Russhika, FLOWER FLOWER / No.12 "Villain Mellow Amethyst"

After something bad happens, good things sometimes follow in quick succession—

Every time such coincidences pile up,

there are moments when I get scared, thinking, "It's all balanced out, isn't it?"

Of course, it might just be my imagination.

Still, sometimes, reflexively,

I brace myself, thinking, "Then something bad must be coming next, right?"

Today was precisely one of those days.

I'll skip the details, but I had an unsettling feeling in my chest,

so to "cut off that bad premonition itself," I deliberately went out to run errands.

Amidst the rocking of the train on the way home, an image spontaneously linked from the word "evil,"

and before I knew it, I was sketching color ideas on my iPad.

—Now, everything will be fine.

Charming villains often possess a certain fleetingness and mellowness.

Far from being detestable, they captivate and bewilder,

drawing all eyes to them.

The color that sublimates that feeling is

"Villain Mellow Amethyst."

Today, I layered the elegance and mystique inherent in amethyst

onto Rusika.

Within poison, a beautiful flower secretly breathes.