Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Necessarius Special Admission Test

Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Necessarius Special Admission Test (とある魔術の禁書目録SS -『必要悪の教会』特別編入試験編) or Toaru Majutsu no Index: Necessarius SS, previously known as Toaru Majutsu no Index SSS is an upcoming light novel written by Kamachi Kazuma, to be released in parts in the limited editions of the Blu-ray and DVDs of the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S anime.

The story revolves around the Amakusa-Style Remix of Church being tested by the Church of England to become part of it, but later changes early on with the Amakusa being involved in a conspiracy against the Church and are framed.

Chapter 1
After the events of the Orsola Aquinas Rescue Arc, the Amakusa Christians are eager to join the Anglican Church, and be under their protection from the Roman Catholic Church.

After being briefed of the rules and goals of the Necessarius Special Admission Test by Freadia Strikers, they begin their test in Necessarius' Underground Labyrinth, the prize for their passing of the test would not only be their inclusion into the Church's ranks but as well having the privilege of a free pass that allows them to access Necessarius facilities that are otherwise are locked by magic barriers.

However, after Itsuwa and Tsushima came upon a Cursed Corpse Wax trap in the underground labyrinth, Tatemiya Saiji informs them that their communication with Freadia has been intercepted by a fake, while the real Freadia's communication has been intercepted by fake Amakusa Christians. Immediately, they become aware of the fake Freadia and the fake Amakusa Christians, to obtain the free passes to Necessarius' facilties, which hold powerful spritual items and grimoires.

They get out of the labyrinth but know that their troubles have just begun as now the Church will suspect and target them, knowing that only they can hunt down the fakes and clear their names. Meanwhile, Freadia discovers the communication spiritual item has been tampered with remotely, and believing that the Amakusa are the cause, reports to her higher-ups that they are her suspects. She is then ordered to take them down.

Chapter 2
And thus the Freadia gathers his ilk to hunt down the betrayers, the Amakusa. She meets up with Flack Anchors and his subordinates, and makes no attempt to research him. However, she does question their objectives as a tests, and though he shows that he believes that the "Amakusa's" target is the city library where grimoires are hidden, Freadia notices that he has a reply that is unbecoming of a specialist.

Meanwhile, the Amakusa themselves are on the move, hiding from the Anglican Church, they concluded to clear their name as fast as they can as Church and their enemies will not. And so, they go towards the library, which they believe is the likeliest target by the pretenders with their free passes to infiltrate. They steal a truck and rush towards there, foiling Torquay Shadowmint's, of Necessarius, attempts to destroy as they drive pass a hospital.

Back with Freadia, she and Flack, believing that the fakes are there arrive at the library, but already she notices that the traps have not been disturbed. She takes a look at the repair and finds no one there, but then she is struck down by Flack. There, the betrayal is shown, and that Flack and his subordinates were the pretenders and the person Freadia spoke to in her cursed crystal radio was pretender as well. She is felled by them with their magic rifles.

The Amakusa arrive and see Freadia bloody but alive on the floor, and they are then engaged in combat, injuring several of them with Flack's rifles. They are forced to retreat to contemplate and mull over their tactics. But when their time was almost up, Itsuwa charges towards. Seemingly outnumbered and overpowered by Flack's group they use their rifles to attack, but Itsuwa uninjured, for she struck her spear on to the floor to make a sound. There, it is revealed that their weapons use the sound the target hears to injure them, and quickly Itsuwa charges. The subordinates try to defend Flack, but it is too late, for Saiji and the others have sneaked away and crashed a book case on their heads.

Now then, they discover that the grimoire the group was after was the Necronomicon, a fictional one, but then defictionalized by a magician. There, they also discover that Flack was bleeding, and now they see that he had read the book and that it was a true grimoire, and that he has sent forth it to parts unknown using the sound of his magic rifle. Meanwhile, near Westminster Abbey a trucked is parked. Inside, several people fall down after hearing of the contents of the Necronomicon, and there efforts were not vain, for it was then collected and made a whole again into grimoire, and now a mysterious person now holds in his hands.

