Hataraku Maou-sama! - Volume 3 - Chapter Aft

THE AUTHOR, THE AFTERWORD, AND YOU! 
It’s surprisingly roomy up there, when you ride a Ferris wheel by yourself. 
They took my photograph solo, too, but gave me this picture of some strange man at the end. Who’s this guy? Oh, it’s the author? Am I obliged to accept that? 
If you ever go on a certain Ferris wheel in the city of Tokyo and you catch sight of a school of tuna fish jumping around wearing red glasses, that’s just the afterimage of my presence. Enjoy the ride. 
The Devil King and Hero hijinks in this volume mainly rotate around the theme of child rearing. 
Along those lines, I have a notice and a request for everyone who’s been nice enough to read this. 
As I wrote this novel, I read through a number of books about Your New Baby, interviewed a few people involved with research into child raising, and even browsed around a few of the “mommy Q&A”–type Web forums. 
One thing I learned along the way was that between generations, and even between individual parents, there are huge differences between what people see as right and wrong in child care. 
Whether it’s what kind of diet to give, what type of baby equipment to use, or what sort of medications are safe for them, there are all kinds of stances people take depending on age, region, or just who they are. Maybe some weird man with no child-rearing experience who enjoys riding Ferris wheels by himself is in no position to say this. But my take-home from my research was that when it comes to child care, there might be such a thing as better, but there’s no such thing as best. 
So I’d like to note that the scenes in this book involving young children are just one of the likely infinite number of approaches to child care taken all around the world. 

I sincerely doubt that anyone would dare use this novel as their personal alternative to Dr. Spock. But to anyone currently raising young children, I strongly encourage you to take whatever steps you see as appropriate, especially when it comes to food and drink. 
Also, there’s a scene in the book that portrays purchasing sunscreen for children at a drug store in a negative light. Again, though, that’s just one take. People are free to take a pharmacist’s recommendations along those lines as well. Do it your way. 
That, and heat exhaustion. Sometimes, that’s not something an amateur can take care of with the basic kind of first aid you saw here. 
When it comes to keeping your own child healthy in heart and mind, I encourage you to use suitable medical treatment and engage in whatever action is most recommended for your own child’s situation. 
Also, this volume depicts a group of people with zero experience or even interest in child raising doing their absolute best, occasionally burning out, then doing their best all over again. 
Thanks to the earnest support of my readers, as well as the combined efforts of everyone involved with this publication, volume three of The Devil Is a Part-Timer! is finally in your hands. 
For once, the characters haven’t said anything too extremely inappropriate this time. I have no one to apologize to, which is a stroke of luck. 
In fact, I’ve even received an offer to make a comic version of the story, even though I’ve only been at this for three volumes and just about a year’s worth of authorship. It goes without saying that I’m elated by this. 
I hope you’ll all provide your warmest support to the Devil King, the Hero, and everyone else as their lives grow ever more frugal in the world of manga. 
With that, I bid you farewell until the next volume.