Kushida Kikyo

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Kushida Kikyo (櫛田桔梗)
Alias(es)	“Little angel”
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School; Class 1-D
Occupation/Role	First-year student; influential Class D social organizer
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Appearance

Kushida is a cute girl with short orange hair and a notably friendly, approachable presentation 1.

• Maintains a bright smile and deliberately gentle manner around classmates.
• Her expression can shift abruptly when she is alone or frustrated, though she quickly restores her public façade 2 18.

Personality

Kushida presents herself as a cheerful student who wants to be friends with everyone and create happy memories with her class 4. Her friendliness, concern for others, and willingness to help make her highly popular among Class D, particularly with male classmates 1 21 28.

Behind this persona, she is intensely attention-seeking, jealous, and hostile toward people she believes overshadow or oppose her. She privately vents hatred toward Horikita Suzune, Zhuge Linghao, Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, and Hirata Yosuke, and seeks opportunities to have rivals expelled 19 30. She is especially irritated when Zhuge attracts praise or attention that would otherwise center on her 18 23.

Abilities & Skills

Expression Control

Kushida can rapidly conceal anger, jealousy, and hostility beneath an upbeat expression. The system identifies this as one of her skills 13.

• Regains her sunny public demeanor seconds after showing visible resentment 18.
• Uses concern and hurt feelings to deflect Horikita’s accusations during the Study Group 20.
• Maintains an innocent image even while pursuing personal agendas 23 30.

Charismatic Appeal

Kushida is socially adept and capable of rallying classmates around her. Her system profile rates her Social Contribution at A+ and lists Charismatic Appeal as a skill 13.

• Built a prominent social circle within Class D 8.
• Distributed past exam papers to the class, strengthening her “little angel” reputation 21.
• Mobilized classmates to support Zhuge Linghao and Sudo Ken during the special-building incident 28.
• Formed an intelligence squad with Hirata and other students to investigate that incident 29.
• Influenced Class D’s leadership discussion during the uninhabited-island exam by recommending Zhuge as leader 47.

Academic and Physical Capability

Kushida’s system-assessed profile lists her as academically and physically capable 13.

• Academic Ability: B
• Intelligence: B
• Physical Ability: B
• Judgment: A-

Background / History

Kushida begins the school year by politely asking Zhuge Linghao to surrender his bus seat to an elderly passenger, establishing her public image as considerate and kind 1. At her Class D introduction, she declares that she wants to become friends with everyone and make wonderful memories together 4.

Her interest in Horikita Suzune soon exposes a more calculating side. Kushida attempts to use Zhuge and Ayanokoji to arrange a meeting with Horikita, but Zhuge publicly confronts her and claims that she actually hates Horikita 8. She continues approaching Horikita with friendly invitations, including an offer to teach her swimming, despite Horikita’s repeated rejection 13.

Kushida’s private resentment becomes explicit when Zhuge secretly records her by the river, where she curses Horikita and Zhuge and wishes for their expulsions 19. Zhuge subsequently manipulates her into believing that he shares her darker feelings, creating a secret that disrupts her immediate plans against him 19.

During the midterm period, Kushida attempts to sabotage Horikita’s Study Group while outwardly encouraging Sudo, Ike, and Yamauchi to continue studying 20. She later distributes exam papers acquired by Ayanokoji and accepts the public credit, further increasing her popularity 21.

After discovering that Zhuge retains damaging evidence of her river outburst, Kushida retaliates by forcing his hand onto her chest and threatening to accuse him of sexual assault unless he deletes the recording 23. Unbeknownst to her, Zhuge preserves both the original video and footage of her threat through a pinhole camera 23.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Attempt to Approach Horikita

Kushida seeks to become close to Horikita, using Zhuge and Ayanokoji as potential intermediaries. Zhuge’s public exposure of her supposed ulterior motives leaves Kushida and Horikita on bad terms 8.

Midterm Exam

Kushida participates in Class D’s exam preparations and distributes past papers to the class, gaining widespread praise. She also assists Zhuge’s broader plan, though he uses her influence for his own strategy 21 22.

Conflict with Zhuge Linghao

After Zhuge records her private outburst, Kushida becomes entangled in a mutual blackmail situation. She compels him to delete evidence by manufacturing apparent proof of sexual assault, while he secretly retains recordings that compromise her 19 23.

Special-Building Incident

Kushida publicly supports Zhuge and Sudo after their conflict with Class C, organizes an intelligence squad, and works alongside Ayanokoji to seek witnesses 28 29. Her attempt to question Sakura Airi alone frightens Sakura and results in Sakura’s camera being broken 30.

Uninhabited-Island Exam

During the island exam, Kushida steers Class D’s leadership discussion and proposes Zhuge as their leader, an unexpected recommendation that catches him off guard 47. She later intends to leak Zhuge’s leader-switching strategy to Ryuen Kakeru 49.

Relationships

• Zhuge Linghao — Classmate and adversarial confidant. Zhuge exposes her interest in manipulating Horikita, records her private outburst, and retains evidence against her; Kushida responds with blackmail and continues trying to undermine his plans 8 19 23 49.
• Horikita Suzune — Classmate and primary target of Kushida’s hostility. Kushida repeatedly claims to want friendship with Horikita while privately seeking to damage her reputation and remove her from school 8 13 19 20.
• Ayanokoji Kiyotaka — Classmate and investigation partner. Kushida helps him investigate the special-building incident, but privately envies his intelligence and his understanding with Horikita 21 29 30.
• Sakura Airi — Classmate whom Kushida tries to persuade into testifying. Sakura is frightened by her approach and later appears more inclined to trust Zhuge than Kushida 30 31.
• Hirata Yosuke — Fellow Class D social leader. Kushida works with him in the intelligence squad and resents his popularity in private 19 29.
• Ichinose Honami — Friend and fellow student. Kushida works with Ichinose during the special-building investigation and is often associated with her in social settings 29 31.
• Ryuen Kakeru — Intended recipient of Kushida’s leaked information concerning Class D’s island-exam strategy 49.