Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 11/Prologue

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Synopsis

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Characters

By order of appearance:

• Alice Anotherbible (recap-only)
• Kamijou Touma
• Heaven Canceller (recap-only)
• Anna Kingsford
• Johann Valentin Andreae

Abilities

New Abilities

• Hell Tour - Anna Kingsford

Locations

• World of the Dead

New Locations

• 'Hell'
  • Gate of Hell

Trivia

Referbacks

• The prologue begins with a series of fragments from the previous volume, briefly recapping events leading to Touma's death and Kingsford's offer.

Cultural References

• The chapter's subtitle, "the_DIE_After_Tomorrow", appears to be parodying "The Day After Tomorrow", which is the title of several works of literature and music, as well as a 2004 science-fiction disaster film.
• On the top of the gate to hell, Touma sees a metal plate with an inscription that he couldn't read, apparently in alphabetical characters and not in English, which Anna Kingsford thinks is "abandon all hope, ye who enter here". This is the most frequent translation of a famous line in Inferno, the first part of The Divine Comedy, a 14th century narrative poem by Italian writer Dante Alighieri, which details a journey through Hell, Purgatory ('Purgatorio') and Heaven ('Paradiso') by a fictionalized vesion of the author. The inscription on the gate of hell in the story ends with the line, "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate".
• The manner in which the gates of hell, a pair of wooden doors in a hemispherical stone arch, create a "border" even without walls on either side, were compared to the torii found at Shinto shrines, though it felt wrong to Touma to liken it to them.

Unanswered Questions

• Is there a lie or catch in Kingsford's offer of resurrection?