Afterword

Hello! Light novelist Sakaki here, happily presenting Volume 3 of Outbreak Company.

I seem to have run out of pages for this afterword, so I’ll be brief (grin).

Brooke is the main character of this volume, believe it or not. I was really keen to do a lizardman story. The seed of the plot emerged in a planning meeting with a particular company, during which Furuhashi Toshiyuki-shi* wondered aloud what would happen if modern-style soccer were to be brought into a fantasy world.

Of course, Brooke would be lonely all by himself, so I’ve put Elvia to work throughout the volume, starting on the cover. Mostly just to show some skin, haha.

I hope all my readers will enjoy this book from cover to cover!

Ichiro Sakaki

23 March 2012

*Note: -shi (from the kanji meaning “master”) is an honorific often attached to the names of artists and craftspeople.