My Stepsister is My Ex-Girlfriend - Volume 9 - Chapter Aft

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Afterword

Romcom/Event/Horizon

This isn’t the final volume. I started this volume of StepExes with no plan, as usual. Most of the time, I can see at least a scene into the future while writing, but this time, I could only see maybe two or three lines into the future. I was at a complete loss. But when I (careful of spoilers if you’re starting here) reached the part where Mizuto talked about respecting Yume, it felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders, because I finally knew what I was doing.

Ever since the novelization for this series began, I knew that I needed some way for Mizuto and Yume to promise their futures to one another. They started by breaking up, so I couldn’t exactly wrap things up while ignoring the fact that many couples do eventually break up. This is one of the first reasons I knew from the get-go that I couldn’t simply have a happy ending where Mizuto and Yume get back together.

I’ve been reading through four to five volumes of sole-love-interest rom-coms and from what I’ve seen, the protagonist and heroine usually get together, and the story shows them dating for maybe one volume at most. Well, I’m sure they have sales to think about, but I think that if you don’t try exploring a way to pledge eternity to one another, then you’ll lose what you need to depict. This depiction is a must for rom-coms—an event horizon.

This time, Mizuto and Yume were at least able to find a way that worked for them to pledge eternity to each other. But just as Mizuto said, the unimaginable eternity that the two of them are going to walk is a huge, irreversible change, and they won’t have any way of knowing whether or not the strength of the respect they have for each other will be enough to survive that. So that’s why they’re giving it a shot. Who knows if they’ll make it past the event horizon—the next volume.

That time will visit them sooner or later. Until then, I think I’d like them to stay a brand-new lovey-dovey couple.

Anyway, this has been volume 9 of Kyosuke Kamishiro’s My Stepmom’s Daughter is My Ex: A Proposal Isn’t Enough. By the way, I really was drawing for about a month after the new year started.