Gakusen Toshi Asterisk - Volume 14 - Chapter Aft

AFTERWORD 
Hi there. Yuu Miyazaki here. 
I hope you’ve enjoyed the Lindvolus so far in Volumes 13 and 14. I originally planned to include all the events of these two volumes in the one book, but I quickly realized just how impossible that would be, so we’ve brought the volumes out back-to-back. Even then, I wanted to include everything up to the quarterfinals in this one, but that wasn’t possible, either. Perhaps I should have put a bit more thought into it… 
Anyway, I knew from the very beginning that I wanted this Lindvolus arc to be heavy on battles, so after talking it over with my editor, O, and okiura, we decided that it would be best to publish everything up to this point here. I tried to make each and every battle fun to read by itself, but I can’t deny that it could end up getting a bit boring jumping straight from one to another. If you read everything at once, it ends up being like one long serial publication. Even with things the way they are, I’ve had to leave a few matches out (there are a lot of characters I wanted to focus more on, like Azumachi Ibara), but thanks to that, we’ve only got six matches left. 
We’ll be focusing more on the fight against the Golden Bough Alliance from here on out as well. The story as a whole will get more intense from now on, too, and Julis in particular has a cruel fate awaiting her, but please keep reading! Kirin was the only one of our main members who didn’t make an appearance this time around, but I’ve got big plans for her in the next volume. I hope you’re all looking forward to it as much as I am! 

The main story might have already moved past that point, but I’m still planning to work on another volume of The Wings of Queenvale as well, so keep your eyes out for that one, too! 
I put a lot of pressure on okiura this time, what with releasing two volumes over two months. But despite that, all I have are words of praise for the quality of his illustrations. On the cover we have Claudia and Ayato after their respective makeovers, while inside Xiaohui, Noelle, and the Black Knight all make full-color appearances. Xiaohui in particular was already completed back when the anime was in production, but this is the first time we’ve been able to give him a proper public debut. 
Last but not least, I’d like to express my thanks to everyone involved. 
To my editor, O, for patiently sticking by me no matter how many times I find myself caught in a rut; to S for helping supervise Fuyuka’s Kyoto dialect once more; to everyone at the editorial department who I keep inconveniencing at the last minute; to my many proofreaders; and of course, to my many readers for your continued support, I would like to express my most heartfelt thanks. I’m looking forward to seeing you all again with the next volume. 
Yuu Miyazaki 
March 2018