Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume13 Afterword (section)

==Afterword==

If you picked them up one at a time, welcome back. If you bought them all at once, welcome.

This is Kamachi Kazuma.

As Dion Fortune said in the last volume, this one was something of a reunion. So I included or mentioned characters both old and new. The Level 5s, the Anglican Church, the Amakusas, the Saints, the Former Agnese Forces, the Kiharas, the Magic Gods, an artificial demon, a great demon, the Golden magicians, R&C Occultics, the Transcendents…so many different categories made an appearance in this one book. Do you remember them all? You’ve processed all those characters and pieces of worldbuilding to reach this point. Even as I write this, I’m trembling at how much of a bother this is going to be for Haimura-san as he does the illustrations!!



Necromancer Isabella Theism first appeared in an anime bonus novel. Since that has been released as an ordinary light novel now, I decided it was alright to include her in the main story and made her an enemy boss. I thought she could be used to continue focusing on the previous volume’s question of whether Kamijou Touma is alive or dead, so I had her play the role of the magic side necromancer. Oh, and if you want to know what Accelerator meant when he mentioned “the necromancer I know”, you should check out a certain manga from Dengeki and its anime! There’s plenty of the kind that directly control dead bodies in there.

As for Kihara Goukei, that was me going “Ha ha, did you really think a member of the Kihara Family would be taken out that easily?” So I let everyone’s Madame Gou run wild this time. As a kind scientist who specializes in human life, she might remind some people of Kihara Kagun. Kihara Goukei is a researcher (can she really call herself that when she steals the tech?) only gathers forbidden scientific knowledge, but she may have turned out like him if she had entered the realm of magic. She’s probably been gathering and making use of tech created by people like Kihara Byouri and Yakumi Hisako.



Kamijou Touma never was able to meet up with the frog-faced doctor and is still officially considered dead, but his return to society has begun after saving his classmates, I guess?

Personally, I think even the dead could be accepted pretty easily as long as they aren’t harmful. The stereotypical example is people fearing that they will be cursed by a dead person, so they make them harmless by worshiping them as a god.

Speaking of Kamijou, I think the highlight for him this time was his futile struggle even after losing. He’s willing to risk his life to win, but he won’t just give up because he’s lost. Hes found something he refuses to give up on even if it means losing and dying. I think that is another form of growth, but what do you all think?



I give my thanks to my illustrators Haimura-san and Itou Tateki-san and my editors Miki-san, Anan-san, Nakajima-san, and Hamamura-san. Academy City taken over by the magic side is an unprecedented situation, which I expect made the illustrations a challenge. Thank you yet again.

And I give thanks to the readers. With dark Moina Mathers riding around on a giant black cat, Qliphah Puzzle 545 nearly dying, and everything with Kamijou’s classmates or the Transcendents, I expect every reader found a different thing they liked best. All I hope is that you found something like that yourself. Thank you for continuing to read these books!!



It is time to close the pages for now while praying that the pages of the next book will be opened.

And I lay my pen down for now.



Come to think of it, was this Shokuhou’s first time shouting “Huhhhh?” in the main story?

-Kamachi Kazuma

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