A Certain Magical Index/Characters/SCHOOL
An organization in Academy City's dark side which develops a rivalry with ITEM. Their motives are unknown, save for the fact that they are bent on negotiating with Aleister himself. As of the end of Volume 15, they are disbanded.
Teitoku Kakine
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Measure Heart
An unnamed character and a former member of SCHOOL. Her ability is "Measure Heart", the ability to regulate the distance between peoples' minds (hearts). The only remaining member of SCHOOL after Volume 15.
- Genre Savvy: Makes it out of the battle royale alive since she refused to follow Kakine to his fight with Accelerator.
- Also because she knows her power well and is already aware of how it can backfire.
- Gold Digger: Somewhat. She scams money out of lonely workers by comforting them, but she stops before anything more happens between them.
- Grenade Launcher
- The Gunslinger
- Nominal Importance: Averted. She's the most developed unnamed character in the novels.
- No Name Given
- Punch Clock Villain
- Sword Cane: That can slice through metal.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Her ability regulates the distance between peoples' minds...
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: ...which she can use to confuse enemies by making her distance identical to someone else's. For example, when Shiage points a gun at her, she makes her heart identical to Rikou's, causing Shiage to hesitate pulling the trigger. Objectively, Shiage knows Measure Heart is different from Rikou, but his heart is telling him he's targeting Rikou. On the other hand, she notes that some targets will go berserk and attack you harder because seeing a loved one as an enemy results in a betrayal response. This is why she does not go with Kakine to help against Accelerator: She reasonably enough thinks he might be that type.
- Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: Minus the shape shifting.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: ...which she can use to confuse enemies by making her distance identical to someone else's. For example, when Shiage points a gun at her, she makes her heart identical to Rikou's, causing Shiage to hesitate pulling the trigger. Objectively, Shiage knows Measure Heart is different from Rikou, but his heart is telling him he's targeting Rikou. On the other hand, she notes that some targets will go berserk and attack you harder because seeing a loved one as an enemy results in a betrayal response. This is why she does not go with Kakine to help against Accelerator: She reasonably enough thinks he might be that type.
Chimitsu Sunazara
A replacement sniper hired by SCHOOL after their previous sniper was killed by ITEM. He is known to be a mentor figure to Stephanie Gorgeouspalace.
- Big Brother Mentor: To Stephanie Gorgeouspalace.
- Cold Sniper: In contrast to Stephanie Gorgeouspalace.
- Hired Guns
- Ironic Death / Tempting Fate: He's not dead, but he once said that he'll never be killed in an explosion no matter what. Cue Saiai bringing in an anti-tank warhead.
- Mentors: To Stephanie Gorgeouspalace.
- Mentor Occupational Hazard: Subverted. He survives the explosion, but he is grievously wounded and kept by Thomas Platinaburg as a bargaining chip to hire Stephanie.
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A boy wearing goggles introduced as a member of SCHOOL. Not much is known about him.
- Iconic Item: A metallic goggle on his head that doesn't cover his eyes, but surrounds his head like a ring on a planet. There are several wires plugged into it.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: His second "appearance" is when Mugino is holding his bloodstained goggles while commenting that they didn't leave empty-handed.
- Now subverted, somewhat; he makes a small appearance in the Raiilgun manga with SCHOOL.
- You Have Failed Me: Kills one of his comrades after said comrade was kidnapped by GROUP.