Kamiko Hase

Teacher

**Kamiko Hase** is one of the main characters from the Kizuna franchise. She is the operations director in the Arata Organization, initially with the rank of captain; she is later promoted to major. In Owari no Kizuna, Kamiko's initial rank is lieutenant colonel. Her duties in the AO include acting as a field commander for the AO pilots, issuing orders and relaying battle strategies as well as processing input from Takima and the technicians monitoring the weapons and materials. She also handles many bureaucratic aspects of AO's operations.

## Appearance

Kamiko is a tall, curvaceous woman with crimson eyes, which tilt downwards in the center; framed by a set of rather long eyelashes. She has orange hair which is made up of layers of varying lengths, the longest ones reaching down below her waist. Her hair is always put to the side, but when her bangs are down, they reach past her nose. She also has a small mole under her lip, as well as red-painted nails. On special occasions, she ties her hair into a low side-ponytail.

Her AO uniform is very similar to one of an office worker. She would wear a dress shirt with a suit jacket and blouse. She also wears a pantyhose underneath.

On operations, she would wear the same attire of her office hours, but with a long, grey trenchcoat containing various weapons.

In her vampire state, she sports a very classic-looking dress that was red.

## Personality

While on the job, Kamiko is very professional and capable, in stark contrast to her life at home. Until Mukade Takusa's arrival, her living space was a complete mess. She cannot cook for herself and relies solely on instant food (she is often considered gross by Mukade and Takima for combining food like ramen and curry). She also drinks copious quantities of beer, and drinks one first thing in the morning to get her day started (later in the series she apparently switches to canned coffee as a supplement). She also smokes, though only occasionally and only during chaotic events.

When she isn't showing her sloppy side, she is shown to have a more motherly side towards Mukade.

## Background

Before Kamiko turned full vampire, she was a normal anti-social college student at Shinto College. It's stated that Kamiko had a very close relationship with a man named Hori Muriga during this time. Later on in the years, Kamiko decided to break up with Hori due to personal reasons, which Hori completely understood. While she was making her way back home, she was suddenly attacked by Natiko Kenyura, biting her and turning her into a purebred vampire. At the time, Natiko had the full intention of killing her and eating her, but was intercepted by Hori. Hori tried fighting off Natiko while Kamiko ran. Hori was found dead the next day. This lead Kamiko to feel great guilt towards her incompetency.

She started to research everything about vampires, and later on joined the AO. Since she was a vampire herself, she was treated differently. While she was an active worker at AO, she continued to hide her vampiric nature in public.

## Relationships

### Mukade Takusa

Kamiko appears to have some sort of affinity for Mukade despite being over twice his age. She finds Mukade's presence to be a grounding and stabilizing influence. In the *Kenda Pilot*, while talking with Mukade at the train station after his first attempt to run away from AO, Kamiko confesses to Mukade that she took him in not only because she thought it was her duty to do so, but because she was lonely. It becomes apparent to Kamiko that many of Mukade's problems in dealing with people closely echo her own, although their coping mechanisms are opposites of each other, and that they seem to be caught in a "Hedgehog's dilemma," as Katsuro calls it. After Osuna moves in, Kamiko finds herself often acting as a mediator between Mukade and Osuna. There is also sexual tension between Mukade and Kamiko, but this aspect of their relationship is only hinted at (apart from the "adult kiss" scene in *Mukade Vamp*; however, the context of the scene gives this action multiple possible meanings). More prominently, she tries to be both a friend and a maternal influence for Mukade, balancing this with her duties and responsibilities as his commanding officer at AO.

At the end of Mukade Vamp, AO sent Kamiko after Mukade, and they would be forced to fight eachother. In the end, Mukade loses, rendering it to be the first ever fight he lost. They shared a heart-to-heart moment before exchanging an *"adult kiss."* Kamiko healed Mukade and committed suicide.

