Toaru Majutsu no Index ARCHIVES Volume 1 Radio Drama Synopsis
Index and Touma unexpectedly have to take care of a baby dropped at their doorstep. As they experience being parents for the first time, they discover that the baby is linked to two women from India, and the race to save the baby from imminent danger begins!
Well I'll be damn...
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Originally Posted by Ashaman
Seriously, I'm just amazed at the fact that a supernatural phenomenon gained sentiance because it detected Imagine Breaker as a threat.
Paraphrasing one of Touma's lines
"Scary powers are still scary"
Yeah that was cool. Originally I just thought that it so happens that Kazakiri gain a awareness at that time. I didn't know that it was because of Imagine Breaker that she became self aware. Indeed, People live, learn and do things because there is death.
Toaru Majutsu no Index ARCHIVES Volume 1 Radio Drama
Spoiler for info:
Three new characters are involved with this sidestory: two Sadhvis named Harisha and her sister Laksha and a baby which Index names "Shakti".
Spoiler for links:
Removed to comply to rules, PM me for links.
Be careful there. The audio dramas in the ARCHIVES are not the same as the radio drama. The audio dramas in the ARCHIVES are most likely not canon, and the plots are pretty laughable in some cases. On the other hand, the radio drama is definitely canon, and the script is written by Kamachi himself, so it feels a lot more like the something from the main story.
Index and Kazakiri Hyouka are sitting side by side on the sofa in the hospital waiting room.
Basically, they don’t allow pets inside the hospital, so the calico cat’s guarding the house. The white nun who’s normally with the calico cat seems impatient, not knowing where to put her hands.
Kazakiri carefully says to Index,
“Erm…that…skirt…aren’t you going to repair it?”
Index is stunned, so she looks down at her lower body. She took off those safety pins in order to fight against the stone golems, and now the skirt’s all split apart. Now it looks like a high-cut cheongsam.
“That…looks outrageous…no sense of defensiveness at all, so dangerous…”
“After so many things that had happened, I didn’t really have time to repair it. Hyouka, does it look weird?”
“It…it was…very weird…it was weird right from the beginning…it’s even weirder now…”
“It’s weirder now?”
Index narrows her eyes, as if she just heard Kazakiri’s true words.
At this moment, something strange happens.
Kazakiri Hyouka reveals a bitter smile with a profound meaning behind it, and suddenly, she starts to sway like the fog. It’s as if there’s an illusion, that if she’s not careful, Kazakiri’s body would disappear into mid-air.
Index gasps. Kazakiri’s outline is starting to sway, but never once does it cuts off.
“Hyo…Hyouka…this…”
“Mm…it’s a bit troublesome…”
Kazakiri smiles, and says,
“My body…is like a block of powers concentrated in one, so…no matter how I try, I can only exist in an unstable state. And I can’t remain forever…”
Kazakiri confesses. However, Index thought of another possibility.
Imagine Breaker.
The killer hand that erases all supernatural powers, without caring whether it’s good or evil.
“No, it’s not that.”
Kazakiri seemed like she saw through what Index was thinking according to her expression.
“That person’s power…didn’t affect me…if it had, I would have most likely disappeared into thin air. So, this isn’t his fault…”
Kazakiri Hyouka gently says, but her voice is sometimes high, and sometimes low.
“…Don’t worry, I won’t be destroyed that easily…my body has the power of 2.3 million people…my lifespan is numerous times that of yours…”
Kazakiri Hyouka smiles.
Index adds on the knowledge in her brain to Kazakiri’s words, thinking that it’s alright.
But for some reason, Index still feels a heavy sense of insecurity.
Kazakiri’s outline continues to sway unnaturally, without a single sound. Maybe it’s an illusion, but the swaying seems large, as if the fog is scattering.
“Ah…yes…regarding something…I don’t know whether it’s important to you…”
“What?”
“Regarding that person’s power…I’m…not too sure…”
After pausing for a while, Kazakiri Hyouka said this.
Kamijou Touma’s right hand can’t be explained through supernatural powers.
Index is shocked as her entire body freezes.
“Wait…hold on, Hyouka, it’s not possible, right? That kind of right hand doesn’t exist in magic! That strange power doesn’t exist in the knowledge of the 103,000 grimoires that I have in my head! If that’s not an esper power, I can’t explain it!”
“Ma…magic? I don’t know…what that is…”
Kazakiri smiles,
“However, I can confirm that that’s not an esper power…my body is formed through…all the people esper powers in Academy City…if that person is an esper, the moment his weak energy enters my body, it would have erased my body in an instant.”
Index recalls how the boy said that his power wasn’t derived from inside Academy City. That wasn’t man-made, but an innate ability.
If so, what’s that power? Index sinks into deep thought.
Since that’s not magic nor esper powers, it’s another form of power.
“It’s time…for me to go…”
Kazakiri said as she stands up from the sofa.
Everything that’s on Index’s mind instantly vanishes. She quickly looks up, feeling very insecure. She says she’s going back, but where? If one’s to think of it normally, it basically means night time, it’s time to go home. However, for baseless reasons, Index feels that there’s a deeper meaning behind it.
Index’s expression is like that of an abandoned child. Kazakiri gently smiles and says to her,
“Don’t worry…it’s alright. Even when my body vanishes, I’m not dead…I just can’t be seen, can’t be touched…even if you can’t feel it, I’ll always stay with you…”
Index wonders: why would she say such things right now?
It’s as if they won’t see each other again.
Even though there’s no proof.
Kazakiri Hyouka didn’t say anything like a farewell.
“HYOUKA!”
Index can’t help but shout at Kazakiri, who turned her back.
Kazakiri slowly turns around.
“Yes?”
“Can…can we go out and play tomorrow?”
