Friends, Let's Chat

It was the Lunar New Year again. First, I wished all the friends who had stayed with Ant a happy New Year, may everything go your way, and may the Year of the Pig bring you great fortune.

Ant had a train at noon tomorrow and would get home the day after tomorrow.

What a coincidence.

This book had also come to an end here.

Whenever it came time for final remarks, I always complained to you readers about how hard it had been. I won't say that here—it would seem too pretentious. Let's just chat about everyday things.

[First, don't ask me whose child that was at the end.]

Because I didn't know either.

Take a guess. Anyway, there were only a few possible candidates.

One was Peggy Carter. Thinking back, Perona and the others had gotten pregnant at first too, but the embryos hadn't developed. Who knew whether something similar had happened after traveling to Marvel Earth? (shrug)

Of course, it could also have been Princess Crystal. Don't forget that Kino had had a fling with Crystal back then, though he hadn't taken her with him. Maybe...

So, don't ask Ant whose child it was.

Because I really didn't know!

Wahahaha--￣ω￣=

Actually, the original plan had been to keep writing about Kino traveling through other worlds. But since I'd messed it up, continuing on to another world felt pointless and unnecessary.

To be honest, as I wrote this book, it gradually drifted away from Ant's original intentions. People always said this couldn't be written, that writing it would get you killed; that couldn't be touched, that touching it would get you killed... But really, Ant wrote Marvel as a hobby, not as some professional Marvel scholar. It was just meant to be fun. So... things got