Pino Savonorola

Pinocchio "Pino" Savonorola was an incredible assasin, brought up and trained by his foster father, Italian separatist terrorist Christiano Savonorola. He was found by Christiano and John Doe, a former CIA agent, as they searched and eliminated the Polacco family and it's residence. Pinocchio was found hidden in a cellar, and assumed to be some sort of merchandise. Pino's name, contrary to what one might expect, has less to do with a prominent nose, and more to do with his puppet-like following of Christiano's orders.

Pinocchio was trained heavily, and committed his first assassination at the age of 10, though he committed several high-priority murders throughout his life. His first assassination forced him to kill a little girl who witnessed his actions, which ultimately resulted in him being unable to harm young girls again.

Pinocchio engages in combat against Social Welfare Agency cyborg Triela Hartmann twice. The first, in Montalcino, results in Pinocchio knocking Triela out as well as disarming her of her weapon, a SiG Sauer P230 given to her by her "handler" Victor "Hilshire" Hartmann. However, because of his past, he is unable to kill Triela and leaves the scene.

Later on, Triela and Pinocchio fight each other again later in the series, fighting first with firearms, then in a knife fight, and finally in unarmed combat. In the end, Pino and Triela both strike each other at the same time. Pino manages to put out Triela's eye by stabbing her with his father's car keys, however, Pino is killed when Triela used her cybernetic strength to literally thrust her fingers through his throat.

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In combat, Pino prefers using knives over firearms, and is seen to be an accomplished knife fighter, being capable of fighting on even terms with a cyborg in spite of being a normal human. Pino is, in spite of his preference for knives, also a proficient in the use of handguns, as well as submachine guns and shotguns (seen in his arms cabinet in the anime) and even RPGs (seen using one in flashback chapter in the manga).