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'''SUMMONS''',<ref name="ch3">[[Main Quest:Chapter 3|Chapter 3: Berserkers - Ikebukuro Colosseum]]</ref>¹ more commonly referred to as '''The App''', is a mysterious smartphone application that can grant its users otherworldly, magical powers.<ref name="ch3">[[Main Quest:Chapter 3|Chapter 3: Berserkers - Ikebukuro Colosseum]]</ref>¹ It is also responsible for hosting [[the Game]], a massive competition between the various [[guild]]s and [[World (setting)|World]]s within [[Tokyo]].

The App is a central element to the story of Tokyo Afterschool Summoners. On its surface, it's an increasingly popular social networking phone application used primarily by students that has a variety of communication features. However, there exists a seemingly unspoken feature where it can grant its user magical powers,<ref name="ch3"></ref>¹ making them a player in the Game. Over the course of the story, the importance of the Game and the App continues to unveil itself, becoming something much more greater and dangerous than just a magical phone app where students can play with their magical powers after class ends.

The App's developer is a complete mystery as the company and building listed for the App are fake.<ref name="ch3"></ref>¹

====''Registration, App Users, and Pacts''====

Through an unknown method, a person can become an App user. According to {{Transient icon|Shiro}}, his phone lit up on its own one night, showing a registration screen and terms of use on the screen. After accepting, he was granted access to his Sacred Artifact and was registered as an App User.<ref name="ch2">[[Main Quest:Chapter 3|Chapter 2: Clash of the Sacred Artifacts -Shinjuku Cataclysm-]]</ref>⁹

There are two types of App users: those that summon [[Sacred Artifact]]s to fight, and those that can summon familiars to fight for them. The App acts as an in-between for App users to summon Sacred Artifacts and familiar when they normally could not in the real world. Those that summon Transients to fight have to be wary of the amount of familiars they form pacts with as they rely on the summoner's own limited power to sustain themselves.<ref name="ch2"></ref>^{1 5 8} The {{Transient icon|Protagonist}} is the sole exception to this as they are a hybrid: they can both summon a Sacred Artifact as well as summon their own familiars to fight with them.<ref name="ch2"></ref>²

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Battle Zones would later be revealed to be miniature time loops, functioning just like the same loop that affects Tokyo but on a much smaller scale.<ref name="ch9">[[Release Campaign:Main Quest Chapter 9|Chapter 9: Crafters - Karmic Engine]]</ref>¹¹

{{Attribute|Fire}} Given to those possibly associated with fire or heat of some sort.<br>

{{Attribute|Water}} Given to those possibly associated with water or cleansing.<br>

{{Attribute|Wood}} Given to those possibly associated with nature or plants.<br>

{{Attribute|Aether}} Given to those that may represent "goodness" or a connection to the heavens.<br>

{{Attribute|Nether}} Given to those that may represent "evil" or a connection to the underworld.<br>

The next three attributes can be symbolic of the natural cycle of a world. According to {{Transient icon|Horkeu Kamui}}, the [[File:Element_world.png|20x20px|link=World]] masses are felled by a [[File:Element_evil.png|20x20px|link=Infernal]] Dark Lord, the Dark Lord is felled by a [[File:Element_hero.png|20x20px|link=Valiant]] hero, and the hero is crushed by the masses in the end.<ref name="black snow">[[Event Quest:Black Snowfall on the Mountain Hot Springs|Black Snow on the Hot Spring Mountains]]</ref>¹⁷

When the App is running, all users can see one's location and affiliation. Opponents who an App user has never battled before will only be able to see limited information, but one's location is available to everyone at all times.<ref name="ch2"></ref>¹ Those with administrative privileges, such as the Game Masters and Entertainers, can hide,<ref name="ch14">[[Event Quest:Main Quest:Chapter 4 Release Campaign|Chapter 14: Entertainers & Rule Makers ~Prelude~ -Alibi of the Urban Legends-]]</ref>² censor,<ref name="oscar">{{Transient icon|Oscar}} Research File 1</ref> or falsify<ref name="ch13">[[Release Campaign:Main Quest Chapter 13 Prologue|Chapter 13: Invaders ~Undivine Destruction~]]</ref>⁹ users' information, whether it be their own or others'.

''<small>For more detailed information about the App features of guilds, see [[Guild]].</small>''

The App allows for formations of guilds among groups of users, which grants exclusive perks. One perk is that with guilds, several Rules can be enforced in an enclosed area for an indefinite period of time without the need of a Battle Zone. Several features of the App are locked behind being part of a guild, such as [[My Guild]] and [[Guild Rank]], though it is unclear what this means for in-universe characters as those features are gameplay elements unlocked for you, the Player themselves.

As the App is still an SNS application on its surface, it features free calls, messaging, and chat rooms.<ref name="ch3"></ref>¹

Debuting during [[Event Quest:Seaside Fashionista|Seaside Fashionista]], the App was updated to give its users the ability to use stickers. These stickers are used as a decorative feature on a user's guild page to add more charm to the pictures.<ref name="fashionista">[[Event Quest:Seaside Fashionista|Seaside Fashionista]]</ref>¹¹