Translator's note: This isn't a proper chapter, but I felt that the novel wouldn't be properly complete without including the author's afterword. As a result, this will be the last page linked in the main novel. The extras will be posted as well once I've completed translating them, but they will be posted independently, linked only to the main page of contents rather than the novel itself. - When I invited feedback, this novel of mine was completed incredibly well; it didn't count as sluggish, nor hasty; everything I wanted to say, I had said entirely, and it hadn't yet come to the time when either of us were fed up with the other. But when I typed out the three characters of "this novel is complete", because of the disappointment on my face, it became very ugly. I've said it many times; writing this novel was unexpected. Originally, it ought to have ended on the first chapter, and ended without finishing what had been started. There wasn'...