Afterword
Hello everyone, Izushiro here. Thank you for picking up this volume.
This story brings the end of the Tenbram arc—or, if I were to put subtitles on volumes for convenience, that is the title the last few volumes would have.
There were quite a few areas that were personally very challenging. In that regard, it was refreshing to write a different kind of magical battle than I had been able to write before, in the form of a competitive game.
Aside from writing, another challenge was that for quite some time last year I wasn’t in the best condition. I should have been paying more attention to myself from the beginning of spring... I hope you are all more careful with your health.
Getting back on topic, this volume has not only the fierce Tenbram battle but also battles beyond that, and, personally, I am quite satisfied with how it turned out. This afterword is a bit longer than usual so I can talk some about the theme and plot.
(From here on, I will be talking about the contents of the volume, so those who haven’t read it yet should be careful.)
The biggest change between the light novel and the web version is the structure of the story. The incident with the escaped prisoners was inserted into the middle of the match, which was adjusted considerably, and the connection between the Fable and Womruina family has been settled.
There might have been a little too much content stuffed in, but that is just part of the charm. At the very least, the end of the Tenbram moving into the Noir battle was a must in my mind.
Of course not everything has been perfectly resolved. I intend to write about some connected things in the future volumes, such as inherited spells, what happened to the Womruina family afterward, and how the Fable family deals with the aftermath. Even as the author I’m looking forward to it.
I also went deeper with the changes to Tesfia during the Tenbram than in the web version. From the next volume onward, I hope to write more about the subtleties of her mind.
Look forward to what Tesfia and Alice, who are still just students, will think and decide regarding Alus and Loki, who are soldiers with proper abilities (although Tesfia did get a big power-up). Growth isn’t only about getting stronger as a Magicmaster, and perhaps they will show thoughts like that.
Also, another highlight might be Alus getting serious, which we haven’t seen in a while. He’s been working in the shadows since the start, but surprisingly few scenes have showed it. At the end of the story, he transformed into his original form, a silent killer of a sort. However, thanks to everything he'd experienced, he didn't quite revert to what he'd been before.
Noir and Alus had received similar treatment growing up, which was one of the themes I wanted to cover with this volume. I believe you will be able to better get a grasp of Alus’ change by watching him in this volume. Be on the look out for Noir in the future as well!
That said, I am getting concerned about the gender ratio as of late...
However, beautiful girls and women gathering around Alus is just an inevitable rule of the world, so please kindly watch over him—although there are also quite a few old men. As the author, I would love to give time to each of the heroines. But if I do that I won’t be able to wrap up the story, so I endure that emotion as I head for my PC every day.
Ah, yes, I was also thinking about changing the stage of the next volume, so please look forward to it.
From here on, I would like to move on to thank-yous.
Thank you very much to my editor for your cooperation in all sorts of changes for this Tenbram. Your opinions were a great help.
And thank you Miyuki Ruria for your illustrations, which are as beautiful as always. I believe that I am often asking for difficult elements due to my selfishness, so I can only thank you for responding to every single one of my requests with such high quality. I look forward to working with you in the future.
I am also very grateful to the proofreaders, designers, printers, operators, sales representatives, and everyone else who helped produce this book.
And most of all, I would like to thank the readers for your continued support and for picking up volume 18 of The Greatest Magicmasters Retirement Plan. I strive to keep working to earn your continued support!
Well then, I will see you in the next afterword.
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