Kurumi Tokisaki | Living with Nightmare

Kurumi Tokisaki is the third Spirit to appear. Due to her brutal actions, she is referred to as the Worst Spirit. Kurumi Tokisaki is the most dangerous Spirit ever known.

She has killed over 10,000 people, with an estimate of only around 100 being Spacequake victims. As such, her title as the Worst Spirit comes from personally killing her victims with her own hands. Kurumi Tokisaki had used unstated and unexplained methods to personally transfer into Shido Itsuka's class so that she could get closer to him. Her purpose and reason for moving were simple: consume Shido Itsuka, and in doing so, gain the Reiryoku sealed within his body. During the time Kurumi was a Raizen High School student, she almost succeeded in consuming Shido. However, she was forced to retreat after being overwhelmed by Kotori Itsuka's destructive might. Kurumi had claimed that it was because she simply wasn't prepared to face her, but later argued that she could defeat Kotori if she had more time stored up. Kurumi is "a girl with astonishing beauty"

She appears to be elegant and has very polite manners. She has pearly skin and long, black hair usually tied in long twin tails. Her right eye is red-tinted while her left eye appears as a golden, inorganic clock face, which is covered by her bangs and only revealed when she transforms into her Spirit form. When the hands of the clock eye are not in motion, it typically rests in the 3 o'clock position. Kurumi's Astral Dress is made out of crimson and black frills, giving her the appearance of an elegant Gothic Lolita with uneven twin tails that emulate the minute and hour hand of a clock. On her head, she usually wears a big crimson net bow to hold her hair. She also wears a red and black collar on her neck.

Kurumi is the type of person whose character is difficult to read. She possesses a dislike of humanity that borders on mistrust, which is something that she shares with most of the other Spirits in her debut. She is a skilled actress as she is capable of putting on the façade of an innocent, curious young girl when she needs to. This skill of hers is shown when she registers as a student at Raizen High School and speaks in a polite manner. However, under that mask lies a madwoman, prone to fits of insane laughter and possessing no regard for human life, viewing them as a food source to restore her own time, and thus, a disposable commodity. There is a twisted justice behind her methods, however, as the people that she brutally murdered were would-be rapists and animal abusers. Also, a good sign of her sense of justice lies in her ultimate objective: to go back in time, kill the First Spirit, prevent the Spacequakes from ever happening, and save millions of lives in the process. This goal made call her a kind person, albeit sarcastically.

In hindsight, Kurumi possesses some degree of innocence that her psychotic behavior has not entirely ruined; she has a soft spot for small animals and other creatures. She once slaughtered four humans not because she needed to replenish her time, but because they were trying to kill a kitten. She also appeared to have some desire for a normal life, a chance at redemption, as Shido was able to speak with one of her many timelines and nearly convinced her before the true Kurumi interrupted.

However, despite her redeeming qualities of not killing without a reason, Kurumi doesn't think of herself as a great person and even appears to hate being called one. When Shido stated that he would not give up on her despite her being a murderer, she responded by using her City of Devouring Time on the students of Raizen High School. She even summoned a Spacequake, which could have killed them all, in an attempt to make him give up on her. Also, when called her a kind person, Kurumi's initial response was to try to shoot her.

Her ability to summon clones of herself from her past adds even more complexity to her character. The clones are essentially herself, which means they have the same personality. However, they also have free will to an extent, even if they share memories, goals, fears, and obsessions. Due to being made from the past, the clones may contain traits that Kurumi no longer possesses, namely her old chunnibyou habits. Kurumi has shown a degree of embarrassment regarding this part of her past and those clones in particular whenever it is brought up.

Kurumi appears to have a particular fondness for cats, as shown by her brutally murdering a group of men who were shooting at one with pellet guns. In an Omake, it is shown that she can be quite embarrassed about this. When Shido and Tohka caught her, she ended up going so far as to have one of her clones pretend to be the real her and "dispose" of her so that she could get out of the situation without ruining her reputation.

Before becoming a Spirit, Kurumi had a strong sense of justice. While lamenting about the inequality in the world, she always possessed a strong desire to help those in need. This trait was considered both pure and naïve, the latter of which Mio took advantage of to trick her into becoming a Spirit that hunted down other Spirits that were incompatible with their Sephira Crystals. After becoming more jaded, Kurumi is shown as having developed a stronger resistance towards falling into despair, being the only Spirit to not immediately inverse after seeing Shido killed throughout her numerous time loops.