Afterword

Let’s party! As in, let’s get this afterword going. Remember to have fun, everyone. This afterword’s going to be three pages. Last time I used my fourth page to post a puzzle, but I promise, I can handle writing three pages. You can trust me. I just need to hold back a little.

Thanks to all you readers, we’ve made it to volume six. Which brings me to all the thanks I want to say here.

First of all, thank you to all readers of Lazy Dungeon Master, including those reading the web novel. I don’t think I would be able to keep writing without all of you reading what I write. I want to keep writing up to two-digit volumes, but to be honest, that all depends on how much we sell and what the fan response is like.

Next, I would like to thank Youta-san the illustrator. The barely there Succubus outfits are super cute.

And finally, thank you I-san the editor and Proofreader-san. I’m sorry for finishing right before the deadline due to all the original content I wrote for this volume. N-No hard feelings, right?

And yes, I once again wrote a lot of new material for this adaptation. Things went a lot different here than they did in the web novel. In fact, characters were removed from the story entirely, but I don’t think that’s too uncommon. There were no adult circumstances at work here. I just wanted to structure the story in a different way and they were victims. The general structure of what happened here happened in the web novel, but it was different enough that they just had to go. Will cut characters return in Volume 7 and beyond? I will think about that in Volume 7 and beyond. Though whether or not those volumes will come out is yet undecided. I sure hope they come out, though.

The number of illustrations per volume encourages me to only introduce three or four major characters a volume, though. Which reminds me... Redra and Wataru still haven’t appeared in any art. They popped up here and there in this volume, but I wonder if they’ll ever get a chance to shine in illustrations. Especially Wataru. Male characters always end up pushed to the backburner, really.

Now then, the names for mob characters were taken from volume five’s puzzle (Japanese version) and the questionnaires. Roa, Robbo, Zun, and Dokko. Thanks for all the help. Ares, by the way, came from our very own Totsu Shuuta-sensei during a Nico live stream. Here’s my special thanks to him. He’s an actual high schooler writing published novels, kinda makes me want to make a hamfisted comment about youth.

Huh? There’s still more space? Man, three pages sure lets me say a lot of things.

I’ve been kinda writing aimlessly here so it took a bit to reach this point, but as a warning, I’m about to talk spoilers for this volume and whatnot, so be careful if you haven’t read the volume yet.

Actually, it was around this volume—right after the end of the third Dungeon Battle in the web novel—that I started work on the first volume of the light novel adaptation. For that reason, I kind of just did some poorly thought out things in the web novel to buy time, and those things ended up a little unpopular. The changes in this volume were less me cutting characters and more me removing those developments while simultaneously introducing Beddhism faster.

Really, it was kind of like being half-hearted with the web novel and focusing my thoughts on what to do in the light novel adaptation. Which means that yes, I’m reserving my full power to write the light novel. Let’s roll with that, it sounds cool. Man, I’m smart.

Anyway, the characters cut from the web novel might show up in future volumes depending on what happens. They might not show up, too. But either way, this volume took us a big step away from the web novel. Names are different, inn employees are different, etc. This might get complicated... I intend to continue writing the web novel, but I might need to standardize the names at some point. In which case I will probably post an official explanation there, or otherwise have a mysterious event occur in-universe that changes names for some reason.

Also, from this point on I plan on primarily writing new material for the light novel adaptation. It’s going to be a different entity from the web novel. I’m reserving my full power to write the light novel. (Second time saying that in like ten lines).

I do have a disease that tells me to write a new series, but that’s a different story entirely. I think I’ll continue focusing on LDM as my main thing. And I imagine the number of readers will reflect that.

Okay, finally out of space. See you again next volume.

Supana Onikage