Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!? - Volume 26 - Chapter Aft

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Afterword

Nice to see you again. Author Takehaya here. This time I managed to deliver volume 26.

Being the climax of the Forthorthe arc, this volume had more pages than usual. In exchange, the afterword is shorter than normal, so I’ll have to move quickly.

This volume is about the coup d’etat that sprung up in Forthorthe. Koutarou and Vandarion finally square off. Up until this point, they’ve had a lot of indirect skirmishes, but this time they really get to duke it out. It starts as a battle between fleets, but it takes an unexpected turn from there. Since this battle ultimately decides the fate of Forthorthe, it’s going to be a knock-down-drag-out fight. Will Koutarou or Vandarion come out on top? Or perhaps...

How’s that for a cliffhanger? Since the future of Forthorthe is riding on this, I thought I should stop there.

Of course a lot of the highlights in this volume are towards the end, but I personally enjoyed you-know-what firing off. It’s been 27 volumes since it last appeared, and I’m sure there are many of you that have forgotten about it. I know I almost had (ha!).

I think that the following volume, volume 27, will be a half volume with three stories from Hercules. Koutarou and the others will be returning from Forthorthe, and I think half of a volume will be good to cover that. Everyone’s taken two months off from school, so a lot of problems have arisen in the meantime. While Koutarou and the others were gone, I’m sure that Rainbow Heart probably prepared replacements for them. That’s an organization of justice for you. The short of it is that I don’t think they’ll just be able to slip back into their normal lives without a few hiccups. I think Yurika and Sanae in particular will be in some trouble. And then there’s Theia and Clan getting serious about their invasion, and more.

As for the questionnaire I asked for everyone’s help about in the last volume... After deliberations with my editor-in-charge, S-kun, and after making it through the already plotted out storyline, Invaders of the Rokujouma!? will continue. Apparently, a startling amount of questionnaires were sent in, so we concluded that we’d feel bad for just ending the story dry. But if it’s going to continue, then I will almost certainly be doing a “Koutarou has begun going out with X!” series, so we might be looking at another nine volumes there alone. It’d be even more if we included Elfaria, Alaia, Charl, etc. My current prediction is that there would be over forty volumes, but will Hobby Japan be okay with that? I’ll ask S-kun about it next time (ha!).

If I carry on normally, the storyline I’ve plotted out will reach its end in a few volumes. Then it’ll be like I’m starting on a series without a plan. Since that’d be bad, I’m going to get to work on thinking up new stories. Fortunately, Forthorthe is heading in the direction of making contact with Earth, so I’m sure there will be all kinds of hijinks in that department. I’ll make sure to plan things out so that those of you who prefer these dramatic episodes over the more carefree ones still have something to enjoy as well.

Thank you all very much for answering the questionnaire, but I’d like to ask for your continued cooperation. As I thought, it was a great way of collecting everyone’s opinions. Please feel free to continue to send them in. It’s nice to have them in hand because it’s a lot easier than trying to sift through the internet to figure out what you guys think.

So please continue to send them in, now and in the future. Your responses support the continuance of Hobby Japan and the continuance of Rokujouma. We don’t win alone, remember? That’s true in real life too. So for the future of Hobby Japan, it’d be nice if you could write in too.

I think that’s about it this time since I don’t have a whole lot of room. Finally, I have my usual thanks. To everyone at the editorial department for their hard work and cooperation; Poco-san for skillfully drawing illustrations to suit my ultra-specific specifications once again; and to all of my readers who bought this book, I would like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart.