AFTERWORD

Hello, those of you who have been buying these novels one at a time.

Nice to meet you, those of you who bought all ten volumes at once.

I’m Kazuma Kamachi.

I broke into the double digits amid all the work I’ve been doing. In-universe, even after the tenth volume, it’s still September. When I think about how Volume 1 began at the end of July, it makes me feel like things are going at an incredibly slow place. Plus, as those of you who’ve already finished the book will know, the flow of time has just slowed to an all-time series low. I suppose it’s still better than one volume ago, Volume 9, but…

The occult theme this time is basically the same as it was in Volume 9, but I suppose I did add the theme of constellations in Volume 10. This is magic incoporating constellations—essentially astrology, but the basic rules changed every time the science side figured something out, as different factions kept branching off. It has a very long and interesting history. When Uranus was discovered, people split over the decision of whether to include it in their readings. And when the geocentric theory and heliocentric theories switched positions, it would have completely changed common sense about stars and probably caused a huge stir.

Given this series’ thematic clashing of science and magic, I couldn’t possibly leave it out, so I snuck it into this book. The rules and effects of astrological divination were entirely different based on whether they accepted Uranus and Pluto or not. It seems a lot like quantum theory to me in that respect.

As always, I’d like to apologize to and thank my illustrator, Mr. Haimura, and my editor, Mr. Miki. I’m looking forward to your continued support in the future.

And to all you readers out there, as always, thank you so much. I will go on thanking you in the future—please do continue to support me.

Now then, as I turn the final page of this book,

and as I pray that you will turn to the first page of the next book,

today, at this hour, I lay down my pen.

…Come to think of it, October is when winter uniforms start, right?

Kazuma Kamachi