Touma returns to school for the first time after his memory loss, and Index follows him to school and makes a new friend. Meanwhile, a dangerous magician has sneaked into the city.Index: If I can't find lunch... that'd mean I have to eat Sphinx!?Mikoto just can't stop blushing around Touma these days.Summary:Touma and Index are having breakfast in the morning as Touma gets ready for the new school term. Index worries about being left alone at home and Touma promises her that they'll go somewhere fun after he returns from school. Index is excited by the prospect of going somewhere fun, but after Touma leaves Index realizes that her lunch hasn't been taken care of. On his way to school, Touma runs into Mikoto who is still embarrassed by the pretend-date they had yesterday. After chatting with Mikoto, Touma makes his way to school, but he doesn't recognize most of the people there because of his memory loss. Touma spots Komoe-sensei driving parking her car and wonders how his short teacher is able to drive as her feet can't reach the floor, but Komoe shows that her car has hand-operated accelerator and brake. Komoe and Touma walk to their classroom together and Komoe starts talking about AIM (An Involuntary Movement), which is an energy field unconsciously emitted by espers. Komoe states that AIM may be used to determine the location of espers and gauge how strong they are.I'm surprised that Komoe-sensei has a car, since she likes to blow her money on smokes and booze.Aleister to Motoharu: You know, even if you press the picture against the glass I still can't see it.Inside the windowless skyscraper, Motoharu is teleported into Aleister Crowley's chamber by Awaki Musujime. Once there, Motoharu and Aleister discuss what to do about an intruder inside the city. The intruder is Sherry Cromwell, who is a magician from Necessarius. Motoharu volunteers to confront Sherry as the relations between the Academy City and the Church of England may be damaged if Aleister sends people after her, but Aleister once again plans to use Touma to solve the problem.Hello, I'm Index the Necessarius nun, and I'm here to teach you everything about kittens.Before attending the start-of-term ceremony, Komoe holds a class meeting with all of her students. Komoe-sensei announces that a female transfer student is joining the class, and she calls for the student to enter the classroom. To Komoe and Touma's surprise, Index walks into the room. Komoe quickly pushes Index out of the classroom and gives the young nun some money to take a cab home. While Komoe is busy with Index, the real transfer student walks into the classroom and she turns out to be none other than Aisa.After being kicked out of the classroom by Komoe, Index wanders around the school wondering what she's going to eat for lunch. Index makes her way into the cafeteria and spots some vending machines. The young nun has heard of vending machines but she has never used one herself, but she decides to give it a try anyways because she's hungry. Index correctly feeds the money (that Komoe gave her) into machine but don't know how to make a selection. As Index is about to give up, a girl with glasses appears and helps Index get her money back from the machine. Index thanks the girl and inquires about her name, and the shy girl introduces herself as a transfer student name Hyoka Kazakiri. Index also wants to be a "transfer student" so she can stay at the school with Touma, but Hyoka explains that it's not that simple. Hyoka then suggest that Index change her clothing to something less conspicuous and the two head to the changing room.After seeing Kaori naked, this just doesn't have much impact anymore for Touma (and me as well).Animal love or animal abuse? You decide.During the start-of-term ceremony, Touma sneaks out into the hallways and worries about where Index had wandered off to. Touma suddenly hears Index's voice coming from a room, and his first reaction is to barge into the room to scold Index. Unfortunately Touma catches Index and Hyoka changing into gym clothes, and he receives multiple bites from Index for his sudden intrusion. Afterwards Touma, Index, and Hyoka chat in the cafeteria, and Touma informs Index that he was going to be home before lunch since this is the first day of school. Touma then asks about Hyoka and Index states that Hyoka is her new friend and a transfer student. Komoe-sensei arrives in the cafeteria in search of Touma, and Touma and Index notice that Hyoka has suddenly disappeared.Later in the day, Index is waiting outdoors for Touma to get off from school. Hyoka reappears again and notice that Index is feeling down, and Index explains that she thinks Touma is angry with her for coming to his school. Hyoka states that it's actually a good thing to have friend to argue with because this means the friend really cares about you, and this cheers Index up a bit. Touma walks out of the