Mei’s last line strikes me as rather strange: “I want you to write me a letter.”
This comes about when Mei checks her desk to get out her calendar (the acting headmistress of one fairly large school and aspiring head of a second doesn’t keep her schedule in digital form, of course), and then gasps when she see the relic from OG Citrus, Yuzu’s homemade “lovey-dovey strategy” notebook.
I assume that we’re supposed to infer that the notebook reminds her of all the cute things they intended to do together that didn’t get done back then, so the letter is an example of such a thing.
But, given that a letter is an example of interpersonal communication, something that has been notably, let’s say “reserved” rather than “lacking,” between the two of them, wouldn’t it make more sense for Mei to write a letter to Yuzu instead of the other way around?
I’m trying not to be snarky (believe me, there are “Mei-bot OCR subroutine”-type gags scattered all over the place here), but one of the frustrating things about the series (the second one, anyway) is that Yuzu is always talking to Mei (at least burbling along in a friendly way, as she does in this chapter), but Mei has trouble communicating directly with Yuzu. So why not have Mei be the one to write to Yuzu?
I’m guessing that the next chapter (assuming that appears in my lifetime) isn’t going to start with Yuzu saying, “Sure, Mei, what do you want me to say? And why can’t I just say it by, you know, talking?” and Mei responding, “Oh, that part doesn’t matter, just make sure you dot your ‘i’s with little hearts and put drawings of puppies and kitty-cats in the margins.” But “please write me a letter” just seems odd.
Of course, wasn’t the last letter Mei wrote to Yuzu the “I’m sorry I broke your heart, but my responsibility to the Aihara Academy takes precedence” letter in OG Citrus Chapter 36? So maybe Mei-to-Yuzu is not the best place to start up a lovey-dovey pen-pal correspondence.