Nishiki Asumi

### Occupation

Student, student council member, student council secretary, Vtuber, phantom thief

## Phantom Creathief profile

### Ability

Switching from real to the digital world, social engineering

**Nishiki Asumi** (錦 あすみ, *Nishiki Asumi*) is one of the 5 main characters of **Kaitō no Sōzō-sei**. Asumi is another student council secretary alongside Kano, though Kano is the one who helps her do the dirty work. She possesses the most extraordinary ability out of the five: the ability to switch between the real world and the digital world, as long as there's a screen she can go through. She's also a social engineer but doesn't utilise it as much.

Her favourite colour is blue as it represents loyalty.

## Background

Asumi is a junior of Sentama Gakuen. She's shorter than all members of the student council. As a secretary, she doesn't do a lot besides help Kano, who, in return, helps her as well - they are one body. She is ambidextrous. People pay more attention to her because of the way she looks - despite having small breasts, her short hair and the way she dresses is still attractive to some. However, some girls consider anyone who likes her to be a paedophile, which gives Asumi a lot of insecurities.

Asumi suffers from major depressive disorder (MDD) which affects her everyday life in every aspect, both in and outside the crime world. She has constant mood swings which range from normal to a really low mood which is often accompanied by crying. In times like these, she thinks that she's not worth anyone's time, that she'll never be attractive, etc. She hides from the Phantom Creathieves if the depression hits her too hard, and even gets suicidal. Despite this, all members are very careful around her and want to cheer her up and give her reassurance. While Izumi wasn't part of the gang, Kano is the one who gave her the most love, despite being in different grades. Because of this, Asumi has developed an affinity to Kano and enjoys her company the most. Ever since Izumi joined, she included him as part of her small company, too.

Though leading a life where she has bad days every once a few days, she wants to continue working hard and impress her peers. Fortunately, she's already impressed every member of the Phantom Creathieves with her unique ability - World Switch. Thanks to this ability, she can enter the digital world through a simple lit-up screen. While inside, she has access to whatever is in it, like code, interface, personal info, data, etc. Her ability to comprehend any computer gibberish allows her to modify anything, or even hack into the device to retrieve data from it. She's capable of hacking outside the digital world too but with limitations. In order not to confuse any members, she never revealed what she sees inside the screen and keeps it a secret.

As the Phantom Creathief, Asumi is also tasked with managing their network and making sure they're anonymous on the Internet. She was the one who built a custom operating system called Chaos (short for ***C**amouflaged **H**idden **A**mnesic **O**perating **S**ystem*) which is designed specifically for their needs on staying private, set up to be connected through the Onion Router (TOR for short) and it runs on RAM. The persistent storage where they keep their evidence and other important documents is encrypted with a password so strong that, as Asumi quotes, "not even Einstein would be able to crack it. And he wasn't even a computer scientist."

Asumi is the one who sends out calling cards. However, they take a different approach. As her profession is a virtual tuber (Vtuber for short), with the help of her gang, she creates short videos and posts them on their official channel (on a site similar to that of Youtube), called the Phantom Channel (ファントムチャンネル, *Fantomu Chan'neru*). She gives out some info about their next heist but never reveals too much, just enough to amp up the security from the police and make it more challenging and thrilling for her team. She nicknamed herself Nishii and uses that name for all the videos she makes.

She is a social engineer as well, but she doesn't practise it as much. Unless absolutely necessary and as last resort, she won't utilise her skills as a social engineer. The act can also lead to having a mood swing from whatever she was feeling then to feeling sad, as outside the crime world she wouldn't want to ruin someone else's life.

## Appearance

Asumi has a very flashy appearance as a Phantom Creathief. She wears a grey shirt with brown sleeves and a blue collar and a grey skirt like every other girl in the gang. She wears stockings of a multicoloured pattern (as shown on the image on top) with garter-belt, a grey hat with the similar pattern of blue shades and a small headset for communication. She has blue hair and brown eyes.

While in Sentama Academy, she goes all out when it comes to masking her true identity, but all she really adds is a pair of spectacles. Alongside that, she wears the standard uniform for girls, consisting of a white blouse, black jacket, black bow tie, a brown belt and a grey-to-black skirt which go a bit over her knees. Instead of the standard brown shoes, she chooses blue ones, and usually comes to school in similar socks from her Phantom Creathief form.

## Aliases

* Nishii [ニシイ] (Vtuber nickname)
* Nishi [ニシ] (every Phantom Creathief as well as Inspector Fujiwara)