This article is about the characters found in Black Cat (manga).
Train Heartnet (トレイン＝ハートネット,
Torein Hātonetto?), also known as "Black Cat" or "Kuro Neko", is a sweeper partnered with Sven. Train is a lighthearted, courageous man who's highly skilled with a gun. He seems to enjoy tormenting Sven and tightening their already small budget as low-paid sweepers by his exaggerated food consumption. Some of Train's distinguishing features are his spiky brown ruffled hair, his catlike slitted eyes, a choker with a tiny bell attached to it, and the XIII tattoo he has on his chest. He has low alcohol tolerance, but loves to drink milk. He is also skilled at disguises, can sleep anywhere, even inside a cramped porcelain vase, and tends to be clueless about most other important things. He has rather odd mood swings that change from very happy to very serious quickly. Mostly when the name "Creed" is mentioned or when something happens that he's not okay with. He actively avoids romance. He has a large amount of killing intent that he honed from his days as a Chronos member, and when he unleashes it, all that it is directed at become too terrified to attack him. As a child, he is voiced by Minami Takayama in Japan and Luci Christian in the English dub. As an adult, he is voiced by Takashi Kondō in the Japanese anime and Jason Liebrecht in the English dub.
He was once a Chronos Number, a ruthless assassin and Number XIII of the group. He wields Hades, an ornate black and gold revolver made out of Orichalcum with an XIII engraved into its side. He is called a "bringer of bad luck", but is known to leave women and children unharmed, and is called "naive" by many of the Chronos numbers. This personality stems from being orphaned after Zaguine Axeloake kills his parents, which causes Zaguine to take Train in and teach him how to kill with efficiency. Zaguine eventually dies, and tells Train that he needs to be the best in order to survive. After that, Karl took Train in and he became an assassin for Chronos. Having been killing and exposed to death since early childhood, Train becomes very bleak and unsmiling until he leaves Chronos—at which point he seems to regress to childhood in many ways. He eventually meets Saya, a carefree sweeper, who slowly changes Train into a "stray cat" that doesn't blindly follow orders. He decides not to kill anymore, and after Creed kills Saya, he leaves to become a sweeper.
Train possesses heightened visual acuity in both eyes, which allows him greater sight than normal people. He is an extremely skilled marksman, able to accurately shoot down bullets from other guns, and make a number of bullets hit at exactly the same time. He can also shoot a number of bullets while in the air to accelerate him into a spinning slash, "Black Claw", that leaves four large slash marks. He also uses specialty bullets created by Sven, including the Burst Bullet, which produces an extremely large amount of damage, bullets that freeze opponents, and bullets that paralyze opponents. His gun is made out of the very strong metal called Orichalcum, which allows him to use the gun to deflect bullets and guard against other attacks. When his body becomes infected with nanomachines he manages to manipulate them into creating static electricity. This allows him able to focus the electricity into the barrel of Hades, turning it into a railgun. He is able to fire four of these daily, due to the energy consumption it takes to create the electricity. He can also focus all of the remaining energy in the nanomachines and fire a powerful version of the Railgun, called the Burst Railgun. This was strong enough to destroy Creed's Lv. MAX Imagine Blade but also rendered the rest of the nanomachines in his body inert, as well as destroying the barrel of his gun, causing him to lose the ability to use the Railgun again. Train did not regret losing the Railgun, as he thought of it as a gift from Saya, for defeating Creed. With Creed defeated, the Railgun was not needed anymore.
Sven Vollfied (スヴェン＝ボルフィード,
Suven Borufīdo?) is a sweeper, who becomes Train's partner after Train leaves Chronos. He later befriends Eve, being the first person to treat her like a human, which causes the two to become very close. He follows a strict code of chivalry; he is always respectful to women and children and acts very proper. He is often tortured by Train's capricious personality and is usually dragged into trouble and even more debt because of it. Sven is skilled in inventing and making innovative weapons and other various equipment, including bombs and special bullets for Train. Sven's weapon of choice is originally a normal pistol, but after that is destroyed, he invents the Attaché Weapon Case, a suitcase equipped with hidden weaponry inside of it. It contains a built in machine gun, grenade launcher, net launcher, and electrical cable, and various small weapons inside the case. While Sven does not have the inhuman abilities of Train or Eve, he is a creative thinker and always calm even in the most dangerous of circumstances. Although he doesn't get to fight as much and his skills tend to dull a little, Sven is tenacious in a fight. Though out the series he tends to get severely wounded but never backs down from his task or his code. He is voiced by Keiji Fujiwara in the Japanese anime and Brandon Potter in the English dub.
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