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Summary
"The cover rough. Having Index hidden behind the ad is enough to bring tears to your eyes, but I had originally planned to have Kanzaki (or Kanzaki and Itsuwa) on the cover. So who was the one who had even worse luck than Index...? If you're wondering why Kanzaki was not on the cover or in any of the color illustrations, that is because her presence in the novel was being treated like a major spoiler. Also, we were trying to create a "build up" to the double-page illustration at the end. If you read the novel, you should understand why! Oh, by the way, Itsuwa is making daikon and chicken wing stir fry." ―Kiyotaka Haimura