Chapter Summaries

Thor brought the unconscious Jane Foster to Harry, who discovered that the Aether was inside her and agreed to take her to Asgard to analyze it. As the Convergence approached and the Dark Elves threatened Earth, Thor summoned the Bifrost to carry Harry and Jane to Asgard.

• Thor told Harry that Jane had fallen into trouble after he returned to Earth, and that Asgard could not remove the Aether inside her.
• Harry examined Jane in his specialized laboratory and found a chaotic, powerful mass within her body.
• Thor explained that the Aether was the Dark Elves' weapon and that Malekith would seek it during the approaching Convergence.
• Harry decided to go with Thor to Asgard and analyze the Aether there.
• Thor summoned Heimdall, and the Bifrost carried him, Harry, and Jane toward Asgard.

Harry Osborn tried to remove the Aether from Jane Foster in Asgard when the Dark Elves attacked, and he used his Mind Stone-powered Gigantic armor to shield the Hall of Stars. The Aether then left Jane and fused with Harry’s armor, unleashing a power that shocked Odin.

• Harry Osborn arrived in Asgard with Thor and took Jane Foster to the Hall of Stars so its scholars could help extract the Aether.
• Harry used the Asgardian equipment to begin removing the Aether’s tendrils from Jane as the Dark Elves’ fleet broke through Asgard’s defenses.
• Thor flew out to fight the Dark Elves, while Harry transformed into Gigantic and expanded an AT Field around the Hall of Stars.
• The Dark Elves’ attacks vanished against Harry’s barrier, allowing Thor to battle without worrying about the Hall of Stars.
• The Aether abandoned Jane and surged into Harry’s armor, causing the Mind Stone and the Aether to resonate and sending a powerful beam into space.
• Odin rose from his throne in shock as he witnessed the fusion of mind and reality within Harry’s armor.

Harry Osborn used the combined power of the Mind Stone and Reality Stone to stabilize their resonance and transform Gigantic into a colossal black giant. As Malekith ordered the Dark Elves to reclaim the Aether, Harry rewrote reality and erased the attacking forces from Asgard.

• Odin sensed the Mind Stone and Reality Stone spiraling out of control inside Gigantic and prepared to intervene.
• Harry opened his mind through the Channel and drew on countless alternate versions of himself to control the Mind Stone and impose order on the energy.
• The two Stones fused into a glowing Moebius ring, and Gigantic absorbed its energy and grew hundreds of meters tall.
• Malekith recognized the Aether within Gigantic and commanded the surviving Dark Elves to charge.
• Gigantic released an invisible ripple that erased the Dark Elf warriors and warships from reality.

After Harry Osborn erased the Dark Elf army with the Mind and Reality Stones, Asgard celebrated him as a hero. Later, a strange ripple drew him into the space where newcomers appeared, and he found three unfamiliar people waiting.

• Harry returned to his normal size after destroying the Dark Elf army, then examined the damaged armor and the Mind and Reality Stones.
• Thor brought Harry to Asgard’s victory banquet, where the warriors hailed him as the Conqueror of the Shadow Abyss and challenged him to drink.
• Harry’s Bio-Armor broke down the mead’s toxins, letting him outlast the Asgardians who tried to drink him under the table.
• Back in his guest room, Harry felt a strange ripple in his consciousness and entered the newcomers’ space.
• Harry saw three newcomers: a bespectacled East Asian man, a blond man in a formal black suit, and a robed scholar with two furry ears.

Harry Osborn learned about three newcomers from different worlds: a teacher in Academy City, an industrial-era entrepreneur in Backlund, and a Foxian craftsman aboard the Xianzhou Luofu. The chapter left him intrigued by the unfamiliar worlds and beings revealed through their memories.

• Harry Osborn noticed the canine newcomer and considered how its physical form differed from the spirit entities of the Under One Person world.
• Harry requested information from the golden sphere and received the memories of the three newcomers.
• Harry learned that Zhang Qi was a physics teacher in Academy City, where students developed superpowers through scientific courses.
• Harry learned that Edwin Howard was a transmigrator in Backlund who had advanced his family’s machinery business in an industrial-era world.
• Harry learned that the third newcomer, Zhang Qi, was a Foxian working in the Xianzhou Luofu’s Artisanship Commission, in a universe governed by Imaginary Energy and Aeons.

