Time flowed onward like water running downstream...
The final volume of Love Metronome not only failed to lose popularity as time passed—it continued to ferment and spread...
Although Sogo Doma had anticipated it before the final volume went on sale—he himself had nearly been shaken by its contents, so other people would surely be even more...—he had never expected the final volume's impact to keep expanding!
If, at first, some guys had boycotted Love Metronome because their girlfriends publicly came out after reading the final volume, then trying to pick apart the final volume with a critical eye during that boycott was basically a journey toward self-destruction...
Read it, criticize it, fall into the pit, and then, under the influence of Love Metronome's chaotic domain, become a devoted yuri fanatic—that was probably the fate of all those critics.
And that, in turn, made even more people curious about the final volume—how could anyone possibly change their sexual orientation because of a book!?
Under such circumstances, the final volume's influence continued to grow. And beneath that influence, people inevitably began bringing up and searching for the original author, Utako Kasumi, once more...
Fortunately, Utaha Kasumigaoka had moved out of her old apartment as soon as the fans' boycott began. Otherwise...
"How did things end up like this..." Through online surveillance, Utaha Kasumigaoka had already learned that the apartment she used to live in had completely fallen—fallen to the frenzied visits of readers.
As for her personal information, if Sogo Doma had not reacted quickly and had Shaqiang frantically delete data from the internet, eventually even setting absurdly high confidentiality levels, she probably would have had trouble even going to school.
What made Utaha Kasumigaoka even more grateful was that, despite so many readers frantically searching for her, not a single one