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Setsuna Sakurazaki (Sakurazaki Setsuna?) Birthday: 17 January 1989. She is a kendo expert of the Kyoto Shinmei-ryū (Kyōto Shinmei-ryū?, literally “God’s-Cry Style”) of fighting and has some knowledge of onmyō-jutsu (onmyō-jutsu?). She wields a nodachi named “Yūnagi” ( “Yūnagi”? literally “evening calm”). A native of Kyoto, she is a childhood friend of Konoka and serves as her guardian. Some of the characters believe that she has romantic feelings for Konoka because of various hints, but this is mostly subtext (this is much more overt in the OVA, however), while Yue herself thinks of it as nothing more than a mere misunderstanding by everyone. Although extremely devoted to Konoka, Setsuna feels unworthy of protecting her, and tries to maintain an atmosphere of impersonality.

Setsuna is also a winged hanyō: the daughter of a human and a crow yōkai. A form of albinism compounds her mixed heritage. She has white wings, even though crows are black; also, Evangeline has alluded to Setsuna using colored contacts and hair dye. Viewed as an omen of ill luck because of the white colour of her wings, Setsuna was forced into exile from her tribe.

During the battle against Great Demon God “Ryoumen Sukuna no Kami” she was forced to transform into her hanyō-self to be able to rescue Konoka from Chigusa. Forced is the word used because of the fact that she tried to keep it a secret from Konoka since childhood (Setsuna was afraid that she might be rejected by the person that she wishes to protect). However, the law of her clan also states that when their hanyō-form has been seen by others, they are mandated to leave those who have seen their true form.

It is only thanks to Negi’s insistence that Setsuna stay around that she was prevented from running away right before the end of the Kyoto Field Trip Arc. This resulted in a further blossoming of her relationship with Konoka, and a friendship with Asuna and Negi, as well as her continued growth in the series (akin to Motoko Aoyama’s change throughout the Love Hina series).

Setsuna was almost forced to transform into her hanyō-form again during the Mahora Festival’s final day, when they were falling from high up the sky after traveling back from the alternate future that Chao made. Before she is forced to bring about her wings, Negi stopped her so that the other girls, excluding Asuna and Konoka, would not know of Setsuna’s true nature.

She was the third person to form a probationary contract with Negi, in order to give her and Asuna a better chance at fighting off a horde of demons while Negi rescued Konoka. Her pactio artifact manifests as a tantō, and her pactio can create sixteen identical blades, which she can use to seal opponents. Setsuna is reserved and loyal, and holds the title of most skilled fighter in Mahora Academy.

Besides her fighting skills, Setsuna also has some ability to manipulate magic as part of her combat training; for example, she can use paper dolls to create doppelgangers of other people. She can also transfer part of her ki or life force into a paper doll, resulting in a super-deformed version of herself called Mini-Setsuna.

Towards the end of the Festival arc, she and several other girls became trapped with Negi in the future after Chao had revealed the existence of magic to the world. After a long and hard battle, they finally manage to escape that future and head back to the past. Setsuna “performed” in the Mahora “Mars vs. Mages” battle as a “Hero Unit”, allowing her to use her full abilities openly in fighting Chao’s robot army.

Currently, she plans to accompany Konoka as she will be traveling with Negi to Wales. Her badge is never targeted in the Badge collection game, though she felt uneasy to wear the badge since the “new” club name written on the badge is none other then “white wing” in Latin.

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