Keitz Nokleben

Kites Knockraven (カイツ＝ノックレーベン) is a character introduced in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun manga. Originally unnamed in the manga, he only gains a proper name after his debut in the anime adaptation.

He is the mysterious security supervisor of the Level 6 Shift project during the time when it was still running, and serves as an indirect antagonist to Misaka Mikoto.

Appearance
He is shown to be a tall man, with blond hair swept back paired with green eyes.

Personality
He is shown to be confident in his decisions, and is able to predict who was attacking the research facilities connected to the experiment. He has a subtlety that allows him to manipulate people obviously below him like Amai Ao without him knowing.

Background
Not much is know about him, though he has shown casual familiarity with Shokuhou Misaki, the 5th ranked Level 5.

Sisters Arc

 * Main article:Sisters Arc

He first appears being briefed by the attacks on the various facilities that are connected to the the experiments. He quickly deduces that Mikoto could be behind the attacks on the research facilities, although unsure of it, he did surmised that the attacker is a proficient Electromaster.

With only two facilities left, the S-Processor Laboratories, Kites hires ITEM, a mercenary group from the dark side of Academy City, to protect another research facility long enough so they can move important data and equipment, to other branch facilities, which was planned by the supervisor to discourage the attacker and to cut losses while still maintaining the experiment.

He later reappears after the project has been distributed to various facilities, here Amai Ao objects to him for distributing the experiment to various facilities. Ao worries about the interests of the project being split-up, but is calmed by him after he explains to him that those who will receive gains from the experiment are the one who are still running it at the time of the project's completion. He leaves his office shortly therafter.

After the freezing of the project, she is called upon by Shokuhou Misaki, who became interested on the fate of the Sisters. She set up a meeting after hiring him, to which he woefully conludes that he has no idea what happened to the clones. He tells him that all liability was pushed towards Amai Ao, and that another agency has taken care of the Sisters. However, he says that there is another group searching for the clones. Hearing this, Misaki tells him to investigate and continue to search about the whereabouts of the clones.

Daihasei Festival Arc

 * Main article:Daihasei Festival Arc (Railgun)

After the Level 6 Shift was frozen after the efforts of Kamijou Touma, and later cancelled altogether after the death of Amai Ao, Kites reappear when Misaki is enjoying her day with her clique. He talks Misaki as he drinks a cup of coffee from an adjacent table. Her underlings are about to intervene but she uses her powers to rewrite their memories and shoo them away -- adding on that they should eat twenty Éclairs as fast as possible while they're at it. When they are gone, the man and Misaki speak on an arrangement about certain knowledge she wants. The man says he has what she wants but that Misaki shouldn't concern herself with that; the top priority this time is to get the client to trust them. He says Misaki's help is appreciated and the two beam contrasting smiles at each other that perhaps aren't that different.

During the first day of the festival, he appears alongside with Misaki after Yoshio Baba mistakenly knocks out Misaka 10032 deeming her to be Mikoto. Kites and Misaki comes upon the clone and tells her how she was injected with a nanodevice, as such the anitvirus software for her would not be able to heal her. Misaki says that if it is a danger to her life, she might be forced to ask Misaka Mikoto for help, but Kites says that the opportunity might allow them to do the first move against their enemy, Kihara Gensei. Misaki later asks about the urban legend website called Auribus oculi fideliores sunt, which was somehow able to monitor her whereabouts within a secret institution in School District 2. Kites tells her that he has prepared a program that creates dummy sites to bury the website in the web. With that done, Misaki later takes her in to protect her against MEMBER, keeping her inside the secret institution in School District 2.

Later, when he is monitoring his program, he discovers that someone was able to break through his setup and reach the website, annoying Misaki and berating him. However, he reveals that he can trace the intruder, to which it reveals that it was from Judgment 177 Branch Office. Seeing that it is Mikoto's interference, Misaki leaves Kites to meet up with her.

Quotes

 * (To his subordinate, from Railgun S Episode 7): ""We" have no means."
 * (Recurring phrase): "Oh dear."