Kanna Kizuchi

木津池(キヅチ) 神奈(カンナ), *Kizuchi Kanna*?

### Cause of death

Unknown Cause of death after Nao gained the most votes in the second main game (Ending 1)
Executed by having plants grow throughout her body if she gained the most votes during the second Main Game.(Route 2)

**Kanna Kizuchi** (木津池(キヅチ) 神奈(カンナ), *Kizuchi Kanna*?) is a second-year middle school student and one of the 20 participants forced into playing the Death Game.

## Appearance

Kanna is a short, frail girl who wears a blue bucket on her head because she thinks it's a hat. She has pale lime-colored hair and wears a yellow clasp shaped like screws on the right side of her head. The design matches her sister's clip. Kanna has big green eyes and delicate features.

Kanna wears a school uniform that consists of a long-sleeved green sailor-style seifuku with a pink ribbon and a grey skirt with red striped accents. She wears green knee-high socks and brown loafers.

Being a participant of the Death Game, she wears a Collar as do all participants, Dummies, and Floor Masters.

In a childhood flashback, Kanna is seen with her bucket covering her head. She is shown in a pink cardigan and a floral printed dress. She also has small, white socks with pink shoes that contain pom poms.

## Personality

Kanna refers to herself in the third person, indicating a level of childishness, although she makes an effort to correct herself sometimes when she catches herself.

She is trusting of everyone around her and believes in Shin despite knowing he manipulated her in the past. She seems timid but is actually not afraid to speak her thoughts, while she was primarily referred to as 'Frightened Girl' in Sara's internal analysis, this does not appear to be normal. When she was exploring the third floor with Shin, she firmly lectured him for weakly wanting more breaks.

Kanna is somewhat dependent upon those determined and relies on them for help, due to insecurity that she is inadequate of helping others and herself.

Despite being one of the most vulnerable and unstable of the group, Kanna tries her best to be helpful and demonstrates bravery, the initiative to act, and a willingness for self-sacrifice.

She has also shown some cleverness in how to figure out the password to Kai's laptop when Shin was at a loss, and simply lacks the self-confidence to understand her own value. This is also supported by Chapter Three. If she's alive it explains that Kanna was aware of Shin fabricating her sister's dying message, but took it to mean that he genuinely cared about her feelings.

When she was younger, she had a habit of hiding her true feelings and pasting a smile on her face to avoid troubling her adopted family.

## History

### Background

When Kanna was little, she was adopted by her current parents, the Kizuchis, from an unknown orphanage she was placed in by her birth parents, the Tsukimis.

Kanna and Kugie weren't close when they first met. Unable to bear her sister's hate, she ran away from home and sat in the park crying with a bucket on her head. A boy tried to comfort her but was misunderstood for bullying Kanna by Kugie who called Kanna "little sister" for the first time. When going home, their relationship improved.

At some point Kanna and Kugie went to an ice cream shop they frequently visited where Sou Hiyori, posing as the cashier, offered Kanna the consent form, saying it granted wishes. Kanna signed the form and wished for her sister's wish to come true. Kugie told Kanna she wished she would meet her biological family.

### The Death Game

On the night of the kidnapping, Kanna and Kugie were walking home while eating ice cream and discussing what they were going to have for dinner when people had jumped out from a black car parked across the road. Kugie and Kanna then lost consciousness.

The sisters awaken in their First Trial, "The Two Person Vote," where they are tied to beds and must figure out how to escape. Kugie gives her sister the key and tries to guide her through the trial. However, Kanna is too frightened to do anything and the timer runs out. Kugie's bed then folded together and crushed her. Unable to do anything else, Kanna leaves the trial room.

When Sara wakes up, Kanna is seen towards the left, squatting behind Kai and Q-taro. She wouldn't say anything until the others began to introduce themselves. Sara, trying to calm her down, placed her hand gently on her back and tried to comfort her. Kanna, beginning to calm down, introduced herself. Sara gets a bad feeling after noticing that Kugie is not there, despite Kanna's story mentioning that the two of them were together when they got kidnapped. When asking about what came after she arrived or where her sister was, Kanna remembers Kugie's death and screams, repeatedly calling for her sister and saying it's her fault. Because of the shock, Kanna passes out.

While Sara, Joe, Keiji, Q-taro, and Kai are stuck playing Russian Roulette in the Blue Room, Kanna wakes up and goes missing, sending Reko, Nao, and Professor Mishima to look for her. When Sara and Joe manage to leave, they find Kanna and she asks if she could have saved her sister. Before Sara can answer, Mishima appears behind Kanna and lets her know they were looking for her. Mishima tells her that she was unlucky and that the trial was unfair for her due to them having to remove their partner's restraints by force. Kanna in disbelief yells at the professor that he is lying and that it can't be, so Joe and Sara go along with the lie in an effort to calm her. She continues to claim that Kugie's death was her fault and that she killed her. Kanna relaxes a bit after Mishima asks her what her sister was like. When Kanna asks why her sister didn't use the key for herself, Mishima reassures her that her very existence gave Kugie happiness. He then asks Sara and Joe to take the roles of Kanna's older sister and younger brother. Kanna weakly tells her sister that she misses her before slightly shouting that she wouldn't give in because her sister was watching over her. Reko then rushes into the room after hearing Kanna yell and criticizes Mishima for not alerting them when he found her. Kanna then tells Reko that she has gotten the wrong idea and explains while they head back causing Reko to stop yelling immediately and softly talk to her.

