I don't have any technical comments to make on this work since I am not smart enough to, but I'd like to express that I really liked this story personally because I feel like I have been unfair to someone in the past too and this does do a good job of painting that picture, is it really the people's fault? was it the situation? was it something in between?
I wasn't able to figure it back then, I wasn't able to figure it today, but one thing that remained the same was forgetting seemed way more cruel.
So I hope to see more of author-san's work in future
And,
The Macaron Press you're doing a great job, I wish y'all and the people working with y'all have success in your endeavours, it's really good to see someone doing something new to kinda change the independent publishing scene. Godspeed!