Afterword
This is Yuusaku Sakaishi.
Thank you very much for taking the opportunity to pick up Volume 3 of The Shadow Hero’s Everyday Life.
This series was written with the intention of being centred around the academy, but Volume 1 and 2 both tell stories about getting involved in national conspiracies. In that regard, in Volume 2, I tried my best to depict the world relating to the academy.
Originally, Tweight became a student in order to distance himself from national conspiracies, bloodshed, and other such extraordinary events…In this volume, it feels like he is earnestly facing his second lease on life. As Tweight says in this book (probably), moving forward, it seems that he will definitely be fighting for his new friends, rather than for the nation. And to that end, in this volume, he sought a fighting style that wouldn’t hurt his opponents too much.
Well, it’s a given that Tweight will get caught up in some kind of large incident…but that’s just what happens to protagonists, right? Tweight has done various things in the past, so it feels like he’s holding on to a bomb that could explode at any time.
By the way, there is no change in main heroine in Volume 3.
Around 10 years ago, in the Light Novel world, I felt that changing the heroine being focused on in each volume was a common style, but recently, it feels like it has become more flexible. With the rise of Web Novels, which offer a high degree of freedom, people are now saying things like, “Light Novels can be so freely created and still be accepted!”, which shocked me a lot. This work was originally a Web Novel, and because of that, I had to take on various challenges.
Well, it’s about time I conclude this afterword.
I hope you enjoyed Volume 3.
{Acknowledgements}
To the editors, proofreaders, and those who helped in printing this work: thank you very much for your assistance.
To TYONE: the illustrations for the everyday life scenes were cute, and the illustrations for the battle scenes were suspenseful and packed a punch, so thank you very much.
To the designers: the cover was flashy and cool, so thank you very much.
And finally, I would like to express my utmost gratitude to all of you, who have picked up this book.
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