Heavy Object

Volume 6, Afterword

This is the sixth volume. I wonder if this series has finally gotten long enough to require true courage to buy every volume at once.

This is Kamachi Kazuma.

This time, Quenser and Heivia were sent all over the place to force them outside of the usual framework of war. They experienced war near the very top where huge amounts of money are used to make use of Objects and war near the very bottom where deaths are not even officially recorded. ...Which one do you think is worse?

I don’t know if I should say “finally” or “at last” or what, but I actually showed some members of the royals who stand at the top of the Legitimacy Kingdom.

Killing hundreds of rank and file commoner soldiers is no big deal, but assassinating a single royal requires a tremendous amount of preparation. I hope that was enough to show you that even the protagonists’ side has a twisted foundation to their society.

I felt I needed to have an Object worthy of those at the very top, so I used the Broad Sky Saber which was created from analysis of the Tri-Core of a different world power.

The idea of the laser space elevator appeared in Adoption War, but this was the first time for one to actually appear. It is called an elevator, but it is not actually physically connected by a wire. Similar technology actually exists, so anyone interested should go check it out. The real ones are only at an experimental stage though, so they are guided by a wire. Did you think it had enough impact to live up to the name of the third generation?

But there is no such thing as a perfect Object. The Broad Sky Saber here and the Break Carrier from Adoption War were both extreme long range types and their problem was in the targeting. They would probably be horribly matched against the Strategic Antenna that appeared in the magazine short story.

As you could probably tell from reading any one volume, the world of Heavy Object is a shitty world where the good are not rewarded and the evil are not punished.

I figured it would be hard for justice to win through in the end in a world like that, so I had a certain group head through the mud for three years this time.

I give my thanks to my illustrator Nagiryo-san and my editor Miki-san. All the different characters involved due to the main characters constantly getting sent to different places must have made this a troublesome novel to work on. I am truly thankful this time as well.

And I give my thanks to the readers. I started this series to show off the exhilaration of flesh-and-blood soldiers destroying a giant weapon, but it has made a lot of detours on its way to this sixth volume. I plan to continue pursuing that sense of exhilaration, so I hope you stay with me.

I hope this book will remain in your heart in some way.

I shall lay down my pen here.

I will leave the means of defeating the laser Object in Chapter 2 as a problem for you to work out.

-Kamachi Kazuma