Kuraudo Kurashiki

Kuraudo Kurashiki is a third year student from Tonrou Academy.

Appearance
Kuraudo is a well built man, with light brown eyes, which he wears yellow sunglasses over. It appears that he also wears a black fur coat, wearing a half way buttoned up shirt underneath it, which reveals that he has a smiling skull tattoo on his chest, as well as having scars on the back of his neck. He also wears black pants, and a white belt. He has long, wild, unkempt light brown hair, which covers some of his ears, as well as having a small bang sticking out and covering a little bit of his forehead.

Personality
Kuraudo has shown to be a very crude man, as he continually cusses at every chance he gets, during his first encounter with Ikki and friends. He is also very sarcastic, and cruel as he mocked the feelings of hate Ayase had for him, even calling out her name, as though they were actually friends, knowing what he did to Ayase's beloved father.

Kuraudo has also shown to be very aggressive, and ruthless for no apparent reason at all, as it has been stated that he actually attacks other students, from different academies, just to cause a fight, as seen when he attacked Ikki even though Ikki was trying to stay calm the entire time.

Kuraudo, a number of times, has been shown to be disrespectful to anyone, or anything that doesn't fight him, as shown when he came on to a sacred dojo, with his shoes on, as well as spitting on Kaito Ayastuji, for not accepting his challenge, even calling him a coward. He also has an insatiable lust for a fight against strong opponents, as shown when he used many terrible methods, just to get a fight with Kaito.

Although it is proven that he is very disrespectful to many, and is willing to do horrible things just to cause a fight, he does have a great respect for his opponents, especially strong ones like Kaito and Ikki, as he is able to fight using all of his strength. He even proven to have a good eye for skills and can understand just how strong a person really is. This was seen when he was able to tell that Ikki was not only a swordsman but that he would participate in the Seven Stars Sword Art Festival after their first meeting.

History
2 years prior the main story, Kuraudo challenged the Ayatsuji Dojo to a fight but was refused by the Dojo's master, Kaito Ayatsuji. In retaliation, Kuraudo attacked all 7 of its students injuring them heavily. Kaito Ayatsuji then agreed to face Kuraudo in a match where Kuraudo injured him badly. A year after that Kuraudo participated in the previous Seven Stars Sword Art Festival, representing his school in that tournament, successfully reaching the Top 8.

Disciple, Encounter and Betrayal
Kuraudo is first seen in a family restaurant, where he and his friends harass Ayase. He then tries, to goad Ikki into attacking him but he fails, as Ikki finds a more peaceful resolution as he does not fight back.

Impossible Victory, Decisive Battle and New Beginnings
Kuraudo is next seen at the dojo, contemplating whether to sell it or not, when Ikki bursts into the dojo challenging him. Kuraudo accepts the challenge with a few stipulations, where they fight with their devices to the death, to which Ikki accepts. They begin to fight, and throughout the match Kuraudo is able to dominate. This soon changes, however, as Kuraudo soon finds himself out of stamina, due to Ikki's strategy of just defending. Kuraudo is then beaten by Ikki, who is able to use the last samurai's final technique to finish him off. Kuraudo then leaves the dojo, leaving it to Ikki to do as he pleased with it.

Party Crashers
Kuraudo is seen at the sword art festival party, where he warns Yui Tatara to wait her turn, against Ikki, as she had tried to attack him and his sister, scaring Yui off.

Abilities
Expert Swordsmanship: Kuraudo fight in a very savage fighting style with a sword. His attack have a great deal of brute strength behind them and is able to cover his openings with his superhuman reflexives. When using his Device with these attributes he could overpower Ikki, a master swordsman who can copy his opponents fighting style. These are what earned him his nickname "Sword Eater".

Immense Strength: Kuraudo is known to possess pure brute strength which he infuses into his fighting style.

Marginal Counter : Due to his reflexive sensitivity, Kuraudo is known to possess reflexes that surpasses that of a normal human. (Ikki estimated his speed of reflex at 0.05 seconds, twice the speed of Stella and Ikki's reflex, and six times the speed of a normal human's reflex.) This allows him to perform an action at a much faster rate than most others would. This allows Kuraudo to dodge attacks at come at him swiftly and yet strike fast. The Marginal Counter, however, consumes more stamina than usual, thus disabling Kuraudo from fighting long battles while using it.

Ayatsuji Ittou-ryu: After his loss to Ikki, Kuraudo learned Ayatsuji Itto-ryu from Kaito Ayatsuji. He managed to learn the ultimate technique of the Ayatsuji swordsmanship, Ten'i Muhou, which he used against Sara Bloodily in his match against her.

Device
Orochimaru (大蛇丸): Kuraudo's Device, a sparkling white bone-colored Nodachi with blade like saws. In the anime, upon calling forth Orochimaru, the sword acts hostile towards Kuraudo. Later during the Seven Stars Sword Art Festival Kuraudo's device took the form of two different swords, instead of one.
 * Jakkojin (蛇骨刃): Kuraudo's Noble Art, allows him to extend, and shrink his sword at will, in the blink of an eye. However the true strength of this noble art lies with the fact that Kuraudo can use it to control Orochimaru, as if Orochimaru had a mind of his own, at will.
 * Hebigami (蛇咬): Is a technique that allows Kuraudo to move Orochimaru so fast that it looks as though four heads are attacking at the same time.
 * Yamato No Orochi (八岐大蛇): Is a technique that allows Kuraudo to move Orochimaru so fast that it looks as if it has eight heads.

Trivia

 * Kuraudo has been known to smoke.