Index said with a teary expression.
Kazakiri Hyouka smiles.
She replies,
“Sure.”
And for convenience sake, I'll compile them together.
Spoiler for Volume 6 Epilogue:
“Doctor, look, I’m not staying in the hospital now. Ain’t I great? This should be some sort of growth, right?”
Inside the doctor’s consultation room, Kamijou delightedly said this to the frog-faced doctor. At this moment Tsukuyomi Komoe and Himegami Aisa reach their arms out from each side and smack him on the head.
“Kamijou! You really don’t think anything of causing trouble to others! Causing so much trouble to the Anti-Skills…really! I’ll ask you where you went later, so prepare to explain yourself!”
“Didn’t I tell you several times to be careful about this person called ‘Kazakiri Hyouka’? You can’t control yourself whenever you see a woman, looks like we have to thoroughly correct you.”
“…Doctor, those two behind me are really scary. Can you just let me stay in the hospital? Before those two calm down, I need to hide. If possible, send me to the ICU, and don’t allow any visitors.”
The moment Kamijou said this to the frog-faced doctor, the duo behind smacks Kamijou’s head even faster.
Right now, the sun has set, and it’s past visiting time. But even though Kamijou’s jumping all around, he’s still an emergency patient.
After getting involved in a gunfight, and the subway collapsed, it is proper procedures to do a thorough check. This instruction is certainly reasonable.
On a side note, Index and Kazakiri are waiting inside the waiting room. Shirai Kuroko herself is said to be unable to sleep tonight as she has to clear everything up.
The frog-faced doctor sure looks helpless on seeing that he has to meet a patient after working hours. He says to Kamijou,
“I really can’t stand you, how can you still smile after this situation? Did too much fatigue cause you to be so hyperactive? Anyway, I must remind you that one more step, your hand would end up with complex fractures.
“…What?”
“You seemed surprised, don’t you? But this is really very likely. The human hand can do many intricate things, but as there are too many joints, it can’t withstand impact. If it’s just a simple attack, a hammer would be a lot safer than a fist.”
On hearing these words, Kamijou remember that he does feel some pain in his right hand, and shudder. The doctor’s words are really destructive.
The frog-faced doctor skillfully uses a threat to let the patient’s comfort level decrease, and quickly bandages Kamijou’s hand.
Kamijou remains silent, Komoe-sensei and Himegami aren’t saying anything as well.
After a while, on seeing Kamijou’s bandaged hand, Komoe-sensei slowly says,
“There are many suspicious points about this.”
“Suspicious points?”
“Yes. Though I won’t understand these points even if I say them out, it’s uncomfortable for me to keep ti to myself, so sensei will say it out.”
Komoe-sensei reveals a smile with deep meaning, raises her Index finger, and says,
“First, why would Kazakiri Hyouka ‘appear’ around Kamijou? The entire city’s filled with AIM dispersion field, so logically, she could be anywhere in this city. Why would she appear ‘next to Kamijou’ several times? Of course, this isn’t a coincidence.”
After that, Komoe-sensei raises the middle finger.
“Second, Himegami said that ‘Kazakiri Hyouka is the key to the ‘Imaginary Number District - Five Elements Institution’, what does this mean? However, since these words were said by the teachers at Kirigaoka Girls' Academy, so maybe that’s just a baseless rumour.”
After that, she raises her ring finger.
“Lastly, the third point. Why was the terrorist able to accurate find Kazakiri Hyouka’s location when she just ‘appeared’ only for today? Even for us in Academy City, we didn’t even sense Kazakiri Hyouka’s presence, so this information may be leaked from the administrators of Academy City. Of course, this may be just a coincidence, and maybe related.”
Finally, Komoe-sensei opens her five fingers wide, placing her two palms together, and says,
“However, why did so many coincidences occur at the same time? Maybe this is the biggest suspicious point.”
The entire consultation room is silent.
There’s too little information for them to derive an answer.
At this moment, the frog-faced doctor looks away and outside the window.
Though one can’t see it from here, far away in this direction, there’s a windowless building.
“Are you happy now?”
Inside a certain room of this building that doesn’t have any doors, windows, corridors, stairs and air ducts, Tsuchimikado Motoharu looks away from the image that’s floating in mid-air as he said viciously.
Aleister, who’s floating upside-down inside the giant glass cylinder, reveals a slight smile and doesn’t answer,
Tsuchimikado seems like he can’t endure this silence, and says,
“Using people as chess pieces, getting the key to the Imaginary Number District - Five Elements Institution, and you just completed one more part to your plan. Really, to me, you’re the real monster.”
Imaginary Number District - Five Elements Institution.
“Nobody could guess that it was just the AIM dispersal field. Nobody knows that the natural energy scattered by the 2.3 million students in Academy City is the Imaginary Number District.”
As long as power users exist in the city, there would be an AIM dispersal field, and thus there would be a Five Elements Institution.
No one even knows whether the Five Elements Institution is harmful or not.
This isn’t a large energy corporation that produces energy like nuclear power. If a strong force appears in Academy City, anyone can feel that something’s not right. The truth of the Five Elements Institution, or the AIM dispersal field, is a tiny energy that can only be felt through machines.
However, the Five Elements Institution is as unstable as water at 0 degrees Celsius and in vacuum state.
Under vacuum state, when the pressure’s really low, as the freezing point drops, water won’t freeze even when it’s 0 degrees Celsius. However, by using something like a stick to stir it, the vacuum state water would freeze.
It’s the same with the Five Elements Institution. Normally, this little energy can only be detected by a machine, but by giving a certain amount of impact, the power would increase. In this incident, Kazakiri Hyouka’s power greatly increased later on, because of the ‘impact’. It’s unknown though whether this ‘impact’ came from the stone golem’s attack, or there’s another catch to it.
