Ranze Kurona

Short next to most of the players his age, Kurona keeps a slight build and a shock of pale, dusky pink hair, one strand of it worked into a lone braid that dangles beside his left cheek. His eyes share that same washed pink shade, and when he opens his mouth he shows a row of jagged, crooked teeth that saw to a point, an echo of Jingo Raichi's snarl.

Reserved and inward-looking, Kurona speaks only when he must and would rather stay clear of the limelight. On the field he leans toward setting others up over seizing the moment himself, most often feeding Isagi. A quiet streak, though, does not make him unkind; those who actually know him find him warm, and he almost never picks a fight, carrying himself with a steady calm in nearly every situation.

He is faintly self-conscious about his shark-like bite and has a verbal tic of his own, doubling up a single word before launching into a longer sentence or echoing a word back at the end of one. It gives his speech an odd, repeating cadence that has become a signature of his.

Kurona is charted as both a forward and a wing-back, a role that asks for bottomless stamina, crosses delivered from deep, and solid defending down the flank. Turning out for Bastard Munchen, he pushed up the pitch as a support runner, trading rapid one-twos with Isagi and acting as a release valve whenever the striker came under pressure.

Blistering pace is his foundation, letting him chase down Isagi's fastest passes and shadow speedsters like Chigiri. His Close Quarter Dribble draws a defender in tight before he bursts into a sharp turn to slip past. Reading space just as keenly, he can instantly sniff out a spot that hurts the opponent and helps his allies, hovering at the perfect distance to collect a ball.

Underpinning that positioning is his Sharp Turning, the knack of holding top speed through impossibly tight cuts. Those cuts are the engine behind his Planet Hotline, curving him into exactly the right place to receive at pace and keep an attack alive.