Chapter 294
However, actually, I don't like saying goodbye.
Nothing is truly gone forever.
Even for those who have passed away, when laws that defy common sense override reality, there still exists a path full of infinite possibilities to guide them.
That's why I like the supernatural.
Instead of "I can actually be an Ajin-girl".
Okay, actually that's one of the reasons I like it.
By the way, I actually quite like magical girls too.
Let's leave the farewell lines here.
There will be partings, but no permanent farewells.
I should say...
"I will become the god of the new world!"
The pen fell to the ground, the diary closed, and the perfect notification sound echoed in my ears.
"Reading completed for today, Reading Points +1"
On one side, there was the same familiar voice ringing in the girls' ears, a signal of the end and the beginning of night.
There were ten girls in this room.
Unfortunately, he only had two hands and an As-You-Will Gold-Banded Staff.
There is no doubt that a 'war' needs to be waged.
[Today's record completed, this record is rated 'S', reward being drawn.]
On the other hand, Asakusa Toru, who is writing and recording, will hear the same voice as always.
[Successful draw! Congratulations on winning the 'Promax Diary that rewards you simply by writing in your diary'.]
[The Diary has been merged and evolved.]
[You can now check the holder of the Diary Copy and their reading activity at any time.]
[You can now send Diary Copy at any time by specifying the coordinates.]
[You can use your diary points to play with the 'Deep Blue! Add points!' meme, pushing your power beyond its current limits and achieving extraordinary power.]
[Your daily journal rewards will no longer be linked to your rating.]
The 'Advanced Nurturing' Diary Copy has completed its story recording. You can now selectively overlay the corresponding information with Cognition Filter to protect this past.
The words you hear signify the end of a phase, and the Cognition Filter quietly falls away with your thoughts.
Now, the last concern has disappeared.
Power and the desire to conquer began to rise.
In response to the girls' expectations.
The night's battle began to grow noisy.
The next day.
Class 1-D, Grade 1, Asakusa Toru.
He announced his withdrawal from school.
At the same time.
A new copy of the Diary, snapped shut.
It smashed onto the heads of countless people.
[Hello, this is the God of the New World. Get ready, I'm about to expose your dark past.]
The black text appeared word by word on the opened pages.
(End of text)
Author's Closing Remarks
Oh, it's finished.
This is yet another author's closing statement.
Before I give my acceptance speech, let's have a questionnaire to get your criticism.
The last time the question was phrased as best and worst, but the feeling and perception were different. This time, let's change the way we ask the question.
What do you think is the best part of this book (women, pranks, or something similar), from a particular angle?
What do you think is the worst part of this book? Refer to the previous paragraph and consider a specific aspect.
Let's get back to the remarks.
I have mixed feelings about this book, after all, it's my first truly excellent book.
For authors, if they can produce a bestseller, they will naturally write as much as they can, the more the better.
Although this book wasn't a bestseller, in my limited writing experience, it was relatively profitable.
But I still finished it at this word count.
Because I couldn't write anymore.
How early is "early"? Um, about 300,000 words...
Cough cough...
How should I put it? It's not that I really can't write anymore, but if I had to say...
It's probably a matter of mindset.
It has content, an outline, and follow-up plans; the path forward is clear, so you can just move forward.
But my mentality suddenly collapsed.
Fortunately, I quickly adjusted my mindset, so it can't really be said to be 300,000 words; it's a bit further in, around 800,000 words.
The reason I lost my composure after writing 300,000 words is simple: I never expected that the wooden cabinet was dead, or rather, not dead, but simply not suitable for the version. In addition, although my positioning is a crossover anime, it is actually Classroom of the Elite from beginning to end. If I had to say it's a crossover, it's just an extra; if it's well-written, it adds points, and if it's poorly written, it deducts a lot of points.
I didn't actually realize this before I started writing. I was somewhat influenced by the book reviews. I wanted to try to write a good extended crossover storyline because if this thing was successfully expanded, there would be so much more content to write. With more content, updates could be increased, there would be more to do, more updates could be released, word count would increase rapidly, performance would rise steadily, and the more words you wrote, the more money you would make, with wealth flowing in from all directions!
--But it wasn't written well.
It hit me hard with a snap, the drop was so huge, it really felt like half my heart just sank out.
From then on, I started writing 4,000 words a day, combining daily updates with other daily updates, because I couldn't write anymore; even writing 4,000 words a day was exhausting.
I really want to update more frequently; the more I update, the more I earn. Why not? Who wants to earn 40,000 a day when they can earn 10,000?
It wasn't fatal back then. I could still write something, and I had content to share. Even though I dropped a bit, it was still a pretty good result, much better than my previous year. After all, the starting point was high, so it couldn't have fallen too far.