Chapter 3
The Amakusa is in the process of healing their injured. There they wonder what they could've transmitted through their sounds, and Itsuwa suggest they analyze the inconsistencies  They deem that the group that attacked the Anglican Church may have done this previously, With this in mind, they need to find out of magicians with records regarding teh Cthulu mythos and the Necronomicon. Seeing this, they need to sneak into an Anglican Church facility to get to some records. Knowing that Necessarius will eventually arrive in the library and take away the bodies of their enemies, Itsuwa has a plan. Basing the model off the Corpse Wax back in the underground, Itsuwa makes a dummy body that looks like Flack Anchors, and enters it. She takes the crystal of the radio that Freadia uses and switches it with their own to allow her to communicate with the other Amakusa.

With that, Freadia comes to and discovers that she has been treated. She begins to doubt Amakusa's role but still suspects them. She orders the personnel to take the bodies of Flack and his comrades to the Sword Sanctuary facility in order to find out their goals, despite the facility being inadequate for the task. As a person there tries to open up Flack, Itsuwa bursts out of it and knocks him unconscious. After she ties him, she goes to its "morgues," a large room where they keep records. With time of the essence, Itsuwa searches for anything related to the Cthulhu Mythos and the Necronomicon. Here, she discovers incidents that are vaguely related to the tales of the Mythos, but one incident strikes out the most. An incident in the Atlantic where the American crew all went insane, a bizarre ritual to call upon the underwater dead city of R'lyeh where the Great Old One Chulhu sleeps. It was merely an attempt to gain inspiration for their magical research, and the main culprit of this was a man named Arlands Darkstreet of the magica cabal Dusk Waiting to Awaken.

Meanwhile, Freadia discovers that her crystal is a fake, and discovers the tied up body of her comrade. Rallying him and the personnel there, she goes to the room of records. Itsuwa is aware of this as well for she felt pain in her temples, an indication that the crystal radio they used for their communication has been discovered. As the personnel tries to bust into the room, Itsuwa sets up a trick with a Mandala, an illusion spell upon a desk to confuse Freadia. And from there, Itsuwa injures herself in order to force them to heal her in order for her to get her crystal back. When the Necessarius personnel enters they find Itsuwa's unconscious body. Freadia falls for the illusoin magic, believing it to be her crystal which she cannot get back, and since it is cursed, she is forced to take care of Itsuwa until she wakes up in order to get the information she needs to get her crystal back.

When Itsuwa comes to, she finds herself strapped on a bed with Freadia on top. Itsuwa easily tells her where the real crystal (in Itsuwa's pants pocke) is and how she was fooled thorugh the Mandala spell. Freadia reminds her that she is no longer of use, but Itsuwa convinces her of the logical inconsistencies of their apparent guilt, and tells her of Arlands Darkstreet. Hearing this, Freadia acquiesces to believe her, but she is forces Itsuwa to wear a collar in order for her to not be able to escape.

As they sneak away to leave and enter commandeer a vehicle, Freadia shows her distrust of Itsuwa once more, and plans to kill her outside as killing her in the Sword Sanctuary when she was defenceless would cause too much problems. However, the Amakusa girl has reveals a trick up her sleeve and escapes into a sewer, with the other Amakusa waiting for her. Freadia tries to make pursuit and kill Itsuwa with the cursed collar but is once again fooled by the Amakusa. She looks down on the strange markings down the manhole and sees that it is similar to the Mandala spell from before. There she believes that the Amakusa might've analyzed her crystal while she was unconscious and that if she uses the crystal radio the spell might backfire on her.

In the sewers, the collar on Itsuwa's neck is destroyed, and there they begin to hunt down Arlands Darkstreet and the Dusk Waiting to Awaken.

Chapter 4
The Amakusa come out of the sewers that drain into the Thames. Here, they ponder on where to find Arlands Darkstreet, but with a little engenuity, Saiji figures out. Using a computer found in modern cars, he searches on the Internet indications of Arland's presence and finds a company that is doing salvage work for sunken ships in the Strait of Dover. They doubt why the Dusk Waiting to Awaken would choose the Strait of Dover to summon R’lyeh instead of the Pacific as stated in the tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, but they have no time to ponder on this matter, as Arlands Darkstreet begins going to his destination. The Amakusa decide to climb onboard a passing cargo ship instead of using their paper boat magic as they are still in London and the Anglican Church still sees all. Here, Itsuwa questions the mindset of Arlands for wanting to summon R'lyeh, to which Saiji says that all magicians have differing motivations, some just want to have fun and they will do whatever they can to attain it.

