Aozaki Aoko

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* Mahoyo (Redshift)

**Aozaki Aoko** (蒼崎 青子, *Aozaki Aoko*?) is the main protagonist of *Mahoutsukai no Yoru* and a supporting character in the *Toaru Majutsu no Index* series. She is the **Wizard of the Fifth Magic** (第五魔法の魔法使い, *Dai Go Mahō no Mahōtsukai*?).

## Appearance

Aoko is a very beautiful young woman who has peach-colored skin and blue eyes. Her figure is a slender yet athletic build with a very ample bosom, something that attracts jealousy from other girls. In the past, she had long brown hair that extends way down her back and usually wore a casual-red dress with an under-black shirt and pants with a pair of boots or a light blue sweatshirt, gray jeans and blue sneakers.

After fast-forwarding her own time, Aoko currently has long red hair that reaches below her hips and down to her lower legs. In the present, she is commonly seen wearing a plain white shirt, blue jeans that are pulled at the knees and a pair of brown shoes. She also stopped aging after the age of 20, making her "ageless beauty" in her own words.

## Personality

Aozaki Aoko is a rather nonchalant and playful person who always remains a bold and free-spirited woman as well. As a teen, she is shown to be very confident, brash, outspoken, and completely unafraid to speak her mind at any moment. She also has a keen sense of justice and honor, willing to help others in need. Despite not being ladylike in the traditional sense, she possesses a very strong sense of self and will express herself regardless of what anyone thinks of her. Even in the most serious of situations, Aoko's jovial and lax attitude remains intact.

In the present, Aoko still retains her bright and cheerful personality yet appears to have grown very wise. She fits the role of the amiable big sister type, but generally her stance is to avoid getting too involved with other people. Aoko values special places with precious memories and living things, regardless of if they are humans, animals or even plants. She's a rather difficult person to pin down, and is often unreliable. However, Aoko is an idealistic and compassionate person who uses her powers to benefit others. She has no problem with blowing up a city block to get her job done, but she also goes out of her way to make sure that no innocent people get killed by her actions. During intense battles, Aoko is shown to occasionally fall into a frenzied fighting state.

While she appears to be something of a flawless superwoman, in reality, Aoko is actually a very hard-working individual. She is described as an extremely strong person in terms of personality, regretting nothing in her life because she follows through on every decision she makes. Because she does not care at all about what other people think of her, she is able to stay true to herself in any situation, believing that the worst thing a person can do is to lie to oneself. Even while accepting her life as a Magus, she sticks to the life of an honest woman.

Despite the fact that she and Touko are sisters, Aoko shows great hostility towards her, to the point that she dislikes Runes because Touko use rune-based magic. However, she is considered irresponsible by Touko for using the power of Thaumaturgy without thinking about the consequences. Touko often buys useless items from the Mage's Association using Aoko's card as revenge for her stealing her most prized possession. Years later, their relationship appears to be rather cordial and fully mended by the time the two reach adulthood.

She isn't afraid of her grandfather, who is labelled a monster, and only thinks of the great magician who called up magic as "a terrible old man who's lived for a long time through questionable means". Due to her first crush actually being Suse Ritsuka crossdressing, Aoko has a lot of apathy against romance, though she still desires a boyfriend. She considers gloves an abomination and refuses to wear them except in the most extreme cold.

## Background

Aoko is a member of the Aozaki family. When she was young, Aoko's grandfather, the third generation head chose to raise Touko as his successor while Aoko lived with her parents. She is not afraid at all of her grandfather, who is labelled a monster, and only thinks of the great Magus who created the final True Magic as "a terrible old man who's lived for too long through questionable means". When she was fifteen years old, Aoko was suddenly named the successor to the Fifth Magic by her grandfather, and her sister Aozaki Touko, who was being trained as the successor until that point, was abandoned. Therefore, she originally had a very bad relationship with her sister.

## Chronology

### Mahoutsukai no Yoru

*Main article: Mahoutsukai no Yoru*
When she was fifteen, Aoko was asked by her family to give up her normal life entirely for the life of a magus, in preparation for her training to become the successor of the Fifth Magic. She lived with Kuonji Alice.

