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[Character Name] No1 (Noi)
[Canon] Dorohedoro
[Point taken from Canon] Volume 10, after getting Nikaido back and after Kaiman has been turned into a human finally.
[Age] 24-28 (in game: 24 when she arrived on Thor)
[Birthday] -
[Gender] Female
[Species] Magic user
[Sexual Orientation] Heterosexual
[Height] 209 cm
[Weight] Heavy (very heavy)
[Likes] Shin and food
[Dislikes] Cross eyes and En
[Language] Japanese (main), English
[Appearance]
The first time No1 appeared in the manga, we couldn’t even tell she was a girl. No1 is a huge 2 meters and 9 cm woman, so buffed that when she is wearing her fighting suit no one could ever tell she was feminine underneath. She is one of the tallest characters- only 3 are taller than her and two of them don't even appear to be human.
Usually she is seen with a scary looking blue-dark grey mask on that covers her face and neck, and wears sport clothes, which serve in hiding all of her curves; she likes to use sneakers, and band aids around her legs and arms to give her support when fighting.
However, even if everybody thinks she is a man at first, No1 is pretty feminine. She has 104 cm of bust, a well toned body with a lot of curves and long curvy blondish-grey hair that reaches the middle her back. To match this, she has red colored eyes.
As a magic user it’s important to let the readers know that, even if they look human, they are very different on the inside. They have special organs that produce smoke (their magic) and have ducts all over the body (similar to veins) where the smoke comes from. Inside their head they have a tumor shaped like a devil that gives them their magic powers as well as life.
By the way, naked No1.
Vitals, taken from JP!Wiki on Dorohedoro:
Height: 209cm (6'10")
Weight: 82kg (180 lbs)
Foot size: 30cm (12")
Bust: 104cm (41")
Eyes: Red
Hair: Silver
[Powers & Abilities]
In this manga we have magic users as a race completely different from humans; they emit a black smoke that has a certain ability from their bodies. No1’s powers are based on regeneration. Her smoke is not meant for fighting, but for healing and regeneration of any part of the body; it was also said in the manga that this kind of smoke is rare. However, even if her Smoke isn’t of fighting type, she uses it to fight and it makes her one of the strongest characters in the manga.
It's very difficult to kill No1 because she regenerates in a matter of seconds (in order to kill her one must stop her from producing smoke first and drain all of it from her body. And even if one tries this, she might wake up in the middle of it and kill them first, so the odds of killing her are practically zero. Another way is to know where exactly the tumor inside her head is located and destroy it -more information about the tumor can be found under background). Things such as a bullet to the head, cutting her in half or destroying her arm completely can be overcome by No1, so she dashes towards her enemy without even caring about her possible future injuries.
But this doesn’t apply to her alone. No1 is also able to heal others; anyone who gets maimed, even if nothing is left but their heads, she can heal them and even generate a new body.
Also, she is extremely strong. Since she underwent rigorous training to become a devil, and perhaps also because she eats so much, No1 grew not only in height and weight, but also in strength. She can cut a guy in half with just her hand, one of her kicks can open a hole in anyone's body, and she has a scary murderous intent about her when she fights.
She can withstand huge amounts of pain and she doesn't pass out due to pain itself but yes due to blood loss. She actually seems a masochist when fighting,
Finally, rather than an actual power, No1 has the ability to eat a LOT. She loves to eat, so if she's eating- she's happy. Her stomach is likely a bottomless pit.
Examples of her fighting skills and strengh [ATT: GORE AND NUDITY]
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight01.jpg (Karate chop)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight02.jpg (and a dark sense of humor)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight03.jpg (punches)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight04.jpg (knee)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight05.jpg (kicks) oh a boobie
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight06.jpg (that can literally break your heart)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight07.jpg (just don't lose your head over it 8D)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight08.jpg (you might need that arm later on)
Examples of her healing and restoration magic
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/healing1.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/DH_02016.jpg
[Background]
Before starting, I’ll explain a bit about Dorohedoro’s world since it’s pretty chaotic. We don’t know what world this is, we don’t know if it’s a post apocalyptic Earth, or a galaxy far far away, but Dorohedoro has several references to our own Earth. Asians, Chinese, Japanese food, Japanese currency, celebrating New Year and cities that remind us of our own. “The Hole” (the name of Kaiman-the main character's world) seems to be an Earth that has gone terribly wrong.
The Hole is where those who are without magic reside, and are often used as the plaything of visiting magic users. Almost considered a dump, many areas of The Hole are condemned if not on the verge of being so, and it is often called by magic users a “hellhole”.
There is a second world, however, called “Magic Land”, where Magic users reside (No1’s world). Magic Users are those who can produce black smoke, which in turn can perform magical feats far greater than those achieved by normal human beings. These people all wear masks, made for them by the devils (magic users can undergo training and become devils themselves, actually. No1 wanted to, at first, become a devil) and actually, Magic Land is VERY close to Hell itself. They live in one world, but frequent The Hole to test their powers and in some cases, simply have fun. Transport between worlds is done by summoning doors that take the user from place to place. The doors are controlled by En- who seems to be the president. I think we can assume The Hole and Magic Land are like two different dimensions, and only Magic Users can move between the two with no problem.
Magic users have a tumor inside their heads, that's shaped like the devil and gives them their magic. If the devil dies - the magic user dies. But if the devil is capable of resurrecting, they live again, hence why many chapters of the manga are based on resurrecting the dead. Not all magic users have magic abilities, however. Some are not able to produce the smoke and those who don’t usually join the Cross-eye team, who hate magic users and specially En (seeing that their boss killed almost all of En's family, making En's Family and Cross Eyes gang enemies for many years).
There is also the "Black powder" or "Smoke", created by the Cross-Eyes's boss; these come from the magic users themselves (their smoke), who sell it so other magic users (or those who don't have any powers) can enhance their powers or create new ones.
Magic users have masks made by the devil; the devil (actually plural, there are many devils) creates those masks according to the strength of the user. When a magic user wishes to renew their mask, they go meet Beelzebub, THE devil and master of all arts; there are two doors to reach him: the right, for good fighters (The elite) who get a good mask, and the left, for mediocre fighters (and who are actually very badly treated). The ones who go through the left door must make a handmade present that should be dry, and the ones who leave the right door usually get a flower as the sign of a perfectly made mask.
Every four years, in Magic Land a "Blue Night" takes place, a night where magic users find their partners and sign a contract, in which a devil would put inside each, making them partners for the next four years. This doesn't need to be consensual from both parts, only from one. And if one of the partners doesn't want to become partnered, they'll end up obeying since the contract is very powerful.
Finally, let’s start talking about No1 and her past life before the manga.
En, her cousin and also the “President” of Magic Land, had a noodle soup restaurant branch some years back, named "Flower Smoke" and earned a lot of money with it. No1, at the time training to become a Devil (so she was wearing a 150 kg armor), one day found Shin, who tried to dine and dash at one of the “Flower Smoke” restaurant house. Shin, who was a brat by then, wanted to settle things by fighting, but since his arms were rotting, No1 refused to; instead, she actually healed his arms. Of course Shin wasn't very fair, because he immediately bashed his hammer into No1's head, and he escaped.
Later on, En ended up hiring Shin as a hitman as well, amazed by the ability of Shin’s smoke.
