Leivinia Birdway

Leivinia Bardway (レイヴィニア＝バードウェイ) is a supporting character in the special story of Toaru Majutsu no Index released on Dengeki Bunko and in Toaru Majutsu no Index: Kanzaki SS, the special story of Toaru Majutsu no Index released as an addition to the DVD and Blu-Ray releases of Toaru Kagaku no Railgun. Her full name, Leivinia Bardway, is revealed in New Testament Volume 1.

Appearance
She is a 12-year-old girl with short blonde hair, green eyes and a petite figure who wears a pink orange-like dress, she also is the younger sister of Patricia Bardway. She is a talented magician who has received various proposals from many organizations to join but flatly rejected them all. She encounters Touma in a random discovery of a certain organization's meeting and which involves him in a misunderstanding which makes her group to think of him to be a spy from a rival organization. She is later revealed to be the leader of the said organization, called the Dawn-colored Sunlight, despite her age.

New Testament
She makes her first main canon appearance near the end of New Testament volume 1, where she kicks Touma at the groin while he was explaining magic to Accelerator and Hamazura, saying that he needs to go apologize to some girls he made cry, and took over explaining.

Abilities
Without relying on complicated theories and calculations, she is able to accurately use the right amount of Telesma just by intuition for a series of dome-shaped explosion attacks, which she calls the "Summon Explosion".

Trivia

 * According to the interview on Kazuma Kamachi featured in "Toaru Majutsu no Index no Subete", he states that his favorite character is Bardway.

Quotes

 * "I am Bardway. I am Leivinia Bardway of the Dawn-Colored Sunlight. As you can see, I'm the boss of a magic cabal. (...)Welcome to the entrance to a new world, children who have been made ignorant by science."