Paladin of the End - Volume 4 - Chapter Aft

Afterword

To all of you with this completed book in your hands, I am Kanata Yanagino, happy to see you once again. Thanks to all your support, I was blessed with the opportunity to have a fourth book published. Thank you very much.

Due to page count and other reasons, I can’t go into much detail, but I steered this volume in somewhat of a different direction from the web version, and stuffed it with all kinds of new scenes written especially for publication. I hope you all enjoyed it.

I’ll get right to it: I have an announcement for you all. The Faraway Paladin is getting a comic! It will be published in the Overlap web comic magazine Comic Gardo. The one in charge of the comic will be Mutsumi Okubashi, who drew the comics for Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash and Kado: The Right Answer! I’ve already had a look at the storyboard, and it gave me a kind of nostalgic feeling to see Blood, Mary, and Gus, drawn with such a delicate touch, raising Will so energetically. I would be very happy if you could enjoy it hand-in-hand with the novels.

Finally, some acknowledgments.

Kususaga Rin-sensei, who was in charge of the illustrations: I had to catch my breath when I saw the cover illustration. Once again, thank you for such wonderful images. I am so happy to have you drawing Will and the others for me.

Okubashi-sensei, in charge of the comic adaptation: I look forward to working with you.

To all my friends who helped me: Thank you so much for all that you do for me.

To my editor, the editors at Overlap, everyone involved with this book’s printing, sales, distribution, marketing, and everything else related, and to you, the person who took this book into your hands, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Praying that we can meet again,

Kanata Yanagino, August 2017