Author’s Note
LONG TIME NO SEE, EVERYONE. THIS IS YUKIHA Kuroyuki.
I’m so happy that we’re here in this second volume, and it’s all thanks to your support. This book has shown us a little bit of the enemy of our story and has mostly focused on how things haven’t been going great for Luke—what did you think?
With so many really intense characters, my personal favorite, by contrast, is actually Zack. I’d appreciate it if my readers enjoyed him as much as I do. I like the sort of characters that overwhelm and annihilate their enemies with strength, of course, but I also like the sort that fight in the mud, making up for their lack of talent with guts and cunning. He’s an A-rank adventurer, so it’s not like he’s talentless or anything.
I’m not sure if we’ll be getting another volume yet, but the story will be really advancing in the next book. All kinds of forces will be making moves, and Luke-kun’s stomach is going to start hurting through all of it. I hope you’re looking forward to it. This work was turned into a novel quite soon after the online version started releasing, so there is the issue that we’re going to catch up with it quite soon…but I’ll try my best.
Right then, I’d like to make some acknowledgments. First, thank you to Uodenim-sensei for all the beautiful illustrations in this volume. I felt this way in the first volume too, but having wonderful pictures between pages of text really makes me enjoy the process of reading a lot more. It’s all thanks to Uodenim-sensei—really, thank you so much for your hard work.
To Kida-sama, the editor of this volume—I would like to apologize, as I did in the last book, for all the trouble I caused. Every time I received a message saying, “We fixed that on our end!” it made my heart ache a little. I also appreciate all your hard work, especially given the tight deadline for this volume. Thank you very much.
Lastly, thank you to all of my readers for making it this far. I wasn’t feeling well while working on this book, but thinking about all of you readers really encouraged me to keep going. I made it through somehow. I’ll focus on making this story really interesting as we keep going into the next volume, so I hope you’ll stick with me.
Goodbye, then.