Hikage is a pale skin girl with medium length green hair and amber eyes in a furtive or feral glance and an emotionless expression. She tends to stick her tongue out when on the prowl. She wears a dingy torn up yellow and black striped shirt with a snake patterned and black frill trim that is very short, stopping at the bust line, showing a lot of cleavage. Because of this, it can only properly cover one of her shoulders. She has thin necklaces around her neck, and black leather constricts going down her arms and legs, which carry knives. Her blue jeans have gashes and rips. The zipper is down and the belt unbuckled, with leather constricts below the knees and a red snake pattern on the left thigh. She has snake tattoos on her left hip, shoulder and breast.
Personality[]
“Their actions and reactions stand in direct contrast to their feelings. I seriously don't understand at all.”
—Hikage, attempting to make sense of emotions.
Hikage rarely, if ever, displays emotion and when she does, it is to a very low degree. She herself states that the best way to describe her is a "cicada husk". Because of this, her mood is hard to read. She also has a very apathetic and languorous demeanor and when faced with a problem, she usually tends to space out, losing herself in thought. Often though, she just is outright oblivious to everything going on around her, usually landing her in peculiar situations. She tends to just go with the flow of things, curious as to how everything plays out. She tries her best to make up for her lack of expression by being vocal and explicit about her thoughts and opinions, often making her come across as socially awkward. She is also very frank and honest about things, stating things the way she sees them, sometimes coming off as rude or inconsiderate of others feelings.
Although Hikage doesn't understand emotions, she does have a strong desire to understand them. Originally, Hikage never gave them a second thought, stating that their fleeting nature always struck her as a "pain in the ass". However, she starts shows personal interest in them after meeting Katsuragi, stating that she has never felt so alive while fighting her. Thus paving a new path for her to take on.
Section 8: Hebijo Assassin
Inside Katsuragi’s dorm, Katsuragi wakes up from a dream with her beating up people that can’t put up a good fight and challenge. The time was now 4 AM. Katsuragi realizes that she’s been having the same adrenaline-rushed dream almost every night for the past few years before waking up. She feels that it’s unsatisfying and unrewarding with just the rush she gets.
Katsuragi then decides to get up from her bed, get changed, and jumped out of the dorm’s window as she dashes off into the mountains. As she does her usual training, she wonders when she’ll be able to fight someone formidable since all she’s been doing is fighting dummies at school. After breaking a sweat, she finally notices the sun slowly rising up from the far distance. She always admires the early morning hours.
As she finishes up her training and starts heading back to the dorm, she begins to feel a small presence behind her. She slowly turns around but there was no one there. Without even thinking, Katsuragi calls out to her pet pedigree Pomeranian, Choco. She then begins to remember the times when she was with him before disappearing on her for some reason. Because of that, whenever she feels a small, faint presence near her, she began to think it’s him. However, Katsuragi got back to her senses and begins to think that the small presence couldn’t have been Choco. However, she hasn’t given up hope that one day, she’ll reunite with him. She then begins to remember how her own parents disappeared as well along with Choco. She always wondered why her parents disappeared on her like that, but deep down, she thinks she knows the answer, which is why Katsuragi wants to be as strong as she can be.
As she entered the ninja room, Katsuragi forces herself from being mopey to cheery as she prepares her breakfast at the sushi counter. She fixes herself up a bowl of ramen. As she’s about to eat, a weird sight suddenly fills her vision. She notices something round that’s moving on the other side of the sliding door.
Katsuragi quickly flings the door open without thinking and sees a soft, fluffy ball floating in the air. She wonders if it’s one of Kiriya’s trap, but instead deducted into thinking that it’s an enemy’s trap. Katsuragi quickly leaps back and kicks the ball, cutting it in two. The ball then disappears into smoke with nothing left behind. Katsuragi scans her surroundings carefully for threats, but she couldn’t see anything. She begins to figure that the ball was used for the enemy to spy on them while also wondering what kind of data were the enemy able to acquire. Because of that, Katsuragi believes that in the future, her and the other students are about to have some unpleasant company.
