Chapter Summaries

Anisha Marshall led Laura Stuart to meet Aozaki Touko after Laura forced her to choose between obeying and dying. Laura sought an alliance with Touko over the New Magic System, but their negotiation ended with Touko asking Laura to wear a revealing Miko Outfit.

• Anisha Marshall accepted that she had to follow Lady Ivy after killing members of the vampire clan, and Laura Stuart arrived to demand a meeting with her master.
• Laura threatened Anisha with the Church of England’s power, so Anisha took her to the Kuzuki Western Mansion in Witch Forest.
• Aozaki Touko dismissed Anisha and discussed the New Magic System with Laura, who said the Church of England wanted to benefit from its spread rather than suppress it.
• Laura offered Touko an Honorary Bishop title and support, while Touko declined to join the Church of England as a full member.
• Touko asked Laura to wear a revealing Miko Outfit at their next meeting, leaving Laura embarrassed and protesting that it was too risqué.

Laura and her guards left Witch Forest without provoking its powerful residents, while the Mage's Association and Ivy rose to prominence over the following half year. In London, a resentful girl stabbed Aozaki Touko, and Othinus showed no visible concern as Touko leaned against her.

• Laura rejected her guard Kana's proposal to seize Witch Forest, noting that Ivy might be a Saint and that starting a conflict would be unwise.
• Half a year later, Alester read a Mage's Association Grimoire and recognized that Ivy's New Magic System contained deliberate loopholes that could let its creator counter its users.
• The Girl in Red Cloak waited outside a London bank to kill Ivy, whom she blamed for forcing magic organizations into the Mage's Association.
• Aozaki Touko and Othinus stopped to look at the Girl in Red Cloak's handmade dolls, and Touko was stabbed in the abdomen.
• The Girl in Red Cloak fled, while bystanders and guards lost awareness of the attack; Touko leaned against Othinus, who remained cold and unmoved.

Aozaki Touko survived an assassination attempt, while the attackers mistakenly concluded that she was weakened and pursued her, only to be killed. Three days later, Touko prepared to confront the old-era magicians plotting against her and the Mage's Association.

• Aozaki Touko refused Othinus's request for a loving kiss and left with her after the assassin's wound failed to harm her.
• Cloaked plotters found no trace of Touko's blood, guessed that healing had weakened her, and set out to hunt her; the next morning, a homeless man found their bodies.
• Touko reviewed the growing conflict with rival Mage's Societies and decided to personally deal with the old-era magicians gathering near London.
• Anisha Marshall worried about Touko's safety and prepared to publicize her actions to strengthen her authority in the Mage's Association.
• Alester questioned the gravely wounded Girl in Red Cloak about Ivy, then left her behind as the Mage's Association closed in.
• Three days later, London fell silent beneath heavy clouds and a fierce snowstorm.

Aozaki Touko faced the invading magicians at the Clock Tower, where her presence alone left them afraid to attack. She offered to release them if they could withstand one strike, then raised a Holy Grail as the magicians prepared a barrier.

• Alester watched the Clock Tower, concerned about Ivy and the battle that would test her strength.
• A blue-haired woman intercepted the infiltrating magicians and revealed that Lady Ivy had been expecting them.
• More than a dozen magicians admitted they were moles, and their leader asked to surrender, but the woman said Ivy would let them challenge her.
• Aozaki Touko stood before the remaining magicians in the plaza, and they were too intimidated to attack.
• Touko offered to release everyone who survived one attack, so the magicians joined together to construct a defensive barrier.
• Touko raised a golden Holy Grail in her palm as the magicians waited behind their barrier.

Aozaki Touko used the Holy Grail’s power to overwhelm the mages who had tried to assassinate her, then made them accept a punishing curse as payment for their lives. After a wealthy pink-haired mage offered to join her, Touko turned her attention to Laura and asked what she wanted in return for her support.

• Aozaki Touko rearranged the stars with the Holy Grail’s power, and the mages surrendered rather than face her divine strength.
• The pink-haired mage negotiated on the mages’ behalf, and Aozaki Touko demanded one hundred million pounds from each of them.
• Aozaki Touko cursed the mages to work eighteen hours a day and devote eighty percent of their monthly earnings to repayment, with the curse lasting until their debts were cleared.
• The pink-haired mage offered to pay her own debt in full and asked to become one of Aozaki Touko’s subordinates.
• The pink-haired mage listed her skills and offered to warm Aozaki Touko’s bed, then Touko sent her to find Anissa.
• Laura praised Aozaki Touko’s power and reflected on the value of her investment, while Touko asked what return Laura wanted.

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.