Takatou Kouki

## Abilities

### Ability

**Zero Base** (唯我様子(ゼロベース), *Tadaware Yōsu (Zerobēsu)*, lit. "Solitary Reality"?)

### Power Level

5
6 *(Theoretical)*

## Media

### Appears In

Toaru Majutsu no Enforcer

**Takatou Kouki** (高遠 光輝, *Takatō Kōki*?) is the younger brother of Takatou Nagi. He possess a special and powerful ability that can instantly kill anything he desires with a single thought. Despite his powerful ability, he is incapable of achieving the goal of making a home with it, and thus he makes his way through the new world in order to find a way back home. Through the story, however, we slowly learn of Kouki's true nature. An eldritch horror-type being who, for unknown reasons, manifested himself as the Takatou Kouki it currently is.

## Profile

### Appearance

Yogiri is a middle schooler of average height, with spiky beige hair, beige eyes, and a cute/handsome face (according to Meirin, Shuuyou, and several male classmates). He isn't particularly muscular, but is surprisingly athletic and agile when the situation calls for it.

### Personality

Kouki is a boy who doesn't care much about his surroundings or people, as long as it doesn't involve him or his friends/allies. He likes to play video-games whenever he can, as well as to sleep a lot.

Most of the time he is shown to be quite a calm person, even when in extremely dangerous situations, who considers most things nothing more than a bother. He is quite sure in his capabilities to kill anything, and although he once mentioned that he wouldn't be much surprised if he found something that could survive his power, such a thing has never happened to this day. Kouki has never once considered himself invincible, and he usually only kills when it's via self-defense.

## Abilities and Power

His ability displays a variety of effects, which may be the reason why Academy City cannot fully comprehend it. Even the renowned Kihara Family was said to be unable to analyze it and even to understand if there were valuable AIM diffusion fields to be made use of. There are parallels between his incomprehensible powers and the way a Magic God's powers work. Kihara Nayuta, who can see AIM fields, has said the AIM around kouki bends and twists in an unstable way, even when he's not doing anything notable. Haratani Yabumi said to Kuroko, regarding Kouki's powers: *"What you saw was all just an illusion. It would be better for your mental health if you think of it like that. Maybe..."*

His ability is to manipulate anything that can be related and traced back to Kouki himself. He is able to alter anything that can be connected to him (from memory or knowledge) limited by his experiences of his very *self existence*. Anything that he has interacted with, or anything that has interacted with him, he can manipulate. Because of this, anything that he has seen, anything he has touched, anything that made him sad, anything that made him happy, anyone who has seen him, anyone who is interested in him, anyone who has talked to him, and anything he is aware of, can be manipulated in any possible way, thus he can use any supernatural ability he knew on the thing that can be related/connected to him.

Just like any probability altering ability, this may be limited to the context of the narrative, the array and variety of choices. As limited as it may be, the manipulations are still immense and is nothing to be mocked at, especially if he can make absurd relations that can make his targets be related to them (e.g. Apple->Red->Rainbow->Blue->Ocean->Whale->past experience playing with whales, thus he can e.g. explode the apple with the flick of his fingers).

### Instant Death

It is Kouki's primary under the 1st seal, the ability to kill anything with a single thought. Although he usually says something like "die" along with it, it’s actually stated and shown to be thought-based on multiple occasions as he can also activate it while saying anything else, such as "you're the eyesore". It has been noted that what phenomena occurs after he targets an object to kill it is dependent on Kouki's cognition of the death. For example, if a door's purpose is to block the way into another room, it only becomes logical that once the door dies, it will allow him to cross the entrance. However, this is something that Kouki does not actively do when using his ability, as it occurs by itself. Despite the name of the ability, it is not necessarily instantaneous if Kouki decides to not make it so, as there is some leeway as to when his targets can die, as long as they do die eventually. Seemingly connected to the nature of instant death, Kouki's perception of the world shows him any hostility directed at him or his allies, or just plain hazards, and he uses that to track enemies he would not normally be capable of detecting, predict their movements/thought patterns, or automatically retaliate with the activation of instant death. Moreover, his ability is beyond fate and time itself, and was even able to kill an entity from a higher plane of existence, who was beyond space and time altogether. His ability does not follow logic and transcends causality. If used correctly, Imagine Breaker might be able to protect from Kouki's instant death; however, it is largely up to the user of Imagine Breaker's finesse and if they are able to apply that power on a conceptual level, as instant death does.

### Seals

Due to wanting to be as human as possible, Kouki constantly restrains his power with seals (also called Gates) that are locked within his mind. By imagining them opening, he can release more of his powers one by one. When opened, each seal leads Kouki to a new phase, and each phase allows him to use more of his original power. From the second seal and up, those doors would automatically close after a certain period of time. This process was set up to prevent him from accidentally destroying the world. The exact number of seals is currently unknown, but he is stated to possess numerous of them.

* **1st Phase:** When this gate is active, Kouki becomes capable of killing anything (with a thought or automatically), can sense killing intent, and can foresee any incoming danger that might harm him. This is the standard Phase that is usually active at all times.