After Sara and Joe find the rest of the doll limbs, they call everyone to gather in the Pink Room, Kanna included. The doll is assembled, and the room fills with white gas, and Sue Miley, the Laughing Doll, appears. She announces they are going to do a practice majority vote. Kanna most likely votes for herself. Mishima gained the most votes and is executed right in front of her. Due to fear, she accidentally wets herself, causing Miley to make fun of her. She yells at Miley that everyone here is a good person and asks how she could do such a thing and what they did to deserve such. Miley laughs and claims that Kanna, a powerless little girl, was beginning to seem like an annoyance. With venom, she calls Kanna a "sister-killer," causing her to fumble over her words. She then continued to let her know how she watched Kanna's First Trial and how miserable she looked and how her actions lead to her sister's death. She eventually leaves the room along with the others, save for Keiji, Gin, and Nao.

She is found later with Reko, trying to clean herself up. When seeing Sara, Kanna freezes up and Reko asks Sara to find some clean clothes for her. Sara finds an exact replica of Kanna's outfit in the Blue Room and gives it to Kanna. When Sara tries to comfort Kanna, she jumps back and smacks Sara's hand away in surprise. She tries to calm herself down and tells Sara to not be nice to her anymore as she's afraid of having hope before rushing off, most likely to go change.

Later, everyone is called to the bar by Joe. After hearing that neither Joe nor Sara found Nao on either floor, she becomes worried. She, along with the others, meet the man Sara found in the Red Room, Gonbee Yamada. When the others decided to go back to searching for Nao, Reko tells her to stay in the bar and rest with Sou and Gin, though Gin refuses and searches with Sara, Keiji, Joe, and Reko.

While the others are searching, Kanna notices something glowing from behind the sliding door and picks it up, revealing it to be the Sacrifice card. She is warned by Sou that the card is dangerous and it would be better for him to hold onto it. The two trade cards with Sou giving her his Commoner card and Kanna her Sacrifice card.

After Nao is found and she and Reko are reunited, Sara runs into Sou and Kanna for a moment, though Kanna doesn't say anything.

When the Main Game arrives, she is late to enter, barely missing punishment. To start off, Q-taro asks that she, Nao, and Gin tell the others how they were helpful and why they should be left alive. Instead of doing such, Kanna tells the others that she is fine with being sacrificed as she has had enough and just wants to go to her sister. However, Kai points out that she could be the Sacrifice, putting on a one-man show to try and earn votes and escape. Keiji also mentions how she has enough of a motive to actually be asking to die. She remains unresponsive for the rest of the discussion, being the only one not to say anything when everyone defends Sara. However, after Joe claims to be the Sage, Kanna lies and says that she has the Sage card and her divination told her Sou is Keymaster, rather than Sara. When asked for a design pattern, she claims it is a picture of a lock, in which Shin agrees. In the end, it is revealed Kai is actually the Sage and Joe is the Sacrifice, and they both die.

After the Main Game, she and Sou talk on the second floor where he tells her all she wants to know. She expresses her discomfort with their conversation, saying she doesn't want to make Sara feel sad and asks if he felt anything from what the late Joe said.

She is later found in the Monitor Room on the third floor where she avoids eye contact with Sara. After the AI of Mishima appears on one of the monitors, she tries to search for a monitor of her sister, Kugie, and is visibly upset that there is none. She then meets the newest Floor Masters, Tia Safalin, the Crying Doll, and Rio Ranger, the Dress-up Doll. When Sara points out one of Ranger's accessories (Joe's hairclip, Kai's apron, Mishima's necktie), she notices his skirt and recognizes it as her sister's. However, after he asks if they have to right to condemn him for what he does, she falls silent.

Returning to the Monitor Room, they find one of the monitors broken and believe its attacker to be Sou. Kanna suggests that she looks for him while the others look for attractions. Reko is against the idea, but Keiji insists that Kanna has much more strength than they give her credit for. Sara is then given the option to either let her go on her own or go with her. If Sara tells Kanna that she is going to go with her, she rudely announces that if she goes on her own, Sou will just use her again. If Sara tells Kanna to do what she pleases, she announces that what Kanna does is none of her business. Kanna is heart-broken, asking if Sara doesn't trust her, to which she doesn't reply. Alice yells at the two, saying they are just like quarreling sisters. Sara decides to reconcile, causing Kanna to begin to cry. After listening to Reko talk about how Sou pisses her off and how he used her, Kanna admits that she "tipped the scales" and explained that rather than Kai being allowed to live, it should've been Sou as Kai may have had contact with the kidnappers but ended up with the Sage card and died, all the while Shin knew about what the cards meant and even gave her a strategy to survive. They also discuss how the order of the cards worked, with Sou being knocked unconscious by Nao first and then trading cards with Kanna afterward, putting her in his debt.

