Kanade

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**Kanade** (カナデ, **Kanade**?) is a talented and powerful fighter from the Cat Tribe, an immigrant from her village to went on a journey. After she meets Rein Shroud, she asks him to tame her, and Rein does so, making her his first companion. She's one of the main heroines of Beast Tamer series.

## Appearance

Kanade is a beautiful girl with long light orange hair and green eyes. She has cat ears and a tail with white color on the end. She ties a pair of red ribbons on both sides below her ears. This more feminine appearance and generally cheerful personality, compared to others like the thrill-seeking Tania, obscures the fact that she is her group's physical powerhouse and a solid martial artist.

## Personality

Kanade is shown to be a friendly and kind person who always puts her friends as a priority. Hailing from the cat race, she is very energetic and is very passionate about her feelings. This makes her very empathetic, as shown when she hears about Rein's past. Determined as passive adrenaline, she is willing to not care about her own life to protect her friends and beloved ones. She treats everyone as equal, no matter what their position is.

She is literally a dimwitted pervert when she taking off her clothes right in front of Rein and his fellow companions to bathing into the lake.

She loves to get a head pat from Rein. She is also shown to be jealous when other Rein's contractual get head pats or try to get close to him. She is a big eater who eats big food portions to keep her strength up. In fact, when Rein and Kanade meet, she's in danger in the first place because she's weak from hunger. Once she's fed, she's unstoppable.

Due to her loyalty to Rein Shroud, She shown dislikes other men when they've unconditionally like to stand out. She hates Arios Orlando and wanted to kill him for not only banishing Rein but also all the crimes he committed. She also hates Edgar Fromware for stalking towards both Sora and Luna.

Kanade shown to have a phobia of haunted houses especially with ghosts. Her fears will eventually cause her to go berserk when she was able to hit Tina Hollee where Kanade behaved like an angry pussycat.

## Background

Kanade is a cat person from the cat tribe, who was on a journey, after leaving her village situated in the deep mountains.

## Abilities

* **Cat Tribe Physiology**: Being a member of the cat tribe, Kanade has extraordinary physical abilities. Most of her strength is concentrated in raw power (hands and legs), which is why she proceeds to make use of punches and kicks when engaging in combat.
	+ **Immense Agility**: Kanade takes pride in her speed, almost outdoing a member of the dragon race, Tania, in hand-to-hand battle. She makes full use of the cat tribe's outrageous physical abilities and can run through the walls and ceiling on her own. Her speed is too much that Aggath couldn't keep up.
	+ **Immense Strength**: Kanade possesses naturally enhanced physical strength as a cat race. From the very start of the series, she prowess a massive deal of monstrous force capable of striking down some high-ranked monsters in a blow. Her strength is even stronger than humans (including those who were blessed with magical and physical power), as demonstrated when she easily defeated Aggath by using brute force and even without using her full strength. She has hidden power of breaking her physical limit when she enters in berserk mode, she can bypass defensive abilities when she was able harm Tina Hollee.
	+ **Immense Durability**: *To be added*
	+ **Immense Stamina**: *To be added*
	+ **Enhanced Hearing:** She is able to hear sounds, noises and voices from afar.

## Other Abilities

* **Expert Combatant**: Kanade has proven herself to be a great combatant when it comes to fighting some high-ranked monsters, quickly annihilating a Killer Tiger with a single kick to the eye, as well as sending it slamming it hard to the ground with the impact of the kick.

### Weaknesses

Though Kanade has immense physical abilities, she is weak and vulnerable to magic. On her, even beginner attack magic can take damage. She is also less resistant to state abnormal magic, and can easily be poisoned and paralyzed. Although she is weak to magic, the health of the Cat Spirit Tribe is extraordinary so she can endure to some extent. However, it is also true that it is bad when it is hit consecutively.

She also weakened to Actinidia which gives her feeling of ecstasy.

## Relationships

### Rein Shroud

Kanade is Rein's first contracted Spirit, She loves him greatly and will protect him at all costs, She encountered Rein when he saved her from a White Tiger beast and after the battle she asked him to try and Tame her and form a Contract, Rein protested saying that he could not tame an ultimate species like her but Kanade told him that he will never know unless he tried so he did and succeeded, Their bond continued to grow when Rein protected Kanade from a Adventure who wanted Kanade for her body so rein beat him in an arm wrestling match and he was shocked by his strength, Kanade then told Rein that he has gained all her abilities via Contract. They have great Trust in each other as shown When Kanade gladly fought Tania alone to give Rein time.

### Tania

Tania and Kanade are like Sisters, they care deeply each other, They first met on the Bridge where Tania was guarding and not letting adventures pass unless they beat her, Kanade was the only one capable of Tanking Tania's hits being another Ultimate Species, so she distracted Tania as Rein put his plan into motion. After Tania was Defeated she Joined Rein party and this made Kanade jealous as Tania would embrace Rein and it would irritate her as she wanted Rein's affection too. But at the end of the day they love each other and will protect each other.

### Sora and Luna

She gets along with them greatly, she along with Tania wanted to make the Noble pay for trying to hurt them.

### Nina

Kanade loves Nina and especially loves her Fluffy tail and she will cuddle her whenever she wants and it would annoy the others as they also want to baby Nina.

### Tina Holly

At first Kanade was terrified of he as she hates ghosts but when Tina pushed her too far with her haunting she snapped and chased the ghost all over the house scaring Tina to death. It ended when Tania grabbed her and told her that there was nothing to be scared of and Kanade calmed down and apologized.

### Heroes Party

#### Arios Orlando

Kanade despises Arios for what he did to Rein, she along with Tania stood up for Rein and told the so called Noble hero to properly apologize to Rein. After their Fight Kanade still Hated Arios as he didn't change his ways. Her hatred for Arios reached its peak after he had murdered several adventurers and framed Rein for it. As a result Rein was arrested and imprisoned which caused her to hate him indefinitely until Arios was revealed as the true culprit of the murder by Princess Sarya. Resulting in him being defeated by Rein again as well as arrested by the Knights and his title as a hero was revoked by King Argus. Learning Arios has escaped from prison due to Monica Eclair, Kanade wants nothing more than to kill Arios.

#### Aggath

Kanade was given the pleasure of fighting the Knight who was supposed to be the Tank of the Heroes Party but he could not tank any of Kanade's attacks. She thought so little of the Knight that she didn't go all out to defeat him. It didn't help that Aggath kept bad mouthing Rein in front of her.

#### Leanne

Like the rest of the Heroes Party, Kanade hates her for bullying Rein.

#### Mina

Like the rest of the Heroes Party, Kanade hates her for bullying Rein.

### Others

#### Natalie Brough

They are friends and get along well. She is shown to have great trust for her and will not hesitate to help her out.

## Trivia

* Being a cheerful person, her communication skills are excellent.
* She naturally hums when something makes her happy.
* She often uses "nya" when speaking.
* In the English Dub, Kanade usually would say meow or add feline pronouns in her sentances. For example: are you kitten me?
* Her eyes shine like jewels in dark places.

## References

1. ↑ Web Novel Chapter 15
2. ↑ Web Novel Chapter 234