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Kai Chisaki

Character

Overhaul wants a world with no Quirks in it, and intends to build one using his own. Kai Chisaki took the Shie Hassaikai from the man who raised him, took a child apart and put her back together for her blood, and lost both arms to the villains he had insulted.

Age: 27 at first appearance; 28 pre-timeskip; 36 currently
Eye: Gold
Hair: Dark brown
Role: Main Antagonist Of The Shie Hassaikai Arc
Kanji: 治崎廻
Quirk: Overhaul
Gender: Male
Height: 179 cm (5'10")
Status: Imprisoned
Birthday: March 20
English Va: Kellen Goff
Debut Anime: Episode 62
Debut Manga: Chapter 115
Japanese Va: Kenjiro Tsuda
Fighting Style: Close and long range combat
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Appearance

Pale and narrow, his auburn hair short and shaggy above a right-side part, his eyes thin over small gold irises. He wears a bomber jacket in dark olive green, its collar thick with purple fur, over a black dress shirt, a pale gray tie, and white sneakers. The white surgical gloves and the magenta plague doctor's mask are what people remember him by, and Izuku Midoriya takes the mask off him.

After the Hassaikai fell he had no arms: Mr. Compress and Tomura Shigaraki removed them with Compress and Decay, and Tartarus left him longer-haired and stubbled with the stumps bandaged. Fused with Shin Nemoto he sprouted a second pair of clawed arms, his mask grafting onto a face wrapped in black fabric. Fused with Rikiya Katsukame his lower half became a stone construct bristling with clawed limbs, his torso seated in its mouth.

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Personality

He is a mysophobe, an antisocial sociopath, and a man who wants history rolled back to before Quirks existed. An old theory tracing Quirks to rats fed his germ phobia into an ideology: powers are a plague, and heroism and villainy alike are symptoms. Sacrifice and petty crime get the same word out of him, sickness. Erasing Quirks would also hand the yakuza back the grip on society they lost, which is the point. Dirt of any kind brings on hives and takes his composure with it, hence the air-filtering mask on him and on his subordinates. Running the organization he is level-headed and, as Twice observed, pleasant enough on first contact; provoked, a visible killing intent surfaces, and that is the accurate version.

People are inventory. He kills his own men over small mistakes, and their masks remind them they do not deserve his air. Eri, his boss's granddaughter, he took apart and reassembled for her cells, shamed into obedience, and killed her minders in front of her when she got out. He raged when she was taken, and later admitted to Mirio he had never thought of her as his child.

The exception is the old boss, who found him on the street as a child and raised him. That debt is real, and repaying it by restoring the yakuza is the only thing he genuinely wants. When the boss refused him Eri, Kai beat him into a coma and proceeded anyway, telling himself it was for the man's sake. The irony was not lost on Tomura: a plan to erase Quirks that runs entirely on one. Tomura ended it by taking his arms, his Quirk Factor, leaving him Quirkless exactly as he had wanted the world to be. Prison reduced him to a shell mumbling for his boss, wanting no revenge, only to see him again. After the Final War the boss, woken by support technology, visited his cell and named what he had done to Eri, and Kai could only cry and apologize.

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Abilities

Overhaul lets him take apart anything he touches and rebuild it however he likes, which amounts to control over matter. He kills by disassembly and heals by reassembly, does both to himself, and merges with other people to borrow their Quirks, Confession from Shin, Energy Suck from Rikiya. In a fight he reshapes the floor to move himself and drives the terrain up into spikes, which makes every range his. His arms were the Quirk Factor, so losing them ended the power.

Kendo Rappa demanded a fight for his loyalty and was disassembled and reassembled before he could land the punch, and five later attempts went the same way, which says something about Kai's speed given the Quirk needs touch. Lemillion outclassed him until reassembled spikes pinned the hero. Merged with Shin he broke Sir Nighteye and pushed Izuku to 20% of One For All, then, defused by Eri, fused with Rikiya for one last form and lost to Full Cowl at 100%.

The intellect is the dangerous part. Yakuza practice says leave no trail, so he disassembled targets, took what he needed, and restored them intact, leaving no evidence behind. From Eri's Rewind he built the Quirk-Destroying Drug, loaded into red darts, then the blue-capsule serum that reverses it, planning to sell the bullets to villains and the cure to heroes with Eri in the middle and corner the market from both ends.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Kai Chisaki in MHA?

Kai Chisaki, known as Overhaul, is the leader of the Shie Hassaikai yakuza clan in My Hero Academia and the main antagonist of the Shie Hassaikai arc. He wants to erase Quirks entirely, believing they are the root of the world's problems, and uses his Overhaul Quirk to disassemble and reassemble matter.

What is Kai Chisaki's quirk?

Kai Chisaki's Quirk is called Overhaul, which lets him take apart anything he touches on a molecular level and rebuild it however he wants. He uses it to heal himself, kill enemies by disassembly, and even fuse with other people to borrow their Quirks.

What happened to Kai Chisaki at the end of MHA?

Kai Chisaki loses both arms to Tomura Shigaraki, who tears them off and destroys his Quirk Factor, leaving him permanently Quirkless. He ends up imprisoned, reduced to mumbling for his old boss, wracked with guilt over what he did to Eri.

Did Kai Chisaki apologize to Eri?

Yes, Kai Chisaki apologizes to Eri after the Final War, when the Shie Hassaikai's old boss, revived through support technology, visits him in prison and confronts him about what he did to her. Chisaki can only cry and say he is sorry.

Does Chisaki ever get his arms back?

No, Kai Chisaki never gets his arms back. Tomura Shigaraki removes both of them using his Decay Quirk, and since Chisaki's Quirk Factor was located in his arms, he remains Quirkless and without them for the rest of the story.

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