As those of you still reading can see, this was the story of the last Anno to receive an independent arc.
I once heard someone say that if a story wasn't good enough, it was surely because it wasn't long enough. But I couldn't write good stories, and when I kept stretching not-so-good stories out, they became what they are today.
This book was like a marathon. Some people had already run far ahead of me, while others were doing their best to catch up.
I knew I would never take that final championship, but I also knew that all I could do was keep running, because that was the only thing I could do.
Do you remember when Rider Anno ended last year? I said something in the afterword at the end of that volume.
I said I would see whether I could become the first author among all FGO fanworks to write all the way through the end of 2.0.
Those words still held true today. I would keep at it—keep at it until the very end.
This might be something that rubs everyone the wrong way, but in a commemorative standalone chapter like this, I felt it was better to speak honestly.
I was very grateful to everyone who had been reading since the very beginning, but at this point, I honestly no longer cared whether anyone was still running alongside me. Some things became obsessions in a person's life.
No matter how many setbacks you went through, no matter what continuing that activity might do to your life, you would still want to keep doing it. That was what I was doing now.
To be upfront with everyone, this book had completely stopped making money by now.
After taxes, this month's income was only a little