Aozaki Touko

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**Aozaki Touko** (蒼崎 橙子, *Aozaki Tōko*?) is a recurring character in *Toaru Majutsu no Index* and the main antagonist of *Mahoutsukai no Yoru*. She is the older sister of Aozaki Aoko and a member of the GOC.

## Appearance

Like her younger sister, Touko is a beautiful woman in her late twenties, even when she is decades older. She has dull semi-long red hair and amber eyes. Originally, her hair was very short until she decided to grow it out. In the present, her hair is tied in a ponytail. She also wears a pair of glasses. She is a heavy smoker, smoking the rare brand Dragon Smoke despite their bad taste, so she is stated to always have a cigarette between her lips.

In the main *Toaru* series, Touko is usually seen wearing white dress shirt. Despite hating her name due to the association with the color orange, she has a habit of always wearing one orange-coloured accessory. In *Mahoutsukai no Yoru*, she wore an aristocratic green dress with a matching scarf and black gloves.

## Personality

Touko is a very perplexing individual with dual personalities, allowing her to change her personality depending on how she views the situation. By most people's standards, she is an inhuman monster who cares very little for human life, will kill even longtime colleagues over a mere insult, and has a desire to murder her own sister for the "crime" of being chosen as the successor of their family over her. However, she can be genuinely kind and warm towards people she likes or find interest in. When she first spoke to Kamijou Touma on the phone, she had a serious tone to appear important, whereas when she meets Touma in person, she seemed nice and friendly.

She switches between her personas depending on if she wears her glasses or not. When wearing them, her facial expressions are compossed and kind and she is objective and ruthless. After taking them off, her facial expressions are very cruel and she is subjective and emotional. It is unknown, even to her, which is the real Touko, but emotional or not, she is fundamentally a romanticist. It is uncertain what personality she has once she put on sunglasses but she'd turn into one of those cute weirdo characters with a nonsensical verbal tic.

Touko originally had a terrible relationship with her sister, Aoko because she took her position as the successor to the Fifth Magic. As such, the two are normally antagonistic toward one another, devolping a bitter sibling rivalry over the years. In retaliation for having her prized Mystic Eye Killers stolen from her, Touko has been making an effort to buy as much stuff as she can under Aoko's name. Even though there's a high chance of her location leaking out if she keeps it up, it seems that revenge against Aoko even takes priority over her own self-preservation. In her later years, however, this relationship appears to be mended and the two have a more friendly rivalry. Touko was originally obsessed with reaching the Swirl of the Root which led her to hate her sister, but eventually gave up on it. While giving up on it, she enjoys her daily life with people she cares about.

Touko believes a certification is not really proof of anything, it's just a scrap of paper. Likewise, as long as you've actually got the skills to back it up, things like licenses or certifications are completely unnecessary. She is qualified in Medical Treatment, Construction, Business, and Information Gathering. She loves new things, and she will tinker restlessly with things in which she is interested. She can also be called a speed demon. In her underground garage, she has four cars, two motorcycles, and an engine propeller plane. She is also very loose with money, as she buys items with magic properties on impulse which leads her to being broke months at a time. For example, she brought a Ouija Board because she thought it would look good in her office.

She hates being called **"Scarred Red"** (傷んだ赤（スカー・レッド）, *Itanda Aka (Sukā Reddo)*?, Yen Press: **"Disgraced Scarlet"**), as it reminds her that although she wanted the colored title of **Blue** similar to her family name, she instead ended up with the colored title of **Red**. The nickname implies that her given name of "orange" is merely a tainted color of her title of red, a pure primary color. She made a personal rule that whomever calls her that nickname would end up with a death sentence.

## Background

Aozaki Touko was born on August 8, 1968. Aoko and Touko's grandfather, the third generation head, raised Touko in the way of the magus in his Workshop on the mountains in Misaki Town, while Aoko and her parents lived separately. When Fumizuka Eiri apprenticed under the Aozaki clan, he was Touko's first love.

