Chapter Summaries

On the fourth day after the World Stage opened, Roger and Robin chose Yamata no Orochi as their first boss target after weighing the mythical creatures’ abilities and risks. As they approached its location, Robin noticed the elite monsters remained plentiful and suspected the bosses had not been present since the Day of Divine Descent.

• Robin reviewed satellite images and identified Griffin, Yamata no Orochi, and Ushioni as bosses bearing traits of mythical creatures.
• Roger favored Ushioni for its unusual body and edible-looking meat, but Robin ruled it out because its poison and curses could threaten him.
• Robin recommended Yamata no Orochi for Roger, while noting Griffin might suit Konan better because it could fly.
• Roger agreed to attack Yamata no Orochi, and Robin planned to prepare practical tattoos for him while privately intending to learn the rules of boss battles.
• Roger and Robin secretly advanced toward Yamata no Orochi, where Roger sensed Tsunade fighting in the Elite Zone.
• Robin noticed elite monsters had not diminished near the boss’s location and suspected the bosses had not been seen since the Day of Divine Descent.

Roger and Robin reached the boss’s lair and learned they could either keep their battle private or broadcast it publicly for Points. Roger chose to close the battle space and make the fight public, drawing members across the world into a live view just as the eight-headed serpent emerged.

• Roger and Robin crossed the dense forest and found a vast pit marked by signs of the monster’s attacks.
• Robin advised keeping the fight private to protect their trump cards, but Roger chose to close the battle space and make it public.
• Shen Mo welcomed Roger’s decision because the broadcast could help launch the Player Forum and advance his plans.
• Members across the world saw Roger and Robin appear in a projection and watched the eight-headed serpent rise from the pit.
• Orochimaru and the others learned they had to pay Points to watch the battle, and the broadcast image stopped.

Orochimaru and the other members paid Points to watch Roger battle Yamata no Orochi, while Orochimaru recognized that Points earned from subordinates could make factions important. Roger shattered one of the monster’s heads with a punch, but it regenerated and attacked him with several elemental blasts.

• Orochimaru realized members could earn Points through subordinates and considered how factions might matter.
• Orochimaru and nearly all the other members spent thirty thousand Points to watch the battle.
• Robin warned Roger that she might not be able to help, but Roger promised to fight for both of them.
• Roger crossed the distance at incredible speed and destroyed one of Yamata no Orochi’s heads with a punch.
• Neji identified Roger as an Enhancement Nen Ability user, while Minato Namikaze considered recruiting him.
• Yamata no Orochi regenerated its head and attacked Roger in the sky with lightning, flames, frost, waves, and other elemental blasts.

Roger battled Yamata no Orochi, but the monster regenerated every shattered head and attacked Robin. As Roger fought on, Robin searched for the monster’s true weakness.

• Roger used Full-Body Enhancement and his vow never to flee to withstand Yamata no Orochi’s attacks and smash its heads apart.
• Konan worried that Roger’s durability and stamina could make him difficult to defeat.
• Orochimaru observed that the monster’s heads were magic-infused tissue and studied how its body regenerated.
• Yamata no Orochi grew its heads back and sent four of them toward Roger and four toward Robin.
• Roger used Enhancement Kick to protect Robin, while she realized his strength had limits and tried to identify the monster’s weakness.

Roger and Robin discovered that Yamata no Orochi’s tails hid the Heavenly Cloud Sword, which could permanently kill one of its heads when drawn and used to strike. Though the monster grew stronger and Roger was badly wounded, he refused Robin’s call to retreat and prepared to keep fighting.

• Orochimaru and Roger realized Yamata no Orochi’s unused tails might conceal the source of its power, and Robin pointed out that the monster had never attacked with them.
• Roger cut off the middle tail, found the Heavenly Cloud Sword inside it, and was badly wounded when a serpent head bit his shoulder.
• Roger drew the sword and used it to cut off a serpent head, which turned to ash and did not regenerate; the sword also crumbled away.
• Yamata no Orochi went berserk and attacked faster and harder, knocking Roger beside Robin as his injuries and exhaustion worsened.
• Robin urged Roger to retreat and return with a better chance of victory, but Roger declared he would never run from an adventure and began restoring his Armament Haki.

