History Recap / ACertainMagicalIndexArc6HyoukaKazakiri

In the hospital, Kikyou Yoshikawa

Note: The light novel reveals the machination that created Hyouka. Aleister arranged for Touma to be sent to Academy City as a child. As soon as he arrived in the city 10 years ago, Hyouka was born, because the Imaginary Number District sensed Imagine Breaker could destroy it and became afraid. Something must fear death to be alive.

* UnwittingPawn: Aleister claims every heroic act Touma does plays into his hands.

Touma notices Hyouka is sitting on top of an under construction building, and climbs up to her. She sadly looks over the pictures Index gave her and says it is over for her. She had to reveal she was a monster to save her, and now they can't be friends anymore. She says it's not fair and cries against his chest. He hugs her with his left arm, careful to keep his right arm extended and away from her.

It turns out that knocking Sherry out was what caused the golem Ellis to switch to automatic mode. Right before he can kill Index, Hyouka arrives and nails him with a flying kick so powerful that it knocks him back and caves his chest in. The impact also broke her leg, but it quickly heals up. Index is shocked by this turn of events, but Hyouka tells her to run as it's not over. Case in point, Ellis gets up and absorbs material from the surroundings to regenerate. Index says they have to escape, but Hyouka says she will stay behind and hold Ellis off. It is okay, she is a monster just like Ellis and she won't die very easily. She's sorry she didn't tell her earlier, but she just learned it herself. Ellis attacks, and she catches his punch and holds it in place. The impact makes her arms crack, but they heal up. She roars and starts shoving Ellis back with incredible strength. However, Ellis raises his other fist and throws a punch. Since she's using both hands to hold one fist, she can't block it. She prepares for the end, but Touma arrives and intercepts Ellis' fist with a flying punch, destroying it once and for all.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Index and Mikoto, the two most important girls in Touma's life, finally meet. It's not pretty.

It turns out that knocking Sherry out was what caused the golem Ellis to switch to automatic mode. Right before he can kill Index, Hyouka arrives and nails him with a flying kick so powerful that it knocks him back and caves his chest in.

* ChekhovsClassroom: What Index said about secondary spells came in handy.

* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance[=/=]LockedOutOfTheLoop: This arc fully demonstrates that pretty much nobody in Academy City is aware of the Magic Side, to the point that they assure Sherry must be an esper after seeing her powers.

He asks why she's trying to start a war. She tells him to think: when an esper tries to use magic, his body will destroy itself, but how do they know this? Twenty years ago, an organization from the Science Side and and organization from the Magic Side joined forces to try to create a magician/esper hybrid. In this experiment, she met her best friend, an esper boy named Ellis. She was assigned to teach him spells, but when he tried to use them, his blood vessels burst. Then the Knights of England burst into the facility, saying this experiment was blasphemy. The Knights slaughtered everybody, but the heavily injured Ellis sacrificed himself to buy her enough time to escape. Suddenly shouting in rage and grief, she declares that this experience taught her that the Science and Magic Sides can never truly coexist, and she must separate them forever to prevent such a tragedy from ever happening again. Disgusted, Touma says she has to be out of her mind. Doesn't she realize that a war will cause many more tragedies? Sherry says he has no right to judge her and reveals that she drew symbols all over the tunnel with her chalk. She boasts that she controls earth itself, so she is invincible underground. She activates the symbols, and they start exploding, making the tunnel start to collapse. Touma flashes back to when Index talked about how certain spells require a secondary spell to protect the user from the first one's effects, and realizes that the symbol next to Sherry serves that purpose. He runs up and destroys the symbol with Imagine Breaker. Sherry looks on in horror as the ceiling above her falls, but she charges her chalk with magic and slices the falling piece of concrete in half with it. He quickly uses the opening to get in front of her and punch her in the face so hard that she makes a crater in the concrete wall. Sherry gets up and wearily tries to get away, muttering that she won't be stopped. Academy City has grown complacent lately, and Necessarius allowed Index Librorum Prohibitorum to live in the city of Science. If she doesn't do something soon, the same fate that happened to Ellis will happen again. Touma says that's enough. She claims she doesn't want something like what happened to Ellis to happen to anyone else, but her plan is inexcusable. Besides, he, Index, and Hyouka have already proved that people from the Science and Magic Sides can live together in peace. He can understand her being angry for losing her friend, but she has no right to try to kill his friends. Enraged, Sherry declares her

