Afterword
Thanks so much for buying Volume 13 of Konosuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!
Time sure flies. I made my debut as an author with this series, and now I’ve been in this league for four years. Now that I’ve joined the ranks of veteran authors, I can get away with forcing editorial to indulge some of my whims. For example, if I tell them to go to an alternate world and bring me a real, live goblin because I need it as research material to write the best possible book? They jump to it. If I asked them to rent out Shinjuku Station for a day so I could play hide-and-seek there, they’d probably go along with that, too.
Compared with that, getting them to let me go without deadlines so I can just be a total NEET for a while is… Well, it’s as off-limits as stealing candy from a baby. Sorry. I’ll keep working.
So anyway, this volume was mostly about Wiz and Vanir. The two of them have a relationship that seems a bit like the one between Kazuma and Aqua, but one of them has no gender, so I guess it’s not exactly the stuff of a romantic comedy. And thus, our late-blooming shopkeeper will forever be (etc., etc.).
So with that, the next volume will feature the Crimson Magic Clan. Will our retiring young lady be saved, or will she have to go back on her claims that she’s the rightful chief of the clan? Be sure to pick up the next book and find out!
Oh yeah, and I’ve got a new series out called Combatants Will Be Dispatched!
It’s about these combatants, low-level goons in an evil organization that wants to take over the world, and how they’re dispatched to other planets to find new places to invade. These surgically augmented combatants battle the Demon King with modern weaponry, so I guess it’s a fantasy thing. If that sounds interesting to you, I hope you’ll pick it up!
And with that, I think this volume represents my high-water mark in terms of causing problems for everybody, but it still somehow got out the door. It’s completely thanks to all my helpers and collaborators, starting with Kurone Mishima-sensei. I’m so grateful to everyone involved for making sure this book reached you, my readers.
And as ever, my deepest gratitude goes to all of you for reading this book!
Natsume Akatsuki
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