Asato Kisa

Asato Kisa (阿里希茶) is a third-year student in Tokiwadai Middle School.

Etymology

 * Asato means "Africa, flatter, fawn upon, corner, nook, recess" (阿) (a) and "village" (里) (sato).
 * Kisa means "rare tea" (希茶).

Appearance
Asato has a middle part relaxed low ponytail, with an exposed forehead and a mole below her lips. Being a Tokiwadai student, she wears the school's uniform.

Personality
During her initial meeting with Shokuhou, Asato described herself as someone who only ever noticed people's flaws (in contrast to Hasekura Reiri's discerning eye), and envied but also sympathize with Shokuhou's power, only able to turn up so much with her investigations but stumbling on the dark side of Tokiwadai students, no longer able to eat her favorite pancakes anymore.

Background
During her second year at Tokiwadai, Asato was a member of the Hasekura Clique, acting as the clique's deception officer, in charge of under-the-table deals, spy work and background investigations.

Daihasei Festival Arc
Around the time the Daihaseisai planning committee were trying to get the Level 5s for the opening ceremony, Asato asked Shokuhou Misaki about it while at a café with Hokaze Junko and several other clique members. When Keitz Nokleben made his presence known, Asato began to ask him who he was, but was stopped by Shokuhou's Mental Out and sent away along with the others, the encounter to be forgotten.

On the second day of the Daihaseisai, some time after Misaka Mikoto escaped the clique's watch to get revenge for Kongou Mitsuko's hospitalization, Asato confirmed with other members that they had not found her yet. She initially planned to have the clique separate into groups of three to search, but on finding that many of the other members had events and with too many absences liable to raise suspicions, she settled on searching with whoever was left, before lamenting her queen's absence, confirming that no one had been able to contact her since the previous night and wondering where she had gone.

First Year Arc
Early in her second year, when Misaka Mikoto had achieved Level 5 and her roommate had moved out due to pride, Asato assigned first year Kessai Kiyoshi to take the vacancy and observe Mikoto for the clique. Not long afterwards, she and two others were called upon by Kessai to go through a load of chocolates for a Gekota finger-puppet prize as a gift to get into Mikoto's good graces, though the four reaching their limits before finding one.

Asato was with Hasekura Reiri, along with another clique member, when she ran into Mikoto and the other two top clique heads in a hallway junction. When Hasekura returned after taking the Level 5 away for a brief contest, she asked how things went and received instructions to have a member in the Arts Club fix a broken sculpture before Hasekura left again. The two then discussed the situation regarding the clique and the two Level 5s.

Some time later, as tensions rose between the Hasekura Clique and the Mikagami Clique over alleged attacks on the latter's members by the former, Asato relayed instructions from Hasekura, who was away at a demonstration in Paris, not to instigate further conflict until she returned, but was disregarded by Yasutoba Suika.

Asato greeted Hasekura on her return and discussed the situation regarding the whole clique conflict, accompanying her on her walk and her subsequent meeting with Shokuhou Misaki. After Hasekura had finished her talk with Shokuhou, satisfied herself that she was not involved and suggesting she start a clique of her own, Asato had a talk with Shokuhou herself, talking about her own role as deception officer. On hearing how Asato envied yet sympathized with her power, given how her investigations frequently stumbled into the dark side of students (no longer able to enjoy her favorite pancakes as a result), Shokuhou made an offer - if she started a clique like Hasekura suggested, she'd let her join to take the weight off her shoulder. Asato denied needing help, making a remark about Shokuhou's size and disbelieving her claims about growing, but ultimately replied that she'd join if Shokuhou was taller than her by the time Hasekura graduated.

Abilities
Her ability is currently unknown, but as a student of Tokiwadai Middle School, it can be presumed to be at Level 3 or 4.

Trivia

 * Although an anime character design presumed to Asato is present among the designs for minor characters from Shokuhou's clique, she doesn't appear in the adaptations of the scenes which involved her in the manga.
 * In the last episode of Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S, she seems to appear in Shokuhou's cameo alongside Hokaze Junko and two other clique members, however in that case, she and the glasses-wearing member have different hair colors/shades than in other media, such as the colored manga-related illustrations (such as on the cover of Volume 11) and the character designs for Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T.