But now, the question is – how big is this ‘certain level of impact’? Nobody knows. Maybe one can just stretch a finger and snap it to cause a huge explosion, or maybe one doesn’t need to mind about it.
Besides, ‘the power would instantly increase’ was just a ‘predicted’ outcome. What kind of power, how large the scale, no one knows. Maybe it might end up with Academy City disappearing from the world map, or maybe it’s nothing at all.
The specifics can’t be defined, the results can’t be judged. Thus, Academy City won’t so easily try to remove the Five Elements Institution.
If so, why won’t they just control it instead of erasing it?
And the key among this is—
“Kazakiri Hyouka? You actually let a part of the Imaginary Number District help it to materialise by letting it be self-aware as a human? That’s crazy.”
A boy has a right hand called the Imagine Breaker.
This right hand is the only threat to the Imaginary District.
As it feels the threat, it starts to be self-aware.
Appetite, sleep; the basic desires that are naturally derived from human functions are all signals about ‘wanting to live’ and ‘I don’t want to die’. In other words, things that don’t know life and death won’t develop personalities or self-awareness right from the start.
Looking at it the other way,
If one uses the Imagine Breaker to instil a concept of ‘death’, one can cause an illusion that doesn’t have self-awareness to be self-aware.
Aleister, who’s been silent up till now, finally says,
“This is a tactic to help control the Imaginary District even more easily. Instead of letting it be in a selfless state of ‘not knowing what to do’, I guess I should let it be able to think, make it easier to predict some of the actions, and even use it for negotiations or coercion.”
“If you’re creating someone who’s friendly to you that you can predict, there’s no problem. But how would you be able to handle this if it’s a villain that no one can imagine?”
“Villains are easier to control than good people. The difference between these two is only in the way one handle these two groups of people.”
Tsuchimikado curses. It’s true that Aleister views humans differently from normal humans.
“Is it really any meaning to doing all these just to get that Imaginary Number District?”
Tsuchimikado can’t help but asks,
“That’s right, the Imaginary Number District is a huge threat to Academy City. However, the threat doesn’t just exist on the inside. You may have done this today, and would slowly cause this world to be unstable. Without knowing why, a legitimate member of the English Anglicans got beaten by the Anti-Skills, so St. George Cathedral won’t just keep quiet about it. Are you thinking that you can use this city to beat all the magicians in the world?”
Hearing Tsuchimikado’s threatening voice, the face continues to remain on Aleister’s face.
“By getting hold of that, magicians aren’t something to be worth fearing.”
“What did you say?”
On hearing these words from Aleister, Tsuchimikado can’t help but frown.
The Imaginary Number District, the Five Element Institution, these things aren’t going to assure anyone that it’s safe to be in this city, but this is just for the internal affairs of Academy City. AIM dispersal field only form around power users.
Thinking about this, Tsuchimikado suddenly has a bad premonition creep up his back.
(Hold on…)
He again tries to summarise the collection of AIM dispersal field, which is all the features of the Imaginary Number District-Five Element Institution.
This thing is like an infrared or high frequency sound, even though it exists, it can’t be seen or heard.
It’s something that exists on a different plane from humans, using a certain force that gathered to form a new lifeform.
Tsuchimikado Motoharu is rather clear about this.
What this thing would be called in magic terms.
(Don’t tell me…an Angel?)
No, the residents of the Imaginary District—like Kazakiri Hyouka, are ‘Angels’. And the ‘city’ that she’s staying at is…
“Aleister…are you thinking of creating an artificial Heaven?”
“What do you say?”
Aleister just coldly gives him this response.
An artificial Heaven…no, if it’s created only with the power of science, it can’t be called terms like ‘Heaven’ or ‘demon realm’. This is a new ‘world’, not existing in the classics like Kabala, Buddhism, Christianity, Shintoism or Hinduism.
And once this new ‘world’ is created, it means all of magic would be erased.
For example, assuming that the buoyancy and lift values of the world are drastically increased.
In this situation, according to the picture that a kindergarten child draws, the plane would never fly, but even by following an expert’s design to create a plane, one can’t fly as well. However in reality, the plane will still glide on the runway as it tries to fly. What will happen though is that the plane will instantly lose balance once it leaves the ground, and crashes.
Once the new ‘world’ appears, the magic environment will drastically change, and it will have a similar meaning. Once a magician tries to use magic, the body will explode. The temples and churches that are supported by magic will lose the support, and collapse.
The same phenomenon will occur to any religion.
Thinking closely, one will know that any religion has a certain set of ‘rules’. Of course, there isn’t just one. Buddhism has Buddhist laws, Christianity has Christian laws. These laws are like all sorts of colours that are newly drawn on this large picture called the world.
All the religions have only one common point, and that’s a certain set of laws.
So what will happen if a new ‘world’ is inserted into a place with the law in place? The law and order that’s originally there would be jumbled up. The magicians will explode and kill themselves no matter what kind of magic they use.
No matter how good a violinist is, he can’t use a violin with messed-up strings to play. It’s the same with the messed-up laws.
Right now, the key to the Imaginary District isn’t complete yet. Once finished, no magician can use magic on Academy City.
And Academy City itself is a miniature version of the world.
Once the power development reaches a global scale, all humans will be able to use powers, and the entire world would be engulfed under the AIM dispersal field. The Imaginary District that only exists within Academy City will spread to the entire world.
No.
The preparations are already complete.
The worker power users ‘SISTERs’ that Kamijou saved, totalling about 10,000 people, are now scattered all over the world to all the agencies that are co-operating with Academy City. Why must they be patched up ‘outside’? This puzzled Tsuchimikado, and now here’s the answer.
