awa life "TOPPY" A monthly newsletter for inter na tion al resi dents of Tokushima, produced by TOPIA, the Tokushima Prefectural International Exchange Association. July 2005 No. 181 by matthew "bucket of boiling wrath" shettler claws, poison, water
[email protected] f you live in the city, you So needless to say I was may not have to deal with worried having the thing in my them. I come from a country apartment. Surely Murakami- ithat has very cold winter sensei could help. weather, and so I haven't had Murakami-sensei, the math to worry about them. Until I teacher at the junior high came here. This is their season, where I work, lives with his the time when the rains fall and newlywed wife in the aparment drive them out of their wicked below me. It was late enough little hiding places and into your at night that if all my yelling living space. didn't wake them up, I guess my knock at their door may Mukade. have. Grabbing his trusty can of Mukade Poison Spray of A year ago I encountered my Death, he ventured with me fi rst monster mukade, perhaps back up to my fl at. you know the type. Five and a Wrenching aside the bookshelf half to six and a half inches long mukade on the loose! to expose the wretched beast, depending on how you count the antennae, Murakami leapt forward and doused it valiantly blood red head, frightening neon orange legs. I with a poison fog. And yet it lived.