Monday, October 8, 1349. Hazy weather.
Sno arrived at the editorial office with his "new" manuscript. Since Phantom Blood was not particularly long, after more than a month of serialization, it was finally nearing its end. What he had brought today was the opening of the second part.
The editor did not have much to say about killing off the protagonist at the end of the first part. Or rather, in this era, people accustomed to traditional literature had fairly strong tolerance for such emotional gut punches, just as Baron Zeppeli had said—
"To love and gain the one you love is the finest thing. To love and lose them is second only to it."
After discussing the publication of the standalone volume with the young female editor, Sno took five sample copies and headed home. Compared with Phantom Blood, Battle Trend was clearly much longer. Conservatively estimated, it could support at least three months of updates. By then, Klein would have become a Marionettist.
"Should I start another project? Something like... Hellsing?" Sno considered his future update plans as he walked. From a certain perspective, his readers would also become his anchors. And Hellsing happened to contain abilities similar to his Sequence, though its setting would need some adjustments.
For instance, Nazi Germany could be changed into already-risen nations like Feysac and Intis. It could even be replaced with the Solomon Empire of the Fourth Epoch, using the Oathbreaker War or even the War of the Four Emperors in place of World War II. As for the Church, naturally it would be the Church of the Sun. After all, in Loen, the Church of the Sun counted as a cult, and those fanatics suited the Church of the Sun's characteristics as well...
Of course, those alterations could not be