Kamunabi Headquarters (
It is a major setting of the series as a whole, particularly in the Sword Bearer Assassination Arc.
Description[]
Kamunabi Headquarters is an extremely large building primarily located underground. Over 500 Kamunabi personnel including non-combatants operate within the building. The entire structure is surrounded by an extremely large cuboidal barrier whose coverage and parameters can be modified based on the situation by the Core Station Vessel. The building consists of a number of different levels, numbered by proximity to the surface; i.e. Level 1 is the level closest to the surface.[1]
Entrances and Level 1[]
The Headquarters contains various entrances, each of which is associated with a barrier system.
One entrance to the area is located a clearing of a certain park in between four barrier lanterns, which teleport Kamunabi agents into an elevator once they report their full names, transporting them to the underground headquarters.[2]
The West Entrance
The west entrance is also connected by a similar elevator, and opens onto a walkway surrounded by pools of water on both sides. Overlooking the entrance are two large grates, behind which the west entrance's guard force are stationed. The grates contain a barrier which prevents the guard force from being detected provided they do not make noise or give off hostile intent. However, the older Shigyu brother was able to detect the exact numbers of the guard force anyway, though he could not pinpoint their exact location. On the 14th of November when the Hishaku attacked the headquarters, there were 24 guards stationed at the west entrance.[3]
The Threat Elimination Grounds
The Central Area of Level 1 comprises the Threat Elimination Grounds, a circular arena with large speakers installed capable of amplifying music played of nearby musicians. As the name suggests, it is an area specialised towards the elimination of invading threats.[4] There is a restroom near the Grounds.[5]
Level 2[]
Level 2 library
Level 2 contains a large library with two floors, a walkway on the upper floor. Within are a vast number of books on sorcerous knowledge such as spells, which serve as the fundamentals for the Kamunabi's academic program. Kudo estimated that sorcerers who have completed their basic curriculum had absorbed a third of the library, while the Masumi and the seven Core Station sorcerers including the Vessel had absorbed practically the entire library.[6] Azami later used a similar measurement to gauge that the three Kamunabi leaders in white robes, Kasen, Ichiki and Yatsuru, had approximately double the knowledge of the library within their minds.[7]
Level 3[]
Level 3 contains a training room where Natsuki Misaka was training during the Hishaku's attack on Kamunabi Headquarters. It appears to be styled similarly to a dojo, with a number of katana within and scrolls with inscriptions adorning the walls. Mechanisms that fire logs are placed within the room, which fighters can use to train their reflexes.[8]
Level 4[]
No information is known of any rooms on Level 4. Kiri Shirakai cut down into Level 5 from here to meet with Uruha and Hakuri during the Hishaku's attack on Kamunabi Headquarters.[9]
Level 5[]
On Level 5, there is a lobby area where Hakuri met with Kashima during the Hishaku's attack on Kamunabi Headquarters. Many Kamunabi agents were present here at the time, and ordered not to move after the Core Station Vessel detected the presence of seeds within various agents. After two traitorous Kamunabi elites killed Kashima, Hakuri fled down a hallway where he met with Uruha.[10]
This hallway is later where five Hishaku sorcerers were transported to and engaged Uruha. One room next to the hallway contains a number of desks and chairs, where the Hishaku sorcerer with a bandage was kicked into by Uruha.[11]
Uran, Bingo and the high-collared Hishaku member later ventured down a different hallway with a number of pillars within, where a number of Kamunabi elites engaged them.[12]
Level 6[]
The Core Station's exterior
Central to the Kamunabi's barrier system is their core station on Level 6, a room located in the middle of a body of water, doors on the sides and a bridge leading to the front door. Within, the Core Station Vessel sits on a levitating pillow with their head placed inside the apparatus, where they utilise their ability to monitor the entirety of headquarters, acting as a one-man surveillance system. The other six sorcerers remain in the room around the pool sitting on pillows of their own, wearing specialized veils and helping reinforce the barrier in case of enemy attack. The Core Station Vessel can relay commands across headquarters using floating lanterns, detect the strength of any individuals within, including intruders, and control the barrier.[13][14]
Roughly below the hallway where Uruha and Hakuri were is another hallway with a door leading to another room. Behind the wall of this room is the Third Library.[15]
The Third Library is a library which appears far larger than the Level 2 library, with large pillars holding up both the lower and upper sections. In the centre of the library is a shallow pool of water. During the Hishaku's attack on Kamunabi Headquarters, Yura tapped into the abilities of Magatsumi here, destroying many of the pillars and causing great destruction within the library.[16]
Lowest Level[]
Akemura Soga's prison
On the lowest level of Kamunabi Headquarters is the prison of Akemura Soga, also known as the Dungeon, which contains ten pillars adorned with seals that ensure Soga only has the bare minimum of energy needed to survive. Soga has been imprisoned here for 18 years, and has not moved or said a word during that time until saying Magatsumi on the 8th of November.
