Ayaka Shinozaki

## Summary

**Ayaka Shinozaki** (篠崎 彩香, *Shinozaki Ayaka*) is an anti-hero that first appeared in Volume 1, and officially introduced in Volume 3 of Instant Death. She is one of the survivors of the bus that was attacked by the first dragon. She is known as the "next step of humanity", an Artificial Human built by Institute to survive in the original world where AΩ resided. According to Ayaka's units, artifical humans like her were a new generation of people made to live in a world where AΩ had hypothetically wiped out the human race.

After remembering everything that happened in the bus, she decides to take revenge on her classmates that abandoned her, killing them one by one.

## Appearance

At first glance, Ayaka seems to be a normal japanese schoolgirl, with long hair, normal height and a cute face. However, her appearance can (partially) become one of a dragon after she uses Dragon Heal.

## Personality

Ayaka was shown to hold a grudge from her classmates who had previously abandoned her in a bus to be dragon bait, leading her to plot her revenge against them later on, and killing them one by one. Aside from that, she doesn't have much personality and is rather bland, not demonstrating much emotions regardless of the situation. She, however, showed some impatience, insecurity, and recklessness when she encountered and tried to attack Yogiri, which resulted in her defeat.

## Abilities

**Project executing units:** Ayaka Shinozaki is part of the project to generate the future of mankind, the third plan. Imitations of humans employing both organic and inorganic material expected to adapt and survey society, As such she has a virtual “body” that is completely separate from her physical body and is separated into units with designated tasks. Although at times it might seem like individual units hold conversations with each other in reality they are just local communications performed due to protocols between units. The units are as follows

* **Personality Unit:** The personification of Ayaka Shinozaki and the only personality unit with algorithms that simulate emotion.
* **Diagnostic Unit:** Analyses the general situation in which Ayaka is in.
* **Analysis Unit:** Analyses the basic composition of things that Ayaka sees, performs a full analysis of the things she consumes, and tracks down the root of the problem of difficulties that may arise to try to overcome them.
* **Translation Unit:** Automatically translates other languages that Ayaka hears or speaks.
* **Dragon Language Unit:** Knows all of the abilities that derive from the dragon language and puts them into practical use.
* **Medical Unit:** Monitors Ayaka’s physical state and analyzes the options to be taken in order to heal injuries
* **Mental Health Unit:** Monitors the mental state of the personality unit and treats abnormalities
* **Plan Accomplishment Unit:** Makes judgment of the proposed plans and makes sure plans are carried out and
* **Battle Unit:** In charge of not only taking the best course of action upon calculations during combat but also of redirecting the energy supply of the body to the task that is the most important at a given time. It can perceive surprise attacks and even the personality unit is capable of seeing.
* **Subunit Dragon Language:** A subunit derived from the battle unit. It knows all of the abilities that derive from the dragon language and puts them into practical use.
* **Judgement Unit:** Rejects or accepts important decisions
* **Subspace Management Unit:** Manages the subspace.

**Subspace:** Dimensional storage in which the virtual bodies of the units that simulate human thought are stored due to the inability to replicate the human brain in the compact space of the skull. It is also used to store the things that Ayaka consumes so they can be broken down and analyzed. However this cannot be used to store objects but not due to the size of it, as it is an ever-expanding realm, but due to the inability of taking objects out of the subspace once they are consumed.

**Dragon Language:** A not well-known ability that allows the user to conceptualize the abilities of a dragon through the draconic language. Although the incantations are extremely complex it is unified into a few words in the process of automatic translation performed by Ayaka’s other units. Although some abilities may seem to be limited to a certain part of the body such as Dragon Breath or Dragon Tail, in reality, due to it being conceptualizations of a dragon’s power to the bitter end they can be reproduced from anywhere.

* **Dragon Claws:** The conceptualization of the claws of a dragon that tear everything up, even space itself.
* **Dragon Wings:** Manifests the general idea of floating through the wings of a dragon
* **Dragon Breath:** Manifests the idea of the breath of a dragon
* **Dragon Fang:** Manifests the idea of a Dragon’s sharp fangs to bite down on her opponents
* **Dragon Tail:** Manifests an invisible tail of a dragon
* **Dragon Scales:** The manifested idea of the scales of a dragon, they do not only serve as normal armor but also absorb the energy of the impacts received.
* **Dragon Sense:** By scattering infinitesimal amounts of her soul into her surroundings it becomes possible for her to understand the state of affairs around herself and leave a mark on the souls of those in range to track them down.
* **Dragon Heal:** An ability that Ayaka first used when she lost 60% of her body mass. Her body distorts itself and produces new flesh, healing her. Additionally, this partially turns her into a dragon, and its not possible to revert it to the human form.

## Etymology

* The name **Ayaka** means "color" (彩) (**aya**) and "fragrance, fragrant" (香) (**ka**).
* Ayaka's surname **Shinozaki** means "dwarf bamboo" (篠) (**shino**) and "cape, peninsula" (崎) (**saki**/**zaki**).