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A Man With Hat

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 43

The next day. While I was relaxing in my room, 21LO hurried to the room. As I was busy for my work at Time Company, he went to meet the curious guy for me.

2027 - A Man With Hat

2 “Whew…… I went to Club Swamp…… Dashing cut me the hangover body…… Whew”
K “So, ho ho how was it!?”
2 “The interior design had changed…… Whew”
K “Not about it! Did you meet the guy?”
2 “Oh, right. I met him. A man with hat…… Whew”
K “Well, have some water”
21LO gulps water.
K “Did you cool down? So how did it go?”
2 “Yeah well, he gave me his card. Look at this”
He took out a name card from his pocket.
K “Oh? Let’s put it through the card reader. Ok. Wolfgang Homan. Sounds snobbish. Who was he?”
2 “Hmmm. You know the sound in Club Swamp is loud, so I didn’t get to know who he was…… I looked into his face, he bent his head. As I looked too much, his white eyes glared at me. Anyway, I saw Banri Flip at Swamp. He was kind of high, acting like a celebrity”
K “Wow! Really? Did he appear in such a place?”
2 “He made a bow to the card guy Mr. Homan”
K “Um”
2 “He was totally bowing to the guy. You know that Sherry of Banri Flip!”

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K “Wow. Scary. What is that? Does that mean the Homan guy is mafia or something?”
2 “Hmmm. It’s more like, you know he told me things like he would cooperate with us…… So I guess he’s a nice guy”
K “What would he cooperate with us for more specifically?”
2 “Well, he looked like he wants to pay attention to us. He said he will help us for the radio”
K “So what. He is a weird, but a nice guy?”
2 “Yeah. He gave me drink tickets. 20 of them. That made me drink too much……”
K “You didn’t have to drink all for one night!
2 “I felt the limit of the Zakuien’s alcohol degradation capability”
K “Dumb”
2 “Well well”
K “So, does he want to be a sponsor or what?”
2 “Yeah. He invited me to the VIP room and talked about his grand project, but I can’t remember it…… The drink was good. And his talk was too long and he used many difficult business terms. So what was it? Seems a big company that makes movies…… And he said we can make whatever we want, but he said we can’t totally be free either”
K “What is that. Weird. With a condition?”
2 “Yeah. That’s right. But it wouldn’t be a problem that much I guess”
K “How do you think so?”
2 “Because…… Don’t you want to think like that way?
K “Anyway I wanna see him once. How does he look like?
2 “Hmm……”

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2 "Well, I was surprised by his unimpressive look. I even glanced at him under the light"
K "You mean totally none?"
2 "What strikes me was his hat and coat"
K "How old?"
2 "Don't know. I guess he is an old guy, with eyeglasses may be......"
K "Hey, come on"
2 "Maybe it was a feathered hat. His hair was either shaved or permed"
K "It's opposite"
2 "Well, he looks blurred"
K "Umm"

The curious guy is still curious.
Shouldn't have left this to 21LO...... What else should I do?
Anyway what we can do is to just wait and see what's coming next for this good(?) story.


Text and images: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa
Translation: Mariko Takei

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