Chapter Summaries

Roland turned Teitoku Kakine’s attempt to force the Blue Dream Company’s cooperation against him by asking for a Living Dark Matter Production Machine and using Umidori Kage’s ability against her. After Teitoku Kakine attacked, Roland seized him through his wing defenses and said he would take the machine himself.

• Teitoku Kakine offered Roland rewards for cooperating, but Roland demanded a Living Dark Matter Production Machine in exchange for the Blue Dream Company’s support.
• Umidori Kage used Mind Stabilizer on Roland, but the ability backfired and left her infatuated with him.
• Roland taunted Teitoku Kakine while holding Umidori Kage, provoking Teitoku Kakine into attacking with his six wings.
• Teitoku Kakine’s attack demolished the floor but left Umidori Kage and Fuhuko Nunotaba unharmed.
• Roland pierced Teitoku Kakine’s wing defenses, seized his face, and declared that he would take the machine himself.

Roland defeated Teitoku Kakine and turned him into a living Dark Matter production source while preparing to deal with School. Aleister accepted the changes to his plans and felt his heart beat independently of the life-support machine.

• Roland defeated Teitoku Kakine with magnetic field power, shocking Fuhuko Nunotaba, while Umidori Kage revealed School’s plans.
• Roland crushed Teitoku Kakine’s body and kept him alive as a source of Dark Matter, then left with Umidori Kage and Fuhuko Nunotaba as Yafei approached.
• Aiwass warned Aleister that Fuhuko Nunotaba could interfere with the Misaka Network, but Aleister said losing the initiative was acceptable while Roland used him in a mutually beneficial transaction.
• Aleister’s heart began beating on its own inside the life-support machine as he considered the Imperial Polarity Scripture and Dharma Sutra from The Library.

Misaki Shokuhou told Mikoto Misaka that destroying research facilities had not stopped the Level 6 experiments, and Mikoto decided to challenge the project at its source by facing Accelerator. Meanwhile, Roland explained to Fuhuko Nunotaba that he wanted the Sisters to develop emotions and souls, then revealed that Accelerator’s Level 6 transformation would occur if events proceeded as planned.

• Misaki Shokuhou warned Mikoto Misaka that the experiments had continued at over two hundred sites despite her attacks on research institutions.
• Mikoto Misaka decided to disprove the Level 6 project by confronting Accelerator, and Misaki Shokuhou agreed to help her find the next experiment site.
• Misaki Shokuhou urged Mikoto Misaka to call on Roland if she reached a desperate point, and Mikoto rejected the idea of involving others unless necessary.
• Roland praised Fuhuko Nunotaba for incorporating the Dream Creator’s data into her emotional program and explained that emotions could give the Sisters souls.
• Roland told Fuhuko Nunotaba that Accelerator would reach Level 6 by killing twenty thousand Sisters if events proceeded as planned.

Roland explained how Magnetic Field Power and an emotional program could help the Misaka Sisters develop, and Fuhuko Nunotaba gave him the program while offering herself in exchange for their freedom. As Roland and Fuhuko headed to the Sisters, Accelerator’s experiment was interrupted by Mikoto Misaka, who unleashed a lightning-fast attack on him.

• Roland told Fuhuko Nunotaba that the Misaka Network could help the Sisters develop souls and power, but he preferred to make them his employees rather than use them as expendables for Level 6.
• Fuhuko handed Roland a crystalline USB drive containing the emotional program and offered him her body if the Sisters could truly gain their freedom.
• Roland accepted Fuhuko’s offer, took her hand, and set out to inject the emotional program into the Misaka Network.
• During the Level 6 experiment, Accelerator dismissed the injured Sister clones and continued fighting them as researchers urged him to keep going.
• Mikoto Misaka arrived with rising Magnetic Field Power, and Accelerator ignored the researchers’ warnings and prepared to fight her.
• Mikoto rushed Accelerator with a current-charged fist and attacked with “120,000 Horsepower: True Lightning!”

