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* ButtMonkey: Oki is the one who gets into some of the most embarrassing situations in both stories.
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* ButtMonkey: Oki is the one who gets into some of the most embarrassing situations in both stories. In the prequel, all she does is stand to the side and look cute, scared of whatever Kabutomushi is currently handling.
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* {{Badass}}{{Badass}}: Alice successfully takes on lots of danguerous assassins all on her own, often by turning their own weapons against them and while enduring harsh wounds from previous battles. Then she goes and [[spoiler:kills all of Japan with a shovel]].
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* BlessedWithSuck[=/=]CursedWithAwesome: It took 15 years for her to even be taught about what C.E.C. was and how to control it. As great as it can be to become the world's greatest assassin in two weeks, Alice really never asked for it and would rather have a normal life than to be constantly fighting off the insect people.
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* BlessedWithSuck[=/=]CursedWithAwesome: It took 15 years for her to even be taught about what C.E.C. was and how to control it. As great as it can be to become the world's greatest assassin in two weeks, Alice really never asked for it and would rather have a normal life than to be constantly fighting off the crazy insect people.
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* BreakTheCutie: Alice had a awful life up to the point Kumo taught her to control her ability. Then he makes her kill him. And she has to fight the Organization alone. [[spoiler:And Yoriko is killed.]] And people just won't stop trying to rape her. [[spoiler:And her real father Suzumebachi is revealed to have been forced into abandoning her before being suddenly killed. ''And'' Yoriko is actually alive, at fault for ''everything'' and tries to kill Alice twice. To top it all, as Yoriko is then killed for real, Alice sees she's clearly happy that her only friend will get a chance at a normal life after all]].
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* BreakTheCutie: Alice had a awful life up to the point Kumo taught her to control her ability. Then he makes her kill him. And she has to fight the Organization alone. [[spoiler:And Yoriko is killed.]] And people just won't stop trying to rape her. [[spoiler:And her real father Suzumebachi is revealed to have been forced into abandoning her before being suddenly killed. ''And'' Yoriko is actually alive, at fault for ''everything'' and tries to kill Alice twice. To top it all, as Yoriko is then killed for real, Alice sees she's clearly actually happy that her only friend will get a chance at a normal life after all]].
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* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:After all the insane techniques she pulls through the series, Alice loses the Kumoito's blade after killing Ginyanma and ends the series facing an endless horde of rapist zombies with her bare hands and a shovel. Honestly, she'll be fine]].
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* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:After all the insane techniques she pulls through the series, Alice loses the Kumoito's blade after killing Ginyanma and ends the series facing an endless horde of rapist zombies with her bare hands and a shovel. Honestly, she'll Knowing her, even in such a state she should be fine]].
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* {{Determinator}}: Alice takes loads of damage from people like Hibiki and Dinoponera, but doesn't stay down until she gets ''them'' to give up.
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* {{Determinator}}: Alice is driven to survive no matter what. Even when she takes loads absurd amounts of damage from people like Hibiki and Dinoponera, but she doesn't stay down until she gets ''them'' to give up.
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** Sara wisely takes the Kumoito away from Alice when she's finally captured. [[spoiler:This ends up not mattering because Alice had set strings on Kuramoto's neck in advance and activates them to kill her.]]
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** Sara wisely takes the Kumoito away from Alice when she's finally captured. [[spoiler:This ends up not mattering because Alice had set strings on Kuramoto's neck in advance and activates them to kill her.her, rendering the army ants powerless.]]
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* InstantExpert: The defining trait of Alice's C.E.C. condition turns out to be how it affects her learning skills. Under Kumo's tutelage, Alice figures how to use it and learns eveything he knows in the most productive two weeks ever. She later says she only needs a couple of days to master Dinoponera's C.D.F. concentration method, but is soon using it to great effect against [[spoiler:Sasori]].
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* InstantExpert: The defining trait of Alice's C.E.C. condition turns out to be how it affects her learning skills. Under Kumo's tutelage, Alice figures how to use it and learns eveything he knows in the most productive two weeks ever. She later says she only needs a couple of days to master Dinoponera's C.D.F. concentration method, but is soon using it to great effect against [[spoiler:Sasori]].Sasori.
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* ShovelStrike: Alice smashes a guy's face so hard with a shovel that [[EyeScream his eye gets ripped out]]. [[spoiler:Notably, it's the last attack she uses in the story.]]
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* ShovelStrike: Alice smashes a guy's face so hard with a shovel that [[EyeScream his eye gets ripped out]]. [[spoiler:Notably, it's the last attack she uses in the story.story after losing her thread-knife-gun.]]
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* OffhandBackhand: Hits Geji with one, then misses another while fighting Kirigirisu.
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* OffhandBackhand: Hits Geji with one, then misses another while fighting Kirigirisu. That poor violin...
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* ReformedButNotTamed: She's acts soft around Alice, but is not as nice to everyone else.
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* ReformedButNotTamed: She's She acts soft around Alice, but is not as nice to everyone else.
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* SmashSisters: She helped Kabutomushi to fight Imomushi in the past. During ''Arachnid'', Oki would like to be this with Alice, but they barely get a chance to unite against anyone. Oki later teams up with [[RivalsTeamUp Geji]] to look for Kuramoto, but that doesn't last either...
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* SmashSisters: She helped Kabutomushi to fight Imomushi in the past. During ''Arachnid'', Oki would like to be this with Alice, but they barely rarely get a chance to unite against anyone. Oki later teams up with [[RivalsTeamUp Geji]] to look for Kuramoto, but that doesn't last either...
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* StalkerWithACrush: Oki is a flirty and perverted girl who spies on Alice and steals her panties, but for someone who wanted to enslave Alice "like in the bad ending of an eroge", she does have her limits and is portrayed as very loyal and caring. Alice isn't too bothered by her friend's antics and sometimes shows that she does reciprocate Oki's feelings.
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* StalkerWithACrush: Oki is a flirty and perverted girl who spies on Alice and steals her panties, but for someone who wanted to enslave Alice "like in the bad ending of an eroge", she does have her limits and is portrayed as very loyal and caring. Alice isn't too ''too'' bothered by her friend's antics and sometimes shows that she does reciprocate Oki's feelings.
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* UndyingLoyalty: She obeys whatever Alice says and Anabachi exploits this to brainwash Oki and make her torture Yoriko. By the endgame of the story, Oki really is one of the few people who haven't manipulated, betrayed or repeatedly tried to kill Alice. [[spoiler:But this doesn't last all the way to the end. With Oki finally having Alice all to herself, she goes back to her PsychoLesbian ways and Alice quietly leaves Oki before they can do each other any harm.]]
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* UndyingLoyalty: She obeys whatever Alice says and this becomes a bad thing when Anabachi exploits this to brainwash Oki and make her torture Yoriko. By the endgame of the story, Oki really is one of the few people who haven't manipulated, betrayed or repeatedly tried to kill Alice. [[spoiler:But this doesn't last all the way to the end. With Oki finally having Alice all to herself, she goes back to her PsychoLesbian ways and Alice quietly leaves Oki before they can do each other any harm.]]
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* AttemptedRape: Rivals Alice on how much people try to rape her. Murasakishachihoko lures Hanakamakiri into an orgy room full of [[FatBastard fat bastards]], Imomushi [[DudeShesLikeInAComa knocks her out]] to undress her and do God knows what (but stops due to... [[GagPenis reasons]]) and Kinohadakamakiri has a history of being needlessly perverted towards her, too.
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* AttemptedRape: Rivals Alice on how Gets in danger of being raped every now and then, much people try to rape her. Murasakishachihoko lures Hanakamakiri into an orgy room full of [[FatBastard fat bastards]], like Alice. Even Imomushi [[DudeShesLikeInAComa knocks considered molesting her out]] to undress her and do God knows what (but stops due to... [[GagPenis reasons]]) and Kinohadakamakiri has a history of being needlessly perverted towards her, too.once.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Hanakamakiri seems nice and of sound mind, in contrast to almost every other assassin, but this is [[KillerRabbit part of her facades]] and she certainly won't shy away from ruthlessly slashing her enemies.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Hanakamakiri seems nice and of sound mind, in contrast to almost every other assassin, assassin in either story, but this is [[KillerRabbit part of her facades]] and she certainly won't doesn't shy away from ruthlessly slashing her enemies.
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* CuteAndPsycho: Tells Kinohadakamakiri she hopes to cut Imomushi's limbs like a literal caterpillar and turn her into a broken-minded sex slave. But it was only a lie to distract her. Hopefully.
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* CuteAndPsycho: Tells Suddenly confesses to Kinohadakamakiri she hopes to cut Imomushi's limbs like a literal caterpillar and turn her into a broken-minded mindless sex slave. But it was only a lie to distract her. Hopefully.
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** Sara wisely takes the Kumoito away from Alice when she's finally captured. [[spoiler:This ends up not mattering because Alice had set strings on Kuramoto's neck in advance and activates them to kill her.]]
** At the end of the series, [[spoiler:Alice sacrifices the Kumoito to kill Ginyanma and becomes helpless when Yoriko tries to throw her off the building. She only survives because Kabutomushi and Oki rescue her]].
** Sara wisely takes the Kumoito away from Alice when she's finally captured. [[spoiler:This ends up not mattering because Alice had set strings on Kuramoto's neck in advance and activates them to kill her.]]
** At the end of the series, [[spoiler:Alice sacrifices the Kumoito to kill Ginyanma and becomes helpless when Yoriko tries to throw her off the building. She only survives because Kabutomushi and Oki rescue her]].
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* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:Alice loses the Kumoito after killing Ginyanma but is still able to fight the zombie hordes with her other combat skills and improvised weapons]].
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* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:Alice [[spoiler:After all the insane techniques she pulls through the series, Alice loses the Kumoito Kumoito's blade after killing Ginyanma but is still able to fight and ends the zombie hordes series facing an endless horde of rapist zombies with her other combat skills bare hands and improvised weapons]].a shovel. Honestly, she'll be fine]].
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* GunsAreWorthless: Alice was taught to use a gun in the beginning and uses it at least thrice. Afterwards, it is gone.
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* GunsAreWorthless: Alice was taught to use a gun firearms in the beginning and uses it wields a normal gun at least thrice. Afterwards, her skillful knifegun wire traps render it is gone.obsolete.
* StoryBreakerPower: Alice eats CrazyPrepared for breakfast and is an InstantExpert who's very creative with her threads, so no matter how bad things seem to be for her she tends to turn the tides against her enemies all on her own with some impressive stratagems.
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Oki secreting bucketloads of oil to keep conceal her noises from Alice's thread [[EstablishingSeriesMoment establishes just how unexpectedly weird this series is going to get.]] As it turns out, being negleted by her parents as a baby like some sort of cockroach is what awakened such abilities in her.
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Oki secreting bucketloads of oil to keep conceal her noises from Alice's thread [[EstablishingSeriesMoment establishes just how unexpectedly weird this series is going to get.]] As it turns out, being negleted by her parents as a baby like some sort of a worthless cockroach is what awakened such abilities in her.
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* ImpaledPalm: As early as the Kamakiri fight. Also of note is when she gets her palms, arms, legs and ''butt'' impaled by Dinoponera's venomous needles.
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* ImpaledPalm: As early as the Kamakiri fight. Also of note is when she gets her palms, arms, legs and ''butt'' impaled by Dinoponera's venomous needles. Those wounds from Dino [[ScarsAreForever actually left scars]] on her.
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* FightMagnet: Because there is a great prize for whoever manages to kill her.
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* FightMagnet: Because there There is a great prize for whoever manages to kill her.her, but besides that Alice draws an absurd amount of hate from people just for trying to be kind.
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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Alice hates herself for being dishonest to Yoriko for the sake of preserving their friendship and for being jealous and distrusting towards Oki.
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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Alice hates herself for being dishonest to Yoriko for the sake of preserving their friendship and for being jealous and distrusting towards Oki.Yoriko and Oki for selfish reasons. She's also wary of her own mental stability and believes she could become a threat to both of them.
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* ItGetsEasier: Alice tried to kill Yoriko as revenge for her bullying and to get used to her new job, only to miss and feel sick enough to vomit. She gets better at it once she kills Kumo and Kamakiri, but she does avoid killing her enemies if she can and isn't too proud about being an assassin.
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* ItGetsEasier: Alice tried to kill Yoriko as revenge for her bullying and to get used to her new job, only to miss and [[StressVomit feel sick enough to vomit. vomit.]] She gets better at it once she kills Kumo and Kamakiri, but she does avoid killing her enemies if she can and isn't too proud about being an assassin.
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* EtTuBrute: Her reaction to discovering [[spoiler:Kuramoto and Yoriko]] deceived her all along.
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* EtTuBrute: Her reaction to discovering [[spoiler:Kuramoto and Yoriko]] deceived her all along.along, though Alice doesn't [[HeroicBSOD despair over it]] like the first wanted her to. Instead she's very angry and in the latter's case, is also dumbfounded at their various... quirks.
* ShovelStrike: Alice smashes a guy's face so hard with a shovel that [[EyeScream his eye gets ripped out]]. [[spoiler:Notably, it's the last attack she uses in the story.]]
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* SmashSisters: She helped Kabutomushi to fight Imomushi in the past. During ''Arachnid'', Oki would like to be this with Alice, but they barely get a chance to unite against anyone. Oki later teams up with [[RivalsTeamUp Geji]] to look for Kuramoto.
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* SmashSisters: She helped Kabutomushi to fight Imomushi in the past. During ''Arachnid'', Oki would like to be this with Alice, but they barely get a chance to unite against anyone. Oki later teams up with [[RivalsTeamUp Geji]] to look for Kuramoto.Kuramoto, but that doesn't last either...
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* SmugSuper: She's very confident about her speed, but it doesn't look all that special when a ''lot'' of the other assassins are stealthy or fast enough to seemingly teleport around in [[FlashStep all sorts]] [[StealthHiBye of]] [[OffscreenTeleportation ways]].
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* SmugSuper: She's very confident about her speed, but it [[SmugSnake doesn't look all that special special]] when a ''lot'' of the other assassins are stealthy or fast enough to seemingly teleport around in [[FlashStep all sorts]] [[StealthHiBye of]] [[OffscreenTeleportation ways]].
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* AttemptedRape: From her uncle at the beginning. By coincidence, he gets interrupted and killed by Kumo. Later, she has to fight off ''many'' mooks and assassins who also try to get their hands on her.
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* AttemptedRape: From her uncle at the beginning. By coincidence, he gets interrupted and killed by Kumo. Later, she has to fight off keep ''many'' mooks and assassins who also try to get [[spoiler:and eventually practically the entire country]] from getting their hands on her.
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* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:She loses her threads at the end but keeps fighting the zombie hordes with her other combat skills and improvised weapons]].
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* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:She [[spoiler:Alice loses her threads at the end Kumoito after killing Ginyanma but keeps fighting is still able to fight the zombie hordes with her other combat skills and improvised weapons]].
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* OneWomanArmy: She can take down a dozen people while barely moving.
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* OneWomanArmy: She One scene has Alice say that unlike Kabutomushi her abilities are not good for fighting large groups of people, which doesn't make a lick of sense. Thanks to her amazing spatial awareness and traps, she can take down a dozen people while barely moving.moving. [[spoiler:The series even ends with Alice fighting hordes of zombies on her own, without using Kumoito.]]
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Alice [[SubvertedTrope doesn't]] seem very bothered by the perverted attention she gets from Oki, other than restraining her with thread if she gets too clingy. [[ClingyJealousGirl And she doesn't want Oki to lust after anyone else.]] [[spoiler:However, the story ends with Alice leaving Oki alone because she knows how the roach girl is and is afraid of [[DeathBySex eventually puling a black widow on her advances.]]]]
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Alice [[SubvertedTrope doesn't]] seem very bothered by the perverted attention she gets from Oki, other than restraining her with thread if she gets too clingy. [[ClingyJealousGirl And she doesn't want Oki to lust after anyone else.]] [[spoiler:However, the story ends with Alice leaving Oki alone because she knows how the roach girl is and is afraid of [[DeathBySex eventually puling pulling a black widow on her advances.]]]]
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Alice [[SubvertedTrope doesn't]] seem very bothered by the perverted attention she gets from Oki, other than restraining her with thread if she gets too clingy. [[ClingyJealousGirl And she doesn't want Oki to lust after anyone else.]]
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Alice [[SubvertedTrope doesn't]] seem very bothered by the perverted attention she gets from Oki, other than restraining her with thread if she gets too clingy. [[ClingyJealousGirl And she doesn't want Oki to lust after anyone else.]]]] [[spoiler:However, the story ends with Alice leaving Oki alone because she knows how the roach girl is and is afraid of [[DeathBySex eventually puling a black widow on her advances.]]]]
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* DroppedABridgeOnHer: While she was busy fighting Dinoponera, Suzume Bachi backstabbed Imomushi and left her for dead. It isn't ''[[HesJustHiding quite]]'' clear if that did actually [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome kill her]], though.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHer: While she was busy fighting Dinoponera, Suzume Bachi backstabbed Imomushi and left her for dead. It isn't ''[[HesJustHiding quite]]'' clear if that did actually [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome kill her]], though.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: If Suzumebachi actually killed Imomushi with that backstab, well, that's rather anticlimatic. Hanakamakiri never comes to check on things or anything. Imomushi's fate and what she had to discuss with the wasp man is never adressed.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: If Suzumebachi actually killed Imomushi with that backstab, well, [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome that's rather anticlimatic. anticlimatic.]] Hanakamakiri never comes to check on things or anything. Imomushi's fate and what she had to discuss with the wasp man is never adressed.
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* UndyingLoyalty: She obeys whatever Alice says and Anabachi exploits this to brainwash Oki and make her torture Yoriko. By the endgame of the story, Oki really is one of the few people who haven't manipulated, betrayed or repeatedly tried to kill Alice. [[spoiler:But this doesn't last all the way to the end. With Oki finally having Alice all to herserlf, she goes back to her PsychoLesbian ways and Alice quietly leaves Oki before they can do each other any harm.]]
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* UndyingLoyalty: She obeys whatever Alice says and Anabachi exploits this to brainwash Oki and make her torture Yoriko. By the endgame of the story, Oki really is one of the few people who haven't manipulated, betrayed or repeatedly tried to kill Alice. [[spoiler:But this doesn't last all the way to the end. With Oki finally having Alice all to herserlf, herself, she goes back to her PsychoLesbian ways and Alice quietly leaves Oki before they can do each other any harm.]]
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* UndyingLoyalty: She obeys whatever Alice says and Anabachi exploits this to brainwash Oki and make her torture Yoriko. By the endgame of the story, Oki really is one of the few people who haven't manipulated, betrayed or repeatedly tried to kill Alice.
