Recaps

More than thirty years after the Clock Tower battle, Aozaki Touko and Kuonji Alice cared for Touko’s elderly mother, Mrs. Gena, after her husband died. Gena blessed their relationship and gave Touko a hand-knit sweater, but seven days later Touko stood at Gena’s grave beside her husband’s.

• Touko teased Laura about being attracted to beautiful girls, and Laura boasted that any passing car would stop for her.
• Alester discussed Touko’s star-twisting power with an angel, noting that preparation and counterspells might make it possible to defeat her.
• News of the Clock Tower battle spread worldwide, changing governments’ attitudes toward the Mage’s Association; the U.S. president considered leaving office to study magic.
• More than thirty years later, Mrs. Gena lived with Touko and Alice after her husband’s death and finished knitting a sweater for Touko.
• Gena told Alice that she and Touko loved each other, blessed their life together, and asked Alice to stay by Touko’s side.
• Seven days later, Touko and Alice visited Gena’s grave, where Alice asked why Touko had not used her abilities to keep Gena alive.

Aozaki Touko met Shokuhou Misaki in Academy City and used her superior Mental Out to make Misaki question whether she was the real Shokuhou Misaki. Meanwhile, Alester watched the encounter and said his plan to manipulate Touko remained on track, leaving Touko poised to erase Misaki’s memories.

• Touko rescued an orange-haired girl from delinquents, but Shokuhou Misaki discovered her Mental Out could not control Touko.
• Touko claimed to be a mage, let Misaki inspect her memories, and suggested that Misaki might be a fake with implanted memories.
• Touko used Mental Out to make Misaki meow like a cat, demonstrating that her ability surpassed Misaki’s.
• Alester watched the encounter and revealed that he had arranged it to form an emotional bond he could use to influence Touko.
• Misaki doubted her own identity, and Touko tapped her forehead and said she would delete her extraneous memories.

Aozaki Touko took Shokuhou Misaki shopping after teasing her about being a magician, while Misaki gradually realized she had never been in danger of having her memories erased. Their banter continued as Touko expressed affection for Misaki, who denied wanting a romance and challenged Touko’s assumption that she would be the pursuer.

• Shokuhou Misaki agreed to accompany Aozaki Touko shopping in exchange for Touko not erasing her memories.
• Aozaki Touko changed her appearance, led Misaki through the streets, and showed her chocolate coins disguised as magic gold coins.
• Shokuhou Misaki realized Touko had been teasing her and recommended a place to shop and live, then continued walking with her.
• At a clothing store, Shokuhou Misaki picked out clothes while Aozaki Touko teased her about her taste and future figure.
• Aozaki Touko told Misaki she would like her no matter what she became, and Misaki rejected the idea of romance and questioned who would pursue whom.

Shokuhou Misaki questioned Aozaki Touko’s motives after their date and investigated her suspicious identity and gifts. Suspecting Touko was a magician, she asked Hanekawa Runko to help test the Love Potion by applying it to a blanket and attacking her.

• Aozaki Touko teased Shokuhou Misaki with a Love Potion, then nearly kissed her before claiming the potion had worn off.
• Shokuhou Misaki and Aozaki Touko watched a movie, shared a candlelit dinner, and parted at the school gate.
• Shokuhou Misaki received fabricated records listing Aozaki Touko as a sixteen-year-old Tokiwadai teacher born in the nonexistent Misaki City.
• Shokuhou Misaki noticed that Touko’s chocolate coins had become heavier and suspected they had turned into real gold through alchemy.
• Shokuhou Misaki summoned Hanekawa Runko and smeared the Love Potion on a blanket, asking her to launch a probing attack.

Tsuchimikado Motoharu visited Aozaki Touko’s villa, claiming concern for his adopted sister Maiha while trying to learn why Touko had come to Academy City. He left the reason for her visit unresolved as Touko questioned him about his purpose.

• Aozaki Touko discovered that Academy City’s airborne nanomachines had been spying on her and destroyed those within eight hundred meters.
• Alester discussed Touko’s danger and watched a blond boy approach a luxury apartment building before vanishing.
• Tsuchimikado Motoharu visited the villa, and Maiha made him wait while she asked Touko whether she would see him.
• Touko came downstairs and asked Motoharu what he had come to see her about.
• Motoharu said he was worried about Maiha working for a wealthy stranger, though he also wanted to investigate Touko’s reasons for coming to Academy City.

