Hawaii Invasion Arc

The Kīlauea eruption marked the beginning of the invasion.

## Belligerents

* Dawn-Colored Sunlight
* Trident

## Commanders and Leaders

* **Roseline Krackhart**
* Leivinia Birdway
* **Cinesic Evers**

## Chronology

### Light Novels

The **Hawaii Invasion Arc** is the third story arc of *Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index*. On November 10th of the current story timeline, GREMLIN as well as its hired armed wing, the private military company, Trident invades the Hawaii islands as a starting point for the invasion of the United States of America.

The story arc revolves around the key factions of the invasion, GREMLIN and the United States of America, factions that are against GREMLIN but is unaffiliated with the United States, the Dawn-Colored Sunlight led by Leivinia Birdway, and by association, members of the Kamijou Touma's group, as well as the individual movements of it's key figures and leaders.

## Background

With the confirmation that Kamijou Touma is still alive and Academy City remained intact using the failure of Radiosonde Castle, the core members of GREMLIN begins to initiate the first step of their plan, which requires the eruption of Kilauea to erupt explosively and blow dust into the atmosphere. The core members of GREMLIN did not disseminate this plan to the lower members, and later gave them an alternative plan that the lower members would want to achieve.

Olay Blueshake, the media queen, with aspirations to have a seat in government, witnessing the United States of America left behind during the War, due to the presence of a queer it was wholly unprepared for, the occult, somehow comes into contact with GREMLIN, and from there, hires its armed wing for them, Trident. It is not exactly known how Olay Blueshake came into contact with GREMLIN, however, the plan to invade Hawaii and change America into a theocracy have originated with her. She may had a vested interest in Hawaii personally, as her daughter was hidden there from her by the government. Lower level members such as Cendrillon and Saronia A. Irivika, embittered by the events of the War, agreed to this plan, which, if it were to succeed would twist the balance of the two sides.

### Involvement of other parties

Leivinia Birdway and her cabal, the Dawn-Colored Sunlight, was already deeply invested against GREMLIN, and have rescued Kamijou Touma out of the Arctic Ocean after the events of World War III, for her own plans. Leivinia also knows that GREMLIN has begun appearing in Hawaii, and knows that they will likely cause a global scale chaos, though it is unknown on what extent she has known.

Knowing that GREMLIN uses a combination of magic and science-side technology and ideals in order to further their goals, Leivinia decides to use the 27 Cooperative Institutions of Academy City, as a means to draw out GREMLIN's core members, though the result would weaken Academy City both economically and politically in international affairs. To accomplish this, Touma is used to gather members around him, people from Academy City, in order to form a group influential enough in future events and that would help in marking Academy City into an interfering entity by the world, especially the cooperative institutions. Leivinia may have planned beforehand to make Touma and the others be discovered by the world as, entities of Academy, in their involvement in Hawaii.

She is later successful in manipulating into getting a powerful enough group to aid her against GREMLIN, but ignorant enough not to question her motives—the Kamijou Faction. And with Aleister Crowley to preoccupied with the unraveling of his plans after the events of the War, Leivinia is able to get them out of the City, with little trouble.