Touma Kamijou just can't catch a break. He might live in Academy City, a place full of more super powered students than you can shake a stick at, but his only superpower is his supernatural lack of luck. He wants nothing more than to keep a low profile, but when a girl named Index comes into his life, it gets more complicated and dangerous than ever!
In London, the women's dorm in a magicians' base get wild, while in the underbelly of Academy City, Accelerator stumbles upon someone who has been waiting for him all this time.
The horrifying experiment to make Accelerator into an all-powerful Level Six has commenced--and it involves the wholesale slaughter of the little sisters cloned from Mikoto Misaka. Can Touma find a way to stop the seemingly invincible Accelerator? Could it be that weakness is stronger than strength could ever be?
Mikoto Misaka is a Level Five esper--one of the most powerful in Academy City. She's so powerful, in fact, that her DNA has been harvested to create a series of clones--the "Sisters." But who is behind these clones, and why would they go to such lengths? The sinister truth is nothing she or Touma could have imagined, and it involves the terrifying Accelerator, the most powerful esper of all time!
A certain unlikely hero... Touma Kamijou has the worst luck imaginable... Sure he's a citizen of Academy City, a scientific marvel of the modern world where superhuman abilities are artificially cultivated and commonplace, but when it comes to paranormal talent, Kamijou's been classified a Level Zero-a loser, basically. Oh, he does have one trick up his sleeve (literally), but even that's more trouble than it's worth. When Kamijou encounters a delusional young girl convinced she's a nun and raving about being chased by evil sorcerers, he's eager to send her on her way and get back to failing his studies. Fate, it would seem though, has other ideas, and he suddenly finds himself caught up in a supernatural intrigue with a girl named "Index" at the center! Science and magic collide in this first volume of one of the most popular light novel series ever penned!
A certain unlikely hero...Only Komoe's class would let a regular conversation spiral out of control into a grand-scale hot pot party. It's an open question whether her students are a blessing or a curse. Meanwhile in London, the English Puritan Church's facilities should generally be a place of prayer and quiet contemplation...So who's going to take responsibility for the chaos unfolding in the sisters' dorms?! Back in Academy City, a certain railgun's mother has suddenly popped in for a visit, which is more than enough to make even a Level Five esper panic!
Science and magic have come together once again to create this never-before-seen folio of A Certain Magical Index! The arcane pages of the Old Testament Omnibus Edition detail the collected adventures of Touma Kamijou in a stunning synthesis of paper and metal that any aspiring sorcerer or esper will covet. Including all 22 volumes of the original series as well as the 2 short story volumes, this grimoire cannot be ignored by those who want to complete their own collection of forbidden magical books!
Though he gave his all during the festival to save Academy City, Touma still spectacularly lost his bet with Mikoto. Now he's a slave to her every order until she's completely satisfied! But that's the least of his worries--a jealous Kuroko just might kill him, Little Misaka is about to explode, Index is nowhere to be found, and then there's this girl who seems totally lost... Meanwhile, Accelerator is busy settling into his new life when he notices Last Order is missing. Fearing the worst, the former villain launches a frantic search only to find a starving girl in a white nun's habit...
Tokiwadai Middle School--a place bathed in the envious gazes of all the schoolgirls in Academy City. Every single one of its female students is a proper young lady, and none more so than Mikoto Misaka. Kuroko--a Level Four teleporter and a member of Judgment, the organization that preserves public order in the city--knows this all too well. She invites her darling Misaka out to go shopping, but that's just the beginning of what ends up being a very, very long day, one in which she sees Misaka's true form and may wish she hadn't...
(Volume 12) September 30th. As the seasons change in Academy City, so do the seasonal clothes. Mikoto Misaka, talented esper student of the elite Tokiwadai Middle School that stands above the hustle and bustle of the city, waits in front of the concert hall for her companion. But...he never arrives. There is no trace at all of that young man who was supposed to show up to accept his punishment game. Mikoto sighs as she cradles her too-thin schoolbag and the violin case she'd been holding all the while but now-- When Touma Kamijou and Mikoto Misaka finally cross paths, the school comedy that revolves around a punishment game will begin!