He asks why she's trying to start a war. She tells him to think: when an esper tries to use magic, his body will destroy itself, but how to they know this? Twenty years ago, an organization from the Science Side and and organization from the Magic Side joined forces to try to create a magician/esper hybrid. In this experiment, she met her best friend, an esper boy named Ellis. She was assigned to teach him spells, but when he tried to use them, his blood vessels burst. Then the Knights of England burst into the facility, saying this experiment was blasphemy. The Knights slaughtered everybody, but the heavily injured Ellis sacrificed himself to buy her enough time to escape. Suddenly shouting in rage and grief, she declares that this experience taught her that the Science and Magic Sides can never truly coexist, and she must separate them forever to prevent such a tragedy from ever happening again. Disgusted, Touma says she has to be out of her mind. Doesn't she realize that a war will cause many more tragedies? Sherry says he has no right to judge her and reveals that she drew symbols all over the tunnel with her chalk. She boasts that she controls earth itself, so she is invincible underground. She activates the symbols, and they start exploding, making the tunnel start to collapse. Touma flashes back to when Index talked about how certain spells require a secondary spell to protect the user from the first one's effects, and realizes that the symbol next to Sherry serves that purpose. He runs up and destroys the symbol with Imagine Breaker. Sherry looks on in horror as the ceiling above her falls, but she charges her chalk with magic and slices the falling piece of concrete in half with it. He quickly uses the opening to get in front of her and punch her in the face so hard that she makes a crater in the concrete wall.

Index manages to catch up to Sphynx and grabs her, asking her why she ran off like that. Suddenly, Ellis appears, alone, and attacks, but she dodges. She looks the golem over and analyzes it. According to the grimoires in her head, the spell that created it is based on the Jewish tale of the Golem, an effigy of rock and dirt that was given life, but is dependent on the instructions of its master. Ellis attacks again, but Index uses the spell Spell Intercept to disrupt the instructions that Sherry gives it. She starts making Ellis do things like trip and punch himself in the face, but the golem regenerates and attacks again. She removes some of the safety pins holding her skirt together (exposing her legs) and throws them into Ellis' joints, further damaging him. She smiles and says she can win, but finds that Spell Intercept is no longer working, and she gets knocked back when Ellis punches the ground. Scared, she realizes that Ellis is now on automatic, so he no longer needs instructions. Ellis stands over her and prepares to squash her flat. She can do nothing but whisper Touma's name.

He asks why she's trying to start a war. She tells him to think: when an esper tries to use magic, his body will destroy itself, but how to they know this? Twenty years ago, an organization from the Science Side and and organization from the Magic Side joined forces to try to create a magician/esper hybrid. In this experiment, she met her best friend, an esper boy named Ellis. She was assigned to teach him spells, but when he tried to use them, his blood vessels burst. Then the Knights of England burst into the facility, saying this experiment was blasphemy. The Knights slaughtered everybody, but the heavily injured Ellis sacrificed himself to buy her enough time to escape. Suddenly shouting in rage and grief, she declares that this experience taught her that the Science and Magic Sides can never truly coexist, and she must separate them forever to prevent such a tragedy from ever happening again. Disgusted, Touma says she has to be out of her mind. Doesn't she realize that a war will cause many more tragedies? Sherry says he has no right to judge her and reveals that she drew symbols all over the tunnel with her chalk. She boasts that she controls earth itself, so she is invincible underground. She activates the symbols, and they start exploding, making the tunnel start to collapse.

He asks why she's trying to start a war. She tells him to think: when an esper tries to use magic, his body will destroy itself, but how to they know this? Twenty years ago, an organization from the Science Side and and organization from the Magic Side joined forces to try to create a magician/esper hybrid. In this experiment, she met her best friend, an esper boy named Ellis.

As she runs, she starts remembering her origins. Ten years ago, she just woke up in Academy City, the same age as she is now. She had an ID card on her person which named her Hyouka Kazakiri. She was apparently in another di

Touma asks Yomikawa to open the metal gates, but she says she has no way of doing that. They have to wait until someone opens them from the outside. He gets really frustrated, but calms down and asks Hyouka if she is okay. She says she is and thanks him for driving Sherry away. He says he didn't drive her away, she merely decided to switch targets. She is going after Index now. Horrified, Hyouka asks him to call the Anti-Skills above ground to protect her, but he says he can't. He wanted the gates to be opened to he could get to Index faster, but it looks like he'll have no choice but to follow Sherry's path down the hole.

