Awesome / A Certain Magical Index

Weakest versus strongest.

When science and magic collide, some awesome stuff's bound to happen!

Remember, all spoilers are unmarked, including for New Testament and beyond.

Season I (volumes 1-6)

• Index Arc (Volume 1):
  • The first real fight in A Certain Magical Index, the one between Stiyl and Touma, is pretty cool in the anime and manga. But in the light novels it's narrated from Stiyl's point of view, and we see how a magician views Touma and why he becomes The Dreaded. At one point, Stiyl seriously thinks he might be fighting God.
  • The ending of the fight where Touma destroys Innocentius with an Offhand Backhand before running up and punching Stiyl out.
  • Touma calls out Kaori's speech about how she hates having to hurt Index with, "Poor you, never once in your speech did I hear about Index or her feelings," and then proceeds to continue about how they try to help Index but instead only cause more pain for her. Kaori still gets angry and proceeds to attack hi0m but there is just one little moment where you see her face, frozen with the fear that that maybe Touma might be right.
    • To cap off the above, in the novels Touma, after being beaten to an inch of his life by Kaori, his right arm ripped to shreds by her wires, still has enough fight left in him to punch her square in the face before collapsing. It's noted that she easily could have dodged and the punch itself didn't do much damage, but combined with the aforementioned speech he gave to her, causes her to make it feel like it did.
• Deep Blood Arc (Volume 2):
  • When Touma and Stiyl face off against Aureolus Izzard, a Reality Warper. After immobilizing and toying with them, he instantly completely removes all of Stiyl's skin and severs Touma's right arm, the source of his power. Touma cuts off Aureolus's subsequent Evil Laugh with an Evil Laugh of his own, walking steadily towards him—blood squirting out of his stump—with an insane smirk on his face and mocking Aureolus's frantic attacks as they pass right through him or are otherwise negated. Turns out that Aureolus's power was controlled by his thoughts, and Touma's insane behavior so terrified Aureolus that he started believing that his incredible powers had been rendered completely ineffective. By the time Touma reaches him, his imagination has granted Touma a huge dragon head in the place of his missing limb. Even after seeing his companion's skin ripped off and getting his special arm chopped off, Touma was still able to bluff his way to victory with a Slasher Smile on his face.
    • By the way, that dragon? It wasn't just Aureolus' imagination!
  • Before that, the 13 Knights of the Roman Catholic Church blow up Misawa Cram School... only for Aureolus to literally reverse the damage and annihilate the Knights.
  • The reality warping technique, Ars Magna, was thought to be impossible because one needs to chant for 100-200 years to get it. Aureolus cut that time drastically by brainwashing everybody in Misawa Cram School to chant for him.
• Sisters Arc (Volume 3):
  • Misaka Imouto using her powers to make ozone in an attempt to suffocate Accelerator. He saw through the tactic and attacked her, but he complimented her on finally figuring out a way to hurt him.
  • During Touma's fight with Accelerator when he starts making plasma, the Sisters make good use of their powers by activating wind turbines, dissolving Accelerator's plasma in the process. Complete with Theme Music Power-Up!
  • Touma's Premortem One Liner towards Accelerator:
  "Clench your teeth, strongest. Because a punch from someone weak is gonna hurt."
• Three Stories Arc (Volume 5):
  • Touma's fight with the Unabara impostor in the construction site.
  • Despite having just been shot in the head, Accelerator deflects a bullet meant for Last Order—and even unconscious, he controls Yoshikawa's blood flow to keep her from dying of a destroyed coronary artery.
• Hyouka Kazakiri Arc (Volume 6):
  • Touma blocking the giant stone golem Ellis' punch with one hand. With his back turned.
  • Index herself gets one when, after discovering her Sherry Cromwell decides to use her golem to attack her. Index then shows even without going into her emergency survival mode she has complete control over those grimores and uses them to calmly analyse the magic Sherry is using and create a countermeasure to methodically destroy the golem, all while the song Jellyfish plays in the background.
  • Touma's Big Damn Heroes moment at the end of the arc, when he comes out of no where and beats Ellis with a single punch, all while reassuring a friend. Nice.
  • What about Hyouka who pulls off her own Big Damn Heroes? As Index is about to get squashed by the golem, she jumps at it and not only topples it but even caves in its chest. And then proceeds to stop its fist and even pushes it back.

