Y’ello, Funatic here.

As this is the second book in the series, I will spare you a rundown of who I am this time around. You have either read it in the last author’s note or you do not care. I will, however, once more drop the links to the site you can use to support me. If you read me exclusively for this story, it might not be the best purchase for you, but I would still implore you to consider.

https://www.patreon.com/Funatic

https://subscribestar.adult/funatic

For all those that already support me, you have my continued gratitude.

If you have enjoyed my work, other actions you can take are to recommend it on whatever forum you use to discuss your favourite books (provided it’s a forum that allows NSFW recommendations), or simply leave Reviews on whatever website you have read it on. Every bit counts and if I want to keep doing this as a job, I will need every bit.

Now, with the necessities out of the way, let me briefly summarize my thoughts on this volume.

Originally, this book was to be focused around the vacation. In other words, the book ended where I imagined it would be after the Prologue. I realized swiftly that I required more time to introduce a few more characters, to showcase what side characters were up to, and to properly introduce Aclysia into the Anomalia.

The result is a volume without notable action sequences. There was that one duel and some training, but the results there were fairly clear. There also was the trial of Taurus. Not sure how much that qualifies as an action scene.

In any case, I did not feel comfortable just skipping the entire rest of the semester, so here we are. Next book will not have any such direct lessons, since we won’t be staying in the classroom. I believe it's time for Karitas and his now two haremettes to venture out for at least a little while. I don’t know if the entirety of the next book will be about the trip, but it will certainly cover a large chunk of it.

Similarly, I don’t know if the next book will introduce only one haremette, none, or several. I have said before that I do not plan to stick to one addition per book. I find that to be a bit too formulaic and I enjoy it when several plot threads weave together at the same time. We’ll see how things build up and what makes sense to coincide. While I do have a fairly detailed outline until the end of the school life of this story, I am always up for revisions and for little details to cascade into large changes.

I do hope you enjoyed the romance in this one. It was less traditional than the first volume, in large part due to the character differences between Aclysia and Esther. There’s also a factor of Karitas becoming more of a ‘safe bet’ with each woman he manages to woo. After all, one who has managed to please two already can act with an air of confidence around the third.

That’s enough of the story though, you’ll see where this goes next volume. That will be more concrete than any teasers I weave together from my notes.

As for when to expect this third volume, I cannot fully tell. I released the finished version of the first book on July 3rd 2021. I write this note after finishing the first draft. It’s the 6th of March 2023. In other words, it took me about 1 ½ years to write the second volume.

I currently hope that the editing of the second volume will take me less time than the first. The first version of the first book was quite interesting. Somewhere between starting and finishing the first volume of Welldark, I solidified my modern writing style, which made me violently cringe at the early parts of that book… they were all rewritten and I will never ever show them to you.

We’ll see if the same holds true for this second book. I intensely hope it does not. Because if it does, that’ll push the editing time up immensely. I currently hope to have finished the editing by July. In other words, I hope to release a book of this story every two years. We’ll see how that goes. My main project remains The Gamer, CHYOA Edition on CHYOA for the time being, my secondary project remains Drip-Fed, which you should be able to read wherever you are reading this.

I believe that is all that needs telling. If there’s anything more, the me that is in the future from my current perspective, editing Funatic, may add something. We’ll see.

Yes, hello, this is editing Fun.

It’s the 23rd of April now and I can proudly say that this has been the smoothest experience I have ever had editing. I barely had to make any adjustments and did, in fact, hammer most of these edits out this weekend. The process isn’t quite finished and I’m not sure if the smoothness can be attributed to me becoming a lazier editor or a better writer. I suppose you, in part, will judge that.

Now, first off, I wish to drop a little something for the PDF readers.

[You're not one of those, so you don't see anything here]

What you see above is another artwork I commissioned from an artist called PieGuy. It wasn’t put into the chapter because they’re in the wrong state of undress for the BJ scene, stupid as I am. 

If you don’t see it above, that’s because there typically is a ban on putting porn pictures directly into chapters on most online literature sites for reasons that elude me - likely law or spam related ones. There was also a picture in the massage scene made by jiragora. To see either, I suppose you’ll have to support me financially. Putting additional images behind a paywall is, I believe, reasonable.

What you will find right after this is Aclysia in her maid uniform though. Have fun with that.

Final editing Fun here, if you have the time for extensive feedback, please take this questionnaire: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftou43v-6qui0VuCYMsdjjGZIf5FMnRCFOwUkpHxMrsxphQQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Hope to see you for Welldark Book 3~

Funatic.