Afterword: Finally, I Don't Have to Name Chapters

[All the afterwords gathered together. Don't ask why I put them all in one chapter. If you ask, it's because I don't know. Around nineteen thousand words in total, I guess.]

Honkai World. January 11, 2017.

More than two years had passed since Gu Yu disappeared.

And over those two years, Azuma Yuno had finally accepted reality.

The man who had stood between her, everyone else, and danger was gone.

According to the ghosts who had impersonated Otto and Amber alongside Gu Yu, after sensing an abnormality in the core inside his body, Gu Yu had chosen to go somewhere unknown to fight.

And judging by the circumstances at the time, that place had not been in the real world.

"Imaginary Space... so this was where Mr. Gu Yu vanished in the end."

Over the past two years, everyone had tried countless methods in an attempt to bring Gu Yu back to their side.

But every one of those methods had ended in complete failure.

Perhaps she had yet to give up hope in her heart, but Azuma Yuno knew very well that the battle was not over.

"According to Ms. Schariac, after waking up, Miss Kiana gradually recalled fragments of what happened back then."

"The Herrscher of the End was defeated by Mr. Gu Yu. And the Honkai in our world had completely become an unruly rabble without a leader... Heh, no, that wasn't right."

"The Honkai had been an unruly rabble from the very beginning."

That day, all the true Herrschers had their authorities taken away when the Honkai God denied their legitimacy.

Yet Pseudo Herrschers like Yuno and Yae Sakura had instead retained their Herrscher authorities and the integrity of their cores because they had not caught the Honkai God's attention.

After that battle, although the cores