My Stepsister is My Ex-Girlfriend - Volume 1 - Chapter Aft

Afterword

I want to thank my editor who reached out to me for my story about a girl and guy who just flirt with each other. I want to also thank TakayaKi for his brain-meltingly cute illustrations and all the readers who supported me when I was still publishing on the Kakuyomu website. Each and every one of you, thank you!

In the Kakuyomu Web version, there is an episode that features the bookworm, Mizuto, the mystery fangirl, Yume, and a new heroine, who is a light novel otaku. Please feel free to read it if you’re interested. If you know anyone who likes reading or wants to see more of TakayaKi’s art, please recommend this book to them through whatever social media platform you use. I’m sure that the editorial department of Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko will spring to action. Put the pressure of sales onto them!

With that, I’d like to end this novel. This has been Kyosuke Kamishiro, the author of My Stepmom’s Daughter Is My Ex: Why Can’t We Move On?! Let us meet again in the second volume!

Author Comments

Don’t Call Us an Ex-Couple (Original title: The Ex-Couple Shout at Each Other)

This was originally released on August 7, 2017. I thought that if this kind of situation happened in real life, it’d be hell. I’m sure that having to live together under the same roof would be met with firm rejection. Some day, somewhere, I’ll explain why Yume okayed living together and even decided to go through the effort to change her last name.

The Ex-Couple House-Sit (Original title: The Ex-Girlfriend Makes Him Notice)

This was originally released on August 10, 2017. I thought a lot about how to get the feel of “will they/won’t they,” but if it got too explicit, that’d put me in some trouble to say the least. Apparently, the chapter took first place on the Kakuyomu rankings two days after it was released.

The Ex-Couple Start School

This was originally released on August 19, 2017. Yume’s reputation as a popular girl is pretty much gone by the end of this chapter. Why is that? You guessed it. It was thanks to a certain ROM expert taking care of things behind the scenes.

The Ex-Girlfriend Gets Measured

This was not published on the internet. It’s Akatsuki Minami’s debut chapter. The chapter is a little irregular since there is barely any conversation between Yume and Mizuto, but I think the lack of conversation made for a fresh chapter.

The Ex-Boyfriend Nurses Back to Health

This was originally released on September 5, 2017. This was personally the most rewarding chapter to write. If Yume hadn’t fallen ill, she wouldn’t have been able to be honest about her feelings.

The Ex-Girlfriend Is Waiting in Dreams (Original title: The Ex-Girlfriend Awakens)

This was originally released on August 26, 2017. I thought it might be fun to write this silly story of Yume stealing Mizuto’s underwear in a Lovecraftian style, but I changed my mind. At first, I thought I should write the entire chapter like that, but it got difficult to read, so I stopped at just writing part of it in that style.

The Ex-Couple Try ███ing/The Ex-Couple Try Dating (Original title: The Ex-Girlfriend Gets Jealous/The Ex-Boyfriend Wants to Protect)

This was originally released on September 19 and October 31 in 2017. I thought it was about time to have them go on a date, but they didn’t end up doing anything at all. How could they have dated before and not be used to dating? I thought it’d be fun if Mizuto came in as some kind of surprise hottie.

The Couple Exchange Gifts

This was originally released on December 24, 2017. I tried writing this to match Christmas in real time. I’m proud of how I wrote a kiss scene without actually explicitly using those words.