That ridiculous experiment that Accelerator underwent wasn’t really some level 6 evolution, but to scatter all the cloned power users all over the world. In order to allow these ‘SISTERs’ to be deported ‘outside’, they came up with the destruction plan of power users, and then abolished this level 6 project. Using these 2 fake actions, they deported the ‘SISTERs’ all over the world.
This tactic should be considered a success, as right now, all the churches and forces, including the English Anglicans, have not detected the real reason why the ‘SISTERs’ were deported ‘outside’. No, even if they did, they won’t know the seriousness of it. The most they would think is that Academy City was trying to clean up the mess of internal problems.
These power users are like an antenna of the Imaginary District, covering the entire world.
After that, as long as they can get hold of this incomplete Imaginary District and let the new ‘world’ activate.
All the magicians will lose control of their powers and self-destruct due to the new ‘world’.
But to power users, the AIM dispersal field isn’t harmful to them.
If so, the results of the war between the magic side and the science side would be very obvious. No, that can’t be considered a war. It’s like blasting the brains off enemies who have surrendered.
Thinking about this, Tsuchimikado shakes his head.
Is this really Aleister’s final goal? Maybe, maybe not. This person may be smiling and thinking that this level of events is just a stepping stone to help him achieve his other goals, but maybe he’s not thinking of that as well.
It’s hard to tell.
This person, Aleister, who looks like a man, and like a woman; an adult, and a child; a Saint, and a convict, has all the possibilities of humanity. Thus, nobody can guess what he’s thinking. It’s not an exaggeration to say that he may be thinking of what the whole of humanity is thinking now.
Tsuchimikado shudder, but like a defeated dog, he tries to be brave as he says,
“Humph, if the English Anglicans know about it, they will declare war. Right now, I really pity Sherry Cromwell. From what I see from your huge conspiracy, she isn’t simply playing the role of a villain, but a character that stood up to fight against the evil power in order to protect her own world.”
“Don’t be so paranoid. I’m not intending to fight against the Church. Besides, to create that Artificial Heaven that you thought of, I have to really understand how the real Heaven works. That’s the magic side’s business; it’s not something that I can understand while standing on the science side.”
“Are you treating me as if I was born yesterday? On this world, who understands magic more than you does?”
Tsuchimikado curls his lips as he said,
“The magician, Aleister Crowley…”
During the 20th century, there existed a magician who was the greatest in history.
Everyone agrees that he’s the most outstanding magician in the world, and also the biggest embarrassment to magic.
Nobody else in history has done that insult he did to the magic world.
That’s to give up that magic power he developed to start all over again and analyse science and technology.
Why would Aleister give up everything he had when he had stood at the pinnacle of the magicians, nobody knows. But this is the biggest insult to the magic world. For the strongest magician in the world to give up magic and go to the science side. What Aleister did was like being the leader of the magic society, without any agreements, he surrendered to science.
Thus, Aleister Crowley became the enemy of all the magicians in the world. The people who’re trying to kill him aren’t just the English Anglicans that specialise in hunting down witches, but also people who are even the least related to magic.
Stiyl and Aleister met before, but didn’t see through Aleister’s real identity, and there’s a reason behind this. While the English Anglicans were hunting down Aleister Crowley, it’s said to be gathering information about him for a long time. However, this information is just false information that Aleister himself leaked. Since the original information’s wrong, no matter whether one uses magical or scientific means to track down Aleister, they can’t possibly find any relations to the real Aleister Crowley. In other words, to the English Anglicans, Aleister just so happened to be a common name, or maybe even a false name.
This patience and guts makes Tsuchimikado’s jaw drop. Even if he himself can do this, he won’t risk it. Or maybe this just shows the difference in power between Aleister and Tsuchimikado.
“Just treat this as me not going to admit defeat to you, I’m going to give you some advice, Aleister.”
“Hm, I’m all ears.”
“Have you heard of the words ‘hard luck’?” (Teh_Ping: the novels gave it as ‘hard luck’ in English)
“It means ‘misfortune’, right?”
“There’s another meaning to this. That’s ‘no matter how many times one meets a hellish fate, the person is lucky enough to overcome it safely’.”
Tsuchimikado chuckles, and continues,
“I don’t understand what’s on your mind. Even if you explain it to me further, I most likely won’t be able to understand. But, once you make use of that Imagine Breaker, I hope you’re prepared. If you’re going to treat him half-heartedly, that right hand will rip your illusion apart.”
After Tsuchimikado said this, the teleporter enters the room as if she timed it perfectly.
After that, Tsuchimikado got taken away by this girl who’s shorter than him by 30cm.
In this empty room, the man hanging upside down mutters to himself.
“Hm, all the illusions that I believed in were destroyed a long time ago.”
Index and Kazakiri Hyouka are sitting side by side on the sofa in the hospital waiting room.
Basically, they don’t allow pets inside the hospital, so the calico cat’s guarding the house. The white nun who’s normally with the calico cat seems impatient, not knowing where to put her hands.
Kazakiri carefully says to Index,
“Erm…that…skirt…aren’t you going to repair it?”
Index is stunned, so she looks down at her lower body. She took off those safety pins in order to fight against the stone golems, and now the skirt’s all split apart. Now it looks like a high-cut cheongsam.
“That…looks outrageous…no sense of defensiveness at all, so dangerous…”
“After so many things that had happened, I didn’t really have time to repair it. Hyouka, does it look weird?”
“It…it was…very weird…it was weird right from the beginning…it’s even weirder now…”
“It’s weirder now?”
Index narrows her eyes, as if she just heard Kazakiri’s true words.
At this moment, something strange happens.
Kazakiri Hyouka reveals a bitter smile with a profound meaning behind it, and suddenly, she starts to sway like the fog. It’s as if there’s an illusion, that if she’s not careful, Kazakiri’s body would disappear into mid-air.
