Hello, dear readers.

This is the author, Seorohaja.

This is the second time I’ve greeted you with a completed work.

The main story, [The Rehabilitation Specialist of the Broken Hero], is a pure love story set in a fantasy world. Part 1 is about Hero Zion’s rehabilitation treatment, while Parts 2 and 3 delve into the past and memories.

Having wrapped up with Chapter 131, I feel quite satisfied. I believe it has developed into a form even more than I envisioned in the initial planning, but as I put an end to it, there are inevitably many regrets lingering.

So, I’d like to share some personal thoughts through this afterword. For those who don’t want spoilers, I recommend not reading the content below.

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The key idea I focused on while conceptualizing this work was to create something more fitting for web novels.

First, I had to choose one of the representative themes of web novels, and since pure love often involves reincarnation, I opted for that theme. It’s a material commonly found in the pure love stories on Novelpia.

However, unlike [The Reincarnator and the Blind Saintess], which straightforwardly presents reincarnation from the start, my work develops a bit more subtly at first through possession, revealing hints as it progresses.

Is this just a limitation of my old writing style? I’m uncertain about the exact influence it had on reader engagement, but I don’t regret choosing this narrative approach.

Whatever method you choose, the real question is whether you can make it enjoyable at each stage of the story.

I’ve also worked hard to include more line breaks compared to my previous work, and I focused on enhancing the last parts of each chapter to write something more akin to a web novel. Did that communicate well to you, dear readers?

Honestly, what does being a web novel even mean… I absolutely don’t want to include status windows, but if the story is fun, then that’s good enough for me. However, it seems I haven’t been able to write that engaged with some level of fun.

Another part I found truly regrettable while serializing this work was that I couldn’t write as much as I initially planned for Part 1, the Rehabilitation Pure Love section. During the free serialization, I set the rehabilitation period for Zion to four years, but then modified it to two years in the text after shifting plans, and even then, I moved into Part 2 without filling in every episode, letting time flow as naturally as possible.

In Part 2, I also actively developed the settings and themes I had been planning. Originally, I intended to include a whole bunch of daily life sections relating to various rehabilitation treatments, like physical therapy with stimulation or rehabilitation in water or zero-gravity conditions, which is why I tagged it with #DailyLife. But now that it’s all done, I wonder if that tag should have been removed.

I’m also disappointed as a writer that I couldn’t write scenes where Zion reacts to stimulation while having electrodes attached, or where he shyly questions whether wearing a simple swimwear is part of the treatment.

Ultimately, what led to cutting down the amount of planned content is simply that the performance was not fruitful. If many people showed love for the rehabilitation pure love aspect, I would have planned to continue that long-term, but the view counts kept dropping.

Similar to my previous work, this one was serialized only where absolutely necessary. When it became clear that the challenge was doomed to fail, I lost my motivation to carry on decisions like that, but now I feel a twinge of regret to the point where I wish I could insert those missing parts back into the serialization.

That would, of course, also reflect my inability to keep writing content that readers wanted.

Lastly, regarding the protagonist’s character, I feel that all the characters I create tend to be logical and sensible, which might make them less appealing, so I deliberately added some peculiar elements to make them more interesting.

And that peculiar character trait shaped the overall plot. I’ve also learned a bit about how readers accept and react to such elements.

Was the character Hop Harvey charming for you? From a writer’s perspective, I want every character to be loved, but that’s something I can never predict.

I’m always curious about what feelings you, the readers, experience. I cry while writing.

Especially during Part 3, which was mostly written from Zion’s perspective, I cried all the way through writing it.

Did you feel the sorrow and emotions that the characters were experiencing? Did you enjoy my writing?

I can never know what emotions individual readers felt, and they will surely differ for each person, but at the very least, I believe you, dear readers who have read all the way to the end and are now seeing this afterword, have felt some positive emotions from this work. I’m truly glad about that.

Looking back at what I’ve written, I feel like I’ve just let out a bunch of complaints, but I’m quite satisfied with this work.

I’ve produced something I can proudly say I wrote.

Even though I mentioned view counts, I believe I received overflowing love.

I haven’t written a separate note of thanks for support, but there have been unexpected contributions that surprised me.

To all the readers who sent support, I thank you once again through this notification.

I will keep my personal impressions of this work brief here. If you have any questions for the author, leave them in the comments, and I will answer as diligently as I can.

I wrote a similar line during the exclusive announcement, but not one question came through. How about this time?

I plan to write about two episodes for the epilogue, and it will serve as a brief afterstory.

Oh, I don’t plan to write episodes for Hanamana and Keineu, but would you like to see them?

They’re not a sub-couple. I just included a childhood friend setting while developing the character Keineu, but the reaction has been surprisingly nice.

I’ll consider this aspect based on your feedback.

Thank you for reading this work all the way to the end.

As I mentioned in the conclusion of my previous work, I’m just so happy that someone has witnessed the end of the story I created.

I hope that all of you who read this will find happiness too.

You might not be happy right now, but the efforts we’ve made in life…

Will surely transform into happiness and come alongside us someday.

Thank you.

   

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