Tachibana Kyoi

* Portrait
* 2D Live
* Leaper Phase

## Basic Files:

The Leaper Tachibana Kyoi was discovered by Explorer-11 on Wind-112. Half of her body is made up of mechanical armor. She has dual personality, one is polite but the other is conceited, and arrogant and she keeps switching from one to the another.

She said she was a member of the original "Planetary Special Assault Team", a special force assembled by some planetary civilisations to fight shared threats. When she was severely injured during an expedition mission, a Kcrawler found its way into her body, and for unknown reasons, the two have been maintaining a symbiotic relationship ever since.

## Deep Level Files

### Background Story (I): Pest and Elite

"Honey, have you decided yet?" This is my thirty-fifth trip to Ms. Tachibana Kyoi's place.

"Sorry, sushi, please." Ms. Tachibana Kyoi is always polite.

Before Ms. Tachibana Kyoi finished, Kiomaru's loud voice calls out, "Don't listen to her! Hey, do you have stir-tried tomato with dragon fruit that people ate on Earth?!"

...There's no such kind of dish on Earth! This gal really knows nothing about food!

I heard Kiomaru was a Kcrawler and she got into Ms. Tachibana Kyoi's body when the latter was injured and then refused to leave. I know what Kcrawlers are, a bunch of pests hiding on different planets, notorious for sabotage and eating trash...

Ms. Tachibana Kyoi, on the other hand, is an elite from a distinguished family on Earth, capable and patient! If I were her...! would have bashed Kiomaru on the head with my skillet!

"One dish for each of you, is that okay, dear?" That's it! I don't want to waste my time on them anymore!

### Background Story (II): Pest and Elite

The sun was going down and Ms. Tachibana Kyoi was looking far into the distance again. With her hand on the hilt, she mused: "The place where the cherry blossoms fall... there is no going back..."

"Is Ms. Tachibana Kyoi missing her home on Earth? My father told me it was a beautiful place." It's sad when you can't return to your hometown and it made me filled with nostalgia too. But the next moment--

"That place must have turned into ashes! I'm not going!" The sad figure in the mechanical armor was suddenly at war with herself: one hand was holding the hilt and the othertried to pull the sword out, so the sword kept being drawn back and forth from the scabbard...

"Looks like the bitter struggle between Ms.Kyoi and Ms. Kiomaru to get control of the body is going to take a long time," Grimes stood in front of me and said, "don't worry, Ms. DD, I'll protect you!"

### Background Story (III): An Old Fogey

Tachibana Kyoi,that gal is a complete old fogey! I've tried many times to get her out of this body while she's unconscious but I never succeeded... Later I learned that she was always ready to take orders to fight even in her sleep. Those special assault team members all had this pet peeve that they were always on call and wouldn't let up for a moment.

"Obey orders with an iron will."

"I won't obey any orders, I'm gonna beat 'em all and eat 'em up!"

"... Follow the rules."

"I never follow rules, I just drink when I'm thirsty and rest when I'm tired, which is instinct. Only fogeys like you would be stupid enough to work for others, I just do what I want to do!"

Unexpectedly, she didn't contradict me when I was ready to continue the verbal fight.

### Background Story (IV): Be Yourself

I share this broken body with Kiomaru, a Kcrawler. I've never seen such a barbaric lazy bug. I warned it that it would have been punished thousands of times if it was in the Special Assault Team but it didn't care and said it never followed any rules or orders, it just followed its instinct.

In fact, before Kiomaru got in, my body had already been weakened by damage and I didn't mention it to anyone.

I became the strongest warrior and all my people were proud of me, but then what?

Fight and order, that's all I had. I had no other choices. Sometimes I will think of the heavy snow that night when I left my hometown and the sword the patriarch handed to me, what else? I tried to remember, but I couldn't see anything.

"I just do what I want to do!" I hate to admit it, but at that moment, I was envious of it.

### Background Story (V): Answer

As a family heirloom, I followed Ms. Tachibana Kyoi to join the Planetary Special Assault Team and we went to many different places to perform difficult missions. She did whatever her family and her superiors told her to do but she never listened to her inner voice. Ms. Tachibana Kyoi has never made her own choices or lived her own life.

She was like a robot responding to all commands without asking questions, even when she was exhausted.

Kiomaru is nothing like her, it was a pleasure-seeking, freewheeling bug with few virtues, but it has one thing that Ms. Tachibana Kyoi needs-- being herself.

After Kiomaru got into her body, Ms. Tachibana Kyoi once asked me, "Who have I been fighting for all this time? Others, or myself?"

I'm just a sword and I was not able to answer her question, but I guess she has found the answer in Kiomaru.