Kabura Honda

* Anime
* Manga

**Kabura Honda** (本 (ホン) 田 (ダ) カブラ, *Honda Kabura*?) is a friend in Nico Hirata's clique who was originally a regular human patient at a hospital, where she fell in love with Haru Nanakusa. After Haru made Kabura her underling to cure her of her afflictions, she was requested by her to look after Haru's child, Nazuna Nanakusa. Raising Nazuna as her own daughter, she continued to relish her life as a vampire and nurse at the hospital Haru worked at. Following her first encounter with Nazuna's underling candidate, Kou Yamori, Kabura served an important role in uncovering Nazuna's past.

## Appearance

Kabura is somewhat tall, the second-tallest vampire in Nico Hirata's clique, second only to Nico herself. She has frizzy black hair that reaches her shoulders and black, vacant eyes. Typical for vampires, Kabura is exceptionally attractive.

Her outfits are defined by a preference for dresses and long skirts. Her main outfit is a black dress with a turtleneck, with a part of her chest and arms covered by diaphanous fabric, and shoes with heels. At work, she wears a classic nurse uniform that ends at her upper thighs, with slippers serving as her footwear. When she was still a human, her fashion style was about the same as her current one. However, she only got to wear regular clothes when she was out of the hospital and mostly wore a standard patient gown.

### Gallery

Kabura in her human days.Kabura in her nurse uniform.
## Personality

Kabura gives off a gloomy aura and is scarred on the inside. In her first appearance, she is first shown to have a playful attitude and sense of humor when around her fellow vampires. Like her friends, Kabura loves alcohol, like red wine and beer, and likes talking about romantic topics. She enjoys teasing others and has an infamous reputation for wanting to take people who are already in a relationship, believing that those who claim to be completely loyal to their partners are liars.

Later, Kabura displays a much more serious side, being blunt, pulling no punches, and having a no-nonsense attitude when it comes to her job; when Kou and Nazuna enter the hospital illegally at night, she first threatens to report them and only allows them to stay if they wear outfits appropriate for the hospital. In spite of that, she can also be surprisingly pleasant. When Kou and Nazuna try to impress her in their investigation and come to the wrong conclusions, Kabura tells them that the lines they tried to pull off sounded good regardless.

As a human, Kabura had a much more friendly personality. Due to getting frequently hospitalized, she felt like a burden and avoided calling for help even when her nose bled. She also disliked making promises since she mostly couldn't keep them. Kabura genuinely wanted to experience everything an ordinary girl would experience but couldn't because of her illness. For her, ordinary activities like taking hot baths, drinking alcohol, or sports like snowboarding were impossible since they required too much energy.

Whenever her friends and family neglected her, she would ignore it, make excuses for them, and bury any negative thoughts. But when she realized that her friends never bothered to understand her and didn't honestly care about her, the resentment Kabura built up until that point surfaced; she gave up and confessed that she hated everything, including her parents and friends. She wanted to have a lover, but she hated men.

After becoming a vampire, Kabura could live life without worries and felt happy for the first time. She eventually started to enjoy things like alcohol and spending time with men. Her happiness was cut short when her first love fell in love with someone else and died after giving birth. The effect this had on her can still be seen in the present. She is in a constant state of reminiscing the past and questions her own sanity, urging Kou to not become like her. Still, she isn't worried about the effect this has on her popularity, as even in her current emotional state, there will always be men who are willing to listen to her. Kabura doesn't care about her life much but is determined to honor her promise.

