Irene Lukman

* Human
* Hybrid

## Abilities

### Sorcery

**Hundred Gauntlets** (二番目失敗(ハンドレッド・ガントレット), *Ni-banme Shippai (Handoreddo Gantoretto)*, lit. "Second's Failure"?)

### Animus Volume

5,959 units
645,000 units

## Professional Status

### Clasification

Star Master

**Irene Lukman** (アイリーン・ルクマン, *Airīn Rukuman*?) is the older sister of Raul Lukman and the master of Astrum Empara.

## Appearance

Irene is a very pretty girl, causing Zenkichi to blush the first time he saw her, and even Kumagawa speculates that he fell in love with her because of her looks. She has dark brown eyes and very long, dark brown hair tied up with two yellow ribbons. In the dream world, Ajimu appears as she did in middle school: wearing the girl's uniform of Hakobune Middle School; a sailor uniform comprised of a light pink shirt with a dark red trim, and a matching dark red skirt. She also wears two pink wrist bands and thigh high black socks. Her name is written on her shoes.

When Ajimu makes her appearance in the physical world, her outfit changes drastically. She wears more traditional Japanese clothing; a white top with a red lining and bottom, as well as sandals. Her hair is white, and she wears red ribbons instead of yellow. Most notably, her body is covered by six of Kumagawa's Book Maker screws: two in her legs, two in her upper arms, and two pinning her hands to her shoulders. As Kumagawa's seal begins to weaken however, the screws begin to disappear. When dressed casually, Ajimu wears a roomy shirt that exposes her shoulders, a short skirt, and a wristlet on her left arm. Once Kumagawa's seal completely disappears, Ajimu's hair returns to its original color, and she starts wearing yellow ribbons again. She changes into an old-fashioned, long-sleeved school uniform with a long ribbon about the collar. She wears a skirt matching the ribbon, as well as thigh high socks. When in the academy Tea Room, Ajimu wears a flower-patterned kimono. When she travels to the Shiranui Village, Ajimu wears the proper girl's uniform of Hakoniwa Academy, though she keeps the ribbon from her previous outfit in place of the tie.

Five thousand years ago, Ajimu wore a knee-length toga that bared her right shoulder, along with a belt. She also wore wristlets, a necklace, and different ribbons in her hair.

## Personality

Aloof and clumsy, yet free spirited, somehow managing to come together in this sorcerer. She takes her life simply, while loving it as a respectable, strong young woman. By day she is a boarding schooler, a genius who doesn't seem to realize things that are perfectly natural. She seems like a stoic person but she actually has many different facial expressions. She seems like a flawless superwoman but she is actually the hard-working type. She is described to be an extremely strong person in terms of personality, regretting nothing in her life because she follows through on every decision she makes. Because she does not care at all about what other people think of her, she is able to stay true to herself in any situation, believing that the worst thing a person can do is to lie to oneself. Even while accepting her life as a sorcerer, she stubbornly sticks to the life of an honest person.

Irene values special places with precious memories and living things, regardless of if they are humans, animals or even plants. She has passed on the "value of life" to Ivan Law. It was due to her influence that the young Ivan was able to grow up normally despite being burdened with abnormal eyes. She's a difficult person to pin down, believes in justice, and is often unreliable.

## Abilities and Power

### Sorcery

Irene's sorcery, **Hundred Gauntlets** (二番目失敗(ハンドレッド・ガントレット), *Ni-banme Shippai*, lit. "Second's Failure"?), deals with the violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that the quantity called entropy always increases for closed systems. Entropy is related to the notion of disorder created during a physical process, (i.e. entropy morally 'quantifies' the energy that is no longer usable after some process.) The constant increase of entropy is intimately related with the notion of "time arrow", as knowing the entropy of a system at two distinct moments suffices to know which one precedes the other.

This mechanic allows Irene to manipulate time, but not in the standard way: instead of coming back in the past/going to future, like standard time travel theories using General Relativity, she "cuts" and "edits" strips of time. To be more precise, she cuts events and sends it to an indefinite future while adding to herself future experience to defeat her opponent, and she multiplies herself by "recutting" and redoing the same moment again and again, until all animus sent by the attack is absorbed. The essence of Hundred Gauntlets is the reversal of irreversible processes and the ensuing free manipulation of heat/energy without any concern for the Second Law. Manipulating "time" is then a by-product that appears either when reversing entropic causality of certain physical processes or when cutting pieces of processes and doing them in a completely haphazard way, without caring about heat consumption and entropy.