Sakibasu Yuri

Sakibasu Yuri (咲蓮誘璃) is a student of Tokiwadai Middle School and a member of Shokuhou Misaki's clique, introduced in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS3.

Appearance
She has black hair in twintails and curls. She wears the standard Tokiwadai uniform.

Personality
She is prideful and boastful, showing off her Stativarius violin to Kuroko as well as her talent in using it. However, beneath is an insecurity, as her family is low-born and their wealth comes from her inventing a card game, she uses the prestige of the Stativarius violin to elevate her family social standing.

Background
Yuri was born to normal parents, and they struggled very hard in their jobs to give her a better life. When she was five years old, she created a trading card game that became a world-wide sensation, being played in over 49 countries and predicted to be even more ubiquitous than regular playing cards. This gave her massive wealth to both her and her family. Although her family had become wealthy and was proud of her accomplishments, the upper-class still rejected them as they came from a lower social standing, and she felt guilt that she may have broke something irreplaceable from her parents when she was the one who elevated them from their lot in life.

She later enrolled into Tokiwadai Middle School, and seeing that her ability might be useful, Shokuhou Misaki had her join her clique. Misaki later got her in touch with the Chandelier Auction House, and there using her ability, she managed to win a genuine Stativarius violin, much to Misaki's dismay as Yuri had become worked up about it.

Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS3
On a quiet afternoon at Tokiwadai Middle School, she caused trouble for Shirai Kuroko and challenged her to a violin competition in their music elective. Despite her performance of Air on G String with her legendary violing, she lost to Kuroko who used a handmade violin, a custom sound reflector, and an original song to take advantage of the 3 minute limit given to them. She later joined Kuroko, Misaka Mikoto, Uiharu Kazari, and Saten Ruiko in a family restaurant after being invited by them. She conceded defeat and was later told by them that she had value, her talent, beyond what the legendary violin gave her.

Abilities
She has an ability known as Carbon Search (有機探査 (カーボンサーチ) ), allowing her to precisely measure carbon isotopes of an object, like accurately appraising antiques and artwork, and even detecting if food is spoiled. This was how she was able to get a genuine Stativarius violin from an auction. As a student of Tokiwadai Middle School, she can be assumed to be at Level 3 or 4.

She is skilled at violin playing, and possesses a Stativarius (ステートバリウス), a type of violin worth more than a hundred million yen. She was so skilled in fact that not even Misaka Mikoto, a violinist herself, and Shirai Kuroko could match up to her talent no matter how much they tried.

Trivia

 * "Stativarius" is a pun on the real-life, the legendary string instruments built by the Italian family Stradivari during the 17th and 18th centuries, known worldwide.