Chapter 14 postscript

This ingenious conception of the novel was born in Shimokitazawa, where the weather is sunny, and then got blood and flesh in Milan, which is cold and gloomy in winter. With the real feeling that no matter what kind of relationship, everyone's share is only half of the mood, and it took a little more than two years to complete it. This is Aoi's story.Aoi and Aoi's life and half of her love story.The other half, Shunzheng that Aoi doesn't know and herself that Aoi doesn't know, are written in another novel. Latteria, literally translated as a dairy shop, is actually an old-fashioned restaurant with the taste of a cheap coffee shop, where elementary school students and their mothers come to pick them up for tea after school.Although it didn't appear in the novel, when drinking coffee in a Latteria on a cold afternoon, I always thought unexpectedly: Ah, Aoi grew up in this kind of place!

The simple fact that life is done where you are, and the simple fact that your heart is always where you want to be, constitute this novel. In the epilogue to my book, I would like to offer an exceptional thank you. I would like to thank the Nakao couple who helped me arrange everything perfectly in Milan, thanked me beyond words and provided wonderful details of the novel, who rescued me from helplessness from time to time, and Pei Bo who helped me draw lovely illustrations every month during the magazine serialization And for Aoi, the night of the closest friends in Milan. I would also like to thank the principal of the Japanese school in Milan who told me many happy stories about the establishment of the school, Kayo Agata who lived in Florence and taught me how to make creamy walnut dried figs, and those who exude breaths from all over the body better than words, let me Thank you to the sensitive and lonely young man who got a glimpse into the life of studying abroad.

I would also like to thank the editorial group of Kadokawa Shoten who assisted from the beginning. Finally, I would like to express my respect and love to the giftedness of Mr. Jincheng Tsuji, an innocent partner who has talents that I lack as a writer. I hope that these two books, like a pair of mirrors, can penetrate the reader's calmness and enthusiasm.