Kurumi Tokisaki

**Kurumi Tokisaki** (, *Tokisaki Kurumii*?) is the third Spiritto appear. Due to her brutal actions, she is referred to as the **Worst Spirit** (最悪の精霊, *Saiaku no Seirei*?). She is also the first Spirit to appear as an antagonist in the *Date A Live* series.

## Appearance

Kurumi is "a girl with astonishing beauty," as described by Shido. She appears to be elegant and has very polite manners. She has long, black hair usually tied in long twin tails. Her right eye is red-tinted while her left eye appears as a golden, inorganic clock face. The positions of the clock hands represent her remaining "time" and are covered by her bangs, which are only revealed when she transforms into her Spirit form.

The Astral Dress, which Kurumi wears, is made out of orange and black frills, giving her the appearance of an elegant Gothic Lolita with uneven twin tails. On her head, she usually wears a big crimson net bow to hold her hair. She also wears a red and black collar on her neck. Kurumi's height is stated to be 157cm, and her three sizes are B85/W59/H87.

When not in her Spirit form, Kurumi usually tends to wear either the female winter uniform of Raizen High School or a black Gothic Lolita dress.

## Personality

Kurumi is a person whose character is difficult to read. She possesses a dislike of humanity that borders on mistrust, which is something that she shares with most of the other Spirits in her debut. She is a skilled actress, capable of putting on the façade of an innocent, curious young girl when she needs to. This skill of hers is shown when she registered as a student at Raizen High School and spoke in a polite manner. However, under that mask lies a mad woman, prone to fits of insane laughter and possessing no regard for human life, viewing them as a food source to restore her own time, and thus, a disposable commodity.

There is a twisted justice behind her methods, however, as the people that she brutally murdered were would-be rapists and animal abusers. Also, a good sign of her sense of justice lies in her ultimate objective: to go back in time, kill the First Spirit, prevent the spacequakes from ever happening and saving millions of lives in the process. This goal made <Phantom> call her a kind person, albeit sarcastically.

In hindsight, Kurumi possesses 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 because she needed to replenish her time, but because they were trying to kill a kitten. She also appeared to have some desire for a normal life, a chance at redemption, as Shido was able to speak with one of her many timelines and nearly convinced her before the true Kurumi interrupted.

However, despite the fact she doesn't kill without a reason and her redeeming qualities, Kurumi doesn't seem to think of herself as a great person and even appears to hate being called one. When Shido stated that he would not give up on her despite her being a murderer, she responded by using her City of Devouring Time on the students of Raizen High School. She even summoned a spacequake which could have killed them all, in an attempt to make him give up on her. Also, when <Phantom> called her a kind person, Kurumi's initial response was to try to shoot her.

Her ability to summon shadow clones of herself from other timelines adds, even more, complexity to her character. The clones are essentially herself, which means they have the same personality, but they also have free will to an extent, even if they share memories, goals, fears, and obsessions. It is also hinted that the experiences each clone possesses affect the main one since, after helping Shido locate Tohka (so that Kurumi could track the Second Spirit) and parting ways, Kurumi was shown talking to her clones and was happy because she had received a pat on the head from Shido. Some of her clones also slightly reflect what her former personality was; the clone that Shido faced on the school rooftop nearly agreed to let Shido save her, and the clone from Kurumi Star Festival (the very same clone Shido reasoned with on the school roof) was very cheerful and became slightly emotional when saddened.

Kurumi appears to have a particular liking for cats, as shown by her brutally murdering a group of men who were shooting at one with pellet guns. In an Omake, it is shown that she can be quite embarrassed about this. When Shido and Tohka caught her, she ended up going so far as to have one of her clones pretend to be the real her and "dispose" of her so that she could get out of the situation without ruining her reputation.

Before becoming a Spirit, Kurumi had a strong sense of justice. While lamenting about the inequality in the world, she always possessed a strong desire to help those in need. This trait was considered both pure and naive, the latter of which Mio took advantage of to trick her into becoming a Spirit that hunted down other Spirits that were incompatible with their Sephira Crystals.

As a verbal tic, Kurumi often has a habit of saying Ara ara (あら、あら) when particularly amused by something.

## Powers and Abilities

**Angel:** Zafkiel (刻々帝 (ザフキエル), *Kokkoku Tei*, lit., "Emperor of Time")

**Weapon:** Clock, Flintlock Pistol, Musket

**Astral Dress:** Elohim (神威霊装・三番 (エロヒム), *Shin'i Reisou: Sanban*, "Spirit Dress of God's Authority, Number 3")

Her flintlock pistol and musket both possess special bullets that can cause different effects on the subject's time depending on the number of the bullet.

