Bayloupe

Bayloupe (ベイロープ) is the leader of the New Light, introduced in Volume 17.

Appearance
She is the eldest of the group, has silvery hair and wears the same outfit as Lessar, but without the jacket. She has a long-sleeved sports shirt on, with the collar undone revealing some cleavage slightly visible. The portion of her legs sticking out of the miniskirt had blue leggings on them down to the ankles. She has hearing aid-like devices behind her ears that looks like two vacuum tube-like objects sticking from each one called the horn of wisdom, the Gjallarhorn.

Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS2: Shopping Mall Demonstration
When Misaka Mikoto returns to Nihon Daruma, after looking into a lead from Lessar which turned out to be a dead end, Bayloupe is in the middle of spanking her for giving a normal person unnecessary information. She briefly stops when Mikoto comes in but soon resumes it after what she says. After releasing Lessar, she tells Lessar to give Mikoto the proper explanation she wants, seeing as things have got this complicated because of her.

Not long afterwards, Bayloupe is dusting a magazine rack when she sees construction equipment coming straight at the store. She shouts a warning and dives for cover as it comes crashing through the front. After escaping via a different route from Mikoto and Lessar, she meets them again at Nihon Daruma's North Gate store, giving a half-hearted welcome as they come in.

Lessar later contacts Bayloupe when she locates a magic-based bomb in the shopping mall during the riots. After threatening to spank Lessar when she jokingly asks if it was their doing, she agrees that another cabal is likely involved. Bayloupe tells Lessar that there aren't enough merits to justify the risks for getting unnecessarily involved, saying that they need to retreat since it wouldn't help with their goal and that even if they saved the people in the city it wouldn't benefit them in any way. After confirming this, Lessar then challenges her to a fight afterwards, hanging up before she can respond.

Bayloupe and Lancis later report to Lessar that the riots have lulled slightly but are still a problem. Lessar later contacts them for assistance during her confrontation with Caliche I. Niknosh and her allies. Bayloupe then proceeds to bombard the area with green lightning using countless runes. After several heavy bombardments, she, Floris and Lancis assist Lessar with a spell to destroy the giant wheel snake unleashed by Caliche's group.

Lessar later contacts Lessar and Mikoto from a hotel roof to let them know that a portion of the airport has opened up, likely a launch facility for a rocket. As Mikoto and Lessar discuss what good escaping into space would do seeing as they couldn't resupply, could be tracked to landing and be shot down, Bayloupe suggests that it wouldn't matter if it didn't need supplies. They agree that the perpetrator is likely planning to launch Code EIC, which they want to make seem like the culprit rather than take the blame themselves, into space so it couldn't be investigated.

After the incident ends, New Light prepare to leave by charter plane. While waiting for take-off, Bayloupe discusses with the others about what happened in the end with the UAV and how the Academy City higher ups might have let the situation develop in order to drew out dangerous elements within the cooperative institutions. As they think about how they might have been eliminating enemies on their own side before a possible future war between magic and science, Bayloupe supposes that they were lucky that no British cooperative institutions were shut down as a result of the incident. Just before they receive clearance for take-off, they receive a signal from one of their spiritual items, indicating that it has located the Curtana Original.

Abilities
Like the other members of her team, she wears the spiritual artifact called "Steel Gloves" which were created to imitate the weapons that Thor, the God of Thunder, used. It gives the holder a great power, physically and magically. Bayloupe is the only member who is capable of summoning thunder, which is a imitation of Thor's short-handled hammer, Mjöllnir. Despite not being the strongest in the New Light Group, she is capable of defeating Itsuwa without going all out, and surviving in the training ground of Necessarius, maybe for a significant amount of time if she wasn't protecting Skíðblaðnir from the traps.


 * Skíðblaðnir
 * Steel Glove : Bayloupe in particular showed that she could "grab" large quantities of dust with the gloves and use it as a weapon aided by the enhanced strength that the gloves provide.
 * Gjallarhorn : An item unique to Bayloupe and also known as "The Horn of Wisdom" (知の角杯) it allows her to use the thunder element of the Steel Gloves.

Design evolution
Bayloupes' overall design remains fairly static throughout the series. Along with all the other members of New Light, Haimura was tasked on designing them not to look like magicians, but that of lacrosse players, and used their suits as a common symbol between all four of them.

Trivia

 * In, Gjallarhorn ( for "yelling horn" or "the loud sounding horn") is a horn associated with the god and the wise being  and "its blast can be heard in ".
 * Bayloupe tends to get angered easily before a mission starts
 * When Bayloupe was "restraining" Lessar, Lessar was forced to ask for help, then Floris pointed out that Bayloupe's weak point was her calves.... However how true this is can be questioned; as unfortunately for Lessar it ended up that her repeated attacks on Bayloupe's calves proved of no use. So either the tip was wrong or Lessar's attacking methods were unsuited for it.

Quotes

 * (To Itsuwa) “With this, we will change the history of the United Kingdom. We will change the royal family, the knights, the church, England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. But it isn’t all bad. Make sure you enjoy the change we will be bringing about”