Because of some issues with the backend system, the chapter divisions got mixed up. These chapters were clearly part of the eleventh arc, yet they were placed in the tenth. The tenth it was, then. The original tenth arc was rather short anyway, so starting from the next chapter, it would count as the eleventh arc.
I had originally planned to write a horror and supernatural world.
But the more I pondered it, the more I felt that simple horror and supernatural elements were not interesting. What was truly terrifying was not fabricated, illusory ghosts and monsters, but something else.
Let me say this in advance: the next arc might get censored.
When I wrote, I was absolutely upright and righteous; there was no way I would promote crooked paths and evil doctrines. But censorship these days was baffling, and I could not be sure either. All I could say was, if you wanted to read it, read it quickly. Who knew which day a chapter might vanish, one chapter less at a time.
To avoid censorship, I would do my utmost.
The setting was completely fictionalized. Do not ask me what era it was, do not ask what country Wa Country was, and do not ask where Nie's City was.
This story was purely fictional. Any resemblance was coincidental—Heaven's Punishment.
As usual, I would spend a day pondering the story's direction.