Kohaku

**Kohaku** is a Mino who has been providing Copen and Lola somewhere to stay.

## Appearance

Kohaku is a short, young girl with a ponytail of orange hair. She wears yellow clothes, those being shorts and a sleeveless jacket. She also wears a pair of fanny packs.

## Personality

Kohaku is very kind to other people, allowing both Copen to live with her. She also apologized after she wrongly assumed Gunvolt was evil. She used to believe all Adepts were evil, a belief taught to her by Copen, but after learning about Gunvolt, she stopped believing such.

## History

Kohaku used to be close with Blade before the latter ran away. Additionally, Kohaku formerly lived in a populated neighborhood, before an Adept with an explosion-based Septima working for the Sumeragi Institute destroyed it. Unbenknownst to her, this Adept was Crimm. Kohaku only survived by hiding underground in the city slums, which became her new home.

One day, she rescued Copen from Blade and learned he was searching for something known as the Butterfly Effect. Copen taught Kohaku that Adepts were dangerous and wanted to subjugate Minos like the two of them. Copen later brought back a Sumeragi weapon known as the Razor Wheel, which he stole from a train after seeing it while shopping. Copen and Kohaku learned that the Razor Wheel could open wormholes to an alternate timeline, but the two couldn't get it working.

One day, while Copen was out shopping again, Kohaku accidentally used the Razor Wheel to create a wormhole, bringing Gunvolt to her timeline. Kohaku mistook Gunvolt for Blade's alternate timeline counterpart, and hid from him, hoping Copen would come home soon.

Kohaku later heard people fighting upstairs, and assumed Copen had returned. However, she was wrong and instead made eye-contact with Gunvolt, who had finished fighting some Sumeragi soldiers. Kohaku immediately tried to kill Gunvolt, but the Adept was too fast and quickly overpowered her, attempting to reason with her instead. While Kohaku initially didn't listen and still tried to attack Gunvolt, the conversation took a turn when Kohaku mentioned Copen, or iX, as she called him, and that Gunvolt was an alternate timeline counterpart of Blade, the Adept that nearly killed iX. Gunvolt was left unaware of who iX was and didn't know who iX was, or the concept of an alternate timeline, causing Kohaku to realize Gunvolt was innocent, and pointing out that she acted the way she did due to what Copen taught her. Gunvolt forgave her.

Kohaku and Gunvolt talked to each other about how Gunvolt ended up in his predicament, as well as their personal histories. While doing so, Gunvolt mentioned his friend, Xiao Wu, being a QUILL operative. Kohaku was shocked, but before she could say anything, she was interrupted by an unusual sound, which she predicted was a giant robot created by Sumeragi. Gunvolt left to check it out.

Once Gunvolt got back from destroying the Giant Lola, Kohaku greeted him, only for Gunvolt to notice someone heading in their direction and telling Kohaku to hide while he figured out who it was. Kohaku hid underground, but while doing so, she noticed Gunvolt was taking a bit of time to talk to whoever was approaching. Initially, she was unsure if she should go and check on him, but then she realized he might have run into Copen.

Sure enough, she was correct, as when she went to see what was going on, she saw Gunvolt and Copen fighting, and pleaded for Copen to not hurt Gunvolt. With some help from Lola, she convinced Copen to let Gunvolt go, although Copen wasn't happy about it and began distancing himself from both Gunvolt and Kohaku. Once the four got home, Kohaku and Gunvolt explained the latter's origins to Copen and Lola, before Kohaku went back to telling Gunvolt what she intended to tell him before, with a little bit of Copen's help; after the Project Muse incident and Asimov's death, QUILL was left without a good leader, allowing a mafia to take over.

Kohaku used the Razor Wheel to send Gunvolt home for the night, planning to bring him back into her timeline tomorrow.

The next morning, Kohaku's house began experiencing a power shortage due to its energy pack failing. After bringing Gunvolt into her timeline and explaining the situation, Gunvolt suggested using Azure Striker to power it, but Copen pointed out that it wouldn't work. Kohaku brought up the topic of an auto-fabrication plant that had been abandoned by Sumeragi, which was where Copen found the previous energy pack Kohaku had been using. Gunvolt and, reluctantly, Copen went to retrieve more energy packs.