The group, minus Nao, head towards the Ruined Corridor where they find Sou's beanie on the ground. They believe that he had headed into an attraction on his own and they all decide to try and find him. Kanna is a possible partner for Sara in the attraction Memory Dance. Even after finishing the attraction, there was no sign of Sou anywhere. Either Reko or Q-taro tells Sara and her partner that they found Sou inside of his room.

Kanna and the others worriedly head towards his room where they find a large wooden plank and an unconscious Sou. When he wakes up, she asks him what happened and learns that he has amnesia. The group then heads to the Lobby where Kanna asks if the others will trust her to watch over him and try to find the truth behind his thinking. She also states she'd be the best candidate as he would be less wary of her over everyone else. The others agree to let her do it, save for Reko with slight complaints.

By noon, Kanna is found in the Monitor Room with Sou, letting Sara know that a few attractions have appeared. She also begins to question if any new location that doesn't have attractions has been opened up. She and Sou continue on searching. During discussions, Sara has the option to discuss with Kanna who doesn't want to trade and simply wants to talk. She pours the two some tea and begins to tell Sara that she feels like she's been a burden for a while, saying how when she is on her own, she feels she can barely even stand or walk. However, Sara asks her if her standing and walking at the moment counted, to which Kanna tells her that she shares similarities with a warrior. She mentions that if Sara were a senior at her school, she would look up to her so much, even coming to the conclusion that Sara was popular at her own school. As their idle chat continues, Kanna admits to liking the way Sara speaks, even if Sara tells her she's been trying to fix her way of talking due to most girls talking less brusque-like. Kanna tells her that she reminds her of Kugie due to her strength and her kindness.

She also explains that she and her sister weren't always on the best terms, but were especially rough when they met, to which Kanna admits to being adopted into the Kizuchi household where Kugie was ruthless to her. She thought to herself childishly that she couldn't trouble them and continued to smile, telling others that she was not mad. At one point, their mother got upset at Kugie for treating Kanna so horribly, to which she exclaimed she wasn't upset and began to force laughter out but stopped once Kugie asked what she was laughing for and calling her creepy. At some point, Kanna could no longer take her sister's hatred towards her and fled the house. She arrived at a park and cried with a bucket on her head, thinking to herself that she didn't want to go home. While weeping, she is discovered by a young boy who tries to cheer her up by pulling his shirt on top of his head. However, Kugie finds the scene and mistakes the boy for bullying Kanna by placing the bucket on her head and teasing her and tells him to beat it. On this special occasion, she also described Kanna to be her little sister for the first time. On their way home, Kugie notes that Kanna also cries and apologizes for her past behavior. She informs her younger sister that their parents are worried and that they should get home quickly. Ever since then, Kanna described, the two got along wonderfully She tells Sara that Sou might be waking up soon and so she should head back to his room, telling Sara goodbye and heading to said room.

Later that night, she and the others head towards the Monitor Room where they discover that Mishima's AI broke. Keiji begins to question Sou, believing him to be the obvious culprit. However, Kanna claims she was with him the whole time, meaning that Mishima's killer couldn't have been him. She claims it has become her job to watch over him and began sleeping in his room along with him, giving him an alibi.

During the second day's discussions, Kanna and Sou are available for discussion, Kanna again only wanting to chat. She, Sara, and Sou talk about how Sou lost his memories, Sara going as far as to suggest that the monitor's breaker and his attacker being the same person. Kanna points out that there were wood chips on the floor near the mystery monitor that was broken first. She also goes on to explain that she and Sou were together and weren't able to see who the culprit was. She mentions that it might be people other than them, and when Shin questions if she is referring to possible other survivors, she says it may be people on the kidnapper's side rather than the victim's, saying that they still are unaware of how many kidnappers there are. Despite this, Sou explains that it would be irrational for them to break a monitor that they prepared and says that he prays it wasn't Sara. Sara, obviously upset by his statement, asks why he would suspect her. Kanna also yells at Sou to apologize to her, telling him he suspects people a bit too much and that if he can't trust anyone, it would be all over. He then asks, because of the way it was worded, if Kanna trusts him, in which she replies that she does. She goes on to explain how terrifying he looked in the Main Game but believes that without him there, that everyone's chance of dying would've increased. Sou avoids one of Sara's questions before telling Kanna that they've outstayed their welcome and should leave, even if she tells him to hold on.

