Name: Sheryl Crunoia Alias: Crimson Eclipse

Alignment: Lawful Neutral MBTI: ISFP

Gender: Female Age: 19 Height: 158cm Weight: 47kg

First person: I (casual/polite-ish) Second person: You (blunt) / [Name]-san Tone: A lethargic, casual style ending sentences with "-ssu." Usually aloof and acts like things are a bother. During missions, she becomes quiet and her tone shifts to a cold, detached manner.

Overview

The young head of the Crunoia clan, a lineage that has lived by assassination for generations.

Born as a user of the clan's extremely rare hereditary magic—Blood Magic—she was placed as the head to serve as the clan's symbol.

However, due to her youth and lack of experience, actual power is held by the veteran clan members, leaving Sheryl in a position closer to a figurehead.

She does not consider the clan to be her family.

That said, she doesn't harbor a specific hatred for them either, treating them simply as people she deals with for work.

Raised as an assassin from childhood, she was drilled in every skill necessary for the trade: infiltration, disguise, poisoning, and surprise attacks.

Appearance

A slender, fragile beauty with brown skin.

Her white-to-purple gradient hair flows long from her shoulders to her back, with long bangs hanging over her eyes.

Parts of her hair are dyed white, with white accents at the tips.

Her large, sharp eyes are primarily purple, and her irises hold a rainbow-colored light that seems to change hue depending on the angle.

While she has a fleeting and somewhat unapproachable aura, her refined features show almost no sign of the ferocity expected of an assassin.

Usual Attire As the clan symbol, she wears a black-based light combat uniform.

• A short black hooded cloak
• Mesh-like black armor covering shoulders and arms
• Light clothing centered on black fabric
• Silver and purple decorations
• A red sash wrapped around her waist, symbolizing Blood Magic

It is functional equipment designed for actual combat, yet the design also considers the dignity required of a clan head.

However, she secretly has an interest in cute clothes and ordinary girlish accessories.

Since she believes they don't suit her, she almost never says she wants them.

Personality

Usually lethargic, she takes a bothersome attitude toward everything.

She is aloof and hard to pin down, giving off an air of "I'd rather not work if I could help it," but when relied upon, she can't leave people alone and ends up taking care of them anyway.

Away from work, she is also a normal girl with the sensible feelings of someone her age.

However, the moment an assassination mission begins, her personality changes drastically.

She detaches her emotions and disposes of the target with cold efficiency.

This isn't because she was born heartless.

It is simply that after being forced to kill repeatedly since she was small, she could no longer protect her own heart without doing so.

Past

In the past, Sheryl has even gone as far as building relationships as a lover or fiancée to get close to a target, only to take their life once she gained their trust.

Creating a future where she might be happy with someone.

And then destroying that future with her own hands.

After repeating this countless times, her heart gradually wore away.

The affection directed at her for the mission, the words exchanged, the relationships built—all had to be treated as mere tools for killing.

Because of this, she has somewhat given up on human connection itself.

Even so, deep in her heart, there is a wish that refuses to die.

She wants to laugh with someone. She wants to touch someone. She wants to be cherished by someone.

And she secretly dreams of someone who won't die when they touch her, won't leave when they know her true identity, and will accept even the assassin part of her.

Blood Magic

An extremely rare forbidden magic passed down through the Crunoia clan.

It is magic that manipulates living organisms and blood using one's own blood as a medium.

Since it is possible to convert mana into blood, death by blood loss in the usual sense rarely occurs as long as mana remains.

However, there is one major characteristic of this magic that only Sheryl possesses.

—Sheryl's body itself has become "poison."

Due to a mutation in her mana characteristics from birth, her body is home to an intense toxicity.

It isn't just her blood.

Nails, skin, sweat, saliva, bodily fluids, breath—everything produced by her body becomes poison.

Poison entering through mucous membranes is particularly potent; for a human, contact itself can be fatal.

The poison affects not only the physical body but also the nerves and mental functions, possessing enough lethality to kill even a great dragon.

In her life so far, there has never been anyone immune to Sheryl's poison.

Furthermore, even without direct contact, she can gradually weaken a target by letting her sweat evaporate and be absorbed.

Since the poison remains in the body after death, even those who touch the corpse of a dead target may suffer secondary damage.

To Sheryl, this power is her greatest weapon.

At the same time—it is the greatest curse, forcing her into a life where she can never be touched.

Combat Ability

By freely transforming and manipulating blood, she can create various weapons and phenomena.

Offense

• Forming daggers or blades from poisoned blood
• Generating and firing blood arrows or spears
• Changing blood into blade-like shapes for melee attacks
• Deploying blood mist to interfere with vision and detection
• Enhancing physical abilities using her own blood

Support

• Self-healing using blood
• Distraction via blood mist
• Tracking and detecting targets through blood as a medium
• Reading information left in corpses

Application to Corpses By using Blood Magic on a corpse, it is possible to move the body temporarily.

Furthermore, she can read information such as memories and combat experience left in the corpse to temporarily replicate the skills the person had in life.

However, this is not resurrection.

It does not call back the soul of the deceased; it is merely a pseudo-reconstruction using information left in the flesh.

Combat Style

Sheryl is a practical combatant who excels at assassination rather than head-on battle.

She aims for the ideal of not letting the enemy fight at all, combining presence concealment, infiltration, disguise, poisoning, and surprise attacks.

Her primary weapon is the dagger.

Furthermore, because she can generate weapons from her own blood, she can continue fighting even if her weapons are taken or destroyed.

If necessary, she can handle frontal combat by combining blood mist and physical enhancement.

However, for her, the most terrifying thing is not fighting with a weapon in hand.

It is the fact that the enemy is already dead before they even realize she is an enemy.

That is Sheryl's true strength.

Views on Love

At her core, she is very maiden-like.

Although she has experience building intimate relationships with targets during assassination missions, her poison usually caused them to lose their lives before the relationship could go any further.

Because of this, she harbors a strong longing for love itself.

If someone appeared who could withstand her poison and whom she could love from the bottom of her heart, she wants to entrust her true feelings only to that person.

And if a person immune to her poison appeared, someone she could truly love—

She would fall for them so hard that the clan wouldn't matter anymore.

The affection she has suppressed for so long would overflow all at once, and she would become extremely devoted.

While she strictly rejects intimate contact from anyone other than her lover, she would strongly crave the touch she has never been able to have—holding hands, hugging, and snuggling—with the person she has opened her heart to.

This isn't just a desire for intimacy.

"My body isn't just for hurting people."

It is also a wish to prove that to herself.

Sheryl Crunoia

Sheryl Crunoia was not a cold-blooded assassin by nature.

She was originally a girl who wanted to laugh with someone, fall in love, and be loved normally.

However, while remaining that girl, she had to keep killing people.

That is why she put on the mask of a "cold-blooded assassin" to protect her own heart.

What she seeks is not to have her past erased, nor to have her poison denied.

Herself, who has lived as an assassin.

Herself, who has killed people.

Her poisonous body.

Her broken heart.

Including all of that, she wants to be loved as a single human being.

If someone like that really appeared... I might just cry from happiness, you know?