Afterword
THANK YOU FOR READING HEROINE? SAINT? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)! I’m Atekichi, back for another volume after a surprisingly (yet relievingly) short time since the last one. I couldn’t have done it on my own, though. It just so happens that I had an entire publishing company help out with a few things here and there, giving me a push when I needed it. In all seriousness, we wouldn’t even have made it to Volume 3 without them. My deepest thanks to everyone who didn’t give up on me, including my readers.
Now, let’s talk content. This volume’s topic: the short story at the very end. Incidentally, the release of this volume here in Japan coincides with Volume 4 of the manga, which includes an adaptation of the very same Debonair Day of Roguish Romance. So we’ve included it here to match.
Our villainess, Anna-Marie, gets the spotlight this time around, and we finally see the date she and Melody went on between the events of the first and second volumes. We wanted to fit it into Volume 2, truth be told, but it ended up running a lot longer than I initially planned, so unfortunately, we had to scrap that idea. It was originally supposed to be a much shorter, simpler story, and then things got away from me, and then it just became so unwieldy that it simply wouldn’t fit. Oops.
The idea stayed shelved until around the time the manga finished covering Volume 1’s story, when I approached the people in charge with the idea to include the short story in the adaptation. I’d given up on it ever fitting into the novel, but it was still canon, so I wrote around it with little explanations interspersed. But that isn’t exactly easy in a comic medium.
Long story short, they accepted! So the story novel readers never got to see would be adapted into manga form! As an added bonus, the fourth volume of both publications would be releasing at the same time, and to coincide with the manga version of the story, we barely managed to squeeze it into the novel you’re reading now. On a personal note, I’m really quite fond of it, so I’m super excited that we finally managed to get it published. The only thing that’d make me happier is if you enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing it.
Once again, thank you so much for sticking around to the end. May we meet again in the fifth volume.
Yikes, too dramatic. Let’s end it with a little more levity. Catch ya later!