Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!? - Volume 43 - Chapter Aft

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Afterword

Long time no see! Takehaya here. Surprisingly, it’s already been a year since my eye surgery. Things have been going well, and my brain has grown accustomed to it, so I can see more easily now. I did replace the lenses of the eyes that I’ve been using for over forty years with intraocular lenses, so it took some time to adjust. If I get new glasses, I think I will be able to see a little better. The ones I’m using now were made just before the surgery, so once I’ve got some time on my hands, I’d like to get new glasses.

I’ve also started taking longer rides on my motorcycle again. But I don’t plan on going anywhere that would take several hours to reach just yet. Overconfidence is very dangerous, after all.

In summary, the problems with my eyes are resolving themselves. I was worried about getting cataracts at my age, but fortunately, now that things have settled down, it doesn’t seem to have had any significant impact on my daily life, although I do think my house has gotten a little dusty. I struggle to see small and light-colored objects, so it can be difficult to clean. Well, I suppose that’s not too bad. It’s best not to be too picky (LOL).

Anyway, let’s leave my current status at that and move on to this volume. Considering what happened, there will be spoilers this time. For those of you who tend to read the afterword first, I suggest that you come back after finishing the volume.

This installment covers the transfer of Ralgwin, who was captured last volume, and various things happen in the process. People are after him, so he must be moved from the hospital to an isolated facility. Koutarou and the others do what they can to prevent his capture.

This volume, the enemy launches their attacks, but their way of fighting is fundamentally different from before. This time, Grevanas uses spiritual energy and magic just like Koutarou’s side. In other words, the same things that made Koutarou’s group so strong now apply to Grevanas as well.

Their strength was their ability to fight while always hitting the enemy where it hurt. Forthorthe’s weapons and armor are powerful, but they are vulnerable to spiritual energy attacks. Spiritual energy, in turn, is vulnerable to a wide variety of interference, and attacks from magic, and would easily lose. Moreover, magic requires long chants, while Forthorthe’s weapons can quickly and accurately continue to attack, keeping anyone from chanting. And magic relies heavily on talent and effort, which creates the major weakness of not having a lot of users available, limiting the number of places where it can be deployed. Koutarou and the others used these weaknesses to appropriately attack their enemies. Theia could rain down a hail of bullets against magicians, and Yurika could use magic to exorcise any ghosts.

But now, Grevanas can fight the same way. He is a Grand Wizard and has already gotten his hands on spiritual energy technology. And as the leader of the old Vandarion faction, he has access to the latest of Forthorthe’s technology. That’s right, an enemy that can fight on equal terms against Koutarou and the others has finally appeared.

Ralgwin was close, but he hurried to fight too soon and lost as a result. Excluding the whirlpool of chaos, this is the first enemy that can fight on equal terms with our protagonists since Elexis, and Grevanas isn’t restrained by morals. The result is that havoc is wreaked in this volume. And to top it all off, Maxfern returns. That adds Maxfern’s leadership to the already existing science, spiritual energy, and magic, which is a very powerful threat if left unchecked. Koutarou and the others have a hard fight ahead of them, so look forward to what happens next.

Speaking of which, what will I do for the next volume? I skipped it last year because of my surgery, but it might be time for a Hercules volume. Thanks to the efforts of Nalfa’s brother, Koutarou is being cornered in another sense too (LOL).

But that’s about all the space I have this time. I’d like to conclude with my usual greetings: I would like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone in the HJ publishing department and related companies for their cooperation in publishing this book, to my illustrator Poco-san, who drew my requests despite my sudden mention of pirates, and to all of the readers who have kept up for forty-three volumes.