Some days later En threw a ball; those balls are meant to praise the devils, and during them they must all get a girl to dance. However, they should not ask her name because it was considered rude (I never said this manga was logical). That's where Shin first saw No1 without her mask and without knowing who she was, he asked her to dance. Only later on he found out that she was En's cousin and the girl he fought before. (10 years after, during another ball, No1 and Shin ended up dancing again and that's only when Shin finally realized he had danced with No1 once before).
The last part of the Devil training was finally reaching its end: No1 couldn’t use magic for a year, no matter what. But when the Blue Night was getting closer (and No1 already had her devil horns and tail), three days left, two guys attacked No1 and Shin to knock them unconscious and force the contract onto them. But during it, one of the guys, before dying, shot at No1. Quickly, in order to protect her Shin took the hit, but half of his body was completely destroyed.
Shocked, and facing herself with such an act of kindness, No1 forgot her training and used her magic to save Shin. Since she could no longer become a devil, she joined En’s family officially and became a cleaner (hitman) too, and so, during the Blue Night she and Shin became partners for the next four years.
So I now start to explain the manga!
All started when Fujita, a magic user, came back from the hole, bringing the news that his partner was killed by a girl and a man who had the head of a lizard, and who was also resistant to magic. As a result, En closes the access to "Hole"; nobody could go in there or go back.
En also decided to look for the magic user who transformed Kaiman into the "lizard head man” he had become, so he could learn how to kill Kaiman since magic didn't work.
Fujita started looking for those who were specialized in Reptile transformation, which led him into finding Ebisu. Unfortunately, she was locked inside the Hole since En closed the doors. Kaiman does find her first, and attacks her and while he had her head inside his mouth, suddenly a door appeared and inside it was Fujita. Fujita grabbed Ebisu's hand and pulled her away - leaving half of her face in Kaiman's mouth.
No1 and Shin appear to us as a team and I'll keep with that; their lives are spent together. They are En's cleaners, though No1 is En's cousin. This huge woman treats Shin, her partner, as "Shin-Senpai" since he was already a cleaner when she took the job.
En called her to heal Ebisu's face and hands that Kaiman hurt (but before going there, they decided to stop by to eat first). They meet at En's restaurant with En, Fujita and Ebisu (who was actually pretty crazy from shock) where En orders them to go find Lizard-man - which immediately excites Shin (and therefore makes No1 excited as well) when he hears it'll be a death match. After healing Ebisu, the group of four (Shin, No1, Ebisu and Fujita) go to The Hole to meet the lizardman; unfortunately yet again something happens to the smaller and crazier Magic user: Ebisu gets bitten by a zombie and turns into one (to No1's annoyance).
While Shin took care of the lizardman, No1 took care of Nikaido (Kaiman’s partner), even if in the middle of the fight she "wanted to be her friend" because Nikaido was so strong. Obviously she realized soon enough that they couldn't, thus allowing her to knock the other girl unconscious.
But when Shin thought he had defeated Kaiman, suddenly the lizardman rose and pierced a dagger into his heart; caught on surprise, suddenly the lizardman put Shin’s head into his mouth and the cleaner finally meets yet another peculiar characteristic of this strange lizard: there was a man inside his mouth. Before much could go on, Shin fights back and decapitates Kaiman. Nikaido ended up saving Kaiman and thus showed Shin and No1 that she was a magic user.
Next day Shin came to tell En about what happened; how he and Lizardman fought and that he saw a guy inside Kaiman's mouth, that even if decapitated, Kaiman didn't die, and also about the fact that the girl who was with him was a magic user. Shin also mentioned that both the lizardman and the man inside his mouth had crosses on their eyes, sign of the Cross Eye clan, En's enemies.
After deciding to take harder measures, En and Shin go meet a magic user named Turkey, while No1 heals Ebisu AGAIN.
Turkey is a magic user specialized in creating living puppets; they have to think about someone they know, fill a flask with their smoke, and relying on pictures or people's memories, Turkey creates puppets who are alive and act the same way as the original - except they cannot talk nor use magic, and they also have habit of going where the original is, reacting to the tumor in the head of the magic user in question. Even if the person is dead and decomposed or in another world, the puppet heads towards the place where the body lies. To test this, Shin creates a puppet of No1 - naked, for Shin's embarrassment - and when the real No1 shows up, bashfully he begs for Turkey to make the puppet disappear quickly.
So Turkey creates a puppet of the guy who was inside Kaiman's mouth and En’s men follow him. He heads to an apartment where they found the decapitated head of the original guy, and they handed it to En, after No1 restored its original appearance.
En, No1, Shin and Ebisu were later on invited to a corpse party (they hang corpses to be revived), and the guests of honor are a couple; the woman is able to revive the tumor inside the magic user's head and so, since her skills are so rare, En wants her as his partner. For that, he orders Shin and No1 to kill the man who's with her, but in the end, En finds out the woman was nothing but a phony, using black powder in order to control a Bringer of Life, a rabbit-cat-goat-animal thing that was sweetly named Kikurage by En.
So, the little animal brings the head back to life (and his name is Risu, just to make it easier to understand), but before No1 could create a body for the head, the notice comes: they have found the Cross-Eyes's hideout. En sends his cleaners to them, to find their boss; obviously it doesn't go well and they end up killing them all except one that they bagged and brought back to En’s manor (still alive due to Shin's powers, even if it was just a bloody pulp of organs). When the cleaners return, En already had a mechanic body created for Risu - the head, yes- but the guy doesn't tell them anything at all. Before they could go on, Nikaido is spotted inside En's manor and the alert causes No1 and Shin to go search for her.
While No1 was searching outside the room - Nikaido reached Risu, fighting En who was punched by her. This caused the magic user to snap and let his magic out, transforming everything around him into mushrooms (that is En’s power). Nikaido was able to escape, but a huge mushroom grew on her back, and Risu managed to run off untouched (with the mechanical body that En gave him) - only No1 was able to bring En back, by hitting him on the head and calling him names.
After a few days En's men were able to retrieve a bit of Ebisu's smoke (since she sold it as black powder), but unfortunately the powder fell on top of No1's head, turning her into a lizard. Crazed, she attacked Shin, but he managed to knock her out before he actually got killed. Since there was no other way to lift No1's curse (Ebisu was insane and nowhere to be found), En brought Shin and the fainted lizard-woman to Chota's birdnest; Chota is a magic user, crazy in love with En and who is able to lift spells. He prepares the ritual, having to use "a bit of No1's dearest person entrails": Shin's. Chota manages to turn No1 back to normal - and she doesn't remember anything, but this was important to let us know how much Shin meant to No1.
When the Blue Night came, En's whole house was preparing the mansion for it. And that's when they finally found what En has been looking for: a Magic User who can control time, who is actually Nikaido (Kaiman’s friend), so he brings her to Magic Land (along with some of her friends, Dr Kusukabe, Jonson, Dr Bauks and 13).
Shin and No1, have problems of their own, though. Acquaintances from the past have applied to become their partners and were willing to use any method to make this happen - even surprise attacking No1 and blowing up one of her arms. Since she fainted, the guy took No1, locked her in a fridge, and waited for midnight to force the contract on her.
The same happened to Shin.
Meanwhile Risu came back to En's mansion because his mechanical body was starting to lose energy and he wanted to refill it. He found No1 locked in the fridge. She suddenly woke up and filled the whole room with her smoke; like that, not only she replaced her arm back, but she also unconsciously made a body for Risu. After that, she ran off to find her senpai, not even noticing that Risu was around.
