♣Afterword
HELLO, everyone. Kiri Komori here. Thank you very much for picking up volume 5 of Reincarnated as the Last of my Kind!
I would like to take this chance to thank everyone who read and supported this series. To the editors who reached out to me; to Yamigo for their beautiful illustrations; to Roman Lempert, who handled the translation; to everyone involved with the production of the eBook version; and to the family who always supported me—thank you all so much!
I added “Me at Age Sixteen – Part 1” and a bonus side chapter to this volume—neither existed in the original web novel.
We’ve finally reached the point where the final big battle was resolved and all the old grudges were settled. Thank you for sticking with me up to this point!
This volume initially included the web novel’s final chapter, but I decided to completely rewrite it and continue the series in a sixth volume! So please come back to see what is in store for Tina and the gang next!
Actually, writing the scene of the calamity consuming Edesa Kura was difficult for me, and I had to take a break from writing for a time. My house is in the Tōhoku region of Japan, in the area that was affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11th, 2011. Thankfully, I was living in Tokyo at the time, and my family got through the disaster safely.
But I had to ask myself: How many lives were lost to this natural disaster? How many hearts were scarred by it? Would this scene stir memories of that in people? Of all the series I’ve written so far, Reincarnated as the Last of my Kind is the one that deals the most with loss and the passing of others, with many characters passing away. It’s a story where the characters live through ephemeral times, carrying the sorrow and grief of that loss with them.
If there’s one thing I want people to take away from this series, it’s to cherish your life and those you hold dear. As fraught with sadness and pain as our lives may be, we should always try our hardest to live on and find joy in the small things…
Whoa, that ended up becoming heavy! I’ll just sum it up by saying that I hope that this work will help enrich your life.
Volumes 1-3 have paperback, hardcover, and audiobook versions on sale now! Volume 4 will be getting a release in all three versions soon too. I hope you check out the audiobooks as well! Narrators Cassandra Lee Morris and Graham Halstead narrate every volume alongside several guest narrators for chapters with different POVs!
Now then, thank you once again for staying with this series for so long. I hope to meet you again in Volume 6!
Kiri Komori