Kenzoku

Kenzoku (眷属) is the name of a type of lifeform in Digimon Survive and one set of antagonists.

Digimon Survive
The Kenzoku work for. They are able to change their appearance to match those of humans and Kemonogami and can even tap into people's memories and display themselves as people/creatures they have no knowledge of outside of stealing said memories to learn of these.

50 years in the past, a group of Kenzoku attack Akiharu Minase, Miyuki Minase,, and. During the battle, Akhiaru is sent back to the human world through a portal.

For the next 50 years, other children are sent to the alternate world and are killed by the Kenzoku. The Kenzoku use the fog to suffocate the children, and then crush them them to death with shadowy hands. They also sometimes kill Kemonogami this way as well.

When Fangmon is on the verge of death having been defeated by the children, they witness the Kenzoku crush him to death with their hands after surrounding him in fog.

When Ryo Tominaga falls of the bridge during the fight against Cyclonemon, a Kenzoku surrounds the area with fog and turns into a fake version of his dead mother. At this point, Ryo thought he was in the afterlife and so happily walked over to who he thought was the ghost of his mother.

The Kenzoku then turns into its real form, grabs Ryo, and brutally murders him. This also causes to die, since he was Ryo's partner.

The Kenzoku then turns into its real form and grabs Ryo, though was able to get to him in time and launch himself into Ryo — with the flying headbutt causing the Kenzoku to drop Ryo. When he gets back up, the other children arrive and see Ryo in front of the Kenzoku. Fearing for his life they all charge at him and knock him over. Having missed the chance to kill Ryo, the Kenzoku disperses the fog and leaves.

After dark evolves to, it begins to eat Shuuji Kayama. The children are able to defeat it before it can finish eating him, however the Kenzoku surround Wendigomon in fog and then murder it. As Shuuji was still inside Wengidomon's mouth at the time, he died alongside his partner.

When Takuma returns to the alternate world, having been sent to the human world for 10 years, he is separated from Miuyki with this separation allowing Master to mind control Miyuki. It uses her to attack the children alongside the Kenzoku over the course of multiple days though is never able to kill any of them. After Takuma fails to find her he returns to his friends and asks about her where abouts only for Master to launch another attack. The children are able to defeat the Kenzoku and the Master eventually retreats.

Master later attacks the amusement park with a group of Kenzoku and injures most of them though and some of the others were able to escape to the throne room which they then barricade. Unable to get into it to kill Jijimon, Master leaves. The children arrive shortly afterwards as they wanted to ask Jijimon for help and come across the injured Kemonogami, who tell them what had happened. The children tend to the wounds of most of them, though not all of them are saveable with some dying from their injuries. After the children heal as many as they can, the survivors leave the park and go to a more safe area. The children then go to the throne room, though are also unable to get in. As Kaito Shinonome attempts to break the barricade down, Miu yells out to Jijimon that it was just them and Jijimon opens up a small hole for them to go through.

They ask Jijimon if he knows how to undo the possession, with him stating that though others also have the ability to possess creatures with said creatures being able to regain their own body if their will was strong enough — it had no idea if it would work the same with Master since it was so powerful. He tells them to keep calling out to her in the hopes she could cast out Master, though states it would only be a temporary solution.

The Kenzoku return to the amusement park with bigger numbers to finish the job.

The group are able to fend them off defeat them, allowing Jijimon and the others to escape. After the battle, a Kenzoku pretends to be an injured friend of Miu Shinonome's and calls out for her to help save it. When she runs in to try and save it, it kills her. Miu's death causes to cease to exist with Kaito trying to run into the fog after her. The others restrain him and take him away to stop him from dying as well, with Kaito refusing to believe she had died despite Syakomon's death proving it was the case.

Renamon joins Master's side, and teams up with the Kenzoku to try and sacrifice the children. They lure Kaito and Dracmon to the library, with Renamon telling them that they could get revenge on Master there for causing his sister's death. When he goes in, the Kenzoku summon a fake version of Miu and have it convince Kaito that he should die so that they can be together again. Renamon and a group of Kenzoku try to stop the others from reaching the library to save him, though are defeated. Renamon tells them where they are and states they should go to the library to save them, though the group wonder why the Kenzoku hadn't already killed them, and realize that Renamon was luring them there too so that they could all be killed by them. This is proven to be true when they reach the library, as the Kenzoku kidnap Takuma's friends and summon fake versions of Ryo and Shuuji who try to convince Takuma to kill himself in the fog so that they could be together again. Takuma agrees to do so, though before the Kenzoku can kill him with the fog he is snapped out of it by Agumon. They try this same trick again multiple times by pretending to be his other kindapped friends, though Takuma is able to figure out they're fakes and defeat them. After saving his friends, Takuma finds the Professor about to give in to the Kenzoku as well though is able to snap him out of it. After Takuma saves everyone with the exception of Kaito, Renamon confronts them and tells them the true about itself and Akiharu Minase. As the group try to reason with Renamon, it refuses to co-operate and tells the children to die. Kaito, who had overheard the conversation, charges in and has Dracmon attack Renamon with the intent to kill — wanting to get revenge on Renamon for Miu's death. Renamon warp evolves to, though it and the Kenzoku are still defeated. Kaito tries to kill Renamon, though Akiharu is able to talk him out of it and also convince Renamon to join their side by pointing out that the Master is probably lying and Miyuki would be upset if she knew what Renamon had been doing. Master, disappointed at losing Renamon, suddenly appears and summons a group of Kenzoku to kill everyone whilst admitting that it had indeed been lying about ever giving Miyuki back. Renamon's voice is able to call out to Miyuki, who temporarily regains control. Renamon's desire causes it to warp evolve to. It then defeats the Kenzoku, with the help of the children, though Master escapes before they can do anything to him.

When the children look for Kaito, a group of Kenzoku attack the children in the mountain pass and at the dam, though their partners defeat them.

Kaito teams up with Piedmon, and has Dracmon fuse with him to form. He decides to use Boltboutamon to destroy both worlds in revenge for his sister's death and also decides to kill Master as part of this revenge plot. They chase after Master all the way to its hideout, the bottom floor of the shrine, with Master summoning many Kenzoku in an attempt to save itself but they are all slain by Boltboutamon.

The Kenzoku attack the barrier, with Miu Shinonome remembering about the trap door that leads to the prison. She opens it, and Jijimon and the others go into it to flee. As the Kenzoku manage to break in, Saki and Miu are the only ones left behind with one of them about to kill Saki. Ryo is able to get her out of the way of the hands and save her life, with the entire group able to escape to the prison. They find a secret exit that even Jijimon wasn't aware of. Upon going in, they find a large group of Kenzoku corpses. As they wonder who killed them, the group are attacked by another group of Kenzoku though as they fight them appears and kills them all with the group having stumbled upon its resting place.