AFTERWORD

And, there it is...the penultimate volume to my long-running series.

Honestly, I didn't think I'd come this far.  There are a lot—and I mean, A LOT—of hurdles I crossed and needed to cross to reach the ultimate end, but here I am, still going on.

Well, I'm aware I may not have written the best story out there, but I did try my best to write coherently, and consistently.  Of course, this is a work of 'love,' rather than a desire to make money off it, as opposed to when I wrote the first volumes and chapters.  I was long disillusioned and slapped by the 'fact' that I may not be cut-out to be an author to the likes of Rowling, Tolkien, Lewis, and Yamaguchi (those are the writers I look up to).

Still, I want to continue and finish this work.  Starting from May 2019, I'm only one volume away from the ultimate end of this novel series, and yes, I'm working to write the final volume even as I juggle with my real life work, business...and occasional problems that come my way even as I'm doing my best not to piss off people.

So yeah, I hope I'll see you in the last volume.  Have a good life, peeps!