Chapter Summaries

Levianna sought Roy’s help for her sister Patricia, swallowing her pride and calling him “Daddy” after he teased her about abandoning him. Roy agreed to help and took Levianna toward his home, telling her to have her sister brought to him.

• Shokuhou Misaki invited the rain-soaked Levianna inside, believing Roy could help her with a mental illness.
• Levianna pleaded with Roy to save her sister, Patricia, and called him “Daddy” at his demand.
• Roy ended his meal with Shokuhou Misaki and left with Levianna, promising Misaki they would meet for dinner again the next day.
• When Levianna asked why they were not going directly to Patricia, Roy told her to have a subordinate bring her sister to his home.

Levianna explained that her sister had been infected by a Shoggoth Sample in Antarctica and asked Roy to save her, admitting she had considered sacrificing her own life through an ancient ritual. Roy confirmed he could help and demanded Levianna herself as compensation, leaving her alarmed that she was only twelve.

• Roy warned Levianna that the name Shoggoth Sample had attracted the attention of an evil god, and she was overcome by terror.
• At Roy’s apartment, Levianna took medicine for a cold and explained how her sister’s illness had brought her to Academy City.
• Levianna said she would have used the life-costing Princess’s Fur ritual if Roy could not help, and Othinus explained how the ritual worked.
• Roy concluded that Levianna was willing to give up her life for her sister and said he would demand greater compensation.
• Roy told Levianna that he wanted her as a person, and she protested that she was only twelve.

Roy discovered that Patricia's Shoggoth Sample carried the aura of an Old One, suggesting an Outer God existed in the Toaru Majutsu no Index world, then cured her after Levianna signed a contract of servitude. Levianna left to confirm the cure, while Roy insisted the contract would bind her and challenged Lilith's objections.

• Roy examined Patricia and realized the Shoggoth Sample was modified Dark Matter carrying the aura of an Old One, leading him to suspect one of the Demon Gods came from another world.
• Othinus noticed the Shoggoth Sample's abnormality, and Roy signaled her to stay quiet about it in front of the others.
• Roy offered to save Patricia if Levianna signed a contract of servitude, and Levianna signed it with her blood.
• Roy snapped his fingers and declared Patricia cured, leaving Levianna stunned by how little he appeared to do.
• Levianna sent Patricia with two magicians for an examination and left to see the results despite Roy warning her to rest.
• Roy told Levianna the contract would force her to fulfill her promise, then told Lilith that the exchange was fair from Levianna's perspective.

Laura Stuart reflected on her plan to kill Aleister and blamed Roy Crowley for the spell formulas destabilizing her medium. She vowed to avenge Roy by killing the Demon Gods, then suffered the familiar pain of her monthly period.

• Laura Stuart revealed that she was the Great Demon Kolozun and planned to kill Aleister to break her contract with Mathers.
• Laura believed her identity as Laura Crowley could give her a chance to kill Aleister, who did not know who she really was.
• Kolozun struggled against the Human Complementation and Physical Body Personality Awakening spell formulas, which Roy Crowley had left behind.
• Laura suspected the Demon Gods had killed Roy and vowed to kill them in revenge if she got the chance.
• Laura recited her essence as diffusion and declared that she would decompose the Demon Gods, humanity, and the world.
• Kolozun bent over with abdominal pain as her medium began menstruating.

Kolozun was relieved that she was not pregnant and continued plotting against Aleister. Roy cared for the sick Levianna, then turned his attention to Aiwass, who had confronted the woman occupying Anna Sprengel’s body in Germany.

• Kolozun’s period returned, easing her fear that a child without a corresponding soul would disrupt her purpose, and she considered how to kill Aleister.
• Roy gave the feverish Levianna water and medicine while teasing her about their relationship and her illness.
• Levianna worried about her uncertain future but found comfort in knowing her sister had been cured.
• Roy congratulated Aiwass on finally being free as she faced the body-thief in Cologne Cathedral.
• Aiwass explained that the contract belonged to Anna Sprengel’s soul and that their relationship was both master and servant, while the terrified impostor began to retreat.

Aiwass killed the magician who had stolen Anna Sprengel’s body, then returned the body to its true owner and dissolved their contract. Later, in Academy City’s District 15, Roy and Othinus went shopping, where Roy received a note from a very young girl.

