Shido: Itsuka Shido!
Yutsuki: Ryougi Yutsuki! Best Match! Are you ready?
Shido: Yes! Hens—pfft, pfft. Yutsuki. Don't ss around. Please start according to the script.
Yutsuki: Ehh~ A little improvisation is more fun. Weren't you getting into it too, Shido? What was the line after you shouted "Henshin" just now?
Shido: The yin yang river that divides the universe—cough, cough! Nothing. Anyway, welco to Letters from Fraxinus—EX!!
Yutsuki: Honestly, I really didn't expect this knockoff program to have another episode. I thought it would've been axed long ago.
Shido: Y-you're thinking too much, Yutsuki. The afterwords in the previous volus only didn't invite us because the author had a lot he wanted to personally convey to the readers.
Yutsuki: Wasn't it because that guy ran out of inspiration and hit the limits of his talent?
Shido: …Yutsuki, sotis turning a blind eye is also a form of kindness. Can't you see the author backstage is about to cry?
Yutsuki: Haah~ What a pain. Then let's move on to the next segnt.
Shido: Right. Let's look at the first keyword.
-I'm so glad Shido ca back.-
Yutsuki: Oh~ Not bad, Shido. To be loved by the readers. Applause, applause~
Shido: Eh? Um—thank you very much, everyone. Though I completely don't understand the situation…
Yutsuki: Hehe. After all, in previous letters, even if you were ntioned, eighty percent of them were probably things like "Burn Shido!" or "Heaven will not tolerate Shido if he isn't burned." The sourness and killing intent were practically overflowing between the lines.
Shido: Yeah. Hehe—so this ans that my growth as the protagonist has finally earned the readers' recognition?
Yutsuki: Ah, no. That's not it. Don't get carried away, Shido.
Shido: …
Yutsuki: Back to the main point. It seems that before this volu's "Mio Past", the author wrote an original special volu with the the of "The Future Where He No Longer Exists". I heard it made quite a few readers cry, so when everyone returned to the main story and saw you alive, they felt very relieved. (TL:Peak btw)
Shido: I see. But even if people tell "you once died", it's still hard for to feel it. And in the special volu, Yutsuki, you were basically the one doing everything. I didn't have much of a role.
Yutsuki: Mm… Even if you say that, I don't have the mories of that worldline. But the from that route should be very different from the current . After all, it was a route where everyone had inverted and the world was about to be destroyed. I probably made so sort of resolve there.
Shido: That really does sound so despair. I'd rather not let sothing like that happen.
Yutsuki: Still, the plot of this volu only happened under the influence of the special volu, so we can't deny it entirely. Mm, to summarize it in one sentence, it would be—
Shido: It would be?
Yutsuki: "Won't shed tears until seeing the coffin."
Shido: How am I supposed to respond to that, Yutsuki!?
Yutsuki: Then, next keyword.
-Tatsuo: "Co on, call Dad."-
Shido: ...
Yutsuki: What's wrong, Shido? You look like you ate a sour plum while constipated.
Shido: Um… how do I put it? I've lived with the Itsuka family for so many years, so there's nothing wrong with calling my adoptive father "Dad". But seeing this keyword makes feel like I'm being toyed with.
Yutsuki: True. After all, this volu already revealed your origins. A best friend of the sa age thirty years ago suddenly beca your adoptive father thirty years later. That developnt really is crude, lol.
Shido: Mm… I'm grateful he adopted and raised for so many years, but how do I put it… I feel like I lost sohow.
Yutsuki: Well, modern people seem to enjoy gaining superiority by making others call them "Dad". That can also be considered one of modern society's distorted ideas. Though I don't really understand it.
Shido: Then, Yutsuki, would you be fine with calling soone "Dad"?
Yutsuki: Well… if it's harmless joking between family mbers, I don't really mind.
Shido: Then could you try calling that?
Yutsuki: Dad?
Shido: ... Again.
Yutsuki: Dad.
Shido: Yes, what is it, my good daughter—ow, ow, ow! Yutsuki, don't pull my cheeks!
Yutsuki: Humans really are creatures like this. Give them an inch and they'll try to take a mile.
Shido: Well… in exchange, Yutsuki, you can try calling son.
Yutsuki: ...Son.
Shido: What is it, Mommy? (TL:kewk kewk)
—Smack! —Smack!! —Smack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yutsuki: Whew~ This was also for the effect of the program. I assu you were prepared before saying that, right, Shido?
Shido: Yes… Then… next keyword.
-Regarding the Major Alterations-
Shido: The next keyword does not co from reader letters. Rather, it's sothing the author wants to use this program to explain to readers regarding his writing thoughts.
Yutsuki: Well, from the middle of the story onward, our author already let himself go wild down the path of major alterations. The fact that he's reached this point without being criticized for destroying the plot can be considered a dical miracle.
