But you were right all along.
Everyone’s starting to get back together, and I guess I wound up shacking up with them, too.
It might be too late to wish this, but I’m going to try to do whatever I can from here.
He wound up getting wrapped up in it all, too.
I was pretty amazed that Momo was also one of them, but…
I think everything’s turning out okay with him, though.
He made the choice himself, and now he’s moving on. I always knew he had some man in him.
You’re over there, aren’t you, Ayano? I’m sorry. I promise we’re going to save you.
Anyway, I’m off.
Once we beat “awakening,” we have just got to meet up. Okay?
Takane Enomoto
AFTERWORD
A Sight for Sore Eyes
Hello. JIN here.
Thanks, as always, for all of your support.
What did you think of Volume 4, then?
This volume mainly focuses around the character of Azami.
I felt this way about Hibiya a lot when writing Volume 3, but I guess I have a habit of falling in love with the main characters I focus on.
By now, with Volume 4 in the “done” pile, I’ve become a huge Azami fan.
I could just hear her say “You fool! ” in response.
Huh? Shintaro? Oh, yeah, I guess he was around, too, wasn’t he?
So! Once again we find ourselves (what a smooth change of subject) right in the dead of summer with this book.
It was spring in the 3-D world when I wrote Volume 3, but smack-dab in the middle of summer with this one, which made things seem to drag on even longer than usual.
Forget about me getting a summer vacation this year.
No beachside antics. No ghost stories by the campfire.
All I had was the giant game of chicken I like to call a “deadline.”
Though I have to say, it’s doing wonders for my pace.
We’ve only just released Volume 3, but boom, here’s the next one. What’s with that? Are they trying to torment me on purpose?
Not that whining about it will change anything, I suppose.
Even if I burst out of my home, screaming for help, I’m soon on the run from my editor, a giant, sharp pair of scissors in his hands.
I could try boarding a taxi, but it’s happened at least once that the taxi driver turned out to be another editor. All these editors, lurking where you least expect them. It’s like some psychological horror film.
My room, as usual, is a total mess. It’s about 40 percent furniture and 60 percent garbage, and it’s not going to improve anytime soon.
Now would be a pretty good time for a big-breasted French maid of some sort to show up. Like, really. Right now. Before I get angry.
As I write this, though, I’m increasingly faced with the depressing realization that, um, I wrote this kind of stuff in the last afterword, too, didn’t I?
I’m out of things to write about. Please send help.
If you don’t leave your home, you’ll never encounter anything new. That’s my situation. What could be fun about talking to a twenty-two-year-old like that?
But, still, write I must.
There are people at my autograph signings who actually claim they look forward to my afterwords! Well, here you go! I’m writing one! (Please try to enjoy the other 99 percent of the book, too, though.)
Oh, speaking of which, one of my (female) cousins started reading my novels.
She likes Kano, apparently.
Kano, huh? Man, he’s good with the ladies, isn’t he?
Well, well, well. Guess I know who I’m gonna make throw up in the next volume (he said, grinning).
Personally speaking, my favorite male character is Haruka.
He’s just a nice guy, you know? Probably smells good, too.
Still, here we are. Volume 4.
I know I complain all the time, but I’m having a constant blast writing these.
I sincerely think to myself “Man, I wish these guys could be my friends” as I write.
I’d just love to dive into the world of the novels and hang out for a while.
Maybe I’ll insert myself into the next volume, proclaiming “I am Kagerou Daze!” or some such nonsense.
Oop. I see my editor’s snipping his scissors at me and saying “You fool! .” Probably not happening, then. Pity.
And so I’ll wrap things up here, I think, as I pray for Volume 5’s release date to come as soon as possible.
See you all again in the next afterword!
JIN (Shizen no Teki-P)
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Copyright
KAGEROU DAZE, Volume 4
JIN (Shizen no Teki-P)
Translation by Kevin Gifford
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
KAGEROU DAZE IV -the missing children-
©KAGEROU PROJECT/1st PLACE
Cover art by SIDU
First published in Japan in 2013 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION ENTERBRAIN.
English translation rights arranged with KADOKAWA CORPORATION ENTERBRAIN, through TUTTLE-MORI AGENCY, INC., Tokyo.
English translation © 2016 by Yen Press, LLC
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: JIN, 1990– author. | SIDU, 1993– illustrator. | Gifford, Kevin, translator.
Title: Kagerou daze. Volume 4, The missing children / JIN (Shizen no Teki-P) ; illustrated by SIDU ; translation by Kevin Gifford.
Other titles: Kagero deizu. English | Missing children
Description: First Yen On edition. | New York : Yen On, 2016. | Summary: “He’s not alone anymore. This is the story of a certain group of boys and girls on a certain endless summer day. No one understood them, and they had always felt very much alone. But each of them held within their eyes a strange power, and those powers led them to join the Mekakushi-dan. Now they’re no longer alone, and together they’ll try to solve the mystery of Kagerou Daze and whatever—or whoever—lurks behind it!”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015050870 | ISBN 9780316308762 (paperback)
Subjects: | CYAC: Teenagers—Japan—Fiction. | Ability—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Science Fiction / General.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.J55 Kaj 2016 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015050870
ISBNs: 978-0-316-30876-2 (paperback)
978-0-316-31824-2 (ebook)
E3-20160627-JV-PC
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