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Appearance[]
Kashima is a tall man that wears a pink polo shirt under a magenta business suit (dark purple in the anime), a burgundy floral-patterned tie (the tie doesn´t have flowers in the anime while in the digital-colored manga, the tie is black with red and green flowers) and the mask of a realistic reindeer head (in the anime, the mask have cream-colored spots in the eyes). Without his mask, he has sunken black eyes, sharp eyebrows, slicked back lilac hair with dark purple streaks (white in the digital colored manga) and black fingernails. His body has numerous stitches and scars all over, including an X-shaped stitch over his mouth clearly showing his admiration for Slur.
When Kashima was 17 years old, his hair was styled in a side fringe with short bangs covering the forehead and his outfit consists in a simple black t-shirt accompanied by pants and sneakers that are also black.
After being captured by Taro Sakamoto and having his body destroyed after some bombs inside his back exploded. Kashima has been taken away by Hana Sakamoto, where he have his body modified into a fridge equipped with Wi-fi, ballpoint pen a taiyaki and cotton candy-producing machines and a fan on his back. He have mattracks in place of legs, arms are now claws of a claw machine and dresses a white polo shirt under a black coat with a star printed in the shoulders accompained by a door shaped like Sugar´s face where it hides a jack-in-a-box-like spring in the middle of his chest.
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Personality[]
Kashima is cordial, and business-oriented, and emphasizes a man who has polite manners when killing someone or something. He frequently meets his subordinates at casual venues such as karaoke clubs or fast-food joints and allows them to eat or drink on the job as long as it doesn't interfere with their work.
He has a strong fascination with cutting-edge technology, expressing his disdain for standard guns and knives after becaming a cyborg. He seems to take great pride in his augmented body as shown by his disbelief when Taro Sakamoto managed to beat him during their fight. Kashima's fascination with technology is so strong that he took over a research lab as an "independent project" to facilitate more research. However, despite his obsession with technology, Kashima is still a pragmatic and meticulous planner, rigging the laboratory to explode in case of an emergency as a form of scorched-earth strategy.
Kashima has a twisted respect for life, such as when he started weeping for his subordinates when they were killed by Osaragi and Shishiba (despite having ordered the latter to kill the former) or how he violently stomped on a cockroach Mafuyu Seba had injured to give it a "merciful death" and has shown himself to be a very delusional and self-righteous person, following his warped ideal of justice and believing himself to be misunderstood as he's eliminating "bad people", despite said individuals only committing minor transgressions like bothering a cat when he was younger.
Kashima also strangely dislikes Christmas and "people who talk back". He states that he has his own rules saying that he will not show someone his face until he trusts them and has his own moral compass, as shown when he disagreed with Slur's plan that involves endangering civilians, despite claiming that "revolutions require sacrifices" at another point.
Skills & Abilities[]
Overall Skill Level: As a cyborg. Kashima can hold up against members of the Order and even Sakamoto for a short period. However, while his physical capabilities are quite high, Kashima's greatest strength is his extensive body modifications.
Enhanced Speed: Kashima was able to catch Shishiba with a casual slash to the chest. Kashima was also capable of holding his own against the overwhelmingly fast Sakamoto for a brief period.
Cybernetic Modifications: 70% of Kashima's body is surgically modified, he possesses a multitude of weapons concealed within his body that he primarily uses in battle, either by unraveling his stitches or prompting them to emerge from his body; some of the weapons displayed or used by Kashima include:
- His right arm hides wire-guided claw-shaped hooks and a machine gun in the place of the hand.
- A laser gun inside his mouth, that after shooting a beam, it ends up being completely destroyed.
- A mass of long knives in the hand of the right arm.
- A rifle embedded within his ribcage.
- Limbs that can separate into segments joined by a pair of cables.
- A cavity in his back that serves as a small door that estorages the wires that make his cybernectic body works, he also shown to hide some bombs.
Advanced Medical Knowledge: Kashima was able to reattach Gaku's severed arm and fingers nerve-by-nerve, restoring them to full functionality with minimal surgical equipment. Like when he notes that the muscle tissue on the severed limbs was still alive, but he was still unable to reattach Gaku's ear.
Etymology[]
- The surname Kashima means "deer, venison" (鹿) (ka) and "island" (島) (shima).
Trivia[]
- Kashima enjoys Heisei-era music and has a playlist of it, which he is proud of.
- According to a flyer advertising Kashima's group, employment comes with no overtime, fulfilling training programs, excellent benefits packages, lifetime employment, two days off per week, and a cheerful, fun workplace.
- Kashima can turn his arms into a whip sword. He probably modified his body this way to pay homage to his master, Slur, who also uses a similar weapon.
