Tuesday 1 May 2012

Negima!? Ala Rubra Character

ALA RUBRA
A sub-group of AAA or The Eternal Wind is a fictional group of characters from the manga series Negima!: Magister Negi Magi, created by Ken Akamatsu. The name is Latin for "Crimson Wing", and was the inspiration for Nagi's son's similar group, Ala Alba ("White Wing").


MEMBERS

Nagi Springfield
Jack Rakan
Albireo Imma
Eishun Konoe
Gateau Kagura Vandenburg
Filius Zect
Takamichi T. Takahata
Kurt Godel



HISTORY
War in the Magical World
The original formation of the group has yet to be seen, but the first interaction of the group that is shown when Jack joins up. Jack Rakan had been hired to take out a 'group of elites', consisting at that time of Nagi Springfield, Albireo Imma, Eishun Konoe, and Filius Zect. After 13 hours of fighting, the battle between Jack and Nagi finally came to a draw and Jack ended up joining the group himself. As the war in the Magical World started, 'The great Nagi guerrilla knights' inherited a losing battle. They started fighting on the confederation side, from way out at the Argyre borders to right on the front lines, fighting the war practically single-handedly. Amongst their enemies, the group members gained various epithets, such as 'Red-Haired Demon of the Confederation' and 'Man of a Thousand Spells'. By the time of the 'Great Bridge Recapture Operation,' Ala Rubra had finally gained their legendary status, which happened together with the turning point of the war itself. After this legendary battle, Gateau and Takamichi joined the group as new allies and friends. A bit later, the group encountered Arika Anarchia Entheofushia, princess of the Vespertatia royal family; around the same time, their main enemy finally gets revealed, Cosmos Entelecheia. Nagi becomes the personal bodyguard of princess Arika during this time. Sometime, Nagi and Gateau both figure out that Senator McGill is a member of Cosmos Entelecheia. As Ala Rubra confronts the Consul, Averruncus I appears along with two of his companions, but withdraw shortly after encountering Ala Rubra. Former allies then turned on Ala Rubra and chased them out of the capital. Nagi went out with Eishun to rescue Arika and the young princess Theodora. Afterwords, as the group returned to their base, Arika asked Nagi if Ala Rubra truly is invincible and makes him an accolade gesture to her knight. Ala Rubra then began its all-out battle against Cosmos Entelecheia. During it, the group found itself some new allies, including Kurt Godel and the, at this point still young, Ariadne Academy Principal.The final battle took place at the 'Gravekeeper's Palace,' during which Ala Rubra finally won against Cosmo Entelecheia. Shortly after the battle appeared to be won, the true mastermind, The Mage of the Beginning, appeared and engaged the group in a battle, heavily wounding nearly everyone. Nagi and Zect then confront the Mage of the Beginning and manage to defeat him, whith Zect apparently disappearing together with the Mage of the Beginning in the end.


After the War
Ala Rubra became even more famous after the end of the war and were considered from that moment on asto be the 'Heroes of the Magical World'. The group split up into two groups, with Nagi, Eishun, Rakan, and Albireo traveling together and Gateau, Takamichi, and Godel working together. The latter group stayed by princess Arika's side as personal advisers following the war. Nagi's group instead went out to help to clean up the mess and help people recover from the war. The senate accused Princess Arika for the war and her part in it with fake allegations and imprisoned her and scheduled her to be executed. Kurt informed Nagi and the others about this turn of events, but only got in response from Nagi that he wanted to save more people instead of only one special person. This later turns out to be only a cover for his real actions and feelings towards the princess.


The day came when Arika was to be executed. As Arika walked towards her death, she only regretted that she wasn't able to be with Nagi and her only wish was to see him a last time. At the last moment, a soldier interrupted the live-broadcast, making the senator and the observing crowd upset. The soldier soon revealed himself to be none other than Jack Rakan from Ala Rubra. The shocked senator then asked what happened with Arika when Jack Rakan is here, to which the man responds that he has nothing to worry about, because 'this idiot' takes care of things now. The angry senator immediately called for the troops and guards to come, to which Rakan (who now had backup from Eishun, Gateau, and Albireo) asked "Are you seriously telling me that you think that's gonna be enough?". As Nagi saved Arika and proposed to her at the same time, the rest of Ala Rubra took their last official known action, crushing the corrupt troops of the senator.
Later, at least 8 years after the war, Secundum along with Septendecim, Nii and Tertium encounter and engages Nagi in battle, who gets then backup from Arika and Albireo. This event seemed to be the prelude to the three important points of the story line:
The sealing of the Mage of the Beginning.
Nagi and Arika's disappearing/death.
The Death of Geteau by trying to help Asuna.


Unknown Time Period

At some point during the war, Nagi, together with Eishun and Albireo, saved a young Asuna Vesperina Theotanasia Entheofushia, who was being forced to use her magic-canceling abilities for the enemy.
Years after the war and shortly for Nagi's disappearing, Ala Rubra appears (without Zect, who vanished by the fight with the Mage of the Beginning, and Rakan) with Asuna in Istanbul. Its assumeable that it is arround 3-5 years after the war, since Takamichi was by it already a young man and not a teenager anymore.


After Nagi has already disappeared, Gateau, Takamichi, and Asuna traveled together. Gateau somehow gets mortally wounded protecting Asuna and, as he is dying, tells Takamichi to erase Asuna's memory of the events so that she would not have to live with the pain she had witnessed.