After Sara, Q-taro, and Keiji agree to hide the hidden room, Kanna is seen by Sara in the lobby without Sou. When questioned about it, she tells her that Sou is sleeping and that Alice is watching over him. She admits to being a little tired as well. Kanna tells Sara that she found something while exploring and wants to show her, explaining that its location is in the Ruined Corridor. She asks Sara to go with her and the two begin to head towards the room. Kanna and Sara go through an opening that is away from the hidden room. While walking, Sara tells Kanna to not let go of her, Kanna replying by telling her that she wouldn't, almost calling her sister. She corrects herself but Sara tells her that it's fine. Kanna then goes on to explain that being with Sara feels like she was with Kugie. The latter is asked by Sara if she had peeked inside, in which she declines, telling her that she and Sou both lacked the courage to enter the room. Sara enters first and recognizes the room to be one of the first trial rooms, looking exactly like hers, as Kanna walks in, immediately being able to tell this is her trial room, screaming in fear as memories resurface themselves. She is comforted by Sara before apologizing for her behavior and claiming to be fine. Sara tells her to wait outside while she investigates, Kanna hesitantly listening and exiting the room. She waits outside until she hears Sara yell after reading the forged message from Kugie, asking if she's okay. Sara falls quiet and Kanna begins to enter the room, calling to Sara to see if she can hear her and if she's alright. Sara, panicking, yells that someone is coming, to which Kanna turns around and asks if someone is there. Sou and Alice arrive, much to Sara's convenience, and ask Kanna to trade tokens with them. The four leave Kanna's trial room and trade tokens.

Later on, Kanna learns of the smartphone Kugie had in her dying moments from Sou and is promised it if she can retrieve the laptop from Q-taro. She ends up bribing him with tokens and retrieves the computer, heading off towards the Ruined Corridor. She is discovered by Sara and Keiji where he asks her to bring the computer to them. Keiji tells Sou and Kanna that they want the laptop back. However, Kanna tells them that she can't do that. Shin asks Kanna to then give him the laptop, causing her to freeze up again. Despite Sara's constant cries for her to not hand over the laptop, Kanna reminds Sou of their promise, indirectly telling him that she wants the phone first. He hands over the phone and she gives him the computer. She then quickly unlocks the phone and reads the new message forged by Sou and suddenly breaks into tears, crying out to her sister that she loves her as well.

On the final day, Kanna joins the others in the lobby with 10 clear chips. She and the others are lead into the final attraction, the Arbitration Room. Ranger then states that the one with the most tokens is Q-taro, who is given a special privilege, with the top three being herself, Alice, and Sou who are joined by Keiji who landed in the middle. Once everyone is in their "correct" place, Ranger traps the four in a large green transparent cage. Although they cannot do anything physically, they try their best to assist Sara and Nao with the fake Reko doll. The attraction ends with either Reko or Alice dying.

The next opening scene shows Kanna worriedly waking Sou up, begging for him to not startle her like that since he's all she has left. She silently cries and asks for him to not suddenly collapse on her. Sou reasons that, because Kanna has betrayed Sara multiple times, she will have nowhere to run to when she needs someone. She remains silent until Sou tells her to not betray him, in which she tells him she won't.

The characters are then pushed back to the present where Kanna is seen standing next to Sou who is sitting on the table in the Medical Office along with the others.

If Alice is alive, Kanna, Sou, and Q-taro are drawn towards the Lobby due to hearing Alice and Gashu's fight. If Reko is alive, they simply walk in and address to Sara that they want to reconcile. If choosing to reconcile with Kanna, she sadly remarks that she betrayed her again and again. If choosing to not reconcile with her, Kanna forcefully grabs Sara's hand and calls her sister before correcting herself and calling her Sara. If Reko is left alive, Kanna invites her to view Kai's laptop with them.

After unlocking the Sara folder in Kai's laptop and viewing the photo of Sou Hiyori, she, along with the others (save for Sara), are all panicked at the sight of him. They recognize him but are unable to remember who he is or why they know him, except for Alice who exclaims that he's the man he killed. However, after getting a closer look at him, Kanna notes that he is sharing a replica of Sou's scarf. Suddenly, a trade happens and Sara leaves the room in a fit of fear. She and the others check the rest of the laptop but don't find anything. Kanna then goes to deliver the laptop to Sou after he ran to the bathroom where she finds him in the Ruined Corridor talking with Nao. She hands over the computer and immediately leaves to go and search for Sara.

Later, she is found talking with Keiji in the Ruined Corridor. They are called into the Room of Rubble by Sara where they find Q-taro unconscious. Keiji carries Q-taro on his back and the two head to the Lobby where they are met with Gin, Reko/Alice, and Nao. After Sara and Sou finish breaking into the security, he leads them all towards the Long Stairs and behind the suspicious vending machine which leads them to multiple flights of stairs. Kanna and Sou lead the way forward. She asks the others what the plan to do once they get out, responses varying from person to person.

