Postscript

Hello. Nobiru Kusunoki, here. I’ve started doing radio calisthenics every morning for my health! On another note, thank you for picking up a copy of Herscherik Volume 2 - The Reincarnated Prince and the Twilight Knight. Just like volume 1, I won’t write any spoilers here, so feel free to read through my ramblings before getting to the good stuff.

Thanks to your support, we’ve arrived at the second volume of the Herscherik series. I ended up asking my editor M for... a deadline extension. Yep. I had the gall, after publishing just a single volume, to ask for an extension. I am well aware that this request made you wait longer for the volume, but as an active member of the workforce, I have a day job to put food on the table! Busy season will be the death of me! With newfound respect for the writers who keep their day jobs and publish quickly... I acquired said extension from my trusty editor M before beginning work on the volume.

I had written the online version of Twilight Knight in kind of a blind flurry, so there was a lot I wanted to add and expand upon publishing. I added more foreshadowing, emotional descriptions, entire scenes... caught incredibly embarrassing typos along the way, to find that the end-product was a whopping 130% longer than the online version! I didn’t expect volume 2 to have more pages than the first. Even I’m surprised at how much I added. I guess it’s in my blood—I’m one of those secretly-perfectionist AB-types. Well, I hope you enjoyed The Reincarnated Prince and the Twilight Knight, which turned out to be full of surprises for the author, too.

Finally, thank you to everyone who picked up the volume, everyone who’s followed me since the online version, the publisher Futabasha, my dear editor M who not only puts up with me but is even nice about it, Arico who beautifully draws the characters as I’ve imagined them, the designer who came up with the impeccable cover, and QA who caught my typos... everyone involved in the publishing process, and thanks to my family who kept me sane as I kept adding to the story and even kept me fed. Thanks to all of you, Herscherik Vol. 2 was able to come out. I can’t thank you enough!

I hope I’ll see you in the next volume. Rambling over.

— Nobiru Kusunoki