Written at the End of the Volume (1.6 Complete, Flowers Thrown)
Ah. (scratches head)
How should I put this...
Even though another very long story has come to an end, surprisingly, I don't feel the same way I did when the Rider Annanu arc ended.
But 1.6 really was long. You guys might not have noticed, but its word count has already surpassed Sakumura's arc, putting it third in the entire series. First and second are the Rider Annanu arc and the Archer Annanu arc, respectively.
Honestly, when writing a single Singularity, I never intended for it to get this long.
I feel like I've said this more than once already. (wipes sweat) Back when I wrote Assassin Annanu, I initially thought it could only be about a hundred thousand words. Later, when I wrote Rider Annanu, I figured it would max out at four hundred thousand. And then...
Those of you who have read 1.6 can probably tell that it really wasn't supposed to be this long.
A huge amount of the plot was spent patching up the Saber Annanu arc from over a thousand chapters ago, especially Pindo.
Pindo, I'm sorry, Pindo! (pounds the floor) Development that came eleven hundred chapters too late—eleven hundred chapters too late!!!
Let's talk seriously for a moment.
Pindo was probably one of my milestone-level failures.
He was clearly one of the first original Servants to appear, clearly the first original Servant in this book aside from the protagonist. It wasn't that he had no characterization in the Saber Annanu arc—it was that you couldn't see any at all. Though Saber Annanu herself didn't get much characterization in that arc either.
I was still too immature back then. I had no idea how to write a book. I gave it everything I had