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Afterword
Thank you very much for picking up this novel. It makes me incredibly happy to know people are interested in my work. And nice to meet you, my name is Tachibana Yuma. To the people who have known me from when I used the name Karamanero (Pokemon / Malamar), it has been a while, hasn’t it?
This work, ‘Usagi Goutou ni wa Shinde Morau’ happens to have won the 1st Kakuyomu Web Novel Contest, now allowed to be printed like this. It is a contest that is held in cooperation with the Kakuyomu website, which allows you to publish your own novels, and it is one condition to be chosen for the contest. In other words, this novel has been available online way before the publication that you are reading right now. And with that now made clear, I would like to talk about this novel for a brief moment if you would allow me to do so.
This very work is actually the first long novel I’ve written. I’m still very much an amateur, and I started writing on this without giving the plot much thought. For that, the web novel version didn’t receive much proofreading or other adjusting, making it hard to grasp the information presented, which in turn made it difficult to read, and I’m aware of that. Naturally, that has been fixed and changed heavily in this publicized version. However, there were still people who found interest in the novel and saw its charm. And if not for their votes, I’m sure the novel would not have turned out the way it has now. I really think I was lucky to have such wonderful readers supporting me.
Following that, I’d like to talk about Kakuyomu for a moment. Using its service, I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit reading mystery novels. I encountered many novels. Some used supernatural phenomena and riddles, others came with twists at every corner, all their own special twist…And yet, it felt like many of these novels were still being slept on by people. So, I hope that at least some of the people reading this afterword go and check out some novels on Kakuyomu later. In that sense, I also plan on adding some side stories about Robber Rabbit eventually, so keep an eye out for that.
Finally, I would like to give my thanks. First of all, I’d like to thank everyone who voted for this novel and advertised it online. Next up is Mr. S, who helped me rework everything immensely. I believe that this novel has become a lot easier to read and understand thanks to their work. Of course, my editor and proofreader from the publisher helped even more with that. And I can’t forget to thank my illustrator Yoneyama-sama for providing all those wonderful illustrations.
And last but definitely not least, my greatest thanks go to everyone who read this novel until the very end. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Tachibana Yuma
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