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| “ | As I said, I heard about your ability from Stiyl. That is when I realized it. Your power is not of greater quantity, it is of a different type. It is the same as rock-paper-scissors. No matter how many times you use rock, you can never defeat my paper. You seem mistaken about something. I am not disguising a lack of ability with a cheap trick. Shichiten Shichitou is not a mere decoration. Beyond Nanasen is the true Yuisen. And more importantly, I have not given my magic name yet. Please do not make me give it, boy. I do not want to give it ever again. | „ |
| ~ Kaori Kanzaki to Touma Kamijou |
Kaori Kanzaki is a major character in the A Certain Magical Index franchise.
She is a powerful magician known as a Saint and a prominent member of Necessarius. She is also the leader of the Amakusa-Style Remix of Church, who she intially left to join Necessarius but later ended up returning to them after they became part of Necessarius. She is also a close friend of Index and Stiyl Magnus, who she met after joining the Angelican Church.
She is voiced by Shizuka Itō in the Japanese version of the anime, and by Morgan Garret in the English version.
Appearance[]
She is a rather tall young lady, standing at 5'7, with long black hair tied up in a ponytail that reaches her hips and has a very attractive body along with large breasts. One can easily associate her white skin with that of a princess. She wears a short white T-shirt tied into a knot at the bottom, revealing her navel; a pair of jeans below with one side sawed off, revealing her thigh. Because the T-shirt is tied down, her breasts are much more noticeable. One can see her snowy white leg, from the thigh all the way down. She uses a two-meter-long nodachi called "Seven Heavens Seven Swords" as her weapon, it has been stated that her outfit follows the rules of asymmetry, which reinforces a small spell that allows her to balance herself and move herself more freely. She wears a flower patterned yukata when she is at Necessarius' dormitories. She sports a denim jacket over her usual attire in later novels.
Personality[]
Initially, Kanzaki appeared as a cold, taciturn, and standoffish woman, always being serious and having a no-nonsense demeanor. It's revealed that this is due to her anguish at her inability to help Index, her dear friend, as well as her own luck. She detests her status as a Saint, as she believes that others will suffer misfortune in place of herself no matter how hard she tries to fight to save them. During their first encounter, when Touma asked why didn't she kill him, Kanzaki claims that its not that she's won't but can't. This also extends to divine beings, such as Archangel Gabriel, despite the danger he posed to the world, Kanzaki was unable to kill him and could only distract him, wishing for Touma to end Angel Fall.
After being inspired by Touma's idealism, Kanzaki begins to shed her aloof persona, showing a kinder side to herself. She has a very reliable air about her and often acts as a pillar of support towards her comrades if they need it. Despite her tomboyish traits, Kanzaki enjoys being feminine, styling herself as a Yamato Nadeshiko. She develops a crush on Touma after he saves Index and helps her to reconcile with the Amakusas, trying to find ways to show her gratitude. While she's usually stoic and calm, Kanzaki is capable of losing composure and easily getting flustered, especially when teased by Saiji or Motoharu. She's also quite innocent when it comes to sexual matters, being embarrassed by Tsuchimikado's recommendations to appeal to Touma.
Moreover, like most magicians, Kanzaki is very bad with technology and machines. This is best shown by her inability to properly operate a washing machine, even with the instructions available. Kanzaki even displayed tender tears of joy when finally she got the washing machine working perfectly as instructed, even going as far as hugging the object. This later leads to a running gag with the washing machine when Necessarius had to abandon their dorms and only take with them what was essential, Kaori noted that her most prized material possessions were her pet tropical fish and "her friend" a certain washing machine. She made absolutely sure that those two items would be saved even in that dire situation.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Stigma: As one of the 20 Saints in the world, Kaori Kanzaki possesses traits similar to the Son of God, granting her a wide variety of powerful blessed and divine abilities. She's also able to channel greater magical power and mana than normal magicians.
- Immense Strength: Kanzaki possesses superhuman level of strength, able to overpower an entire group of people effortlessly. She is capable of sending Touma Kamijou flying with a single kick and can trade blows with fellow saints such as Acqua of the Back or Brunhild Eiktobel. She also managed to defeat 21 knights of England and even grabbed a Griffin Sky and threw it into four others.
- Immense Speed: Kanzaki is extremely fast, capable of moving at supersonic speeds. In her first encounter with Touma Kamijou, she suddenly appeared before him without making a sound. Her speed is so stunning that Touma's reflexes can hardly keep track of her.
- Immense Durability: Kanzaki is shown to be highly durable, as she was able to withstand blows that are capable of shattering massive stretches of concrete.
- Absolute Luck: Kanzaki has incredible luck and is naturally successful at anything she tries. She's able to survive the most dire of situations completely unscathed, including assassination attempts or plane crashes.
- Enhanced Senses: Kanzaki possesses 8.0 visual acuity and can easily tell people apart at 600m.
- Wire Magic: Kanzaki can use steel wires to set up three-dimensional magic circles to cast various spells. These spells can go from setting up barriers and defensive magic to casting elemental attack spells from all around an enemy while simultaneously taking on them with her sword.