Future & Epilogue
7 years in the future is the Mage of the Beginning finally defeated and Nagi freed with the compinated help of Negi and his Magistra Mages, the remains of Ala Rubra, Kotarou and Fate Averrunus. Rakan, Eishun, Alberio, Nagi and Evangline await then Negi and the main part of Ala Albra for a reunion. Rakan and Nagi are telling Yue that she can fight meanwhile pretty well while Nagi compliments his son of getting such good and "sexy looking" comerads. They party group then celebrates its being and the good outcome with Evangline close the chapter with the words: "True magic results from the courage of the Heart. Boys and Girls, be ambitious."


Activities of the members of Ala Rubra after the war
It is unknown how and when the group split up. Some facts are known about the members' activities afterwords, however:



Nagi Springfield:
-Married Arika and had a son, Negi.
-Fighting together with Albireo and Arika against Fate Averruncus and his group in Istandbul.
-Met Evangeline and sealed her later to the Mahora School Complex.
-Vanished one day but 'returned' to save his son from an attack on his village.
-His current status is unknown, except for the fact that he is alive somewhere.
-Nagi, or at least an image from him, appeared as Mage of the Beginning against the fight of Ala Alba
-Lifted with Negi Evangelins Infernus Scholasticus curse.
-He was later saved due Negis and Class 3-A compinated force by defeating the Mage of the Beginning.


Jack Rakan:
-Stayed in the Magical World and lived in isolation.'
-Met at some point Evangeline and won from her the scroll about Magica Erebea.
-Met his old friend's son Negi and became his teacher.
-Joined Negi's fight against Fate Averruncus.
-Fighted in the "Ultima Competitio Campionis" against Negi as gladiator.
-Faced Fate head on in battle, but through the "Code of the Lifemaker" got sent to the Eternal Garden.
-Returned due his "fighting spirit" from the Eternal Garden to the Magical World.
-Joined the fray against the new founded group of Cosmo Entelecheia.
-Achieve with Ala Alba, Ala Rubra, Evangeline and Konemon victory against Cosmo Entelcheia.
-Watched, with the help of a artificial body, alongside the rest of Ala Rubra Evangelines 'Farewell Battle' with Negi and Asuna Kagurazaka.
-Returned with Godel, Theodora and Asuna back into the Magic World.
-He is later seeing celabrating along Ala Rubra + Evangeline and Ala Alba years after freeing Nagi from Mage of the Beginning.


Albireo Imma:
-Returned to Earth (the Old World).
-Fought alongside Nagi and Arika against an unknown group, of which Fate Averruncus was a member of.
-Informed Negi about his father and the Magical World.
-Has been 'stuck' underneath Mahora's Library Island for the past 10 years and can only send out a replica of himself every year during the school festival with the help of the World Tree's magic.
-Assembles with Eishun and Konoemon over Mahora City to watch the happenings until Evangeline interrupts them forcing him to finally telling her the whole truth.
-Arrives shortly after Evangeline in the Magical World with Eishun and Konemon.
-Summons Takamichi and Godel to the fray against the new group of Cosmo Entelecheia.
-Achieve with Ala Alba, Ala Rubra, Evangeline and Konemon victory against Cosmo Entelcheia.
-Watched alongside the rest of Ala Rubra Evangelines 'Farewell Battle' with Negi and Asuna Kagurazaka.
-Was at the farewell, like the rest of Ala Rubra, Theodora, Setsuna, Konoka, Ayaka and Negi for Asuna present.
-He is later seeing celabrating along Ala Rubra + Evangeline and Ala Alba years after freeing Nagi from Mage of the Beginning.


Eishun Konoe:
-Returned to Earth.
-Informed Negi about Mahora's secret library.
-Got married and had a daughter, Konoka Konoe.
-Visits Alberio along with Evangeline for a talk about the trip of Ala Alba.
-Assembles with Albireo and Konoemon over Mahora City to watch the happenings until Evangeline interrupts them.
-Arrived with Konoemon and Albireo the Magical World to reinforce Ala Alba.
-Achieve with Ala Alba, Ala Rubra, Evangeline and Konemon victory against Cosmo Entelcheia.
-Watched alongside the rest of Ala Rubra Evangelines 'Farewell Battle' with Negi and Asuna Kagurazaka.
-He is later seeing celabrating along Ala Rubra + Evangeline and Ala Alba years after freeing Nagi from Mage of the Beginning.


Gateau Kagura Vandenburg:
-At some point he saved Asuna, but was mortally wounded in the process and died shortly thereafter.


Filius Zect:
-Vanished together with the 1st Mage of the Beginning during the war 20 years ago.
-Eight years after the war and his "death", he is seen leading Cosmo Entelecheia as the 2nd Mage of the Beginning.


