Akeno Himejima

**Akeno Himejima**

A member of The Dark Army Imagine Corps. She is classified at the infernal level, high class.

## Biography

**Akeno Himejima** is a first-year college student at Kuoh Academy and one of the many female protagonists of *High School DxD*. She is Rias Gremory's Queen as well as her best friend. Akeno is one of Kuoh Academy's Two Great Ladies alongside Rias.

Daughter of Baraqiel.

## Powers/Abilities/Techniques

**Holy Lightning**: Akeno's signature skill that she inherited from her father, Baraqiel. Akeno combines the power of light and thunder to create Holy Lightning.

* **Fallen Angel Form** (, *Datenshi Mōdo*): A form that is achieved by condensing her *Holy Lightning* blood. In this form, Akeno gains six black wings and drastically enhances her Holy Lightning abilities. At first, this transformation required the use of two special bracelets made by Azazel, but as of Volume 17, Akeno is now able to enter this form on her own.
* **Holy Lightning Dragon** (, *Raikōryū*): Due to her constant draining of Issei's Dragon aura, she has gained the ability to shape her Holy Lightning into the form of an Asian Dragon, which can move as if it was alive. It has been shown to be immensely powerful, devouring large fragments of rocks and erasing one of Grendel's fireballs.

**Magic Expert**: Akeno has shown herself to be skilled in the use of magic with her, Rias, and Rossweisse being the top magic specialists in the Peerage (before Rossweisse left). She has been shown to be able to use magic to strengthen the power of her defense by focusing on the Rook trait of her Queen piece.

* **Elemental Magic**: Akeno excels at natural elements like lightning, ice, fire, and water. Similar to the Holy Lightning Dragon, Akeno can also form Asian Dragons out of fire and ice and send them against her enemies.
* **Transformation**: Usually when Akeno needs to use all of her magic power, she transforms into a priestess that gave her the epithet, "Priestess of Thunder".[note 1]

**Stealth Expert**: As mentioned by Issei and Rias, Akeno has developed a skill to sneak behind people without leaving any presence.

**Purification Practitioner**: Akeno has the power to purify evil spirits which she learned from her mother. However, since she lacks Senjutsu prowess, her ability is inferior to Koneko's and Kuroka's.

**Enhanced Strength and Defense**: As a Queen, Akeno possesses enhanced strength and endurance through the Rook trait of her Queen piece, but due to Akeno never resorting to physical confrontations, it's unknown how her physical prowess compares to Koneko.

**Enhanced Speed**: As a Queen, Akeno also has the Knight speed enhancement through her Queen piece though as Akeno primarily uses magic in fights, it's unknown if she is as fast as Yuuto or not.

**Demonic Power**: Despite being a Reincarnated Devil, Akeno shows great potential in demonic powers where she is on par with Rias (her king and a High-Class Devil). Akeno's prowess is acknowledged to be the strongest member of the peerage right behind Rias herself with Riser Phenex commenting that before the ten-day training period, only Akeno can fight on par with the members of his peerage. Her overall demonic powers and magic are enhanced through the power of the Bishop aspect of her Queen piece. Later on, she became one of the first three members of Rias's peerage to be promoted to Middle-Class along with Issei and Yuuto.

**Flight**: Being a Devil, Akeno can fly using either her Devil wings or Fallen Angel wings.

Alluring Power of the Devil

Power of Destruction

Divine Light Summoning

Shadow Travel

Flight Imbuing Spell

Star Martial God Technique

Acid Magic

Wind Magic

Water Magic

Fire Magic

Light Magic

Shadow Magic

Powers of Neith

Powers of Agni

Evil Magic

Lightning Movement

Shadow Movement

Lightning Ground

Lightning Godslayer Magic