Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume9 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.
While GT8 showed a variety of groups and plans intersecting, this one was focused only on the battle against Rosencreutz! In GT8, they had made an enemy of Academy City and were on the run, but this time I had them all gather together to face a single powerful enemy. How are Magic Gods and Transcendents different and what is Christian Rosencreutz who exists beyond the Transcendents? You might make some discoveries if you compare this one to NT9.
I’m sure you could all guess it was going to happen as soon as they had set up multiple defense lines, but this was the story of losing, falling back, and trying again. Instead of crawling up toward victory, I wanted to research ways to show beautiful defeat and I poured all of that into this superhuman battle, but what did you think?
Anyway, Kamijou Touma would not be broken this time. No matter what! With the exception of Magic God Othinus who suggested that the world would be happy if he alone were gone, Kamijou always continues resisting. Maybe he’s weak to the North Wind and the Sun approach?
And this time, the Academy City next-gen weapons that caused Kamijou’s group so much grief in GT8 are now on their side. Weapons themselves are neither good nor evil – it all depends on who is using them. Not that whoever is on the receiving end is going to care much about the morality of the issue. I also had some fun turning some things around, like having Kamijou Touma finally do the one thing I never had him do before or having him deliver the final punch with someone else. There are options he only has after abandoning his right hand. Of course, this was a one-time-use cheat, but I hope part of it still tugged on your heartstrings.
I showed them plenty of love in my other series Godhorn Tech, but I love gunships made by forcibly modifying a transport plane. (I called it a bomber in that series, but if you look at how it’s described, you should be able to tell its based off of the lines of machinegun fire pouring down from a gunship.) I can’t get enough of the path forward being opened by heavy supporting fire from a giant aircraft in the sky. There are some video games where you play as the gunship shooting down at the ground, but you don’t see many where you’re the one on the ground and the airship blesses you with the motherly(?) love of bullets pouring down from the sky to support you… Sad, since I want to receive more gunship love. Aside from that, I think my favorite part was the anti-magician Rorschach attack. I love adding in some more intellectual moves in the middle of all the brute force attacks!
I give my thanks to my illustrators Haimura-san and Itou Tateki-san and my editors Miki-san, Anan-san, Nakajima-san, Hamamura-san, and Matsuura-san. The Level 5s! The Transcendents!! The angel, the demon, the Holy Guardian Angel, the Great Demon, the old and the new Board Chairmans, the cat ears teacher, and the correspondence course student!!! Despite only having one primary enemy, the battle itself threw in so many characters, both old and new, so it couldn’t have been easy. Thank you for again going along with all of this!!
And I give my thanks to the readers. What did you think of all-out Dragon Lord Kamijou holding nothing back? Like Kamijou said in the story, he can only gain this power by choosing to give up on and reject the possibility of connecting with someone. While it is incredibly powerful, I hope you agree with his immediate decision to seal that option away. Were you wondering what happened to CRC after he was abandoned? Did it not seem like Kamijou!? Anyway, thank you 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.
You didn’t forget the very first mystery, did you?
-Kamachi Kazuma