Takamichi T. Takahata:
-Returned to Earth and became a teacher at Mahora.
-Acts as guide, adviser, and keeper at Mahora.
-Still works with the government of the Magical World on occasion (i.e. Kurt Godel).
-Helped Negi against Kurt Godel.
-Joined with Kurt and the Magical Army to help with Ala Alba's fight for the Magical World.
-Almost singlehandedly faced the endless numbers of Cosmo Entelecheia's army to protect the allied fleet.
-Joins the final fray against Cosmo Entelecheia together with Konoemon, Evangeline and the other members of Ala Rubra and Ala Abla through Albireos summon.
-Achieve with Ala Alba, Ala Rubra, Evangeline and Konemon victory against Cosmo Entelcheia.
-Watched alongside the rest of Ala Rubra Evangelines 'Farewell Battle' with Negi and Asuna Kagurazaka.
-Holded together with Negi Asunas private graduation cermony.
-Was at the farewell, like the rest of Ala Rubra, Theodora, Setsuna, Konoka, Ayaka and Negi for Asuna present.


Kurt Godel:
-Stayed in the Magical World.
-Became Governor-General of New Ostia.
-Tried to continue the work of Ala Rubra in his own way.
-Joined together with Takamichi and the Imperial Fleet against Cosmo Entelecheia to support Ala Alba.
-Joins the final fray against Cosmo Entelecheia together with Konoemon, Evangeline and the other members of Ala Rubra and Ala Abla through Albireos summon.
-Achieve with Ala Alba, Ala Rubra, Evangeline and Konemon victory against Cosmo Entelcheia.
-Watched alongside the rest of Ala Rubra Evangelines 'Farewell Battle' with Negi and Asuna Kagurazaka.
-Returned with Rakan, Theodora and Asuna back into the Magic World.
-It is hinted that he may married Hakase Satomi.


Abilities
-Most members have at least one special area, where they are considered unmatched.
-Nagi has Pactios with at least Albireo and Jack out of the group.
-Albireo seems to have Pactios with Kurt and Takamichi, since he was able to summon them through Pactio seals, like Negi did before with Asuna and Setzuna.
-The group has at least two strong swordsmen, Jack and Eishun. Kurt is later shown to have been a pupil of Eishun and become a great Shinmei-ryū swordsman himself as well.
-Even though Filius Zect's abilities were not shown, it is assumed that they were fairly high, as Nagi always called him 'Master'. Zect also stated that he has lived for at least 2600 years, which he describes as "2600 years of torment."
-Nagi and Jack were said to have had the same strength when they first met, fighting to a standstill. It is notable that Nagi was much younger than Rakan at that time (Jack stated that Nagi was only 13 when the war started).
-Rakan is known to have defeated (single-handedly): 137 ships (including 1 super dreadnought, 3 airborne motherships, and 13 cruisers), 9 divine soldiers at once, and at least one being on par with a high daylight walker like Evangeline: an ancient dragon.
-Rakan also displayed how great his strenght is by destroying a magical deminsion with sheer will power.Chisame states that: "He is so broken, that it isnt even funny even more." Giving an idea, how strong the other members are, while Rakan still being on per with Nagi.
-So far is Albireo the only one seen to use gravity magic. He is also the only one in the group shown to be able to 'walk' on air without using a charm, staff or other tool.
-As Rakan stated towards Negi is the most common trait in the group the 'idiocy', as well as the fact that they are all 'group' or 'co-op' players despite being already fearsome and powerful on their own. Nagi, and Ala Rubra overall, is the strong opposite of Negi, who follows rather after his mother and Evangeline, a 'single'-player and tactician.
-At least two members, Eishun and Godel, have access to influential and powerful organisations, i.e. the Kansai Magic Association and the Megalomesembrias Senate.
-After being freed from the Mage of the Beginning, Nagi might still have some ambilities from him.






NAGI SPRINGFIELD 
 ナギ・スプリングフィールド
Aka The Thousand Master, is a fictional character from the manga series Negima!: Magister Negi Magi, created by Ken Akamatsu. He is the father of the main character Negi Springfield as well as being the centerpoint of the main plot of the story.

Background & Personality
Negi's father and a legendary wizard. The origin of his title is ambiguous; some bill him as the master of a thousand spells (which is patently untrue since he admits to being a dropout who only knows a handful of spells and needs to read out of pocket notes to cast other, albeit very powerful, spells). However, this was stated in a dream that Evangeline had, and because she "hates" him, may not be true, but it seems to have been verified by Asuna having Nagi say something to the same effect during her most detailed flashback dream. There is also a rumor that he made probationary contracts with a thousand different girls, though this is almost certainly just a lie of Albert Chamomile's, meant to inspire Negi to make many contracts and earn Chamo-kun a huge brokerage fee with the Ermine Society. However, if you look closely at Albireo Imma's Pactio card, in the top left hand corner, are the roman numerals MI, that translate to 1001. Nagi is so strong, in both magical and physical combat, that he does not even need any Ministra Magi to help him. His fighting style was that of a magic swordsman, using both speedy magic casting and hand-to-hand combat in tandem.
Despite what many people think, he never did graduate from a wizard school, even admitting that he is a dropout. When he was ten years old, he became the winner of essentially the last Legendary Mahora Martial Arts Tournament, twenty-five years before the current one. Later, Nagi and his friends fought in a magic war that ended years ago, when he was fifteen years of age. After the war, he became famous for his heroic deeds and received the title of Thousand Master. He disappeared ten years ago in 1994, the same year Negi was born. No one knows precisely what happened to him, but most people assume he is in fact dead. In a recording made by Alberio shortly before Negi's birth, Nagi himself assumed that he would be dead by the time Negi saw it. However, Nagi managed to survive, and he showed up just in time to save Negi from a horde of demons attacking his home village. He seemed to still be in trouble however, as he could only stay long enough to give Negi his staff. Since Albireo has a pactio with Nagi and it remains active, it is proof that, despite his disappearance, Nagi is still alive.
Unlike his son Negi who is hard-working, mature, serious, is repectful when talking (such as referring to each of his students with the honorific "san") and insecure, Nagi is shown to be lazy, child-like, laid back ,and simply refers to someone by name even to his elders (considered very disrespectful in Japan), with the sole exception being Filius Zect (to whom Nagi refers as "master") He also seems to hate being called by titles such as Nagi-san preferring people to simply call him Nagi and is said to be a "ladies man". However, like Negi, he is a kind and caring man and is for the most part always seen with a smile on his face, with a cunning and shrewdness that surpasses common sense. The illusionary Nagi created by Alberio was much the same, though with a noticeable ego.
The last known information about Nagi's whereabouts was obtained by Ayaka upon Asuna's request to launch an investigation on him; according to Ayaka's findings, he disappeared in Istanbul (as was revealed in Chapter 176, complete with a map of Turkey). The Thousand Master is a mage whose elemental magic affinity is lightning.

