Tsukuyomi Komoe

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**Tsukuyomi Komoe**  (月詠 小萌, *Tsukuyomi Komoe*?) is a recurring character introduced in *Toaru Majutsu no Index*. She is the homeroom teacher of Year 1 Class 7 of A Certain High School.

Although she has the appearance of twelve-year-old child, she is actually one of the oldest adults known in the series. Beyond both her childish appearance and demeanor lies a very competent teacher who cares for her students, and one of the few characters who knew Kamijou Touma well enough before his memory loss.

## Etymology

Tsukuyomi Komoe's surname reading is derived from the Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto, an ancient moon god of Shinto in Japanese mythology. Her given name however, is an aptronym as the character (小) means *small* and the character (萌) means *moe*.

## Appearance

With a height of only 135cm, pink hair and eyes, as well as her apparent fondness to wearing cute and childish outfits (though this may be due to the fact that there aren't any adult clothes for her size), most people see Komoe as a 12 year old child. This isn't helped by the fact that Komoe often acts childishly.

In volume 9, it is said by Yomikawa Aiho that Komoe, being a teacher even older than herself, looks scarily fitting in cheerleading clothes, and in the author notes that up to that point in volume 5, she was the oldest female character in the novel.

It is later assumed by Accelerator, upon meeting her, that Komoe was part of an experiment of finding a way to stop cellular aging, and notes that Komoe may be a testament to the success of the experiment. However, because of her mysterious appearance despite being an actual adult, Komoe is referred to as one of the seven wonders of Academy City. This has become an urban legend in Academy City, something that even she is quite aware of; that her appearance is because she is a product of an experiment in the Imaginary Number District.

## Personality

Despite her childish appearance, voice and mannerisms, it is evident that Komoe is a full grown adult by the fact that her apartment is littered with beer cans, cigarettes and neuropsychology books. She is also allowed to drive, despite her short stature. Komoe is such a heavy smoker that Yomikawa Aiho (also a heavy smoker), a friend and colleague of hers, states that Komoe smokes five times as she does.

She contradicts her age sometimes by acting in a childish manner towards her students and having a child-like crush on Touma. Though despite her looks, she hates people mentioning the word "small" to her, yet likes people to call her "cute".

According to Stiyl, Komoe's personality is much akin to that of Index: "A petite figure, extremely naïve, one who gets angry for others sake, one who cries for others sake, one who has magical knowledge, but is unable to use magic. That tearful look when she was dyed in other people’s blood was exactly the same". Despite being a heavy smoker herself, Komoe scolds Stiyl for smoking, apparently knowing full well he is underage.

She is a highly competent teacher, being a teacher of chemistry, an expert in pyrokinesis, as well as being knowledgeable in the area of the Power Curriculum Program, Personal Reality and Esper development. However, Komoe knows when to not pry on the affairs of others especially regarding her students if they choose not to talk it out with her even if it is her responsibility as a teacher and an adult. She is somehow fond of taking in students with no place to go to, reasoning that is because of her “soul as an educator”, such as Himegami Aisa until she moves into a dormitory later in the series, and then Musujime Awaki. In fact, it has been stated that she actually goes out of her way to go to places where run away girls go to and allow them to live in her place a freeloader. Even in the first arc, Komoe allows Index and Touma to stay in her home without hassle. This may be slightly correlated to the fact that the freeloaders who live in her apartment end up cooking for her, making her feel like royalty, in the process.

Komoe is passionate about teaching but has a weakness, that weakness being the fact that she’ll feel extremely dejected whenever she feels she has lost an opportunity to teach others, like when she is told Kamijou Touma is ignoring her lesson, crying before the entire class. She also "threatens" her students to learn occasionally, as she has a punishment game for class where they must play and win ten rounds of Poker in a row while being blindfolded. This is also shown in Volume 9 when she wanted to teach Index how to use chopsticks.

