The Daughter of Evil - Volume 1 - Chapter Aft

(VG) AFTERWORD
Clôture of Yellow VG edition Afterword

For this publication, I ended up looking back over my original first work again, and was struck by how greatly different the writing style is.

I suppose it only makes sense, considering it was originally written five years before this afterword I’m writing now.

As it was the first novel I’d written it, put charitably, had more vigor and energy than now; put uncharitably, it was something I wrote according to my emotions, without thinking about it much. It has a writing style that feels like a stranger’s work, and I do think that the person I was back then is different from who I am now. Not just in regard to my books and music, but on the whole.

As time passes my circumstances change, as do the people I keep company with. And of course, my way of thinking has changed a little too. In that sense, you could say that my old work is a good tool for being able to remember my mental state at the time.

Because of that I was able to feel a great deal of nostalgia while reading it, but of course there were also some minor parts that had elements I disliked. Naturally. As the person who wrote this was the “Past AkunoP”, quite unlike the me of now.

Holding onto that gloomy feeling I felt a bit awkward about publishing it as is, and I wanted to make it so that people who had already finished reading the original edition of “Cloture of Yellow” could enjoy it again, so I did some revision and additions to it. Of course, the plot hasn’t changed much, but in particular the parts relating to the Three Heroes are vastly different from the original.

Revising to this extent is something I’ll limit to this current piece. I don’t think I should do too many corrections with my old works, on the whole. Even if there are some parts that are poorly made, changing them would be no less than faking the past.

But there is a part of me that wanted to break my principles and revise just this work alone. “Cloture of Yellow” is my most profoundly memorable work, while at the same time it’s the novel that has the most technical mistakes. Really, I just wanted to change the conclusion, but of course to do that would cause too many distortions through the entire work itself, so I did my alterations just within the bounds of not damaging the writing style I used at the time.

Perhaps those of you who are touching on the “Daughter of Evil” series for the first time with this edition will be able to make some interesting discoveries if you go and read the original edition of the novel

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AkunoP (mothy)