Jul 10, 2024
Author's Commentary #90:
Time to talk about Chapter 90: The journalist.
This chapter has very few changes from it's original counterpart. It is also just as important here as it introduces Fubuki Dakota, Yuni's mother. Fubuki is an underground journalist that first got involved in exposing corruption after witnessing the murder of Shiruka sensei on February 29th, 2000 during her final year of high-school. She was touring a studio as part of a field trip, and after realizing someone was acting suspicious, she secretly tailed them and witnessed them murder Shiruka as well as one of the local news anchors. She captured evidence of the crime on a Canon Powershot A5 which she happened to have on her at the time. Now let's do Fubuki's bio.
First off, Fubuki's name is actually an alias she uses. フブキダコタ (Fubuki Dakota) is how it would be written in Japanese. Her real name is actually Futami Kirikawa. 切川 二見 (Kirikawa Futami) is how her real name is spelled in kanji. 二見 means "two" and "to see" while 切川 means "to cut" and "river"
(If I made any mistakes with the translations, feel free to correct me).
Fubuki and her older twin sister Hitomi both hail from the Kirikawa clan, a ninja clan most known for having numerous multiple births throughout the family's history. In fact, it is considered abnormal if a woman from the clan bears any thing less than twins. Speaking of which, Fubuki and Hitomi's mother is a quintuplet, while Hitomi's children are triplets. Fubuki is the first woman from the clan in decades to give birth to only a single child, though she could have given birth to two children, albeit, they wouldn't have been twins.
Like her twin sister, Hitomi, Fubuki was born on February 2nd. This date is fitting because she is a twin. It is also the day after Yuni's birthday.
Her favorite food is eggrolls, just like her twin sister. The eggroll and Col Masaru's chicken combo alongside her looks is how Rika pieced together that she was Yuni's mom.
She truly is a journalist, but has merely been labeled a conspiracy theorist thanks to I.L.U.'s influence. She is also the only person in the world to have a worldwide gag-order issued against her. As for what such an order is, it requires law enforcement to always gag Fubuki first when detaining her to prevent her from "spouting nonsense". This also proves that what Fubuki says is true as I.L.U. is attempting to have her gagged not because she spouts nonsense, but because they fear what she'll say and expose about them. Her notoriety is also why she decided to have Yuni start living with Hitomi once she turned 3. She actually has a tragic backstory and was originally going to have a child back in 2001 but was captured by I.L.U. and tortured by Akuma Ookuma, Ruchi's father, alongside her partner and lover. She managed to escape, but her partner was killed, and the child she had within her was as well. She then went into hiding, and spent years trying to get pregnant again with some sperm her partner had left for her in a fridge. It seemed as though she would never bear a child, but then a miracle happened and she became pregnant with Yuni. Due to all the torture Fubuki received in captivity, Yuni ended up growing up with less athletic ability than normal, but she did inherit her mother's vast intellect. Fubuki also never told Yuni about their ninja heritage, mainly because she wanted Yuni to remain out of harm's way. And while she knows it's risky to meet with Yuni, she does her best to meet with her at least once a year on her birthday. They meet at a fence a block away from Hitomi's place and always converse about what they've been up to. Yuni's dream is to fight corruption alongside her mother, as Fubuki is who she looks up to the most.
However, as showcased in Chapter 87, Kasumi hates that she's related to Fubuki. Nika and Miku don't really have an opinion on Fubuki, but Kasumi does, and since Yuni is always out there defending Fubuki, she feels that because Yuni is related to her, others will hurl their insults at her too and designate her as a Fubuki fanatic by proxy.
As for what she and Rika discussed, that won't be revealed until much later in the story. One final thing I'll mention is that she is aware that Rebelle and Zuina are her distant cousins. She only met their mother Miyoko once, but she is well aware of Rebelle's infamy and has even had some direct confrontations with her. Her hair is also naturally magenta, and she only dyes her hair blonde in order to protect Hitomi and Yuni. If you've read the Escape Witch remake, you'll know why that fact is so important, but if not, there's no need to worry as it will briefly be addressed in this story as well.
On a completely different note, I've finally uploaded more art to the gallery showcasing what most of the side characters look like. While Fubuki isn't there, I did upload some art of her to the Escape Witch Remake gallery in case anyone is interested in knowing what she looks like.
That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.
![Escape Witch [Remake] cover](https://honeyfeed-novel-images.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/novel_image/file/14560/cover_thumb_9f88f94f-2a73-4d00-b518-6f20b53f9811.jpg)
![Spice of life [Remake] cover](https://honeyfeed-novel-images.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/novel_image/file/14558/cover_thumb_e0f19edc-753a-4f65-bd0e-b68dc349af99.jpg)
