Chapter Summaries

Roy attacked Index to test the protection of her Moving Church, then used Christianity’s “Wrestling with God” technique to drag Kanzaki Kaori and Index back into Academy City and crush the apartment building. The city was revealed to be inside Imaginary Space, and the chapter left Kanzaki injured but standing while Index identified the magic as a formula absent from her grimoires.

• Index warned Kamijou Touma that Roy was a magician after the grimoires in her mind, but Roy admitted his purpose and attacked her with the Great Flood Apocalypse.
• Roy’s attack sent Index through several buildings and into the Building with No Doors or Windows, while her Moving Church kept her alive.
• Kanzaki rushed to rescue Index, and Kamijou chose to oppose Roy while Stiyl prepared to hold him off.
• Roy used “Wrestling with God” to seize Kanzaki and Index as they tried to escape, dragging them back to the apartment building and reducing it to dust.
• Roy explained that Academy City had been moved into Imaginary Space, and Kanzaki emerged from the crater with Index, injured but alive.
• Index recognized that Roy’s formulas recreated the Great Flood Apocalypse and Wrestling with God, though neither appeared in the One Hundred and Three Thousand Grimoires.

Roy revealed that Index was a weapon and challenged the Church’s understanding of magic by explaining the true Seven Deadly Sins. Index identified him as Saint Gregory, “Queen of All Sins,” and began explaining that pride was their ultimate meaning.

• Roy told Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl that Index was a spiritual weapon and that Laura Stuart had deceived them about her purpose and safeguards.
• Kamijou Touma stood between Roy and Index and vowed to protect her, while Stiyl attacked Roy with the Witch-King’s flames.
• Roy reappeared after being burned, but Kanzaki Kaori, Stiyl, and Kamijou Touma perceived him in different places.
• Roy explained the Seven Deadly Sins and declared pride their sovereign, prompting Index to identify him as Saint Gregory, “Queen of All Sins.”
• Roy criticized modern magicians for neglecting magic’s origins, and Index explained that the Seven Deadly Sins were leaders of countless sins and that pride was their true meaning.

Roy’s formula made him an omnipresent godlike presence in the present, while Index struggled to determine whether he was blaspheming God or becoming God. The Roman Orthodox Church attacked Academy City with the Pacific Fleet, and its leaders prepared to unleash another weapon against the city.

• Index explained that Roy’s formula placed him beyond the Tree of Life and made him present wherever humans existed, leaving Kanzaki Kaori, Stiyl, and Kamijou Touma bewildered.
• An air-raid alarm sounded, and hundreds of magical ice shells struck District 7, freezing and shattering buildings while leaving the Building with No Doors or Windows and Roy’s apartment intact.
• Kanzaki Kaori identified the attackers as the Roman Orthodox Church’s Adriatic Sea Queen’s Fleet, and Roy said the formula had been adjusted into the Pacific Fleet.
• Pope Matthew Reis urged two billion believers to oppose Academy City, while Bishop Pussoni ordered a nun and her troops to prepare to release Dinner Fish.
• Island-nation fighter jets attacked the ice fleet, but its ships repaired themselves with seawater as the bombardment continued.

Roy defeated Stiyl and Kanzaki Kaori with divine punishment, then trapped Kamijou Touma in a steel cage and threatened him with a pistol. The chapter ended with Touma facing Roy’s aim while trying to protect Index and the injured magicians.

• Pussoni ordered Agnes to redirect half the Queen's Fleet's cannons toward the island nation's capital, easing the bombardment of Academy City.
• Roy overwhelmed Stiyl with a curse that made his Witch-King hunters collapse and left him writhing in agony.
• Roy paralyzed Kanzaki Kaori by severing the nerves along her spine after she failed to escape his divine punishment.
• Kamijou Touma tried to strike Roy with Imagine Breaker, but Roy trapped him in a cage of steel bars and explained that physical attacks could bypass his right hand.
• Roy drew a Colt M1911 and aimed it at Touma, who feared the gun but still wanted to save Index, Stiyl, and Kanzaki Kaori.

Kamijou Touma wounded his own right arm to unleash the dragons within and stop Roy, who answered with a sacred hand. Roy then forced Tsuchimikado Motoharu into a mission to inflame conflict between Britain and the United States, while Aleister watched and reflected on the power of Aiwass’s choice.