While walking up the stairs, they find the Winner's Room. They head down the hallway only to be met with a dead-end filled with debris. The others begin to lose hope that escape is possible. The group splits up to try and figure out what to do. Gin and Kanna go back down the stairs.

Kanna, brokenhearted, looks at the phone Sou had given her, her sister's words calming her down. She had a slight hunch that Sou had sent Sara the Sacrifice. Descending back downstairs to avoid using the Ring-Up Box in the Winner's Room and have Sou notice, she used her coins to try and trade her Commoner card for Sara's Sacrifice. However, due to Gashu's tampering, she was instead sent Nao's Commoner, to her confusion. After the trade malfunctioned, she noticed that she no longer had the phone and went to look for it. It is implied that, similarly to Gin and Sara, she felt a sharp pain in her neck and fell asleep before reawakening in the Main Game's waiting room.

She joins the others despairingly in the Main Game. After the others need to find another person to find for the preliminary vote, Sou suggests Kanna and describes her to be easily tricked, timid, and lacking ability. He also refers to her as a hindrance. Kanna, after being inspired by Sara to get angry, yells at Sou that he may think so highly of himself due to him being able to hack before reminding him she was the one who hacked first. This catches the attention of the group and, when asked for an explanation, exclaims that the day before the trading phase began, Sou had been panicked, unable to figure out what the password to the laptop was. She explained she noticed how clean Sou's hands were and had an epiphany where she looked at the laptop and spotted little bits of dirt on certain keys, using that to her advantage and unlocking the computer's password. However, this throws Q-taro into disarray since the entire reason Sou shared the laptop with Sara and the others was that he couldn't get in, but Kanna argues that statement with Sou truly wanting to reconcile with the others, but is also shut down by Keiji who explains that there is a separate reason for Sou wanting to share the computer.

It is then brought to the light of Q-taro and Sou making a deal. Kanna helps describe the scene with her and Sou inside of his room while Q-taro talked to them outside the door. She tells Sara that Sou said the deal wouldn't be a bad idea and that they might even reconcile which made Kanna overjoyed, believing in the goodness in Sou. A new topic is then brought up after Q-taro shuts down Sara's evidence of camera footage from the first floor as what happened before and after Q-taro was zapped with a one-use stun gun. Kanna explains how, after Sara left, she went to return the laptop to Sou who was talking with Nao in the Ruined Corridor and went to look for her. After learning that Q-taro's attacker was Sou, the group moves onto the newest subject of who to leave out of the preliminary vote, with Kanna saying that they should leave Sara out since she's the one Kanna wants to live the most.

The four participants chosen in the preliminary vote end up being Kanna, Sou, Nao, and Keiji.

As the discussion continues, Gin brings up on how he found a phone. Kanna states that she was searching around aimlessly trying to find something she lost. Gin tells Sara that he found the phone way downstairs, making Kanna sweat nervously. Sou states that she must have dropped it while they were climbing the stairs, but Sara refutes him, saying that if she had, everyone would've seen it since he and Kanna were the ones directly in the front, leading Sara to believe she dropped the phone when going back down the stairs instead. Gin then points out that there's a message on the phone, but when looking at it, it is different from the one Sou forged, reading "Thank you. I love you, sister. Now it's Kanna's turn to protect her big sister. Because that's how Kanna can atone."

Sara and Keiji come to the conclusion that Kanna wrote a new message directed to Sara since Kugie is dead. Keiji also explains that to hide what she was doing, she went back down to the third floor to trade cards. Sou laughs, calling his suspecting to be worthless reasoning and such but is quieted by Kanna who admits that Keiji is correct and that Kanna is the one who did the fifth trade. She then explains exactly what had happened, mentioning how her sister's words calmed her down and how she had a hunch of what Sou did, commenting on how she knew Sara was too kind to hand the Sacrifice to anyone and she didn't want to make Sou a murderer. However, despite Sara having the Sacrifice, when she and her traded, Kanna was given a Commoner in return, leaving all confused. Q-taro thinks that that may be what Gashu's transgression was, leading to the others asking if Sou had hacked into the role cards and moved them around, telling him that either he hacked the cards or Gashu did something.

Sou softly asks Kanna if she really doesn't have the Sacrifice and she smiles at him kindly before telling him that she does not. He then yells that he didn't have access to the role cards, knowing that Kanna is safe.

She asks Sara if there is any evidence of Gashu's transgression, with Sara telling her no. Kanna then says that unless there is some evidence that has yet to be presented, they may be out of luck. Sara shows her the 4 roster sheets she has which strikes a reaction out of Gashu. Sou says that 4 people's names are missing from the roster while Gin says 5. They read out missing names, reading Joe, Kai, Nao, Sou, and Kugie. Everyone then checks the Bar's drinking list, deriving their 21st person being Shin Tsukimi. Kanna points out that Kugie is the name of her sister and that she would never forget her precious sister's name.