### Hori Muriga

Kamiko and Hori were lovers during college (it is implied in *Kamiko Life* that not only did he take her virginity, but also that they once spent a whole week in bed doing nothing but having sex), but they had long since broken up due to her having some personal issues. Hori completely understood. While she was making her way back home, she was suddenly attacked by Natiko Kenyura, biting her and turning her into a purebred vampire. At the time, Natiko had the full intention of killing her and eating her, but was intercepted by Hori. Hori tried fighting off Natiko while Kamiko ran. Hori was found dead the next day. This lead Kamiko to feel great guilt towards her incompetency.

### Yoru Toraburu

Kamiko and Yoru appear on good terms, as he asked her to help his class in matters he couldn't be bothered with. They usually have a good relationship, and Yoru doesn't bother with Kamiko's "enthusiastic" attitude towards youth, but he is annoyed when she makes decisions for him without his consent.

Kamiko is the reason why Yoru is a vampire hunter at AO. When Kamiko was personally requested by the heads of the AO for the position of VH support, she submitted a recommendation to the heads for Yoru, being accepted as support for the vampire hunter trio, even though he had told her that the idea of him being support is the epitome of irrationality.

## Abilities and Powers

Kamiko is the strongest among the AO Organization, with Yoru Toraburu being the only exception. Due to her vampiric nature, she is capable of regeneration, enhanced vision, and superhuman strength. Beyond her fighting abilities, she has proven a fairly capable leader, able to lead effectively and efficiently. She is also a fairly competent teacher when it comes to psychic abilities, as she taught Mukade how to wield the kusanagi.

### Physical Abilities

**Enhanced Endurance:** During her fight against Natiko, Kamiko took the full force of the vampire's whip, which otherwise sent several Juno and Takima flying a considerable distance.

**Regeneration:** Due to her vampiric nature, Kamiko is capable of regenerating limbs no matter how severe the damage is. This is shown when Mukade decapitated her, seconds later, her head grew back. Although, if she is reduced to molecules, she will die.

**Vampire Flight:** Like most vampires, Kamiko has the ability to fly with her vampire wings.

### Fighting Style

**Expert Vampire Combatant:** Kamiko has been shown to mainly use her vampiric powers when engaged in combat, using graceful but also destructive techniques which include throwing knives at her target. With agile movement thanks to her power of flight, coupled with quick thinking for improvisation, Kamiko is also able to manipulate her surroundings to her advantage to impede or crush enemies.

### Miscellaneous Abilities

**Mental Resistance:** Kamiko, possibly due to her strong ego, was able to free herself from Natiko's mind control.

**Intelligence:** Kamiko is a very intelligent being. She correctly deduced the current situation with the Arata Organization without the communication system of the Heckler Association working properly, while Osuna and the others were completely clueless.

### Equipment

* **Galil AR:** At one point in the series, Kamiko is shown to be using a Galil AR with holy bullets to fire off at Natiko's shadows.
* **Kusanagi:** In her early days of training at AO, Kamiko's signature weapon was the kusanagi, later passed down to Mukade.
* **Throwing Knives:** Kamiko has throwing knives at her disposal as small secondary weapons.

## Quotes

*(To self) "If Mukade, now that his vampiric nature has been* *successfully removed, is unwilling to return once again* *to the state of being a quasi-human, quasi-vampire,* *I shall retract my own desires.* *After i heal that arm i shall return to a mountain somewhere,* *and live a secluded life."*

(To Mukade Takusa) "*If they find out what you did there, a lot of people will say a lot of things to you. Some will say you did the right thing. And some will say you did the wrong thing. But that’s not what matters. No matter what anyone says, you don’t have to worry. Because you didn’t do the right thing, and you didn’t do the wrong thing. It was all part of being young.”*

(To Takima Nakani) *“You…. Could it be that you’re just an idiot?”*

(To Juno Shisu) *“I just want to relieve my sexual frustrations. All I feel towards a black-haired 15 year old boy in a maid outfit… is lust.”*

*(To self) “Curiosity is like a cockroach. It likes to stumble upon secrets that are supposed to stay hidden.”*

(Self-reflecting about Hori Muriga) *"I really thought we had it good, but at the time I guess it was more than I can manage."*

(To Mukade Takusa) *"I can be your hot mommy girlfriend~."*