Roger kept fighting the giant serpent despite his fatal injuries, while Robin waited for him to collapse so she could carry him toward the exit. The serpent prepared another attack as Robin raced straight ahead, leaving her only one chance to change direction.

• Neji explained to Minato Namikaze that Roger's Nen Vow prevented him from fleeing and could bring severe consequences if broken.
• Roger cut off three of the serpent's heads, but each severed head made the monster stronger and more violent.
• Roger collapsed and lost consciousness as the serpent gathered a blazing attack, and Robin used her Rocket tattoos to carry him toward the exit.
• Robin raced in a straight line with Roger on her back while the serpent's remaining heads turned toward her and lightning began to gather.

Robin escaped the lightning strike with Roger, but Roger’s life dwindled after he used his last strength to block the attack. Tsunade began treating him as the other players considered how to cooperate against the bosses, while Shen Mo weighed expanding the game to more worlds.

• Robin fled with Roger as the lightning struck, and Roger briefly revived to block the attack before collapsing.
• Tsunade caught up with Robin, warned that Roger was near death, and offered to heal him as a Paladin.
• Tsunade gave Roger a Large Red Potion, then began treating him with Robin’s help when the potion only slowed his decline.
• The viewing images showed the monster regenerate its heads and tail, prompting Orochimaru to conclude that Shen Mo had designed it as a trial.
• Whitebeard, Garp, and other players considered cooperating or bringing more people to fight the bosses.
• Shen Mo reviewed the World Stage’s success and considered developing players from additional worlds.

Shen Mo considered recruiting powerful executives for the Merchant Guild and identified the Magic Gods from A Certain Magical Index as possible candidates. Meanwhile, players competed to recruit Cursed Children, whose lives and prospects began to improve.

• Shen Mo decided the Merchant Guild needed executives, but concluded that Akihiko Kayaba lacked the temperament to wield such authority as a subordinate.
• Shen Mo found that the system offered permanent Magic God identities for 680 million Points and considered recruiting Magic Gods, though he chose not to act immediately.
• Players who had not become Limit-Breakers focused on grinding monsters, while Limit-Breakers investigated and challenged bosses.
• Players competed fiercely to recruit Cursed Children, with Blackbeard clashing repeatedly with Orochimaru and Whitebeard fighting Garp over prospective daughters.
• Minato Namikaze won the affection of several Cursed Children, and Shen Mo approved of the opportunities players had created for them to change their futures.

Shen Mo traveled to Academy City to copy Index’s 103,000 magic grimoires and reduce the Points needed to ascend to the level of a Magic God. After leaving Index, he digested the grimoires and found that both permanent and temporary ascension would cost fewer Points.

• Shen Mo left Ikaros behind and teleported to the outskirts of Academy City with Hikari.
• Shen Mo entered Academy City and used Twist Reality to conceal himself from its monitoring nanomachines.
• Shen Mo found Index, bought her cake, and copied the 103,000 magic grimoires in her mind while she ate.
• Shen Mo said goodbye to Index and quickly digested the copied knowledge as he walked through the city.
• Shen Mo realized that the grimoires had reduced the Points needed for permanent or temporary ascension to the level of a Magic God.

Shen Mo opened a jar shop in Academy City and let rumors draw potential customers inside. Misaka Mikoto unexpectedly entered the shop, where Shen Mo greeted her and questioned why she had come when she had no interest in buying jars.

• Shen Mo decided to start doing business in Academy City rather than seek out players one by one.
• Ruiko told Misaka Mikoto, Kuroko, and Uiharu Fuyumi about an urban legend claiming a shop owner sold jars that could grant wishes.
• Misaka Mikoto later found herself inside a dim, antique-style shop filled with ordinary gray jars and realized it matched the legend.
• Shen Mo greeted Misaka Mikoto, and she admitted she did not know why she had entered.
• Shen Mo wondered why Misaka Mikoto had come when she had no desire to buy jars.

Misaka Mikoto unexpectedly entered Shen Mo's unfinished Treasure Chest Shop and questioned his claim that it could fulfill any wish. Shen Mo gave her a Gekota Pendant, and the chapter ended with Hikari leaping onto her face and overwhelming her with affection.

