Date a Live:Date Under The Moon Chapter 197 197: Afterword: Letter from Fraxinus 11

Today was another peaceful day as always, and Shido and Mikoto once again received an invitation from the TV program production team.

Mikoto: "Hi hi! Hello to everyone in front of the television. This is the super cute, super cute Mikoto-chan!"

Shido: "Senpai, you seem really excited today."

Mikoto: "After a long volu packed full of stomach dicine, we finally get to relax in the afterword. My whole body feels light and floaty."

Shido: "That's true. There was mory loss and inversion. It felt like the world was about to end."

Mikoto: "Then, let us begin this volu's 'Letter from Fraxinus' segnt, boy."

Shido: "Boy?"

Mikoto: "Ahem, then—the first keyword is—!"

—Stomach dicine— (TL:STOMACH DICINE AND HEADACHE DICINE)

Mikoto: "The previous volu and this volu were both stomach dicine."

Shido: "Yeah. Unusually, instead of handing out sugar, it handed out stomach dicine. Is the author actually good at writing angst?"

Mikoto: "Well… according to the author, compared to handing out sugar, the reason the tiline of Tsukiha was set as the second tiline in the first place was completely because these two volus could be used to thoroughly tornt people."

Shido: "That's awful! Yakumo-senpai cried so much! So it really was the author's fault?"

Mikoto: "'Even if you say that, what kind of relationship Origami and I have has nothing to do with Yakumo-senpai, right?'"

Shido: "Puh—! I'm sorry! It really was my fault after all!"

Mikoto: "Mm-hm. In short, the highlight of this volu and the last one was—scumbag Shido and inverted Mikoto! They brought a flavor like sour lemon paired with blue cheese to Tsukiha, which always hands out sugar, serving readers who were about to suffer from taste fatigue a al to refresh their palates!"

Shido: "What's blue cheese supposed to an?! Why would it have that kind of flavor?!"

Mikoto: "Incidentally, blue cheese refers precisely to a flavor like scumbag Shido!"

Shido: "Please stop talking about it. I'm begging you. Let's move on to the next keyword!"

—Inversion—

Shido: "Co to think of it, Yakumo-senpai's inverse form was designed with the moon as the Astral Dress and the sun as the Demon King, wasn't it?"

Mikoto: "That's right."

Shido: "But isn't that strange? Normally, wouldn't the moon fit senpai's image better? Why did you have to wear an Astral Dress symbolizing the sun?

"And the Tsukuyomi who is the ara-mitama actually used Amaterasu's Takamagahara instead of her own Yomotsu Hirasaka1—I an, Tsukuyomi. It feels strange." (TL:don't plan to spare poor even in the afterword huh?)

Mikoto: "It couldn't be helped. I… no, Tsukuyomi couldn't use her own power to seal herself, so she borrowed Amaterasu's Yasakani no Magatama. As a result, the Yasakani no Magatama that sealed ara-mitama Tsukuyomi beca the Astral Dress, tightly protecting Mikoto, who served as the wedge.

"Incidentally, as for why the inverse form uses Amaterasu's power, it's because compared to Tsukuyomi's own power, the power of the great goddess Amaterasu is more offensive in nature. That is what the sun is—harsh and blazing! Impossible to look at directly!"

Shido: "I see. Then the next keyword is…"

—Two Shidos—

Mikoto: "This is the question Mikoto… no, I kept struggling over. Are there two different Shidos? Or did Shido simply lose his mories?"

Shido: "As for , of course I insist that there is only one Shido."

Mikoto: "Mm. Thinking about it carefully, if it was Shido losing his mories, then the final result was that Tsukuyomi helped Shido recover them. If it was two worlds, then Tsukuyomi brought back the Shido from the Tsukiha world—that seems fine too."

Shido: "An open ended setting?"

Mikoto: "In order to avoid being contradicted by the original work, settings should be stated vaguely. Since it's the super convenient god-sama, and this is the non main text afterword section, it can be interpreted however you like!"

Shido: "Why can you say sothing so irresponsible with such a proud expression?!"

Mikoto: "In short, let's continue to the next keyword!"

—Oyakodon—

Mikoto: "I was thinking before, since boy… no, since Shido's mission is to capture Spirits, could it be that even inverse forms need to be captured together?"