Role In The Story
Although he has only appeared in flash backs (save his end appearance at the end of Negima!? see below), he plays a major role in the story as trying to find him is what drives Negi so hard. Although most of the world thinks he dead, most of his close friends knew better saying that "Nagi is way too strong to let himself get killed off that easy". The fact that Alberio Imma and Rakan of the Thousand Blades have living, active, pactio contracts with Nagi also serve as proof that he is indeed still alive.
When Negi and his group are looking for him in the magic world. In order to avoid bounty hunters, Negi uses Age-Deceiving Pills to make himself look older and is going by the alias of 'Nagi Springfield,' which causes a media sensation in the fighting tournament he is now involved in. It is also shown that Nagi has a huge fan club in which many members believe that the disguised Negi is actually Nagi reincarnated.
After Negi and Asuna defeated the Lifemaker his hood falls back to reveal Nagi's face. Before the Lifemaker disintegrates Nagi seemingly takes control of the body and tells Negi to find his real body and put an end to everything by killing him.
In the events of the final chapter of the manga, set seven years in the future, Negi has reunited with Nagi and the two teams, Ala Rubra and Ala Alba, meet for a friendly gathering. Once he had a look at his son's "comrades", he automatically teased Negi for the fact they were all girls. But Nagi later admits that he has great friends and would love to meet the rest of Class 2-A in the future.

Relationships

Negi Springfield: His only child, who like him, is a skilled mage, but personality wise are complete opposites. He left Negi before he was born and never met him until the night he saved Negi when his village was in danger and gave him his staff. Nagi had his friend Takamichi T. Takahata look after his son to make sure he was okay.

Arika Anarchia Entheofushia: The mother of Negi and Queen of Ostia. It's revealed she was tried in the national courts and "executed" 18 years ago for being suspected in being in league with Cosmo Entelecheia, but in reality she was rescued by Nagi who took her to the Old World so that they could be together.

Nekane Springfield: His only known niece, she is a relative by blood to Nagi. He had met Nekane before Negi was born.

Evangeline A.K. McDowell: A centuries-old vampire cursed to remain at the school by Nagi. After Nagi saved her life, she fell in love with him, and pursued him relentlessly until he managed to shake her off. Feeling rejected, she finally tracked him down in Japan, but was tricked into walking into an "anti-vampire soup" composed of garlic and leeks. Employing the powerful Infernus Scholasticus (School Hell) curse, he confined her to the grounds of Mahora Academy and put in place a barrier to restrict most of her abilities. He then told Eva that she should try to "live in the light for a change" and promised her that he would free her from the curse when she graduated. However, he never returned to free her from the spell, which caused her to hate him afterwards.

Asuna Vesperina Theotanasia Entheofushia: While circumstances surrounding the situation varies from series to series, it is shown that Asuna had once traveled with Nagi and Ala Rubra.

Other Ala Rubra members: It is shown that Nagi had a connection with all of the Ala Rubra members, including Takahata-Sensei who is a teacher at Mahora Academy, rival Jack Rakan who recently met Negi, Eishun, Godel, Albireo, and Gateau.

NAGI In Other Media

Negima!
Nagi also met Asuna when she was a child and traveled with her for a while, just before he disappeared. In the anime, Nagi accompanies Asuna so they can find a way to stop a contract between a Demon and Asuna, wherein she will die in 10 years. One day, Asuna accidentally nullifies Nagi's magic shield, and he is pierced through the chest by a demon's sword. He quickly casts a spell that causes both him and the demon to disappear in some sort of black hole. When he does this he says "Negi, take good care of Asuna" even though Negi never introduced himself to his father and Asuna when he was found, and by that it means that Nagi already knew Negi when he found him.

Negima!?
Although he is initially seen through flashbacks and dream sequences, Nagi is explicitly shown to be alive in this series, even saving his son and Anya from the Star Crystal after the final battle between the latter two. Nagi however remains as elusive as ever, leaving his son behind even before a reunion can take place. But he is not a bad father by any means as he is the one who sent the Magical Academy agents Motsu and Shichimi to watch over Negi. Eventually, Nagi tells the two to switch their alliances with Negi, seeing his son mature in just a short time.

