So. Hmm.
This volume doesn’t actually say »1« as in Volume 1 on the title.
Like that the original end (i presume) the end of Chapter 4, would make perfect sense.
But maybe the author was forst into adding the epilog (»Final Chapter«).
And that: So, did he lose his memory? If so, do we get a retcon to enable Volume 2?
Just, no. Didn’t like that at all.
…
OK, so it’s not quite as bad as i thought.
Especially as some of the bits were i thought »that doesn’t work that way« … don’t work that way.
That was subterfuge by the author. Some people having been lied to and those lies becoming almost, but not quite, the authorial reality.
I still don’t like it as a literary stile. How should i know what bits ar wold building and which bits 🐃💩 in universe?
Rabbi: »What would you do, if somebody was bleeding during Shabos?«
Student: »I’ll have to look that up in the Shulchan Aruch«
R: »Wrong. He just bled to death.«
Yeah, i said i would cut him some slack, but i was reminded of this joke.
So Kamijou find Index »collapsed in a pool of blood«, still alive, but still bleeding.
…
»The habit shed been wearing, the Walking Church, certainly had reacted to his right hand«
Two pages later
»Her habit, the Walking Church, had reacted to his (right hand), so not everything shed said was a complete delusion, but...«
That’s one way to fill the pages. Not onlydescribe every tiny movement everybody makes, but recap everything a few pages later, and then recap it a second time.
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»The culture of the cross had never been particularly thick (in Japan)«
I wonder if there is a reason for that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakure_Kirishitan
Oh. Oh, dear. Yeah, there was some nasty persecution.
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