#### Early years

When she was 14, she studied in a certain school in London, England. After studying there for 2 years, she returned to Japan and became a student at the Reien Girl's Academy, where she became acquainted with Mother Riesbyfe. Touko happily enjoyed her time as a high school student. She was an honour student and with her bright and cheerful personality, excellent grades, and ability to deftly handle both serious matters with her American jokes has earned her as one of the three shining stars of the dorm. As a student, she caused a hurricane just by winking and she made a pitcher soil himself by standing in the on-deck circle.

However, when her grandfather suddenly changed the position of successor to Aoko, despite Aoko being a formally inferior magus (not counting her ability to "blow things up"), she ran away. Thus, three years after returning to Japan, she fled back to England to join the Mage's Association. Because of this Touko does not have a particularly good relationship with her sister.

## Chronology

### Mahoutsukai no Yoru

*Main article: Mahoutsukai no Yoru*
She later returns to Misaki Town in order to enter through the path to the Root hidden under the land and sealed by her grandfather. After sealing her grandfather with part of her Magic Crests, she proceeds to break down the bounded field around Misaki Town that concentrates the mana of the land to the Kuonji mansion and seals the path to the Root hidden under the land.

### Toaru Majutsu no Index

#### Academy City Invasion Arc

*Main article: Academy City Invasion Arc*
## Abilities

Aozaki Touko is an extremely powerful magus who masquerades as an artisan specializing in mannequins and occasionally a designer of buildings. She is a genius with talents independent of her lineage. Touko has twenty Magic Circuits, which, although not a massive amount, surprised the Aozaki clan since their line's Magic Circuits had been declining. In terms of quality, her Magic Circuits are among the best. She is the second youngest to earn the highest rank of **Grand** (冠位, ***Grand***?) in the Global Occult Coalition, having done so at the age of 20, and the Mage's Association also dubbed her with the highest primary colored title of **Red** (赤, ***Red***?). She wished to get the color Blue, but that title was instead given to her sister Aoko. Although her younger sister Aoko is good at nothing but destroying things, Touko is truly a polymath. While she jokes half-seriously about only being able to fly with a broom, she actually patented a new type of flight most commonly called "Touko Travel."

### Runes

Touko is well-versed in Rune Magic. She possesses a wide variety of Runes that can display a variety of effects, but her most notable are the three replicas of Primeval Runes. These runes, indestructible by magic, are able to amplify the curses of her other runes by tens of millions of times. By drawing Kenaz in the air or carving into the ground, Touko can use powerful fire magic that can be cast with a simple hand gesture.

Using the *Sowilo* Rune, Touko can use its meaning of "Sun" to unleash effects connected to the sun, such as using the Rune's power to rapidly scatter the lingering shadows and darkness of Flat's magecraft, like the morning sun melting the night's frost, or stealing the attribute of Night itself from a particular place. By engraving the runes *Naudiz*, *Jera*, and *Uruz* into the ground, Touko used the meaning of "creation" behind this string of Runes to engrave countless Runes through her own great skill in runes at a radius of about ten meters around Svin, then cause the dozens of Runes to explode around him, with the dozens of impacts blowing away both the Phantasmal Wolf and Svin's consciousness. Using the rune *Mannaz*, Touko is also able to control and manipulate people, even collapsed magi, as if they were her puppets. Once, she blew up a stolen motorcycle with runes.

Furthermore, by inscribing an unknown set of runes into an item, it can be used to erase the memories of those attacked by it. She can use Runes to employ effects that bring misfortune to those inscribed by it. She even can create runic wards to protect a specific area. They prevent uninvited guests from entering. The runic barrier works as a hypnotic suggestion to tell people they aren't interested in going there. A more advanced version works by "isolating the room from space" to make it unnoticeable. Touko noted that no one would get alarmed even if the room exploded.