ARIKA ANARCHIA ENTHEOFUSHIA
 The princess and later queen of the Vespertatia, and Negi's mother.

Personality
She has heterochromia (left eye green, right blue), similar to Asuna's eyes (left eye blue, right green). She was very naive and cold because of her upbringing inside the castle which both shelter her from the world and expose her to the greed and betrayal within the kingdom, despite all this she is shown to be a brave leader. When she reluctantly sacrificed her country to save the magic world she did everything within her power to reduce the casualties, including going personaly to escort people to safety, and even when casualties amounted to less than three percent this was still not enough. Because of her sherltered upbringing she had problems expressing her true emotions, which she believes she is not allow to have because of her royal status and hardly changes her cold expression. She also has no patience for Nagi's perverted attitude and slaps him with her magic when he gets out of line.

Synopsis
Arika Anarchia Entheofushia was the princess and later queen of the Vespertatia and was also the person most actively trying to end the war before ruin. For this, she needed "the invincible" Ala Rubra on her side. After she came in contact with Ala Rubra in the confederation and gained information, she went to meet the third princess of the Hellas empire to comence negotiations but both princesses were captured by after Ala Rubra were declared traitors by Primum. Caught in that trap, pursued by both the empire and the confederation, they manage to fight their way towards the place where Princess Arika and Princess Theodora of the Hellas Empire were being held captive, rescue them and escaped to their hide out. There, they suggested that the according to their information the higher-ups in the capital of Ostia were heavily corrupted by the enemy which lead to the conclusion that they had no allies in the empire, the confederation, or Vespertatia. Arika once again asked Nagi and Ala Rubra to served under her and then they started their counter attack, thanks to Arika, Ala Rubra still had a few allies and they were able to identify who was the enemy.
During the final battle, Arika was able to stopped the magic that would have destroyed the world using the magic that kept Ostia floating.
 Arika was arrested when the Megalomesembria senate accused her of killing her father, the King, and for being in league with Cosmo Entelecheia, this was all false information the senate created to make her a scapegoat for the war. Arika was force to spend two years imprisoned before her schedule execution in Cerberus Canyon. After she jumped to her death in Ceberus Canyon she was rescued by Nagi, who confesses his feelings for Arika and makes her admit her own feelings for him, after Arika finally admits she loves Nagi, he proposed and Arika replied "yes". Rakan and Ala Rubra forced the senate to cover up the rescue so that Arika could live in peace but this did not stopped the Megalomesembria senate from putting a bounty on Ala Rubra. 
Eight years after the war Arika is seen fighting the remnants of Cosmo Entelachiea, which included Tertium, alongside Nagi and Alberio. Two years later she gave birth to Negi Springfield, but because unknown circumstances she couldn't raise him.

Abilities
It is hinted that Arika is holding a special kind of magical power, so far only known as 'Royal Magic'. Apparently it is a different kind of magic compared to the normal one. Its true power and abilities are to date unknown, but its obviously very strong, since Arika was able to beat up Nagi with simple slaps pretty badly. Arika has also been seen with a sword a few times, but it is unknown how well she can use it.


 JACK RAKAN  ジャック・ラカン
Jack Rakan (Jacobus Racan on his pactio card as the "k" in his family name is replaced with a "c" as is standard on all pactio cards), also known as "Rakan of the Thousand Blades", is the large, dark-skinned member of Nagi's group, the dark skin being dues to the fact that he is a member of the Hellas Race. He has been referred to several times as the 'Ultimate Broken Character', a reference to RPG characters whose stats and abilities are so powerful that they are almost unbeatable.