Mikoto Misaka fought Accelerator with her Magnetic Field Power but could not penetrate his vector reflection until the Misaka Network helped her alter her attacks between blows. She drove him back with the Sister God of War technique, but Accelerator caught her final punch, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Mikoto Misaka unleashed a powerful lightning strike and attack, but Accelerator’s vector manipulation left him unharmed and countered her moves.
• Mikoto Misaka recalled how her past battles had taught her to keep standing and charged Accelerator with her eyes closed.
• Accelerator was struck and forced backward when Mikoto Misaka’s attacks changed unpredictably through the Misaka Network’s control.
• Mikoto Misaka explained that the Sisters’ shared computing power let them switch fighting styles between attacks and named the technique Sister God of War.
• Mikoto Misaka tried to knock Accelerator down to stop the experiment, but he caught her fist with a crazed smile.

Accelerator defeated Mikoto Misaka and threatened to kill the Sister before her, pushing Mikoto to despair until Roland appeared. Roland rescued the Sister and confronted Accelerator.

• Accelerator overwhelmed Mikoto Misaka, broke her arm, and explained how he had adapted to her attacks and seen through her fighting strategy.
• Accelerator left Mikoto alive and threatened to kill the Sister in front of her, using the Misaka Network to make her witness the danger.
• Mikoto recalled Roland's advice and prayed for help as Accelerator approached the Sister.
• Roland appeared, lifted the Sister, and calmly faced Accelerator, who demanded to know who he was.
• Roland called himself a passing hero who was doing it for fun.

Roland negotiated with Mikoto Misaka to intervene in the Level 6 Shift Project, then confronted Accelerator and overwhelmed him with physical attacks. The chapter ended with Roland taunting Accelerator about the value of the Complete Boundary.

• Roland told Mikoto Misaka he would help only if she agreed to repay him with her body, and she accepted to save the Sisters.
• Roland returned to face Accelerator and announced he would straighten him out.
• Accelerator struck at Roland, but Roland punched him in the face and knocked him down.
• Accelerator tried again, but Roland bypassed his reflection, struck his abdomen, and kicked him away.
• Roland asked Accelerator whether he knew what the Complete Boundary was worth.

Roland overwhelmed Accelerator in close combat and crushed his Earth’s Rotation Cannon, then knocked him unconscious with one punch. Accelerator survived but lost his abilities, leaving Roland to wonder what would happen to him next.

• Accelerator attacked Roland at close range, but Roland dodged every strike and used Shaori to turn Accelerator’s reflected force against him.
• Mikoto Misaka recognized Roland’s technique and realized how precisely he had to time his movements against Accelerator’s reflection.
• Roland broke Accelerator’s bones and mocked his reliance on his Esper Ability, but Accelerator forced himself to keep fighting.
• Accelerator unleashed the Earth’s Rotation Cannon and charged Roland, who seized the energy sphere and crushed it.
• Roland punched Accelerator unconscious while his reflection was down, leaving him severely injured and without his abilities.
• Roland considered Accelerator’s uncertain future and wondered whether Aleister would protect him.

Roland defeated Accelerator, then helped Mikoto Misaka and Misaki Shokuhou arrange treatment for the Misaka Sisters and Dolly. After taking Mikoto toward Tokiwadai, he used her concern for her sisters to pressure her into keeping their agreement.

• Mikoto Misaka refused to punish Accelerator herself, though she vowed to take him down if he refused to repent.
• Roland arranged for the Misaka Sisters to receive treatment for their clone defects, and Heaven Canceller confirmed the plan could soon be applied on a large scale.
• Misaki Shokuhou learned that Dolly’s genetic defects had been repaired and thanked Roland and Heaven Canceller.
• Roland and Mikoto left the hospital after the Sisters were entrusted to Blue Dream Company’s care.
• Mikoto objected when Roland headed toward Tokiwadai, but Roland reminded her of their agreement and drew her into his arms.
• Roland asked whether Mikoto wanted her sisters to return to their former circumstances, using the question to overcome her reluctance.

Roland pressed Mikoto Misaka to honor their bargain and took her to her dorm room, where they became intimate while she was exhausted and barely conscious. Kuroko Shirai returned, found Mikoto asleep in her own bed, and confronted Roland by phone, who confirmed what had happened.

• Roland reminded Mikoto Misaka of their bargain, kissed her, and carried her to the Tokiwadai dormitory after she gave him her address.
• At Mikoto's room, Roland undressed her and continued despite her embarrassment and protests about being in Kuroko Shirai's bed.
• Kuroko Shirai returned to the dormitory and found Mikoto asleep, flushed, and exhausted in her bed.
• Kuroko called Roland and demanded to know what he had done to Mikoto.
• Roland admitted that he and Mikoto had been intimate, then told Kuroko that Mikoto tasted wonderful.

