Afterword

Hi, everyone, it’s FUNA. Thanks for picking up the next volume in the series!

...No one just skipped the first volume before buying this one, right?

We covered everything from the war against Aligot, the most action-intense part of season one of “I Shall Survive Using Potions!” to the start of Kaoru’s new journey. What’s going to end up happening to Kaoru and company?

The first volume of this series managed to stay in the top twenty for Oricon’s book rankings after it came out, and it even received a second printing run.

This is all because of you guys! Thank you so much! It’s all thanks to you we got the second volume of this series out. Here’s hoping we can keep this up for volume three and onward...

Actually, two days before writing this, I tripped and smacked my head against the corner of a bookshelf. The area around my left eye got all swollen, and it looked just like those huge black eyes characters get in manga and stuff. Man, did I laugh and laugh... You know, after I was busy being scared half to death.

Eyes and hands are the most important parts for book lovers like me...

I’m writing using only one eye right now. Sometimes I’m a one-eyed author, and other times I’m someone else entirely...

Volume one of the manga by Kokonoe Hibiki-san should be coming out around the same time as this book! Get yourself to a place that sells them! Go, go, go!

There’s so many people I want to thank, so I’ll do it all at once.

Thank you to my editors, Sukima-sama, my illustrator, the people in charge of proofreading and revising my stuff, and even everyone involved with printing, publishing, and distributing the book, the bookstores that decided to carry it, the people on the novel site I posted the original story on who would give me comments, advice, and point out errors—and, most of all, thank YOU from the bottom of my heart for picking up this book! Thank you all so much!

I’m looking forward to your support for the manga as well, and I hope to see you all in the next volume!

...There is going to be a next volume, right?

Our real fight starts now!!!