Background / Part In The Story
He appears to be a powerful fighter, demonstrating incredibly destructive attacks with relative ease. He has a very greedy and laid back personality. He refuses to do favors for free, and tends to not really care about much, including the political aspect of the war. He seems to follow the theme of "idiocy" that Kotarou mentioned, as he tends to do silly things in battle, including using more strength than is required and using ridiculous moves ("Eternal Negi Fever"), which was thought to be a draft of a move he wished to teach Negi, during his fight with Negi. He revealed that he first met the group as an enemy, being hired to take them on after they interrupted the invasion of Ostia, and eventually changed sides and joined the group. He has demonstrated the ability to emit a high-powered laser from his body at a whim. Rakan initially encounters Negi (in his older disguise) in the Magical World witnessing his battles in the tournaments to raise money to free some of his students. Seeing him without a special ultimate technique, he offers Negi to teach him one for a huge fee. However, after the two of them are attacked by a shadow-manipulator who wants revenge on Nagi, Rakan is forced to save Negi's life for free as well as decides to become his teacher without the fee. Rakan then teaches Negi a technique called Magia Erebea, a forbidden technique created by Evangeline A.K. McDowell. Later he has joined Negi and the rest in Ostia.
While Fate confronted Negi, Fate sent two of his partners, Koyomi and Tamaki, to Rakan in an attempt to engage him in talks. Rakan wasted no time in provoking the two by making lewd comments and stealing Koyomi's panties, which incites them to trap him in a pactio-induced alternate dimension along with Konoka and Chamo.
Rakan is able to escape the trap by discerning the physical location of Koyomi and Tamaki within the dimension and confronting them. Inspection of Koyomi's stolen panties allowed Rakan to give a ballpark estimate of their location, and Chamo's expertise was able to refine the estimate into a pinpoint coordinate. The barrier dimension was then destroyed apparently by Rakan's sheer willpower.
After Fate's retreat, he began to show Negi's party (minus Yue, Anya and as it is later revealed; Asuna) a movie displaying the Mundus Magicus War. A bit later after the tournament has started, Rakan has made his entry with Kagetarou. Negi (alias Nagi) initially lost his nerve over the prospect of having to fight against his mentor, considering that, according to Rakan's personal strength judging system, Rakan's base power is ranked 12,000 compared to Negi's 700 (before receiving a boost from Magia Erebea). Taking the system into account, with one attack, he can destroy six aegis warships.
In a flashback two days before the final 20th anniversary match celebrating the end to the Schismatic War, Negi had taken time to study Rakan's past. It was then revealed that Rakan was not always how Negi had perceived him to be and that he became the man he is today through struggles and effort alone. Like Rome of old, Rakan made his debut 40 years ago as a young slave boy who was a gladiator in the Hellas Empire. And over the first few years, there were many times when he was nearly killed. After unsaid years he climbed to the top of the gladiator world, and obtained his freedom. It was around that time that people began to call him "invincible". With his retirement as a gladiator, he took part in numerous real battles in the outside world, overcoming many crisis and dilemmas. Fame soon followed him, along with countless nicknames such as "The Man Who Cannot Die", "The Thousands Blades", The Legendary Mercenary Swordsman", and so on. After learning Rakan's history, Negi comments that Rakan's talent can be said to have been built from scratch, with no cheats, tricks or luck. His strength was forged and honed over the 40 long years of real battle experience and training. And the reason why Rakan can act so laid back is due to his mountain of experience and confidence, because of this Negi refers to Rakan as 'The Ultimate Hard Worker'.
In his fight with Negi, Rakan is overwhelmingly powerful, reversing a situation in which he was being pummeled in an instant only by studying that same pummeling. He sees through Negi's new technique and delivers, what is thought to be, the ending blow to the fight. After this blow is struck, Negi gets back up but is soon repeatedly pummeled by Jack until he is left lying on the ground. While Negi is lying on the ground, Jack gives him advice to quit and reveals that the entire fight was a test and that he never intended it to be a serious match, Jack continues saying that since Negi was defeated he will not reveal the secrets concerning Negi's mother. After Negi gets back up Rakan notices that Negi is planning something and is not defeated just yet. Jack then fights Kotarou Inugami, who is defending Negi to buy him time to cast a spell and defeats Kagetarou, however Jack soon defeats Kotarou and then confronts Negi. Negi then activates his ultimate spell Duplex Complexio. After overcoating 2 chilpl astrapes he pummels Rakan with overwhelming speed, but sufficiently lacks the strength and power to finish it. This makes him trick Rakan into a strength contest by showing off his unison lightning lance, and when Jack falls for it, Negi absorbs Rakan's attack. When he hits Rakan with the lightning lance and 2 chilpl astrapes, the fight appears to be over. But, Rankan manages to get back up. He declares Negi a man and wants to fight Negi further. They both know they have used up most of their magical power and are unable to use any more. So, they resort to using common fist fighting. During which Jack states to himself that even though Negi isnothing like Nagi, his fight with Negi was almost like fighting Nagi again.Although he is a laid back guy he seems to be aware of what is happening around him and as stated by Kaede has a field of “Ki” surrounding him at all times. He also is aware of what happened to Nagi and who Negi’s real mother is, but is hiding the facts from him. His race is Hellas. He's also a great artist and can copy techniques through observation, he claims to have no weaknesses. 
Jack confronts Fate Averruncus atop the building in which Kurt Godel's ball is held. After exchanging words that confirm that Fate is the third Averruncus, the previous two having been defeated by Nagi, they are interrupted by Fate's Minister Magi, whom Jack initially fights using the same perverted techniques he used in an earlier confrontation with Tamaki and Koyomi. After being trapped in Tamaki's barrier dimension again, for a while it appears as if Fate's partners might gain the upper hand, but Jack soon emerges unscathed from their attacks, and questions them as to why they work for Fate, which he finds out (after reading their minds) that they are all war-orphans. After Rakan and Fate begin fighting seriously, Fate summons a staff and Rakan tries to fight back, but after learning that it's a mirage it will be too late as the worst enemy of Ala Rubra appears before him, cuts his legs and arms and forces him to wear a special armor and commence into battle. Despite a brave battle, Jack is erased by the Code of the Lifemaker, but still manages to temporarily re-form himself to pass a few last words to Negi.Later Jack Rakan returns when the conclusion between Ala Alba and CosmoCosmos Entelecheia reaches after Negis battle with Fate its peak. He says even though he was erased he was brought back from it because of his fighting spirit and Asuna's power. He defeats without any problems the Acient Dragon Vrkso Nagasya and assists to keep the group in check until Evangline finished her chanting. Evangline is then suprised that he made it out of it alive, stating that she setted her spell onto him aswell. While the two quarral they get interupted inform of the Mage of the Beginning. He watches then with the rest how Asuna and Negi battle the Mage of the Beginning. As the Mage of the Beginning appears to be Nagi and Evangline gets obvoisly shocked from that fact, looks Raken somehow dead serious yet kind of hateful towards him .Rakan is also present when Evangline does her "Farewell Battle" with Negi and Asuma and also as Asuna departs back to the Magical World
.In the Epilogue is his later seen enjoying with Nagi, Eishun, Al and Evangline drinks while they waited for Ala Alba to arrive.

