I feel joyful.

  Celebration!

  The first comic!, or saying so, it's finally come out, hasn't it. Hello, I'm Matsushita. (By the way, that's my real name.) I can't believe Tsuzuki's story has continued for this long; I'd intended to finish it in one set of drawings. Really.

  But anyways, back to this story. Actually, back in the first planning stages I had intended for Masaki to be the main character. (laugh) Tsuzuki was supposed to fill a supporting role as a nice senior to Masaki. But I thought that it might be nice to have an older guy be the main character occasionally, so I switched off the main character, and it ended up like this.

  [around the small picture of Tsuzuki at the bottom]

  [above] Tsuzuki: I did it! (laugh)

  [left] Matsushita-sensei: Can you really call him an adult? He's closer to being an old man. 96 years old.

  [right] Tsuzuki: Cruel...

  [under the Author's Note box] Matsushita-sensei: Actually, he's already 97, isn't he...