Thank you very much for picking up this book. I'm Ayame. This is my 4th book. As usual, I'm finishing up this afterword the day before the deadline. It's hard for me to imagine Tojiko staying with Futo even as a ghost, even after Futo killed her, just out of sheer open-mindedness. So I figure, what if it's because she really loves her, to put it mildly? If Futo killed Tojiko to clear the grudge of her family, then how would she feel looking at her year after year while she acts like nothing happened? She might get these sudden fits where she just cannot suffer the Soga to exist.

I wrote whatever I felt like putting in, and it became more of a "Don't think, feel!" type of story. Which is why I think that's the mindset you should read it with. But now. Thank you very much.