Salome

Salome (去鳴 (サロメ)) is a member of the Kamisato Faction and Kamisato Kakeru's non-blood-related younger sister.

Etymology
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Appearance
Salome has long silver hair, rolled up on either side of her head like disks or demon horns, and tanned skin. She wears two translucent hooded raincoats with nothing underneath, and goes barefooted. She wears a palm-sized plastic pocket watch on a thick string around her neck. She also carries a long sports bag with a shoulder strap.

Personality
Salome is an individual considered by many to be crazy, who is quite willing to kill and takes a thrill in hunting targets of value. She is quite reckless, perfectly willing to provoke dangerous individuals and put her life at risk by sacrificing and replacing her own body. Salome recognizes that she is an insane monster and embraces her reputation as a mass murderer to a certain extent, however she also recognizes how she will likely receive her just desserts as a result of the path she's chosen and follows her own set of rules - she doesn't like targeting defenseless commoners or innocents, and won't kill if it wouldn't benefit her brother in some way. She also recognizes and acknowledges when others are also crazy, in a similar or different way to her, even when they themselves might not be aware.

Though she does what she does for her brother's sake, she isn't blindly devoted in the same way as the other members of the Kamisato Faction, whom she holds a degree of contempt for, and will act against his wishes if she deems it necessary. She lacks the conflicting desires necessary to be affected by World Rejecter.

Salome has a frank manner of speaking, like that of a, and has a tendency to end sentences with ", don’tcha think?" (～っしょ). She also has a good luck charm which she performs as a sign of resolve, where she grabs and kisses the toy pocket watch she wears round her neck.

Background
The full circumstances behind Salome's family aren't known, however Salome is known to have lived with the family of her non-blood brother Kamisato Kakeru. Around this time, she was already broken. Growing up together, Kamisato apparently taught Salome how to ride a bike and use chopsticks, held her hand to school, helped her with homework and gave her advice when she received her first love letter from someone she didn't particularly like, among other things. As Salome was often late, he once spent his allowance on a toy watch for her, which she treasured ever since. At another time, the two played an election game together, with Salome using assassination tactics while Kamisato preferred luring his opponents into committing crimes and placing them in the category of criminal. Though there wasn't anything particularly special about him, his normality and caring attitude towards Salome despite her being a twisted killer led to her falling for him.

Salome eventually ran away from home, though she sometimes showed up at school despite doing so. Her parents submitted a missing persons report, but neither they nor the police seriously tried to find her, fearing and wishing to avoid blame for not fulfilling their responsibilities, with an arrest at that point likely to make things worse for the police. As a 'mass' murderer, Salome tended to target groups such as end-time cults or divers carrying packages from the sea at night. However, while others were merely glancing her way, Kamisato continued to look straight at her and spoke to her, often scolding her about killing being wrong. He didn't abandon her like everyone else and Salome looked up to him, up until the time when he received World Rejecter and the Kamisato Faction gathered around him.

At some relatively recent point in time, Salome sacrificed her body to her magic and replaced it with an artificial one. At another point, the Kamisato Faction, considering her too much trouble to deal with, incapacitated Salome by using some electrodes to cut off her neurotransmitters and keep her brainwaves below a functional level, altering the direction of her consciousness to trap her in a mental labyrinth. However, as the faction moved to Academy City as Kamisato targeted Gremlin and Kamijou Touma, Sunny and Rain removed the electrodes and were subsequently attacked by her. Salome then took a list that they had of individuals linked to the Kamijou Faction and smuggled herself into Academy City in a plane's cargo compartment.

Abilities
Salome makes use of Celtic-based sacrifice magic, which allows her to destroy and offer up weapons to a god, in her case the sea god, in order to increase her strength and gain the destroyed weapons' traits. While using her magic, Salome needs to offer up a weapon and continue the chain of sacrifices within three minutes, otherwise it resets to zero and she loses the acquired power. Her sacrificial magic comes in two forms; External Offering (外的御供), which offers up the weapons she destroys barehandedly and Internal Offering (内的御供) which offers up parts of her own body.

Salome also has a peculiar bodily composition which is convenient in the use of her Internal Offering. She is capable of functioning normally despite losing bodily organs or entire limbs, and can still talk normally despite being reduced to a head. In addition, she can still use Internal Offering even in such a state, pointing out that biting through the remains of still intact body parts is enough to invoke the technique.

Character Art Design
Haimura designed Salome based on several ideas like a and a wedding dress with transparent lace and many frills. Another explicit detail was the fact that Salome does not have the organs necessary to make or nourish a baby.

Salome has four character design pages dedicated to her, but since the first two were technically nude drawings, Kamachi has prohibited Haimura from hosting them on his blog. Despite this, Haimura pointed out that the nude drawings of Salome were needed to properly illustrate the core of her character.