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[The End]-10420

This marks the end of my writing to this story. It has been a whirlwind of a journey, spanning a year in the making. I've no regrets. So many people I want to thank for the encouragement to reach this ending. Writing a novel is never an easy thing to do. Writing an historical fiction is especially a difficult thing to do. At least for me it is. Reaching this conclusion is a proud moment for me.

Thanks everyone for helping me get here.

[Proof run]-26320

[After Black Rain]-28220

[The Moment of Truth]-15220

All I can say is get the tissues ready. Well, I'm saying to that to me, since I'm a weirdo for crying for my characters when they undergo tragic moments. 

Yeah.  The next three posts released on week 17/02 are going to be heavy.

[Final Volume Cover Release]-6220 [1]

[Back From Kyoto]-2220

I'm back from touring around Kansai region.  I'm happy to see  that my research wasn't far off the mark. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to visit Hiroshima first-hand.  I went to the Kyoto and Osaka city libraries and was able to read some wartime references and accounts.  Some broke my heart. There was a story about this young man who was a 7-year-old boy at the time when the bomb dropped. He and his older brother (by three years) had lost their family in one hit. They were staying with their aunt at the time, whilst their baby sister and parents went to the main town.  3 km was the distance that separated their family for life.  There were more stories like this in the library. Collected in anthology volumes.  I took some notes. 

What does this mean for the book? 

[New Cover]

Kind of nervous about the new cover. I thought, screw it. If the ML stuff with harem can have babes with bazooka boobs about to fall out of string bikinis, I can have my Michaelangelos.  I was trying for a timeless love connection thing. Colors of time and so forth. 

Anyway. This the cover. Until WN tells me to change it.  Need to send them a spec sheet I guess. I'll wait for the editor to ask.

[Holiday's Boring]

Update: Scrapped the Jesus-Eiji version. As it looked really tacky and annoyed me. Went back to basics. Will leave with just flowers for now, until something better pops up.

[Before I go on holiday] 

In going to bring a happy thank-you special for the lovely gifts. 

Q&A Time: Why the dual perspectives? And chop and changed about?

I dunno. Thought it would be a good idea at the time. Never envisioned this story to be more than 60K worth of words. At that point, it would've been fine. It's now on its way to doubling that amount. This makes the volumes a bit messy. Since I'm writing to this format, too late to change now. I think it also helps with character design immersion. Still, it's hard writing from two setting perspectives, so not to break the continuity of the whole story line. If it doesn't work, I'll revise at the end of the story. When I dust it off and walk away.

Proof Updates

[191219] Duties - Corrected November to April. Tokyo/Doolittle Raid was 18 April 1942.

[Happy Holidays]

I'm taking a break from writing for Christmas and end of the year holidays. I've had a hell of a year. Been on/off work. Now I'm a NEET. No idea what tomorrow brings. I have no routine set for my life now. I just need to find a way to survive. Padded my car for the season just in case. 

Hey, thanks for reading to date.  I'll be back in the new year with content to finish. And maybe even earlier if I can't tear myself away.

Hope everyone has a safe, happy and kick-ass end of year and start of new year.

Cheers to 2020

[Explicit Scene Removal]

I removed the explicit scene that was between Akira and Hinata from the book as I felt it wasn't necessary and broke the flow.  If anyone is curious, it can be found at my Love One Shot's book.

[It's Back]

This story was moved to Tapread a while back, but Webnovel was keen to contract it.

It's back by Webnovel's demand!

I'll be adding in new ones to completion.

The story is half-way done, with intentions to complete by middle of next year.

Thank you Webnovel for giving this story a chance.

I hope all goes well.

[1] Yep. I designed and poster-worked the cover with licensed images.