### Toaru Majutsu no Index

#### Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume SS2

*Main article: Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume SS2*

## Abilities

Aozaki Aoko is an incredibly straightforward but competent magician who specializes in the simple art of destruction. While less skilled in other kinds of magic, when it comes to destruction, she is unmatched, possessing the firepower to fight on par with Saints. Her incredible firepower stems from her extremely efficient usage of magical energy and her magic circuits' structural durability, quality of output, fuel efficiency, and extraordinary rotation speed, which is so fast that it generates sound and surpasses the speed of the blood flow. Despite her shortcomings compared to her sister, she has managed to make use of her abilities to the fullest through her own natural talents. Even though she is not the most skilled magus, magical skill and combat skill are two different things entirely, and in this department, she is a step above most other magi.

### Starmine and Starbow

* Aoko ready to fire magic bullets.
* Aoko charging at an opponent.
* Aoko preparing her self-hypnosis.
* Aoko utilizing her magic in melee combat
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Aoko's main form of magic is called **Starmine and Starbow** (スターマイン、スターボゥ, *Sutāmain, Sutābou*?), which follows a system of magical processing, conversion, and output through numerology. She uses magical energy in its purest form, firing bursts of heat and energy as high-speed, high-power bullets while utilizing her magic circuits as her "barrel". It's based on the concept of images Aoko can visualize easily turned into spells that cause nature interference. She is apparently comfortable with imagining exploding fireworks and rotating stars, so all of her destructive spells are based upon those images. Spells that fall under Starmine's category are those whose energy has a fluid motion, while those that fall under Starbow's category are those whose energy has a fluctuating motion. She is also able to apply Starmine and Starbow in melee combat, by expelling her magical energy from her limbs at close ranges for incredibly destructive effects.

Her magic bullets are simple spells utilizing her rapidly-spinning magic circuits as the barrel of a gun to fire magical energy. This is not like other spells that work through nature interference to create wind, divide water, or accelerate aging. Magic bullets are simply just materialized magical energy that's fired as heat. The result is a destructive force equal to the amount of energy she can handle. She has three types of magic bullets that act as her main weapons: **Snap**, **Draw**, and **Magic Blow**. The temperature of her long-range magic bullet used against Flat Snark is approximately 3,000 degrees Celsius. She can cast a spell called **Blacklight Starbow** (ブラックライト、スターボウ, *Burakkuraito, Sutābou*?), which is powerful enough to destroy a meteorite.

Moreover, she also uses an Offensive High Speed Incantation to greatly increase the speed of her incantations during battle, and her particular method is referred to as **Unlimited Rotation** (アンリミテッド ローテーション, *Anrimiteddo Rōtēshon*?). By simply chanting the phrase “Bullets, Deploy", she is able to fire twenty bolts at once, deployed instantly with each being more powerful than a rocket. She is called by the very intuitive yet crude nickname of "Magic Gunner" because of the sheer abundance of high-output magic bullets she can fire off in rapid succession. Even Aozaki Touko is unable to see when Aoko starts the spell and loads the bullets.

### Fifth Magic

* English
* Japanese

"Hear me, Lord of All Creation."

"I announce."

"In my name representing order *(blue)*, I announce."

"Everything will be corrected. *(not. SANE)*"

"Order has now fallen. *(five timeless words)*"

「――聴け、万物の霊長」

「―――告げる」

「 秩序 ( あお ) を示す我が 銘 ( な ) において告げる」

「―― 全ては ( not． ) 、 正しく ( SANE ) 」

「―― 秩序は ( five ) 、 ここに崩れ落ちた ( timeless words ) 」

* The Fifth coming into effect.
* The Fifth's effect around Aoko.
* The landscape beginning to change.
* The Fifth Magic repeatedly shifting the time.
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Aoko is a Wizard who is capable of utilizing the **Fifth Magic** (第五魔法, *Daigo Mahō*?), known as **Magic Blue** (魔法・青, *Mahō Ao*?), making her the only person in the modern world capable of performing its miracles. While its exact domain is currently unknown, it is shown to be heavily associated with time travel and time manipulation, along with the advancement of civilization and, ultimately, extinction. With the Fifth Magic, Aoko is able to accomplish a variety of wonderous effects, and uses them skillfully.

