AFTERWORD

Good evening, this is Morita.

I’m not saying hello because I’m writing this at night. If you start reading this afterword at around nine at night, it will feel like you’re reading it live, so I think that might be the best way to enjoy it.

Now, this is unusual, but I am going to start this afterword with an announcement.

I’m getting married.

Just kidding.

I’m really just kidding. It came out of nowhere. I’m not even seeing anyone right now. I wish I was, though. Okay, on the next line, I’ll make the real announcement.

We’re producing a drama CD for You Call That Service? The cast is as follows—

Akiko Hasegawa as Shiren

Yui Horie as Ouka

Koji Takahashi as Ryouta

Kana Asumi as Kiyomizu

Miyu Matsuki as Tamaki

Yuka Iguchi as Sasara

Hitomi Nabatame as Alfoncina

This sounds unbelievable, but it is true. It’s glorious. But I sometimes wonder if this is okay, since this is a novel with so many characters that will make it hard to transfer it to mixed media.

The release date is slated to be on November 25. To be honest, I thought, Are you out of your mind, GA Bunko? But please look forward to it!

If I knew this was going to happen, I would’ve had Kiyomizu and Alfoncina say naughtier things… Oh, what? Nothing. It’s nothing. Nothing at all.

Now, I think drama CDs typically reproduce the entirety of the first volume, but the main story will still continue. Now we have more characters, so it feels like the story is getting a little saturated, but we’re managing to make do.

By the way, I’m writing this in __________ (I’ll let your imagination decide what month it is), and I still haven’t turned the AC on in my room yet. When I write it like this, you might think, Wow, you’re working so hard to save energy! So economical! Marry me! But I usually spend an average year without ever turning it on. It’s just how I am.

And so one time, my electricity bill was so low, I started to doubt if I really lived here at all. This carried over from my days as a poor college student living off ______ yen a month (I’ll let your imagination decide how much that is).

And because of that, I was living in a near non-existent life, and now we come to the present. To all the middle and high schoolers reading this: Please go out there and experience life when you get to college. You really, really should. And even if people online are jealous, you definitely should.

Actually, a book depicting such a tragic college life, one that I’m not sure who might benefit from it, will be coming out the same month as this book.

The book is called The Stranger’s Everything, published by Seikaisha.

It is a full novel, so it might cost about the same as two light novels, but please do check this out as well if you’re interested. And even though it is a novel, there are gorgeous illustrations as well.

If you’re already older than a college student and you still don’t have a life, then I think you might be able to sympathize with this book, so please find it in your local bookstore.

I also took part in this month’s YuruYuri novel anthology, so please check that out, too.

And now it’s time for our usual acknowledgment hour.

Hiroki Ozaki, thank you as always for the illustrations that went above and beyond my expectations. Thank you especially for the bath time images. Thank you especially for the bath time images.

To my editor S, those in design, in sales—thank you all so much this time around. It’s thanks to all of you that Morita just barely manages to earn enough to eat. And special thanks to everyone else who had a hand in this book and to all my readers. I will be off to Heisenji Hakusan Shrine in Fukui to pray for everyone’s good luck.

Well then, I will see you all in the third volume!