No Game No Life - Volume 10 - Chapter Aft

AFTERWORD 

Yuu Kamiya here. It’s been quite a while—one year and one month since the last volume, Practical War Game . About a year and a half since Volume 9, not to mention all those delays. I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize deeply to my readers and all concerned… 

But we know what my editor is going to say to that. 

“…I have a feeling I saw something like this in the afterword of Volume 7. Is it just my imagination…?” 

Yes, I knew it. I expected you’d tell me that. Of course, it is 100 percent my fault that the manuscript took foreverrr to get in and the release date was delayed as a result. Under the circumstances, I am aware I have such a dearth of room to argue as to make the amount of white space in that weird character ? (which I think is pronounced sakana ga sakan na sama ) look vast. However, please allow me to say: 

—What do you want me to write, then?! (Defensive rage) 

Talk is cheap, right?! And I’m not even talking, but writing, right?! So! What if someone rattles off a bunch of fancy, polite, formal words of apology—but inside, they’re thinking: Damn, shut up already! What should one do to make people believe?! Will the readers understand if I explain the circumstances? Will it fulfill them if I beg their pardon?! The best I can do for the readers who have kept waiting despite the repeated delays— 

—is to make them think “it was worth the wait”… 

To make it such a work as they’ll think was worth it—and to pray that they think so. Don’t you think? 

…… 

“…That sounded so plausible I was almost convinced. Regardless, it doesn’t justify you bypassing the question of why it was late, does it…?” 

 Uh, well… Ummm… Remember the movie that came out last year? Now No Game, No Life Zero is coming out on Blu-ray and DVD, the same month as this volume. 

“You get editor points for such a natural segue into the promo material. Oh, do go on?” 

It’s, uh, yeah… It’s incredibly well-made, and…you know? Uhhh… It makes me think, like, I better step up, and, like ? 

“So basically you just got in your own way and fell into a slump again, didn’t you?!” 

I’m sorry, I’m sorry, check out the second volume of the manga, which is coming out this month, too! I’ll get the next volume’s manuscript in faster, so if you would, please… S-see you laterrrrr!!