Written at the End of the Volume (Ku'an's Completion, Congratulations)

Berserker Anno had come to an end, as the shortest volume in the entire book.

Actually, Berserker Anno had posed quite a challenge for me from the very beginning.

When I started writing this book, I wanted to cover all seven classes. I had a rough outline in mind for all the other classes, but Berserker was the one I truly had no idea how to approach.

A Berserker—berserker—had no sanity.

How was I supposed to write a protagonist with absolutely no rationality? That was a huge problem for me.

Would readers really like a protagonist with no sanity at all?

But later, around the end of Lawrence's arc, I came up with a good idea. Or at least, I think it was a good idea.

And that became the Berserker Anno arc everyone had just read.

I chose a rather unusual approach to write this anno.

I created a protagonist who was not the protagonist: Serim Zolgen.

And I also created another protagonist who was not the protagonist: Norla Broll, Arno No. 1.

I wondered what everyone thought of an anno like this. How would everyone evaluate it?

Just as I said in a previous comment:

In Britain, I wrote of Anno's loyalty and ode;

In Florence, I wrote of Lawrence's love and arrogance;

In Japan, I wrote of Sakumura's transformation and contradictions;

In Atlantis, I wrote of Oushen's freedom and resistance.

And now that we had reached London, after all those twists and turns, we had come full circle.

Yet this time, the theme was despair and madness.

The Berserker Anno arc also held some other special significance.

First, as the fifth personal anno arc, it connected the Saber, Caster, and Assassin arcs. Second, reaching this point meant that the first major section of this book was already