Kaliya

* TABA
* TACA

* Chaos Arena

**Kaliya** (**カリヤ**) aka **Snake Lady** (**スネーク レヂィ**) was introduced as a fighter of the Chaos Arena and a henchwoman for Oboro. In later appearances, she is in charge of Chaos Arenas and an executive like Oboro. Additionally, her human appearance is only a disguise, and she is actually one of the three chiefs of the Naga (snake demons), with powers that rival Edwin Black's.

She is a minor antagonist in Taimanin Asagi Chaos Arena, which plays at the same time as Taimanin Asagi.

## Personality

Kaliya seems gentle on the outside, but is able to perform atrocities with a smile. She is a hedonistic, lecherous woman and values human life little.

As Snake Lady, she enjoys the struggle, hunt and the fight, but because of her noble demon strength almost nobody can grant her the level of satisfaction. To keep her prey active, she pretends to be much weaker and plays the role of a normal fighter in the Chaos Arena, to mingle with humans.

Respecting willpower, if one loses the will to fight Kaliya loses interest, which may spare from torture but will result in a quick death. Using her poison, she tortures others in drawn out combat, turns them into decoration or makes them into pets if they are cute girls. As she is often given a secret task to check or test on others abilities, she never fully commits to a fight and will even play dead or helpless for fun.

Views humans as lesser creatures and, if defeated for real, does lose her cool.

She and her ZERO universe counterpart are pretty much identical.

### Relationships

 Masked Woman and Power Lady | Allied with them.

## Appearance

She has platinum hair, red eyes and a medium-sized bust.

Her true form changes her legs into a thin snake body.

## History

### Background

Introduced as Snake Laday, one of the fighters of the Chaos Arena, like Masked Woman and Power Lady. Her true name is Kaliya, and she had been worshiped in India, in the distant past.

She tended to support Oboro, and was the biggest sadist after her, she keeps further information about herself often a secret. Snake Lady is a high ranking member of Nomad and can even be put in charge of the Chaos Arena if need be. Snake Lady's true and civilian name is Kaliya, she is a type of hermaphroditic demon but only later was it confirmed that she was a Naga, a powerful demon tribe and descendant of the Snake Deity.

She is one of the three Naga chiefs, together with Takshaka and Vasuki, with powers which rival high ranking demons like Astaroth and Edwin Black but works for Nomad regardless. She is a close friend of Edwin Black and knows about his powers, she is the only person able to informally talk with him, without fear. Furthermore, she has met Astaroth but because she works with Nomad both don't understand each other well.

Regardless of timeline, Igawa Asagi and her will encounter each other in the Chaos Arena.

### Visual Novels

In the year **2072**, she fought against the captured Igawa Asagi in Taimanin Asagi Chaos Arena, a side story during Taimanin Asagi. Snake Lady defeats the weakened Asagi, which results in her and Oboro, teaming up to punish Asagi, on a public train. She revealed her true name to Asagi and enjoyed torturing her. She suffered from no punishment, and had been gone after the escape of Asagi, defeat of Oboro and the later raid on the arena.

Kaliya does have one somewhat canonical appearance, in Taimanin Asagi: The Dark Game, which plays after Taimanin Asagi 2.

She has a small background appearance in the year **2082**, in Taimanin Asagi 3. While she is part of the fighters in the Demon Arena and promotes an upcoming fight with Igawa Asagi, together with Masked Woman, only Power Lady fights them of the gladiator trio.

Regardless of the route of TA3, Kaliya is never defeated or truely faught in the old canon but is given more information, including her Naga status in Taimanin Asagi ZERO.

### Timeline TABA

TA3 does not take place. However, most of the old timeline events including her encounter with Asagi from the original timeline do.

As her design, was fairly outdated, Kalija uses the more recent Taimanin Asagi ZERO look.

She is put in charge of a Chaos Arena. When the squad of Shiga Asatsuki is defeated by Fuuma Kotaro (TABA) and his Fuuma Organization. Kalija captures both, forcing Fuuma Tokiko and Asatsuki to fight to the death in order to gain the cure of a dangerous aphrodisiac poison. In the end she is touched by Kotaro and her skill seems to be taken, knocking her out. The captured once flee, but Edwin Black appears, telling her to stop playing dead, as she is immune to any poison. Both having organized the whole encounter of the Taimanin squad and Fuuma Organization secretly as a test, as Black is interested in the potential of Kotaro.

Cerastes at some point learns about Snake Lady and wishes meet her to learn about the Naga tribe but it is not known if she ever met her.

In a later event year **2086**, Kaliya encounters Shijima Mugi, while Kotaro and his group attack Nomad in a final big attack. Astaroth herself appears, supporting Kotaro as "her pet", during that fight Mugi learns offscreen of the dangers of Black's true ability, and Mugi tries to stop it. However, the world is reset anyway.

