Birthday: November 23 Age: 15 years old Height: 138 cm (4' 6") Weight: 31 kg (68 lbs) BWH: 67/57/73 Eye Color: Gold Rank: Low-Class Devil (Volume 1 - True Volume 3), High-Class Devil (True Volume 4 - Current) Role: Rook Race: Reincarnated Devil (Former Nekomata (Nekoshou)) First Appearance: Volume 1 Affiliations:
- Rias Gremory's Peerage
- Team Rias Gremory (Formerly)
- Kuoh Academy (Second-Year High School Student)
- Occult Research Club
- Hyoudou Residence
- Team D×D
- Three Factions (Underworld)
- Magari (Mentor)
- Heavenly Breasts
Born as Shirone, Koneko is a young Nekomata who is part of a rare species among her kind, called the Nekoshou. She was born between a human father and a Nekomata mother named Fujimai. Her father was a scientist who did not acknowledge Koneko or was aware that she was his child, and merely used her for experiments. Her parents eventually died in an experiment accident. However, her older sister Kuroka, omitted the truth and any other details about them from Koneko to protect her.
After losing her parents, she and her sister were later taken in by an unnamed Devil from the branch family of the House of Naberius, who reincarnated her sister as one of the members of his peerage. However, Kuroka's power as a Nekomata supposedly soon grew out of control, eventually causing her to kill her master and become a Stray Devil on the run from her pursuers. In actuality, he had planned to experiment on Koneko in his research about creating a Super Devil, causing Kuroka to kill him in order to protect her younger sister.
Following the incident and the failed manhunt that came after, Koneko was sentenced to death by the Devils in hopes of preventing another incident like Kuroka's from happening. However, Sirzechs Lucifer, one of the Four Great Satans, protected her and left her under his sister Rias' care. Due to the trauma, she experienced with her sister's betrayal and murder of her master, she fell into a deep depression, eventually robbing her of nearly all of her emotions until Rias helped her out of it. It was around that time Rias gave Koneko her name and made Koneko her servant.
Due to witnessing her sister supposedly losing control over her nekomata power and killing her master, Koneko became traumatized by the event, causing her to become withdrawn into herself and stripping her of most of her emotions. As a result, Koneko originally had a quiet and cold personality, rarely showing any feelings or emotions, even when she was speaking. It is noted that her serious personality is a result of receiving influence from Rias and is contradictory to her sister's mischievous personality. She was also the only one in the group who did not initially get along with Issei, often insulting and rebuking the latter for his perverted nature, although she reveals that she respects him for never giving up and considers him a hard worker.
She shows the most concern for her comrades when they are in trouble, often lending her strength in fights. Koneko apparently has a problem with people calling her a midget (although the context of the phrase could be used to be called flat, as in bust size), as shown in her second battle against Freed Sellzen. This may stem from her insecurity about her own small body and bust size.
At the end of Volume 5, Koneko experiences a change in her personality after Issei helps her overcome her fear of using Senjutsu and now starts acting like a cat, often ends her sentences with "Nya", and/or showing attraction towards Issei. Her love for Issei grows so much that, at the beginning of Volume 11, she starts to go into her mating season (though this was later stopped by her sister Kuroka). However, she still insults him when his perverted nature gets the better of him (at least when it isn't directed towards herself). Koneko has even stated that she enjoys Issei viewing her as a woman.
Powers & Abilities
Koneko has all the powers and abilities common to Devils, including the power to cast spells.
Being a Nekoshou, Koneko is able to use Senjutsu, she is still training under her sister, Kuroka as well as Magari. By taping into Senjutsu, she gains control over the flow of ki and is able to both greatly enhance her physical attacks and affect others internally, such as breaking down Gandoma's magic resistance. Koneko can use Senjutsu to detect the presence of others.
- Touki (Fighting Spirit): Koneko can cover herself in an aura of ki, drastically increasing her strength, defense, and speed. By Volume 24, she could cover herself in a tremendous touki and has surpassed her sister in terms of strength.
- Healing: Through the usage of Senjutsu, Koneko can use ki to recover both a person's physical and mental health, in addition to their stamina. Through being in physical contact with the person she's healing and can be used to even recover a person's life-force, which was damaged through different means and did so continuously after Issei used Juggernaut Drive.
-- Bouchujutsu (Bedroom Method): A more effective and faster healing technique in which Koneko directly shares her ki with a man to heal life-force to a greater extent, this is done by the act of having sex. Though Koneko has never performed this, she claims to be capable of doing so when offering it to Issei should he need it.
- Kasha (Burning Chariot): Koneko can summon multiple big wheels that are covered in white flames that have the power of purification.
- Sealing: Koneko had learned a practical use of Senjutsu from Kuroka as a counter-measure against the Evil Dragons revived using Sephiroth Graal, in which she uses a jewel from Issei's armor to seal their souls inside it, as shown with Grendel who was later stored and guarded in Heaven.
Being a Nekomata, Koneko is able to use Youjutsu, but she is still learning under her sister, Kuroka as well as Magari. She uses Youjutsu in tandem with her Senjutsu.
Koneko, in spite of her petite size, has been described as having extreme strength, lifting up people and things larger than herself without effort, through virtue of her Rook Piece; such as Viser, who she had then knocked backwards a great distance. She fought and bested Xuelan, another Rook who rivals a Queen. At Nekomata Lv.2, Koneko's strength was enhanced to where she could fight against Gandoma, another Rook, who inherited natural superhuman strength. She could surpass her older sister, who could rival Ultimate-Class Devils in terms of strength.
To match her strength, Koneko has high defense enough that most attacks such as being stomped on or being shot by a light bullet doesn't have much affect on her; bouncing off her.
Despite being a Rook, Koneko also has above average speed, being able to move around far more than others due to her size and could handle almost all Xuelan's swift kicks. Through using either her touki or Nekomata Mode Level 2, her speed is increased letting her move fast enough to catch opponents off guard. In Vol 24, having gained her third tail, Koneko's speed alone exceeded Kuroka's ability to detect her presence.
As a Nekomata, Koneko naturally has heightened senses, such as the time she was able to smell Fallen Angels within the Church.
Koneko is able to shapeshift to hide and regrow her cat ears and tail to appear more human whenever she wants. Regrowing them grants Koneko her natural Nekomata abilities.
- Nekomata Mode Level 2: In this mode, Koneko is able to grow a second tail similar to her older sister after further increasing her abilities by covering herself in touki using Senjutsu, which gives her explosive power and increased physical abilities for a temporary amount of time
- Shirone Mode: In this second mode, Koneko is able to make her body mature, appearing similar to her older sister temporarily by gathering the natural ki around her and syncing it with her touki. In Shirone Mode, she is granted full access to her nekomata powers, letting her use moves such as Kasha and becoming the power of purification itself, being able to make the enhanced Vampires disappear by merely touching them in Volume 16.
Koneko is a masterful martial artist, adept in techniques ranging from a wide range of things, such as both throwing and grappling techniques. In addition to her Rook trait, she can overpower opponents much larger than herself and trained former exorcists; defeating a far more experienced Rook without exhaustion, losing from a sneak attack. After accepting her nekomata powers, Koneko can combine martial arts and senjutsu to further increase her physical attacks. She improved herself from training and experience, letting her defeat mass-produced Evil Dragons and a cloned Grendel. Koneko fought on par against Kuroka, who could rival an Ultimate-Class Devil, then surpassed her.
Being a Devil, Koneko can use her wings to fly.
Equipment
Koneko was reincarnated using the Rook Piece, which grants her enhanced offense and defense.
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