Chapter 9: [Reply to several questions]
The new book has just started, and I’ve seriously read everyone’s reviews and comments for each Chapter.
Some mistakes were indeed typos on my part. For instance, characters from "Samurai Spirits" were mistakenly included in "The King of Fighters." I apologize for this; I confused Kyo Kusanagi with Juzoh Kanzaki, as I had played both games back then. I’ve corrected the names... well, I ended up not using either and changed it to Mai Shiranui, haha.
There were also some bugs that were caught, which I’ve corrected after seeing them. Thanks, everyone, for spotting them; I’ll be more careful when typing in the future. And I’ll make regular revisions to correct typos in earlier Chapters.
Besides, there are some things that simply couldn’t be helped.
Take, for example, the matter of landmines. I’m not a military professional, just an author who types. A lot of my knowledge comes from doing research. To share my feelings, I consider myself to be acting professionally by spending time on research and then creatively interpreting it. However, there are certainly many things that I don’t understand from a professional standpoint.
Here, I can only bow and express my regrets to everyone.
In writing novels, I can only try my best to avoid basic common-sense errors. These are the most fundamental tasks for an author.
Moving on, if it involves more specialized subjects, all I can do is rely on research and imagination—writers can only try their best to make something professional look "convincing," though it won’t withstand close scrutiny. But luckily, it’s just a story, a novel, and as long as it roughly looks "convincing," that’s good enough.
Like with the M2 landmine, I simply looked up the specific details of the American M2 landmine, its various parameters, and found a cross-sectional diagram of this type of mine to look at.
But anything more in-depth, such as how to detonate it or how to construct it to be explosive, is truly just my own fabrication.