When I told people about the idea of taking down two little girls, they said it was too rushed. After I wrote it, sure enough, some people said it had been rushed. Well, maybe it had been rushed, but I could roughly guess why everyone said that. In many books, taking a woman down was treated as the biggest climax—the lead-up was exciting, but afterward she became a decorative vase. That happened often. But I didn't want to write this book according to that formula. Though it was also a wish-fulfillment novel, Banana had never been a well-behaved author. I always wanted to have a little something of my own.
What exactly was that something? I thought it was another kind of natural, relaxed feeling. Lingjing and Shasha had been decided on from the very beginning: their focus lay in their cohabitation after being taken down. Imagine it—one boy and two girls, three high school students living together in a relationship almost like husband and wife. At school, they interacted one way; after returning to their rented little home, they lived another way. Their lives would not be a monotonous stream of sweet nothings all day long. The two girls would want to grow up, and the little things they encountered when facing society, their classmates, and their teachers were the true focus of the high school arc.
In addition, the forces of the dark world would begin to move during the high school arc. With school and family life as the main focus and the dark world as a supplement, I wanted to create an atmosphere that was as warm as possible without losing its excitement. Then, the children would grow up, and feelings that could truly be called love would sprout within it. Only after the two girls