## Background

Very little is known about Komoe, what is known about her is that she properly graduated from a university and then turned up in Academy City. Accelerator upon meeting Komoe concludes that she may be the result on the research to slow down cell aging, apparently 250 year method. While Last Order hypothesizes that Komoe may have been captured the rumors regarding research to slow down cell aging. It is unknown whether or not their hypotheses has any basis.

Komoe also knows Touma very well and states in her own words that he was naughty boy when he enrolled, and *"a lot of things have happened*". She also states later on that she likes him, though she tries to take it back and states that she likes teaching him.

Due to her short stature, and apparent fact that she is of legal age, Komoe has her own custom car that allows her to drive it through the use of buttons and a joystick.

## Chronology

### Toaru Majutsu no Index

#### Index Arc

*Main article: Index Arc*
Komoe plays an important part during the arc, as being the only person that Touma knows personally that isn't an esper. Touma brings an injured Index to her. Here, despite her doubts and fears, John's Pen Mode Index instructs Komoe exactly on how to perform a magic healing ritual, though she fumbles a bit she is able to properly perform the ritual with Index as the spellcaster and heal her.

Komoe later allows Touma and Index to take refuge in to her home, allowing Touma to keep the true trouble they are in, as she does not want to pry into their lives. Komoe later finds an injured Touma on the street after his beating by Kanzaki Kaori and takes him back to her home.

For the rest of the arc, Komoe stays in a certain bathhouse and gives Touma knowledge which eventually helps him free Index from the misery of losing memories every year, at the cost of his own. Komoe's roof is obliterated after the arc.

#### Sisters Arc

*Main article: Sisters Arc*
For most of the arc, Komoe delivers various information regarding the Power Curriculum Program while Touma confronts Mikoto and eventually Accelerator.

Here, she explains to Himegami Aisa (who has moved in with her) and Index on how espers gain their powers through the program by attaining their own Personal Reality, as well as the goal of understanding the will of the heaven's -- SYSTEM. She also explains on how Level 0s like Touma are anomalies in the program, as is one of the reasons why the program is continually being improved. She also states on how Touma was a naughty boy in the past, in an embarrassed manner, much to Index and Aisa's chagrin.

#### Angel Fall Arc

*Main article: Angel Fall Arc*
Komoe is seen briefly during this arc, telling Touma to leave Academy City temporarily after his defeating of Accelerator, while the higher-ups clean up the rumors in order for Touma to not become the target of delinquent attacks wanting to beat Touma for defeating Accelerator.

Komoe's form is later borrowed by a reporter due to the effects of Angel Fall.

#### Kazakiri Hyouka Arc

*Main article: Kazakiri Hyouka Arc*
Komoe once again aids Touma during one of his escapades. Here, Komoe tells Touma of the true nature of Kazakiri Hyouka being an amalgam of AIM diffusion fields of espers, and giving him the resolve to conclude that it does not matter whether or not she is human, so long as they are friends.

Komoe with Aisa later scold Touma for being another dangerous incident in a certain hospital.

#### Daihasei Festival Arc

*Main article: Daihasei Festival Arc (Index)*
Komoe first appears during the Daihaseisai as a cheerleader for her class, and is later taunted for having students that poorly perform, which causes her to feel bad. Because of this however, Touma and a certain class do their best to defeat their opponents, much to Komoe's surprise.

Komoe later takes a wandering Index who wants to support Touma during the festival and had her wear a cheerleader uniform similar to hers. Touma later accidentally walks into Index changing, which forces her to bite him, however, she misses and gives Touma an accidental kiss. Komoe however, witnesses all this and is shocked. Touma is later taken away by Fukiyose Seiri. Komoe continues to console Index after the incident.