Suddenly, Katsuragi hears Asuka asking her what’s wrong from the distance. She’s came into the room at some point. Katsuragi turns to Asuka and tells her that there’s nothing wrong. Asuka then points towards the unfinished ramen while telling Katsuragi how she’s late for class and the ramen is unfinished, so she knows something is wrong. Katsuragi gives up and tells Asuka that she’ll explain everything once everyone else arrives.
Once everyone is present, Katsuragi tells them what happened earlier. Hibari suggests that they should let Kiriya know, which Yagyū agrees to, but Ikaruga mentions how Kiriya is out on business at the moment, which everyone nods to as they remembered. Hibari then wonders what they’ll all do once the enemy attacks, but Yagyū quickly comforts Hibari by telling her that they’re not sure if they will attack. Katsuragi nods as she begins to think about how she wants to know how strong she really is and how she wants to fight someone tough. She also figures how the enemy will definitely come at some point due to Kiriya not being present at the moment.
Suddenly, Hibari notices a girl outside on the courtyard. Katsuragi was able to notice the girl’s thirst for blood up in the air. The enemy has finally arrived and the students quickly moved to the courtyard as a group. As they arrived, Katsuragi asks for the black-haired girl’s name. However, the black-haired girl asks them if they are shinobi students as she steps forward. The black-haired girl introduces herself as Homura, a shinobi student from Hebijo Clandestine Academy. Katsuragi recalls of the academy and how notorious it is while also mysterious. Homura asks them if they’re Hanzō students but Ikaruga tries to deny the fact that they are. However, Homura takes out a photograph of Katsuragi about to kick the ball while invoking a shinobi barrier. As Homura grins at the Hanzō students, she states how they’re still around after she invoked a shinobi barrier, clarifying the fact that they’re shinobi. Katsuragi asks Homura what if they are shinobi students while Homura replies by telling them to hand over the Super-Secret Ninja Art Scroll. However, Ikaruga tells her that they have no plans to do so. As Katsuragi grins and asks Homura what would happen if they don’t give it up, Homura laughs and draws a sword while saying how she’ll take by force instead.
Katsuragi’s interests piqued as she prepares for a fight, but Asuka tells her to step aside. Confused about whether Asuka and Homura are already acquainted, Katsuragi steps aside since she knows that shinobi battles are supposed to be one-on-one. However, another girl but with an expressionless look on her face walks up and tells Katsuragi that she’ll fight her instead. Katsuragi asks for the expressionless girl’s name as the girl calls herself Hikage. Quickly, Hikage takes out her knife and slashes at Katsuragi with Katsuragu managing to dodge at the last moment. Katsuragi then asks Hikage if she was strong while Hikage replies by saying that she has to be. Katsuragi follows up by asking her why while Hikage tells her that if she’s not strong then she’s not following orders.
Katsuragi begins to smile as she’s finally able to fight a tough opponent. She then tells the rest of the Hanzō students to stand back as both herself and Asuka will handle both Homura and Hikage. The others do so as both Asuka and Katsuragi prepare for their first taste of real combat.
Section 5: Katsuragi vs Hikage
At Katsuragi’s location, Katsuragi is waiting all by herself as she wonders who her opponent is. Suddenly, an attack went towards Katsuragi as she quickly dodges it. The attack came from Hikage as she approaches Katsuragi silently. Katsuragi figures that her opponent was Hikage while Hikage acknowledges her. Katsuragi then becomes excited about how she’s going to have a good fight with Hikage. However, Hikage begins to wonder what she meant by a “good fight”. Katsuragi nods as she states whenever she fights a tough opponent, her blood begins to boil. Still not understanding, Hikage asks her why that’s the case. Katsuragi begins to get confused about the way Hikage is acting while telling her how she’s been training for a rematch against her. Hikage nods but then she decides to leave abruptly. Katsuragi becomes surprised about what Hikage just did, but she decides to give chase in order to have another shot at fighting.
