Postscript

Hello, it’s Nobiru Kusunoki with my fourth postscript. Thank you for reading Herscherik Volume 4 - The Reincarnated Prince and the Hero of Light. Just as with previous volumes, I won’t be including spoilers here.

It’s thanks to the support of all my readers that the Herscherik series has made it to its fourth volume. This might be strange for the author to be saying, but when I first received the offer to have my work published, I never thought I’d make it this far. At first I wondered if the offer might have been a scam using Futabasha’s name... Now I’m able to look back at that and laugh.

That said, I always spend every meeting with my editor M terrified out of my mind, repeatedly asking, “Is it really going to be released? Are you sure?” I mean, it’s not that I’m doubting the work of my editors and publishers. I’m just a bit of a timid person who only goes “Wow, it really did get released!” once I actually receive my complimentary copy.

This time around, my editor M, ever so kind even to someone hopeless like me, said, “There are over fifty possible places to include illustrations! It’s really difficult to choose!”—an even greater compliment than last time. I thought I’d have another heart attack from the excitement. Between M complimenting me to death, dying over Arico’s beautiful illustrations, and then dying yet again at the sight of my complimentary copy arriving... Just how many times am I supposed to die? But I shall live on! (Rhetorical question.)

By the way, while I was revising the draft, I thought I’d die in a different sense. I posted the web version with (an infinitesimal sliver of) confidence, but I lost count of the number of times I regretted writing something during the revision... This volume is not much longer than the previous one, but I’d like to think that I managed to flesh out the characters a bit better.

Finally, to all those who read The Reincarnated Prince and the Hero of Light, those who have followed me since the web version, Futabasha, my editor M who always replies to me at light speed, Arico who turned the world of The Reincarnated Prince into such beautiful drawings, the designer of the wonderful cover, my proofreader (thank you so much for always pointing out typos and inconsistencies), everyone else involved in publishing this book, as well as my family who always support me and even provide inspiration: It’s thanks to you that I’ve once again had the honor of publishing a sequel to The Reincarnated Prince. Thank you all so much!

The tale of Herscherik and his men of service is not over yet. I still have so much I want to write.

I hope I’ll get to see you again at the end of the next volume. Rambling over.

— Nobiru Kusunoki