Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan met Last Order, a small Misaka clone who asked him to help her complete her body adjustments, and agreed to take her in. He brought her to his room, where Kamijou Touma was studying and asked to borrow Chen Fan’s AIM Field paper.

• Chen Fan recognized Last Order and learned that she wanted researchers to finish her body adjustments so she could become a complete product.
• Chen Fan agreed to contact the researchers and let Last Order stay with him, promising to provide her with meals, a bath, and a place to sleep.
• Last Order repeatedly opened the wrong dormitory doors while Chen Fan teased her about his room number.
• Chen Fan entered room 817 with Last Order and found Kamijou Touma studying there.
• Kamijou Touma asked to use Chen Fan’s AIM Field paper as a reference, and Chen Fan handed it over.

Chen Fan brought Last Order back to his room, where her teasing and Kamijou Touma’s worries added to the crowded dorm situation. He went next door to check on Himegami Akisa’s magic studies, but Index and Himegami’s water-ball prank backfired when he reflected the spell onto them.

• Last Order emerged in Chen Fan’s room, and Chen Fan explained that he had found her on the street and brought her back.
• Kamijou Touma worried about the growing crowd in Chen Fan’s room and reminded him that school started in less than ten hours.
• Chen Fan told Last Order to shower, eat, and sleep, then left to check on Himegami Akisa’s magic studies.
• Index and Himegami Akisa launched a water ball at Chen Fan when he entered Kamijou Touma’s room, but he reflected it back and soaked them.
• Kamijou Touma handed Index and Himegami Akisa towels, while Chen Fan blamed Index for starting the prank.

Chen Fan helped Himegami Akisa develop her angelic power and brought her back to his room, where Last Order was hiding under a blanket. The next morning, he skipped school to visit a research facility connected to the Level 6 Shift plan and found a woman searching its archives.

• Index praised Himegami Akisa's progress and explained that her angelic power could eventually make her a formidable fighter, while Chen Fan said he only wanted to keep her safe.
• Chen Fan found Last Order hiding under a blanket and gave her clothes to wear, while Himegami Akisa arranged to sleep beside him.
• Chen Fan called Tsukuyomi Komoe to take leave, then asked Misaka Mikoto for the research facility's address and reassured her that the plan had not resumed.
• Chen Fan broke through the facility's steel entrance and found it apparently abandoned, with trash scattered through the halls.
• Chen Fan entered the archive room and encountered a woman searching its computer, who told him she had expected him to come.

Chen Fan learned that a virus in Last Order's brain would soon make the Sisters attack indiscriminately, and he used a termination program to save her. After receiving Tenjo Yasuo's location, Chen Fan went after him, and Tenjo Yasuo crashed his car into a figure on the highway.

• Chen Fan met Kikyo Yoshikawa and asked her for Last Order's personality adjustment data.
• Kikyo Yoshikawa revealed that a virus would activate in about three hours and gave Chen Fan the Sisters' termination program.
• Chen Fan copied the program into his mind, learned that Tenjo Yasuo had likely planted the virus, and asked Kikyo Yoshikawa to help adjust Last Order's personality.
• Chen Fan returned to his dormitory and entered the termination code into Last Order's brain, stabilizing her breathing.
• Chen Fan received Tenjo Yasuo's location and set off to find him.
• Tenjo Yasuo drove along a highway outside Academy City and crashed into a figure who had appeared in his path.

Chen Fan uncovered Tenjo Yasuo’s role in the attempt against the Sisters, then returned to Academy City while Grim Reaper of Souls adjusted Last Order’s body. That night, intruders tried to abduct Last Order, and Chen Fan confronted them as their attack reached him.

• Tenjo Yasuo confessed that he had acted on Academy City’s orders, but a bullet interrupted him before he could name anyone.
• Chen Fan stopped Tenjo Yasuo’s shots, trapped him with a car, used Illusion Magic to learn his secrets, and left him an idiot.
• Black-suited men arrived and took Tenjo Yasuo away after Chen Fan left.
• Chen Fan learned that Grim Reaper of Souls needed a week to adjust Last Order’s body and kept Misaka 10031 and Misaka 10032 in the hospital for care.
• Three figures entered Last Order’s room at night to abduct her, but Chen Fan switched on the lights and confronted them.
• One intruder fired a ball of blue light at Chen Fan while the others moved toward Last Order’s cultivation tank.

