Najenda

**Najenda** (ナジェンダ, *Najenda*) is the head of the assassin group Night Raid. She was a General of the Empire that defected, along with Lubbock, to the Revolutionary Army sometime after the end of an expedition led by her and Esdeath to eliminate the opposition of the Ban Tribe.

## Description

### Appearance

Najenda is a woman with short, silver hair and purple eyes. She wears an eyepatch where her right eye used to be. She wears a black suit that shows her cleavage. She has a green and black mechanical right arm.

When she was younger, her hair was longer and she wore it tied and braided.

### Personality

Najenda is taciturn, sharp-minded and level-headed, she leads the group with a surprisingly gentle-but-firm air. Her years of experience serving in the Empire as a General have made her a highly capable leader. Najenda is sometimes mistaken for a man due to her boyish appearance, even sometimes being nicknamed "The Hunk of the Rebellion" by her cohorts. She tends to have a habit of telling "cold jokes" and making bad puns.

### Physical Abilities

She herself has commented that due to the injuries that Esdeath inflicted on her, she is only at 40% her original strength. This may have also rendered her unsuitable to handle her old Teigu, Pumpkin, to it’s fullest power, leading her to pass it on to Mine. She is still, however, a capable fighter, being able to use her prosthetic hand to generate momentum for her kicks and punches that can rip a head off in one blow. She once demonstrated on Leone her ability to fire her prosthetic hand and reel it back in.

* **Reel Assault** (リールアサルト *Rīruasaruto*): She fires her prosthetic hand, reels herself to the arm, and quickly delivers a kick.

### Leadership

Najenda is calm and collective, being able to adjust herself to differing situations and giving out orders by adapting to the current situation. She is also able to rally Revolutionary Troops that were attacking the capital, enabling them to hold the line before Night Raid defeated Esdeath and the Emperor. Esdeath state that Najenda always lead her troops and fight with calm and burning heart, knowing her capabilities as a former fellow General of the Empire.

### Teigu

Before Najenda defected from Empire, she wielded the Teigu, Pumpkin and showcased sharpshooting and sniping skills. This is seen where she had used Pumpkin in an attempt to defend herself from Esdeath during her defection. Later after her defection, Najenda herself continued to use Pumpkin as her weapon of choice, albeit its been implied that her skill with it had dropped due to her injuries and missing arm and eye, despite that Najenda herself still showcased enough ability to make use of the weapon to provide Bulat with cover fire during his fight against Akame upon first meeting her and nearly shot her down in their duel.

Later, she would became the master to the humanoid Teigu, Susanoo, up until his demise. Until her arrival at HQ, Susanoo was in a state of dormancy and began to react to her presence. Susanoo told the members of Night Raid that it was because Najenda resembled his previous master, who was a great general. Due to Susanoo being able to fight on his own, Najenda has shown to primarily fight with him by providing him with support, such as providing him with her own energy in order to activate his Trump Card.

## Trivia

* Najenda is shown to have a fear of roaches, or katsaridaphobia.
* Her identical character is her Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest counterpart, Hajime Nagumo.