Summary
Kozakura Sobiki is a hardware cracker that was hired by the citizens of Goldmine Island to perform some work to modify an existing government Package. She ended up confronting Uchimaku Hayabusa and Hishigami Enbi.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 10-B physically, 9-B with bowgun
Name: Kozakura Sobiki
Origin: The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown (Teenager)
Classification: Human, Hardware Cracker
Powers and Abilities: Skilled Hardware Cracker, Skilled Bowgun User
Attack Potency: Human level physically, Wall level with bowgun (Much stronger than a handgun, made a large dent on a ship's hull, and can kill a fully armored riot police officer in a single shot)
Speed: Average Human
Lifting Strength: Average Human
Striking Strength: Human level
Durability: Human level
Stamina: Average
Range: Tens of Meters with bowgun
Standard Equipment: Special Bowgun
Intelligence: Average
Weaknesses: Normal human weaknesses, pulling her bowgun's string several times in a row tires her out.
Feats/Statements:
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Suddenly, something heavy grazed my nose and made a large dent in the side of the cruiser next to us. “!?” Something had flown our way. I reflexively turned toward the loud noise and saw something fall into the ocean between the boat and the wharf. I only caught a glimpse, but it was about the size of a softball. However, it wasn’t actually one. Even when thrown at 160 kph by a pitching machine, a softball wouldn’t have the destructive power to dent a ship’s hull that was built to withstand collisions with other ships or running aground. The dent in the cruiser’s hull was the size of a fist, so that was how large the blunt weapon had been. I guessed it had been a stone. I couldn’t take this lightly. I seriously doubted it had simply been thrown by hand, so some kind of device had to have been used to throw it. And with that weight and speed, even a fully equipped riot squad would have their helmet and skull split open by a hit to the head or have their ribs utterly crushed through their bulletproof vest by a hit to the chest. In a way, this weapon was more dangerous than a handgun. [...] It had looked like a bow gun. It was seventy to eighty centimeters long. It looked quite large, but part of that would be due to comparing it to the small figure holding it. However, the bow portion was strange. It was not curved like a crescent moon. Like the letter M, a fork-like metal part extended from each side to join with the string. [...] Just when I thought I was going to catch up, the figure turned back toward me. They accurately aimed the strangely-shaped stone-throwing bow gun and I saw a small flash of red light in the darkness. A laser pointer!? “Dammit!!” As soon as I ducked behind a cruiser, I heard a spectacular dull sound like a frying pan being crushed by an elephant’s foot. The hull of this cruiser had been dented, too. If that had hit me, it would have smashed the bones wherever it had hit. The plastic hull really scared me. It was probably no weaker than metal, but I had a lot more trouble trusting it. |
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| ~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 05 - Bow gun |
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I changed my line of thinking when I heard a spine-chilling sound greater than a full swing of a metal bat. Attempted murder will do nicely!! Two fist-sized stones had flown my way in quick succession. That meant their plan was not to shoot and run. They may have decided to take me out to make sure they could escape safely and they may have changed their mind after I didn’t fire any warning shots with a gun. Perhaps I should have shouted “stop or I’ll shoot” even though I didn’t have my gun. “This isn’t good…” A third sound of impact shook my surroundings. [...] The straining sound of the string continued. However, it did not stop. I didn’t hear the string catching on the notch from the trigger. Confused, I hesitantly poked my head out to check and I found an odd sight indeed. First of all, the attacker was a girl with short hair who was about the Mystery Freak’s age or possibly even younger. She wore what was not quite a school uniform. The outfit was made up of a sailor shirt and shorts. It looked more like an actual sailor suit than a school’s sailor uniform. “Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!” The girl had the front of the stone-throwing bow gun pressed against the ground, her feet held a metal ring-like part down, and she was using both hands to pull on the string. Or at least I thought that’s what she was trying to do. Really, she was just crouched down and trembling while red in the face. [...] When I thought about it, I remembered this was a giant bow gun that fired fist-sized stones with enough force to dent a ship’s hull. It would use thick leaf springs and other things to thoroughly strengthen the string and it had no special mechanisms like pulleys or a hand crank, so it seemed unlikely she could pull the string back so many times in a row with those skinny arms. |
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| ~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 05 - Sobiki can fire multiple shots in quick succession, although this tires her out |
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“We…you see, um, eh heh heh, we specialize in hardware cracking.” “Cracking?” “Detective, she means illegal ROMs for pachinko parlors or illegally skimming credit card data. Instead of using data or viruses, she’s an information criminal that uses physical devices.” “L-lately we’ve started messing with cables too.” This must have been awkward for her because Kozakura Sobiki wouldn’t look me in the eye and pressed her index fingers together in front of her chest. “Y’know, like the lines connecting ATMs to banks or the cable TV selectors on telephone poles.” “Oh? Don’t those things have a metal web thinner than a hair woven into the outer covering? I thought the security company was notified as soon that outer covering was broken.” “No, no, no. Have you ever heard of alien crosstalk? If it isn’t fiber optic, the electrical signal will disturb the magnetic field around the cable. Even if you don’t break the covering and expose the metal wire, you can still attach a wiretap line right along that covering to steal the data-…” [...] “The latest trend is the undersea cables. While city lines spread out like a spider web, there’s pretty much just the one going undersea. If you suck the data out of there, you can steal allll the communications from an entire city or even an entire nation. …Well, that’s the theory anyway. It’s just, um, hypothetical.” [...] “The locals and the entertainment companies are fighting over whether to preserve or develop the mining island. They wanted me to attach a wiretap to the undersea cable so they could steal and destroy the data, so, well, it seemed like they wanted to destroy the relationship between the casinos and the card companies.” |
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| ~ The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village 05 - Experience as a hardware cracker |
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Sobiki's special bowgun
- Bowgun: Sobiki carries a large stone-throwing bowgun. It can throw fist-sized stones hard enough to create a large dent in a ship's hull. Even a fully equipped riot squad will have their helmet and skull split open by a hit to the head or have their ribs utterly crushed through their bulletproof vest by a hit to the chest. The bowgun also has a laser pointer.
Notable Matchups
Notable Victories:
Toad (Dying Light) Toad's Profile (Speed was equalized, starting distance was 20 meters with no line of sight)
Notable Losses:
Inconclusive Matches:
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