Aozaki Touko told Tsuchimikado Motoharu that she had come to Academy City out of curiosity, though Alester remained doubtful. The next morning, Touko began teaching at Tokiwadai, where Shokuhou Misaki interrupted her class and confronted her about a potion that had left her aching all over.

• Tsuchimikado Motoharu asked Aozaki Touko why she had come to Academy City, and she said she was there mostly out of curiosity.
• Tsuchimikado Motoharu reported Touko's explanation to Alester, who gave no indication that he believed it.
• Aozaki Touko introduced herself as Tokiwadai's new mythology and history teacher and answered her students' questions about romance.
• Shokuhou Misaki entered Touko's classroom and used Mental Out to control the students, but Misaka Mikoto resisted with her electromagnetic barrier.
• Shokuhou Misaki told Touko that the potion she had received the previous day had made her whole body ache.

Aozaki Touko teased Misaka Mikoto during class, prompting the students to assume Mikoto had feelings for her and bringing her closer to her classmates. Later, Touko rewarded Tokiwadai’s principal with a Soul Gem that granted her a long life, and the principal offered to arrange for Mikoto to share Touko’s dormitory.

• Touko promised Shokuhou Misaki she would take responsibility for her, then joked with Mikoto about teacher-student relationships when Mikoto asked about them in class.
• Touko invited Mikoto to show her around Tokiwadai after school, leaving the other students to crowd around Mikoto with romantic advice.
• Touko met the Tokiwadai principal in her office and heard that the principal hoped to serve her forever.
• Touko extracted the principal’s soul into a Soul Gem and granted her a long life and the power to repair her body.
• The principal offered to arrange for Mikoto to live with Touko, and Touko questioned whether teachers had their own dormitory.

Aozaki Touko revealed to Misaka Mikoto that Academy City planned to clone her and use the clones to push Accelerator toward Level 6. Misaka confirmed the documents were genuine, while Shokuhou Misaki grew angry after waiting for Touko and set out to find her.

• Aozaki Touko declined the principal’s offer to arrange for her to live with Shokuhou Misaki and went on a tour of Tokiwadai with Misaka Mikoto.
• Misaka Mikoto demonstrated her Railgun ability at the school pool after Touko asked to see a Level 5 Esper’s power.
• Touko told Mikoto about the plan to clone her and use the Misaka Imoutos in experiments designed to help Accelerator reach Level 6, and offered to show her the documents.
• Shokuhou Misaki waited for Touko at a café, learned Touko was with Mikoto, and left with her faction to find them.
• Misaka Mikoto read the Absolute Ability User Evolution Plan documents Touko had sent and confirmed that the plan was real.

Misaka Mikoto struggled with how to stop the Absolute Ability User Evolution Plan after learning that it could kill twenty thousand Misaka Imouto, and asked Aozaki Touko for advice. Shokuhou Misaki arrived and confronted them over their apparent date, then brought them to Touko’s villa to talk privately.

• Misaka Mikoto questioned whether Aozaki Touko was connected to the experiment, and Touko claimed to be the famous mage Ivy, though Mikoto refused to believe her.
• Touko asked whether Mikoto would defeat Accelerator or destroy the research facilities to stop the plan, and Mikoto admitted she had no firm strategy.
• Shokuhou Misaki arrived with her companions and accused Touko of dating Mikoto, while Mikoto tried to explain that they were only showing Touko around.
• Shokuhou Misaki erased the bystanders’ memories and suggested they move somewhere private to avoid rumors.
• Aozaki Touko invited Shokuhou Misaki and the others to her villa, where Tsuchimikado Maiha served them black tea and left them to talk.

Aozaki Touko offered to stop the Absolute Ability User Evolution Plan in exchange for Misaka Mikoto serving as her maid for a year. She demonstrated the power of social authority by having Nunotaba Shinobu escorted into the living room, leaving Mikoto wondering what Touko was doing.

• Shokuhou Misaki and Misaka Mikoto hesitated to discuss Academy City's secrets, but Aozaki Touko explained that more than twenty thousand Misaka clones had been created for the Absolute Ability User Evolution Plan.
• Shokuhou Misaki reminded Mikoto that her carelessness in allowing her genetic blueprint to be taken had helped cause the tragedy, and Mikoto accepted responsibility for the clones' fate.
• When Mikoto admitted she had no reliable plan to stop the experiments, Touko said she could help if Mikoto became her maid for a year and indulged her interests by wearing a cat-tailed maid outfit and acting cute.
• Touko told Mikoto that controlling social authority could be more effective than controlling power, then had three armed men bring Nunotaba Shinobu into the living room.