In a helicopter, Arlands instruct his subordinates, Dodge, Vase, and Rotia to begin preparations as he is heading to the float where the salvage operation is occurring. Though they are worried about their pursuers, they are confident all is going according to plan. Arlands then instruct them to prepare the pawns who will read the Necronomicon for them. He arrives at the float and tosses the Necronomicon to Dodge and orders him to begin preparing with their pawns. He inquires about the glass that would reflect the light used there to make the float look like it was beyond Euclidean geometry just like the R’lyeh in the story. After meeting an unsuspecting worker from the float, he locks himself in a room, takes out a bottle of human blood and flesh, and begins writing symbols in the room.

The Amakusa arrive on the cold waters of Dover Strait using fireboats to attack the float while they use the other paper boats for transportation. After sighting the float explosions rock their progress, and here they discover that the magic cabal is trying to emulate the earthquakes found in the story that was a prelude to the raising of R’lyeh. After the ships arrive and exploded upon the float, they too reach the float, which was now in flames. After a while, the ground they tread upon resembled  a pulsing blood vessel ran across the steel surface of the float. Moreover, Tsushima sees the strong lights used in the float in the otherwise dark night, giving the illusion where that the place has strange shapes that cannot be represented by Euclidean geometry. Here, they discover that they weren't trying to summon R'lyeh from the deaths but make it so that the float was R'lyeh itself. Itsuwa tells the rest of them to destroy the lights that allow this magic ritual to become reality. Suddenly however, something strokes her back, coming from the murky depths of the waters below her. Many tentacles have appeared, that of the Great Old One Cthulhu. Itsuwa collapsed and the tentacles vanish later as Saiji says that it was more of a mental presence than a physical one, though for now. With time of the essence Tsushima asks how to get Itsuwa back from the nightmare that the Great Old One Cthulhu is sending to her. Saiji says that though difficult, they need to analyze on how Cthulhu is sending its presence to Itsuwa and then send their own meaningless information to dilute it, allowing them to free Itsuwa. Suddenly a shadow passes over them, a giant mass silhoutted by the bright lights. The Amakusa were in danger into succumbing like Itsuwa if they focus on it.

Meanwhile, Arlands is in he room meditating, the mental efforts to keep the ritual he's doing taking a toll on him. Nevertheless, he is enjoying all the same. Suddenly, he is to the side and Itsuwa appears. Arlands try to inquire on how she managed to escape, to which Itsuwa says that since the evil gods of the Mythos gain their role and terror from the story they represent, then they can escape if they give out an ending for the gods. That is, the illusion that the "intruders", the Amakusa, were defeated and its conclusion drove Cthulhu away. To do this, they need only to mess with the method on how Arlands twisted the float. Arlands is amused, and then, after burdening with the ritual collapses down.

Itsuwa communicates with Saiji on how she is finished here. However, she notices something on the wall and felt a part of it with her hands. Using her spear she rips up the wallpaper and discovers symbols behind them, a communocation spell. Itsuwa discovers that their aim wasn't the Cthulhu Mythos, they were just researching the margin of error that allows a spell to function even when it leaves the proper formula. Itsuwa realizes that they wanted to freely interfere with existing legends and myths and rearrange them as they wished. Itsuwa tells Saiji to leave right away to Stonehenge as the experimental data that was made on the float was sent there.

Meanwhile, Vase arrives at Stonehenge carrying a long sheet of parchment made up of human flesh with a mysterious young man. They discuss the fate of Arlands, who enjoyed himself till the very end. After reading the report written on the parchment, the two of them go to Stonehenge to being the Blank Paper spell.

Chapter 5
Vase and the other members of the the Dusk Awaiting to Awaken are in Stonehenge preparing to use to create the Blank Paper spell. With them are tents of various focus groups interested in the old relic but have nothing to do with magic or the Church. However, there are Anglicans there, and with their plan in motion, they kill the Anglican members one by one, though knowing that they'll be there soon.

