Chapter Summaries

Shirley Cromwell’s Stone Giant attacked the underground mall, while Mikoto and the others worked to protect people and fight back. Mikoto recognized that the giant had been strengthened with an artificial-human element, and Shirley revealed her conviction that science and magic must never be mixed.

• Accelerator and Index analyzed the magic, but the eyeball vanished and plunged the underground mall into darkness.
• Mikoto powered the mall with her Lightning Giant while Kuroko and Uiharu began helping with the emergency.
• Yomikawa learned that security robots could not damage the Stone Giant, and Higgins sent a large aircraft to transport the security force.
• Touma and Nunotaba suspected the attack was meant to provoke a war, possibly with help from Academy City insiders.
• Mikoto’s Lightning Giant clashed with Shirley’s Stone Giant as Shokuhou protected Arisa and Saten.
• Mikoto explained that the Stone Giant’s artificial-human nature made it resistant to interference, while Shirley denounced mixing science and magic.

Mikoto fought Shirley Cromwell and her magically enhanced Stone Giant, discovering that Shirley was only one part of a larger threat. The battle continued in the sewers as Mikoto’s Hyper-ranker prepared a Railgun attack against the regenerating giant.

• Mikoto shattered Shirley’s first Stone Giant by increasing her lightning’s voltage, and Shirley escaped through a magic circle.
• Mikoto and Shokuhou realized that more Stone Giants were appearing and that Shirley had likely been strengthened by someone else.
• Mikoto caught up with Shirley in the sewers, where Shirley summoned a larger Stone Giant called Alice to fight Hyper-ranker.
• Hyper-ranker damaged Alice by channeling electricity through it and the ground, but Shirley used chalk magic to repair the Stone Giant.
• Mikoto’s Hyper-ranker gathered steel bars for a Railgun attack, while Shirley stood her ground and prepared to face it.

Mikoto’s Lightning Giant revealed its overwhelming power against Shirley Cromwell’s Stone Giant, whose strength had been mysteriously enhanced. After Shirley mistook the Lightning Giant for a crude copy of her own magic, it unveiled a form resembling a true angel and engulfed her, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Shirley’s Stone Giant regenerated after Mikoto’s attack, and Mikoto suspected someone had enhanced Shirley’s magic without her knowledge.
• The Lightning Giant gathered metal into armor and adapted after the Stone Giant shattered it, revealing that it had been copying Shirley’s form.
• The Lightning Giant stopped playing around, crushed the Stone Giant, and denied Shirley’s attempt to create another one.
• The surroundings lost water, air, light, and sound as the Lightning Giant revealed ten points of light resembling the Kabbalah Tree of Life.
• Shirley realized the Lightning Giant was the real power and that she was an imitation, then the giant’s finger of lightning engulfed her.

Mikoto defeated the threat behind Shirley’s attack, and Shirley recovered enough to explain that she had wanted science and magic to coexist peacefully. As the group fought off the remaining Stone Giants, Mikoto concluded that someone had manipulated Shirley and warned that a larger threat was still approaching.

• Mikoto told Shirley that the Hyper-ranker had restored the mind it destroyed, and Shirley confessed that she had wanted science and magic to live together peacefully.
• Kamijou Touma, Accelerator, and Index fought the Stone Giants, while Index explained that the spell would eventually fail but not soon enough to solve the crisis.
• Shirai Kuroko arrived to evacuate Touma’s group, but her attempts to teleport them failed as security forces began reaching the area.
• Mikoto told Shokuhou, Saten Ruiko, and Arisa Meigo that Shirley had been manipulated into attacking Academy City to provoke a war with the Anglican Church.
• Mikoto said Shirley might have been a pawn and warned that the real enemy was still coming as the security forces began eliminating the Stone Giants.

Mikoto explained to Touma that Academy City’s crisis had no single mastermind, but arose from a higher consciousness’s interest in the city. In another world, Short-haired Mikoto and Original Shokuhou woke from their shared nightmare and continued observing, still shaken by being mistaken for a couple.

• Touma asked Mikoto about the magician, and she said the matter had been reported to the chairman and that the magician had been a pawn.
• Mikoto explained that the crisis had no specific mastermind and compared the world’s events to a coin toss shaped by higher-dimensional or collective consciousness.
• Shokuhou’s threatening gaze made Touma stop asking questions, and he wondered how things were going between Bilibili and Shokuhou in the other world.
• Short-haired Mikoto and Original Shokuhou woke from the dream, argued over its wedding imagery, and complained that Touma had treated them like a couple.
• Dolly woke too and found the two staring out the window; Original Shokuhou chose to continue observing despite her exhaustion.