Homeless and unable to use his ability, Accelerator was beaten by delinquents until Kamijou Touma rescued him. When Kamijou’s touch restored Accelerator’s ability, it also released the attack sealed within him, leaving Accelerator terrified of being touched again.

• Accelerator found his apartment wrecked and headed toward a hotel, reflecting on his lost ability and uncertain future.
• A gang of delinquents cornered Accelerator, beat him, and threatened to assault him.
• Kamijou Touma charged in, drove off the delinquents, and offered to take the injured Accelerator to a hospital.
• Accelerator explained that Roland had sealed his ability after an atrocity, and Kamijou touched his shoulder to help him.
• Accelerator’s ability returned and the seal began to break, but he pulled away from Kamijou in panic and screamed for him to stay back.

Roland met with Kanzaki Kaori while Index enjoyed a company-funded feast, then warned them that a magic-side intruder had come for Index. Aureolus Izzard appeared and used alchemy to turn the ground into liquid gold, but Roland mocked his supposedly ultimate achievement.

• Roland teased Kanzaki Kaori about spending Blue Dream Company funds on Index’s desserts and discussed Kuroko Shirai’s recent dealings with him.
• Roland told Kanzaki Kaori that a magic-side enemy had infiltrated Academy City and that he had come to handle the threat.
• Roland identified the intruder as a National-Level Alchemy Mage, and Aureolus Izzard appeared, claiming he had come to save Index.
• Kanzaki Kaori explained that Index had already been freed from the Church’s control, but Aureolus rejected her account and insisted that only he could save Index.
• Aureolus transformed the surrounding ground into liquid gold and boasted about his alchemy, while Roland mocked him for not creating gold with his bare hands.

Roland created an enormous wave of gold to mock Aureolus and then withstood his Golden Great Evolution Technique, revealing that Aureolus could not affect someone whose nature he could not imagine. Aureolus attacked again with a horde of phantoms, but Roland made them vanish, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Roland conjured a vast quantity of gold, humiliating Aureolus and drawing Index’s admiration.
• Aureolus became enraged at Roland’s intimacy with Index and used his Golden Great Evolution Technique to attack him.
• Index explained the principles behind Aureolus’s magic, while Roland emerged from the explosion unharmed and criticized Aureolus’s poor aptitude.
• Aureolus summoned a torrent of vengeful spirits and evil phantoms against Roland.
• Roland imagined the phantoms away, destroying them with a single command.

Roland defeated Aureolus and killed him after Aureolus’s attacks failed to overcome Marble Phantasm. Agnese Sanctis then revealed that the Roman Orthodox Church had used Aureolus as bait to create a pretext for war, and declared a crusade against the Blue Dream Company.

• Roland dispelled Aureolus’s Phantom Tide with Marble Phantasm and explained that his imagination could alter reality.
• Aureolus tried to destroy the world around Roland, but Roland shattered the collapsing fantasy and killed Aureolus with a single gesture.
• Kanzaki Kaori asked Roland whether they should notify the organization’s executives, and he warned that the Roman Orthodox Church’s attack was not over.
• Agnese Sanctis emerged with the Gregorian Choir’s Thirteen Knight Corps and revealed that Aureolus’s death would serve as a pretext for war.
• Agnese announced that the Roman Orthodox Church had begun a crusade against the Blue Dream Company and its members.

Agnes unleashed the Roman Orthodox Church’s weapons against Roland, first with the Gregorian Choir and Angel Cross, then with a Magic Formula amplified by two billion believers. Roland stopped her attack effortlessly and dismissed the combined power as too insignificant, leaving Agnes and the Church’s forces unable to challenge him.

• Kanzaki Kaori remained loyal to Blue Dream Company as Roland confronted Agnes and offered her a chance to surrender.
• Agnes summoned the Gregorian Choir’s divine spear, and Roland caught it in his palm while recognizing the Angel Cross’s power.
• Agnes activated Fish of the Last Supper, combining its two-billion-believer amplification with the Angel Cross to form a radiant longsword.
• Agnes charged Roland through a cage of flashes, but Roland stopped her blade with the Light of the Heart and called the power too insignificant.

