Kamino

Kamino (加巳野) is a student of Tokiwadai Middle School who appears in Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out. She is the leader of the Kamino Clique.

Appearance
Kamino has square pupils, and has wavy hair tied in a waist length braided ponytail, with a partially exposed forehead and covering her left eye. She wears the Tokiwadai Middle School uniform.

Personality
Behind a thin front of pleasantry, Kamino is quite manipulative and malicious, in favor of attacking her main rivals in secret and roping her fellow election candidates into it. As a clique leader, she sees herself as #1, a sentiment she believes her fellow candidates shared, expecting their rejection when she proposed a legal approach that would require them to withdraw and bet everything on her.

Background
Kamino's background is currently unknown, but she was established as a clique leader by the time of the student council presidential election.

Tokiwadai Election Arc
The day before Gaouin Tsukasa's challenge to Shokuhou Misaki, Kamino approached two members of her clique regarding Misaka Mikoto being down after losing her Gekota strap due to a dispute between two girls trying to recruit her for the election the previous day. Hinting about a useful esper in the crafts club for resolving the situation, Kamino indirectly instructed them to make a substitute to give to Mikoto and recruit her for Kamino's campaign, an effort which failed due to the poor quality of the knock-off.

While Shokuhou and Gaouin were working together to find evidence that would exonerate Hokaze Junko, accused of threatening a girl from the Kamino clique, Kamino held a meeting with the other election candidates (with the exception of Inubushi, who ignored Kamino's invitation) about potential cooperation and courses of actions in response to their two main rivals in the competition joining forces.

Behind her front, Kamino was quite in favor of attacking the two in secret and roping the others into it. At one point, she got annoyed with Kumamori focusing on her puzzle cube more than the meeting and used her ability to disintegrate it (along with part of Kumamori's clothing), only for her to pull out another one, to Kamino's annoyance. Kamino also put forward another, legal option involving a special procedure that occurs when there are three or fewer cliques running, which would require the others to withdraw and bet everything on her, which the others rejected as she expected - each considering themselves #1. With her offer rejected and stating there was no time to form a coalition, Kamino asked the others if they were preparing to bloody their hands to do what they needed to do, with Kumamori walking out.

She participated in the joint attack the candidates launched against Shokuhou and Gaouin, starting by sealing off space to trap them in the building, with the effects reminding Shokuhou of a former Level 5 capable of controlling space.

Abilities
Kamino's ability apparently allows her to influence a cube-shaped area in her line of sight, sealing off the space or disintegrating objects within it. As a student of Tokiwadai Middle School, it can be presumed to be at Level 3 or 4.

The use of Kamino's ability produces a change in the atmosphere in the affected space, which reminded Shokuhou of the chill that apparently accompanied another spatial manipulation ability possessed by a former Level 5 of the previous generation.