• Aiwass used The Book of Law to pierce 'Anna Sprengel' and annihilate the thief’s soul.
• Anna Sprengel’s body reverted to its true childhood form, and she rose from the bloodied floor as Aiwass watched.
• Anna Sprengel and Aiwass argued about immortality, the Demon Gods, and Aiwass’s failure to protect her body; Aiwass then declared their contract dissolved and vanished.
• Anna Sprengel decided to restore her body before going to Academy City, where she intended to confront Divine Punishment to Exterminate Demons.
• Roy and Othinus strolled through crowded District 15, drawing attention from passersby.
• A young girl gave Roy a note, and he remarked that she seemed to be only in elementary school.

Roy and Othinus spent a date in Academy City discussing their past, the Demon Gods’ emptiness, and what they wanted from the future. Othinus affirmed that finding someone who understood her had fulfilled her wish, and Roy left her with the promise that they could face the future together.

• Roy and Othinus walked hand in hand through Academy City, where Othinus asked whether their outing was a date and Roy confirmed it was.
• Othinus asked Roy what he planned to do next, and Roy said he had no further goal or need to advance his power.
• Othinus admitted that she had once wandered alone and used the hope of returning to her homeland as an excuse to keep going.
• Othinus explained that Demon Gods’ limitless power had left them empty, and that Roy’s right hand had once given them new desires and possibilities.
• Roy told Othinus they could look forward to the future together, and Othinus bit his right hand when he offered it to her.
• A cheerful girl nearby called out, “Hatsuharu, rising air current!!”

Roy reunited with Misaka Mikoto and the others in Academy City after months away, explaining that he had visited his younger sister in Britain. As the group talked over drinks and cake, Roy shared the painful story of his childhood, leaving Mikoto and the others shocked by his father’s betrayal.

• Saten Ruiko lifted Hatsuharu Shiori’s skirt in a crowded shopping street, apologized, then joked that she would do it somewhere less crowded next time.
• Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko arrived with Last Order, and Saten asked Mikoto about the identical-looking people she had seen around Academy City.
• Last Order spotted Roy, and Mikoto approached him with relief after believing he had vanished; Saten joked that he might have become a Demon God too.
• Roy explained that he had spent several months in Britain visiting his younger sister, then said he and his sister had grown up in an orphanage after their mother died.
• Roy told Mikoto and the others that his father had been married, had an affair with his mother, and later abandoned them to return to his wife; Mikoto condemned him.

Aleister responded to Roy’s message about Laura Crowley by abandoning his plan for humanity and returning to the earth, while Roy reflected on his complicated feelings toward his father and his debt to the Great Demon Kolozun. Roy decided to help Laura fulfill her wish and take revenge on Aleister, leaving both men on a path toward their eventual reckoning.

• Roy threatened Shirai Kuroko with evidence of her misconduct, and she begged him to keep her job and promised to serve him properly.
• Aiwass told Aleister that Roy had deliberately let him observe their conversation and had forgiven him, then revealed that Roy had visited Laura Crowley.
• Aleister chose to abandon his mission for humanity, reversed his Hanged Man ritual, and set foot upon the earth.
• Roy recalled how Kolozun had secretly helped raise him and acknowledged that he regarded Laura as his younger sister.
• Roy resolved to help Laura fulfill her wish while taking revenge on Aleister.

Roy encountered Franda while she was shopping with her younger sister, Freya, and reassured the frightened ITEM member that he knew Freya was only a child. Their meeting was interrupted when Stiyl, Kamijou, and the little nun recognized Roy as their Master.

• Franda spotted Roy and tried to leave with Freya before he noticed them.
• Saten Ruiko called out to Franda, forcing her to greet Roy and the others.
• Roy asked about Freya and offered her cake, but Franda anxiously shielded her from him.
• Last Order shared her cake with Freya, and the two girls sat together.
• Franda told Roy that she had rented an apartment in the shopping mall to store her valuables.
• A girl with Stiyl, Kamijou, and the little nun recognized Roy as the Master.

Stiyl Magnus and Kanzaki Kaori encountered Roy in Academy City, where Index recognized him as God and begged him for a meal. Meanwhile, Kamisato Shoryu resolved to destroy the Demon Gods and learned that Arimura had secured him an identity in Academy City, leaving him poised to go there.

• Stiyl panicked at seeing Roy, while Kanzaki Kaori urged him to stay calm and said they should thank Roy for saving them and freeing Index from the memory spell.
• Index knelt before Roy, recognized him as the Lord, and asked him to save her by providing a proper meal.
• Kamisato Shoryu reflected on his Ideal Banishment power and his belief that it had twisted the wills of the more than a hundred girls who admired him.
• Kamisato Shoryu reaffirmed his plan to destroy the Demon Gods so that his power and the girls' altered feelings would disappear.
• Uranusmaru told Kamisato Shoryu that Arimura had secured him an identity in Academy City and warned him that the city was dangerous.

