Kai Hikari

​Kai Hikari is the current Oni of Cathedral. He is young for his position but is one of the strongest Oni yet.

## Appearance

Kai wears a black one-piece pants and t-shirt jumpsuit that is not tight to the skin but is slightly fitted. He wears a dark red short sleeve cropped jacket and dark red forearm armor with long black fingerless gloves under. He wears a brown leather harness around his waist to hold the sheath for his blade and has leather straps on his arms as well. Kai also occasionally wears the Oni cloak, a black and ashen grey cloak with multiple layers of cloth intricately draped over one another. Kai has medium length black hair and brown eyes. He sometimes carries around and wears his royal Oni mask as well.

## Equipment

### Shi

Kai wields the sword Shi, a blade with a chain attached to the hilt. The blade resembles a ninjato, with a matte black finish. The matte finish is so that the blade reflects no light as to not make the user become seen. The power of this blade is complete silence, where swinging the blade makes zero noise and the blade can even dispel sound around the user.

## Abilities

### Air Manipulation

Kai is very proficient in the use of his air affinity. He is able to manipulate it with ease and uses it in order to carry out his duties. His acute control over the affinity allows him to precisely control air currents for his benefit. His high intellect contributes to his unique use of the affinity.

### Wind Barrier Character Art

Kai developed this variation of the air character art himself. He mainly uses it by placing an air character on an object and then the seal activates on command or on contact if the user wishes. When activated, the energy contained within the character discharges and releases a gale-force wind wall. The strength and size of the barrier depends on the amount of energy and the commands he gives the seal. Kai typically puts a barrier seal mark on the inside of his cloak.

### Almighty Speech Art

Kai learned the almighty speech art, an art created by the Hiver family which is a family of tynar that created all of the almighty arts. With the use of his body modification supreme speech, Kai can overcome the insane energy requirement needed to use this art. The almighty speech art is used to produce loud words that command a target to do something. The limitation on the art is that it must be a singular word, with the "strength" of the word determining the energy used. For instance, Kai could use the command "SIT" with little drain on his energy since the word does not carry too much power on its own, bit if Kai tried to use a word like "DIE" it would more than likely fail because of the vast amount of energy required to use it and would cause severe damage to his throat.

### Body Modification: Supreme Speech

A body modification that Kai conceptualized and had a friend develop. He had a small energy boosting device implanted in his throat. This device acts like a speaker and by manipulating sound energy in a certain way, he can pass his voice through it to empower his words with energy. Without using this body modification, the almighty speech art is practically unusable by a non tynar, because even mid level strength words would fail and cause throat damage.

### Adept Energy Perception

Kai is extremely adept at sensing and locating energy, even in those who try to hide theirs. He has a standard range of 200 meters, but this can be increased or decreased depending on the weather conditions. Even in a weakened state Kai has been known to stay sharp.

### Extraordinary Intellect

Kai is most well known for his extreme battle intellect and deductive skills. He is able to understand enemy attack patterns very quickly and adjust plans accordingly. He is also able to predict enemy movements based on watching opponents tactics during battle.

### Monkung

Kai is well trained in the Monkung fighting style. He uses a modified version of the style that favors a shorter blade. Kai created this style of Monkung, called the Oni style, so that he could use it for assassinations as well. Unlike the original style, which focuses on keeping your opponent close and unable to create separation, the Oni style focuses on fighting in a way that allows for three escape routes to be present at all times.

### Techniques

* **Gust Foot -** Kai channels air magic to his feet, allowing him to move incredibly fast. This technique allows him to move so fast that he creates other images of himself, allowing him to attack his target from multiple angles at once. When using this ability, it appears that Kai has cloned himself, as he can move extremely fast from place to place. At full strength, Kai is able to make it look as if there are five of him. When fighting in the Sirisian war, he was able to use this ability to make it appear as if he had twenty clones.
* **Heavens View -** Kai uses this technique to track targets with air currents. Kai can't move while using this technique because he needs full concentration in order to use it. Kai can pinpoint objects and targets based off of airflow patterns. Kai is able to get a bird's eye view of any landscape with this technique, and can even use it to transport sound waves for long range communication.
* **Massive Wind Barrier -** To use this ability, Kai touches his hands together simultaneously making his wind barrier seal on each palm and slowly pulls his hands apart. As he does this, wind starts to whip around him as he charges both seals with magic. When he charges it enough, Kai thrusts both of his hands forward, creating a giant and resilient barrier made out of his wind magic.
* **Dome -** A technique that covers an area in a dome. The size of the dome can change depending on the situation and can be used to keep thing out or in. The dome is strong enough to withstand explosions and is air tight.
* **Wind Enhance: Jet Movement -** The name given to the style of hand to hand combat Kai uses, which involves a series of fast critical strikes propelled by jets of air. Kai also uses this technique to travel at high speeds and even fly. At his strongest, Kai can hit and move faster than the speed of sound.
* **Finger Blade -** Kai concentrates large amounts of energy and condenses it to around his pointer finger. He can use this condensed technique to deal devastating blows, powerful enough to obliterate steel.