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Introduction |
Kudou Minoru (九島 光宣) is a member of the Kudou Family, which was one of the Ten Master Clans, and now is part of the 18 Assistant Houses. He attends Second High School as a second year student.
Appearance[]
“ | "I can't believe someone else as drop-dead gorgeous as Miyuki existed!" | ” |
Minoru is a pale boy with gentle, yet delicate features that would not be mistaken for a girl. With his looks, he is seen as the archetype of a pretty boy. He has a high pitched voice befitting of his boyish appearance. His physical appearance attracts others' attentions easily in the same way Miyuki's does. During an excursion with Tatsuya, Miyuki and Minami, both him and Miyuki attracted too much attention and even invoked lust from those of the same gender.
His ethereal and otherworldly beauty is very striking, just like Miyuki's. This is due to their similar backgrounds.
Personality[]
Due to his condition, Minoru is eager to prove himself as a member of the Kudou especially to his grandfather Retsu.[1] Due to his weak constitution, Minoru being unable to go to school regularly and has a few friends[2] but he values their company when they are together and is eager to help them when he could.[3]
Background[]
Minoru is the youngest son of Kudou Makoto, current head of the Kudou Clan. He is an Augmented Magician created from the genetic material of two siblings due to his father's warped idea that he had to produce an heir far stronger than him.
Officially, Minoru is created using an egg from Makoto’s wife inseminated with Makoto’s sperm. In truth, Minoru's father is Makoto and his mother is Makoto's youngest sister who had married into the Fujibayashi Clan. Hence, he is actually Fujibayashi Kyouko's half-brother. Of all Retsu's grandchildren, Kyouko and Minoru are especially close. He respects and gets along well with Retsu and is happy when his talent is acknowledged by Retsu.
As an Augmented Magician, there is a possibility that he might not live long enough to grow into an adult. He has an incredibly weak constitution which is the byproduct of gene manipulation. As a result, he spent a quarter of his days in sickbed. It is mentioned that his magic power rivals that of even Miyuki's, but due to his weak constitution he can't use his magic to its full extent.
However, it has been noted that he is one of the strongest Magicians of his generation, with few in the world matching him. Minoru is also intelligent and will have a number of chances to show his strength potentially as a magic artificer, according to Kudou Retsu.
Plot[]
Steeplechase Chapter[]
Minoru is introduced resting in his room where Retsu visits him and assures Minoru that his Magic Power is the top among his peers and in time he will have his chance to show it. He is Retsu's motivation for stopping the use of Magicians as living weapons causing him to experiment with Parasite Dolls during the Nine Schools Competition. [1]
Ancient City Insurrection Chapter[]
After Retsu agrees to personally cooperate with Tatsuya on his mission to capture Zhou Gongjin, Minoru joins Tatsuya, Kyouko, Miyuki and Minami for dinner where he is shown to be mutually flustered at Minami.[4]
Escapes Chapter[]
After watching Tatsuya's press conference on Project E.S.C.A.P.E.S, Minoru felt admiration and aspiration towards Tatsuya's resolve then that night, Zhou Gongjin's ghost tried to possess his body but Minoru uses Loyalty Programming to absorb his knowledge making the ghost a second consciousness for Minoru like a spiritual AI assistant and not "united" as one entity. [5] Minoru then goes to the 9th Institute planning to absorb a parasite based on Zhou's knowledge on the parasite's power to cure his weak constitution but decides not to proceed as he doubts whether he is ready to control one. [6]
Minoru calls Kyouko's personal number and she confirms to him that Tatsuya was the target during the Tuman Bomba attack at Izu Villa. Minoru tells her that he sensed strong magic waves that collided and one if them is from Tatsuya, causing Kyouko to think that Minoru can use Elemental Sight and tells him that Tatsuya and Miyuki are fine but Minami is hospitalized in Aoba Medical Center due to overheating her Magic Calculation Area. [7] Suffering from unbearable anxiety over Minami, Minoru visits her and discovers that her injury hasn’t started healing, and her magic calculation area is still damaged then tells her that he will find a cure. He returns to the 9th Institute and successfully absorbs the parasite confirming his theory that the parasite's power is the cure for Minami as his body heals from the injuries during his struggle to control the parasite. [8]
