Afterword

Afterword

 

TO ALL THOSE new to my work, it’s a pleasure to meet you. And a pleasure to those who aren’t as well. If you were with me last time, it’s nice to see you again.

The name’s Mine, an oddball amateur writer who submits his work, day after day, to a site called Let’s Be Novelists. If anything, I hope I’ve done a good enough job that you come away from this remembering my name.

I’ve actually done another series with Hobby Japan before—New Life+: Young Again in Another World. Perhaps some of you have heard about it. If you haven’t, I couldn’t be happier if you took this opportunity to test the waters with that one too.

Now then, on to The Strange Adventure of a Broke Mercenary. It’s thanks to your valued patronage that we received a second volume. If anyone is reading this in a bookstore before taking it to the checkout, I’m begging you to take it home with you. I can only hope that this tale of a skilled mercenary who’s still naïve as an adventurer and the priest who follows him will manage to alleviate your boredom, if only a little.

The first volume was released alongside a volume of New Life+. If nothing major happens, this one should also be released on the same day as New Life+ Volume 16. I’d consider myself blessed if you read them both, but I don’t know why they keep overlapping. I’m not the one doing it. It’s not even just those two volumes. The manga version of New Life+ is being released around the same date as well. Am I the only one who thinks they should space them out a bit?

I think there should be some staggering from the next volume onward. This should be the last time that happens. Of course, that only matters if I get another volume. But that’s the fate of all writers.

I hope we can meet again…

This is the last part, don’t worry.

To Hobby Japan’s editing department, to the proofreaders, to the designers, and to everyone in the industry. To peroshi, who drew so many wonderful illustrations once again. To my editor K-sama, who makes time to talk over the phone with me every so often. You all have my sincerest gratitude.

And my thanks to you, dear reader, as well.

I hope for your continued patronage, I pray that we will meet again in my next book. And with that, I’ll bring it to a close.

 

—Mine