Season II (volumes 7-13)

• Orsola Aquinas Rescue Arc (Volume 7):
  • Touma finds out he's been tricked into handing Orsola over for execution to the Roman Catholic Church and charges into their local HQ, alone, to declare war on an army of 250 killer nuns while they're kicking the dog. Good Is Dumb, but that doesn't make it any less badass!
    Touma: What should I do? WHAT NONSENSE, OF COURSE I SHOULD SAVE HER!
    • The anime interprets his entrance as him busting open the door and slowly approaching Agnese, all while an armed group of nuns are surrounding him.
  • The final fight against Sister Agnese. She has a staff that can make cuts at a distance. He only has his hands. He proceeds to tank all of her attacks, break the barrier separating them and send her flying with one punch.
• Tree Diagram Remnant Arc (Volume 8):
  • Touma saving Kuroko by leaping up using furniture thrown up by Mikoto and catching her in mid-air. Finishing it by punching a partially teleported object backwards through dimensions.
  • Kuroko gets one for the fight prior to that happening. She was severely outclassed by another teleporter in all categories (including being able to teleport objects without touching them) except for speed. Had she not been wounded by her opponent's surprise attack the fight before, it's entirely possible she could have won. Even when she's pinned down she delivers a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, causing her foe to drop 4520kg of weight on Kuroko in rage.
  • Immediately after above scene, Awaki was seen escaping. Cue Accelerator, of all people, showing up to wreck Awaki in the face. She assumes that Accelerator is no longer a threat because of his Drama-Preserving Handicap and begins to taunt him. She was wrong.
    Accelerator: "Just because I got weaker doesn't mean that you got any stronger!''
• La Regina del Mare Adriatico Arc (Volume 11):
  • Touma knocking Biagio Busoni's giant cross away with his left hand.
• Academy City Invasion Arc (Volumes 12-13):
  • Accelerator, pissed off after a call from Kihara Amata who tells him that he holds Last Order captive and threatens to kill her, activates his remaining esper power, shoves his arm in the wall of the building besides him and THEN PROCEEDS TO THROW THE WHOLE BUILDING AGAINST ALEISTER'S FORTRESS. Just wow...
    Aleister: Seems like there's some commotion outside...
    • In the novels, although he doesn't throw a building, he borrows a huge amount of energy from the planet's rotational vectors to fuel his attack - enough to slow it down by 5 minutes.
    • And as a testament to how invulnerable Aleister's fortress is, the building remains unharmed. To hammer in the point, Accelerator's attack used enough energy to slow down the Earth's rotation for five minutes! (For reference, that amount of kinetic energy would be more than enough to shatter planet Earth several times over.)
  • Accelerator awakening for the first time and reducing Kihara to plasma. Soundtrack Dissonance that could put Evangelion to shame? You bet!
    Accelerator: "ihbfKILLwq"
    • Even the beginning of said fight was awesome. In order: Dynamic Entry, Surprisingly Sudden Death, One-Hit Kill, One-Hit Polykill via Pineapple Surprise, Human Shield interrupted by Pistol-Whipping. All in the space of about 30 seconds. Kihara's reaction? " Kakko ii!!"
  • The Academy City Invasion arc as a whole can be considered a single Moment of Awesome for anyone involved. Especially for Accelerator.
• Skill-Out Uprising Arc (Side Story 1):
  • : Accelerator outwitting the leader of Skill-Out and defeating him. Touma vs Hamazura, a few minutes after Touma had been shot in the side.

Season III (volumes 14-22)

• Document of Constantine Arc (Volume 14): After Acqua of the Back learns that Terra of the Left slaughtered a bunch of tourists, even the children, Acqua punches Terra so hard he breaks in half at the waist. Acqua leaves Terra to bleed out, and tells him to go to Hell.
• Battle Royal Arc (Volume 15):
  • Accelerator utterly wiping Teitoku Kakine, by taking control of his powers, no less. FATALITY, indeed.
  • Give one to Uiharu for managing not to break under Kakine's torture just before the above event, including putting her life on the line for Last Order.
  • Shiage Hamazura proves that even a true Level 0 can triumph over a Level 5 by defeating Shizuri "The Meltdowner" Mugino, a person who could destroy an army on her lonesome with beams able to tear through just about anything. All Shiage has is his wits, a small case, and two guns. And he ruptures her eye, makes her accidentally blow off her own arm, shoots her in the chest several times, and finally punches her out just like old Touma.
    • Of course, there's something to be said for Mugino refusing to stay down until that last punch, each time shrugging off her injuries and redoubling her efforts to kill him.
