Book 4 Afterword
Afterword
That was Volume 4 of My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister.
This is Kamachi Kazuma.
With Academy City, the mobile maintenance battalion, the Intellectual Village, and Toy Dream 35, I seem to search for romance in the cities(?) I create. When I see cities in unlikely places — like Las Vegas in the middle of the desert, Venice on the sea, or Japan's Gunkanjima — I can just feel them tugging at my soul. I also love giant aircraft carriers and offshore oil fields.
So what is an American style of fear? I also focused on this boundary of horror between the East and the West when I was writing the Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village, but I focused on Western horror this time with the Nevada airbase, a mysterious lifeform recovered from Antarctica, and responding to insufficient firepower not by running away but by upping the scale and performing an aerial bombing.
Before, the battles were constrained to a simulator or a designated ring, but this was a true pandemic occurring in a real city. I think that was a major hurdle for this series to overcome.
Satori was so detached when it was virtual, but how much would he flee in terror in a real, unrestricted battle? How would he handle an Archenemy that did so much damage? I hope you enjoyed seeing those differences.
As for the guest heroine, Anastasia, a tiny genius girl who skipped to college is a difficult character to put in a Japanese school. All she needs to be perfect is an IQ of 180 and a mysterious PhD.
She is a Silky, a housekeeper fairy who wears all silk, but as you might guess from how she was called a Western Zashiki Warashi, that was some material I had placed in reserve thinking I could use it in Intellectual Village somewhere. (Unlike a Zashiki Warashi, the original Silky was a grown woman who would look good in a silk dress, but I made her very tiny instead. As a contrast to the sexy Zashiki Warashi, you see.)
My research suggests they're more aggressive and selfish than a Zashiki Warashi. In the story, Anastasia was a fairly self-centered hacker girl, but I hope you can add in some extra moe by imagining her dressing as a maid because she can't fight her nature. She is also an important character as someone other than Satori who properly understands Maxwell's value.
This was a special edition that took place in America, but it included a lot of important things like continuing with Volume 1's idea of a secret the bottom of a dam and Satori finding a new approach against the Calamity using a simulator. I hope you enjoyed it both on its own and as part of the continuing series.
I give my thanks to the image illustrator Mahaya-san and my editors Miki-san, Onodera-san, and Anan-san. Even when the scale rises from a city to a country, Satori is still Satori. I think that solid core comes from the strength of the original character rough I received. Thank you very much.
And I give my thanks to the readers. This series began as an experiment in releasing something on the web from the beginning instead of digitizing something from the paper format, but it only made it this far because of all your support. Thank you very much.
And I will end this here.
Ohh, I really want to put in a bunch of maps and a glossary...
-Kamachi Kazuma
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