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Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!? (Light Novel) - Volume 8, Afterword
Volume 8, Afterword
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Long time no see, everyone. It's the author, Takehaya.
This volume was published in three months just like the one before. The reason for that is so that we would get back to the main characters as fast as possible.
This volume takes place a few days after Volume 7. Using Volume 7 as a starting point, the characters have now begun moving to fulfill their own wishes, which will lead into the next story. In this volume, we see the return of Maki and her confrontation with a powered up(?) Yurika acting like a magical girl again. And the environment surrounding Yurika greatly changes.
The next volume will be 8.5 just like I wrote in the afterword 7.5. It will correspond to the second manuscript that Theia wrote. The travelling party reached their destination, the Pardomshiha territory. There, they reform the Forthorthe regular army, and wage war on Maxfern's coup d'etat army. I only need to write that story, but I'm racking my brain, worrying how I am going to fit it all in one volume.
Speaking of worries, I have worries regarding my schedule as well. I want to put out the next volume where most of the main characters will be missing as fast as possible, but my schedule has been thrown for a loop because of the earthquake[1]. Based on the rolling blackouts, I might be able to return to my normal pace, but this is all up to luck.
This volume featured a more close up look on magic, but magic actually uses a much more complex power than we think.
In a lot of works, a magician will create fireballs, shoot lightning, use magnetism or crush with gravity. However, if magic like this really existed, it would serve as proof that the Grand Unified Theory is real.
The Grand Unified Theory is the ultimate theory that Einstein attempted to form. It would unify all the fundamental forces, such as electricity, magnetism and gravity. By the way, electricity and magnetism have already been unified. There are four well known principles that prove the relation between them. However, principles regarding the other fundamental forces, especially gravity, are still a mystery. Even the closest theory to explaining gravity, the String Theory, has five different variants, and we are far away from solving it.
But please remember, many magicians create fireballs, shoot electricity, use magnetism and crush with gravity. They convert the energy known as magic into all kinds of forces. In other words, these magicians are casually using what scientists are dying to know.
Which means that there is a high chance that magicians are creatures that can recognize the higher dimensions that String Theory is advocating, since they are able to sense the magic power covering space.
So since that was causing some troubles for me, I decided to ignore reality to some degree. I want the world to be a place where one can learn magic if they train, it wouldn't be fun otherwise.
It's like not thinking too deep into the giant robots in anime, or detectives running into far too many mysteries. Since it's the basis for the story, let's not be too harsh.
Reality is unexpectedly boring (lol).
Anyways, on to recent news.
Recently, I felt like it would be bad to shut myself in at home to work all the time, so I've started biking. Since the movie theater is about 30 minutes away by bike, I've taken to watching a movie whenever I get some time off. As a result, I've been able to sleep better and gain an appreciation for exercise.
Back in high school, it took me 40 minutes to get to school with the bike. Because of that, the wear and tear on the tires was huge and I could see the casing from time to time. I don't bike as much as I do then, but I will try to continue exercising regularly.
And the other day, I wrote an autograph for the first time. They just came up and asked if I was Takehaya. He worked at a bookstore and mentioned holding a fair. But since I had written a bunch of drafts, I stained the colored paper surface and the characters ended up blurring. I couldn't help but feel that I shouldn't do something I'm unused to. While I was thinking that, a different bookstore said something about renovating and asked if I could sign 30 copies, and I suddenly ended up practicing my signature. I'll be writing them now, but I hope I can do it well. Yurika Fight! Yurika Fight!
I've been told I can write a dozen or so pages of afterword, but since I can't write that much, I think I'm going to wrap this up.
Finally, I would like to thank everyone at the editorial department, Poco-san who's always on time with the illustrations, my party of friends who always join me for a drink when I'm tired, and to all the readers who bought this book.
Let us meet again in the afterword of Volume 8.5
June, 2011 Takehaya
Translator's Notes and References
1. ↑ The author is referring to the Tōhoku earthquake that struck Japan in 2011