After finding him, the two got back to En's place to make the contract; En, who had Nikaido now, would also participate, forcing her to become his partner.
A few days later, Dr Kusabe and friends (not Nikaido) were able to escape their prison, meeting Shin and No1 on their way. Shin recognized the Doctor, who saved his life when he was back in the hole, so he refused to kill him and No1, happy to meet a friend of her Senpai’s just went along. Actually, they helped them.
Back in No1's room, Dr Kusabe told them he wants to save Nikaido, but Shin immediately intervened and warned them to stop associating with Kaiman and that they had to return to the Hole the next morning. However, En called the Cleaners team to let them know he found out where the black powder was being manufactured and the possibility that the Cross Eyes's boss was also in that said location - which caused Shin and No1 to get all excited because they were finally going to fight, leaving Dr Kusukabe for a while (which was a big mistake, because when the two returned to No1’s room, there was only a note to be found, stating they had to go find a friend over Hydra’s forest).
Bored, No1 decided to go look for them, leaving Shin behind and good thing she came because she found Jonson (a giant cockroach) being bullied by several eyes. Alas she was brought down by the guys in just a blow because they knew Magic Users's weak points, but before anything could happen, Shin showed up. Not even Shin was able to kill the guy though, so they took No1 to a small house.
She woke up in a house (where there was a wax figure of the Boss, which Kusubabe recognized, later on) and fought the cross eyes, having to be saved by Shin in the end (she is pretty reckless when fighting). They all went back to Shin's room in En's manor, where No1 healed all of them, and after they returned to The Hole, Dr Kusukabe explained to them who the wax figure was. That person was a human from the Hole who wanted to become a magic user, so Dr Kusukabe performed surgery on him to change his body. The man was called Ai and they believed he was the Cross Eye’s boss, the one everyone has been looking for.
In The Hole, the cleaners and Dr Kusukabe went to visit Ai's grave, to dig up the body to figure out if the figure was really Ai or not. They found out there was no body; because the Dr was so interested in science (more than life itself), he asked his two magic user friends to go with them back to Magic Land - and they ended up saying yes. Before anything else could happen, En told his cleaners they have to go find Nikaido, who had run off with Kaiman.
They do find her and En fought Kaiman, killing him and retrieving Nikaido who got badly injured during the battle; after En killed Kaiman, No1 had to heal Nikaido, however, her magic didn’t seem to work because of Devil’s magic. A Devil was helping Nikaido, and this way it’d keep the girl sane and not succumb to the contract inside of her and help En. However, the bad part is that No1 couldn’t heal her and soon she would die.
This part is important even if No1 has no actual knowledge of it. Kaiman didn’t die; instead he turned into a human-looking guy who called himself Aikawa, (who is actually Risu’s best friend). Asu, the Devil who was helping Nikaido, was turned back into Magic user as punishment for meddling into things he shouldn’t, and he was the one who found Aiwaka. Even if No1 has no knowledge of this, it’s important to keep things logical - Aikawa can switch heads and each time he does, a different person surfaces: Aikawa, good fella who says he has no magic, and Kai, who is the Cross-Eyes boss. They both are Ai.
Few days later a notice about the Cross-Eyes causing problems yet again came; Noi and Shin are sent to the town of Devas to a shop called Shaitan that sold regenerative smoke and was robbed by the Cross Eyes gang. Excited for some fight, they agree and leave Dr Kusukabe behind.
Asu decided to go to En’s manor with Aikawa to meet Nikaido. Aikawa lied about not knowing who Nikaido was, and left her before anything else happened. However, still at the manor, he turned into Kai, who went after En and killed him, stealing his head along the ride. Before En died, he gave Chota Kikurage and told him to protect her, so they are gone for a while.
Meantime, at Devas, No1 and Shin notice that En’s mushrooms (from his magic) are suddenly disappearing, which alerted them to the fact En was dead. From this point chaos comes. En is dead, the news spread all across the magic land and Hell, and everyone went berserk. At En’s manor, no one knew what to do and the killer wasn’t found. Kikurage, Chota and Nikaido were gone, and the people that worked at the manor started leaving or went into depression.
No1 and Shin didn’t really know what to do. No1 admitted to her partner she didn’t like En because he was pompous, he had all those mushroom antics of his and he had been using her and her magic since she was a little kid. For that, she didn’t feel sad. However, she realized how much the world needed him; there was no food, no cleaning, no work, and everything was crumbling down.
No1 wasn’t satisfied. Chota, Nikaido and Kikurage were missing, they had to find En’s head and bring him back to life. And so she asked her senpai to go look for them. Of course the idea of getting to the Cross Eyes boss excited Shin and when Shin is happy, No1 is happy.
Thought, they got a pleasant visitor who’d help them: Turkey. Using his dolls that follow the Devil tumour inside the magic user’s heads, they were going to find En’s head.
While they were waiting for Turkey to do the doll, No1 and Shin talked about their offence plan. With information Dr. Kusukabe gave them on Magic Users weak spots (the ones that, when hit would cause the Magic user to stop producing smoke), they’d figure out what points the cross-eyes would mostly try to attack.
Once the doll was ready, they followed it to an apartment, and after coming out of the elevator, they suddenly see a group of Cross-Eyes nearby the door 501. Like No1 said “Shitheads sighted!”. As cleaners, they’d do their best to complete the job, and so attacked and mutilated everyone (still leaving them alive due to Shin’s magic, so they could ask questions later).
They found En’s head, yes, but this head was… open. The Devil tumour inside it was stolen, and before they could figure out why, their worst nightmare came: Kai. Who all of sudden was spitting SMOKE like a Magic user. But not any smoke: En’s smoke. That’s right, mushroom started growing inside Sin and No1 and when they thought they were doomed, suddenly they disappear in thin air.
Quick note on what happened: Kai and Cross Eyes have forever been doing research on Magic User’s. And Kai’s ultimate research was to steal the Devil’s tumour inside a magic user’s head and plant it on his own head, gaining the said magic user’s powers. That’s what he did with En: he stole his Devil tumour, put it in his own head and now can create smoke that turns everything it touches into mushrooms.
Now with the Cross Eyes boss back, the gang took En’s manor and everyone of En’s family had to flee to an underground “house” (more like a nest, truthfully) to escape them. No1 and Shin remain off map for a full month.
Actually, this was possibly with Shou’s help; Shou is one of En’s family members whose magic can turn everything translucent - he is sort of the invisible man, yes. That’s how he managed to get Shin, No1 AND En’s head out of the apartment without the Cross Eyes boss noticing. After that month, No1 finally managed to slowly turn back to normal, however, Shin seemed to be beyond hope, so Shou’s said.
But it’s No1 we are talking about and there was no way she’d leave her senpai behind. Gathering all of her strength, she created an extremely dense smoke - something she never really did before - and she managed to turn what looked like just a mess of mushrooms, back into Shin - who woke up while No1 kept clung to for several moments (or hours, who knows).
The plan was simple: they had to get back the Devil tumour the Cross Eyes boss stole (of course they don’t know he has it in his head), have No1 restore En’s body, and after Kikurage (there were a notice about a strange animal that pretty much looked like her, so Fujita and Ebisu went retrieve her with success) would use her magic to revive him.
