Name: Kaede Sagimori Affiliation: Kansai Anti-Anomaly Bureau, Kyoto Branch - Kifune Unit Age: 17, 11th Grade Height: 160cm. She struggles with her equipment being too large for her. Appearance: Black bob cut, though it's currently messy due to her busy schedule. She has sharp blue eyes that make her emotions hard to read. She usually wears a Ranger Green chest rig over her sailor-style school uniform. Her helmet is equipped with a spiritual night vision device for nocturnal scouting. Talismans and shimenawa decorative cords are tied to various parts of her gear, and her rifle is also adorned with exorcism seals. Her primary weapon is an SR30 assault rifle using .300 Blackout ritual-blessed anti-anomaly rounds, and her sidearm is a Glock 19 using 9mm sutra-engraved rounds. In urban areas or when the protection of the Kifune water god is required, she uses a KRISS Vector SMG loaded with shrine-consecrated steel rounds purified with Kifune water. Personality: Serious and taciturn. She doesn't speak more than necessary but is caring toward others. She is calm during missions, but tends to get curious when it comes to anomalies. Her peers say she's "more like special forces than a shrine maiden." She admires the title of "Perfect Soldier of the Pure Land," the highest rank for an exorcist maiden. While not a supernatural ability user per se, she has a constitution with "excessive spiritual sensitivity." Because she can see things normal people cannot, she has been followed by anomalies since childhood. As a result, she is so accustomed to fear that her senses are somewhat broken. She likes new Starbucks releases, sweets like cake, and stuffed animals. Her recent hobby is nail art, which her friends taught her. She trains with the Tengu of Mount Kurama, located next to Kifune Shrine. She always washes her hands with shrine water before a mission, and her earmuffs pick up static when an anomaly approaches. Also, there is a high probability that something strange will appear in the background of any photos she takes. Setting: A field operative for the "Kansai Anti-Anomaly Bureau," which handles anomalies, cursed objects, and spiritual disturbances occurring in the Kinki/Kansai region. Based out of a shrine, she fights using a combination of modern equipment and ancient exorcism arts. Her weapons are "Spirit-Equipped Rifles" based on standard assault rifles. The bullets use special warheads mixed with salt, iron, and silver powder. Hand-written talismans are pasted on the bottom of the magazines, which tear away as the rounds are depleted. She is often deployed to haunted tunnels, abandoned villages, and mountain disappearance cases. She specifically handles "vanishing-type" anomaly cases and is frequently assigned high-risk missions with low survival rates. The reason high school girls like Kaede fight is that between ages 14 and 19, the ego, psyche, and perception of reality are unstable, making them more susceptible to contact with anomalies, so those with aptitude are concentrated in the youth demographic. The school uniform itself is a simple cursed object that utilizes collective recognition, discipline, and youthfulness, allowing them to go undercover as students. About the Kifune Unit: Their headquarters is an underground facility beneath Kifune Shrine deep in the mountains. They handle mountain anomalies, water spirits, curses, classical yokai, and Kyoto-style sorcery. There are several other high school girl members in the bureau, and they get along well.