Katou Clan

## Overview

The Katou Clan is a clan consisting of many members who are pierrots, snipers and magicians, as well as members of the Gift Corps who are skilled in pleasing their clan’s foes and enemies, often leading to them being manipulated. The Katou Clan is quite excellent at swordskill, agility, and has one of the most powerful sword, the Kesseki Sword, which is immensely powerful but not like the Wave Sword. Additionally, the clan was noted to have a stone-like pupil on their iris, as well as a boulder mark on their face. They were also noted to be the second strongest clan, to aid in the destruction of the human race.

## Abilities

The Katou Clan is famous for having all types of flowers, which enhance reflexes, agility, sword skills, and powerful fight tendencies.  The Katou Clan lacks the ability to get tired, which makes sense as they are able to survive “Death Marches” without rest, food, or water. The Katou Clan are exceptionally skilled, in using corrupt and shadow magic.

They also have sun related abilities, and Chumeru which is very powerful as they could create fire out of their blood. They specialized the most in the most powerful Flame, Earth and Stone Powers. They were perceived as a strong threat and with their utmost potential, lead to a major factor of human extinction. Like all the powerful clans brought together by Daiki to extinct unworthy humans, they possessed a vessel called “Plague” giving deadly vessels to many humans.

The Katou Clan has little members with shape shifting or operative abilities, and a very small amount of members is a user of those abilities. Despite this, each member was very physically strong, and have caused major threats and led to many human deaths. The Katou Clan can summon crows and birds with different models, through saying the name of the bird inside their head. These birds are strong, and provides them useful aid especially in battle.

The Katou Clan has a deep connection to creatures known as the "Figures", and they are immune to poison and they can recover easily. They can also form crystals, which damage their target's skin. They can also perform and cast stone spells and bend the ground of the battlefield. They also have high pain tolerance, and their strength only comes second to the Adonnes Clan.

They have impressive dexterity, due to their body control and have impressive fighting capabilities like all of the powerful clans. The only way to kill a member of the Katou Clan is to cut off their head directly, and cut off their legs for them to fade, after they are too horribly injured.

They could also manipulate dusk, and form stone crystals. They could also manipulate and harden their own cells, and also form venom through their blood. The stone crystals they make have a huge amount of poison, blood manipulation, and acidic properties. The crystals can manipulate the blood of the opponents, and it has a large amount of acidic properties which damages the opponent's skin.

They can create storms with ease, and manipulate the moon. They can create moon crystals with ease, and they can manipulate it. The moon crystals are crescent shaped, and they slash through the opponent's skin. The moon crescent crystals have acidic properties, and they can heavily slice poison into the opponents. Similar to this, the Katou Clan can manipulate the battlefield, and it's kinetic energy.

They can also manipulate space, dusk, and the friction of the surroundings. They can also freeze opponents using their blood, and cast powerful illusions one would not sense they were under it. They can manipulate frost, and ice, to disrupt the opponent's view, freeze their cells, and immobilize the targets, by severely weakening them.

They can also manipulate, replicate, imitate, and create shadows, and manipulate darkness, shadows, and light to perform strong strings of attacks. They can also parallyze anyone with activating the Stone Eye, a powerful technique which stops the motion of the body, but it is difficult to control.

Their storms combined acid with thunder and wind, similar to Emi Momori's techniques which is very deadly to opponents. The storms contain acidic properties, and the user generates electricity, manipulates, and controls it at blitzing and blinding speeds. They combine the acid with the wind, which makes it very deadly for the target, because if someone inhales their generated gas, which is all around the battlefield, the target is damaged with inhaling acid, which damages their internal body parts and the wind they generate contains massive amounts of poison, and their acid can destroy skin cells as well.

They could also predict the future using their dreams, and were highly skilled in the melodies of spell songs. They could also manipulate the glass, and manifest clones using the glass. They could also reflect light, which contains acid and venom. The light reflected could strike opponents, and manipulate the cells into the strikes.

The Katou Clan could also duplicate their limbs or body parts, and create shockwaves with ease. The Katou Clan had immense power and magical talent. Their tactical intellect, strength, and agility only comes second to the Adonnes Clan. They could also generate diamonds, create, and manipulate it's direction. These diamonds have a lot of poison, and acid, combined with it's strikes and heavy injuries it could give. It could also damage the opponent's body parts.

They could also manipulate and control the grounds and vectors of the battlefield. They could also control nature, and manipulate fishes which have poisonous strikes which also allow the users to manipulate the blood cells near the area where it striked. They could also form venomous gasses, which paralyze and cause fatigue to opponents.

Alongside the Adonnes Clan, the Katou Clan could perform the "Infinite Eye" technique, which enabled them to have infinite endurance, strength, concentration, speed, and other physical abilities. They were also highly capable of generating infinite dimensions, to avoid attacks. They could also generate snowstorms, and frost in the battlefield, allowing the frost to strike and freeze the target's cells. It could also immobilize opponents, and paralyze them.