Index gasps. Kazakiri’s outline is starting to sway, but never once does it cuts off.
“Hyo…Hyouka…this…”
“Mm…it’s a bit troublesome…”
Kazakiri smiles, and says,
“My body…is like a block of powers concentrated in one, so…no matter how I try, I can only exist in an unstable state. And I can’t remain forever…”
Kazakiri confesses. However, Index thought of another possibility.
Imagine Breaker.
The killer hand that erases all supernatural powers, without caring whether it’s good or evil.
“No, it’s not that.”
Kazakiri seemed like she saw through what Index was thinking according to her expression.
“That person’s power…didn’t affect me…if it had, I would have most likely disappeared into thin air. So, this isn’t his fault…”
Kazakiri Hyouka gently says, but her voice is sometimes high, and sometimes low.
“…Don’t worry, I won’t be destroyed that easily…my body has the power of 2.3 million people…my lifespan is numerous times that of yours…”
Kazakiri Hyouka smiles.
Index adds on the knowledge in her brain to Kazakiri’s words, thinking that it’s alright.
But for some reason, Index still feels a heavy sense of insecurity.
Kazakiri’s outline continues to sway unnaturally, without a single sound. Maybe it’s an illusion, but the swaying seems large, as if the fog is scattering.
“Ah…yes…regarding something…I don’t know whether it’s important to you…”
“What?”
“Regarding that person’s power…I’m…not too sure…”
After pausing for a while, Kazakiri Hyouka said this.
Kamijou Touma’s right hand can’t be explained through supernatural powers.
Index is shocked as her entire body freezes.
“Wait…hold on, Hyouka, it’s not possible, right? That kind of right hand doesn’t exist in magic! That strange power doesn’t exist in the knowledge of the 103,000 grimoires that I have in my head! If that’s not an esper power, I can’t explain it!”
“Ma…magic? I don’t know…what that is…”
Kazakiri smiles,
“However, I can confirm that that’s not an esper power…my body is formed through…all the people esper powers in Academy City…if that person is an esper, the moment his weak energy enters my body, it would have erased my body in an instant.”
Index recalls how the boy said that his power wasn’t derived from inside Academy City. That wasn’t man-made, but an innate ability.
If so, what’s that power? Index sinks into deep thought.
Since that’s not magic nor esper powers, it’s another form of power.
“It’s time…for me to go…”
Kazakiri said as she stands up from the sofa.
Everything that’s on Index’s mind instantly vanishes. She quickly looks up, feeling very insecure. She says she’s going back, but where? If one’s to think of it normally, it basically means night time, it’s time to go home. However, for baseless reasons, Index feels that there’s a deeper meaning behind it.
Index’s expression is like that of an abandoned child. Kazakiri gently smiles and says to her,
“Don’t worry…it’s alright. Even when my body vanishes, I’m not dead…I just can’t be seen, can’t be touched…even if you can’t feel it, I’ll always stay with you…”
Index wonders: why would she say such things right now?
It’s as if they won’t see each other again.
Even though there’s no proof.
Kazakiri Hyouka didn’t say anything like a farewell.
“HYOUKA!”
Index can’t help but shout at Kazakiri, who turned her back.
No wonder I still thin Hyouka is still above new angel Accelerator. Her power is the power of whole esper of academy city. It means Accelerator might be in it too or maybe not because his special like rank 2. But still if Accelerator powers = 20000 + from the age of Isis then reach the power of black wings with the age of Osiris. And finally the age of Horus with white wings. I still think even if the gap isn't that big. Fuze = Kazakiri still stands above Accelerator.
Thanks for the translation teh_ping now I can stay sit and do my design without problem.
Hyouka said it's not Esper
Index said it's not Magic
Then it's initiate?
well gemstones are initiate
but Imagine Breaker has it's own "name" which differs it from the usual gemstones which describes the initiate ability users. Just like how Holy Right has it's own name even though it's an initiate ability.
Since Hyouka's a concentrated form of AIM, it's more like she's the science equivalent of Index, with continual updates. In other words, it probably means that the more powerful someone gets, the more powerful she'll be.
Gemstones are born with innate abilities. Some of these have AIM dispersal fields(I'm assuming Gunha has it since he's a level 5).
And note the Five Element Institution. Remember in Volume 7 how Agnese explains that there are 5 elements? Is Aleister creating ascience equivalent here?
Toaru Majutsu no Index ARCHIVES Volume 1 Radio Drama
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Synopsis
Index and Touma unexpectedly have to take care of a baby dropped at their doorstep. As they experience being parents for the first time, they discover that the baby is linked to two women from India, and the race to save the baby from imminent danger begins!
This is old, right? I'm sure I listened to something very similar to this a long time ago.
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You have a misconception here. ESPer don't automatically falls into the Aeon of Horus. Even Accelerator still belongs to the Aeon of Osiris.
Something smells fishy here. The description on wikipedia about the "magic" of the Thelema religion (clearly Horus in nature) is almost word-for-word what espers do.
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Hmmm, I think you're misunderstanding the concept. The Aeons are like a 'Format' to follow, and apparently you can use either magic or AIM to do so.
Then why is Aleister bothering with Espers in the first place? He was the top dog in magic, and yet he gave it up for esper research. I can't imagine why he would do that unless espers were somehow superior when it came to reaching that goal.
Then why is Aleister bothering with Espers in the first place? He was the top dog in magic, and yet he gave it up for esper research. I can't imagine why he would do that unless espers were somehow superior when it came to reaching that goal.
The Espers were simply another stepping stone in some grand master plan. Researching Espers is fine, but what he wanted is the AIM field they produce to create the Imaginary Number District, which in turn is a stepping stone to destroying the magic societies, which in turn is a stepping stone to possibly something bigger.
