Nia

Nia (ニア) was Shizuku Yaegashi's personal maid, but was later was killed by Eri Nakamura to be used as her undead puppet.

Appearance
Nia was a young girl with long brown hair that was braided, and purple eyes. She also had freckles.

Personality
Nia was a sincere and honest individual. She would usually appear to be calm and composed, but would get angry at those who relied too much on Shizuku.

Biography
Nia was from a family of knights in the Heiligh Kingdom. From a young age, she learned swordplay from her father and brothers.

When the heroes of Earth were summoned to Tortus in order to aid humanity in their war against the demons, Nia was assigned to be Shizuku Yaegashi's personal maid. After the apparent death of Hajime Nagumo in the Great Orcus Labyrinth, Nia attended to some of the students that were too afraid to fight in the Labyrinth again. She tried to comfort them, but her words got misinterpreted by Atsushi Tamai and started to yell at her when he thought that she was accusing them of being cowards. Atsushi soon calmed down, however, and apologized to Nia for his outburst. The conversation then changed to Aiko Hatayama traveling the Heiligh Kingdom to help with their agriculture due to her vocation as "Farmer". It was then that Yuka Sonobe decided to accompany Aiko and inspired the other students to join her.

When the demons invaded the kingdom's capital, Nia approached the heroes as they were preparing to defend the kingdom and explained that the outer magical barrier surrounding the capital had bee distroyed, much to heir shock. She told them where they could find the army of knights that were gathering for a counterattack, and accompanied them to the palace courtyard, but they were soon ambushed by the knights. Shizuku was the only one that managed to successfully defend herself from the surprise attack. She then saw that Nia was being restrained by one of the knights, and managed to rescue her. Unfortunalty, Nia betrayed Shizuku and stabbed her in the back with a knife while her guard was down. It was soon revealed by Eri Nakamura that she killed Nia some time ago, as well as the knights, and that she was controlling their bodies like puppets to make it appear that they were still alive. Nia continued to retrain Shizuku as Eri was prepared to kill her classmate, but was saved thanks to the timely arrival of Kaori Shirasaki and Princess Liliana S. B. Heiligh. Kaori created a small barrier to protect Shizuku, then created several more before overloading them with mana and causing them to explode. This managed to blow Nia and Eri away from Shizuku, to which Kaori then used the spell "Divine Shackles" to restrain both of them before they could get back up. However, Kaori was soon fatality wounded by Daisuke Hiyama, and undid her binding spell on Nia and Eri.

When Hajime arrived soon after and saw that Kaori was just murdered, he went silently berserk and used his gatling gun "Metzelei" to obliterate the bodies of Eri's undead minions, including Nia.

Relationships

 * Shizuku Yaegashi - Nia acted as Shizuku's personal maid. She felt a kinship with her since they were both trained in swordsmanship at an early age. At first, she was nervous serving someone that was considered to be one of Ehit’s chosen heroes, but she eventually came to see Shizuku as a friend. She ws worried about Shizuku when she and the other heroes explored the uncharted floors of the Great Orcus Labyrinth and was bothered when everyone treated Shizuku like she was a special being since all of those expectations would wear her down.

Quotes

 * (To Atsushi Tamai): "It’s true that in my time serving Shizuku-sama, she has never once shown any such weakness before me. However, I do not believe a perfect person like that exists. Shizuku-sama is also just a teenage girl who was a student only months ago. She may still look fine for now, but... I’m sure not being able to rest even when she returns to the palace, and having everyone around her say things like ‘It’s obvious that Shizuku-sama can do something like that’ must be a huge burden on her.”

Trivia

 * The name Nia is derived from the root "Antōnius", a Gens (Roman family name) that itself came from the . It means "highly praiseworthy".
 * Nia's role as Shizuku's maid was coveted by many servants of the royal palace (particularly the Tortus sect of the Soul Sisters).