Keke

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Childhood

Keke’s mother died when she was twelve. Afterward, her father began drinking heavily and abusing her, including beating her and burning her with cigarette butts. As an adult, she says that he only contacts her to ask for money 82 421.

During wilderness training, an illusion recreates a loving household in which her parents celebrate her admission to Shangjing No. 1 Key High School. Although she recognizes that the scene is false, she asks Hela to let her remain a little longer because she has gone so long without familial warmth 69 73.

Recruit Training

Keke becomes Hela’s roommate and introduces her to the camp’s facilities. Initially anxious about Hela’s expressionless manner, she soon starts calling her “Sister Hela” and relies on her throughout training 44 45 47.

During the instructors’ opening combat exercise, Keke follows Hela away from the assembly area before the first attack. She obtains a dagger from the armory and shields herself from a rocket explosion with a metal wall. Later, instructor attacks deform her metal, leaving her unable to control it; Hela’s tentacled rescue frightens her into fainting. After she recovers, Ye Yiqing shares the group’s captured bells with her 46 47 48 51 52 53.

Months later, the instructors secretly transport the recruits into the wilderness. Hela finds the terrified Keke, and they regroup with Han Xiaoxiao and Ye Yiqing. Hela also helps Keke recognize and leave the illusion of her family 59 60 61 66 73.

New Year and Qin Gucheng’s Death

Keke invites Hela to spend New Year with her in City A. A visit to a bar ends with the pair taken to Brother Long’s nightclub while Keke is unconscious. Upon waking and understanding their situation, she resolves to protect Hela in return for her previous help. Using a Minecraft Steve figurine’s metal head, she breaks out of their locked room and repels their pursuers 81 82 83 84.

When Qin Gucheng intervenes, Keke refuses to leave him entirely unsupported. She pins Brother Long beneath an enlarged cube, briefly preventing another attack. After their hospitalization, Qin Gucheng invites both girls to spend New Year at his home 85 87.

Near the end of training, Keke accompanies Hela, Yan Wusheng, and Qin Gucheng on a practical mission in Guangshen. Their target, a centipede-shaped Variant, is controlled by [Night Kill]. Keke shields Qin Gucheng and attempts an evacuation, but the mission ends with his death. [Night Kill] then sexually assaults Keke before Hela interrupts 91 94 96 98.

Qin Gucheng’s death devastates Keke, who had come to regard his care as fatherly. She blames herself despite Hela’s reassurance and receives his saber from Ye Yiqing 100.

Stationed Squad and Hela’s Escape

After training, Keke selects the squad stationed in City B, Nanchuan, prioritizing good benefits and distance from her hometown. While awaiting her assignment notice in City A, she parts from Hela and the Ye brothers; Ye Yiqing lends her ten thousand yuan for expenses 101 105.

Later, Keke intervenes when Han Xiaoxiao is about to kill Hela. She knocks away a Body-Exploding Agent pill, holds Han Xiaoxiao off with her cubes, and carries Hela to a sewer entrance. Returning Hela’s necklace and bracelet, she explains that this rescue repays their friendship at training camp—but that she will stand with humanity if they meet again 158.

Han Xiaoxiao catches Keke after Hela escapes. Although she threatens her with a pistol, Keke neither flees nor begs. Han Xiaoxiao ultimately knocks her unconscious and conceals her involvement from Zhou Fan and the others 158.

Captaincy and the Gravekeepers

Keke eventually becomes her squad’s captain, buys a home outright, and accumulates several million yuan in savings. Repeated teammate deaths and the burden of leadership leave her exhausted and lonely. During a visit to Qin Gucheng’s grave, she admits that she no longer wants to be a Night Star 421.

Instead of approving her retirement application, her superiors select her for the Gravekeepers because her ability is particularly suitable for their work. The messenger tells her that selection cannot ordinarily be refused. Neither the substantial salary nor the family benefits persuade her to welcome the appointment 421.

At the Gravekeepers’ signal-free base, she befriends Lü Weitian after he accidentally breaks her tarantula’s enclosure. She later learns that the child is the Gravekeepers’ strongest fighter, the [Heroic Spirit], and is horrified that he is being sent into such dangerous combat. During Aidan’s attack, she attempts to escape against the charging crowd, thinking of Liu An and the life she still wants to live; a ghost carries her out of the area 431 467.

Battle Against the Ultimate

Gu Gongming forcibly recruits Keke for the operation against the Ultimate despite her protests. After Jian Luo pushes her from the aircraft, she uses her metal cubes to lower the group safely into the disaster zone 500.

Bloodied during the battle, Keke kneels before Hela and begs her to stop killing their former classmates—even if that means dying. Despite suffering numerous cuts, she later embraces Hela from behind as Brown approaches with his final Space Slash. Brown recognizes that Keke is not strong enough to restrain Hela physically, yet Hela remains still long enough for him to destroy her core 505 507 508.

After the War

On the first anniversary of Humanity’s Victory Day, Keke lives comfortably with Liu An and visits the graves of the fallen. She also brings offerings to Hela’s secluded grave, where she shares news of the survivors 512.

Keke understands that Hela deliberately allowed herself to die. She also believes Hela erased the Special Investigation Squad’s memories for their sake, and laments that the people Hela brought back no longer remember her. Though enjoying a peaceful life, Keke remains troubled by the scars left across her body 512.

