Sea of the Wind, Shore of the Maze, Chapter 7

happy.
    Under such great and eager anticipation, Gyousou stepped onto the platform. The square boiled over  with cheering and applause.
    Gyousou calmly sat upon the throne. Taiki walked towards him and kneeled down.
    Without any difficulty, Taiki bowed his head, and pressed his forehead onto Gyousou's shoes. The  thing he wasn't able to do with King En was now exceptionally easy. He didn't feel any sort of discomfort as  he carried out his duty. His heart filled with joy.
    The tightly packed crowd of people once more rose up in thunderous applause.
    --Taiou sokui! King Tai has ascended to the throne!
    In Taikyokukoku, the Far Kingdom of Tai, a new dynasty has begun!
    -- -- -- -- --
    In the spring of the twenty-second year of Wagen, the Saiho suffered Shitsudou and thereafter died.
    Within a month, the king passed away and was posthumously called Kyouou, the Extravagant King. The  Taiou had reigned for one-hundred and twenty-four years, and was interred at Souryou upon Tappisan.
    In the first month of the same year, the Ranka of Tai appeared on Houzan. Within a few days, a  shoku struck Gozan. The Taika was separated from its branch and disappeared. A hundred shin and a  thousand sen searched everywhere for it.
    In the first month of the thirty-second year, the Kokki returned to Houzan. Yellow flags fluttered  across the world. In the summer, Saku Gyousou entered Koukai by way of the Reikonmon, climbed Houzan,  and accepted the oath of Taiki. He was entered into the Shinseki and was then called Taiou.

    Gyousou, original surname Boku, given name Sou, was a man of Garyou. He achieved the rank of  Kingun Shougun, and was stationed in Sakuken of Zuishu. He received the Will of the Heavens and  ascended to the throne. The era of Koushi was proclaimed. The reign of the Sakuou began.
    -- Taishi Sakusho (The History of Tai, Book of Saku)

Afterword

    I don't know when it started, but there's been a Romance of the Three Kingdoms boom... I already  said that in the previous volume. I am that Ono who has already written until she doesn't know what else to  write, and is afraid of writing afterwords.
    After my previous book, Shadow of the Moon, Sea of the Shadow , was published, I received a  question from many readers: "Could it be that you didn't plan on writing a series?" Thank you very much.
    For the time being, I intend to write a series. In addition, there are preparations, and to that extent, with the  support of the readers-sama, I will keep writing... If only that were the recent publishing situation. Oh,  relentless world...
    In brief, I'll try my best to write as much as I can. I also ask everyone for lots of advice.
    Since I aim to write a series, I regret that my writing speed is too slow. I've thought about it very  carefully. If I were to write a book a month...in an instant, the series would also be completed, and following  that, I'd have to start a new story... It's easy to say five books or ten books, but when I work it out, I'll have to  spend many years' time. When I think about that, I can only put it aside with a "tohoho." However, for those  readers waiting for my next work, I feel so helpless... I will be diligent.

    The speed of my writing is already slow; if I didn't have the help of a word processor, the situation  would be even more dire. I can't even imagine that. If there were no word processors in the world, I don't  think there would have appeared such an author called Ono. So, I must really thank our home's old-boned  98-kun (also called Zorac-kun) that I still whip around, and the support it gives me.  That's right, the Zorac we have at home is already an old soldier. We often think about getting a
    newer, faster machine, but because I've saved so many definitions in the old machine, this isn't a problem  that can be solved with a new computer and new software. For instance, when I type 'kuji' for the 'nine  words,' it will appear as 'Rin Byou Tou Sha Kai Jin Retsu Zai Zen' instead of 'Rin Byou Tou Sha Kai Jin  Retsu Zen Kyou.' And if I take into account the fact that this story is a series, the more I write, the more  strange words will be added. I wonder how many megabytes the dictionary will be a year from now...
    Hmmm...
    Since I wrote the previous book, I often hear people saying, "Even the second standard set of kanji  aren't enough to use." But JIS-2 unexpectedly served its purpose. Just when I was praising its performance,  for the first time there was a