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.

Chronology
In her childhood, Nishino had started her acting career becoming a famous actress. When she was at Junior High, 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. She became popular, among both boys and girls. High school is also when Nishino met Minoru Kagenou who was her classmate in the same classroom. They usually greeted each other at the school gates but while Nishino remembered his name, Minoru mistook her name several times. Over the course of High school, Nishino desperately tried to get Minoru to correct this error until it became clear that her classmate showed no interest in her and she decided to leave him alone.

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.

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.