Roland overpowered Agnes, destroyed the Apostle Cross, and traced the attack to the Roman Orthodox Church. He sent a blood-red cross crashing down on the Vatican, engulfing the city in light.

• Agnes unleashed the Fish of the Last Supper Magic Formula, but Roland's AT Field absorbed the believers' faith and left him unharmed.
• Roland explained the vast difference between their power, then shattered the Apostle Cross and knocked Agnes unconscious.
• Roland used conceptual resonance to locate the Spirit Garment and the people who had activated it, then summoned a blood-red cross toward the Vatican.
• A Cardinal berated the captured Agnes Forces and ordered the clerics to seal away the Apostle Cross.
• The enormous blood-red cross descended on the Vatican and engulfed the city in blinding light.

Roland’s attack devastated the Vatican, and the Roman Orthodox Church’s surviving leaders agreed to launch a punitive expedition against Academy City. The chapter ended with Fiamma of the Right revealing that he had arranged matters and believed himself invincible.

• Roland surveyed the damage caused by the cross of light as Yafei’s forces secured the prisoners and gold fragments.
• Kanzaki Kaori explained why the Vatican’s destruction did not change her loyalty to Roland, and Misaki Shokuhou arrived and openly embraced him.
• Matthew Lis surveyed the ruined Saint Peter’s Basilica while Aqua of the Back healed him and Vento of the Front and Terra of the Left demanded war.
• Matthew agreed to issue a formal call for a punitive expedition against Academy City, and the members of God’s Right Seat left the ruins.
• Matthew asked Fiamma of the Right whether the events fulfilled his wishes, and Fiamma declared that he was now invincible.

Fiamma of the Right told Matthew he was deliberately allowing the Roman Orthodox Church to become nourishment for an enemy so he could unleash the Holy Right and bring about absolute good. Roland arrived at the Windowless Building, where Aleister told him war had begun as a ghostly fleet appeared off Academy City's coast.

• Matthew questioned Fiamma of the Right's plan to delay fighting and seek support from Britain and Russia, but Fiamma said his power had not yet reached its limit.
• Fiamma of the Right revealed that he intended to sacrifice the Roman Orthodox Church and its members to strengthen an enemy, claiming his actions would bring absolute good.
• Roland took Atsushi Kihara's hand and made crude advances, prompting her to teleport him to the Windowless Building before she fled.
• Aleister told Roland that protests across Europe, Russia, and Britain had turned into riots and that the Roman Orthodox Church was building support for war.
• Roland and Aleister saw a pale fog and an icy-blue fleet emerge off Academy City's Port District as Aleister said the war had already begun.

Roland triggered Angel Fall to reunite with his anchor and prepare for what he called the rehabilitation, while Aleister revealed that the displaced archangel had mistaken someone else for the caster. Kamijou Touma and Accelerator were confronted by Misha Chloejeff, and Roland arrived just as they faced her.

• Roland refused to let Aleister activate the incomplete artificial angel and instead used Angel Fall to merge with his anchor, explaining that he was preparing for the rehabilitation.
• Aleister told Roland that an archangel had already arrived and seemed to have mistaken someone else for the culprit.
• Misha Chloejeff pursued Kamijou Touma and Accelerator, demanding to know why they were unaffected by Angel Fall.
• Accelerator tried to protect Kamijou, but Misha’s water spear overwhelmed his weakened ability, leaving Kamijou to face her alone.
• Roland appeared behind Kamijou, explained Angel Fall, and introduced himself to Misha as her future master.

Roland explained that Kamijou Touya had accidentally caused Angel Fall, and Misha revealed herself as Gabriel, preparing to destroy Academy City with a vast rain of fire. As Gabriel’s attack gathered overhead, Roland hinted that he could exploit the city’s corruption to make her abandon her mission and began a transformation.

• Roland recognized Misha as an angel and explained that Kamijou Touya had activated Angel Fall by accident.
• Gabriel confirmed that Kamijou Touya was the culprit, then summoned water wings and changed the daytime sky into a night sky.
• Gabriel formed a gigantic magic circle and prepared a rain of fire capable of devastating the Earth.
• Roland told Kamijou Touma that Gabriel’s rigid instructions could be exploited and explained that Academy City’s corruption was tied to her mission.
• Roland declared, “Watch my transformation!” as a crimson shadow roared and bared its fangs.