Kuroko Koumori

Kuroko on the cover of Murciélago Volume 1

**Kuroko Koumori** is the main protagonist of the *Murciélago* series. She is an ex-mass murderer, now national executioner serving under the Ruruie Metropolitan Police Department. Even though she is now a hired assassin by the Japanese police force, she has a record of murdering 715 people in the past since her childhood.

She has long black hair with messy, short, uneven bangs and eyes with small, black horizontal pupils similar to that of a goat, giving her design an intentional eerie vibe that links to her character. Her disproportionally large breasts combined with her overly slender figure further exaggerate this trait.

## Personality

Kuroko doesn't take most matters seriously and prefers to flirt with and seduce the women around her, even while she's supposed to be on the job. On the few occasions she takes the events occurring around her seriously, either a girl she considers to be "cute" is being harmed or she is being harmed or feeling threatened herself.

Kuroko is highly manipulative and psychopathic. (WIP)

Another example of her psychopathic nature is how her strong sense of self-preservation can lead to her being a coward in certain situations. For example, she initially didn't want to fight the wrestler in Volume 1 due to his physical power appearing to be too overwhelming for her to handle until Hinako pointed out to her that she would be executed if she failed to complete her task. She even states right after this that she "can't die just yet." Another example of her cowardice is shown in the *Master Swordsman* arc, when she tried to run away from Kurono Miyamoto during a fight multiple times after seeing that she was capable of supernatural strengths beyond her comprehension, which caused her to lose the battle.

Kuroko is able to charm other women around her, including women who never had same-sex love in the first place, such as Yuria. There are few women able to resist her charms, such as Chacha, Yukari, Aiko and Reiko. Kuroko also has this effect on girls as seen in Volume 6, Chapter 36: *School Destruction (2)*, when she was caught trying to make out with a middle school girl.

## Abilities

During her time as a killer, Kuroko's gained some "inhuman" abilities; such as being able to tell where traps are being hidden, or being able to catch (or dodge) things from light speed.

**Precognition:** Kuroko's ability to react early to incoming attacks. She says this came about because of her profession, murdering people. After a while of avoiding death, she started to be able to feel death coming for her, whether in the form of traps, surprise attacks, or bullets. After feeling death coming for her, all that she has to do, she says, is discover what kind of attack is coming and avoid it. She believes that even if a sniper were to fire at her from kilometres away, she should still be able to avoid it.

**Superhuman Speed/Reflexes**: Kuroko displays extreme speed and reflexes. She has been able to dodge bullets and avoid projectiles thrown from close range.

**Weapon Handling:** Kuroko is proficient in handling multiple weapons. She has been seen handling a gun and a sword, although her sword handling is not up to the standard of Kurono, the split personality of Hikaru modelled after Hikaru’s sister. She also asked Takeru Asagi, the Skin Collector, to lend her one of his high tech knives, suggesting that she can use it too.

## Trivia

* In Chapter 43, reference is made to an urban legend of a ’snake woman that attacks girls’. It is possible that this legend was started because of Kuroko molesting girls.
* According to Yoshimurakana, Kuroko's birthday is on December 20.