Appearance

• Eyes: Black 47.
• Skin: Initially very pale; months of outdoor training give her a light wheat-colored tan 59.
• Build: Described as flat-chested during recruit training 76.
• Later scars: Extensive scarring remains on her body, including her cheek and neck, even after scar-removal surgery 512.

Personality

Keke is timid, emotionally expressive, and prone to imagining the worst. Early in training, she worries that Hela’s silence means rejection and fears being considered useless. Her fear can become overwhelming: she faints at Hela’s transformed appearance and initially panics when left alone in the wilderness 44 47 52 60.

Her courage usually takes the form of acting while frightened rather than becoming fearless. She supports Qin Gucheng against Brother Long, rescues Hela despite Han Xiaoxiao’s threats, and finally confronts Hela on behalf of their dying classmates 85 158 505 508.

She longs for affection, domestic security, and an ordinary romantic life. Her attachment to Qin Gucheng reflects the familial warmth he restored to her, while her wish to retire centers on simple comforts: sleeping late, eating good food, and escaping the responsibility of keeping teammates alive 60 100 421 512.

Despite her timidity, Keke enjoys unusual small creatures. She enthusiastically handles Hela’s insect creation but recoils when it becomes a snake. Later, she keeps a carefully tended tarantula and occupies herself with gossip when the Gravekeepers’ lack of internet prevents her usual online boasting and arguments 66 431 500.

Abilities & Skills

[Three-Dimensional Metal Body]

Keke controls metal cubes, moving them through the air and altering their size and shape. Her first demonstration enlarges a one-centimeter cube to head size and then flattens it into a sheet 44.

• Material flexibility: Any metal cube can serve as a medium, regardless of the particular metal or alloy 158.
• Defensive shaping: She forms walls to block explosions, gunfire, and cutting attacks 48 158 507.
• Offensive enlargement: Enlarged cubes can strike, crush, or pin opponents beneath several tons of metal 84 85 94.
• Flight and transport: She rides cubes herself, carries other people, and constructs a flying platform surrounded by protective walls 96 421 500.
• Multiple-cube control: By her Gravekeeper selection, she can deploy the twenty-six component cubes of a metal Rubik’s cube and assemble them into a protected transport 421.

Limitations

• Cube-shaped medium: Her ability depends on metal cubes. If an opponent twists or damages one out of shape, she can lose control of it 51 94.
• Temporary alterations: Metal returns to its original form when she stops controlling it 44.
• Early size ceiling: At New Star, her largest cube measures three meters per side and requires all her mental power 85.
• Dependence on material durability: Ordinary cubes can be deformed by stronger opponents. She later uses a special-material cube so durable that even a Super Aberrant-level Variant would struggle to destroy it 94 158.
• Limited combat confidence: Upon reaching Ten Thousand Stars, she still considers herself unable to defeat peers at the same realm 421.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Metal cubes — Her primary combat and transportation tools, initially carried individually in her pockets 44 91.
• Metal Rubik’s cube — A compact carrier for twenty-six controllable cubes; its central spherical axle remains in her hand when the cubes separate 421.
• Special-material cube — Used to shield Hela’s escape from Han Xiaoxiao’s gunfire 158.
• Minecraft Steve figurine — Its enlarging metal head becomes a door-breaking tool and moving barricade during the nightclub escape 84.
• Dagger — Hastily selected from the camp armory despite her lack of training with conventional weapons 47.
• Qin Gucheng’s saber — A keepsake bearing his engraved name, given to her after his death and carefully wrapped when she leaves camp 100 101.

Relationships

• Hela — Roommate, protector, and close friend whom she calls “Sister Hela.” Keke saves her from execution but later opposes her slaughter of humans. Their final embrace enables Brown’s attack, and Keke continues tending her hidden grave afterward 44 105 158 505 508 512.
• Qin Gucheng — Instructor and father figure. His death remains a lasting source of grief; Keke preserves his saber and repeatedly visits his grave 100 101 421.
• Han Xiaoxiao — Fellow recruit whom Keke initially encourages. Their relationship breaks down after Keke helps Hela escape, although Han Xiaoxiao cannot bring herself to kill her 56 158 421.
• Ye Yiqing — Fellow trainee who checks on her after she faints, shares captured bells, delivers Qin Gucheng’s saber, and lends her money when they part 52 53 100 105.
• Ye Ciqing — Training companion who fights alongside her and frequently teases her about blushing and romantic interests 51 53 56.
• Liu An — Companion whom Keke cares for and lives with. Liu An comforts her at Qin Gucheng’s grave, and responsibility for her is one reason Keke refuses to give up her life 421 467 512.
• Lü Weitian / Tiantian — Young Gravekeeper friend who helps repair Peter’s enclosure and plays games with her. Learning that he is the [Heroic Spirit] makes her fear for his safety rather than celebrate his power 431 467.
• Peter — Her pet tarantula, whose enclosure she carries around the Gravekeepers’ base 431.
• Her parents — She cherishes memories of her mother, while her father’s abuse leaves her fearful and eager to serve far from home 69 73 82 101 421.

Notable Quotes

“Even if it’s fake, please let me spend a little more time with my family. It’s been so long since I felt warmth...” 73

“H-Hela, you’ve always protected me before. This time, let me figure something out!” 84

“In the future... if we meet again, I’ll stand on humanity’s side. I’m sorry...” 158

“And thank you for dying on purpose. After all, I know very well how strong you are...” 512