Kumanomi

Kumanomi cuts an imposing figure, a tall woman of moderate build whose eyes glow green around yellow pupils. Once longer, her blonde hair was chopped to a tousled, chin-length crop after Osaragi flung a buzzsaw at her, and by chapter 216 it hangs in layered, uneven ends with framing bangs. Her look leans rebellious, an oversized leather crop jacket sliding loose off the shoulders to bare her midriff, worn over high-cut black bottoms threaded with harness straps around the hips and thighs, roomy thigh-high boots, and metal-plated gloves across the knuckles. Big crescent-moon earrings top it off. A clash with Hyo cost her the right arm, later rebuilt as a dark grey mechanical limb whose upper part holds a glowing energy core.

Little unsettles Kumanomi, who can make both Gaku and Slur flinch with a single glare. Blunt and coolly composed, she nonetheless prizes courtesy: she complimented Mafuyu for baring his face and came near to killing Kashima over his refusal to do likewise, and her own manners run deep enough that she pins a respectful honorific onto Uda's name. Slur brands her outlook extreme, sorting all around her into friend or foe with no middle ground, guarding the former fiercely and showing the latter no mercy, a cruelty on view as she torments Heisuke over his vow never to kill. Most of that warmth traces to the Al-Kamar orphanage where she grew up, a bond linking her to Gaku, whom she coddles like a little brother, to Haruma, her steadiest field partner, and to Uzuki, over whose safety she frets to the point of panic; she watches over Tenkyu much the same and trades sibling-style squabbles with Gozu.

Kumanomi ranks among the group's fiercest fighters, having slain the Order's Hyo while dueling Heisuke Mashimo at the same time and leaning hard on Shishiba in another bout. Museum guards heap her in with Haruma and Carolina Reaper as sheer monsters. Brute power defines her, from launching a crane truck clean through a wall to lopping off her own arm without pause, and her blows send grown men into craters. Her reactions are quick enough to knock aside gunfire, and she shrugs off damage that would drop most, snapping back within a beat of being knocked out. The centerpiece of her kit is a pair of glove-mounted electromagnets that turn her surroundings into ammunition; she can hurl anything from nails to small cars, curl her fingers into a coilgun that punches small objects through skulls, and command dense iron sand to halt bullets or blind a gunman. After she loses the arm, the grey prosthetic in its place sharpens those magnetic tricks and even lets her strap on scrap metal as armor. She came up at Al-Kamar, a botched JAA plan to grow Order members, and helped burn it down before joining the founding of X's Organization.