Saori

"Kill each other? Don't be stupid. This is a one-sided slaughter, from my side."

- Saori

Saori is a secondary antagonist in Lynn Okamoto's manga Gokukoku no Brynhildr, currently being adapted into an anime. Saori is a "witch", possessing supposed magical powers, but is stated to have been created in a laboratory. It is later suggested in the manga her creation and abilities actually use alien technologies. Each "witch" has different abilities, ranked from AAA to C depending on the combat utility of their abilities. Saori is first introduced when she is used as an assassin by the organization who holds her captive. Saori was sent to the Dresden Pharmaceutical company Takayama factory, which produced special pills designed to delay the inevitable death of a "witch", which will cause her to literally disintegrate in 35 hours if the medicine is not taken. Saori is sent to the factory to eliminate Kuroha Neko, an escaped B-ranked "witch" slated to be killed, to dispose of what the organization holding her captive considered a defective product. Neko, aided by paralyzed future-predicting witch Kana Tachibana and expert hacker Kazumi Schlierenzauer, as well as a highly intelligent normal human (and series protagonist) Ryouta Murakami attack the factory in an attempt to steal some the pills.

Neko engages Saori in combat, Neko's power to destroy any inanamate object from a range proving little use against Saori's powers, the ability to cut any object from a range of up to six meters away. Saori kills Neko with her powers, but it is not the end for Neko. Murakami remembers Saori's other power, which Kana told him of before the battle: to turn back time by one minute. Murakami grabs a metal spike lying around the factory floor and impales Saori through the chest with it. Saori is forced to turn back time one minute, at which point, her harness, an implant all "witches" have in their neck deactivates, preventing the use of more magic. At this point, the director of the laboratory activates the harness' other function remotely: release mode, which will instantly kill the victim by causing their body to disintegrate. After Saori's death, Neko and Murakami successfully steal the "death suppressants" and escape the factory.