Sorry for the wait, but here’s volume 6.
I really am sorry to the people who were waiting. (You exist, right? I hope you exist!)
I made it to volume 5, but I wasn’t expecting things to last this long. I owe it to the readers for getting me this far. Thank you so much, truly.
But once you get to volume 6, what do you write in the afterword? I’m starting to run out of things to write about.
Let’s talk about my hobbies, I guess.
I’m not the kind of person to have specific set hobbies, but when I get free time, I do like playing video games.
Video games can be a huge time sink. Of course, it depends on the type of game, but recently, RPGs have been getting longer.
It’s not bad if you just want to finish the story, but to unlock all of the content requires a huge time commitment. In the old days, I never got tired of killing the same enemies over and over and scrutinizing their drop items, but lately, I realized, I just can’t enjoy that the way I used to. I guess it might be different if I lost my job and had nothing but free time, but that would be a sad situation in its own way.
Oh by the way, the time I realized that, I was playing Xenoblade Chronicles X. I finished the main story, but I couldn’t make any progress through the side stories at all. It just felt like it would take so much time...
The next thing I want to play is Fire Emblem Fates, but to clear all three storylines seems like it would be such a time commitment, too...
That reminds me, a certain development near the end of volume 4 came from some research I did. It’s a spoiler, so I won’t go into detail, but I heard what it was like from someone who had experienced it, and I tried writing it that way.
Incidentally he ended up that way because he took a menghu yi pashan at full strength. It might be a little unbelievable, but it’s romantic, at least.
Incidentally, I’m writing in more different places now, but sometimes I feel a little hesitant to spend a lot of time in a cafe or a restaurant. I get worried that I’m monopolizing a table, and things like that. I could go to an internet cafe and pay some money to reserve a room and do whatever I want there, but there are too many distractions there. So I did a little searching around and found there’s something called a “coworking space.”
It’s just a thousand yen to rent, whether you’re there for just an hour or a whole day. You can plug in and use wireless internet, which seems very convenient. But it also seems like the kind of place for people who are very concerned about collaboration and communication and synergy, so I decided not to use it. I just want to do my work in silence...
Now for the acknowledgments.
I’m very sorry to my editor for making a lot of trouble once again. (It’s convenient that I can use acknowledgments both for thanks and apologies.)
And to An2A, who did the illustrations, thanks for doing great illustrations once again. Tomomi’s cheongsam is the best, and I’m glad Nihao the China gets to appear on the cover!
Well, see you next volume!
Tsuyoshi Fujitaka