She later comes upon Stiyl Magnus trying to smoke and scolds him for it, making Aisa concerned who calls Touma's attention. She is later stopped by Aisa when Stiyl escapes for his mission. Because of this, Komoe later spends time with Aisa, to which a concerned Aisa ask about Touma. Here, Komoe later suggests to Aisa to take Touma to the Night Parade. Later however, Komoe and Aisa accidentally bumps into Oriana Thomson, who mistakes Aisa for being a member of Necessarius as she wore a Walking Church. Oriana attacks her, causing Aisa to be heavily injured, forcing a completely distraught Komoe to apply first aid on her. When Touma and Stiyl arrive at the scene, she has already prepared to try to recreate Index's magic healing ritual, instead of moving on Stiyl helps Komoe to do the ritual properly despite his inexperienced with the spell, and tells Touma to go on without. A trusting Touma leaves Aisa's life at his hands.

Stiyl and Komoe were later successful in healing Aisa whom they send to a certain hospital, much to Komoe's relief as she continually tries to give thanks to Stiyl, irritating him as he tries to escape her.

Finally, Komoe reports to Touma's parents regarding his absences in the events, and apologizes for her inadequacy. However, Touma's parents tell her that it is alright as they believe Touma is doing something more important than the events, and believes in his decision completely.

#### Academy City Invasion Arc

*Main article: Academy City Invasion Arc*
Komoe appears during a ruckus in Year 1 Class 7, and later accompanies Yomikawa Aiho to meet Accelerator and Last Order, where Aiho regards Accelerator as a prospective student for a certain high school. During their meeting both Accelerator and Last Order give hypotheses regarding Komoe's current form, which frustrates her as she believes they're not taking her seriously.

During the final moments of the invasion of Vento of the Front, Komoe is the first one Touma tries to contact for help regarding Kazakiri Hyouka who has now transformed into an artificial angel. However, there is no answer as Komoe herself has been affected by Divine Punishment, making her lose consciousness.

#### Skill-Out Uprising

*Main article: Skill-Out Uprising*
In the aftermath of the invasion, Komoe mentions to Aiho on how she has taken in a certain Musujime Awaki into her home. Later she and her entire class along with Index, go to restaurant to enjoy a hotpot. Here, Komoe shows her concern for parents opting to take their children away from the city since an apparent war between the Roman Catholic Church and Academy City is boiling.

#### Document of Constantine

*Main article: Document of Constantine*
With Aiho out for the Interceptor Show and her Anti-Skill duties, Komoe does her lesson plan for her, as well as other Anti-Skill teachers as well. She comes into the faculty room and makes Oyafune Suama enamored on her youthful appearance and wonders how Komoe did it. Then, Komoe apologizes for her students' behavior and asks her what happened to them. Realizing she forgot about them and the time getting late, she excuses herself to check on them.

#### Acqua of the Back Arc

*Main article: Acqua of the Back Arc*
She is in the faculty room as her class begins to starve due to lack of lunch. Here, as Touma pleads his case to open the culinary classroom, she is shown eating a 580-yen soba set, and along with the lunch of her fellow teachers, has Touma leaving with in irritation.

#### British Royal Family Arc

*Main article: British Royal Family Arc*
Komoe makes a brief appearance where she enters her homeroom to discuss with her class what their roles for the Ichihanaransai. Aisa, who is determined to stand out more and was just encouraged by Touma, becomes disheartened at the sight of Komoe, practically a person who stands out the most in their entire class.

### Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index

#### Homecoming Arc

*Main article: Homecoming Arc*
Komoe sees Touma as he was drunk and scolds him for skipping school and having the nerve to have a night walk, later many other girls come along in the scene, much to Misaka Mikoto's chagrin. After she was told by Birdway's men leave Touma alone for the time being, she was later seen talking to Aisa about him, saying that even with extra lessons in winter break, he'll still be in trouble, and worries on what is preoccupying Touma's mind instead of going to class. Aisa gives her opinion on how Touma not going to class may be a method in defeating a dragon, to which Komoe states that it not going to be helpful in life, and he should at least fill his head with useful knowledge.

