Mai Nanase/Future Era

## Mai Nanase

> *“Why do I want books? Well, other than that I like papers, I want to keep them, because in this age, we are forgetting who we are and who we used to be. And if we completely forgot, then we will have no future at all. These remind us of our past, and if we remember our past, perhaps we can build a better future than this.”*
> —Mai
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**Mai Nanase** (七瀬舞?) is a former Taimanin who wanders on her own the ruined Earth in the Future Era, searching for books and seeing this as a way to restore human civilization. She first appears in the ONA *Daikaiju Future Fight*.

## Appearance

Mai has magenta eyes and long bluish-white hair. She wears cat-eared headphones, a necklace with a light-blue jewel, two leather straps on her left leg, a large white robe, and underneath a white two-piece bikini wear.

## Personality

As a lover of literature and recorded history, Mai takes it upon herself to save any and all forms of written textual works, as she sees them as essential to rebuild humanity. However, she prefers working alone. As such, she often avoids any contact or interaction with any active faction prior to being captured by Neo Earth. She gained some of Homura Sanada's personality, as she would display them while in battle. Though quiet and reserved as she always way, she can be strict. She has a habit of coming up with very bad disguises and would often caught red-handed as a result, though she is completely unaware of her blunders.

## Background

At some point in 2049, during the second-to-final year of the disastrous Brain Flayer-Earth War, Gosha Village was under attack. Around the same time when the Demogorgon forced Yukikaze to flee, Mai was still on the front lines with her former Gosha Academy senior Homura Sanada, pushed into a corner and with the house they took cover in in flames. They were at a massive disadvantage, as was everywhere else on Earth, as the power to absorb mana was nullified because of the Tesserac's exposure on the planet, rendering them defenseless. Mai ran out of paper and Homura only saw a chance for her junior to escape by sacrificing herself. Using the last of her own life force to burn up her body, she self-destructed and killed every enemy on sight, opening a path for Mai to escape.

Hebiko Aishu and Mari Shinohara, who were escaping on their own, could not save Una Mochizuki but discovered Mai, who was unable to find paper to help. As the three saw a large flame pillar from Homura's sacrifice, they were able to escape. Afterwards, Mai remained on her own, and made it her personal mission to collect books and literature that started to fade from history in the post-apocalyptic world.

As the Tesserac was destroyed and the Taimanin regained their strength, Mai continued on her quest for searching for books on her own. Soon however, she was targeted by the Neo Earth group, which saw all knowledge as responsible for the end of the world and wanted to kill Mai. She was knocked out by one of the leaders, and after some torture, their leader Chrisify wished to impale her as punishment for the "sin of knowledge", but before this could happen, Nasara and the Parallel Isotope version of Murasaki Yatsu rushed in to rescue her.

Given new paper by Nasara, which were now immune to Chrisify's blue flames, Mai was able to defeat him. However, he grew into his mutated giant form, which allowed her to transform into her new paper kaiju form Shikira, while thinking of Homura, and used her newfound power to burn the creature to the ground. She was, afterwards, asked to assist Nasara and Murasaki, in an attack on Mauzer with her paper dolls. She has since met and befriend Maika Kamimura and wanted to search for Homura's sister, Saki Sanada.

At some point, afterwards, the group encountered the ancient Egyptian mage Ptolemy, whose body was destroyed while fighting the Brain Flayers but his soul remained and housed inside the same Chronolith that he had used to send Alexandra Elysion from the Alexandrian era into the present day. Mai asked Ptolemy to help her search for whatever books or any written piece of work and preserve them to make a record of humanity's travails and accomplishments as a way to restore humanity, to which he agreed. The group then explained their plan to reopen the Demon Gate in Tel Megiddo, to bring civilization back to the world. Ptolemy joined the group in the fight for the liberation of the Earth, with him and Mai now sharing a common goal, and him declaring that even with mankind destroyed, the memories of their struggles would not be forgotten and that they would forever be remembered by whatever the world became and would become.

## Abilities

In the past several years, Mai's ninja arts and superhuman abilities have grown significantly.

* **Magi Physiology/Chi Sensitivity** – Born from the Magi human species, her body is reactive to chi and is able to cast supernatural powers because of this.
* **Paper Manipulation** – She has the ability **Ninja Art: "Chi Paper"** (忍法・紙気, *Ninpō: Shiki*?) which puts chi into paper and enhances them. It is a highly adaptive ninja art that is capable of dealing with various situations such as snaring enemies or transforming into blades or explosives. As this version of Mai, does struggle to find high quality paper, it can be hard to create solid objects.
	+ **Barrier Creation** – Can transform her paper into a barrier that can withstand even lighting attacks.
	+ **Paper Construct Creation** – She can create paper golems, large blades and weapons and a paper bike.
	+ **Paper Kaiju Transformation** – An unorthodox method of Kaiju Transformation, it is her strongest utilization of Chi Paper as it accumulates all the available chi from her enchanted papers to transform into a kaiju made entirely of paper, Shikira.