Aozaki Touko recruited Nunotaba Shinobu and used her influence to stop the Absolute Ability User Evolution Plan. The chapter ended with Kihara Genshi promising not to restart the experiment, though Touko warned him she would be watching.

• Misaka Mikoto confronted Nunotaba Shinobu over her role in the plan to use twenty thousand Misaka Imouto, but Aozaki Touko calmed Mikoto and invited Nunotaba to work for her.
• Nunotaba Shinobu accepted Touko's offer after recognizing that refusing could put her life at risk.
• Nunotaba questioned whether Touko could face Academy City's darkness, and Touko explained that she had pressured Academy City's upper levels using her resources and influence.
• Touko spoke to Kihara Genshi through a tablet and confirmed that the Absolute Ability User Evolution Plan had been halted.
• Kihara Genshi claimed the plan would not be restarted, and Touko warned him that her agents in Academy City would expose any attempt to resume it.

Aozaki Touko forced Academy City to abandon the Absolute Ability User Evolution Plan, though the project might still target Misaka Mikoto. After Mikoto tried to repay Touko by serving as her maid, Shokuhou Misaki’s teasing exposed her own clumsiness, and she erased the memories of those who witnessed it.

• Aozaki Touko told the Academy City representatives that she would expose the plan and impose economic sanctions unless they stopped it, and they agreed.
• Misaka Mikoto thanked Touko and promised to help her, while Shokuhou Misaki teased Mikoto about repaying her by becoming Touko’s bride.
• Shokuhou Misaki pretended that she and Touko were lovers, provoking Mikoto, before Touko embraced her and unsettled her with the joke.
• Mikoto came downstairs in a revealing maid outfit and pleaded with Touko to let her wear safety shorts, while Shokuhou Misaki took pictures of her.
• Shokuhou Misaki repeatedly failed to throw her phone into a nearby trash can, then used Mental Out to erase the memories of most witnesses.
• Nunotaba Shinobu realized that some of her memories had been deleted, and Touko told her she had overheard a young girl’s secrets.

Aozaki Touko encountered Accelerator after he beat up a group of delinquents, and the two left together to talk. Hamazura Shiage and the other injured delinquents headed to the hospital, while Touko left Hamazura with money and no way to contact her.

• Aozaki Touko came upon Accelerator throwing delinquents out of an alley and teased him about beating them up.
• Accelerator recognized Touko as the person who had halted the Absolute Ability User Evolution Plan and threatened her.
• Touko gave Accelerator a bottle of Concentrated Heaven Bitter Coffee, then woke Hamazura Shiage by pouring Hellfire Volcano Rock into his mouth.
• Touko gave Hamazura money for medical treatment, and he thanked her and promised to repay her.
• Touko left with Accelerator to talk elsewhere, while Hamazura and the other delinquents set off for the hospital.

Aozaki Touko confronted Accelerator about the twenty thousand Misaka Imouto and urged him to take responsibility for protecting them. Accelerator rejected her proposal, but Touko challenged him to a fight, promising that he would care for the clones if he lost—and repeatedly slapped him through his defenses.

• Aozaki Touko told Accelerator that he was responsible for the twenty thousand Misaka Imouto and needed to help protect them.
• Accelerator refused, suggesting that Misaka Mikoto or Academy City's higher-ups should handle their protection.
• Touko teased Accelerator as a tsundere and challenged him, wagering her life against his promise to care for the clones.
• Accelerator charged at Touko, but she slapped him into a streetlamp despite his Vector Control.
• Accelerator attacked again, and Touko slapped him flying once more.

Aozaki Touko defeated Accelerator and persuaded him to care for the Misaka Imouto, while Accelerator accepted the responsibility. In Fuyuki, Illya disappeared as she left for school, apparently summoned to another Singularity.

• Aozaki Touko overwhelmed Accelerator with repeated slaps, and he accepted that he had lost the title of strongest.
• Touko told the battered Accelerator to look after the children, and he agreed after recovering his strength.
• Accelerator found Misaka Misaka, Test Subject No. 20001, at a research institute and took her with him as her guardian.
• Illya vanished as she left the Aozaki Household, and Miyu concluded that she had been summoned away again.

