AFTERWORD

To all those who have been reading one volume at a time, it’s good to see you again.

To those who have read through all nineteen volumes in a row, it’s good to meet you.

I’m Kazuma Kamachi.

This is Volume 17. I decided to set out all kinds of British affairs, which I’ve touched on here and there in the past. The Royal Family, the Knights, the Puritans, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Island…Everything from structured organizations to UK-based sorcerer’s societies, and even unsettling happenings between nations—I packed it all in.

The story being about Britain, knights and princesses appear.

St. George was a saint who actually existed. However, I tweaked things to make the Knights more likable and to make it seem more like a picture book, which is the story given in the main text and on the frontispiece, which Mr. Haimura helped me with.

It’s an altered version, so the historical St. George never owned a sword called Ascalon—and one of the characters in this book mentions this briefly. I asked for the knights’ and princesses’ clothing to be more picture-book-esque as well. Please treat all of it as their story in an in-universe picture book.

Thank you to my illustrator, Mr. Haimura, and my editor, Mr. Miki. I really appreciate the help you provided with the special experiment we used as a frontispiece.

And thank you to all my readers. It’s thanks to your support, to your turning so many pages, that I think I can write to the twentieth book.

Now then, as you turn this page here,

And as I hope that you’ll open my twentieth book if possible,

Here now, I lay down my pen.

Next up is a battle between knight and mercenary!!

Kazuma Kamachi