Chapter 38 Author postscript

At least ten years ago, when I was younger than the heroine in this book, Sugihara Keiko, I wrote short exercises, and those should be regarded as the original works of this work.However, at that time, those works did not have the opportunity to be printed in print. From December of Showa 45 to February of the following year, based on this prototype, I published a long-form serialization in Fukuoka's "Evening Fukuichi Shimbun" under the title "Phantom Season".If calculated by manuscript paper, about 270 manuscript papers were used at that time. This time I added another 300 or so, and this is what I wrote—no, for me, it’s not so much an increase in content; The content, stage, and impression of this work are almost different from the original work.

However, in my heart, there have been various impressions of the "Phantom Season" that haunted me for a long time, and now I finally feel the peace and joy that its end brings. silence.