Real Account II 29

Real Account II ch 29

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box: The country of despair
by Kurashina Ritsuko

text: Volume 5 goes on sale July 17! On top of that you can get a special story at Manga Box!

box: A picture book that came out 13 years ago.

box: This work was completely different from her earlier style.

account 29: The truth about the country of despair
Watanabe Shizumu - original concept: Okushou

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box: The story focused on the boy Pietro, who encountered nothing but misfortune.
box: In the end he fell into despair and wished to kill himself...

box: Thinking a happy end would follow anyway, once the reader turns the page,
box: there's only the afterword left...

box: The book was deemed too dark for a children's book and got one criticism after another.
box: In the end they got removed from stores and destroyed.

box: The author, rattled by the negative attention in the media
box: took her life, just like the main character in her book.

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Yuuma: The author, Kurashina Ritsuko
is you mother, right? Kurashina Mizuki?

Ayame: B-but then, just now,
Mizuki believed that he was calling with his deceased mother?!

box: summary:
Yuuma and Ayame have been sucked into the world of Real Account, and have become mutual followers to save their lives, sharing their fate. During the Big Flame Festival, Yuuma has Mizuki cornered!

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Mizuki: That's right!! My mother is dead!!
But she's not gone! She's waiting for me in the country of despair!!

Mizuki: Mom...
Mom...

Please... answer me... don't leave me...

Mizuki: Oh, right...
Mom wrote this book...

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text: "Those who die in a state of despair will go to the country of despair," God said.
"In that world, misfortune is compensated and everyone lives in happiness."

Mizuki: That's where mom must have gone!
So...

Mizuki: I can do the same and die in despair!
Then I can to the place where mom is at! I can see her again!

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Mizuki: I take it back, Yuuma-kun!
Right now, you're seriously pissing me off.

Mizuki: I know! After this game I'll drag you somewhere...
I'll gauge out your eyes, cut off your ears, and fingers one by one!
I'm sure that's a quick way to see you in despair, no? Hmm?

Yuuma: Hahaha, don't be so hasty,
didn't I tell you?

Yuuma: There's something you don't know about 'the country of despair".
Let me explain.

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Mizuki: Something I don't know?
Impossible.

Yuuma: Well yeah, you're the one who's walking around with pictures of each page on his phone.
So let me ask you

Yuuma: why
did she use light paper?

Mizuki: What...?
Yuuma: This book is too thin for a book that counts 40 pages. It's because the paper is thin;

Yuuma: Even though normally a children's book is printed on thicker paper so kids can play with it.
What's the reason she decided to use light paper?

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Yuuma: So you can see through it!
That's how the book was designed!

Yuuma: but since your image files can't do that, let me use an app for it.

Yuuma: Using this last page of the story,

Yuuma: and its backside.

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Yuuma: When you look at these two pages this way...
this picture book takes a completely different turn!

screen: combine

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page: Pietro decided to die. "Goodbye, world."
He stood on the stool and held the rope...

page corner; the end

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Ayame: The boy... is stabbbing god with a sword?!

Yuuma: When putting the two pages together
the lines that say the main character 'dies' are gone.

Yuuma: Instead, the last empty space
is just an image containing speed lines...

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Yuuma: And on the bottom you can see...
QR codes!

Mizuki: Wait...

Mizuki: How do I...
reach a state of despair...

Mizuki: What now... like this I won't be able to go there...

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Mizuki: No way...

Mizuki: Lies... this is nonsense.
After all, I...

Mizuki: I know!

Mizuki: It's because I'm empty that I can't 'despair'... Instead I'll just collect despair from other people!
If I do that, I'll definitely get in!!

Mizuki: So
first of all...

Mizuki: I would die and
see mother again.

sfx; click

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text: "Don't die!"

box: Pietro suddenly changed his mind, when the rope turned into a blade with which he stabbed god.

box: God was in fact a devil of despair. He was the one who made misfortune happen to Pietro.

Mizuki: Uh-

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text: There was no such thing as 'the country of despair'!
Mizuki: Uwaaaaah!!

mizuki: aaahhhh

sfx: chew chew
Mizuki: ugh
don't believe it

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Mizuki: I dob bewieve..;
don't...

Yuuma :There, I took it.
Isn't this what you wanted?
Arent you happy? Finally despairing?

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Yuuma: Although it's meaningless now!
adding fuel

Hayato: Ugh!
Ayame: His collection of pictures?

text: The very first
picture...

Mizuki: Mother...
mom...

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Mizuki: What do you think you're doing?!
Yuuma: Your situation has turned around so...
you don't need these anymore, do you?

Yuuma: What you mother wanted to tell you
was that instead of despair, you should have hope!!

text: Although difficult, Pietro found a little "hope" in the midst of "despair".

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Yuuma: It's useless to die.
The 'country of despair' does not exist.

Yuuma: The dead will never come back again!

screen: All files in the 'despair' folder have been deleted.

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Yuuma: Too bad for you!
Go ahead and live with that despair!

text: A complete victory for Yuuma!!

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