Krul Tepes

Krul Tepes (クルル・ツェペシ Kururu Tsepeshi?) is the a third progenitor among the vampires. She is a secondary major character where she reigned as the queen of Japan. As one of the highest ranking members of the Progenitor Council, Krul made promises that she destroyed the human organizations involved with experimentation. Sparing the lives of the orphans involved instead, Krul brought them and other surviving humans underground to Sanguinem after the world ended. While she would have little patience for small talk, a failure to fully appreciate threats beneath her would result in her being ensnared in Ferid Bathory's plots. Krul would uphold her end of a bargain struck by working with Guren Ichinose and while acting to destroy the expanding Japanese Imperial Demon Army she was willing to betray her own kind. She is over 3000 year old. Krul is a young girl, she is noted to have a petite figure, she is considered to be extremely pretty, even by vampire standards. She has calf-length rosy pink hair, partially done up into two pigtails held by black hairpieces of which the design appears inspired by bat wings. The black headdress is connected by a black headband, and she also has what appear to be short black horns at either temple. Krul has large, sharp, slightly slanted eyes that are red, as with all vampires, along with fangs and pointed ears. She is occasionally seen with a one-eyed bat familiar, by the name of Arukanu, upon her shoulder. The bat is about the size of her fist and has a large eye in the center of its face. It has a pair of small horns on top of its head and has a thin devil-like tail about twice the length of its body. It has small bat wings and minuscule feet. After she got barfed on by Shinoa and Mitsuba, she wore her hair down in two long low pigtails worn over the front of her shoulders, and held with hair ribbons. Krul wears casual clothing including a white hoodie with black sleeves. Appearing slightly too big for her, the sleeves cover her hands and there are pockets in the waist area as well. The motif in the center of the hoodie is a picture of a shark with the words "!Danger! Do Not Touch" on it. She also wears tight black leggings that cover her legs entirely, with black boots. When she has Arukanu drink her blood, Krul's form change regains her similar looking black dress attire, but now has sharpened bat like wings attached to the lower back. It has three buttons on each side, the ends of the skirt are white and goes to above her knees, and combined with the the black leggings, covers all of her legs. The detached sleeves are all black, but are still poufy below the shoulders. She regains her bat-like hair decorations and has a white, thin ribbon around her neck. As with other vampires, Krul views the humans as nothing more than livestock. She does act to gather them to ensure vampires will still have a supply of blood after the world ends. Where their traits are concerned, Krul sees them as foul and endlessly greedy creatures who will do anything for their own personal gain. This view of humans was the reverse of how Krul felt when a human girl where she had fears about blood-sucking monsters. Krul is proud, especially as a third progenitor that gives her the power to back up her reason to be so, further as the queen of Japan. When Third Progenitor Lest Karr challenges her position as the ruler of Japan, Krul becomes angry with his accusations and affirms she never fails, ever. She is temperamental when challenged and does not hesitate to remind her challenger of their place. When Ferid Bathory slaughters the Hyakuya Sect orphans she carefully hid in Sanguinem and kept as livestock, she becomes enraged because he fatally wounded one of the seraph and allowed another to escape. Krul hates the First Progenitor for turning her brother into a demon, a feeling that has not diminished with time. An effective leader, Krul will lead and deliver announcements on her goals for the humans. Through her own channels, Krul has communications sent out to summon who she desires, where contact was made with other vampire nobles to update them of the human threat and instruct them they were to act. Leading through example, Krul once again shows her appearance to induce others to comply. Not having lesser vampires deal with threats such as Guren when possessed, Krul overcomes them herself. Firm when speaking, Krul orders her troops to not come when she wishes to hold private talks, then directs them to head to head to the next location. In maintaining a business as usual approach where she is patient and happy to coast along, Krul is left vulnerable to developing problems she does not appear to recognize. During her reign, the Japanese Imperial Demon Army's capabilities grew exponentially with cursed gear developed. While acting swiftly to deal with Ferid's threat of revealing her activities to the progenitor council, Krul may have assumed the beating she administered had settled the matter, which did not prevent Ferid entrapping her further and entwining Krul's course of action with his. Powerless against blackmail, Krul had her to keep her temper in check, and had no way around the inability to kill him where he stands. Similarly, while her response to the threat of the army was prompt in resolutely deciding to destroy them, with her attention elsewhere the humans would still gain a major foothold in Japan. Ultimately, Krul's focus on her plans would distract her enough to fall in an ambush to Ferid. The undefeated and emboldened humans would then sack her city. Being a vampire, Krul has immortality which grants eternal youth at the age she became a vampire. Having very sharp and enhanced senses, Krul could discern activities occurring in Shibuya while she was on her way there, and was able to sense the location of her brother, a demon, which are largely invisible to the eye. Almost uniquely for a vampire, Krul appeared to manifest her presence in a demon realm in an attempt to contact Ashera. Her senses are honed where she can perceive that Ferid has somehow absorbed other vampires to bolster his own power. After striking him, Krul finds her senses were accurate where she guessed right of how much he had increased in strength. Should targets hide in buildings for example, Krul can locate them. Krul possesses supernaturally fast speed. Immense strength that surpasses humans is innate for her, as is rapid bodily regeneration. Although Krul could re-attach limbs should they be severed, this capability has not been seen yet but is a trait vampires have. She can also gain strength by drinking human blood. Being a third progenitor, Krul is stronger than those of a lower station. This is apparent when she effortlessly defeats Ferid, who is a seventh progenitor, using her hands to slice off his limbs, and kicks with the force to strike him across a room. Her raw strength is tremendous enough that a swing of her arm can easily destroy a room where the force emitted can break into the solid ground. For all intents and purposes, she is one of the strongest beings existing in the world. For endurance Krul is also shown to withstand days of torture in the sun without the UV-protective armbands. In fact, Krul herself stated that her body had already begun to adapt to the never ending burning she was experiencing and she was slowly becoming comfortable with the sensation of being constantly incinerated, further showing her body's extreme durability. Krul's raw power was tremendous to the point that Mahiru thought her usual unarmed state was actually herself already using her weapon. As a noble, she also has the ability and permission to turn a human into a vampire. Her rank allows her to sit on the progenitor council of which sensitive information is shared. She is a member of a council that manage the ruined world between its members. As Queen of Japan, she has an army at her back. Vampires of all ranks below follow her commands. Practically on some occasions Krul would need to appear in person for all vampires to comply with her orders. Her weapon is her bat-like familiar, Arcane. Upon activating her weapon by having it bite into her hand to drink her blood, her power increases several times over. While there is a drawback that Arcane drinks a lot of her blood where being unable to move should the drinking stop is a possibility, in practice Krul is able to carry out what she has in mind at a steady pace. The weapon affords her some startlingly powerful capabilities as her foes find out. Upon her weapons' activation, a form change also causes the unbreakable Kiseishingon chain to disappear, a feat that she couldn't do in her unarmed state. An increase in strength means she does not need to avoid others, rather can seize them and hurl them into multiple buildings. Krul can remove the upper section of an entire building with a single movement of her finger. The blade like wings at her back also allows Krul access to flight. Other vampires can jump to extreme heights and move incredibly fast, then demons can float, yet Krul can undertake genuine flight as a unique capability.

Most of humanity is wiped out by a virus, causing vampires to use humans as livestock. Krul escapes from a farm where he is used as food and joins a rebel group. He spends his time becoming stronger and training to be able to fight against vampires.