### Puppet Making

Touko is primarily skilled in the art of **Puppet Making** (人形作り, *Ningyō-tsukuri*?), being an expert puppet master to the point of receiving a Sealing Designation because she was able to create a puppet that was identical to her own body. While usually this is limited to just body parts like prosthetic limbs, Touko can even recreate even the entire body due to her deep knowledge and understanding of the human body. She's able to reproduce parts of a body that can be used instead of the lost part. While this is truly nothing special, she can also reproduce the part in such a perfect way that it is practically indistinguishable from the real one.

#### Touko Puppets

Puppets are normally either greater or lesser than human bodies in some way. While they may have greater strength and move as would a human, some flaw in their creation will expose them at some point. Their speech, actions, or appearance will seem wrong or unnatural, and their parts are only mechanisms animated by magecraft and not truly living. Exposing something like blood and muscle sinew from the loss of a limb should reveal the truth. This has led to the saying "Magic cannot create an automaton that contains the spark of humanity." that has been passed down since the Middle Ages. Once simply common knowledge, it eventually became a rule of sorts for magi.

Within her various experiments, Touko has managed to create a perfect puppet imitation of herself despite that rule. It is no more or less than herself, and despite most magi striving to seek higher plateaus in the field, she feels that is the state of the art of magecraft. It has brought her current existence into a state of being that can be likened to Schrödinger's cat. Upon first witnessing her creation, she thought there may no longer be a need for herself, and that it, even after she is killed, going on to act as she did no longer leaves any hope for puppeteers to achieve ascension in their craft. Even if her body is destroyed and her soul is severed, the next Touko simply awakens without issue.

Due to the exactness of the puppets, the next Touko will awaken after the death of the previous one. It is possible to stall the awakening by keeping her brain active, even if the rest of her body is destroyed. Her soul often remembers everything up until the point of death, even the pain of her head being crushed by Alba. It is possible that her full will and goals will not be inherited to the next puppet depending on how far the original is from the puppet. The closer the proximity, the more likely she will inherit the original's will, and the further away, as they are stored all over the world, the greater a blank in her memory proportional to the distance will be formed. She normally has a rule of "begin activity after constructing a puppet", though her easily roused nature and lack of patience causes her to go after Alba right after waking.

The transition between the original and the puppet is very smooth, likened to napping and acting as if she overslept by a few hours. Everything she knows stays with her, and determinism dictates that she should take the same actions as her predecessor. She only knows that she wakes when the previous is dead, so she can no longer tell which version of her is the real Touko, the time when she became like that, or if it even matters at all. She then may create another puppet for the sole reason of convincing herself that she is the real Touko. The previous version may have been real or it may be dead, but with only one of her, there is no way to distinguish between them, likened to a quantum superposition-like state that makes all any version of her "fake" in her own eyes. Alba finds the explanation mostly inconceivable, from the method to Touko's state of mind, so she simply tells him to think of the previous one as fake.

#### Aoko Puppet

* Aoko Puppet
* spider mode
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**Aoko Puppet** (青子人形, *Aoko Ningyō*?) is a puppet that appeared in *Mahou Tsukai no Yoru*. Touko crafted it to resemble her little sister, it has 4 arms with a **crow mode** (鴉形態, *karasu keitai*?) and a **spider mode** (蜘蛛形態, *kumo keitai*?). It has a **self-destruct** (自爆, *jibaku*?) function.

Its primary form of offense comes from its ability to extend its limbs like spears to strike its targets, however it does takes some time for it to fully retract its arms. It compensate for this weakness with precise strikes and extra arms. If necessary, the puppet is able to use the retract to its advantage by anchoring the fired arm in place and then ramming its mass into its opponent caught between.

Upon physical contact it is able to shock its target and in doing so, place a Magic Crest interference curse on them, preventing them from using magecraft temporarily. The curse essentially short-circuit the victims own magic circuits via the puppet's circuits. The curse also serves another purpose by providing the puppet with energy, thanks its auto-incant perpetual motion engine, a cursed music box. As victims of curses will inevitably curse their assailant in return; the puppet was made with this concept in mind, allowing it to take advantage of this phenomenon in order to gain unending energy to pursue its target. As the puppet is constantly chanting curses to power itself, this also creates a cursed self-defense field around it. This in turn, stricken any who comes close with sickness making them easy prey.

