HOT NOVEL UPDATES

Strike the Blood - Volume 16 - Chapter Aft




Hint: To Play after pausing the player, use this button

Afterword 

So there was some demolition work. 

Not at my place but the building next door to my workplace. 

Trucks and construction machines were going in and out, swapping places with one another from early morning to late evening. The resounding roars. The fragments of concrete scattering away. The floor at my workplace shook enough that it could be mistaken for a 4D theater, and if I blithely opened a curtain, I would go through the hell of being eyeball to eyeball with unfamiliar construction dudes. To deal with the boisterous noise, I wore headphones and played music quite a lot, though on occasion I gave up partway and retreated home or to a family restaurant, but at any rate, there is no mistaking that this work was written in the cruelest environment of the entire series. This precious experience made me appreciate the untold happiness of being able to write in a room that isn’t shaking and without noise in my ears. It was really rough. 

Anyway, the demolition work finally finished, so just as I expected I would be able to write the next volume on a real tear, the end of the building demolition naturally meant that construction of a new building would now begin. These cruel days shall continue awhile longer, but I still think I will deliver the next volume a little faster. I humbly ask for your best regards. 

So there you have it, Strike the Blood , Vol. 16 with the much-awaited Part Two. 


More precisely, rather than a Part Two, this volume feels a little, or a lot, like it was written as a prologue. There were things I was trying that wouldn’t have worked if the timing had been any different, so if you had fun with it, great. I’ve talked Part Two up to such a grand extent, I wondered if some might consider this volume’s contents to be some kind of bait and switch. 

From the next volume onward will be the new series in earnest. I’m not sure which will come out first, but I am preparing a short-story compilation volume in parallel, so I’d really be happy if you picked that up, too. 

I believe you are already aware of this, but the second season of the Strike the Blood OVA is scheduled to go on sale right around the time this volume is to be published. It starts with “The Black Sword Shaman” as recorded in the ninth novel volume. This is an episode I personally like very much, so I’m really pleased. It’ll be lots of fun. They had me write a little short story to go with the first printing. 

Also, the ninth collected volume of the comic version of Strike the Blood serialized in Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh has gone on sale. I humbly ask that you give it your best regards, too. 

I guess this is the last part. 

To Manyako, who’s handling the illustrations for this novel; TATE, who’s handling the comic version; everyone related to the anime version; and everyone involved in the production and distribution of this book, I salute you from the bottom of my heart. 

And of course, I unreservedly thank all of you who have read this book. 

I very much hope to see you again in the next volume. 

Gakuto Mikumo 



Share This :


COMMENTS

No Comments Yet

Post a new comment

Register or Login