Dec 06, 2025
Author's Commentary #30:
Time to talk about Chapter 30: Fist of cruelty.
This chapter is brutal for both us and the Kuroshiro twins. This chapter was inspired by a fight that took place in Yu-Gi-Oh! between Katsuya (Joey) and Yami Marik. As such, Taira lost the match even though she was about to win.
One thing to note is that in the original, Mimoko actually faces off against Elijah under different circumstances. Now lets talk more about Elijah.
As implied in the chapter, Elijah was once a good man with a rough past, but now thanks to the piece of shit, he appears to have lost his free will. As such, he's essentially a proxy for the piece of shit.
Originally, he was going to simply just be one of the piece of shit's hired hands, but also secretly be a grandmaster, which is why Mimoko would have to fight him. One draft even had Mimoko would win before collapsing like she did at the end of this chapter. However, the main reason I abandoned the plan and decided to go with Elijah being a proxie completely controlled by the piece of shit was because I wanted all the hate to be directed at the piece of shit, rather than Elijah. I felt having Elijah be the one to beat up Taira, Mimoko in the original, would direct all the hate away from the piece of shit. However, if Elijah was simply a soulless proxy for the piece of shit, all the hate would remain on him.
イライジャ・ジョンソン (Elijah Johnson) is how his name would be written in katakana. As mentioned in the chapter, he had a rough life growing up, but managed to turn it around when he took up boxing. However, the leader of the gang he was apart of decided to drag him back to the world of crime, though hit an unexpected surprise when the piece of shit just happened to be in the area scouting for new proxies. The piece of shit then sweet talked the boss into letting him fight Elijah and have him become his new proxy should he lose to him. The boss agreed, however, neither him nor Elijah knew the match would be a DESPER chess match, and as a result, Elijah lost. The boss actually felt guilty about that, but felt completely powerless to stop the piece of shit, and since he didn't know that DESPERs couldn't be used in rapid succession, he allowed the piece of shit to leave, rather than trying to fight him.
His birthday is January 16th which he shares with Albert Yamada from Classroom of the Elite.
As for Elijah's favorite chess piece, it is the king, since that's the piece of shit's favorite piece and the piece of shit is in full control of all his proxies. However, the piece of shit would claim that the favorite piece of all his proxies is the pawn, since that's all they are to him.
That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.
