Tori Hirina

She is the main playable character of the in-universe game Ninja Master Mania and the first friend/ally of Leon. She's daughter of Ryu Hirina. Despite being a simple computer program, she appears to be fully sentient and possesses consciousness.

## Personality

Tori generally holds a serious, kind, calm, capable of defending herself, and quiet demeanour.

She doesn't understand the consequences in serious situations, meaning that Leon often has to take care of her.

In season 2, she seems to better understand the real world, as she stopped referring to Vector as an "evil boss" and he called eXceed-Corp by its name. He also seems to exhibit a newfound fear of death, as she expresses concern over the possibility of what might happen if Vector destroyed her cartridge again before Leon reassures her that everything will be okay and sends her out of the game. Not long afterwards, Tori questions what material she's made out of in the real world after glitching again.

## Appearance

She's wear light blue gi with gold shoulder pads, blue ninja glove, blue robe and light blue ninja mask cover. She has Katana strapped across her back. She has blue eyes and blonde hair that tied to ponytail.

## History

Tori is one of the many versions of her in different cartridges of Ninja Master Mania. She happens to be aware that she's a video game character, thus being used to dying countless times because of the player.

On a speed runner tournament, Paul Rebellus is playing her game, trying to execute a glitch in order to beat a world record. Tori got stab by spider Yokai resulting in Paul's loss. Leon then starts to play her game, initially playing in a clumsy manner, only to get better as he goes on. Leon then accidentally warps himself into the game, meeting Tori face-to-face. Tori mistakes Leon for a boss at first, but ventures through the level with her, growing a bond between the two of them.

She meets Vector when he presents himself as a glitchy Tori. After Leon gets forced out of the game when Vector's scientists drill through his arm, Tori is brought out along with him. The pair escape the building and run through the crowded city.

They stop at an alleyway, where Tori discovers that she's in the real world and that her powers still work.

They enter a building full of streamers called *The Hive* and take shelter at a streaming pod, where Tori blindly plays a video game and starts a stream, calling attention to them both. The pair find themselves cornered by Paul and some workers from eXceed Corp and get split up. She successfully evades the soldiers, but she witnesses Leon getting caught. Being too late to save him, she loses hope, but is suddenly approached by Leo Travis, offering her help.

Sitting in Leo's car, they crash into a transport van, freeing Leon from the ruckus. A car chase commences, in which Leo and Tori bond over their sense of humour, even complimenting his girlfriend. With Leon's ability, they escape a border of eXceed Corp soldiers and head towards the secret hideout embedded in a curry restaurant, where they meet the rest of Hack Breaker, a ragtag team determined to take down eXceed Corp for their evil schemes.

When Leon is set to play a game of Speed Turbo Lightning Riders against Jaden "Swallow" Lambert to prove his worth of joining Hack Breaker, Tori warps into the game to aid Leon, throwing Swallow off with her water elemental power.

Afterwards Tori starts glitching out, leading the team to realise that she needs to return to her game.

When she and Leon warp into Hack Breaker's cartridge of Ninja Master Mania, they get forced out of the game since there was another Tor in-game. The team realises that Tori needs to return to her OWN cartridge, which is held back at eXceed Corp.

The next day Brina Anderson presents Operation: Silent Knight, a plan in which she will hack into the eXceed Corp's network and extract their files and records of their wrongdoings to spill to the public, and also source the info on Tori's cartridge and register a delivery request back to them.

The team look to an underground competition held in *Quantum Tech Stadium* hosted by none other than eXceed Corp. The game played in question being Dragon Infinity. In the plan Leon is required to execute a game-breaking glitch in order to crash the servers and give Brina the opportunity. Tori is Leon's biggest supporter during these practices.

Throughout his time with Hack Breaker, Tori finds herself getting closer to Leo, to the point where they become best friends.

On the very day of the underground competition held in Quantum Tech Stadium, she and Leon warp into Tempest to battle alongside Leo and Swallow. She and the rest of Hack Breaker manage to successfully fight off the remaining players for Leon, but she eventually get eliminated from the game. When Leon is trapped and tortured by Paul, she cheers him on outside to get back up.

