Chapter Summaries

Roy rescued Shokuhou Misaki from the burning facility and reassured her that he believed her, helping her regain hope. After she worried about Miel Ant, Roy used Aleister’s Mina Mathers app to locate her and went to comfort her.

• Roy blamed the dead Matsuo Ryuusuke for revealing Merit Assessment and approached Shokuhou Misaki in the burning facility.
• Roy carried Shokuhou Misaki to a park, gave her water, and told her he believed she was kind and noble.
• Shokuhou Misaki admitted her pain over being distrusted and worried about Miel Ant, while vowing never to use her ability on Roy.
• Roy arranged a taxi to take Shokuhou Misaki back to school, then used Mina Mathers to locate Miel Ant.
• Roy found Miel Ant curled beside an artificial lake and prepared to comfort her.

Roy comforted Miel Ant as she recounted the deaths of her teacher and friends in the Artificial Hand Factory, then promised to protect her. She trusted him enough to spend the night at his home, while Roy took her out for grilled skewers.

• Roy found Miel Ant crying beside the artificial lake and stayed with her as she admitted she had been thinking about suicide.
• Miel Ant told Roy how Toumine Yori and the children at the Artificial Hand Factory had died, and blamed Shokuhou Misaki for failing to save them.
• Miel Ant thanked Roy for avenging her teacher and friends, and called him the hero she had once hoped her teacher would become.
• Roy promised Miel Ant that he would protect her, and she clung to him as she gradually calmed down.
• When Miel Ant said she could not return to her dorm, Roy gave her his coat and invited her to stay at his home.
• Miel Ant agreed to go with Roy for grilled skewers and handed him her black card to pay.

Aleister and Aiwass discussed Roy’s possible threat to Aleister’s plans, while Miel Ant returned to Tokiwadai and faced Shokuhou Misaki with renewed resolve. Roy later encountered Yusa Kaimi at a café and offered her a black card, leaving her startled by his suggestive question.

• Aleister told Aiwass not to contact or attack Roy, despite her warning that Roy might become a major threat to his plans.
• Miel Ant went to Tokiwadai despite her injuries, changed into a fresh uniform, and ate breakfast in the dining hall.
• Miel Ant met Shokuhou Misaki’s gaze and resolved to treat her as a rival rather than succumb to despair.
• Shokuhou Misaki recognized that Miel Ant’s hostility had lost its despairing resentment and felt relieved that Roy had helped her.
• Roy received an encrypted message from Kihara Kakugun, then entered a café and spotted Yusa Kaimi counseling a researcher.
• Roy placed a black card before Yusa Kaimi and asked how much she would charge to serve him for one night, making her smile freeze.

Roy used Face of God to subdue Yusa Kaimi and pressured her into working for him by threatening her sisters, then contacted Yusa Ruri. He left Academy City for Britain with Kihara Kakugun, where Gremlin members Marian and Loki received them and learned that Kihara Kakugun was Roy's candidate for their plans.

• Roy pretended to accept Yusa Kaimi's advances, followed her into an alley, and resisted her attempt to use Psychic Order on him.
• Roy used Face of God to immobilize Yusa Kaimi, took her pistol, and threatened her sisters, Yusa Ruri and Yusa Utsu, to frighten her into cooperation.
• Roy offered Yusa Kaimi a lifelong job and contacted Yusa Ruri, who demanded that he keep Kaimi safe.
• Roy and Kihara Kakugun flew to Britain, leaving Academy City with Aleister's tacit approval.
• At Heathrow, Marian met Roy and Kihara Kakugun and took them to Loki, who drove them away in a car warded against eavesdropping.
• Roy introduced Kihara Kakugun to Marian as his candidate for Gremlin, explaining that Kakugun's knowledge and personal wish made him suitable.

Roy joined Othinus and Gremlin in London as they planned to provoke a global conflict by recovering Cait Sith and using it to reignite Britain’s political divisions. As Roy prepared to search for the King Selection Sword in Scotland, Laura Stuart revealed her own connection to Cait Sith and ordered Kanzaki Kaori to come to her.

• Roy arrived at Gremlin’s London manor, where Othinus named Kihara Kakugun Bersi and Marian explained the history of the British Civil War and Cait Sith.
• Roy concluded that Cait Sith had likely been lost in Scotland and proposed exploiting the Royal, Knight, and Puritan Factions, along with other powers, to provoke a world war that would aid Gremlin’s plans.
• Othinus privately told Roy she would stay hidden while he searched for Cait Sith, but promised to protect him; Roy took her hand.
• Laura Stuart spoke with Aleister about A Certain Magical Index’s arrival in Academy City, then reflected on her mission, Cait Sith, and Roy Crowley.
• Laura decided that, as Supreme Pontiff, she had to prevent Cait Sith from reaching the royal family and summoned Kanzaki Kaori.

