Toaru Majutsu no Kinsho Mokuroku SS - Volume 1 - Chapter Aft

AFTERWORD 

For those of you who have been reading one volume at a time since Volume 1, it’s good to see you again. 

For those who bought all the volumes at once, it’s nice to meet you. 

I’m Kazuma Kamachi. 

This volume was an irregular one. The cover “number” even says SS. The editor, if I recall, told me to write something I can’t usually write, but I wonder if I succeeded at that. 

With such circumstances in place, this book has an impossible structure compared to the main series, where neither the sorcery side nor the science side are important keywords. Because of that, as I’m sure some of you have realized, there are several developments that haven’t happened yet—like the ending of each story being strangely clean-cut, the spiky-haired boy making full use of a weapon other than his fist, and the all-white being starting to think in terms of teamwork. 

I tried making it all feel like something I couldn’t do in the main series: On top of removing all the main pillars that should be at the very center of the stories, I built up the big picture by giving glimpses of subtle parallel threads that ran between the various stories. I hope you’ve found the unbalanced atmosphere of the whole thing satisfying. 

I’d like to thank my illustrator, Haimura, and my editor, Miki. I was only able to take this short-story detour from the main novels because you both had the ability to take that detour with me. I’ll look forward to your continued support in the future. 

And I’d like to thank all my readers. Thank you so much for sticking with this short-story detour from the main novels. 

Now then, as I conclude Volume SS, 

and hope that you will open the pages of the next main volume as well, 

here and now, I lay down my pen. 

Frogface keeps snatching all the good parts. 

Kazuma Kamachi