Kallen

Biodata

Power Progression

• Formal rank: No completed Purification or church rank is documented. His development concerns increasingly deliberate use of abilities normally associated with an Inquisitor 25 26 35.

Background / History

Previous Life and Transmigration

Before becoming Kallen, Zhou Xun was a self-made psychologist whose private practice earned a comfortable income. He was a workaholic and staunch materialist, but also maintained running and exercise despite smoking and staying up late. He died while saving a girl and subsequently awakened in the body of fifteen-year-old Kallen 2 3 4 8 26.

He inherited the original Kallen’s memories, though information the boy had already forgotten remained inaccessible. After two weeks of recovery, he began participating in household life and helping with the family’s funeral business 2 10.

The Original Kallen

The original Kallen became withdrawn after losing his parents. He finished middle school but refused to continue to high school, rarely spoke to others, and had considered running away from home. He left behind 6,000 Lu Coins, a frail body, and memories of the Immerlis household 4 6 8.

His parents had both been Inquisitors of the Order God Church. When their souls became irreversibly contaminated during a mission against an Otherworldly Demon, they asked Dis to grant them release. Dis killed them at their request and afterward refused to let other family members undergo Purification 25 30.

The Divine Descent Ritual

The original Kallen died from a severe illness despite Dis’s efforts to save him. Dis concealed the death from Mason and Mary, claiming that he was taking the boy to a specialist hospital in Bellwyn City. With Hoffen’s assistance, he instead performed an exceptionally high-specification Divine Descent Ritual in an abandoned factory 30.

The ritual succeeded, but the original boy did not return. Hoffen and Puer urged Dis to kill the being occupying his grandson’s body while it was still weak. Kallen initially believed that concealing his identity was essential to surviving in the household 5 6 30.

Dis eventually explained that he had known from the beginning that the original Kallen was gone. By calling him Grandfather and joining the household, the newcomer had become another family member. Kallen accepted that bond sincerely, ending the central uncertainty surrounding his place in the family 30.

Appearance

Kallen has a notably handsome but physically frail teenage body 6 8.

• Face: Compares his inherited appearance to a young Leonardo DiCaprio 6.
• Eyesight: Excellent; his old habit of adjusting glasses no longer serves any purpose 6.
• Left palm: Bears a cross-shaped burn from gripping Hoffen’s Purification Artifact 11 13.
• Physical condition: His weakness repeatedly leaves him disadvantaged against awakened or possessed bodies, especially while recovering from his chest wound 7 27.

Personality

Kallen is outwardly warm, courteous, and considerate. His change from the original boy’s withdrawn behavior makes Mina more comfortable talking with him, while his gratitude toward Aunt Mary reflects his recognition of the care behind her sharp tongue. Initially, he also consciously makes himself useful to the family because he understands that family is Dis’s weakness and his own best protection 2 4 8.

His professional background gives him strong emotional awareness and considerable mental resilience, but not fearlessness. He can maintain a smile under pressure and recognize his own psychological reactions, yet becomes terrified when confronted with immediate death. His composure around Alfred and Molly is partly a survival performance rather than confidence in his actual strength 6 22.

He values human welfare over business profit or religious appearances. He is pleased when a prospective funeral client survives surgery, remains to help her parents after her subsequent death, and asks for a discount despite being struck by her grieving father. His deliberate awakening of the girl gives her one final dance without forcing her parents to endure another farewell 31 32.

His compassion also develops a punitive edge. During the investigation into Siso’s family, he anticipates confronting the perpetrators with satisfaction and later turns an editor’s methods of false accusation against him. He becomes increasingly willing to use Dis’s power against people who exploit ordinary citizens 39 42.

Abilities & Skills

Awakening the Dead

Kallen can awaken consciousness remaining within a dead body. Puer explains this through the portion of the soul retained by the body, likening it to cellular memory; she identifies the ability as a prerequisite for becoming an Inquisitor 26.

• Initially activates without his intention or control, as with Mr. Mossan 7 27.
• Later allows conversation and independent action, including the deceased girl’s dance 32.
• Can affect several bodies at once through chainlike strands 44.
• Not full resurrection: The girl remains dead and returns to the mortuary table after dancing 32.
• Awakening does not automatically make a corpse obedient; Mr. Mossan attacks him during an early manifestation 7.

Phantom Alignment and Commands

During the hospital attack, Kallen sees an uninjured phantom resembling the possessed nurse. By shifting his gaze until it overlaps her body, he causes competing consciousnesses to struggle for control 27.

• Breaks the nurse’s immediate hold on his throat 27.
• Issues effective commands: “Kneel,” “Stay still,” and “Be silent” 27.
• The restraint is temporary; Puer cannot determine how long it will last 27.
• This use is identified as his Art, but no formal technique name is supplied 27.

Supernatural Perception

Kallen hears and experiences phenomena that ordinary people around him do not perceive 2 25.

• Hears a dead woman demanding the return of her money from the morgue beneath his hospital room 25.
• Senses the deceased girl’s emotions, voice, and warmth while deliberately awakening her 32.
• Lacks reliable control because he has not undergone Purification 25.
• His overflowing spiritual talent attracts a sensitive bewitching Otherworldly Demon; Puer compares him to a bright light in darkness 27.

Mental Discipline

Kallen draws on psychological knowledge and personal conviction to resist supernatural interference 3 41.

