サイレント・ウィッチ -another- 結界の魔術師の成り上がり〈上〉

Secrets of the Silent Witch -another- Light Novel #1

by Matsuri Isora, 依空まつり, Nanna Fujimi (Illustrator)

モニカの同期で性格破綻者、〈結界の魔術師〉の原点を描く書き下ろし！

僅か一週間で教本に載る魔術を全て覚えた天才少年ルイスは、魔術師養成機関の特待生として迎え入れられることに。

だが、貧しい寒村で育ったルイスの性格は粗野で乱暴。貴族だらけの魔術学校では問題児扱いで、魔法戦で他の生徒を圧倒的実力差でぶちのめし、悪童として恐れられる始末。そんな中でも、尊敬すべき師や頼れる友人達と出会い――。

モニカと同期の七賢人ルイス、その青春時代の伝説的悪行の数々を描く、物騒すぎる『サイレント・ウィッチ』前日譚！

※本作品の電子版には本編終了後にカドカワBOOKS『稀代の悪女、三度目の人生で【無才無能】を楽しむ』（著：嵐　華子）のお試し版が収録されています。

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy, Romance, Comedy, Adventure

340 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 8, 2023

About the author

依空まつり

Reviews

[Bartholomeus · Rating 5 out of 5]

At first, I mainly started reading cause I felt smart doing so. I was insecure cause i felt stupid as compared to others, so I read random things. Then after not reading for a while, I stumbled upon this book, it was just sitting and there was one last stock. I watched the anime and I found the plot interesting. I had no idea what this book was about, all I knew back then was that it was a prequel even before Monica became one of the seven sages. Even though I was busy, I read this in my past time instead of using my phone. I was captured by the story's plot. The fantasy, the adventurous main lead, the amazing characters and the illustrations after a few pages, and of course the fantastic writing of the author. After finishing it, I was reading it again and again in between my breaks. I highly recommend this to anyone who is interested in fantasy and of course, romance. Light novels are really different when it comes to the usual western books. The overall writing style is much more easier to understand. And for those who have a hard time formulating visual appearances of characters in books, light novels have character illustrations and occasional drawings of the events in the book around every 20-30 pages or so. This book is about the story of Louis Miller, the barrier mage, and one of the seven sages. His personality in this book is very different from his mannerism in the anime. It's part of his character development, which will be revealed in this book. It will show all his friends when he was still studying mage craft in Minerva. It was a beautiful story. As someone who gets bored with books easily, I did not get bored on this one. This was the very first book wherein I felt like I was under a trance while reading it. This was the book that started my reading habits. It also helped me in school since I had to read a lot of books. I started appreciating books more and I hope that will go the same way for you too if you try it.

Secrets of the Silent Witch -another- Part 1: Rise of the Barrier Mage

[Whaley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Longingly waiting for the eighth volume of the main series, I stumbled across this two-volume side story and thought I'd give it a try.

And man, I wasn't disappointed.

I already liked Louis before reading it, but these two volumes made my sympathies grow even stronger.

The thing is, Monica didn't have it easy. She lost her parents, was mistreated, and as a result struggled with speaking and socializing and had a frail body. The one friend she wanted to impress turned his back on her the moment she stopped being his clumsy little admirer and managed to accomplish something of her own.

She didn't have it easy.

But... besides the vague "magic research," there wasn't really a time before the beginning of the main series—when she had already achieved the most important role a mage could—that she actually went out of her way to face challenges and boldly tried to move mountains to get what she wanted.

She just... kind of went with the flow.

Meanwhile, Louis?

Louis doesn't need someone else's river.

He'll happily make one himself and grind until it takes him wherever he wants to go.

And honestly, I think that's what I like about him.

Well, besides that, there might be another reason I enjoyed these two books so much.

Maybe I'm a little like Rosalie as well—having been sheltered my whole life, I apparently fell for the cheeky delinquent. ;)

Anyway, I would recommend reading these two volumes after a few books of the main series, because I think you'll appreciate them more once you know the characters and their circumstances better.

