Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 18/Chapter 3

Synopsis
As Kamijou Touma began his descent down the Windowless Building, a mysterious figure of a woman with cat ears wearing a black mourning attire appears before Touma. This woman introduces herself in many names, including "Mina", "Mrs. Mathers", the "Black Cat Witch", the "heretic painter" and the "founder’s understander", and reveals her awareness in being created within the Windowless building as a reminder of its owner's past mistakes. Soon, Mina explains about the Golden cabal, a large magic cabal established with the foundations of Rosenkreuz and Hermeticism, and its destruction in the hands of a man named Aleister Crowley. Soon after, Touma finds himself on firm ground as images of London, particularly 36 Blythe Road in the 1900s appears around him, and Mina begins retelling of the Battle of Blythe Road, where Aleister Crowley confronted Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and declared war on the main branch of the Golden magic cabal.

Characters
By order of appearance:
 * Kamijou Touma

New Characters

 * Mina Mathers

Locations

 * Academy City
 * School District 7
 * Windowless Building

Cultural References

 * The chapter refers to many names associated with occultism. Mathers pertains to Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, Westcott pertains to William Wynn Westcott, Waite pertains to Arthur Edward Waite, and Regardie pertains to Israel Regardie. Bennett pertains to two people: Charles Henry Allan Bennett, and Frank Bennett, both having connections to Aleister Crowley.