This book was ready to go premium. First of all, I wanted to thank every reader for all your support since the book began. Without all of you, I probably would not have made it to this day.
This should have been the first time I had ever put a book behind a paywall, and also the first time I had written an author's note for it. I did not know what to say, so I would just talk about this book.
The original intention behind this book was to write an ordinary otherworld novel. The gender-bender content was simply the author's personal kink, so I could only apologize to readers who felt confused by that, but I would not change it. But an ordinary otherworld novel alone would have been too dull, so I borrowed settings from games and the Great Transmigration: hundreds of millions of players descended upon another world at the same moment, sparking all kinds of conflicts and collisions between natives and players, players and players, and natives and natives.
Put that way, it sounded rather like... disposable isekai trash. If I added a protagonist with a worthless, garbage class who got looked down on by classmates playing the same game, then endured humiliation until she accidentally obtained a divine artifact, rose to prominence, slapped faces left and right, and received one fanservice scene after another... then it would be a textbook disposable otherworld story.
I had no interest in that sort of story, so I definitely would not write it that way.
So I added things I was good at, or rather, things I liked: apocalyptic theory and fatalism. Using the grand narrative of the end of the world as both the theme and the protagonist's driving force saved time and effort. I would not