Kyōka

**Kyōka** (キョウカ) is a plant-human hybrid appearing in the sound novel Kirigiriso. She lives in an abandoned mansion off in the forest. She was made with Kyoko Kirigiri's DNA by a mad scientist.

## Appearance

Since she was made with Kyoko's DNA, she is described to look exactly the same as Kyoko Kirigiri, in addition to wearing a plain white dress.

## Personality

Being a hybrid made from both human and plant DNA, Kyōka cares for nature and, especially for the 'children' who couldn't be like her and is quite protective of them, even willing to go to murderous lengths in her attempt to help them. Despite being made from Kyoko's DNA, she is the opposite of her in terms of demeanor, having a more openly cheerful and warm attitude compared to Kyoko's stoicism. Her actions during both the Plant Girl and Earth Defense Force paint her as an expert manipulator and ruthless if her true intentions are exposed.

She isn't without humanity, with endings of both mentioned routes having her give up her schemes when faced with true kindness. In the Plant Girl route, her diary entries expose her severe loneliness over being unable to go outside and her desire to form connections with others. Despite this, in the Plant Girl route, she also expresses severe doubt in her ability to atone for her actions, opting to killing herself and her brethren instead. The Another End route imply that, if given a chance to start over, Kyōka would have been a regular cheerful girl.

## History

### Prior Life

Kyōka was created after DNA of Kyoko Kirigiri (acquired from police evidence off a case from ten years ago) was mixed with plant DNA, forming a plant-human hybrid. For most of her first years she was isolated in the same mansion from the outside world, with only her Father and his friend for company. She couldn't go outside as a result of the air not being good for her due to her weak body, and couldn't talk with her brethren due to the bacteria she had could have hurt them. As she grew up quickly thanks to her status as a clone, she began quickly outgrowing clothes. She was amazed by the fireworks outside and longed to visit the outside and make friends, this being as a result of her mansion isolation leaving her quite lonely.

As time passed, and she became fully grown, she decided then to take care of her brethren who were incomplete and couldn't be human yet without proper nourishment. This being other people. In order to acquire proper nourishment, she lured in detectives from the Detective Library with false requests and fed them to her family. Of these detectives, one of them was Kyoko Kirigiri who brought along a civilian by the name of Kōhei Matsudaira.

As the they investigate they wind up meeting Kyōka. She first meets Kōhei, slipping a piece of paper to him that tells him to trust her. When Kyoko tries to interrogate her, she runs away further into the mansion, leaving Kōhei to make a choice between trusting her or Kyoko.

### Kirigiriso

#### Plant Girl Ending

If he chooses to trust Kyoko, they both give chase in trying to find Kyōka. Their search leads them to meeting one of the incomplete creations and Kyōka. The creature captures Kyoko and Kyōka demands that Kōhei leaves her behind. Kōhei refuses and frees Kyoko. Kyōka claims she just wants to live peacefully, but Kyoko rebuttals its the opposite. She deduces the true intentions of the mansion inhabitants of murdering detectives that they lure there. Kyōka remarks that she won't abandon them.

Fearing that Kyōka was getting attacked, various plants attack Kyoko and Kōhei, who make a run for the exit. Kyōka appears in the hallway and has the plants tie up Kyoko and Kōhei. At the last moment, Kyoko gives Kōhei a flask they found in the mansion's hidden room with an unknown liquid and tells him to throw it at Kyōka. When it hits her, Kyōka screams and her skin dries up, turning a sickly green. Her eyes also turn red. The liquid that was thrown on her was herbicide. The mansion plants loose their grip on Kyoko and Kōhei, and they both leave the mansion through a window with bent bars. As they both get away, Kyōka continues screaming until she abruptly stops. Kōhei looks back and sees that the mansion is gone. In place there is a large tree. With Kyōka, the client, gone Kyoko has no reason to stay there and thus allows Kōhei to escort her out of the forest.

#### Plant Girl True End

In this end, when Kōhei comes backs with a kitchen knife to cut the rose wall and sees Kyoko is missing, he has a choice of searching for her in one of the guest rooms. If he enters it, he finds Kyōka's diary entries of her past. He keeps them with him.

If Kōhei chooses to trust in Kyōka, he leaves Kyoko in an attempt to talk with her. Once he arrives in the room with the plant/human hybrids, he meets Kyōka. She explains that the DNA of these hybrids were taken only from exceptional and talented people, since only the exceptional DNA could have survived. She then tries to feed Kōhei to the hybrids, but Kyoko intervenes and saves him. Like in the Plant Girl route, both get captured by her plants out in the mansion's hallway.

