Afterword

I doubt there are many people starting from this volume, so allow me to say, “Long time no see.” This is Kugane Maruyama.

So, as I announced in the afterword of the previous volume, this turned out to be a strange book all about lizardmen. The story was fairly rare for a light novel, don’t you think? Maybe I just don’t know where to look, but I have the feeling there aren’t that many where the protagonist one-sidedly invades a peaceful village.

How was it?

You may have mixed feelings, but in this series there’s a fairly good chance that the strong will trample the weak now and then.

The Overlord protagonist isn’t the type to just deal with what’s right in front of him, putting out fires as they start, but the type that acts assertively to carry out his aims and pursue profit. Instead of acting when he hears a princess is in trouble, he’s the aggressive one who goes out searching for a princess who’s in trouble. Well, maybe not exactly like that…

And those of you who play strategy sim games understand, but in order to meet his goal of expanded military power, Ainz tends to subjugate weaklings rather than go after stronger opponents.

So rather than the usual invaded side, I’d like to make this a series about the invader side. That said, just beating on each other isn’t an invasion…

From here on out I’d like to give some thank-yous. So-bin, Crusch was so cute!!! She got me all flustered. Thanks also to Code Design for the great cover, obi wrap, and poster designs. To Osako, thanks for always doing such detailed proofreading. And thanks for everything to my editor, Fta.

To Honey, who looked over the manuscript, thanks as always for your “penetrating insights.” I really use my head to figure out how to respond.

And to everyone who bought the book, my deepest thanks. Thank you so much.

Okay, it will be great if I can see you again for the next book.

Well then, see you.

This is just a side comment, but in every book so far I’ve used the word death in at least one of the chapter titles, but it’s getting tougher to do, so there might not be one in the next book. It was just for kicks, so it’s not like there’s an issue if I don’t, but… Anyhow, if you don’t have the knack for that sort of thing, it’s just kind of hard to pull off! Bummer.

KUGANE MARUYAMA

July 2013