Kou Yamori

	"Mature Content"
	This character or verse has mature themes and concepts, thus those of young age are ill-advised to look through these.

“	Certainly, there is a huge gap between boys and girls. We can't understand each other. But if you think about it, it never had anything to do with gender. Until now, I've never been able to understand a single person. I can't understand Nazuna-chan, nor can I understand you, Hatsuka-san. It doesn't have anything to do with men or women. Even if I was a girl, I'd still have tried to like Nazuna-chan, I think.	„
	~ Kou in Volume 5, chapter 45

Background

Kou Yamori is the main protagonist and narrator of Call of the Night. He was an honor student but decided to drop out of school because he got fed up with it. Thanks to not using his energy, he became an insomniac and started to walk around at night. Now he desires to become a vampire, a task with which he enlists the help of Nazuna Nanakusa.

General Information

Name: Kou Yamori

Origin: Call of the Night

Sex: Male

Age: 14 (Kou is noted to be age 14)

Classification: Second Year Junior High Student, Junior High Drop Out

Species: Human, Half-Vampire

Occupation: Assistant Detective of Anko Uguisu

Status: Alive

Alignment: Neutral Good (Considers himself an okay person that tries to do the right thing. Went out of his way to help an woman in her 20s who was suffering from constant overwork, going as far as to promise her to turn her into a vampire so she can live free, with her even noting his actions makes it easier for her to get through the day. Saved a detective from trying to commit suicide), Chaotic Good as a Half-Vampire (Becomes more aggressive due to his vampirism)

Codex Statistics

Tier: 10-B regularly, 8-C with Half-Vampirism

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Human level regularly (Noted to be really weak without his half-vampirization), Building level (Buster) with Half-Vampirism (Destroyed an entire building in his fight. Comparable to Nazuna Nanakusa, who could casually ripped off another vampire's arm and was noted by her to be strong even among vampires. Vampires are noted to be on a whole different level from humans being "beyond strong", damaged the brick floor upon landing. Can break open locks. Tore through the concrete of two buildings. Comparable to other vampires who with a slash from far away can greatly damage a door, and easily break apart handcuffs)

Durability: Human level regularly, Building level with Half-Vampirism

Striking Strength: Human Class regularly, Building Class (Buster) with Half-Vampirism

Lifting Strength: Regular Human regularly, Superhuman with Half-Vampirism (Comparable to Nazuna Nanakusa, who casually ripped off and bent metal from the school playground)

Travel Speed: Regular Human regularly, Superhuman with Half-Vampirism(During his "partial vampirization" powers could move faster then the human eye could see, Comparable to Nazuna Nanakusa, who could keep up with a car)

Attack Speed: Regular Human regularly, Superhuman with Half-Vampirism

Reaction Speed: Regular Human regularly, Superhuman with Half-Vampirism

Stamina: Regular Human regularly, Superhuman with Half-Vampirism (Vampires can go entire nights fighting and casing after targets, with them feeling no real pulse or feeling tired from doing these actions. Vampires can live through fatal injuries while waiting for their body to regenerate from it)

Range: Standard Melee, Hundreds of Meters with Walkie Talkie (The walkie talkie has a 150 meter radius)

Intelligence: Gifted Intelligence (Has shown his own impressive intuition with detective work, figured out Anko Uguisu's plan after seeing all of her email to him)

---

Powers and Techniques

Social Influencing (Went out of his way to help an woman in her 20s who was suffering from constant overwork, going as far as to promise her to turn her into a vampire so she can live free, with her even noting his actions makes it easier for her to get through the day. Noted by Anko Uguisu, that Kou has a mysterious effect of people that causes girls to go wild for him), Pseudo-Summoning (With his walkie talkie, Kou can call over Nazuna Nanakusa).

Resistance to Empathic Manipulation (Kou Yamori is unaffected by vampire's charms, with it only being arguable that Nazuna affected him)

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Self-Sustenance (Nutritional Self-Sustenance & Restful Self-Sustenance; Vampires do not have pulses. Being a vampire eliminates the need for food and sleep, two of the three basic human needs), Social Influencing (Can make one feel calm and peaceful sleeping next to her), Acrobatics & Pseudo- Flight (Vampires like Nazuna are able to leap incredible distances, making it look like she's flying in the air. Noted that vampires can fly. Noted by Kou that vampires jump by using anything from buildings to poles as footing), Enhanced Senses (Turning into a vampire gave Akiyama perfect vision to the point that he didn't need glasses anymore), Pain Tolerance (Vampires feel no real pain from having their entire arm get ripped off) Immortality (Ageless; Vampires live indefinetely and are ageless. Noted by Nazuna that vampires can live for a really long time. Regenerative Immortality; Through vampiric regeneration), Supernatural Resilience (Vampires can live with holes in their chest), Regeneration (Low-Mid; Vampires can regenerate from gunshot wounds to the head. Vampires can reattach lost limbs. The scrapes she had from ripping through concrete were healed. Higher through feeding; Akiyama through feeding on blood could heal several knife stab wounds that proved fatal when he was put under the vampire's weakness), Intangibility (Phasing; Nazuna can phase through walls, vampires can turn specific parts of their body intangible to avoid attacks), Non-Standard Interaction (Vampires can hit people while phasing through phasing on their own), Durability Negation (Vampires can use their phasing to have characters have parts of their bodies or limbs be stuck to them and rip them off), Empathic Manipulation (Noted that Vampires have a glamour effect that make them super attractive) Blood Manipulation (Should be comparable to vampires like Nazuna who can bite into humans and suck their blood), Memory Manipulation (Through drinking blood, vampires can see into one's memories), Transmutation & Corruption (Can turn one into a vampire through biting them if they fall in love with him), Sleep Manipulation (Vampires can put others into a deep hypnosis).

