Afterword
THANK you, all of you who have picked up the second volume of Love & Magic Academy. This is the author, Toyozo Okamura. To those of you who bought volume one, hi, it’s been a while! I was finally able to put the second volume out ten months after the first one, and it was thanks to the support of all of you.
In this second volume, we have Arius continuing student life in the Academy while going into hard mode in his adventuring. I rewrote about eighty percent of the web version for the second volume, and it feels basically like a completely different book because even events unfold differently. I put absolutely everything I have as an author into writing this one!
While the title is Love & Magic Academy, Arius remains uninterested in love in the second volume, but he is deepening relationships with the people around him, so I think he is growing as a person.
Will Arius grow to become interested in romance? I’m the author and even I don’t know! (Lol)
I am truly grateful to everyone involved with publishing the second volume of Love & Magic Academy. Thank you to my editor for being there to answer all sorts of questions during the creation phase and for never complaining, even when I called you late at night drunk. Thank you so much for always caring enough to deal with everything.
Thank you very much to the illustrator Parum for taking my pathetic ideas and turning them into amazingly cool designs! Like, how cool Arius looks in his new outfit. And I was totally knocked out by how adorable Alisa’s design was… I think the people who read the web version picture her as all wicked and scheming, so I feel like people will say a design like that is practically like being conned! (Lol)
Next, we’ll have volume three, which will have things like Arius getting involved with the demons and the overwhelmingly powerful Demon King Alanis, who appeared at the end of this volume. We’ll have the hero, who Arius defeated easily, and the hero’s party at the center of the story, but then we might have appearances from the other SSS-rank adventurers who have been quiet up until now. I plan to have volume three be even more full-on battle mode than volume two was.
On the other hand, in Academy life, we’ll have the appearance of a new heroine who was in full-on romance mode in the web version! Despite joining the story later, in the web version, she quickly established herself as the closest thing to the story’s heroine. She’s kind of a big sister type that has Milia and Sophia in mind as she gives them a nudge forward. I really hope you all like her!
In his past life, Arius was twenty-five and absorbed in his research, then he came to this world and spent the first nearly sixteen years of his life absorbed in fighting. He doesn’t have any romantic intuition. Can an interest in romance awaken in someone like him? And if so, who would he pick? I think it’s more likely he’ll ignore romance just like the subtitle and keep forging onwards! (Lol)
Well, see you in the next volume!