Cooking with Wild Game (LN) - Volume 9 - Chapter Aft

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Afterword

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

This work isn’t exactly neatly divided up, but I would say that we’ve now passed the “Settlement at the Forest’s Edge” and “Genos Post Town” arcs and have entered into the “Cyclaeus” arc. After all, he had been nothing but a name up till now, but the time has finally come for a direct confrontation with the bastard himself.

But with that said, the main character of our story is ultimately a chef. And so I wanted to have Asuta carry out the work he should be doing rather than having him swap out his cooking knife for a sword or a halberd.

This also turned out to be a volume where I ended up introducing one new character after another. Shumiral and Pops’s groups may be leaving Genos, but a variety of newcomers certainly have come in to fill the void.

They all definitely have their quirks, and I hope you’ll enjoy seeing just what sort of bonds they’ll form with Asuta and the people of the forest’s edge.

It was actually just today that I got sent the final versions of the black and white illustrations. Thanks to that, I was able to check how the designs for Cyclaeus and the other new characters turned out.

I have a tendency to request a lot of details with such things, so I know I always put quite a burden on my illustrator, Kochimo. But that effort certainly doesn’t seem to be wasted, as the pictures turned out wonderful as always. And so, you have my deep, deep gratitude, Kochimo.

And as you can likely guess from the title, this time around the intermezzo centers on Pops’s group from the south.

The initial plan had been for a sweet story about Shin and Lala Ruu, but thanks to page counts and such, I ended up having to abandon it. But I certainly intend to go back to that when I get another chance.

Even in the web version Pops and his group haven’t yet reappeared. It’s really been a year and a half or thereabouts that they’ve been gone. And so, let there be light on those middle-aged men! At least, that was what I was thinking, and I certainly burned through those pages awfully quick.

To be honest, these afterwords go into the excess pages left over thanks to the bookmaking process. So if I insisted I want it to be longer, that would require adding another 16 pages, which would be quite an issue.

Now then... As always, let me finish by giving thanks to my editor at Hobby Japan, my illustrator Kochimo, everyone else involved with the production of this book, and of course all of you who purchased it.