• Acqua of the Back Arc (Volume 16): Touma showing up to save Kanzaki and the rest of the Amakusa Catholics from Acqua of the Back when he is already heavily injured from a fight with the same person. Not only that but this gave the Amakusa Church a chance to take down Acqua with a Heroic RRoD-inducing spell.
• Gemstone Mining Arc (Side Story 2):
  • Tabigake Misaka's phone call in the end of the novel, asking someone at Academy City why girls who look exactly like his daughter have been attacking military and research targets (in an attempt to rescue the gemstones). He makes remarks about what he'd do to anyone hurting his daughter, and then the truly awesome part hits: He's talking directly to Aleister. Yes, that's right. A wandering consultant is threatening possibly the most powerful man on the planet.
  • During the Gemstone incident, Academy City cannot deploy fast enough to rescue them from the CIA or rely on their cooperative institutions, leaving them out of options. Well, mostly out of options.
    Seria Kumokawa:I don’t like owing people favors, but we should just bow down and ask that frog to help us.
    “Galashiels, UK, Higher Contact Society. Misaka has suppressed the fourth, eighth, and thirteenth domes,' reports Misaka #17000.” “Lausanne, Switzerland, World Intellectual Club. Misaka has taken out an armed guard,' says Misaka #18022 as she provides her confirmation.” “Guadalajara, Mexico, Sixth Sense Headquarters. Misaka has blown up the main entrance to the research building,' says Misaka #14333 as she heads further in.” “Deseado, Argentina, Human Sports Analysis Center. Misaka has finished taking control of the secure electronic lock,' says Misaka #15110 as she opens the route to the secret area.” “Davao, Philippines, Humanity’s Wisdom Headquarters. Misaka discovered an escape boat and is going to take care of it beforehand,' says Misaka #10090 as she begins her attack.”
  • Though he ends up losing, Gunha Sogiita shows just how much GUTS he's got by challenging Ollerus. What's more, he manages to stand up even after being hit by Ollerus' quote "incomprehensible magic" a few times, which is enough for Ollerus to commend Gunha and say that if he had a better grasp of his abilities, Gunha might have stood a chance at beating him. Keep in mind, this is coming from a failed Magic God who is capable of matching Othinus in combat!
• British Royal Family Arc (Volumes 17-18):
  • Touma proves in Volume 17 that despite his label as one of the idiot trio, he's much smarter than he lets on. He pulls one over a terrorist by pouring boiling tea into a narrow air vent and causing it to expand, making the terrorist on the other side think that there's someone inside the air vents. The terrorist decides to check the air vent... and gets boiling hot tea poured on his face. This, by the way, was meant to distract the terrorist so Touma could enter the cargo hold through the door safely. Also, he ends the fight by giving the terrorist a lesson on thermodynamics.
  Touma: “Hey, terrorist. Do you know about thermal expansion?”
  • Volume 18: After Fiamma steals Index's remote control, Touma simply says: “Stiyl,” Kamijou called out to the red-haired magician. “I’m gonna go punch Fiamma. While I’m gone, you take care of Index.” BADASS!
  • This is just after Touma dealt the final blow to Princess Carrissa, wielding the Curtana Original by jumping onto Ascalon and having Aqua of the Back launch him at her! The resulting punch sent her flying at least three or four kilometers!
• World War III Arc (Volumes 20-22):
  • Volume 20:
    • Touma vs Accelerator: Round 2. Accelerator pulls out 100 Black Wings in order to deal with Touma and, unlike their first bout, specifically tries attacking Touma at a distance and launching them in such a way that leaves no safe spots to hide in. Touma still pulls through with clever positioning and strategic use of Imagine Breaker. Its from seeing Touma inexplicably survive that Accelerator suspects that he's developed Precognition.
    • For Touma in the same fight, he gives one of his best speeches yet to break Accelerator out of his Black-and-White Insanity. The best part is that his speech is also directed at himself in order to break out of his funk that came from Fiamma claiming that he's not worthy of being a hero to Index due to how he'd lied about his memory loss.
  • Volume 21: The combined efforts of Accelerator, Hyouka Kazakiri, and Acqua of the Back weaken and drive off Archangel Gabriel.
  • Volume 22: Touma drops the "Star of Bethlehem" on an Archangel. And because this was not enough, he runs through the entire thing at the same time, so HE COULD PUNCH THE ARCHANGEL PERSONALLY!