Abilities
Hand To Hand Combat: Jack Rakan is a extremely powerful and high level warrior of close quaters combat. So much he is unrivaled in a close range fight, trying to fight him at hand to hand combat is considered suicide.

Super Strength: One of the reasons he is so dangerous, especially in hand to hand combat, is because of his overwhelming strength that very few can handle.

Ki and Magic Abilities: He has a massive amount of both ki and magical power. The natural raw power of either are both very destuctive. So much so that he can cause massive destruction and break through other dimmensions through willpower by simply using will power to release his magical and Ki power.
It was noted by Kaede that his body is surrounded by a wall of Ki at all times.

Pactio: Armiger Milliplex: His artifact is called Ho Heroes Meta Chilion Prosopon (The Hero Of a Thousand Faces). His artifact can transform into any type of weapon at his will. In his words his artifact can transform into "any shape imaginable", from multiple weapons of any kind to armor (which can act as replacement limbs if need be).

Keen Intellect: Despite his ridiculous personality, Rakan is actually a very intelligent fighter, analyzing enemy abilities and finding weaknesses in them. This does not only apply to defeating enemy techniques, but also copying them as just by having seen his teammate Eishun Konoe perform Shinmei-ryu techniques he was able to duplicate a powerful Ni no Tachi technique.

Guts

Spells / Techniques
Hellfire Conflagration
Warship Breaker - Rakan uses his artifact to create a massive sword which crashes down on his enemies with great force.

Hidden Blade Surfing Rakan - Rakan rides on a blade that he sends flying at the target with great speed and attacks them upon the moment of impact.

Tyrannic Blazing Roaring Dragon Exploding Flash Demon God Air Cleaving Rakan Fist
Negi Fist

Eternal Negi Fever - Rakan emits a powerful and destructive laser-like attack released from his body.

Willpower Defence

Rakan Hurricane Palm

Rakan Impact - Rakan charges magical power and ki in a spiral-like motion into his fist and releases it, firing off a highly powerful and destructive blast.

Zanmaken Ni No Tachi: In Celebration of My First Kiss with Ojou-sama Strike

Rakan Hariken Shou

Imperial Type 97 Battering Ram Form Magical Armour 

Rakan for the Hell of it Right Hand Punch - A powerful and explosive punch, so much so that the entire area Rakan was battling in shook with its force.

Rakan Gentle Breeze Tempest Fist - Rakan creates tempest whirlwinds at speeds of a 100km per hour around the target while the target feels nothing by a gentle breeze.

Rakan Ten Thousand Fists

Spiral Palm

Rakan Mega Wild Throw

Point Blank Full Throttle Rakan Impact - Rakan impacted used at full power at point blank range.


ALBIREO IMMA  アルビレオ・イマ
One of Nagi's former companions. He entered the fighting tournament during the Mahora school festival under the assumed name "Ku:Nel Sanders" and went largely unnoticed until he approached Asuna and was recognized by Evangeline. He appears to have information on not only Nagi's whereabouts, but also on Asuna's forgotten past. Albireo appears to be a perverted fellow, as his taste in making Evangeline wear costumes made apparent in recent chapters. He's also a cunning and shrewd man with a trickster personality akin to Nagi Springfield (though perhaps a little more subtle), and is considered as one of the two natural enemies which Evangeline has (he takes great delight in verbally tormenting her), with the other being Nagi himself. Following the school festival he gives Negi confirmation that Nagi is still alive and advises that he should journey to the magical world if he is to get any closer to finding what happened to his father. He has also revealed details of Asuna's forgotten past to Eva. He also took part in the final battle facing against the revived members of Cosmo Entelecheia. Albireo Imma has a strong affinity towards gravity elemental magic. As member of Ala Rubra, his position on the team was that of the magic healer.An interesting fact revealed in the latest chapters is that Albireo has his very own Pactio card, which means that he, in addition of being a powerful mage, is also a Minister Magi. His artifact is a series of books, with an accompanying bookmark, that can be used to transform into a specific person, using all their skills and abilities. His present Pactio is with Nagi, but he has had at least ten contracts with other mages in the past, all of whom are dead.
This perverted, but handsome fellow is registered as a librarian in the Mahora Library Island. For some reason he has been "stuck" there for 10 years, and can only send out a replica of himself every year during the school festival with the help of the World Tree's magic. With some help from Yue and Nodoka, Negi was able to find the location where Albireo resides some time after the Kyoto field trip. However, it wasn't until after the Mahora Festival that Negi and his students were finally able to enter his residence in Library Island.In tune with his library theme is his Magic Password, "Papyrus Tarpis Ron Jinkou", and he refers to himself as an extremely ancient book.
He also seems to have great knowledge of the mysteries and secrets of Mundus Magicus. He is hinted to be the one who uncovered the true goal of Cosmo Entelecheia. He also seems to have known who the Life Maker really was at first glance.