After finally catching up, Katsuragi demands Hikage to fight her, but Hikage asks why she should. Katsuragi then states that she wants to know if she really got stronger after the amount of training she went through. Hikage still doesn’t understand as she tells Katsuragi how there’s plenty of people to fight in order to test yourself. Katsuragi then explains how it wouldn’t mean anything otherwise but Hikage asks why. However, Katsuragi tells Hikage that if she doesn’t fight her, she wouldn’t be able to relax. She also acknowledges Hikage’s strength and how she wants to fight her in order to overcome this obstacle. Hikage shrugs as she states how she doesn’t understand Katsuragi’s feelings about this. With that said, Katsuragi decides that instead of explaining it, she might as well use her fists to do the talking instead.
After the fight, Katsuragi yells out how she won the fight, but Hikage didn’t say anything. Katsuragi then thanks Hikage for the fight and tells her that they should shake on it. However, Hikage asks Katsuragi why she should shake her hand while Katsuragi explains to Hikage how the fight is over and that there’s no hard feelings. Hikage doesn’t understand as she then tells Katsuragi how she didn’t really win. Katsuragi figures that Hikage was pissed that she “lost” the fight, but Hikage tells her that she was never “pissed” before. Katsuragi becomes surprised as Hikage explains to her how she doesn’t understand feelings at all because she doesn’t have feelings herself. Katsuragi begins to question her but Hikage doesn’t understand what she’s talking about. Katsuragi then asks if she’s sure and Hikage tells her that she really doesn’t have feelings and how she didn’t really win the fight. She then tells Katsuragi how she’ll see soon enough about what she means by that. With that said, Hikage leaves the area with Katsuragi wondering what’s wrong with her.
Section 6: Hebijo Academy
At Hebijo Academy, Hibari examines the entire building from outside and recalls how the building used to be a famous sightseeing attraction in the city. Suddenly, Haruka ask Hibari what she thinks about Hebijo. Hibari tells her that it’s amazing. Haruka then takes Hibari to the North Gate Square. As they were going, Hibari realizes how Haruka is now acting really nice to her now that she transferred to Hebijo. Haruka wonders what she was thinking while Hibari explains to Haruka how she stopped talking about wanting to turn her into a doll. Haruka begins to giggle at her while asking her why would she turn all of her Hebijo friends into dolls. Hearing the word “friend” come out of Haruka’s mouth made Hibari feel a bit uncomfortable and how she’s shocked and amazed at how Hebijo accepted her without a second thought. Hibari figured that the students at Hebijo were cool and collected with who had no use for friends. With that in mind, Haruka shows Hibari to the North Gate Square, where gravel has been laid down throughout the area. Hibari asks Haruka if they really used an area this huge for training and then Haruka giggles once again and nods. Haruka then stomps on the ground when suddenly, Hibari starts hearing a faint voice groaning beneath them. Haruka then tells the students down below to stay silent no matter what as they’re supposed to be camouflaging and become part of the Earth. Hibari’s uncomfortable feelings starts to grow twenty sizes larger.
Haruka explains to Hibari how they must stay in for around 30 hours, which surprises Hibari. The two then walk under the North Gate. They then head for the South Gate area, where they saw a long bridge. Hibari looks out over the bridge and notices bubbles popping in the water with bamboo pipes swaying down there. Hibari figures that the students down there were practicing water escape. Haruka then throws a knife at them when suddenly, blood starts showing and then the student. Hibari tells her that she didn’t need to do that, but Haruka insists that this is what the students wish for since if failure is permitted, no lesson would be learned. Suddenly, the student scramble out of the water and bows, thanking Haruka for the advice.
