “a pro must not be human.”

Utsuro no Hako:Volume 6 Epilogue

“Oomine! Are you okay?!” I shout as I take him into my arms.

“…Aya?” he whispers and closes his eyes.

His gray jacket is soaked in blood. His wound is deeper than Kirino’s, and I don’t have any first aid supplies on hand.

I immediately realize that he is beyond help.

Utsuro no Hako:Volume 6 After the Curtain Falls

◇◇◇ Kazuki Hoshino – 09/24 THU 12:25 ◇◇◇

Another day is about to pass without my speaking to anyone else at school.

We’re currently on lunch break. I stretch and look out the window. The weather today is nice, the sun is shining gently down into the classroom, but stormy weather is expected tomorrow.

Utsuro no Hako:Volume 6 Scene 4 (3)

scene 4: Piercing at Fifteen 3/3

• 95. BLUE BACKGROUND
• KOKONE (MONOLOGUE)
• Please…
• 96. WHITE BACKGROUND

Utsuro no Hako:Volume 6 Scene 4 (2)

scene 4: Piercing at Fifteen 2/3

• 11. PARK – DAYTIME
• The camera focuses on a baseball field within a spacious park. The sound of children at play echoes in the background, but no one is in the vicinity of DAIYA and KOKONE.

Utsuro no Hako:Volume 6 Scene 4 (1)

scene 4: Piercing at Fifteen 1/3

• 1. RIVERSIDE – DUSK
• A broad river, viewed from midair, is glowing in the evening light. Two junior high school students in their last year, DAIYA and KOKONE, stand out from the crimson glow of twilight. They walk hand in hand while looking straight ahead.

Conversations with Mahathir Mohamad (test translation)

Live and Let Worship

The Gore blunder … Islamic extremism
… no moderate Muslim … I am not an ultra!

For years Malaysia has been no menace to any other country
(leaving aside the silly bickering with Singapore). And internally
its race and ethnic relations became, on the global scale, a relative
model of mildness. To the credit of Mahathir and other committed
Malaysians, the country avoided the extreme

Zaregoto 2-8+final chapter

8

TRIAL

Mentality

You actually kno w, don t you?

Zaregoto 2-7: SINK AND DIE

7

SINK AND DIE
Cynicism

Kill every suspect, starting at one end.

The one left standing is your culprit.

Zaregoto 2–6: ABNORMAL ENDING

6

ABNORMAL ENDING
That Wraps It up

I’m begging you, please stop getting my hopes up.