My thanks to those of you who have kindly picked up this book. My name is Kara'agetarou.

"Udon, beer, energy drinks, and...face masks? It's dated for December, I guess I'd caught a cold? But why the beer...?" That sort of thing. Memories from that time start coming back rather vividly.

Keine Box [Colophon] Original Work Circle Publisher Publ. Date Printer   Team Shanghai Alice Kara'ageya-san Kara'agetarou December 29, 2014 Neko no Shippo

Also, sometimes there's stuff written on memo pad scraps tucked inside packages sent from your folks' place, scribbled rather hurriedly by your parents. Such things are hardly important, but throwing them out felt wrong, so you'd hung on to them.

Using that sort of thing as a starting point, I drew this story.

Afterword

You look back, thinking, "Aah, that's when I was buying stuff like this."

Haven't you ever been cleaning and had a receipt from when you went shopping ages ago or some such turn up? I just love scrutinizing such things.