Ascendance of a Bookworm (LN) - Volume 2.1 - Chapter Aft

Afterword 

Hello again. It’s me, Miya Kazuki. Thank you very much for reading Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 2 Volume 1. 

With Part 2, the setting moved to the city’s temple. Myne entered the temple as an apprentice blue shrine maiden and neither her knowledge from the lower city nor her knowledge from her Urano days is helping her. 

There’s paradise in the form of a book room waiting for her, but there’s a mountain of problems she has to climb. Her common sense not working there, her troublesome attendants, the horrible state of the orphanage... And worst of all, the fact that her poor health remains unchanged despite extending her life by offering mana to the divine instruments. Still, she would not survive in the noble-ruled temple without facing these problems head on. 

She wouldn’t be able to get anywhere on her own, but her partner in crime Lutz is sticking with her, Benno’s giving her advice, and Fran and the High Priest are teaching her the ways of the temple. With everyone’s help guiding her along, Myne is solving each problem one by one. 

When Lutz’s family descended into chaos born from a lack of communication, the High Priest used his ultimate ability — summoning the people involved to have a discussion — and solved the issue. With Lutz relieved of his worries and Gil working hard to be worthy of being Myne’s attendant, the Myne Workshop Orphanage Branch is operating smoothly and well on its way to producing paper. Maybe she’ll be able to finally start making books like she really wants to in the next volume. 

Out of the requests for this volume’s short stories, I picked the perspectives of Tuuli and Gil, both of whom have been changed by Myne’s influence. There are some characters who never show up by name from Myne’s perspective. It would mean the world to me if you felt how hard they’re working to follow the path in life they’ve found for themselves. 

Now then, it wasn’t as long as Part 1 Volume 3, but this volume ended up fairly long as well. This is the result of me experimenting and trying to lighten the load on your wallet by fitting Part 2 into as few volumes as reasonably possible. I would like to both thank and apologize to the noble employees of TO Books, who had thought the books wouldn’t continue to be so thick. 

This time, the cover art showed Lutz and Myne. They’re both super cute. I think Shiina You-sama had a hard time due to all the new characters introduced out of nowhere in Part 2. Thank you very much for your work. 

As one last thing, I would like to once again thank with utmost sincerity everyone who read this book. I hope we can meet again next volume. 

August 2015, Miya Kazuki