Afterword

It’s Kanata Satsuki again! Thank you for reading I Refuse to Be Your Enemy! Volume 2. The successful publication of the sequel is all thanks to the support of my lovely readers.

In this volume, the main character Kiara heads out to the battlefront and fights all over Farzia.

Mentally, Kiara is still a modern Japanese girl. Murder is upsetting and unsettling to her, but she can’t come up with an alternative, so she fights on to protect the people she loves. The people she wants to keep safe have their own circumstances and feelings on the matter, and that’s where romantic feelings and all sorts of other emotions come into the mix.

As she fights and works to win people over to her side, Kiara will slowly but surely come to terms with her feelings. Or at least that’s the plan.

In this volume, I made a lot of edits and additions to what was originally published online. The changes are pretty significant compared to the first volume. I’d wanted to add more narration and dialogue exploring Kiara’s relationships with Reggie and Cain, so I’m really pleased that I got to touch things up for the print version. Here’s hoping my readers are happy with the changes, too!

Moving on, I’d like to thank my editor, who went to all sorts of trouble for me again.

Oh, and I got to put a golem on the volume cover! Hooray! A big thanks to my illustrator, Mitsuya Fuji. I asked for Kiara’s golem and clay figurine to be on the cover, but then I got a little worried that it wasn’t such a great idea and that maybe someone should’ve stopped me. Luckily, it didn’t detract from Reggie and Cain’s studly looks at all, and it turned out to be an absolutely lovely illustration. I’m eternally grateful! The adorable clay figurine in the insert illustration brings a smile to my face every time I look at it. Kiara’s new dress looks lovely, too!

I’d also like to thank the editing department at Shufu to Seikatsu Sha—the proofreaders, the printers, and everyone else who helped get this book published. And finally, I’d like to extend my gratitude to all my dear readers.

For your further reading pleasure, I will be posting short stories related to this work on both my blog and Shousetsuka ni Narou’s I Refuse to Be Your Enemy! page. I hope you enjoy those as well!

—Kanata Satsuki, January 2016