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 He lives with Index and her cat Sphynx (or, more accurately, they live with him). People say it doesn't make sense because of how annoying she is. They seem to miss that Touma actually likes Index.
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 === Accelerator ===
 One of the first antagonists, promoted to protagonist. He ended up getting his own spin-off as well, ｢とある科学の一方通行｣ - ｢A Certain Scientific Accelerator｣. His real name is currently unknown, so he's known by his nickname, based on his ability. He's the first ranked Level 5.\\
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 This would explain how quite a few characters may have very unscientific abilities... and Sogiita Gunha, the weirdest esper.\\
 This is only here as a way to justify the railgun causing explosions. To myself of course.
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+==== Number of Espers (Vexing Numerals) ====
 From the //first volume// it's never made clear how many Espers there are. This is probably because 'Esper' and 'Student' are used interchangeably for no apparent reason. The numbers '80%' and '2.3 million' are advertised but they don't tell us anything. 80% either refers to the number of students or Espers. The only thing that //is// clear is that 60% of //Espers// are Level 0. But how many Espers there are I have no idea. One other possibility is that 80% of Espers are students and students make up 80% of the population. It's never made clear and these numbers will haunt me for years to come.
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-Extending from that, I'm starting to suspect the words used are not as clearly defined as they possibly could be. For example: What is an Esper? In universe, they aren't very clear about what that word refers to. In general, an Esper can be anyone who has gone through the Esper Development Program...however, Level 0s will sometimes refer to people Level 1 or above as 'Espers.' Maybe I'm digging too deep into it.
+Extending from that, I'm starting to suspect the words used are not as clearly defined as they possibly could be. For example: What is an Esper? In universe, they aren't very clear about what that word refers to. In general, an Esper can be anyone who has gone through the Esper Development Program...however, Level 0s will sometimes refer to people Level 1 or above as 'Espers.' Maybe I'm digging too deep into it.\\
+To be a bit clearer here: in general, the magic side refers to anyone who went through the Esper Development Program as an ‘Esper’ (consequently, Kamijou is an Esper despite being Level 0). However, Level 0s tend to refer to anyone Level 1 or above as an Esper. So this could just be a failure on the part of the series to communicate the subtle difference (it could also be a failure on the part of the audience (me) to catch the difference).
+Alternative idea I have just come up with: The statistics are intentionally blurred by Academy City. Although I am still leaning towards it being some kind of oversight on the part of the writer, this is the most reasonable in-universe explanation.
 ==== Level 0s ====
 Level 0s and their existence is a bit of a mystery. According to Komoe-sensei, the curriculum should theoretically allow anyone to develop abilities, she then speculates there's something else that is responsible for abilities that they don't know about yet.\\