Alaira

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Alaira
Katakana	アライラ
Chinese	阿莱拉
French	Alyra
Physical Attributes
Gender	Female
Birthday	October 21st
Hair	White and Red
Eyes	Gray
Status
Status	Alive
Occupation	Witch Unofficial Witch Master
Specialty	Wind Magic
Relations
Affiliation	Pointed Cap Witches
Residence	Great Hall (Formerly) Current Residence Unknown
Debut
Manga	Chapter 3

Alaira (アライラ, Araira) is a witch that is friends with Qifrey and Olruggio.^{[citation needed]}

Appearance

Alaira has dark skin and hair that is red near the bottom and white up top, which she wears in an upturned hairstyle. Aside from her hair, the rest of Alaira face is noticeable for her gray eyes, blue earrings and red lipstick.

Her outfit largely consists of yellow, white, and gray tones. She wears a cape with yellow colors, wears gold accessories and her clothes have some yellow details.

Her hat is sand colored and adorned with a feather at the point. The feather fades from blue to white. A length of cloth is wrapped around the base and affixed to the front by a golden ornament.

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  Alaira in the manga

Personality

In her few appearances, Alaira behaved as a carefree yet caring friend to Qifrey. She was worried about apprentices such as Euini and accepted to take care of the kids in the best she could.^{[citation needed]}

With this little information, it seems that Alaira is a carefree and charismatic person who cares for those around her, doing her best to help her friends, such as Qifrey, and also take care of the students, such as Tetia and Coco during the The Sincerity of the Shield when she was alone with the two apprentices during while in the Serpentback Cave.

Alaira has also demonstrated selflessness such as when she decided to take Euini under her wing after the aforementioned Sincerity of the Shield, despite knowing full well that she would have to leave her life behind and live in hiding as a result.

While she had initially thought that she would never become a teacher,^{[citation needed]} now that she has been traveling with Euini for some time, she is beginning to warm up to the idea.

History

Some time before the start of the story, Alaira befriended Olruggio and Qifrey, but upon becoming a full fledged witch, she decided not to take on an apprentice. Nothing else is known about her past.

Magical Items

• Stretcher Skiff: A magical levitating cloth that can be used as a stretcher to carry the wounded or other miscellaneous things. Appears to be the underside of her cloak.

Plot

Second Pentagram Test Arc

Spoiler

Alaira plays an important role during the second test arc. At first, she would only monitor Agott, Euini and Richeh during their attempt for the second test. However, after Iguin and Sasaran's attack at the students, she proved herself as capable by defending the apprentices, even after being transported by Sasaran far from the students. After the test, she took Euini under her protection to avoid the Great Hall discovering that he had had forbidden magic drawn on his body.

End of spoiler.

Relationships

Euini

Alaira is currently looking after Euini, acting as his master in all but name. She took him in after failing to protect him from the Brimmed Caps, leaving her former life behind in the process. She promised Euini that she would keep him safe while they were on the run, eventually starting to teach him how to live his life with dignity and not to take the easy way out.

Alaira has become a mentor and teacher to Euini, with Euini learning to live his life with dignity without taking the easy way out thanks to her example. Much to Alaira's surprise, despite not wanting to ever become a teacher in the past, she has begun to warm up to the idea.

Qifrey

Olruggio

Trivia

• On the very last page of volume 5, there is a passage that describes her hat.
• While in the concept stage, Alaira was intended to own a second-hand shop. This concept however seems to not have stuck around for serialization, and she may perhaps do some kind of work within the Great Hall instead.
• Alaira has had one proper appearance in Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen and appears in Chapter 5 when Qifrey is pushing a school of Parasol Jelly away from the Great Hall. Alaira gathers the Jellies that had fallen into the Mist Basin in her Stretcher Skiff, which Qifrey then puts in a box to take home for dinner. During this Kitchen chapter, Alaira reveals she'd rather look at the Parasol Jellies than eat them, as she finds them awfully cute.

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