Shido: "Um…"

Mikoto: "In other words, the Oyakodon play wasn't just readers' wishful thinking, was it?"

Shido: "No… um…"

Mikoto: "Oh my… I never expected Shido to be that kind of boy. Mm hm, you did have expectations of being served in bed by a mother and daughter with the sa appearance, didn't you?"

Shido: "I—did—not! And wait… you're not senpai, are you?"

Mikoto: "Huh? Ugh… As expected of Shido after recovering his mories. I didn't think I'd be exposed so quickly."

Shido: "I've been suspicious since earlier. Who exactly are you?"

Tsukuyomi: "Hehe, unfortunately, the one who ca to the afterword today was not the super cute, super cute Mikoto-chan, but Mikoto-chan's mother."

Shido: "Tsukuyomi?"

Tsukuyomi: "Precisely. You guessed right, boy!"

—Faith—

Shido: "Co to think of it, didn't you fall into slumber because you consud too much faith?"

Tsukuyomi: "Too naive! Boy! This is the afterword section, unconstrained by everything. And faith is sothing I can collect lots and lots of whenever I want!"

Shido: "That's a lie. If it were that easy, you wouldn't have fallen asleep, right?"

Tsukuyomi: "Well, it was difficult before. But as the story developed, I have thought of a flawless plan!"

Shido: "What is it?"

Tsukuyomi: "First, please beco my believer, boy!"

Shido: "Huh? Why?"

Tsukuyomi: "If you worship now, I'll include the cute and wifely Mikoto-chan as a gift!"

Shido: "That's completely impossible to refuse!"

Tsukuyomi: "Then, after capturing boy, I will use my divine authority to order boy to dress up as Shiori."

Shiori: "Huhhhh?"

Tsukuyomi: "Finally cos the most crucial step. I will use Shiori-chan dressed as a shrine maiden as bait to summon Miku-chan to worship !"

Miku: "Aaaaaah! Really?! As long as I worship, I can obtain shrine maiden mode Shiori-san?! Tsukuyomi-sama really is an omnipotent god!"

Shiori: "Wait, let go of , Miku."

Tsukuyomi: "Finally, after gaining Miku-chan's faith, I can activate Miku-chan and have her call upon her fans! That way, I'll beco a god with countless believers!"

Shiori: "So in the end, for the sake of faith, you sold both your daughter and , you rotten god!"

Tsukuyomi: "Uwaah! Chopping with your hand is wrong!"

Shiori: "In short, this weird thod of collecting faith is rejected. Let's move to the next keyword."

—Book Recomndations—

Tsukuyomi: "Next is the book recomndation segnt."

Shido: "Let see. The recomnded books are Ichigo's Date A Live and Touhou Cloth Workshop." (TL:don't know, don't ask)

Tsukuyomi: "I hope everyone will like them!"

—Support—

Shido: "The final keyword. Recently, we received letters from so readers asking whether this book will go VIP. Everyone wants to support Tsukiha."

Tsukuyomi: "Mm. According to the author, this book probably will not go VIP. At least for now, there are no plans to go VIP. As for support, tips, monthly tickets, and recomndation tickets are all the best forms of support. After all, for fanworks, aside from tips, the only inco cos from rankings for monthly tickets and recomndation tickets."

Shido: "At the sa ti, we also want to thank everyone for their support all this ti."

Tsukuyomi: "Mm-hm. Please look forward to the next volu." (TL:Encore Volu btw)

-Translator ranting corner-

Finally this volu end....this was a really painful volu...both the Tobiichi angel, devil volu and Yakumo Sunshine volu, not just the content of the story but pain ntally and physically too...

I start translating 2 volu straight start around 3PM of June 5th when I uploaded chapter 159 : "Lost mories", and now it's around...close to 3AM of June 6th when I finished this arc....I don't usually doing this much, it's because before this, I finish all of my sester's deadline, 1 project defense with the council..and present the Midterm and Final exam project to my professor..

I was like: "oh shittttt finally done!!!! I'm free!!!!! My sumr start right now, I'm so gonna spend so much ti reading and translating stuff!!!!"

And then I start driving straight ho and start going crazyyyy because this arc, this plot line specifically was one of my most anticipated session when I started this book and knew that it start with the second tiline unlike most fanfic.