Abilities
Pactio: Bibliothecarius Ironicus: His item is known as To Fyuron To Biographiconis. It is a bookmark accompanied by a spiraling archive of books, assumedly containing one book for every person Albireo has ever encountered in his life. Using the bookmark, he places it inside a book (with the name of the person he chooses to imitate on the cover) and draws it out in order to transform into a clone of that person, also obtaining the ability to use their powers. The artifact lacks its usefulness for Albireo as he can only keep his transformed appearance for a few minutes, if the being he wishes to emulate is stronger than him. Add to that the fact that most people are weaker than Albireo himself, he does not need to turn himself into them. Another ability of Albireo's artifact is that it can, for a full 10 minutes, allow him to transform into that person and emulate them perfectly (in thought processes, memories, emotion, personality, etc.), but the price to pay for this ability is quite high. The book that has the records of the then-copied being would lose all of its power after that time ran out, and would turn into nothing more than a simple biography (and as he say's himself, "a rather mundane read"). Furthermore, Albireo will only have the memories of that person up to the point in which the biography was written (when he last saw that person). The Nagi Springfield Albireo emulated during the festival only knew of Negi as an infant, had no memory of saving and meeting Negi six years prior, and in fact assumed that "he", the real Nagi, was already dead.
Albireo has in his possession more than one copy of his own pactio card, showing that Albireo has been a Minister Magi and performed contracts with multiple mages, although whether they were simultaneous contracts cannot be confirmed as only one copy is shown to be active.
Much like the girls in the class, who have their seat numbers on their pactio cards, Albireo happens to have a Roman numeral MI (for 1,001) in the upper left and lower right corners of his pactio card. He has confirmed that this Pactio is with Nagi Springfield, the Thousand Master. Since it is currently active, the contract also proves that Negi's father is still alive.
Uncommon to most partners thus far, Albireo possesses two tonus (colors) associated with his card (cyaneum, [indigo] and aurum, [gold]), instead of the usual one. The reasoning for this has yet to be confirmed. It should also be noted that the gold makes his pactio a valuable and rare one.
this most likely is a reference to his namesake, the binary star Albireo which is made up of one yellow star and one blue star.
Master Magical Ability: Albireo has shown himself to be a master of gravity and healing magic.

List of Spells
Small Heavy Black Hole - Albireo Imma created a small sphere which is the equal of a Black Hole. This spell even damaged Dynamis despite his shields to a high degree. Very powerful spell.


THEODORA OF THE HELLAS EMPIRE
'' TOMBOY PRINCESS ''
Appearances & Personality
Queen of Hellas of Vesperisszimia ,  is the third princess of the Hellas Empire. Not much information is known about her, aside from the fact that she is a part of the Hellas race, like Jack Rakan. She is thirty years old in Human years, but she is actually 10 years old in Hellas years. Although she normally acts like a reliable ruler, she hides several childish traits, such as a short temper and foul mouth -- especially around Rakan. These are problematic when she is supposed to be an important political figure and the "voice of a country". Despite these shortcomings, she appears to be a very competent leader and general. She is close friends with Rakan and the two have an almost brother-sister type of friendship.

Part In The Story
Theodora is first shown in the video Jack Rakan shows to Ala Alba. During the war she joined Arika and Ala Rubra in the final battle 20 years ago. She attempts to meet up with Princess Arika for negotiations between the warring confederation and empire, only to be kidnapped by the mysterious organization Cosmo Entelecheia. She is rescued alongside Arika, and winds up accompanying Ala Rubra back to their secret hideout. Together, the two princesses use their arsenals to help launch a counterattack against Cosmo Entelecheia. Combined, these forces were led to magically seal the world-ending ceremony launched by Cosmo Entelecheia, who were using Princess Asuna as a weapon. The plan worked -- at the cost of causing the floating island of Ostia to collapse. Theodora later appears during Ala Rubra's award ceremony. Theodora herself claims she knows nothing about Princess Arika's fate after the events of the war.She along with Seras, (the Headmistress of the Ariadne knights) and Ricardo, (Senator of Megalosembria) helped Negi and Kotarou with extra training in order to defeat Rakan in the tournament. She tells Negi that she was a good friend of Nagi and Arika and that she knows what happened to them. The most important question from Negi: Is Arika his mother?, but Theodora can't tell Negi the details. Because of a promise made by Ala Rubra, she can't tell Negi about the magic world's (Magicus Mundus) affairs until he has reached full manhood. At the end of the chapter, Theodora makes a pactio with Negi. On Negi's pactio card it seems he is holding an item like the spellbook Nagi used. His artifact is a card case that allows him to summon and use his ministra's artifacts and abilities associated with them.
She is briefly seen during the Governor's Ball, commanding troops against demons summoned by Cosmo Entelecheia. However, the power of the Master Keys' rewrite simply erases her arsenal. She summons the Sacred Dragon, Vrixho Nagasha, to combat a giant monster summoned by Dynamis, only to have it taken down in one shot. She then witnesses Chachamaru's artifact, Al-Iskandariya, defeat the demon in one hit. Upon seeing this power, Theodora comments that Ala Alba may just have the ability to save the magic world.
On Ala Alba's mission to the Ostia Ruins, Theodora returns. Here, she uses her fleet to fire at the enemy demons Tsukuyomi summoned, which clears a path for their ships to travel. The remaining demons are then defeated by Negi's party.
Although Theodora is a well-respected royal figure, it appears that Kurt Godel may have more political power than her. In chapter 256, Kurt states he has authority to remove Ala Alba's bounty, which is beyond Princess Theodora's ability. This would explain why Theodora didn't eliminate the bounty, despite being on friendly terms with Negi.


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