Koneko Toujou

**Koneko Toujou**, originally named **Shirone** is one of the female protagonists of *The Gifted Half-Blooded Devil Uchiha.* At first, she is a first-year student at Kuoh Academy, prior to becoming a second-year, and a member of the Occult Research Club. She is a Nekoshou, a rare species of Nekomata, and the younger sister of Kuroka, as well as Rias Gremory's first Rook.

Having become one of Issei's fiancées, then coming to terms with herself, her past, and making amends with Kuroka, Koneko started going by **Shirone Toujou**.

## **Appearance**

Koneko is a petite girl with white hair and gold eyes. Her body measurements are [B67-W57-H73 cm] [B26-W22-H29 in]. Her weight is [31 kg] [68 lbs]. The front of her hair has two long bangs going past her shoulders and several loose bangs hanging over her forehead, while the back has a short bob cut. She also wears a black cat-shaped hair clip on both sides of her hair, one of which contained the data on artificially making new Super Devils.

She usually wears the Kuoh Academy girls' school uniform, without the shoulder cape. Koneko's height is 138 cm (4 feet 6 inches), making her one of the shortest female characters of the series.

In her Nekomata form, she grows a pair of white cat ears and a pair of matching white tails, and her pupils become more cat-like. In volume 10, she gained three tails.

In her "Shirone Mode" that she used for the first time in Volume 6, Koneko can make herself grow older, and her attire consists of a short white kimono and a light blue skirt. Her bust size grows significantly larger when in this mode, making her look more similar to her sister Kuroka.

## **Personality**

Due to witnessing her sister supposedly losing control over her nekomata power and killing her master, Koneko became traumatized by the event, causing her to become withdrawn into herself and stripping her of most of her emotions. As a result, Koneko originally had a quiet and cold personality, rarely showing any feelings or emotions, even when she was speaking. It is noted that her serious personality is a result of receiving influence from Rias and is antithetical to her sister's mischievous and outgoing personality. She was also the only one in the group who did not initially get along with Issei, often insulting and rebuking the latter for his perverted nature, although she reveals that she respects him for never giving up and considers him a hard worker.

She shows the most concern for her comrades when they are in trouble, often lending her strength in fights. Koneko apparently has a problem with people calling her a midget (although the context of the phrase could be used to be called flat, as in bust size), as shown in her battle against Freed Sellzen. This may stem from her insecurity about her own small body and bust size.

In Volume 2, Koneko experiences a change in her personality after Issei and Naruto helps her overcome her fear of using Senjutsu and now starts acting like a cat, often ends her sentences with "Nya" (にゃ), and/or showing attraction towards Issei. Her love for Issei grows so much that, at the beginning of Volume 5, she starts to go into her mating season (though this was later stopped by her sister Kuroka). However, she still insults him when his perverted nature gets the better of him (at least when it isn't directed towards herself). Koneko has even stated that she enjoys Issei viewing her as a woman.

## **History**

Born as **Shirone**, Koneko is a young Nekomata who is part of a rare species among her kind, called the *Nekoshou*. She was born from the union between a human father and a Nekomata mother named Fujimai. Her father was a scientist who did not acknowledge Koneko or was aware that she was his child, and merely used her as a subject for his experiments. Her parents eventually died in an experiment-related accident. However, her older sister Kuroka, omitted the truth and any other details about them from Koneko to protect her.

After losing her parents, she and her sister were later taken in by an unnamed Devil from the branch family of the House of Naberius, who reincarnated her sister as one of the members of his peerage. However, Kuroka's power as a Nekomata supposedly soon grew out of control, eventually causing her to kill her master and become a Stray Devil on the run from her pursuers. In actuality, he had planned to experiment on Koneko in his research about creating a Super Devil, causing Kuroka to kill him in order to protect her younger sister.

Following the incident and the failed manhunt that came after, Koneko was sentenced to death by the Devils in hopes of preventing another incident like Kuroka's from happening. However, Sirzechs Lucifer, one of the Four Great Satans, protected her and left her under his sister Rias' care. Due to the trauma, she experienced with her sister's betrayal and murder of her master, she fell into a deep depression, eventually robbing her of nearly all of her emotions until Rias helped her out of it. It was around that time Rias gave Koneko her name and made Koneko her servant.