This time, Kōhei remembers Kyōka's diary pages in his pocket and takes them out. He tells her that she can go outside the mansion with him and Kyoko and that they can have fun together. Kyōka says that she can't do that because of the amount of people she killed for her plant siblings. Kyoko responds that even if she really done awful things, if she's willing to change, there was still a chance for her. While touched, Kyōka forces them out of the mansion as she sets it on fire. As they are clear of the burning mansion, they see her body lying out of the mansion thanks to the hybrids carrying her out, before they themselves die. However, it is too late as Kyōka was already dead. She and the hybrids were buried before Kyoko and Kōhei left the scene.

Six months later, Kōhei returns to the mansion, finding a mass of white flowers surrounding one, giant, one. A flower which Kōhei mistakes for Kyōka.

### Alternate Fates

#### Bad Ending 1

This bad ending happens near the end, were Kōhei has a choice to leave the mansion or help Kyoko. In this end, Kōhei takes up Kyōka's offer to leave the mansion and leaves Kyoko behind. Some time afterwards, Kōhei hears a knock on his dorm door. He looks through the door hole and sees Kyoko outside. He panics because he thought that she died in the mansion. Then he remembers that it could be Kyōka, and thinks she could be coming back to kill him because he knows the mansion's secret. As the figure opens the door, Kōhei asks it if she is Kyoko or Kyōka. The game ends as she begins to answer his question.

#### Bad Ending 2

This bad ending happens near the beginning, were Kōhei has a choice of picking up Kyoko or not. In this end, Kōhei doesn't pick Kyoko up from the road and keeps driving. He then drives into Kyōka the same way he did with Kyoko. Kyōka then gets into his car and he keeps on driving. Suddenly she takes the steering wheel and crashes the car into a tree. Kohei is barely conscious as a suit of armor carries him from his car to inside the mansion, and Kyōka feeds him to the plants.

#### Extraterrestrials vs Earth Plants Against Invaders Defense Force End

In this non-canon alternate route, Kyōka presents herself as a civilian that Santa saved from being attacked by the Rhinogradentia. From there, she joined his team to fight against the alien invaders, thus becoming quite close to him. Throughout the route, she assists the team (which has recruited Kōhei and Kyoko) in fighting back against the Rhinogradentia that are invading the mansion.

However, later on after the mansion is burning down from Santa's explosive pinecones (which also seemingly kills Santa as well), its revealed that she was, in actuality, an alien spy for the Rhinogradentia as the **True Super Galaxy Level Invader**. She claims that her side is doing everything to protect the Earth. She prepares to kill Kyoko and Kōhei with her mothership's laser, when Santa reappears. He points out she'll destroy her sakura tree if she does so, and that won't she stop all of this to comrades with him again. She hesitates but responds that its too late to stop the laser. Santa takes the laser that was about to hit her tree and that selfless act convinces her to call off the invasion, and weep for the seemingly dead botanist. Once it was revealed that Santa also survived that, she tearfully hugs her leader, agreeing to make him sakura tea again.

#### Bad Ending 3

Within the team, Kōhei volunteers to deliver the little Rhinogradentia to the Rhinogradentia group. As the team walks toward the group, Kōhei steps ahead with the little Rhinogradentia. He puts it down and it walks towards the group. However, the Rhinogradenta rush ahead, crushing it. The team runs away from the charging aliens, but Kōhei gets caught in the rampage and dies.

#### Extra Scenario Ending

In this joke scenario, Kyōka is the adopted younger sister to Kyoko and has been looking after her older sister who had been asleep for many years. She claims that the hardships from her detective life had lead Kyoko to abandon it and play games in the mansion instead, and making money off her re-selling items. However, Kyoko then decided to just lay in bed asleep, thus requiring a person to come wake her up with a kiss. Throughout this time, the asleep Kyoko had created illusions to lure in other people, but only Kōhei had made it this far. Kyōka urges Kōhei to go through with it and has a video camera prepped to record it. At the end of the route, it's revealed that this was all Kōhei's dream after getting into a car wreck.

#### Plant Girl Another End

In an alternate timeline, after the events of the Plant Girl True End, Kōhei visits Kyōka's grave and sees a girl that looks exactly like Kyōka standing there. Kyōka didn't recall anything besides the forest and plants, but did sense that she felt like she knew Kōhei and agrees to go with him. As Kōhei fills her in on the details, they run into Kyoko by chance who also agrees to talk with Kyōka about what happened. Kyoko and Kyōka quickly grow to like each other, and all three end the route by going shopping with each other.