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* UndyingLoyalty: She obeys whatever Alice says and Anabachi exploits this to brainwash Oki and make her torture Yoriko. By the endgame of the story, Oki really is one of the few people who haven't manipulated, betrayed or repeatedly tried to kill Alice. [[spoiler:But this doesn't last all the way to the end. With Oki finally having Alice all to herserlf, she goes back to her PsychoLesbian ways and Alice quietly leaves Oki before they can do each other any harm.]]
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* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:She loses her threads at the end but keeps fighting the zombie hordes with her other combat skills and improvised weapons]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: If Suzumebachi actually killed Imomushi with that backstab, well, that's rather anticlimatic. Hanakamakiri never comes to check on things or anything. Imomushi's fate and what she had to discuss with the wasp man is never adressed.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: When she finds Alice angry at how everyone's trying to kill her, Imomushi says there must be ulterior reasons for the boss to be doing that and that Alice is just bait. She's been through something similar, after all. Except the Arachnid Hunt ''does'', to say the least, ''completely'' revolve around Alice. Also, as the ''Caterpillar'' story goes on it doesn't look like Ageha had very deep reasons to harass Imomushi, either.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: When she finds Alice angry at how everyone's trying to kill her, Imomushi says there must be ulterior reasons for the boss to be doing that and that Alice is just bait. She's been through something similar, after all. Except the Arachnid Hunt ''does'', to say the least, ''completely'' ''does'' pretty much revolve around Alice. Also, as the ''Caterpillar'' story goes on it doesn't look like Ageha had very deep reasons to harass Imomushi, either.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The last kind of attack Alice uses in the story is to shoot the Kumoito across massive distances, which requires a large amount of concentration to get right and means she might not be able to retract the blade. [[spoiler:Which is what happens when she makes it fly miles away to kill Ginyanma.]]
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** After killing [[spoiler:Ginyanma]], Alice falls on her back yet again. [[spoiler:Yoriko]] picks her up.up, but only so she can throw poor Alice off the roof.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fuji[=/=]Fujii.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fuji[=/=]Fujii.Fujii[=/=]Fuji.
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* OddFriendship: This grumpy delinquent becomes close with the rather murderous ShrinkingViolet she bullied for little to no reason. [[spoiler:Even when Yoriko's adamance at getting rid of Alice for knowing too much gets herself killed, her last words for Alice are supportive]].
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* OddFriendship: This grumpy delinquent becomes close with the rather murderous ShrinkingViolet she bullied for little to no reason. [[spoiler:Even when Yoriko's adamance at getting rid of Alice for knowing too much gets herself killed, her last words for she dies telling Alice are supportive]].she cares about her]].
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* WhenSheSmiles: Sometimes shows her more caring side to Alice. [[spoiler:In fact, it's the last thing she does.]]
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* DamselInDistress: When she got defeated by Hibiki and Kirigirisu, but Alice was already nearby to help in both fights. She is once again beaten up and captured along with [[spoiler:Geji]] in chapter 60.
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* DamselInDistress: When she got defeated by Hibiki and Kirigirisu, but Alice was already nearby to help in both fights. She is once again beaten up and captured along with [[spoiler:Geji]] Geji in chapter 60.
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* SmashSisters: She helped Kabutomushi to fight Imomushi in the past. During ''Arachnid'', Oki would like to be this with Alice, but they barely get a chance to unite against anyone. Oki later teams up with [[spoiler:[[RivalsTeamUp Geji]]]] to look for Kuramoto.
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* SmashSisters: She helped Kabutomushi to fight Imomushi in the past. During ''Arachnid'', Oki would like to be this with Alice, but they barely get a chance to unite against anyone. Oki later teams up with [[spoiler:[[RivalsTeamUp Geji]]]] [[RivalsTeamUp Geji]] to look for Kuramoto.
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* OddFriendship: This grumpy delinquent becomes close with the rather murderous ShrinkingViolet she bullied for little to no reason. [[spoiler:Even when Yoriko's adamance at getting rid of Alice for knowing too much gets her killed, her last words for Alice are supportive]].
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* OddFriendship: This grumpy delinquent becomes close with the rather murderous ShrinkingViolet she bullied for little to no reason. [[spoiler:Even when Yoriko's adamance at getting rid of Alice for knowing too much gets her herself killed, her last words for Alice are supportive]].
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* BreakTheCutie: Alice had a awful life up to the point Kumo taught her to control her ability. Then he makes her kill him. And she has to fight the Organization alone. [[spoiler:And Yoriko is killed.]] And people just won't stop trying to rape her. [[spoiler:And her real father really is a jerkass after all. ''And'' Yoriko is actually alive and at fault for ''everything'']].
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* BreakTheCutie: Alice had a awful life up to the point Kumo taught her to control her ability. Then he makes her kill him. And she has to fight the Organization alone. [[spoiler:And Yoriko is killed.]] And people just won't stop trying to rape her. [[spoiler:And her real father really Suzumebachi is a jerkass after all. revealed to have been forced into abandoning her before being suddenly killed. ''And'' Yoriko is actually alive and alive, at fault for ''everything'']].''everything'' and tries to kill Alice twice. To top it all, as Yoriko is then killed for real, Alice sees she's clearly happy that her only friend will get a chance at a normal life after all]].
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* EtTuBrute: Her reaction to discovering [[spoiler:Kuramoto]] deceived her all along.
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* EtTuBrute: Her reaction to discovering [[spoiler:Kuramoto]] [[spoiler:Kuramoto and Yoriko]] deceived her all along.
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* HeartbrokenBadass: Gets forced to kill her master, thinks her mother commited suicide because of her, loses [[spoiler:Yoriko and kills Kuramoto]] [[TraumaCongaLine and so on.]]
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* HeartbrokenBadass: Gets forced to kill her master, thinks her mother commited suicide because of her, loses [[spoiler:Yoriko and [[spoiler:Yoriko, kills Kuramoto]] Kuramoto and loses Yoriko ''again'']] [[TraumaCongaLine and so on.]]on]] but doesn't lose her fighting edge.
* OddFriendship: This grumpy delinquent becomes close with the rather murderous ShrinkingViolet she bullied for little to no reason. [[spoiler:Even when Yoriko's adamance at getting rid of Alice for knowing too much gets her killed, her last words for Alice are supportive]].
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* ReallyDeadMontage: [[spoiler:After Sasori poisons Yoriko to death, Alice [[PleaseWakeUp cries over her body]] while reminiscing their times spent together. However, Yoriko survives this encounter]].
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* ReallyDeadMontage: [[spoiler:After Sasori poisons Yoriko to death, Alice [[PleaseWakeUp cries over her body]] while reminiscing their times spent together. However, together... only for Yoriko survives this encounter]].to survive, reveal herself as the true big bad and try to throw Alice off the school before being blown off by Kabutomushi. A heartbroken Alice goes over the same thoughts again as Yoriko seemingly dies for real]].
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* CrazyPrepared: Thanks to her "Congenital Excessive Concentration" and string skills, she can trap and defeat people when they least expect it. [[spoiler:Hell, it turns out she was ''already aware of Kuramoto's identity'' because she [[ProperlyParanoid had set a thread on her just before they got separated]]]].
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* CrazyPrepared: Thanks to her "Congenital Excessive Concentration" and string skills, she can trap and defeat people when they least expect it. [[spoiler:Hell, it turns out Alice not only had nearly the whole school covered in traps before the Arachnid Hunt, but she was ''already already aware of Kuramoto's identity'' identity during her capture because she [[ProperlyParanoid had set a thread on her Kuramoto just before they got separated]]]].
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fuji[=/=]Fujii. Scanlations and the official french translation use Fujii, but not everyone cares for the second i.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fuji[=/=]Fujii. Scanlations and the official french translation use Fujii, but not everyone cares for the second i.
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* EasilyForgiven: Since Alice can beat her up, almost killed her in revenge and Yoriko lets homeless Alice live with her, Alice forgave Yoriko for all the bullying she did. Alice is desperate about having friends, after all.
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* EasilyForgiven: Since Alice can beat her up, almost killed her in revenge and Yoriko lets homeless Alice live with her, Alice forgave Yoriko for all the bullying she did. Alice is desperate about having friends, after all. [[spoiler:But not so much that she'd brush off Yoriko turning out to be the ManipulativeBitch who ruined her family.]]
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* BottomlessMagazines: Alice tends to set many traps and leave them around for later use. A lot of string could fit inside her pistol, sure, but there's no concern in-story about how much string there is or how Alice would obtain more if she were to run out of it, since it's a complexly crafted kind of thread.
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* BottomlessMagazines: Alice tends to set There are many miles worth of string inside Alice's knifegun, so she can freely set lots of traps and leave them around for later use. A lot of string could fit inside her pistol, sure, but there's no concern in-story about how much string there It is or a custom-made highly resistant string, though, and it's never stated how Alice would can obtain more if she were to run out of it, since it's a complexly crafted kind of thread. it.
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* BreakTheCutie: Alice had a awful life up to the point Kumo taught her to control her ability. Then he makes her kill him. And she has to fight the Organization alone. [[spoiler:And Yoriko is killed.]] And people just won't stop trying to rape her. [[spoiler:And her real father really is a jerkass after all]].
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* BreakTheCutie: Alice had a awful life up to the point Kumo taught her to control her ability. Then he makes her kill him. And she has to fight the Organization alone. [[spoiler:And Yoriko is killed.]] And people just won't stop trying to rape her. [[spoiler:And her real father really is a jerkass after all]].all. ''And'' Yoriko is actually alive and at fault for ''everything'']].
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* CallingYourAttacks: Alice doesn't call her attacks while fighting, but her traps have names that [[ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy she explains after using them.]]
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* CallingYourAttacks: Alice mostly doesn't call her attacks while fighting, but her traps have names that [[ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy she explains after using them.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: How she defeats some of her enemies. The weapon she wields is also set to backfire and wrap the user if it is not controlled in the precise way only a C.E.C.-affected person would be able to.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: How she defeats some most of her enemies. The weapon she wields is also set to backfire and wrap the user if it is not controlled in the precise way only a C.E.C.-affected person would be able to.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: The Kumoito (Spider's Thread) that she received from Kumo is a GrapplingHookPistol that fires a blade hooked to a length of resistant spider-silk. Once she fires it she can use her concentration ability to control the blade and make it fly around to spread countless traps in what seems like instants without anyone noticing. [[BottomlessMagazines It also has apparently infinite ammo]] and she has control over any thread in the vicinity even when the pistol is taken away from her. Improbable, ''indeed''.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: If Alice concentrates really hard, she can cut down people who are standing kilometers away from her.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: The Kumoito (Spider's Thread) that she received from Kumo is a GrapplingHookPistol that fires a blade hooked to a length of resistant spider-silk. Once she fires it she can use her concentration ability to control the blade and make it fly around to spread countless traps in what seems like instants without anyone noticing. It can hit [[AbsurdlySharpBlade harder than a bullet]], [[BottomlessMagazinesIt also has apparently infinite ammo]] and she has control over any thread in the vicinity even when the pistol is taken away from her. Improbable, ''indeed''.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: The Kumoito (Spider's Thread) that she received from Kumo is a GrapplingHookPistol that fires a blade hooked to a length of resistant spider-silk. Once she fires it she can use her concentration ability to control the blade and make it fly around to spread countless traps in what seems like instants without anyone noticing. It can hit [[AbsurdlySharpBlade harder than a bullet]], [[BottomlessMagazines
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* PoseOfSupplication: Apologizes to Oki with this pose, feeling guilty about Oki and Yoriko being involved in her assassin troubles. In a much sadder scene, she falls to her knees over [[spoiler:Yoriko's corpse and doesn't even get any peace to mourn her]].
* PostVictoryCollapse: Alice faints some time after fighting Hibiki and is taken home by Oki. She collapses a second time right after scaring Dinoponera away.
* PostVictoryCollapse: Alice faints some time after fighting Hibiki and is taken home by Oki. She collapses a second time right after scaring Dinoponera away.
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* PoseOfSupplication: Apologizes to Oki with this pose, feeling guilty about Oki and Yoriko being involved in her assassin troubles. In a much sadder scene, she falls to her knees over [[spoiler:Yoriko's corpse [[NotQuiteDead "corpse"]] and doesn't even get any peace to mourn her]].
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** Alice faints some time after fighting Hibiki and is taken home byOki. She Oki.
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** After killing [[spoiler:Ginyanma]], Alice falls on her back yet again. [[spoiler:Yoriko]] picks her up.
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* UnwittingPawn: Alice won't leave the Arachnid Hunt without Yoriko, Oki and Kuramoto. Unknowingly to her, ''[[spoiler:the last one is who started this whole mess]]''. [[spoiler:Subverted in the long run, because Alice had set strings on Kuramoto and eventually learned about her intentions before being caught. And then it is played straight in regards to the real boss, who is her precious friend Yoriko]].
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* UnwittingPawn: Alice won't leave the Arachnid Hunt without Yoriko, Oki and Kuramoto. Unknowingly to her, ''[[spoiler:the last one is who started this whole mess]]''. [[spoiler:Subverted in the long run, because Alice had set strings on Kuramoto and eventually learned about her intentions before being caught. And then it is played straight in regards to when it turns out the real boss, who one behind everything, ''everything'', is her precious friend Yoriko]].
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Even when Alice has personal reasons for killing people, she still rambles on her mind that she's doing it because she has no choice. Guess she really is a little bit crazy.
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* KnifeNut: The Kumoito is a [[Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}} knifegun]]. Although Alice rarely stabs anyone with it, the blade can pierce through people as it flies.
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* KnifeNut: The Kumoito is a [[Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}} knifegun]]. Although Alice rarely stabs anyone with it, the blade can pierce tear through people [[AbsurdlySharpBlade like butter]] as it flies.
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* [[MartialPacifist Martial]][=/=]TechnicalPacifist: Although Alice is fine with killing for the sake of survival, she only fights in self-defense and will try to spare opponents whenever possible. Just don't screw with her too much or she ''will'' follow through with her threats.
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* [[MartialPacifist Martial]][=/=]TechnicalPacifist: Although Alice is fine with killing for the sake of survival, she only fights in self-defense and will try to spare opponents whenever possible.if she can afford it. Just don't screw with her too much or she ''will'' follow through with her threats.
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* OnlySaneWomanOnlySaneWoman: Mostly.
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* MuggingTheMonster: This happens once Alice learns to fight. She retaliates against Yoriko and almost kills her.
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* MuggingTheMonster: This happens once Alice learns to fight. She retaliates against Yoriko and almost kills her. [[spoiler:However, Yoriko already knew Alice, the daughter of Suzumebachi, was being trained by Kumo and was very likely becomming very a danguerous person, so this looks even dumber in hindsight]].
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Had a lonely childhood thanks to the death of her mother and her father's neglect. [[spoiler:She's also seen the horrors of war first hand over the course of her... ''long'' life]].
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Had a lonely childhood thanks to the death of her mother and her father's neglect. [[spoiler:She's also seen the horrors of war first hand [[spoiler:What's really going on, though, is that over the course of her... ''long'' life]].past decades running the Organization, Yoriko has barely had any friends or a family to care about]].
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* DefrostingIceQueenDefrostingIceQueen: Despite their rough start, Yoriko comes to care for Alice as a friend.
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* ParentalAbandonment: [[DeathByChildbirth Her mother died]] and [[DisappearedDad her father left her alone for unknown reasons.]] She says she doesn't get along well with her stepmother either.
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* ParentalAbandonment: [[DeathByChildbirth Her mother died]] and [[DisappearedDad her father left her alone for unknown reasons.]] She says she doesn't get along well with her stepmother either. [[spoiler:The truth is that Yoriko lost her real family long ago. The man who looked like her father was actually her adopted son, who was to kill himself and be replaced by Polistes Wasp]].
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* ReallyDeadMontage: [[spoiler:After Sasori poisons Yoriko to "death", Alice [[PleaseWakeUp cries over her body]] while reminiscing their times spent together]].
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* ReallyDeadMontage: [[spoiler:After Sasori poisons Yoriko to "death", death, Alice [[PleaseWakeUp cries over her body]] while reminiscing their times spent together]].together. However, Yoriko survives this encounter]].
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* SmokingIsCoolSmokingIsCool: Alice disagrees, though.
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* FriendlessBackgroundFriendlessBackground: Had no friends before meeting Alice. Her sadomasochistic tendencies probably didn't help.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Yoriko already was mean and cynical in her childhood.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Yoriko already was mean and cynical in her childhood. [[spoiler:This is a hint that she didn't actually have the mind of a child]].
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* DefeatEqualsFriendshipDefeatEqualsFriendship: Gets beaten up by Alice and becomes her friend.
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:She's actually the Organization's boss and has been living for over a century]].
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* NotSoDifferent: Yoriko comes to admit that both herself and Alice have no family and figures she should treat her better, as long as Alice learns to stand up for herself.
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* NotSoDifferent: Yoriko comes to admit that both herself and Alice have suffer from having no family and figures she should treat her better, as long as Alice learns to stand up for herself.
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The main characters from the ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'' manga and its spinoff ''Caterpillar''.
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!!Alice Fujii (藤井 有栖; Fujii Arisu)
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->"''A person who harbors ugly jealousies, lies to others, [[TheseHandsHaveKilled and kills]]... [[HeroicSelfDeprecation There really is no way]] someone like that [[IJustWantToHaveFriends can make friends.]]''"
A [[BewareTheNiceOnes kind but deadly]] OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent with an unusual mental disorder named Congenital Excessive Concentration that she [[DisabilitySuperpower can control to enhance her reflexes and learning skills.]] Alice seeks to take her family register back from the Organization and to protect herself and her friends from their assassins, even if she has to kill some people along the way. She wields a pistol that fires a knife which spreads strings around her. Both the blade and the strings are controlled by hand gestures and sound commands with perfect precision thanks to her brain condition.
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* AchillesHeel: The thread from the Kumoito can be controlled from a distance by sound commands. As useful as it sounds, Imomushi and Suzumebachi know about this and are able to disable Kumoito and make Alice helpless. Good thing this information presumably wasn't disclosed in the profile the Arachnid Hunt participants got of her.
* ActionGirl
* AllWebbedUp: Alice often uses her threads to immobilize people, although not to the extent that they become completely coccooned.
* AndIMustScream: She gets paralysed by Sasori, but Yoriko distracts her for long enough to Alice to regain some control over her body.
* AnimalMotifs: [[SpidersAreScary Spiders]] ''in general'', unlike most of the other characters who only get analogies with a single insect species. Due to this, Alice's abilities [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands are much more versatile]] than anyone else's. She also often does things similar to the behavior of spiders [[FridgeBrilliance that are not apparent at first]] and comments on how their predatory nature applies to herself.
