Fremd Torturchen - Volume 5 - Chapter Aft

Afterword

Before I realized it, it was fall.

And this is the fifth volume. Hallelujah.

Thank you all so much for buying the fifth volume of Torture Princess. I feel like out of the whole series, this volume was the most harrowing for Kaito. How did you all enjoy it? As I was writing it, the thought gosh, this is getting intense crossed my mind a number of times, and during the editing process, I realized, gosh, this really is intense. All I did was follow my plot outline, so I wonder why that could have been. I’m planning on keeping the hits coming in Volume 6, so I hope you will all look forward to it.

By the way, this volume is scheduled for release at the same time as the first volume of Ms. Hina Yamato’s manga adaptation of Torture Princess, which, as an author, is something I find extremely moving. If you purchase them together, you’ll also get a side story I wrote with illustrations by Hina Yamato and Saki Ukai, so please go check it out. Both of them are brilliant artists, and their work is magnificent.

The manga version wouldn’t have been possible without the love and care of Hina Yamato and everyone else involved in the adaptation put into it, but it also wouldn’t have been possible without the support of all you readers, so I ask that you kindly continue enjoying both the manga version of Torture Princess and the original novels. As a side note, the official Twitter account (@goumonhime) is active, so if you’d like, please give it a follow. If you would be so kind.

Now, suddenly, we find ourselves in the acknowledgments section, so I’d like to thank Saki Ukai for the beautiful-as-always illustrations made for this volume; my editor O, who gave me all sorts of useful advice; Hina Yamato and everyone else involved in the wonderful manga adaptation; and my beloved family, particularly my older sister. Thank you all so very, very much. And above all else, I would like to offer another round of thanks to my readers. Thank you all so much for reading my story up through its fifth volume. The only way I can think of to really repay you is to write the most interesting stories I possibly can, so I plan to keep working as hard as I can.

I pray we will meet again.

The Mad King has been born.

Will the world end, or will it not?

What will become of him and her?