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Summary
"The Kihara Trio. (Left to right) Kihara Enshuu, Kihara Ransuu, Kihara Byouri. I designed Enshuu exactly as I was told to. Since she does not fit into the category of a proper Kihara, there was no resistance to putting her squarely in the category of a standard Index female character. Ransuu-san looks almost the same as Kihara Amata, and that was intentional. For details see the cover rough. In a way, Byouri-san is the one of most important points of and the real highlight of Volume 4, so I made her even wilder in the volume illustrations than in this rough. I guess you could say she is outside the realm of humanity or has some kind of monstrous aspect to her like Pure Majin Buu or the Faithless." ―Haimura Kiyotaka