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"We're best friends. And best friends don't kill each other, no matter what."

"The Abolition of Certainty" Part Two
Published September 2002
14 pages (in print); 15 pages (on-line)
Re<Verse date: March 20 & 21, 1023

The group encounters Souzoku, a man who's been hired to track Emri by an unnamed employer. Emri discovers the truth about her powers, and the fortune teller gives her information that may lead Emri on the track to restoring her original body.

ON-LINE EDITION
For details about what was changed for the on-line edition, go to the Revisions section.

NOTES

• Souzoku joins the main cast in this issue.
• Souzoku's chest armor is different than on page three of issue six. That version was a tweaked shape from the original character design sketch. His armor in this issue accurately reflects the original design.
• The flashback story was drawn fully in pencil and then shaded a light grey to give a "sketchy memory" feel.
• Beginning with this issue, Kouen's katana is now sheathed to his waist instead of across his back.
• The symbol for gold, the Re<Verse's currency, is represented by the letter G with a line down the middle.
• For the on-line edition, an entire page was created to reflect a section of the script that was removed before the issue went into production. (Shiro having another nightmare.) Originally, the page was omitted because of the standard 14-page limit. It was also felt that re-establishing Shiro's nightmares was redundant, even though it went farther in depth than before, and the scene served as a set-up for the next issue's main plot.
• Kouen breaks the fourth wall for the only time in the series at the end of page 13.

REFERENCES

• One of Kouen's friends wears a New York Yankees baseball cap and a shirt reading "NYY."
• The White City flag looks like the Cingular logo.
• The guy on page 7 has a "Wassup?!?!?" shirt, echoing the short-lived Budweiser ads where a group of people obnoxiously shout the question over and over.
• Faye's Casino is a reference to Faye Valentine in the anime Cowboy Bebop. She was often gambling all her money away.
• The SAB booth's "Closed" has the Japanese kanji for "Closed" underneath it.
• Emri's comment about Souzoku being Estrella's mutant sidekick is based on Ortega from The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies. Ortega is Estrella's mutant sidekick in that movie, though he does not have telepathic powers.

GOOFS

• Souzoku's chest armor is different than on page three of issue six. That version was a tweaked shape from the original character design sketch. His armor in this issue accurately reflects the original design.