Adolescent Adam 7 Afterword
Hello Eh It’s been 3 years and 9 months since Volume 6 This is Sakaki Kasa
Yeah sorry about the wait This one was really late but I somehow managed to get Adolescent Adam Volume 7 released
You might wonder what I’ve been doing for the past 3 years but I haven’t just been goofing off I’ve had a lot of jobs writing game scenarios lately So you might think I’ve been cheating on you with the game industry but that only happened because of an offer to turn Adam into a game But it turns out this series doesn’t work very well as a game so over the past 3 years 3 different projects (for an all-time total of 4) have fallen though The manga adaptation is going well so Volume 2 of the Adam manga (drawn by Amagi who does the novel illustrations) is going on sale at the same time as his Make sure to buy that too Now that the advertisement is out of the wayAmagai thank you for more wonderful illustrations I’m relying on you for the other jobs as well And I’ve been causing trouble for my editor T again
Now let’s hope you can see the next one faster than that I’ll do my best
Translator’s Note Volume 7 came out in early 2015 and there is still no sign of Volume 8 here at the beginning of 2018 The most recent mention of it was in the afterword of a different novel released in early 2017 where the author said he had Volume 8 halfway written so we’ll see what happens Adolescent Adam 8 Prologue - Where the Kurosaki Family Lives
The man’s name was Shibaki
He was not all that smart a man but at the age of 40 he had begun to dabble in philosophy What did people think about Why was he here He was engrossed in those mildly tricky questions he had never considered while younger After dyeing his hair in middle school to look like a certain entertainer he had quickly fallen away from the straight and narrow It had started with no more than smoking cigarettes but the classes in high school were much too tiresome for him and he dropped out after a year and a half From there he had started a minor gang where he earned enough to live off of through phone scams and cheating at pachinko by modifying the machines He had had seven friends working with him at the time but not one of them was still with him Two had apparently taken a high school graduation equivalency exam and became insignificant office workers but three had overdosed on drugs and damaged their heart or brain and the final two had been out of touch for a decade after some rumors that they had taken out life insurance policies Shibaki had lived comfortably to the age of 40 but only because he had been
lucky
He had always been fairly attractive and he had a knack for picking up on the subtle moods of a partner so he was popular with women He was confident in his skills in bed and he was confident he could live for quite a while just by sponging off of a lonely woman or an unfulfilled wealthy married woman His fate had changed when he met a certain woman at the age of 25 She had lived a wild life of moving from one man to another but they had hit it off oddly well and they had naturally started living together It had not been official but they had effectively been married and even had a kid So when she had disappeared 5 years later there had been no avoiding being saddled with her debts He had changed his lifestyle to repay them but he had not signed a life insurance policy like his friends That may have been the one wise decision he ever made He had instead utilized his talents in the workplace and sold his body to unfulfilled wealthy married women Thinking back that too may have been a wise decision One of those had been the wife of a certain family of politicians
In exchange for a deposit large enough to repay his debts she had told him to use his talents in the country’s largest human trafficking organization
His life was just one lucky break after another
Hey Shibaki Good morning
Morning
A few members of a minor gang were clearly uncomfortable in their black suits as they bowed It was like looking at himself 20-odd years before
The familiar sight felt somehow hollow to him but he still asked for a report while jerking his chin toward a giant home built prominently in this mountainous region
There was also a terribly ugly concrete building in an overgrown yard
They were in south Fukui Prefecture deep in the mountains on the border between Kyoto and Shiga
This was the Kurosaki Villa
The land belonged to Kurosaki an old family dating back to the Muromachi period
They had 18 villas around the country they had more than 70 around the world and they used this one as their western base after moving their main residence to Kantou in the Edo period