Minoru returns to the hospital and talks to Tatsuya, Miyuki and Minami about his plan to cure Minami but Tatsuya recognizes Minoru's smile resembling Zhou's and Miyuki also recognizes Minoru's psion wave and suspects he is a parasite. Minoru the states that he is the number two of the Kudou Clan and has knowledge to control the parasites but Tatsuya corrects him as the number one of the Kudou Clan, a magician who might be stronger than his grandfather Kudou Retsu making Minoru glad to be recognized by Tatsuya. Minoru tries to assure them that even though he became a parasite, there is no erosion of his ego and he has proper knowledge and power to cope with it correctly. Tatsuya deduces that Minoru wants Minami to become a parasite and rejects the idea while Minoru retorts that Minami will stop being a magician if she remains like this and a fight ensues between Tatsuya and Minoru while Miyuki protects Minami. After numerous use of magic, the fight turns to a deadlock unless Tatsuya and Minoru really intends to kill each other but in the end, Minoru tells Tatsuya that his only objective now is to tell Minami that becoming a parasite will cure her and continue being a magician then leaves. [9]
Invasion Chapter[]
Minoru tries to return to the hospital but this time, the Saegusa and Juumonji Clan are there to capture him. Minoru defeats Saegusa Izumi and Saegusa Kasumi by concealing a similar magic within their Nitrogen Storm and knock them out due to oxygen defeciency then defeats Saegusa Mayumi with shadow beast magic but he is unable to breakthrough Juumonji Katsuto "Iron Wall" causing him to retreat. [10] Concluding that he cannot reach Minami alone, Minoru uses a fortune-telling device which directs him to assist Raymond Sage Clark and Jacob Regulus who are pursued by police upon entering Japan and they agreed to help each other on their objectives despite Raymond and Regulus senses that Minoru is different from other parasites. [11]
Minoru goes back to the 9th Institute but is stopped by Kuroba Ayako and Kuroba Fumiya who uses Direct Pain causing Minoru to use Nox Out on the entire laboratory and using this as a distraction to activate the parasite dolls and they engage the Kuroba twins while he heads to the entrance of the warehouse. Retsu confronts Minoru and tells him that he could not stand the thought that Minoru will be imprisoned and treated like an experimental animal and resolves to kill Minoru himself. Minoru is unable to bring himself to fight his grandfather but the parasite inside him refuse to perish. When Minoru regained consciousness, he screams in regret upon realizing his grandfather has died and leaves the laboratory with fifteen parasites dolls. [12]
Abilities[]
Magical Abilities[]
Minoru possesses magic power befitting for the grandson of Kudou Retsu that at age 16, he already mastered all the magic of the Kudou clan. However, he cannot demonstrate that power consistently due to his weak constitution and can only utilize his magic as he wishes when he isn't sick. Due to his weak constitution, he can't fulfill his role as a living weapon nor show off his talents. He has absorbed a Parasite on his own will. [8]
Currently, he is the only person who (supposedly) didn't get any "erosion in emotion", after being merged with a Parasite.
He is strong enough to defeat Saegusa Kasumi, Saegusa Izumi, and Saegusa Mayumi in a fight. It is acknowledged by Kudou Makoto, the current Head of Kudou, that present Minoru is the strongest magician among Kudou.
- Spark is a fundamental magic that forces out electrons from the target and causes an electric discharge phenomenon. Minoru is able to control the scale of Spark to make it affect a wide area[13] or focus on a single area like a car's engine to make it explode[14]
- A highly complex, Sensory-Type magic derived from the Ancient Magic technique Matoi that involves manipulating color, shape, sound, heat, and even position to project an illusion of the caster to fool the opponent. It stops the opponent from casting magic by preventing the opponent's ability to set coordinates for his or her magic. This is done by interfering with both visual signals (certain spells need visual confirmation) and by creating a duplicate of the user even within the Information Dimension (prevents accurate targeting of the user's Eidos by the opponent).
- It is an Ancient Magic that manipulates the vectors. Based on the user's wishes, this secretive magic can redirect other people's attention to the desired location and people with their vectors scrambled will never locate their target.
