Afterword
Hello, everyone, it’s been a while. It is I, Yu Okano. Thank you for purchasing the ninth volume of the Unwanted Undead Adventurer.
The recent issues that have made life so difficult for everyone have also had a negative impact on the novel industry. I’m very grateful to my readers for picking up my books despite all the troubles facing the world. If you just happened to be reading this afterword at the bookstore, I would greatly appreciate it if you would take it to the cash register and buy it. Thank you very much.
Now, enough of the introductions. I knew I needed to write something for the afterword, but I struggled to come up with an idea. I’m sure after nine volumes you are all now familiar with my trouble writing afterwords, and I’m afraid that hasn’t changed for this volume either. However, I do believe it’s the duty of the author to fill any remaining white space with text. That’s why I spent a lot of time thinking about what to write here. Authors usually don’t put themselves front and center, and I realized that I’d never really written about myself.
I might have said this before, but I thought I would use this space to write about my current situation. Lately, I’ve had a lot of uncertainty regarding my health. I wasn’t ill with a particular disease or anything. I was simply living an unhealthy lifestyle—meaning I was suffering from obesity and from too much drinking.
One day, I decided I needed to fix those things and started going to the gym. Since I felt it was still a bad idea to go to a place with lots of people, I decided to go to a personal gym where I could work one-on-one with a trainer for a set period. As a result, I’ve succeeded in losing quite a bit of weight. And since I needed to restrict my diet during that time, I also basically stopped drinking alcohol.
My efforts gave me a sense of when I might regain my health, but what I didn’t expect was that not only was I feeling better physically, I was also feeling better emotionally.
Everything that had been happening made me withdraw into my shell a bit, but whether it was because I started exercising or because I stopped drinking, I’ve felt a lot more positive about life lately. I even found myself wanting to pick up a hobby, and I’m currently in the process of figuring out what that hobby might be. It was an experience that taught me the importance of mental health, and that maintaining it would give me all sorts of new opportunities.
I’ve heard that reading a book is good for calming one’s spirit. My wish is that in the middle of all of this uncertainty in the world, reading my books will bring some comfort and peace of mind to my readers.
With the hope that we see each other again in the next volume, take care.
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