Below are my responses to Ch21 of LLSHP AU~ ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ
@scarletmayhem Thank you for your continuous support! There will be more content from me in the future for sure, whether it’s for LLSHP AU or other new stuff! And yes, there will be the prequel, I’ll talk a bit more about that in the Afterword~
@aq0ursbo Indeed, ch1-20 that you’ve been reading was written by Hanamaru.Thank you for your continuous support! In spite of the hardships in this story, the nine girls overcome them, individually and with each other’s help. It’s about kagayaiteru after all, and I’m glad to hear it’s affected you positively.
@ anon No worries, that’s what feedback is for! That is one of the things I was concerned about with ch21, the way Yoshiko was introduced. If you’re referring to how there’s something off in every scene, then that effect is actually intentional, since I want to show how Yoshiko is slightly out of place in spite of how hard she tries to integrate herself. If you’re not referring to this, then it’d just be my bad writing (´Д` ) As my best girl, I feel bad that it’s only this last chapter I got to show some Honoka screen time XD As for the angst version of this chapter, I’ll talk a little bit more about it in my Afterword, so please do check it out when I post it!
@neko-chan2000 Thank you~! There will be more stuff from me for sure
@softoxidation Thanks for your long lovely review! I like how you’ve broken it down to different parts, I definitely enjoyed reading this! It makes me smile whenever readers notice and appreciate the little things~ The point of ch21 is indeed to show Yoshiko through the others’ POV. Everything is considered a miracle already, but the girls work hard to help each other recuperate. It felt refreshing for me to write her through other POVs, having written mostly from Yoshiko’s POV this entire story XD
The ashwinder is indeed meant to be symbolic. It was born from the ashes of the fiendfyre, where Yoshiko/Yohane ‘perished’. Its lifespan is supposed to be short, like an incomplete Horcrux, but it lived and is living well. Its legs are combustible, meaning it’s potentially dangerous, like how ch21′s Yoshiko is, but her friends have accepted her for who she is in spite of that.
Poor Hanamaru definitely has the hardest time coping with the situation out of everyone else. It’s not explicitly stated in ch21 but she managed to recover her memories that was lost after ch14. She has to deal with that, on top of dealing with the fact that she practically killed Yoshiko (her Patronus dealt that fatal blow to Yohane before Yoshiko’s Patronus struck). Staying with her grandparents and Yoshiko during those six months did help her. She and Yoshiko aren’t girlfriends in ch21 due to the circumstances, but the feelings are still there, strongly too, so all it’ll take is for time to bring them together again.
My baby Ruby grew up so much since ch1. She is quite independent now, watching over her precious friends who are like family to her, but she still enjoys her onee-chan cuddling her and her friends doting on her.
DiaRiko deserve a happy ending and I’m sure you all agree with me. Their love story isn’t blazing passionate and fiery like other romances, but it’s there and deep and everlasting. Yoshiko sort of sees Dia as a sister too (though now it’s more like a .... sister-in-law kind of way? XDDDDD) Yoshiko will continue to call Riko ‘Lily’ though, but Riko certainly knows how Yoshiko sees her and is quite pleased with that.
ChikaYou didn’t get enough screen time the entire story so I’m glad to give them their much-deserved moment here. They’ve always been together, whether as friends or a couple, and they light up Yoshiko’s heart and everyone else’s mood even during difficult times and that’s their strength. Aqours’ sun.
KanaMari is another baka couple that didn’t get much screen time because, as Yoshiko said, she didn’t even know they were going out lmao. I wrote that little bet thingy in Mari’s concept art so friggin’ long ago, it gives me great satisfaction to finally reveal it too. Indeed, they will get their own story in the prequel, I’ll talk a bit more about that in the Afterword!
Overall, thanks for your support and I hope you’ll look forward to more from this LLSHP AU and my other works!
