AFTERWORD

Thank you for purchasing another volume of The Irregular at Magic High School. For those new, allow me to take the opportunity to say that it’s a pleasure to meet you, and I look forward to your continued support.

The book’s subtitle is Visitor Arc, Part I. All sorts of visitors keep pulling the protagonists into the middle of the incident. Big-shot guest characters appear as well. There are victims on the protagonist side, too. The incident evolves into a complex three-sided fight, plus a little more. It is just a tad romantic (and I will accept any objections to that). As you can see, this story of the magic high school students is a bit different from the first eight volumes, but I think you’ll enjoy it.

Now, there is something I need to excuse myself to everyone for. I’m sorry, but this arc will be a three-parter. Maybe it’s the recoil from the Reminiscence Arc being one volume. We couldn’t fit the whole Visitor Arc into two parts. Actually, Dengeki Bunko has no word limit (unless it gets way out of hand), so we could have if we’d wanted to…but circumstances dictated we take this approach. It will mean a slightly longer wait for this episode’s climax, but my opinion is that I’ll create something everyone can enjoy all the more for it.

The schedule was tighter than usual for this one. I predict that parts two and three will end up creating a busy schedule, too. To everyone involved, allow me to apologize again. And thank you very much. I hope for your support for the next book, too, so that we can deliver the continuation to those who are fond of this story not a day later than we need to.

In closing, I’d like to give another thanks to all the readers who purchased this book. I pray that we’ll see each other again in the next volume, Visitor Arc, Part II.

Tsutomu Sato