Book 5 Afterword
Afterword
That was the 5th volume of Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister.
This is Kamachi Kazuma.
The theme this time was a runaway boy and a giant shark. …It’s weird how seeing those two together makes the shark sound more soothing. They can grow new teeth, they sense their prey with electricity, and they’re covered with parasites like the remora. They have so many interesting traits and then I also made this one seem like the child of a submarine and aircraft carrier.
And the best part of shark horror is to have an important character dragged into the ocean, so while I was thinking about how to take that even further, I came up with the idea of having them dragged elsewhere from any kind of water and then killed.
With him running away from home and wandering, this volume revealed Satori’s uncertainty. He doesn’t want the Archenemies to cry, but he also did not swear to obey them. He wanders back and forth in that precarious balance. He is not a perfect human, so if a gear somewhere had been out of order, he might have become a lot like the Bright Cross. I hope you saw his unstable humanity in the compromise he found while facing the Siren and Leviathan.
Now, this time Satori faced his uncertainty and came up with an answer, even if he still isn’t sure whether it is right or wrong. So I also switched things up with the usual “Final Choice” I add in just for fun. From here, he will finally be facing Absolute Noah…or rather, the Calamity they are trying to fight. What exactly is that end of the world? How will history’s greatest mother-son fight end? I hope you are looking forward to those things.
I give my thanks to the image illustrator Mahaya-san and my editors Miki-san, Anan-san, and Onodera-san. I’ve built up the series quite a bit since the first volume. In the process of looking at the same world from multiple angles and creating new things there, the many illustrations and character roughs came in quite handy. As an example, I never would have come up with the idea for the Siren’s hair without the illustration of Kuroyama Hinoki the Mermaid I based it off of. Thank you very much for your help.
And I give my thanks to the readers. I’ll set it in virtual reality so I can do whatever I want! I know, I’ll use a zombie and a vampire!! This series began with some quick ideas like that, but the next thing I knew, it had grown to the point that a boy was directly confronting the end of the world. It was thanks to all of your support that it managed to grow like that. Thank you yet again.
And I will end this here.
I feel like Maxwell has grown even more than Satori.
-Kamachi Kazuma
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