Tegami Bachi: Volume 4: A Letter Full of Lies

by Hiroyuki Asada, 183 pages

Now a rookie Letter Bee, Lag goes about his deliveries with unrivaled earnestness. New to the field and naive about the ways of the world, he's offended to learn that the writer of a letter has filled it with falsehoods about his achievements--and it's a letter to the man's mother, no less. What kind of person lies to their mother?! As he learns the answer to that question, Lag is led to ask even more. At the Bee Hive, he meets the mysterious Dr. Thunderland, Jr., the scarred, eye-patched chief of biological sciences in the two Amberground regions outside of the capital. He, too, found a rare friend in Gauche and supports Lag in his search, sending him off to a dangerous region to find a man without a name. The town of Honey Waters has been cut off the Bee route for some time due to anti-government sentiment in the area, but Lag has come for information as much as he has for a delivery--if he can find the unnamed recipient. Who is the "the man who could not become spirit," what does that even mean, and what are the goals of the shadowy anti-government organization known as "Reverse"?

Lag learns that even letters full of lies can be full of love; that fear can lead even good people to do bad things; and that if you have friends you can count on, you can do anything. Setbacks are tough, but he firmly believes that love will overcome all obstacles. This series is all about heart--and little Lag is made of nothing but.