I hope this message finds you well. It’s been some time.
Where are you right now as you read this letter?
How have you been? I hope you are in good health.
I, as always, am making do up north. And I mean making do in the truest sense, as I write this letter in hours when people sleep. Soon, it will be time for Kaya to do her work, and I’m hustling alongside her.
Agents of the Four Seasons has gone through Spring and Summer, and after Dawn in the middle, we’ve finally reached Autumn.
I am grateful for everyone’s support. My readers, the bookstores, all the workers. My friends and family who allow me to cry on their shoulders. Suoh for the wonderful illustrations, as usual.
This story can only continue thanks to the help of so many people. Thank you all.
What will happen to the two little Autumns next? I hope you will be here to see the continuation of this story.
In the time it took me to deliver you this book, Agents of the Four Seasons has received two manga adaptations. I believe some of you might have seen them already.
Nappa Komatsuda-sensei’s Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring.
Yuriko Asami-sensei’s Agents of the Four Seasons: One Hundred Songs and One Hundred Pages.
I would appreciate it if you could check these out after reading Dance of Spring.
I’ve been in close talks with the artists as every chapter gets made. I can never stop wondering if you will like it. They are the same as the novels in that sense.
Now then, the story had already touched on Yamato’s Agent of Autumn, but now the details of her life have been revealed.
Perhaps some of you have sympathized or been hurt by her story.
Maybe you wanted something more fun, something that would lift your spirits, not something that would remind you of your suffering.
You don’t want morning to come. The present is so bad, you can’t see the future. You would like the mental burdens taken away.
I understand you. This story is not about that. It is a story for the scars you bore back then. It’s been the theme way back since Spring.
Please, I pray that you will reach the finish line of this story alongside its characters.
Personally, I believe that such stories and letters are sometimes necessary in life.
The book won’t begin unless you open it. Don’t forget that in life, and in the book, too, you are the protagonist. That is the case even now.
I will wait for you in the second part. Have a nice journey.