Afterword
This is Yuusaku Sakaishi.
Thank you very much for taking the opportunity to pick up this book.
This work was originally serialized on the website, “Shosetsuka ni Narou (Let’s Become a Novelist/Syosetu)”, but in the middle of its serialization, I was approached by the publisher, who suggested that this could be published as a book. Thank you very much for that. There have been some improvements and additions compared to the Web Novel version, so I hope that those of you who read the Web Novel version will enjoy this one as well.
As the title “Everyday Life” implies, this work follows a slightly awkward protagonist in a peaceful academy, so this is the heart-warming story of his slow life.
That was a lie. Well, part of it is true, but it probably wouldn’t be considered as heart-warming.
The protagonist of this work is an agent who specializes in assassinations and ambushes, and who has also a background of single-mindedly undertaking dirty work behind the scenes of the Great War. This kind of protagonist, in a strange twist of fate, attends an academy as an ordinary person, but due to the value system that was ingrained in him during his time as an agent, he isn’t really able to fit into this ordinary everyday life.
The title of this work, “Everyday Life”, doesn’t refer to a continuous, carefree everyday life, but rather, it’s meant to represent the theme of how the protagonist, who has lived through an extraordinary life, confronts what the world considers to be an ordinary everyday life.
With that being said, the protagonist hits it off with a beautiful girl during the entrance exams, and goes together with his male friend to pick up girls after school, so it feels like he is somehow enjoying his everyday life.
{Acknowledgements}
To the editors, proofreaders, and all those who helped in printing this work into a book: thank you very much for your assistance.
To TYONE, who indulged my many selfish requests and made beautiful, very attractive character designs: thank you very much.
Also, to the designers, who handled the fantastic cover: thank you very much.
And finally, I would like to express my utmost gratitude to all of you, who have picked up this book.
2020/2, Yuusaku Sakaishi
Translator’s Note:
The author refers to everyone with the honorific “-sama”, but unlike in the actual story, I felt somewhat uncomfortable leaving it as is in the afterword.
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