Afterword
AS the author, Suzume Kirisaki, I would like to thank you for reading the second volume of I Guess This Dragon Who Lost Her Egg to Disaster Is My Mom Now. As of writing this, I’m not entirely sure if the whole book will fit the page limit I have, so I’m going keep this afterword really short. Sorry about that!
The original concept for the second part of the web version involved having Lushera get involved with the problems of the dragon world. She was an adopted child whose entire world was complete just with their mother-daughter relationship, but she would learn that her mother wasn’t a god and there were things that could threaten even her. She would also see that if she expanded her horizons, she could build relationships outside the one she had with her mother, like a little kid going to preschool for the first time and meeting other children in the sandbox.
When the story was published as a book, I clarified the themes of the book from a few different perspectives. I hope you cheered on the mother and daughter as they both grew and worked hard.
I had a lot of help from many different people this time around as well. First is S, who rivals me, the author, in how much they love this story. Then there’s Cosmic, who, as always, makes scary good illustrations for the book (and sorry for the misunderstanding where I wrote in the first volume that you read Dragon Mom before you got the request to be the illustrator!). Then there is every single indispensable individual involved in the layout, distribution, and sales of the series. And, this isn’t about this volume specifically, but I’m really grateful to Wataru Hijōguchi for the manga version of Dragon Mom where we can see Lushera and everyone so full of life! I look forward to your work on that, which started its serialized publication at about the same time as this volume was published.
Lastly, I just want to thank you, the readers, one more time. Thank you!
The following is additional information from the author, Kirisaki, from the web version’s afterword plus some extra details.
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Shurei isn’t really meant to be Japanese, but my writer brain wanted to name him using the characters for “crimson” and “mountain peak” (朱嶺), so that’s how he came to be Shurei. After doing that, I realized that it’s only one character different from the name of a castle that dragons go to in a certain game.
I made blue dragons like their drink because old-snake Yamato no Orochi destroyed itself by drinking too much, and it was known for causing water-related destruction.
There are several freezing spells, so air conditioning, freezers, and similar technologies are fairly advanced. Besides, ice cream started becoming mass-produced in the real world sometime in the mid-19th century or something.
There isn’t a solid definition for the term “dragon king.” It’s largely just an honorific term for the leaders of flights that are particularly large or influential. Also, while dragons can mate in groups of one male to many females, they don’t have prides like lions where there is only one adult male. Meaning, not everyone in a single flight would be either a child or wife of the flight’s leader.
Names of nobles like Foster, for example, are just family names (even titles?). They’re not the name of the region itself. That’s just my preference, so that’s what I went with.