Komaba Ritoku

Komaba Ritoku (駒場 利徳) is a side character of To Aru Majutsu no Index. He's the first leader of Skill Out shown in volume SS1 and SS2, best friend with Hamazura Shiage and Hattori Hanzou. Komaba has a younger sister who is in primary school.

Appearance
Komaba Ritoku is described as gorilla like person. He's pretty big and have a heavy builded and large body. He wears black looking clothes, as leather jackets and pants. Even with this aspect, he's a good person who cares about his friends and subordinates.

Personality
As a leader he was respected by all in Skill-Out, and a honourable person in general, forbidding all members to have any connections with prostitution, a method Musujime Awaki said it would have been the fastest way to gather funds and not have to rob banks. Even the targets picked out by Komaba are only those who actively misuse their power on Level 0s, unlike factions such as 'Big Spider' who attack espers indiscriminately.

Skill-Out
The Board of Directors wish to eliminate him since he was having a positive influence on the underground and rendered him too dangerous and influential, so they tasked GROUP with terminating him and his Skill-Out operations. The Accelerator was tasked with terminating him while Musujime Awaki was sent to terminate his resources. Coincidentally he found Awaki first and she decided to eliminate him and failed. After "defeating her" he proceeded to face the Accelerator and after a complicated fight where he used many of the Accelerator's weak points against him he would ultimately meet his demise when the Accelerator managed to reflect the bullets of his smart weapon.

His friend Hamazura Shiage becomes the leader of the gang after this.

After his defeat the Accelerator would obtain his cellphone and a list of the people he was protecting, the Accelerator took him against himself to see just how threatened where the people on that list and who was putting them in danger, he mentioned “I still have a job left to do. A special bonus job.”.

Abilities
Komaba Ritoku is a true level 0 with no esper abilities. He uses tactics and technology against his enemies; these include.


 * Hard Taping : An elastic band meant for power suit and of military use, he uses it to strengthen his body and his speed, the tapping puts a heavy strain in his muscle and thus he needs to take many precautions so that his body doesn't break down from it's use; even with that the taping is still harmful to him.


 * Chaff Seed : Remotely controlled machines of small size that could hover around and were meant to jam communications between Anti-skills. It's jamming characteristic proved to be useful against the Accelerator since it prevented him from activating his electrode.


 * Smart Weapon : An automatic weapon that verify the properties of the target with an infrared rays and adjusts a proper blast to ultimately destroy it.

Additionally he has been stated to have a greatly trained hardened body.