Despite their efforts for a 24 hours extension, Gashu's suicide leads to the Main Game to continue. While Nao begs for someone to save her, Kanna asks that everyone vote for her. When Sou hears this, he's shocked. She continues on, asking the others out of Kanna and Sou which one of them isn't necessary. She also points out that she intended to die the moment she tried to trade with Sara. She also wishes for the others to believe in Sou as he isn't the bad person he's been painted out to be. Sou yells at her to stop being ridiculous, claiming that a self-sacrifice is worthless. Despite his wishes for her to stay silent, Kanna also points out that she is not the smartest of people and isn't even able to hack. She reminds them of the first Main Game where they voted for Kai using logic and not emotion.

The first to vote is Keiji who votes for Kanna, despite Sou's begging for everyone to vote for him, receiving a thank you from Kanna. Q-taro and Reko/Alice then vote for Sou, claiming they couldn't vote for a child. Sou and Kanna vote for themselves. Sara tells Gin to vote for Kanna, so that he doesn't have to carry the burden of deciding Kanna or Sou's fate, instead leaving it to Sara.

### Voting For Kanna (Shin Lives Route)

Having received the most votes, Kanna thanks Sara for voting her and asks for a hug, which she obliges to. She smiles despairingly, letting out a small laugh and telling her she's warm. After watching Nao's execution, Safalin announces that it is time for Kanna's execution. Sara begs for Safalin to not execute another one of their allies. Q-taro points Gashu's gun at Safalin, telling her that he'll shoot if she steps any closer to Kanna. She does anyways and the gun clicks, showing that it's empty. Kanna tells them that everything is fine and that she's thankful. She specifically thanks Sara and tells her to watch over Sou and take care of him in place of her.

Kanna is then injected with Human Flower seeds from her collar. Roots begin to grow from her body and flowers begin blooming. Despite Safalin reassuring the others that she should feel numb, Kanna cries out in agony. A flower blooms above her body while the roots form little hearts.

Kanna expires.

### Voting For Shin (Kanna Lives Route)

Kanna meets up with Sara in the lobby after Sou escapes the Main Game's grounds. She listens to Sara's speech about how she will end the Death Game and how they will no longer kill anyone, Kanna informing the others that she doesn't want to die.

As the third chapter begins, Kanna states that she was always with her sister because she loved her despite Kanna always being a bother. She remembers that even when her life was in danger, Kugie was trying to protect her and trusted her. However, even when it mattered most, Kanna couldn't do anything due to her panicking. When she saw Kugie's phone, she remembered that surely her sister was watching over her and that she had to stay strong on her own. However, Kanna admits to knowing that her sister didn't write the message on the phone, showing that she's a lot smarter than she gives herself credit. She understands that Shin wrote her the message and that he was one of the people who tried to protect her and encourage her. Kanna then states she doesn't want anyone else to die because they are all kind people.

Safalin approaches the others and tells them that the floor will be closed off soon and for the remaining six to proceed to the next floor or they will die. Kanna informs Q-taro that Shin wasn't that bad of a person since he did try and protect her on multiple different occasions. She also promises Q-taro if Alice is alive or Reko if she's alive to not want to sacrifice herself anymore, in which she promises she won't. She also mentions how she'll escape for Shin and Nao's sake, promising to give the kidnappers the fight that Shin would've put up. Kanna is noted to have changed by Sara, believing her to have become stronger.

While walking through the fourth floor, it becomes dark and the others have to stick together to walk. If Reko is alive, she yells out, asking for who's touching in a place they shouldn't be in which Kanna apologizes and say that it's her. If Alice is alive, he reaches out into the dark and grabs something, claiming he had grabbed a washtub of sorts only for Kanna to cry out that he's grabbed her bucket and for him to give it back to her.

Kanna is paired with Kurumada for the Murderer Sub-Game. She is unsettled by Midori and becomes upset when he expresses his wish to have killed Shin himself.

As the group searches, Kanna attempts to keep everyone's spirits high. She shows great interest in anything to do with Shin during the search, such as the picture of him in the art gallery, the book containing his AI test data, and his AI, often lamenting about how little she really knew of him. As one of the candidates who signed the contract, she is quite distressed when it is discovered in the classroom.

When Sara panics over being 'it' during the first game of tag, Kanna takes the role from her by patting her back, simultaneously trying to comfort her as Sara did when they first met, however Keiji then takes the role from her, claiming that it's uncouth to allow a child to shoulder such a burden. During the battle with Midori, Kanna attempts to help Keiji tag Midori and begs the Dummies for their assistance.

