Toaru Majutsu no Index Wiki:Featured articles/This month's featured article/2021

Openers for articles that have been featured in 2021.

January
A new year, a new beginning. Perhaps somewhat fitting, the first Featured Article of 2021 is for the Beginning Child, the first modern esper and the beginning of Academy City's Power Curriculum Program.

Half a century before the present day, this student was trained based on 's data and became Academy City's first artificial esper, possessing the ability to remake the environment of her immediate surroundings into one ideal for the survival of a nearby life-form. The system used for her became the foundation of the modern-day Power Curriculum Program.

However the public of the time did not believe the Beginning Child had special powers, and she had to endure continual attacks from newspapers and sceptics. She eventually disappeared, supposedly unable to bear living under these conditions, but she was actually frozen and preserved, with technology of the time having apparently not been enough to control her. A year before the main events of the series, she had ended up in the possession of L.S.S., and their attempts to awaken and exploit her played a key role in the Biohacker incident Kamijou Touma was involved in during his third year of middle school.

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