Sessyoin Kiara (Moon Cancer)

A beautiful, mysterious woman who claims to be the Pseudo-Servant of the legendary nun Yaobikuni, who was said to have gained immortality after consuming the flesh of a mermaid and then went on a pilgrimage across Japan... And nobody knows anything about her beyond that.

"Hehehe...being in a swimsuit Spirit Origin is certainly amusing."

A dizzyingly dazzling guise of Sessyoin Kiara. Step into her realm, leaving behind your worries, and her beauty will make you lose all sense of time.

Height/Weight: 166cm, 53kg

Origin: Mermaid legend, Supplement to The Hundred Demons from the Present and the Past, from "Abyssal Cyber Paradise, SE.RA.PH"

Region: Japan, somewhere under the sea

Alignment: Lawful-Evil

Sub-Attribute: Earth

Gender: Female

This time around, she has other transformations in store.

"It's summer. It would be boring if I only had a swimsuit. There should be a few surprises to enjoy, right?"

She's having quite a lot of fun.

Even when she attempted to become Yaobikuni, Sessyoin Kiara did not change.

"There is only one of me in this world. All insects, good and bad, are equal. Whatever I find, I shall feel affection for it, heal it, and love it..."

But this love she speaks of is naturally something that pleases Kiara first and foremost. Even should such love seem to be salvation in the eyes of its object, an outsider will see that it is no more than the hell of being manipulated. A demonic being who uses her power as a "savior" solely for her own pleasure... Well, that's Sessyoin Kiara for you.

...At least that's who she is. But maybe because so many things happened this time, she is a little more thoughtful regarding how others perceive her, if only slightly. Perhaps her attempt to act as the nun Yaobikuni has taught her some measure of restraint.

・First Ascension

As this is her first swimsuit and summer event, her innocence and femininity are somewhat more pronounced than in the normal Kiara. She also feels more carefree, and she's secretly elated about taking a summer vacation, as she never had a chance to experience one while she was a child. This has caused a terrifying bug where Master only perceives her as an elegant (and sometimes girlishly cute) lady they met at a summer resort.

・Second Ascension

A lily version of herself who used a makeup compact to transform into a magical girl (or so she claims). In this form, she is more sadistic and merciless than the normal Kiara, if you can believe it. She is a terrifying queenly enforcer who has not a bit of mercy about pointing out the flaws of any impudent or masochistic little pigs (regardless of gender) who had it coming in her bid to send them all to ruin. How did she end up like this...well, this lily has quite a dark side.

・Third Ascension

It's the usual Kiara...but she is in a long-anticipated mermaid cosplay and her "lawful" side is more pronounced, so she's actually a bit less wicked, and instead her prim and proper side is front and center. Considering she's more of a compassionate bodhisattva when merged with a monster, how might the fairy tale writer chastise her in this form?

Otherworldly Creation: EX

As she harbors a monstrosity within herself, it is possible for her to create a phantom world atop our current reality.

Logos Eater: D

A special quality as the deity of pleasure. The ideology of toying with intelligent life. Its rank is lower than with the normal Kiara.

Divine Power (Ink): B

Perhaps she was jealous, or maybe she was struck by inspiration... Originally the skill was the normal Divine Power, but after seeing Katsushika Hokusai (Saber)'s chic and stylish Divine Power, she couldn't help but mimic it.

Mermaid's Flesh: EX

Legend has it that anyone who eats mermaid flesh becomes immortal. In Japan, mermaids are believed to lack intelligence and be incapable of speaking. They are seen simply as fish in the shape of human beings. That is to say, they have no soul. And thus eating a fish with no soul would not count as taking a life, and so the girl's vow remains unbroken. ...Even if she eats an entire school of mermaids.

As a side note, a certain fairy tale writer once wrote that mermaids are as intelligent as humans, but lack a soul.

『Nirmāṇarati Heaven's Form』

Rank: A

NP Type: Anti-World

Range: 1 - 333

Maximum Targets: 1000

Heaven of Pleasure, the Clam Mandala.

When Sessyoin Kiara become a demonic bodhisattva, she placed sentient beings in her palm and toyed with them. This Noble Phantasm is a variation of that act. While her Spirit Origin has yet to reach the heights of a true bodhisattva, the moment she consumed Shen, one of the greatest Divine Beasts believed to create mirages, she gained the ability to create a large-scale otherworldly realm. Simply put, she creates the great demonic sea of Sessyoin.

The target is taken into the city of illusions Shen projects, and the boundary between reality and illusion is blurred, hurling the target into depravity. The instant the target feels any satisfaction in the illusion once they are aware that it is, in fact, an illusion, Kiara is able to make the target itself part of the illusion, so they are no longer a creature of this world. Afterward, Kiara gently smiles at the target, seeing the illusion as less than dust, too insignificant even to exist. She then blows it all away, along with any targets trapped within.

The term "Nirmāṇarati" does not mean "god," but rather "world." The bodhisattva who ate Shen became, as the name implies, the paradise of the world of desire.

In ancient China and Japan, Shen is a Divine Beast believed to be the cause of mirages. It is a giant shellfish that lived at the bottom of the sea, and it was said that the bubbles of air rising from its shell floated up to the surface world to create mirages. The "rou" in the Japanese term for mirage ("shin-ki-rou") refers to a tower, and one of the picture books published by Sessyoin describes it as "a brothel-like castle that appeared in the world and dazzled all in the illusionary city with its ephemeral pleasures. Sowaka, sowaka..."

Sessyoin Kiara changed into a swimsuit Spirit Origin quite casually after saying, "my, a swimsuit Spirit Origin certainly sounds amusing." After detecting an irregularity by the lake, she rather casually employed her Independent Manifestation to check things out. However, she was assaulted by Xu Fu's masked immortal killer, which completely annihilated her.

...Or so it was thought. But since Xu Fu used a Death-type attack, she was not completely annihilated (since Independent Manifestation is resistant to Death), and Kiara respawned in the Mariana Trench, a place where she was thought to have been defeated. There, she found a fossilized Shen, took a nibble of it, and fused with it. During her journey back up to the surface, she saw a group of mermaids, and so she incorporated mermaid attributes into herself. What's more, for some reason, this High Servant had a truly outlandish thought: "If I'm going to revive, I might as well start from my youth!"

While Kiara turning into her lily form was entirely for her amusement, the transformation also served to deceive Xu Fu. Kiara afflicted her lily form with amnesia, so she would not remember even her own name, which is why her lily form believes herself to be a Pseudo-Servant of the legendary nun Yaobikuni.

After returning to the lake to get back at Xu Fu, she concealed her true identity and changed the settings and environment to suit her own enjoyment while keeping the death game rules intact. When the fake Master (Xu Fu) on the B side of the mountain near the lake declared that the group should try "to resolve the situation," she actually meant for them to "try to figure out who took over the B side of the mountain."

In her lily form, Kiara wholeheartedly desired to help Master, and during tough times, she used her makeup compact (sea shell) to turn into police Kiara (Second Ascension) to combat evil. However, this transformation also brought her memories back, so she reverted to her lily form because "it would be no fun to reveal everything so quickly."