Laura Stuart used Kamisato Shoryu and Ideal Banishment as pieces in her plan to kill Aleister, while Roy and Othinus reunited with Kanzaki Kaori, Stiyl, and Index in Academy City. Kanzaki and Stiyl explained why they had kept Index from returning to Britain, and they suspected Laura had an ulterior motive for leaving her in the city.

• Kamisato Shoryu agreed to go to Academy City with Uranusmaru, who secretly reported to Laura Stuart that she had persuaded him.
• Laura reasoned that Kamisato Shoryu's Ideal Banishment could help her kill Aleister and guard her plan against the Demon Gods, then learned that Roy Crowley and Othinus had appeared in Academy City.
• Roy met Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl at a mall dessert shop after Index had eaten her fill, and teased them about being unable to support themselves.
• Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl denied betraying the Christian Church and explained that they avoided returning Index to Britain because the Church would confine her and restore her memory restrictions.
• Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl revealed that Laura had told them to keep Index in Academy City, prompting Stiyl to suspect that the Supreme Pontiff was plotting something.

Roy used the need to support Index to persuade Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl to take humiliating jobs for him, but an evacuation alarm interrupted them. Stiyl realized Index was still in the shopping mall and called urgently to Kanzaki Kaori.

• Roy explained that Kanzaki Kaori's Amakusa Style Christian Cross Sect could not provide money and offered her a high-paying cleaning job at his apartment.
• Roy demanded that Kanzaki Kaori wear a Fallen Angel Sexy Maid Outfit, and Stiyl persuaded her to accept for Index's sake.
• Roy added that Stiyl had to wear the outfit and hand out flyers, and both Stiyl and Kanzaki Kaori agreed to work for him.
• Roy said he would prepare their outfits and pay them in advance, then told them to call him Master.
• An evacuation alarm sounded in the shopping mall, and Stiyl remembered that Index was there and urgently called to Kanzaki Kaori.

As the mall evacuated after a carbon monoxide alarm, Roy and Othinus encountered Kamijou Touma and Accelerator, then met a mysterious woman calling herself Saint-Germain. Misaka Mikoto led the girls with her toward the exit while Shirai Kuroko helped manage the evacuation.

• Stiyl and Kanzaki Kaori left Roy and Othinus to investigate the magician they believed had come for Index.
• Roy and Othinus shared the last of her ice cream before calmly leaving the dessert shop during the evacuation.
• Roy recognized Kamijou Touma and Accelerator in the crowd, and the wary pair confronted him and Othinus.
• Saint-Germain approached Kamijou Touma, introduced herself as something different from a magician, and began to explain what she was.
• Shirai Kuroko went to assist with the evacuation, while Misaka Mikoto gathered Index, Last Order, Freya, Saten Ruiko, and Hatsuharu Shiori to leave the mall.

Roy and Othinus confronted the supposed Demon God Saint-Germain, whom Othinus quickly killed, while Roy explained how Saint-Germain survived as a collective consciousness spread like a virus. Roy then spoke with Accelerator about his choker and the people he wanted to protect, leaving Accelerator unsettled by how much Roy seemed to know.

• Franda entrusted her sister to Misaka Mikoto and promised to protect Saten Ruiko as they fled with Hatsuharu Shiori.
• Saint-Germain appeared before Index and Kamijou Touma, claimed to be a Demon God, and asked whether Touma was the truth she sought.
• Saint-Germain attacked Othinus with carbon spears, but Othinus survived and destroyed her with a gesture.
• Roy explained that Saint-Germain was a magician who had turned his consciousness into a virus that infected others and perpetuated his legend.
• Roy and Othinus sensed a right hand created from the Demon Gods' shattered wishes and decided to cut it off that night.
• Roy praised Accelerator's choker and remarked that his desire to protect others could make him a pure-white angel, leaving Accelerator suspicious.

Roy ordered Accelerator to kill Yakumi Hisako before she could cause trouble, and Accelerator left with Kamijou Touma after explaining that Count Saint-Germain’s body was only a viral organism. At the shopping mall, Stiyl and Kanzaki Kaori faced Saint-Germain’s strange attack until Roy appeared and offered help for a greater price.

