Kiruko

Kiruko (キルコ) is a central protagonist in the Heavenly Delusion series.

Character Profile
Kiruko is a girl who runs a handyman shop 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 an 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 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 a scar on her forehead 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.

Personality
Many masculine traits are present in Kiriko. She teases and makes fun of Maru often in a way that is typical of male friendships. She also isn’t bothered by being seen naked in front of him either. She can often be seen sitting with her legs apart instead of together.

She has an insecure attachment style as she is afraid of being abandoned like she was when young.

History
10 years after the calamity, Kiriko and her younger brother Haruki were orphaned and wanderers eventually ending up 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. This happened five years prior to the start of the story. Overtime Haruki, now Kiriko, began doing odd jobs opening her own handyman shop 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. 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 a month of traveling, Maru confesses to her his attraction in which Kiruko explains that she is her brother, 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. Telling him to not disappear on her again. Maru's fighting ability has saved the two multiple times and left Kiruko feeling inadequate as a bodyguard. Even with that, they stick together and enjoy eachothers 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
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. She described the Kiru-Beam’s firepower as being capable of penetrating any surface thinner than a human arm.

She has shown the ability to recall some of Kiriko's memories. She is a rather tactical fighter with the ability to quickly deduce how enemy abilities function and how to exploit them.

Trivia

 * Kiruko's name is a combination of "Kiriko" and "Haruki".