Kirihiko Kirishima

Kirihiko Kirishima (斬島切彦) is a fourteen-year-old female assassin of Kirishima clan who belongs in Akuu Company.

She moves around the world for her duties as an assassin.

Kirihiko is characteristic for specializing in swordsmanship as she easily defeats skillful swordsmen.

She is also known as "Guillotine" and "Kirihiko LXVI of Kirishima".

Background
In Kirishima clan, the one who belongs in the main lineage of Kirishima and succeeded as an assassin inherits the name "Kirihiko". Therefore, she may apparently have an alternate name other than "Guillotine".

Appearance
She has a blonde hair with a pigtail tied with black ribbon and a fringe on the left side of her head. The black ribbon tying her pigtail is also featured as her symbol.

She puts large scarf on her shoulders and wears blue shorts, knee-high boots and black socks reaching under her knees and jacket which consists of white sleeves whose blue portions with red stripes at the end of each sleeve and blue body.

In OVA, she also wears bikini with the scarf although unsuitable or unnecessary for swimming.

Personality
She has an appellation called as "Kirihiko-chan" by Shinkuro and she considers it "cute".

She alleges that she fluently speaks English but actually speaks awkward.

She has naive aspects in which she had squashed the arm of Shinkuro, who was confused by her name "Kirihiko", because the name sounds like a boy, into her breasts although in street and she had noticed Shinkuro that she is a virgin in an obscure ally of the street.

She is feeble to heat and coldness, and she also has pollen allergy and a heat-feeble tongue. Therefore, she considers the Earth as her "enemy".

She is also a dab hand at fighting video games as when she met Shinkuro, then she consecutively accomplished 50 defeats in an arcade game.

Although she is usually a taciturn girl, when she grabs blades, she dramatically changes to verbose and very hostile, and fluently speaks English within slangs and her words also become manly with a male pronoun "ore". So, she usually inclines to avoid to take blades in streets. She also changes her personality by grabbing something sharp such as bamboo leaves or hair even if without blades.

When she fights as an heir of Kirihima, she introduces herself as "Kirihiko LXVI of Kirishima" before a fight.

She is a superior genius of treating blades in Akuu Company and easily defeated strong swordsmen.

Even if taking cheap blades, she could easily defeat and beheaded strong swordsmen momentarily.

Therefore, her dexterous treatment of blades brought her another name "Guillotine",although she is just an ordinary girl except dexterously treating blades.

Other swordsmen including Lin Chengshin hate her as "Kirishima is the enemy of swordsmen, the odious one for all swordsmen dedicating to swordsmanship."

She can distinguish blades whether good or bad. But she doesn't cling to blades themselves, as she had even thrown away Lin's "Bizen Osafune" into dustbin at the end of the battle.

Plot
Although Kirihiko had initially contempt against Shinkuro worthless to fight, after Shinkuro easily defeated Frank Blanca as Senki triggered by Murasaki's talk, Kirihiko considered him worth to fight, and wanted him a duel. However, she left him without duel because Shinkuro's peculiar personality which nearly forced her to help rescuing deprived her of the motive of fight. Meanwhile she criticized Shinkuro that "You are a nice guy.".

In "Princess of Yugamisora", the fourth volume in new cover edition, she angered Shinkuro who didn't fight her but fought Zena and promised for rematch. Meanwhile she also promised him that if she wins, she assigns him as an underling and if she loses, she becomes his sweetheart, as she indicated her affection towards Shinkuro.

When Akuu Company was in a raid, Kirihiko encountered Shinkuro and Misora. She joined them for fighting together while looking for the Black Knight.

Manga
She debuts at the beginning of the chapter 18 in manga, in which she appears as an assassin for her target. When she plays arcade game and accomplishes 50 defeats, meanwhile a man angers with her, Shinkuro appears and she quickly moved to hide in an alley. Since that incident, Kirihiko makes varied appearances meanwhile she gradually befriends with Murasaki and Shinkuro, she eventually shows her affection as she finally falls in love and forces Shinkuro a kiss.

She often plays with Shinkuro and Murasaki, as she had cried because Murasaki considered her as a "friend" and she blushed after hugging Shinkuro and secretly helped them. Therefore, she stands for them although she belongs in Akuu Company and she is sometimes embarrassed by it.

When the building is collapsing, she understands the notion of friendship and ends up crashed under the rubble. Afterwards, Kirihiko feels dying down, but in reality, she had survived the collapse. However she'd not like to face Murasaki and Shinkuro.

Later on, she seems more calm and apparently forming bonds of friendship other than Shinkuro.