Shin Kikai

Shin Kikai is one of the students transferred to Kasumi’s Class.

## Personality

Classified as a chuunibyou Shin worships a snow-globe which has a house and snowman inside of it which he believes is the key to the universe. He regularly warns his classmates to fear it might and chastises them when they don’t heed his warnings. he also sees bobble-heads as evil entities attempting to lead the faithful astray. It is revealed that before being transferred to Kasumi’s class he has had multiple psychiatric evaluations only for him to suddenly turn sane every time. So the question is: is his insanity, or sanity the act?

## History

Shin is introduced showing Saki Asamiya the might of the snow-globe. Saki ended humoring him causing Shin to rushed off in excitement glad that he had met another enlightened one. The new students finally got a chance to meet Principal Kuno when he celebrated his return to Furinkan by terrorizing students (whilst dressed as a snowman) by handing out demerits for uniform infringements. While this in itself was shocking they really learned how deranged the man was when he called them to the gymnasium reveals his plans for the students, where boys get buzz cuts and girls get bowl cuts.

When he implemented his rule requiring everyone to cut their head, knowing her father Kodachi convinced them that he wasn’t sending them on a wild goose chase when he gave them out in the form of a coconut. As Saki fought her way through the various traps with others, Takeshi dealt with the second wave of traps, while Shin led them to the principle’s real office. He was naturally ignored by everyone but Ranma who decided to give him a shot. He ended up being buried under a pile of coconuts for his troubles.

After Akane and Ukyo dug him out of the pile, they and the rest of the student body that had gathered were about to start cracking them open Kasumi arrived to stop them stating that she needed coconuts. After blinding them all Kasumi took them and ran off. When Kasumi and Shampoo were kidnapped and taken to the La Bac, Shin joined everyone else in lending his aid. When it was discovered that the building contained an anti magic field that also affected chi, he volunteered to join the group would search the floors below and take out its power source, despite it requiring heavy hitters. Claiming that his snow glob would protect him.

Having no time to argue Saki let him go. Frost however was not as patient repeatedly telling him to shut up as they slowly but surely made their way through the buildings traps. Eventually Kodachi noticed a symbol, a pyramid with a single eye shining at its peak that kept popping up causing Akane to realize that it was the same one on the keys. With Lime’s help she was able to use the key to turn off the traps. Sadly it didn’t work on the first stone when they finally found it.

Lime attempted to break it next only to nearly break his hand when he tried. Then Shin stepped up to deal with it. despite Frost’s protest the others let him meditate over the stone as they didn’t have anything better to do. Finally he told Claigin the place to strike and much to everyone’s surprise the stone turned to dust when he did. As Shin smugly started down the hall, Frost could only comment about how creepy he was.

The snow globe didn’t work as well on the second stone they found. So as Shin and Claigin attempted to smash it Lime hands were bandaged by Akane, while Kodachi gave the Musk boy a good slap every time he tried to make a closer inspection of Akane's chest. Despite Shin’s claims that the Snow Globe was just dealing with more important matter, Frost realized this wasn’t working and told Claigin to give his hammer to Lime.

Afraid that he would break Claigin refused, luckily Akane came to the rescue and reminded him that he had come to help save Kasumi. Reluctantly he handed it to Lime who with a quick battle cry swung the hammer with all his might at the stone. An instant later a very loud snap could be heard as the hammer's handle gave way under the force of the blow.

Claigin quickly snatching the remains of the tool from Lime, before collapsing in grief on the floor. The others were distracted from the realization of just how much the hammer meant to him by the stone slowly cracking before exploding to dust. With that they regained their powers as the field no longer had any width. Mint returned a moment later having found the power source. As they were going to deal with it Frost having grown tired of Claigin’s crying fixed his hammer.

With that taken care of Genma’s team arrived shortly after Ranko and Chun Li defeated Shadow Lady. The devastation left in the wake of the battle was enough to give them all a short moment of pause before Chun Li called out to them. They were about to regroup and go find the others when an alarm sounded signaling that the building would self destruct in 20 minutes. Ranko initially thought it was a ploy to get them to leave, but Chun Li wasn’t so sure. Fake or not, they still needed to find Kasumi and the others. So Kodachi, Lime, Claigin, Frost and Shin were left to look after the injured, while the rest went to look for them.