Reki

"I am a single bullet..."

Reki (レキ; 蕾姫) is the Snipe department's ace. She is a S ranked Butei. Her real name is unknown. She's habitually taciturn, constantly impassive and indifferent in fashion. She's always seen with a large headphone over her head. Her signature quote is "I am a single bullet. It has no heart. Therefore, it does not think. It just flies straight towards its target" (and in japanese : "私は一発の銃弾、銃弾は人の心を持たない. 故に、何も考えない. ただ、目的に向かって飛ぶだけ" Watashi wa ippatsu no jūdan, jūdan wa hito no kokoro o motanai. Yueni, nani mo kangaenai. Tada, mokuteki ni mukatte tobu dake), and she always says it before she shoots her target.

Plot
She plays a minor role in the series, usually providing covering fire for Aria and Kinji when they are fighting at a close range, or saving them during times of troubles, up until the events at the end of volume 5, when she holds Kinji at gunpoint on the rooftop of Butei High, kissing him and proposing marriage to him. She also reveals that she already knows about IU and Hysteria Mode. Her ancestors were revealed to be Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Genghis Khan.

She is a member of the Ulus Tribe, a small group with roots in the Samurai and have a genetic condition that causes only females to be born.

In Volume 7, Chapter 3, one of the CaoCao sisters, Juujuu, held Kinji on gunpoint and ordered Reki to kill herself in exchange of not killing Kinji. She said that the 'wind' trained Reki well to the extent that she lost her human heart, making Reki useless to her. Reki ask is she would keep her word, and Juujuu replied that she did not want to kill Kinji, claiming that she could use him. Reki then pointed the barrel of her Dragunov Sniper rifle on her head, ignoring Kinji's pleas for her to stop. Reki told Kinji that the girls of Ulus are equal to bullets, and she was a defective, unusable bullet, and in order for her to protect her lord (Kinji), she must shoot herself.

She pressed the trigger only to be suprised that her most trusted gun did not release a bullet, resulting into a misfire, which is, according to Kinji, a one in a trillion chance because when it comes to Reki. This marks the first time her Dragunov failed her. According to Riko, Kinji expected Reki to commit seppuku with her own gun and took steps to make sure that Reki's Dragunov would misfire just once by diassembling her Dragunov and removing the primer of the bullet.

Before Reki could attempt another shot, Kinji removed the last bullet from her Dragunov before ordering her to not shoot for a second time. Kinji reminded her that she promise him that she would listen to his orders and told her that the person who she should shoot at was the enemy, and that she should believe in him.

Kinji was able to protect Reki from the bullet of Juujuu's sniper rifle, giving Reki enough time to aim her gun. She then said a quote that is different to her signature quote, which is the same as Kinji's words to her:

"In the midst of this darkness. A path of light exists--outside of the light, nothing can be seen, nothing exists. Iam one who runs in the midst of that light."

She then defeated Juujuu with the same technique she use to take down Haimaki.

Equipment
She uses a a Dragunov sniper rifle. She apparently listens to the sound of wind from her homeland using headphones in order to keep her soul intact with it.

Abilities
She also has a deep understanding of animal physiology, being able to shoot at an animal's spinal cord to paralyze them temporarily. She eventually tames a wolf in a matter of 5 minutes, which she later named Haimaki, and trains it to be a butei dog. From then on, she lives together with Haimaki in her own room in a girl's dormitory. Kinji visited her room at least twice up to Volume 6. He commented how bare and simple it is. She also sleeps upright with the Dragunov on her hands, perhaps to prevent an ambush attack according to Kinji. Reki apparently doesn't possess any clothing other than several school uniforms in which she alternately wears, so Kinji bought her a casual one as a present, as a part of his Lima syndrome plan. Reki cleans up nicely. In fact, Kinji was left speechless after witnessing her dressed-up appearance in Volume 6.

She is able to shoot anything within a 2 km radius without missing her target.