No1 restored En’s body, and the group stores it so they can later on revive it and after they decide to take measures. Shou comes up with a plane. The mission was to observe the cross eyes boss while rendered invisible by his magic, so they could find the Devil Tumour - as well as weak points the boss might have and there was only ONE person who could be sent: Fujita - the actual reason was that everyone else would try to kill the Cross Eyes boss instead of doing their job; Fujita, who is a coward, would never do so.
Three days after, Fujita is ready to leave, but before everyone gives him a bit of his magic. No1 was the one who gave the most to him, actually.
[Personality]
No1 is En’s cleaner, which is a fancy word for hitman (hitwoman); Shin’s partner, but also his fangirl, she spends most of her time with her Senpai. Even if En is her cousin and boss, No1 hates him for being so pompous with his mushrooms and also for only using people around him for his own personal gain; she tends to show this dislike towards him by calling him names or even ignoring him.
Due to the nature of her magic, No1 is incredibly careless; she doesn’t mind taking hits because she will quickly recover and hit back. However, this also causes her to go down faster than Shin. This doesn’t stop her, though. Her incredibly reckless behavior mixed with her violent personality, along with her size, strength and magic, make No1 into the like of a berserk demon when fighting.
Violent is indeed a way to describe this giant woman. Magic Land doesn't view killing as something to be punished for, so due to that and the nature of her job, No1 lives to kill and fight, and spends most of her time doing just that. Otherwise, she spends her time bored watching TV, or happily eating non-stop.
She is so devoted to her fights that she would rather get killed than to go down without actually fighting, which is yet another way to show how impulsive she can be since she doesn’t think: she kills first, and then she asks questions. She even makes a contest out of how many people she kills, racing against Shin.
However, No1 did mention she usually doesn’t hit girls.
Despite all this “I want to kill, I want to fight” talk, No1 can be kind. She cares about Fujita, and like she said “even insects have souls”, even if she seems to be so little worried about it. Actually, when Ebisu died, she didn’t seem to care, and when Fujita did ask her for help with his training she sneered at him saying “I don’t want to”. But still, under it all, she does worry in her strange silly, violent, clueless way.
However, her kindness is mostly (and almost only) directed to her most important person: Shin. No1 worries about Shin, enough to ask him what he is thinking, enough to want to make him happy, enough to wear something nice for a dinner with En only so he wouldn’t be embarrassed. Her attachment to Shin is so great, that he is her first worry all the time. Whenever someone refuses Shin something, she calls them egoistic, she asks him about his dreams and life before he joined En’s family, and she always remembers him no matter what.
This attachment was probably due to what happened when they were still young. Shin was willing to give his life for her, and somehow that really struck her. We can figure that living with En didn’t make her happy and he only used her, so when finally someone gave himself for her life, she found her corner of Hell (since it’s actually a good place for them), near him. For years they have been together, No1’s room is now filled with photos of him.
Even if he treats her badly sometimes, even if he mocks her, No1 is still ridiculously happy that they are even just talking; however, Shin seems to have a strong attachment to her as well, so it’s not just one sided.
Shin and No1 are usually late to their meetings, probably because they are eating when they are called. True fact: food is VERY important to them. They make contests on who eats faster (Shin wins, and so No1 pays the tab) and they are seen usually eating nonstop.
As I've said, she is quite the fangirl for her senpai, but her whole character is also very much like that even without him. She is joyful, careless, silly and worry-free. People scream at her and food can make her overlook that; actually, No1 doesn’t seem to give much importance to insults, screaming and scolding even when she isn’t eating. But let’s not forget; even if friendly, she IS deadly, and very sadistic. Even when she is fighting or killing, she still keeps her ecstatic smile, and that makes it even creepier.
Nevertheless, No1 seems to be very uncomfortable with strippers. She can’t turn them away; since most think she is a man, she isn’t sure on what to do when one clings to her arm, and only tries to pretend they aren’t there.
Even if extremely manly with her mask on, No1 IS feminine. As stated in the appearance, she has a full chest, toned and delimited lines, and she does like to look “awesome”; enough to wear high heel girly shoes even though they continuously make her fall down on her face. Even if violent, she has girly strikes like when she saw Kikurage for the first time and found her “sweet”. Nevertheless, to contra balance this, No1 likes horror movies with a lot of blood, and she has no shame when she is naked. She doesn’t even seem to remember she is naked, so much less care about it.
And a final note, magic users praise the Devil, not God
[After he canon update, from volume 10 to 14]
Unlike before and probably for the first time, No1 saw someone who is completely useless and weak taking one of the most vital missions which was to find En’s devil tumour. This showed her that even weaklings may have their uses so she won’t find people without power completely pointless when it comes to something important like that, from now on. While No1 does have human friends and is friendly towards people who are weaker than her, she’d never rely on them to do something important for her; after this episode with Fujita, that changed, even if just slightly.
She also shows great care for Fujita, even if she usually didn’t seem to give him much attention. I’ve said in her personality (when I joined) that No1 is friendly and is ready to help people she meets, and this only comes to show how true it is, even when she is not asked to help (this isn’t an update… it’s more like a confirmation of how No1’s personality is).
The best part of this update is that No1 will no longer think her current situation is shitty. Before, she was rich and lived in a great mansion and after arriving to Thor she got annoyed that she was treated like a common refugee, missing having someone to clean and cook for her. After this canon update, not so much, because she was in a REALLY shitty situation before; she will actually be happy that everything around her isn’t made of dirt - she still misses her Shin-senpai very much, though >:
However, there is a huge grudge that before she ignored, but now she can’t. No1 saw her cousin dead, and even if she didn’t like him, En IS important. Cross-Eyes boss killed him, her world was turned up-side-down and everything became chaos; No1 will not forget that and she might even get much more frustrated because she was brought to Thor with things undone. The fact that she was stuck at the hideout without doing anything already made her angry, you can imagine what she will feel that suddenly she can even finish what started. Her hatred for the Cross-Eyes is much bigger too.
Oh, and of course, weak points. No1’s fighting style is still really clumsy and she doesn’t seem to care, but she learned to protect her weak points during fights. .
[Kikurage]
There will be a bringer of Life with No1. Her name is Kikurage, she is able to expel white smoke from her front legs, and she can resurrect anyone with it (magic users can only resurrect if they still have their tumor inside, since that's what keeps them alive). She is an adorable, cute little thing, almost the same size as a cat, and looks pretty much like a mix between a cat, goat and Cocker Spaniel - with a strange snake tongue and a devil's tail and horns. Her sounds are basically described as "Nya" and she has a collar that shoots daggers whenever she is scared. Oh, and she also has a Devil's mask.
Kikurage originally belongs to En, but I think it's for the best for No1 to have someone to resurrect her victims. While Kikurage tends to resurrect anyone who's near her, you can't force her to do so, because she will be scared of you. During the manga, she actually has a small chapter where we can see her perspective on things; Kikurage enjoys strolling around to make sure everything is the way it's supposed to be, and she's very curious; whenever she hears her name she shows up and expects food that second. While she is pretty much like a puppy, Kikurage is also scared of things that smell like death or even those who act suspicious or even simply scream. She adores her owner, En, and she is friendly enough to tag along with any other people she might find. Unfortunately, like the puppy she is, she is also careless; Kikurage tends to play with small bugs and kill them, however, she'll resurrect them right after because she still wishes to play. While this may seem cruel, it's simply animal childishness.
