It’s been a little while. I’m Haruka Momo. Good day to you.
The thirteenth volume of Marielle Clarac is a story with the theme of: My husband is suspected of infidelity?! Is our relationship in peril?! And not even in our third year—in our first year!
This is the Marielle Clarac series we’re talking about here—there won’t be any messy love-hate relationships going on. I, the author, am not fond of such stories, so I kept this volume to the usual craziness. This book has more action than what’s usually published in our company’s stories.
In spring of 2024, the exhilaration I experienced after watching a certain mystery anime movie made me go, “Next, I’m going to write an action story!” I wanted to write more hardcore battles, but this is a romance label aimed at women, and I had to take the story events into account, so the action scenes ended up pretty mild. In the initial draft of the plot, the castle was going to burn down. Isn’t it nice that it ended up only partially damaged in the final version? It’s an important historical site, after all.
The state of affairs in this story’s world is quite tense, but our narrator is like that, so things just aren’t becoming serious no matter what. As always, am I right? But the truth is, the footsteps of war are approaching. This series is based on the real world right before World War I. It won’t become the same as our world, since there aren’t any tanks or airplanes, but behind the scenes, in places that Marielle doesn’t know, many people are desperately trying to avoid war, and others are trying to fan the flames.
Among the many countries that have appeared, Shulk is the only one that doesn’t have a specific model. It’s a mixture of several different countries. Shulk appears in a story I wrote long before the Marielle series, which became the basis for the series’ world. It recently became officially novelized. Nigel’s ancestors play the main roles in it.
There aren’t any direct ties between that story and the main series, but it might be fun to identify little details and character names they share. Please check out that novel too if you’re able.
More than any other volume in the series, this one sprinkled in hints that the state of affairs is tense and that more blood will be shed in the future. However, at the end, it concluded with a different type of huge incident. I pray that you’ll be able to read the next volume as well, which is sure to be just as hectic.
We’ve reached the end, and I’d like to express thanks from the bottom of my heart to Maro-sensei. As always, they put their all into each wonderful illustration. And then, another big thanks to you all, the readers, who’ve kept up with this story all this time.