Byakuya Jougasaki

Byakuya Jougasaki is a Mage Knight from the Bunkyoku Academy and former runner-up of the Seven Stars Sword Art Festival.

Personality
Byakuya is logical and very intelligent. He views a battle as a mental game, and the winner is the one who better understands their opponent. He was able to deduce that he could defeat Ikki within 23 moves, if he doesn't use Ittou Shura or Ittou Rasetsu. Byakuya is friends with the former Seven Stars Sword King Yudai Moroboshi, who views him as a little bit of a weirdo.

History
Byakuya joined the previous Seven Star Sword Art Festival, reaching the finals before losing to Yudai Moroboshi. He was the runner-up of the last Seven Stars Sword Art Festival.

Party Crashers
Byakuya appears alongside Yudai Moroboshi who was defending Ikki and confronting Yui Tatara.

Preliminaries
Byakuya faced off against Ikki in the 2nd round, losing in 0.8 seconds after Ikki activates Ittou Rasetsu.

Abilities
God Hand: Byakuya's power as a Blazer. He can manipulate the ‘placement’ of any object within a 50 metre radius of himself via teleportation.

Observation: Byakuya's greatest skill which earned him the nickname Clairvoyant (天眼 Tengan). He meticulously investigate all available information of his opponents to gather every available data on them including the subtleties of his opponent's everyday life.

Device
Unknown Device: The device of Byakuya is unknown, but it is known that in order to use his God Hand-ability on opponents, Byakuya must first hit them with his device.