These days, the sisters have been getting along swimmingly. After all, real Konoha is so enamored with her ideal self that it’s almost embarrassing. So far, it doesn’t seem as though ideal Konoha has any flaws whatsoever. She’s infinitely nice and infinitely forgiving. She’d probably be infinitely powerful as well if she was allowed to awaken to her powers in this timeline. Basically, real Konoha wrote a Mary Sue character. But that’s understandable, because so far, we’ve only seen flashbacks of real Konoha as a child. I don’t expect a kid to write an interesting, nuanced character. I can’t help but wonder, then, if ideal Konoha will ever change and evolve. As we keep tracing a path through real Konoha’s fiction, will ideal Konoha reflect the former’s growth as a writer? Will ideal Konoha suddenly become more than this two-dimensional Mary Sue that we see before us? After all, the boytoys in the story are evolving in their own way — sorta.

When we last left off, I wanted to see more of Konoha’s — that is, the real Konoha and not the fictional, idealized version of herself — reaction to her own writing. Does the adult Konoha still like what the teen Konoha had written? And if not, what would she have done differently? Obviously, she’s going to have to change significant portions of her own story in order to prevent her own death as Iana. But what else would she have changed?