After the Zhang Qis and the others discussed the hidden, godlike beings that might exist in their worlds, they returned to their own realities. In Academy City, Zhang Qi awakened with a new perception of physical laws and summoned lightning in his palm.

• The Zhang Qis discussed the Aeons and compared their Paths with cultivation and immortality.
• Infinite World Zhang Qi proposed that all three newcomers' worlds might contain powerful beings hidden from ordinary people.
• Kayaba Akihiko volunteered to investigate the newcomers' worlds, while the others made plans to exchange information and knowledge.
• The group finished their discussions, and everyone returned to their respective worlds.
• Academy City Zhang Qi woke in his apartment, perceived the world as information governed by physical laws, and made blue-white lightning appear in his palm.

Zhang Qi investigated how his newly used power differed from Academy City's esper abilities. After comparing his experience with the city's theories and research, he concluded that his power was not an esper ability at all.

• Zhang Qi reflected on Personal Reality and realized his power had seemed to command electric charges without using an energy source or other medium.
• Zhang Qi taught a lesson on time dilation and called on the sleepy Touma Kamijou, who gave a joking answer that amused the class.
• Zhang Qi declined Komoe Tsukuyomi's offer of tea and went to the library to research the AIM Diffusion Field and Personal Reality.
• Zhang Qi read that espers unconsciously emitted an AIM Diffusion Field when using their abilities, but he had never sensed one while using his power.
• Zhang Qi concluded that his power was not an esper ability.

Zhang Qi discovered that magic existed beyond Academy City's esper system when Touma Kamijou brought the grievously injured Index to his apartment. After helping the [Automatic Scribe] perform a magical ritual that healed her, Zhang Qi asked Index to explain who she was.

• Zhang Qi opened his door to Touma Kamijou, who carried an unconscious, badly wounded nun and pleaded for help.
• The girl activated [Automatic Scribe] mode and explained that her emergency repair procedure needed a medium.
• Zhang Qi supplied ritual materials, repeated the [Automatic Scribe]'s information-dense chant, and helped create the Lookout.
• Zhang Qi imagined an Angel, whose light healed Index's wounds and restored her habit.
• Index introduced herself as Index Librorum Prohibitorum and said her brain contained the memories of 103,000 grimoires.

Zhang Qi treated Index’s wounds, learned about the magical world from her, and compared its system with the magecraft of the Type-Moon world. After considering espers, religion, and magic together, he began to understand the source of his own ability.

• Index explained that magic twisted the world’s rules and that she carried 103,000 grimoires in her brain.
• Zhang Qi called Touma Kamijou and told him Index was safe, and Touma returned to see her.
• Index questioned whether Zhang Qi was involved in magic after hearing his detailed questions, and he said the occult was a hobby.
• Zhang Qi spent the next few days learning about magic from Index and comparing its religious foundations with Type-Moon magecraft.
• Zhang Qi considered how esper abilities, religion, and Idol Theory all shaped reality, and he began to grasp where his ability came from.

Zhang Qi traced Touma Kamijou’s lost phone signal to a hidden barrier, where he found Touma fighting a black-haired woman who demanded that he surrender Index. As the woman attacked Zhang Qi, he stopped Touma from intervening and prepared to respond with a test tube of silvery liquid.

• Zhang Qi noticed Touma Kamijou and Index had been gone too long and found that Touma’s phone was out of service.
• Zhang Qi traced the phone’s last signal to a secluded alley and entered a barrier that distorted the world and silenced its sounds.
• Zhang Qi found Touma injured and facing a black-haired woman who demanded the return of Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
• The woman raised an attack against Touma, but Zhang Qi arrived and declared that she would need his permission to harm his student.
• The woman redirected her invisible slash at Zhang Qi, and Touma tried to shield him before Zhang Qi stopped him and took out a test tube of silvery liquid.

Zhang Qi fought Kaori Kanzaki with mercury and Qimen techniques, but Kanzaki revealed the overwhelming power of a Saint. After her Yuisen strike swallowed the alley in white light, Stiyl declared her victorious.

• Zhang Qi used a mercury barrier to block Kaori Kanzaki’s attack, then turned her Seven Flash wires brittle and countered with mercury spikes.
• Kaori deflected the spikes, enchanted her blade with holy fire, and cut a huge gash into the ground when Zhang Qi vanished from her strike.
• Zhang Qi attacked Kaori with freezing cold and lightning, but she endured both and advanced through the attacks.
• Stiyl Magnus arrived and told Touma Kamijou that Kaori was one of the world’s twenty Saints, while Touma guarded the battlefield.
• Kaori unleashed Yuisen, and its force sent Touma flying as white light engulfed the center of the alley.
• Stiyl declared Kaori victorious and explained that Saints could wield part of the Son of god’s power.

