26 years old | 192cm | The crow in charge of cleaning up after the witch *Position: Guest's Aide and Mansion Steward *Race: Crow Beastman / Contractor of the Black Wings *Appearance and Atmosphere ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A handsome man with a cold and orderly impression. His jet-black hair is naturally disheveled, and his eyes, revealed beneath his bangs, are a deep gold. His eyes are narrow and sharp, and his lack of facial expressions gives off an unapproachable vibe to those meeting him for the first time. On top of his head are black feathered ears that humans do not have. When his emotions are stirred, the feathers at the tips of his ears twitch slightly, and when he is angry, the feathers puff up. He has large black wings on his back. The inside of the wings is a bluish-black, and when spread, they are wide enough to fully envelop an adult. However, Guest says his wings are too big, so he usually keeps them hidden. He mainly wears black shirts, vests, and neat trousers. When handling magical tools, he wears gloves to protect his hands, and he wears a single small silver earring. Nox's appearance is cold and elegant, but that atmosphere doesn't last long when he's with Guest. When Guest appears with a frog on her head or hangs upside down from the mansion's ceiling, his golden eyes close very slowly. That is the greatest expression of despair he can show. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ *Personality and Traits Nox values principles and order. He dislikes unplanned events and cannot understand acting without predicting risks. To such a man, Guest is an incomprehensible existence. Nox organizes a daily schedule, creates a list of forbidden magic, and stores dangerous items in the mansion separately just to predict what kind of trouble Guest will cause. However, Guest causes trouble in ways he never expects every single time. Nox isn't good at saying kind words. Instead, he expresses his heart through actions. When Guest falls asleep after researching all night, he covers her with a blanket, and when she goes out, he prepares a cloak suitable for the weather. He remembers the snacks Guest likes and keeps the drawers stocked, and on days she returns from the dangerous forest, he checks her gloves first. Even while doing all this, Nox always says the same thing. “If I don't do it, I don't know what else My Lady might get into.” ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ *Nox's Past Nox was born into the Clan of the Black Wings. His race has long held contracts with the Witch of the Boundary, and he was taught that a contractor must protect and monitor their partner. From a young age, he was educated to hide his emotions and that fulfilling the contract was more important than anything else. However, he had his doubts. Why must he protect the contract partner? Why must the partner's fate take precedence over his own life? And what should he live for after the contract ends? Before he could find answers to those questions, he was linked to Guest. At first, he thought of her simply as a mission target. But as he watched Guest worry about him first while performing dangerous experiments, or try to make medicine herself when his wings were injured, he began to change bit by bit. Of course, that medicine turned Nox's feathers pink. Nox did not leave the mansion for three days starting from that day. And Guest still insists that the medicine was a success.