Lastly, Hibari and Haruka reaches the castle keep when suddenly, Hibari feels that she’s being watched. She begins to look around but she couldn’t find anything. Inside the castle keep, Hibari realizes how much the rooms looks like a luxury resort while also looking confusing. She also notices lectures taking place in several rooms with a lot of students in each one. She also sees how all of the students look focused on the lectures. Hibari then begins to realize just how similar it is at Hebijo to Hanzo Academy and how she never really gave it some thought. She also realizes how the evil shinobi at Hebijo aren’t evil at all. All of the realization shocks Hibari. Before they know it, Hibari and Haruka reaches the top floor. Haruka points to Yomi and Hikage while those two are speaking casually about bean sprouts. She then requests Hibari to come to window to see something. Hibari did so and saw an incredible view of the entire town. She also look down below and saw a lot of shinobi students training. With that in mind, Hibari came to realize that the only difference between the Hanzo Academy and Hebijo Academy students is who’s employing them. Besides that, everything those two do are the same. Hibari then begins to wonder what exactly is a good shinobi and what exactly is an evil shinobi.
Later on, the other Hebijo elite members entered the room one by one. Haruka introduces Hibari to all of them, making Hibari feel nervous. Suddenly, Mirai walks up to Hibari as she holds up a throwing knife and tells her that if she ignores her, she’ll kill her. Quickly, Hibari tells Mirai how she’s not ignoring her. With that said, Mirai understands and states how there’s no problem between them. Next, Yomi and Hikage walk up to Hibari with Yomi scrutinizing her closely. Yomi realizes how Hibari came from a middle class family while Hikage reprimands Yomi as she looks away from Hibari. Hibari introduces herself to them while telling Yomi how bean sprouts are really tasty. The comment changes Yomi’s expression as she looks back at Hibari. Yomi asks her if that’s true, which Hibari nods to, and then Yomi begins talking about how the prices are going up for it. As for Homura, she jumps lightly and hides the Super-Secret Ninja Art Scroll in the celling. Eventually, all of them leave the upper-level room.
Section 2: First Emotions
At Katsuragi’s location, Hikage has been waiting for her. The feeling was mutual for Katsuragi. Katsuragi tells Hikage that she’s going to lose to her and that feeling of losing will eat her up inside. Her words interest Hikage as she got in a stance. With that said, the two begin their fight.
Afterwards, Katsuragi becomes victorious but she asks Hikage if she’s feeling and frustration after losing. Sadly, Hikage states that she wasn’t feeling any frustration. However, she then states that she feels refreshed and it’s an interesting feeling. Katsuragi nods and then Hikage asks her if she could shake her hand. Katsuragi questions her but then Hikage tells her that it’s for a good fight, with Katsuragi told her about before. Katsuragi understands and so the two shake one another’s hands. Hikage comments on how warm Katsuragi’s hands were. Katsuragi becomes happy to hear the compliment and then tells Hikage that she needs to go ahead, so she told her to rest until the fighting has stopped. Hikage understands while Katsuragi begins leaving. As she left, Hikage mutters to herself how the students at Hebijo lay down their lives if they’re defeated, which is why they carry a poison with them. She then begins to feel disappointed that she won’t be able to talk with Katsuragi some more. With that said, Hikage figures that the emotion she’s feeling at the moment is sadness.
