How a Realist Hero Rebuilt The Kingdom Book 12: Afterword

Book 12: Afterword

Midword

Thank you for reading volu 12 of Realist Hero. This is Dojyomaru, who ca down with the flu early this year, and then was hospitalized a week later due to an intestinal obstruction caused by gastroenteritis. It was a painful lesson on the importance of health.

This volu is the rcenary State Zem arc, but the story centers around the issues surrounding the House of Carmine which had been left untouched, as well as foreign relations. Continuing from the last volu, which focused on internal affairs, it concludes the story of the 1548th Year, Continental Calendar.

I really struggled with the page structure for these two volus.

In the web version, the previous volu and this ones Zem arc ford a single volu, but there was too much text to be contained in one release, but not enough material in the Zem arc to fill a volu on its own.

In the past, Ive written that one of the strengths of web novels is that you dont have to worry about the page count, and you can write as much as you want. I got a lot of feedback on that, but with freedom cos responsibility. Youre guaranteed to pay a price for doing things however you please later. Be careful.

Because of that, after this midword there are so interludes set after Souma and the others return to the Kingdom, and the prologue to next volus Nine-Headed Dragon Archipelago arc. It was a little too long to fit into the next volu, so in a way, things worked out just right.

I hope you will stick with to the end.

Oh, and, and...

I believe this has already been advertised online, as well as on the band wrapped around the cover in the original physical publishing, so you should already know, but Realist Hero is getting an ani.

Yes. Seriously.

This is thanks to all of you whove supported the series.

Im truly grateful.

There is an ani coming... is the only information Im allowed to reveal so far. I cant talk about it myself, but Im sure Overlap will continue releasing information as things move along. Please, wait for it.

Now then, I give my thanks to the artist Fuyuyuki; to Mr. Satoshi Ueda of the manga adaptation, which I am enjoying reading as it cos out; to my editor; to the designers; to the proofreaders; and to all of you reading this now.

This has been Dojyomaru.