#### Bodhisattva Princess

The **Bodhisattva Princess** (菩薩姫, *Bosatsu Hime*?) is Touko's most powerful puppet. She crafted it in the form of a giant woman with dark, braided hair arranged in loops on her head and mannequin-like arm and wears a revealing red robe. Bodhisattva Princess has the ability to restructure anything it touches for both offensive and supportive purposes. Offensively, it can split open whatever is within its area of effect. This "splitting" is similar to the act of dissecting something by cutting it open. Supportively, it can restructure something by stitching it back together; this can be used as a form of healing, such as when Touko restored her eyes using this power. It also can be used as a way to bring something to an optimal working state by enhancing it, which Touko used to overpower Mario Gallo Bestino by restructuring her arm to have greater strength. All uses of this are manifested in the form of cutting said objects into parts and then using stitches to sew the pieces back together. With it, Touko can also create a path for others to move through obstacles or barriers.

### Familiars

Touko's familiars generally act as her trump cards.

#### Projection Machine

* Projector
* The cat shaped Ether Clump
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The **Projection Machine** (幻燈機械, *Gentō Kikai*?) was created by Touko to replace the familiar that was destroyed by her sister. It is stored in her **Orange Bag** (オレンジの鞄, *Orenji no Kaban*?), she seems to be very fond of using it. It is not used as a bag, and it is stuffed with a projector-like mechanism. A projection machine that perjures a magical creature of shadow. It is a suitcase with a projector installed inside. It shapes Ether Clump in the form of a monstrous cat that cannot be destroyed unless the bag is destroyed. It also can heal Touko by enveloping her. The creature can change shape, and its actual appearance is a flying, devouring mouth.

#### Sealed Box

One of Touko's unnamed familiars is kept in a large briefcase, known as the **Sealed Box** (封印の匣, *Fūin no Hako*?), which is big enough to contain a small child. Inside, there is an oppressive darkness without dimensions altogether, an eternal and infinite hell. A creature without a name, like a monster from a horror movie, understood by no one and more than anything, immortal. A ceaseless and otherworldly darkness that no magic could ever hope to reach.

Upon being opened, it contains a dark mass that remains untouched by the light and peers out with two shining eyes. It has numerous thorn-like tendrils to grab the target and one thousand small mouths to slowly devour them in chunks while dragging them back toward the box. Eating them alive, they are completely dragged inside and devoured. Everything consumed by that maw of hellfire it's the same as if it had never even existed at all in the material world.

It can potentially devour the entirety of the Ogawa Apartment Complex, but Touko refrains from doing so because the Mage's Association would discover her and start chasing her down again.

#### Other

Touko is able to call forth animal familiars through the use of magical spells. For now, she can summon birds, a white lynx-like creature, and a turtle. Once the creature of her choice is summoned, Touko can command them into battle with movements of her fingers and hands, causing the beasts to glow with mystical yellow energy. Touko can also summon all of her beasts at the same time, using the birds and lynx as offensive weapons and the turtle as a defensive shield, as well as summon large group of birds at the same time, a more bigger bird for transportation, and even use her foot to summon her turtle. She is very proficent with this usage of familiars.

Touko also has familiars in the form of crystal damselflies she collects that fire beams like her younger sister. They are mechanical damselflies, with clear and transparent bodies, as if they had been carved from crystal, with a faint, ethereal light emanating from their folded wings. Though they are only the size of a child's hand, the wires, springs, and gears are perfectly balanced inside it. All of this is fixed in place with a combination of chips of crystal, friction, and tiny amounts of Magical Energy. Even a high-ranking mage would be stunned with envy if they were told of how this item worked. As a result of magic that obstructs the senses, no one else can see or react to it. Touko can rearrange a crystal damselfly Familiar into a gun muzzle that fires a magical bullet.