Kana

**Kana** is one of the main protagonists of *Leviathan*. She is a three-star Harpoonist from the ship *Busan Union* who becomes the guardian and mentor for the siblings Bota and Rita Ma, the children of her idol and unrequited love, Teon Ma. After escaping the *Busan Union* together, she and the children become companions. Kana goes into hiding where she raises Rita Ma and trains Bota Ma for 4 years on Port Oasis Island.

Kana is a supporting character during the Kentrassi arc, before acting as the primary protagonist of the Busan Union arc.

## Appearance

She has a lean, muscular build with long, wavy blueish white hair down to her waist. She has blue pupils, her right eye covered by an eye patch after surviving an attack from one of the Seven Devils, the leviathan Skutoom, that killed her parents and entire people. She does not wear the standard Busan Union uniform, instead dons a black bikini top with multiple red leather straps. When she is first introduced, she is wearing this same black bikini top with bikini bottoms and a belt. Later she is shown wearing long black bottoms instead of the original bikini bottom. Before returning it to Bato after his training completed, she carried the gas sword of Teon Ma alongside her two long blades.

## Personality

Kana is shown to a very serious person from the outside. It has been remarked that she had never been seen smiling ever since the death of her parents and finding out the true greedy nature of Busan Union. Her hatred for Leviathans caused her to vow to kill every single one in the world. Her hatred as a result took over her life and caused her to isolate herself from those around her. Focused solely on protecting humanity and avenging her family's brutal death, she was a solo fighter that was known to "never leave a sea monster alive".

However, she is shown to be very caring toward her companions, refugees, and has a deep love for Bota and Rita. Both of who had been credited for opening up her heart again and are considered to her as her family, especially Rita who she had uncharacteristically doted on.

She has a strong sense of duty. She makes a big deal about repaying all personal "debts" and has an intense determination to keep her word no matter what. She is very protective of both of Teon Ma's children, admittedly far beyond the promise to repay her debt to Teon Ma for saving her. Even going as far to break her own oath as a harpoonist and abandon her goal to not leave a single monster alive to protect her. She goes as far to vow to kill anyone and anything who ever dared to harm 'a single hair on Rita', even after she had became infected.

When Rita had lost control momentarily, Kana had found that she was unable to bring herself to kill her, even though Rita was unknowingly trying to kill Bota. She had hesitated and could only watch as Bota brought her back to sanity. She further on risks being killed by Busan Union for her defection in order to find a cure for Rita via the Busan Union's mad scientist's experimental research.

She has a strong sense of justice and loyalty as she was greatly inspired by Teon Ma, who continously fought for the rights and lives of refugees. Due to her kind nature, Bota has compared her to an angel on numerous occasions, specifically deemed her as the opposite of the cold New York Harpoonist, Clark Miller of New York.

She is very blunt with her words and often wears a deadpan expression on her face. She is also highly observant and a brilliant battle strategist, able to plan out meticulous traps to kill leviathans. Though she seems to have a blind spot when it comes to matters of the heart. As she had kept her unrequited love a secret from Teon Ma and was unable to tell Bota was blushing and mistook it as a sign of fever.

## Story

She was saved by Teon Ma, the legendary 6 star leviathan slayer, from Skutoom as a child. After watching her whole family die in front of her eyes, she was left the sole survivor of the attack and owner of the machinery that her parents and fellow refugees had spent years finding in hope of gaining citizenship from Busan Union.

After selling the rights to the machinery to the Busan Union for little to nothing, she had signed to become a citizen. There on the ship, she had overheard a group of Harpoonists talking about the defeat of Skutroom and the recovery of the machinery. Duha, a cruel harpoonist, had proudly admitted to declining the SOS from Kana's people when they were under attack and laughed at the horrible massacre of the refugees with the other harpoonists. It turned out that the goal of Busan Union was to let them all die so they could reclaim the machinery for free. Overwhelmed by anger and grief, she lashed out at Duha and the other harpoonists. They mocked her further as they began to try to beat her death under the guise of punishing her for the crime of "resisting Harpoonists". She was saved once more by Teon Ma, who was revealed to be a commoner that became a Harpoonist. Duha, humiliated by the strength of Teon Ma, vowed that he would one day regret daring to stand up to him.

Full of hate for monsters after realizing the unfairness of the incident, she decided to become a Harpoonist and wipe all Sea Monsters and Leviathans from the waters.

After helping Teon Ma escape with hinted to be pregnant Marissa, she went on to became a 3 star harpoonist with 'monsterous' skills and was deemed the best harpoonist of Busan Union.

She then coincidentally met Bota and Lita years, after saving them from another one of the Seven Devils. Unbeknowest to her at the time, they turned out to be the children of Teon. She discovers this fact after she recovers the sword of Teon from Kentrassi.

She rescues Bato and Rita from Duhu, who had also figured out they were his children, and the other harpoonists that were attempting to kill them for standing up to them.

