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. Kirito only started noticing her spying around Wellgunde, the desert island, despite having strange feelings of being watched throughout his travels.

When Kirito, Asuna and Leafa traveled alone together to Wellgunde after the others had logged out for the day, they heard Rain's scream, and hurried to save her from attacking harpy monsters. Afterwards, Kirito easily identified her as their stalker, despite her lies that she was a newbie player, by exposing that her equipped boots matched those of the footprints she had previously left behind. With the truth exposed, Rain finally introduced herself to them, and shared that she had learnt about Kirito's and Asuna's skills from reading about them on web forum boards, calling Kirito the hero of Sword Art Online. In the aftermath, Rain was invited to join them by Kirito, a decision that Asuna and Leafa later agreed to as well.

As they continued their mission to clear Wellgunde, Kirito eventually became able to sense when Rain was nearby, thus he would call out to her even though she was hiding. As time passed by, Rain began meeting the others in his group each time this happened. It was not until Flosshilde that Rain came out of the shadows to help her new friends and joined the party, noticing that Shamrock was beating them to the treasures in the dungeons. With aid from Rain, Kirito's party managed to complete a quest ahead of Shamrock. However, it was not long until Shamrock's de-facto leader, Sumeragi, realised the truth. When Kirito chose to duel Sumeragi, he identified Rain before everyone as "Rain the Liar", a former Shamrock guild member who lied her way in and was expelled for it, but not before using her remaining credentials within the group to steal information from them. Kirito and the others returned to town afterwards.

When facing Rain about this, Sinon was the first to oppose her. However, Kirito and Yui both realized that what Sumeragi said about her could not be true, as she would have lost her credentials the moment she was expelled from Shamrock, and thus could not have truly done what he had accused her of. Kirito then convinced everyone to keep Rain in the group.

Abilities

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

Gallery

 * See Rain/Image Gallery

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