Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 04/Chapter 3

Characters
By order of appearance:
 * Shokuhou Misaki
 * Misaka Mikoto
 * Shirai Kuroko
 * Kamijou Touma
 * Othinus
 * Melzabeth Grocery
 * Roseline Krackhart
 * Roberto Katze
 * Accelerator
 * Qliphah Puzzle 545
 * Dion Fortune (voice-only)
 * Hamazura Shiage
 * Stiyl Magnus
 * Helcalia Grocery
 * Index
 * Citrinitas

New Characters

 * Double Magnet
 * Mr. Grocery (mentioned)
 * Darris Hewlane
 * Misaka 19559
 * Misaka 10089
 * Misaka 16360

Locations

 * Academy City
 * School District 7
 * Heaven Canceller's Hospital
 * United States of America
 * Los Angeles
 * Washington D.C.
 * White House

New Locations

 * United States of America
 * Long Beach, CA
 * USS Iowa Museum (mentioned)
 * Space Engage
 * Anaheim, CA

Cultural References

 * The O-1 Grand Prix (O-1グランプリ) is a real-life stand-up comedy show held every January by Okinawa Television Broadcasting.
 * Several tech parodies appeared in the chapter.
 * Telomere is likely a parody of either or.
 * Alkaloid is a parody of, a mobile operating system, designed primarily for smartphones and tablets.
 * Calexa is a parody of, Amazon's virtual assistant technology.
 * Dial Q is a parody of, Japan's premium rate telephone number service.
 * Panda OS is likely a parody of, a discontinued open-source operating system developed by the and external contributors.
 * Bagel (ベーグル) is a parody of (グーグル).
 * The name of the multi-stage rocket involved in the state-run space launch failure which killed Melzabeth Grocery's husband, Uranus III (ウラノスⅢ), has its roots in Classical Mythology, the planets named from it, and the past usage of it for the naming of spacecraft, rockets and space programs.
 * (also spelled Ouranos) is the primordial Greek god of the sky, who was overthrown by . is also the seventh planet from the Sun in Earth's solar system.


 * Empress Marriage is a mistranslation of Space Engage by Transla-Pen.