Akira Akao

**Akira Akao** (赤尾あかお晶あきら, *Akao Akira*?) is a first-year student at the JCC, the niece of Rion Akao.

## Appearance

Akira is a fair-skinned young woman with short blue hair that has purple tips and orange-yellow eyes.

She wears a green leather jacket with a yellow short under it and a pair of pink baggy pants.

## Personality

Akira is a very kind-hearted person, though she is shy and prone to be scared. She is not hesitant to taking care of people around her, which often leads to her being easily pushed into unwanted situations. Despite this, Akira is shown to be determined to achieve her goal of finding her aunt Rion Akao.

Akira also has a more bloodthirsty side to her which emerges when fighting people who have hurt her friends, and has no problem injuring or murdering her opponent, a trait that seems to run in her family. Once she snaps out of this state, she is still shown to be averse to killing.

## Friends

#### Shin Asakura

Akira met Shin at the JCC exams. Akira was taking her classes at JCC, and in one of her classes, she was reunited with Shin, and they became friends.

## Synopsis

### Plot

A nervous Akira sits on the JAA plane, awaiting the entrance examination. She notices (a disguised) Taro Sakamoto and Shin Asakura being bothered by another applicant and feels bad for them. A JAA admin disguised as a flight attendant announces that the test will begin on the plane as weapons drop from overhead compartments. Akira is given a light machine gun, which she struggles to use. She is quickly shocked when Sakamoto stabs someone to death with a pen.

Akira decides to team up with Sakamoto, him having earned her admiration. While fighting alongside Sakamoto, Shin and Mafuyu, Kanaguri destroys the plane. Akira rapidly sews together a parachute from clothes, saving her peers. Upon landing in the ocean, Akira nearly drowns due to not being able to swim but is saved by Sakamoto and earns herself a JCC bullet.

Upon the third round starting, Sakamota, Akira and Kill Baby are placed onto the Red Team together and take a relaxing break. Their rest is interrupted by an examinee who lures them into a trap by pretending to be scared. Another applicant then fires upon them, resulting in a massive explosion.

While Sakamoto protects the group, the smaller Akira is able to escape the net. With her friends about to be killed, Akira pulls herself together and blitzes an applicant, nearly killing him. She is stopped by Sakamoto who is amazed by skills, and finally piecing it together, questions her on her family name. Akira reveals her surname is Akao, and she has joined the JCC to find her aunt and Sakamoto's classmate, Rion Akao.

Akira is later seen at the JCC. While initially overwhelmed and lost, she finds Shin and the two team up to find the JCC Database.

During Slur's attack on the JCC, Akira was momentarily hypnotized by Club Jam, though Sakamoto brought her back with a slap. When Kanaguri revealed her aunt was dead, Akira was enraged and attempted to stab him.

## Skills & Abilities

**Enhanced Speed:** Akira was able to close in on and assault a JCC applicant without him being able to react. Akira is also able to sew extremely fast, a trait which saves Sakamoto, Shin, Mafuyu and Kill Baby when she sews a parachute in midair. She has good control over her speed, being able to pluck a butterfly from Baby Kill's shoulder without harming or bothering the butterfly.

**Enhanced Strength:** Akira was able to sever someone's carotid artery with an open-hand strike.

**Sewing:** Akira is a masterful sewer as noted by Sakamoto. She was able to stitch together a working parachute in midair.

**Paths:** When determined, Akira can enter what she describes as **following the path.** In this state she is able to see and perform the sets of actions needed to kill someone. She can also see paths that would cause her death. When faced with very powerful opponents, Akira instead envisions an impassable cliff between them and her.

**Housework:** Akira claims her strongest skills are housework like sewing, cleaning and laundry.

## Etymology

* The name **Akira** means "clear, crystal" (晶).
* Akira's surname **Akao** means "red" (赤) (**aka**) and "tail, ridge" (尾) (**o**).

## Trivia

* Akira ranked 7th place in the manga's 1st Character Popularity with 2,883