A Simple Summary of This Book

Let's briefly summarize this book.

I originally planned to say something at the end of the chapter, but there was quite a lot to talk about, so I decided to post a separate afterword.

First of all, thank you all for your support and for enjoying the book.

Jars marks Rune's fourth year as a writer. It is also Rune's best-performing book to date, though of course it has continued Rune's usual old problem.

--Writing only around certain feel-good moments, which leaves the later plot lacking strength.

Any longtime reader of Rune's knows this problem for sure. Basically, every book has been like this.

Development, Master, Enlightenment, and now Jars.

The opening is very satisfying, but the middle and later stages become weaker.

Actually, Rune knows that the essence of this book lies in its first million words. In the Hokage and Pirate world arcs, Rune wrote what he wanted to write and had fun doing it, the highlights were clear, and the readers had fun reading it.

This was reflected in the results as well.

The Hokage and Pirate arcs reached the level of ten thousand monthly subscribers.

When the Pirate arc ended, Rune's average subscription count was 9,300.

Unfortunately, it failed to break ten thousand in the end, but that was still a very good result.

However, writing a book around individual highlights made it impossible to sustain.

Once the focus shifted away from those highlights, the results began to decline sharply.

After all, quite a number of readers came to watch the protagonist show off.

That was an unavoidable filtering of the readership.

So, of the six or seven hundred thousand words that followed, the readers who remained were all people who could tolerate an ensemble cast—which was still quite a lot, of course. The later results