• Kamijou Touma cut into his right arm, and the dragon heads emerged from his severed hand to attack Roy.
• Roy summoned a golden hand called the Divine Right and reached toward the dragons within Kamijou Touma.
• Tsuchimikado Motoharu encountered Roy, who threatened him and exposed his devotion to Tsuchimikado Maisha.
• Roy ordered Tsuchimikado Motoharu to travel to the United States and use his Puritan Church identity to provoke hatred toward Britain.
• Aleister observed Roy’s hand through the Lag Extending Line and admitted that seeing it a century earlier would have changed his ambitions.
• Aleister recognized that Aiwass’s bond with Roy had grown from fate into genuine emotion.

Aleister activated Artificial Heaven after the worldwide Angel Fall ritual began, intending to use the Demon Gods’ response to locate the Hidden World while keeping Roy safe. In Academy City, Kamijou Touma struggled to control the seven dragon heads from his right arm as Roy attacked him with Divine Right, destroying one dragon head and leaving Touma badly hurt.

• Aiwass sensed that Angel Fall had been activated worldwide, and Aleister concluded that it was an incomplete ritual whose effects could be limited by Artificial Heaven.
• Aleister activated global Artificial Heaven to protect Academy City and obscure Roy from the Demon Gods, while planning to draw their attention and locate the Hidden World.
• At the ruins of Kamijou Touma’s dormitory, Touma used seven dragon heads to intercept shells from Adriatic Sea Queen’s Fleet.
• Roy challenged Touma and struck him with Divine Right, blasting him and the dragon heads into a building’s ruins.
• Divine Right appeared before Touma again, seized one dragon head, and destroyed it as Touma staggered and spat blood.

Roy defeated Kamijou Touma’s dragon heads with the Right Hand of God, then used a remote-control spiritual item to activate Index’s hidden magic system. He revealed that Laura had made Index the Church of Necessary Evil’s strongest spiritual item, leaving Kanzaki Kaori to confront the truth about her church’s Supreme Pontiff.

• Wind in Front and Water Behind agreed to attack Academy City’s defenses while Land to the Left headed toward Roy and Touma, secretly hoping to seize the power of the dragon and the Divine Right.
• Roy’s golden storm repelled Touma’s four remaining dragon heads and smashed them into nearby buildings, while Touma collapsed from his injuries.
• Roy used the Divine Right to destroy Laura’s contingencies and activated the remote-control spiritual item to draw out Index’s knowledge of the One Hundred and Three Thousand Grimoires.
• Index lost consciousness, awakened with red Angel wings, and entered counterattack mode under the Automatic Scripture System.
• Index cast Saint George’s Domain to protect Roy, and Roy explained to Kanzaki Kaori how Laura had created and controlled Index as a weapon.
• Kanzaki Kaori believed Roy’s account that Laura was the mastermind behind the deception.

Roy searched Index’s mind for the hidden knowledge he needed and manifested the Book of Life, a Divine Scripture recording creation and fate. Aureolus Isard arrived to rescue Index by turning her into a vampire, but Roy remained in his way as Isard attacked with alchemy.

• Roy entered Index’s mental library and pieced together the original Book of Enoch to complete his path to godhood.
• Roy summoned the Book of Life above his Divine Right, stunning Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl with its resemblance to God’s scripture.
• Aureolus Isard arrived and revealed that he had once been Index’s keeper before betraying the Roman Orthodox Church to find her.
• Isard explained that he planned to make Index a vampire so she would no longer suffer memory erasures, while Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl knew Laura Stuart had caused the problem.
• Isard saw Roy controlling Index and transmuted the ground into molten gold to attack him as pursuers closed in.
• Roy mocked how many people wanted to save Index and activated the Prayer Wheel.

Roy deciphered Isard’s alchemy, restored Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl, and let them confront Isard while he turned to Kamijou Touma. The chapter ended as Index’s Dragon’s Sigh collided with Kamijou Touma’s Imagine Breaker.

• Index analyzed Isard’s Golden Great Derivation Technique, and Roy explained its limits as Isard’s imagined attacks failed to harm him.
• Roy restored Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl through a miracle, and Kanzaki Kaori decided they would protect Index from Isard.
• Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl engaged Isard while Roy watched Kamijou Touma recover.
• Roy used the control device to make Index attack Kamijou Touma with Dragon’s Sigh.
• Kamijou Touma raised Imagine Breaker against Index’s beam, and the two powers collided.

Roy used Enochian Magic to turn the Roman Orthodox Church’s Gregory Choir against itself, destroying its monks at the Vatican with the power of Kolozun. The attack revealed the secret behind the number 333 and left Laura Stuart wondering whether Roy or Aleister had borrowed her power.

