Offense Armor

Offense Armor (窒素装甲) is the Level 4 psychic power possessed by Kinuhata Saiai.

It freely manipulates the "nitrogen" in the atmosphere to display the power to easily lift and move a car and enough tenacity to conversely smash the steel bullet of a magnetic sniper rifle after a direct hit. It is powerful, but just as the name "armored" suggests, its effective range is extremely narrow, just "a few centimeters from the palm". Because of that, when using this power to hit, lift or throw an object, there is a need to move the hand to bring said object into this range of few centimeters, so at a first glance it would look like Kinuhata herself is hitting, lifting or throwing the object.

Also a product of the Dark May Project, it has an automatic defense power optimized while having Accelerator's operation pattern as reference. Revealed to be a test model that was implanted with "Accelerator's defensive elements", an existence in contrast with the Bomber Lance of the same system that was implanted with "Accelerator's offensive elements". Since it was implanted with a part of his thought patterns, when using her powers Kinuhata's own personality ends up being influenced by Accelerator's thoughts, speech and conduct. Therefore, there is a risk of her becoming more dangerous than Mugino Shizuri once angered.

Though of course it is not on Accelerator's level, it has quite a powerful defensive ability, being capable of surviving an attack from the higher-ranked Kakine Teitoku. Not only the defensive power is great, but it covers 360 degrees to cope with attacks from all directions and, because it deploys automatically regardless of her will, it can even defend against surprise gunshots that Kinuhata herself is totally unaware of. So long one does not have means for armor-piercing attacks, it is impossible to inflict any wounds. However, because it is not endowed with the capacity to reflect power or negate impacts, when receiving a strong impact that falls short from Offense Armor's defensive power, such as a gunshot, there are cases when Kunihata herself might be blown away.

Because it is an ability that freely manipulates nitrogen, its weakness is that it cannot be displayed in places where there is no nitrogen. Since she understand that weakness, Kinuhata carries around a hairspray-sized can of liquid nitrogen for any eventuality.

Because Kakine Teitoku conjectured it originally was an atmosphere manipulation-type power, its range might have been a little wider prior to the Project.