We weren't told why he decided to give up his position as the greatest magician in a pursuit for science. It's one of the biggest mystery, but my guess is that he wanted a different power to fight against the magicians, so he cannot use anything in existence and had to create a whole new type of power from scratch.
No wonder I still thin Hyouka is still above new angel Accelerator. Her power is the power of whole esper of academy city. It means Accelerator might be in it too or maybe not because his special like rank 2. But still if Accelerator powers = 20000 + from the age of Isis then reach the power of black wings with the age of Osiris. And finally the age of Horus with white wings. I still think even if the gap isn't that big. Fuze = Kazakiri still stands above Accelerator.
Thanks for the translation teh_ping now I can stay sit and do my design without problem.
Hyouka said it's not Esper
Index said it's not Magic
Then it's initiate?
well gemstones are initiate
but Imagine Breaker has it's own "name" which differs it from the usual gemstones which describes the initiate ability users. Just like how Holy Right has it's own name even though it's an initiate ability.
yes hyouka has the power of thousands of espers...
but when you consider that Accelerator's one ability can probably allow him to fight against all the other espers in AC at once and still come out on top...
Against magicians Hyouka is probably the greater threat but against each other Accel is probably stronger as he can control her AIM field.
We weren't told why he decided to give up his position as the greatest magician in a pursuit for science. It's one of the biggest mystery, but my guess is that he wanted a different power to fight against the magicians, so he cannot use anything in existence and had to create a whole new type of power from scratch.
I wonder why I do feel that Aleister pick a fight with the top dogs of the heaven but gets beat epically. Or something along that lines where he doesn't have anything anymore so nothing to lose more.
his fantasy was already been destroyed to begin with.
I wonder why I do feel that Aleister pick a fight with the top dogs of the heaven but gets beat epically. Or something along that lines where he doesn't have anything anymore so nothing to lose more.
his fantasy was already been destroyed to begin with.
I think it's more down to earth.
I have no proof of this though, but I've always thought that it was because of magic that he lost his family. Maybe he wanted to bring them back? So he studied until he became the strongest magician even then he realized that the solution cannot be found from magic -> Illusion destroyed.
His creation of the Imaginary Number District would screw with anything related to magic suggest a deep hatred of it, possibly a betrayal? But if we think about it the other way, Aleister's trying to change the laws of the world, perhaps to allow the earlier absolute (cannot bring people back to life) to change?
This is old, right? I'm sure I listened to something very similar to this a long time ago.
What is different is that this one is subbed in MKV format.
Honestly, I never see a radio drama subbed in any series I know, and this is my first fansubbed radio drama. Hoping that the rest get subbed as well, especially that ones which involve the esper with the Insulation ability, Yasumi Usukinu.
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Inside a certain room of this building that doesn’t have any doors, windows, corridors, stairs and air ducts, Tsuchimikado Motoharu looks away from the image that’s floating in mid-air as he said viciously.
Aleister, who’s floating upside-down inside the giant glass cylinder, reveals a slight smile and doesn’t answer,
Tsuchimikado seems like he can’t endure this silence, and says,
“Using people as chess pieces, getting the key to the Imaginary Number District - Five Elements Institution, and you just completed one more part to your plan. Really, to me, you’re the real monster.”
Imaginary Number District - Five Elements Institution.
“Nobody could guess that it was just the AIM dispersal field. Nobody knows that the natural energy scattered by the 2.3 million students in Academy City is the Imaginary Number District.”
As long as power users exist in the city, there would be an AIM dispersal field, and thus there would be a Five Elements Institution.
No one even knows whether the Five Elements Institution is harmful or not.
This isn’t a large energy corporation that produces energy like nuclear power. If a strong force appears in Academy City, anyone can feel that something’s not right. The truth of the Five Elements Institution, or the AIM dispersal field, is a tiny energy that can only be felt through machines.
However, the Five Elements Institution is as unstable as water at 0 degrees Celsius and in vacuum state.
Under vacuum state, when the pressure’s really low, as the freezing point drops, water won’t freeze even when it’s 0 degrees Celsius. However, by using something like a stick to stir it, the vacuum state water would freeze.
It’s the same with the Five Elements Institution. Normally, this little energy can only be detected by a machine, but by giving a certain amount of impact, the power would increase. In this incident, Kazakiri Hyouka’s power greatly increased later on, because of the ‘impact’. It’s unknown though whether this ‘impact’ came from the stone golem’s attack, or there’s another catch to it.
But now, the question is – how big is this ‘certain level of impact’? Nobody knows. Maybe one can just stretch a finger and snap it to cause a huge explosion, or maybe one doesn’t need to mind about it.
Besides, ‘the power would instantly increase’ was just a ‘predicted’ outcome. What kind of power, how large the scale, no one knows. Maybe it might end up with Academy City disappearing from the world map, or maybe it’s nothing at all.
The specifics can’t be defined, the results can’t be judged. Thus, Academy City won’t so easily try to remove the Five Elements Institution.
If so, why won’t they just control it instead of erasing it?
And the key among this is—
“Kazakiri Hyouka? You actually let a part of the Imaginary Number District help it to materialise by letting it be self-aware as a human? That’s crazy.”
A boy has a right hand called the Imagine Breaker.
This right hand is the only threat to the Imaginary District.
As it feels the threat, it starts to be self-aware.
Appetite, sleep; the basic desires that are naturally derived from human functions are all signals about ‘wanting to live’ and ‘I don’t want to die’. In other words, things that don’t know life and death won’t develop personalities or self-awareness right from the start.
