The author’s expression corner known as the Afterword has begun -- since I didn’t write it there, I’ll write it here! Since I’m as excited to be writing here as I am over there, please understand if I make any minor mistakes!

名为后记的作者杂感开始了——因为在那边没有写过所以就在这边写了！因为和那边是同一种兴致，要是有错字还多多包涵！

Hm? This isn’t written in the same style as the afterwords to date? Hm. That might be so. After all, I didn’t even write in the thanks at the end! Perhaps all the author’s thoughts have always been like that!

嗯？和至今为止的后记的性格有点不一样？嗯。说不定确实是这样。毕竟连往常会添在最后的谢辞都没写呢！不如说杂感一直都是这种感觉哦！

--And so, this is the 14th book to me. Therefore, while I apologize to those people who are looking forward to Volume 14, Maruyama’s heart is filled with the feeling that he’s finished Volume 14. The next one will be Volume 15~

——就是这样，个人来说这就是十四卷。所以、虽然对期待着本篇十四卷的人很抱歉，丸山心里充满了已经把十四卷写完了的心情。下次就是十五卷了呢——

How do you feel after reading this spinoff?

读了这样的异闻的感想如何呢。

Do you think Suzuki Satoru, as the MC of a LN, feels different from how Overlord has been until now?

作为轻小说系主人公悟君的故事，是否和至今为止的『overlord』有些不一样的感觉呢？

The battle scene in this book might have ended up becoming confusing. Originally, perhaps there might have been a need to go “this is why he did so and so” but I deliberately omitted it. This work really does place a big burden on its readers. Perhaps I might have failed as a LN author, but like I’ve said many times, I personally think “it doesn’t matter if you don’t understand.”

这次的战斗场景恐怕变成了有些让人不明所以的感觉。本来的话也许有对「这个行动有什么意义」进行说明的必要，但却故意省略了。真的是增添了读者负担的作品呢。虽然以小说家来讲说不定失格了，但就像我反复说过很多次那样，个人觉得「就算看不懂也没什么关系嘛」。

Incidentally, while my editor keeps telling me “please make it easier to understand”, I haven’t heard him say that recently. Like how I don’t want to clearly refer to Mare as a man and all that. While I’ve been using my own made up terms, so I think “everyone who knows gets it, right?” But then the editor stopped me from doing that. Ah, how nostalgic. That’s a story from behind the scenes when I was writing the first volume.

顺带一提虽然以前常常被编辑说「请写的更简单易懂一点」，但最近不怎么有听到这句话了呢。

比如不想明确的在马雷身上使用「男人」的表现之类的。虽然有在使用自造词之类的，所以觉得「懂的人都懂吧？」。但是却被编辑阻止了。真是让人怀念的回忆呢。这是执笔第一卷时的背后小故事。

This was supposed to be a deluxe edition bonus, but I selfishly insisted that they publish it as a book. Does it feel like it could stand on the shelves with the other volumes? If so, that would make me very happy. Also, I originally wanted to add the stories of the first of the Thirteen Heroes at the end, but I felt that it would mess with the tone of the epilogue, so I removed it. I have the feeling Overlord will end without those stories ever being told!i

这次、虽然是特典但却相当认真地说着任性话把它书籍化了。是否有做到和其它卷一起排列在书架上也完全不会输的程度呢？如果这么觉得的话真的是非常高兴。还有本来想在最后稍微添上十三英雄中最初的英雄们的事的，但觉得会导致尾声的余韵消失就删掉了。总感觉到最后也不会讲述那些人的故事『overlord』就那样结束的吧！

Now, my thoughts about the various characters:

对各个角色的杂感

Satoru-san: He’s a man who routinely plays dirty to win. You should have seen how noble he was when fighting Shalltear. That said, this Satoru-san is the one who comes off as a good guy overall. Perhaps he would be this way if not for Nazarick. Does he seem like someone else? But he ought to have a personally that’s just as twisted as his main line incarnation.

悟桑：为了胜利的话会很平常地使用一些肮脏手段的人。在夏提雅战的时候到底有多么光明正大大家有体会到吗。话虽如此，从全体来看意外地看上去是个好人便是这次的悟桑了，要是没有纳萨力克的话恐怕就会是这样的吧。看上去有点像是其他人？但是应该有很多地方体现出和本篇一样性格扭曲的地方才对。

Keno-san: Did she achieve happiness in this story…? Very well, then … ahem!

琪诺桑：在这个故事中有变得幸福吗…………？很好，那么……咳咳！

As for what will happen after the epilogue, Maruyama has a vague idea for that in his mind. But please, imagine it however you like, everyone.

关于在尾声之后会变得怎样，丸山的脑海中也朦胧地有一种构思。但是大家请按大家喜欢的来想就行！

...But how will things develop? Will they fight? Will they run? Or will they meet? Or perhaps an even more different path? I would be very glad if you think “If I could write it” when you go to bed. I have the feeling that if Satoru-san shared his knowledge with them, the New Ainz Ooal Gown could finish off the Pleiades by themselves. They would be the world’s dream team. Well, as long as no other powerful beings join the battle.

………会变成什么样的展开呢？战斗？逃走？或者说是去相见？又或者说是更加不同的道路呢？当钻入被子里的时候，要是能「如果自己来写的话」这样想的话就非常让人高兴了。要是有从悟桑那里得来的知识，只是昂宿星团那种程度的话，新生安兹·乌尔·恭的各位感觉完全可以只靠他们自己就干掉哦，是那个世界的梦之队哦。嘛、虽然没有加入的强者也有就是了。

Cure Elim-kun: Anyone who saw the character sheet at the end of the book should understand that he’s five levels lower than Satoru-san, so Satoru-san can definitely beat him -- will, if you think that, you’d be wrong. Even if they’re both level 100, Touch Me-san is way stronger than someone with 100 job levels. In contrast, as a member of the Dragon Race and with powerful job classes, Cure Elim-kun is actually more powerful than his 95 levels imply. Of course, thanks to level-based damage adjustment, his odds of victory are lower. Whether or not he really exists in the mainline novels is a secret for now. But if he does exist, his 200 years of study and accumulation mean that he will have fewer weaknesses than in this book.

裘亚伊里穆君：有看卷末的角色数据的话应该能明白，和悟桑是有五级的差距的。所以悟桑绝对能赢——要是这么想就大错特错了。就算是同为一百级，取得了一百个一级职业的存在和塔其米在强度上可是有天壤之别的。与此相同的、作为龙这种种族的同时，还取得了强力职业的裘亚伊里穆君虽然只有九十五级却有着在此之上的强度。当然、因为受到了等级差伤害补正，所以胜率确实会有所下降就是了。这家伙在本篇是否存在，这点就先保密吧。但要是存在的话，通过两百年钻研的积累，应该会变得比这次破绽更少吧。

Well, that’s how I feel about all that. Well, I look forward to seeing you in the next volume, which comes out in the middle of this year in the Maruyama Calendar.

Bye bye.

嘛、就是这种感觉。那么、期待着能在丸山历的今年年中的下一卷再会。

拜拜。

2019 April

Maruyama Golden