Acknowledgments

I’d open with a classic “nice to meet you,” but perhaps we’ve already met before. I go by the name Tamamaru when I moonlight as a writer.

Kakuyomu is a web novel site where users upload their own works. I submitted an entry to the fourth Kakuyomu Web Novel Contest and won the grand prize in the isekai fantasy category. Thanks to the contest, my work was novelized and delivered into your hands.

Among the people who have picked up this book and are reading these acknowledgments, there are those who have been following the series on the web while it was being uploaded to Kakuyomu and Shosetsuka ni Naro. I am deeply grateful for your support.

I must also thank everyone in Kakuyomu’s editing department for hosting the annual Web Novel Contest. Thank you, S-san and A-san from Kadokawa Books’s editing department for sticking with me despite my utter cluelessness with regards to how novelization works. Thank you, Kinta-san for undertaking the illustrations and for the rapid turnaround.

This novel would not have been completed without the encouragement from my friends who were there for me the many times I thought about quitting. Thanks as well to my mother and my little sister, plus our two cats—Chama and Konbu—who never fail to soothe my soul.

Above all, my sincere and heartfelt gratitude to my dear readers.

And to those of you who are standing around and reading these words in a bookstore, I would be evermore grateful if you would take this book with you to the register.

I hope we’ll meet again at the end of volume two!