  Recent developments in the index theory of discrete-time quantum walks allow
us to assign a certain well-defined supersymmetric index to a pair of a unitary
time-evolution $U$ and a $\mathbb{Z}_2$-grading operator $\varGamma$ satisfying
the chiral symmetry condition $U^* = \varGamma U \varGamma.$ In this paper,
this index theory will be extended to encompass non-unitary $U$. The existing
literature for unitary $U$ makes use of the indispensable assumption that $U$
is essentially gapped; that is, we require that the essential spectrum of $U$
contains neither $-1$ nor $+1$ to define the associated index. It turns out
that this assumption is no longer necessary, if the given time-evolution $U$ is
non-unitary. As a concrete example, we shall consider a well-known non-unitary
quantum walk model on the one-dimensional integer lattice, introduced by
Mochizuki-Kim-Obuse.
