[Please accept this.]
In the storyboard, Enma Ai handed Mayumi Hashimoto a straw doll tied with a red string.
[If you truly wish to dispel your grudge, untie this red string. Once you untie it, you will formally enter into a contract with me, and I will immediately banish your grudge to hell.]
[However, once your grudge is dispelled, you yourself must also be paid to me as the price.]
[Those who harm others ultimately harm themselves. After you die, your soul will also fall into hell. Unable to enter paradise, your soul will suffer forever and wander endlessly.]
[Is that acceptable?]
Pitiful shadow lost in darkness, cease your acts of harming others!
A soul that has committed sins. Sorrowful shadow lost in darkness, a soul that scorns the pain of others and wallows in sin!
Would you like to die once?
I shall take this grudge to hell...
After reading through all the storyboards, Matsuda felt there was absolutely no problem with them. They were even perfect to an excessive degree. Normally... even if a submission was accepted, editors would still help the author revise many parts. But these storyboards needed none of that at all. They were completely professional-grade.
That such storyboards had come from a newcomer was astonishing, even if the other party was highly skilled at art.
"Iida, don't you feel... like this manga is familiar somehow? Like we've heard of it somewhere before." Although the manga was excellent, plagiarism was absolutely intolerable. Matsuda felt that the name Hell Girl and its plot seemed somewhat familiar.
"It's normal for it to feel familiar. It's an urban legend! This manga was probably created based on that urban legend!" Iida Ayano was not surprised by Matsuda's words. After thinking for a moment, she answered without paying it