Nearby the prison is a monitoring room dedicated to maintaining surveillance on Soga's status. The Kamunabi leader with sideburns descended here during the Hishaku's attack on Kamunabi Headquarters, and was surprised to see Soga attempting to stand.[17]
Locations with Unspecified Levels[]
The meeting room is a room where the leaders of the Kamunabi meet to discuss recent major events and how they should proceed. It is also where the leaders met with Chihiro to discuss his proposal of letting him join the organisation following the end of the Rakuzaichi. During the Hishaku's attack on Kamunabi Headquarters, a seeded agent's death resulted in tree branches exploding in the room.
The Archives consists of a set of rooms with many bookshelves detailing the Kamunabi's archives on various items. Included is a very brief dossier on the Hishaku. The ceiling of the room appears to have sealing ropes maintaining a seal on the room proper.
The Shinuchi sealing room
The Shinuchi sealing room is a room where the sealed Shinuchi was placed. It appears to be somewhere below Level 6. Within the room is an observation deck high above walled with glass, where people can observe Shinuchi's status.
Kasen's office appears to be somewhere within Kamunabi Headquarters, and is a simple room with a desk that Kasen sits behind. A lobby appears to be nearby.[18]
The room where Samura met with Ichiki has several couches within placed low to the ground and a desk in the middle, suitable for Ichiki's diminutive height. For Samura's meeting, the desk in the middle contained an ashtray. The room is connected openly to a hallway. [19]
History[]
Past[]
It is unknown when the Kamunabi Headquarters building was created, but it has existed for at least 18 years and served as Akemura Soga's prison since 18 years ago.[20][21]
8 years ago, Seiichi Samura arrived at Kamunabi Headquarters to discuss Yura's visit to his house and prophecy of a second Malediction with Ichiki, who noted it was a very slim possibility given Shinuchi's sealing and isolation and Soga's imprisonment. He assured Samura that the Kamunabi would handle the situation.[22]
Several months before November of the present year, Yukisada underwent the process of becoming another Vessel for the Kamunabi's Core Station barrier system, assisted by Kasen sneaking the Kamunabi's backup Vessel device to the Hishaku.[23]
Vs. Sojo Arc[]
Meeting after Sojo's death
On the 24th of October, ten days after the death of Genichi Sojo, the leaders of the Kamunabi convened in the meeting room within headquarters. Soshiro Azami reported Sojo's death and the casualties among the Anti-Cloud Gouger Special Forces. The leaders then discussed the upcoming auction of Shinuchi at the Rakuzaichi, re-prioritising the retrieval of Shinuchi. Kasen revealed Kazane's report detailing that Chihiro Rokuhira, who possessed a seventh Enchanted Blade and had likely taken Cloud Gouger, was responsible for killing Sojo. The leaders would dispatch the Kamunabi's strongest fighter, Hiyuki Kagari, after Chihiro.[24]
Rakuzaichi Arc[]
On the 1st of November, Hiyuki and Tafuku later returned to Kamunabi Headquarters to report to Kasen and Ichiki. Hiyuki declared her intention to head to the Rakuzaichi to pursue Chihiro, but Kasen stated the Kamunabi would be bidding on the blade instead. Though Hiyuki vehemently disagreed, Ichiki rationalised that a war with the Sazanami Clan would cause too much loss to the Kamunabi, and it had been decided bidding would be worth it if they could avoid any casualties.[25]
Sometime later, Kasen would learn that Enten would be sold at the Rakuzaichi, and the order was made for Hiyuki and Tafuku to proceed to the Rakuzaichi on the 8th in order to ensure Chihiro did not die so Enten would not be rendered usable.[26][27]
Sword Bearer Assassination Arc[]
Following the end of the Rakuzaichi, Hiyuki retrieved Shinuchi and gave it to the bidding team, who transported it to Kamunabi Headquarters. There, a temporary seal was placed on it, before Kasen, Ichiki and Yatsuru would begin the proper sealing process.[28][29]
