Seirei Gensouki ~Konna Sekai de Deaeta Kimi ni~ (LN) - Volume 3 - Chapter Aft

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Afterword

Hello, everyone — This is Yuuri Kitayama. Thank you very much for picking up Requiem for a Goodbye.

It’s been half a year since Seirei Gensouki Volume 1 first came out, and it feels like Volume 3 was released in the blink of an eye. In that time, Volume 1 received two additional printings. I can’t even express how grateful I am to all the readers, Hobby Japan, and everyone else involved in the process.

And so, to begin with, I’d like to acknowledge everyone I am much indebted to!

The readers who always support my work; Editor N and the other editors at HJ Bunko; Riv, who drew so many beautiful, high-quality illustrations this volume too; the publishing sales department at Hobby Japan; the thorough and detailed proofreaders; each bookstore with my work on their shelves, and so on. Thank you very much! This book wouldn’t have existed without the help of each and every one of you.

As I am still an inexperienced author only freshly debuted, there is still much knowledge that I am lacking, and I may make mistakes here and there, but I’ll continue to work diligently, so I hope that you can stick with me for a long time to come.

Now, to change the topic suddenly due to lack of page space, Volumes 1 to 3 of this Seirei Gensouki series are actually a prologue, so to speak, and with the end of this volume, the main character Rio (Haruto) finally reaches the starting line of the story.

Normally, stories start from the first volume, with the main character having built a number of relationships and an established past. However, even before I made the plot of Seirei Gensouki, the first time I thought of writing a novel, I thought that having such backstories depicted in the story would make the later plot more interesting.

However, the darker sides of those stories are unavoidable, and sometimes make it difficult to act out a clear sense of exhilaration. At the same time, that is what will make future volumes more interesting, slowly and steadily — or, sometimes, all at once.

Finally, Seirei Gensouki has built up a reputation of increasing the number of pages as the volume number goes up, but I will try to make the next volume slightly more compact.