Masato Kageura/Abilities

Kageura is the leader of a former A-Rank Unit, currently the ranked second in B-Rank. Despite his position, however, he hardly ever takes command of his unit, prioritizing his own entertainment over strategy, although he will not take courses of action that would compromise his unit's chances too much, and watches the logs only of opponents who elicit his interest.

That Kageura Unit holds such a high ranking nonetheless goes to show just how powerful its members are. Kageura's combat prowess in particular makes him one of Border's top Attackers. He has a low solo ranking due to a punitive 10.000 point deduction, but his original score put him above the current no. 4 Attacker Kō Murakami. Kageura is in fact one of the four Attackers Murakami has more losses than wins against, and whom he deems stronger than himself. According to Karin Yuitsuka, Kageura's fighting style is centered on the unpredictability of his Scorpions combined with a relentless stream of attacks. After multiple solo matches against Murakami and Yūma Kuga, Kageura boasts the highest victory ratio of the three: 59.5% against Murakam, ithus proving himself creative enough to repeatedly best the latter despite his Side Effect, and of 52.4% against Yūma, even though Kageura's own Side Effect is not triggered by Yūma. The first time the two fought, the two clashed for a relatively long amount of time, with Kageura managing to prevent Yūma from running to his teammates and lightly injuring him despite the terrain being snowy and his opponent having Grasshopper in his Trigger Set. Even after the loss of an arm he managed to put up a fight first against Murakami and Tatsuya Kuruma and right afterwards against Yūma and Hyuse.

Nozomi Kako commented that Kageura has excellent reactions and intuition, which, coupled with his Side Effect, make surprise attacks ineffective against him and drastically reduce the disadvantage of being outnumbered.

Side Effect


Emotion Perception: Kageura possesses a Side Effect which allows him to perceive emotions directed at him from others, "pricking" his skin with a certain sensation. Different feelings correspond to different sensations. The more negative the emotion, the more unpleasant the sensation. Although unpleasant enough to cause Kageura to despise it, this Side Effect is extremely useful in battle, since, by allowing him to perceive hostile intentions and the direction they come from, it makes him immine to sniping and sneak attacks. The accuracy with which he can predict where he will be struck allows him to dodge attacks he would be unable to dodge otherwise, and to do so without relying on any other sense. His confrontation with Hyuse revealed that Kageura can anticipate where every single bullet of a trion cube will land. Haruaki Azuma and Yūma are the only two people he has ever fought on whom his Side Effect does not work, as they can attack him impassionately.