Looking at it the other way,
If one uses the Imagine Breaker to instil a concept of ‘death’, one can cause an illusion that doesn’t have self-awareness to be self-aware.
Aleister, who’s been silent up till now, finally says,
“This is a tactic to help control the Imaginary District even more easily. Instead of letting it be in a selfless state of ‘not knowing what to do’, I guess I should let it be able to think, make it easier to predict some of the actions, and even use it for negotiations or coercion.”
“If you’re creating someone who’s friendly to you that you can predict, there’s no problem. But how would you be able to handle this if it’s a villain that no one can imagine?”
“Villains are easier to control than good people. The difference between these two is only in the way one handle these two groups of people.”
Tsuchimikado curses. It’s true that Aleister views humans differently from normal humans.
“Is it really any meaning to doing all these just to get that Imaginary Number District?”
Tsuchimikado can’t help but asks,
“That’s right, the Imaginary Number District is a huge threat to Academy City. However, the threat doesn’t just exist on the inside. You may have done this today, and would slowly cause this world to be unstable. Without knowing why, a legitimate member of the English Anglicans got beaten by the Anti-Skills, so St. George Cathedral won’t just keep quiet about it. Are you thinking that you can use this city to beat all the magicians in the world?”
Hearing Tsuchimikado’s threatening voice, the face continues to remain on Aleister’s face.
“By getting hold of that, magicians aren’t something to be worth fearing.”
“What did you say?”
On hearing these words from Aleister, Tsuchimikado can’t help but frown.
The Imaginary Number District, the Five Element Institution, these things aren’t going to assure anyone that it’s safe to be in this city, but this is just for the internal affairs of Academy City. AIM dispersal field only form around power users.
Thinking about this, Tsuchimikado suddenly has a bad premonition creep up his back.
(Hold on…)
He again tries to summarise the collection of AIM dispersal field, which is all the features of the Imaginary Number District-Five Element Institution.
This thing is like an infrared or high frequency sound, even though it exists, it can’t be seen or heard.
It’s something that exists on a different plane from humans, using a certain force that gathered to form a new lifeform.
Tsuchimikado Motoharu is rather clear about this.
What this thing would be called in magic terms.
(Don’t tell me…an Angel?)
No, the residents of the Imaginary District—like Kazakiri Hyouka, are ‘Angels’. And the ‘city’ that she’s staying at is…
“Aleister…are you thinking of creating an artificial Heaven?”
“What do you say?”
Aleister just coldly gives him this response.
An artificial Heaven…no, if it’s created only with the power of science, it can’t be called terms like ‘Heaven’ or ‘demon realm’. This is a new ‘world’, not existing in the classics like Kabala, Buddhism, Christianity, Shintoism or Hinduism.
And once this new ‘world’ is created, it means all of magic would be erased.
For example, assuming that the buoyancy and lift values of the world are drastically increased.
In this situation, according to the picture that a kindergarten child draws, the plane would never fly, but even by following an expert’s design to create a plane, one can’t fly as well. However in reality, the plane will still glide on the runway as it tries to fly. What will happen though is that the plane will instantly lose balance once it leaves the ground, and crashes.
Once the new ‘world’ appears, the magic environment will drastically change, and it will have a similar meaning. Once a magician tries to use magic, the body will explode. The temples and churches that are supported by magic will lose the support, and collapse.
The same phenomenon will occur to any religion.
Thinking closely, one will know that any religion has a certain set of ‘rules’. Of course, there isn’t just one. Buddhism has Buddhist laws, Christianity has Christian laws. These laws are like all sorts of colours that are newly drawn on this large picture called the world.
All the religions have only one common point, and that’s a certain set of laws.
So what will happen if a new ‘world’ is inserted into a place with the law in place? The law and order that’s originally there would be jumbled up. The magicians will explode and kill themselves no matter what kind of magic they use.
No matter how good a violinist is, he can’t use a violin with messed-up strings to play. It’s the same with the messed-up laws.
Right now, the key to the Imaginary District isn’t complete yet. Once finished, no magician can use magic on Academy City.
And Academy City itself is a miniature version of the world.
Once the power development reaches a global scale, all humans will be able to use powers, and the entire world would be engulfed under the AIM dispersal field. The Imaginary District that only exists within Academy City will spread to the entire world.
No.
The preparations are already complete.
The worker power users ‘SISTERs’ that Kamijou saved, totalling about 10,000 people, are now scattered all over the world to all the agencies that are co-operating with Academy City. Why must they be patched up ‘outside’? This puzzled Tsuchimikado, and now here’s the answer.
That ridiculous experiment that Accelerator underwent wasn’t really some level 6 evolution, but to scatter all the cloned power users all over the world. In order to allow these ‘SISTERs’ to be deported ‘outside’, they came up with the destruction plan of power users, and then abolished this level 6 project. Using these 2 fake actions, they deported the ‘SISTERs’ all over the world.
This tactic should be considered a success, as right now, all the churches and forces, including the English Anglicans, have not detected the real reason why the ‘SISTERs’ were deported ‘outside’. No, even if they did, they won’t know the seriousness of it. The most they would think is that Academy City was trying to clean up the mess of internal problems.
These power users are like an antenna of the Imaginary District, covering the entire world.
After that, as long as they can get hold of this incomplete Imaginary District and let the new ‘world’ activate.
All the magicians will lose control of their powers and self-destruct due to the new ‘world’.
But to power users, the AIM dispersal field isn’t harmful to them.
If so, the results of the war between the magic side and the science side would be very obvious. No, that can’t be considered a war. It’s like blasting the brains off enemies who have surrendered.
Thinking about this, Tsuchimikado shakes his head.
Is this really Aleister’s final goal? Maybe, maybe not. This person may be smiling and thinking that this level of events is just a stepping stone to help him achieve his other goals, but maybe he’s not thinking of that as well.