Mikoto and Elisa prepared to debut as idols while Touma, Accelerator, and Nunotaba discussed investigating people exploiting the incident at Endymion. Touma persuaded Accelerator to try becoming an idol as cover, prompting Mikoto and Shokuhou to wake from their nightmare and question whether their world's Accelerator was male.

• Mikoto and Elisa finished their auditions and changed into outfits for their idol debut.
• Nunotaba told Touma that, despite there being no absolute mastermind, people could still be exploiting the incident, and Accelerator suggested investigating at Endymion.
• A producer invited Accelerator to debut as an idol, and Touma encouraged her to accept so they could investigate openly.
• Accelerator blushed when Touma put a hand on her shoulder and spoke close to her ear, and the producer mistook them for a couple.
• Short-haired Mikoto and Original Shokuhou woke from their nightmare, denied that Accelerator and Touma were dating, and debated whether their world's Accelerator was male.

Accelerator and Nunotaba investigated the Space Elevator while Mikoto and Shokuhou rested with Saten. Index warned Touma that the structure might conceal a threat capable of affecting the Northern Hemisphere, and they learned that the rail area lay beyond the studio.

• Accelerator changed into a gym uniform and joined Nunotaba, who planned to investigate the Space Elevator during Accelerator’s trip to film a promotional video in space.
• Saten greeted Mikoto and Elisa after their performance, while Shokuhou checked on Mikoto’s health.
• Index examined the Space Elevator’s structure and told Touma that a hidden danger there could affect Academy City, Japan, or even the Northern Hemisphere.
• Touma and Index evaded a security guard by claiming to be Mikoto’s support crew and asking for directions to the restroom.
• The guard directed them toward the rail area, and Touma wondered how the investigation on the other side was going.

Kamijou Touma and Nunotaba Shinobu investigated Endymion’s possible role in a plan involving Arisa Meigo, while the Magic Side warned that other groups might provoke conflict. The next day, Mikoto met Mitsuki Kōki, the chairman’s grandson.

• Kuroko arrived with Uiharu, then was struck by lightning before she could leap toward Mikoto.
• Touma learned from Nunotaba Shinobu that Endymion might amplify abilities over a vast area, and the group rehearsed a performance for a debut in one week.
• Touma reported the suspected plan to use Arisa Meigo as a sacrifice to Kamisato Kashiwazaki and Stiyl, who warned that Roman Orthodox and other groups might stir up a war.
• Shokuhou Misaki admired her rehearsal photos of Mikoto, while Mikoto cautioned her not to overuse her ability during treatment.
• The next day, Mikoto met Mitsuki Kōki, who introduced himself as the grandson of Tokiwadai Middle School’s chairman.

Mikoto met Aizali, who was disguised as Mitsuki Kōki, and used Aztec mythology to reveal that she knew his identity and organization. The chapter ended as she recalled the Feathered Serpent God’s foretold return and identified the date Spanish adventurers reached the Aztec capital.

• Short-haired Mikoto worried that her counterpart would mistake Aizali for Mitsuki Kōki, but Dolly reassured her that the other Mikoto had already seen through the disguise.
• Mikoto accepted Aizali’s invitation to breakfast and questioned him while discussing the sun and Aztec creation myths.
• Mikoto explained that Aztecs offered human sacrifices to sustain the sun, then challenged Aizali to say who he really was.
• Mikoto connected Aizali’s organization, Return of the Winged Ones, to the Aztec legend of the Feathered Serpent God’s return from the eastern sea.
• Mikoto named November 8, 1519, as the day Spanish adventurers arrived in the Aztec capital, leaving Aizali solemn.

Mikoto exposed Aizali’s beliefs about the Winged Ones and persuaded him to spare Mitsuki Kōki before meeting Arisa Meigo at Endymion. As Arisa questioned her purpose and memories, Mikoto encouraged her to begin again, then recognized that Arisa’s nightmare reflected Shatiora’s condition.

• Mikoto explained the Aztec legend of the sixth Sun era, leaving Aizali stunned by what she revealed about his thoughts.
• Mikoto asked Aizali to spare Mitsuki Kōki, then left and went to Endymion’s underground shopping district.
• Mikoto found Arisa Meigo preparing for dance practice and asked whether she liked music and wanted to keep living.
• Arisa described a nightmare in which music became noise and she began to hate miracles, and Mikoto recognized it as a symptom of Shatiora.

