ALL NOVEL Chapter 149 - Author's notes.
TN: Thank James Baily for the chapter.
[…Okay, putting that aside. What are you making now?]
“Huh? Didn’t I explain it when I gathered you all?”
[No, I came in the middle because I heard it was something fun…]
“Ah…”
Did this guy join us in our work without even knowing what he was doing?
The girl sighed at the guy, curious about what she was doing.
Well, it’s the same for me and the other guys too.
Transcendents rush into anything as long as it’s fun, without even caring what it is.
He must have come running recklessly upon hearing rumors that we were doing something fun.
“I’m creating a world.”
[…What? You’re creating a world?]
“Yeah.”
[Is that possible?]
“It’s a bit difficult, but… With some help, I’ve made progress. You’ve seen it, so you know, right?”
[No, I thought they were having a meetup or something… I never thought you actually made it yourself.]
She couldn’t help but feel proud at the guy’s admiration.
Ahem, of course.
“It wasn’t as difficult as I thought.”
[Really?]
The guys know their fields better than anyone else, not just her.
It’s just that they’ve never tried to work together to create their own world before.
When far more transcendents than expected rushed towards a single goal, they were suddenly greeted by a newly created planet.
[So can we now interfere with the world as we please?]
“No. Not yet.”
[…What? You said we made it, no? Don’t tell me we can’t enter?]
“We did make it… But it’s still a prototype. This one is going to be discarded.”
It wasn’t as difficult as she thought.
…But that doesn’t mean it was easy.
If she told the Reader how many planets have been shattered and created so far, they would be surprised.
She turned her head slightly and saw the results of trial and error shoved in the corner over there.
Planets with failed temperature control, planets with incorrect atmospheric substances, planets that were given so much vitality that the planet itself became a single life form, and so on.
The planets they didn’t want were dying lonely deaths in a corner.
Seeing those planets, the guy in front of her also expressed doubt.
[This one looks fine, though?]
“Ah… That’s true. We’re close to completion.”
[Then why? Isn’t it fine?]
“… There’s a conflict of opinion. The final work has been halted.”
[Conflict of opinion?]
“Yeah.”
The girl sighed.
She felt a headache as she recalled the argument over the nearly completed world.
She was irritated by the thought of having to redo the world on the verge of completion due to that argument, but…
It wasn’t that she couldn’t understand.
She would have been the same if she were in their shoes.
“We’ve confirmed it’s an environment where humans can live, and we’ve solved most of the problems, but…”
[Then what’s the problem?]
“They started fighting among themselves over what kind of background they wanted…”
[Background…I see…]
She nodded her head with a grim feeling.
Yes, background.
Each transcendent had their preferred world and pushed their opinions, insisting on seeing the world they liked.
Was there any compromise like, ‘I’ll forgive you this time in exchange for making it the world I want next time?’
There was no such thing.
Since it’s the first world created together by transcendents.
There’s no way anyone would want to let go of the specialness of the “first” with their own hands, right?
Most of the transcendents helped create the world, so they started fighting for a long time, insisting that it should be the world they wanted, claiming their share.
A fight that will never end.
[I guess it makes sense.]
“Yeah. Someone wants wuxia, someone wants fantasy, someone wants urban fantasy…”
Their tastes are all different, and as transcendents, they don’t bend their opinions easily.
They also have similar power levels and can’t kill each other, so the fight didn’t end.
…So this world was to be discarded.
Because it no longer seemed like this world would be properly completed.
“I’ll have to mediate the guys for a while, but there’s no one to manage in the meantime. By the time the fight ends and we return, it will have become a world we can’t interfere with.”
[Ah…]
It’s similar to the pets humans keep.
If you just catch and leave it without taming it, it will return to nature.
They also created this world, but…
It was just created without proper adjustment.
Even if they try to check this world after those guys tire of fighting or find a compromise, it will already be too late.
It will have become a world they can’t interfere with at all.
It was also impossible to forcefully create it for now.
It’s a task that requires the help of many transcendents.
The moment even one person says they don’t like it and abandons it, the whole plan turns to dust.
[…But why are you here?]
