Karatachi Nijika

Rain (レイン) is a new game-original character featured in the game adaptation Sword Art Online: Lost Song. Her real name is Karatachi Nijika (枳殻 虹架). Nijika's ALfheim Online avatar is a Leprechaun.

Background
Rain is a Leprechaun who dual wields. She also has a high proficiency in Hiding skills, and has a habit of following Kirito and his fellow players around. She has a stigma for being a liar, though there may be more to her story than initially appears.

In the dark area of Svart Alfheim, it was revealed that Nijika was in contact with Kikuoka Seijirou's agency, asking information about her estranged younger sister Alsharvin. It was also revealed that Nijika is a Sword Art Online survivor.

Lost Song
As Kirito and friends went about their adventures through the first two islands, Rain was secretly spying them and became more and more impressed with them. It wasn't until around Wellgunde, the desert island, that Kirito started catching onto her spying despite having strange feelings of being watched throughout his travels.

When Kirito, Asuna and Leafa travel alone together to Wellgunde after the others log out for the day, they hear Rain scream and hurry to save her from attacking Harpy monsters. Afterwards, Kirito easily identifies her as their stalker, despite her lies that she was a newbie player, by exposing that her equipped boots match those of the footprints she previously left behind. With the truth exposed, Rain finally introduces herself to them and shares that she learned about Kirito and Asuna's skills from reading them on web forum boards, calling Kirito the "hero of SAO". She then is invited to join them by Kirito, which Asuna and Leafa later agree to as well.

As they continue their mission to clear Wellgunde, Kirito is eventually able to easily tell when Rain was nearby as he would call out to her even though she was hiding. She begins meeting the others in the group afterwards each time this happens.

Abilities

 * Dual Blades
 * Thousand Rain: Infinite hits Original Sword Skill
 * Star Burst Stream
 * The Eclipse

Gallery

 * See Rain/Image Gallery

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