Kabura Honda

Kabura Honda (カブラ) is a side character in Call of the Night. She is a member of Nico Hirata's clique and a nurse. Though it's not apparent at first glance, the hospital she works at and Kabura herself are heavily intertwined with Nazuna Nanakusa.

Appearance
Kabura is noticeably tall, being the second tallest vampire in Nico Hirata's clique, second only to Nico herself. She has frizzy black hair that reaches her shoulders and black, vacant eyes. Typical for vampires, Kabura is exceptionally attractive.

Her outfits are defined by a preference for dresses and long skirts. Her main outfit consists of a black dress with a turtleneck, with a part of her chest and arms covered by see-through fabric. When she is at work, she wears a classic nurse outfit. When she was still a human, her outfit consisted of a white shirt and a long black skirt. Though, she only wore that when she was out of the hospital. While hospitalized, she wore a standard patient gown.

Personality
Kabura gives off a gloomy aura and is scarred on the inside. Kabura usually has a playful attitude and sense of humor when around her fellow vampires. She enjoys teasing others and has an infamous reputation for wanting to take away things that belong to others, believing that those who claim they only have eyes for one person are liars.

At work, she has a no-nonsense attitude and is very blunt, pulling no punches. However, she likes to play around with her patients.

She can be surprisingly pleasant, though. When Kou and Nazuna tried to impress her and came to the wrong conclusions, she told them that the lines they tried to pull off sounded good regardless.

When she was a human, Kabura had a much more friendly personality. Because she got hospitalized often, she felt like a burden and avoided calling for help when her nose bled. She genuinely wanted to experience everything an ordinary girl would experience but couldn't because of her illness.

Whenever her friends and family neglected her, she would ignore it, make excuses for them and bury her negative thoughts. But when she realized that her friends never bothered to understand her and didn't honestly care about her, she gave up and confessed that she hated everything, including her parents and friends. She wanted to have a lover, but she hated men.

After becoming a vampire, Kabura could live life without worries and felt happy for the first time. She even started to enjoy things she previously hated, like alcohol and spending time with men. Her happiness got cut short when the woman she loved fell in love with someone else and died after giving birth. The effect this had on her can still be seen in the present. She is in a perpetual state of longing for the past and regrets that she couldn't move on, believing she hit the point of no return. Still, she isn't worried about her popularity, as even in her current emotional state, there will always be men who want to listen to her. Kabura isn't very attached to her life but is dedicated to honoring her promise.

Haru Nanakusa:
Haru took care of Kabura and gave her genuine affection she didn't receive from her environment. Kabura had great trust in Haru, who eventually became her first love. She expected Haru to see her as disgusting for it, although that wasn't the case. After she became a vampire, the duo was almost inseparable. However, Haru didn't reciprocate her feelings, which Kabura had to accept regretfully. As time passed, they saw each other less frequently, and a human later impregnated Haru.

Even 40 years later, her feelings for Haru are still present. Her death significantly affected Kabura's mental health and caused her to seek reminders of Haru constantly. For example, she smokes cigarettes despite still hating them. She generally sucked blood to know what Haru felt when she sucked hers and wanted to become more like Haru, an obsession she regrets. She made a promise to Haru that she still honors to this day.

Nazuna Nanakusa:
She has a complicated relationship with Nazuna. When Haru asked Kabura to take care of her child, Kabura wanted to kill Nazuna out of resentment but stopped when she saw that Nazuna looked exactly like her mother. Because of that, Kabura is also, to some extent, sexually attracted to Nazuna and, for example, puts her in a nurse outfit at one point and ties Nazuna's hair in the same style as Haru did. When looking at Nazuna's face, Kabura broke down in tears, asking Haru why she had left her alone.

She claimed that Nazuna was a constant source of pain for her but later admitted to Kou that that was a lie. She is very affectionate towards Nazuna, having raised her and treating her like a mother would. When meeting Kou for the first time, she wondered if he was a bad influence on Nazuna. She also cares about how Nazuna thinks of her, feeling sad when Nazuna says she perceives her as arrogant. When alone, she wondered whether she did a good job and was able to become Haru's replacement. Though she doesn't think of her life as something of high value, she promised to watch over Nazuna until she makes a servant and therefore becomes a fully-fledged vampire in her eyes.

Abilities

 * Vampiric abilities: Typical for vampires, Kabura can levitate, phase through walls, can regenerate more than any human and has superhuman strength.

Trivia

 * Many of the Komori vampires are named after the seven herbs of spring, which may mean she is named after Japanese turnips or kabu (カブ).

Quotes

 * (To Haru) "I won't be able to see you while I'm outside. So I'll feel...a bit lonely."
 * (To Nazuna): "So what's up, Nazuna? It's been a while, hasn't it? How are you doing?"
 * (To Kou): "You can't understand me. Don't get too cocky. Don't you dare talk like you know me. It's unpleasant."
 * (To herself while smoking) "I fucking hate this."