Furumachi, Memory Recovery Edition 2021-02-24

Here's the text and roughs I worked on this week. In order to give you an idea of what kind of content I'm going to be posting, I'm going to release the entire content of the paid plan. This is how I'm going to proceed with creating the story, with text and pictures. I'm planning to make it into a doujinshi in the end, and I'm also planning to publish color illustrations, manga names, drafts, the coloring process, and psd files that show the layer structure.

First, a rough design of the main character, Yori. You can see the process of trial and error.

You can see the process of trial and error.

I'll try to draw it in a way that people who haven't seen it before can understand.

I'll try to make a connection with the old town and the tree burial that I drew in the past with Lukit as the main character (it might be good if I can show the connection in a later story).

Make it an entertaining read at the very least. Make the characters well-defined. Make it interesting. Create a major purpose that motivates the reader to continue reading.

Changes from last time

I said that it should be one week in the future from the time Lukit traveled, but that was too long, so it might be better to make it a few years in the future. It would be better to say that this world is dying, and this is the last day of a long, drawn-out story.

It would be better if the man is a person wearing a mask of antlers. It would be better if it were not a person, so that it fits the world view. I want to differentiate it from another story I haven't written yet, a story in the noon realm, about the journey of a girl who can't speak and a man who has the power to read the emotions of things he touches.

Another big mistake, or rather a change in setting, is that the only realm inhabited by humans is the realm of evening darkness, and for some reason, the realm of dawn may be uninhabited. For some reason, the realm of the dawn may be uninhabited, or it may be thought to be uninhabited, but there may be a different species of humans living there than in the realm of the dusk. For the time being, I'm going to focus on the story of humans and Utsuro and his friends in the evening and night realms. 

It's easy to understand if you look at the diagram, in front of the domain of evening darkness is the domain of daytime, where Utsuro builds the city, and behind the domain of evening darkness is the domain of nighttime, where Utsuro sends water and preserves the city. In the realm of dawn, the deep snow melts to reveal the city, so the work that Utsuro needs to do may be to restore the submerged city, but it's a little hard to imagine, so I'll take the stance of not mentioning this realm much in the story until it's needed.

I'm going to take the stance that I won't mention this area much in the story until it becomes necessary.

Memory Retrieval Edition 2021-02-24

A girl is walking through a ruined, snow-covered city.

The girl is carrying a large bag on her back.

The girl is using some kind of device to find the target point. Can I use something like binoculars? She is moving with a purpose. It may not be binoculars, but a device to visualize radiation.

I see an ice cannon in the distance. The girl is heading that way.

The girl opens the door of the ice cannon administration building and enters.

Search the room. She finds a basement. The girl descends a long spiral staircase. A section of the handrail has suddenly disappeared. When the girl touches the section, the section transforms into ashes and crumbles away.

A basement. It looks like an experimental facility of some kind. It's in disrepair. There are blood splattered on the floor and walls, and old, crumbling human bones.

In one corner of the room, there is a box big enough to hold a person. The girl opens the box. The lid is heavy, leaving only a small gap, and it is too dark to see inside.

The girl grabs something out of the box.

It is a human arm, severed and drained of blood.

The girl forcefully shifts the lid and drops it from the box.

Inside the box were eleven left arms that seemed to belong to the same person. (I set the scene by working backwards from how Lukit's story ended.

At the end of each severed arm is a glove, like a restraint, and all eleven arms are covered with the same palm.

The girl is surprised, but not horrified, as she examines the arms, opens the bag she was carrying, and takes out a cylindrical container to store one of the arms.

Suddenly, the dried-up arm moves and the glove falls off. Her fingertips touch the girl's elbow. Suddenly, the girl's arm crumbles into ashes, starting from the elbow that was touched.

The girl is startled, but does not raise her voice. She has been silent up to this point. Protecting her destroyed arm, she quickly moves away. The dried out arm on the floor is no longer moving. I don't know if the arm still had the ability to move autonomously, or if the glove came off by accident.

The part of the floor where her palm touched the floor was slowly disintegrating, emitting a faint smoke as if it was being affected by acid. The girl carefully picks up the fallen glove and covers the palm of her dried out arm.

Although she lost her arm, she managed to put the dried arm into the container, close the lid, and lock it. She takes her bag on her back and leaves the scene.

There was no blood flowing from the section of her arm that had crumbled into ashes, but the body tissue was slowly disintegrating. The girl ties the base of her arm and shoots herself in the wound with what looks like a large firearm she was carrying. The arm disappears from the shoulder down. The girl continues to travel for a while with her arm missing, but eventually runs out of strength and collapses.

A pause.

Someone is standing beside the girl, who is being covered with snow. A man of unknown age. The man kicks the girl in the shoulder and turns her over on her back. The girl does not react like a corpse.