* [[AntiHero Anti Heroine]]: Of the [[PragmaticHero pragmatic]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil and]] [[GoodIsNotSoft not soft]] kind.
* ApologizesALot
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Hits Dinoponera with her bloody palm after faking not being able to avoid her attacks. Up until then, no one had been able to harm or intimidate her.
* AssKickingPose: She usually just stands still with an expressionless, zoned out look while countering attacks and moving Kumoito around, but sometimes she crouches in a pose reminiscent of Spider-Man.
* AttemptedRape: From her uncle at the beginning. By coincidence, he gets interrupted and killed by Kumo. Later, she has to fight off ''many'' mooks and assassins who also try to get their hands on her.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Her Congenital Excessive Concentration is a fancy and controllable way of having Attention Deficit Disorder. Or rather, an inversion of it in which she frequently becomes too focused on something while forgetting about everything else.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Figures out by herself how Dinoponera's C.D.F. ability works.
* {{Badass}}
* BadassAdorable: Who'd think a killer could be this cute?
* BadassBack: Due to her ability and weapon, she doesn't need to be looking at her opponents to attack or avoid them.
* BadassBoast: While outperforming and bitch slapping Dinoponera, Alice gives a ''long'' character-defining WorldOfCardboardSpeech in realization that her misfortunes were all a part of somebody's plan:
-->"The reason I'm being targetted by the Organization... isn't because we were of low social status, nor is it because of my uncle's debts. It wasn't because of stuff like that. [[TraumaCongaLine Having all those things happen together was frightening.]] But now I've realized... [[IfIWantedYouDead If they wanted to kill me]], they could've quickly done so. But they've killed my mother, killed [[AssholeVictim my uncle]], took my home, targetted my friend and dragged me into this game. Instead of killing me, they wanted to torture me. In other words, [[ItsPersonal somebody hates me]] and has decided to target me so that I would hate them from the bottom of my heart. "My enemy" certainly exists. That's why I can't just run. To stay alive I have no choice but to find and kill them. [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou If you get in my way]] [[IllKillYou I'll kill you]] as well. No matter how strong the enemy is or how many there are, I won't let them have their way. To protect myself, I'll fight. That is how a spider lives."
* BadassBookworm: She reads on her free time, but she avoids long books to not lose control over her ability and spend too much time reading them without noticing.
* BadassCreed: Her "kill to survive" motto.
* BandageBabe: Alice wears an eyepatch for a while after her battle against Hibiki. She's embarrassed about looking beaten up, but Yoriko and Oki [[InvokedTrope beg to differ.]] Then later, when she's captured during the Arachnid Hunt and taken to Sara, Alice is left naked aside from some bandages patching up the [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice pokes]] Dinoponera did on her limbs and butt.
-->'''Yoriko''': You need to be stylish! And bandages [[RuleOfCool look cool]] anyway!
-->'''Oki''': It's needed [[RuleOfCute to be]] {{moe}}!
* BerserkButton: [[KillingIntent Becomes violent]] when people try to kill her or threaten her friends.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Can be awfully nice and forgiving, but is ruthless in combat.
* BlessedWithSuck[=/=]CursedWithAwesome: It took 15 years for her to even be taught about what C.E.C. was and how to control it. As great as it can be to become the world's greatest assassin in two weeks, Alice really never asked for it and would rather have a normal life than to be constantly fighting off the insect people.
* BornWinner[=/=]TheGift: Congenital Excessive Concentration is a hereditary condition that had always affected her. Dinoponera antagonizes Alice over this during their battle.
* BottomlessMagazines: Alice tends to set many traps and leave them around for later use. A lot of string could fit inside her pistol, sure, but there's no concern in-story about how much string there is or how Alice would obtain more if she were to run out of it, since it's a complexly crafted kind of thread.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Alice got a very deep mind-controlling kiss from Queen Kuramoto in chapter 61... and it [[NoSell didn't affect her at all]] because Alice already had an idea of how to prevent the effect]].
* BreakTheCutie: Alice had a awful life up to the point Kumo taught her to control her ability. Then he makes her kill him. And she has to fight the Organization alone. [[spoiler:And Yoriko is killed.]] And people just won't stop trying to rape her. [[spoiler:And her real father really is a jerkass after all]].
* BringMyBrownPants: Alice loses control of her bladder while Dinoponera tortures her. The ant ridicules her for doing this, but [[LaserGuidedKarma she doesn't go unpunished for too long.]]
* CallingYourAttacks: Alice doesn't call her attacks while fighting, but her traps have names that [[ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy she explains after using them.]]
* CatchPhrase: Hers is that in order to survive, she has no choice but to kill.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: With training, she turned a troublesome mental disorder into a superpower.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Alice is rather clumsy outside of her fighting mode, has practically no social skills and feels guilty for the troubles she brings for being a target of the Organization. She only kills in self-defense and even tries to resolve conflicts peacefully when possible because she doesn't [[TheseHandsHaveKilled feel happy about being a murderer]].
* ClingyJealousGirl: What does Alice have to say about Oki assaulting another girl?
-->"O-Oki-san... ARE YOU FINE WITH ANYONE, AS LONG AS IT'S A GIRL!?"
* ClothingDamage: Sometimes gets hit by this trope for the sake of {{fanservice}}. The lack of damage to her body when she gets slashed is justified by her using threads as improvised armor.
* CombatPragmatist: She's a damn good TrapMaster, so some underhanded tatics are to be expected.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: The deaths of her mother and uncle kickstart the plot. Alice later reasons that wasn't a coincidence and somebody, for some reason, is sparing no expense to ruin her life.
* CrazyPrepared: Thanks to her "Congenital Excessive Concentration" and string skills, she can trap and defeat people when they least expect it. [[spoiler:Hell, it turns out she was ''already aware of Kuramoto's identity'' because she [[ProperlyParanoid had set a thread on her just before they got separated]]]].
* CreepyGood: Most of the cast is afraid of her prodigious talent for killing and her invincible fighting style.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[CuteClumsyGirl Can be clumsy]] when not fighting or using her ability correctly.
* CuteAndPsycho: When she's serious about killing.
* CuteBruiser: Alice mainly relies on her wire traps, but can [[WaifFu fight hand to hand very well when needed.]]
* CuteClumsyGirl: When outside of her fighting mode.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was despised by everyone due to her odd mental disorder and had to live with her drunken, abusive uncle after her mother committed suicide.
* DeadlyLunge: Taking notes from the Salticidae spider family, Alice often leaps at her enemies when she goes berserk.
* DeathFromAbove: How she defeats [[spoiler:Suzumebachi]]. Unable to reliably fight him up close or set any restraining traps, Alice suddenly shoots the Kumoito high into the sky, only for it to simply fall back and cut him down.
* DeathGlare: Alice has a piercing, psychotic glare with [[ExoticEyeDesigns rippling]] and [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing]] eyes when she's really angry or intending to kill.
* DeerInTheHeadlights: Even before she trained her ability, one good thing about it was that she could focus on finding a solution to deadly situations and act on it instead of just freezing up.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: She defeats Dinoponera, who was in a winning streak against everyone else.
* {{Determinator}}: Alice takes loads of damage from people like Hibiki and Dinoponera, but doesn't stay down until she gets ''them'' to give up.
* DieOrFly: Her first offensive use of C.E.C. was to attack Kumo, who wanted to kill her for witnessing her uncle's death.
* DisabilitySuperpower: Her "Congenital Excessive Concentration", which causes Alice to single-mindedly concentrate on the most inconvenient things. With training, though, it allows her to enter a controllable hyper aware state and formulate battle strategies in seconds, and serves as arguably her greatest weapon.
* DisappearedDad: He died before she was born. [[spoiler:But turns out to be Suzumebachi, of all people]].
* EmpathicWeapon: The Kumoito will wrap and kill its wielder if not properly tamed. Why it does that isn't explained.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: She's presented as a clumsy and helpless girl... who tries to chomp an assassin's neck off to survive.
* EtTuBrute: Her reaction to discovering [[spoiler:Kuramoto]] deceived her all along.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Rippling pupils indicate her use of Congenital Excessive Concentration. Waving irises are for Concentration Driving Force.
* {{Expy}}: Of Turis Flag from Shinya Murata's previous work, ''Manga/{{Jackals}}''. Turis is a year older, but the two look similar, have the same height and weight and both of them are spider-themed string masters.
* FightMagnet: Because there is a great prize for whoever manages to kill her.
* FirstKiss: Got a forced kiss from her uncle while he was trying to rape her and then a surprise kiss from Dinoponera. Alice later bemoans her kissing history when Sara is forcing her and Kuramoto to make out. The ensuing kiss would be the most genuine one in the story despite the situation... [[spoiler:if Kuramoto wasn't the brainwashing ant queen and if Alice wasn't secretly aware of that. Those incidents also bring the KissOfDeath trope to mind, because those three met terrible fates after kissing black widow Alice]].
* FlashStep: Eventually surpasses Dinoponera on this, practically teleporting away from her attacks even though Dinoponera ''[[UpToEleven can perceive things in slow motion]]''. It turned out that Alice was using her threads to both move herself and to make Dinoponera miss her attacks while not realizing what Alice was doing.
* FriendlessBackground: Was tormented by everyone due to her mental disorder.
* FullNameBasis: Most of the cast calls her "Fujii Alice" in an insulting tone, as she refused to give her name up to them.
* GainingTheWillToKill: Alice tried to kill Yoriko to get confortable with her new lifestyle, but failed, threw up and had a brief breakdown. Her first kill is Kumo, at his own request. Spiderlings of certain species do in fact eat their mother to grow, awaken their hunting instincts or avoid being eaten by them - like how Kumo attacked Alice.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: A girl who wields a very versatile knifegun.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: [[EyeColourChange Her grey-yellow eyes light up]] when she's using Congenital Excessive Concentration, as depicted in the cover for volume 10.
* GolfClubbing: In chapter 13, she uses Kumoito to grab an odd nailed golf club a man is holding and swing it [[EyeScream at his eye.]] Way more noteworthy than the plain [[BatterUp nailed bats]] that were also flying around.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Although she didn't intend to kill Oki and Dinoponera, she makes it clear that she could and punishes them hard.
* GrapplingHookPistol: Alice uses the Kumoito for this purpose at least once.
* GrayEyes
* GuileHeroine: Handles her fights like a very cunning huntress.
* GunsAreWorthless: Alice was taught to use a gun in the beginning and uses it at least thrice. Afterwards, it is gone.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Gets forced to kill her master, thinks her mother commited suicide because of her, loses [[spoiler:Yoriko and kills Kuramoto]] [[TraumaCongaLine and so on.]]
* HeartwarmingOrphan: Alice looks and acts the part, but [[InvertedTrope everyone hates her]]. Most people ignore and bully her, Yoriko dislikes how Alice let her orphaned state define herself, Dinoponera doesn't care about her sob stories and Kuramoto gets internally mad at Alice pretending her issues are no big deal.
* HellishPupils: Gets both the rippling pupil and iris effects when she's furious.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Once Yoriko is killed by Sasori. After Alice avenges her, she goes blind with grief and carelessly charges against the invading student mob which are able to overwhelm and knock her down. However, it turned out being captured was part of her plan to defeat Kuramoto]].
* HeroicSecondWind: Defeated Hibiki in a desperate need to stay alive, finally overcame Dinoponera by removing some tangentially related weight off her conscience and shrugged off being repeatedly stabbed with poison for the second time in the same day to turn the tables on [[spoiler:Suzumebachi]].
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Alice hates herself for being dishonest to Yoriko for the sake of preserving their friendship and for being jealous and distrusting towards Oki.
* HonorBeforeReason: Refusing to [[JoinOrDie sell her name]] to the Organization got Alice into deep trouble. And even though she can end the Arachnid Hunt just by leaving the school at any time, Alice doesn't want to betray her friends who are still lost and in danger. She insists to personally find Yoriko and Kuramoto first.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: How she defeats some of her enemies. The weapon she wields is also set to backfire and wrap the user if it is not controlled in the precise way only a C.E.C.-affected person would be able to.
* HowDoIShotWeb: She had to learn from Kumo how to make the best use of her mental condition. It's a literal example because she does it by wielding a complex thread-based weapon.
* HyperAwareness: Her "Congenital Excessive Concentration" makes her perceive things in great, [[BulletTime slow-motioned]] detail. However, she has to train and control it to avoid being needlessly absentminded to everything else. Her range is even increased by a sensor on Kumoito that allows her to hear sounds through her threads. She later learns to improve her focus into Concentration Driving Force as well.
* IAmYourOpponent: Tells Dinoponera she's going to get the match she's asking so much for, so she shouldn't try to go after Oki and Yoriko.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Alice would rather keep living as an ordinary student than deal with this insect crime organization nonsense, which might explain why she casually goes to school as usual despite knowing that at the very least Sasori and Hibiki are lurking there.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Alice is really happy to have made friends out of Yoriko and Oki and is constantly worried about their safety.
* IMissMom: Feels guilty about her mother's suicide.
* IWantMyMommy: Alice cries for her mom when Dinoponera injects poison all over her limbs.
* IdiotBall: Alice is usually as resourceful as any [[RazorFloss string-wielder]], being able to set and spring fancy traps from nowhere and hear anything going on a sizable radius around her. However, she occasionally makes short-sighted decisions and gets caught off-guard in ways that her abilities [[FridgeLogic really should]] have been able to prevent.
* ImpaledPalm: As early as the Kamakiri fight. Also of note is when she gets her palms, arms, legs and ''butt'' impaled by Dinoponera's venomous needles.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: The Kumoito (Spider's Thread) that she received from Kumo is a GrapplingHookPistol that fires a blade hooked to a length of resistant spider-silk. Once she fires it she can use her concentration ability to control the blade and make it fly around to spread countless traps in what seems like instants without anyone noticing. [[BottomlessMagazines It also has apparently infinite ammo]] and she has control over any thread in the vicinity even when the pistol is taken away from her. Improbable, ''indeed''.
* IndyPloy: Although she's usually the CrazyPrepared type, she's once described as not planning in advance while reacting to attacks in BulletTime.
* InstantExpert: The defining trait of Alice's C.E.C. condition turns out to be how it affects her learning skills. Under Kumo's tutelage, Alice figures how to use it and learns eveything he knows in the most productive two weeks ever. She later says she only needs a couple of days to master Dinoponera's C.D.F. concentration method, but is soon using it to great effect against [[spoiler:Sasori]].
* ItGetsEasier: Alice tried to kill Yoriko as revenge for her bullying and to get used to her new job, only to miss and feel sick enough to vomit. She gets better at it once she kills Kumo and Kamakiri, but she does avoid killing her enemies if she can and isn't too proud about being an assassin.
* ItsAllMyFault: How she feels about Yoriko and Oki's lives being threatened because assassins are attacking her.
* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Sasori kills Yoriko and states that Alice too is going to die like her mother did. Needless to say, Alice gets pissed off and hangs her in revenge]].
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[IDidWhatIHadToDo Survival-driven]] Alice doesn't really find her killings excusable, but they all count under this trope. Including how she beat up and got close to killing [[TheBully Yoriko]], [[PsychoLesbian Oki]] and [[AxCrazy Dinoponera]].
* KillingIntent: Alice becomes bloodthirsty whenever people threaten her life and becomes feared for this, but it's not like she goes out of control. She only kills if she can't avoid it.
* KnewItAllAlong: By placing her threads on [[spoiler:Kuramoto, Alice became aware that she and Sara were in cahoots with each other]].
* KnifeNut: The Kumoito is a [[Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}} knifegun]]. Although Alice rarely stabs anyone with it, the blade can pierce through people as it flies.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When [[FinalBossPreview Suzumebachi appears]] and disables her threads to keep her from attacking Sara, Alice finds him too intimidating and just escapes with Kuramoto.
* LegacyCharacter: She's Kumo's apprentice, trained to use Kumoito and his spider techniques.
* LightningBruiser: Her [[TrapMaster fighting style]] makes this trait less noticeable than on Oki and Dinoponera, but Alice has been trained in hand-to-hand combat, is physically resilient and also faster than Oki.
* LittleMissBadass: 15 years-old and "A natural-born killer".
* LuminescentBlush: Gets tomato-red when she's embarrassed or worried.
* MadeOfIron: Gets attacked by one assassin after another and endures a ''lot'' of damage but keeps going. Nevermind the horrible pain and much less the neurotoxins of the dinoponera and hornet poisons she gets repeatedly stung with. It seems to help that she often puts some thread under her clothes or around herself as armor.
* [[MartialPacifist Martial]][=/=]TechnicalPacifist: Although Alice is fine with killing for the sake of survival, she only fights in self-defense and will try to spare opponents whenever possible. Just don't screw with her too much or she ''will'' follow through with her threats.
* MiniDressOfPower: Her blue school uniform.
* MissingMom: Her mother committed suicide due to depression. Alice is traumatized about it and can't clearly remember that incident's details. When Alice remembers, she realizes her mother must actually have been assassinated by the Organization.
* NearDeathExperience: She sure felt like this when Kumo tried to kill her when they first met.
* NeckSnap: Kills [[spoiler:Kuramoto]] by crushing her neck with thread. [[FridgeHorror Would she have done the same to Oki]] had the roach chickened out or betrayed her back when she tried to convince Hibiki to leave them alone?...
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: No matter how dire the crisis, the ''Alice Fujii spider'' always comes up with some technique she learned from Kumo in her two weeks of training. Meanwhile, most of the other characters are limited to a single species of a insect to get their techniques from.
* NiceGirl: Despite being willing to kill people, she would rather avoid it and is usually very polite and friendly.
* NoIAmBehindYou: Taunts Dinoponera with this maneuver.
* NoSocialSkills: She was enough of a shut-in to not even know what a shopping mall is.
* NothingPersonal: Alice sheepishly tells her teacher Amenbo she's glad that she somehow survived being drowned while trapped underwater, despite Amenbo having tried to kill her.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Dinoponera notes that Alice fights in a sloppy way to distract and bait her opponents into the traps she sets.
* OffscreenTeleportation: On the moment she begins to outperform Dinoponera, she goes from being unconscious with Dinoponera sitting on her to somehow standing far behind the ant girl, who hadn't even finished standing up.
* OneWomanArmy: She can take down a dozen people while barely moving.
* OnlySaneWoman
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Who becomes a spider-themed assassin.
* OxygenatedUnderwaterBubbles: Like the Diving Bell Spider, Alice is able to collect air on her webs to survive underwater. She uses this to trick and defeat Amenbo.
* PantyShot: Notably, it's after Oki flips her skirt and raids her other panties that Alice [[ProperTightsWithASkirt begins wearing pantyhose.]]
* PeoplePuppets: She can trap people with her threads to force them to move against their will. And if Alice happens to be paralysed or too hurt to move, she can pull herself around too. She calls it [[GratuitousItalian "Marionette del Ragno"]] in chapter 49.