• Roy told Accelerator to kill Yakumi Hisako, an Academy City board member, before she could make matters worse.
• Accelerator left with Kamijou Touma, who accepted his explanation that the dead Count Saint-Germain’s body had been taken over by a viral organism.
• Stiyl fought Saint-Germain’s magically controlled followers in the carbon-built shopping mall, where an explosion nearly killed him.
• Kanzaki Kaori pulled Stiyl from the blast and struggled to choose between protecting him and going to rescue Index.
• Roy emerged from the flames and offered to help Stiyl and Kanzaki Kaori, saying they would have to pay more than the Fallen Angel Sexy Maid Outfit.

Roy saved Index by purging the Saint Germain infection, then Aleister recruited Kihara Brainstem to test Kamisato Shoryu, who had entered Academy City. The chapter ended as the A.A.A. assembled around Kamisato, who trusted Ideal Banishment to defeat his opponent.

• Roy used holy light to destroy the infected people and erase the surrounding damage, then teased Kanzaki Kaori about her promised lingerie show before vanishing.
• Kanzaki Kaori and Stiyl set off to find Index, and Kanzaki promised to settle accounts with Stiyl after he had agreed to Roy's demand on her behalf.
• Aleister appeared outside his life-support device and ordered Kihara Brainstem to lure and test the unknown variable entering District 7, recommending that it bring the A.A.A.
• Kamisato Shoryu entered Academy City with help from Arimura Karen and planned to find Imagine Breaker, whom he would defeat if he misused the Demon Gods' gift.
• Kihara Brainstem confronted Kamisato and activated the A.A.A., whose components rose from the ground and formed a colossal machine.

Kamisato Shoryu used Ideal Banishment to erase Kihara Brainstem’s A.A.A. and attack the golden dog, but Roy and Othinus arrived and confronted him. Roy exposed Shoryu’s motives, resisted Ideal Banishment, and then changed the world, leaving Shoryu awake in his apartment without the power.

• Kamisato Shoryu made A.A.A. and its weapons disappear with Ideal Banishment, then beat Kihara Brainstem with a brick.
• Roy and Othinus arrived, and Shoryu recognized them as the Demon Gods he had been seeking.
• Roy explained that Ideal Banishment had formed from the Demon Gods’ disappointment and accused Shoryu of hiding selfishness and fear behind his claims of justice.
• Shoryu tried to banish Roy and Othinus to a new world, but Ideal Banishment failed against them.
• Roy asked Shoryu whether he longed for a new world and snapped his fingers, changing reality.
• Shoryu woke in his apartment and found that Ideal Banishment was gone.

Kamisato Shoryu woke up believing his months with Ideal Banishment had been a dream, then built a happy relationship with Sawai Orihina and grew close to the other girls. On Orihina’s birthday, Roy revealed that her love and their relationship had been settings he had given her, leaving Shoryu devastated as Roy challenged his desire to kill the Demon Gods.

• Kamisato Shoryu found that several months had passed and, believing his time with Ideal Banishment had been a dream, returned to his ordinary school life.
• Sawai Orihina confessed to Kamisato Shoryu, and he accepted; the two began dating and their relationship deepened over the following months.
• Kamisato Shoryu reconnected with the girls from his dream and formed more genuine, gradually ambiguous relationships with them.
• On Sawai Orihina’s birthday, Kamisato Shoryu arrived at her apartment intending to spend the night with her and found Roy in the bedroom with her.
• Sawai Orihina told Kamisato Shoryu that God Lord had given her the setting of loving him and revealing the truth, while Roy watched.
• Kamisato Shoryu broke down in grief, and Roy asked whether he still wanted to kill all the Demon Gods, arguing that Shoryu had rejected the happiness and power he had been given.

Roy remade Kamisato Shoryu’s life to expose the weakness and hypocrisy behind his wish to kill the Demon Gods, then severed his right arm when he attacked. Afterward, Roy faced Aleister in silence and found himself unexpectedly calm.

• Kamisato Shoryu returned to Academy City, where Roy revealed that he had rewritten nearly twenty years of history and arranged for Arimura Karen to betray him.
• Roy rebuked Kamisato for relying on Demon God power, blaming others, and seeking revenge without accepting the consequences of his own actions.
• Kamisato charged at Roy with Ideal Banishment, and Roy severed his right arm, leaving him unconscious.
• Roy turned toward Aleister, and the two men silently met each other’s gaze.
• Roy realized that seeing his father stirred no strong emotion in him, and he suspected his spirit had become too resilient to be shaken.