- He neither developed this magic on his own nor learned it from a mentor. He got this magic directly from the "knowledge" of Zhou Gongjin which he absorbed in Escape Arc. After being subjected to Loyalty Ancient Magic of Kudou, that "knowledge" stays inside 'him' as a separate consciousness. [15] Minoru got access to all other Zhou Gongjin's magic such as Golden Electron Silkworms, Shadow Beast in the same way. [16]
- Loyalty Programming (忠誠術式)
- Loyalty programming is an Ancient Magic that works on the spiritual or pushion information bodies. The conditions of the "loyalty" can be modified by the magician. In the Steeplechase chapter this magic was used on the parasite dolls. Minoru used this magic to "absorb" the "ghost" of Zhou Gongjin and acquired his knowledge as well.[15]
- This is a Sensory magic that allows users to connect to the Information Dimension. Different from Tatsuya, Minoru is able to sense powerful magic from a distance of over 400 kilometers passively without needing direction and without needing to intentionally watch it.[7]
- Jintai Hakka (人体発火)
- This magic which is also known as "Human Ignition" disables the magical defense of a human body and forcibly extracts electrons from molecules, constituting the cell and releases it out of the body. It is named "Jintai Hakka" because the discharge occurring on the skin exhibits an appearance like a spontaneous ignition of human body phenomenon. But in reality, it is a terrible magic that collapses cells at the molecular level by depriving the electrons used for inter-molecular bonding.[16]
- Cloudless Thunder (青天霹靂)
- Air is converted into plasma, and the electronic shower extracted from the plasma explodes towards the target. The negatively charged attack, is an attack of two stages that exposes the target to a violent stream of positive ions which were left behind.[16]
- Oxidation Decay (酸化崩壊)
- Is a magic that removes electrons from solids and deprives them of inter-molecular bonding. [17]
- Plasma Bullets (プラズマ・ブリット)
- A series of ionized air bullets fired in series.
- NOx Out (ノックス・アウト)
- NOx Out is a magic that causes NOx, or nitrogen oxide, to appear in the “Out” state. Specifically, it is an absorption magic that forces oxygen and nitrogen in the air to combine. The compounds produced avoid nitrogen dioxide, which is extremely toxic, and are mainly used with magic to create nitrogen monoxide. However, nitrogen monoxide is also toxic. If you breathe it in, you lose consciousness in a few minutes. Because of this feature, it is called “NOx Out” or “Knockout”. The effect of this magic on humans is not only a loss of consciousness due to nitric oxide. By consuming a large amount of oxygen in the air it also creates an oxygen-deficient condition. In enclosed spaces, this magic can cause a large amount of damage.[17]
- Mental Interference Type
it connects the Psion Information Body to the spirit and the body, where it interferes with the Pushion Information Body.
Equipment[]
Silver Torus[]
“ | "This CAD is a wonderful product. This development of Taurus Silver is no doubt genius!" | ” |
—Kudou Minoru |
- Minoru uses a Bracelet-Type CAD on each of his hand while it is common practice to only use 1 CAD and worn in the non-dominant hand. Minoru needs 2 CAD's to store over 99 Magic Sequences but is unable to find a Magic Engineer to adjust the CAD to his style until the Thought Operated CAD by invented by Taurus Silver was available.
Fortune Telling Device[]
- Minoru acquired this device after "absorbing" the knowledge of Zhou. This device will display a number of abstract words, that gives Minoru an idea of what to expect. (For example: “good fortune”, “southwest”, “island”, “sky”, and “port”). It can also give a rough estimate of the time frame.[18]
Trivia[]
- Minoru's first name means the following: 光 means "light" while 宣 means "proclaim"
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Volume 13, Chapter 0
- ↑ https://mahouka.jp/3rd/character/detail/?chara=22
- ↑ Ancient City Insurrection II
- ↑ Volume 14, Chapter 3
- ↑ Volume 24, Chapter 4
- ↑ Volume 24, Chapter 6
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Volume 25, Chapter 2
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Volume 25, Chapter 5
- ↑ Volume 25, Chapter 6
- ↑ Volume 26, Chapter 4
- ↑ Volume 26, Chapter 5
- ↑ Volume 26, Chapter 7
- ↑ Ancient City Insurrection II
- ↑ Ancient City Insurrection V
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Volume 24, Chapter 4
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Volume 25, Chapter 6
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Volume 26, Chapter 7
- ↑ Volume 26, Chapter 5