Afterword

This author is an atheist, but for some reason I do find myself believing in the myriad of gods.

Perhaps it’s because my brain cells were damaged at a certain art university back when they were still simple, but I am a person who naturally likes the vague notions of fate that come from gods residing in all things. For example, I might want to look at a misshapen stump ready to be carved and say something like, What I do is look at the thing to figure out what it wants me to carve it into.

Similarly, Teogonia is like a natural piece of rock that this author has been carrying for many years. It is with excitement that I continue to sculpt the story and the world hidden within, but right now the second volume of Teogonia has come to its end, and I pray that it can find its way out into the world. It may be that I really am an author fixated on vague notions of fate who believed that this second volume was a part prepared to be published like this from the very beginning.

My gratitude is owed to Kawano-sensei who produced illustrations that, as always, matched my tastes exactly, to Aoyama-sensei whose superb artistic skill has turned this humble work into a manga, and to the editor Yamaguchi-sama.

And I would also like to express my heartfelt appreciation to all the readers who have supported me.

It is thanks to the support from all of you that volume 2 of this work was able to be published.

For as long as I have the opportunity to publish my work, I will do my best to continue sculpting the world of Teogonia in finer detail until its end. I hope that you can stay with me until the story has reached its conclusion.

Tsukasa Tanimai, September 2019