## Relationships

* Nazuna Nanakusa - Adopted Daughter
* Seri Kikiyou - Friend
* Hatsuka Suzushiro - Friend
* Nico Hirata - Friend
* Midori Kohakobe - Friend
* Kou Yamori - Temporary Enemy and Friend

## Notable Relationships

### Haru Nanakusa:

Haru took care of Kabura and gave her genuine affection she didn't receive from people around her. Despite them both being girls, Kabura felt embarrassed when Haru washed her body, an early hint that she felt attracted to Haru. Kabura had great trust in Haru, who eventually became her first love. She expected her to see her as disgusting for it, although that wasn't the case. After she became a vampire, the duo was almost inseparable. However, Haru didn't reciprocate her feelings, which Kabura had to accept regretfully. As time passed, they saw each other less frequently, and, upon reuniting, Haru shocked Kabura by announcing that she not only had married a human but also was pregnant with his child.

Even 40 years later, her feelings for Haru are still present. Her death significantly affected Kabura's mental health and constantly caused her to seek reminders of the past. For example, she smokes tobacco, like Haru, despite still hating cigarettes. She generally sucked blood to know what Haru felt when she sucked hers and wanted to become more like her. Upon meeting a fellow underling of Haru, Haruka, Kabura proceeded to spend several days with him at a bar where they constantly talked about her, the conversations starting to repeat themselves as time went on. Haru's request for Kabura to watch over her child is her primary reason to live.

### Nazuna Nanakusa:

Kabura has a complicated relationship with Nazuna. When Haru asked Kabura to take care of her child, Kabura wanted to kill Nazuna out of resentment but stopped when she saw that Nazuna looked exactly like her mother. For that exact reason, Kabura is also sexually attracted to Nazuna. For example, she puts her in a nurse outfit at one point, she also wants to watch her when she works as a maid in a café, and ties Nazuna's hair in the same style as Haru did. After Nazuna confirms that they can be considered sisters, due to being Haru's offspring, Kabura wants to be called "onee-chan." When looking at Nazuna's face, Kabura broke down in tears, asking Haru why she had left her alone.

She said that Nazuna was a constant source of pain for her but later admitted to Kou that that was only partially true. She is very affectionate towards Nazuna, having raised her and treating her like a mother would. When meeting Kou for the first time, she wondered if he was a bad influence on Nazuna. She also cares about how Nazuna thinks of her, feeling sad when Nazuna says she perceives her as arrogant and calls her gross. When alone, she wondered whether she did a good job and was able to become Haru's replacement. Though she doesn't think of her life as something of high value, she honors Haru's wish for her to watch over Nazuna and plans on doing so until Nazuna makes a servant and therefore becomes a fully-fledged vampire in Kabura's eyes.

### Haruka Nanakusa:

When Kabura learned that Haru had another servant beside her, her first reaction was to treat Haruka with hostility, but she still had enough patience to listen to him. Haruka wanted to talk with someone about Haru to which Kabura agreed. A little later, she discovered that they shared a lot of common ground regarding their thoughts on Haru, both of her lovely and selfish sides. They kept talking about her for days, always reaching the same conclusion, much to the boredom of Nazuna.

## Abilities

* **Vampiric abilities**: As a vampire, Kabura is immortal, can levitate and phase through objects, possesses superhuman speed, durability, and strength, a supernatural charm, as well as the ability to regenerate wounds much faster and better than humans.

## Trivia

* Many of the Komori vampires are named after the seven herbs of spring, which may mean she is named after Japanese turnips or *kabu* (カブ).
* Aside from Kiku Hoshimi, Kabura is the vampire with the highest known amount of servants, having a total of seven.

## Quotes

* (To Haru) "I won't be able to see you while I'm outside. So I'll feel...a bit lonely."
* (To Nazuna): "So what's up, Nazuna? It's been a while, hasn't it? How are you doing?"
* (To Kou): "You can't understand me. Don't get too cocky. Don't you dare talk like you know me. It's unpleasant."
* (To herself while smoking) "I fucking hate this."

## References

1. ↑ Call of the Night (Manga) Chapter 54
2. ↑ *Call of the Night* Manga: Chapter 61
3. ↑ *Call of the Night* Manga: Chapter 58
4. ↑ *Call of the Night* Manga: Chapter 64
5. ↑ *Call of the Night* Manga: Chapter 64