On to the thank-yous: Yuka wanting to live inside a Christmas tree is taken from the words of the performer Ms. Atsuko Enomoto, whom I heard as a guest on the radio. It was right at the time I was creating the plot for the fourth story, so I begged her to let me use it, and she did.
Ms. Enomoto, thank you for your gracious consideration.
Also Ms. Miho Takeoka, thank you sooooo much for your great pictures this time around!
I’m always running right up to the page limit, and it’s always hectic—I’m sorry!—but in the next volume it will, at last, be a story about “her” and Konoha, so please read it! See you then!
Mizuki Nomura
April 1, 2007
Copyright
Book Girl and the Corrupted Angel
Story: MIZUKI NOMURA
Illustration: MIHO TAKEOKA
Translation by Karen McGillicuddy
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Bungakushoujo to kegarena no ange
©2007 Mizuki Nomura. All rights reserved.
First published in Japan in 2007 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION ENTERBRAIN
English translation rights arranged with KADOKAWA CORPORATION ENTERBRAIN
through Tuttle-Mori Agency, Inc., Tokyo.
Cover design by Kirk Benshoff
Cover © 2012 Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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First ebook edition: December 2012
ISBN 978-0-316-24595-1
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