Toaru Majutsu no Index:Volume SP Afterword
Afterword[edit]
To those who are always purchasing these: welcome back. To those who for whatever reason are starting here: welcome.
This is Kamachi Kazuma.
This is a collection of old stories from various magazines, so there is no single occult keyword for this book.
The plans to create each of these came about for different reasons than the main series and each one was sent out to the world under different circumstances. Whether they are the same as ever, different from normal, or just how they are in general are things I will leave to you all to determine.
Since each individual story is independent of the others, I will split up the afterword as well.
Stiyl Magnus.
This one takes up the most space by far of the stories in this book and the circumstances of its creation were probably the most twisted.
It focuses on Stiyl, so it is basically a magic story, but as those of you who read it through to the end know, science is involved at the root of things. I think this gives it a nice Index-y feel to it.
Mark Space.
I suppose you could say this is a portion of the Stiyl Magnus story. It was only published in an even smaller magazine than Dengeki Bunko Magazine, so it may be the rarest of the stories in this book.
Its protagonist is simply a member of a magic cabal and it touches on the formation of those organizations, so it may be the oddest of the group.
Kamijou Touma.
This story was published in a special Toradora vs Index magazine. I was told to make a light story that got across the atmosphere of the series to those who had never read it, but the next thing I knew, it had aliens in it.
However, I think it still explained the basic flow of the series. Kamijou Touma’s misfortune gets him wrapped up in some incident, science and magic forces collide, and it is all resolved by a battle in the end.
While the Martian microbes clearly do, the Tattva the magician uses is also related to space.
Uiharu Kazari.
I was asked to make a short story of A Certain Scientific Railgun featuring one of the side characters (i.e. not Mikoto) and I ended up going with the unexpected human drag chute. And since she seemed like the least likely character to do something like this, I chose Uiharu.
When I first put together the last scene, things grew and grew as I wondered what I should do. My editor kept telling me Uiharu couldn’t pull off action-y things like that and so I needed to give her some kind of help, so I added a few little items to help here or there.
As usual, my illustrator Haimura-san and my editor Miki-san were huge helps, but this time so was Fuyukawa Motoi-san, Mine-san, Ogino-san and the others. I am truly grateful.
I also thank all of you readers. I get quite a few requests for short stories for magazines, but I think it’s thanks to your support that I can do basically what I want even within those.
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.
But aren’t there also the Official Pirate Books and A Certain Prophecy Index…?
-Kamachi Kazuma
