Kaori Ayano

Kaori Ayano is the main protagonist of Warped Eternity: Tale of the Lost Ash, and one of the main characters of Warped Eternity: Nature's Anger. She is the adoptive older sister of the kunoichi, Mirai Ayano who is one of the wives of Rokihiko Aoki. She also serves as a member of the Defenders of the Light. She was the creator of Earth Style, and was slain by Lumi Odayaka four years before the main story of the Warped Time's Chronicles. She is the daughter of one of the Eight Vampire Emperors, alongside Mirai, but escaped.

## Appearance

Kaori is a young woman, with a quite taller than average height. She was noted as very beautiful, but extremely physically bulky, often intimidating samurai during the time who didn't want to become her husband as they only taught of women as supporting tools. In Mirai's flashbacks, she wore leaf earrings and a Japanese-fox mask resembling the Kitsune. This was seen to be in remembrance to Ren after his death, as she desperately wanted to honor Ren's memory after his death. She al

## Personality

Kaori is a serious, yet good-natured, and kind hearted young woman according to Mirai's flashbacks. She often was determined, and did not hesitate to back out on a battle even if she clearly couldn't win it. This led to her battling the formidable Upper God One of the Kabuki Council, Lumi Odayaka, for countless times even if it meant that she would die in the process. She was noted by Mirai as sometimes idiotic, and too reckless for her own good and safety. Her recklessness caused her to battle the formidable Lumi Odayaka, in a desperate attempt to save the province. She would not hesitate to cut down others who caused harm without thought, and would often do her best to help others.

In Warped Eternity: Tale of the Lost Ash more of Kaori's personality is revealed. In the light novel, she shows a more reserved personality in the situations, and is often cool-headed, calm, yet extremely serious. She often is strategic, and builds up strategies to help both the warriors of the Defenders of the Light. She shows a more stoic demeanor during various situations, such as upon hearing her mother's death to the hunters of the Moonlit Order. She has shown to be fairly observant and knowledgeable about her surroundings, due to her upbringing as a vampire, which is an isolated race hidden from humans. Despite being a vampire, she tries to disguise herself as a human, and does not harbor hatred for humans. This is unlike more than half of her Kinaree race which was described to have been enraged at humans, and have been working alongside the Kabuki Council as their servants. This inspired Mirai to do the same - working to protect humans instead of harming them.

Kaori has also shown a very dedicated and encouraging spirit, as evident when she encouraged her comrades and Mirai, albeit in her spirit form to continue the battle with Luka Odayaka. She has also shown to care immensely for her sister well-enough to the point she did scold her for going to train with her and joining the army of the Rosendalle Empire. However, upon seeing Mirai's determination, and true spirit, Kaori then decided to encourage Mirai to continue battling although she continued to worrily greatly for her younger sister's injuries.

Kaori is shown to fiercely adher to discipline and duty, having a strong sense of duty and justice, which she fiercely taught and passed on to Mirai after her death. According to Mirai, she was a very inspiring sister, who often cared for her albeit in a stoic and reserved manner. It also seems that Kaori was very caring and set an example for Mirai, leading to Mirai wanting to get vengeance on Lumi and even help Kaori in fulfilling her unfinished goals, such as finally defeating Lumi, and trying to restore the peace between humans and vampires.

## History

Filled with warlords, clans, and every aspect of the Sengoku-era completely accurate (like all backstories should be)

Kaori often disliked the patriarchy role of the Thirteenth Age and rebelled against the supporting role she was assigned which inspired Mirai to do the same.

## Legacy

Kaori's death has undoubtedly left an extreme impact on Mirai, considering that Mirai also lost her older brother, Ren to Luka Odayaka.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Abilities:** As she appears much in the flashbacks of Mirai, not much could be told about her skills or abilities when she was alive. However, in the light novel, Kaori has shown to be a very powerful combatant. According to the databooks, it was stated she would become on pars with the Combustion Kosho, Rei Matsuoka if she were still alive. She was able to fend off Luka against sunrise. However, she still arguably struggled to fight him, and needed many comrades but served as one of the main aspects of the battle. She also devised a plan to greatly weaken Luka Odayaka during her time of death and defeat. However, she was restricted too by her Bodily's Flow Restriction which makes very loud sounds when she strikes, thus making it very noticeable for her opponents to dodge.

### Physical Abilities

**Immense Strength:** In the light novels, Kaori possesses an undoubted amount of high strength, as evident when she was capable of breaking Lumi's dragons and the scales, all which were stated as rough as diamonds, and broke off several Numen Vessels created by Lumi himself. Her natural strength was actually seventeen times that of an average sumo-wrestler by it's maximum, and got increased even further upon awakening the Unveiling Mark of Kinaree to take revenge on Luka Odayaka for slaughtering half of the Suwan Clan. Her strength allowed her to strike, pierce, thrust, and slash the body of Luka Odayaka with her maximum effort but he was able to dodge due to her lack of stealth. She swung her large floral lush glaives swiftly and with enough force to deliver harsh and hard cuts onto Luka's body, but was far from even ninth of his power. Her agility, speed, and strength were the reasons she had very huge lacking in stealth as she couldn't spin or move without making very loud sounds due to her muscular density.