After the Rakuzaichi, on the 9th of November, Hiyuki and Tafuku brought Chihiro and Hakuri Sazanami to the Kamunabi Headquarters meeting room in order to discuss Chihiro's proposal that he ally with them and his idea of transporting the Enchanted Blades from the Hishaku through Hakuri's sorcery.[30]
Partway through the meeting, after Izaru had proposed they kill Chihiro and contract Enten with a Kamunabi member, an interruption came from a Kamunabi member reporting the Kokugoku Sanso had been attacked and destroyed, with several Enchanted-Blade-like spirit energy manifestations as well as a Hishaku sorcerer spotted. Chihiro countered the idea of killing him as a new bearer would need too long to master Enten, and thus he was their best option. Kasen reluctantly agreed, and after receiving a new report that Yoji Uruha had fled Kokugoku, ordered Chihiro and Hakuri to find and protect him.[31]
Following the meeting, Kasen, Ichiki and Yatsuru began the sealing process proper. Before beginning the process, the three investigated the blade for any traces of tampering or foreign spirit energy. While Yura's spirit energy was present within the blade, Kasen covered this information up.[32]
Meeting after the events at Senkutsuji Temple
At 3:14 am on the 10th of November, the Kamunabi leaders overviewed the battle at Senkutsuji, Uruha's death, Samura's betrayal and the emergence of Owl over Japan. They discussed what their next course of action should be now that they had moved and hidden the other two sword bearers, and pondered using Shinuchi, ultimately deciding to bolster their defences and ambush the enemy by utilising the existing hostility between Samura and the Hishaku. Shinuchi's sealing progress had reached 60% by this time.[33] Ichiki arranged for Shiba and Hiyuki to be assigned to protect the other two sword bearers.[34] Hakuri, after exhausting his sorcery once again to transport Tobimune to Samura and Chihiro to Senkutsuji, was transferred to intensive care in order to treat his sorcery.[35]
Within Uruha's autopsy room, Uruha awoke some hours after his death due to Samura implanting Suzaku within him. He was unable to move, which the forensic pathologists told him was due to his sorcery nerves needing time to recover after eighteen years of being obstructed by a Lifelong Contract. Uruha told them not to publicise his survival.[36]
Several days before the 14th of November, Hagiwara woke up. He was greatly traumatised by being unable to protect the lives of his squad, and was comforted by the iron sand sewn into his squad's uniforms being laid around his bed as well as puppetting Kugara's mask using iron sand subconsciously, 'Kugara' speaking to him within Hagiwara's mind.[37]
As Owl disappeared on the morning of the 14th of November, Yura and the fedora-wearing Hishaku sorcerer convened over Shinuchi's location, the latter preparing to attack.[38]
The Hishaku attack Kamunabi Headquarters
Around the same time, the Kamunabi leaders gathered to discuss the Masumi's after-action report after the events of Kyoto. The Core Station Vessel then reported the Hishaku were attacking the barrier with pine tree sorcery directly above the now fully sealed Shinuchi. Kasen ordered that they be let in to avoid civilian casualties, and the leaders promptly arranged a strike force to intercept the seven detected intruders, which Azami volunteered to join. The meeting ended and as an announcement blared for all non-combatants to evacuate to below the third floor, Kudo entered Hakuri's room, where he had just woken up.[39]
The other leaders all dispersed to various locations: Azami to the Threat Elimination Grounds[40] and Ichiki close by,[41] the leader with sideburns to Soga's monitoring room,[42] Izaru to the Core Station[43] and Kasen to the Shinuchi sealing room.[44]
The Shigyu Brothers are eliminated