• Kamijou Touma blocked Dragon King's Sigh but collapsed, while Index’s light feathers killed Isard during his fight with Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl.
• Thirteen Templar Knights summoned the Gregory Choir, whose white sun threatened to destroy District 7, and Stiyl recognized the spell.
• Roy silenced Index and used Secret of the Seven Nations to halt the Gregory Choir’s attack, explaining that 333 represented Kolozun, a demon rather than an Angel.
• Roy’s forty-nine Angels cast the sun into space, then used Kolozun’s power to send a pillar of light to the Vatican, where it decomposed the monks powering the Gregory Choir.
• Laura Stuart sensed that someone had borrowed her power and wondered whether Roy or Aleister was responsible.

Roy completed his preparations to cross the abyss while Aururs and Sylvia headed to Building with No Doors or Windows to rescue Frolaytia Cloverfield. Thor, a Gremlin traitor, joined them with a warning, but Aururs exposed that Thor was lying about coming to save Frolaytia.

• Laura worried that her identity as the Great Demon on the Tree of Life might be discovered before she could complete her preparations.
• Roy used Angels to kill thirteen Templar Knights, then planned to travel to Britain and reforge Othinus’s spear.
• Aururs and Sylvia made their way through Academy City toward Building with No Doors or Windows after Aururs rescued students caught in the war.
• Thor introduced himself as a Gremlin traitor and said he had turned against Othinus because he believed Demon Gods would not fulfill Gremlin’s wishes.
• Aururs accused Thor of lying about coming to rescue Frolaytia Cloverfield, prompting Sylvia to become wary and Thor to prepare for a possible fight.

During the attack on Academy City, Shokuhou Misaki left Tokiwadai to reach the Artificial Hand Factory and find Roy, while Miel Ant insisted on accompanying her. Roy appeared before them and told them both to go to a shelter instead of the battlefield.

• An air-raid siren sent students across Academy City toward underground shelters, and Shirai Kuroko organized Tokiwadai’s evacuation while searching for Misaka Mikoto.
• Shokuhou Misaki left the dormitory and headed toward the Artificial Hand Factory, worried that Roy had not answered her messages.
• At a corridor, Shokuhou Misaki encountered Miel Ant and tried to use her Remote Control to keep her out of danger.
• Miel Ant argued that her Level 4 ability could improve their chances, and Shokuhou Misaki hesitated over bringing her along.
• Roy appeared in a red cassock and told Shokuhou Misaki and Miel Ant to go to a shelter rather than the battlefield.

Roy guided Shokuhou Misaki, Miel Ant, and Misaka Mikoto to a shelter, reassuring them that their loved ones were safe while Academy City was caught in a war. Elsewhere, Roy told Othinus that Gabriel had confronted him over his use of Angel Fall, and he reasoned that the technique had likely been triggered by accident.

• Roy warned Shokuhou Misaki and Miel Ant to stay out of the war and head to a shelter, assuring them that Academy City would not be destroyed.
• Roy revealed Misaka Mikoto hiding behind a pillar and reassured her that the Sisters and Last Order were protected.
• Roy accompanied the girls toward the shelter, where Shirai Kuroko suddenly leapt onto Misaka Mikoto and resumed teasing her.
• A strange girl confronted Roy, accusing him of triggering Angel Fall and stealing God's authority.
• Othinus asked Roy who had triggered Angel Fall, and Roy suggested that mysterious objects had accidentally met the technique's conditions.

Roy and Othinus planned to forge the Spear by using war as its catalyst, while Othinus promised to protect Roy afterward. As the Roman Orthodox Church invaded Academy City, Wind in Front used her art to disable its defenders, but unmanned weapons resisted her power and Roy continued searching for Fiamma of the Right.

• Othinus explained that her uncontrolled Demon God power may have caused Angel Fall and the Roman Orthodox Church's invasion, then asked Roy to stop Aururs while she focused on the Spear.
• Roy and Othinus planned to forge the Spear at the ritual site by activating rituals worldwide and launching the Third World War.
• Thirty thousand Roman Orthodox troops advanced into Academy City, and Aihō Yomikawa and the guards struggled to defend its core districts while waiting for reinforcements.
• Wind in Front used Heaven's Condemnation through surveillance cameras to incapacitate people who felt hostility toward her.
• Water Behind protected Wind in Front and destroyed an unmanned combat weapon, while Wind in Front used a hurricane to smash several more.
• Roy observed that incorporating scientific calculations into Heaven's Condemnation could affect unmanned weapons, and he continued searching for Fiamma of the Right.

Aiwass emerged in Academy City as a Temple Leader after Aleister committed his resources to giving her a body. As Gabriel fought Roy and Index, Aiwass completed her descent and prepared to gain freedom in the Material World.