While trying to repay the debt to the man who she loved and was saved by, she resolves to protect the children in Teon's stead. She defected from Union Busan. While being hunted down by Duhu, she was aided by the lower class citizens of Busan Union who were also saved by Teon Ma. With the help of her comrades, she faked the death of her and the children to escape Duhu and live a life with them in hiding.

### *Leviathan*

#### Kentrassi arc

She jumps in and saves the helpless children from Kentrassi's offspring, and brings them to *Busan Union". But she didnt know and later found out that they were Teon Ma' s children*

#### Busan Union arc

Kana betrays Busan Union because of the children and the debt she had to pay back, she barely saved the children from the harpoonist that were swarming her and fled to hide to Port Oasis

### Port Oasis arc

#### Timeskip arc

Kana looks after Bota and Rita on Port Oasis, a building island that prided itself as being a sea without monsters. It was there she raised Rita and trains Bota to become a great Harpoonist like herself. They lived a peaceful life together, not knowing the place they thought was safe and peaceful had dark bloody secrets.

#### Genod arc

A group of divers that went treasure hunting for Great Inheritances, boxes of essential supplies left behind by the humans of the past for future generations, were attacked by a sea monster. Only one, Mr Mao, had made it back to the surface where he was found by Rita. He warned her to run and that there was a sea monster with his dying breath. Urged by Bota and the other citizens, the leader of Port Oasis had ordered for a search party to see if there really was monsters in the water. Bota was part of that team as well as two novice Harpoonists and Jako Gusto, a renowned diver as well as two other unnamed citizens. She wishes Bota good luck and stays behind with Rita on the surface, trusting his training and respecting the fact he was ready to forge his own path. The six people went underground and found a lot of Great Inheritances and the nest of the Seven Sea Demons, who she would later recognize as Genod. After three divers were killed and one of the Harpoonists missing, Bota and the other harpoonist Sonia, had caused the monster to go up and go on a rampage on the unprotected Port Oasis. There, Kana challenged the monster to fight, abandoning her fake identity as a civilian and fought head to head with Genod, armed with only a single harpoon and two daggers she later procurs. She evacuates the citizens including Rita, and nearly loses her life with Bota coming to the rescue with her sword. They both fought Genod back to the best of their abilities both being severely injured in the process. Unfortunately, she was forced to watch as Rita pushed two children out of the way and was swallowed by Genod, pressumably killed. The monster goes back under the water, retreating to protect itself. Kana becomes consumed by her rage and urges the grieving Bota to get up and hunt down the escaped Genod with her. She leads the rescue team after finding out from the Lead of Port Oasis that Genod keeps their prey alive for days as a food store and uses their bodies as hosts for their offspring. She sets traps killing Genods children at the entrance of the nest and gets seperated from Bota to challenge Genod head on and killing them. She eventually saves Rita, after a grand battle with Genod and its numerous offspring, but to her horror she had had been infected by Genod, after being in a pod to be turned into Genods successor for a short period of time. She witnesses Rita save them all by controlling the remaining children of Genod, and realizes that Rita was still in control much unlike Jako Gusto who she had just killed after being infected and losing his humanity. She theorizes that Bota and Rita are both the keys to defeat all Sea Monsters and saving humanity.

#### Return to Busan arc

She finds out that Rita had lost control of her sea monster side and killed the pirates who were attempting to steal Port Oasis's resources. She however froze and watched as she nearly killed Bota. She realizes then that she was unable to kill Rita even if she had lost her humanity as she loved her too much. She decides their own option is to go back to Union Busan to convince the mad scientist there to find a cure for Rita, even at risk of being caught and killed by the Harpooners and Duhu for being a traitor. She finds out that the mad scientist had revived one of the Seven Sea Demons, Kentrassi, which Teon Ma had died trying to kill. The leader of Busan Union had revealed it was a trap to get Kana to return as the commander of the Harpooners to stop the lower class rebellion, that was inspired by Teon Ma, in return for curing Rita. She begrundingly accepts the position much to Duhu's rage. She worked at the commander until Kentrassi had escaped the Mad Scientists lab and started wrecking everything. Its goal was revealed to be to kill every human on Union Busan. After a while of fighting, Kana and Bota had nearly killed Kentrassi, with Kana about to land the final blow. Duhu, in his greed, had shot Kana to stop her killing Kentrassi and keep her from "becoming the hero of the ship" as a fully fledge Leviathan slayer. Kentrassi escapes after nearly killing Kana, where Lita lured the monster to the top floor of Union Busan. She executed Duhu for his crimes immediately, enacting the justice for what he had done all those years ago. They finally killed it but at the expense of hundreds of people. Leaving Bota Ma as the last shareholder, Kana helps him as he took control of the Busan Union and started making the changes for the lower class citizens and refugees that Teon Ma had been protesting for before he had left all those years ago.

## Powers & Abilities

She has been remarked to have inhumane-like strength, speed, and combat abilities. She is regarded as one of the strongest Harpoonists in the world, as a four star Harpoonist and legendary Leviathan Slayer. By the last arc, she had killed three of the Seven Devils, the strongest sea monsters in the world, and aided the defeat of the Leviathan Queen alongside Bota and their companions.