[Canon] Dorohedoro
[Point taken from Canon] Volume 10, after getting Nikaido back and after Kaiman has been turned into a human finally.
[Age] 24-28 (in game: 24 when she arrived on Thor)
[Birthday] -
[Gender] Female
[Species] Magic user
[Sexual Orientation] Heterosexual
[Height] 209 cm
[Weight] Heavy (very heavy)
[Likes] Shin and food
[Dislikes] Cross eyes and En
[Language] Japanese (main), English
[Appearance]
The first time No1 appeared in the manga, we couldn’t even tell she was a girl. No1 is a huge 2 meters and 9 cm woman, so buffed that when she is wearing her fighting suit no one could ever tell she was feminine underneath. She is one of the tallest characters- only 3 are taller than her and two of them don't even appear to be human.
Usually she is seen with a scary looking blue-dark grey mask on that covers her face and neck, and wears sport clothes, which serve in hiding all of her curves; she likes to use sneakers, and band aids around her legs and arms to give her support when fighting.
However, even if everybody thinks she is a man at first, No1 is pretty feminine. She has 104 cm of bust, a well toned body with a lot of curves and long curvy blondish-grey hair that reaches the middle her back. To match this, she has red colored eyes.
As a magic user it’s important to let the readers know that, even if they look human, they are very different on the inside. They have special organs that produce smoke (their magic) and have ducts all over the body (similar to veins) where the smoke comes from. Inside their head they have a tumor shaped like a devil that gives them their magic powers as well as life.
By the way, naked No1.
Vitals, taken from JP!Wiki on Dorohedoro:
Height: 209cm (6'10")
Weight: 82kg (180 lbs)
Foot size: 30cm (12")
Bust: 104cm (41")
Eyes: Red
Hair: Silver
[Powers & Abilities]
In this manga we have magic users as a race completely different from humans; they emit a black smoke that has a certain ability from their bodies. No1’s powers are based on regeneration. Her smoke is not meant for fighting, but for healing and regeneration of any part of the body; it was also said in the manga that this kind of smoke is rare. However, even if her Smoke isn’t of fighting type, she uses it to fight and it makes her one of the strongest characters in the manga.
It's very difficult to kill No1 because she regenerates in a matter of seconds (in order to kill her one must stop her from producing smoke first and drain all of it from her body. And even if one tries this, she might wake up in the middle of it and kill them first, so the odds of killing her are practically zero. Another way is to know where exactly the tumor inside her head is located and destroy it -more information about the tumor can be found under background). Things such as a bullet to the head, cutting her in half or destroying her arm completely can be overcome by No1, so she dashes towards her enemy without even caring about her possible future injuries.
But this doesn’t apply to her alone. No1 is also able to heal others; anyone who gets maimed, even if nothing is left but their heads, she can heal them and even generate a new body.
Also, she is extremely strong. Since she underwent rigorous training to become a devil, and perhaps also because she eats so much, No1 grew not only in height and weight, but also in strength. She can cut a guy in half with just her hand, one of her kicks can open a hole in anyone's body, and she has a scary murderous intent about her when she fights.
She can withstand huge amounts of pain and she doesn't pass out due to pain itself but yes due to blood loss. She actually seems a masochist when fighting,
Finally, rather than an actual power, No1 has the ability to eat a LOT. She loves to eat, so if she's eating- she's happy. Her stomach is likely a bottomless pit.
Examples of her fighting skills and strengh [ATT: GORE AND NUDITY]
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight01.jpg (Karate chop)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight02.jpg (and a dark sense of humor)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight03.jpg (punches)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight04.jpg (knee)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight05.jpg (kicks) oh a boobie
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight06.jpg (that can literally break your heart)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight07.jpg (just don't lose your head over it 8D)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/fight08.jpg (you might need that arm later on)
Examples of her healing and restoration magic
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/healing1.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Vilani/DH_02016.jpg
[Background]
Before starting, I’ll explain a bit about Dorohedoro’s world since it’s pretty chaotic. We don’t know what world this is, we don’t know if it’s a post apocalyptic Earth, or a galaxy far far away, but Dorohedoro has several references to our own Earth. Asians, Chinese, Japanese food, Japanese currency, celebrating New Year and cities that remind us of our own. “The Hole” (the name of Kaiman-the main character's world) seems to be an Earth that has gone terribly wrong.
The Hole is where those who are without magic reside, and are often used as the plaything of visiting magic users. Almost considered a dump, many areas of The Hole are condemned if not on the verge of being so, and it is often called by magic users a “hellhole”.
There is a second world, however, called “Magic Land”, where Magic users reside (No1’s world). Magic Users are those who can produce black smoke, which in turn can perform magical feats far greater than those achieved by normal human beings. These people all wear masks, made for them by the devils (magic users can undergo training and become devils themselves, actually. No1 wanted to, at first, become a devil) and actually, Magic Land is VERY close to Hell itself. They live in one world, but frequent The Hole to test their powers and in some cases, simply have fun. Transport between worlds is done by summoning doors that take the user from place to place. The doors are controlled by En- who seems to be the president. I think we can assume The Hole and Magic Land are like two different dimensions, and only Magic Users can move between the two with no problem.
Magic users have a tumor inside their heads, that's shaped like the devil and gives them their magic. If the devil dies - the magic user dies. But if the devil is capable of resurrecting, they live again, hence why many chapters of the manga are based on resurrecting the dead. Not all magic users have magic abilities, however. Some are not able to produce the smoke and those who don’t usually join the Cross-eye team, who hate magic users and specially En (seeing that their boss killed almost all of En's family, making En's Family and Cross Eyes gang enemies for many years).
There is also the "Black powder" or "Smoke", created by the Cross-Eyes's boss; these come from the magic users themselves (their smoke), who sell it so other magic users (or those who don't have any powers) can enhance their powers or create new ones.
Magic users have masks made by the devil; the devil (actually plural, there are many devils) creates those masks according to the strength of the user. When a magic user wishes to renew their mask, they go meet Beelzebub, THE devil and master of all arts; there are two doors to reach him: the right, for good fighters (The elite) who get a good mask, and the left, for mediocre fighters (and who are actually very badly treated). The ones who go through the left door must make a handmade present that should be dry, and the ones who leave the right door usually get a flower as the sign of a perfectly made mask.
Every four years, in Magic Land a "Blue Night" takes place, a night where magic users find their partners and sign a contract, in which a devil would put inside each, making them partners for the next four years. This doesn't need to be consensual from both parts, only from one. And if one of the partners doesn't want to become partnered, they'll end up obeying since the contract is very powerful.
Finally, let’s start talking about No1 and her past life before the manga.
En, her cousin and also the “President” of Magic Land, had a noodle soup restaurant branch some years back, named "Flower Smoke" and earned a lot of money with it. No1, at the time training to become a Devil (so she was wearing a 150 kg armor), one day found Shin, who tried to dine and dash at one of the “Flower Smoke” restaurant house. Shin, who was a brat by then, wanted to settle things by fighting, but since his arms were rotting, No1 refused to; instead, she actually healed his arms. Of course Shin wasn't very fair, because he immediately bashed his hammer into No1's head, and he escaped.
Later on, En ended up hiring Shin as a hitman as well, amazed by the ability of Shin’s smoke.
