Tsurigane Saryou

Tsurigane (釣鐘) is a character introduced in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun as a competitor for Jailbreak Trial. Originally a member of the Kouga School sent to infiltrate Academy City years prior, she is later shown to be a traitor, having allied herself with Kimi and her group.

Appearance
Tsurigane looks like a teenage girl. She wears school uniform with full-body climbing harness and carries Tanto (短刀) at her back. Her hair is short and tied in a low ponytail style.

Personality
She uses a facade of clumsiness and incompetency around her older colleagues, but is actually a two-faced backstabber.

Background
Tsurigane is a member of the Kouga School of ninjutsu. She infiltrated Academy City by disguising herself as a Child Error and has lived in Academy City for ten years. Despite being a member of the Kouga School, she appears to be bad at ninjutsu. Kouga School's training ends on age of five. She became an orphan at age of five.

Tsurigane also became part of another team consisting of herself, Raifu, Aohoshi, and Kimi. She hid this fact from the Kouga. When Kimi was imprisoned, Tsurigane and the other two came up with a plan to break her out, using the cover of the Jailbreak Trial, and also find a skilled hacker in the process. Tsurigane proposed to bring in her ninja comrades so that they would win the trial if they weren't able to find a hacker. She assured Aohoshi that her comrades have high specs, though Aohoshi remained doubtful.

Jailbreaker Arc
Tsurigane first appears during the Jailbreak Trial. She is helped by another ninja while climbing the wall of 2nd Reformatory (Juvenile Hall). Two days before starting the Jailbreak Trial, she had helped her fellow Kouga sneak into Academy City easily. She suggested that they participate in the Trial to Oumi Shuri to observe Academy City's technology and achieve Shuri's purpose.

Although she joins the Jailbreak Trial as a team with Oumi, Yasu, Asai, and Sakata, she shows herself to be clumsy and incompetent, and in need of more training. However, this was a ruse. Later, after the jailbreak competition was concluded with Uiharu Kazari's victory, she is left alone with Shuri. Seemingly feigning injury, she tries to attack her in the back. Shuri catches the blade with her own, but it has already injured her. Knowing what Tsurigane has done, poisoning her, she runs away. Tsurigane later meets up with her real team, consisting of herself, Raifu, Aohoshi, and Kimi, with their plan to kidnap Kazari.

Tsurigane later plays cards with Kimi and Raifu. Aohoshi tells them that she has obtained information on the winner of the trial, Kazari. Tsurigane ends up losing the card game to Kimi. Later on, Kazari goes missing, suggesting that the kidnapping plan succeeded.

Abilities
Tsurigane is trained in Kouga ninjutsu. She is also a skilled actor, capable of fooling the veteran ninja Shuri into thinking that she is actually a poor ninja. With the advantage of surprise, she is able to land a hit on Shuri as well as parry her attacks. However, Tsurigane does not believe that she could find Shuri after the latter escapes.

Also, Shuri references Tsurigane having an ability as well when thinking about esper powers she wanted to see for herself, implying that Tsurigane went through the Power Curriculum Program and has an esper ability.