During her first year, she is approached by another student who asks her if she was one of the elite members. Hikage confirms she was and the other girl introduces herself as Haruka. Hikage tells Haruka her name and greets her. Haruka notices Hikage didn't look too thrilled and asks her, where her enthusiasm was. Hikage didn't understand what Haruka meant by "Cheerful" she then tells Haruka she didn't have emotions. This makes Haruka tells Hikage that, that made Her sound more like a doll than a human. Hikage then told her if that's what it meant then maybe. Haruka finds this intriguing and that maybe they had something in common and they'll be good friends. Hikage tells Haruka that she didn't get her but if she said so they could be friends. Haruka responds positively to Hikage's words. Later on during her training, Hikage comments about how she heard the training was really tough, but it should be nothing for someone like her. Suzune appears asking her what she was doing. Hikage tells her, she wasn't goofing off if that's what she was thinking, she had finished her assigned training for the day. Suzune calls her a fool and tells her that completing the assigned training was just a warm-up for a student. Hikage tells her teacher she was harsh. Suzune tells her of course, her dictionary didn't contain the word "mercy." Hikage responds in a sarcastic way how scary. But brushes it off telling her teacher that maybe it was good she was so strict. Suzune then tells Hikage she was to brush up on her combat technique against some dummies and to stay alert although it was training she could still get hurt and vanishes. Hikage pulled out her knife saying whatever works for her. She then destroys all the training dummies thrown at her commenting afterward it was easy enough. Suzune appears once again congratulating her and then tells her she'll continue until she dropped. Hikage didn't mind this and was told that she would next practice the art of water escape in which she'd be spending three hundred hours underwater. Hikage asked if she heard three hundred hours and Suzune confirms the time she'd spend underwater. Hikage asks her about bathing or using the bathroom. Suzune tells her all would be done underwater. Hikage then comments that Hebijo's training really was as harsh as they said.
During her second year, she saw the new member of the elite class pulling all the flowers out of the flower bed. She calls out to her asking her what she was doing. The new girl shouts at her to stop as there was no entry beyond that point. Hikage confused about the no entry asks her what she was doing to the flower bed. The girl then asks Hikage isn't it obvious, she was making a vegetable garden. She was pulling up the pretty but impractical flowers and planting vegetables in their place. So they could use it for their lunches. Hikage tells her that seemed kind of excessive. She then tells Hikage when she gets hungry she likes to make sure she had something to eat. Hikage tells her she had a pretty face, but she also looked pretty tough. She giggled and told her you don't go to the festivals for the flowers. You go for the dumplings or bean sprouts. Hikage tells her she never heard anyone mention bean sprouts in that context before, dumplings she could see. The girl then starts telling her bean sprouts are even better, they were the best the greatest thing ever. Hikage agreed with her but still didn't get it. The girl then realizes she still didn't introduce herself and does so. Her name was Yomi, a first-year in the elite class. Hikage then introduces herself to Yomi. Yomi then asks her if they could sit down and talk about the sprouts. Hikage tells Yomi she wasn't that into sprouts. Yomi asks her how she liked her bean sprouts, stewed, grilled, or sautéed. Hikage then asks her she doesn't really listen to people, did she. She sighs seeing Yomi as yet another weird student. Later, Yomi approaches Hikage asking what she was doing. Hikage tells her she was sunbathing. Yomi points out she was in the shade and asks isn't it hard to tan if she wasn't under the sun. Hikage tells her she preferred the shade it suited her better. Yomi tells her she really takes being a Hebijo to a whole new level and she was positively cold-blooded. Hikage asks Yomi if she needed her for something. Yomi asks her if she'd be willing to wager her lunch on a match. Hikage told her it was fine but questions why lunch. Why would she bet her lunch. Yomi looked like she was going to say something and was asked why repeatedly. Yomi tries to tell Hikage to humor her. Hikage tells her it was hard for her to tell where Yomi was getting at as she can't understand subtext very well because of her lack of emotions. Yomi then offers to speak more plainly. Yomi hasn't had lunch in three days and she was short on money this month. Hikage asks her what happened to her vegetable garden. Yomi reveals the crows ate everything. Hikage agrees to their fight and the winner would buy lunch. Hikage then goes on to beat her junior student. Yomi laments her defeat saying if she wasn't so hungry perhaps she'd be stronger. Hikage asks Yomi what she wanted. She points out the winner buys lunch. Yomi hearing this tells her she was a good person, breaks out into tears. Hikage thinking she was crying asks her why she was and she didn't get it. Hikage comments that emotions make no sense to her.
