Tosho Meikyuu:Volume1 Afterword

Afterword

Nice to meet you, my name is Sei Toaza.

I am really glad that you have picked up ‘Library Labyrinth’.

■To you who is thinking of reading this ‘Library Labyrinth’.

This ‘Library Labyrinth’ is not a book written to satisfy every reader. There are lots of pages, has lots of difficult gimmicks, and has a second person perspective. I would say this is a ‘book’ that chooses its people.

But if you have ever wanted to ‘go elsewhere’ in your life till this point, this ‘Library Labyrinth’ is the 'book' for you.

The ‘Library Labyrinth’ is a labyrinth of books, an archive where all kinds of books humans can imagine lie in slumber. It is a library of the gods where you can find any story, like the ‘book of the strongest vampire’, ‘a book of a half-blood demon’, or a ‘book of a boy who lost his memory five years ago’.

This ‘Library Labyrinth’ is ‘a certain place elsewhere’ that I wrote to fulfil my desire to "go to a certain place elsewhere’.

I did my best to write it just to entertain you.

I hope this Library Labyrinth’ be your ‘elsewhere’.

■To you who have just finished reading ‘Library Labyrinth’.

First of all, thank you very much for reading this a thousand and one page story.

This work is a medieval magic battle fantasy vampire romantic comedy Labyrinth second person meta novel, the complete distillation of a ‘a certain place’ elements that I wish to present. It will be great if it can slightly satiate your ‘certain place’, even if just a little..

This ‘Library Labyrinth’ is a revised version of the ‘Vampire Tale of the Library Labyrinth’ which was submitted for the 10th MF Bunko J Newcomer Award. I could not compress it to within 300 pages for publication however, and so MF Bunko J made an exception to the standard ‘580 yen + tax’ price when selling this book exceeding 500 pages.

“If there aren’t enough pages, why can’t we just add more?” The editorial department's idea, really was liberating.

Thanks to their support, I was able to write everything I wanted to write (↓).

I want to marry a silver-haired immortal loli hag. I want live in the relic library and read forever.

Mildly put, I love magic duels with lots of chanting and shouting. I want to write a meta-novel in second person.

I wanna lick Arteria’s ribs. I wanna write a story about overcoming and rewriting the despair of the past!

…Ahem, I suppose I have gone overboard, so let us stop now.

The ‘Last Prayer of a Thousand and One Pages’ of this work has ended, but as long as there are pages in the ‘Library Labyrinth’, Arteria and Sōshi's happiness will continue.

I earnestly pray that I may have another chance to tell the never-ending story to you again.

Acknowledgments

To Takeishi-sama, editor-in-charge, thank you for your continued support. Three years after my visit to your editorial office in 2014, ‘Library Labyrinth’ is finally published.

I was able to continue to work on the story despite the long days of revision and agony, because you have been conveying your passion to ‘create a better book’.

If you hadn’t been my editor, and if it hasn’t been MF Bunko as the publisher, ‘Library Labyrinth’ probably wouldn’t exist. I’m truly grateful to you for nurturing an inexperienced author.

I hope to repay this grace from Takeishi-sama and MF Bunko J editorial department by writing a better story. I look forward to your continued support.

To the illustrator, Shirabi-sama. Thank you very much for your exquisite and beautiful illustrations that allow us to imagine the inner world of the characters. The key visual of Arteria standing in Labyrinth with flying pages and the cover of High Daylight Walker weeping at the closed 'book' let me so exhilarated that I could not sleep at all that night.

Expanding the world of the Library Labyrinth with illustrations is a tall order, but you fulfilled that perfectly. Thank you very much.

Now then—

The ‘Library Labyrinth’ is a labyrinth of books, an archive where all kinds of books, as far as humanity can imagine, remain in. Please head forth into the world of ‘books that can rewrite memories’ that rest upon the endless bookshelves.

With the book that contains everything in your hands, go and retrieve your lost memories.

You open the cover of ‘Library Labyrinth’ and begin to read the story written in it.

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