Chen Fan stopped three espers from attacking Last Order’s incubation tank and pursued them after they fled. He confronted them in an alley, then broke free of a cement prison, but their escape continued as one of them fired a blue beam at him.

• Chen Fan redirected a blue beam into two men who were touching Last Order’s incubation tank, and the three attackers escaped through a window.
• Chen Fan followed the trio into an alley and identified himself as Academy City’s undisputed Number One esper.
• The attackers threatened Chen Fan by invoking their boss, a standing committee member of the Academy City Council, then fled when he refused to back down.
• One attacker trapped Chen Fan in a cement prison, but Chen Fan shattered it and pursued them.
• One of the fleeing espers fired a blue beam at Chen Fan, who reflected it into a sedan and caused an explosion that wounded the attacker’s leg.

Chen Fan defeated the espers sent after Last Order and confronted their employer over the phone, warning him to stop targeting the Sisters. The employer, a Standing Committee Member riding an underground train, recognized Chen Fan’s name and held back despite his anger.

• A cement-controlling esper and a body-enhancement esper attacked Chen Fan, but he effortlessly repelled them and crushed their assault.
• Chen Fan kicked an iron ball into the body-enhancement esper, then broke the cement esper’s leg as he tried to flee.
• Chen Fan told the injured espers he would spare them for now and ordered one of them to call their boss.
• Chen Fan warned the Standing Committee Member against sending more people after the Sisters, introduced himself, and ended the call.
• The Standing Committee Member reacted angrily aboard an underground train but reconsidered after hearing Chen Fan’s name.

Namonokura Gizo suspended his plan against Last Order after Chen Fan exposed his involvement, and Chen Fan returned to school the next day. There, Tsukuyomi Komoe described her research on AIM Fields and the possibility of measuring espers’ abilities, leaving Chen Fan intrigued.

• Namonokura Gizo rejected his secretary’s suggestion to eliminate Chen Fan and suspended the plan against Last Order to avoid provoking the other council members.
• Chen Fan returned to school and teased Tsukuyomi Komoe before she scolded him for skipping class and hanging up on her.
• Chen Fan used his ability to block out Tsukuyomi Komoe’s voice until she discovered what he had done and bit his hand.
• Chen Fan changed the subject to the documents Tsukuyomi Komoe carried, and she explained her research into AIM Fields and identifying nearby espers.
• Tsukuyomi Komoe imagined future technology that could measure combat power, while Chen Fan boasted about his strength and she warned that others could grow stronger.

Chen Fan discussed the limits of AIM Field measurements and continued secretly developing his Divine Kingdom while Himegami Akisa transferred into his class. After school, Chen Fan and Himegami Akisa went shopping and found Kamijou Touma and Index with a girl he did not recognize.

• Chen Fan told Teacher Komoe that AIM Fields could be controlled and condensed into crystals, then returned to class as she hurried to a school meeting.
• Himegami Akisa transferred into Chen Fan's class, took the seat beside him, and revealed that she lived with him, shocking their classmates.
• Chen Fan considered the risks of building his Divine Kingdom and using its core, while Index befriended Kazari Hyōka in the cafeteria.
• A tall woman broke through Academy City's entrance guards using a massive earthen arm, prompting an alarm for the Disciplinary Committee and Security Force.
• After school, Chen Fan and Himegami Akisa went shopping together and encountered Kamijou Touma, Index, and an unfamiliar girl at an underground complex.

Chen Fan, Himegami Akisa, Index, and Touma visited a photo booth, where Chen Fan met Kazari Hyōka and the group took sticker photos. The chapter ended with Index demanding that Chen Fan apologize sincerely for staring at Hyōka.

