Afterword

Afterword

Hullo, light novelist Sakaki here, bringing you Volume 11 of Outbreak Company: The Power of Moe.

........................Oh, uh, believe me, my dear readers, I know. I know what you’re thinking.

Didn’t he say the next volume would be a short story collection in the last volume? And yet here we are, with a perfectly normal long-form story. That’s, well, uh, yes, I did go back on my word (?). Yes.

Truth be told, I plotted out what I expected would be three short stories, but with two of them, when I started writing, I found I had almost as much material as a regular novel......... and, well, this is the result. I’m sorry. The fact that I’ve been a pro novelist for more than ten years now and still can’t tell whether a plot will turn out to be a short story or a long one... Trust me, I’m embarrassed.

Of course, you do need more plot for a novel than for a short story, so I added a couple of extra twists while writing the draft of this volume. To say what they were would be a spoiler, so I’ll leave it to your imagination.

All that being the case, I expect the next volume will consist of the second formerly short story. Let’s just say it’s a tale of someone who’s never had a book cover to themselves before...

But what about that third short story? It’s a very difficult idea to expand, so I don’t foresee it becoming a third complete novel. I guess I’ll need to think up a couple more short story ideas.

In any event, thanks to the support of my readers, it looks like Outbreak Company will get to continue a while longer. I’ve got a shock twist, a complete reversal, up my sleeve (in fact, this book lays some of the groundwork for it), so I hope you’ll stick with me for a few more volumes.

Catch you next time!

Sakaki Ichiro 27 Aug 2014

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Outbreak Company: Volume 11

by Ichiro Sakaki

Translated by Kevin Steinbach

Edited by Sasha McGlynn

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright © 2014 Ichiro Sakaki

Illustrations by Yuugen

All rights reserved.

First published in Japan in 2014 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.

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Ebook edition 1.0: October 2019