I was like: "Damn! It used the second tiline? I can sll the drama in like a hundred chapter later already~"

And when it finally co...it was.....an experience...not saying it's a bad volu.

I've said before that one problem of this book is that up till now it's mostly used the original source without that much of a 'change', mostly just sugar dropping and small butterfly effect here and there, the author clearly skipped/fast forward a lot of stuff in like a few line, I won't judge if it's good or bad because everyone have their own opinion, I just personally don't like this kind writing much, I've tolerated this for a while but the author just skip around so god damn much about origami arc like damnnn and not just like Origami, Miku stuff and Natsumi stuff it was really short, they got fast forward a lot, not cut, but so of the plot line just got summarized in a few line and then that's it, missed all the chance to write a more condense ,rich volu.

But I understand the author want this arc to focus Mikoto and the aftermath of first tiline Shido changing the past and wake up in this new world, a world so different from the old world.

And the drama was excellent, the angriness and frustration I felt was not because of bad writing or anything, it just the author had made care, like Mikoto too much that this volu really affect in a way too (maybe it's because I'm just sleep deprived hehe),but so part genuinely made fucking mad and almost crash out.I don't know how to describe it..it just so frustrating....I don't really understand...Am I Tsundere?

But it's kinda annoying too, maybe I'm just dumb or haven't understand the whole ti paradox...history changing...so so of the writing of this arc really made frustrated when translating, so I just translated it the way I understand the whole thing so there might be so error, sorry about that.

Let's see whatelse...the author really is good at writing painful stuff as good as he is with his sweet dropping skill....haha...like they said 'two side of a coin' huh~.

And fucking finally: TOO MANY GOD DAMN SHINTO AND JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY STUFF

Like...Takamagahara, sure.. yeah..I can askk google about that to see what it is, and then the author goes like 'Takamagahara (Amaterasu)'????? like wtf ? and then I have to go another trip about like.. 'what is Takamagahara connection to Amaterasu?', and then those fuck ass four soul shit Ara-mitama, Nigi-mitama, Saki-mitama, Kushi-mitama, I was having seizure even just copying these from google and then it's just a bundle of these termilogy clump together like Amaterasu's Yasakani no Magatama seal Tsukuyomi's Ara-mitama but then also because Ara-mitama grow strong which an Nigi-mitama rise up, outside, inside, faith shit, Arahitogami shit, sun and moon shit, I was having seizure at the part where Reine and Kotori talk about the swapping during the fire, feared my mind will have like 10 angelic Yoshinon rolling around my head typing Yasakani no magatama and Yata no kagami over and over again!!!!!! I'm fucking tired of this!!! LET OUT!! and then earlier when that fuck ass Amatsu Magatsuchi , at first I was like: "huh...what the hell is this? I can't find any shinto or mythology explaination to this??!?!?!? why are all the search result a fucking Monster hunter's mob? I was so scared I was wrong and then in the afterword the author said it's because it's sound cool???????????oh yeah real cool shit huh????

Ah...that felt great...letting it out....my emotion writing this part was really hard to describe so please don't mind the grammar, ssy vocabulary and wording...thank you...

In conclusion, I hate searching google for these thing, I love Mikoto, super cute super sweet, and I like the tone change of these two volu, the drama was great, didn't like the cut in Origami's screen ti. But I appreciated the attempt to have more 'original' plot line instead of just taking the source and then just have the character follow the og story, without much unique writing in a way that don't have any big change, no butterfly effect and stuff...

Ugh...maybe I will just upload whole 39 chapter(Record btw, part of it is one chapter of this book was not that long) all at once for the love of the ga and then sleep straight for like 20 hours and work on my two other book later (sohow the Rezero book is growing like crazy while "This is not the date I wanted is slowly approaching it final 200 chapter).

Anyway, if anyone really read this ranting of mine, sorry~ I was high or sothing~ but I need to vent sothing out or else I won't have a good sleep tonight..or today cause it's early morning now...

Well, that's all...sorry for writing all this dumb stuff....

the mythological slope or boundary in Shinto lore that separates the land of the living from Yomi, the underworld, Its connection to the sun goddess Amaterasu is defined by the events that followed her father's (Izanagi) escape from this underworld