• Chen Fan found Touma lying outside the photo booth with bite marks on his face after Index punished him for seeing something he should not have.
• Chen Fan stared at Kazari Hyōka's chest, prompting Index to scold him and Touma to make matters worse with a remark about flat chests.
• Chen Fan invited Himegami Akisa to take photos with him, and she asked him to keep his right eye open for the pictures.
• Index asked Touma to take photos with her too, and the two came out with photos showing the bite marks still on Touma's face.
• Chen Fan asked who Kazari Hyōka was, and Index explained that Hyōka had helped her when the others abandoned her.
• Chen Fan apologized for staring at Hyōka, but Index called his apology insincere and asked what he would do instead.

Chen Fan agreed to treat Index and the others to dessert, but a magical intruder interrupted them in Academy City. The intruder recognized Chen Fan as “Item Dropped From the Sky,” and Chen Fan warned the magician to leave or die.

• Chen Fan agreed to pay for dessert after Index demanded he treat everyone.
• A girl from the Disciplinary Committee tried to evacuate the group, and Chen Fan reflected her brainwave messages before agreeing to leave.
• A Stone Giant's Eye formed in the wall and identified Index, Imagine Breaker, Key to the Virtual School District, Vampire Killer, and Chen Fan as targets.
• The voice behind the eye called Chen Fan “Item Dropped From the Sky,” a name Stiyl Magnus had given him.
• Chen Fan recognized the intruder as a magician and warned them to leave Academy City or forfeit their life.

Chen Fan confronted a magician who trapped people underground and summoned a Rock Giant. He blocked its attacks and shattered its arm, then moved in to face it again as the magician boasted that the underground was her domain.

• Chen Fan rejected the magician’s threat, and she sealed the exit, trapping students underground.
• The magician made a Rock Giant emerge from the ground, throwing the area into chaos.
• A Disciplinary Committee member urged Chen Fan and the others to flee, but Chen Fan blocked the giant’s punch with one finger.
• Index identified Chen Fan as Academy City’s top Level 5 esper, and he dismissed the magician’s attack as another mess she had caused.
• The Rock Giant attacked again, but Chen Fan shattered its fist; the stones then reformed into its arm.
• The magician claimed the underground was her domain, and Chen Fan moved in, saying the claim insulted real domains.

Chen Fan destroyed the Rock Giant and reunited with Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko, but Sherry Cromwell trapped them with a spell poised to detonate. The chapter ended as Sherry triggered explosions to provoke a war between the Magic Side and the Science Side.

• Chen Fan crushed the Rock Giant, saving the Disciplinary Committee member Hanazawa.
• Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko arrived, and Hanazawa explained that Chen Fan had defeated the Rock Giant.
• Misaka Mikoto warned the group that the main gate was sealed, while Chen Fan decided to pursue the magician and Index urged him not to kill the attacker.
• Sherry Cromwell filled the area with spellcasting eyeballs that blocked every exit, and Index recognized the spell as one designed for a massive detonation.
• Sherry drew a line with her chalk underground, triggering a series of explosions.

Chen Fan stopped Sherry Cromwell after she attacked the students, then let the Security Force take her in. Sherry explained that she had tried to start a war to avenge a friend killed in an inhumane experiment.

• Chen Fan protected the people trapped in the blast and effortlessly defeated Sherry Cromwell and her Rock Giant.
• Index and Shirai Kuroko asked Chen Fan not to kill Sherry, and he said he had no intention of doing so.
• Sherry admitted she wanted to ignite a war because her friend had been killed in an experiment and she wanted to kill magicians and Espers.
• The Security Force took Sherry away, with Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko accompanying her.

Chen Fan explained to Himegami Akisa that Kazari Hyōka was a scientific angel made from an AIM Field and reassured her that her own Heart of the Angel would only provide power. The chapter ended with two figures appearing before Aleister in the Board of Directors Building.

• Chen Fan told Himegami Akisa that he had recognized Kazari Hyōka as the key to the Imaginary Number District through her AIM Field.
• Chen Fan explained that Kazari Hyōka was an artificial scientific angel and said he had avoided taking the object in her mind because doing so might provoke Aiwass.
• Chen Fan reassured Himegami Akisa that her Heart of the Angel would be a power source, not a weapon, and told her he did not hate magicians or espers.
• Two figures suddenly appeared in the Board of Directors Building before Aleister, who remained suspended upside down in his tank.