Hyouka asks what he is planning to do, and he says he's going to stop Sherry. She says it's too dangerous and reaches for him, but he warns her to stop. He's figured out why she was so shy and fearful around him earlier. It was because she subconsciously sensed his Imagine Breaker, and her survival instincts warned her to avoid him, even if she didn't understand why. He explains how his right hand destroys anything supernatural on contact, and if she touches it, she will disappear as well. He assures that they are still friends, even if they can never touch. They will all make it out of this, and they will have more fun times with Index. He counts down from three, and when he reaches zero, the Anti-Skills cease fire. Touma jumps over the shield wall and charges. Sherry asks if he's gone mad, and Ellis punches the ground, making him fall over, but he gets up and continues his charge. Ellis prepares to punch him, but he baseball slides between his legs and ends up face-to-face with Sherry, just as he planned. Now that Ellis is between them and Touma, the Anti-Skills resume firing on the golem. Scared, Sherry tries a spell, but Touma tells her to shut up and go to sleep, then punches her in the face, sending her flying. As soon as he does, Ellis stops moving.

After holding Ellis back for a few more seconds, the golem crumbles to pieces, having been negated by Imagine Breaker. Undeterred, Sherry quickly draws a large symbol on the wall, and a new Ellis is formed from the concrete. Sherry laughs and says she can't understand why an idiot would want to protect a monster and take on her and Ellis all alone. Touma says she is mistaken, because he is not alone. The Anti-Skill squad led by Yomikawa show up, battered and bruised, but ready to defend the two teens. Hyouka asks why they are trying to help her, and Touma tells her not to be silly, she is his friend, and even if she wasn't, he would still save her. After the Anti-Skill squad patched themselves up, he told them she was in trouble, and they agreed to help without hesitation.

Hyouka leans against a wall in horrible pain. Slowly, all of her injuries heal good as new, and even her glasses reappear. She calms down and wonders what is happening to her. Sherry and Ellis catch up to her, to her horror. Sherry mocks her, saying she expected the Key to the Imaginary Number District would have a more fantastic form instead of that of a boring human. Hyouka asks why she's trying to kill her, but Sherry says she is nothing but a monster and does not deserve to say she is afraid to die. Sherry orders Ellis to break his own fist, and they watch as the fist regenerates. Sherry says Hyouka and Ellis are exactly the same, and nobody would care if a monster or an inanimate object were destroyed. Hyouka has a flashback of the good times she had with Touma and Index today. She starts to cry, and Sherry is disgusted, saying she looks absolutely pathetic. She orders Ellis to attack. Hyouka closes her eyes and waits for the end, but is surprised when nothing happens. She opens her eyes to see an amazing sight: Touma holding back Ellis' fist with one hand, showing no signs of strain. He says he's glad he finally found her. He tells her not to worry anymore, everything will be all right.

Hyouka leans against a wall in horrible pain. Slowly, all of her injuries heal good as new, and even her glasses reappear. She calms down and wonders what is happening to her. Sherry and Ellis catch up to her. Sherry mocks her, saying she expected the Key to the Imaginary Number District would have a more fantastic form instead of that of a boring human. Hyouka asks why she's trying to kill her, but Sherry says

Touma runs through another tunnel trying figure out what is going on.

Sherry comments on how she is facing Imagine Breaker instead of the Key to the Imaginary Number District, but it does not matter as he is a good target as well. She tells Ellis to attack, but Touma dodges his punch. She introduces herself and says that she is from the Anglican Church, but that information won't matter to him because he will be dead soon. He's surprised because that means she is from Necessarius and asks what she wants. She says it's simple, she wants a war. All she has to do is kill a valuable member of the Science Side and it and the Magic Side will clash at last. Touma dodges another punch from Ellis and he muses that at this rate, it may be difficult to touch Ellis with Imagine Breaker with getting squashed. Suddenly, they hear a voice and find that Hyouka had followed him. He calls her an idiot and asks why she didn't wait for Kuroko, but then says never mind and to get to safety. Ellis punches the ground so hard that it makes several shards of concrete fly through the air. Touma dodges, but one piece of debris hits Hyouka square in the head with a horrible noise. He runs to her, but is horrified to find that her head has been broken open. It is hollow, with no blood, and a glowing prism inside. She gets up and asks what he's staring at.

Sherry comments on how she is facing Imagine Breaker instead of the Key to the Imaginary Number District, but it does not matter as he is a good target as well.