Kudo and Hakuri left the room and Kudo briefed Hakuri on the Hishaku's attack and Hakuri's mission: to transport Shinuchi into the Storehouse to prevent the Hishaku from accessing it. Hokuto's puppet and the Shigyu Brothers arrived at the west entrance of the first floor, and they proceeded to the Threat Elimination Grounds. There, Azami quickly downed the brothers in one hit each, more focused on the Hishaku member, who he recognised as one of the three who killed Kunishige.[45] Not long after, Azami dispatched the puppet, though quickly recognised its true nature and knew its controller was elsewhere.[46]
Kudo and Hakuri continued through the Level 2 Library into an elevator, where the guard Ishihira killed himself to release a pine tree spell within his body. Kudo sent Hakuri through the ground using his sorcery Warrior's Path before the branches engulfed the elevator, and Hakuri pulled himself up onto Level 5, where he used Isou to dispatch two Kamunabi sorcerers trying to fight him, Hakuri realising the Hishaku had them held under duress through their families.[47]
At the Core Station, Izaru began coordinating operations with the Core Station Vessel, taking into account the planted seeds within certain Kamunabi agents. The Vessel announced across the facility that there were a number of seeded agents held under duress; he detected 50. He ordered for everyone not to move with the exception of Hakuri. At this point, Hakuri had arrived at a lobby area where the captain of Kudo's squad, Kashima met up with him. Kashima promptly began enforcing the orders until two traitorous Kamunabi elites executed him, but as Hakuri began running through a hallway to get away, Uruha arrived and fended them off.[48]
The Hishaku quintet transport behind Uruha and Hakuri
Outside the Threat Elimination Grounds, four Hishaku sorcerers lounged in waiting, including Uran, Bingo and Yukisada. Yura then walked up to them, and after a trip to the bathroom he returned to find the high-collared Hishaku member preparing a transport spell circle. Within the Core Station, one of the supporting sorcerers lowered a portion of the barrier before being incapacitated by Izaru, the brief moment allowing the five to transport downwards, ending up in the Level 5 hallway where Uruha and Hakuri were.[49] After the Vessel found their new location, Izaru ordered the elite units to move in on the Hishaku's location.
Kiri Shirakai descended and cut down one of the traitors, before Yukisada attacked and was kicked through a wall by Uruha, power amplified by his sorcery Koen. Uruha then sliced through one of Bingo's Mako heads and clashed blades with Yura, shortly before Bingo summoned a number of smaller heads.[50] Bingo, Uran and the high-collared member then left, the high-collared member throwing a seed to generate a wall of trees to block them off. Kiri dispatched the heads and the remaining traitor despite the fatigue from cutting the heads and cut through the floor, allowing herself and Hakuri to descend to Level 6. Hokuto then arrived.[51]
Within the Level 3 training room, Natsuki Misaka was informed of the Hishaku's attack and prepared to engage.[52] He descended to Level 6 and began engaging Hokuto in sword combat, before Uruha and Yura descended through the ceiling, to Hokuto's delight. While Kiri and Hakuri left to go to Shinuchi's location, Uruha and Natsuki began fighting Hokuto and Yura, their battle moving to the Third Library. Each of them began taking wounds, the more serious being Hokuto losing his right arm to Uruha and Uruha losing the fingertips of his right hand to Hokuto.[53]
Uran, Bingo and the high-collared member had moved elsewhere on Level 5, Uran and Bingo systematically freezing and devouring the Kamunabi agents in their way respectively. Elite Kamunabi agents then converged on their location. Kiri and Hakuri reconvened with Ichiki and Azami, the four entering an elevator to the Shinuchi sealing room.[54] When they arrived, Kasen was there, and Ichiki was relieved to see Shinuchi's seal was intact, though as he stated the operation to transport Shinuchi would commence, Kasen replied in the negative.
