Her obsession with Nine exposes her willingness to endanger, or even kill, innocent people to get close to Nine and Twelve. She becomes an American FBI operative who travels to Japan as part of her duties with NEST to lend support to the terrorist attack investigations. Five ( ハイヴ, Haivu) Voiced by: Megumi Han (Japanese) Jamie Marchi (English) She is the third survivor of the Rising Peace Academy experiment, highly competitive and has a love-hate relationship with Nine because of his talent. He is highly intelligent and is called back into the force to investigate the terrorist group Sphinx. Kenjirō Shibazaki ( 柴崎 健次郎, Shibazaki Kenjirō) Voiced by: Shunsuke Sakuya (Japanese) Robert McCollum (English) A detective of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department who used to be an ace of the police force's investigations division, but was demoted to its records division after continuing an unauthorized investigation. She is befriended by Nine and Twelve who save her from bullies at her school and she becomes caught up in their plans. Lisa Mishima ( 三島 リサ, Mishima Risa) Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki (Japanese) Jād Saxton (English) A schoolgirl with a problematic life both at home and school. He uses the civilian identity of Tōji Hisami ( 久見 冬二, Hisami Tōji) and is skilled at operating vehicles like motorbikes and snowmobiles. He is kind and caring, and befriends the lonely schoolgirl, Lisa. Twelve ( ツエルブ, Tsuerubu) Voiced by: Sōma Saitō (Japanese) Aaron Dismuke (English) An apparently childish young man who is the second member of Sphinx. He and Twelve are survivors of a secret experiment by the Rising Peace Academy to develop 26 highly intelligent orphaned children into human weapons. He is one of the masterminds behind Sphinx. They befriend Lisa, a lonely schoolgirl, who becomes caught up in their plans to expose the nefarious activities of the organization.Ĭharacters Main characters Nine ( ナイン, Nain) Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa (Japanese) Christopher Bevins (English) A secretive young man with a bright mind and calm demeanor, who moves to Tokyo and attends high school alongside Twelve under the name Arata Kokonoe ( 九重 新, Kokonoe Arata). They are survivors of a secret experiment by the Rising Peace Academy to develop orphaned children with Savant syndrome into human weapons. Calling themselves "Sphinx" ( スピンクス, Supinkusu), they upload a video onto the Internet and threaten to destroy Tokyo city unless a cryptic riddle can be solved. Declaring that this is the final message from Sphinx, Nine unmasks himself and bids the people of Japan farewell.In an alternative iteration of the present, two teenage boys who go by the names Nine and Twelve steal a prototype atomic bomb in an apparent terrorist attack. The Japanese airwaves are then hijacked by a prerecorded message from Nine: as his plans for the press conference were disrupted, the countdown for the atomic bomb's detonation has begun. Knowing that she is dying, Five admits her love for Nine, begs him to live for them both, and gives him a brief kiss before committing suicide by detonating the spilled gasoline from her car. After killing her assistant for attempting to stop her, Five confronts Nine and confesses that she always wanted to beat him but never could. Twelve interferes, but Five disables his motorbike before stopping the truck carrying Nine. Enraged and desperate, Five leaves to pursue Nine herself. Five's men pursue the police convoy carrying Nine to the press conference through Shuto Expressway, only to find that the truck is a decoy. When Twelve hears from Lisa that Nine has surrendered, he attempts to forget about Sphinx in his shame for betraying Nine, but Lisa convinces him to help Nine like he helped her. Five, who has been hospitalized due to her deteriorating health as a consequence of the Athena Project experiments, learns of Nine's surrender and desperately sets off to try and reach him. Shibazaki visits Shunzo Mamiya, who confesses that he created the Athena Project as part of a plan to revitalize Japanese national morale following the nation's defeat at the end of World War II. He refuses to speak to anyone but Shibazaki, but later relents and issues a demand for a press conference at a specific location at 8:00 p.m., or he will activate the atomic bomb prototype. Nine goes to the police headquarters, dons his Sphinx mask, and turns himself in.