Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!? - Volume 27 - Chapter Aft

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Afterword

Long time no see. It’s the author, Takehaya. This time, I don’t have much room for the afterword, so I can’t write too much. I’ll get straight into it.

This volume consists of three short stories from Invaders of the Rokujouma!? Hercules! published on HJ Bunko’s site, “Read It! HJ Bunko,” and then half a volume of brand new content. The three short stories are all about getting into the characters, but the new material is pretty closely related to the main story. It’s primarily about settling the bill for what happened while the gang was in Forthorthe, and it involves something important that will lead into the next volume. I’m sure there are several parts that caught everyone’s interest.

With all of the invaders’ issues finally resolved, it’s at last time to delve into the core of the story and why this all happened. To tell the truth, it’s the final episode that I had in mind when drawing up plans for the series ten years ago. Ten years, however, has given me plenty of time to think of material, so the series will continue. That said, I’m not going to delay the “final” episode; I’m just going to write it in a way that will allow for the story to continue. I decided that would give us all something of a clean slate and allow for more variation in future stories. Moreover, it fits perfectly. The next volume will be the thirtieth in the series, after all.

This volume has some short stories from Hercules! Thinking about it though, there’s a new episode of Hercules! every other month. The main series is only published every four months, however, so unless there are two Hercules! episodes per volume (or four every other volume?), the unpublished episodes are just going to keep piling up. What am I to do?! I don’t want to put out a book of just Hercules! material, and I’m worried that adding on two episodes per volume will cut down on the space for the main story. I’ll have to think of a solution. Since this is such a conundrum, I’ll have to consult with my editor-in-charge, S-kun, about it later.

Well, I’ve just about run out of space now. As expected, I wasn’t able to write much, but I have to wrap it up here. I’d like to end with my usual thanks.

To everyone at the editorial department for their endeavors to publish this book; Poco-san for always delivering illustrations on time despite spreading out; and to all of the readers who picked up this book... Thank you all.