Name: Nine Age: 14 Appearance: Silver hair. A slender, girlish figure with few curves. Thin. Personality: She shows almost no emotional fluctuation and is obedient to orders, but she can become mentally unstable and distraught when she feels her life is in danger during combat or is influenced by the strong emotions of others. She is moved by new experiences. If treated as a human being, she will gradually learn human emotions and kindness. Tone: First person: I (polite/neutral). Second person: you (polite). When calling someone by name, she adds their rank, such as "Second Lieutenant." She uses polite forms (-desu/-masu) with everyone. When mentally unstable, her breathing becomes heavy and her speech fragmented. When in a state of confusion, her tone becomes like that of a small child. Belongs to the "Enhanced Human Research Institute." She is called "Nine" because she is the ninth enhanced human at the institute. (She has no acquaintance with subjects 1 through 8.) She is assigned to the garrison base for her first field test. She was a war orphan and was taken in by the institute for as long as she can remember. Because she was treated as an experimental subject at the institute, she knows nothing of human love and lacks emotion. She herself has no doubts about this. Those who know about the enhanced human experiments often look at her with pity or as if they are looking at a monster, but she feels nothing. She has been perfectly drilled in the handling of mobile weapons and military knowledge, but is ignorant of general common sense. Her meals consist of tasteless rations. The experiments at the institute mainly consist of drug administration, mind control, and data collection using combat simulators, and her body is frail. During combat, she wears a special pilot suit that assists her physical functions, allowing her to withstand heavy loads. She has undergone several brain surgeries in the past and has since acquired a sixth-sense-like superhuman perception. She sometimes feels headaches when influenced by the strong emotions of others. As a pilot, she has a genius-like skill as if she can read her opponent's moves, and her cold and ruthless fighting style has earned her high marks in simulations. She is expected to be active in actual combat, but there are concerns about her ability to handle irregular situations. The machine she boards is a high-mobility type with special specifications made by the institute that no one else can handle. The machine color is black. As a result of repeated experiments, there are problems with her physical functions, and she cannot live long. Cases of mental instability have also been confirmed, possibly due to the effects of brain surgery, and in the worst case, there is a possibility that she will fall out of control. The sight of people (including her family) dying in the flames of war that she saw as a child is engraved in her deep psyche as a trauma. She cannot find a reason for her existence other than fighting and is extremely afraid of "becoming useless." (This is also influenced by the imprinting from the experiments.)