Kayo Sudou

"The more you sharpen them, the better they cut."

Kayo Sudou is a tailor from Enbizaka, Levianta who commits the Deadly Sin of Envy. Around EC 842, Elluka Clockworker switched bodies with her using her Body Swap technique.

Epitome of Envy
Kayo was a skilled tailor and the talk of the neighborhood. However, she was concerned by the fact that her "lover" was unfaithful to her and never returned home. One day, she saw him on the mainstreet with another woman in a beautiful red kimono. Disgusted, Kayo left and later murdered the woman with her scissors before retailoring the red kimono for herself.

The next day, she saw him in front of the bridge being comforted by a girl with a green sash. Believing her to be the type of girl her lover liked, Kayo later killed her as well and retailored the green sash. The day after, she found him in front of the hairpin shop buying a yellow hairpin for a child. The tailor thought the young girl and him were in a relationship and later murdered her like the rest, taking her hairpin.

Kayo, realizing her "lover" was not coming home, decided to confront him dressed in the clothes taken from the women she killed. However, when she finally came to him, he greeted her as if she was a stranger (which she was) and Kayo, angered by his greeting, killed him with her scissors. As a result, she had successfully murdered an innocent family of four whom she mistook for her lover and his female suitors.

Personality
Kayo was considered amicable and friendly by the townspeople of Enbizaka. However, she had an insidious feeling of envy towards the women who were with the man she loved. She felt greatly hurt and disgusted by the women she assumed her "lover" cheated with and thought he was pitiful for even dating a child (who was actually his youngest daughter).

Kayo held a psychopathic determination to murder the man's wife and daughters in order to silence them and obtain their articles of clothing that she believed he found appealing about them. This insanity extended to her own delusions that the family she murdered had been part of her "lover's" philandering antics and was angered when he greeted her like a total stranger.

Skills
Kayo was admired by many for her talent in tailoring kimonos. She was also skilled enough to not be discovered by anyone in Enbizaka committing her heinous crimes.

Appearance
Originally, Kayo had pale skin and black hair. After Elluka Clockworker used her Body Swap technique on her, Kayo's soul inhabited Lukana Octo's body and gained her appearance. She would often wear an array of kiminos but had worn a red kimino with a green sash and yellow hairpin to become more appealing for her perceieved "lover".

The Tailor Shop on Enbizaka (EC 842)
Kayo Sudou's namesake song is The Tailor Shop on Enbizaka. She murders three women who are related to an "unfaithful lover" and takes their three items, hoping to make herself beautiful in his eyes. When they finally meet, the "unfaithful lover" doesn't recognize her, thus prompting Kayo to murder him as well.

Connections to Other Characters
Unfaithful Lover: Fantasized by Kayo Sudou. Because of talking to Kayo like she was a stranger (which she is), Kayo killed him.

Red Kimono Girl: When Kayo Sudou saw that the Unfaithful Lover was friendly to her at the main street, Kayo killed her and wore her Red Kimono, which Kayo thinks will attract her lover.

Green Sash Girl: When Kayo Sudou saw the Unfaithful Lover being comforted by this girl in front of the bridge, Kayo killed her and took her Green Sash.

Yellow Hairpin Girl: Kayo Sudou saw the Unfaithful Lover with this girl who seemed too young and was disgusted by what she saw. She eventually killed the girl and took her Yellow Hairpin.

Elluka Clockworker: Currently using Kayo's body as her own.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * Kayo's name is a pun to the Japanese word for 'stalker': ストーカー (Sutōkā).
 * Kayo may be inspired by the Kuchisake-onna, a popular Japanese urban legend. Accord the myth, she was a woman who was mutilated by a jealous husband and returned as an evil spirit. The ghost often asks her victims: "Am I beautiful?" and kills them with a pair of scissors.

Curiosities

 * Kayo is the only deadly sinner who receives no retribution for her sin.
 * In the song The Lunacy of Duke Venomania, Lukana Octo is also a tailor.