#### Ichihanaran Festival Arc

*Main article: Ichihanaran Festival Arc*
Tsukuyomi Komoe first appears after Fukiyose Seiri drags Touma back to the school. She tells Touma that his absences has reached the point in which homework and supplementary lessons can't cover it. She asks Touma if there are any problems he is facing that may be the reason for his absences, and later asks why he is so beat up (as Touma could not protect himself from his surroundings as Seiri taped him up while she dragged him).

As Misaka Mikoto visits Touma's school, Komoe meets Mikoto for the first time, though, despite knowing that Misaka Mikoto is a Level 5, she doesn't know what Mikoto looks like. Here, Komoe tells her that being an unofficial visitor to the school is not allowed by Anti-Skill. However, Mikoto completely ignores her, and assumes that, since she looks like a child, that she too is a visitor like her. Komoe is flabbergasted as Mikoto assumes that she is an elementary student and refers to her as such. As Mikoto is impressed by Touma's school's preparations despite its modest accommodations, she and Mikoto overhear Seiri shouting that Touma has been arrested by Anti-Skill (due to his little scuffle with Thor earlier).

As Touma and Thor break into the school to finish their plans against GREMLIN and Ollerus' group, Komoe is with Seiri, noting on how Touma is still missing, despite Yomikawa Aiho reporting that Touma has already been released from Anti-Skill custody.

#### Magic God Othinus Arc

*Main article: Magic God Othinus Arc*
In the first recreation of the world by Othinus, known as the *Version\_Alpha* world in-text, where she has changed the entire perspective of the world to make Touma into the world's enemy and thus break his spirit, the alliance formed to combat her and GREMLIN in Touma's original world is an international coalition that is set out to kill Touma. When Touma first arrives through Othinus' powers, he discovers that Tokyo has been invaded by the coalition in order to eliminate him, ravaging Japan's capital greatly with 70% of its 23 special wards destroyed.

Komoe is in the deeper part of Shibuya Station's underground tunnels, allowing her to avoid the two bombings of the station by the international coalition antagonistic to Touma and everyone who knows him. She is apparently somehow part of the evacuation of students from Academy City. Her first appearance in this world is to stab the already injured Touma with a kitchen knife. Touma is shocked to find that it was Komoe that stabbed him as she was not the type of person who could do it. Still calling him "Kamijou-chan", Komoe apologizes to Touma as she decides to try and stab him again with Touma no longer having the energy to defend himself. He collapses to the floor as Komoe says that after seeing all the horrible things happening to the class, she had to take responsibility.

While Komoe approaches Touma, continually apologizing to him, he catches a glimpse of his parents being put into trial for the crime of conceiving him and later finds them denouncing him as an evil and should be killed to make amends for their mistake. Hearing this and after the people in the court reacting positively to that comment, Touma falls into despair in his final moments in that world. Othinus once again appears before Touma just before Komoe stabs him again, freezing time before she could push the knife on him. She asks Touma if there was actually someone who saw him for who he was. She states that she created a world where people had a different point of view. She then tries to break him by telling him that people were not actually looking at him and that they do not see him for who he is and that is the reason why they were easily manipulated by changing their point of view. She then asked him if this kind of world is worth risking his life to protect, to which Touma responded that it is. She then realized that she could not break him that easily and decided for a slight change of plans. At a snap of her fingers, time sped back to normal and Komoe proceeded to kill Touma.

In the second recreation of the world by Othinus, known as the *Version\_Beta* world in-text, where another "Kamijou Touma" exists living Touma's life. Komoe first appears right after Index arrives to complain about her lunch, and sees "Kamijou Touma's" roughhousing with Aogami Pierce and Tsuchimikado Motoharu, leading to "Touma" getting stuck in a duct opening, surprised on how he got there. Aogami then believes that the duct may lead to the girls' locker room, while Motoharu ponders how Komoe was able to tell it was "Kamijou Touma". He later falls after much struggling and later writhes in pain, much to the shouting of his classmates. "Touma" later negotiates with Index to later have a luxurious dinner of a scraped together lunch there.

