* * *
* * *
Hello, this is Nariata.
The series began on March 16, 2021, and was completed with the epilogue on June 21, 2023. Just two years and three months. It’s been serialized for a whopping 27 months… It feels unrealistic. Now that I’ve reached the completion mark, I feel a bit sad.
Over the past two years and three months.
It really seems like I ran like crazy.
I feel like I’ve grown a lot while writing.
I’m going to throw away the warrior’s party, or shortened to the warrior’s party, it was my first work. This was my first time writing a novel for this long, and the first time I received so many responses. I remember feeling amazed because it was my first time.
I really think everything was amazing.
Receive fan art, climb the rankings, have an illustration drawn, win a popularity poll held on the platform, hold an autograph session, get a webtoon confirmed, etc.
I think I have received so many things that I wonder if I can enjoy this honor. That’s why I’m always grateful to my readers. I think I could fill the review with thank you notes! That’s why I’m going to keep it short because it’s going to be burdensome.
I was always grateful.
It was difficult, but looking back, I think the two years and three months I spent serializing Yongpa was the brightest time of my life. In fact, Yongpa was like a turning point that became a success experience in my life.
It’s not a very special story, though.
I once failed the entrance exam and had to retake the exam. I remember it was probably around that time that I first encountered a web novel. “
While all my friends were enjoying the lives of twenty-year-old adults, graduating from high school, going to college, planning for the military, and working part-time, I entered a re-education academy. When I think about it now, it wasn’t such a hopeless situation, but at the time, I remember feeling anxious at the thought of falling behind.
I wake up at 6 a.m., take a shower, and go to school.
My daily routine is to return to the small gositel at 10 o’clock at night, wash up, and fall asleep.
There was nothing fun about it, the atmosphere was dull, and there were no immediate results, but I still endured each day, relying on the vague expectation that this time would be rewarded by getting into a good university. Then one day, I came across a web novel.
It was fun. Really, so much.
At lunchtime, everyone ate at the cafeteria below the academy, but I ran to the gositel, turned on my cell phone, and read web novels. I would spend my time at the academy pondering over the content of two or three episodes during lunch and another two or three during dinner.
Then, I think there were more than one occasion where I opened my notebook and scribbled down the contents of a novel, or even spent time writing a novel.
During those times, I used to have delusions. I also want to write a novel like this. When I get to college, I have to try writing. Let’s publish a series of web novels. While I was having that delusion, I was scribbling down various things in my notebook…
That became a reality through the serialization of Yongpa.
Really, when I first paid for it… I was so happy when I could call myself a writer. How excited I was at the thought that my dream had come true. Maybe that’s why I really changed everything I had during Yongpa.
I wouldn’t call it the best, though.
I think I put my best into Yongpa.
I was greedy and racked my brain as I wrote. As a result, there may have been gaps, and there may have been scenes that divided likes and dislikes, but I think we always tried to show the story as interesting as possible.
So, when I engraved the word ‘complete’ into my novel, I felt proud. You managed to come this far. I’m a little embarrassed, but I’m really proud of myself haha;”
Once again.
Thank you so much for joining us this far.
Thanks to you all, we were able to come this far.
“I love you, readers!”
#Aside.
As a side note, the webtoon adaptation is progressing well! I’ll give you good news soon :D”
And for my next project, I plan to take a two-month break before coming back. I have a few works in mind, but to briefly describe them, they are as follows.
1. Tower climb.
2. The story of a mercenary who wields a ghost sword (inhabited by the ghost of the first sword saint) and engages in fantasy action-slash action.
3. The story of a magic academy cadet who is a wizard who hates swords, but cries out when he discovers the qualities of a sword master.
4. The story of a story agent who goes around novels that have been discontinued and wraps up the stories.
You may choose between these, or it may be a completely different story, or you may end up with a hybrid of all four. I’m going to take a good rest for two months and think about it slowly.
Thank you for reading this long, rambling post.
“This concludes the review!”
