Chapter 21

Afterword …To be honest, reading the commentaries greatly surprised me. Hello, this is Yushi Ukai. I am nervously in charge of this section. Thank you very much for reading Volume 3 of Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table. This volume strays away from the structure of the first two, featuring only a single game across the entire book. Besides the mere number of games in the book, the flavor of the game has also changed somewhat. That was, first and foremost, in order to set the scene for a game with many elite players. Yet, beyond that, I also made intentional efforts to alter the flavor of this volume. Although this series occupies a stimulating genre, I fearlessly hold the belief that I must continue to draw up new thrills, out of concern that repeating the same kinds of thrills will quickly grow old. And what came as a result was Cloudy Beach, a game on an island featuring veteran players. I would like to express my gratitude to my editor, O, for approving this work that I wrote with doubts about its viability, as well as to Nekometaru for accommodating my unprecedented request for an illustration of a character wearing a short coat who is twenty-eight years old yet has the aura of an old woman. I also would like to sincerely thank Iori Kanzaki, Yuuki Shasendou, and Yozora Fuyuno for their commentaries. By the way, a manga adaptation of Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table has officially been announced. The series will be drawn by Banzai Kotobuki Daienkai and published in Comp Ace magazine. Thank you to everyone involved in that effort as well. Now then…I hope to see you again in Volume 4 of Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table.