A certain unlikely hero In Academy City where superhuman abilities are scientific reality Touma Kamijou is trying to reconstruct a life for himself but that&s easier said than done with a girl by his side with the arcane knowledge of 103000 grimoires rattling around in her brain Now seemingly inextricably caught up in a world where magic is a reality Kamijou learns that a certain shrine maiden is being held captive in one of Academy City&s cram schools Can Touma ally himself with a sorcerer who has on more than one occasion tried to do him in? The only thing he knows for sure is that he really does have rotten luck About the Author Kazuma Kamachi is a Japanese light novel author & creator of the massively popular series A Certain Magical Index its sequel A Certain Magical Index New Testament & a manga adaptation as well as two spin-off manga series A Certain Scientific Railgun & A Certain Scientific Accelerator