• Misaka Mikoto arrived at Shen Mo's shop and learned that buying a jar could fulfill any wish.
• Misaka Mikoto challenged Shen Mo's claim by asking whether the shop could fulfill an impossible wish, but Shen Mo explained that the shop answered the deepest desire in a person's heart.
• Shen Mo offered Misaka Mikoto a Gekota Pendant, and she blushingly accepted it.
• Misaka Mikoto noticed that Hikari was unafraid of her electromagnetic field, and Hikari jumped onto her face and rubbed its paws over her head.

Misaka Mikoto searched for the mysterious Treasure Chest Shop after Shen Mo sent her away, but she soon encountered Misaka 9982 and began forming a bond with her. As the Clones project’s dark fate began to unfold, Shen Mo watched from the shop and left Mikoto to change it through her own actions.

• Misaka Mikoto found herself back at a crossroads after Shen Mo sent her away, and she resolved to find the Treasure Chest Shop again.
• Shen Mo watched Mikoto from between dimensions and reflected that she would become the trigger for changing the world's fate.
• Mikoto searched for the shop and investigated the Clones project, finding no evidence that the shop was real.
• Mikoto met Misaka 9982 beneath a tree as the Clones' tragic fate began, while Shen Mo watched from the shop.
• Misaka 9982 took Mikoto's Gekota keychain and asked to borrow it for one day, leaving Mikoto panicked and close to tears.

Misaka Mikoto discovered that her clones were being killed in the Level 6 Shift Project and rushed to save Misaka 9982. A green light from the Gekota pendant reversed the clone’s death, but Accelerator remained a threat as Mikoto confronted him and learned he mistook her for the original.

• Misaka Mikoto lent Misaka 9982 her Gekota pendant, then grew suspicious when the clone said she was going to participate in an experiment.
• Misaka Mikoto hacked into Academy City’s information and discovered the Level 6 Shift Project planned to kill twenty thousand clones.
• Misaka Mikoto raced to the experimental site and saw Misaka 9982 badly injured as Accelerator prepared to kill her.
• The pendant released green light that stopped and reversed time, restoring Misaka 9982 and disappearing in the process.
• Misaka Mikoto attacked Accelerator with lightning and a Railgun, but he deflected both and called her the original.

Misaka Mikoto tried to stop the experiment after Misaka 9982 defended her, but Accelerator overwhelmed her attacks and prepared to kill the Clone. The other Misakas then announced that the experiment had been temporarily suspended because an unexpected factor had appeared.

• Misaka 9982 told Misaka Mikoto that she was unrelated to the experiment and tried to draw Accelerator's attention back to herself.
• Misaka Mikoto admitted that she regretted providing her genetic map and attacked Accelerator with a massive lightning strike.
• Accelerator dispersed Misaka Mikoto's lightning and survived her iron-filings attack, then dismissed her as too weak to stop him.
• Accelerator grabbed Misaka 9982 by the neck as Misaka Mikoto reached out in desperation.
• A group of Misakas emerged from among the containers and announced the supervisor had suspended the experiment because of an unexpected factor.

After failing to save Misaka 9982, Misaka Mikoto sought out Shen Mo's shop, hoping it could save the Misaka Sisters. Shen Mo confirmed he knew their fate, and Mikoto asked whether her wish could be fulfilled.

• Accelerator learned the time-reversal incident had been unexpected, then left Misaka Mikoto and Misaka 9982 behind.
• Misaka 9982 rejoined the other Misaka Sisters after warning Mikoto not to intrude at the experimental site again.
• Misaka Mikoto collapsed in despair, then remembered that the shop's Gekota had saved Misaka 9982 and ran to find the shop.
• Shen Mo welcomed Mikoto back, gave her Gekota-shaped milk tea, and said he had seen her and the Misaka Sisters' fates.
• Misaka Mikoto asked Shen Mo whether he could fulfill her wish.

Misaka Mikoto learned that her strength and limits had been predetermined in Academy City, but Shen Mo told her that his shop’s jars could offer a chance to change her fate. After learning the shop’s rules, she vowed to seize any opportunity to defeat Accelerator.