After the battle, Keiji is knocked into Midori's coffin and Kanna is distraught at the thought of him dying. When Midori offers a way out if Sara signs the consent form, Ranmaru tears it up, and Kanna demands to know his reasoning. After listening to his speech, Kanna is happy to reconcile with the Dummies. If Hayasaka is dead, Kanna works the machine in the control room and gathers supplies for Q-taro, showing her care for her allies.

When Kurumada is injured by the rampaging Maple, Kanna firmly decides to stay with him, despite him berating her for this decision. While the rest of the group continues exploring, he takes off, claiming that he wants to get revenge on Maple, and Kanna follows him, begging him to stop. She compares him to Shin when she deduces that he's trying to sacrifice himself to save the others, as he believes Maple's rampage didn't stop because she believed him to still be alive. She begs him to not sacrifice himself and takes him to the charger that the others found.

Afterwards, Kanna goes to the library to read the book containing the test data for the Shin Tsukimi AI. Sara uses the lantern on her, where she recalls a memory involving her and her sister in an ice-cream shop, where the employee, Midori, offers her a wish. She wishes for her sister's wish to be granted, which was for Kanna to meet her biological relatives.

Midori later reveals what Kugie's wish was, leading everyone to discover that Shin was Kanna's biological older brother. Kanna says that his affection for her had led her to figure that out. She claims to see "kind hallucinations" of him and her sister and that they encourage her to never give up, so she refuses to lose to someone like Midori.

During the fight with Maple 2.0, Kanna is desperate to save the Shin AI attached to Maple's body and is upset when her efforts are useless.

If all the dummies survived then, before the banquet, there will be an extra scene where the surviving Yabusame sibling sings with the others, which Kanna merrily joins in on. It's possible for Kurumada to die from his wounds during the song, in which case, when it is noticed, Kanna is upset that he persevered for so long only to die then.

Kanna assists often during the banquet and is determined to save Gin. She is one of the five people remaining who Meister invites to a "final match".

## Relationships

### Shin Tsukimi

She shares a fondness for him, despite the others thinking that he only ever intends to use her. Kanna, without ever directly saying it, and initially unaware that she is biologically related to him, has a similar bond to Shin in a way that's a younger sister. They both get each other out of trouble on numerous occasions. Such as in Chapter 1, when Shin places the Sacrifice Card in the bar for Joe Tazuna to pick up later, Kanna picks it up, and Shin tells her to not, and helped her for a strategy in the Main Game. Kanna and Shin both go out of their way in the second Main Game to ask people to vote for them without thinking of the other. If Kanna is killed, this absolutely breaks Shin's cooperation, and he doesn't even want to help the group with his skills, which is why they initially kept him alive. Kanna during the start of the 2nd Chapter always kept an eye on Shin, mainly to be there as support. However, it mainly gave him an alibi when Mishima's AI broke. Should she still be alive in Chapter 3, she is shown to be having "kind hallucinations" of both him and Kugie in order to cope with their deaths.

### Sara Chidouin

Throughout their time in the Death Game, it is heavily implied that Sara reminds Kanna of her sister, even accidentally referring to her as "sister" when the two went on to discover Kanna and Kugie's trial room. After waking up from falling unconscious due to remembering her sister's death, she seeks guidance in Sara and only begins to believe the lie Mishima and Joe told her once Sara tells her it's the truth. It is also shown that she feels awful for betraying Sara and working with Shin on multiple occasions, such as after the first Main Game in the Monitor Room where she avoids eye contact with her and afterward when Sara replies rudely towards Kanna when she asks for permission to look for Shin, causing her to tremble. After being told by Alice that they should make up, Sara apologizes and tells her that Joe's death isn't her fault before asking to be friends again, in which Kanna starts crying. When voted for in the second Main Game, she doesn't blame Sara for her death and even thanks her, going as far as to ask for a hug from her.

### Kugie Kizuchi

After being adopted into Kugie's family, the two's relationship had a rough start with Kugie disliking Kanna. One day, she could not handle her sister's hatred any longer and ran away to a park where she sat on a swing and cried with a bucket on her head. Kugie went looking for Kanna and found her with a boy, thinking him to be bullying her and telling him to leave. This was also the first time that Kugie referred to Kanna as "little sister". Afterward, when the two returned home, Kugie began to try and fix their relationship, her attempts proven to be successful. They became very close with Kugie caring very much for her.

When they were abducted and placed into their First Trial, she gives Kanna the key in hopes of her survival and tries to guide her along. However, stricken by fear, Kanna panics and is unable to free her from her restraints, ultimately becoming the cause of sister's demise. When asked by Sara about her First Trial she has a mental breakdown at the memory of Kugie's death. After falling unconscious, she seeks out guidance from Sara, who reminds her of her sister, and asks if she could've saved her sister after all. When she is told that it would've been impossible for her to save Kugie, she is visibly upset and continues to blame herself, claiming her sister was trying to help her. When reassured by Sara, who, at the moment, pretends to be Kugie, she says that she won't give in because her sister is watching over her. During the first Main Game, she tells the others that she is fine being the one they sacrifice as she claims she doesn't care anymore, has had enough, and just wants to go to her sister.