* PoseOfSupplication: Apologizes to Oki with this pose, feeling guilty about Oki and Yoriko being involved in her assassin troubles. In a much sadder scene, she falls to her knees over [[spoiler:Yoriko's corpse and doesn't even get any peace to mourn her]].
* PostVictoryCollapse: Alice faints some time after fighting Hibiki and is taken home by Oki. She collapses a second time right after scaring Dinoponera away.
* PowerCopying: After understanding how Dinoponera's Concentration Driving Force works, Alice takes it for herself.
* PowerIncontinence: If left unckecked, her C.E.C. makes her space out and not pay attention to anything but what she is currently thinking or looking at.
* PowersInTheFirstEpisode: Learned how to control her mental disorder in the first volume.
* [[PragmaticHero Pragmatic Heroine]]: She is willing to kill as a last resort to protect herself and her friends.
* PrivilegedRival: Alice had a troubled but average life before she quickly learned to use to use her mental disorder as a power, so she becomes this trope in the eyes of Dinoponera, who had been fighting for years before she awakened her ability.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt
* RazorFloss: Unlike most examples of this trope, Alice's strings aren't sharp. She can still do everything else with them, from instantly setting dozens of traps and barriers to collecting underwater air and detecting sounds in a 20m radius.
* RecursiveAmmo: Can make her strings unravel into a web of thinner ones that go unnoticed by the other assassins with SuperSenses. They of course remain, somehow, as resistant as usual.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Dinoponera's red. Alice cools her head to concentrate and work up her string traps, though turning [[UnstoppableRage redder]] than Dinoponera is what helps her against Sasori...
* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: Not happy at all to have her clothes torn off every few chapters.
* RepressedMemories: Alice avoids thinking about her mother's suicide and often gets interrupted when she does, as she believes her mother had killed herself because of her. But when Alice finally comes to reflect on what happened, she realizes she was most likely not at fault.
* RetractableWeapon: The blade on the Kumoito. The thread is often left lying around to trap Alice's enemies.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: It's bad enough that [[spoiler:Sasori kills Yoriko, but then she tells Alice that she too is going to [[YouKilledMyFather die like her mother did]]]], which immensely enrages Alice.
* RoseHairedSweetie: A dark pink-haired ShrinkingViolet.
* SchoolgirlLesbians: It has been implied that Alice does have romantic feelings for Oki.
* ShamefulStrip: [[PsychoLesbian A then-villainous Oki]] forces Alice to strip as part of her demands for releasing Yoriko. Oki would have had Alice crawl around the school while naked for further humiliation, but thankfully it turned out Yoriko hadn't been kidnapped at all and Alice fights back. [[spoiler:Much later, Alice is stripped by Sara's minions and is forced to have sex with a also semi-naked Kuramoto in front of them]].
* ShipTease: Alice goes from being understandably annoyed at Oki's StalkerWithACrush tendencies to having outbursts of jealously when the roach girl is near a half-naked Geji. She also gets a little tease with Kuramoto and Dinoponera. [[spoiler:She kills the first and is on bad terms with the latter]].
* ShrinkingViolet: Has been growing out of this since Kumo died.
* SkywardScream: Lets out a long despairing scream after she kills Kumo.
* SmashSisters: With Oki, but aside from capturing Kirigirisu they spend most of the story separated, fighting on their own.
* SmokingIsNotCool: Tries to keep Yoriko from smoking.
* SmugSuper: Alice sometimes muses on how spiders are the deadliest of all arthropods, but her enemies are smug extraordinaries themselves and have it coming. In particular, Alice shamelessly flaunts to Dinoponera how her brain condition allows her to quickly copy and improve on the advanced concentration method Dinoponera took years to learn, just to make the previously smarmy ChildSoldier reckless and easy to catch.
* SoleSurvivor: After her uncle is killed, she has no relatives left.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fuji[=/=]Fujii. Scanlations and the official french translation use Fujii, but not everyone cares for the second i.
* StepfordSmiler: Alice tends to be rather shy and depressed, but when Kuramoto talks to her about her family and bullying issues, she smiles and acts like all of it is no big deal.
* StunnedSilence: A sizable amount of panels in [[WhamEpisode Chapter 68]] [[ReactionShot are of a speechless Alice]] gawking at [[spoiler:Yoriko's]] countless absurd revelations.
* SuperDrowningSkills: She can't swim. Good thing her sports teacher is willing to train her alone after class, eh?
* SuperReflexes: She has this as an effect of C.E.C.. From her perspective, it's like TimeStandsStill.
* SuperSpeed: She's very agile and her concentration ability allows her to do cut corners and catch up to people like Oki.
* SuperpowerLottery: Alice's C.E.C. ability gives her incredibly heightened senses to avoid any danger and make life or death decisions on the fly. It allows her to control her string weapon with surgical precision and overwhelm people with traps. Most importantly, she can absorb decades' worth of knowledge in a short amount of time.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Despite all the trouble Dinoponera caused and knowing nothing about what she went though, after trapping her Alice can't bring herself to hurt her any further, since she's now a sobbing wreck who's begging for mercy and crying about how [[NotSoDifferent she just wanted a friend.]]
* TenderTears: Often cries TearsOfJoy out of concern for her friends, especially when Yoriko doesn't think badly of her for having killed before and remains her friend. [[spoiler:Those become BrokenTears not too long after Sasori makes her presence known]].
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Despite her mindset that she has to kill to survive, she's actually very ashamed for having killed at least two people and feels she can't truly become friends with Yoriko and Oki because of it.
* TookALevelInBadass: Begins as a normal girl, but is trained to kill and grows more skilled from each battle.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: It's implied early on that she likes pudding. [[StalkerWithACrush Oki]] later confirms that Alice loves it "more than the three main meals".
* TragicKeepsake: The Kumoito, after Kumo's death. She also keeps an amusement park ticket that her mother gave her some time before she supposedly killed herself.
* TrainingFromHell: Alice had no choice but to become Kumo's apprentice and receive strict training from him. Fortunately for her, [[InstantExpert she's a very fast learner.]]
* TranquilFury: Even in her worst moments of ire, she cools down into this trope after some time.
* TrapMaster: She can set thread traps everywhere around her in moments and capture even the most careful and attentive of her foes.
* TraumaCongaLine: Alice goes through a large amount of both physical and mental trauma as the story goes on. And a lot of it takes place over the course of a single day!
* UnexpectedSuccessor: To Kumo.
* UnstoppableRage: Practically burns with hate while fighting [[spoiler:Sasori after she killed Yoriko and actually manages to see and avoid Sasori's tail attacks]] while [[DeathGlare staring her down the entire time.]]
* UnwittingPawn: Alice won't leave the Arachnid Hunt without Yoriko, Oki and Kuramoto. Unknowingly to her, ''[[spoiler:the last one is who started this whole mess]]''. [[spoiler:Subverted in the long run, because Alice had set strings on Kuramoto and eventually learned about her intentions before being caught. And then it is played straight in regards to the real boss, who is her precious friend Yoriko]].
* VictoryByEndurance: She often tanks big amounts of damage and drags fights, learning her opponents' patterns and leading them to get [[InstantWinCondition trapped by her threads]] either due to carelessness or because it's that hard not to when they're all over the place.
* TheWorfBarrage: It's impressive to see her [[DeadlyLunge lunging at people]] in a most freaky way to rip their necks off, but Alice has never defeated anyone with that move and is always knocked off either during or after the leap.
* WorfHadTheFlu: She seems to forget her wounds from fighting Dinoponera during her battle against [[spoiler:Sasori]], but after winning she gets [[spoiler:overwhelmed by the brainwashed student mob]] that she would likely be able to defeat if she wasn't so physically [[HeroicBSOD and mentally]] drained. [[spoiler:The truth is that by then she already knew Kuramoto was deceiving her and lost on purpose to be taken to her without raising suspicions]].
* YouCanBarelyStand: While fighting Dinoponera, Alice was so hurt that she could only move by pulling herself like a puppet. Then she made an effort to defend herself against Sara's henchman after being separated from Kabutomushi, but it was hopeless. Thankfully, Hibiki kicked him away.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Dark Pink Hair]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Alice doesn't care much about Kumo having killed her [[AssholeVictim abusive uncle]]. Surpassing Kumo in two weeks, outsmarting and then holding him at gunpoint is enough payback for both that and how he kidnapped her. When [[spoiler:Sasori]] reveals she had a hand on her mother's death, though, then Alice becomes ''livid''. [[spoiler:Furthermore, it was Suzumebachi--Alice's own father--who was told by the Boss to poison his wife to death. After he explains this the Boss has him shot dead and comes to introduce herself to Alice. The identity of this person ultimately responsible for Alice's mom's death and who just had her deadbeat dad's head blown off? ''Yoriko'']].
* YourCheatingHeart: When she mistakenly thinks Oki was assaulting a KO'ed Geji, she accuses her of being fine "with anyone, as long as it is a girl".
* ZettaiRyouiki: Wore Grade A for a couple of volumes, [[ProperTightsWithASkirt but wears pantyhose later.]]
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[[folder:Yoriko Tajima]]
!!Yoriko Tajima (田嶋 頼子; Tajima Yoriko)
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A student who bullied Alice until she turned out to be [[BewareTheNiceOnes more danguerous than expected]], but then gradually became nicer after letting Alice live with her, even if initially it's just for the sake of protecting herself from the Organization.
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* AlphaBitch: Begins the story as one, [[LovableAlphaBitch but gets better]].
* AnimalMotifs: When Yoriko asks Alice if she really is the kind to murder people, a nearby spider is shown preying on a butterfly. [[spoiler:But no, Yoriko's bug is something else]]...
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Asked Alice if a person with a [[ShrinkingViolet personality]] [[NiceGirl like hers]] could really be a murderer. Alice only agreed with her [[TheseHandsHaveKilled to avoid souring their relationship.]]
* TheBully: She abused Alice in the beginning to the point Alice considered killing her, but after the first encounter with Sasori, Yoriko has to keep Alice with her for protection and the two begin to get along.
* TheChick: Doesn't have a very nice personality to match the trope but isn't a fighter and encourages Alice and Oki from a distance, while also [[MoralityChain being a reason]] Alice tries to not get too carried away with her killing instinct.
* DamselInDistress: It's subverted in the first time because Oki lied about kidnapping her. Yoriko does try to stay out of harm's way when Alice is fighting other assassins, but is still vulnerable to this trope. At least it seems the assassins, or at least Jigabachi, have been told to not kill her. [[spoiler:Because unknowingly to them, she is their boss.]] This doesn't keep Jigabachi from trying to fry her brain, Dinoponera from wanting to stab her or [[spoiler:Sasori from trying to poison her to death]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Had a lonely childhood thanks to the death of her mother and her father's neglect. [[spoiler:She's also seen the horrors of war first hand over the course of her... ''long'' life]].
* DefeatEqualsFriendship
* DefrostingIceQueen
* DontYouDarePityMe: Yoriko tells Alice that they shouldn't let their family issues bother them, but to her annoyance, Alice still sheds a tear upon hearing of her past.
* EasilyForgiven: Since Alice can beat her up, almost killed her in revenge and Yoriko lets homeless Alice live with her, Alice forgave Yoriko for all the bullying she did. Alice is desperate about having friends, after all.
* ForeheadOfDoom: Oki makes fun of Yoriko's hairstyle, [[InSeriesNickname calling her]] "Miss Forehead".
* HeelFaceTurn: After almost having her brains blown out, bullying Alice doesn't seem so fun anymore.
* {{Jerkass}}: Introduced as [[TeensAreMonsters a horrible bully,]] but [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold she becomes softer]], if still rude, after Alice beats some sense into her.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Alice really treasures her and is desperate to personally get her safe-and-sound out of the Arachnid Hunt.
* MinorLivingAlone: Lived alone until she took Alice and Oki in, due to [[ParentalAbandonment having no contact with her father or stepmother.]]
* MuggingTheMonster: This happens once Alice learns to fight. She retaliates against Yoriko and almost kills her.
* NearDeathExperience: Alice tackled her into a wall and would have shot her to death if she didn't break down due to feeling so sick at the idea of killing someone.
* [[NonActionGuy Non Action Girl]]: The best Yoriko can do is a Kabuto Slide of sorts by flailing a mop around.
* NotSoDifferent: Yoriko comes to admit that both herself and Alice have no family and figures she should treat her better, as long as Alice learns to stand up for herself.
* OnlySaneWoman: It speaks volumes that the cruel bully from the beginning is one of the few sane people in the story.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Just a normal delinquent student...
* ParentalAbandonment: [[DeathByChildbirth Her mother died]] and [[DisappearedDad her father left her alone for unknown reasons.]] She says she doesn't get along well with her stepmother either.
* PerpetualFrowner: Looks serious or annoyed most of the time.
* ReallyDeadMontage: [[spoiler:After Sasori poisons Yoriko to "death", Alice [[PleaseWakeUp cries over her body]] while reminiscing their times spent together]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Has the guts to call out Dinoponera of all people on how she is being such a troublesome bitch to Alice.
* SmokingIsCool
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:When Alice asks if they can still be friends despite her being a murderer, Yoriko replies that yes, she doesn't mind that about her. [[MoodWhiplash The next thing]] a very happy and thankful Alice sees is a huge scorpion tail stinging Yoriko, who immediately falls dead... [[NotQuiteDead for a while]]]].
* TookALevelInKindness: After she stops bullying Alice, she does consider Alice and Oki her friends and later admits it to Alice.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Yoriko already was mean and cynical in her childhood.
* {{Tsundere}}: Towards Alice.
* WhenSheSmiles: Sometimes shows her more caring side to Alice.
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[[folder:Cockroach/Gokiburi]]
!!Cockroach, Megumi Oki (ゴキブリ; Gokiburi, 沖 めぐみ; Oki Megumi)
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A quiet student from Alice's class who turns out to be a [[PsychoLesbian sadomasochistic lesbian girl]] and a member of the Organization. Gokiburi is sent by Hibiki to kill Alice but tries to [[SexSlave enslave her]] instead. After being defeated, she's taken home by Alice and becomes devoted to her. Oki has various abilities related to cockroaches, from their high speed, strength and durability to how they can react to sudden shifts in air current and become slippery by sweating lots of oil. She has been trained by Kabutomushi, who once tasked her with assassinating Imomushi.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Alice [[SubvertedTrope doesn't]] seem very bothered by the perverted attention she gets from Oki, other than restraining her with thread if she gets too clingy. [[ClingyJealousGirl And she doesn't want Oki to lust after anyone else.]]
* AirplaneArms: [[NinjaRun Runs with her arms behind herself.]]
* AllWebbedUp: Alice finds that just tying her sound-detecting string to Oki's finger isn't enough to make her behave, so she completely wraps Oki in thread once.
* AnimalMotifs: [[CreepyCockroach A perverted cockroach girl.]]
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Oki secreting bucketloads of oil to keep conceal her noises from Alice's thread [[EstablishingSeriesMoment establishes just how unexpectedly weird this series is going to get.]] As it turns out, being negleted by her parents as a baby like some sort of cockroach is what awakened such abilities in her.
* AttemptedRape: When Hibiki sent his goons to perform a [[DeadlyEuphemism "purification cerimony"]] on her. Alice put an end to that.
* {{Badass}}
* BadassAdorable: A cute roach who's good at wrestling.
* BadassBack: She has a habit of turning her back to people when she stands behind them.
* BadassGay: Has the hots for Alice and will fight anyone for her sake.
* BigOlEyebrows: Hers are thicker than the other girls' eyebrows. This doesn't apply to her appearance in the prequel.
* BlondesAreEvil: She has a very mean attitude at first, but becomes nicer upon being befriended.
* BondageIsBad: Goki enjoys dominating her opponents and at one point is dressed in a dominatrix outfit to torture Yoriko. Sometimes she says she gets off on being hated and humiliated, but Goki never actually displays TooKinkyToTorture traits when she's being beaten up.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Oki's personality seems to remain the same when she's mind-controlled by Anabachi, but she's forced to see him as Alice. She's affected to the point that she doesn't notice [[NotHimself how strange]] "Alice"'s orders are and gladly attempts to torture Yoriko when "she" asks even though Anabachi is [[ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy explaining the situation to Yoriko]] right in front of her.
* BridalCarry: Carries Alice and Yoriko like this while taking them away from danger.
* BringMyBrownPants: Oki wets herself when Alice overpowers her and fires a gun too close to her face.
* ButtMonkey: Oki is the one who gets into some of the most embarrassing situations in both stories.
* CallingYourAttacks: Says the name of her abilities out loud.
* CatchPhrase: Hers is saying that she enjoys being hated.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: She's been trained to detect air pressure changes, to fight while unconscious and to... [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum sweat lots of oil from her skin?]]
* ChildSoldier: Has been working for the Organization since a so far uncertain amount of time.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Since Alice is so unpopular, Oki doesn't need to be jealous of her until Kuramoto and Dinoponera come along.
* CrazyPrepared: Was taught by Kabutomushi to use her oil secretion ability to leave a trail for Kabuto to follow in case she needed help. And even if Oki becomes unconscious, she can still [[ConfusionFu attack randomly]].
* CuteAndPsycho: Oki's not that bad in comparison with some of the other insect assassins who are way more deranged, but Yoriko still can't quite trust her personality.
* CuteBruiser: She's much stronger than she looks. An artwork even depicts her doing pushups while Kabutomushi is sitting on her and lifting weights.
* DamselInDistress: When she got defeated by Hibiki and Kirigirisu, but Alice was already nearby to help in both fights. She is once again beaten up and captured along with [[spoiler:Geji]] in chapter 60.
* DarkActionGirl
* DarkAndTroubledPast: As shown in the prequel, Oki was abandoned when she was 2 years-old and was barely alive when policemen found her.
* DeathGlare: Gives murderous glares to Geji, who wanted to kill Alice, and to Dinoponera, who had ''kissed'' Alice.
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: Alice corners her and makes it clear that she could kill Oki if she wanted, but would rather have her has an ally instead.
* DumbMuscle: She has described herself as a "blockhead with enormous strength".
* DynamicEntry: She once came from nowhere to kick Hibiki into a hole, thinking he was a threat to Alice.
* EasilyForgiven: Alice doesn't really trust Goki at first and keeps her under close watch [[StalkerWithACrush (which Goki doesn't mind)]] while worrying that she would betray her. Alice comes to feel bad for this once she realizes Goki really would risk her own life for her sake.
* ElectricTorture: While mind-controlled, she attempts to do this to Yoriko because "Alice" asked.
* EvilFeelsGood: Gets turned on by people being angry at her.
* ExpressiveHair: Her antennae move when she reacts to something or is detecting the flow of air.
* FlashStep: She constantly does those.
