Campione! - Volume 21 - Chapter Aft

Afterword
 

At the endgame of a tale, the great detective would gather the people involved, said 「Now then everyone」 and began solving the riddle. It is the beautiful style of good old mystery story.

But, in the case of book series, the answer of the puzzle in general has been talked throughout the story.

This is thanks to all of you readers who had kindly chased after this story until this far.

Let me express my thanks once more.

In this last volume, even the material related to Pandora-san that has been alluded to bit by bit throughout the volumes was released. 「To be able to expose everything until this far」, I got a distant look while writing.

When I tried looking back, I dare say that the first volume of the series was the first full-length novel that I wrote. If there was actually something, 「I felt like I wrote something, a book before it, but when I searched, far from even text file, I couldn’t even find the idea memo!」 like that. Don’t even mention about it is nowhere to be seen, even my memory about it is hazy. To count it as something I wrote, well, let’s just stop (wry smile).

I’m an irresponsible writer like this.

Naturally, with my personality that cannot be said as strongly persevering by all means, it’s truly amazing that I was able to continue a full-length series until 21 volumes.

On top of that it was turned into anime, I was blessed with fortune that I couldn’t even imagine.

……I started writing work in a doubtful small game company that will become Yuuentai Company, after that, with Shinjou Kazuma-san’s invitation I went to similar company that will become Elseware. My acquaintances from that period will then do similar work with me here and there at this industry.

Everyone, and me too, are really obstinate (wry smile).

When I noticed even Mareni-san whose existence was like my senior in former Liar Soft also became a novelist, and right after I was told that, my coworker at that time, Mr. Itou Hiro too also published a book at the same month and from the same label with me.

For some reason the timing of the publication overlapped with him. Why? (lol)

Now then. As the result of stacking up battle through twenty volumes, for the first time in this series I was able to depict a theme of 『Main character who had grown and become strong!』.

With this last battle, 『Campione!』 has become completed more or less.

Although I say more or less, our main character’s life and adventure are still continuing, certainly there is ground to arrange a supplemental story, there is also support from the editing side that gave me positive comment, and I myself also think that perhaps I should consider this seriously.

Speaking of it, was it the advice from my first editor who now has transferred to weekly Shounen Jump?

「The most beautiful way to end this series is like this I think.」

When I was told that, certainly I was thinking 「I see」.

Furthermore at the last volume a new flag was raised, and the implementation of 『Additional story – The war god once more (temp)』 feels possible somehow.

Although it won’t be soon, but it surely can be said as a subject that I ought to give serious consideration to.

……And, to change the topic suddenly.

With next month as the earliest, I have a light novel that is planned to be published.

The novelist named Takedzuki Jou you see, plant to try to boldly publish a new work by working with the illustrator BUNBUN-san.

The themes are 『journey』 and 『myth』.

In order to change the plot of myth, it will be a story of boy and girl traveling the world of gods.

The boy will feel relatively useless, a frivolous person who fundamentally will rely on others to solve trouble, but he said this. If necessary I’ll kill even god.

The girl companion will struggle hard with such him in the world of myth, that’s the content.

……I will tell in advance just in case, this is a work unrelated with Campione.

Just as spoken by the masked devil king-sama in volume 21.

「Perhaps that world will be an earth where mankind wasn’t born, perhaps it’s a world where dinosaur didn’t extinct and became the ruler of the world. Perhaps it will be a new world where Jesus Christ wasn’t crucified and he realized the ideal country as messiah!」

Naturally, world unrelated with Campione exist all over the place.

The new title of my new work will be 『Campiones of Sanctuary』.

The title will remind you to something, but Kusanagi Godou won’t appear there, the other Campiones too also won’t. But, well, if that’s alright with you.

The aforementioned supplement story might be a work with that tendency.

For the curious reader, please follow the new work by all means.

……To everyone who has accompany Takedzuki Jou for more than twenty volumes, you might have seen through what I was planning to do when you read the latter half of this volume, but please look over it with warm gaze at that time (wry smile).

Actually in this chance of the series completion, I also have feeling of wanting to try opening a tedious idle talk.

Like the talk about the material of war god Verethragna, or why the title is Campione, or the complete version of Campiones’ profile.

However, the page amount is a bit──no, it’s completely (wry smile) insufficient.

At my work 『Chronicle Legion』 that was finished a little while ago, I inserted things like that as glossary of the last volume, but it was really a handful. It was necessary to ask the designer-san to tamper with it, then in order to forcefully secure the space for it, a lot of sentences that I should write tediumly were whittled.

Then, I got an idea that perhaps it would be fine if that kind of story is done in internet but──

「It’s a bit awkward to approach blog or Instagram or Facebook isn’t it!」

You see, I never made use of SNS and the like until now was because my private life isn’t fate to be reflected in Instagram, and it would only become 「It feels like it will only become notification for new book!」 in the end.

If it’s Twitter, well, it’s possible I think, but it’s not suited for publishing long sentence (wry smile).

Although, thinking back, sometimes there were also voices from readers saying they want to see things like Campione’s setting, or idle talk that is related with extensive knowledge. Perhaps it will be fine to experimentally try making use of place to respond with such niche request.

I tried preparing reading material in the shape that jointly use Twitter and note or something at the same time, so those who are interested please try to search for the account of Takedzuki Jou.

For the last, to everyone who has accompany this series until this far.

Really thank you very much for everything until now.