The plan succeeds, until she and every one get corned by Vector and his mercenaries. Tori witnesses the plan going downhill, as Vector reveals to the team that he hacked Tori's cartridge and used her as a spy tool. When Leon offers himself to eXceed Corp. in exchange for his friends' freedom, Vector makes sure Leon stays loyal to eXceed Corp and Hack Breaker doesn't bother them again by destroying Tori's cartridge. Her physical body is erased, but Vector keeps the main chip to preserve Tori's consciousness, currently keeping her in suspended animation.

Following Leon's surrender to join eXceed Corp. in order to free Swallow, Cassandra, Brina and Leo, its revealed that Tori was restored but due to her game cartridge being broken by Vector, has to remain within a white room to sustain her.

She has shown to being able to speak with Leon on rare occasion, with the latter claiming that Vector hadn't let him see her in weeks and that part of their deal was that he would ensure Tori's safety in exchange for Leon's "loyalty" to eXceed Corp.

Vector himself has been studying Tori for months along with his scientists, unable to understand why Tori is able to exist in the physical world or how to replicate the results, as well as why she is so human-like despite being an artificial intelligence program.

Bored of her confinement, Tori decides to glitch herself out of the room and ends up going into the company server and is seen by Paul, to his shock, before Vector' quarantine program recaptures her and traps her back into the safe room.

Later, Paul is able to sneak his way into Juniper's abandoned lab and use the command on the controller to gain access to Tori where he makes a deal with him: he'll help her get back to Leon if she helps his find information on Grid Crimson, more specifically, on Celestine and her mysterious disappearance.

Using a glitch, he is able to return her to the server where she searches through the data until she finds a file with the name "Lucinia" on it and Paul uses his glitching skills to defend Tori long enough for the file to download to his arm, but later abandons Tori to avoid being caught and escape with the file.

After being returned to the safe room again, Vector realizes the room can't contain Tori because she dislikes it and decides to make her feel "more at home" by putting her back inside her broken cartridge, which is heavily damaged and causes massive glitching across the game, scaring Tori.

Over a week inside her corrupted game, she is seen running from glitched out enemies when Paul returns and informs her that he isn't going to abandon her like last time and tells her that by clearing the game, it will automatically return him to Hack Breaker through the link he established to Brina's phone and works together with him to complete the damaged game despite the immense difficulty.

While Hack Breaker is helping Leon to transfer the backup server from Brina's phone at the stadium, Paul is busy trying to help Tori clear through the corrupted game but fails due to the sheer damage done to the cartridge. As he vents his frustration, Tori notices data from the server bleeding over into the game and a strange magenta light seen floating around the level, giving her an idea as she asks Paul to follow her lead as she executes a glitch that allows her to clip through the wall and get to the goal post, to his surprise.

Unfortunately, after Vector realizes Hack Breaker is trying to sabotage Leon and Emma's showmatch, he has all eXceed-Corp agents go on high alert and Paul is discovered inside Juniper's old lab, leaving Tori stuck inside her game.

When Leon later warps into the server to save Tori, Tori remarks how Leon looks "awesome", causing the latter to ask "what he was before". The two proceed to continue progressing through the game, discovering new glitches in the process. Right when the final flag appears in the distance, Emma joins the game as a enormous glitched monster made of every character in the game and steals the flag. Leon and Tori are unable to beat her because of her infinite lives cheat, but Leon reminds Tori that they only need to touch the flag to win. Leon tells Tori to do something while he holds Emma off, which turned out to be the Water Burst Jump glitch. Tori "misses", only to reveal that she was actually performing a glitch where her ninja sword got stuck in the handle of Leon's dropped Ninjatō, trapping it in an infinite spin, causing Emma's arm to overload and malfunction, allowing Tori to touch the flag and beat the game, causing a game cache reset.

Leon sends Tori back to the real world, where she's glad to see Leo again. After completing "Phase 2" of Leon's plan, which was crashing into Vector' van, the Hack Breaker, reunited, corners Vector. Vector explains the truth behind Celestine and that part of her memory merged with an A.I., Leon. Tori realizes that Leon is like her, as they are both computer programs. After everyone reassures Leon that they still care about him, Swallow accidentally shoots Vector as a result of his arm being hijacked. Tori and Hack Breaker flee the crime scene and run into Blaze, who offers them a ride.

## Friends

* Tori Hirina
* Leo Travis
* Cassandra Mizuki
* Brina Anderson
* Jaden "Swallow" Lambert

## Enemies

* Vector
* Paul Rebellus

## Trivia

She is Yusakupham7's second Meta Runner OC