Tsuchimikado Motoharu learned that Aleister wanted to study Kazari Hyōka’s AIM Field and create an Artificial Heaven, possibly even giving her a real body. Later, Chen Fan’s routine resumed, and he spotted Misaka Mikoto walking with an unfamiliar boy.

• Tsuchimikado Motoharu questioned Aleister about Chen Fan’s intervention and brought the unconscious Sherry Cromwell back to the magic side.
• Aleister explained that Chen Fan’s esper ability accelerated the spread of the AIM Field around Kazari Hyōka, and he considered giving her a real body.
• Tsuchimikado Motoharu accused Aleister of trying to create a god and warned that Chen Fan could not be manipulated before leaving with Sherry.
• Chen Fan returned to his daily routine, while Himegami Akisa cooked for him and attended remedial classes with Kamijou Touma.
• Chen Fan visited the hospital to check on Last Order, then saw Misaka Mikoto walking with an unfamiliar boy.

Chen Fan met Misaka Mikoto at Tokiwadai, where she pretended he was her boyfriend to drive off a persistent suitor. After agreeing to help her, Chen Fan began explaining the magic and war she had asked about.

• Misaka Mikoto linked arms with Chen Fan outside the Tokiwadai dormitory, and the students mistook them for a couple.
• Shirai Kuroko tried to teleport toward them but the dorm supervisor stopped her, while students recognized Chen Fan as Academy City's top-ranked Level 5.
• Misaka Mikoto pulled Chen Fan away from the crowd, then admitted she had acted like his girlfriend to discourage the chairman's grandson from pestering her.
• Chen Fan agreed to pretend to be Misaka Mikoto's boyfriend, and she asked him about the magic and war from their earlier encounter.
• Chen Fan began explaining that people fell into two groups, those with talent and those without, and told Misaka Mikoto not to interrupt.

Chen Fan explained the conflict between magic and esper abilities to Misaka Mikoto, then tried to kiss her while they were pretending to be a couple. After Mikoto left to get a Gekota charm, a disguised boy revealed that the Academy City Council considered Chen Fan a threat and wanted him separated from her.

• Chen Fan told Misaka Mikoto that magic was real, incompatible with esper abilities, and concealed from students by Academy City’s leaders.
• Misaka Mikoto recognized that the Rock Giant she had encountered had used magic, and Chen Fan confirmed it.
• Chen Fan leaned in to kiss Misaka Mikoto, but she blushed, pushed him away, and ran off to buy a Gekota charm.
• A boy who had earlier appeared outside the Tokiwadai dormitory approached Chen Fan and warned him to stay away from Misaka Mikoto.
• The boy revealed that he was not the Tokiwadai chairman’s grandson and said the Council viewed Chen Fan as a threat to Academy City.

Chen Fan warned Academy City's board members not to threaten the people close to him, then reassured Misaka Mikoto after her visitor left. He returned home to spend the evening with Index, Himegami Akisa, and Kamijou Touma.

• Chen Fan told the board members’ subordinate that they would pay dearly if they harmed his people, and the man agreed to deliver his message.
• The man asked whether Chen Fan truly liked Misaka Mikoto and would protect her, but Chen Fan dismissed the value of making an oath.
• Chen Fan called Misaka Mikoto over after the man left and teased her by saying he had told him they were a couple.
• Misaka Mikoto grew embarrassed about the rumors at school and ran back to her dormitory.
• Chen Fan returned home, where Index was teaching Himegami Akisa magic, and the four of them played Daifugō before going to bed.

Laura Stuart met Stiyl Magnus in London and questioned him about Chen Fan after realizing he had withheld information about him. Intrigued by Chen Fan's independence from both sides, she asked to meet him, but Stiyl warned that he was a fragile point of balance.

• Laura Stuart walked through London with Stiyl Magnus and teased him about accompanying her.
• Stiyl criticized Laura's Japanese after she admitted she had consulted Tsuchimikado Motoharu for phrasing.
• Laura used a talisman spell to ask Stiyl what he had concealed about Chen Fan.
• Stiyl described Chen Fan as a good person with a vile personality who acted according to his own feelings rather than either side's interests.
• Laura asked Stiyl to bring Chen Fan to meet her, and Stiyl warned that neither side would easily disturb Chen's position as a point of balance.