Post-Bath – The Author’s Booth

Long time no see to everyone coming from volume three, and nice to meet you to everyone who picked this title up starting from volume four! My name is Nagaharu Hibihana. How did you like this volume? All sorts of new and odd characters showed up.

First off is the Hero of Darkness, the demon girl Yukina, who appears on this volume’s cover. She turned out to be Touya’s little sister. However, she’s not just any little sister. Touya is a “summoned” hero from another world, but Yukina is a “reincarnated” hero. Yes, and that gives us the “non-blood-related yet blood-related little sister.” Her soul still has strong ties to her family, but her body is brand new. How will Touya interact with her after their miraculous reunion in another world? This kind of development is something you can only find in these parallel world novels. I think.

He’s not a new character, but our heroes also reunited with one of the other five summoned heroes, Cosmos AKA Akio Nishizawa. He’s supposed to be a rival character of some sort, but he doesn’t have a normal enough personality to assume the role of your average rival.

And of course, another new character is the demon general who had gotten fired, Phoenix. I can’t reveal which Sengoku era commander he was, but I’ll at least say that he didn’t die in the same period of time as the demon lord Amann Naga did. Actually, his character design in his reincarnated form was based off of a character in a manga I had drawn back in elementary school. And now he got an awesome color page all to himself, which blasted me with nostalgia and made me think “you sure have come a long way...” to myself.

I’d like to thank Masakage Hagiya, who drew such a cool depiction of Phoenix and alluring illustrations of the girls in their swimsuits, my old editor K, my new editor S, K, and everyone who was involved in the publishing and selling of this book.

Now then, I hope to see you all again in volume five. Please pick it up when you have the chance.

Nagaharu Hibihana, March 2016.