Afterword

I dream of a world where I am surrounded by cute little Silkies, but in reality I am here, writing this. It’s me, Supana.

This is Volume 7, huh? I just finished breaking my back writing all this, and now it’s time to write more. But that’s fine. Getting to write an afterword means the books are still coming out, and that’s thanks to all of you readers. I may be breaking my back, but it’s a labor of love. All I can say is, thank you very much for reading Lazy Dungeon Master.

Anyway, this is the lucky Volume 7. My goal is to get up to Volume 695, but... Yeah. Probably not happening. For now I’ll stick to aiming for double digits.

Okay, time for business secrets. I’ll start with the ones that aren’t spoilers.

I turned about one chapter’s worth of content from the web novel version into this volume, with a usual volume containing three chapters’ worth of content. When I was writing the fifth volume I realized that if my upload pace dropped, the light novels would catch up to the web novel in no time. To compensate for this I started writing arcs in the web novel with the understanding that I would be adding to them significantly for the light novel. Thus, this volume is ninety-percent original. That’s why the page count is lower this time. Sorry, doing two jobs at once is pretty rough.

...I mean, it might be better if I just wrote each volume from scratch, but I value the fans of the web novel. I don’t want to completely cut them off. So, I’ll keep updating the web novel until the series is done, even if the arcs are cut down in comparison to this light novel adaptation.

And unfortunately, I once again missed the opportunity to get Ichika on the cover. I thought Volume 7 would be the one for sure, but she just didn’t show up too much this time. If you want to know who the cutie on the cover is, well, I encourage you to read the book and find out. Let’s just say that they’re very much a “dungeon trap,” if you catch my drift.

Okay, there will be some spoilers from here on out.

This volume was mostly about Tsia, and a lot of things happened here that didn’t in the web novel. That’s to be expected, since this is ninety percent original, but said things sure entered a wild lawless territory where gender and age got all mixed up. To be honest, in retrospect I can’t deny the feeling that I went too far, but let’s blame this on the God of Chaos. “Do as you like, whatever the cost,” she whispers so seductively into my ear. And I mean, Chapter 3 was basically entirely new characters more or less. I really might have gone too far here. Oh well, I’m writing the afterword now. What’s done is done.

Oh whoops, I’m almost out of pages. Guess I should bring this to a close. Thanks for picking up another volume of Lazy Dungeon Master, and may we meet again in the next volume.

...Well, there’s four lines left, but hey. No harm in being lazy sometimes.

Supana Onikage