Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!? - Volume 39 - Chapter Aft

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Afterword

Long time no see. Takehaya here with volume 39. This afterword was written just after the state of emergency was lifted, and the city is slowly coming back to life. It’s something of a relief. People are fortunately visiting bookstores again, but I’m also grateful for all of your support during the state of emergency. I’ll continue to strive to meet your expectations.

Our story this time sees the Gray Knight investigating Signaltin. Thanks to that, Sanae Onee-chan gets a big role and the Gray Knight’s motivations are gradually becoming clearer. His attacks become more intense, which gives Koutarou and company a hard time.

But even when things get rough, the princess of love and courage, Magical Girl Rainbow Yurika shines. I’d like to talk a bit about the acid magic she uses this time around. Acid is commonly a dangerous weapon used by villains or monsters, but in reality, it’s not very practical because of how slowly it works. For example, the mafia will use it to melt bodies and such in movies, but it’s not like that works overnight—even with the strongest acids to move things along. It’s not a speedy process. The most you see instantaneously are color changes on the surface or the release of gas. So like in this volume, I figure machine-based foes would keep going until their circuits short rather than dissolving on the spot. There’s no such thing as an instantaneous dissolution. This can be a serious complication for creators. We want dragons who breathe acid or heroes bravely jumping through the stones of an acid swamp, and we tend to forget that it generally takes a while for acid to melt anything.

Fortunately, however, we have a friendly magical girl using acid here and not an evil scientist. Yurika can create fire from nothing, so magically accelerating the rate at which acid works is perfectly conceivable. If there are spells to make people faster, then surely there are spells to make acid faster too. That said, Yurika gets her ideal partner in crime this time around—Clan. With her knowledge and power from the orange light, she makes a clever and potent ally. Please look forward to more adventures with the princess of acid and courage, Scientific Girl Miracle Yurika.

Incidentally, there’s someone else I’ve been rooting for lately. Suzuki Eri-san, Sanae’s voice actress from the anime, has started streaming and putting up gaming videos on YouTube. She’s been playing D—d by D——t, where players are split up between murderer and survivors in a deadly game of tag. She’s already streamed several times as of this writing. On her fourth play, she even had Oomori Nichika-san, Yurika’s voice actress, on as a guest. It was quite exciting. I even got a little nostalgic and left a few comments myself. For anyone who’s interested, please subscribe to her channel and cheer her on too. Oomori-san streams as well, although she doesn’t do games on her channel. Please check her out too if you’re interested. They need our support the most when working on their own, so I hope we can band together and make a difference.

Let’s see. Was there anything else...? Oh, right, there’s one more thing I’d like to talk about. With the last volume, there was a bonus story about Nana and Elfaria. I know it’s a bit late now, but I wonder if there’s any interest in a story for those two. If so, I was thinking I might write a volume mainly featuring them. In this day and age, however, it’s somewhat difficult to hear what readers are asking for. There’s so much information out there that voices get drowned out, so I’m not entirely sure what to do. I’m thinking of doing a survey on my Twitter account (@Takehaya_info) someday. I would be happy to hear from you then.

By the way, the bonus stories for this volume feature Theia, Kiriha, and Yurika from Melon Books, Toranoana, and BookWalker. The bookstores have been wonderful. Wait, isn’t it kind of late to be saying that? (Lol!) I’m about out of space now, so allow me to close with my usual acknowledgments. I would like to thank everyone at HJ Bunko’s editorial department for their assistance, Poco-san for drawing such a cute illustration of Clan in her uniform, and all you readers out there worldwide for your continued support despite the state the world is in.