• Roy recognized Sasha Kreutzev as the Archangel Gabriel, who accused him of stealing Michael's power and attacked him.
• Index fought Gabriel by casting a spell against her barrage of ice and water weapons.
• Roy sensed the Academy City's AIM Fields gathering and realized that Aiwass was taking shape.
• Aleister watched Aiwass's emergence and decided to use his worldwide assets as further preparation if necessary.
• Aiwass formed a human body resembling Rose and declared that she had descended into the Material World as a Temple Leader.

Aiwass gained a physical body and overwhelmed Gabriel with the power of the Material World. After reuniting with Roy, she confirmed that his Human Complementation Art was feasible and promised to keep Gabriel occupied while he activated the Art in Hawaii.

• Aiwass manifested her power, drawing on the Material World to attack Gabriel and break one of her wings.
• Aiwass blasted Gabriel into space, then returned to Roy and congratulated him on his progress.
• Aiwass told Roy that his Human Complementation Art would succeed, and Roy said his preparations were complete.
• Aiwass warned Roy that Gabriel was difficult to eliminate and that he should use Kamijou Touma's Imagine Breaker cautiously.
• Aiwass took responsibility for stopping Gabriel and urged Roy to activate the Art in Hawaii.

Roy sent Cinderella and Throwing Hammer to trigger Kilauea Volcano’s eruption and use its power to forge a spear, but Levianna Baudelaire intervened to stop the ritual after uncovering Roy’s identity. Roy confronted Levianna as her supposed father, and she revealed Dawn Light had tracked Gremlin’s plans.

• Cinderella arrived in Hawaii to prepare the ritual at Kilauea Volcano, but United States guards surrounded her at the airport.
• Cinderella used her spell to disable the guards, then lightning struck and killed them before Throwing Hammer appeared and said her own spell had failed.
• Levianna Baudelaire revealed that she had stopped the spell to thwart Roy, and Cinderella recognized the leader of Dawn Light.
• Roy arrived and called Levianna his daughter, while Levianna angrily accused him of being Roy Crowley rather than Mathers.
• Levianna explained that she had deduced Roy was Aleister’s son and that Dawn Light had tracked Gremlin’s members to Hawaii to prevent the volcanic ritual.

Roy used his Book of Life and Levianna’s contract to force her to dispel her spell formula, then had Cinderella trigger a volcanic eruption on Hawaii to gather power for forging the Lord of the Gods’ Spear. The chapter ended with Othinus and Aururs exchanging blows in Academy City as a black hole formed between them.

• Roy revealed that Levianna’s spell formula was disrupted because she had deliberately altered the order of its four elements.
• Levianna tried to escape, but Roy used their father-daughter contract and Bible verses to immobilize and injure her.
• Roy compelled Levianna to remove the spell formula, returning Hawaii from the other world to reality.
• Roy ordered Cinderella to activate her spell formula, triggering a massive eruption of Kilauea and sending lava across Honolulu.
• Roy said the eruption would provide the flames needed to forge the Lord of the Gods’ Spear, while he remained unharmed amid the lava.
• In Academy City, Othinus and Aururs exchanged hundreds of millions of blows and formed a pitch-black black hole between them.

Othinus confronted Aururs, who tried to stop her from completing her plans, while Sylvia was ordered to find Index and stop Gremlin. Elsewhere, Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl exploited Land to the Left’s spell limitations and left him badly injured.

• Othinus told Aururs that he had never been able to claim her throne, while Aururs accused her of causing Gremlin’s violence and vowed to stop her.
• Othinus revealed that her unstable power came from reclaiming it and that she could stabilize herself with time, then attacked Aururs.
• Aururs and Othinus exchanged countless blows, damaging the world around them, and Aururs ordered Sylvia to find Index and stop Gremlin from obtaining her knowledge.
• Land to the Left attacked Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl with flour and his precedence-altering spell, but they discovered its limits and worked together to overwhelm him.
• Kanzaki Kaori feinted with her sword and struck Land to the Left with her fist, breaking his breastbone, then approached to finish him.

Fiamma of the Right demanded that Bishop Pussoni activate the spell “Dinner Fish” against Academy City, but killed him when he refused. He then turned his attention to Agnes, seeking the knowledge of A Certain Magical Index to control his power.

• Fiamma of the Right ordered Bishop Pussoni to activate “Dinner Fish” immediately.
• Bishop Pussoni refused, warning that the spell could destroy the Roman Orthodox Church and the other members of the Right Seat of God.
• Fiamma of the Right nullified Pussoni’s spell and killed him, accidentally destroying a warship with his uncontrolled power.
• Fiamma of the Right said he needed the knowledge in A Certain Magical Index to control his right hand.
• Fiamma of the Right turned his gaze toward Agnes.