Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume12 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.
Anna Kingsford cast resurrection magic! Kamijou Touma was revived!!
…But how will everyone else view this event? That’s the gist of GT12. It had been over a day since a doctor confirmed his death…
They accepted the idea of a technological infection in a city of science like Academy City, but I think how you process it would depend a lot on the person. When faced with an incomprehensible situation, how would you mentally categorize it to put yourself at ease? Would you go with physical magic tricks, would you think you must have mistaken what you saw, or would you go as far as a supernatural curse or miracle? I think that question digs dip into who people are.
Death isn’t just a change for the deceased – it also changes the people around them. This is true to some extent for anyone, not just cases of royal succession or inheritance of a fortune. And yet Kamijou shook that all up by dying and coming back without any kind of cooling off period, but what does he have left now that he is alive again and what opportunities arose with his death? With so many books in this series, I’m sure you can all think of some possibilities. And for that matter, it probably makes you think about that power in his right hand.
Also, the highlights of this one were probably the ultimate Transcendent vs. Magic God showdown and the struggles of Stiyl who isn’t special in any way. The magicians of this world are the untalented ones who still struggle and struggle to reach the top, so he demonstrates the proper form of a magician. When they lack something in themselves, they find something external to them to replace it. The greater their desire, the more tricks they develop to overturn it all. Recently, we’ve been seeing battles fought by the elite Transcendents and experts, but I think this messier kind of magician is cool too. What did you think?
He doesn’t care what happens in the larger world.
He just wants to see a friend’s smile and will risk his life to protect that little world.
Meanwhile, that human has always done the wrong thing. But it would please me if some of you could accept him with some sympathy for his cries.
He isn’t used to kindness, so what happens when he keeps losing the few people who showed it to him? Losing his cool and making the wrong decision also makes him a cool human in my opinion.
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. A gray city scarred by destruction, a funeral, and the struggling battles of the unfulfilled. It must have been tough to capture those things in an illustration. Thank you yet again.
And I give thanks to the readers. I think the person most adopting a “trial and error” strategy this time was the rookie Board Chairman. I hope you will watch over his growth as he chooses the path of atonement in prison but also sends his power outside those walls whenever that idiot gets into trouble. Thank you so much!!
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.
What kind of combination is 14 years old and mourning clothes?
-Kamachi Kazuma
