Afterword

Hello, Itsuki Mizuho here. Thank you very much to those of you who decided to purchase the second volume of To Another World... with Land Mines! after having purchased the first. I wouldn’t think there’s anyone out there who would purchase the second volume without purchasing the first, but if there is and you happen to be reading this in a bookstore, then I would greatly appreciate it if you would be willing to purchase both volumes! Hmm? What if there aren’t any copies of the first volume in stock? Well, I’ll still appreciate it even if you only purchase this second volume!

Now then, I wanted to begin by mentioning that this second volume has a lot of additional episodes and side story content compared to the web novel. Did you notice? I also made slight changes to the actions of some characters in specific scenes, but I made sure that the main events of the plot were the same, so it might have been hard to notice if you skimmed a bit. In a way, I could say that the changes were successful if this volume felt more or less the same to the people who have read the web novel version. But that doesn’t mean the web novel version was bloated with unnecessary text, right?

Moving on, have any of you played a tabletop RPG before? The character creation system varies from game to game, and I tend to require a lot of time to decide what choices to make in systems that offer a lot of different options. I often end up taking all sorts of skills just because they’re available, and I sometimes end campaigns with skills that I haven’t used a single time. There were also times when I’ve created a character that was way too specialized and unable to do other things outside of that specialty. If I had to categorize the characters in my story between the two examples I just brought up, then the former applies to Nao’s party, while the latter applies to Yoshino’s party, which shows up in a side story episode. If there were people like Yoshino’s party in modern-day Earth, then they would be quite out of place, but their choices weren’t exactly bad, since they’re in a different world where danger could creep up on them at any point in their daily lives. Well, I can’t say that for sure at the moment; only time will tell. All I can say for now is that the only way to find out what happens to Yoshino’s party is if more volumes of this series get published, ha ha!

I would once again like to take the opportunity to thank my illustrator, Nekobyou Neko-san, for drawing cute and beautiful art for this series. Thank you very much for coming up with great character designs based on my ambiguous instructions. Yuki ended up very cute! I would also like to thank my editor H-san, who is stepping down from being in charge of this series. It’s thanks to you that I was able to debut as a commercial writer. Thank you very much for all the help that you’ve provided me up until now. I’m also looking forward to working with my new editor, K-san. I also want to express my thanks to my proofreader, who, in addition to helping me correct typos, pointed out discrepancies with the setting that I myself hadn’t noticed as the author. I truly appreciate it. Last but not least, I would like to thank all of the readers who have followed and read this series. I look forward to meeting you all again sometime in the future.

Itsuki Mizuho