The man`s character design is a deer-like masked figure, which is a candidate. The man with the antlers is an image from the drama Hannibal, but apart from that, I just looked up a manga called Totsukuni no Shoujo that had a girl and a man with antlers ......, but it wasn't antlers. So I'm thinking of a design based on antlers. I'm thinking of adding some mechanical elements to it. I want to emphasize that it's not a demon or a fantasy, but an artifact.

"Are you still conscious?

The girl moves her eyelids slightly.

The girl flickers her eyelids slightly, "This realm is already closed to the snow. You can't work for humans here. Any sane Uthero would have moved on.

The girl did not answer.

The girl did not answer. "I heard that there is a Uturo wandering around whose brain has been illegally de-tuned. Is that what you are?

The girl moves her mouth slightly. You are not one of them?

It is in the best interest of humans to dispose of the rebellious Utsuro.

The man laughs.

The wound on your arm is a phenomenon called ash decay. There are only a limited number of materials that can do this. Did you ever meet a Uthero named Lukit Meiou? Or his corpse?

The girl did not answer.

The man picks up the girl's thrown out bag and opens it. A cylindrical container.

If anyone other than me tries to open it, the contents will be incinerated.

Unlock it and I will cure you.

Heal me first.

You will soon be incapacitated by malignant deficiency.

When that happens, this vessel will never be opened.

I have Lukit Meio's blood. If it's Lukit's left arm you have, I'll give you this blood in exchange.

"Lukit Meiou's blood ....... If you transfuse it, it will be .......

It will recreate the memory of Lukit Meiou in your brain.

The girl thinks for a moment, and then says the unlocking code.

My memory is cloudy.

My memory is cloudy.

The memories of Lukit Meiou flow into my mind. It mixes with the girl's memories.

Gordroy Maioh speaks to me. Yori, wearing a kind of surgical gown, is still missing a leg.

I've de-tuned your brain. You are one of the few individuals who are still functioning normally.

 Gordroy joins the legs and reassembles Yowli.

I need you to find Lukit Meiou.

Lukit ...... Isn't that me?

Image of Lukit lying on what looks like a medical bed and Gordroy standing beside him.

Lukit says, "This place is like a long stretched out underworld: ......

Gordroy says to Lukit. Your brain and left arm were excavated from beneath the ruined city of ashes.

Your brain has not been tuned by humans. Your brain has not been tuned by humans. You can pass through the realm of the night and reach the realm of the evening, where humans live.

I want you to see where this world is going. Should we continue to exist as we are? ......

Gordroy said to Jowri. You should be able to get to the realm of the evening darkness and disappear without ever reaching it. You've constructed your behavior to resemble Lukit's as best you can. With a different brain and a different base memory, there is no guarantee that you will behave the same way in the same situation, but you will still be able to help us follow Lukit. And one more thing.

Gordroy handed over a device of some kind.

"Lukit's left arm turns anything it touches into ash. The ashes radiate special particles. It is faint, but this is a way to visualize the particles.

At this point, I suddenly came up with the idea that the ashes generated by ash decay radiate some kind of particles, so I changed the first binoculars into a scope to visualize the particles. We'll see if it's possible.

The scene of Yoori entering the ice cannon control building. The scene of Lukit entering the ice cannon control building overlaps.

Lukit's vision. The ice cannon administrator. He looks like a researcher with a calm atmosphere. But suddenly, his expression changes.

"What about that ...... left arm?

The administrator's face is filled with obvious madness. Fear. However, the administrator's face quickly disintegrates and becomes white bones. The image overlaps with the white bones that Yori found in the room. Darkness.

Yoori wakes up. She is tense with fear and tries to jump up, but she is restrained and cannot move.

A cargo truck. A bed in a cargo box covered with a cloth. Medical equipment in disarray.

The deer man, leaning against the wall beside Yori.

"This is...

Deer Man: "I transfused you with Lukit Meiou's blood. A part of Lukit's memory must have been reconstructed inside your consciousness. Did Lukit tell you anything?

"Lukit was... with someone in one of the places where I found the arm. The man was trying to tell me something, but it got mixed up with my memory of when I found Lukit's arm. ......

The more common denominators there are in a memory, the more likely it is that the memory will be reconstructed, and at the same time, the more likely it is that a discrepancy will occur. It seems that you and Lukit Meiou have more in common than I thought.

"What are you talking about?

"It means that the limbs of two Utheros of the same manufacturer are more likely to be joined.

Yowli, surprised, looked at his left arm. The left arm of Lukit is joined below the missing left shoulder. The dried out arm has regained some life.

Yori, terrified by the fact that an arm that doesn't belong to him has been joined, is furious with the deer man. However, she can't move because she is restrained.