#### Manipulating time

Aoko is able to manipulate the flow of time itself: she can slow it, accelerate it, erase it, or even stop it. She can also compress the flow of time to make both past and future to exist at the same time, making the same object from different timelines be in many places simultaneously. By doing this, all her attacks will hit the enemy at the same time due to the different timelines existing simultaneously. She can even apply her time manipulation on a smaller, more precise scale, on locations and objects. By accelerating time, she can age objects and people and by erasing the past of an object, she erases its present and future, essentially erasing it from existence.

#### Exchanging time

* Aoko, fast-forwarding her own time with the Fifth Magic.
* Aoko shifting through time.
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In addition, Aoko can exchange time and move events through the time axis, allowing her to do things like moving someone's death into the far, far future to resurrect them in the present. In the same way, she can borrow time to receive the 'time' of her future self, granting herself all of her future skills, experience, and knowledge, entering a state called **Redshift** (赤方偏移, *Sekihōhen'i*?), which colors her hair red. She only shows a slight change in appearance, but Touko understands after realizing that Aoko's gestures no longer match her age. The change inside her is great enough to warrant worry, but she does not have the time to analyze the situation before being overwhelmed by Aoko's newly obtained speed and power. The time she borrows will eventually be returned.

Furthermore, fast-forwarding her own time allowed her go from an apprentice to adept in an instant. By moving outside of the time axis and making use of repeated instances of time travel, she can dodge attacks completely, potentially even sending the attacks to different points in time or layering countless versions of "herself" over her own body. It can avoid both numerous and powerful attacks, even ignoring Touko's Primeval Runes power and physical presence. It has a high energy output that cannot continue for long, but she manages to easily outlast Touko's prediction of her energy reserves. This makes Aoko virtually invulnerable against any attack.

#### Burden

Despite their minor similarities, the Fifth Magic is not like the Second Magic. It does not rewrite the world. To make the changes she wants effectively permanent, Aoko must handle her Thaumaturgy carefully. By moving someone's point of death into the future, she may effectively truly resurrect them, but the displacement of mass and the energy used to accomplish such a thing is immense. This reckless use of her magic will ultimately accelerate the destruction of the universe itself, making the heat death of the universe more and more likely and result in the breakdown of order. Time travel requires a massive quantity of energy, requiring mystic power to bring in things that don't exist in the current world, and likewise causing tremendous energy to be lost when something is made to be "no longer here." Utilizing time travel to move even such a small amount of time would necessitate balancing out the heat that had been there beforehand. Aoko left it in the far, far future, meaning that the debt incurred in the present has been left in the future. Even the idea of a time paradox is more humane, as such an enormous, thoughtless consumption of heat must not be allowed at any cost.

### Other Magic

Moreover, Aoko also seemigly has knowledge of Kabbalah-related magic and is shown to be very proficent in the use of Notarikon. She personally finds his use of it to be too dull or orthodox, but says that her own use of the system makes her unable to truly comment on it. She also posseses some knowledge of curses, as shown when she cursed Touko to transform into a toad if she ever returned to Misaki Town within ten years or so.

### Other Abilities

**Keen Intellect**: As the "Magic Gunner", Aoko is an infamous and powerful magician who specializes in combat and destruction. While she is formally a below average magus, she is considered as an unmatched genius when it comes to art of destruction and the efficient use of magical energy. She is also very knowledgeable when it comes to magical phenomena. However, Aoko's magical skills and knowledge are primarily tailored towards destruction, so she lacks versatility. Nevertless, she is still a capable magus whose not to be taken lightly.

* **Expert Tactician**: Despite her age, Aoko possesses great instinct and intuition in battle. She is generally aware of everything in her presence, and is also able to see through most deceptions. She is also a keen analyst, able to deduce the basic mechanics behind an opponent's attacks, and quickly figuring out its strength and weakness to better counter it. She can even come up with a strategy in the heat of battle.