Aozaki Ritsuka, Mashu, Illya, and Aozaki Aoko arrived in ancient Mesopotamia, where Aoko easily killed a pack of Demonic Beasts. Tohsaka Rin fell from the sky and was caught by Illya, but she revealed that she had fused with the goddess Ishtar, who then asked whether Touko could join them.

• Aozaki Ritsuka welcomed Illya and Aozaki Aoko after they were summoned to ancient Mesopotamia.
• Aozaki Aoko killed the Demonic Beasts surrounding the group with a volley of Magic Bullets.
• Aozaki Ritsuka spotted someone falling from the sky, and Mashu recognized her as Tohsaka Rin.
• Illya leaped up and caught Tohsaka Rin before she hit the ground.
• Tohsaka Rin explained that she and Ishtar had fused, with Ishtar taking the dominant role.
• Ishtar asked the group to summon Touko, but Aozaki Aoko said Touko had gone traveling to another world.

Aozaki Ritsuka and her companions encountered Gonggu, who posed as Enkidu and offered to guide them to Uruk. When Ritsuka learned that Ishtar was one of the Three Goddess Alliance, she realized she might have to fight the mother she hoped to protect.

• Ishtar left Ritsuka and the others to search for something, and Illya destroyed a charging horde of Demonic Beasts with her magic.
• Gonggu, an impostor occupying Enkidu's corpse, approached the group and introduced himself as Enkidu, while Aozaki Aoko remained suspicious of him.
• Ritsuka accepted Gonggu's offer to lead them to Uruk, and he explained the crisis, the Three Goddess Alliance, and the Demonic Beasts.
• Gonggu confirmed that Ishtar was part of the Three Goddess Alliance, leaving Ritsuka distressed at the prospect of fighting her mother.

Merlin revealed that Touko had sent her to help Ritsuka and guide the group toward Uruk. After Gonggu’s identity was exposed, he fled, warning Ritsuka that greater despair awaited her.

• Illya encouraged Ritsuka to believe she could find a way to cooperate with Ishtar, and Ritsuka regained her resolve.
• Merlin appeared, and Roman excitedly asked Ritsuka to get her autograph, revealing his devotion to Merlin’s future virtual-idol persona.
• Merlin confronted Gonggu and recognized him as Enkidu, whose counterpart had already died in this era.
• Gonggu attacked with golden chains, then escaped after Merlin exposed his identity and he realized he was outnumbered.
• Merlin led the group toward Uruk and told Ritsuka that Touko had sent her to help.

Merlin warned Aozaki Aoko, Illya, and Mashu that the Seventh Singularity involved a poor mother and dangers beyond ordinary trouble, while Alester speculated that Ivy sought to become a Magic God by presenting herself as God. At the villa, Aozaki Touko watched Accelerator care for Last Order, then went to meet Kuonji Alice, only for a confident aviation chairman to approach them.

• Merlin teased Illya and the others with an unclear warning about protecting them and a poor mother, then described her habit of giving people brutally honest prophecies.
• Alester told Aihwas he believed Ivy was a Pure Magician seeking to become a Magic God, and concluded that her claim to be God made her a blasphemer to billions of believers.
• Touko watched Last Order play with Accelerator, who ended their pool game and dried her hair while warning that she needed treatment that night.
• Touko left to pick up an important guest and met Kuonji Alice at the airport.
• The chairman of Keyu Aviation approached Touko and Alice, introducing himself and saying he wanted to meet them.

A young man learned that Fate’s Spark made every woman he fell in love with a lesbian, then was kidnapped and blackmailed by Ivy’s mage protector. After leaving the hotel, he was persuaded by the man in black to pursue a male lover, only to be tricked into being sexually dominated again.

• Aozaki Touko reunited with Azu, kissed her, and told the young man that everyone he fell in love with was destined to be a lesbian.
• The young man searched for Ivy but was kidnapped by her mage protector, who warned him to stay away and threatened to expose his crimes.
• The protector extorted the young man and sexually assaulted him at the hotel.
• After leaving the hotel, the young man encountered the man in black, who argued that a male lover could help him defy fate.
• The young man accepted the man in black’s challenge, but the man led him back to the hotel and tricked him into being dominated again.

Maiha Tsuchimikado admired Aozaki Touko’s cooking and learned it was honed while she lived with Kuonji Alice. Later, Shokuhou Misaki fled a group of hunters equipped to counter her Mental Out and reached Touko’s villa, where Touko rescued her with magic.