Shido: Well… Author, don't mind it too much. Anyway, the biggest alteration in this volu should be the portrayal of my origin—Takamiya Shinji.
Yutsuki: In the original work, Takamiya Shinji did not have such delicate and complicated psychological changes.
Shido: After all, in the original work of this book, Date A Live, the descriptions of Takamiya Shinji were broken into fragnts by Tachibana Koushi and inserted between the main story as interludes.
Yutsuki: According to this book's author, the character "Takamiya Shinji" was… too thin. Not exactly good or bad, only that you could understand why Mio liked him.
Shido: Perhaps because, in the story, Shinji was basically described through Takamiya Mio's mories. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To Mio, as long as Shinji was gentle, kind, brave, and did not treat her differently, he was already worth loving.
Yutsuki: Well, if there wasn't an enemy like DEM, those qualities would indeed be enough. After all, sotis liking soone doesn't require many reasons.
Shido: But since there is an enemy elent, the author wanted to portray Shinji with traits distinct from … I can understand that idea.
Yutsuki: From common sense, living in a world with an unknown disaster called "spacequakes", and then picking up a girl with special abilities—as a high school student, Shinji should naturally have all sorts of thoughts.
Shido: True… After all, this kind of light novel the is very popular in Japan.
Yutsuki: So, since the original used Mio's perspective, this book uses Shinji's perspective to show Shinji's inner changes. And since this story is ultimately a tragedy, he beca a boy who wanted to protect everything, yet hurt others because of his own powerlessness and died with regret.
Shido: And then, Shinji's feelings and experiences beca the starting point that forged Itsuka Shido's core. I think that idea is really good.
Yutsuki: Well, considering the complicated relationship between you and Shinji, the author seed to deliberately portray Shinji with so flaws while writing him. Otherwise, if he were too perfect, the tragedy would not be possible, and the necessity of you as the protagonist would also be questioned.
Shido: That's not true. Shinji was amazing. I really respect him.
Yutsuki: Does that count as praising yourself…? Fine, next keyword.
-Skipping Volus-
Yutsuki: Well, strictly speaking, this should be called "changing volus" rather than "skipping volus."
Shido: I think readers who have read the original should know. This book directly skipped over two key plots from the original.
Yutsuki: Kurumi Ragnarok and Mio Ga Over, right? The forr is about Ratatoskr fighting DEM. The latter is where Mio barges in and wipes out DEM and Ratatoskr's Spirits. (TL:in the og, the event of using Michael happened after the whole 204 loop with Kurumi, and Kurumi's backstory, after that, Shido had like one dream about the start of Mio and Shinji's story and then it's straight to war with DEM and then mama mio(got the joke?) off Kurumi, and only then we have Mio's backstory and then mama mio off everyone and then blah blah Shido use Zafkiel blah blah blah, so the author just push the backstory event before the war, not skipping anything)
Shido: How do I put it… That sounds even more excessive than the special volu the author wrote.
Yutsuki: As a decisive battle, aside from so individual details and slightly awkward settings, it was actually pretty good. The later inversion was also quite interesting.
Shido: And then… the special volu and this volu's Mio Past are, in a certain sense, replacents for those two volus.
Yutsuki: Well, that's also because my existence added a variable. The author is strangely serious about this kind of thing.
Shido: That ans you're loved, Yutsuki. All right, the final keyword.
-Congratulations on Completion- (TL: this chapter was uploaded in March 22nd 2020 while the final volu of Date a Live: "Tohka's good end second half" was released in March 19th 2020)
Shido: Congratulations to the original Date A Live for reaching its conclusion a few days ago.
Yutsuki: Ah, ti really passes quickly. In the blink of an eye, even the original has ended. It feels a little lancholic, like youth has ended.
Shido: Yeah. This novel of ours will also end soday. (TL:well...only two arc left...)
Yutsuki: Whether the author can persist until the end is still a question. Even if he can, at his update speed, who knows what year of the monkey it'll be. (TL:2024 btw)
Shido: Well, all we can do is trust the author.
Yutsuki: No, no! Shido, that line is wrong. This is where you should laugh loudly and say, "Wait, and hope!"
Shido: …What are you talking about?
Yutsuki: Don't mind the small details. Anyway, just read it.
Shido: Fine… Hahahaha! Listen well, dear readers! Wait, and hope!
Yutsuki: Pfft—chuunibyou.
Shido: You're the one who made say it, right!?
Yutsuki: Anyway, this episode of Letters VIsit from Fraxinus—EX!! ends here.
Shido: Then, thank you all for your support. Please continue supporting This Isn't the Date I Wanted.
TL:Thank you for reading, we are reaching the endga.Next volu: "Mio Redemption"
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