Rei Batsubami

Rei Batsubami is a member of the Hundred Devouring Families. In a past conflict, her family was banished from the clan by Kirari Momobami's family. Rei arrived to the Hyakkaou Private Academy, acting as a servant for the other members of her former clan and identifying as male with an androgynous appearance, while secretly planning to avenge Yumeko Jabami's sister. Rei is a character exclusive to the anime, and poses as an antagonist for the second season. ei is a biological teenage girl with a very androgynous appearance, having short light-brown hair with much longer styled bangs that cover the right side of her face, and empty dark-brown eyes. She wears white butler gloves with the standard male Hyakkaou Private Academy uniform; she also wears suspenders under her blazer. Rei seems to be the only member of her clan to wear glasses. When she reveals her true self, she takes off her glasses, brushes her hair back with bangs that nearly cover her right eye, and multiple streaks which go around her head. She also opens up her blazer and removes her gloves revealing two tattoos that appear on the back of both of her hands. These tattoos are shaped like the "Bami" symbol crossed out. It is also shown that she no longer has empty dark eyes, which now have a lighter color and visible pupils. After she was accepted back into the Hundred Devouring Families, she takes up a feminine appearance and wears the female uniform. Her hair is a bit twirlier now, she starts wearing pink lipstick, no longer has glasses, and her eyes don't appear empty anymore. In her hair, she wears the dragonfly brooch that she got from Yumeko Jabami's sister. When Rei was younger, she used to have much longer hair with her bangs covering her right eye, and she wore a dark-blue dress with puffy sleeves. However, after Yumeko's sister suffered heavily at the hands of the Hundred Devouring Families, she cut her hair to the style she had during her debut. Rei is a kind, helpful, polite and always serious person. While serving the other members of the clan, she often did not talk as she was nothing more a a servant to her distant cousins and only providing important information to others if they asked. Unlike most members of the family, Rei seems to be very sympathetic and compassionate toward others, which is demonstrated when Rei protects a "pet" girl who is bullied. Despite being serious, Rei is easily confused, especially when being praised or when someone is kind to her and does something nice for her due her essentially being treated as a object or servant by everyone around her since birth. When she was a child serving as a house servant, Rei met a young girl who treated her very kindly — Yumeko Jabami's older sister, causing her for the first time to feel positive emotions due to someone complementing her and acknowledging her for the first time. But some time later, Yumeko's sister lost everything in the forced family civil war and became increasingly emaciated, which made Rei furious and raised her will to avenge her benefactor. It's the reason why she behaves very well with people, especially when it comes to the weak who are abused by others. She never really felt that she had a purpose in life except for helping others, and was always bound by these invisible chains to her clan. Rei also is very intelligent, having conceived the plan to become the head of the Hundred Devouring Families by subtly manipulating her cousins and taking advantage of them only seeing her as a object to plan behind their backs to her advantage. She eventually failed, but that experience has changed Rei, and at the end of the day she was free, confident, and happier with her life.