Yamato Kato

**Yamato Kato** is another former Chou Mori patient who is out for revenge in the *Wonderland* series. He is the tadpole leader of the group leading revenge. Yamato is part of the third generation.

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Yamato has short light brown hair with some of it over his left eye and brown eyes. He wears a black hoodie, jeans, and brown sneakers.

### Personality

Yamato is bent on revenge. Before his Chou Mori days, he came across as cold and uncaring. He did start to warm up to his therapist Akai Takuma before she betrayed him in his eyes.

## Back Story

Yamato was committed to Chou Mori because of incident involving a knife and a small child. On the first day there, he meets Akai, the woman who was going to be his primary therapist. He at first thinks she's going to be just like everyone else. But she reaches out to him, making him feel like a person. Everything was going well between them. Yamato even starts to develop feelings for Akai. However, one night changed everything.

On the sixteenth of December, Akai ran into a scared Yamato in the hallway. She asks him what is wrong. Before he could speak, Kitano pops up behind him and says that everything is fine. His presense is enough to scare the therapist off. That moment alone left Yamato feeling betrayed. His hurt would harden into resentment toward Akai.

Yamato's powers manifested during school. He felt too sick to go, but his parents made him go. He felt feverish and could barely keep it together. A teacher sent him to the nurse's office. He spent the rest of the afternoon sleeping. He was woken up by three bullies. After a short exchange, the main bully stood there in a daze. The latchkeys asked Yamato what he did. The tadpole didn't know. When the bully came back, he backed up across the room, screaming. He took off running away. Kitano made the call afterward. Since then, Yamato has been improving his powers and plotting revenge.

Yamato is the one who gathered up the murder squad in the first place. He met Norio Ono at a 7-11 and convinces him to join him on his quest for revenge.

## Storyline History

### Devil's Wonderland

Yamato meets Erina Kate and Hifumi Ushimaru after he killed two former orderlies from Chou Mori after shooting them with his crossbow. He recruits them for his revenge mission and they agree. He introduces them to Shuichi Azuma and Norio Ono in their hideout. Yamato then recruits Sur and Tomoya Tokiwa. Later, Yamato and his crew meet up with Shinra Kishitani at his apartment to get the names of the rest of the Chou Mori staff.

In "Seals", Yamato walks through the park after Tomoya cancels on him due to a job interview. He walks into the woods and finds what is left of a campsite with a fire put out and a ripped up tent and futon. The creepiest part is the trees are covered several missing posters. Each poster from all over Japan and as far back as 1981. Yamato comments to himself on how creepy it looks before hurrying away.

Once Shinra hands over the list of former Chou Mori, Yamato and his crew begin with their murder mission. He lets the girls make the first kill. Yamato then sends Tomoya and Shuichi on the mission for the second kill. He isn't happy when that target isn't killed right away. But Tomoya comes back with the target's phone. Yamato goes down the call list until they found the third target, Koshima-sensei. He remembered him just by the sound of his voice. The group goes by the hotel room where he is staying and hold him hostage for more information.

### Black Swan Wonderland

Yamato is pulled into the latest experiment by Tandeki. Now, he can't feel pain anymore. After Emily dies, Yamato now commands a small spirit familiar.

### Edge of Wonderland

Yamato is pulled into another experiment where he has a chalky taste in his throat that he can't get rid of. He is later with Mikado and Chie Sakamoto in Shinra and Celty's apartment after another round of testing. Mikado doesn't seem to trust him. The three tadpoles meet Alesky Gorecki and his wife, Lilith when they come to the door. Meanwhile, the tadpoles keep looking for the others. Yamato is always seen at these meetings.

Later, Yamato is pulled into another experiment that makes him so sick. Shuichi says he's going to die, but the other tadpole said that he isn't. Yamato tried not to vomit as he tried to keep the murder squad together. However, Yamato and the other tadpoles get better after Masaomi Kida becomes a player and rewinds time. As a side effect, Yamato gets a new power that lets him see the final moments of a person's life before they died. He and the other tadpoles don't know how long that will last.

### Tadpole Diaries II

Yamato tells Tomoya that it's time to go because Sur found another target. He gathers up everyone to talk about the latest target. They are going to use the brother and his phone as bait. Yamato tried to talk Shingo Kawakita to go to the dark web, but the boy turned him down.

### Dark Alice in a Dark Wonderland

Yamato is on a little mission of his own. He tracks down one of his former therapist and begins to plot revenge. He goes out on Halloween night while playing Joy Division. Yamato takes Akai hostage in her home at knife point. Her crying made him angry. He rants at her for not helping him at Chou Mori. He told her that she did nothing and could've gone to the police. Some of the other tadpoles intervene. Yamato is finally talked out of it. He walks back to the hideout playing Joy Division again.

## Tadpole Powers

### Primary Traits

Yamato can create and trap people in dimensions made out of their fears. He's gotten quite good at it too.

### Secondary Traits

Just like the other tadpoles, Yamato can hear thoughts and increase the desires of people through touch. He can sense when other tadpoles are nearby. Yamato also has heightened senses. Just like the others, he can telepathically communicate with other tadpoles. He can't get sick, drunk, or high either. After the latest development, Yamato doesn't need to sleep either. The new experiment made it so he doesn't have to really eat anymore. The latest experiment left him unable to feel pain anymore. After Emily's death, Yamato now commands a small spirit familiar.

The side effects of the antidote lets him see the last moments of a person's life before they died in his dreams. Yamato can now talk to animals.

### Augmentations

Just like the other tadpoles, Yamato is highly attractive to the opposite sex. He's also highly intelligent and can see into the future. Yamato is also very athletic.

## Relationships

### Akai Takuma

*Main Article: Akai Takuma*

Akai was Yamato's therapist when he was in Chou Mori. She was the only one to treat him like a person. He warmed up to her and even developed a crush on her. However, their relationship turned sour when she found him scared in a hallway. Akai didn't help him after Kitano scared her off. Since then, Yamato became bitter and wanted revenge. He winds up taking her hostage in her apartment on Halloween night. Yamato would've killed her but the other tadpoles talked her out of it.

### Erina Kate

*Main Article: Erina Kate*

Yamato meets Erina and Hifumi after he kills the two former orderlies after they make them admit to what they do to the tadpole girls at Chou Mori. Yamato recruits them in his murder revenge and introduces him to the team.

### Hifumi Usimaru

*Main Article: Hifumi Usimaru*

Yamato meets Erina and Hifumi after he kills the two former orderlies after they make them admit to what they do to the tadpole girls at Chou Mori. Yamato recruits them in his murder revenge and introduces him to the team.

### Norio Ono

*Main Article: Norio Ono*

Norio is a part of his revenge group. Yamato first met him at a 7-11 one evening when Norio went out to shop for food. They talked in the parking lot. Yamato invited him to join his group and he said yes.

### Shuichi Azuma

*Main Article: Shuichi Azuma*

Shuichi is a part of Yamato's revenge group. They complained to each other when they were getting sick.

### Sur

*Main Article: Sur*

Sur is a part of Yamato's revenge group.

### Tomoya Tokiwa

*Main Article: Tomoya Tokiwa*

Tomoya is part of Yamato's revenge group.