Still reeling from the embarassing escape of the Amakusa from her hands in the Sword Sanctuary, Freadia is determined to catch them, believing them to be the culprit of the incidents that have happened. She knows of how they have went to Strait of Dover but opts to intercept them only in Stonehenge. She asks the one who manages the place to give her a special armor to increase her power. He hesitates for it shall weaken her body considerably after using, but Freadia is insistent. Thinking that she will just kill him just to get the armor anyway, he reluctantly gives it to her and head to Stonehenge.

The Amakusa arrive at Stonehenge, and a few scout out the premises before engaging the magic cabal. However, they are quickly detected. Seeing this, the Amakusa quickly mobilize, moving symbolically through the encampments to make the people believe they are animals. They find the members of the magic cabal and engaged in battle against them. They use magic based on the edritch tales found in the Cthulhu Mythos, and Itsuwa easily defeats a few of them. However, they come upon Vase and his Shining Trapezohedron, and with a single clutch of it in his hand, darkens it from all light, allowing him to summon dark clouds and lightning to try to engulf them, the form that great Nyarlathotep took in one of the tales. Thinking quickly, Itsuwa charms her spear with the legend of St. Andrew as so she can throw it towards Vase. The spear absorbs the lightning that hits it, and easily hits his hand carrying the stone. He fumbles and the trapezohedron flies through to the air from his hands, ending the engulfing clouds. However, to everyone's horror, Vase opted to do the unthinkable, He opens his mouth and swallows the jewel. In total darkness, Stonehenge is engulfed in darkness.

Freadia however arrives and easily knocks out everyone including Vase, ending the engulfing darkness. Itsuwa finds her bearings and notices the armored woman before her, Freadia Strikers with no expression came at Itsuwa and has already hit by one of her attacks, weakening her. Itsuwa on the other hand still under the effects of the previous battle insead takes up Tsushima's sword instead. She forms a circle and figures out the weaknesses of the armor and how to stop her. Saiji regains consciousness just barely to call out to Freadia to distract her. Itsuwa charges, wanting to target the joints of the armor to cut it open and destroy it without killing Freadia. However, as she stepped forward the curse that Freadia had put upon her as already spread and she falls without being able to attack. Freadia still with no expression, attacks the weakened Itsuwa with those same curses again and again. And thus the incident in Stonehenge is resolved.

The Amakusa and the Dusk Awaiting to Awaken are later chucked into a single truck to be driven to the Tower of London to await torture. Itsuwa comes to and finds that they are guarded by Anglican magicians, Freadia is there as well, removing the armor. Seeing that, Itsuwa sees the toll tha Freadia had to pay for wearing it. Itsuwa and Freadia do a little banter with one another with the former confident that even if they get tortured the Anglican Church will eventually find that they were innocent. Their conversation ends with their truck hewn in half by a mysterious man with a sword, with the contents being the Amakusa and the Dusk Awaiting to Awaken, strewn all over the English countryside. Freadia is still adamant that the Amakusa has come to rescue her and his comrades, and Itsuwa also believes it to be either the Dusk Awaiting to Awaken or the Anglican Church attacking it to hide the embarassment of the recent incidents with them. She however, quickly change her mind. Hiding behind a bush, Itsuwa finds that the culprit is a new player in this conspiracy, and is seemingly trying to find a target, searching the place for a certain someone. The person gathers the people into a single spot, and Freadia concludes that they are to be executed. Itsuwa then concludes that the most likely target would be Freadia, and seeing the execution of her comrades, Anglicans, a about to take place, pleads with Freadia to aid her in stopping him.

Characters
By order of appearance
 * Tatemiya Saiji
 * Itsuwa
 * Tsushima
 * Isahaya
 * Ushibuka
 * Kouyagi
 * Orsola Aquinas (mentioned)

New characters

 * Freadia Strikers
 * Flack Anchors
 * Torquay Shadowmint
 * Arlands Darkstreet
 * Vase
 * Dodge
 * Rotia