Afterword
Long time no see to the print readers, as well as to those of you who started reading because of the anime—in fact, there are still a lot of people who started with the anime. I’m so very thankful—and you longtime readers must have been very worried. I’m quite sorry. Now that my thanks and apologies are out of the way, I have this collection of rare short stories to share with you all. And since that alone may not be enough to satisfy readers, here’s a little bit about what Maiya, whose name came up in the Hell Survival Games, was up to.
Our dear Maiya had an encounter with the wandering monster Marika Fukuroi, who had strayed from Cranberry. Marika turned out to be really strong even though she had only one flag and hardly any advantage, so Maiya fled—but then she got caught up in the fight between Moru-Moru Morgue and Duchess. As the powerful foes clashed, Maiya held out and toyed with them but unfortunately wound up getting knocked out. However, Duchess and Morgue spent so much time involved in the intense battle with Maiya that they fell short of the points needed to proceed in the games. Maiya actually contributed to Altair’s victory, although she doesn’t know this herself. And that sums up Maiya’s activities following a midgame announcement.
To everyone from the editing department who has guided me, and to S-mura, who passionately argued that I shouldn’t put Twin Dragons Panas in this book: You were very right. Thank you so much.
Marui-no, thank you for your wonderful illustrations. I never thought I’d get to see an illustration of La Pucelle and Snow White together so soon in the Reiwa era. Anything feels possible now.
Nao Higashiyama, thank you for your wonderful comments. Your rendition of Snow White’s line, “What’s a magical girl?” was absolutely perfect. I’m going to keep on writing about these magical girls’ everyday lives and battles.
And to all my readers, thank you very much, as always. Not only for buying this book, but for your gifts, reactions, illustrations, fan letters, and Valentine’s chocolates, which I am gratefully partaking in. They’re far more energy dense than regular food; I have a feeling this might be the reason so many writers seem energy inefficient.
There are a lot of short stories that I was unable to include here, the majority of which are currently available to read online. To those of you who have yet to check those out, please look forward with me to Magical Girl Raising Project: Breakdown, which is reaching its climax in serialization right now. The ads at the back of this book will have the details.
I am currently hard at work writing the next story. Hope to see you then!
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