Black Bullet - Volume 1 - Chapter Aft

AFTERWORD

Nice to meet you. My name is Shiden Kanzaki. To explain to those reading from the afterword, this book involves the tag battle of a protective high school hero and a ten-year-old Lolita heroine. I have written about this in other places, too, but I had so many uninterrupted publishing offers that—

Actually, this did not happen at all. Rather, I took my manuscript and said, “Please publish this, please publish this,” and rolled around on the floor of the Dengeki Bunko editorial department like a cute cat. Thus, I tricked Mr. Kurosaki into coming near me and grabbed hold of his leg firmly, which brings us to the present.

REGARDING THE TITLE

I didn’t think about it too hard and just put together a color I liked and the title of a movie I liked and got Black Memento. From the beginning, my editor disapproved of this title, but I was used to calling it that, so I waited it out in a war of attrition and schemed to publish it that way. But then he attacked directly with a phone call in the middle of the night. I realized that he really hated this title and was immediately reformed and settled on the current title.

REGARDING THE DOUBLE GUNS

The concept behind the double guns of a certain person that come up in the book are “the worst double guns in history.” To you double-gun lovers on the other side of the page reading just the afterword in the store, pretend you’ve been tricked for a second and try reading this book. I’m sure you will realize—little girl heaven, boobs galore, perverted guns, fake martial arts—there are many attractive elements prepared for you here as I await you who will never read it again.

Now, let me be a little serious here. A hundred apologies and ten thousand thanks to the nice guy who found me, my editor, Mr. Kurosaki; the artist who drew the gorgeous pictures, Saki Ukai; the chief editor who helped me when I caused a certain problem; and everyone else who was involved in the creation of this book.

Finally, to you, the reader who is using their precious time to read the afterword: Thank you very much. I am grateful for this meeting from the bottom of my heart. I look forward to the joy that I will receive when you, the reader, read this book. I pray that all of my readers will be blessed.