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Summary
"The New Testament cover rough. I used my idea of Fremea described above on the cover by framing it as a princess flanked by two knights. As I described at the cover, I chose a more familiar cover style this time. Another reason I went with the usual design was my constant attempt to avoid spoilers. Basically, the way this cover resembles some past covers was completely intentional. Originally, some ideas were thrown around about putting Birdway on the cover or having the opening color page show a scene from Heavy Object on the movie screen. A remnant of the latter idea can be seen on one of the fold out illustrations. As has been the case since Volume 15, a portion of the work on the black and white illustrations was left to Itou Tateki-san: " ―Kiyotaka Haimura