  • Also, when Fiamma of the Right severs Touma's right arm and absorbs it, becoming La Persona Superiore a Dio aka The Person Higher Than God. Fiamma gloats and attempts to kill Touma, but "The Invisible Thing" emerges from his stump, terrifying Fiamma. The dragon attempts to kill him, but Touma declares that he doesn't need its help and absorbs him, regenerating his arm. He proceeds to talk to Fiamma, making him doubt whether his plan was actually worth it, then charges up and punches him out.
    Touma: "You stay out of this. I'll handle this myself!"
  • As Fiamma is being defeated, he takes comfort in knowing he will win in the end, as a massive wave of telesma will fall on and annihilate Earth. Accelerator Awakens completely, turns into a shining angel, and reflects the wave back into space.
• Shiage Hamazura proves his awesomeness: not only did he kick Mugino's ass and poked out her eyeball, he, in the process also completely screwed over Aleister and shot all his plans up to heaven. Since then, things have only been going downhill for Aleister...
  • This might have more repercussions than you would think. By New Testament 2, Aleister is backed into a corner so deep, he took NO actions out of fear of disrupting his plans further, even when Academy City was about to be destroyed.
• In the Short Story, Uiharu SS, Uiharu jumps atop a vehicle that's moving at 120 kph, then ties herself to it and uses a parachute to turn herself into a human brake!
  Mikoto: I had no idea she was so Hot-Blooded.
• In the Gemstone SS, Uiharu winds up in a hacking confrontation with Mikoto. Uiharu wins! Admittedly, by effectively destroying the data Mikoto was trying to steal, but still.

New Testament

• New Testament 2: Birdway got away with crewing over Aleister, and pretty much ensuring that Touma, Accelerator, and Shiage will involve themselves more in the next battle using her skills at analyzing charismatic figures. No wonder she's the author's favorite.
  • In New Testament 3, she's even more badass. The other heroes are facing a magician who's basically Cinderella and curbstomping everyone, when she simply hits her with a Tanker truck and then blew it up.
    • Also from NT 3: Touma and Umidori defeat Saronia A. Irivika even though she paralyzed the left side of Touma's body.
  • And how about the president of the GODDAMN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA coming in and being a Big Damn Hero for ACCELERATOR, of all people.
  Roberto: I'm the goddamn president.
• New Testament 4: One-Eyed Othinus curbstomps everyone, even Touma. She severs his right arm, but when "The Invisible Thing" emerges from the stump, she curbstomps it too!!! Then, Ollerus and Fiamma of the Right arrive and manage to fight her to a draw and make her retreat.
  • Touma storms Baggage City and takes on Marian Slingeneyer. When Marian tries to use Dáinsleif to scare Touma to death, Touma is completely unafraid. When Marian threatens to draw Dáinsleif and trigger Ragnarok, Touma confidently points out that if she had the guts to do that, she would have done it already. She doesn't have the guts, and Touma punches her out.
• New Testament 5: After being just about everyone's Unwitting Pawn since the very start of this series, Touma has finally had enough. Working with Thor to screw over all the sides this time, as well as showing off some impressive skill with The Plan such as tricking both Gremlin and Ollerus' group, specifically freakin Birdway herself, into thinking the other is setting up a trap. Looks like he's growing into quite a Magnificent Bastard isn't he?
  • The ending. An overzealous Anti-Skill member mistakes Touma for a bad guy and shoots him several times. He is rushed to the hospital and treated by Heaven Canceller, as usual. The doctor discusses with some people about how Touma will be handed over to Anti-Skill when he recovers. Touma, who was conscious the whole time, escapes from the hospital despite still being in serious pain.
• New Testament 6: The whole novel is a huge one for Mugino, who gets past all her fears and doubts, allowing her to curbstomp a guy pulling a Shape Shifter Guilt Trip on her. She declares that she loves Shiage and that love has made her stronger than ever. Then, she teams up with Accelerator to take on Kakine. The fight ends with Beetle 05 declaring that he is Kakine, taking over all of Kakine's Dark Matter creations, and erasing the original from existence.
  • Touma, still weakened from having been shot several times, fights back-to-back battles against Leivinia and Thor, even breaking Thor's wrists. Then, Touma figures out how to cure Fraulein's Horror Hunger.
• New Testament 7: Let's see...
  • 1. Tsuchimikado's Roaring Rampage of Revenge. It was as awesome as it was scary. Especially as he climbed up a 50 story tall building after using his magic twice. With his bare hands!
