(In a daze) Before I knew it... (flipping through) it was already 910,000 words!
Why write these remarks... Because everyone else was writing one, and I wanted to as well. (you)
But honestly, Didn't Know What to Say... Friends who have read this far all know how this book came about, so... Until Now, I still hadn't figured out how I ended up here.
At first, I was a short story writer. I uploaded this book entirely on an impulse, so I think many people could probably tell from the beginning—well, How to Put It... I wrote Volume 1's opening like a PowerPoint presentation.
It was like breaking the original work's key plot points into scene after scene, then stuffing a character into every segment, ultimately creating the effect seen in Volume 1 and the beginning of Volume 2—a story linked together by one event after another, lacking transitions.
This was a writing habit I retained from writing short stories.
In fact, before I truly began thinking about this book's future, the plot I had planned only went as far as the end of Volume 1: Tingen City's conclusion and Alice's death.
Even when I was thinking about what to write, I never changed Volume 1's ending. This was... room I left for myself to regret it.
—If I couldn't keep writing, I could just end it there.
But As of Today, I... I no longer dared to casually run away. (closing eyes)
One reason was that bizarre coincidence I mentioned in the author's notes. When I went to check Alice's birthday, I was shocked to discover that, on a whim, I had changed the date for retrieving the Dice of Probability from the following morning to That Evening. Then, after deciding on her birthday and calculating the dates... Holy