In Chapter 2, she learns of a smartphone that Kugie had in her dying moments by Shin, who promises to hand it over to her if she retrieves the laptop that is held by Q-taro. She does so and, despite Sara and Keiji's protests for her to hand the computer back to them, she trades it for the phone and breaks into tears after reading the new message Shin wrote for her, calling through sobs that she loves her sister back. Later, Kanna seems scared of Sara, probably because Shin told her that Sara changed the text to make it look like Kugie was mad at Kanna. Should she still be alive in Chapter 3, she is shown to be having "kind hallucinations" of both her and Shin in order to cope with their deaths.

### Naomichi Kurumada

The two of them are paired together for the Murderer Game. Initially, Kurumada is condescending and dismissive toward Kanna, calling her a "brat" and mocking her idealism. He treats being matched with her as a nuisance, comparing it to babysitting. She ends up wary of him as a result, and when the group splits up, the surviving Yabusame sibling accompanies her so as not to leave her alone with him. However, despite his original objective being to kill her as revealed by Mai's betrayal, he never shows any intent to hurt her.

After he sustains a severe injury fighting Maple, she insists on helping him and trying to keep him alive despite his repeated protests. When he attempts to return to the fourth floor to confront the rampaging Maple, she recognizes his intent to sacrifice himself for the rest of the Dummies, comparing it to Sou's sacrifice to save her. Alongside Sara, she manages to talk him into accepting the group's help and lets him lean on her for support, continuing to look after his well-being from that point on. He gradually comes to care for her, telling her not to die when she leaves for the lower floor and resolving to win alongside her during the preparations for the Banquet.

If Kurumada is killed during the Banquet, Kanna is the first to react and begs him to respond, devastated that he held out so long only to die.

### Rio Ranger

Ranger mocks Kanna and the other participants whenever he can. Upon first meeting the remaining nine, Kanna yells at him for wearing her deceased sister's skirt. However, he reprimands her, stating she has no right to condemn him.

## Appellations

* Participants A
* Participants B
* Organization members
* Other

 Kanna's mom

## Trivia

* Her likes are listed as her sister, ice cream, and conversing in her character profile.
* The kanji that make up her first name are 神, *kan*?, lit. "god; deity" and 奈, *na*?, lit. "what".
* The kanji that make up her surname are 木, *ki*?, lit. "tree", 津, *zu*?, lit. "ferry", and 池, *chi*?, lit. "pond".
* She has a 2.7% chance of winning the Death Game.
* The name "Kanna" also refers to a plant found in South Africa, this could possibly be a nod to her death in which flowers sprout from her body.
* Kanna's last name "Kizuchi" is romanized as "Kizuti" in the original Japanese as seen on various merchandise.
* Just like Sara and Keiji, Kanna is also haunted by hallucinations, specifically of Shin and Kugie.
	+ However, her hallucinations seem more positive and support her rather than make her feel guilty like Keiji's and Sara's.
* On the online character profile Nankidai posted on May 2019, Kanna's height was listed as 152.1 cm. In the *Character Settei Materials* (2021) book, this was rounded down to 152 cm.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1, Part One. *Your Turn to Die ―Death Game By Majority―* (キミガシネ　―多数決デスゲーム―) by Nankidai. August 28, 2017.
Nankidai. Tokyo: Dwango. 2021. Print. *Kimi ga Shine Character Settei Materials: Survivor Roster*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Nankidai (May 30, 2019). Kimi Ga Shine Character Profile Vol. 1 (キミガシネ　キャラクタープロフィール第1弾, *Kimigashine kyarakutāpurofīru dai 1-dan*?) (Japanese). Pixiv.?) (Japanese). Pixiv.
4. ↑ Chapter 3, Part One, Section B. *Your Turn to Die ―Death Game By Majority―* (キミガシネ　―多数決デスゲーム―) by Nankidai. Kanna Lives route
5. ↑ Chapter 3, Part One, Section B. *Your Turn to Die ―Death Game By Majority―* (キミガシネ　―多数決デスゲーム―) by Nankidai. Shin Lives route
Anemo Teshigawara (writer) & Nankidai (illus). Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten. 2021. Print. *Kimi ga Shine: Tasuketsu Death Game: Side Joe*
Nankidai. Tokyo: Dwango. 2021. Print. *Kimi ga Shine Character Settei Materials: Survivor Roster* p.8
8. ↑ @nannkizum (September 5, 2018). 4-koma #40 (Japanese) (tweet). Twitter. Retrieved on October 10, 2021.
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Kai's Story. *Your Turn to Shine: Island Existence* (キミガシネ番外編　～生存島～) by Nankidai. March 3, 2022.