New Light found Cait Sith on an ancient Scottish battlefield, but Dawn Light surrounded them to seize it. Roy arrived disguised as Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and demanded the sword, leaving both groups stunned by the legendary magician’s appearance.

• Bellopoe used the Dwarf Black Goblin technique to locate Cait Sith, and New Light dug up the Sword of Mercy.
• Levianna Baudelaire and Dawn Light surrounded Bellopoe, Leisha, and the other New Light members, demanding Cait Sith.
• Roy appeared in Scottish clothing and introduced himself as Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers.
• Levianna and the other magicians hesitated to challenge Roy because they feared he might truly be the Golden Dawn’s founder.
• Roy asked the gathered magicians to hand him Cait Sith so he could use it as leverage with the royal family.

Roy used the Thoth Tarot and Mina Mathers to impersonate Mathers and overpower Levianna and Dawn Light in their fight over Cait Sith. Levianna and her allies were left defeated, while Roy’s connection to Aleister’s magic remained hidden.

• Levianna refused to hand Cait Sith to Roy and challenged him with Dawn Light’s group-combat magic.
• Roy absorbed Levianna’s wind attack and summoned Mina Mathers from seventy-eight Tarot cards, convincing Levianna that he was the Golden Master.
• Mina and Roy bantered while Levianna ordered Dawn Light to retreat, and Roy trapped the group in a sandstorm as they fought over Cait Sith.
• Roy and Mina countered Levianna’s elemental magic, drained Dawn Light’s inspiration, and disrupted its ritual by invoking Taurus through the Thoth Tarot.
• Levianna was gravely injured and Dawn Light’s magicians collapsed after Roy severed their connection to the earth veins.

Roy, disguised as Mathers, defeated Levianna and seized Cait Sith before facing Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl. He blocked Kanzaki’s attack, then activated the sword’s angelic power and took on the authority of Michael, the Vice-Lord of Heaven and King of Britain.

• Roy used the Thoth Tarot to redirect Kanzaki Kaori’s seven magical wire slashes, then took Cait Sith from the Dawn Light.
• Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl arrived, and Levianna revealed that their opponent claimed to be Mathers, the Golden Dawn’s founder.
• Roy said he had known Laura Stuart as a girl, leaving the magicians shaken by the implication of a past connection.
• Kanzaki chose to carry out the Supreme Pontiff’s mission, while Stiyl prepared to support her and Levianna considered how to escape with her subordinates.
• Kanzaki attacked Roy with Flash of the Heavens, but Roy blocked her strike with Cait Sith and used a Christian technique to withstand her Saintly power.
• Roy activated Cait Sith, causing its power of Michael to descend as he became the Vice-Lord of Heaven and King of Britain.

Roy used Cait Sith’s power as Michael to defeat Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl, then learned through Stiyl’s mind that Index had gone to the Far East Island Nation. After approaching Levianna, Roy proposed that she become his and Mina’s adopted daughter and inherit the will of gold.

• Roy activated Cait Sith and unleashed a Dimensional Strike that overwhelmed Kanzaki Kaori and left her gravely wounded.
• Roy struck Stiyl with Cait Sith, severed his mind, and used Face of God to learn that Index was in the Far East Island Nation.
• Roy wounded Stiyl again and left him unconscious as he approached the captured Levianna.
• Roy told Mina that they should adopt Levianna, who could inherit the will of gold and avenge them against the magician who had wronged them.

Roy took Cait Sith and the unconscious Levianna from Scotland, leaving Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl gravely injured. Laura Stuart identified Roy from New Light’s recording, while Roy brought Mina Mathers’s tarot grimoire to the Golden Dawn’s old headquarters at 36 Blythe Road.

• Roy knocked Levianna unconscious, took Cait Sith from Bellopoe, and escaped with the girl and Mina Mathers using the Thoth Tarot.
• Kanzaki Kaori asked New Light to save Stiyl before she passed out, and Bellopoe decided to notify Christianity and turn over the injured magicians.
• Laura Stuart learned that Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl had survived, recognized the impostor Mathers’s grimoire as Aleister’s Thoth Tarot, and watched New Light’s recording.
• Laura saw Roy Crowley in the recording and reacted with shock as her power briefly ran out of control.
• Roy explored 36 Blythe Road and examined the Golden Dawn’s preserved ritual site as a woman in mourning clothes explained that Aleister had taken his examination there.