### Timeline RPGX

TA3 does not take place. The world has been recreated via the TABA Reset.

Master of a Chaos Arena in Tokyo, was given Aishu Hebiko by Fürst and forced her to fight, in the year **2082**. Fuuma Kotaro and his Independent Rangers, were sent to save them with Kotaro recruiting Kise Hotaru and Shikanosuke, with Asagi acting as a secret backup.

Using the contact Zokt Kotaro was lead to the Chaos Arena but could tell that it would be a mistake to just follow along. When reaching, the cover-up building which had the Chaos Arena below, he knocked out Zokt and broke into the place full force, creating much chaos. Shikanosuke was also knocked out, leaving only the very weak Hebiko and Kotaro behind, with Kotaro going backwards as he learned a bit more of Kaliya's plan. The whole fight was a test to see Kotaro's strange demonic power sealed within his eye. A power, connected to Edwin Black and the TABA Timeline reset, she voiced her interest in Kotaro's ability.

Unable to fight Kaliya himself, Kotaro lead her just to the correct spot for a sneak attack of Asagi which jumped out from above. Kaliya was able to heal quick and felt satisfied by the fight but unwilling to give more information, spread a toxic smog around the arena, forcing the group to flee. With her remembering Hebiko and Shikanosuke in later events.

Fuuma Kotaro, mentioned his encounter with Snake Lady to Cerastes, which hoped to encounter her the next time Kotaro fought with her. Encountered a few times in "what if" events of Uehara Shikanosuke. Otherwise, another of the 3 Naga leaders is introduced in Takshaka.

### Timeline Action

Fought in the form of a hologram, created by a malfunction of the Holographic Training Room. Encountered later for real, and disliked by Fuuma Kotaro as somebody worse than even Astaroth.

Sent, Fuuma Kotaro an invitation to a fight in the Chaos Arena, with Eleonor's lost sister as a price for the winner. While, the Taimanin could not use all their forces, only a small team arrived openly. Sneaking in, the Task Force G comprised only by Eleonor, Noah Brown, Kotaro, Raura Lefria and Shirayuki was discovered, but Snake Lady was disappointed that neither Asagi nor Murasaki appeared for a good fight. While, the group grew weaker fighting her Naga and Oni fighters, Snake Lady became frustrated, and wished to fight them all on her own, giving them a time limit they needed to survive against her. However, before the Task Force and Kaliya fought, Asagi arrived, having freed the prisoners, while Kaliya was distracted. Asagi fought against Kaliya, with the Task Force able to escape. Noah returned to the fight to assist Asagi against Snake Lady, which lead to her quick defeat and escape afterward.

## Additional Material

* Does not appear in the OVAs.
* Main antagonist of Taimanin Asagi: The Dark Game.

## Powers/Abilities

**Main Weapon**: Claws/Poison

* **Expert Combat Prowess**: Snake Lady mostly uses wrestling moves and has expertise in oil wrestling as a result from her time in the Chaos Arena. However, her original universe counterpart is even stronger and more skilled than her ZERO universe equivalent.
* **Superhuman Strength**: Being a descendant from the Snake Gods gives her vast amounts of superhuman strength, enough to be a threat against Asagi, who also possesses demon blood.
* **Transformation:** She can change to and from her natural snake form to human form.
* **Snake Poison**: She transfers lewd energy to a key point of the erogenous zone to make her opponent a prisoner to pleasure. Snake Lady only does this as a "hobby" and can inject all kinds of poison into an opponent just by touching them.

## Media

* Taimanin Asagi Chaos Arena
* Taimanin Asagi 3 (Tiny cameo)
* Taimanin Asagi ZERO (Other version)
* Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena
* Taimanin RPGX
* Action Taimanin
* Taimanin Asagi: The Dark Game

## Trivia

* Taimanin Asagi 3 only shows her typical arena clothes from the old games. Only a few bits are visible, but she is next to Masked Woman and Power Lady
* Since Taimanin Asagi ZERO all versions of her wear her fighter costume from that game.
* As both Masked Woman and Power Lady are Human, it could be seen as highly unfair that a "god-like" demon fights in the arena as well.
* Takshaka and Vasuki are the other two leaders of her tribe, but they don't work together closely.
* Kaliya's first big role was in Taimanin Asagi The Dark Game. She was still not revealed as a Naga but appeared together with a number of Greek demons and even Lamia, which are the Greek versions of a Naga.

## Gallery

Old designWith Oboro, Power Lady and Masked WomanIgawa Asagi and KaliyaKaliya and Oboro punishing Igawa AsagiRPGXTABAChibiConcept of Current/ZERO designDark Game MangaKaliya fleeing with Oboro, Asagi saved by Yatsu Kuro