Real Account 29

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-"Country of Despair" by Kurashina Ritsuko

-A picture book sold 13 years ago

-It was a different style of literature to what the author had wrote up till then.

-Account 29 - The Truth of the Country of Despair

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-The main character Pietro continued to be stricken by unhappiness and misfortune.

-Pietro wanted to die "Goodbye cruel world"

-Climbing on the table he put a rope around his neck.

-Pietro killed himself, bye bye Pietro, enjoy the Country of Despair!

-At the last he committed suicide...

-On the last page rather than a happy end,

-All that was written was the book's publication details.

-It wasn't suitable for children, and received a lot of harsh criticism.

-It led to the book being recalled and disposed of.

-In turmoil, and with a sick mind,

-The author killed themselves just like their character.

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-That author was "Kurashina Ritsuko",

-Your mother - Kurashina Mizuki!

-...Then Kurashina before,

-Believed he was able to speak with his dead mother through the phone!?

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-Yeah that's right! My mum is dead!

-But she's not gone...she's waiting for me at the "Country of Despair"!

-Mum.

-Mum.

-Please, say something. I don't want to be left alone.

-I see...

-Mum can't come back...

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-God said "while they are despairing, dead people go to the Country of Despair".

-"Since they were not rewarded in this world, everyone there lives there happily instead."

-Since she's in despair Mum is waiting in the country of despair!

-So then...

-I'll also die in despair!

-I'll go to the same place as Mum! We can meet again!

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-Yuuma-kun, I take back what I said.

-You actually completely sicken me.

-I know! After this game is over I'll take you hostage...

-Crush your eyes and ears and cut your fingers off one by one!
If I do that I bet I'd get to see your "Despair" face nice and fast, don't you think so!?

-Hahaha, don't be like that.

-I told you didn't I?

-I'm going to show you the truth,

-Which you don't know about the "Country of Despair".

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-What I don't know?

-Do tell.

-Well I have pictures of all the pages of the book on my smart phone.

-So I'll let you know.

-Why is it so,

-empty?

-Huh...?

-The story, it's too short for 40 pages right? It's because it's empty.

-Normally with picture books, children are rough with them they make them with harder

paper.

-So why did they use empty pages?

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-So it can be seen through!

-The book was designed to be seen through like that!

-Since with this I need to use an image processing app rather than looking through them,

-The pages meant to be seen through were this last page,

-And the other side of this one.

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-If you combine these two pages...

-This picture book has a completely different outcome!

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-Pietro wanted to die "Goodbye cruel World"

-Climbing on the table he put a rope around his neck.

-The End

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-The main character...is pointing a sword at God!?

-The surface of where the main character

-Was described as dying, is covered up...

-Instead of the final description,

-There is a pattern which you couldn't see before.

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-At the bottom of the page,

-There was a barcode!

*TN these are QR codes, popular in Japan

-Wait...

-How,

-do you get "despair"...

-What should I do...at this rate I won't be able to go to the "Country of Despair".

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-No...

-You're lying...

-I...

-I know,

-If I'm empty of despair,
Instead I'll collect other people's despair.

-If I do, I'll definitely be able to get over there

-So I'll take

-This photo first.

-If I die I can see...

-Mum.

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-"You shouldn't die!"

*TN scanning a QR code with a mobile phone scanner decodes the code and provides the text

in the scanning app.

-Pietro suddenly thought better of it, the rope was a sword piercing God.

-God's invitation was for the Country of Despair. Pietro's unhappiness was the author's

own.

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-There is no "Country of Despair"!

-Waaaaah

-Aaaah

-SFX munching noises

-Truth

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-Truth truth

-Truth

-Perfect picture.

-You always wanted this right?
Your despair...even though,

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-There's no meaning to it!

-Woah!?

-A collection of faces of despair...

-The first

-is...

-Mu-...
m...

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-What are you doing, stop it!?

-Now you know.

-So, you don't need this any more right?

-Your mother didn't pass on a message of despair,

-She passed on a message of hope!

-Pietro was able to find a glimmer of hope in the midst of despair.

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-There's no meaning to death,

-There's no "Country of Despair"

-You can't meet again with people who are dead!

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-Sorry pal!

-You gotta live with your despair!