• Shen Mo told Misaka Mikoto that she had saved the Sister by choosing to give her the time-reversing Gekota.
• Shen Mo explained that Esper aptitude was predetermined and that training could not overcome the gap between Misaka Mikoto and Accelerator.
• Shen Mo offered Misaka Mikoto ten basic jars, then told her each cost fifty thousand yen.
• Misaka Mikoto said she had no money, and Shen Mo explained the shop’s rules and revealed its origins to her.
• Misaka Mikoto accepted that the shop’s possibilities were real and vowed to use any opportunity to defeat Accelerator.

Misaka Mikoto sought a way to stop the Level 6 Shift experiment by defeating Accelerator, but Shen Mo explained that she could instead use the Misaka Network to reach Level 6. He advised her to choose the Combat Style Series, though she still needed another one hundred million yen, leaving her desperate about how to raise it in a day.

• Misaka Mikoto learned that jars cost far more than she could afford and that defeating Accelerator directly might require nearly a thousand Level 3 Chests.
• Shen Mo revealed that Accelerator could unleash power equivalent to divine power, but said Misaka Mikoto also had the potential to reach Level 6 if her aptitude changed.
• Shen Mo explained that Misaka Mikoto could connect to the Misaka Network and use its computing power to reach Level 6, though doing so through the Misaka Sisters carried the risk of losing her consciousness and individuality.
• Shen Mo recommended the Combat Style Series and calculated that Misaka Mikoto still needed one hundred million yen for the required chests and a Fate-type Item.
• Misaka Mikoto shouted in frustration and asked where she could get one hundred million yen in a single day.

Misaka Mikoto committed to earning one hundred million yen to enter Shen Mo’s shop and began opening chests to gain power. She learned more about Shokuhou Misaki’s resentment toward her and ended the chapter with several rare prizes and a new power manifesting.

• Misaka Mikoto accepted Shen Mo’s price and resolved to raise one hundred million yen, while questioning his motives.
• Shen Mo gave Misaka Mikoto an ordinary Gekota ornament and explained that the chests contained unknown items tied to fate.
• Misaka Mikoto opened her first chest and received a Power Amplification Orb, then learned that Shokuhou Misaki hated her because one of her Clones had been Shokuhou Misaki’s friend and had died.
• Misaka Mikoto sped up her chest opening after hearing about the dead Clone and won three Grand Prizes from two hundred Level 1 Chests and five from four hundred Level 2 Chests.
• Misaka Mikoto clenched her fist as a Rune-like pattern appeared on her hand and the surrounding air twisted.

Misaka Mikoto gained new powers from Shen Mo’s shop and set out to destroy the laboratories conducting the Level 6 experiment. As Aleister and Shen Mo watched her actions, she discovered more than a dozen labs linked to the project.

• Misaka Mikoto obtained a Forbidden Curse Mark and Air Pressure Manipulation, then tested her new strength and learned she could fly.
• Shen Mo told Misaka Mikoto that the experiment would be suspended for several days while Academy City’s leaders assessed the situation.
• Aleister and Aiwass detected unfamiliar powers within Misaka Mikoto but could not identify who was behind them.
• Shen Mo watched Aleister and considered whether the goal-driven leader would make an interesting Merchant Guild member.
• Misaka Mikoto began her plan to destroy the laboratories and used her hacking skills to find more than a dozen connected to the experiment.

Misaka Mikoto attacked research institutes to disrupt the Level 6 project and obtain money, while Aleister observed her growing power and encountered phenomena he could not explain. She reached a research base and used Spirit Speech: Sickle Weasel to detect tiny machines in the air.

• Misaka Mikoto set fire to several genetic-mapping and biological-cultivation institutes, disabling roughly eighty percent before the city cut the lines.
• Misaka Mikoto disguised herself in stolen clothes and headed for the remaining research institutes, intending to rob one for money.
• Aleister and Aiwass noted that Misaka Mikoto had broken the Aptitude Limiter and displayed unfamiliar powers, including low-altitude flight.
• Misaka Mikoto arrived at a research base and used Spirit Speech: Sickle Weasel to sense her surroundings.
• Misaka Mikoto detected tiny machines in the air that were not dust.