However... after dragging my feet all the way to the end of the Uninhabited Island, the story completely fell apart.
It's not because I wrote about the Uninhabited Island, but because of the three romantic storylines that followed.
Some people say I shouldn't have given so many points, that it's too overpowered and there's nothing left to write.
Maybe, but that's not the main reason.
If they really want to mess with me, I definitely have something to do.
The part in the dream was me trying to pull off a big project.
But it seems a bit too big, turning the impact from a shock into a collision.
Subscriptions will be cut off in half.
So I basically gave up on any more creative ideas, I'm a bit too tired to do anything else, and I turned my attention to pushing the romance storyline.
From the very beginning, my goal was to collect them all.
The little Angel want to eat, the Archangel want to eat, the Little Princess want to eat, the NPCs want to eat—in short, everyone needs to eat.
Writing it means they intend to buy it.
Unfortunately, I was somewhat powerless to continue in the later stages, so I could only pick and choose the important ones to collect.
Perhaps I wasn't in a good state of mind, because my handling of Shiina Hiyori wasn't good enough. To be frank, that was the part that caused me the most writer's block and the most pain at the time.
As it turned out, the results were not as good as I had imagined.
But to be honest, it didn't drop that much... well, actually it wasn't a small amount either; in terms of numbers, it almost matched the drop in the dream world.
But the impact on me wasn't as severe as the final, brutal blow.
Yes, it's Karuizawa.
The last paragraph about Karuizawa dropping was so bad it shattered my defenses. I never imagined that writing about such a popular female protagonist from the original work would result in such a major drop.
I'm already within kill range.
In retrospect, I realized that I hadn't really written much of Karuizawa's storyline in the early stages, and pushing it all out at this point was definitely wrong.
Moreover, my characterization wasn't likable enough, and I subconsciously emphasized the label of being from Class D, resulting in two God-man tormenting each other.
But the principle of accepting all input was set from the beginning. If we don't accept input and don't provide Classroom of the Elite, what's the point of writing anything? Are we really going to hold Special Exam?
So even though I realized the problem, there was no turning back in this direction, so I could only catch the last train and stride headlong towards the final destination.
Play the music of my death.
So beautiful.
Regarding the Uninhabited Island section, as mentioned earlier, some people felt the score was too high.
But I really think it should be this high.
You're just a PE student from White Room, and you can't even get this many points? What are you even doing playing on the Uninhabited Island?
To avoid making a pure one-sided game too boring, I did a lot of other things, one after another, trying my best to find loopholes in all the rules from various angles.
I really think it's fun, isn't it?
There are foreshadowing elements, plot twists, and emotional moments. Except for their own class, which seems to be AFK, the storylines for all three classes are fully developed.
Then, because I had a brain freeze one day and inserted a chapter during the reward settlement, my subscriptions dropped significantly.
Devastated.
Personally, I think the Uninhabited Island is the pinnacle of Classroom of the Elite Fantasy. Whether it's the original work or fan fiction, you have to reach a peak here. Classroom of the Elite for the Final Fantasy without enjoying the Uninhabited Island is incomplete.
Although most fanfiction fades away after the Uninhabited Island, I personally usually stop reading Classroom of the Elite of the Three Kingdoms fanfiction after finishing the Uninhabited Island.
But I still have to write, write furiously, write like crazy, write with all my might!
Actually, it's not impossible to write about the Uninhabited Island ending. It's only a little over two thousand points, not a huge difference. What's a thousand-point gap? Just intensify the competitive spirit of the lower-ranked classes. You can easily write about it up to the second grade.
But the turning point was with the VIP, because I died, so I killed everyone and floored the gas pedal.
Well, anyway, the Uninhabited Island is finished, and the Classroom of the Elite is also complete.
As for Nagumo and the like, he was the kind of person who should have been kicked to death. Why waste so much ink writing about him jumping up and down?
As for the crossover/anime/manga part...
I am trying. Even if it's just an experiment, Kaguya Shinomiya and Mashiro won't feel too out of place. In fact, the first two or three chapters interspersed with them should have worked quite well.
But I died before I could even start collecting the crossover anime storylines.
We can only wrap things up roughly; we can't just pretend this never happened.
That's all I'll say about the plot; there's not much more to say. It's a chain reaction. The most fatal flaw is that I have no drafts saved up, so I can't even get the half-year bonus of 150,000 words per month. Otherwise, I could have just released a massive amount of chapters and that would have been the end of it.
Next time, I must reclaim the glory of my draft-writing warrior spirit.
I didn't have high expectations for this book at first; I thought it would be around 2,000 words, which is about the same range I could reach as I slowly wrote my previous book.
In fact, I didn't have high expectations at first, because the feedback wasn't good, and God felt it wasn't worth it.