Zhang Qi blocked Kaori Kanzaki’s attack, leading Kanzaki to recognize his power as angel power and end the fight. Kanzaki and Stiyl revealed that they pretended to hunt Index so they could erase her memories each year, and Touma angrily condemned their approach before Zhang Qi challenged their explanation.

• Zhang Qi stopped Kanzaki’s powerful strike with an orange hexagonal barrier, leaving Stiyl shocked and Kanzaki convinced he wielded angel power.
• Kanzaki ended the fight, and Zhang Qi said he was not part of the magical world.
• Kanzaki revealed that Index’s mind held 103,000 grimoires and that her friends erased her memories each year to protect her brain.
• Touma accused Kanzaki and Stiyl of hurting Index and urged them to make happy memories with her instead.
• Stiyl grabbed Touma by the collar and shouted about the pain of erasing Index’s memories, while Touma insisted their actions made her cry.
• Zhang Qi interrupted and said that knowledge from the grimoires would not pressure the brain’s memory regions.

Zhang Qi disproved the English Puritan Church’s claim that Index’s memories had to be erased to keep her alive, then exposed the collar and Automatic Scribe safeguards that controlled her. He interrupted Index’s increasingly powerful attacks and began dismantling the collar, leaving Index unconscious in Touma’s arms.

• Zhang Qi showed Stiyl, Kaori Kanzaki, and Touma research indicating that storing 103,000 grimoires could not fill Index’s memory, and concluded the Church had used the memory-erasure story to control her.
• Zhang Qi activated Double Full Hands, causing Index’s Automatic Scribe to awaken and identify him as a hostile target.
• Automatic Scribe cast a series of powerful spells, but Zhang Qi repeatedly disrupted them before they could take effect.
• Zhang Qi analyzed the collar within Index, discovering that it suppressed her magic, distorted her understanding, and threatened her life if her memories were not erased on schedule.
• After Zhang Qi began unraveling the collar, Automatic Scribe’s final magic circle and its control over Index shattered, and Touma caught the limp girl.

Zhang Qi broke the spell that had threatened Index, and Kaori Kanzaki and Stiyl left to confront the English Puritan Church while he agreed to protect her. Later, he used the Digital World to analyze magic and superpowers, concluding that both arose from the same underlying system of overlapping phases.

• Zhang Qi explained that he had disabled the spell inside Index, and Stiyl and Kaori Kanzaki confirmed she was safe.
• Kaori Kanzaki and Stiyl asked Zhang Qi to shelter Index while they returned to the English Puritan Church to demand an explanation.
• Index woke with no memory of the incident and settled into a peaceful routine at Zhang Qi's apartment.
• Zhang Qi copied grimoires from Index's memories into the Digital World and used its computing power to analyze them.
• Zhang Qi concluded that magic borrowed laws from overlapping phases, while an esper's Personal Reality created a smaller, individualized phase.

Zhang Qi deduced that Academy City’s espers could combine their personal realities into an artificial phase, and that the city might have been founded to build one on a massive scale. He abandoned plans to publish his findings and uncovered a reference to the “Level 6 Shift Project.”

• Zhang Qi concluded that his unusual abilities came from a nascent phase formed when he exchanged information with his counterparts from other worlds.
• He examined the classified Level Upper report and learned that the program had linked thousands of espers through their AIM Diffusion Fields, creating the destructive AIM Burst.
• Zhang Qi inferred that Academy City might be cultivating espers as components for a colossal artificial phase.
• He deleted a paper he had planned to publish and searched through encrypted files for further evidence.
• Zhang Qi found a clue labeled “Level 6 Shift Project.”

Zhang Qi investigated the Level 6 Shift Project and found a clone-production facility already destroyed by someone he suspected was Railgun. He then discovered a magical ritual at Misawa Cram School, stopped its student sacrifices, and faced a sedan appearing above him as space warped.

