Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume15 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.
Genesis Testament is already at Volume 15! And the third term has finally begun!! This one tells the story of the world after the battle against Great Demon Coronzon. Lola Stuart and Great Demon Coronzon were the same person, but Coronzon’s death makes it hard for the Anglican Church to release this information. A few matters related to them were left in limbo, so I introduced those things here to help tie up the loose ends. Narthex is the most obvious, but there are others, so you can search for them if you have some time.
Death doesn’t erase someone’s influence! …That feels like a large line drawn between the magic side and science side, but what did you all think?
This is a twisted world where everything is resolved through battle.
No one ever questioned it before because of the extreme tension of the ongoing countdown until doomsday. Everyone around Kamijou Touma was fighting with their adrenaline at full blast. In that sense, Hamazura Shiage only managed to start questioning it here because things had begun to calm down. You could even say it was evidence that Coronzon’s death had brought peace to the world and given everyone a chance to calm down and think. There isn’t room to punish war crimes during the life-or-death tension of war. …Although Hamazura himself would never accept that he had “calmed down” any.
Once you’re aware of how twisted a world it is, maybe you can see part of the reason Coronzon wanted so badly to create a world that is “only correct”.
Academy City had worn down its military might during the previous fighting, but quickly weaponizable civilian technology is a different matter. There’s no way Academy City wouldn’t have any weapons beyond the ones it had officially announced, right? So I used lasers, mass drivers, and the sort of thing this time. It’s fun to imagine Accelerator’s chagrin as each new one shows up!! …Maybe it would be easier to tear the entire city down and build a new one from the ground up, but as a criminal, he must want to transform Academy City into a safe and peaceful place. Besides, he’s in the process of atoning for his crimes, so it isn’t like he wants to take the easy road.
One of the reasons for Narthex’s rampage may have been that Coronzon didn’t call for her during that final battle. In fact, if she had stood by Coronzon’s side and used that sealing magic to its fullest, the battle over Adikalika may have turned out differently. Coronzon may have seen her as having insufficient safety controls compared to Index, unstable, troublesome, and a source of scandal. Or maybe her position as the unchosen version led Coronzon to see her as a precious sister who she wanted to keep far away from her path of evil and ruin. I hope you imagined how that hated woman reacted when the doll she created out of malice called her “mother”.
I find codes and seals to be a romantic part of the occult including the way the slightest thing can undo those things, so I made Narthex a specialist in that side of things. She’s a rival who approaches things from a different angle than Index who is a specialist in searching through the grimoires she has gathered as a library. So if you prefer the YF-23 to the F-23, or your heart races when you see anything about magic circles or sigils, the prima materia of alchemy, or the traditional elemental conversions made by adding or subtracting the hot, dry, cold, and wet, then I hope this got through to you!! I think if someone were to save Narthex, then that savior could become the protagonist of their own story in the same way Kamijou did by saving Index. …If she can be saved, that is. Facing that overpowered and stubborn girl head on and managing to save her would be enough to earn the title of a hero or fierce warrior!
By the way, Narthex’s sealing magic is more like Dion Fortune’s black box than it is Kamijou’s Imagine Breaker. Still, it is a fairly bizarre method of attack even when looking at the entire series. That right hand power’s previous bearer was gathering dust in the Golden cabal’s storage space. Dion Fortune also comes from there. …And more than that, Mathers summoned Coronzon over a century before to bring ruin to the Crowley family. If you consider where that bizarre thing originated, some things might come into view.
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. She is linked to Coronzon and she acts as a contrast to Index, so designing Narthex couldn’t have been easy. And then there’s District 23! All the backgrounds have to be full of strange things!! …Sorry for all the trouble. Thank you yet again.
And I give my thanks to the readers. I like weird vehicles like cranes and loaders, but I really like weird aircraft too. I poured that love into this book, but what did you think!? Thank you so much for reading this far.
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.
It hit harder because he lost, didn’t it?
-Kamachi Kazuma