Mina Mathers recounted Aleister’s early days in the Golden Dawn before choosing to follow Roy and explore her new life. Roy then confronted Levianna, explaining that he wanted to adopt her as his daughter, but her blunt question about his ability to have children left her fearing she had provoked him.

• Mina Mathers described Aleister’s spirit-summoning ritual, his recruitment by Mathers, and the conflict that later led him to destroy the Golden Dawn.
• Roy learned that Aiwass had made Mina Mathers a living Grimoire, and Mina revealed that she wanted to see how Aleister’s story ended.
• Mina decided to follow Roy, and he offered to help her experience ordinary life, beginning with a meal.
• Mina explained that Mathers had defeated Westcott and gravely wounded Aleister, leaving him unable to recover before his exile.
• Levianna woke in a London hotel and learned that Roy had kept Cait Sith rather than handing it over to the royal family.
• Roy told Levianna he wanted to adopt her so Mina could have a child, and Levianna asked whether he was incapable of having children.

Roy deceived Leivinia into signing a binding contract to become his daughter and rebuild the Golden Dawn, then took Mina and Leivinia to meet the Second Princess of Britain. Carissa worried that Curtana had fallen into Mathers’s hands, unaware that Roy was actually Aleister Crowley’s son.

• Roy posed as Mathers and offered Leivinia occult instruction in exchange for a contract requiring her to rebuild the Golden Dawn, concealing that Aleister’s curse made the task impossible.
• Leivinia accepted the contract, believing Mathers wanted her to restore the order and avenge his betrayal by Aleister.
• Roy made Leivinia call him Father and Mina Mother, and the three ate together at the hotel as a family.
• Roy took Curtana and said he would meet the Second Princess of Britain at St. James’s Palace.
• Carissa regretted that Curtana had been taken and feared the royal family would lose influence if the Anglican Church obtained it.
• Carissa questioned how Mathers, the Golden Dawn leader believed dead for a century, could still be alive.

Roy, posing as Mathers, negotiated with Second Imperial Princess Kerissa, who offered her sister Vivian and the Windsor bloodline to help him restore the Stuarts. Kerissa promised that Roy’s descendants could inherit the British throne, though Vivian had not been consulted.

• Kerissa identified Roy as someone other than Mathers after comparing him with the Royal Family’s secret files on the Golden Dawn.
• Kerissa explained that she had tracked Roy through New Light’s report about Cait Sith and asked what he wanted.
• Roy said he sought to fulfill Mathers’s wish to restore the Stuart Dynasty, rejecting a mere title as inadequate.
• Kerissa offered him Windsor blood through a marriage to her younger sister, Third Imperial Princess Vivian.
• Kerissa promised that Roy’s descendants could inherit the throne and rule Britain as restored Stuarts.

Roy negotiated with Second Imperial Princess Kerissa, trading Cait Sith for royal support and access to Princess Vivian. After Kerissa accepted the sword and took Roy to meet Vivian, Roy warned her that magicians and the Golden Dawn held far greater power than she understood.

• Roy used his supposed devotion to Mathers's wish to reassure Kerissa while bargaining over Cait Sith and the restoration of the Stuart Dynasty.
• Kerissa explained that the Knight Faction had blocked Vivian's political marriages because Vivian loved William, a member of the Roman Orthodox Church's Right Seat of God.
• Kerissa offered Vivian to Roy as a royal bride, and Roy handed over Cait Sith, which Kerissa concealed from the Mother Empress.
• Kerissa took Roy to meet Vivian and explained that she would reward him for his service to the royal family.
• Roy told Kerissa that Demon Gods existed and that the Golden Dawn could overturn the world, challenging her limited understanding of magicians.

Roy followed Kerissa to meet Vivian, whose royal decree ordered her to marry him after Kerissa secured support from the Commander of Knights. The chapter ended with Roy undressing the despairing Vivian as she tearfully murmured William’s name.

• Roy warned Kerissa not to rely too heavily on Cait Sith, and Kerissa said she would use it to gain the Commander of Knights’ support for a royal marriage decree.
• Kerissa brought Roy to Vivian’s room and told Vivian to prepare to receive him.
• Kerissa forced Vivian into Roy’s arms and showed her Queen Elizabeth’s decree ordering Vivian to marry Mathers.
• Vivian saw the Knight Faction’s emblem on the decree and realized the Commander of Knights had joined the decision against her.
• Kerissa told Vivian to forget William Orville and left her alone with Roy.
• Roy undressed Vivian as she clutched the decree and murmured, “Mr. William...”

