Afterword
Editor: “So, the war is going to end with volume 20, right?”
Takayama: “That’s the plan, yes.”
Editor: “You know, there’s no way this is going to end in a single volume.”
Takayama: “I intend to end it no matter what. Even if the volume goes over 300 pages, I intend to end it here. Twenty volumes is a good place to call it quits too.”
Editor: “I see. Well, please let me know as quickly as possible if it doesn’t look like it’ll happen. There’s the whole matter of illustrations, after all.”
“That blasted editor! He clearly thinks I’m not going to finish it! I’ll end it no matter what! I’m totally going to end it with this volume!”
A Few Weeks Later...
Takayama: “My apologies. It doesn’t look like it’s going to end, even with over 300 pages.”
Editor: “Ha ha! Just as I expected.”
And so, the main story is going to continue, it seems.
No, I really don’t have any intention of letting it drag on. It’s not my intention to water down this series by letting it meander on. It’s just that as I kept writing segments that were necessary to the story, it just kept ballooning.
I think some of that’s due to the fact that I started figuring out how to properly write characters around volume 14. Light novels are character novels, so it’s a good thing to get better at depicting characters, but unfortunately, it’s made it completely impossible to figure out the page count.
Novels are a hard thing to get right.
So, I may have left this until last, but as always, thank you to all the people who were involved with the production of this volume, starting with my editor, the illustrator Yukisan-sensei, and, of course, the greatest thanks to you, the reader, for picking up this volume. I look forward to sharing more adventures with you this year.
Seiichi Takayama
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