## **Powers & Abilities**

**Demonic Power:** Koneko has all the powers and abilities common to Devils, including the power to cast spells.

**Senjutsu Master:** Being a Nekoshou, Koneko is able to use Senjutsu, she is still training under her sister, Kuroka as well as Magari. By tapping into Senjutsu, she gains control over the flow of ki and is able to both greatly enhance her physical attacks and affect others internally, such as breaking down Gandoma's magic resistance. Koneko can use Senjutsu to detect the presence of others.

* **Touki** (闘気, *Fighting Spirit*): Koneko can cover herself in an aura of *ki*, drastically increasing her strength, defense, and speed. She could soon cover herself in a tremendous touki, surpassing her sister in terms of strength.
* **Healing:** Through the usage of Senjutsu, Koneko can use ki to recover both a person's physical and mental health, in addition to their stamina. Through being in physical contact with the person she's healing and can be used to even recover a person's life-force, which was damaged through different means and did so continuously after Issei used Juggernaut Drive.
	+ **Bouchujutsu** (房中術, *Bedroom Method*): A more effective and faster healing technique in which Koneko directly shares her ki with a man to heal life-force to a greater extent, this is done by the act of having sex. Though Koneko has never performed this, she claims to be capable of doing so when offering it to Issei should he need it.
* **Kasha** (火車, *Burning Chariot*): Koneko can summon multiple large wheels that are covered in white flames that have the power of purification.
* **Sealing:** Koneko had learned a practical use of Senjutsu from Kuroka as a counter-measure against the Evil Dragons revived using Sephiroth Graal, in which she uses a jewel from Issei's armor to seal their souls inside it, as shown with Grendel who was later stored and guarded in Heaven.

**Youjutsu Expert:** Being a Nekomata, Koneko is able to use Youjutsu, but she is still learning under her sister, Kuroka as well as Magari. She uses Youjutsu in tandem with her Senjutsu.

**Immense Strength:** Koneko, in spite of her petite size, has been described and shown as having extreme strength, lifting up people and things larger than herself without effort, through virtue of her Rook Piece. She fought and bested Xuelan, another Rook who rivals a Queen. At Nekomata Lv.2, Koneko's strength was enhanced to where she could fight against Gandoma, another Rook, who inherited natural superhuman strength. She could surpass her older sister, who could rival Ultimate-Class Devils in terms of strength.

**Immense Durability:** To match her strength, Koneko has high defense enough that most attacks such as being stomped on or being shot by a light bullet doesn't have much affect on her; bouncing off her.

**Immense Speed:** Despite being a Rook, Koneko also has above average speed, being able to move around far more than others due to her size. Through using either her touki or Nekomata Mode Lv. 2, her speed is increased letting her move fast enough to catch opponents off guard. Having gained her third tail, Koneko's speed alone exceeded Kuroka's ability to detect her presence.

**Enhanced Senses:** As a Nekomata, Koneko naturally has heightened senses. She has demonstrated this on multiple occasions, such as the time she was able to smell Fallen Angels within the Church.

**Transformation:** Koneko is able to shapeshift to hide and regrow her cat ears and tail to appear more human whenever she wants. Regrowing them grants Koneko her natural Nekomata abilities.

* **Nekomata Mode Level 2** (猫又モードレベル2, *Nekomata Mōdo Reberu 2*): In this mode, Koneko is able to grow a second tail similar to her older sister after further increasing her abilities by covering herself in Touki using Senjutsu, which gives her explosive power and increased physical abilities for a temporary amount of time.

* **Shirone Mode** (白音モード, *Shirone Mōdo*): In this second mode, Koneko is able to make her body mature, appearing similar to her older sister temporarily by gathering the natural ki around her and syncing it with her touki. In Shirone Mode, she is granted full access to her nekomata powers, letting her use moves such as Kasha and becoming the power of purification itself, being able to make the enhanced Vampires disappear by merely touching them.

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** Koneko is a masterful martial artist, adept in techniques ranging from a wide range of things, such as both throwing and grappling techniques. In addition to her Rook trait, she can overpower opponents much larger than herself and trained former exorcists; defeating a far more experienced Rook without exhaustion, only losing due to a sneak attack. After accepting her nekomata powers, Koneko can combine martial arts and senjutsu to further increase her physical attacks. She improved herself through training and experience, letting her defeat mass-produced Evil Dragons and a cloned Grendel. Koneko fought on par against Kuroka, who could rival an Ultimate-Class Devil, then surpassed her.

**Flight:** Being a Devil, Koneko can use her wings to fly.

## **Equipment**

**Rook Piece** (戦車の駒, *Sensha no koma*): Koneko was reincarnated using the Rook Piece, which grants her enhanced offense and defense.