Afterword
I apologize for the long, long wait. It’s me, Shotaro Mizuki. Thank you for buying this book, and thank you for reading all the way to the end. I really mean it.
For those of you who are just now seeing this, I hope you’ll pick up all the volumes.
I’m not sure you’ll be able to enjoy it if you just pick up this volume, but if you’ve already seen the anime you can start from volume 6.
As an author, I was prepared for this book to take three years, but that was only going to happen if I stuck to a regular schedule.
In the end, it took 6 years.
From the perspective of my readers, especially those of you who are students, that was a long, long time.
Long enough to go from a middle schooler to university exams.
Looking back to that time in my own life, each individual year felt like it lasted forever.
I know that this is not a great thing for an author to say, but my policy for this series has been “just keep writing the next part and see how far you can take it,” and the ending became something pretty difficult to understand.
I think the fact that six years passed worked to my benefit here.
For those of you who didn’t understand this at first, I think after you go and read a bunch of other books and then come back and read this one, you might understand what I was getting at.
Now, in an industry where so many light novels come to sudden conclusions, I’m pleased that I was able to finish this story.
Not only that, it was a wonderful experience to have a drama CD, a manga by my illustrator, as well as an anime.
I’m grateful to all of the people involved.
As for what’s been going on in my life, if you’ll read the book, I can guarantee you that it’s more or less as I described.
But it feels like I’ve gone through what I wrote.
I still intend to continue being an author, so if you see the name Mizuki in the future, I hope you’ll remember me. For now, though, goodbye.
April, 2014, Shotaro Mizuki
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Copyright
Demon King Daimaou: Volume 13
by Shoutarou Mizuki
Translated by Adam Lensenmayer
Edited by Christopher Foxx
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2014 Shoutarou Mizuki
Illustrations Copyright © 2014 Souichi Itou
Cover illustration by Souichi Itou
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Original Japanese edition published in 2014 by Hobby Japan
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