"Demon King, Tell Them My Dying Wish" V7 Afterword
"Heeeyyy! Since there's no one-off heroine this time, I'll be standing in as a fictional character, Ratsbaaaane!"
(Author) "...What is this..."
"In short, I appeared in a background setting that the author carefully thought up in the shadows, but I haven't appear in the main story. That's me, though!"
"Oh, that's right, there was something like that. But it was a setting I made up in a hury when the series started. I remember having a lot of trouble because I was thinking up all kinds of elaborate things for the story, but the necessary setting was still missing... Ah, you're the protagonist's (future) daughter."
"You thought this up yourself and you still forgooot!"
(Ignoring that) "You're a character I made up when I was desperately thinking up a Back to the Future-type story. It was a mess, though."
"Huuuhhh—! Is that really truuueee!?"
"... That annoying way of speaking isn't even part of the story."
"I'm just embellishing a biiiit!"
"Well, that's fine, but... I'll write a proper afterword this time. I don't think it'll hurt readers to say that they should already be used to this by now. This is the seventh afterword in the series, after all. It doesn't seem like I've written much, but its actually been a lot."
"I wasn't even awaaarrre!"
"Shut it. At the end of the last volume, I claimed this was gonna be a spinoff, but in fact it's not a spinoff at all—"
"You're a liaaarrr!"
"Shut up, you're so persistant. I have an excuse."
"An excuse is a lie that you make up lateeerrrrr!"
"........."
"Oh, don't you look angryyyy!"
"... No. I'm not angry at all, in fact. By the way, I've got a vase here that you can barely fit your wrist into."
"Oh, so you doooo!"
"There's some candy in there."
"There issss!"
"You can have it."
"Thanks ... Grrr! You can't get your hand out if you're holding the candyyyy!"
"... So, you finally figured it out. Anyway, to get back to the point, in this series, if we added a side story the progress of the series would be delayed by four months. The story is already progressing slowly, and if it gets delayed again..."
"Ooh! That's riiiight!"
"It's a bit scary to think about, so I've decided to do the Kimrak arc rather quickly. I'm planning to finish it in three volumes, including this one (see, I'm dragging my feet), but I'm thinking about doing a side story after that. Since I'm here, I could do some really outlandish setting... Like Bakumatsu Orphen. But that'd never work. What about Curry Shop Orphen? No, that's even more ludicrous isn't it?"
"Kikiiiii! Do that!"
"Well, honestly, I've thought about that kind of stuff..."
(Crraaaasshhh!) "I did it! I smashed the vase with a rock and solved the puzzle!"
"............"
"But my hand's covered in blood! If there's this much blood, the smell will attract crocodiles! Do something, authoorrrr!"
"I'd love to immediately get up and help, but... what was that you said about crocodiles?"
"I'm talking about the walking crocodile skin! Don't you know?"
"I see. Well, that works fine... 'The Poor Hero's Daughter Was Eaten By A Crocodile'."
"Ahh! You're just writing whatever you want! The author's being a tyrant! Stop him!"
"Shut up! Go fight that crocodile over there! So, everyone. The conclusion of the three volumes of the Kimrak arc will be presented to you as 'The Graveyard of Rejected Characters...'"
"Gehh! Crocodiles move pretty fast!"
"Just enjoy the ride and don't get too excited. See you later."
