In a Different World with a Smartphone (LN) - Volume 6 - Chapter Aft

Afterword 

Hello again. This marks the sixth time we’ve met. It’s me, Fuyuhara Patora. 
Finally, we’re on volume six of In Another World With My Smartphone. 
Did you like it? 
We’ve finally reached the volume that reveals the Frame Gear. One of my greatest hopes when the story began serialization was that we’d be able to print enough to reach at least this point in the story, and now we’re finally here. This is thanks to all you loyal readers. 
I suppose my next hope would be we make it as far as the appearance of Touya’s special machine. I’m looking forward to it, I hope you are too. 
There’s been a lot of bad guys in the series so far, hasn’t there? But even when I think about all the villains that have shown up in the series, I think that Prince Zabune is probably amongst the worst in terms of character so far. 
He’s the kind of person that only thinks of himself, looks down on the weak, and blames others when things go wrong. If I managed to make at least one reader think “What a disgusting guy,” then I think I’ve done my job as an author properly. 
I think I enjoy writing villains. Horrible characters like him are fun to characterize. 
Some characters I try to write as roguish or rough around the edges but not entirely awful, but... As I continue to write them, they eventually become irredeemably horrid characters. So don’t worry, I’ll continue to write unpleasant villains in the future. 
It’s summertime right now as I’m writing this. Do you like summer? 
I can’t say I’m fond of summer... I always feel weak during these months. 
I use the ? character, which means winter, in both my pen name (??) and Touya’s name (??). I think it’s probably a silent manifestation of my feelings about the seasons. 

My immune system is weaker in the summer, and it’s easy for me to catch a cold. My summer cold is thankfully over as I write this. I had an unpleasant fever and couldn’t stop coughing... It lasted around four days in total, but I was in total delirium. 
It’s a frustrating thing that happens every year. 
They say that “idiots get summer colds,” but I don’t think they mean that “anyone who catches a cold during the warm days of summer is an idiot.” 
I feel that it means “Idiots are dense, so they take until summer to realize that they caught a cold in winter.” 
Because of that, I don’t think that anyone who constantly catches summer colds is necessarily an idiot. Or, at least, that’s what I want to believe... 
Either way, winter is when I feel best. Probably because I come from the northern provinces. 
Now, let’s get to my words of thanks. 
To my illustrator, Eiji Usatsuka: thank you so much for the illustrations this volume. A lot of characters were introduced and you rendered them beautifully. 
Thank you so much to Ogasawara Tomofumi, for designing the Frame Gears. They look so cool... There’ll be a lot more Frame Gears to come, so I’ll be relying on you in the future. 
As always, K, I’m indebted to you. Please don’t catch a summer cold like me. 
To the editorial department at Hobby Japan, and everyone involved in publishing this book, thanks as usual. 
And a very big thanks to you, dear reader. As well as everyone that read my story on Sh?setsuka ni Nar?. 
— Patora Fuyuhara