After practice, Arisa Meigo reflected on her dreams of the spaceship crash and began to feel that she was unnecessary and strangely willing to be killed. Disasters suddenly erupted around her, leaving someone collapsed and Arisa alarmed.

• Mikoto changed into her dance outfit and prepared to bring a miracle to the world.
• Accelerator struggled with embarrassment during dance practice while Arisa Meigo watched.
• Kamijou Touma agreed to help Nunotaba Shinobu investigate magic after she offered a month of dinners.
• Arisa Meigo sensed real killing intent through empathy and concluded that she was unnecessary.
• The ground shook, pipes burst, and the fountain broke apart as disasters struck around Arisa.
• Arisa Meigo called for help after someone collapsed.

Kamijou Touma, Nunotaba Shinobu, and Index investigated Arisa Meigo’s home and uncovered evidence tying her to the Orion disaster and its supposed miracle. Nunotaba concluded that someone had guided Arisa toward a deeper discovery: she had no past, and might not even be human.

• Tsuchimikado Motoharu and Mikoto explained that Arisa Meigo’s miracles could be reversed into disasters, linking the Orion crash and Daedalus to a ritual manipulated by Retili Tanglode.
• Kamijou Touma, Nunotaba Shinobu, and Index entered Arisa Meigo’s home while Index kept watch outside.
• Nunotaba examined Arisa’s computer and found records about the Orion, whose captain, Daedalus, had died during the accident three years earlier.
• Nunotaba explained that Daedalus’s actions had made the survivors’ miracle possible, while Arisa had been counted as the extra survivor and the real hero was forgotten.
• Index connected the Daedalus and Icarus story to a ritual whose sacrifice had been reversed, but Nunotaba said the crucial discovery was that Arisa had no past and might not be human.

Shokuhou Misaki and Mikoto fought the black matter attacking Arisa Meigo, which Mikoto identified as corrupted Ley Line energy drawn to Arisa. Shokuhou took Arisa under her protection and carried her away, while the threat remained unresolved.

• Nunotaba Shinobu explained that Arisa Meigo doubted her own existence and needed psychological treatment.
• Shokuhou Misaki and her clique intervened as black monsters emerged around Arisa, and Shokuhou offered her a safe place to stay.
• A hidden Four-legged Tank rammed a monster and revealed Arisa Meigo's main body inside it.
• Mikoto explained that someone had injected something into the Ley Lines, corrupting their energy and drawing it toward Arisa.
• Mikoto used plasma to destroy the emerging Ley Line monsters, while Shokuhou carried Arisa away from the remaining black matter.
• The security forces arrived, and Shokuhou continued carrying Arisa as the last shadow was driven back.

Arisa Meigo began questioning her feelings for Mikoto and the meaning of her existence after Shokuhou spoke openly about her love for Mikoto. Meanwhile, Mikoto and Aleister discussed how Arisa’s songs could turn miracles into nothingness, just as an explosion revealed a new threat emerging from underground.

• In the bath, Shokuhou asked Arisa whether she liked Mikoto and admitted that she loved Mikoto more than anyone and feared losing her.
• Arisa realized that her feelings and existence were uncertain, while Shokuhou reassured her that being lost was normal and accidentally slipped into her arms.
• On a rooftop, Mikoto explained to Aleister that Arisa’s singing could channel wishes into miracles, but empathy could guide her toward destruction and nothingness.
• Aleister appeared in her original guise and discussed Arisa’s nature with Mikoto, then sensed an explosion as something emerged from underground.
• Aleister identified the disturbance as someone driving Solomon’s Seventy-Two Pillars into a Ley Line and remarked on the reckless use of Gae-Tia’s spellcraft.

At Arisa Meigo’s live debut, a terrorist attack began, and Mikoto realized the explosions and strange space were part of a ritual targeting her. Mikoto vanished into an eerie realm associated with Solomon’s Seventy-Two Demon Pillars, leaving Accelerator to protect Elisa and the others.

• Mikoto, Elisa, and Accelerator prepared to perform at a District 7 shopping mall, where Arisa Meigo noticed a black-haired girl in a robe disappear into the crowd.
• Mikoto encouraged Arisa to sing when she felt uneasy, and Arisa took center stage for the group’s live debut.
• Shatiora caught a terrorist underground, but bombs detonated and shook the mall as the performance reached its peak.
• Kuroko evacuated people while Accelerator redirected falling steel beams, and Mikoto and Accelerator recognized that the attack was more than an ordinary terrorist plot.
• Mikoto identified Gae-Tia’s ritual and the Seventy-Two Demon Pillars as the real threat, then vanished into an eerie space where black shadows began to form.