Resistance to Empathic Manipulation (Vampires are not affected by other vampires charms)

---

Equipment

• Walkie Talkie: A walkie talkie that allows Kou to call Nazuna, and allows him to find her. The walkie talkie has a 150 meter radius.

---

Notable Techniques

• Half-Vampire: Thanks to Nazuna sucking his blood, he can turn into a vampire for a limited amount of time. While the full extent of his abilities isn't clear, it has shown to give him the powers of a vampire and, depending on his emotional state, amplify them, making him able to destroy a building with one punch, even overwhelming a particularly strong and experienced vampire like Susuki. He couldn't initially control the ability, but it's shown that he turns into a vampire whenever he feels emotional pain and bleeds, like when Nazuna drank his blood and he saw some on his hands, and during his fight with Mahiru in which his nose bled. He later learns how to control it and activates it by piercing his ears.

• Control of Blood: When Kou's arm was severed, his vampiric side intensified as his mind revolved more and more around Nazuna. He can control his own blood to such an extend that it's powerful enough to bring his severed arm back.

• Immortality: As a vampire, Nazuna doesn't age like regular humans, and cannot die through only physical trauma. She can live indefinitely as long as she feeds on human blood and isn't exposed to her weakness (Her preserved umbilical cord).

• Superhuman Strength: Although the physiology of vampires and humans is no different outwardly, vampires are much stronger than normal humans. Nazuna's physical strength is enough to crack the floor when landing and sever another vampire's arm with a single strike. The speed of her attack movements is almost invisible to the human eye and it makes her ruthless and agressive in combat.

• Levitation: A way for vampires to move quickly, not so much "flying" as jumping with full force. By bouncing high, Nazuna is able to travel long distances in a hovering state.

• Regeneration: Vampires regenerate wounds much faster than humans, especially when consuming blood. Usually, significant injuries, such as a broken arm or spine, take some time to recover from, but this can be bypassed if a supply of blood is nearby; a single drop of blood is enough to heal a gaping hole in the chest almost instantly. Vampires cannot die through violence alone.

• High Durability: The body of a vampire is far more durable than a human's. When Nazuna got shot in the eye at point-blank range with a revolver, it wasn't enough to penetrate her skull all the way through, only causing her eye to be bloodshot.

• Lack of Needs: turning into a vampire eliminates the need for food and sleep, two of the three basic human needs. However, despite this, the constant lack of satisfaction of these needs leads to a lack of other, more complex and meaningful desires. Therefore, even if a vampire does not need regular food and sleep, they can safely eat (in Nazuna's case, without stopping to drink beer) and sleep like a normal human.

• Intangibility: The freely activated ability of vampires to make their bodies intangible. In this state, they can pass through walls and pass material objects through themselves. Any object (or living being) in direct contact with the vampire also becomes intangible. At the same time, the very process of becoming intangible is very difficult, as it requires extreme concentration. As Nazuna demonstrated, if one terminates the ability while a body part is still phased with a solid thing (e.g. arm passing through a wall), the body part will be expelled by the object, thus be broken apart. If used wisely, a vampire can use its phased body part to dodge its opponent's attacks or trap the opponent's weapons in its body. Although intangible, a vampire can be touched by another vampire who is also intangible. As Susuki explained, the normal state is a "plus", while the phasing state is a "minus". The interaction between two minuses is the same as two pluses.

• High Pain Threshold: Vampires have the ability to endure very severe pain. Nazuna didn't flich when her arm got severed, though she felt pain when getting shot in the eye.

• Hypnosis: Though Nazuna has never used this ability, vampires can make someone fall asleep just by looking them in the eye, but this is not very common, as only Haruka has ever been shown using this ability.

• Supernatural Charm: Vampires are able to strongly influence a person's personality and thinking with their vampire charm, making them do the vampire's requests even if they normally would not.

• Animal Control: Although this has only been shown in passing by a single vampire, vampires seem to be able to control animals, such as bunnies.

---

Other

Standard Tactics: Kou will do something to make him to go through immense pain to trigger his half-vampirism, doing powerful hand to hand attacks along with using his intangibility.

Weaknesses: Kou needs to go through immense pain in order to trigger his half-vampirism. Vampires weakness is their human past, weapons can be made out of the person objects that connect them to who they once were. Vampires slowly lose memories of their human lives. Vampires swing wildly at people with everything they've got, making their attacks far too telegraphed.

Trivia

• Despite usually getting portrayed with black eyes, Kou and Akira also got drawn with amber eyes by Kotoyama. In Kou's case, it was on the covers of volume 3 and 11.
• Kou's blood is said to be extraordinarily delicious for vampires.
• Kou has never been at sea in his life.
• His birthday was revealed in the official fanbook.
• Kou owns several track jackets.

Battle Records

None.

None.

None.