I feel like the last time I put out an AkyuSuzu book was also at Kouroumu. Sorry I had to bring SuzuReimu into it again...
Anyway, I'm just about to go on a long trip, so I think I have to stop this here. Let's hope I made it. (desperate)
Oimoto Jirou"A personal headcanon book that I felt I could still make if I hurried up even though I'm not a little girl anymore." (subtitle)
As Forbidden Scrollery went from the flower-viewing chapter to the fortune-teller chapter, one impactful bit after the other, personally I found it unreasonably funny how honestly shocked Kosuzu was to hear Akyuu say something abnormal. Like she really cares about "normalness" at all. Most of the time it's Kosuzu who's jumping all over the place, while Akyuu more so than Reimu is the person closest to her who scolds her for it.
To be honest, I wondered whether Akyuu's reason for resisting fate was a sense of responsibility or some more personal feelings, but while reading it in the magazine, I figured you could take it either way. When I read it again in the tankoubon, ZUN's afterword felt like an absolute epiphany, and before I knew it, I'd made this book.
If she enjoys this era enough that she'd want to cling to it, I guess there's no way around it... There's her friend, after all, and all the other stuff she likes... According to PMiSS, she doesn't get to keep many of her personal memories, which sounds kind of rough in its own way.
