A Certain Magical Index Genesis Testament Volume 1

Needless to say, she was not reacting to the negative little girl’s state of undress.
“Wait, are you…?”
“Othinus?”
“Get away from her, human!! She is like me in a way!! Except she has deviated from
being a Magic God to become—!!”
None of it mattered.
The little girl placed her index finger to her lips.
Everyone recognized that gesture of silence, but how many people in the modern age
knew it had its origins in an ancient Egyptian ritual?
She grinned and spoke with her finger still on her lips.
“Does my apparent age bother you? I have not taken this pitiful form of my own free
will, I assure you. Doing that is such a pain, but this is a special day, so perhaps I should
make the effort.”
She toyed with something in her small hand.
It was colored too sinister a black to call a large piece of hard candy.
So it was better called a pill.
A change came over her.
She was a beautiful woman boldly showing off her curvy figure, she was an alluring
woman with her long strawberry blonde hair worn in what looked like flat fried shrimps,
and she was a witch who had adorned herself with rose symbols.
To sum up, she was…
“Anna Sprengel!! I had heard of you, but I never thought you existed in a physical
form!”
Even that god shouted in disbelief of what she was seeing.
That legendary magician was a high-ranking member of the ancient magic cabal known
as the Rose and she had given permission to found the Golden cabal, said to be the
world’s largest. She had not even glanced at the position of Magic God, which was said
to be the final objective of all magicians. Right now, she draped her arms around the
neck of the boy right in front of her.
“Now, let’s try this again.”

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Everyone was watching as she made an obvious declaration of war with that black pill in
her mouth.
“Merry Christmas, my amnesiac enemy. You looked good out there today.”
Her lips met his.
And a pill-flavored attack pierced to the depths of Kamijou Touma’s brain.

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AFTERWORD

With that, it’s time to introduce myself anew. This is Kamachi Kazuma.

A numbering reset!! This marks the start of the Genesis Testament series. We start with
a shaken world now that the old leaders of Lola and Aleister are gone, and since the
numbering has been reset, we might as well make it so you can enjoy the story starting
from here.

The special event here is Christmas Eve!! I hear it can be overshadowed by Halloween
these days, but you still want to do something fun then, don’t you? The time of year puts
it during winter break, but I still included his homeroom teacher and his awful
classmate to give it more of a school life feel.

This doubles as a Volume 1 that has to explain the series as a whole, so I included a
dynamic esper powers battle and went on to include magic as well. You have to have
both science and magic for this series, right?

And the focus was on angels, which are actually focused on a fair bit in this series.

I-I finally used German words in a battle, but don’t laugh! Since they once had their No.
1 Temple in Germany, I thought that would be the simplest hint. Not to mention the
R&C name that doesn’t even try to hide it. Although that uses the English spelling. I
imagine a lot of people saw it coming from the moment they saw the Table of Contents.

In the battle against Maidono Hoshimi, I think summoning a high-speed unmanned
freight train to throw at her enemy stands out above even moving the ground and
skyscrapers around. And I thought I could show off her complex by having her insist
that her power is stronger than the Railgun in terms of pure destructive power.

Also, I especially like how you can see just how twisted Academy City is in how Kamijou
saying that he “certainly wouldn’t want your power” so thoroughly shattered Maidono’s
pride. Yes, no one is going to look up to you if you only have destructive power. Who
children admire can become a piercing attack when it works against you. And no matter
how much money is moving behind the scenes and no matter how much risk of death
there is, that admiration is what matters most to the people on the front line. Level 5

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and 6 are no more than a standard used to gather admiration based on a common set of
values, so they do not always seem like a necessary goal to the people who have seen a
wider variety of viewpoints after fighting so many deadly battles in the past.

She cannot use chopsticks.

She cannot do what she had always taken for granted.

That was a bombshell that threatened to eliminate the value of all the pride that
Maidono (who was once the class rep who could do everything impeccably) had stored
up.

To put it another way, no matter what your official Level is, you win in the end as long as
you become someone people admire. Take that into account, and you should have an
easier time seeing what Kamijou Touma and Accelerator are trying to accomplish no
matter how much it harms them and their everyday lives. There is no reason to push
themselves so hard and they could safely retire, but they choose not to. It’s a simple
thing, but I think the way they risk everything to have their way is the most entertaining
part of the children’s society.

Online fortunetelling and online stores for magic goods might seem absurd, but there
are actually some sites just like that. Sending not just your own information but
information on your crush seems really dangerous to me, but I guess everyone has
different values. Partially because the setting has almost always been in Academy City or
London, I thought it would be fun to have a magic cabal run amok using the internet as
their base and keeping the location of the headquarters a mystery. This is an age full of
dangerous toys like herb mixing and 3D printers. …Just like VR goggles, 3D printers are
interesting from a technical standpoint but seem to still be a step away from really
taking off.

About Accelerator, this was the answer that naturally came to me when I was wondering
what he would want to do first if he gained the absolute authority of board chairman. If
he had no one standing in his way, he would obviously want to crush the dark side and
lower that burden from his shoulders. In NT22 Reverse, he regretted that he could not
be the kind of #1 who made a good example for everyone, but that is all the more reason
why I think he would do exactly that once he had the freedom to do what he wanted.
How did you like it?

And then there was the sticky little girl who came in for the attack. I debated with myself
on whether to have her do that last part while still small or in her proper form. To be

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honest, she would not have appeared in the prologue if this were NT23. I think it would
have been enough of a surprise for her to show up at the end to reveal that the villain
who had made a move on him outside of Academy City had now made her way inside
the city. But with the numbering reset, I tried to make it work as a single closed loop
within this one volume. As far as playfulness goes, she is on the same level or even
greater than Aleister and Othinus in their prime, so I do think this was the right answer.
It seems wrong for Anna to be seriously scheming in the shadows. But unlike Leivinia
who has a playful side but also makes her authority known as her organization’s boss, I
wanted to make Anna more decadent and “sticky”. …But in that sense, Fiamma of the
Right was more the serious schemer type. Maybe his life went off the rails because he
did not have enough playfulness in his heart.

I give my thanks to my illustrators Haimura-san and Itou Tateki-san and to my editors
Miki-san, Anan-san, Nakajima-san, and Hamamura-san. This day only comes once a
year. Yes, it is Christmas Eve, which has to be a real pain for drawing backgrounds!! …I
really am sorry for all the trouble I cause you. I do hope you stick with me, though.
And I give my thanks to the readers. How did you enjoy Christmas Eve in Academy City?
On this special day, I do hope you were turning the pages while wishing happiness for
the characters. I am truly grateful you continue to read these books after all this time.

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 and junk food really are a perfect match, Kamijou Touma.

-Kamachi Kazuma

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