Some days later En threw a ball; those balls are meant to praise the devils, and during them they must all get a girl to dance. However, they should not ask her name because it was considered rude (I never said this manga was logical). That's where Shin first saw No1 without her mask and without knowing who she was, he asked her to dance. Only later on he found out that she was En's cousin and the girl he fought before. (10 years after, during another ball, No1 and Shin ended up dancing again and that's only when Shin finally realized he had danced with No1 once before).
The last part of the Devil training was finally reaching its end: No1 couldn’t use magic for a year, no matter what. But when the Blue Night was getting closer (and No1 already had her devil horns and tail), three days left, two guys attacked No1 and Shin to knock them unconscious and force the contract onto them. But during it, one of the guys, before dying, shot at No1. Quickly, in order to protect her Shin took the hit, but half of his body was completely destroyed.
Shocked, and facing herself with such an act of kindness, No1 forgot her training and used her magic to save Shin. Since she could no longer become a devil, she joined En’s family officially and became a cleaner (hitman) too, and so, during the Blue Night she and Shin became partners for the next four years.
So I now start to explain the manga!
All started when Fujita, a magic user, came back from the hole, bringing the news that his partner was killed by a girl and a man who had the head of a lizard, and who was also resistant to magic. As a result, En closes the access to "Hole"; nobody could go in there or go back.
En also decided to look for the magic user who transformed Kaiman into the "lizard head man” he had become, so he could learn how to kill Kaiman since magic didn't work.
Fujita started looking for those who were specialized in Reptile transformation, which led him into finding Ebisu. Unfortunately, she was locked inside the Hole since En closed the doors. Kaiman does find her first, and attacks her and while he had her head inside his mouth, suddenly a door appeared and inside it was Fujita. Fujita grabbed Ebisu's hand and pulled her away - leaving half of her face in Kaiman's mouth.
No1 and Shin appear to us as a team and I'll keep with that; their lives are spent together. They are En's cleaners, though No1 is En's cousin. This huge woman treats Shin, her partner, as "Shin-Senpai" since he was already a cleaner when she took the job.
En called her to heal Ebisu's face and hands that Kaiman hurt (but before going there, they decided to stop by to eat first). They meet at En's restaurant with En, Fujita and Ebisu (who was actually pretty crazy from shock) where En orders them to go find Lizard-man - which immediately excites Shin (and therefore makes No1 excited as well) when he hears it'll be a death match. After healing Ebisu, the group of four (Shin, No1, Ebisu and Fujita) go to The Hole to meet the lizardman; unfortunately yet again something happens to the smaller and crazier Magic user: Ebisu gets bitten by a zombie and turns into one (to No1's annoyance).
While Shin took care of the lizardman, No1 took care of Nikaido (Kaiman’s partner), even if in the middle of the fight she "wanted to be her friend" because Nikaido was so strong. Obviously she realized soon enough that they couldn't, thus allowing her to knock the other girl unconscious.
But when Shin thought he had defeated Kaiman, suddenly the lizardman rose and pierced a dagger into his heart; caught on surprise, suddenly the lizardman put Shin’s head into his mouth and the cleaner finally meets yet another peculiar characteristic of this strange lizard: there was a man inside his mouth. Before much could go on, Shin fights back and decapitates Kaiman. Nikaido ended up saving Kaiman and thus showed Shin and No1 that she was a magic user.
Next day Shin came to tell En about what happened; how he and Lizardman fought and that he saw a guy inside Kaiman's mouth, that even if decapitated, Kaiman didn't die, and also about the fact that the girl who was with him was a magic user. Shin also mentioned that both the lizardman and the man inside his mouth had crosses on their eyes, sign of the Cross Eye clan, En's enemies.
After deciding to take harder measures, En and Shin go meet a magic user named Turkey, while No1 heals Ebisu AGAIN.
Turkey is a magic user specialized in creating living puppets; they have to think about someone they know, fill a flask with their smoke, and relying on pictures or people's memories, Turkey creates puppets who are alive and act the same way as the original - except they cannot talk nor use magic, and they also have habit of going where the original is, reacting to the tumor in the head of the magic user in question. Even if the person is dead and decomposed or in another world, the puppet heads towards the place where the body lies. To test this, Shin creates a puppet of No1 - naked, for Shin's embarrassment - and when the real No1 shows up, bashfully he begs for Turkey to make the puppet disappear quickly.
So Turkey creates a puppet of the guy who was inside Kaiman's mouth and En’s men follow him. He heads to an apartment where they found the decapitated head of the original guy, and they handed it to En, after No1 restored its original appearance.
En, No1, Shin and Ebisu were later on invited to a corpse party (they hang corpses to be revived), and the guests of honor are a couple; the woman is able to revive the tumor inside the magic user's head and so, since her skills are so rare, En wants her as his partner. For that, he orders Shin and No1 to kill the man who's with her, but in the end, En finds out the woman was nothing but a phony, using black powder in order to control a Bringer of Life, a rabbit-cat-goat-animal thing that was sweetly named Kikurage by En.
So, the little animal brings the head back to life (and his name is Risu, just to make it easier to understand), but before No1 could create a body for the head, the notice comes: they have found the Cross-Eyes's hideout. En sends his cleaners to them, to find their boss; obviously it doesn't go well and they end up killing them all except one that they bagged and brought back to En’s manor (still alive due to Shin's powers, even if it was just a bloody pulp of organs). When the cleaners return, En already had a mechanic body created for Risu - the head, yes- but the guy doesn't tell them anything at all. Before they could go on, Nikaido is spotted inside En's manor and the alert causes No1 and Shin to go search for her.
While No1 was searching outside the room - Nikaido reached Risu, fighting En who was punched by her. This caused the magic user to snap and let his magic out, transforming everything around him into mushrooms (that is En’s power). Nikaido was able to escape, but a huge mushroom grew on her back, and Risu managed to run off untouched (with the mechanical body that En gave him) - only No1 was able to bring En back, by hitting him on the head and calling him names.
After a few days En's men were able to retrieve a bit of Ebisu's smoke (since she sold it as black powder), but unfortunately the powder fell on top of No1's head, turning her into a lizard. Crazed, she attacked Shin, but he managed to knock her out before he actually got killed. Since there was no other way to lift No1's curse (Ebisu was insane and nowhere to be found), En brought Shin and the fainted lizard-woman to Chota's birdnest; Chota is a magic user, crazy in love with En and who is able to lift spells. He prepares the ritual, having to use "a bit of No1's dearest person entrails": Shin's. Chota manages to turn No1 back to normal - and she doesn't remember anything, but this was important to let us know how much Shin meant to No1.
When the Blue Night came, En's whole house was preparing the mansion for it. And that's when they finally found what En has been looking for: a Magic User who can control time, who is actually Nikaido (Kaiman’s friend), so he brings her to Magic Land (along with some of her friends, Dr Kusukabe, Jonson, Dr Bauks and 13).
Shin and No1, have problems of their own, though. Acquaintances from the past have applied to become their partners and were willing to use any method to make this happen - even surprise attacking No1 and blowing up one of her arms. Since she fainted, the guy took No1, locked her in a fridge, and waited for midnight to force the contract on her.
The same happened to Shin.
Meanwhile Risu came back to En's mansion because his mechanical body was starting to lose energy and he wanted to refill it. He found No1 locked in the fridge. She suddenly woke up and filled the whole room with her smoke; like that, not only she replaced her arm back, but she also unconsciously made a body for Risu. After that, she ran off to find her senpai, not even noticing that Risu was around.
