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| “ | Do you think you have defeated the Kiharas just because you pushed back Amata-ojisan? Ransuu-ojisan, Gensei-ojiisan, Byouri-obasan, Nayuta-chan, Yuiitsu-oneechan, Jouryuu-oniichan, Konshou-oneechan, Chokuryuu-kun, Doutai-ojisan, Kagun-ojisan, Bunri-oniichan, Sousai-chan, Kenbi-obasan, Bunshi-oniichan, Therestina-obasan, Kouten-oneechan. I may indeed lack something as a Kihara, but I am supported by the combat patterns of 5000 Kiharas!! Mere undergrowth that has not taken a step into the darkness of Academy City cannot hope to break this great tree!! | „ |
| ~ Enshuu Kihara |
Enshuu Kihara is a major antagonist of A Certain Magical Index: New Testament, serving as one of the main antagonists of the Baggage City Arc and as a minor antagonist in the Salome Arc.
She is a member of the Kihara family who was part of Academy City's assault on Baggage City. Despite her youthful appearance, she manages to be the most deadliest Kihara during the attack.
Appearance[]
Enshuu is a young middle school girl with black hair tied in two buns on the side of her head. She is seen wearing a pink sweather, an orange miniskirt and black stocking which are randomly torn up. She also wears winter boots that are asymmetrical. Enshuu carries several devices that hang down from her neck including a cellphone, a small 1seg TV, and a handheld device.
Personality[]
Enshuu exhibits a timid, naïve and seemingly innocent demeanor, befitting her appearance of a little girl. She is considered to be a rather unique Kihara due to her upbringing. She doesn't know basic math or how to write katakana because she has never been taught these things. Due to this, Enshuu lacks certain "Kihara-like" qualities and is constantly trying to prove herself as being worthy of the Kihara name.
However, while lacking certain qualities of a Kihara, Enshuu is still shown to be equally brutal and dangerous as most of her relatives, even more so. Due to her naivety, Enshuu is unable to comprehend the suffering and damage she inflicts onto others. Despite not having much common knowledge, Enshuu is highly intelligent when it comes to science.
Biography[]
In the past, some scientific rivals of the Kihara family kidnapped a young Enshuu and kept her in isolation. These rivals claimed to be on the side of justice, arguing that Kiharas became "Kihara-like" because they were taught by other Kiharas. The kidnappers believed that if the young Enshuu was taken away from the other Kiharas while learning all the basic knowledge of being human such as language and customs, she might turn out to be something other than a Kihara. However, that was nothing more than the justification given for the clichéd revenge they took out of jealousy of the Kihara family that continued to create genius after genius no matter how twisted they might be, and Enshuu was left alone in solitude, chained in a room by her captor, so that the person could fulfill his twisted desire to be smarter than a Kihara.
However, unbeknownst to her captor, even if Enshuu didn't know how to perform the multiplication table or write katakana because she wasn't taught how to, Enshuu's intelligence and her side as a Kihara bloomed. Just by being a Kihara she loved the concept of science with all her being and began coming up with complex collections of equations written in a code she had created, designed plans for new inventions and complex machines, etc; all from the limited information she could gather from her room. One day the chains that should have never broken from the strength of a young girl broke as if they had melted, and when the person’s body was discovered later all but their head had been transformed into something like wax. Enshuu then rejoined her family, but she could not fully reintegrate with them as she was not raised as one and lacked their trademark "Kihara-ness".
Abilities[]
Thought Pattern Mimicking: Enshuu's main ability is to mimic other people's thought and combat patterns to compensate for her lack of thoughts. She carries a cellphone, a small 1seg TV, and a handheld device, all hanging from her neck. The devices display countless graphs changing at high speeds, though the graphs can also be projected on nearby screens if Enshuu wants to. These scripted graphs contain the data of a thought pattern, allowing Enshuu to absorb all the data and switch the pattern being used. Enshuu carries the thought patterns of all 5000 Kiharas, but apparently, she can also use thought patterns from outsiders to the family like Touma Kamijou or Seria Kumokawa. She usually employs Amata Kihara's thought and combat patterns during fights. According to Maria Kumokawa's impressions, the truth is that Enshuu cannot truly replicate another person's thought patterns to a 100%, stating she mainly announces the names of the people she's mimicking to frighten the people who know them to create an opening during a fight. Enshuu can have the same deck as Touma or Amata, but no matter which deck she picks she hasn't become another person, she's still the one making the decision of which cards to use in battle, leading to failures in role playing and adapting to the thought patterns, causing Maria to compare fighting her to playing chess against a really bad AI opponent.
Other abilities[]
Genius-Level Intellect: Enshuu has displayed great scientific expertise and intellect, being a member of the Kihara Family. However, due to the circumstances of her childhood, she lacks some basic education. Her intellect is best displayed when she Ransuu Kihara's mold and used it to improvise a biological weapon, and by her ability to mimic the thought patterns and techniques of others, including other Kiharas. When she was young she was left alone in a cell without being taught anything, but she still learned math and physics, developed her own code language and created several inventions on her own from what she could observe in her cell. Similarly, she's capable of casually coming up with knowledge/things capable of easily destroying human civilization 4 or 5 times over while she's kept in jail, which cause an instinctual rejection on the minds of regular humans even though they cannot understand all of it.
Equipment[]
- Echo Filter: A device in one of her smartphones that uses ultrasonic waves to see beyond a physical obstacle like a door or a wall by putting the phone against the surface of the obstacle. However, the images it receives are vague.
- Multipurpose lighter: A special lighter, with a trigger like a gun and the opening located 30 cm out from where it's held. The lighter can produce a flame like a flamethrower reaching at least 2 meters for 30 continuous seconds. Enshuu has used it as a direct weapon and to ignite nearby oil.