- Nanasen: Kanzaki's main technique, in which she uses a fast fake iai draw to hide the motion of her hand directing seven thin steel wires to surround and slice the enemy. Due to the wires being extremely hard to perceive by regular humans, those unaware of the trick might come to the wrong conclusion that Kanzaki is using magic to extend her sword's range tens of times and to turn one iai strike into seven. These wires can 'split' into thousands, and they can also be used to create three-dimensional magic arrays to cast magic.
- Barriers: Kanzaki can use her wires to create several defensive magic barriers. She can even create a massive defensive spell to protect the area around Buckingham Palace. This magic barrier was powerful enough to withstand several bunker cluster missiles. She can also user barriers that block flames and heat.
- Boundary of Forbidden Wires: A spell originating from South East Asia, Kaori creates a summoning circle using her wires. It's meant to summon a god to protect houses, but it can be used to cover at least a 100-meter radius circle with around 20 minutes of prep. The spell creates a unique wavelength of magic to cause the assault forces to be wrong in their judgment of the area. For example, it can make them think a particular house they're supposed to guard is actually a different house 300m away. Just like Stiyl's Opila runes, this spell creates a people clearing field.
- Red Lotus Flames: Using her wires, Kanzaki summons a strong red flame to surround the target, creating explosions upon the target.
- Ice Spells: Kanzaki can also use her wires to use ice magic.
- Communication Spell: Kanzaki can use her wires to set up a communication spell that projects her voice over long distances.
- Tracking Spell: Kanzaki can use her wires to absorb a small portion of the magic power of a spell in order to get the general distance and direction to the caster, with a maximum range shown of 20km.
- Redirection: Kanzaki can use her wires to form a three-dimensional magic circle and embed additional magical symbols that will disturb the relay route of an enemy's external power. This allows her to divert or even redirect the power of an attack back to its source.
- Analysis Ribbon: Kanzaki can use her wires to produce a steel ribbon 5 centimeters thick and 3 meters long. When used in combination with a stain remover, the ribbon uses the concept of stains not being allowed in religious clothing due to purity reasons and how most clothes have a process with which they react to their own stains to automatically analyze a magical item in search of any interferences or tricks used by an enemy magician. However, Kanzaki can only use this if she can weave the wires together in a way that corresponds to said item, so it's only useful in rare occasions.
- Amakusa-style Magic: As the leader of the Amakusa-Style Remix Church, Kanzaki is able to use a mix of Christian, Buddhist and Shinto spells. She's also highly skilled in the usage of Idol Theory, allowing her to cast spells using symbolism hidden in body movement and everyday items.
- Yuisen: A spell that is the result of the crystallization of numerous spells that temporarily increases Kanzaki's strength and speed, infusing her sword with magic and giving her the capability to slice even Christian angels. Since this is a technique intended to be used to end a fight quickly, it tires out Kanzaki if it's used continuously during a long fight.
- Breaker of God: A special state that Kanzaki can achieve through a unique breathing method to refine internal magical power that greatly enhances her blood vessels, muscles, nerves, organs and bones. However, this spell puts a huge burden into her body, and if used for too long it will quickly wear her body and stamina down as if she has an intense fever.
- Healing Magic: Kanzaki is able to use healing magic based on her qualities as a Saint and the feats of resurrection carried out by the Son of God. While unable to carry its intended purpose, it remains a way for Kanzaki to heal people. She can heal the injuries of others by using the symbol of a cross and transferring her Saint magic to them.
- Tracking Charm: Kanzaki can prepare a small white charm in a wire as a necklace that monitors the location of the person wearing it and their use of magic power, allowing Kanzaki to track them. If the person carrying the charm puts a drop of their blood on it they can use the charm to communicate with Kanzaki. If necessary, Kanzaki can cause the wire of the charm to quickly contract to decapitate the wearer, with enough strength that even a steel framework can be cleanly sliced through.
- Cutting Lightning: A basic Japanese spell that allows Kanzaki to slice through and neutralize lightning/high voltage electric attacks.
- Defensive Spells: Kanzaki can perform several minor defensive spells that can protect her body from harm, and she is skilled enough to cast them in a hurry.
- Rune Magic: Besides her use of Amakusa-style magic Kanzaki is also knowledgeable in Norse runes, to the point of being able to identifying Norse-based spells and their basis on sight, also quickly analyzing the meaning of magical runes and coming up with counters in a split second. For example, when faced with a magic circle that used the runes Dagaz and Jera (Day and Summer) to cause an explosion by manipulating the dryness and heat of the area, she was able to locally rob it of its effectiveness by using the magical meaning of the thick clouds on the sky "hiding the area from the sun". She was also able to disable a rune alarm trap by adding an extra rune with a marker so that the alarm wouldn't trigger, and used her wires to carve runes on Alfar's body to create the illusion that she had killed her, when in truth the blood spraying from Alfar's body was Kanzaki's.
Abilities[]
- Expert Combatant: Kanzaki is highly proficient in hand-to-hand combat, which goes in conjunction with her superhuman abilities.
- Master Swordswoman: Kaori Kanzaki is one of the most powerful and skilled swordswomen in the world. She's an expert at the Amakusa's Style of sword fighting, being extremely skilled with her nodachi even when not infusing it with magic. She's able to rival opponents such as Acqua of the Back, Brunhild Eiktobel and the Knight Leader in battle.
Equipment[]
- Shichiten Shichitou: Kanzaki's main weapon which is a 2m long nodachi sword.
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