Volume Two – Afterword

Thank you so much to everyone who’s supported me up to now. I’m truly grateful.

I didn’t expect Volume Two to wrap up just like that while I was still writing. Volume Three will dive deeper into the Demon World and reveal the hidden ties between that realm and the human world.

As a rookie author, this is my first time trying to write a long, regularly updated series, and it’s made me notice a lot of problems with my work—draggy plot, so-so prose, shaky pacing, and so on.

So I’m especially thankful to those of you who are still drawn in by this story despite all that. Thank you for your patience.

A friend once told me that writing a book is never a one‑person thing. Only when readers and author resonate with each other does it count as “writing a book”; otherwise it’s just self‑indulgent daydreaming.

On that, I agree—and I disagree.

As an author, if I put it bluntly, the process of writing is basically daydreaming on paper. But writing isn’t only about that, and it can’t be just that. I’m not the kind of writer who does those pure “showing off and face‑slapping” power‑fantasy plots, even though that style is pretty friendly to newcomers.

I don’t plan to be different just for the sake of it, but I also don’t believe you can write a good book by only doing show‑off face‑slapping. I just want to lay my story out on the table and let readers who can truly empathize with it savor it at their own pace.

I made that promise before, and I’ll keep writing this way. As long as there’s even one person who recognizes something in my plot, I’ll keep this book going.

Because of that, I want to pour more effort into shaping my characters. They’re not some flawless, almighty beings. Strip away the surface, and they’re living, breathing people, who think according to logic, not random puppets pushed around just to move the plot.

Just like Aphelia. Just like the middle‑aged man.

I’ve rambled on long enough; some of you might think I’m just spouting nonsense now. So I’ll cut it here. In Volume Three, I’ll work hard to polish my writing, fix my flaws, and do my best to bring you an even more exciting story~