Volume 3
Afterword
Finally, the third
volume is out!
That being said, thank
you very much for picking up this book, following the previous two volumes!
And at the same time,
allow me to apologize. Sorry for making you wait――――!
It has been more than
a year since we released the second volume. Well, it really made me realize how
lacking I am.
I received a lot of
negative feedback on the web version of the third volume, and the amount of
text in the third volume was clearly not suitable for a book version, so I
thought it was necessary to do more revision than ever before.
Therefore, I decided
to dismantle the entire web version and rewrite it. I carried out a rewrite.
Specifically, I tried to reduce the text from over 400,000 words to 200,000 words,
after adding new elements of course.
Originally, I had done
the same thing for the previous two volumes, but this time I put a lot more
effort into the third one.
Adjusting the story,
introducing new characters, adding new elements, changing the roles of the
characters, and making the necessary milestones and various modifications along
the way. Partly due to the sheer size of the original web version, as a result,
the process was even more difficult than the previous two volumes ......
In addition, rewriting
a story that has already been written once means that you have to accept your
own mistakes in your own writing, and this was very hard for me. I always
wondered whether I did the correct approach or not.
And I am basically the
type of person who, once I start working on one thing, I don't pay attention to
anything else.
The combination of
these factors put me in a slump!
I knew from experience
that when people succumb to illness, they succumb to it easily, but it was a
typical man's move to fall into the same mistake again.
Well, let's put my
failure story aside ...... Volume III is the chapter where the protagonist
tries to face his past again.
In the first volume,
he realizes his escapism, and in the second volume, he is given the courage and
the opportunity to try again.
Naturally, it is not
going to be an easy ride, and the emotions he has been holding back erupt and
explode in a big way. As a result, he sparks fires all over the place, and his
friends become agitated.
However, it is
precisely because of these conflicts that the things we have built up shine
through. It is with this feeling that I wrote this book.
Once again, how was
Volume III?
I hope it has enriched
your reading life, even if only for a moment.
I would also like to
express my sincere apologies for the inconvenience to everyone involved in this
book.
Thank you very much to
Sime-sama for drawing the illustrations again, which are as wonderful as ever!
I would also like to
thank Mr. N, the editor, who worked with me on this volume on behalf of Mr. S,
who was in charge of this volume, and who also caused me the most trouble this
time.
I would also like to
thank the proofreaders who looked over the manuscript, and the people at
Ichijinsha who worked so hard in various areas such as advertising and
publicity, for giving me the opportunity to present this immature work to the
world three times.
And to Mr. Antique who
drew the manga version. Thank you very much for your hard work on all three
volumes.
I would like to take
this opportunity to thank everyone involved in this book.
Next, I will work hard
on the fourth volume .......
