THE AUTHOR, THE AFTERWORD, AND YOU! This afterword includes some spoilers. Please be warned if you are reading this ahead of the novel. As I write The Devil is a Part-Timer!, I have taken pains to structure the story so you will have no problem keeping up if you’ve read the previous novels in the series, as published by Dengeki Bunko. However, one of the episodes in this volume includes a few references that may leave readers scratching their heads if they haven’t read a short story published in Dengeki Bunko Magazine and not yet in the novel version. Don’t worry. There’s a story behind that.
I’ve been reimporting a few characters and episodes from the anime version up to now, but generally I’ve introduced them in a way that’ll make sense even if you’re only familiar with the novels. However, quite a bit of Volume 13 of The Devil Is a Part-Timer! includes aspects that can’t be fully told without knowing the episode in this short story, which involves the official history of the in-story world. It’s not that skipping this short story makes it impossible to understand the novels, but it will create a sort of information gap with people who didn’t read Dengeki Bunko Magazine, which I feel really apologetic about. In place of that (if you can call it that, I dunno), I promise you that the short stories being published in Dengeki Bunko Magazine will make it to print in novel form sooner or later. For now, I appreciate your patience. This afterword’s getting a lot more businesslike than I usually go for. Volume 13 takes a cornucopia of assorted smaller episodes and puts them all together to accelerate things along. Even so, time proceeds as normal, and all these people putting on clothes, working, eating, and sleeping at home every day are moving things along purely out of their own volition. Sadly, I, Wagahara, am not seeing my writing speed accelerate much to match, but here’s hoping I will get to see all of you again as quickly as I can. Until then!!
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