Kina Fukushima

福島 木奈, *Fukushima Kina*?

**Kina Fukushima** ( 福島 木奈, *Fukushima Kina* ), initially introducing herself as **Mei Hikari**, is an astronaut in training and one of the participants chosen to play in the Death Game.

## Appearance

Kina is a short young woman with puffy shoulder-length black and blue hair.

She wears a striped pink low-neck tank top with loose shorts and a chunky belt. She is shown with white headphones on in all of her sprites, but they’re not connected to anything.

As a participant in the Death Game, she wears a collar device.

## Personality

Kina is an inherently kind person, but only if she is seen to have a close relationship with her peers.

She doesn’t ‘mean’ to be deceptive, but a lot of times it’ll come to her naturally under pressure— hence her alias. Kina trusts the participants in the death game, but doesn’t have high expectations for them to avoid her own personal disappointment. She’s smart, but only textbook smart— socially, she’s able to pick up about as many cues as a narcotic snail.

Her main priority is to protect herself, but she finds it hard to manipulate others— all of her efforts are pretty obvious ones.

Although manipulation may not be her protégée, sabotaging is something she’s always been able to do exceptionally well.

## History

### Background

As a child and all the way up to adulthood, Kina has worked toward one goal: to win. Even if that means faking a relationship with someone to take their societal status.

Her entire life, she’s studied like a madman to outshine her classmates’ efforts and to impress her parents.

When one of her parents passed late in middle school, she was driven even further into a wall.

She didn’t communicate with her friends, and her line of sight was narrowed even further to a kindergarten ‘beat everybody’s ego to a bloody pulp’.

She was always a selfish person in nature, never able to hide it too well; only enough to get people to tolerate her and work with her.

### The Death Game

Kina signed her Asunaro certificate with the hope that she’d be able to afford her student debt.

Kina was kidnapped at her lowest point.

Having gone to 5 extra years of college, she was just one paycheck away from poverty all the time. In a flash of desperation, she found herself about to sell her apartment and become willingly homeless— sacrificing her comfort and shelter just to exceed in one more class.

When Kina passed out from famine outside of her apartment, she was taken into Asunaro’s custody. Kina awoke from her chemically induced slumber in a haze, blindfolded with no sense of which way was up or down.

Her arms and legs were chained down to a dart board. An unknown second person in the same room was instructed to pierce her torso with a knife with their back turned to the target in 3 tries. Her opponent (who is later revealed to be one of her ex-friends) fails, and Kina is forced to carve out a key from her friend's torso in order to win the first trial.

## Relationships

### Roteki Ming

*“I don’t pay much attention to her. I don’t want to be rude, but she’s hard to pay attention to. It’s understandable given the circumstance. It doesn’t mean I don’t like her, though.” - Kina Fukushima about Roteki Ming*

### Ryōichi Ikehara

*“I’ve never loathed someone more than I loathe Ryōichi Ikehara. His job isn’t credible, and I’m sure you’d have to be some sort of mentally deranged to think you can ward off ghosts looking the way he does.” - Kina Fukushima about Ryōichi Ikehara*

### Miran Sekino

*“I can’t say I dislike him. Outgoing, and, for the most part, a confident person. Interestingly dyed hair, sure, but that doesn’t take away from his personality.” - Kina Fukushima about Miran Sekino*

### Yūrei Fujiwara

*“Yūrei is not the kind of person to strike up a conversation with. At all. I’m pretty sure we’re the complete opposite of one another, but I don’t have a problem with her. I mean, I don’t think I do...” - Kina Fukushima about Yūrei Fujiwara*

## Appellations

* Game participants
* Participants B
* Organization members