* FriendlessBackground
* GetAHoldOfYourselfWoman: Oki slaps herself to quit hesitating to talk to Hibiki about not killing Alice.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Wields a pair of poisoned "Goki Fang" blades in the prequel.
* GirlishPigtails
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Back when she lived in an orphanage, she beat up some kids to get a bunny plush for herself. Also, in the aforementioned babyhood backstory, there was a different bunny plush close to her.
* GoThroughMe: When she defends a weakened Alice from Sasori.
* GunsAreWorthless: Oki had a gun in the early chapters, but nevermind that...
* HairAntennae: She identified so much with a cockroach back when she was a poor abandoned toddler that she ''spontaneously got antennae'' and presumably the rest of her abilities with them.
* HappinessInSlavery: After her defeat, Oki only wants to serve Alice. It helps that Alice isn't remotely interested in having a slave, and just treats her as a friend instead.
* HeelFaceTurn
* HellBentForLeather: The {{stripperiffic}} dominatrix costume that for whatever reason Anabachi dressed Goki in while brainwashing her.
* HyperAwareness: Uses "Air Detection" to avoid attacks by detecting changes in air direction and pressure.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: She tells Alice that being alone is convenient for her job, but doesn't sound too happy about it and is glad to have become friends with her.
* InSeriesNickname: Some characters shorten her codename to Goki.
* {{Irony}}: She seems to like telling enemies to be her slaves, but gets "enslaved" by Alice and brainwashed by Anabachi.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Fights Imomushi in the prequel as part of her training.
* LittleMissBadass
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Alice becomes very concerned about her well-being.
* LonersAreFreaks: She claims to love being hated. She gets better after befriending Alice.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Oki got interested in Alice when she became a threat to the Organization. After being defeated and spared, Oki comes to respect and admire her more.
* MindControlEyes: She briefly gets those kind of eyes while mind-controlled by Anabachi.
* MiniDressOfPower: Her blue school uniform.
* MsFanservice: Her panty raid and dominatrix antics are remarkable. And when she appears in the prequel she's wearing a PlayboyBunny costume.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Is very tough despite her looks. And unlike Kabutomushi, Oki isn't augmented.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Oki takes Alice to rest with Yoriko inside a locked and under maintenance room when she is asked to search for Kuramoto. [[spoiler:However, that room was set that way by Sasori to spring an ambush on Alice. And the Ant Queen has cameras everywhere and makes her servants force their way inside to rape Alice, who didn't have a chance to put a barricade on the door]].
* NoIAmBehindYou: And looking [[BadassBack the other way]] for good measure.
* NoNameGiven: Discusses this with Alice. "Megumi Oki" is a name the Organization gave her. Given how she was abandoned as a baby, she might not even know what her birth name is, and much less care about it.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Alice walks on her while she's taking an unconscious Geji's clothes for herself. [[SkewedPriorities Amusingly]], Alice is only disturbed because she's ''[[LesYay jealous]]''.
* OffhandBackhand: Hits Geji with one, then misses another while fighting Kirigirisu.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Here one moment, gone the next. That's how Gokiburi is.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Not really.
* PantyShot: Of note is that we see her panties when she's on the floor after being captured by Kirigirisu, [[FridgeLogic even though]] she was stripped of her usual outfit by Anabachi and didn't take Geji's underwear while stealing her clothes. In a omake [[HandWave the author concludes]] Goki was carrying a spare pair of panties [[CrazyPrepared just in case]] something like being brainwashed and and forced to wear a bondage getup would happen.
* PantyThief: On her first night with Alice, she sneaks away to [[SignatureScene mess around with her beloved's panties.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: An omake shows her living in an orphanage when she was 5 years-old. The prequel further explains that Oki was left to die when she was 2 years-old.
* PlayboyBunny: Oki wears a black bunny costume in the prequel.
* PoisonedWeapons: As expected from a cockroach, her Goki Blades induce sickness on anyone she cuts. This is something she only used in the prequel, though.
* PoseOfSupplication: Apologizes to Alice with this pose after her attempt at asking for Hibiki's help goes terribly wrong. Later she drops into it again [[ClingyJealousGirl when Alice says she likes Kuramoto.]]
* ReformedButNotTamed: She's acts soft around Alice, but is not as nice to everyone else.
* SayItWithHearts
* [[SchoolgirlLesbians Schoolgirl]] PsychoLesbian: Oki fought Alice to make her a sex slave, but her psychotic crush only made her happy to surrender and work for Alice when she proved too strong.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Imomushi and Kabutomushi's duel in the prequel ended with the latter accidentally flooding the corridor they were in. By the time the two begin to freak out and run, Goki is already miles away. She even isn't seen at all for the rest of the chapter. During the Arachnid Hunt, she considers accepting Kirigirisu's advice to immediately leave the school, but follows Alice's choice to search for Yoriko instead.
* ShipTease: With Alice, of course. There's also some FoeRomanceSubtext between her and Geji, with Alice being jealous even though, Oki complimenting Geji's looks aside, the roach and the centipede don't seem really interested in each other.
* SlaveCollar: Oki tells Alice to wear one and crawl naked around the school, but she is who comes to wear it [[UndyingLoyalty with pride]] after becoming Alice's "slave".
* SmashSisters: She helped Kabutomushi to fight Imomushi in the past. During ''Arachnid'', Oki would like to be this with Alice, but they barely get a chance to unite against anyone. Oki later teams up with [[spoiler:[[RivalsTeamUp Geji]]]] to look for Kuramoto.
* SmugSmiler
* SmugSuper: She's very confident about her speed, but it doesn't look all that special when a ''lot'' of the other assassins are stealthy or fast enough to seemingly teleport around in [[FlashStep all sorts]] [[StealthHiBye of]] [[OffscreenTeleportation ways]].
* StalkerWithACrush: Oki is a flirty and perverted girl who spies on Alice and steals her panties, but for someone who wanted to enslave Alice "like in the bad ending of an eroge", she does have her limits and is portrayed as very loyal and caring. Alice isn't too bothered by her friend's antics and sometimes shows that she does reciprocate Oki's feelings.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: She spends some chapters on a leather dominatrix outfit that Anabachi made her wear after mind-controlling her.
* SubmissiveBadass: She is Alice's self-proclaimed slave.
* SuperReflexes: Thanks to her Air Detection ability.
* SuperSenses: She can easily feel the direction and pressure of air and use that to dodge attacks.
* SuperSpeed: She's able to run incredibly fast.
* SuperStrength: She is surprisingly strong.
* TookALevelInKindness: After becoming friends with Alice.
* TrainingFromHell: According to her, Kabutomushi's training begins with students being knocked out until they learn to move and fight in an unconscious state.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Already wanted slaves back when she was a little kid.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has one against Imomushi in the prequel and starts ineffectively swinging her knives in frustation until Kabutomushi takes over the fight.
* VillainousCrush: Oki's crush on Alice soon results in a HeelFaceTurn and makes her behave well around Alice.
* UnconsciousObjector: If Oki gets attacked while she's unconscious, she dashes around and [[ConfusionFu attacks randomly]] until she wakes up. Although the narrator goes into an analogy about how cockroaches have two brains to explain this ability, Kabutomushi teaches it to all of her students.
* UndyingLoyalty: She obeys whatever Alice says and Anabachi exploits this to brainwash Oki and make her torture Yoriko. By the endgame of the story, Oki really is one of the few people who haven't manipulated, betrayed or repeatedly tried to kill Alice.
* UseYourHead: Although Oki can fight while knocked out, it appears all she can do in that state are tackles and headbutts.
* TheWorfEffect: Oki is introduced as a formidable member of the Organization, but quickly becomes someone who's beaten up to show off the skills of new antagonists. Even her supposedly incredible speed is no big deal since most of the cast keeps popping out of nowhere behind each other.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: She tells Geji that she doesn't care about the Organization anymore and will kill or protect people as she wishes.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Uses lariats and dropkicks as finishing moves. And holds Geji in a Cobra Twist once.
* {{Yandere}}: Says that if Alice liked any boys, she would kill them.
* YearsTooEarly: Oki uses this taunt against Alice and Anabachi, but she was declaring victory too soon. Later she says it again for real after defeating Geji. [[FridgeBrilliance Cockroaches have been around for a very long time, after all.]]
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[[/folder]]
!From ''Caterpillar'':
[[folder:Caterpillar/Imomushi]]
!!Caterpillar, Miki Inou (イモムシ; Imomushi, 井上美樹; Inou Miki)
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A serious, somewhat carefree and very tenacious assassin who is the protagonist of the prequel. Imomushi only kills people [[PunchClockVillain who are assigned to her by the Organization.]] Whenever her gunplay becomes [[GunsAreWorthless ineffective]], she makes use of her SuperStrength and [[UseYourHead carnivorous caterpillar swings]] to kill her opponents. The Ageha group has drawn her into a CarnivalOfKillers game by dividing details on her late sister Mika's death among the participating assassins, but even in ''Arachnid'' Imomushi seems to still have questions about what really happened to Mika...
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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: People like Paraponera, Sasori and Gokiburi come to find out that any sort of toxic or sleep-inducing attacks have little effect on Imomushi.
* AnimalMotifs: [[CreepyCentipedes Caterpillars]]. Being the heroine, she gets analogies with various kinds of caterpillars rather than just a single species, like Alice does with spiders.
* [[AntiHero Anti Heroine]]: A LawfulEvil PunchClockVillain at worst.
* {{Badass}}
* BadassAdorable[=/=]LittleMissBadass: When she was younger.
* BareYourMidriff
* BerserkButton: Harm or even badmouth her sister at all and Imomushi, even as a kid, would crush you with everything ''and'' the kitchen sink.
* BigSisterWorship: Even if they're not related by blood, Imomushi thinks the world of her older sister Mika and was ''[[KnightTemplarBigBrother very]]'' protective of her.
* BoobsOfSteel
* CallingYourAttacks: "Anchor Bolt Caterpillar... [[UseYourHead Cannon]]".
* ChekhovsLecture: Advices Alice about the solution to any difficulty being within oneself.
* CombatPragmatist: Distracts Alice by asking embarrassing questions about [[TeacherStudentRomance her relationship with Kumo]] and throws a coat at her to block her view. The narration states this makes her the exact opposite of [[CrazyPrepared Kumo and Alice]].
* CynicismCatalyst: Her sister's death.
* DarkActionGirl
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Back when Imomushi was a teen, she failed to save her sister from being strangled to death and got [[ChildSoldier forcefully recruited into the Organization]] shortly after.
* DemotedToExtra: Despite being hyped in her introduction scene, Imomushi doesn't get to do much in the main story.
* TheDreaded: Bullies eventually gave up on assaulting Miki because she could curb stomp them all at once, making her feared across the school. And yet, the orphanage staff was still raping Mika behind her back...
* DroppedABridgeOnHer: While she was busy fighting Dinoponera, Suzume Bachi backstabbed Imomushi and left her for dead. It isn't ''[[HesJustHiding quite]]'' clear if that did actually [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome kill her]], though.
* EvilOverlooker: In the cover for chapter 34 of her manga.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish to Mika's responsible.
* GunsAreWorthless: She gets more mileage out of her headbutts than when she fires her gun at people.
* [[HeroOfAnotherStory Heroine of Another Story]]: Is the protagonist of her own spinoff, which takes place a year before the Arachnid Hunt.
* ItsAllMyFault: She regrets that it was for her sake that Mika died.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Soon after she first appears in the main story, she fights Alice because of curiosity and interest on the prize for Alice's head.
* MegatonPunch: Her punches have immense strength even when she isn't catapulting herself.
* MetronomicManMashing: She swings and bashes Kabutomushi against a wall in a blind rage. By the time Imomushi realizes what happened, the beetle girl is half-buried under rubble.
* NeckLift: Defeats Alice with one.
* NoNameGiven: Averted. Miki Inou is said to be her original name before she joined the Organization.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: Defeats Alice but lets her go, [[CombatPragmatist only to]] [[JustShootHim shoot her anyway]] - but Alice isn't fooled. Then when she meets Dinoponera, Imomushi tries to kill her during their conversation but it doesn't work either.
* NowThatsUsingYourTeeth: In the prequel, Imomushi breaks Kumo's highly resistant threads by biting them. She later catches a knife thrown by Sasori with her teeth. In the main story she does the same to Alice's Kumoito and to Dinoponera's Dino Spine.
* OneWomanArmy
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: She has her own business to take care of in the Arachnid Hunt, but won't pass the chance to kill Alice and earn the prize money.
* RapeAsBackstory: The tragic rape and murder of her sister which resulted in Imomushi being hired by the Organization after killing most of the ones responsible.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl
* SignatureMove: The Anchor Bolt Caterpillar Cannon. She nails herself to the ground and then pulls herself back and forth into a intense headbutt that's useful for both offense and evasion. It helps that enemies often give her a chance to perform the move as a counter or worse, [[VillainBall push Imomushi down by themselves.]]
* SuperStrength: Enough to overpower even the strongest insect, Kabutomushi. And she was that strong even as a child.
* TrashOfTheTitans: Her apartment was a sea of trash bags that a shocked Hanakamakiri immediately resolves to help clean up. Naturally, the narration relates this mess to how silkworms devolved and became unable to live on their own from being cultivated by humans to produce silk.
* TrickedOutShoes: Her shoes nail themselves to the ground, allowing Imomushi to catapult herself forth and back.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: It's understandable that she was a vicious BullyHunter to [[KnightTemplarBigBrother anyone who harmed her sister]], but this led to tragedy as Mika got blackmailed to become a sex slave so Miki wouldn't be sent to a reformatory.
* UnstoppableRage: She tries to keep her anger under check as Mika often told her to. Kabutomushi in particular gets to feel [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown what's it like when Imomushi snaps.]]
* UseYourHead: Can peform powerful headbutts in a catapult motion, much like how carnivorous caterpillars of the Eupethecia genus move to catch prey.
* TheWorfEffect: Imomushi shows she's capable of defeating Alice, but is the first to get beaten up by Dinoponera.
* WouldHurtAChild: Has no problem with trying to kill teen assassins like Oki, Alice and Dinoponera.
* WrongGenreSavvy: When she finds Alice angry at how everyone's trying to kill her, Imomushi says there must be ulterior reasons for the boss to be doing that and that Alice is just bait. She's been through something similar, after all. Except the Arachnid Hunt ''does'', to say the least, ''completely'' revolve around Alice. Also, as the ''Caterpillar'' story goes on it doesn't look like Ageha had very deep reasons to harass Imomushi, either.
* YouKilledMyFather: The person sending assassins after Imomushi is the woman who killed her sister. During ''Arachnid'', Imomushi accuses Suzume Bachi of having more to do with Mika's death than he lets on.
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[[folder:Flower Mantis/Hanakamakiri]]
!!Flower Mantis (ハナカマキリ; Hanakamakiri)
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A young girl who provides intel and support for Imomushi after befriending her. In ''Arachnid'' she's mentioned by Imomushi as having sent her to investigate Alice's school.
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* ActionGirl
* AnimalMotifs: [[SlayingMantis Flower Mantises]], who are able to pretend being flowers to fool both predators and prey. This translates to Hanakamakiri being a crossdressing boy who uses a lot of feints and sneak attacks.
* AttemptedRape: Rivals Alice on how much people try to rape her. Murasakishachihoko lures Hanakamakiri into an orgy room full of [[FatBastard fat bastards]], Imomushi [[DudeShesLikeInAComa knocks her out]] to undress her and do God knows what (but stops due to... [[GagPenis reasons]]) and Kinohadakamakiri has a history of being needlessly perverted towards her, too.
* BadassAdorable
* TheBartender: Works as one for the Organization.
* BerserkButton: When people figure out [[UnsettlingGenderReveal her gender]] and start bugging her about it. Much to her dismay, this becomes a RunningGag.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Hanakamakiri seems nice and of sound mind, in contrast to almost every other assassin, but this is [[KillerRabbit part of her facades]] and she certainly won't shy away from ruthlessly slashing her enemies.
* ChildSoldier: Seems to have been brought in the Organization a couple of years prior to her meeting Imomushi.
* CuteAndPsycho: Tells Kinohadakamakiri she hopes to cut Imomushi's limbs like a literal caterpillar and turn her into a broken-minded sex slave. But it was only a lie to distract her. Hopefully.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lost her family to a robber and had to kill him when she got home from school. Training under the abusive Kinohadakamakiri was no pleasant matter, either.
* DeathGlare: [[TheParalyzer She can stun people]] by doing eye contact with them.
* DefensiveFeintTrap: Sometimes she exploits her cuteness and falls to her knees crying, pretending to be helpless.
* DistaffCounterpart: To vanilla Kamakiri from the main story, [[WeHardlyKnewYe who died too soon]]. Obviously the cool mantis theme couldn't be left to waste.
* ElegantGothicLolita
* GagPenis: This is something Imomushi finds this out in chapter 34 of her story.
* TheGhost: She is only mentioned once in ''Arachnid'' and doesn't appear on-panel.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Hanakamakiri's scythes are huge and literally appear from out of thin air in some scenes, including one where she's naked.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: To interrogate Nanafushi, she ties her to to a chair and leaves it barely hanging at the edge of a hole in the ship's hull, only supported by a rope tied to Nanafushi's neck.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery
* LittleMissBadass
* {{Meido}}: Kinohadakamakiri had her wear this costume and do chores back when Hanakamakiri was her student.
* RapeAsBackstory: The reason she's terrified of Kinohadakamakiri.
* SinisterScythe: She wields a pair of large mantis-themed spiked scythes. Their design was rather inconsistent and got simplified by the second artist, so they now lack spikes.
* TrainingFromHell: Any training that involves having a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematomorpha Gordian worm-esque]] cord repeatedly being shoved up your butt to mess with your mind can only be described as this.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: She's a boy who was raised as a girl due to having been born with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome Klinefelter syndrome]].
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[[/folder]]
The main characters from the ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'' manga and its spinoff ''Caterpillar''.
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!From ''Arachnid'':
[[folder:Alice Fujii]]
!!Alice Fujii (藤井 有栖; Fujii Arisu)
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->"''A person who harbors ugly jealousies, lies to others, [[TheseHandsHaveKilled and kills]]... [[HeroicSelfDeprecation There really is no way]] someone like that [[IJustWantToHaveFriends can make friends.]]''"
A [[BewareTheNiceOnes kind but deadly]] OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent with an unusual mental disorder named Congenital Excessive Concentration that she [[DisabilitySuperpower can control to enhance her reflexes and learning skills.]] Alice seeks to take her family register back from the Organization and to protect herself and her friends from their assassins, even if she has to kill some people along the way. She wields a pistol that fires a knife which spreads strings around her. Both the blade and the strings are controlled by hand gestures and sound commands with perfect precision thanks to her brain condition.
