Afterword

Afterword

 

TO ALL NEWCOMERS, it’s a pleasure to meet you. To you old-timers, long time no see. My name is Mine, and this is my third time greeting you like this.

Your honored patronage and the reception of my work has allowed me to deliver Volume Three without incident. Was I able to kill a bit of time for you? If so, that’s all I can ask for as a writer. But now what do I say?

I’ve heard I’m not supposed to vent about my current issues in the afterword. If I had anything I wanted to force in, it would have to be that this is the third volume. The third volume is a great milestone for a writer; whether a series can continue or not is largely up to Volume Three, and so I tremble as I write this afterword.

I think I’m doing my best, and I just want the readers to kick back and read however they want.

As for announcements. First, another series I’ve written, called New Life+, is releasing its third manga volume. Oddly enough, it’s the third volume as well, and the web version has gotten a decent reception on NicoNico and ComicWalker.

I have already written over sixteen volumes of the novel version of that story, and if everything goes as planned, I should be releasing the seventeenth volume next month. That’s quite a number, isn’t it?

If you like this work, perhaps you could try that one out as well. However, while putting together New Life+ and Broke Mercenary, I’ve already published eighteen volumes, and after eighteen afterwords, I’m running out of things to write.

Are there any readers here who have read all of them? If you’re here, then please send little old Mine a message and tell him what sorts of things you’d like to read in the afterword. Mine will be very happy. I’ve already worked my brain over a bit just to write what you see here, and I’m glad you’re reading it. I myself don’t really remember reading afterwords.

 

We’re nearing the end now.

To everyone in Hobby Japan’s editing department. To the proofreaders, the marketing team, and the designers. To peroshi-sama, who keeps providing wonderful illustrations, and my editor, K-sama, who always spares time for my phone calls. Truly, thank you.

And my deepest thanks to you, the readers. I pray that your patronage may bring us together again.

 

—Mine