  • 2. Seria's fight with Tsuchimikado. On one side a quite normal girl by Academy City standards despite Wise Beyond Their Years, on the other side the one and only somewhat successful Magican/Esper hybrid with years of experience as a spy and martial artist. Seria would have won, if she had known about the existence of magic.
  • 3. Touma saves Hamazura and Umidori from Rensa, who can use every power of the Level 5s from #1 to #6. He doesn't let her use any of them! And when she managed to catch him with her strength as a Cyborg and tries to copy his Imagine Breaker, IT BLOWS UP HER ARM!
  • 4. The battle between the Level 5s and the 7500 "heroes"... Or better said, the Curb-Stomp Battle. Accelerator alone defeats 1000 just with his Dynamic Entry, Gunha is more concerned about preventing the forest fire, Mugino blows up a truck and then makes small talk with ITEM, and Misaki and Mikoto are spending more time bitching to each other. Oh, and that person who everyone thinks is the #6? Actually, just some Badass Normal whose punches are described as "like machine pistons"!
  • 5. Kakine showing his new merit as Big Damn Hero, saving the day and fighting side at side with Touma against Rensa #29.
  • 6. Fremea finally deciding to stand up for herself instead of waiting for a hero to save her and hacking the city's AIM field despite being a mere Level 0.
• New Testament 8:
  • Loki anticipated a spy would infiltrate GREMLIN's base, so he placed an artificial sky over it so that Ollerus would read the wrong stars and give his allies the wrong directions.
  • The original, evil Kakine returns to life and vows GREMLIN will pay for thinking they could use him as a tool... only for Othinus to casually crush his neck with one blow and then roll his body into a helpless ball.
  • Touma and Freyja's Traintop Battle. When she sends her army of monsters at him, he negates one, crushes one underfoot, then tackles one so hard it flies into the others and knocks them all off the train. Later, when Freyja thinks she's knocked Touma off the train, he reveals he hung on, then throws his jacket over her head to blind her.
  • Mikoto lands gently from a plane sliced in half while catching Index, leaps from building to building too fast for an interception spell to keep up, and blasts Níðhöggr to pieces with a volley of coins. She even has the attention to spare to feel bad about upsetting Sphinx with her magnetism.
• New Testament 9:
  • Some people set fire to the house Touma is in. Touma jumps from the second floor and lands on them, knocking them out cold.
  • Touma defeating a crazed Pierce Aogami after suffering a broken arm.
  • Though it was undone by the Will of the Misaka Network, Othinus did what no other antagonist did before: She made Touma give up hope.
  • Touma: "It's time to bring this to an end. It's time to fight a god."
  • Touma, after purposefully dying in battle against Othinus thousands of times, uses his experience from that to dodge all of Othinus's attacks and then punch out Gungnir while only breaking two of his fingers.
  • Othinus unleashes a crossbow bigger than the planet and fires ten arrows at Touma. The first one comes straight down, the second comes from behind him, the third and fourth come out of the ground, the fifth comes from in front of him, the sixth and seventh use Robo Teching, the eight teleports, and the ninth turns into a Rain of Arrows. Touma dodges or deflects them all, only for her to fire the tenth one through her own body to finally hit him.
  • In the end, Touma was simply unable to defeat Othinus in a fight, but he still wins by convincing her to pull a Heel–Face Turn.
  • Now back in their original world, Othinus is the enemy of the world that EVERYONE is gunning for. Be that as it may, Touma doesn't hesitate in placing himself in front of her and taking up the enmity of the world.
• New Testament 10:
  • Accelerator makes a Dynamic Entry... from orbit.
  • Accelerator No Sells a punch from Touma for the first time.
  • Touma knocks Accelerator out by smashing a rock into his own hand give it enough velocity to pierce his defenses. He does this as a counter to a 5000 meter instant dive bomb attack!
  • Touma defeats various apocalyptic beings like Surtr that Marian summons.
  • Touma beats the President of the United States in a debate, while having a gun to his head.
  • The FIVE_OVER program was created to make weapons more powerful than the Level Five Espers, and 150 of the Railgun models are sent after Touma. Mikoto hijacks all of them.
  • Touma tricks Thor into stepping in front of a train.
  • For the first time since the beginning of New Testament, Touma says his classic, "Then I'll destroy that illusion!!!!"
  • The True GREMLIN group suddenly make an appearance, rescued Othinus from her own suicide while calling her (i.e. a nigh-omnipotent goddess at this point) a failed experiment. They proceed to say that she didn't even know the true purpose of GREMLIN which is actually comprised of the Magic Gods from every religion of the world (!!!), and it's revealed that they are manipulating the growth of Touma as a main part of their plans. Chessmastery at its best.