The deer man explains the situation to Yohri. This is his sleeping quarters, a large snowmobile. He is wandering the depths of the Night Realm, fulfilling his condition of contributing to the human race by hunting down the abnormally behaving Utsuro. It is not possible for a normal Utsuro to consciously avoid the tuning procedure by creating his own reasons. It is not possible for a normal Utsuro to consciously avoid tuning procedures by making up his own reasons. I will work on the setting later.

I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not.

I'm not a puppeteer.

He is not a puppeteer, but he is skilled enough to join the four limbs of Utsuro. The act itself is a violation of the tuning process of the brain, but to avoid this, he cultivates the brain from the preserved corpse of a deer and transplants some of its tissue to avoid the self-destructive impulse. Even so, the load was so great that his head was deformed into a deer-like shape.

The deer man wants to release the procedure imposed on him and act autonomously for a certain purpose. In the meantime, he hears about Lukit Meiou, who is said to have had a raw brain, and tracks him down. Kano obtained Lukit's blood, but was unable to use it on himself because he was wary of transfusing it into himself, which would cloud his memory. The deer man has a goal of revenge, and he is afraid that the clouding of his memory will diminish the hatred that drives him.

Therefore, he was looking for Utsuro, who had as much in common with Lukit as possible, as a test subject.

The deer man is trying to use Yohri to reconstruct Lukit's memories and learn how to de-tune him. Yoori is angry at being used as a test subject, and has a strong distrust of the man.

However, they share the common goal of following Lukit's footsteps, and they are forced to cooperate with each other, as Kano has a means of transportation and Yohri has a device to visualize radiation, which is a trace of ashy decay.

From Yohri's point of view, from the state of antagonism and distrust, to the fact that the deer man is an avenger, and that it is impossible for Utsuro to continue to feel such strong emotions of revenge, Yohri gradually becomes interested in and almost sympathetic towards this man whose emotions are so strong that his head transforms into a deer. This is a story about a man who has a strong emotional attachment to a deer.

This is a rough sketch by Martley.

This is a rough sketch of Martley. This is a rough sketch by Martley, but it's still not finalized, so it's a bit more trial and error.

At this point, the deer man discloses only the minimum amount of information to Yohri.

Yoori is hostile to the deer man, but he is restrained and cannot move.

In order to reconstruct Lukit's memories, the deer man must transfuse someone with Lukit's blood, which has not crystallized, to reconstruct Lukit's memories in his consciousness. The deer man wants Yohri to buy him that role. Yoori accuses him of transplanting his arm without his consent and says that he cannot be trusted.

The deer man had no choice but to splice another arm to treat Yoori's destroyed shoulder joint. And Lukit was unconscious, so there was no way to get his consent, he said.

Yohri was not convinced. The deer man says that since Yowuri was created by Gordroy Maio and had a monitoring device for ashy decay particles, Yowuri must have been following Lukit, and suggests that reconstructing Lukit's consciousness would be a common goal for all of us.

Yoori doesn't trust the man. The deer man says that if Yoori doesn't cooperate, he'll just keep him in custody and search for Lukit's blood and dismembered body parts and administer them to Yoori alone. Yohri felt the evil in the expressionless face of the deer.

At that moment, the leopard dragonfly jumps onto Yowli's chest, where she is lying, and removes her restraints.

Yori is suddenly distracted. The leopard dragonfly is the deer man's pet. He discovered it when he stole a deer's brain from the Biological Storage Museum. A pseudo-organism. His name is Monk.

Monk's brain is made from a fragment of the brain that was removed when the deer man released the tuning procedure. I don't even know why he did it. But he feels that Monk is his detached conscience, and when he sees that Monk has released Yohri, he returns the gun and the package to Yohri.

Yowri, confused by the change of heart of the deer man, cooperates in the search for the fragment of Lukit on the condition that he decides whether to give him a blood transfusion.

The deer man finally gives his name. The deer man's name is Martley. Yoori also finally says his name is Yoori Meiou. When I wrote that sentence, I thought it would be good to know that it was made by the same puppeteer who made Lukit, Gordroy. I think it's good to know that it was made by the same puppeteer who made Lukit.

This is a rough sketch of Lukit Meiou and Gordo Roy. When I drew this, I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue with the story I drew a long time ago, so I was cutting the rough. I wonder if they'll appear in the recollection in the memory retrieval section.

Like this, each time I write a story, I draw and post rough sketches of the characters and settings that will be needed in that installment. I hope you can experience the process of the story growing with me.

Each time, I deliver a video of the work process.

#001

https://youtu.be/bWdMxqJwbgY

#002

https://youtu.be/gTXrLuGIgbU

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