Kana

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Background and History

Kana was already working as a nurse when the hospital became a Game Instance. After colleagues disappeared for breaking its rules, she discovered that alienation was affecting the people inside. She overheard doctors discussing patients’ medicine, stole pills to delay her own alienation, and shared what she had learned with other nurses through notes 46.

Kana tried to escape through the main entrance, but could see only a wall where the gate should have been. As her condition worsened, her memories became fragmented, and she sought extra pills from patients by pleading with, intimidating, or threatening them 46.

Appearance

Kana is small in stature. Her alienation causes physical changes that persist even after she takes medicine 38 41.

• Wings: She has fleshy wings when Xu Kai first encounters her; they wither after she takes a red pill 31 39.
• Cat ears: Her ears become furry, with fur also growing behind her cheeks. The ears remain after further treatment 37 41.
• Fangs: By the time she reaches the first floor, she has visible fangs 49.

Personality

Kana can be frightened and overwhelmed by the hospital’s rules and her fading memories. She briefly despairs after learning that patients are required to eat in the dangerous cafeteria, but responds to Xu Kai’s encouragement and continues trying to survive 32.

Despite their danger, she carries out her nursing duties and helps Xu Kai navigate the hospital. She also protests his rough attempts to bring her to her senses, often answering him with sarcasm 38 39 41.

Abilities and Skills

Alienation

Kana’s transformation alters her body and gives her capabilities beyond those of an ordinary nurse.

• Her cat ears improve her hearing, allowing her to hear Xu Kai’s quiet instructions clearly 38.
• She moves a glass box with one hand and punches through a wall while guiding Xu Kai toward the pharmacy 39.
• Her self-inflicted cuts heal visibly, and she finds that cutting herself slows her mutation 49.

Nursing and Hospital Knowledge

Kana treats her own pierced back with a first-aid kit and uses her knowledge of the hospital to help Xu Kai find medicine 31 39.

• She recalls routes and uses a nurse’s password to open locked passages 39.
• Unable to enter the pharmacy because of her task, she gives Xu Kai its code and directs him to the medicine 39 40.
• Her memories are unreliable: familiar routes and sights can bring fragments back, but some recollections cause her distress 39 46.

Story Role

• Meeting Xu Kai: After attacking Xu Kai in a muddled state, Kana is pierced by an IV stand. He gives her a red pill, and she recovers enough to explain the hospital’s transformations 31.
• Cafeteria warning: Kana warns Xu Kai not to enter the cafeteria if his perception is altered. At his suggestion, she stays in Room Nine and drinks milk for dinner, surviving without visiting the cafeteria 32 37.
• Journey to the pharmacy: Kana and Xu Kai navigate corridors subject to a deadly noise limit. In one discarded timeline, her scream causes her elimination; Xu Kai rewinds and prevents it. She then guides him toward the seventh-floor pharmacy while pursuing her nursing task 37 38 39.
• Medicine and inspection: In another discarded timeline, Xu Kai’s mutated voice kills Kana. After rewinding, he takes a red pill and gives her one. Kana completes her inspection, reports no abnormalities, and later finds that she cannot locate Room Nine 40 41.
• Escape: Xu Kai enlists Kana in his plan to end the Instance, sending her to burn the pharmacy’s medicine and carry a mass of Weird Energy to the first floor. She guards it despite wanting to eat it; Xu Kai later reveals it contains his heart. He adds her name to a Discharge Certificate, allowing her to see the gate and leave 46 49.

Relationships

• Xu Kai — A patient she initially attacks and later helps. He gives her medicine and repeatedly preserves her life through his rewinds; she guides him through the hospital and protects his heart until he secures her escape 31 37 39 49.
• Other nurses — Kana secretly shares information about the pills with them through notes and messages 46.