Completion - Author's Afterword

This is the end.

Yes, the story of Corin Locke has ended this way.

I am filled with emotion, feeling a mix of regret and joy.

I feel a flutter in my heart, a sense of endearment, gratitude, and apology.

My first proper completed work is Killed the Academy Player.

When I was very young, I read stories and debuted with my underdeveloped writing skills, achieving not-so-bad results.

However, due to my laziness, I couldn't finish it before enlisting in the military, and after I was discharged, the publisher... no, the market had collapsed.

The new work I had dumped seven volumes' worth of content into, claiming it was a simultaneous serialization, had completely flopped. I should have poured that passion into my first work.

While I was in the military, so many things changed. No, I should say a tectonic shift occurred in the novel industry.

Webnovels emerged, and the fellow authors I deeply respected were already writing webnovels...