Rei Otonashi

"*I always lose the things I don't want to lose the most. That's why I don't feel anything anymore. The moment you get your hands on something worth going after, you lose it. That's just how things are. There is nothing worth pursuing at the cost of prolonging a life of suffering.*" - Rei to Koro-sensei

**Rei Togata** (トガタ 黎 *Togata Rei*) is a student and the deuteragonist of the manga and anime series Assassination Classroom. She is a supervisor of Ministry of Defense in Class 3-E and former high-ranking of the organization in the Government of Japan , the Deparment of Security. She is the one of Nagisa's closest friends.

## Apperance

Rei appears to be a young woman or girl, and is of slender build. She has shoulder-length purple hair and emerald-green eyes. She is shown to be prone to blushing heavily.

She wears the school's standard uniform, but instead of a black tie, she wears a green stone bolo tie.

Rei's distinguishing feature is the fact that she often wears bandages all over her body from head to toe, so Maehara once assumed that because she was a Chuunibyou, but eventually learned that Rei did it to cover past injuries.

Rei is considered mysterious and attractive by her class members (except for Karma).

## Personality

Rei is a mysterious person, her true intentions are never revealed unless she reveals them. The person who got closest to the truth of her personality, as acknowledged by Rei herself, was her friend Matsuda Shirabe, who recognized that Rei shall linger in the darkness forever, as there was nearly nothing that can surpass her mind. Regardless whether she is on the side of killing people or saving them, Matsuda knew that no place in the world could fill Rei's loneliness, which Matsuda thought Rei knew in herself.

In addition, Rei kept an enigmatic and dark façade, whose endeavors in the Deparment were unrivaled and eventually earned her the status as **the** **youngest high-ranking in the history of Department of Security** . Because of her aptitude despite his youth, Rei contributed to about half the Department's profits for at least two years. Eventually, Rei's ledger became tainted; Yanagisawa describes her blood to be "darker than assassin and criminal ".

Rei's true face is of someone that is Machiavellian and calculating, who sees people around her as nothing more than "dogs" she can use as much as she likes and must obey her without any hesitation.

Rei was extremely confident and was a terrific planner, coming up with long-run strategies to subdue her enemies. Rei is quite skilled in persuasion notably through her words, which she appeared to utilize in interrogations that broke targets who did not divulge anything under torture squad.

Behind this grim persona, Rei admitted that he joined the Department to be exposed to death, violence, and people giving in to their urges and desires, expecting that—in this way—she would be able to see the inner nature of humankind firsthand in hopes of finding a reason to live. Following Matsuda's demise, Rei defected from the Department and went underground in order to heed Matsuda's final request for her to "be on the side that saves people". Admittedly, she reckoned that people change over time where potential surfaces, which apparently seems to apply to herself as well.

Upon joining class 3-E, Rei is boisterous and seemingly confident. Acting in a generally cutesy and flamboyant manner, Rei tends to attract a lot of people.

While in the present she is more lighthearted and comical, she still retains some of his darker personality. She is still able and proficient at coming up with long-run strategies, though she doesn't inform his teammates what they are until the time is right. When she is able to see through the enemies' schemes, no matter how complex, Rei would sometimes plot to run along with a charade if she deems it necessary.

Rei also realizes that she is not a good person and deems herself as "necessary evil"; a weapon under control of the Japanese government. She is not afraid of her plans derailing, since whether her plans fail or succeed, she will almost always achieve something she wants.

Rei is also willing to use dirty means to achieve his goals, such as purposely deflating Yumi Namidare's car seat airbag when they crashed so Yumi would get injured and force her to cooperate with Rei for having her wounds healed.

## History

Much of Rei's early life is unknown. As she puts it, she regretted the moment of her own birth, feeling that her birth into the world was a mistake. Because of that, she took an interest in suicidal, which she believes is unpredictable and exciting, at a very young age.

## Abilities

**Intellegince**: Rei's intelligence is her primary source of expertise as a High-ranking member of Department in the past and at present. Jin Kido, a proficient tactician himself, widely trusted and relied on Rei's intelligence, whom he claimed to be his most worthy right-hand man should he have stayed in the Department. Rei has an aptitude for predicting outcomes, which she himself admits is one of her strong qualities, if not her strongest. She also ranked first with 510 out of 500 points in the final exam I, even Asano Gakuho had to admit that no one had ever achieved that score in school.

**Negotiation Skills**: Rei is an adept persuader, able to negotiate with others and consequently acquire her required outcomes.

**Dexterity**: Rei is proficient in lock picking, such as prying locked boxes or handcuffs open. She was also able to swipe Karma's knife without even being seen. Koro-sensei also once described Rei to be "frighteningly dexterous", knowing that Rei can pick a lock to a bank's safe with a needle or easily switch out slips of paper with fake ones.

**Marksmanship**: Rei was the fifth best among the girls and the fourth overall amongst the class.

**Heart Rate Manipulation**: Rei can control her heart rate making her undetectable by lie detectors.

## Background

During her time as a Department members, Rei held a record of 138 counts of conspiracy to murder, 312 counts of extortion, and 625 counts of assorted fraud, among other crimes. After she defected from the Department and went underground, this ledger was wiped clean by the Special Division, who were employed by Yumi.

## Quotes

''Your necessary evil is just an excuse to justify your own crimes. Those excuses are unnecessary to society. The truly necessary evils are always kept collared and controlled by the state.''

(To Koro-sensei) "*I always lose the things I don't want to lose the most. That's why I don't feel anything anymore. The moment you get your hands on something worth going after, you lose it. That's just how things are. There is nothing worth pursuing at the cost of prolonging a life of suffering.*"

(To Nagisa Shiota) "Nagisa, which one would you choose? The country mouse or the town mouse?"

(To Tadaomi Karasuma) "A meal is better when you get to relax."

(To The Reaper) "*It's true that all of mankind is sinful and foolish. But what's wrong with that?*"

(To Nagisa Shiota) "Stop feeling sorry for yourself. As long as you do, your life will be an unending nightmare."

(To Itona Horibe) "Only answer with “Yes” or “Woof”, I don’t need a dog who says “No”

(To Koro-sensei) “So Then, This Your Handiwork?”

(To Kotaro Yanagisawa) "I heard a rumor from a judge I know that dog we can't use get euthanized."