  • Right after the above, when the Gods finish talking to each other and are about to leave, Aleister suddenly destroys the barrier between dimensions to access their Phase. He says that he used their own rescue of Othinus to figure out their untraceable location and that his plan is apparently back on track. The apparent leader of the Magic Gods then responds and confronts Aleister about his actions and goals. This Magic God proceeds to mock Aleister, implying that his current goals have to do with "the single remaining tearstain" in his journal. Aleister, who never seems to show any emotion at all, seems stunned for a few moments... and then he takes his Blasting Rod (you know, the object he used to one-shot the One Above God), says his magic name (Beast 666) and prepares to attack them... When he does this, instead of running away, the Magic Gods make fun of his emotional response and his "humanity" and then proceed to reveal that they know about Aiwass (the super secret cornerstone of his plan, up until now is the most powerful entity in the series) and say "It’s a complete failure, young one. You’re going to be at your wits’ end before long." This drives Aleister to attack them, but the results are not seen until the next two volumes. Moment of Awesome for them.
• New Testament 11:
  • An esper-hating gang called Deadlock targeted Misaki for termination. They ride around on rocket-powered roller skates, moving too fast for her to target with her mental powers. Touma nonchalantly chucks a remote control at one member's head and makes him crash. He then kicked all their asses, even though they were all armed with hand-held pile bunkers.
  • Some mooks pretending to be paramedics tell Misaki to come with them, but she sees through their ruse. They then attack her, but she uses her powers to make them see each other as her, so they knock each other out until there is one left. She then makes him think she is his boss.
  • Aleister actually surviving the battle against the Magic Gods, although he was badly burnt, he was still fighting against bona-fide gods, and survives.
• New Testament 12:
  • Touma vs Shiage fight each other over how to deal with St. Germain, a self-proclaimed Magic God. Despite Shiage using a Power Lifter Touma stills manages to force him out of it and turn it into a normal brawl. Shiage manages to win by using one of the Power Lifter parts.
  • In the climax fight against St. Germain, Touma completely breaks his composure by revealing his true nature as a con artist and exposing all his lies.
    Touma: Is that more of your roleplaying?
  • Of all the people fighting them, the one to defeat the most St. Germains is not Touma with his IB, Hamazura with his Power Lifter or Mugino and Saiai with their respective esper powers. No, it's Stephanie Gorgeouspalace, using a handmade firearm to non-lethally disable the people that are being used as puppets.
  • Three Magic Gods from True GREMLIN have arrived to AC and are about to start their plans in the real world. Crowley speaks with them through a speaker, and they taunt him, reminding him of his defeat in their previous fight. They even tell him that now would be the perfect time to defeat him because they were forced to weaken themselves with a spell in order to be able to act in the wold without destroying it, all while completely confident in their superiority over a 'simple human' like Crowley. Crowly calmly informs them that he already knew they were coming and uses their own spell to overwrite their structures and change their parameters. When the High Priest questions where he got their data for the spell Aleister reveals that the fight against them in their Phase and him getting angry at the mention of his journal were all just an act. High Priest points out that even then he would still have to have beaten the Magic God who cast the spell in order to change it. Said Magic God promptly falls from the sky in front of them nailed to a rosy cross. Crowley tells them that he no longer views them as a threat and and that they need to remember what death feels like.
  Aleister: I would prefer not to use such inelegant language, but by any chance, were you taking me for a fool?
• New Testament Volume 13
  • Touma and Mikoto defeating the High Priest, a Magic God, using Science of all things, by essentially blasting him into space with the biggest Railgun ever.
  • Kihara Noukan using a giant drill to finally kill the High Priest when it tries to return to Earth in a comet.
  • After the death of the High Priest, Niang-Niang prepares to destroy Academy City out of a desire for revenge. Just before she does it she's interrupted by Kamisato Kakeru, another boy with a special right hand. Kakeru proceeds to use his right hand, World Rejecter, to casually defeat both Niang-Niang and Nephthys by sending them to a "new world", while revealing he had already hunted all the other Magic Gods from Gremlin. Nephthys can barely ask what he is before he almost finishes her, only avoiding the same fate as Niang-Niang thanks to her organs being separated from her body.
    Kakeru: I am Kamisato Kakeru. I am the kind of normal high school boy you can find anywhere.
