(Chapter 2 is up next. This is just a short author's interlude/community talk/whatever.)
When I uploaded the first two chapters I realized I forgot to add author's notes with clever witticisms. That and the fact I got couple things I wanted to say for some time resulted in this short interlude.
Hi there, it's Some Chinese Guy, aka the fellow who didn't write anything for 2 years (and 27 pages of fanfic search results for English ones). Remember when I told that I've encountered the writer's block and won? Caaalled iiit~. Now they come in pairs.
First and foremost, I'd like to thank all the people who write reviews for my stories. Moreover, there's quite a lot of people still remembering my old ones which kinda is still mind-blowing for me. So, to all of you: thank you very much, I appreciate it. Just didn't know how to express it over these years. That's partly why this wall of text exists.
To be honest, I was fully intending to procrastinate even more. Because, you know, every writer encounters such a period in their lives when they fondly look back at their previous works, make a horrified face, grab their head with their hands and shout "Oh my god I've written shiiiiiiiiiiiit!". That was about a year ago. No, I haven't actually improved since then. Hence all the procrastinating.
But then two things happened. First, Volume 12 was finally out. Reading the spoilers about it (the real ones, not the ones from 4chan) elicited a long string of nope nope nope nope's from me. In short, I felt pretty butthurt.
The second, more anecdotal thing, happened when I visited Japan in August. On the fourth day, when I visited Akihabara to buy things typically bought at Akihabara, on the fifth (I think) floor of the new Radio Kaikan building, I noticed Yukino's, Yui's and Iroha's tapestries, 2200 yen each. Just as I was staring into this monument of the merchantility's triumph over concluding a good story, two Japanese schoolkids walked past me, with one saying "Hey, I'd like to buy Iroha-chan's one!" The other's like "Why?". "Cause she for sure will be Hikki's girlfriend, right?."
So, me being butthurt and my waifu shipping feelings being hurt beyond recovery, and in full accordance to Leo Tolstoy's maxim "write only when you're unable not to", I finally started writing up the story you're reading. Screw GaGaGa. I can do better. \-tall claim.
Actually I wanted to write a happy ending for Hikki and Yukino all the way back during Volume 6/ season 1 end. Back then it still wasn't quite clear what Watari was going to do with them, so it was supposed to be a series of short fluffy snippets in a cleverly comedic style of Season 1. But then the story decided to add more drama and I had to rethink those snippets into a more coherent story based on the recent events. Unfortunately it wouldn't be pure fluff anymore since, by following the canon, I had driven myself into a corner and now have to deal with all the ominous shit Watari had laid out for us. So despite a happy ending, it's gonna be a bumpy ride. No other way around it. Yet I still promise to apply all my knowledge, life experience and writing skills to write it the best way I ever could. Even if it means headdesking at the stupid typo-ridden mess I've just uploaded again and equally stupid wording errors since English is not even my native language. But oh well.
That's basically all I wanted to say. Once again, thanks for reading and enjoy the next chapter.
Some Chinese Guy out.