Accelerator cleared the collapsing exhibition center and helped stop Retili’s automaton from abducting Arisa Meigo, while Mikoto reappeared and rescued Arisa. Arisa recognized Shatiora’s connection to the Orion incident, and Shatiora angrily rejected the idea that their survival had been a miracle.

• Accelerator launched the exhibition center’s debris into a distant open area, then discovered that Arisa Meigo had vanished through a hole.
• Shatiora confronted Retili’s automaton in the underground level while it carried Arisa Meigo.
• A bolt of lightning destroyed the automaton, and Shatiora caught Arisa as Mikoto appeared nearby.
• Retili revealed that she had sought death for a thousand years and had planned to use Arisa and Endymion’s power of miracles to annihilate herself.
• Arisa thanked Shatiora and called their meeting a miracle, prompting Shatiora to condemn the idea and explain that her father had been the Orion incident’s only casualty.
• Arisa identified Shatiora from records and connected her father’s sacrifice to the supposed miracle that saved the other eighty-eight people.

Mikoto explained that Arisa Meigo was likely part of Shatiora and that a miracle had caused her to survive the spaceship accident. The chapter left Mikoto explaining how empathy technology might have merged their AIM fields, while Shatiora and Arisa Meigo’s connection remained unresolved.

• Shatiora told Arisa Meigo that an accident had left her unable to perceive music, and Arisa Meigo fainted soon afterward.
• Mikoto used a collar to sever the connection between Arisa Meigo and Shatiora, then explained that Arisa Meigo herself had been the miracle that saved the spaceship’s passengers.
• Shokuhou Misaki investigated Retili and found an 1870 photograph in which Retili looked exactly as she did now.
• Shatiora dreamed of standing aboard the spaceship and found a broken bracelet that matched Arisa Meigo’s bracelet.
• Mikoto told Kamijou Touma that Arisa Meigo was likely part of Shatiora and might retain memories from another version of herself.
• Mikoto began explaining that empathy technology could blur the boundary between two people and gradually merge their AIM fields.

Arisa Meigo learned that she might disappear and decided to write a song so she could leave something behind. As Endymion’s launch approached, Touma and Mikoto learned more about the danger surrounding it, while Index questioned what the structure truly was.

• Mikoto explained to Touma that Arisa Meigo’s attempted synchronization with Seteola had accelerated their fusion, and said her own power could not repair the process.
• Mikoto told Touma that Arisa Meigo could remain safe for now as long as she kept singing, then sent him back to class after revealing he had already missed the morning.
• Arisa Meigo overheard that she might disappear, felt her confusion lift, and decided to write a song after receiving an email from her producer.
• Tsuchimikado Motoharu told Touma that Endymion could cause a massive disaster if it held a Saint and that the Magic Side could not easily attack it.
• Mikoto told Index she liked this world, while Index questioned whether Endymion was truly the Tower of Babel, Yggdrasil, or something else.

Accelerator learned that Elisa would hold a solo concert, while Mikoto remained trapped in a strange space among demon-like shadows. The chapter left Mikoto attacking a regenerating entity as Accelerator and Nunotaba tried to understand the defenses around Endymion.

• Nunotaba Shinobu told Accelerator that Elisa would perform a solo concert and that she could not contact The First One.
• Arisa Meigo performed for Kamijou Touma and Index, while Touma noticed her unusual passion and worried about Mikoto and the missing Accelerator.
• Accelerator attacked Endymion's underground entrance but could not overcome its defenses, and Nunotaba suggested The First One might be trapped in an inner space.
• Mikoto stood by a riverbank among demon-like shadows and attacked their enormous, regenerating aggregate with lightning.

Retili prepared to act on her plan while Mikoto fought Gae-Tia’s Shadow in a separate space. Mikoto awakened Lanmoliwf, a biological life-form she had created using her blood, and the shadow stopped moving.

• Retili learned that the Second One had attacked Endymion and ordered Shatiora to keep protecting Arisa Meigo.
• Retili reflected on the contradictions between her memories and the world and decided to pursue a plan based on total destruction.
• Shokuhou Misaki spoke with Arisa Meigo, who said that Endymion and everyone else would be all right.
• Mikoto fought Gae-Tia’s Shadow as time accelerated in their separate space.
• Mikoto spread her blood over the shadow and awakened Lanmoliwf, causing Gae-Tia’s Shadow to stop moving.