Kami-sama no Inai Nichiyoubi (Sunday Without God) Vol. 8 – Summary + Review – bonutzuu’s Light Novel Archives

The world is saved. People from the other side of a black surface are able to get pregnant. Suddenly, another girl appears, also claiming that she will, like Ai, ‘save the world.’

Summary:

A funeral was held for those who died fighting Madame. At the same time, Yury and Scar’s marriage ceremony was held. The entire town was lively with a festival. People flooded into the town to go to the other world inside the black surface, but then a girl came out. The girl had no name, and after mishearing the word “Nai” (no name), Ai named her ‘Nein’ (as in no).

Nein is the Witch’s daughter and go around yelling that she will make everyone’s wishes come true. She then revived a dead man. Everybody went crazy. She spent an entire day reviving people. The next day she realized that it’s dumb to revive people one by one, so she thought she’d just wish that 1) all dead people come back to life 2) get rid of all grave keepers and 3) babies could be born.

Nein didn’t even get to make the first wish when Alice shot her, realizing that Nein wasn’t here to save the world, she’s here to destroy it. However, the bullets didn’t work, but Alice kept shooting her over and over. (accompanied by a badass illustration) They fought and fought and finally Nein ripped Alice’s body to shreds. However, the man wasn’t done yet. Alice found a solution to kill the invincible kid who could do anything: turn himself into a giant silver bullet that rips through her until she’s dead. Alice used his buzzer beater to aim at ‘evil people’ and so if the ‘evil’ Nein dies, the next evil person will be destroyed by him and so on. Ai realized this and so put herself between the bullet and Nein. The bullet turned into a burst of rainbows (literally) and out came Alice and all is well.

Except that apparently Ai is now dead.

Review

Well. That was some interesting developments.

The latter half of the book was very intense, but it’s hard to get what’s going on with these fantastical events. Ai’s stand in this is really confusing. So does she not want to save the world? Does she just want to travel? What the heck is her purpose at this point anyway? And the more I read, the more I absolutely cannot believe that Ai is 13 years old with that kind of sophisticated dialogue and narration. It’s kind of like Fragile Dreams, where kids suddenly turn into poets when talking about their ending world.

This volume was full of clashes in philosophies that turned into some kind of Clash of the Titans. The author’s narration is full of hyperboles, as always, although it’s not as over the top as the previous volume.

The next volume will be the last, and I can’t wait to see how Ai’s journey to save or not save the world would end.

Previous volume here.

Volume 1-5 here.

Volume 9 spoilers here.

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