To Aru Majutsu no Index 3, The Church of Necessary Evil (Necessarius)
Bloods drops off as Touma dragged Index to Tsukuyomi Komoe the last episode. As Touma wanders the street, blaming himself for being cursed with his right arm, Index struggles for life. The Index’s John’s Pen (index library mode) is still active as she guides Komoe through her healing process.
Consulting the constellations and time Index is able to regenerate her body with Komoe’s help. Komoe watches as Index gets up her feet and draws a magic circle with her own blood on the table. She grabs a pair of dolls, a few books and other stuff and places these on the table. On the end, the table represents the room.
Komoe needs to repeat Index enchants and visualize an angel. At first she fails, but the second time she manages to complete the ritual. Index is healed and the John Pen’s mode wears off.
When Touma returns he finds Index awake and the trouble starts. Obvious Komoe questions about Index and gets furious when Touma lies. Furious Komoe yells she can’t be his sister. She doesn’t even look like a student. The teacher isn’t stupid and just knows Index must be a foreigner and cannot be taken to the hospitals or other facilities.
Though Touma had lied, Komoe understands his motives and she decides to give him another change. While she do some shoppinh he should think up a good/better explanation. Outside Komoe smiles secretly, Touma is such a good boy … Inside Index and Touma starts discussing. They both agree not to involve Komoe deeper. Corncerning about Index’s world, Touma notice he doesn’t know much either. He ask Index to explain and she actually does. Touma listens fatherly to her confession.
Index explains all church divisions believes in the same god, but in an other manner because of politics. An important subject in her explanation is the fact that knowledge can neutralize any magic. Magics are formula’s and when you can reverse engineer the formula you can neutralize or even counter-attack it. Index watches Touma, but he doesn’t show any expression. He takes a blanket and sob it in the water. While Index is being nursed she continues and tells the conclusion.
So if you have knowledge the magic world will collapse. If that would happen the entire world would collapse since there must be balance. Index is involved because of her 103,000 grimmoires she posses. That library has the ability to erase all magic from the world. On the other side all that knowledge can’t be destroyed and thus they sealed them up. Index watches Touma who’s getting more furious by the time. He cannot believe she kept it all in secret.
On the other side of the city Stiyl discusses his defeat with Kanzaki Kaori. He used Innocentius in his last battle (episode 2) but lost against a level 0 esper. Stiyl wonders how it happened. Curious Kanzaki is eager to meet Touma. At that moment Touma had accompanied Index to the bath house. However they ended up in quarrel and he now wanders the streets alone. Suddenly Touma notice all traffic and humans are gone. When he’s able to link the mystery with magic and runes, Kanzaki emerges…
