Cooking with Wild Game (LN) - Volume 18 - Chapter Aft

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Afterword

You have my deepest thanks for picking up this book, the eighteenth volume of Cooking with Wild Game.

I know I say this every time, but it truly is thanks to all of you picking up the series that I’ve been able to make it this far. You have my greatest thanks.

Now then, the main story in this volume ended up being a bit on the short side. That’s because the size of the web version published earlier was just too big, so it ended up having to be split into two volumes.

This is the same thing we did with volumes fourteen and fifteen, so I intentionally tried to make the Group Performance as long as possible. Thanks to the number of pages, there was no way around splitting things up this time.

It would have also been possible to revise the main story to try to slim it down, but I happened to have a long Group Performance in the hundred page range, so I decided to go ahead with publishing that.

I’m sure some people will be disappointed with the shorter main story this time, but please rest assured that it is set to take up a larger portion of the next volume.

Allow me also say a few things about the approximately one-hundred-page-long Group Performance, “The Downfall of a Lineage.”

I would call it a bit of a unique story in terms of the overall work. It’s a deeply serious story about the downfall of the former leading clan, the Suun, so it’s almost entirely devoid of any heartwarming elements. But at the same time, I consider it an important story for the series, and I hope that you all enjoy it.

However, there is one thing I’m concerned about.

As I mentioned in a previous afterword, there were originally thirteen Group Performance stories, and they were all published at the same time.

To be precise, they were put out around the same time as volume thirteen of the printed edition. In other words, they came right after matters with the Suun clan and Count Turan were settled, before everything with Myme’s introduction and so on came into play with the fourteenth volume.

As for what the concern is, it has to do with the time difference between the web versions and these published ones.

Memories of the conflict with the Suun clan were still relatively fresh when the web versions were published, so it was no issue. But for those who only read the published versions, that is all far in the past.

After all, volume thirteen was published back in February of last year. And the matters with the Suun clan wrapped up more or less in volume seven, which goes back even further.

There is the fact that the father of Kamyua Yoshu’s apprentice Leito and the younger brother of Milano Mas, the owner of The Kimyuus’s Tail, were once members of a group heading through the settlement at the forest’s edge toward Sym, and they were killed by the Suun clan. Or that Ai Fa was kidnapped by Diga and Doddo Suun at the clan head meeting and rescued by Tei Suun. Hopefully such stories still remain in your memory as you read this tale.

Also, while I realize this may not be necessary to say, parts one through three of “The Downfall of a Lineage” take place several years before the main story, while part four is linked to a period shown in the main tale.

Asuta met the people of the Suun clan and exposed their crimes at the clan head meeting. Just what was Tei Suun thinking and doing during that time? It’s all shown here in this story.

I have strong feelings personally in regards to “The Downfall of a Lineage,” and I hope that you all end up feeling much the same.

Well then, I suppose it’s about time to wrap up this afterword.

Both the main story and extra ones this time lean toward more serious matters, but next time the more heartwarming elements should return. Please refer to the advertisement at the end of the book if you wish to know more.

Ah, and this is a bit of a digression, but I believe the announcement of a new work being published by MF Books should be shown on the strip around this volume. If you have any interest in it, then please also give that a look.

Let me finish by giving thanks to everyone involved with the production of this book, and of course, all of you who purchased it.