• Maiha Tsuchimikado praised Aozaki Touko’s cooking, and Kuonji Alice explained that Touko had practiced it during their years together.
• Aozaki Touko admitted she had cooked for Alice partly to win her over, and Alice accused her of having ulterior motives.
• Shokuhou Misaki ran through the city as helmeted pursuers on high-speed roller-blade suits hunted her with equipment designed to counter her Mental Out.
• Shokuhou Misaki used a red Love Potion to pass through a wall, then continued toward Aozaki Touko’s villa as the pursuers closed in.
• Shokuhou Misaki rang the villa’s doorbell and trusted Touko to save her as the hunters charged.
• Aozaki Touko appeared, embraced Shokuhou Misaki, and used magic to blast the pursuers, leaving them burned and sprawled on the roadway.

After the villa incident was covered up as an accident, Homura River Aiho and Tetsuzou Tsuduri mistook Shokuhou Misaki’s exhaustion for evidence of abuse and broke into Aozaki Touko’s home. They apologized after discovering the truth, and Touko jokingly demanded that Aiho bare her chest as an apology.

• Officials ordered Homura River Aiho not to investigate the villa and classified the disaster as an accident caused by delinquent students.
• Homura River Aiho and Tetsuzou Tsuduri saw exhausted Shokuhou Misaki at the villa entrance and assumed she had been abused.
• The two security officers rushed into the villa, where they found Aozaki Touko massaging Shokuhou Misaki and realized they had misunderstood.
• Homura River Aiho and Tetsuzou Tsuduri apologized for entering the residence, and Aozaki Touko said their apology lacked sincerity.
• Aozaki Touko jokingly told Homura River Aiho that apologizing required her to bare her chest, prompting Tetsuzou Tsuduri to object.

Shokuhou Misaki reflected on her growing closeness to Aozaki Touko while receiving a massage, then asked why Touko treated her so kindly. Touko gave her a choice between two Spirit Gear items for self-defense, and Misaki chose one.

• Homura River Aiho agreed to treat Aozaki Touko and her companions to a meal, and Touko jokingly said she might bring over twenty thousand people before settling on three.
• Shokuhou Misaki relaxed as Aozaki Touko massaged her legs and wondered whether she could enjoy Touko’s care in the future.
• Misaki asked why Touko was so good to her, and Touko said she acted according to her mood.
• Misaki suggested her feminine charm might make Touko want to pursue her, but Touko teased her about her flat chest.
• Touko offered Misaki a Lucky Necklace that traded later bad luck for escape from danger, or Fate Bracelets that protected people who mutually acknowledged each other.
• Misaki considered both Spirit Gear items, glanced at Touko, and made her choice.

Aozaki Ritsuka bravely addressed King Gilgamesh in Uruk and asked for the Holy Grail, but he refused to hand it over. She then asked what he wanted in exchange.

• Aozaki Touko left Shokuhou Misaki to sleep alone, then slipped into Kuonji Alice's bed and was caught sneaking in.
• Kuonji Alice teased Touko about her absence, and Touko turned the teasing into an affectionate embrace.
• Aozaki Ritsuka stepped forward to address Gilgamesh, who laughed and granted her permission to speak.
• Gilgamesh used the Holy Grail as a wine cup, astonishing Ritsuka and Illya with his wealth and his casual treatment of it.
• Gilgamesh said he already knew about Chaldea and refused Ritsuka's request to give them the Holy Grail.
• Ritsuka acknowledged she could not simply take his possession and asked Gilgamesh what he wanted.

Gilgamesh agreed to give Ritsuka and her companions the Holy Grail if they worked odd jobs in Uruk, while Ishtar confronted him and backed down when he warned her that fighting could harm her unborn child. At their new base, Ritsuka and the others met Anna, whom they recognized as a young Medusa.

• Gilgamesh offered the Holy Grail in exchange for Ritsuka and her companions doing odd jobs in Uruk, and Siduri showed them their new base.
• Ishtar broke into the royal palace to question Gilgamesh about Ritsuka, but he taunted her about her pregnancy and threatened to attack with Noble Phantasms.
• Ishtar abandoned the confrontation to protect her unborn child and flew away, while Ritsuka sneezed in Uruk without knowing why.
• Siduri led Ritsuka and her companions to an earthen house, where they saw a hooded girl named Anna.
• Merlin introduced Anna, and Illya and Ritsuka recognized her as a younger version of Medusa.