**Immense Speed:** Kaori possesses a vast amount of speed, as seen in Mirai's flashback where she seemingly "just appeared behind her back" and took Mirai away. She also possesses vast amounts of speed in combat, as evident upon constantly striking Luka Odayaka in their duel and blitzing almost close to tenth of his speed. However, it is revealed that she was far from as fast as Luka, as he constantly blitzes behind her to the tremendous speed of light and thunder.

**Immense Durability:** Kaori possesses advanced levels of durability, as evident when she endured all of Lumi's strikes, and even had her legs, mouth, and arms punctured and striked too severely. Kaori was also able to endure her jaw being extremely injured, and continue on battling without hesitation. This was also coupled with her indomitable amount of will, which allowed her to battle Luka without hesitation even if her eyes and her chest, and lungs were punctured lots of times.

**Indomitable Will:** Kaori has shown an indomitable will, as seen when she constantly fought Lumi despite being extremely injured and in pain. Her indomitable will was developed due to her past, and her desire to avenge Ren from Lumi. However, even with her skills, she was not able to murder Lumi which led Mirai to wish to kill Lumi in her place.

**Immense Agility:** Kaori possesses tremendous talent in agility and dexterity, in contrast to Daiki's lack of flexibility and agility. This was passed onto Mirai, as she actually evaded attacks and even ran through the Warped Blood Elixir's effects without much trouble. Her agility allowed her to somewhat get Luka offguard because he was fairly lacking in agility as well. Her agility requires loud spins, twirls, flips, and swings to properly deliver unpredictable and complex damaging movements.

### Numen State

**Nature State:** Kaori has unlocked numerous Numen States, such as the Nature State. This was something she then passed onto Mirai, as one of her Blood Transfers and Blood Contracts.

### Numen Style

**Master Swordsmanship:** Despite not being as strong as the Kosho due to inexperience, Kaori possesses significant amounts of skill in swordsmanship which was enough to significantly allow her to battle against Luka Odayaka. Her fighting style revolves mainly around defensive movements, which are a combination of graceful attacks, offense, strength, swings, poisons, and agility, and rapid slashes which twist around the target alongside agile strikes and thrusts.

**Floral Lush Style:** The Floral Lush Style is Kaori's main style, which revolves mainly around the forest and was taught by an unknown harmony deity who was murdered by Ki Zixin.

**Nectar Burst:**

## Relationships

### Ren Ayano

Kaori was revealed to have immense amounts of sibling love for Ren, due to him being her older brother and adopting her.

### Astar Lucero

During her visits to Navellia with Mirai for various military missions, she came across the Lucero Family, particularly Astar and Caelus.

## Quotes

*" I am simply freeing her from you, a pathetic excuse for a human being." Kaori when she took Mirai*

*" Mirai, I lost everyone and couldn't ever protect them. It was all my fault for my impulsive actions. Since it's my fault, I could never go to heaven. I should go to hell." Kaori's last words to Mirai upon her death*

*" Rei is simply troublesome to train, is he not? Look at him simply lacking the discipline needed and always being so cocky. I wonder if he could ever become a proper warrior during this time?" Kaori Ayano to Mirai in "Prideful Warlord"*

*" Be strong, Mirai. You should never bow down to any pressure. After all, you are a warrior of the Defenders of the Light. It may be proper to ask for help, but you must uphold the honor that I passed onto you." Kaori, to her younger sister, Mirai in her spirit form in the Legacy of Nature*

*" Mirai, how could you be so foolish!? You could get yourself hurt, you know? Don't you realize how powerful the creatures of the Warped Domain's Lords are?!" Kaori, scolding Mirai for being reckless and joining the Defenders of the Light*

*"Hotaruko-chan, you are more than enough. Don't let anyone's words fool you." Kaori to Hotaruko Anchali in a stern tone*

*" Defeat him for me, Mirai. Defeat him so that he may never ever hurt innocent people again. Help others to defeat him to prove that you are worthy, and you are not like the rest of our kind."*

## Trivia

Kaori is actually a member of the Suwan Clan, and is half-Despherian and half-Nukamoire.

Kaori's birthday is actually February 12, yet she doesn't celebrate it that much.

Kaori is very hardworking, and wouldnt care to rest.

Kaori actually met Caelus various times, during her visit to Navellia. She died two months after Caelus' death. This then prompted Mirai to try her best to avenge Ren and Kaori, and the Suwan Clan from the hands of Luka Odayaka.

Kaori was taught to wield four-chained cleavers but decided it wasn't as excellent for her as the unknown harmony deity suggested.

The harmony deity which taught her was actually killed by Daiki himself, under the corrupted influence of Tsumi.

Her death and Caelus' death prompted Astar to train hard to join the Defenders of the Light, and to ensure no one suffers from having to lose loved ones to a god again.

Kaori is actually not taught when it comes to emotions, leading her to suppressing them. She unintentionally taught this to a young Mirai.

Kaori escaped when she was just 12.