The Daughter of Evil - Volume 4 - Chapter Aft

afterword
Praefacio of Blue, afterword

It’s finished, I’ve finally written the end.

Four years have passed since I uploaded the “Daughter of Evil” song to the Douga website. At the time I made it, I could never have imagined that not only would there be a four-book novel series based on it, but I would be the one to write it myself.

I’d never written a novel before in my life. On the contrary, I was the type of person who was so bad at writing I couldn’t even stick to a journal.

I love to read books. When I was a kid I was always reading. After getting home from school I wouldn’t go outside and play or anything, I’d just be absorbed reading these huge and bulky fairytale hardcovers that I’d gotten from a friend of my parents, which was a twenty book series in total. I don’t know if it was because of that, but I’m really bad at exercising. I was the only one in my class who couldn’t swing up on the horizontal bar, I couldn’t serve the volleyball into the other team’s court…

Even so, I had never written a book myself. There were already so many wonderful books in the world, so I had no need to, after all! What was more, after I got into high school my interests shifted to music, so I my passion towards books waned and I lost my opportunities to write.

I suppose the point at which my viewpoint changed was when I started making VOCALOID songs. I learned how much fun it was to create works. It was still hazy, but around that time I started wanting to take the plot that I was imagining that couldn’t be expressed through song alone, and put it into a book.

I only thought about it—I didn’t tell it to anyone…Or so I thought, but according to one of my friends I apparently declared that I “Will make Daughter of Evil into a novel!” during a drinking party. I myself was quite drunk so I don’t remember it very well, but apparently all the people around us outside of my friend were snickering at me.

The real issue was that at the time, I was a salaryman, so I didn’t have the time to spend making something like that. I had my hands full just making songs, let alone the span it would take to write a novel. The fact that I was able to have novelization discussions just after I quit my job was lucky on both counts.

There were various twists and turns after I started writing. I suffered a lot of anguish. Even so, I somehow managed to make a full book, and the light-novel “Daughter of Evil: Cloture of Yellow” was published without incident. I received some profits, and I learned things.

And so, now I have finished writing “Praefacio of Blue”, the fourth work in the series.

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For now I think I’ll end the “Daughter of Evil” series here. I can’t say that’s everything, but for the most part I’ve put in everything I wanted to write.

My deepest thanks to everyone at the PHP Institute and the Studio Hard Deluxe company, who assisted me in all of the works up to this point and sometimes went along with my willfulness.

As for my drinking buddy You-ring@Kitano Tomotoshi-san, who’s done the cover from the third book onward. My work has gained such brilliant color thanks to you.

And, Ichika-san, who participated in the original works back when “Daughter of Evil” was just a song, and has drawn all the illustrations for the books this time around. Half of the World of Evil is yours.

I offer up my gratitude also to all the wonderful illustrators for the frontispieces and pinups for the books, starting with Yuu-san who has also been here since the first book.

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I have so much appreciation for all the readers who have opted to take up these books.

I hope I can meet with you all again somewhere.

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AkunoP (mothy)