“Huh?”
[Don’t you also have a background you want? …Honestly, I want to push my ideas too.]
The girl looked at the guy, looking at the nearly completed world with eyes mixed with greed.
“I don’t care about anything.”
[…No way, right?]
“I really don’t care.”
She felt slightly wronged by the guy looking at her suspiciously, but she could understand.
It would have been hard for her to believe it if she were in his shoes too.
…It can’t be helped.
“I just really don’t care as long as it’s a happy world.”
[A happy world?]
“Yeah, a happy world.”
[…?]
He looks like he doesn’t understand.
Well, a happy world, huh.
It’s a world that’s hard for them to imagine.
Transcendents who have experienced many worlds gradually become desensitized to stimuli.
That’s why they inevitably enjoy worlds full of blood and flesh just to pass the time.
But it would be strange for everyone to agree to create a happy world.
“We decided to create a world without tragedy, where people don’t kill each other.”
[…Is that true? It sounds boring just hearing about it.]
“It’s fine. It’s already been discussed.”
Most of the guys creating the world with her have also been observing it.
That’s why they agreed to the world she wanted.
Because that was the promise to the Reader.
[You seem to have something in mind. Then it doesn’t matter. … I’m leaving.]
“You’re going?”
[Yeah… Hey, you idiots! Why is it not already a sci-fi…!”
After watching for a moment as one more transcendent joined the fight, the girl looked at the planet in front of her again.
…As expected, she feels a bit of regret.
“Hmm, no matter how I look at it, it’s well made…”
The scenery is pretty too.
The worldview seems a bit mixed due to the guys putting in this and that setting, but…
She felt a bit reluctant to just throw it away like this.
She probably won’t see this world again in the future.
But still, the fact that it was a properly created world evoked attachment.
“…Ah, I miss it.”
It hasn’t been long since she parted with the Reader.
She already felt like boasting to her that she made something like this.
Those guys have boring reactions.
They just look at her with eyes that say, “If you say so.”
…Of course, she knows best that it’s impossible.
But still, she wanted to show this world to someone else.
That there is such a well-made world.
“No one’s watching, right?”
She glanced around and saw no one nearby.
Everyone seems busy expressing their opinions that the world should be created in the genre they want, paying no attention to her.
…Good.
“For now… This should be fine.”
After compressing the world’s information, she scattered the information about this world to one of the nearby worlds.
It was easy to secretly insert such trivial information like this.
Someone in that world will probably accept the information about this world.
They are free to publish it as a game, movie, novel, or something of the sort.
It was fine even if they just wrote a line in their own notebook, dismissing it as a fantasy they thought of alone.
She just felt bad that a world would be forgotten without being remembered by anyone.
“I wonder what they’ll think…”
… But it would be a bit boring to just accept the information.
Feeling playful, she planted a small prank-like device.
…Okay, done.
The guy who falls for this prank will be a lucky one.
Although there’s no guarantee that anyone will actually fall for it.
[Hey! What do you think?!]
“Eek?! …Wh-What?”
[That guy keeps saying fantasy is better than wuxia!]
“It’s true, so what?”
[Of course you’d say that, you muscle-brained idiot! You don’t know magic, do you?!]
[Wuxia has qi too! It’s not like Wuxia only uses physical strength!]
“They’re fighting over something pointless again…”
She sighed, thinking she got caught in the crossfire, but maybe they heard her muttering.
The guys who were fighting each other soon started mocking her.
[…Ha, what would a girl who got chased away by her own creation know?]
[That’s true. Phew, seriously. It’s embarrassing, so embarrassing.]
“Hey, hey you bastards! Are you done talking?!”
[We are, why.]
“Good… I was trying not to fight, but… If you’re going to be like this, I can’t hold back…!”
She angrily joined the fight, furious at the guys’ quarrel.
Only an idiot would hold back after hearing such words.
A meaningless fight with no foreseeable end began.
Translator’s Corner
The better translation of the title is author’s afterwords, but it could also mean author’s notes. Since that’s what I used, I continued with it.
Also for the one’s confused about shark impression in the last chapter, here is the answer.
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