Chapter 113

Afterword Good morning, evening, and afternoon, woof! It’s been a while! Five months, to be exact! A five-month gap in a light novel series? Someone works slow. What’s going on? There was a five-month gap before the fifth volume, too. Seriously, what’s the deal? The cause is entirely how slowly I write. I’m sorry, I’m sorry! (Grovels in thirty-two directions.) But thanks to all your support, another volume managed to get published. Thank you, thank you! (Grovels in thirty-two directions.) Right now (at the end of July) the rainy season has finally ended, and as someone weak to weather changes, I’m steadily regaining my pep. By the time you all read this book, you might be facing down the harsh lingering heat at the end of the season. The low air pressure in the rainy season is tough, but you have to be careful about how hot the summer can get, too. Make sure to stay hydrated and spend time in cool places to avoid heat stroke. Also, with my side job as a cook, I’ll probably be making meals in the hellfire of kitchens with the heat on max. (I request we get air conditioners in there.) Weak to the heat, weak to the cold, catching colds all the time, straining my back again, and getting migraines constantly. That isn’t the kind of author I wanted to become. As a writer, I’m more of a wreck by the day, but for whatever reason, whenever I have a checkup, the results come back excellent, so all I can do is wonder. Maybe it’s that my mind is too weak, not my body. I guess it’s to be expected of the birth parent of Routa, whom everyone recognizes as having no backbone. I’d like to do like Routa and not work, get spoiled by a nice young lady, and live my days in idleness, eating and sleeping. Just none of the Fenrir body–related trouble, please. I have one announcement. The second volume of Woof Woof Story’s comic adaptation has been released! And thanks to how well it’s doing, they even decided it will have a reprint! Yay! Thank you, thank you, thank you! (Grovels in thirty-two directions—I’m actually doing this, and on the third time, I got dizzy. Am I an idiot?) The second volume is an adaptation of the first light novel. I think the story of the first novel is nicely split up in a way that makes it a lot more palatable for manga volumes. You’ll be able to enjoy a different side of Routa from the one in the novels, so please give it a try! Anyway, I’d like to wrap this up with the usual thank-yous. My editor, K, who keeps getting betrayed by his author saying, “Next time, I promise to write the book on schedule.” I’m really, really sorry! (Had to get the apology out of the way at the beginning of the thank-yous.) To Kochimo, who draws the cool and cute illustrations every time. Thank you so much for depicting Routa as he rapidly becomes a gigantic unknown life-form, along with the charming heroines! To Koikuchi Kiki, who works on the comic adaptation. We’re turns-in-drafts-late buddies! Yahoo! …Let’s both do our best, next time, not to trouble our respective editors. To everyone at the editorial department. The designers. The proofreaders. The salesmen. The bookstore workers. To everyone else I couldn’t list here, and you, for purchasing this book—thank you! I’m looking forward to the day we can meet again! Good-bye! July 2019 Inumajin