Afterword

Thank you for reading Altina the Sword Princess XII. This is the author, Yukiya Murasaki.

I finally managed to include my short story about Black Knight Jerome. I’d written it around half a year ago, but I couldn’t find a place for it back then due to page constraints. In exchange, the main story was mostly reunions and reorganizations. Not much happened, but the situation is moving along quite drastically.

As an aside, how long have Regis and Altina truly been apart? In-universe, not really that long...

The next volume is planned to be about the southern front. There’s due to be a great shift in imperial history, and I would feel very blessed if you could stick around until the end.

The manga adaptation of Altina the Sword Princess by Aomine Tsubasa-sensei and Kagimushi-sensei is still in publication.

As for what I’m working on at the moment, there’s Millennium War Aigis: The White Empire Arc, which I’m writing with Famitsu Bunko. It’s a novelization of a game, but I’ve tried writing it so that it can be enjoyed as its own war story. How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord is still running with Kodansha, and the manga version has been a lot of fun. There’s also The Fourteen-Year-Old and the Illustrator with MF Bunko, which is a therapeutic work comedy. If you see any of them in a bookstore, why not try flipping through?

My thanks—

To my illustrator, himesuz-sensei. Thank you for the gorgeous illustrations.

To Yamazaki-sama and Hishino-sama from Afterglow. Thank you once again.

To my editor, Wada-sama. I know I was a little hesitant with it, but thank you for your strong support on including the short story. I think it worked out nicely.

To everyone in the Famitsu Bunko editorial department, everyone involved, and to my family and friends who continue to support me.

And of course, my greatest thanks to you, dear reader, for reading this far! Thank you!

Yukiya Murasaki