Cooking with Wild Game (LN) - Volume 28 - Chapter Aft

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Afterword

Thank you so much for picking up this book, the twenty-eighth volume of Cooking with Wild Game.

This was referenced in the story itself, but it will soon be a year since our protagonist Asuta first came to the forest’s edge. I can’t say if it’s short or long to use this many volumes to cover a year of a person’s life, but at any rate, I’ve managed to keep writing this long. Asuta’s busy days will continue after he celebrates that one-year anniversary in the next volume, and I sincerely hope that you will continue reading along.

Darmu and Sheera Ruu’s feelings for one another have come to fruition as well, also after nearly a year of waiting. Of course, Sheera Ruu felt that way about him even before Asuta came to the forest’s edge, whereas it took a while after the start of the story for Darmu Ruu to start paying attention to her, so there’s a bit of a time difference between them. At any rate, considering how long it took them to get here, I hope that they’re happy now.

On top of that, characters like Ai Fa and Rimee Ruu have had their birthdays in the story before Asuta, and I find it quite moving to see these characters I’ve created all growing a year older. That’s definitely part of the thrill of a long series. I loved such long series back when I was just a reader, so I’m overjoyed to have been able to make such a long one myself. It’s all because of you readers, and I cannot thank you enough.

This is a bit of a digression, but the Group Performance story for this volume, “Two People on a Rainy Day,” was originally something I wrote after the upcoming twenty-ninth volume. I wrote a whole lot of Group Performance stories over the course of a year for the web version, and it turned out that my third year of writing happened to line up with the part in volume 29 where Asuta celebrated a year at the forest’s edge. Thanks to the extra pages in this volume, though, it ended up being inserted here instead.

By the way, I chose this one out of the eight Group Performance stories because it takes place at a strange point in time, three months back from the main story, so I felt it best to have it pop up sooner rather than later. Since it takes place within the time frame of volume 25 of the main story, your memories of those events might have become hazy. Still, I hope you’ll enjoy seeing what Shumiral and Vina Ruu were thinking and feeling behind the scenes back then.

As for the remaining seven stories, they include ones that take place at the same time as the main story, and also ones that show the characters several years back. I plan to unveil them each at the appropriate time, and I hope that you’ll enjoy them along with the main story.

Finally, I want to thank everyone involved with the production of this book, and of course, all of you who purchased it.