Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Agnese's Magic Side Work Experience/Chapter 2

==Synopsis==
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==Characters==
By order of appearance:
*Orsola Aquinas
*Angelene
*Agnese Sanctis
*Lucia
*Isabella Theism
===New Characters===
*Harris Nicholagene
*Jack Prometeria
*Pierre Gosetti
*Rini Calculed
*Plum Mordosié
*Rouen Nalberia
==Abilities==
*Lotus Wand - Agnese Sanctis
*St. Catherine's Wheel - Lucia
===New Abilities===
*Scissor-based Lie Detector - Agnese Sanctis
==Locations==
*Strait of Dover
===New Locations===
*France
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==Trivia==
*This chapter was released with limited editions of the second Blu-Ray/DVD volume for Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T.Toaru Project, Railgun T, BD, Volume 2
*A scene from this chapter (namely the nuns under fire in the harbor) was depicted in the special Toaru Kagaku no Railgun chapter promoting the side story.
===Referbacks===
*In mentioning how the ghost ship might continue inland, Agnese refers to the ice ships of La Regina del Mare Adriatico.Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Agnese's Magic Side Work Experience Chapter 2 Part 3
===Cultural References===
*,Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Agnese's Magic Side Work Experience Chapter 2 Part 1Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Agnese's Magic Side Work Experience Chapter 2 Part 8 nicknamed "The Mighty Hood", was the last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy, commissioned in 1920, and for 20 years afterwards remained the largest warship in the world. She was sunk on May 24th 1941 during the , when a shell from the pierced her deck and detonated her magazine.
**In the Toaru universe, Jack Prometeria's father was one of the few survivors when the ship was sunk. In real life, only three people survived: Ordinary Signalman , Able Seaman Robert Tilburn, and Midshipman William John Dundas.HMS Hood Association: Frequently Asked Questions
*The Olympian are a group of planetary spirits listed in the grimoire and in Column LXXX of Liber 777's correspondence table. They are Arathron (Saturn), Bethor (Jupiter), Phaleg (Mars), Och (Sun), Hagith (Venus), Ophiel (Mercury) and Phul (Moon). by Aleister CrowleyToaru Majutsu no Index SS: Agnese's Magic Side Work Experience Chapter 2 Part 2
*Two ships are given as examples of vessels capable of travelling between worlds:Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Agnese's Magic Side Work Experience Chapter 2 Part 2
**In Greek Mythology, 's ferry is used to carry the souls of the recently deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron in the underworld, between the world of the living and the afterlife.
**In Japanese folklore, the or Treasure Ship is said to be a vessel piloted through the heavens and into human ports by the during the first three days of the New Year. Wood blocks with an image of the Takarabune are placed beneath pillows on the night of January 2nd to help give the sleeper a happy dream, which is said to signify that the coming year will be a fortunate one.
*The mention of Aleister Crowley having predicted World War I is a reference to this passage in by Crowley, written in the summer of 1911 and seemingly prophetic: "There is a Magical operation of maximum importance: the Initiation of a New Aeon. When it becomes necessary to utter a Word, the whole Planet must be bathed in blood. Before man is ready to accept the Law of Thelema, the Great War must be fought. This Bloody Sacrifice is the critical point of the World-Ceremony of the Proclamation of Horus, the Crowned and conquering Child, as Lord of the Aeon."Crowley, Aleister. (written 1912–13). Liber ABA (Magick (Book 4), Magick in Theory and Practice (Part III), Chapter XII: Of the Bloody Sacrifice and Matters Cognate., p.208.
*The mention of witches dancing in the forest to delay an invasion of the is a reference to a story told by British Wiccan , who wrote in his early writing that his (alleged) performed a "" ritual to keep Nazi Germany from invading the United Kingdom. The novel gets one detail wrong, describing the witches dancing in "midwinter forests" when it allegedly took place in August 1940 according to Gardner.
*s are a type of plant root, believed to have special properties in Folklore.Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Agnese's Magic Side Work Experience Chapter 2 Part 3 Said to be born from a criminal's bodily fluids touching the earth, they scream when uprooted with a cry which is said to kill all who hear it, and can be used as a medicinal ingredient.
*Jack Prometeria refers to Xians (specifically them never eating food), of immortal associated with Taoism, while talking about the need to maintain a cover life to avoid standing out.Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Agnese's Magic Side Work Experience Chapter 2 Part 4
*Pierre Gosetti refers to the beneath Paris.Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Agnese's Magic Side Work Experience Chapter 2 Part 6 Part of a tunnel network built to consolidate the city's ancient stone quarries, the catacombs came to house underground ossuaries storing remains from the city's overflowing cemeteries.
*Agnese hoping that Rouen Nalberia wouldn't end up trying to drink mercury for eternal life, after imagining that his research into extracting elements from food would probably lead to ancient Chinese alchemy, might be a reference to , the First Emperor of China, who sought immortality and ingested mercury in pursuit of it.
*In mentioning how he was capable of separating elements from food but not extracting them, Rouen Nalberia makes a comparison to an elixir created by Ayton of the Golden Dawn. was a clergyman with an interest in alchemy, who translated a record of the life of John Dee from Latin. He was a member of one of the Golden Dawn's successor organizations and supported Arthur Edward Waite's reforms during one of the schisms.
*The Italian saint Agnese is named after is the martyr .
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