But that's just my personal opinion.

[Hayley · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s so damn funny 🤣, Monica was so valid when she was early on scared of Louis. I mean, what Louis did is out of a cartoon and most unhinged tactics—
1) Punching and kicking when they are busy chanting
2) When they don’t allow u to use physical attacks, throw rocks and stones
3) throwing sand at someone’s face then when they are distracted, then use ur handkerchief and dump sand and put it in their mouth
4) Again, if (3) doesn’t work anymore, use a shield-shaped barrier as your attack spell, initiate flight magecraft, then punch them lol
5) Reflective barriers with remote magecraft(probably the most normal one)

I just love 🥰 the characters, Carla is so chill, and we realise Monica’s significance that rivals Louis’. It is just 🤩 how Louis changed so drastically because of Rosalie, and I finally understand why he supports Lionel. Lionel is such a safe option, I still don’t understand the situation with Felix but hopefully we get to that in volume 8(I NEED THE ENGLISH VER). Matsuri Isora mentioned how she feels bad for Nanna Fujimi(illustrator) who made such good designs for the magic staffs and it’s so fr 🤭. I laughed so bad when Monica mentioned she uses her staff as a drying pole 😂😂

Violence is Louis’ thing, he has nothing to lose(except maybe Rosalie). Who knew a boy from the countryside brothel whose goal was to eat marmalade would become someone admirable?

[Nikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

The origin of the Barrier Mage from 'Secrets of the Silent Witch' was a delight to read, showing more of Louis's character in a hilarious twist on My Fair Lady. Monica (Sir Not Appearing in this Book) is absolutely justified in her early fear of Louis. He's an absolute menace. Juxtaposed with the wholesome romance, it makes for an endearing read. My only quibble is I could have done with a little less corporal punishment, but it's a fantasy land so it is what it is. 4 'if anything happens to this jam, we riot' out of 5.

[MyDoRyS · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed it except for the stupid self-pitting female character. If they removed her stupid face, the story would have been 5 stars. I despise people who constantly complain about their shortcomings but instead of doing something about it, they keep bathing in self-pity. Like the MC, he just kept moving forward no matter what life threw at him. They ruined the story with romance. Dropping the series. On to my next adventure, Happy Readings!!!

[Mara · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a prelude to the story of Monica, this spin-off sheds light on the Barrier Mage Louse Miller and his struggles during his first brush with magic and dreams of becoming a mage. It's funny and refreshing, given the Louis Miller we've been shown in the original light novel and in the anime.

Read this if you like:
-Foul-mouth kiddos striving to refine themselves
-A (tiny) background of the issues and drama surrounding the royal children
-how Louis met his wife

[Noelle Haycraft]

I read this and while entertaining, I feel like this was made for people who were already fans of the series while I thought that I could just read it no context. That's my mistake.

For that reason, I don't want to rate it, it would feel wrong to rate it as something that I kinda sorta enjoyed when it was partially my fault I didn't enjoy it.

In conlcusion... you should probably read the other light novel series before reading the prequel I guess >.<

Happy Reading!!

[Huihui · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was fun. This side story gave a ampler view on the world building where Monica was somehow unreliable narrator (she was such a cheat that she never did things right like Luis).

You can clearly see the difference with a ‘genius’ like Luis and a monster like Monica.

[Karo · Rating 5 out of 5]

I honestly wasn’t sure if I wanted to read this, but in the end I genuinely enjoyed it. It was fun reading about the Frst Problem Child of Minerva’s and learning a bit more about the first prince. It added depth to the world and made the characters more interesting

[Shandra Bowlby · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favorite characters in Secrets of the Silent Witch .

Love his back story and can't wait for the next volume. Felt for the heroine's past, but at least she had a loving father for a while. Louis didn't even have that, and still clawed his way to the top.

[An · Rating 5 out of 5]

Despite reading the main story for Monica's antics (obviously), reading more about Louis's past was more interesting than I expected. Definitely brings a lot more depth to his character. Worth the buy!