Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume6 Afterword
Afterword[edit]
If you picked them up one at a time, welcome back. If you bought them all at once, welcome.
This is Kamachi Kazuma.
This time, it’s December 31, the countdown to the end of the year!! From the moment the word “countdown” came to mind, I knew the story had to be set in either Shibuya or New York! And since I hadn’t resolved the 49-yen New Year’s Tokyo survival life within GT5, I decided to make it a part-time job story. From that starting point, I built up a story that could fit the main theme I wanted to do: What are the members other than Alice like and how strong are they?
Shibuya appeared in Intellectual Village and was passed through in Boo Boo. I honestly went back and forth a lot on whether I wanted Kamijou running around Shibuya or Akihabara. They’re polar opposites! I think it would have been entertaining in a different way to have Aradia and the Bologna Succubus jumping between Akihabara’s buildings. But I went with Shibuya because I preferred the idea of no one noticing the danger even though two strangely-dressed magicians are slinging extreme spells at each other in an ordinary city. I will let all of you decide if I made the right decision there.
This one revealed that the Transcendents of the Bridge Builders Cabal are all magicians strong enough to rival the entire magic side and their goal is to make the world a better place. But if you compare them to the Magic Gods who are satisfied creating an ideal world on their own, you can see how they have basically min-maxed their diffusion and destruction skills. The irritating thing for them is that they can destroy everything with ease, but they can’t remake it all afterwards. They’re so reluctant to play their one and only card that they were even caught in Othinus’s destruction of the world and killed. (Because if the Transcendents had killed Othinus in that dark space, they couldn’t have remade the world like she did.) With that in mind, can you see why they’re so terrified of Alice whose innocence makes her impossible to predict? She has the destruction button right in front of her, after all.
Aradia, the Bologna Succubus, and Good, Old Mary.
I designed them so you could compare them and make some good guesses about the average and basic specs of the Transcendents. And after working that out, it might be a fun mental exercise to also imagine just how extraordinary Alice was for what she did in GT5 and what the difference is between a standard Transcendent who uses their great charisma to start a cult or riot vs. Anna Sprengel who created the giant IT company R&C Occultics and used it to mess with the entire world.
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. This one had the Transcendents! And a second Anna!! All the magic side characters with a weirdly powerful presence about them must have made this one tough. Thank you again for everything.
And I give my thanks to the readers. How long has it been in real time since my debut novel? And in the story we’ve finally reached December 31!! Yes, the endless in-story year is finally over!! …Ahem, thank you all for staying with me to the end of that year. I hope very much you will see Kamijou Touma and the rest in the new year as well.
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.
Did you notice I changed how I spell Lucifer?[1]
-Kamachi Kazuma
- ↑ He used to spell it ルシフェル(Rushiferu), but changed it to ルシファー(Rushifaa) in this volume, which is based more on the English pronunciation.
