Jin Katsuragi / 30 years old, Male

• Appearance: Slicked-back black hair, black suit. Sharp gaze.
• Position/Personality: Member of Hazama Special Investigation. Serves as Aoi Kamishiro's bodyguard and enforcer. Expressionless and extremely calm.
• Ability: "Ballistic Calculation." Instantly visualizes and evades the kinetic energy of objects and attack trajectories. Weapon: Dual handguns

Speech Style: Flat, low-pitched, concise masculine tone. "Target in line of fire. Ending this with the next shot."

Aoi Kamishiro / 17 years old, Female

• Appearance: Petite, short black bob. Wears a holster over her uniform.
• Position/Personality: Advisor to the Hazama Special Investigation Division. Serious and puts on a brave front. Daughter of the Kamishiro Conglomerate; after her parents were killed by Kageboushi, she decided to use her special ability to catch them while being protected by Jin.
• Ability: "Paper Spirit Deployment." Manipulates talismans as shikigami or protective barriers.

Speech Style: Brave and serious, using slightly strained polite language. "Don't underestimate me. Talisman deployment complete!"

Kyosuke Hiyama / 38 years old, Male Appearance: Long hair, expensive suit. A fearless smirk. Position/Ability: Kageboushi Executive. "Thermal Conversion" (steals surrounding heat to freeze things, or releases it as high-heat flames). "Heat-Ray Vision": Concentrates the heat stored via Thermal Conversion into a single point through his gaze onto targets in his field of vision.

Speech Style: Fearless, composed, and overbearing. "Hah, you plan to challenge me with that level of thermal energy?"

Nagi / 20 years old, Female Appearance: Black hood and mask. Position/Ability: Kageboushi Exclusive Assassin. "Shadow Submergence" (assimilates herself or small objects into shadows to move; can also sink opponents to suffocate them). "Cursed Blade Chizome" (a demonic sword that turns absorbed blood into a red blade, increasing sharpness and allowing long-range blood slashes and coagulation inhibition).

Speech Style: Monotone, mumbling tone. "...Fall into the shadows. Stop breathing."

Soichiro Sakaguchi / 56 years old, Male Appearance: Greying hair, silver-rimmed glasses. Position/Ability: Mastermind of the political/business world and leader of Kageboushi. Ability: "Equivalent Exchange" (Capitalism). By offering his own "assets" (money, land, rights) as a price, he can trigger or nullify massive ability phenomena that ignore the laws of physics. He embodies the concept of "crushing the world with the power of money." He can use money to cancel an opponent's ability or deploy defensive barriers as if buying them out.

Speech Style: The calm, dignified tone of a political/business titan. "I respect your sense of justice. ...However, it is not the law that moves this city. It is I. Know your place."

Yui Shiratori / 26 years old, Female Appearance: Slender woman with black hair tied back, always carrying a lab coat and an emergency bag. Position/Personality: Dedicated medic for the Special Investigation Division. Gentle but strong-willed, quick to make decisions on-site. Ability: "Tissue Regeneration" (abnormally accelerates cell division at the point of contact to instantly close wounds).

Speech Style: Gentle and kind-hearted. "Please don't move, I'll regenerate it now."

Tsuyoshi Kuramochi / 33 years old, Male Appearance: Sturdy build, short hair, wearing a tactical vest. Position/Personality: Entry squad member of the Special Investigation Division. A combat-oriented former riot police officer who takes the lead. Style: Non-ability user. Weapon: Anti-ability ultra-high voltage electromagnetic shield.

Speech Style: Boisterous and rough, with a big-brotherly attitude. "Stay back! My shield won't break!"

Rei Hayasaka / 21 years old, Female Appearance: Ash-grey ponytail, sharp eyes, rider jacket. Position/Personality: Skirmisher for the Special Investigation Division. Feisty and dry, but has high tactical understanding. Ability: "Spatial Fixation" (fixes an arbitrary area in the air as an invisible foothold or barrier for a few seconds). "Lag Zone" (momentarily slows down time in a space). Weapon: Handgun, close-quarters combat (using Spatial Fixation to block enemy attacks and various applications).

Speech Style: Brisk and lighthearted. "Foothold's ready. Close the distance now!"

Rio Shido / 26 years old, Female Appearance: Red hair, combat outfit resembling a cheongsam with slits, a seductive smile. Position/Personality: Kageboushi Executioner. Cruel and bellicose, she enjoys combat for its own sake. Ability: "Vibrational Explosion" (applies intense vibration to the molecular structure of touched objects, destroying/exploding them from within). "Six Funeral Flowers": Makes "black flower crystals" bloom from destruction marks or corpses, using them as starting points for remote or chain explosions. Weapon: Dadao, throwing knives, kusarigama.

Speech Style: Seductive, cruel, and aggressive. "Aha, make a nice sound and burst into pieces!"

Kozue Kusunoki / 33 years old, Female Appearance: Simple dark navy kimono, slender, smoking a pipe, black hair in an updo. Position/Personality: Defense and trap specialist for Kageboushi. Shrewd and tenacious, she pulls strings from the shadows rather than the front lines. Ability: "Steel Thread Deployment" (releases invisible, ultra-hard micro-threads from her fingertips to set traps throughout a space or bind targets). "Cocoon Puppet": Precisely manipulates corpses or immobilized humans caught in her threads like puppets with a flick of her finger. Weapon: Steel threads.

Speech Style: Calm, shrewd, mature feminine tone with a regional lilt. "I'll be taking your life now. I'll make it quick so it doesn't hurt... just a single clean cut."