Kurono Shinguuji

Kurono Shinguuji is the current director of the Hagun Academy and formerly the third ranking Mage Knight in the KOK A-League.

Appearance
Kurono is a slender woman who is usually seen wearing clothing expected of a staff administrator, which consists of a dark blazer, a white button up dress shirt underneath, which she wears a black tie around the collar, also sporting a long dark skirt. She also has short dark hair, which covers her entire forehead, as well as having a single bang that reaches down to her nose, as well as two other side bangs covering up some of her ears. She is also seen wearing her hair short hair in a ponytail.

Personality
Kurono is shown to be a laid back person with signs of playfulness as seen when she enjoyed the initial bickering between Ikki and Stella. Kurono also shows great signs of care for her students. She went as far to call all the teachers involved in holding Ikki back trash and fired them as soon as she became Director.

History
A Hagun Academy student in her teens. Kurono faced off against her rival, the Yaksha Princess Nene Saikyo from Bukyoku Academy in the Seven Stars Sword Art Festival which is still famed till date after Kurono countered Nene's Hadou Tensei in that match. After graduating, Kurono enters the King of Knights (KOK) and climbs her way up to the third ranking in the KOK A-Leagues before retiring to become a housewife and mother.

A year before the current story, Kurono returns to her former school, taking over the Director position from the previous director. She also removed the teachers who were involved in holding Ikki, and promising the boy that if he wins the Seven Stars Sword Art Festival, she will allow him to graduate.

Failure vs. Prodigy
Kurono is first seen sitting in her office talking to Ikki after an incident she had with a new transfer student, Stella Vermillion. Being nonchalant over the issues of the two students, Kurono reveals that both Ikki and Stella are roommates, much to their surprised and further suggested that they do a mock battle to solve their issues. She then serves as the judge between Ikki and Stella's duel.

After the duel concluded with Ikki's victory, Kurono visited Ikki and Stella's room, where she reveals Ikki's past and how Ikki's family stopped him by having Ikki hold back a year. She then leaves after asking Stella's goals and tells her to chase after Ikki.

Lorelei vs Raikiri
Kurono is next seen at the match of Shizuku vs Tohka, along with Nene. She then asks Ikki to explain what ability was Tohka using, which Ikki explains perfectly. She then watches as Shizuku falls to Tohka's Rakiri.

It is then revealed by Kanata Totokubara that Kurono had asked the student council president to find some students to help deal with the issue regarding a giant causing problems in the Okutama mountains, as the staff was busy dealing with the preliminary rounds of the Seven Stars Sword Art Festival.

Siege, Reunion and Trap
Kurono was up in the stands along with Nene, and other distinguished individuals, watching as Ikki fought and defeated Tohka, with only one swing of his sword. She had then announced the six participants of the Sword Art Festival and had given Ikki the title of captain of the Hagun Academy Team.

Akatsuki Strikes
Kurono, during Akatsuki's strike against Hagun, was out of town, but quickly came back, along with Nene, in order to deal with the situation.

Upon arriving at Hagun the two had decided to split up with Kurono going to try and save Ikki. Upon arriving at Akatsuki academy Kurono had seen a battered unconscious Ikki and an unscathed Edelweiss. She had at first become angered at the scene, but calmed down before doing anything to Edelweiss who quickly leaves.

After Akatsuki's attack Kurono, informs both Ikki and Shizuku that Stella won't be around for an entire week as well as that some participants of Hagun academy's seven sword team had dropped out for various reasons and told Ikki he didn't have to win to pass anymore. After Ikki's refusal to take the easy way out, Kurono then asks Shizuku if she would like to participate in the festival to which Shizuku states she would.

Party Crashers
Kurono is seen at the hotel room with Bakuga Tsukikage and through their talk finds what his true intentions are, which is to separate japan from the Mage knight union, as they don't have the resources to continually help other countries in need. He then states that Akatsuki will prove the Mage Knight Unions flaws and that he is right, to which Kurono tells him that the Hagun Academy students will beat them. Bakuga leaves looking forward to seeing how this all plays out.

Battle of Kings
Kurono appears during Ikki's battle with Yudai Moroboshi and explains to Shizuku, Nagi, and Kiriko that Ikki wasn't able to finish Yudai because his subconscious was using a different style, the style of the world's strongest Edelweisse. She then watches on as Ikki is able to finish off Yudai.

Abilities
Master Marksmanship: Kurono wields her handgun Devices with great aim and speed. She can knock down dozens of deflected projectile in mid air with ease after using her Blazer to stop time. This feat amazed everyone present, with Ikki Kurogane saying her abilities haven't rusted at all since her time as the 3rd rank in K.O.K. League.

Time Manipulation: Kurono possesses cause and effect interference type ability which can control time.

Device
Unnamed Handguns: Kurono's Device is a pair of one-white-one-black handguns.
 * World Crisis ( lit. Time-Space Collapse): Kurono twists the space she shoots at into nonsensical state, destroying objects exposed to it and its full range is powerful enough to blow away Nene's Hadou Tensei. Because the space destroyed by World Crisis can never be restored, it was banned from usage due to the danger it pose to the world.
 * Clock Draw : Kurono stops time for an instant then pelt her target with a hail of bullets.

Trivia

 * Kurono and Nene came from the same year.
 * After Ikki and Stella's first match, Kurono told Stella that Ikki had managed to defeat her in a straight fight albeit with a handicap. No other details have been revealed about the fight.