Kyoko Tohno

"They say strange things always happen if you delve deeply into the Epitaph of Twilight."

- Kyoko Tohno

Kyoko Tohno (遠野京子, Tohno Kyōko) is a girl with knowledge of the Epitaph of Twilight. She is the main focus of the third Liminality episode.

Online
Kyoko's character in The World is named Kyo. She is close friends with both Sieg and Yuki-chin and plays with them regularly. Nothing else is known about her online.

Offline
Kyoko is a high school student in the city of Hida-Takayama. Kyoko's mother is an editor of a local magazine and her father is a translator. They moved to the city two years ago to study the indigenous culture there. Though Kyoko's parents managed to become accepted by the people there, Kyoko still feels like an outsider and eventually plans to leave the city. In a sense her current life is a real world example of the concept of Liminality.

.hack//Liminality
Kyoko was friends with Yuki Aihara and Tomonari Kasumi in The World. After Tokuoka made contact with Yuki, she overheard that the Epitaph of Twilight was key to unraveling the mysteries behind The World and asked to meet him.

Kyoko's knowledge of the Epitaph combined with Tokuoka's desire to learn the truth attracted the attention of Helba, who sent Bith the Black to test them. Kyoko's knowledge of the culture of the city allowed them to solve Bith's riddles and meet up with him. Although Kyoko is against the kind of dangerous situation that Bith set up for them, she agreed to his plan to defeat the glitching Morganna system and free the Ultimate AI, though her participation was relegated to distracting the security guards.

Kyoko Tohno