Afterword

Thus concludes Volume 13, the Demon Realm arc...! Hm? It’s totally different from the web novel? Yeah, well, they went to the Demon Realm at a different time and went with different people, so it kind of had to end up different. That said, even I’m impressed by how different it ended up being. And I thought this time for sure there wouldn’t be too many changes... I guess you just can’t tell these things until you start writing.

And with that, I would like to thank the proofreader, Youta-sama, and I-san the editor for working so hard to accommodate this volume during their busy schedules. I would also like to thank everyone who so kindly read this book. The world is in a pretty bad state right now, and I hope it provided at least a little solace for you. Uh... though maybe that’s unlikely, since this was a pretty violent volume.

Anyway, I guess I’ll dump some lore about a character who was slightly more important in the web novel than the light novel. I’m talking about the one and only Abover Aes, a guy with a last name despite the fact that hunters in the Demon Realm can’t become nobles since only demons are nobles. His name quite literally comes from the phrase “I am above your eyes.” He’s the rival of Extraorc (from extraocular muscle), and he’s a pretty solid fighter. His magic spear Protrube comes from “protuberance.” I would guess that basically nobody noticed, but the joke is that you can’t see protuberances above your eyes, so the spear is invisible. Yeaaah. Nobody noticed that. Which is why I’m explaining it here, far past the point of it being relevant.

Anyway, putting aside that pointless junk... This volume had a ton of action scenes in it, which is what happens when you visit a country where you say hello by trying to stab someone’s back. It was actually a pretty hard volume for me to write, since I’m bad at describing action. To think I would end up writing this much new content and introducing so many new fight scenes, all because the Demon Realm demands that much fighting...

While Keima’s party was getting a ton of exercise out there, I spent this year’s Golden Week lazing around in bed, writing, and making cute AI girls sing using software. As for my weight... well, I didn’t get any heavier, but I can imagine that some of my muscles turned to fat. That’s what me getting out of breath walking to the supermarket would imply, anyway. I should learn from Keima and eat a bunch of udon while exercising, then get a bunch of comfy sleep.

Incidentally, I’m working at home at the time of me writing this afterword, but I’m not entirely sure I’ll be able to go back to working five days a week at the company like I used to. Oh well. I’ll work for the sake of continuing to write LDM, and focus on building up “laziness power,” which is also known as “avoiding reality energy.”

May we meet again in the next volume.

Supana Onikage