Fujino Asagami

Fujino Asagami (浅上藤乃) is the antagonist of the third chapter of Kara no Kyoukai, "Remaining Sense of Pain". She is a classmate and friend of Azaka Kokutou, both of whom attend Reien Girl's Academy (礼園女学院).

Outside of Kara no Kyoukai, she was given the nickname Fujinon (ふじのん) by fans. It was later adopted by Kinoko Nasu, and he has mentioned that he considered her the most straightforward "moe character", citing her angst as a personal favorite.

Background
Born Fujino Asakami, she is the daughter of Miyuki and Hanefune Asakami, a descendant of the Asakami Demon Hunters and inheritor of their telekinetic abilities. She became the eldest daughter of Asagami after her mother remarried. When she was little, she was able to bend things without touching them, gaining the villagers attentions. She has been taking medication since childhood, as her stepfather wanted to seal her powers as he believes the modern era, nobody needs people with unusual abilities anymore. By giving her an over-dosage medication, it led her developing insensitivity to pain.

When she was in her first year of her junior school, she participated a interscholastic field day where six of the city’s junior high schools participated in the competition. She injured her leg while she took part in the track and field event, Mikiya Kokutou took care of the injured Fujino even though she was a student from another school and she fell in love with him after showing her kindness.

She entered Reien Girl's Academy until high school and she became close friends with Azaka who also entered at the same time. Although the Academy rarely allows students to go outside, Fujino is allowed to enter the city twice a month due to periodic medical appointments.

When she went for her periodic medical appointments, she was snatched by local gang and was periodically raped by them. The gang eventually bored with her inexpressive face until one of the delinquents struck her from behind, causing her sense of pain and her powers to sporadically return. During in one of her rape assault, she believed that her abdominal pain was caused from one gang member stabbing her with a knife. In retaliation, she awaken her abilities and kills all of the gang with the exception of Keita Minato, who managed to escape.

As she wandered the town fearing what he might reveal. She meets Souren Araya who offers to healed her spine, but it was in order to have her fight against Shiki in hopes that she would be able to surpass Shiki's inner potential.

Appearance
A girl in her late teens and she wears Reien Girl's uniform.

Personality
She is noted to be a model student, being kind to classmates, never causing trouble, and frequently achieving the highest scores, except for Literature, as she "lacked expressiveness".

Despite her mild and passive personality, she is the type that cannot stop on her own accord after straying once. Due to lacking some type of sensation, she cannot truly experience things despite having knowledge and common sense. Compared to Shiki who lacks a sense of existence, Fujino is someone who is similar yet different. According to Souren Araya, she is "an existence unfit for society, who found pleasure in coming in contact with death".

The reason she walks onto the bridge is in order to feel beating of the memorable summer rain. Her happiest moment would be walking with Mikiya to his home and the conversation she had with him.

Development
Kinoko Nasu explains the scene where Fujino monologue, the movie version differs as it focused mostly on memories of Mikiya during that scene. But the actual intent was a little different. The “I want to keep thinking” she said then was actually referring to her entire life up to that point, including her current state of feeling alive, and the state of numbness she’d lived in up until then.

If Fujino knew Azaka was the sister of Mikiya, the scenario would have changed onto a completely different route. The final confrontation would have changed to Combustion versus Distortion and the Reien Girl’s Academy would be completely obliterated.

Chapter 3: Remaining Sense of Pain
The story begins when she sought to kill all of the members of the gang. Shortly afterwards, she was found by Mikiya Kokutou, who allowed her to stay at his apartment for the night, thought neither of them properly introduced themselves to the other. Despite this, Fujino recognized Mikiya as the kind senior who helped her after she sprained her ankle during a track meet when she was in junior high school.

As she killed Keita's acquaintances in an attempt to find him, she unwittingly found pleasure in the action, and later on killed an innocent passing-by driver. Hearing about this, Shiki resolved to kill her.

At the climax of the story, Mikiya revealed that he learned that Fujino had a terminal case of, causing her abdominal pain, and Touko concluded that she had actually killed the wielder of the knife before he stabbed her. What caused her to seek revenge was a misunderstanding.

Shiki triumphed over her during their final battle when she became able to perceive, and destroy, Fujino's telekinesis with the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. In an act of desperation, Fujino destroyed the bridge above them, though she came out injured and dying from the debris of the collapsing structure. After her defeat against Shiki, she cries out to Mikiya but also “I want to keep thinking” about her entire life, similar to Kirie Fujou. Shiki found her and stabbed her, but at the last second, Fujino lost her sense of pain, and her powers, and Shiki lost interest in killing her, instead destroying her appendicitis.

Numb with pain, Fujino mentally regressed to a child and was taken care of by her mother and Mikiya; she also seemed to have lost her sight, and it took her several months to recover. She has become somewhat famous for her apparent connection with both the serial killing and the collapse of Broad Bridge.

Chapter 6: Oblivion Recorder
When school starts again following the main events of the chapter, Azaka meets with Fujino and asks her to tell her roommate that she is leaving the campus for the day. She is seen slowly adjusting to her disability in the movie.

Abilities
Her ability, the Mystic Eyes of Distortion (歪曲), straddles the line between ESP and Magecraft: an innate ability that was tampered by human hands.

She can create an axis of rotation anywhere within sight and warps them telekinetically, which causes gruesome dismemberments and deaths. Her left eye twists leftwards and her right eye twists right; a channel is needed for each direction. When perceived by Shiki, the bending appears as red and green spirals. Note that the 'Distortion' Fujino possesses is far more powerful that the average - by comparison, a normal user of Distortion would take several days just to bend a human arm.

The power of Distortion is limited as long as she thinks “unbendable” won’t bend. But her powers do not work on conceptual things, and magical barriers and Bounded Fields cannot be bent, but what they are built on certainly can. Fujino cannot effectively adapt her bending abilities because she has no knowledge of magecraft, but she could become very powerful with the aid of a good teacher.

In addition to her Mystic Eyes, Fujino also achieved Clairvoyance during the battle with Shiki; combined with her Distortion, this allowed her to bend objects outside of direct eye contact, making her a fearsome opponent. She achieves the greatest ability within the story when looked at from pure statistics. After the events of the Broad Bridge incident, her eyesight became extremely poor that she has to rely on a blind stick.