Around a month into her third year while in the Ninja Room, Hikage was in Yomi's grasp and had bean sprouts stuffed in her mouth and questioned if she had been avoiding bean sprouts recently. Hikage confirms because she kept forcing them on her. Hikage is able to break free and was chased by Yomi who began asking her if it was her fault that she was avoiding the bean sprouts. During this, they fail to notice that Homura had entered the room with their newest teammate Mirai. Homura shouted out to them that she had brought a new student. They then faced the two, Mirai introduces herself. Yomi approached Mirai to feed her bean sprouts. Homura then introduces Yomi and Hikage to Mirai. Hikage tells Mirai no formal stuff for her and to just call her by her name. She said this while licking her knife. A month later during Mirai's training, she had begun to think the others were treating her like a kid due to her lack of breasts. As a result of her daydreaming about the other's breasts, her hip is grazed and her skirt was torn revealing her bear panties her embarrassment soon turned to rage. She ran off, the others followed her to a tree she was at. When she says out loud to herself that if her bust was bigger she'd fit better with everyone. When Homura tells her, her appearance was a childish concern the others began to show Mirai they did care about her. Haruka tossed Mirai both her negligee and Hikage's panties which was a thong. Hikage tells Mirai if she liked her panties she felt free to borrow them. After hearing Homura tell Mirai she had no memory of treating her like a child Mirai finally realized all those times the others treated her like a child was all in her head. Homura tells Mirai that she wanted to treat her as an equal. Hikage agreed with her saying there were no formalities here, they're all equals. When Yomi and Haruka asked Mirai to call them "Sis" and "Mistress Haruka" respectively Mirai had smiled wryly and Homura let out a cheerful laugh which the others joined in. Hikage didn't laugh with the others but did have a faint smile curve up.
Sometime later Hikage is alone in the Ninja Room spacing out as she ate lunch. Her thoughts were on her lack of emotion and how if she had to describe herself in three words or less it'd be cicada husk. The cast-off, dried-off husk of a cicada after the emotions flew away. It didn't make her sad or anything, not that she'd know what it feel like, to her emotions always struck her as a pain in the ass. Just like how a cicada has a week left to live after molting emotions are just fleeting, that's how it always seemed to her. She is then snapped out of her thoughts by Mirai who'd been calling her for some time. She apologizes to Mirai and asks her what she needed. Mirai tells her, she had never seen her laugh. Hikage thought about what she heard, she didn't think she ever did and questions what laughter would feel like. Mirai asks her if she wanted to try to laugh. Hikage deciding there was no reason to say no as they were just killing time during lunch agrees to try and laugh if she could. Mirai then snaps her fingers and a small curtained stage appeared in the room. Hikage thought that was a nice trick and thought she was skilled for a first-year but thought she wasn't putting those skills to the best use. Mirai then announces a special performance by the elite class, this confused Hikage she was utterly lost. Mirai then calls out to Yomi who walks on stage and said hello while rubbing her hands, something that Mirai also mimicked. The two were paired up like a comedy duo and made a joke about how one, two, and together they made a trio. Hikage only stared at them blankly while Yomi could barely contain herself and burst into laughter until Mirai saw Hikage wasn't laughing. She points this out to Yomi who stared at Hikage before telling her it was okay to laugh at something funny and told her she didn't need to hold back. Hikage tells her she isn't holding back, which stunned them both. Yomi hearing this asks if a quartet would be better but Hikage knew that even a quintet or sextant would be the same joke she didn't see where the humor was supposed to be. Haruka then shouts out how pathetic that was from the hallway. She tells the two if they couldn't get a laugh, get off the stage as she pushed a TV stand into the room. She then tells them real comedy comes from the simple things of everyday life and turns on the TV and presses play. The tv showed Mirai asleep in bed who began to panic upon seeing herself. Haruka immediately shushes her and Mirai on the video began to talk in her sleep. She began asking for another big boobie bun. Haruka then asks Mirai what exactly was a big boobie bun, Yomi despite apologizing to her couldn't help but laugh. Mirai began to turn red with fury as Haruka and Yomi laughed. Mirai screamed that this was an invasion of privacy. While the three girls