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* AchillesHeel: The thread from the Kumoito can be controlled from a distance by sound commands. As useful as it sounds, Imomushi and Suzumebachi know about this and are able to disable Kumoito and make Alice helpless. Good thing this information presumably wasn't disclosed in the profile the Arachnid Hunt participants got of her.
* ActionGirl
* AllWebbedUp: Alice often uses her threads to immobilize people, although not to the extent that they become completely coccooned.
* AndIMustScream: She gets paralysed by Sasori, but Yoriko distracts her for long enough to Alice to regain some control over her body.
* AnimalMotifs: [[SpidersAreScary Spiders]] ''in general'', unlike most of the other characters who only get analogies with a single insect species. Due to this, Alice's abilities [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands are much more versatile]] than anyone else's. She also often does things similar to the behavior of spiders [[FridgeBrilliance that are not apparent at first]] and comments on how their predatory nature applies to herself.
* [[AntiHero Anti Heroine]]: Of the [[PragmaticHero pragmatic]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil and]] [[GoodIsNotSoft not soft]] kind.
* ApologizesALot
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Hits Dinoponera with her bloody palm after faking not being able to avoid her attacks. Up until then, no one had been able to harm or intimidate her.
* AssKickingPose: She usually just stands still with an expressionless, zoned out look while countering attacks and moving Kumoito around, but sometimes she crouches in a pose reminiscent of Spider-Man.
* AttemptedRape: From her uncle at the beginning. By coincidence, he gets interrupted and killed by Kumo. Later, she has to fight off ''many'' mooks and assassins who also try to get their hands on her.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Her Congenital Excessive Concentration is a fancy and controllable way of having Attention Deficit Disorder. Or rather, an inversion of it in which she frequently becomes too focused on something while forgetting about everything else.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Figures out by herself how Dinoponera's C.D.F. ability works.
* {{Badass}}
* BadassAdorable: Who'd think a killer could be this cute?
* BadassBack: Due to her ability and weapon, she doesn't need to be looking at her opponents to attack or avoid them.
* BadassBoast: While outperforming and bitch slapping Dinoponera, Alice gives a ''long'' character-defining WorldOfCardboardSpeech in realization that her misfortunes were all a part of somebody's plan:
-->"The reason I'm being targetted by the Organization... isn't because we were of low social status, nor is it because of my uncle's debts. It wasn't because of stuff like that. [[TraumaCongaLine Having all those things happen together was frightening.]] But now I've realized... [[IfIWantedYouDead If they wanted to kill me]], they could've quickly done so. But they've killed my mother, killed [[AssholeVictim my uncle]], took my home, targetted my friend and dragged me into this game. Instead of killing me, they wanted to torture me. In other words, [[ItsPersonal somebody hates me]] and has decided to target me so that I would hate them from the bottom of my heart. "My enemy" certainly exists. That's why I can't just run. To stay alive I have no choice but to find and kill them. [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou If you get in my way]] [[IllKillYou I'll kill you]] as well. No matter how strong the enemy is or how many there are, I won't let them have their way. To protect myself, I'll fight. That is how a spider lives."
* BadassBookworm: She reads on her free time, but she avoids long books to not lose control over her ability and spend too much time reading them without noticing.
* BadassCreed: Her "kill to survive" motto.
* BandageBabe: Alice wears an eyepatch for a while after her battle against Hibiki. She's embarrassed about looking beaten up, but Yoriko and Oki [[InvokedTrope beg to differ.]] Then later, when she's captured during the Arachnid Hunt and taken to Sara, Alice is left naked aside from some bandages patching up the [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice pokes]] Dinoponera did on her limbs and butt.
-->'''Yoriko''': You need to be stylish! And bandages [[RuleOfCool look cool]] anyway!
-->'''Oki''': It's needed [[RuleOfCute to be]] {{moe}}!
* BerserkButton: [[KillingIntent Becomes violent]] when people try to kill her or threaten her friends.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Can be awfully nice and forgiving, but is ruthless in combat.
* BlessedWithSuck[=/=]CursedWithAwesome: It took 15 years for her to even be taught about what C.E.C. was and how to control it. As great as it can be to become the world's greatest assassin in two weeks, Alice really never asked for it and would rather have a normal life than to be constantly fighting off the insect people.
* BornWinner[=/=]TheGift: Congenital Excessive Concentration is a hereditary condition that had always affected her. Dinoponera antagonizes Alice over this during their battle.
* BottomlessMagazines: Alice tends to set many traps and leave them around for later use. A lot of string could fit inside her pistol, sure, but there's no concern in-story about how much string there is or how Alice would obtain more if she were to run out of it, since it's a complexly crafted kind of thread.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Alice got a very deep mind-controlling kiss from Queen Kuramoto in chapter 61... and it [[NoSell didn't affect her at all]] because Alice already had an idea of how to prevent the effect]].
* BreakTheCutie: Alice had a awful life up to the point Kumo taught her to control her ability. Then he makes her kill him. And she has to fight the Organization alone. [[spoiler:And Yoriko is killed.]] And people just won't stop trying to rape her. [[spoiler:And her real father really is a jerkass after all]].
* BringMyBrownPants: Alice loses control of her bladder while Dinoponera tortures her. The ant ridicules her for doing this, but [[LaserGuidedKarma she doesn't go unpunished for too long.]]
* CallingYourAttacks: Alice doesn't call her attacks while fighting, but her traps have names that [[ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy she explains after using them.]]
* CatchPhrase: Hers is that in order to survive, she has no choice but to kill.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: With training, she turned a troublesome mental disorder into a superpower.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Alice is rather clumsy outside of her fighting mode, has practically no social skills and feels guilty for the troubles she brings for being a target of the Organization. She only kills in self-defense and even tries to resolve conflicts peacefully when possible because she doesn't [[TheseHandsHaveKilled feel happy about being a murderer]].
* ClingyJealousGirl: What does Alice have to say about Oki assaulting another girl?
-->"O-Oki-san... ARE YOU FINE WITH ANYONE, AS LONG AS IT'S A GIRL!?"
* ClothingDamage: Sometimes gets hit by this trope for the sake of {{fanservice}}. The lack of damage to her body when she gets slashed is justified by her using threads as improvised armor.
* CombatPragmatist: She's a damn good TrapMaster, so some underhanded tatics are to be expected.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: The deaths of her mother and uncle kickstart the plot. Alice later reasons that wasn't a coincidence and somebody, for some reason, is sparing no expense to ruin her life.
* CrazyPrepared: Thanks to her "Congenital Excessive Concentration" and string skills, she can trap and defeat people when they least expect it. [[spoiler:Hell, it turns out she was ''already aware of Kuramoto's identity'' because she [[ProperlyParanoid had set a thread on her just before they got separated]]]].
* CreepyGood: Most of the cast is afraid of her prodigious talent for killing and her invincible fighting style.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[CuteClumsyGirl Can be clumsy]] when not fighting or using her ability correctly.
* CuteAndPsycho: When she's serious about killing.
* CuteBruiser: Alice mainly relies on her wire traps, but can [[WaifFu fight hand to hand very well when needed.]]
* CuteClumsyGirl: When outside of her fighting mode.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was despised by everyone due to her odd mental disorder and had to live with her drunken, abusive uncle after her mother committed suicide.
* DeadlyLunge: Taking notes from the Salticidae spider family, Alice often leaps at her enemies when she goes berserk.
* DeathFromAbove: How she defeats [[spoiler:Suzumebachi]]. Unable to reliably fight him up close or set any restraining traps, Alice suddenly shoots the Kumoito high into the sky, only for it to simply fall back and cut him down.
* DeathGlare: Alice has a piercing, psychotic glare with [[ExoticEyeDesigns rippling]] and [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing]] eyes when she's really angry or intending to kill.
* DeerInTheHeadlights: Even before she trained her ability, one good thing about it was that she could focus on finding a solution to deadly situations and act on it instead of just freezing up.
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: She defeats Dinoponera, who was in a winning streak against everyone else.
* {{Determinator}}: Alice takes loads of damage from people like Hibiki and Dinoponera, but doesn't stay down until she gets ''them'' to give up.
* DieOrFly: Her first offensive use of C.E.C. was to attack Kumo, who wanted to kill her for witnessing her uncle's death.
* DisabilitySuperpower: Her "Congenital Excessive Concentration", which causes Alice to single-mindedly concentrate on the most inconvenient things. With training, though, it allows her to enter a controllable hyper aware state and formulate battle strategies in seconds, and serves as arguably her greatest weapon.
* DisappearedDad: He died before she was born. [[spoiler:But turns out to be Suzumebachi, of all people]].
* EmpathicWeapon: The Kumoito will wrap and kill its wielder if not properly tamed. Why it does that isn't explained.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: She's presented as a clumsy and helpless girl... who tries to chomp an assassin's neck off to survive.
* EtTuBrute: Her reaction to discovering [[spoiler:Kuramoto]] deceived her all along.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Rippling pupils indicate her use of Congenital Excessive Concentration. Waving irises are for Concentration Driving Force.
* {{Expy}}: Of Turis Flag from Shinya Murata's previous work, ''Manga/{{Jackals}}''. Turis is a year older, but the two look similar, have the same height and weight and both of them are spider-themed string masters.
* FightMagnet: Because there is a great prize for whoever manages to kill her.
* FirstKiss: Got a forced kiss from her uncle while he was trying to rape her and then a surprise kiss from Dinoponera. Alice later bemoans her kissing history when Sara is forcing her and Kuramoto to make out. The ensuing kiss would be the most genuine one in the story despite the situation... [[spoiler:if Kuramoto wasn't the brainwashing ant queen and if Alice wasn't secretly aware of that. Those incidents also bring the KissOfDeath trope to mind, because those three met terrible fates after kissing black widow Alice]].
* FlashStep: Eventually surpasses Dinoponera on this, practically teleporting away from her attacks even though Dinoponera ''[[UpToEleven can perceive things in slow motion]]''. It turned out that Alice was using her threads to both move herself and to make Dinoponera miss her attacks while not realizing what Alice was doing.
* FriendlessBackground: Was tormented by everyone due to her mental disorder.
* FullNameBasis: Most of the cast calls her "Fujii Alice" in an insulting tone, as she refused to give her name up to them.
* GainingTheWillToKill: Alice tried to kill Yoriko to get confortable with her new lifestyle, but failed, threw up and had a brief breakdown. Her first kill is Kumo, at his own request. Spiderlings of certain species do in fact eat their mother to grow, awaken their hunting instincts or avoid being eaten by them - like how Kumo attacked Alice.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: A girl who wields a very versatile knifegun.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: [[EyeColourChange Her grey-yellow eyes light up]] when she's using Congenital Excessive Concentration, as depicted in the cover for volume 10.
* GolfClubbing: In chapter 13, she uses Kumoito to grab an odd nailed golf club a man is holding and swing it [[EyeScream at his eye.]] Way more noteworthy than the plain [[BatterUp nailed bats]] that were also flying around.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Although she didn't intend to kill Oki and Dinoponera, she makes it clear that she could and punishes them hard.
* GrapplingHookPistol: Alice uses the Kumoito for this purpose at least once.
* GrayEyes
* GuileHeroine: Handles her fights like a very cunning huntress.
* GunsAreWorthless: Alice was taught to use a gun in the beginning and uses it at least thrice. Afterwards, it is gone.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Gets forced to kill her master, thinks her mother commited suicide because of her, loses [[spoiler:Yoriko and kills Kuramoto]] [[TraumaCongaLine and so on.]]
* HeartwarmingOrphan: Alice looks and acts the part, but [[InvertedTrope everyone hates her]]. Most people ignore and bully her, Yoriko dislikes how Alice let her orphaned state define herself, Dinoponera doesn't care about her sob stories and Kuramoto gets internally mad at Alice pretending her issues are no big deal.
* HellishPupils: Gets both the rippling pupil and iris effects when she's furious.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Once Yoriko is killed by Sasori. After Alice avenges her, she goes blind with grief and carelessly charges against the invading student mob which are able to overwhelm and knock her down. However, it turned out being captured was part of her plan to defeat Kuramoto]].
* HeroicSecondWind: Defeated Hibiki in a desperate need to stay alive, finally overcame Dinoponera by removing some tangentially related weight off her conscience and shrugged off being repeatedly stabbed with poison for the second time in the same day to turn the tables on [[spoiler:Suzumebachi]].
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Alice hates herself for being dishonest to Yoriko for the sake of preserving their friendship and for being jealous and distrusting towards Oki.
* HonorBeforeReason: Refusing to [[JoinOrDie sell her name]] to the Organization got Alice into deep trouble. And even though she can end the Arachnid Hunt just by leaving the school at any time, Alice doesn't want to betray her friends who are still lost and in danger. She insists to personally find Yoriko and Kuramoto first.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: How she defeats some of her enemies. The weapon she wields is also set to backfire and wrap the user if it is not controlled in the precise way only a C.E.C.-affected person would be able to.
* HowDoIShotWeb: She had to learn from Kumo how to make the best use of her mental condition. It's a literal example because she does it by wielding a complex thread-based weapon.
* HyperAwareness: Her "Congenital Excessive Concentration" makes her perceive things in great, [[BulletTime slow-motioned]] detail. However, she has to train and control it to avoid being needlessly absentminded to everything else. Her range is even increased by a sensor on Kumoito that allows her to hear sounds through her threads. She later learns to improve her focus into Concentration Driving Force as well.
* IAmYourOpponent: Tells Dinoponera she's going to get the match she's asking so much for, so she shouldn't try to go after Oki and Yoriko.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Alice would rather keep living as an ordinary student than deal with this insect crime organization nonsense, which might explain why she casually goes to school as usual despite knowing that at the very least Sasori and Hibiki are lurking there.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Alice is really happy to have made friends out of Yoriko and Oki and is constantly worried about their safety.
* IMissMom: Feels guilty about her mother's suicide.
* IWantMyMommy: Alice cries for her mom when Dinoponera injects poison all over her limbs.
* IdiotBall: Alice is usually as resourceful as any [[RazorFloss string-wielder]], being able to set and spring fancy traps from nowhere and hear anything going on a sizable radius around her. However, she occasionally makes short-sighted decisions and gets caught off-guard in ways that her abilities [[FridgeLogic really should]] have been able to prevent.
* ImpaledPalm: As early as the Kamakiri fight. Also of note is when she gets her palms, arms, legs and ''butt'' impaled by Dinoponera's venomous needles.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: The Kumoito (Spider's Thread) that she received from Kumo is a GrapplingHookPistol that fires a blade hooked to a length of resistant spider-silk. Once she fires it she can use her concentration ability to control the blade and make it fly around to spread countless traps in what seems like instants without anyone noticing. [[BottomlessMagazines It also has apparently infinite ammo]] and she has control over any thread in the vicinity even when the pistol is taken away from her. Improbable, ''indeed''.
* IndyPloy: Although she's usually the CrazyPrepared type, she's once described as not planning in advance while reacting to attacks in BulletTime.
* InstantExpert: The defining trait of Alice's C.E.C. condition turns out to be how it affects her learning skills. Under Kumo's tutelage, Alice figures how to use it and learns eveything he knows in the most productive two weeks ever. She later says she only needs a couple of days to master Dinoponera's C.D.F. concentration method, but is soon using it to great effect against [[spoiler:Sasori]].
* ItGetsEasier: Alice tried to kill Yoriko as revenge for her bullying and to get used to her new job, only to miss and feel sick enough to vomit. She gets better at it once she kills Kumo and Kamakiri, but she does avoid killing her enemies if she can and isn't too proud about being an assassin.
* ItsAllMyFault: How she feels about Yoriko and Oki's lives being threatened because assassins are attacking her.
* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Sasori kills Yoriko and states that Alice too is going to die like her mother did. Needless to say, Alice gets pissed off and hangs her in revenge]].
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[IDidWhatIHadToDo Survival-driven]] Alice doesn't really find her killings excusable, but they all count under this trope. Including how she beat up and got close to killing [[TheBully Yoriko]], [[PsychoLesbian Oki]] and [[AxCrazy Dinoponera]].
* KillingIntent: Alice becomes bloodthirsty whenever people threaten her life and becomes feared for this, but it's not like she goes out of control. She only kills if she can't avoid it.
* KnewItAllAlong: By placing her threads on [[spoiler:Kuramoto, Alice became aware that she and Sara were in cahoots with each other]].
* KnifeNut: The Kumoito is a [[Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}} knifegun]]. Although Alice rarely stabs anyone with it, the blade can pierce through people as it flies.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When [[FinalBossPreview Suzumebachi appears]] and disables her threads to keep her from attacking Sara, Alice finds him too intimidating and just escapes with Kuramoto.
* LegacyCharacter: She's Kumo's apprentice, trained to use Kumoito and his spider techniques.
* LightningBruiser: Her [[TrapMaster fighting style]] makes this trait less noticeable than on Oki and Dinoponera, but Alice has been trained in hand-to-hand combat, is physically resilient and also faster than Oki.
* LittleMissBadass: 15 years-old and "A natural-born killer".
* LuminescentBlush: Gets tomato-red when she's embarrassed or worried.
* MadeOfIron: Gets attacked by one assassin after another and endures a ''lot'' of damage but keeps going. Nevermind the horrible pain and much less the neurotoxins of the dinoponera and hornet poisons she gets repeatedly stung with. It seems to help that she often puts some thread under her clothes or around herself as armor.
* [[MartialPacifist Martial]][=/=]TechnicalPacifist: Although Alice is fine with killing for the sake of survival, she only fights in self-defense and will try to spare opponents whenever possible. Just don't screw with her too much or she ''will'' follow through with her threats.
* MiniDressOfPower: Her blue school uniform.
* MissingMom: Her mother committed suicide due to depression. Alice is traumatized about it and can't clearly remember that incident's details. When Alice remembers, she realizes her mother must actually have been assassinated by the Organization.
* NearDeathExperience: She sure felt like this when Kumo tried to kill her when they first met.
* NeckSnap: Kills [[spoiler:Kuramoto]] by crushing her neck with thread. [[FridgeHorror Would she have done the same to Oki]] had the roach chickened out or betrayed her back when she tried to convince Hibiki to leave them alone?...
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: No matter how dire the crisis, the ''Alice Fujii spider'' always comes up with some technique she learned from Kumo in her two weeks of training. Meanwhile, most of the other characters are limited to a single species of a insect to get their techniques from.
* NiceGirl: Despite being willing to kill people, she would rather avoid it and is usually very polite and friendly.
* NoIAmBehindYou: Taunts Dinoponera with this maneuver.
* NoSocialSkills: She was enough of a shut-in to not even know what a shopping mall is.
* NothingPersonal: Alice sheepishly tells her teacher Amenbo she's glad that she somehow survived being drowned while trapped underwater, despite Amenbo having tried to kill her.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Dinoponera notes that Alice fights in a sloppy way to distract and bait her opponents into the traps she sets.