## **History**

### The Impersonation

However, the Bird Priestess was revealed to be a fake priestess, who accurately impersonated the Bird Priestess, and it turned out the Bird Priestess was slain by her. The fake priestess, who had complete control over birds, befitting her title, sent owls and birds to the Katou Clan to inform the Katou Clan of where they were. It turned out that the member of the Katou Clan who had impersonated the Bird Priestess also killed the Light Priestess, with easy success and took unto her abilities. To avoid suspicion, she made a contract with the First Figure, Horumi Kiratagawa, who took unto the identity of the Light Priestess.

### Notice of the Demigods

Due to the clan's increased account of the humans they slaughtered during the period, the Upper Class Demigod, Hekima appeared to the clan itself and gave the leader, the Duke of Duane a vessel of immortality, to reward the higher class ranked and the clan itself for the help they gave to Ubume and the actions. Due to the duke accepting the "gift", the powers were passed on, and all of the members of the clan worked under the Upper Class Demigods.

The duke also considered the contracts of the different families and people who were enraged by humanity to take part in joining their clan, and turning into different creatures to slaughter humans.

The duke then declared that to increase the amount of humans killed, and lead humans to extinction, the members would take abused children, suffering slaves, and those who were suffering to become willing to become allies with them, and train them to be members of the Katou Clan. The duke also ordered to take care of those who they took, to gain the loyalty, and give the victims of humanity's World Rules care and kindness. Due to the rules of the Upper Class Demigods, the Katou Clan then refused to hurt or kill children.

## Weapons or Equipment

### Stone Sword

The Stone Sword is a weapon which is used by the Katou Clan and it's members. It is rather rare, and only the ones with the higher hierarchy are able to use this sword. As such, they are able to pass the abilities of this sword to the members of the clan. The sword is as hard as stone, and it is used for whipping attacks. While it is certainly powerful, it is not as impressive as the Wave Sword. It can only be found for 200 years. Users could also harden their blades and also manipulate and control it's size.

The Stone Sword hardens the cells and organs of the user and holder, and thus, they are as durable as stone. They could also create infinite stones, with different amounts of poison, acid, combustion, and flames. The stones also damaged the opponent's skin heavily. The Stone Sword also allowed crystals or stones to rain on the opponent, causing more damage.

These stones are also sharp, and can slice multiple foes with ease. The Stone Sword also allowed users to turn their attacks, as hard as stone. The Stone Sword also allowed the users to easily break and warp the molecules of the grounds of the battlefield. Users could also combine their stones with different elements, such as ice, water, and nature.

They could also create forest vines, which were as hard and tough as stone. It was also used for trapping the opponents, and slicing opponents with ease. It also contained heavy poison and venomous substances, which damaged the opponent's skin with ease. It could also control vectors easily, which controlled direction. Users could also manipulate molecules. The Stone Sword also allowed the users to duplicate their arms, and manipulate the friction of the battlefield. They could also manipulate, and harden their bones.

As the Stone Sword initially had an element of Combustion, users could generate explosions and flames easily, combined with ashes, making their attacks more lethal. They could also manipulate their flesh, and manipulate rhythm and stanzas. The rhythmic manipulation was also extremely hardened, and it had more powerful slashes. The rhythm also allowed users to dodge opponents, with ease.

The sword was also highly capable of manipulating threads, though it cannot be created by the user. It also enhances and modifies the senses of the wielder. It was also highly capable of utilizing capabilities with extreme ease.

It also allows users to manipulate and form crescent moons and sharpen it to slash opponents. The moon crescent also damages objects or the skin on the opponent when it is targeted. It also generates scorpions, and manifest or injects it's poison into the body of the opponent. It also manipulates the inner thoughts and the inner beasts of the user, and manifests it into the reality, thus forming it.

It can also form, generate, and manipulate textiles with ease. These textiles can be sharpened and combined with artificial elements. The sword also manipulates and forms the aura around them, which forms each aura into a different amount of poison to inject into the target. It was also capable of manipulating ink, and projecting the prints into reality, but it is better for long ranged combat.

The wielders of the Stone Sword can also generate, manipulate, and conjure electricity out of their palms, injected with poison. This also allows the wielders to manipulate, and form natural elements, such as plants, or flowers. Wielders of the Stone Sword can also activate the Stone Eye, which crystallizes molecules with ease, and creates stones which are almost impossible to dodge.

It also manipulates the friction and kinetic energy of the grounds with ease, but the kinetic energy cannot be formed by the user. It can also fail to work on living things.

It also controls all aspects of the user's blood. It can also create venomous scorpion blood stings, which inject a scorpion's venom into the opponent's blood. It also controls all aspects, and forms strings with ease.

## Trivia

Like all of the clans and those who work under the Upper-Class Demigods, the clan respects and hesitates to kill children, and instead raised and trained them.

The Katou Clan uses formal honorifics, when talking with one another.

The Katou Clan has a high level of mannerisms, and corrects inappropriate behavior. They also take their missions seriously, and refuses to let influence or emotions get over their head.