Kiruko

Kiruko (キルコ) is one of the two main characters of the Heavenly Delusion series.

Character Profile
Kiruko is a girl who runs a handyman office in Nakano, Tokyo. She accepts a bodyguard request to take Maru to "Heaven." She is a skilled survivor and an expert with a gun. She used to live in Funayama Orphanage in Asakusa.

Prior to the events of the series, Haruki’s brain was implanted into his sister’s body, Kiriko. She has been searching for the doctor who performed the operation, as well as the man who served as her mentor before the accident, Robin.

Appearance
Kiruko is a young adult woman. She has brown eyes and brown hair that reaches to her upper back. One of her most noticeable features are her bushy black eyebrows. She sports a white jacket with purple/blue hemming, round-neck black inside shirt, low waist tight fitting blue jeans with a gun holster attached on the right side and light brown high-top sneakers. She received the jacket as a gift from Robin while she was still Haruki.

After the surgery her hair changed from black to brown when it grew back. She also acquired stitches scars all-round her head and a bullet wound in the back of her head, both normally covered by hair. She describes the texture of her hair as dry and red. She has scars on shoulders, hips and arms.

Personality
Kiruko is shown to be quite lively, as she gets along well with Maru and cracks jokes often. She can be resourceful as she can find items in fallen debris, and is cool in the face of battle when she needs to be. Kiruko also has some masculine personality traits, as she teases Maru often in a way that is typical of male friendships, she is comfortable being vulnerable around him and trusts him.

Kiruko has an insecure attachment style as she is afraid of being abandoned. She also underestimates herself as she thinks she is not useful enough or misjudges her own skills. When she was mentioned being useful by Maru, she realized the strength of her own powers and became more confident.

History
10 years after the calamity, Kiriko and her younger brother Haruki were orphaned and wanderers eventually ending up in the Funayama Orphanage, in which Kiriko became a street racer to bring in funding for the orphans. One day, during a race, a man-eater appeared in which Haruki went to stop it. Out of the protective instinct, Kiriko saw her little brother being eaten and attacked the man-eater. Freeing only her brothers torso and head, she stood over him crying before she was shot with a bullet to the head.

The doctor seeing both siblings dying, did a body transplant and placed Haruki's mind into Kiriko's body. When awakening he was obviously left in confusion and spent 4 months in hospital. This happened five years prior to the start of the story. Overtime Haruki, now Kiriko, began working as a travelling bodyguard moving between towns, until opening her own handyman office in Nakano. She began going by a blend of their names (Kiruko) to pay homage to the fact they were two people put together. She also fought man-eaters ultimately ending up meeting Maru and through tragic events began traveling with him, to escort him to "Heaven" as a bodyguard mission requested by Mikura Manaka. During the journey, Kiruko began her own mission to find the doctor who did the surgery to question him and Robin Inazaki, who Haruki admired. After some time, Maru confesses to her his attraction in which Kiruko explains that she is Haruki, but still allowing him to call him "sis" as she has gotten used to it.

Overtime Kiruko begins to see Kiriko's memories which made her happy because she realized her sister was still alive inside her. With that, she also begins to feel more comfortable in her skin.

Maru
She cares deeply about Maru as a person and wants to see him reach Heaven for his own sake. Even going as far as crying when he wasn't where she had left him, and telling him to not disappear on her again. Maru's fighting ability has saved the two multiple times and sometimes left Kiruko feeling inadequate as a bodyguard. Although, he has praised her on her marksmanship abilities and they both have their own unique strengths. They stick together and enjoy each others companies.

Maru is in love with Kiruko and he has confessed that to her, but she rejected him revealing that she is actually a boy (in mind) in a girl’s body, which is why she cannot reciprocate these feelings, although she does care for Maru.

Robin Inazaki
She admired Robin as a father figure while growing up around the Asakusa race track. She refused to believe he was dead after recovering from surgery and set out to find him, seeing Maru's job proposition as an opportunity to do so.

Skills and Abilities

 * Marksmanship - She has been described by Maru as an excellent marksman. She was able to blast the head off a charging dog in a single shot.
 * Perception - She is a rather tactical fighter with the ability to quickly deduce how enemy abilities function and how to exploit them.
 * Navigation - Kiruko is also a skilled navigator. She is able to gain information efficiently and arrange them on a map to decide her and Maru's next destination. She can use a map and compass with ease, something that Maru has shown to struggle at.
 * Resourcefulness - She was able to create a makeshift raft with nearby items to cross a large body of water. She is skilled in finding useful items in fallen debris, and basic cooking knowledge. She can also gain information relatively quickly from reading and talking to locals.

Equipments

 * Kiru-Beam - An energy gun able to disintegrate nearby items. Can only be fired four times in a row before the battery can recharge, and is proven to be unreliable at times. However, the Kiru-Beam has saved Maru and Kiruko on many occasions.
 * Kiruko's flashlight is a Nanogrid lamp produced by Biolite.

Trivia

 * Kiruko's name is a combination of "Kiriko" and "Haruki".
 * The jacket which Kiruko wears is from Robin, who was someone she looked up to many years ago and is trying to find while guiding Maru to "Heaven".