The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick up Trash - Volume 3 - Chapter Aft

Afterword

LONG TIME NO SEE, everyone. Honobonoru500 here. Thank you for picking up a copy of The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash, Volume 3. And thank you to my illustrator, Nama, for once again drawing me such beautiful pictures. In July of 2020, Volume 1 of the manga version of this series is going to come out. This would not have been possible without the support of so many. Seriously, thank you all.

In Volume 3, I wanted to write about Ivy’s new friends and a slightly more mature version of Ivy. I knew I just had to write a scene where she revealed the secret of her skill to somebody as part of her personal growth. But for that to happen, she needed to have someone in her life she could trust. I wasn’t sure whether I should make this person an adventurer travel companion or a slave. After a lot of agonizing over this, Druid was born.

Now, there are two things I want to apologize to Druid about. The first is giving him one arm because I thought it would be fun. But then again, him missing an arm gave me the opportunity to bring him and Ivy closer together. The second thing I want to apologize for is his family. I didn’t mean to give him such a traumatic past. Really! Writing Dolgas’s tantrums was just so much fun that before I knew it, Druid had a strained relationship with his whole family. Even I was shocked by it! Most of all, I love the dynamic between Ivy and Dolgas. I also loved writing scenes where Ivy got mad on behalf of someone she cared about.

Also, Ivy acquired more companions. Flame was born! I had the idea that Sora would give birth to Flame ever since I started having Sora eat red potions. To be honest, I kept going back and forth in my mind about when I’d have Sora birth Flame. So I’m really happy Flame has finally joined the party in this book. I hope you have a good time traveling with Ivy now that her party is bigger and more lively.

As always, big thanks to TO Books for all their help. My wonderful editor K-sama gave me all sorts of wonderful suggestions, which I really appreciate. And a big heartfelt thank-you to all my wonderful readers for making the publication of Volume 3 possible. I hope you’ll stick around for the rest of the series. I’ll do my best to make sure you do.

Lastly, I want to thank you with all my heart for reading this book. Thanks to so many people buying this book, we’ll be able to meet again in Volume 4! I hope you’ll check it and Volume 1 of the manga out soon. Thank you for your continuing support of my little light novel series (and now manga) about a wholesome girl who got isekai-ed.

Honobonoru500

October 2020