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2027
- Contract
- In Conclusion
- Quit Time Company
- The Radio GEMPEG Show 4
- A Call from the Man
- A Man With Hat
- The Radio GEMPEG Show 3
- Lost in Talking
- A Curious Phone Call
- The Radio GEMPEG Show 2
- Phone Call From 21LO
- The Radio GEMPEG Show
- Challenge the Audio Network
- Return From the Darkness
- Are You There?
- Advertising of GEMPEG
- Piles of Stock
- GEMPEG
- Rotary Press
- Cut and Paste
- Edit the Picked Up Trash
- Rummage Through Garbage Day After Day
- Inside the Garbage Bag
- At 27:42 A.M. on June 8th in 2027
- The Late Alien
- Meet at 3 A.M.
- The Backlash Against Paper Media
- The 21LO’s Room
- 21LO
- Future
- I WANT TO MAKE A BOOK, TOO.
- EXPO 2015
- Hundred Sound of Bracket
- Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts
- The Medium is the Message
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- No Life King
- Book of Life
- Unfinished TV
- TV Dinner
- The Young K, Time Alone
- Curry St.24
- Freezed Desire To Labor
- Time Company
- Sluggish Days
- I'm K
- Newspaper has gone
- Year 2027!
At 27:42 A.M. on June 8th in 2027
It's 2027. Born in 2007, the main character K has no girlfriend and is part of a cultural minority with few friends. In a paperless age with no books, magazines and newspapers, K collects the old media of the 20th century. His little dream is to "make a book" with his friend 21LO! But it goes against the law to make books in the age when the distribution or even printing is impossible and severely restricted without an official government emblem...
EPISODE 25
Illustration: Tomoki Kurokawa
While we were chatting away, the back door has opened.
The housekeeper came out from the house with the recycled-pineapple garbage bag. She hauls up the garbage bags walking back and forth from the doorway. The enormous amount of garbage was more than twice the amount of general household trash. The trash disposed by Umitaro Nikaido, an online porn novel authority, must be dense. The housekeeper went away into the house. Let’s get on taking the garbage bags.
I glanced at 21LO who actually looked strained.
Not good. Never mind 21LO. I’ll go get 2 bags. I only have 15 minutes left for collecting the garbage bags. I’ve gotta hunt out and get back the bags very soon.
Of course, I return the garbage neatly. It’s because it’s normally annoying if it is messy. I heard crows became extinct since they didn’t clean up after the mess around trash. If you get annoyed, you are going to face the fate of extinction.
K “21LO, can you wait?”
2 “Yeah.”
K “You see the dark place over there? Hide yourself there.”
2 “I got it.”
I whipped the garbage bags with both hands and scurried to carry them in the darkness.
Text and images: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa
Translation: Mariko Takei
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