Tokisaki, Kurumi

時崎狂三

Kurumi Tokisaki serves as the primary antagonist of the series. She is the third Spirit encountered and is regarded as the most dangerous and lethal among them. Heavily obsessed with Shidou, she possesses the ability to manipulate time and operates under the codename Nightmare. Kurumi exhibits a split personality: one side is that of a gentle, mysterious high school girl with a slow speaking pattern, while the other is that of a psychopathic killer. Her aggressive actions make it difficult for Shidou to capture her. Kurumi is a person whose personality is hard to read; she harbors a well-polished dislike of humanity that borders on mistrust, a trait she shared with many Spirits upon their debut. She is a skilled actress, capable of maintaining the façade of an innocent, curious young girl when necessary, as demonstrated when she registered as a student at Raizen High School and spoke in a very polite manner. However, beneath this mask lies a psychotic woman prone to fits of insane laughter, who holds no regard for human life, viewing people merely as a food source to restore her own time and thus as a disposable commodity. There is a twisted justice behind her methods, as the individuals she brutally murdered were would-be rapists and animal abusers. In hindsight, Kurumi retains some degree of innocence that her psychotic behavior has not entirely ruined; she has a soft spot for small animals and other creatures. She once slaughtered four humans not to replenish her time, but because they were attempting to kill a kitten, which represents the closest she comes to a humanizing emotion. Mana reported that Kurumi is the most dangerous spirit known, having personally killed over 10,000 people, a statistic that does not include the victims of spacequakes. Kurumi used unstated and unexplained methods to personally transfer into Shidou Itsuka's high school and classroom to get closer to him. Her purposes and reasons for this transfer are simple: to consume Shidou Itsuka, thereby gaining his memories, goals, fears, and obsessions. In some non-canon stories, the clone Shidou seduces displays an "independent" attitude, almost rebellious, and openly acts lovey-dovey with Shidou, causing trouble for the "main" Kurumi and even leading to confrontation with her.

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Kurumi has the ability to manipulate the 4th dimension, primarily time, but her main power is associated with controlling shadows. Shadow is her primary power, while Time is her secondary power in terms of usage. Combined with the power of time, she can create a clone possessing all her experiences, memories, abilities, etc. These clones, however, are shadows of her past selves who contain feelings the current Kurumi no longer possesses; Kurumi will kill these clones if they are swayed away from her goals. These clones are less powerful than Kurumi herself, as she mentioned in the last chapter of volume 3 and in the epilogue of volume 4. She can form a single clone by shooting herself with Zafkiel or bring out all of her clones at once from a pool of shadows, which she also uses to draw them all back in along with all the time they've collected. She can also call her clones partially through small fields of shadows, most often to hold someone in place and prevent them from moving. To activate any power she needs, she first needs to call her Angel (regardless of whether the Angel has been summoned already or not), and position both of her guns just like a clock: the musket on 12 and the flintlock pointing at the number of the bullet. Next, she needs to shoot the bullet at the target with the hand gun. In case she needs it for herself, she will be required to shoot it at her head. She also has the ability to call and dismiss spacequakes at will, as shown in the series while she confronts Shidou on the school's rooftop.