Our Dating Story: The Experienced You and The Inexperienced Me - Volume 2 - Chapter Aft

Afterword

Hello, I’m Makiko Nagaoka. Thank you for reading volume 2 as well!

Summer! The beach! It’s obviously extremely early considering this is getting published in March, but I’m hoping you can enjoy these summery feelings ahead of time.

When writing volume 2, I had the motif of “emo(tion) and ero(tic)” in mind (they go together like R&B). I’m hoping you can set aside reality a bit and perhaps feel like you’ve experienced these kinds of youthful events.

Ah, this brings back memories... I remember a summer like this... I don’t, actually—I had gone to an all-girls school.

Personally, I find that scene with Maria in the park moving. It’s like when a maiden knows in her heart what’s about to happen, but she’s still happy to see the one she loves.

Another episode was completely based on personal experience.

Until about ten years ago, I’d worked as a part-time lecturer at a cram school, mainly teaching English to high school students. When one of my students had mistakenly said “teru a rie,” it was so despairing and so funny that it left a strong impression on me. I wonder what that student had meant by “teru.”

Setting that aside, summers sure are moving. And erotic too.

Right now, it’s hard to hold festivals, launch fireworks, or go swimming in the ocean, so my longing for summer continues to grow.

Once again, I cannot thank my illustrator magako-sama enough for so many absurdly wonderful illustrations! Thank you for including even minor details from the text in your work! (To the readers: please look at Runa’s nails on the cover image!)

To my editor Matsubayashi-sama, thank you for everything you’ve done for me once again! Thanks to you managing my schedule and all the other things, I can have peace of mind and focus on my work. I’d like to keep going at this pace! Please, let me!

Lastly, I’m thoroughly grateful to my readers who’ve been supporting me since the first volume and have read this one too.

I so, so hope that we’ll meet again...!

February 2021, Makiko Nagaoka