Kazane Kagari

Kazane Kagari (火々里 かざね Kagari Kazane?) is the commander of Workshop Witches in Tougetsu City and the chairwoman of the school where Honoka Takamiya is studying. She is the mother of Ayaka Kagari and the best friend of Honoka Takamiya's mother. She has great belief in her daughter's strength, despite scolding Ayaka regularly due to her reckless fighting nature. Kazane has a very eccentric appearance. Her most obvious trait is her hair which is dyed red on the left side and light pink on the right, styled so that her right eye is constantly covered by her hair. She and her daughter don't look a lot alike, the only signs of their relation being having the same green eyes and their height (Kazane being even taller than the statuesque Ayaka). When she is in a Battle Witch mood, her appearance changes drastically. A green horn grows out of her head, partially explaining why she hides more than half of her face. This indicates that (like Tanpopo), she is not entirely Human anymore, if she ever was. This begs an interesting question, concerning her offspring, Ayaka Kagari. Kazane typically wears business suits and high heels of differing designs, sometimes with a suit jacket. She's rarely without a cigarette nearby. Kazane's background is something of a mystery. While she did attend high school with Komachi Takamiya, Chronoire Schwarz VI gives the somewhat contradictory statement of claiming she's known Kazane during the Crusades, and had not seen her in over 130 years. Kazane confirms them both in an omake, reminiscing about having taken part in the Crusades, the French Revolution, and of course having been the leader of a gang while attending high school with Komachi. Ayaka also says Kazane claims to have been a member of the Shinsengumi, though Ayaka is hesitant to believe her. This would make Kazane centuries old at the least. Eventually Kazane had her only daughter Ayaka whom she trained in magic from a young age. She became the Chairwoman of Tougetsu Academy upon Ayaka's insistence several years before the series began. While she did do as Ayaka asked, she in turn ordered that Ayaka not get involved with Honoka, forbidding her to make contact with him or even speak to him. Honoka has also seen glimpses of Kazane's past, seeing that he in fact did meet her when he was a child. According to his mother, Honoka was a very frail child and Kazane offered to help him overcome his weakness. Often she'd take him out on trips, some of them lasting a week, months, and one time that lasted half a year. For four years these trips occurred until during one Honoka was badly injured. He recovered, but oddly any memory he had of Kazane was gone. The truth of the matter is that before Komachi Takamiya started a family she was fatally injured in an unknown accident. Kazane, desperate to save her friend, knew that even she took Komachi to the hospital she wouldn't last the night so she took her to the home of Shiori Mikage. When Shiori demanded to know why Kazane took Komachi to her home instead of the hospital Kazane proceeded to slit her own arm and giving Komachi her blood, boosting Komachi's natural healing capability. However, doing so was a severe breach of one of the statutes placed upon Kazane as an End Witch: to never interfere with normal people using sorcery lest Kazane and all the people she has intervened for be banished from this world. However, then Kazane revealed the reason that she came to Shiori: because Shiori would erase the event from the memories of the city as its care taker. She had in fact manipulated Shiori's own affection towards Komachi as she knew she wouldn't refuse. Kazane wouldn't see Komachi again for seven years as she believed it was best if she not get involved with her. In the interim Komachi and Shiori started families and Shiori contacted Kazane. It was then that Kazane realized that giving Komachi a transfusion had caused her children to acquire magical powers and that Honoka was the heir to her blood. Kazane, in sharp contrast to her daughter, is very vocal. She has a very domineering personality, often being the first to criticize and does not tolerate incompetence or annoyance, she is shown to be pretty sadistic when she tortured Chronoire Schwarz VI and also wants to do the same to Weekend(in the anime) and Medusa. However, she and her daughter seem to share lethal hair trigger tempers, and when angered Kazane is terrifying to behold. She is defensive of Komachi Takamiya, even going so far as to beat up the female students when seeing how they bullied Komachi. However, she can be polite and considerate, though one of the few people she shows that side to is Honoka. Kazane is a chain smoker, rarely being without a cigarette. She also loves filling her tea with ridiculous amounts of sugar (another trait she and Ayaka share). During her incapacitation by Weekend she seems to have revealed being an amateur doll maker, creating a figure in Ayaka's likeness. Her office and house were also filled with dolls of the same design.