Afterword
Thank you for waiting so, so long.
It’s been a long time. It’s I, Seiichi Takayama.
The reason this volume was delayed is all upon my shoulders. I can only bow my head in apologies to my editor U-sama, my illustrator Yukisan-sensei, and all the other people involved with this world, and more than anything, to my readers. I’m truly, truly sorry.
To make my excuses, starting around summer of last year, I had a number of personal issues crop up and become increasingly serious, and from about December of last year to this last March, I was in no position to write.
For now, the various problems have been resolved, and now all the problems of that period seem like a long-gone nightmare. Thank you for your patience.
However, I suppose big problems do challenge your beliefs and cause you to rethink your priorities.
Ordinarily, you don’t need to make those sort of big changes when you’re 39, but last year was one where there were so many big changes that even I can’t believe them myself. I’ll try to make sure those experiences are reflected in my creative work.
I’ll work hard to make sure I don’t disrupt the pace of my writing! No, seriously.
Now, this is a personal matter, but this past spring, my daughter has gone from being in elementary school to middle school.
Seeing her at the commencement ceremony, I was overcome with a lot of emotion that we’d finally reached this point, and thought back to the struggles I’d had since I became a single father when she was two and struggled to raise her.
At this age, of course, she’s now more independent and can do plenty on her own.
She’s also getting to be a bit rebellious. (LOL)
This is a turning point for me as a parent.
I’d like to do my best to make it through the second half.
Now, I’d like to end with acknowledgments.
To my editor, U-sama. Thank you so much for putting up with all of the problems I had this time around, and thank you so very much for all of the concern and help you provided during that time!
To Yukisan-sensei, I’m very sorry to have opened a hole in your schedule given how busy you are. I’ll do my sincere best to make sure this doesn’t happen again in the future.
My thanks and apologies to all others involved.
And this time, to all the people who provided me with a sympathetic ear and offered advice in my times of crisis, particularly Mr. N and Mr. S! Thank you, thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my heart. It was thanks to you two that I was able to stand up again and keep going.
And finally, to all the readers that I kept waiting. I’m truly sorry for the delay.
Well then, I hope that we’ll see each other again!
Seiichi Takayama
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