First of all, before I do anything, I want to thank you, the reader for taking time out of your day to read my story. I know it sounds dumb, but you have no idea how much we writers really appreciate it. I'll just come out and let the walls down, writing is hard. Especially when your sequel is almost 170,000 words long and almost 100% original.

Next, I would like to thank my proofreader, Boosted Gear. He helped me cut down on the errors tremendously. Also, I received help from two other Fanfiction users, Silverman42 and drakin6345. They introduced some new characters that really helped me drive the narrative and break through the writer's block, so if you can, go give their page a search.

Now, I'll be honest, I had no intentions of writing a sequel. Nor did I want to. Darkness ended solid enough, and to me, Darkness will always be where it ended. But, because people wanted more, and how my hopes of actually getting a real book published got thrown out the window, I decided to write a part 2 because people were politely asking. And to be honest, it was a hell of an experience. It truly was a challenge to write an entirely new story that had nothing to do with Senran Kagura's season 2, and I'm absolutely glad those people asked for a part 2.

The most fun I had was writing Alan and Fubuki's fights. Just the way I got to use and play with their engagements and getting them interact with each other was a lot of fun. To me, they will always be the best rivalry I ever wrote.

When it came to the Bloodborne side, I sat down with Boosted Gear and we discussed what the character should look like, whether they be male or female, and in the end, we went with a female. Kagura was the god of the shinobi, so it made sense to make the god of hunters a female as well.

Then we tied it together in a way that seemed somewhat believable and connected the two worlds of Senran Kagura and Bloodborne together. Two sisters separated, one bearing unspeakable horrors and pain just to get back home. Only to discover she can't for 800 years.

As for part 3, I have ideas and outlines, but only time will tell what and how things will go. I'll probably start my first write through around the beginning of spring and hopefully around spring of 2021, part 3 will be completely done. I tprobably won't be as long. Possibly 100,000 words compared to Darkness' whopping 155,000 or Arkanum's 167,000, but I'll give it my best just like I did with Arkanum.

I gave everything I had to make Arkanum a masterpiece, and hopefully, it will be. If not a masterpiece, a damn good story worth the time. My only hope is when people read Arkanum or Darkness, they will say that this is one of the best stories on Fanfiction.

Thank you

Sledgehammer963