How a Realist Hero Rebuilt The Kingdom Book 10: Afterword

Book 10: Afterword

Midword

Thank you very much for purchasing volu 10 of Realist Hero. This is Dojyomaru, who bought himself a road bike, and who has been physically unable to drive less than 40 kiloters on any day with clear skies since.

Road bikes: Theyre the vehicles of the devil. I chose a bike because of cost efficiency, but I never thought Id get this hooked...

That aside, lets talk about the main story. In this volu, Souma finally officially ascends the throne as king, and marries Liscia and the other girls. I suppose you could call this the end of the second part.

Oh! But the story goes on, so please stay with .

To tell you the truth about the romantic parts with the side characters in this volu, I hadnt originally planned to go into them so heavily.

I thought it would be fine to do the coronation and wedding ceremony, and just present the information that those characters were now married, too.

However, from readers following the story in real ti, I heard they wanted to conclude all of the other romances properly, so the wedding ceremony beca its own independent chapter. Its an unusually in-depth romance plot for this story.

Well, thats fine occasionally, right? This is the tenth volu milestone, so please overlook it if I let loose a little too much.

Though, from here on, we wont be able to dawdle.

With the appearance of Fuuga, the movent of the world is accelerating.

Souma has to prepare for the moving tis, and if he does sothing to prepare, Im sure that will agitate Fuuga, and push him to act even faster.

The way they influence one another will make the era move forward at an accelerating rate.

Although the next volu is of the internal politics kind. This is preparation, too.

Now then, after this midword, we have an extra story.

There were about fifty pages left to spare, so I went into detail depicting sothing that I hadnt yet, but wanted to eventually.

In terms of the tiline, its a little before the coronation. I considered placing it between the fourth and fifth chapters of this volu, but while this one is also a love story, it has a different atmosphere to it, so I separated it from the main story...

When I write these sorts of new stories, instead of a plot, I create a list of scenes I want to depict, and then as I depict them, they have a way of turning out feeling sowhat different from how I imagined. Its mysterious.

Now I give my thanks to the artist Fuyuyuki, who is the illustrator, to Mr. Satoshi Ueda of the manga adaptation, to my editor, to the designers, to the proofreaders, and to all of you now holding this book.

This has been Dojyomaru.

Now, please stay with through the extra story.