When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace: Volume 13 E-Book

Kota Nozomi

• Herausgeber: J-Novel Club
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Serie: When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 26

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

At last, a long-fated reunion: Guiltia Sin Jurai and Kiryuu Heldkaiser Luci-First are face-to-face once more, and their meeting spells both the end of the Fifth Spirit War and the inevitable collision of their respective commonplace and supernatural tales!

Or at least...that was the plan. Stories, however, rarely develop in exactly the directions their authors intend them to, and Sagami isn’t the only character in Kiryuu’s tale who’s decided to jump the rails and take their role in a whole new direction. As plot threads, character arcs, and last second twists collide, it’s anyone’s guess who might have what it takes to thwart Kiryuu’s nefarious master plan for Andou and the literary club—or, for that matter, to figure out what his master plan even is.

The time has come. The die is cast. The beginning of the end of the beginning...has begun.

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Prologue

“All’s well that ends well” is a phrase that seems to come up all the time, isn’t it? It comes up so often, in fact, that I’d hesitate to call it a saying or an aphorism, and I’d certainly never think to look up its origins. It’s a common phrase—a conventional one. A phrase that spreads from person to person as naturally as could be...which you might say attests to the fact that it expresses a broad and general truth.

All’s well that ends well. It sounds like a positive sentiment, at first blush—like it’s saying that no matter what trials and tribulations you may go through, they’ll all be water under the bridge when everything’s over. It’s very easy to read another implication into that interpretation, however: that when all’s said and done, the results are all that matter. It implies that no matter what incredible things may have happened over the course of the process, if the ending doesn’t satisfy—if the results don’t live up to expectations—then everything that came before is rendered meaningless.

We only get to be judged by how hard we work—by the effort that we put in over the course of an endeavor—until we graduate from school. After that point, we’re thrust into society at large, where results are everything. Yes, I’m still actively living out my student years even as I say these words, and yes, it’s a little embarrassing to monologue about what it’s like out in society considering that...but I think this is something that even students like me can understand. Nobody’s naively optimistic enough to not catch on to these things eventually.

People—especially celebrities and fictional characters—love talking about how hard work is always rewarded, but from another perspective, wouldn’t that mean that hard work that isn’t rewarded can’t be counted as hard work at all? It’s a concept that hints that those who never produce results have no right to be proud of the effort that they put in. Kinda puts the harsh reality of society on display, doesn’t it?

In the end, everything is defined by results. It’s only by achieving clear success—by reaching an ending—that the process of putting in hard work is recognized as hard work.

All’s well that ends well. Results are everything.

But there’s one thing...just one complaint that I’d like to raise about that idea. Indeed, I hold a single objection to this particular truth of the world—namely, I believe there’s an exception to the otherwise universal rule that is “all’s well that ends well.”

That exception’s identity: fiction.

When it comes to manga, anime, novels, light novels, and on and on—to fiction of all shapes and sizes—I believe that results are not, in fact, everything. I believe that a story’s result—in other words, a story’s ending—doesn’t define that story in its entirety.

This is really hard to put into words, but there are a lot of stories out there with endings that, well...suck. I mean, maybe saying that they suck