I Was a Sword When I Reincarnated (LN) - Volume 6 - Chapter Aft

Afterword

HELLO, EVERYONE. This is Yuu Tanaka, kemomimist. This probably isn’t our first time meeting in this column, but if it turns out that some of you are reading the sixth volume first, well…I hope you’ll read the first five volumes before you finish. It’s a lot more fun that way, I promise.

The time has come again for the afterword…something I’m exceptionally bad at writing. I don’t really have anything else to say, so I end up writing some pointless thing. I tried to convince The Powers That Be that not having an afterword would save them money, but it was not to be.

Now I have to drag this out for three pages…

What should I write?!

Okay, that should’ve knocked off a couple lines, at least. Thanks for entertaining my bad joke.

This really is difficult. You know how some writers have fun in their afterword? They converse along with the characters and fill up the afterword that way.

Maybe I should try that meta style, writing with Teacher and Fran, but I’m not too sure about it. Won’t it ruin the setting of the story? I don’t think it’ll satisfy the readers either, so I can’t help but worry. I have a lot of respect for writers who can write an entertaining afterword. You’re great, all of you. For me, writing one takes ten times longer than writing a short story. I’m serious. These few pages have taken an entire day.

Well, I might as well give it a try.

“In an effort to wasting a few more pages, the author will now have an exclusive interview with the one and only Fran! Yaaay!”

“Hm.”

“This is our first time meeting face-to-face, and I must say you’re really cute!”

“…”

“Uhh…Fran?”

“I’m getting a nasty aura from you… stay back. Don’t talk to me.”

“N-nasty aura…?”

“You feel like Teacher when he’s eating crystals.”

“No, I’m not acting anywhere near as trippy as that. Wait! Did I just get found out as a kemomimist…? Seeing cat ears is getting me excited…”

“Shut up. Get back.”

“Come on, there’s no need to put your guard up. See? I’m perfectly harmless!”

“Hmph.”

“Gyaaa!”

Sorry you had to read that. I won’t do it again, even if I am running out of material.

And finally, acknowledgments.

Thank you to my editor, I-san, for all the advice during the writing process.

Thanks to Llo for providing wonderful illustrations, as usual. The Beast King looks so cool.

Thank you to Maruyama for providing the cute extra comic at the end of the novel. The way you took my dumb suggestions and turned them into interesting situations is amazing.

Special thanks to my dad for reading his son’s work despite not reading contemporary fiction, and my friends and acquaintances for hanging out with me when I got sick of it all.

Finally, thanks to everyone involved in the publishing process and of course you, dear reader.

Thanks for reading all the way to the end. See you in Volume Seven.