Well then, I don't want to bother you with this overly long ramble, so I'll stop here for now and go on about Touhou's charm some other day. Right now, I'm just hoping this book you so kindly picked up might blow even a little warm wind into your heart. Area-S / Dra

Foreword Nice to meet you, or long time no see. This is Dra. I misestimated the allocation of pages and had to do this in place of an afterword. What can I do to stop this conversation with someone who hasn't read the book yet from becoming just a talk about myself? What can I do... Nothing much, really, so I'll talk about Touhou in broad terms instead. This is going to feel a bit like an afterword after all, so those who haven't read the book yet should skip to the next page and read ahead. Or, well, I'm simply filling space here, so you might as well just read this (haha).

I like Gensokyo. There'd be no end to this if I started listing everything that gives the Touhou series its charm, but to sum it all up, I think the world known as Gensokyo is truly wonderful. Brilliant, beautiful, nostalgic, warm, occasionally cruel, but all in all, kind. Filled with charming youkai, humans and others. Brimming with the natural scent of the seasons. Continuing its existence while accepting anyone and anything. It's a miniature copy, a concentration of all the things people love in this world. An earthly utopia.

Wanting to feel even the smallest connection to such a world, I drew this story with Gensokyo as its stage. There are some dark things in the world, but it is still kind; that's the sort of ordinary and simple story this is. When we feel depressed, let's look up at the sky. I believe it stretches all the way to Gensokyo. ...Sure, it might be isolated from the world, but still. Same sky.