school and meets up with the Index to go somewhere fun, and Hyoka is invited as well. Before leaving, Touma checks his wallet and realizes his out of cash, so he first runs off to an ATM in a nearby convenience store.Aisa just realized that she's in love with a poor bastard.Inside the store, Touma is approached by Aisa after he takes out some cash. Aisa is wondering why Touma wasn't paying much attention to her and she is also a bit jealous about Touma going out with two other girls. Touma responds by inviting Aisa to come along with him and the other girls, but Aisa declines because she is running an errand for Komoe. Aisa then wonders about Hyoka, and after learning Hyoka's name Aisa becomes serious. Aisa states that she heard of a Hyoka Kazakiri when she was attending Kirigaoka Academy for Girls, and this Hyoka was one of the school's top students. Aisa has never seen that Hyoka in person, but she knows that Hyoka' s ability is called "Counter Stop" and supposedly Hyoka knows the truth about Academy City's five underground organizations. Aisa wonders why would such a person appear at Touma's school and warns Touma to be careful around Hyoka. Afterwards, Touma, Index, and Hyoka arrive at an underground shopping center, and Touma tells Index that she can pick any restaurant she wants as long as it's not too expensive or has a long lineup.At the teacher's office in Touma's school, teacher Aiho Yomikawa is making fun of Komoe for having disobedient students (ex Touma) in her class. In the middle of the chat, Aiho gets a phone call and has to leave immediately, and Komoe knows that Aiho has some Anti-Skills business to attend to. After Aiho leaves, Aisa walks into the office and hands Komoe a book on AIM that she wanted. Aisa then asks Komoe about the number of transfer students for this term because Touma had mentioned that Hyoka was a transfer student.Sherry to Kuroko: Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.Being able to teleport away would be really handy right now.Somewhere in Academy City, Judgment member Kuroko has tracked down the intruder Sherry Cromwell. Sherry tells Kuroko to buzz off but Kuroko pins Sherry to the ground with some creative use of her teleportation ability. However, Sherry draws a rune on the ground and summons a giant golem which grabs Kuroko, and Kuroko is unable to teleport away because she can't concentrate. Mikoto arrives and frees Kuroko by blasting the golem with a railgun coin, but Sherry manages to use the distraction to slip away.... and they lived happily ever after.Somewhere in the city, Sherry is drawing runes everywhere with her pastel. Sherry then performs a spell which turns the runes into moving eyes, and the eyes scatter away in all directions.Public vandalism!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~As the introduction of the sixth story-arc, this episode has a bit of everything. There is a bit of action, a bit of comedy, and also a bit of those boring and confusing speeches about ESP and magic that nobody wants to listen to. I'd prefer more comedy + action and can do without the speeches, especially the one that Komoe gave on AOL Instant Messenger… wait, An Involuntary Movement. An Involuntary Movement is a terrible name for an esper's energy field. When I think of an involuntary movement, I think of those times when a doctor taps someone on the knee with a mallet and that someone ends up kicking the doctor in the spot which hurts the most. The point is they should have just called it "energy level" and be done with it.My random rant about AIM aside, we have two new and attractive female characters, and both have to potential to join Touma's growing harem. Well, maybe not since Sherry is the main antagonist while Hyoka is currently a mystery. Being from Necessarius, Sherry is probably after Index, but in the previews she appears to be after Hyoka as well, but perhaps Hyoka and Touma are involved because they happened to be with Index. I thought Necessarius has an agreement with Aleister about entering and leaving Academy City given that Aleister talks to both Stiyl and Motoharu, but apparently Sherry just barged in on her own. I suppose that's why Stiyl and Kaori won't be making an appearance, or else they should know that another member of Necessarius is showing up. Guess we'll find out what's on Sherry's mind in the next episode.The action sequence in this episode was pretty good despite the short duration. Kuroko showed off some nifty teleportation skills in the fight, but everyone who reads the Railgun spinoff manga already knows that Kuroko can kick ass. Too bad her abilities didn't work when the golem grabbed her. Sherry's golem looks pretty impressive too, so the main fight between Sherry and Touma and possibly Hyoka should be at least decent... I hope. Hopefully we won't see a repeat of the Angel Fall arc.
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