Afterword

“By the way, do you know what’s going to happen next?” my editor asked me back when I was back in the initial stages of writing the series, and back then, I honestly hadn’t predicted how things would turn out at all.

For most of you, this is probably our first time meeting. I’m CHIROLU, and I’d like to sincerely thank you for picking up this work, the eighth volume of If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord.

Before I started writing and was in the process of laying out how things would go, the image of the epilogue to the story came to mind. I’m well aware that it’s thanks to all of you who have stuck with me thus far that a hack like me was able to make it all the way to somehow writing this epilogue I came up with while fumbling about. You truly have my deepest gratitude.

...I intended to start thanking everyone there, but in a truly wonderful bit of news, the titular daughter will continue to grow, as I can inform you all that this work is being adapted into an anime.

Back when I was having that conversation from before with my editor, I really never imagined the titular daughter would end up expanding into so many different mediums. It seems she wasn’t just cute, she was also a harder, more capable worker than even I, the author, had thought... I realize while writing that comment that I come across like a certain former guardian of hers, so I’m making a bit of an awkward expression at the moment.

Thank you so much to everyone who helped make this book a reality. And to Kei, who drew the lovely titular daughter in a beautiful wedding dress for the finale, never uttering a complaint. And more than anything else, to those of you who chose this book out of so many options, you have my deepest gratitude.

As long as this book brought you at least a little joy, then I’ll feel truly blessed.

Once again, thank you so much for everythi—

“How about putting out a short story collection alongside the anime?”

“Huh? I already declared it was ending, and even wrote a clear epilogue, didn’t I?”

“You can just write something fresh.”

“...This is what it’s like to be an adult, huh?!”

“That’s right.”

Or so my editor told me, so if anything ends up coming out, that’ll be down to my responsibilities as an adult.

February 2019,

CHIROLU