• New Testament Volume 14
  • The first encounter between Touma and Kakeru, where the two seemignly attack each other, only to reveal they were both aiming at a completely different attacker behind the other boy. The two end up fighting together to escape the situation.
  • Touma completely destroys Kakeru's arguments about how his idea to save the Birdway sisters is superior by pointing out Kakeru had missed out a possible better solution to the problem despite having had the means for it from the beginning in one of the members of his faction accompanying him.
    Touma: It’s important. Checking back over the initial conditions is important, rookie.
    Touma: So I’ll say it. I’ll shamelessly take what belonged to someone else and show it off like it’s mine. If you had just spoken to her yourself, you could have saved both the Birdway sisters!! And without the fear and suffering of becoming a bedridden chrysalis! But you tried to act cool, acted like tragedy was a virtue, and readily gave up on them without bothering to worry over it to a pathetic extent! How are you a hero? What salvation is there in anything you’ve done here!? You idiot!!!!!
  • Kakeru, regardless of his current hostility with him, ends up cooperating with Touma to save both Birdway Sisters. The two boys still disagree on their stances on the Magic Gods and their right hands, so they decide to face off as enemies and their two right hands clash. World Rejecter erases Imagine Breaker, but Kakeru is badly wounded by the Invisible Thing.
  • As he walks away wounded from the clash with Touma, Kakeru is faced with Noukan Kihara and the AAA. Kakeru calls him and Aleister out on their manipulations of Patricia Birdway, an innocent girl, to try and set a trap for him. As the narration notes, Kakeru holds the essence of a hero despite not realizing it nor considering himself to be one; instead calling himself just a normal highschool student, just like Touma.
    Kakeru: If I had to say whether I was irritated or not, I’d say I’m just a tad pissed. This too might have been drawn to me by this ridiculous right hand, but just this once, I’m starting to not even care. To hell with you masterminds. I won’t let you rob anyone of anything else.
• NT Vol 15 has Accelerator charge into the center of the Kamisato Faction, made up of 100 girls, each with loads of power. Perhaps, such should be expected of him by now but still.
  • Salome in general is a powerhouse. The Kamisato Faction each have immense power and yet she can absorb and combine all of it. She can do this with any other "weapon" she can destroy.
  • Kihara Yuiitsu is no Othinus, but as the main antagonist of the Kamisato/Magic God Arc, she is a force to be reckoned with. Her martial art can create deadly bubbles in the bloodstream,her UI Exploder can create an explosion wherever she points it, she tamed St. Germain and Sample Shoggoth, being able to form the latter into anything she wants, including Magic God fakes and can reform her body after damage. She can use the magic of the Magic Gods to a weaker extent and is able to steal World Rejector, which killed Magic Gods. Definitely, a powerful threat. Not to mention, political ties and being a Kihara in general.
  • The battle with Yuiitsu is amazingly fast paced and has an epic conclusion with Misaka finding the A.A.A.
• NT Vol 16: The threat of the Elements and the heat wave is overwhelming. It turns Touma's classmates into skilled thieves.
  • Many of the series' characters take on the situation in their own epic way, showing how each character deals with a problem.
  • Kakeru might have lost World Rejecter but he still manages to take part on the fight against the Elements and Yuiitsu using common items, the highlight being saving Touma from World Rejecter by shielding him with an umbrella, as World Rejecter only erases things one layer at a time, so any kind of object can be a one-use shield.
• NT Vol 17: Touma is faced with some of the most overwhelmingly negative odds in the series. Having to achieve the impossibility of bringing Kamisato back, while escaping the Kamisator Faction, 100 unique superpower users who could all be a Final Boss of a volume, if given the opportunity too. Not to mention the rioters and Useful Spider, who want to restore order to Academy City after the Element Invasion/Heat Wave incident.
  • Thank Kamachi for banishing the Magic Gods as the battle between them is on a level that overshadows Touma vs Othinus from NT 9.
• New Testament Vol 18:
  • The Tokiwadai Level 5s team up, link their minds by Mikoto voluntarily lowering her EM defense, and then use Misaki's liquid-manipulating powers to set up an ablative water shell for a hypervelocity railgun, which they use to blast open the Windowless Building. The two continue to attack the building even after Aleister starts absorbing the power of all espers in the city to summon Aiwass.