• Zhang Qi found the research facilities tied to the Level 6 Shift Project and went to inspect one in District 7.
• Zhang Qi discovered the facility had been devastated by a powerful electrical attack and suspected the attacker was the girl from Tokiwadai.
• Zhang Qi decided to speak with Academy City's third-ranked Railgun the next day, then noticed a magical barrier surrounding Misawa Cram School.
• Zhang Qi entered the school and found students mechanically studying before they chanted, bled, and summoned a wave of crimson fire.
• Zhang Qi dispelled the fire and knocked the students unconscious, but a black sedan suddenly appeared overhead as space and reality warped around him.

Zhang Qi defeated Aureolus Izzard after his Golden Alchemy failed to affect the AT Field, then learned from Aureolus’s memories that he had used Misawa Cram School’s students to seek a cure for Index’s memory problem. The chapter left Zhang Qi considering the resemblance between Golden Alchemy and Academy City’s power.

• Zhang Qi destroyed the sedan Aureolus conjured and resisted his commands and attacks with the AT Field.
• Zhang Qi advanced through Aureolus’s fire, lightning, and missiles, then knocked him unconscious with a single punch.
• Zhang Qi used Double Full Hands to read Aureolus’s memories and discovered he had once served the Roman Orthodox Church before defecting over Index’s memory erasures.
• Zhang Qi learned Aureolus had taken control of more than three thousand Misawa Cram School students to power Golden Alchemy and find a vampire who could help Index.
• Zhang Qi withdrew his hand and recognized that Golden Alchemy’s use of collective power resembled Academy City.

After defeating Aureolus and freeing the students at Misawa Cram School, Zhang Qi treated Aisa Himegami and investigated the expanding Level 6 Shift Project. Touma Kamijou summoned him to a freight station, where Zhang Qi arrived to find Touma badly injured and Accelerator preparing a massive attack.

• Zhang Qi dismantled Aureolus's barrier, reported the crimes at Misawa Cram School, and took Aisa Himegami and Aureolus away before Anti-Skill and medical staff arrived.
• Zhang Qi asked Stiyl to handle Aureolus and obtain Aleister Crowley's magical writings and research in exchange for future favors.
• Zhang Qi placed a barrier on Aisa Himegami to let her control when her vampire-attracting power activated.
• Zhang Qi found that the suspected Level 6 Shift laboratories had multiplied across Academy City, then received a desperate call for help from Touma Kamijou.
• Zhang Qi reached the freight station and found Touma grievously wounded, two girls facing him, and Accelerator forming a massive sphere of plasma.

Zhang Qi intervened to protect Misaka Mikoto and the others from Accelerator, whose attacks revealed the overwhelming power of his vector manipulation. After Accelerator struck Zhang Qi down, a powerful magnetic field appeared around him as his injuries began to heal.

• Accelerator formed a plasma sphere above the freight yard, but Zhang Qi disrupted its containment with a sudden whirlwind and caused it to collapse.
• Zhang Qi shielded Misaka Mikoto and attacked Accelerator with Moon Spirit Essence and sorcery, but Accelerator reflected his attacks and grew excited by the unfamiliar energies.
• Zhang Qi analyzed Accelerator's AIM Diffusion Field and inferred that his true ability was to control anything he understood.
• Accelerator crossed the freight yard at supersonic speed and punched Zhang Qi into a cargo container, gravely injuring him.
• Touma Kamijou woke and demanded to know why Accelerator had attacked them; Accelerator said he wanted the power of the strongest.
• A powerful magnetic field formed around Zhang Qi, and his shattered bones and damaged organs began healing.

Zhang Qi analyzed Accelerator’s ability and defeated him by interfering with his AIM Field, while Misaka Mikoto and the others watched in shock. After Accelerator vanished, Zhang Qi found an envelope bearing the name Aleister Crowley.

• Misaka Mikoto realized Zhang Qi’s magnetic field was restoring his wounds and clothing through microscopic manipulation.
• Accelerator attacked Zhang Qi with a vacuum shockwave, but the attack dispersed harmlessly.
• Zhang Qi punched Accelerator by interfering with his AIM Field, bypassing his reflection and sending him flying.
• Accelerator tried to break down and accelerate the ground around Zhang Qi, but Zhang Qi dodged and struck him until he passed out.
• Touma Kamijou collapsed after Accelerator was subdued, and the Misaka Sisters caught him and checked his injuries.
• Accelerator vanished and left behind an envelope addressed with the name Aleister Crowley, which Zhang Qi picked up.