Yura uses Magatsumi's power
In the Third Library, Yura activated the spirit energy he had placed in Magatsumi, his strength and speed amplifying.[55] After Kasen explained his motives and why he had collaborated with the Hishaku and allowed Kunishige to die, for the sake of allowing the Enchanted Blades to be controlled by the Kamunabi to maintain order, Azami punched him into a wall and entered the Third Library to confront Yura, where Yura had just used Centipede, forcing Uruha and Natsuki to duck.[56] The spirit energy signatures of Tobimune and Enten then appeared above. Ichiki immediately ordered for Shiba and Hiyuki to return to Headquarters, but the call could not go through, as Yukisada had begun interfering with the barrier using his status as a second Vessel, keeping Samura and Chihiro out while simultaneously disrupting the communication system.
Azami activated his sorcery Coin and attacked Yura alongside Uruha and Natsuki. After Uruha and Natsuki lured Yura into blasting them away with Centipede, Azami took shelter behind Yura. Yura shot Dragonfly at Azami, grievously wounding his arms, and Azami retaliated using his Coins, dealing severe internal damage to Yura before landing a punch on him. Within the Core Station, the Vessel detected the presence of a second Vessel and Izaru announced it across Headquarters, ordering for the Hishaku to be eliminated. Ichiki dispatched Hakuri and Kiri in pursuit of this objective.[57]
After the announcement blared that there was a second Vessel in the building, the Kugara figment of Hagiwara's imagination successfully motivated Hagiwara into putting on his uniform and moving into battle. Hagiwara found Uran and Bingo on Level 5, and after fending off their initial attack, was sent to the ground by Bingo's sorcery. Undeterred, Hagiwara conducted a massive scan similar to an MRI across the facility, detected and identified Yukisada's status and promptly sent Kugara's mask (subconsciously, as Hagiwara perceived it as his comrade pursuing Yukisada) to impale him.[58]
Hagiwara followed by crawling out of the ground where Yukisada was moments later, shortly before Yukisada attacked him. Hagiwara countered by severing his left arm but Yukisada casually regenerated it, to Hagiwara's surprise. Hagiwara then fell to the ground, exhausted after days of not eating and inactivity, and shouted for someone to cut off Yukisada's head. Hakuri then transported Kiri into the area, and after a well-timed slash, she managed to cut off Yukisada's head. Yukisada, however, merely carried his head and even kept speaking. Suddenly, Yura arrived and Hagiwara quickly rushed Kiri and Hakuri away, erecting a large wall of iron sand. More focused on saving time, Yura praised Yukisada for his good work and proceeded to directly above Soga's prison.[59]
Inhabitants[]
Kamunabi
Leadership
Employees
Other
References[]
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| World | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chronology | Full Timeline | Timeline | |
| Story Arcs | Vs. Sojo Arc • Rakuzaichi Arc • Sword Bearer Assassination Arc | ||
| Terminology | Sorcerer • Spirit Energy • Enchanted Blade • Seitei War | ||
| Enchanted Blades | Enten • Cloud Gouger • Magatsumi • Kumeyuri • Tobimune | ||
| Sorcery Techniques | Barrier • Iai White Purity Style • Storehouse • Pine Tree Sorcery | ||
| Organizations | Kamunabi • Hishaku • Sazanami Clan • Korogumi | ||
| Locations | Rokuhira Swordsmith • Cafe Haru Haru • Kaburato Castle • Kamunabi Headquarters • Sazanami Estate • Rakuzaichi Auction House • Sanso • Kyoto Bloodshed Hotel | ||