* OffscreenTeleportation: On the moment she begins to outperform Dinoponera, she goes from being unconscious with Dinoponera sitting on her to somehow standing far behind the ant girl, who hadn't even finished standing up.
* OneWomanArmy: She can take down a dozen people while barely moving.
* OnlySaneWoman
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Who becomes a spider-themed assassin.
* OxygenatedUnderwaterBubbles: Like the Diving Bell Spider, Alice is able to collect air on her webs to survive underwater. She uses this to trick and defeat Amenbo.
* PantyShot: Notably, it's after Oki flips her skirt and raids her other panties that Alice [[ProperTightsWithASkirt begins wearing pantyhose.]]
* PeoplePuppets: She can trap people with her threads to force them to move against their will. And if Alice happens to be paralysed or too hurt to move, she can pull herself around too. She calls it [[GratuitousItalian "Marionette del Ragno"]] in chapter 49.
* PoseOfSupplication: Apologizes to Oki with this pose, feeling guilty about Oki and Yoriko being involved in her assassin troubles. In a much sadder scene, she falls to her knees over [[spoiler:Yoriko's corpse and doesn't even get any peace to mourn her]].
* PostVictoryCollapse: Alice faints some time after fighting Hibiki and is taken home by Oki. She collapses a second time right after scaring Dinoponera away.
* PowerCopying: After understanding how Dinoponera's Concentration Driving Force works, Alice takes it for herself.
* PowerIncontinence: If left unckecked, her C.E.C. makes her space out and not pay attention to anything but what she is currently thinking or looking at.
* PowersInTheFirstEpisode: Learned how to control her mental disorder in the first volume.
* [[PragmaticHero Pragmatic Heroine]]: She is willing to kill as a last resort to protect herself and her friends.
* PrivilegedRival: Alice had a troubled but average life before she quickly learned to use to use her mental disorder as a power, so she becomes this trope in the eyes of Dinoponera, who had been fighting for years before she awakened her ability.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt
* RazorFloss: Unlike most examples of this trope, Alice's strings aren't sharp. She can still do everything else with them, from instantly setting dozens of traps and barriers to collecting underwater air and detecting sounds in a 20m radius.
* RecursiveAmmo: Can make her strings unravel into a web of thinner ones that go unnoticed by the other assassins with SuperSenses. They of course remain, somehow, as resistant as usual.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Dinoponera's red. Alice cools her head to concentrate and work up her string traps, though turning [[UnstoppableRage redder]] than Dinoponera is what helps her against Sasori...
* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: Not happy at all to have her clothes torn off every few chapters.
* RepressedMemories: Alice avoids thinking about her mother's suicide and often gets interrupted when she does, as she believes her mother had killed herself because of her. But when Alice finally comes to reflect on what happened, she realizes she was most likely not at fault.
* RetractableWeapon: The blade on the Kumoito. The thread is often left lying around to trap Alice's enemies.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: It's bad enough that [[spoiler:Sasori kills Yoriko, but then she tells Alice that she too is going to [[YouKilledMyFather die like her mother did]]]], which immensely enrages Alice.
* RoseHairedSweetie: A dark pink-haired ShrinkingViolet.
* SchoolgirlLesbians: It has been implied that Alice does have romantic feelings for Oki.
* ShamefulStrip: [[PsychoLesbian A then-villainous Oki]] forces Alice to strip as part of her demands for releasing Yoriko. Oki would have had Alice crawl around the school while naked for further humiliation, but thankfully it turned out Yoriko hadn't been kidnapped at all and Alice fights back. [[spoiler:Much later, Alice is stripped by Sara's minions and is forced to have sex with a also semi-naked Kuramoto in front of them]].
* ShipTease: Alice goes from being understandably annoyed at Oki's StalkerWithACrush tendencies to having outbursts of jealously when the roach girl is near a half-naked Geji. She also gets a little tease with Kuramoto and Dinoponera. [[spoiler:She kills the first and is on bad terms with the latter]].
* ShrinkingViolet: Has been growing out of this since Kumo died.
* SkywardScream: Lets out a long despairing scream after she kills Kumo.
* SmashSisters: With Oki, but aside from capturing Kirigirisu they spend most of the story separated, fighting on their own.
* SmokingIsNotCool: Tries to keep Yoriko from smoking.
* SmugSuper: Alice sometimes muses on how spiders are the deadliest of all arthropods, but her enemies are smug extraordinaries themselves and have it coming. In particular, Alice shamelessly flaunts to Dinoponera how her brain condition allows her to quickly copy and improve on the advanced concentration method Dinoponera took years to learn, just to make the previously smarmy ChildSoldier reckless and easy to catch.
* SoleSurvivor: After her uncle is killed, she has no relatives left.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fuji[=/=]Fujii. Scanlations and the official french translation use Fujii, but not everyone cares for the second i.
* StepfordSmiler: Alice tends to be rather shy and depressed, but when Kuramoto talks to her about her family and bullying issues, she smiles and acts like all of it is no big deal.
* StunnedSilence: A sizable amount of panels in [[WhamEpisode Chapter 68]] [[ReactionShot are of a speechless Alice]] gawking at [[spoiler:Yoriko's]] countless absurd revelations.
* SuperDrowningSkills: She can't swim. Good thing her sports teacher is willing to train her alone after class, eh?
* SuperReflexes: She has this as an effect of C.E.C.. From her perspective, it's like TimeStandsStill.
* SuperSpeed: She's very agile and her concentration ability allows her to do cut corners and catch up to people like Oki.
* SuperpowerLottery: Alice's C.E.C. ability gives her incredibly heightened senses to avoid any danger and make life or death decisions on the fly. It allows her to control her string weapon with surgical precision and overwhelm people with traps. Most importantly, she can absorb decades' worth of knowledge in a short amount of time.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Despite all the trouble Dinoponera caused and knowing nothing about what she went though, after trapping her Alice can't bring herself to hurt her any further, since she's now a sobbing wreck who's begging for mercy and crying about how [[NotSoDifferent she just wanted a friend.]]
* TenderTears: Often cries TearsOfJoy out of concern for her friends, especially when Yoriko doesn't think badly of her for having killed before and remains her friend. [[spoiler:Those become BrokenTears not too long after Sasori makes her presence known]].
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Despite her mindset that she has to kill to survive, she's actually very ashamed for having killed at least two people and feels she can't truly become friends with Yoriko and Oki because of it.
* TookALevelInBadass: Begins as a normal girl, but is trained to kill and grows more skilled from each battle.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: It's implied early on that she likes pudding. [[StalkerWithACrush Oki]] later confirms that Alice loves it "more than the three main meals".
* TragicKeepsake: The Kumoito, after Kumo's death. She also keeps an amusement park ticket that her mother gave her some time before she supposedly killed herself.
* TrainingFromHell: Alice had no choice but to become Kumo's apprentice and receive strict training from him. Fortunately for her, [[InstantExpert she's a very fast learner.]]
* TranquilFury: Even in her worst moments of ire, she cools down into this trope after some time.
* TrapMaster: She can set thread traps everywhere around her in moments and capture even the most careful and attentive of her foes.
* TraumaCongaLine: Alice goes through a large amount of both physical and mental trauma as the story goes on. And a lot of it takes place over the course of a single day!
* UnexpectedSuccessor: To Kumo.
* UnstoppableRage: Practically burns with hate while fighting [[spoiler:Sasori after she killed Yoriko and actually manages to see and avoid Sasori's tail attacks]] while [[DeathGlare staring her down the entire time.]]
* UnwittingPawn: Alice won't leave the Arachnid Hunt without Yoriko, Oki and Kuramoto. Unknowingly to her, ''[[spoiler:the last one is who started this whole mess]]''. [[spoiler:Subverted in the long run, because Alice had set strings on Kuramoto and eventually learned about her intentions before being caught. And then it is played straight in regards to the real boss, who is her precious friend Yoriko]].
* VictoryByEndurance: She often tanks big amounts of damage and drags fights, learning her opponents' patterns and leading them to get [[InstantWinCondition trapped by her threads]] either due to carelessness or because it's that hard not to when they're all over the place.
* TheWorfBarrage: It's impressive to see her [[DeadlyLunge lunging at people]] in a most freaky way to rip their necks off, but Alice has never defeated anyone with that move and is always knocked off either during or after the leap.
* WorfHadTheFlu: She seems to forget her wounds from fighting Dinoponera during her battle against [[spoiler:Sasori]], but after winning she gets [[spoiler:overwhelmed by the brainwashed student mob]] that she would likely be able to defeat if she wasn't so physically [[HeroicBSOD and mentally]] drained. [[spoiler:The truth is that by then she already knew Kuramoto was deceiving her and lost on purpose to be taken to her without raising suspicions]].
* YouCanBarelyStand: While fighting Dinoponera, Alice was so hurt that she could only move by pulling herself like a puppet. Then she made an effort to defend herself against Sara's henchman after being separated from Kabutomushi, but it was hopeless. Thankfully, Hibiki kicked him away.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Dark Pink Hair]]
* YouKilledMyFather: Alice doesn't care much about Kumo having killed her [[AssholeVictim abusive uncle]]. Surpassing Kumo in two weeks, outsmarting and then holding him at gunpoint is enough payback for both that and how he kidnapped her. When [[spoiler:Sasori]] reveals she had a hand on her mother's death, though, then Alice becomes ''livid''. [[spoiler:Furthermore, it was Suzumebachi--Alice's own father--who was told by the Boss to poison his wife to death. After he explains this the Boss has him shot dead and comes to introduce herself to Alice. The identity of this person ultimately responsible for Alice's mom's death and who just had her deadbeat dad's head blown off? ''Yoriko'']].
* YourCheatingHeart: When she mistakenly thinks Oki was assaulting a KO'ed Geji, she accuses her of being fine "with anyone, as long as it is a girl".
* ZettaiRyouiki: Wore Grade A for a couple of volumes, [[ProperTightsWithASkirt but wears pantyhose later.]]
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!!Yoriko Tajima (田嶋 頼子; Tajima Yoriko)
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A student who bullied Alice until she turned out to be [[BewareTheNiceOnes more danguerous than expected]], but then gradually became nicer after letting Alice live with her, even if initially it's just for the sake of protecting herself from the Organization.
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* AlphaBitch: Begins the story as one, [[LovableAlphaBitch but gets better]].
* AnimalMotifs: When Yoriko asks Alice if she really is the kind to murder people, a nearby spider is shown preying on a butterfly. [[spoiler:But no, Yoriko's bug is something else]]...
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Asked Alice if a person with a [[ShrinkingViolet personality]] [[NiceGirl like hers]] could really be a murderer. Alice only agreed with her [[TheseHandsHaveKilled to avoid souring their relationship.]]
* TheBully: She abused Alice in the beginning to the point Alice considered killing her, but after the first encounter with Sasori, Yoriko has to keep Alice with her for protection and the two begin to get along.
* TheChick: Doesn't have a very nice personality to match the trope but isn't a fighter and encourages Alice and Oki from a distance, while also [[MoralityChain being a reason]] Alice tries to not get too carried away with her killing instinct.
* DamselInDistress: It's subverted in the first time because Oki lied about kidnapping her. Yoriko does try to stay out of harm's way when Alice is fighting other assassins, but is still vulnerable to this trope. At least it seems the assassins, or at least Jigabachi, have been told to not kill her. [[spoiler:Because unknowingly to them, she is their boss.]] This doesn't keep Jigabachi from trying to fry her brain, Dinoponera from wanting to stab her or [[spoiler:Sasori from trying to poison her to death]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Had a lonely childhood thanks to the death of her mother and her father's neglect. [[spoiler:She's also seen the horrors of war first hand over the course of her... ''long'' life]].
* DefeatEqualsFriendship
* DefrostingIceQueen
* DontYouDarePityMe: Yoriko tells Alice that they shouldn't let their family issues bother them, but to her annoyance, Alice still sheds a tear upon hearing of her past.
* EasilyForgiven: Since Alice can beat her up, almost killed her in revenge and Yoriko lets homeless Alice live with her, Alice forgave Yoriko for all the bullying she did. Alice is desperate about having friends, after all.
* ForeheadOfDoom: Oki makes fun of Yoriko's hairstyle, [[InSeriesNickname calling her]] "Miss Forehead".
* HeelFaceTurn: After almost having her brains blown out, bullying Alice doesn't seem so fun anymore.
* {{Jerkass}}: Introduced as [[TeensAreMonsters a horrible bully,]] but [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold she becomes softer]], if still rude, after Alice beats some sense into her.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Alice really treasures her and is desperate to personally get her safe-and-sound out of the Arachnid Hunt.
* MinorLivingAlone: Lived alone until she took Alice and Oki in, due to [[ParentalAbandonment having no contact with her father or stepmother.]]
* MuggingTheMonster: This happens once Alice learns to fight. She retaliates against Yoriko and almost kills her.
* NearDeathExperience: Alice tackled her into a wall and would have shot her to death if she didn't break down due to feeling so sick at the idea of killing someone.
* [[NonActionGuy Non Action Girl]]: The best Yoriko can do is a Kabuto Slide of sorts by flailing a mop around.
* NotSoDifferent: Yoriko comes to admit that both herself and Alice have no family and figures she should treat her better, as long as Alice learns to stand up for herself.
* OnlySaneWoman: It speaks volumes that the cruel bully from the beginning is one of the few sane people in the story.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Just a normal delinquent student...
* ParentalAbandonment: [[DeathByChildbirth Her mother died]] and [[DisappearedDad her father left her alone for unknown reasons.]] She says she doesn't get along well with her stepmother either.
* PerpetualFrowner: Looks serious or annoyed most of the time.
* ReallyDeadMontage: [[spoiler:After Sasori poisons Yoriko to "death", Alice [[PleaseWakeUp cries over her body]] while reminiscing their times spent together]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Has the guts to call out Dinoponera of all people on how she is being such a troublesome bitch to Alice.
* SmokingIsCool
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:When Alice asks if they can still be friends despite her being a murderer, Yoriko replies that yes, she doesn't mind that about her. [[MoodWhiplash The next thing]] a very happy and thankful Alice sees is a huge scorpion tail stinging Yoriko, who immediately falls dead... [[NotQuiteDead for a while]]]].
* TookALevelInKindness: After she stops bullying Alice, she does consider Alice and Oki her friends and later admits it to Alice.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Yoriko already was mean and cynical in her childhood.
* {{Tsundere}}: Towards Alice.
* WhenSheSmiles: Sometimes shows her more caring side to Alice.
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[[folder:Cockroach/Gokiburi]]
!!Cockroach, Megumi Oki (ゴキブリ; Gokiburi, 沖 めぐみ; Oki Megumi)
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A quiet student from Alice's class who turns out to be a [[PsychoLesbian sadomasochistic lesbian girl]] and a member of the Organization. Gokiburi is sent by Hibiki to kill Alice but tries to [[SexSlave enslave her]] instead. After being defeated, she's taken home by Alice and becomes devoted to her. Oki has various abilities related to cockroaches, from their high speed, strength and durability to how they can react to sudden shifts in air current and become slippery by sweating lots of oil. She has been trained by Kabutomushi, who once tasked her with assassinating Imomushi.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Alice [[SubvertedTrope doesn't]] seem very bothered by the perverted attention she gets from Oki, other than restraining her with thread if she gets too clingy. [[ClingyJealousGirl And she doesn't want Oki to lust after anyone else.]]
* AirplaneArms: [[NinjaRun Runs with her arms behind herself.]]
* AllWebbedUp: Alice finds that just tying her sound-detecting string to Oki's finger isn't enough to make her behave, so she completely wraps Oki in thread once.
* AnimalMotifs: [[CreepyCockroach A perverted cockroach girl.]]
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Oki secreting bucketloads of oil to keep conceal her noises from Alice's thread [[EstablishingSeriesMoment establishes just how unexpectedly weird this series is going to get.]] As it turns out, being negleted by her parents as a baby like some sort of cockroach is what awakened such abilities in her.
* AttemptedRape: When Hibiki sent his goons to perform a [[DeadlyEuphemism "purification cerimony"]] on her. Alice put an end to that.
* {{Badass}}
* BadassAdorable: A cute roach who's good at wrestling.
* BadassBack: She has a habit of turning her back to people when she stands behind them.
* BadassGay: Has the hots for Alice and will fight anyone for her sake.
* BigOlEyebrows: Hers are thicker than the other girls' eyebrows. This doesn't apply to her appearance in the prequel.
* BlondesAreEvil: She has a very mean attitude at first, but becomes nicer upon being befriended.
* BondageIsBad: Goki enjoys dominating her opponents and at one point is dressed in a dominatrix outfit to torture Yoriko. Sometimes she says she gets off on being hated and humiliated, but Goki never actually displays TooKinkyToTorture traits when she's being beaten up.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Oki's personality seems to remain the same when she's mind-controlled by Anabachi, but she's forced to see him as Alice. She's affected to the point that she doesn't notice [[NotHimself how strange]] "Alice"'s orders are and gladly attempts to torture Yoriko when "she" asks even though Anabachi is [[ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy explaining the situation to Yoriko]] right in front of her.
* BridalCarry: Carries Alice and Yoriko like this while taking them away from danger.
* BringMyBrownPants: Oki wets herself when Alice overpowers her and fires a gun too close to her face.
* ButtMonkey: Oki is the one who gets into some of the most embarrassing situations in both stories.
* CallingYourAttacks: Says the name of her abilities out loud.
* CatchPhrase: Hers is saying that she enjoys being hated.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: She's been trained to detect air pressure changes, to fight while unconscious and to... [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum sweat lots of oil from her skin?]]
* ChildSoldier: Has been working for the Organization since a so far uncertain amount of time.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Since Alice is so unpopular, Oki doesn't need to be jealous of her until Kuramoto and Dinoponera come along.
* CrazyPrepared: Was taught by Kabutomushi to use her oil secretion ability to leave a trail for Kabuto to follow in case she needed help. And even if Oki becomes unconscious, she can still [[ConfusionFu attack randomly]].
* CuteAndPsycho: Oki's not that bad in comparison with some of the other insect assassins who are way more deranged, but Yoriko still can't quite trust her personality.
* CuteBruiser: She's much stronger than she looks. An artwork even depicts her doing pushups while Kabutomushi is sitting on her and lifting weights.
* DamselInDistress: When she got defeated by Hibiki and Kirigirisu, but Alice was already nearby to help in both fights. She is once again beaten up and captured along with [[spoiler:Geji]] in chapter 60.
* DarkActionGirl
* DarkAndTroubledPast: As shown in the prequel, Oki was abandoned when she was 2 years-old and was barely alive when policemen found her.
