Kale

Kale, known as in Japan as Jin Reo, is the main antagonist of Magical Starsign. He is a powerful magician who originally came from Kovomaka, formerly a student of Miss Madeleine at Will-o'-Wisp Academy.

Personality
Kale is a very standoffish, mysterious, and commanding person with an apparent messiah complex. He will use people to reach his goals with little thought of the consequences, going so far as to sacrifice his own allies. He is very devoted to his mission, against all reason, and is unfortunately extremely effective. Some allege that Kale was a good-natured student during his time at Will-o'-Wisp, making the cause for his corruption even more obscure.

Appearance
Kale's body is grey and thin, with most of his face being concealed by long blonde hair and a moustache. The only distinguishable feature of his face is a single blue eye. For clothing, Kale wears a baggy moss-colored hat and a muffler scarf of the same hue. His choice of clothing is green robes made up of several fabric strips, making them appear severely torn. He also wears a torn red cloak over top of his robes.

Boss
Kale is fought alongside the gummy giant. Kale's affinity will be the opposite of the protagonist's affinity, giving him either the light starsign with an aura during the day, or the dark starsign with an aura during the night. With light affinity, Kale can perform crystal laser and prism barrier, while with dark affinity, he can perform blood money and dazzle darts. Additionally, despite being tied to a single affinity, Kale can use magic attacks from every other affinity. These are: falcon dive from wind; gravel pounder from earth; briar patch from wood; heat fondu from fire; and absolute zero from water. He also possesses the neutral spell celestial swap, allowing him to control the alignment of the planets to his advantage; Kale will use this spell more variably than most other enemies, and is capable of aligning the planets to deal massive damage to the party. He also has the neutral spell insect bullets, which strikes all party members with the potential to lower their spirit. He has high HP and spirit, and sometimes performs two actions in one turn.

Bestiary entry
This former Will-o'-Wisp Academy student manipulated the Space Police and led them on a mad crusade against magicians. He possesses vast knowledge.

Early life
Long before the events of Magical Starsign, Kale graduated from Will-o'-Wisp as one of Miss Madeleine's students. His time at the academy earned him lots of respect, as he became highly educated in the field of politics. Not only that, but his great charisma convinced many people to align with his beliefs.

A decade before present time, Kale befriended King Suspiro of Bena Rikashi on Puffoon. Suspiro was so impressed by Kale's public appeal and political knowledge that he earned his own place in the castle, and was even given a research lab on the east end of the city. However, many citizens were jealous of Kale's success and demanded he be removed from power. The Kovomakan mage also studied more at Ambergris Preparatory School on the planet Cassia, where he first got his hands on Craaken's legendary grimoire, the Book of the Darned. From the grimoire, he learned many things about the Baklava solar system's metaphysical concepts, including the etherealization phenomenon, Nova's occupation within the sun, and the existence of a beast that was prophesized to consume the sun's plasma-gummy atmosphere. The beast in question was a larva named Shadra, who fed off of magic energy and lived on the titular dark planet Shadra. This dark planet also occupied the sun's interior, but in a dimension parallel to Nova.

Upon further analysis, Kale figured out that if Shadra devoured the sun following its metamorphosis, the entire galaxy would be destroyed in the process. Afterwards, Shadra would produce a new sun and give rise to a completely blank-slate Baklava system. If Kale were to take advantage of the galactic apocalypse prophesized by Craaken, he could ascend to godhood and eliminate those who may disrupt his "perfect world" of absolute order. This revelation corrupted Kale beyond repair, dragging him into a deep state of existential nihilism.

Kale's cruel enlightenment brought forth a new plan, wherein he would find a way to reach Nova through the sun's multidimensional layering and eventually enter a gate to Shadra's domain. Craaken's book taught Kale of the mystic yogart gurus' ability to astral project into the sun on command, but it also detailed the whereabouts of a teleportation device called the Stone Stage, located at the very end of Shishkebab Cavern on Razen. In order to go through with this scheme, he seized control of the Bena Rikashi Space Police with the help of its fighting instructor, Biek Fowler, making them completely disobedient to King Suspiro's authority. As this scheme was unfolding, Kale flew across the Baklava system one last time to confide in Parfait, Biscotti, Madeleine, and Suspiro about the sun's secrets, only providing vague hints as to what his ultimate goal was.

Roughly nine years later, Kale and Fowler joined forces with Master Chard of the Astro Pirates. Chard would be in charge of abducting magicians across the Baklava system, and keep them locked inside Shishkebab Cavern until the eventual voyage to Nova. Kale's intent was to bring the kidnapped magicians with him to the dark planet, have them crystallize from its ambient gummy fumes, and offer their encased magic cores to Shadra.

Trivia

 * His English name comes from 'kale', a type of green and purple cabbage.
 * His Japanese name, Jin Reo, is an anagram of the phonetic spelling for 'orange', a sweet citrus fruit.
 * He bears many similarities to Sesame from the prequel, Magical Vacation.
 * Kale has the power to create magic bugs, as seen in his insect bullets spell and the creation of the odd beetle. This greatly resembles Sesame's insect magic.
 * Sesame and Kale share similar physical traits such as blue eyes and dirty blonde hair. Sesame is also seen with a bushy moustache in his epilogue segment at the end of Magical Vacation.
 * In Sesame's epilogue, it is said that he became an antiques researcher who published many papers. He also modified Latte's body into a rocket and launched him off of Kovomaka, demonstrating his interest in outer space.