After finding him, the two got back to En's place to make the contract; En, who had Nikaido now, would also participate, forcing her to become his partner.
A few days later, Dr Kusabe and friends (not Nikaido) were able to escape their prison, meeting Shin and No1 on their way. Shin recognized the Doctor, who saved his life when he was back in the hole, so he refused to kill him and No1, happy to meet a friend of her Senpai’s just went along. Actually, they helped them.
Back in No1's room, Dr Kusabe told them he wants to save Nikaido, but Shin immediately intervened and warned them to stop associating with Kaiman and that they had to return to the Hole the next morning. However, En called the Cleaners team to let them know he found out where the black powder was being manufactured and the possibility that the Cross Eyes's boss was also in that said location - which caused Shin and No1 to get all excited because they were finally going to fight, leaving Dr Kusukabe for a while (which was a big mistake, because when the two returned to No1’s room, there was only a note to be found, stating they had to go find a friend over Hydra’s forest).
Bored, No1 decided to go look for them, leaving Shin behind and good thing she came because she found Jonson (a giant cockroach) being bullied by several eyes. Alas she was brought down by the guys in just a blow because they knew Magic Users's weak points, but before anything could happen, Shin showed up. Not even Shin was able to kill the guy though, so they took No1 to a small house.
She woke up in a house (where there was a wax figure of the Boss, which Kusubabe recognized, later on) and fought the cross eyes, having to be saved by Shin in the end (she is pretty reckless when fighting). They all went back to Shin's room in En's manor, where No1 healed all of them, and after they returned to The Hole, Dr Kusukabe explained to them who the wax figure was. That person was a human from the Hole who wanted to become a magic user, so Dr Kusukabe performed surgery on him to change his body. The man was called Ai and they believed he was the Cross Eye’s boss, the one everyone has been looking for.
In The Hole, the cleaners and Dr Kusukabe went to visit Ai's grave, to dig up the body to figure out if the figure was really Ai or not. They found out there was no body; because the Dr was so interested in science (more than life itself), he asked his two magic user friends to go with them back to Magic Land - and they ended up saying yes. Before anything else could happen, En told his cleaners they have to go find Nikaido, who had run off with Kaiman.
They do find her and En fought Kaiman, killing him and retrieving Nikaido who got badly injured during the battle; after En killed Kaiman, No1 had to heal Nikaido, however, her magic didn’t seem to work because of Devil’s magic. A Devil was helping Nikaido, and this way it’d keep the girl sane and not succumb to the contract inside of her and help En. However, the bad part is that No1 couldn’t heal her and soon she would die.
This part is important even if No1 has no actual knowledge of it. Kaiman didn’t die; instead he turned into a human-looking guy who called himself Aikawa, (who is actually Risu’s best friend). Asu, the Devil who was helping Nikaido, was turned back into Magic user as punishment for meddling into things he shouldn’t, and he was the one who found Aiwaka. Even if No1 has no knowledge of this, it’s important to keep things logical - Aikawa can switch heads and each time he does, a different person surfaces: Aikawa, good fella who says he has no magic, and Kai, who is the Cross-Eyes boss. They both are Ai.
Few days later a notice about the Cross-Eyes causing problems yet again came; Noi and Shin are sent to the town of Devas to a shop called Shaitan that sold regenerative smoke and was robbed by the Cross Eyes gang. Excited for some fight, they agree and leave Dr Kusukabe behind.
Asu decided to go to En’s manor with Aikawa to meet Nikaido. Aikawa lied about not knowing who Nikaido was, and left her before anything else happened. However, still at the manor, he turned into Kai, who went after En and killed him, stealing his head along the ride. Before En died, he gave Chota Kikurage and told him to protect her, so they are gone for a while.
Meantime, at Devas, No1 and Shin notice that En’s mushrooms (from his magic) are suddenly disappearing, which alerted them to the fact En was dead. From this point chaos comes. En is dead, the news spread all across the magic land and Hell, and everyone went berserk. At En’s manor, no one knew what to do and the killer wasn’t found. Kikurage, Chota and Nikaido were gone, and the people that worked at the manor started leaving or went into depression.
No1 and Shin didn’t really know what to do. No1 admitted to her partner she didn’t like En because he was pompous, he had all those mushroom antics of his and he had been using her and her magic since she was a little kid. For that, she didn’t feel sad. However, she realized how much the world needed him; there was no food, no cleaning, no work, and everything was crumbling down.
No1 wasn’t satisfied. Chota, Nikaido and Kikurage were missing, they had to find En’s head and bring him back to life. And so she asked her senpai to go look for them. Of course the idea of getting to the Cross Eyes boss excited Shin and when Shin is happy, No1 is happy.
Thought, they got a pleasant visitor who’d help them: Turkey. Using his dolls that follow the Devil tumour inside the magic user’s heads, they were going to find En’s head.
While they were waiting for Turkey to do the doll, No1 and Shin talked about their offence plan. With information Dr. Kusukabe gave them on Magic Users weak spots (the ones that, when hit would cause the Magic user to stop producing smoke), they’d figure out what points the cross-eyes would mostly try to attack.
Once the doll was ready, they followed it to an apartment, and after coming out of the elevator, they suddenly see a group of Cross-Eyes nearby the door 501. Like No1 said “Shitheads sighted!”. As cleaners, they’d do their best to complete the job, and so attacked and mutilated everyone (still leaving them alive due to Shin’s magic, so they could ask questions later).
They found En’s head, yes, but this head was… open. The Devil tumour inside it was stolen, and before they could figure out why, their worst nightmare came: Kai. Who all of sudden was spitting SMOKE like a Magic user. But not any smoke: En’s smoke. That’s right, mushroom started growing inside Sin and No1 and when they thought they were doomed, suddenly they disappear in thin air.
Quick note on what happened: Kai and Cross Eyes have forever been doing research on Magic User’s. And Kai’s ultimate research was to steal the Devil’s tumour inside a magic user’s head and plant it on his own head, gaining the said magic user’s powers. That’s what he did with En: he stole his Devil tumour, put it in his own head and now can create smoke that turns everything it touches into mushrooms.
Now with the Cross Eyes boss back, the gang took En’s manor and everyone of En’s family had to flee to an underground “house” (more like a nest, truthfully) to escape them. No1 and Shin remain off map for a full month.
Actually, this was possibly with Shou’s help; Shou is one of En’s family members whose magic can turn everything translucent - he is sort of the invisible man, yes. That’s how he managed to get Shin, No1 AND En’s head out of the apartment without the Cross Eyes boss noticing. After that month, No1 finally managed to slowly turn back to normal, however, Shin seemed to be beyond hope, so Shou’s said.
But it’s No1 we are talking about and there was no way she’d leave her senpai behind. Gathering all of her strength, she created an extremely dense smoke - something she never really did before - and she managed to turn what looked like just a mess of mushrooms, back into Shin - who woke up while No1 kept clung to for several moments (or hours, who knows).
The plan was simple: they had to get back the Devil tumour the Cross Eyes boss stole (of course they don’t know he has it in his head), have No1 restore En’s body, and after Kikurage (there were a notice about a strange animal that pretty much looked like her, so Fujita and Ebisu went retrieve her with success) would use her magic to revive him.
