Unable to figure out how to use it, she finally gets some help from a girl with glasses who introduces herself as Kazakiri Hyouka, another transfer student. Rather than going home though, Index wanders around the school hungry until she comes across a vending machine. Komoe kicks Index out and gives her some money to go home, and it turns out that the real transfer student is actually Himegami. Back at the school, Komoe tries to introduce a new transfer student, but Index shows up instead. Tsuchimikado volunteers to do it since he’s a mage himself, but Crowley indicates that he’s planning on having Touma do it. That person in question is Sherry Cromwell, a member of Necessarius, and Tsuchimikado worries that relations will worsen between the church and the city if she’s defeated carelessly. Meanwhile, Tsuchimikado gets himself transported to Aleister Crowley’s place because he’s concerned about a mage who has entered the city. She explains that this is also known as An Involuntary Movement, and it’s the field of power that espers emit which theoretically could be detected. At the entrance of the school, he sees Komoe parking her car and learns that she’s collecting some materials on something called the AIM dispersion field. He manages to get her all flustered by saying that he’s tired and that she’s the only one who would ask him to do such an embarrassing thing as pretending to be lovers. Unaware of Index’s dismay, Touma walks to school and runs into Mikoto along the way.
He promises to do something fun with her once he returns, but Index realizes after he leaves that she doesn’t have anything for lunch. It’s time to head back to school for Touma, which means that Index will be at home all alone.