    Misaki: Well, I have heard some silly rumors that it didn’t budge even after the #1 used the rotation of the earth to attack it. However… We don’t have to hold back for the #1’s sake. Let’s work together and make an unprecedented record☆
  • After Mina Mathers (actually a recreation created by Aleister's AI Reading Thoth 78) spent all novel showing him his past and the reason he wants to end all magic, Touma finally faces and fights Aleister Crowley, the mastermind behind Academy City and many of the series' events. Aleister shows off a variety of magic spells worthy of his position as the greatest magician in history, while Touma does what he does best; point out the flaws in the enemy's plan and bring them down to earth with help of Imagine Breaker and support from his allies.
  • Like Othinus did before, Aiwass casually grabs and crushes the Invisible Thing as it burst out of Touma's arm. Props to Touma too, who after having his right shoulder dislocated by Aiwass' first attack manages to force it in place to stop the second, only for it to be broken again. Then since he has no time to put the shoulder in his socket a second time, Touma stops the third attack, this one boosted by Aleister's Blasting Rod, by grabbing his dangling right wrist and forcibly pulling it forwards to block it.
  • Mina intervenes in the fight to help Touma, revealing itself to be a grimoire unknowingly created by Aleister, destabilizing Aiwass' summoning and knocking down Aleister's staff, giving Touma an opening to end the fight.
    Mina: Here we have someone who cast aside his own beliefs to show concern for Lilith while he stays true to himself using only his fist. So why is the father fleeing to petty tricks out of fear of the answer?
  • After Aleister is punched by Touma, he was lying on the floor of his tower when suddenly Lola Stuart appears and stabs Crowley with a sword to kill him. While Crowley lies there dying Lola then suddenly revealed that she was Coronzon, the demon of Thelema, all the time and has now succeeded in defeating Aleister's plan. This is then topped by Crowley himself, as shortly after he died, numerous Crowleys appear, each of them having one of the many attributes Crowley was described of and declaring Lola that his failure was part of the plan all along and says that Lola can have Academy City while is going to take the whole of Britain including the entire British Commonwealth with his army of 1,083,092,867 Crowleys.
• New Testament Vol 19:
  • Mina Mathers restrains Lola to prevent Coronzon from fleeing the Windowless Building as Aleister launches it into space. She seems to have also sacrificed herself, as not only is Coronzon is much more powerful than Mina or any other recreation of a Golden Dawn magician Reading Thoth 78 can produce; the invulnerability held by grimoires is based on leylines and thus it will be destroyed outside Earth's atmosphere. However, Aiwass decides to act as a guardian angel, not only stepping in to fight Coronzon, but also saving her life by transfering her into a new grimoire and returning her to Earth.
    Aiwass: I saw you smugly smile when you were finally freed from your boredom, you stain. Then do not rush to bully the weak in the first battle you see. If you wish to rejoice after being truly freed from your eternal hunger, shouldn’t your first meal be the greatest of feasts? Assuming, of course, that such a pathetic coward has such an admirable mindset.
  • Mina, using her new physical body, gets in Accelerator's way to allow Hamazura and Lilith to escape. After briefly defending herself from Accelerator shooting a storm of leaves at her as razor-sharp projectiles, Mina rushes in and punches him, bypassing his reflection entirely due to being better at calculations than him. While Accelerator has the strongest esper brain and the Misaka Network supporting him, Mina still retains her abilities as Aleister's former largescale parallel processing device and AI.
  • Upon being reunited with her daughter, Aleister ends the group's fight with the tens of thousands of Mimetic Predators with one single use of Spiritual Tripping. Which weapon does she choose to use? A bomb with the power of the Big Bang. And she doesn't stop there...
    Aleister: How naive. Blasting Rod. In other words, that power will be multiplied tenfold from my opponent’s point of view.
• New Testament Vol 20:
  • Othinus rescues Touma from the Tower of London after he is captured by Necessarius by taming a hawk and having it fly her to the window of his cell, where she undoes the restraints using tools she gathered beforehand. Touma proceeds to escape the building while destroying everything magical on his path.
  • Aleister Crowley fights Kaori Kanzaki and Knight Leader at the same time, making a mockery of them and further establishing why she is considered the greatest modern magician.
• New Testament Vol 21:
  • Aleister vs Mathers. No scientific tricks, no support from allies, no irregulars like Touma and his Imagine Breaker, just two of the strongest magicians in the world dueling each other. What's more, neither is using their usual magic, Aleister is improvising Christianity type magic as part of his character development, and Mathers comes up with his own version off the top of his head to fight Aleister on the same terms despite having overpowered Aleister earlier with his regular magic.

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