Why was the trip to Chino cut in half?

The work does not conform to the environment of light novels at that time.

The novel "Kino's Journey" mainly describes the story of a traveler traveling around the world. Most of the story plots are serious and slightly "black". Everyone was not optimistic about it. The work did not conform to the current mainstream of light novels. There was no place to publish it and no fans. It was cut in half many times.

Beheading generally refers to ancient torture, which involves using a heavy ax to cut the prisoner in two from the waist. This punishment already appeared in the Zhou Dynasty and was not abolished until the Yongzheng period. Later, he also said that things were abandoned halfway.