* **First Bullet Aleph [一の弾（アレフ）]:** Accelerates time on a target object or subject.
* **Second Bullet Bet [二の弾（ベート）]:**Slows down the time on a target object or subject.
* **Third Bullet Gimmel [三の弾 (ギメル) ]:** Causes a target object or subject to age.
* **Fourth Bullet Dalet [四の弾（ダレット）]:**Rewinds time on a target object or subject. However, it has no effect on those who are already deceased.
* **Fifth Bullet Hei [五の弾 (ヘイ) ]:**Allows Kurumi to see a glimpse of the future.
* **Sixth Bullet: Vav [六の弾 (ヴァヴ) ]:** Sends the consciousness of its target into the body of a past version of themselves. However, unlike the Twelfth Bullet, the user is only able to travel back to a few days at maximum regardless of how much time is used. Due to the result of her fight against Kotori, this bullet was left unusable for Kurumi until the events of Volume 16.
* **Seventh Bullet Zayin [七の弾（ザイン）]:** Temporarily freezes time on a target object or subject.
* **Eight Bullet Het [八の弾（へット）]:**Creates a clone of a target object or subject.
* **Ninth Bullet: Tet [九の弾（テット）]:** Allows Kurumi to share her senses with someone in a different time or dimension.
* **Tenth Bullet Yud [十の弾（ユッド）]:** Peeks into the past of a target object or subject.
* **Eleventh Bullet Yud Aleph**[**十一の弾(ユッド・アレフ）]:**Allows Kurumi to directly devour a Spirit's power.
* **Twelfth Bullet Yud Bet [十二の弾（ユッド・ベート）]:**Sends its target subject or object through time.

Kurumi has the ability to manipulate mainly time, but her main power is associated with controlling shadows. *Shadow* is her primary element while *Time* is her secondary element in terms of usage. Combined with the power of the 8th bullet, she can create a clone that has all her experiences, memories, abilities, etc. These clones can take the form of long white hands with red outlining when they are in Kurumi's shadows. However, as these are her past selves, they sometimes may contain feelings which the current Kurumi no longer possesses and as such, Kurumi will not hesitate to kill these clones if they choose to disobey her.

These clones are less powerful than Kurumi herself as she has 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's 8th bullet, or bring out all of her clones at once from the shadows which she keeps them in. She can also use these shadows to store her clones all at once and all the time they've collected, if she needs to do so. She can also control her clones partially through small fields of shadows, most often to hold someone in place and prevent them from moving.

Her Angel is very powerful. Each time she uses its abilities, it consumes a bit of her time (life force). In order to replenish her life force, Kurumi possesses the ability to absorb the time of anyone who steps into the boundary of her shadow. In order to target a large crowd, she can summon a red barrier that serves a similar function, which she calls the **City of Devouring Time** (時喰みの城, *Toki Hami no Shiro*?).

The clock in her eye moves clockwise when she has to use life force to power her angel. She utilizes two intricately designed guns as weapons which resemble the hands of a clock: the musket (long weapon) for the minute hand and the flintlock (short weapon) for the hour hand. 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 her flintlock at the number of the bullet on the Angel. Next, she needs to shoot the bullet at the target with the gun. In the event that she needs to use the power on herself, then she is required to shoot herself.

Kurumi has the ability to summon her spacequakes at will, as seen when she confronted Shido on the school rooftop.

Only the **original** Kurumi is capable of using her Spirit powers but her clones can still use her guns, summon and dismiss Spacequakes at will, and even summon the <City of Devouring Time>.

## Quotes

* (To her Classmates) "*My name is Tokisaki Kurumi."..."I am a Spirit."* [1]
* (To Shido Itsuka)*"You were ready to kill another creature, yet you're scared to be killed. Don't you think that's weird? When you point a gun at another life... This is what happens."* [2]
* *"......Fu, fu......Really now, Shido-san, is really, gentle......huh."* [3]
* (To Phantom) *"Thirty years ago, the Spirit that first appeared in this world. The 'First Spirit' became the origin of all the Spirits——my intention, is to kill it."* [4]
* (To herself) *"Well, I don't have much of a choice. I guess I'll end this here since I got Shido-san to pat my head today.----right, all of me?"*[5]
* (To Shido Itsuka) *“Okay then-----Let’s begin our war?”* [6]
* (To Shido Itsuka) *"No matter how big the world is, Tokisaki Kurumi is the only person that can interfere with irreversible time. And also this Zafkiel. Please don’t lend your ears to nonsense made by smart scholars and authors. The thing that you-- Shido-san-- are looking right now, is the only truth."* [7]
* (To Phantom) *"----For you, even falling into hell is not enough."* [8]

## TMNT X Pokemon

Kurumi is in the neutral side. She doesn't work with Shredder nor the Turtles. But will help them only if necessary.

## Trivia

* Kurumi has the character "three" (三) in her name, referring to the third Sephira on Kabbalah's Tree of Life, "Understanding."
* Zafkiel's (Kurumi's Angel) bullet names are originally from the Hebrew Alphabet. For example, *Aleph*, the first bullet (from 1 o'clock) represents the first letter.
* Elohim means "God" in Hebrew.
* Zafkiel's name refers to an archangel. The angel is sometimes equated with Zophiel/Jophiel, but other times considered to be a different angel. Zaphkiel is the "chief of the order of thrones", one of the 9 angels that rule Heaven and also one of, the 7 archangels.
* Zafkiel is also associated with the planet Saturn.
* Zafkiel's name also means "Beholder of God" or "The Contemplation of God."
* Kurumi's threat level is S-Class. Despite being lower than Inverse Tohka and Inverse Origami, it still makes her officially the most dangerous Spirit ever known in her standard form. This also excludes Rinne, whose threat level is SS-Class.
* Kurumi's Angel is classified as an S-class Angel, the highest class until now.
* In the anime, Kurumi may have appeared in episode 05 as a cameo (at exactly 2:45, the girl holding a red umbrella).
* The first kanji in Kurumi's surname ("Toki", 時) means "Time."
* According to the Afterword of Volume 16. Kurumi was the first character to be conceptualized, with the initial outline for her character created before even the series.