It’s hard to tell.
This person, Aleister, who looks like a man, and like a woman; an adult, and a child; a Saint, and a convict, has all the possibilities of humanity. Thus, nobody can guess what he’s thinking. It’s not an exaggeration to say that he may be thinking of what the whole of humanity is thinking now.
Tsuchimikado shudder, but like a defeated dog, he tries to be brave as he says,
“Humph, if the English Anglicans know about it, they will declare war. Right now, I really pity Sherry Cromwell. From what I see from your huge conspiracy, she isn’t simply playing the role of a villain, but a character that stood up to fight against the evil power in order to protect her own world.”
“Don’t be so paranoid. I’m not intending to fight against the Church. Besides, to create that Artificial Heaven that you thought of, I have to really understand how the real Heaven works. That’s the magic side’s business; it’s not something that I can understand while standing on the science side.”
“Are you treating me as if I was born yesterday? On this world, who understands magic more than you do?”
Tsuchimikado curls his lips as he said,
“The magician, Aleister Crowley…”
During the 20th century, there existed a magician who was the greatest in history.
Everyone agrees that he’s the most outstanding magician in the world, and also the biggest embarrassment to magic.
Nobody else in history has done that insult he did to the magic world.
That’s to give up that magic power he developed to start all over again and analyse science and technology.
Why would Aleister give up everything he had when he had stood at the pinnacle of the magicians, nobody knows. But this is the biggest insult to the magic world. For the strongest magician in the world to give up magic and go to the science side. What Aleister did was like being the leader of the magic society, without any agreements, he surrendered to science.
Thus, Aleister Crowley became the enemy of all the magicians in the world. The people who’re trying to kill him aren’t just the English Anglicans that specialise in hunting down witches, but also people who are even the least related to magic.
Stiyl and Aleister met before, but didn’t see through Aleister’s real identity, and there’s a reason behind this. While the English Anglicans were hunting down Aleister Crowley, it’s said to be gathering information about him for a long time. However, this information is just false information that Aleister himself leaked. Since the original information’s wrong, no matter whether one uses magical or scientific means to track down Aleister, they can’t possibly find any relations to the real Aleister Crowley. In other words, to the English Anglicans, Aleister just so happened to be a common name, or maybe even a false name.
This patience and guts makes Tsuchimikado’s jaw drop. Even if he himself can do this, he won’t risk it. Or maybe this just shows the difference in power between Aleister and Tsuchimikado.
“Just treat this as me not going to admit defeat to you, I’m going to give you some advice, Aleister.”
“Hm, I’m all ears.”
“Have you heard of the words ‘hard luck’?” (Teh_Ping: the novels gave it as ‘hard luck’ in English)
“It means ‘misfortune’, right?”
“There’s another meaning to this. That’s ‘no matter how many times one meets a hellish fate, the person is lucky enough to overcome it safely’.”
Tsuchimikado chuckles, and continues,
“I don’t understand what’s on your mind. Even if you explain it to me further, I most likely won’t be able to understand. But, once you make use of that Imagine Breaker, I hope you’re prepared. If you’re going to treat him half-heartedly, that right hand will rip your illusion apart.”
After Tsuchimikado said this, the teleporter enters the room as if she timed it perfectly.
After that, Tsuchimikado got taken away by this girl who’s shorter than him by 30cm.
In this empty room, the man hanging upside down mutters to himself.
“Hm, all the illusions that I believed in were destroyed a long time ago.”
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The Espers were simply another stepping stone in some grand master plan. Researching Espers is fine, but what he wanted is the AIM field they produce to create the Imaginary Number District, which in turn is a stepping stone to destroying the magic societies, which in turn is a stepping stone to possibly something bigger.
We weren't told why he decided to give up his position as the greatest magician in a pursuit for science. It's one of the biggest mystery, but my guess is that he wanted a different power to fight against the magicians, so he cannot use anything in existence and had to create a whole new type of power from scratch.
Thanks for the epilogue Teh Ping, though just one minor thing - 'fake action' is the direct translation of the kanji, but wouldn't the word 'Feint' work better?
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I think it's more down to earth.
I have no proof of this though, but I've always thought that it was because of magic that he lost his family. Maybe he wanted to bring them back? So he studied until he became the strongest magician even then he realized that the solution cannot be found from magic -> Illusion destroyed.
His creation of the Imaginary Number District would screw with anything related to magic suggest a deep hatred of it, possibly a betrayal? But if we think about it the other way, Aleister's trying to change the laws of the world, perhaps to allow the earlier absolute (cannot bring people back to life) to change?
Aleister didn't care about his own family - he sacrificed his own wife in the name of magical research (stated in Vol7), and he also sacrificed a bunch of little girls the same age as his daughter. So I'm guessing it's something else.
And as for Aleister's plans... Read the Vol22 Epilogue. I'll post a extract here:
Spoiler for saving space:
“What you wanted to do, apart from shaking the basis of the Order, is very close to mine own plans. Prepare a temple filled of supernatural power, inside that temple refine that Right Hand’s power, use that power to align directly with the original and then adjust it, with the result being a change across the world. How is that different to Academy City, a small world which has sealed into it some sort of power? All you had to do was correct your actions from another point of view. If you had done that, you would have reached the goal before me.”
Ie spread AIM all over the world, refine Touma's right hand, use that right hand to align to the original (Fiamma went for 'The one higher than God' and succeeded - but still got punched down by Touma), and then change the world.
Who knows what Aleister is trying to align himself to... the origin of the universe?
Just as long as it doesn't involve the Elder (or is it Outer?) Gods, cause dealing with those beings should be is worse than what Touma and the other characters have seen so far and I think they have plenty to deal with.
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