Reisen Hiraga

Reisen Hiraga is the leader of Akatsuki academy student representatives for the seven sword art festival. and a B-rank Blazer. After being defeated by Stella Vermillion in seven art festival, it is revealed that he is just a puppet himself being control by the best puppeteer in Rebellion.

Appearance
Hiraga dresses like a clown and wears a mask to cover his face.

Personality
Befitting of his appearance, Hiraga tends to speak in a joking tone, never taking things too seriously. He has also shown to be a very calm individual as he was able to calmly stop the deteriorating situation with Nene and his fellow Akatsuki members.

Hiraga is highly cruel, manipulative, and sadistic, being consider "pure evil" compared to the rest of his team.

History
Not much is know about Hiraga except he joined Akatsuki prior to the story.

Incident of Okutama
Reisen is the mastermind behind the "giant" that appear in the mountain of Okutama, using his puppeteer skill to test the abilities of Tohka Todo, who is one of the top 4 Apprentice Knights of the nation.

Siege, Reunion and Trap
Hiraga talks with Nagi on the phone, in which Nagi informs him which of Hagun academy's students are in the seven sword art festival. Hiraga then states that the main actors have yet to be introduced to the play, alluding to another school participant in the festival named Akatsuki.

Training camp and Scheme
Hiraga is contacted by Nagi, who had just knocked out Kagami, and wondered if he should kill her. Hiraga tells him not to as it would be too much trouble taking care of the body and informs Nagi that their plan of attack would happen tomorrow morning.

Akatsuki Strikes
Hiraga is then seen along with other members of Akatsuki going to Hagun Academy with the intentions of destroying it.

After they had done so, the seven sword art festival participants had arrived and they were able to strike down the akatsuki members easily thanks to Nagi restraining them. However, Nagi is struck down by Amane and it is revealed that they were wooden dolls, created by one of the akatsuki members, as the had seen Nagi's betrayal coming. Hiraga then takes Nagi away going to the Akatsuki academy, causing Shizuku and Ikki to chase after him.

After Hiraga had tied up Nagi, he had went back to where the other Akatsuki members were, as they were facing Nene who is able to easily stop them from bringing any harm to Stella or the Hagure sisters. He decides to point out to Ouma, the only one who still had the ability to fight Nene, that they had done what they had came to do, suggesting that they should retreat for now.

Abilities
Doll Manipulation: Hiraga has the ability to manipulate natural materials, such as wood or rocks, and use them as dolls for combat.

Puppet Body: Being a puppet, Hiraga can't feel any pain or fatigue.

Device
Black Widow: Hiraga's device takes that of a shape of wires, which he uses to manipulate dolls as well as the blazers with, cutting off their magic.

Trivia
In the anime due to the exclusion of the Akatsuki story line, it was an unnamed blazer working for Akaza who controlled the stone dolls.