No1 restored En’s body, and the group stores it so they can later on revive it and after they decide to take measures. Shou comes up with a plane. The mission was to observe the cross eyes boss while rendered invisible by his magic, so they could find the Devil Tumour - as well as weak points the boss might have and there was only ONE person who could be sent: Fujita - the actual reason was that everyone else would try to kill the Cross Eyes boss instead of doing their job; Fujita, who is a coward, would never do so.
Three days after, Fujita is ready to leave, but before everyone gives him a bit of his magic. No1 was the one who gave the most to him, actually.
[Personality]
No1 is En’s cleaner, which is a fancy word for hitman (hitwoman); Shin’s partner, but also his fangirl, she spends most of her time with her Senpai. Even if En is her cousin and boss, No1 hates him for being so pompous with his mushrooms and also for only using people around him for his own personal gain; she tends to show this dislike towards him by calling him names or even ignoring him.
Due to the nature of her magic, No1 is incredibly careless; she doesn’t mind taking hits because she will quickly recover and hit back. However, this also causes her to go down faster than Shin. This doesn’t stop her, though. Her incredibly reckless behavior mixed with her violent personality, along with her size, strength and magic, make No1 into the like of a berserk demon when fighting.
Violent is indeed a way to describe this giant woman. Magic Land doesn't view killing as something to be punished for, so due to that and the nature of her job, No1 lives to kill and fight, and spends most of her time doing just that. Otherwise, she spends her time bored watching TV, or happily eating non-stop.
She is so devoted to her fights that she would rather get killed than to go down without actually fighting, which is yet another way to show how impulsive she can be since she doesn’t think: she kills first, and then she asks questions. She even makes a contest out of how many people she kills, racing against Shin.
However, No1 did mention she usually doesn’t hit girls.
Despite all this “I want to kill, I want to fight” talk, No1 can be kind. She cares about Fujita, and like she said “even insects have souls”, even if she seems to be so little worried about it. Actually, when Ebisu died, she didn’t seem to care, and when Fujita did ask her for help with his training she sneered at him saying “I don’t want to”. But still, under it all, she does worry in her strange silly, violent, clueless way.
However, her kindness is mostly (and almost only) directed to her most important person: Shin. No1 worries about Shin, enough to ask him what he is thinking, enough to want to make him happy, enough to wear something nice for a dinner with En only so he wouldn’t be embarrassed. Her attachment to Shin is so great, that he is her first worry all the time. Whenever someone refuses Shin something, she calls them egoistic, she asks him about his dreams and life before he joined En’s family, and she always remembers him no matter what.
This attachment was probably due to what happened when they were still young. Shin was willing to give his life for her, and somehow that really struck her. We can figure that living with En didn’t make her happy and he only used her, so when finally someone gave himself for her life, she found her corner of Hell (since it’s actually a good place for them), near him. For years they have been together, No1’s room is now filled with photos of him.
Even if he treats her badly sometimes, even if he mocks her, No1 is still ridiculously happy that they are even just talking; however, Shin seems to have a strong attachment to her as well, so it’s not just one sided.
Shin and No1 are usually late to their meetings, probably because they are eating when they are called. True fact: food is VERY important to them. They make contests on who eats faster (Shin wins, and so No1 pays the tab) and they are seen usually eating nonstop.
As I've said, she is quite the fangirl for her senpai, but her whole character is also very much like that even without him. She is joyful, careless, silly and worry-free. People scream at her and food can make her overlook that; actually, No1 doesn’t seem to give much importance to insults, screaming and scolding even when she isn’t eating. But let’s not forget; even if friendly, she IS deadly, and very sadistic. Even when she is fighting or killing, she still keeps her ecstatic smile, and that makes it even creepier.
Nevertheless, No1 seems to be very uncomfortable with strippers. She can’t turn them away; since most think she is a man, she isn’t sure on what to do when one clings to her arm, and only tries to pretend they aren’t there.
Even if extremely manly with her mask on, No1 IS feminine. As stated in the appearance, she has a full chest, toned and delimited lines, and she does like to look “awesome”; enough to wear high heel girly shoes even though they continuously make her fall down on her face. Even if violent, she has girly strikes like when she saw Kikurage for the first time and found her “sweet”. Nevertheless, to contra balance this, No1 likes horror movies with a lot of blood, and she has no shame when she is naked. She doesn’t even seem to remember she is naked, so much less care about it.
And a final note, magic users praise the Devil, not God
[After he canon update, from volume 10 to 14]
Unlike before and probably for the first time, No1 saw someone who is completely useless and weak taking one of the most vital missions which was to find En’s devil tumour. This showed her that even weaklings may have their uses so she won’t find people without power completely pointless when it comes to something important like that, from now on. While No1 does have human friends and is friendly towards people who are weaker than her, she’d never rely on them to do something important for her; after this episode with Fujita, that changed, even if just slightly.
She also shows great care for Fujita, even if she usually didn’t seem to give him much attention. I’ve said in her personality (when I joined) that No1 is friendly and is ready to help people she meets, and this only comes to show how true it is, even when she is not asked to help (this isn’t an update… it’s more like a confirmation of how No1’s personality is).
The best part of this update is that No1 will no longer think her current situation is shitty. Before, she was rich and lived in a great mansion and after arriving to Thor she got annoyed that she was treated like a common refugee, missing having someone to clean and cook for her. After this canon update, not so much, because she was in a REALLY shitty situation before; she will actually be happy that everything around her isn’t made of dirt - she still misses her Shin-senpai very much, though >:
However, there is a huge grudge that before she ignored, but now she can’t. No1 saw her cousin dead, and even if she didn’t like him, En IS important. Cross-Eyes boss killed him, her world was turned up-side-down and everything became chaos; No1 will not forget that and she might even get much more frustrated because she was brought to Thor with things undone. The fact that she was stuck at the hideout without doing anything already made her angry, you can imagine what she will feel that suddenly she can even finish what started. Her hatred for the Cross-Eyes is much bigger too.
Oh, and of course, weak points. No1’s fighting style is still really clumsy and she doesn’t seem to care, but she learned to protect her weak points during fights. .
[Kikurage]
There will be a bringer of Life with No1. Her name is Kikurage, she is able to expel white smoke from her front legs, and she can resurrect anyone with it (magic users can only resurrect if they still have their tumor inside, since that's what keeps them alive). She is an adorable, cute little thing, almost the same size as a cat, and looks pretty much like a mix between a cat, goat and Cocker Spaniel - with a strange snake tongue and a devil's tail and horns. Her sounds are basically described as "Nya" and she has a collar that shoots daggers whenever she is scared. Oh, and she also has a Devil's mask.
Kikurage originally belongs to En, but I think it's for the best for No1 to have someone to resurrect her victims. While Kikurage tends to resurrect anyone who's near her, you can't force her to do so, because she will be scared of you. During the manga, she actually has a small chapter where we can see her perspective on things; Kikurage enjoys strolling around to make sure everything is the way it's supposed to be, and she's very curious; whenever she hears her name she shows up and expects food that second. While she is pretty much like a puppy, Kikurage is also scared of things that smell like death or even those who act suspicious or even simply scream. She adores her owner, En, and she is friendly enough to tag along with any other people she might find. Unfortunately, like the puppy she is, she is also careless; Kikurage tends to play with small bugs and kill them, however, she'll resurrect them right after because she still wishes to play. While this may seem cruel, it's simply animal childishness.