Afterword
First of all, thank you for picking up this book.
Nice to meet you, my name is Akari Hino, the author.
I personally am the type of person who starts reading from the afterword, so I'll try not to mention the contents of the main story here.
This is my second work to be published in book form, and I've already run out of things to write about in this afterword. So I thought I would write a little about myself.
First of all, I once gave up on becoming a novelist.
If I say that, you might imagine that I have been writing for quite a long time and have had various setbacks and failures, but let me tell you in advance that there is no such thing.
I think it was around the spring of my sophomore year in high school that I decided I wanted to become a novelist.
Incidentally, the period during which I had my heart set on it was probably around a month at most. The number of words I wrote during that time was zero. "You're not aiming for it anymore!" This is the level of the "I'm not a fan of this". Not even a three-day monk.
At that time I kind of, really kind of, wanted to do something other than getting paid. It could have been a mangaka, it could have been a day trader, it could have been a yin-on-yang master.
In short, I wanted to be someone special, but unfortunately, even if I wanted to be, I couldn't draw, I couldn't read charts, and I couldn't understand the Yin-Yang path.
Then I thought maybe I could become a novelist (I'm really sorry ......) and set my sights on becoming a novelist.
But my youthful exuberance was easily shattered.
Because of my ambition, I was a reasonably good reader at the time. But I only read during my commute to school. I went to high school by bus and underground, so I had a bit of time.
It was during those days that I became obsessed with the works of a certain author.
At first, I started with the manga, but before I knew it, I had started to devote my small amount of pocket money to following the works .......The process is as follows.
When I came across one of these authors works, I was convinced that I would never become a novelist.
In the afterword of the book, it was written that the author had won an award and made his debut as a high school sophomore at the age of 17, the same age as I was at the time.
I was astonished. I was shocked and astonished. I had never imagined that there was someone my age who had reached the place I was trying to reach.
I was reading the book thinking that it was an interesting setting and that it was amazing that someone could write something like this, so I was quite shocked. That's what it feels like to have your scaffolding shaken. There was no foothold to shake.
So I gave up the path of a novelist without writing a single word.
Then, for some unknown reason, I started writing a novel and was approached by Shueisha, a company I admired as a reader, and here I am, writing an afterword. Moreover, the aforementioned author's debut was also by Shueisha. So I feel very honored. To be honest, I jumped up and down.
But it was the readers on the web and those who are reading this book now that gave me this opportunity.
I'd also like to thank the editors at Dash-X Bunko for bringing it to the world in such a way at such a difficult time.
To the illustrator Neibi, I was so happy when I saw the illustration that I squealed with joy.
So, finally, once again, thank you very much for your time up to this point.
I look forward to seeing you again in the next volume.
Akari Hino
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