#### Magic God Invasion Arc

*Main article: Magic God Invasion Arc*
Komoe only appears briefly in the story, advising Touma to play his part as a "criminal" in the Anti-Crime Orientation really well in order to get points to make up for all the time Touma has skipped school, worried that he may be held back. It is also mentioned that Komoe's alcohol intake has secretly gone up, perhaps due to Touma.

#### World Rejecter Arc

*Main article: World Rejecter Arc*
As Kamisato Kakeru and his faction use one of the apartments in the building where Komoe lives in as a safehouse, she becomes their neighbor. She and the other tenants later become curious about Kakeru and the others because of the stench of Ellen's terrible cooking. She ends up helping them deal with it, much to their amazement.

#### Salome Arc

*Main article: Salome Arc*
On December 4th, with their school unusable due to damage from the High Priest's rampage, Komoe and her students moved to a nearby middle-high school to have classes in the schools' spare classrooms.

### Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index

#### Christmas Eve Arc

*Main article: Christmas Eve Arc*
On December 21st, Komoe left her home for an unknown destination, asking her neighbor to collect her mail. On the morning of Christmas Eve, she gave Touma a remote remedial lesson, while wearing a miniskirt Santa outfit, but it was abruptly ended by a technical failure.

#### Post-Handcuffs Arc

*Main article: Post-Handcuffs Arc*
Komoe spent a large part of December 29th giving Touma supplementary lessons at her home, having cancelled her own holiday to help her student. She was somewhat put out by Touma and Alice, who had snuck into Touma's home the night before and subsequently accompanied him there. After the lessons finished in the evening, she received a delivery of Red Town food, with Touma leaving shortly afterwards.

### Toaru Kagaku no Railgun

#### Level Upper Arc

*Main article: Level Upper Arc*
In the final episode regarding the arc for the anime adaptation, Komoe teaches an entire classroom full of Level Upper users regarding Personal Reality. Here, she encourages them to gain their own personal reality in order for them to truly gain the powers that the Level Upper has showed them.

#### Poltergeist Arc

*Main article: Poltergeist Arc*
She appears in an episode focusing on Tessou Tsuzuri, where she, Tsuzuri and Aiho enjoy baths and eat outs together. Here, Komoe references the destruction of roof of her room by a certain student, but states on how she loves students like him as well.

#### Silent Party Arc

*Main article: Silent Party Arc*
Komoe gets a non-speaking appearance in the anime-original arc. Here, she cooks up some cup noodles for Aiho while she stays with her after being suspended by Anti-Skill after snooping around too much regarding STUDY.

#### Daihasei Festival Arc

*Main article: Daihasei Festival Arc (Railgun)*
She watches the opening ceremony of the Daihaseisai with Watanabe. They agree that it was less than successful.

## Abilities

Komoe is apparently a normal human and not an esper, which allowed her to cast magic. Komoe has magical knowledge which allows her to perform the magic healing ritual that Index taught her during the arc, it is the only spell she knows. However, despite her knowledge she needs assistance of an actual magician for her to perform the spell.

Apart from that, Komoe is knowledgeable in esper-related subjects, and is a major in Pyrokinesis. Komoe can apparently control her internal clock, which is so perfect that she doesn't see the need of having any digital nor mechanical watch.

## Quotes

* (During Volume 1): *“I know I shouldn’t ask in this situation, but do you dislike girls who smoke?”* - to Touma, as he's seeing the mess in her room.
* (During Volume 3): *“Well, Kamijou has been quite naughty ever since he came to the school. A lot has happened. Yes, a lot. Hee hee. Hee hee hee hee”*
* (During Volume 6): “*Why is it that when it comes to girls, Kamijou’s movements and thinking ability improves by multifold times? Sensei hopes that you can use that on your studies!*”