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Ringo Noyamano looks like your everyday junior high school girl. However, she is actually the successor of the legendary Storm
Riders team, Sleeping Forest . She is also the current Thorn King (Queen) of the eight 'Kings' in the AT world. Ringo is in
love with Ikki but does not dare to tell him. She helps Kogarasumaru in times of trouble under the guise of Croissant Mask
(Croissant Kamen). Ringo is a King Class AT user, wielding the techniques of Sonia Road; meaning she has superhuman agility
at the price of suffering every blow she deals to her opponent.
She is determined to show Ikki the "fear" of flying through the air because she doesn't want to see him suffer
the same fate the last 'Wind King' did. To this end she was willing to bar his way, even going so far as to brutally attack
him using her 'Thorn Regalia'. She completely out-classes Ikki due to her superior experience (specifically, that each of
her moves wastes and requires much less energy than Ikki's do) during the race and in the earlier stages of the battle. However,
Kururu Sumeragi saves the latter with a mid-air installation of the Bagram prototype cores. Ikki then becomes more than a
match for Ringo. The fight then ends in a draw when Ringo surprisingly collapses a few feet from the finish line. She is then
carried back home. After that battle Ikki leaves the Noyamano residence, but not before Ringo finally reveals her feelings
for Ikki and kisses him goodbye. Later in the Tower of Tropheum, Killik reveals the true purpose of Ringo as leader of Sleeping
Forest. In the final battle for the Sky King that takes place where not only the air is incredibly dense but the atmosphere
is also giving off the feeling of crushing anyone in it, Ringo is completely immune to it, thus making her the perfect warrior
to protect the Sky Regalia.
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