Hell Tour Arc

The Hell Tour Arc is the eighth story arc of Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index, covered in . Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Epilogue Chapter 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Part 2 Chapter 1 Part 3 Chapter 1 Part 4 Chapter 2 Part 1 Chapter 2 Part 2 Chapter 2 Part 3 Chapter 2 Part 4 Chapter 2 Part 5 Chapter 2 Part 6 Chapter 2 Part 7 Chapter 2 Part 8 Chapter 2 Part 9 Chapter 3 Part 1 Chapter 3 Part 2 Chapter 3 Part 3 Chapter 3 Part 4 Chapter 4 Part 1 Chapter 4 Part 2 Chapter 4 Part 3 Chapter 4 Part 4
==Background==
===CRC===
In 1602, Johann Valentin Andreae, then a 15 year old student at the University of Tübingen, devised a prank involving a made-up legendary figure, Christian Rosencreutz. However, the fiction he created ended up getting out of his control, with no one believing him when he tried to reveal the truth, eventually mutating into a system of magic and claiming numerous victims. Swearing to take responsibility and eliminate Rosicrucianism from the world, Andreae would assume the guise of Christian Rosencreutz in order to tarnish the legend and disillusion its believers, but was ultimately unsuccessful in achieving his goal before his death in 1654.
In the present day, late on January 4th, Andreae was resurrected through the Bridge Builders Cabal's ceremony, which was intended to summon Christian Rosencreutz to be their savior, unaware of the truth. Downing the assembled Transcendents then and there, Andreae crushed the despondent Alice Anotherbible's head and struck down Anna Kingsford. Epilogue Prologue After spending much of January 5th doing as he pleased, he went after the hospitalized Anna Sprengel, carving a path of destruction through Academy City in the process, with the combined efforts of the city's forces, the Transcendents and Touma's allies, including Aleister Crowley, not enough to stop his march towards the hospital. In the end, Touma was forced to sever his arm and deliberately unleash the Dragon Strike in order to defeat him. On the morning of January 6th, the downed and recovering Andreae was stripped of his guise as CRC and killed by a revived Alice Anotherbible. Epilogue
However, at some point, Andreae had created an artificial phase, a false hell crafted from a collection of images and forcibly inserted above the real one, which was intended to allow a single deceased soul to cheat death and enable his return to the world of the living. This resurrection device was functional at the time of his death on January 6th and his intercepted soul was transferred to it, rather than the normal destination.
===Anna Kingsford===
Anna Kingsford was a 19th century magician, one of the many experts who were influenced by the legends of Christian Rosencreutz, dedicating herself to the ideals of helping others. She was a member of the Theosophical Society and would also form her own cabal. Among her students were Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and William Wynn Westcott, two of the Golden Dawn's founders. Kingsford died in 1888, shortly before the founding of the Golden Dawn. She was used by Westcott as a model for a Rosicrucian figure in a forged letter exchange to give the new cabal prestige, which subsequently became the basis for the Transcendent Anna Sprengel. Kingsford's body was preserved by a group of wandering treasure keepers.
On New Year's Eve, Aleister Crowley obtained Kingsford's preserved body in Shibuya and reanimated her using advanced technology, as a trump card against Anna Sprengel and the Bridge Builders Cabal. Temporarily sealing Sprengel, Kingsford accompanied and aided Aleister during the following week's events, which included a clash with the revived Johann Valentin Andreae posing as CRC. On January 6th, having promised Aleister that she would save Kamijou Touma but with his death having been determined by Alice Anotherbible before her reanimation, with nothing she could do to prevent it, Kingsford decided to take this inevitable death into account and use Andreae's resurrection phase in order to save him after the fact. Chapter 1 Part 9 Chapter 3 Part 1 As part of her plan, she intentionally deactivated the machinery animating her in order to travel to the realm of the dead. Epilogue
===Kamijou Touma===
On December 29th, Kamijou Touma encountered Alice Anotherbible, who had learned of him from Anna Sprengel, and during the events surrounding the Overhunting crash, witnessed Alice's power distorting the world so things would head towards a more favorable ending, though he didn't fully grasp its full scope and implications. Between the Lines 3 While persuading her to undo the changes she had made and let him try to resolve things properly, Alice warned Touma that he would die and he responded that it didn't change his answer, inadvertently determining that Touma would die at some point in the near future, though not necessarily right then. Chapter 2 Part 10 Chapter 3 Part 2 Chapter 3 Part 10 Chapter 3 Part 5
On January 6th, after a week of turbulent events involving the Bridge Builders Cabal and its Transcendents, during which he received multiple fatal injuries and only survived thanks to the immediate application of Good Old Mary's resurrection technique (something with complications when used consecutively), Touma learned from a then-unstable Alice about his fate, something she wished to avert even at cost to the world. Despite this, he faced Alice in order to bring her to her senses and halt the chaos enveloping Academy City. After getting through and speaking his final words to Alice, he expired on his feet, and despite being rushed to Heaven Canceller, he was pronounced dead on arrival at 23:58pm. However, Anna Kingsford made contact with his soul in the realm of the dead and offered to use the Hell Tour to overturn this ending.
==Chronology==
==References==
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Category:Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Story Arcs