* DeathGlare: Gives murderous glares to Geji, who wanted to kill Alice, and to Dinoponera, who had ''kissed'' Alice.
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: Alice corners her and makes it clear that she could kill Oki if she wanted, but would rather have her has an ally instead.
* DumbMuscle: She has described herself as a "blockhead with enormous strength".
* DynamicEntry: She once came from nowhere to kick Hibiki into a hole, thinking he was a threat to Alice.
* EasilyForgiven: Alice doesn't really trust Goki at first and keeps her under close watch [[StalkerWithACrush (which Goki doesn't mind)]] while worrying that she would betray her. Alice comes to feel bad for this once she realizes Goki really would risk her own life for her sake.
* ElectricTorture: While mind-controlled, she attempts to do this to Yoriko because "Alice" asked.
* EvilFeelsGood: Gets turned on by people being angry at her.
* ExpressiveHair: Her antennae move when she reacts to something or is detecting the flow of air.
* FlashStep: She constantly does those.
* FriendlessBackground
* GetAHoldOfYourselfWoman: Oki slaps herself to quit hesitating to talk to Hibiki about not killing Alice.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Wields a pair of poisoned "Goki Fang" blades in the prequel.
* GirlishPigtails
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Back when she lived in an orphanage, she beat up some kids to get a bunny plush for herself. Also, in the aforementioned babyhood backstory, there was a different bunny plush close to her.
* GoThroughMe: When she defends a weakened Alice from Sasori.
* GunsAreWorthless: Oki had a gun in the early chapters, but nevermind that...
* HairAntennae: She identified so much with a cockroach back when she was a poor abandoned toddler that she ''spontaneously got antennae'' and presumably the rest of her abilities with them.
* HappinessInSlavery: After her defeat, Oki only wants to serve Alice. It helps that Alice isn't remotely interested in having a slave, and just treats her as a friend instead.
* HeelFaceTurn
* HellBentForLeather: The {{stripperiffic}} dominatrix costume that for whatever reason Anabachi dressed Goki in while brainwashing her.
* HyperAwareness: Uses "Air Detection" to avoid attacks by detecting changes in air direction and pressure.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: She tells Alice that being alone is convenient for her job, but doesn't sound too happy about it and is glad to have become friends with her.
* InSeriesNickname: Some characters shorten her codename to Goki.
* {{Irony}}: She seems to like telling enemies to be her slaves, but gets "enslaved" by Alice and brainwashed by Anabachi.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Fights Imomushi in the prequel as part of her training.
* LittleMissBadass
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Alice becomes very concerned about her well-being.
* LonersAreFreaks: She claims to love being hated. She gets better after befriending Alice.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Oki got interested in Alice when she became a threat to the Organization. After being defeated and spared, Oki comes to respect and admire her more.
* MindControlEyes: She briefly gets those kind of eyes while mind-controlled by Anabachi.
* MiniDressOfPower: Her blue school uniform.
* MsFanservice: Her panty raid and dominatrix antics are remarkable. And when she appears in the prequel she's wearing a PlayboyBunny costume.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Is very tough despite her looks. And unlike Kabutomushi, Oki isn't augmented.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Oki takes Alice to rest with Yoriko inside a locked and under maintenance room when she is asked to search for Kuramoto. [[spoiler:However, that room was set that way by Sasori to spring an ambush on Alice. And the Ant Queen has cameras everywhere and makes her servants force their way inside to rape Alice, who didn't have a chance to put a barricade on the door]].
* NoIAmBehindYou: And looking [[BadassBack the other way]] for good measure.
* NoNameGiven: Discusses this with Alice. "Megumi Oki" is a name the Organization gave her. Given how she was abandoned as a baby, she might not even know what her birth name is, and much less care about it.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Alice walks on her while she's taking an unconscious Geji's clothes for herself. [[SkewedPriorities Amusingly]], Alice is only disturbed because she's ''[[LesYay jealous]]''.
* OffhandBackhand: Hits Geji with one, then misses another while fighting Kirigirisu.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Here one moment, gone the next. That's how Gokiburi is.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Not really.
* PantyShot: Of note is that we see her panties when she's on the floor after being captured by Kirigirisu, [[FridgeLogic even though]] she was stripped of her usual outfit by Anabachi and didn't take Geji's underwear while stealing her clothes. In a omake [[HandWave the author concludes]] Goki was carrying a spare pair of panties [[CrazyPrepared just in case]] something like being brainwashed and and forced to wear a bondage getup would happen.
* PantyThief: On her first night with Alice, she sneaks away to [[SignatureScene mess around with her beloved's panties.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: An omake shows her living in an orphanage when she was 5 years-old. The prequel further explains that Oki was left to die when she was 2 years-old.
* PlayboyBunny: Oki wears a black bunny costume in the prequel.
* PoisonedWeapons: As expected from a cockroach, her Goki Blades induce sickness on anyone she cuts. This is something she only used in the prequel, though.
* PoseOfSupplication: Apologizes to Alice with this pose after her attempt at asking for Hibiki's help goes terribly wrong. Later she drops into it again [[ClingyJealousGirl when Alice says she likes Kuramoto.]]
* ReformedButNotTamed: She's acts soft around Alice, but is not as nice to everyone else.
* SayItWithHearts
* [[SchoolgirlLesbians Schoolgirl]] PsychoLesbian: Oki fought Alice to make her a sex slave, but her psychotic crush only made her happy to surrender and work for Alice when she proved too strong.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Imomushi and Kabutomushi's duel in the prequel ended with the latter accidentally flooding the corridor they were in. By the time the two begin to freak out and run, Goki is already miles away. She even isn't seen at all for the rest of the chapter. During the Arachnid Hunt, she considers accepting Kirigirisu's advice to immediately leave the school, but follows Alice's choice to search for Yoriko instead.
* ShipTease: With Alice, of course. There's also some FoeRomanceSubtext between her and Geji, with Alice being jealous even though, Oki complimenting Geji's looks aside, the roach and the centipede don't seem really interested in each other.
* SlaveCollar: Oki tells Alice to wear one and crawl naked around the school, but she is who comes to wear it [[UndyingLoyalty with pride]] after becoming Alice's "slave".
* SmashSisters: She helped Kabutomushi to fight Imomushi in the past. During ''Arachnid'', Oki would like to be this with Alice, but they barely get a chance to unite against anyone. Oki later teams up with [[spoiler:[[RivalsTeamUp Geji]]]] to look for Kuramoto.
* SmugSmiler
* SmugSuper: She's very confident about her speed, but it doesn't look all that special when a ''lot'' of the other assassins are stealthy or fast enough to seemingly teleport around in [[FlashStep all sorts]] [[StealthHiBye of]] [[OffscreenTeleportation ways]].
* StalkerWithACrush: Oki is a flirty and perverted girl who spies on Alice and steals her panties, but for someone who wanted to enslave Alice "like in the bad ending of an eroge", she does have her limits and is portrayed as very loyal and caring. Alice isn't too bothered by her friend's antics and sometimes shows that she does reciprocate Oki's feelings.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: She spends some chapters on a leather dominatrix outfit that Anabachi made her wear after mind-controlling her.
* SubmissiveBadass: She is Alice's self-proclaimed slave.
* SuperReflexes: Thanks to her Air Detection ability.
* SuperSenses: She can easily feel the direction and pressure of air and use that to dodge attacks.
* SuperSpeed: She's able to run incredibly fast.
* SuperStrength: She is surprisingly strong.
* TookALevelInKindness: After becoming friends with Alice.
* TrainingFromHell: According to her, Kabutomushi's training begins with students being knocked out until they learn to move and fight in an unconscious state.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Already wanted slaves back when she was a little kid.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has one against Imomushi in the prequel and starts ineffectively swinging her knives in frustation until Kabutomushi takes over the fight.
* VillainousCrush: Oki's crush on Alice soon results in a HeelFaceTurn and makes her behave well around Alice.
* UnconsciousObjector: If Oki gets attacked while she's unconscious, she dashes around and [[ConfusionFu attacks randomly]] until she wakes up. Although the narrator goes into an analogy about how cockroaches have two brains to explain this ability, Kabutomushi teaches it to all of her students.
* UndyingLoyalty: She obeys whatever Alice says and Anabachi exploits this to brainwash Oki and make her torture Yoriko. By the endgame of the story, Oki really is one of the few people who haven't manipulated, betrayed or repeatedly tried to kill Alice.
* UseYourHead: Although Oki can fight while knocked out, it appears all she can do in that state are tackles and headbutts.
* TheWorfEffect: Oki is introduced as a formidable member of the Organization, but quickly becomes someone who's beaten up to show off the skills of new antagonists. Even her supposedly incredible speed is no big deal since most of the cast keeps popping out of nowhere behind each other.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: She tells Geji that she doesn't care about the Organization anymore and will kill or protect people as she wishes.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Uses lariats and dropkicks as finishing moves. And holds Geji in a Cobra Twist once.
* {{Yandere}}: Says that if Alice liked any boys, she would kill them.
* YearsTooEarly: Oki uses this taunt against Alice and Anabachi, but she was declaring victory too soon. Later she says it again for real after defeating Geji. [[FridgeBrilliance Cockroaches have been around for a very long time, after all.]]
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[[/folder]]
!From ''Caterpillar'':
[[folder:Caterpillar/Imomushi]]
!!Caterpillar, Miki Inou (イモムシ; Imomushi, 井上美樹; Inou Miki)
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A serious, somewhat carefree and very tenacious assassin who is the protagonist of the prequel. Imomushi only kills people [[PunchClockVillain who are assigned to her by the Organization.]] Whenever her gunplay becomes [[GunsAreWorthless ineffective]], she makes use of her SuperStrength and [[UseYourHead carnivorous caterpillar swings]] to kill her opponents. The Ageha group has drawn her into a CarnivalOfKillers game by dividing details on her late sister Mika's death among the participating assassins, but even in ''Arachnid'' Imomushi seems to still have questions about what really happened to Mika...
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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: People like Paraponera, Sasori and Gokiburi come to find out that any sort of toxic or sleep-inducing attacks have little effect on Imomushi.
* AnimalMotifs: [[CreepyCentipedes Caterpillars]]. Being the heroine, she gets analogies with various kinds of caterpillars rather than just a single species, like Alice does with spiders.
* [[AntiHero Anti Heroine]]: A LawfulEvil PunchClockVillain at worst.
* {{Badass}}
* BadassAdorable[=/=]LittleMissBadass: When she was younger.
* BareYourMidriff
* BerserkButton: Harm or even badmouth her sister at all and Imomushi, even as a kid, would crush you with everything ''and'' the kitchen sink.
* BigSisterWorship: Even if they're not related by blood, Imomushi thinks the world of her older sister Mika and was ''[[KnightTemplarBigBrother very]]'' protective of her.
* BoobsOfSteel
* CallingYourAttacks: "Anchor Bolt Caterpillar... [[UseYourHead Cannon]]".
* ChekhovsLecture: Advices Alice about the solution to any difficulty being within oneself.
* CombatPragmatist: Distracts Alice by asking embarrassing questions about [[TeacherStudentRomance her relationship with Kumo]] and throws a coat at her to block her view. The narration states this makes her the exact opposite of [[CrazyPrepared Kumo and Alice]].
* CynicismCatalyst: Her sister's death.
* DarkActionGirl
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Back when Imomushi was a teen, she failed to save her sister from being strangled to death and got [[ChildSoldier forcefully recruited into the Organization]] shortly after.
* DemotedToExtra: Despite being hyped in her introduction scene, Imomushi doesn't get to do much in the main story.
* TheDreaded: Bullies eventually gave up on assaulting Miki because she could curb stomp them all at once, making her feared across the school. And yet, the orphanage staff was still raping Mika behind her back...
* DroppedABridgeOnHer: While she was busy fighting Dinoponera, Suzume Bachi backstabbed Imomushi and left her for dead. It isn't ''[[HesJustHiding quite]]'' clear if that did actually [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome kill her]], though.
* EvilOverlooker: In the cover for chapter 34 of her manga.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The foolish to Mika's responsible.
* GunsAreWorthless: She gets more mileage out of her headbutts than when she fires her gun at people.
* [[HeroOfAnotherStory Heroine of Another Story]]: Is the protagonist of her own spinoff, which takes place a year before the Arachnid Hunt.
* ItsAllMyFault: She regrets that it was for her sake that Mika died.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Soon after she first appears in the main story, she fights Alice because of curiosity and interest on the prize for Alice's head.
* MegatonPunch: Her punches have immense strength even when she isn't catapulting herself.
* MetronomicManMashing: She swings and bashes Kabutomushi against a wall in a blind rage. By the time Imomushi realizes what happened, the beetle girl is half-buried under rubble.
* NeckLift: Defeats Alice with one.
* NoNameGiven: Averted. Miki Inou is said to be her original name before she joined the Organization.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: Defeats Alice but lets her go, [[CombatPragmatist only to]] [[JustShootHim shoot her anyway]] - but Alice isn't fooled. Then when she meets Dinoponera, Imomushi tries to kill her during their conversation but it doesn't work either.
* NowThatsUsingYourTeeth: In the prequel, Imomushi breaks Kumo's highly resistant threads by biting them. She later catches a knife thrown by Sasori with her teeth. In the main story she does the same to Alice's Kumoito and to Dinoponera's Dino Spine.
* OneWomanArmy
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: She has her own business to take care of in the Arachnid Hunt, but won't pass the chance to kill Alice and earn the prize money.
* RapeAsBackstory: The tragic rape and murder of her sister which resulted in Imomushi being hired by the Organization after killing most of the ones responsible.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl
* SignatureMove: The Anchor Bolt Caterpillar Cannon. She nails herself to the ground and then pulls herself back and forth into a intense headbutt that's useful for both offense and evasion. It helps that enemies often give her a chance to perform the move as a counter or worse, [[VillainBall push Imomushi down by themselves.]]
* SuperStrength: Enough to overpower even the strongest insect, Kabutomushi. And she was that strong even as a child.
* TrashOfTheTitans: Her apartment was a sea of trash bags that a shocked Hanakamakiri immediately resolves to help clean up. Naturally, the narration relates this mess to how silkworms devolved and became unable to live on their own from being cultivated by humans to produce silk.
* TrickedOutShoes: Her shoes nail themselves to the ground, allowing Imomushi to catapult herself forth and back.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: It's understandable that she was a vicious BullyHunter to [[KnightTemplarBigBrother anyone who harmed her sister]], but this led to tragedy as Mika got blackmailed to become a sex slave so Miki wouldn't be sent to a reformatory.
* UnstoppableRage: She tries to keep her anger under check as Mika often told her to. Kabutomushi in particular gets to feel [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown what's it like when Imomushi snaps.]]
* UseYourHead: Can peform powerful headbutts in a catapult motion, much like how carnivorous caterpillars of the Eupethecia genus move to catch prey.
* TheWorfEffect: Imomushi shows she's capable of defeating Alice, but is the first to get beaten up by Dinoponera.
* WouldHurtAChild: Has no problem with trying to kill teen assassins like Oki, Alice and Dinoponera.
* WrongGenreSavvy: When she finds Alice angry at how everyone's trying to kill her, Imomushi says there must be ulterior reasons for the boss to be doing that and that Alice is just bait. She's been through something similar, after all. Except the Arachnid Hunt ''does'', to say the least, ''completely'' revolve around Alice. Also, as the ''Caterpillar'' story goes on it doesn't look like Ageha had very deep reasons to harass Imomushi, either.
* YouKilledMyFather: The person sending assassins after Imomushi is the woman who killed her sister. During ''Arachnid'', Imomushi accuses Suzume Bachi of having more to do with Mika's death than he lets on.
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[[folder:Flower Mantis/Hanakamakiri]]
!!Flower Mantis (ハナカマキリ; Hanakamakiri)
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A young girl who provides intel and support for Imomushi after befriending her. In ''Arachnid'' she's mentioned by Imomushi as having sent her to investigate Alice's school.
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* ActionGirl
* AnimalMotifs: [[SlayingMantis Flower Mantises]], who are able to pretend being flowers to fool both predators and prey. This translates to Hanakamakiri being a crossdressing boy who uses a lot of feints and sneak attacks.
* AttemptedRape: Rivals Alice on how much people try to rape her. Murasakishachihoko lures Hanakamakiri into an orgy room full of [[FatBastard fat bastards]], Imomushi [[DudeShesLikeInAComa knocks her out]] to undress her and do God knows what (but stops due to... [[GagPenis reasons]]) and Kinohadakamakiri has a history of being needlessly perverted towards her, too.
* BadassAdorable
* TheBartender: Works as one for the Organization.
* BerserkButton: When people figure out [[UnsettlingGenderReveal her gender]] and start bugging her about it. Much to her dismay, this becomes a RunningGag.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Hanakamakiri seems nice and of sound mind, in contrast to almost every other assassin, but this is [[KillerRabbit part of her facades]] and she certainly won't shy away from ruthlessly slashing her enemies.
* ChildSoldier: Seems to have been brought in the Organization a couple of years prior to her meeting Imomushi.
* CuteAndPsycho: Tells Kinohadakamakiri she hopes to cut Imomushi's limbs like a literal caterpillar and turn her into a broken-minded sex slave. But it was only a lie to distract her. Hopefully.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lost her family to a robber and had to kill him when she got home from school. Training under the abusive Kinohadakamakiri was no pleasant matter, either.
* DeathGlare: [[TheParalyzer She can stun people]] by doing eye contact with them.
* DefensiveFeintTrap: Sometimes she exploits her cuteness and falls to her knees crying, pretending to be helpless.
* DistaffCounterpart: To vanilla Kamakiri from the main story, [[WeHardlyKnewYe who died too soon]]. Obviously the cool mantis theme couldn't be left to waste.
* ElegantGothicLolita
* GagPenis: This is something Imomushi finds this out in chapter 34 of her story.
* TheGhost: She is only mentioned once in ''Arachnid'' and doesn't appear on-panel.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Hanakamakiri's scythes are huge and literally appear from out of thin air in some scenes, including one where she's naked.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: To interrogate Nanafushi, she ties her to to a chair and leaves it barely hanging at the edge of a hole in the ship's hull, only supported by a rope tied to Nanafushi's neck.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery
* LittleMissBadass
* {{Meido}}: Kinohadakamakiri had her wear this costume and do chores back when Hanakamakiri was her student.
* RapeAsBackstory: The reason she's terrified of Kinohadakamakiri.
* SinisterScythe: She wields a pair of large mantis-themed spiked scythes. Their design was rather inconsistent and got simplified by the second artist, so they now lack spikes.
* TrainingFromHell: Any training that involves having a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematomorpha Gordian worm-esque]] cord repeatedly being shoved up your butt to mess with your mind can only be described as this.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: She's a boy who was raised as a girl due to having been born with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome Klinefelter syndrome]].
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