Akane Nishino

Akane Nishino is a former classmate of Minoru Kageno in his previous life. Following the fall of Japan to Magical Beasts, she became a "Knight" in the human settlement of Messiah. After being 'kidnapped' by Beta, she is inducted into Shadow Garden as No. 712. During her attendance at Sakurazaka Senior High, Akane was noted to be a beautiful teenage girl with black hair and eyes. She donned her family's school uniform consisted of a standard white school blazer coat, light blue shirt, a blue skirt and tie, and black tights. Akane wears three hair clips, one being a star hairclip on the right side of her bangs and two hair clips on the left side of her bangs. Following her "Awakening", her eyes changed from black to red. In addition, when she became the "Original Knight", her hair changed from black to blonde. She still donned her high school uniform which had been used as a standard uniform for the Messiah's Knights. Akane appeared to have presented herself as a proper, well-mannered young lady but that was just a front. In truth, she was a scared, troubled girl traumatized by her kidnapping and its subsequent scandal. She masked her true self in an attempt for others not to hate her, to get along with them and to avoid being hated as a reminder of her kidnapping. This is most notable with her classmate Minoru, someone she hated for misnaming her name repeatedly and looking past her until her second kidnapping. After being saved by Minoru, he began to call her name and looked at her properly. After finding out that he saved her, she realized that he was like her, and their relationship began to reconcile. She held an immense fondness over him even after his death and after finding out he was still alive after the latter's reincarnation. After causing the destruction of Arcadia, Akane masked her true personality once more. She was unable to bear the immense guilt and developed suicidal tendencies, yearning to end her own life as penance. The incident also made her value human life and will do everything in her power to protect others from harm, even from her own allies.