Roy discussed his marriage to Vivian with Kerissa, who offered to help him win Vivian’s affection, but he refused to manipulate her feelings. He gave Kerissa his number and prepared to leave, warning that she could call him if she faced serious trouble.

• The Commander of Knights agreed to help Kerissa arrange Vivian’s marriage to Roy, prioritizing Britain over William Orville’s feelings.
• Water Behind confronted Land to the Left over his experiments on tourists and children, and Wind in Front stopped their quarrel.
• Vivian cried in the rain over William Orville, then slept exhausted in her room at St. James's Palace.
• Roy ate breakfast with Kerissa, praised her ambition, and heard her explain that she wanted to strengthen Britain rather than rule it.
• Kerissa offered to help Roy make Vivian fall in love with him, but Roy declined and said Vivian should not have her feelings toyed with.
• Roy gave Kerissa his phone number and said she could call him if she encountered serious trouble, prompting her to ask whether he was leaving.

Roy left Kerissa after returning Cait Sith to the Royal Family, then prepared to meet Laura Stuart while asking Othinus to shadow him as protection. The chapter ended with Laura strolling through St. George's Cathedral square with Stiyl and another companion as Roy approached his planned meeting.

• Roy told Kerissa he would leave until she was ready, while secretly planning to use Britain's conflict for his own aims.
• Kerissa decided to comfort Vivian and insisted that her actions were for Britain's sake.
• Roy returned to the hotel, ordered Levianna to make coffee, and arranged for Mina Mathers to teach her Tarot.
• Roy told Mina he would meet Laura Stuart, joked about divorce, and left Levianna eager for lessons.
• Othinus agreed to follow Roy from the shadows when he asked her to guard him during his meeting with the Great Demon.
• Laura Stuart wandered through St. George's Cathedral square with Stiyl and a Japanese woman while Stiyl complained about her lack of caution.

Roy Crowley appeared before Laura Stuart, Stiyl, and Kanzaki Kaori near St. George's Cathedral, and Laura concealed her identity as a demon while struggling with her feelings toward him. Roy sat down with her as if they were siblings reunited after a century, while Othinus watched over him from nearby.

• Stiyl and Kanzaki Kaori urged Laura Stuart to act against Mathers, whom they feared would endanger Index, but Roy appeared before them before she could answer.
• Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl prepared for a possible attack, while Laura ordered them to stand back and hid her emotional reaction to Roy.
• Laura reasoned that Roy did not know her true identity and decided to act like his younger sister, concealing that she was the demon Kolozun.
• Roy recognized Laura's struggle and chose to play the part of her loving brother, while Othinus kept watch from a nearby rooftop.
• Roy sat across from Laura at an open-air café, and Stiyl and Kanzaki Kaori watched warily as he asked whether they were her subordinates.

Roy Crowley and Laura Stuart reunited after a century and pretended to trust one another while each planned to use the other. Laura spun a false account of her life and urged Roy to help her find Aleister, while Roy concealed what he knew about her; their wary reunion continued with affectionate performances.

• Laura admitted that she was the Anglican Church’s Supreme Pontiff, then called Roy her big brother and confirmed his identity using their secret memory of Sister Ella.
• Roy and Laura reminisced over their childhood, while both privately plotted to manipulate the other for their own goals.
• Laura described preserving their old apartment and told Roy a tearful fabricated story about joining the Anglican Church to avenge his death.
• Laura claimed she had hunted Aleister and asked Roy to help find him, though Roy knew her account was a lie.
• Roy pretended to be overwhelmed by guilt and affection, and Laura comforted him before he praised how much she had grown.

Roy told Laura that he had escaped the Imaginary Space and suggested that Aleister was hiding in Academy City, where she hoped to confront him without exposing her demonic identity. Laura asked Roy to help uncover the Academy City chairman’s identity, and Roy revealed that he had obtained Aleister’s Thoth Tarot and impersonated Mathers.

• Laura questioned Roy about his survival, and he claimed that studying the Book of 777 had taken him to the Imaginary Space.
• Laura asked whether Roy had seen Aleister, and Roy denied it while hinting that he could guess Aleister’s location.
• Roy told Laura that he had returned from the Imaginary Space through a passage opened in Academy City, leading her to suspect that the chairman was Aleister.
• Laura explained that she could not attack Academy City without proof and said the Puritan Church could identify Aleister by comparing his life wavelength.
• Laura asked Roy to help reveal the chairman’s identity, and Roy said he had obtained Aleister’s Thoth Tarot and used its knowledge to impersonate Mathers.