Akane Nishino

Nishino Akane (西野アカネ, Nishino Akane) was the daughter of the CEO of Nishino Conglomerate and the former classmate of Minoru Kagenou, Cid's pre-reincarnated self.

After being saved by Cid, she is taken into the otherworld by Beta.

Appearance
Nishino Akane is a beautiful teenage girl with black hair and red eyes. At Sakurazka Senior High, she wore the white school coat, shirt, skirt, stocking and bow tie.

Personality
Being a famous actress, Nishino is conscious of her reputation. She would always try to form good relationships with her classmates in order to maintain it.

However, her most complicated relationship is with Minoru. While Nishino was initially cordial towards him, Minoru's poor attitude or more precisely, total ignorance towards her caused the girl to develop somewhat a grudge against him until she finally gave up. However, their relationship did seemingly improved.

After causing the destruction of Arcadia, Akane could not deal with the immense guilt and developed suicidal tendencies. Thankfully, this stopped upon learning Minoru Kagenou's survival.

Background
In her childhood, Nishino had started her acting career, becoming a famous actress. When she was at Junior High however, she was kidnapped by a stalker and although she was rescued, the event caused her to put her acting career on hold for a while and her parents would arranged a car and driver for her to return home safely.

Nishino eventually did return to acting by the time or during High school. It was there where she met Minoru Kagenou, a classmate who Akane came to hate after the teen repeatedly failed to recognize her. After taking a remedial class, Nishino chose to go home on foot after her cellphone lost power. Suddenly, a black van appeared and a man came out to kidnap her. Just before she passed out, she saw Minoru coming to her aid.

Nishino woke up and discovered herself, bound and gagged. She learned from her kidnappers that they intend to use her as ransom, to force her parents to offer money to them. However before that happened, the kidnappers decided to have their way with her much to the teenager's horror. Before she was about to be raped, Minoru, disguising as the Stylish Badguy Slayer broke into their hideout to rescue her. Nishino watched in awe as the Stylish Badguy Slayer fought off the kidnappers, even killing the leader. Nishino was freed and she returned home.

The next day, Nishino recalled the events the following day before encountering Minoru at the school gates. To her surprise, Minoru remembered her name. After that, Nishino, relieved by this change decided to follow Minoru and conversed with him some more.

The Birth of the First Knight
At some point following Japan being invaded, Akane took part in a project at Arcadia as a test subject to create warriors in battling the monsters. The project succeeded and Akane gained magical abilities and became who people refer to as "The First Knight". While the project was a success, Akane's older brother, Akira was not satisfied with the results and experimented on his sister to further develop her powers. This backfired horribly as Akane lost control of her powers and she went on a rampage that destroyed Arcadia, killing many people in the process.

The trauma of the event caused Akane to bury the memory deep inside, making her forget it. The now amnesiac Akane and Akira fled and took refuge with another group called Messiah whose base was set up at Nishino University.

Reunion
Akane, along with her team she reluctantly allow to follow her, headed to an abandoned hospital to deal with a Magical Beast nest. After dealing with several of them, Akane's team discover to their surprise that not only that the nest and its creatures had been destroyed but also discover two human survivors. Akane decided to take in the two of them despite protests.

Trivia

 * In the epilogue of volume 4, it is revealed that Akane knows Minoru is still alive and that she fell in love with him.