• Escapes the gigantic woman’s mental attack by singing and concentrating on waking 3.
• Suppresses the emotional stimulation of a formation by separating his awareness from his body’s reaction 41.
• His resistance to the formation works because its influence begins with an initial stimulus rather than continuous reinforcement 41.

Psychology and Criminal Analysis

His previous profession remains one of his most useful skills in his new life 9 15 26.

• Helps Piaget collect Linda’s ashes and receives a substantial counseling fee 9.
• Counsels Mrs. Seymour through grief and her husband’s betrayal 16 19.
• Shares analysis of the Crown Ballroom murders with Chief Duke and Dis 14.
• Uses his understanding of emotional vulnerabilities to provoke the person discussing an “artistic creation” over the crematorium telephone 15.
• Investigates Piaget’s apparent impersonation of Linda, although the situation contains supernatural elements beyond Piaget’s explanation 18.

Practical Skills

• Cooking: Prepares spring rolls, eggplant fritters, yellow-braised chicken, soup, and other dishes. His repertoire comes partly from food-focused travel in his previous life; he particularly enjoys and can cook Sichuan cuisine 8.
• Driving: Transports relatives and guests, including driving Mary and Mrs. Hughes home after drinking 19.
• Tutoring: Helps Mina and Sarah with homework and notices Sarah’s hearing difficulty through her reactions during instruction 36.
• Funeral work: Assists with examining, cleaning, transporting, and arranging services for bodies 2 8 31.

Equipment / Items

• Hoffen’s Cross necklace — A Purification Artifact said to annihilate an Otherworldly Demon’s soul. It burns Kallen’s palm without destroying him; Hoffen later gives it to him before dying 11 48.
• Monroe watch — A gift from Mrs. Hughes, delivered through Aunt Mary 14.
• Mrs. Seymour’s late husband’s watch — A valuable watch accepted as advance payment for regular counseling sessions 18 19.
• Inherited savings — 6,000 Lu Coins left by the original Kallen, which he considers while weighing whether to leave home 6.

Relationships

• Dis Immerlis — His body’s grandfather and the person responsible for the Divine Descent Ritual. Initially Kallen’s greatest source of fear, Dis becomes his protector and explicitly accepts him as family regardless of whether he is a True God or Evil God 5 30 48.
• Aunt Mary — A sharp-tongued but caring aunt who nurses him through illness and injury. Kallen helps with her funeral work and cooking, and reassures her when she blames herself for his hospitalization 2 8 24.
• Uncle Mason — His uncle and frequent companion on funeral-business trips. Kallen recognizes his unreliability but also appreciates his willingness to shoulder an elder’s responsibilities 8 30.
• Aunt Winnie — A meticulous, warm-hearted aunt. She supplies the guest list and addresses he uses to pursue those involved in Siso’s family’s deaths 30 40.
• Mina — His younger cousin. She welcomes his more cheerful personality, cares for him, and receives homework help; the family increasingly treats him as an elder rather than another child 4 31 36.
• Lunt — His younger cousin and roommate. Kallen disciplines him harshly after a protest contributes to a girl’s death, but Lunt continues to regard him with affection and respect 6 31 36.
• Puer / Pu’er — The family’s speaking black cat, supernatural adviser, and protector. She initially urges Dis to kill him, later saves him from a mental attack, and regularly trades barbs with him 25 27 30 46.
• Mr. Hoffen — Dis’s friend and ritual collaborator. He exposes Kallen’s changed identity and tests him with the Cross necklace; their antagonistic beginning eventually gives way to a final gift and an epitaph written by Kallen 4 11 30 48 49.
• Alfred — A powerful Otherworldly Demon who interprets Kallen as a descended god and pledges service. Kallen initially fears exposing the gap between Alfred’s expectations and his actual strength 22 25 28.
• Miss Molly / Nasi — An Otherworldly Demon who pledges herself to Kallen alongside Alfred and later enters the family business under a disguise 22 34.
• Piaget Adams — A psychology professor whom Kallen first meets while helping him collect Linda’s ashes. Piaget becomes a friend, vouches for his counseling ability, and offers university and financial assistance 9 24.
• Chief Duke — A police chief with whom Kallen discusses murder cases. Kallen cooperates with him while concealing supernatural information 14 19 24.
• Eunice Allen — Mina’s mathematics teacher and Kallen’s romantic interest. Dis encourages the relationship as a possible route to Vien, but Kallen also wants their time together to be genuinely pleasant 46 47 50.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Notable Quotes

“Home!”
— His answer when Dis asks where they are during a life-threatening confrontation 5.

“I don't have any prejudice against Otherworldly Demons.”
— To Puer while discussing her family 46.

“I learned it from you, Mr. Editor-in-Chief. Every day over breakfast, I learn from you.”
— Turning the editor’s methods of distortion and false accusation against him 42.

Trivia

• Prefers ice water to black tea or coffee 31.
• Attributes his cooking ability to books when Aunt Mary asks, rather than revealing his previous-life experience 8.
• Writes the inscription on Hoffen’s gravestone, comparing lives to spiderwebs that unexpectedly become entangled 49.
• Remaining unpurified helps conceal him: unless he deliberately reveals his power, priests perceive him as an ordinary person during the investigations into the Bellwyn ritual 35.