My Happy Marriage (LN) - Volume 4 - Chapter Aft

  AFTERWORD  

Hello, everyone, I hope you’re all doing great.

This is Akumi Agitogi, the author whose difficult-to-write/difficult-to-read/hard-to-remember pen name is finally catching on, to the point where she’s started to mistakenly believe, “Hey, maybe it’s actually kind of cool?”

My Happy Marriage is now up to volume four, and it feels almost unbelievable that my debut series would make it this far.

This volume was a continuation from the last one, and I’m sure there are some readers who are very curious to learn what exactly ended up happening to a certain character, but I hope you enjoyed it. I’m sorry to those who were looking forward to Miyo and Kiyoka’s actual wedding. Not yet.

Now that the story’s gotten to volume four, there have been quite a few more characters introduced to the story. The highlight of the new characters in this volume is the first of Kiyoka’s subordinates to be named, discounting a certain man who was caught in an explosion. I centered on Miyo as the main protagonist up until now, so the Special Anti-Grotesquerie Unit wasn’t touched on too extensively, but together with the introduction of the new characters, I hope that element of the story has gotten a bit more defined.

Also, while I’m sure it’s obvious at this point, this is also a story about Miyo’s personal growth. As she interacts with the new characters, as the author, I hope that it’ll allow her to mature and grow even more as a person. She’ll still face more trials before the story reaches their scheduled springtime wedding, but I’m sure the two of them will manage to overcome them somehow!

The manga adaptation by Rito Kousaka is being serialized in Square Enix’s “Gangan Online” to rave reviews! Also, by the time this fourth volume of My Happy Marriage goes on sale, the second volume of the manga adaptation should be in stores as well, so I hope you’ll pick it up, too.

Allow me a moment to say that this volume reached an absolutely historical and record-breaking degree of down-to-the-wire madness, and I ended up causing my editor an enormous amount of trouble. I’m very sorry. Thank you so much.

Also, to Tsukiho Tsukioka, and the unimaginably beautiful cover illustration for volume four. I truly thank you for your work.

Finally, to all the readers who have continued to accompany me on this journey. I have you to thank for being able to continue this story. You have my humblest gratitude.

Until next time.

Akumi Agitogi