Walther Ritz

"Speed... Do you understand its true significance, transfer student?"

One of the six members of the Governing Council. Specifically, he belongs to the "Fraternity," the male wing of the Council. A third-year student at the Academia. Hails from Switzerland. His left eye changed to a striking golden color several years ago.

A quiet and intellectual young man. Presents himself as a calm and composed gentleman, but in truth, he's a obsessive speed freak who possesses an entire fleet of Scholar-class Engine Gurneys (automobiles) imported from the New World. Every weekend finds him racing his vehicles along the private roadway at the Academia's outer edge, a pursuit that inevitably ends in a violent crash - although he always returns home without so much as a scratch.

Bases his enormous ego on the belief that he's living his entire life in high gear. Wears a customized pair of boots containing a mechanized roller-blade system; he refers to them as the "Silver Shoes."