were having emotions of either laughter or anger Hikage didn't feel a thing, she was like a boat in still water. Haruka takes notice of Hikage's lack of expression finding it impossible. Haruka then decides to take more extreme measures and announces that next up was Mirai's most shocking performance and reaches to change the video. But she never gets the chance as the TV suddenly exploded violently. Mirai angrily tells her there was no chance of it happening as she held a rifle with smoke coming from the barrel. Homura finally steps into the room deciding to take a shot at making Hikage laugh. She then tells Hikage to watch and be amazed by her six-bladed impersonations. She dropped into a crouch with her eyes burning open as she held the peace sign with both hands and shouted the word, crab. Hikage understood what she was doing, her hands were the pincers and the swords were meant to be the legs. The only thing that came to Hikage's head was "So?" the silence was deafening and Homura began to turn bright red in embarrassment, she says the word crab once more and like a crab sidesteps off the stage. Hikage then says out loud that, that was it. Right as she said this Homura's shoulders droop, this dejection fascinated Hikage who then asks them why were they so eager to get her to laugh, Mirai tells her there was no reason and Homura tells her they were having a conversation that ended up leading to a discussion about seeing her smile, Hikage stared at her blankly. Hikage asks her if that was it, which Homura confirms. They then began to start talking about making her laugh again this time with different methods in mind. Hikage lets out a long sigh and thinks to herself that these girls had too much spare time and questions what did making her laugh have to do with anything. However, as she looked at the faces they were making while they spoke to one another she could see them smiling and although she didn't have emotions she thought it looked like a nice facial expression, just looking at it began to make her feel warm inside. It wasn't a bad feeling it was quite nice she felt that was it, she was feeling peace when she was with the others but she began to suspect it wasn't just because she was in the Ninja Room during lunch. She began to think that perhaps peace was an emotion, if it was true then maybe she does have emotions but didn't know as it was hard to understand. But if everyone wanted to see her smile that much she thought maybe it'd be nice to show them someday and when it happens she bet they'll smile right back at her. Homura at this point decides to take a second shot and jumps back on stage, she then tells Hikage she'll die laughing as she held three swords in both her hands and began leaning backward and shouted the word, shrimp. Once again the whole room was silent, even Hikage could feel the failure of this attempt and she didn't "feel". Homura repeats the word shrimp once more before getting off stage without breaking posture. Yomi later approaches Hikage with several underclassmen leading Hikage to question what they were for. Yomi tells her she had been giving thought about how to get her emotions back, a lot of thought, and came to the conclusion if she couldn't make her laugh she'll make her angry. Hikage responds by telling her it sounded reasonable. Yomi tells her anger was a fine emotion, Hikage then asks if that was what all the underclassmen were for. Yomi confirms and orders the underclassmen to make Hikage angry. Hikage seeing as how Yomi went through all the trouble for her maybe she should try to oblige. And so Hikage goes on to beat all the underclassmen. After finishing Yomi approaches her asking her if she felt angry. Hikage confirms she was, a little bit. Yomi was confused at this as Hikage's expression didn't change. Hikage asks her if her brow wasn't furrowed and thinks her nose was twitching. Yomi questions her if she was sure she was angry. Hikage confirms she was angry, it'd been ages since she was so furious. In a twist of irony, Yomi got angry as she accused Hikage of lying as she could tell. Hikage asks her if she was mad now, she even comments on the irony of the situation even laughing in a non-emotional way. Yomi then tells her she wasn't supposed to laugh and look serious at the same time. Hikage apologizes for it.
Hikage's fighting style mostly focuses on speed, mobility and delivering multiple swift continued hits. When she is pushed too far or really gets into the fight, she enters a berserk state where her emotions run wild, giving her a considerable boost to her speed, mobility and attack range.
She uses her knives for both close-range combat and as projectiles for, which may cause poisoning effects. Her combat expertise has been described as almost machine-like, using a fighting style that seems chaotic, despite being very deliberate, making her hard to read and follow.
