Dear Readers, sorry for the long wait. My name is Nyun.
I hope you’re all in good health despite the summer heat. For some reason, I catch a cold every summer, so this year I’m taking good care of my health and trying not to repeat the mistakes that I ordinarily make each year.
Me, a Genius? I Was Reborn into Another World and I Think They’ve Got the Wrong Idea! is already on its third volume. I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported my unsophisticated writing, and incredibly grateful to all of my readers.
In this third volume, we finally see some action from the terrorist group New World, the mysterious attackers from volume 1 who cause endless problems for Noa and the protagonist Kouki.
What sort of fight will there be between Noa and an armed force with equivalent organizational strength, scientific knowledge, and personnel? And of course, what kinds of misunderstandings will occur?
This volume also continued the theme from volume 2. Namely, I’ve slipped in a historical mystery that I’m personally interested in.
I’m sure many of you will have realized this already, but the moon relic that started things off in volume 2 was based on rumors of a mysterious monolith that was said to be covered up by NASA. I don’t know if there’s any truth behind the rumor, but there’s a certain sort of romance to the idea.
The historical mystery that I slipped into this volume is the “Antarctic mystery.” There have long been rumors of a secret Nazi base or UFO base on the Antarctic continent. In fact, Operation Highjump mentioned in this volume is a genuine historical event.
I encourage you to look up the details of this operation if you’re interested; I expect you’ll find it quite mysterious, but that’s all I have to say on that topic for now.
In my world, I’d like to use the Antarctic mystery as the inspiration for a secret New World base that takes the form of an impregnable natural fortress.
In this third volume, Dr. Sandra was mostly mentioned in name and only appeared in a flashback scene, but I’d like her to be a relatable character. My initial idea was, “I’ll make a mad scientist version of Miki!” but I built on this to make her somewhat pitiable. She’s a genius scientist who was misunderstood and was denied her chance to find glory. Perhaps she merely created New World so that she’d achieve some level of recognition, or perhaps...
Please look forward to learning more about her in the future.
Furthermore, let’s talk about our hero, Kouki. Actually, no... His mother Miki is always demonstrating an equal level of genius. For her son’s sake, she managed to get the new powered suit, the Type 0, to an operational state despite it being incomplete, and now its performance surpasses existing powered suits.
Since there was no convenient place to mention it, the formal name of the “orbital observation data collection prototype jet X-55” didn’t appear anywhere in the text of this volume.
Other mega weapons have also made their appearance, including the “remodeled Alice-type amphibious battleship, Miki,” and you may well wonder for what purpose it was remodeled.
Finally, there’s our protagonist, Kouki.
Following on from the war in another world from volume 2, he was thrown into the battlefield where he had his fateful meeting with the “Chernobog Combat Unit,” the worlds’ strongest special forces unit. This has put him face-to-face with characters like Captain Yulia who are more intimidating than any characters we’ve encountered so far. How will he develop from this point onward? I hope you will continue to watch our main character develop.
Moving on from the highlights of some points of this third volume, I’d like to give my usual current status report.
There was actually another incident going on behind the scenes as this novel was about to be published. The incident in question is what’s known as an “HDD crash.” That’s right. I had to go through that nightmare scenario.
There were several reasons for this happening, but S-sama who is working on this project always has to deal with a lot of trouble, and this incident caused yet more trouble. This led to me ceasing to make updates to the web version of the novel on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website, and it’s been a vicious cycle.
This has taught me the importance of backups. And now, although I didn’t bring it up until now, I’d like to talk about the online story. It really is great to talk about it! I don’t know why I’ve avoided the topic until now.
In the end, this finished volume has become somewhat different from the story I originally started writing, but having read this revised version, I think it might have actually turned into something better...
Partway in, I tried changing the way our new character, Ageha, talks, but then it just didn’t seem right, and the whole process became quite difficult.
Thank you to Narō users and readers of this volume who still didn’t give up waiting for web novel updates even though they came to a stop. It’s thanks to you that I’ve been able to keep going. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving me this opportunity. I truly appreciate your support.
In the next volume we will finally see the battle with New World... I expect that Kouki will protect Alice through his courage and the power of misunderstandings as a large-scale mobilization occurs. Perhaps it’s strange for the turning point in the story to be reached at volume 4 rather than at volume 3, but I think that in a certain sort of way, that’s the Nyun style.
I truly hope to see you all again in volume 4, but for now, I must lay my pen to rest. I hope you can continue to enjoy Me, a Genius? I Was Reborn into Another World and I Think They’ve Got the Wrong Idea! in the future!
I write this on a day in July 2016 as I read your comments on the web version of Me, a Genius? I Was Reborn into Another World and I Think They’ve Got the Wrong Idea!
Nyun
(Editor’s note: This volume was published in July 2016 and as of August 2018, when this English edition is released, no volume 4 has been scheduled for Japan. The author stopped posting updates on the webnovel version in 2017; however, he has recently posted some blog updates saying he is writing again. We'll let you know if/when that volume 4 appears!)