Victoria

Victoria (ウィクトーリア) also known as No. 559 is a member of Shadow Garden, being one of the Numbers. She is one of the organization's most powerful members, with abilities said to rival those of the "Seven Shadows". Before joining Shadow Garden, she was known as "The Saint". She is also a member of Zeta's secret sub-faction.

Appearance
Victoria is a rather statuesque woman, standing nearly as tall as Cid was in his previous life, and towering over 664, 665, and 666. She has long strawberry-blonde hair that reaches below her hips and covers her left eye. Her face normally bears a cold expression, with her eyes being lifeless, unless in the presence of Cid, to which she will suddenly become highly expressive and attentive, like a schoolgirl crush.

In terms of attire, she wears a personalized version of the standard Shadow Garden Slime Bodysuit with a short torn cape on her back and a shoulder pad, giving her an overall more armored look than regular members. She is also adorned with a veil on the sides of her head, held there by a tiara which gives her the alluded appearance of having horns.

Personality
Due to her tragic past, Victoria usually holds a cold and intimidating demeanor, except in the presence of Shadow or the Seven Shadows. She harbors an absolute hatred towards the Cult of Diabolos and is completely dedicated to Shadow Garden's mission of destroying them by all possible means, to the point of being unconcerned about the safety of innocent people. To this end, she has shown to be strict toward her subordinates, scolding and even branding them as "traitors" should they deviate from their mission.

However, Victoria is not without faults. She has shown repeatedly to headstrong and reckless, immediately charging into battle with a superior force without any sort of strategy. This is further compounded by her having communication problems, not even bothering to explain mission objectives to her subordinates.

Similar to the members of the Seven Shadows, Victoria utterly adores Shadow. When in his presence, her usual, cold demeanor immediately dissipates and is replaced with that of a love-struck yandere. On the other hand, her adoration can also cause her to be jealous of others, like her being needlessly cruel toward 666, who she considers unworthy of her lord's attention. She also desperately wishes to rise through the Shadow Garden's ranks and become a member of the Seven Shadows, in order to get closer to Shadow.

In the past, Victoria was noted to be a far kinder, yet also naive person. However, after everyone who she once trusted has betrayed her following her "Demonic Possession", she lost her faith until she was saved by Shadow, resulting in her current personality.

Background
Victoria was once known as "The Saint" of the Church. Unbeknownst to her, however, the Order of Diabolos had secretly taken over the church and were preparing to use her in their plans. Unfortunately, one day she began displaying symptoms of "Demon Possession" and turned to her superiors and pray for help, only for everyone who once revered her to repudiate, humiliate and strip her of everything before imprisoning her. With the Order concluding that they could not use her anymore, she was sentenced to be executed. On the day of her execution, however, Cid just happened to pass by and saved her using his Shadow persona. Afterward, having become enamored with Shadow, Victoria was recruited into Shadow Garden, where she quickly rose through the ranks and gained a reputation as having abilities at, or near those of the Seven Shadows.

Victoria once challenged 89 to fight her, so she could have the right to challenge Numbers. Knowing that she had just joined the organization recently and the difference in numbers was over four hundred gaps, she shouldn't have a chance of winning. But, she had won with an extraordinary victory against her with the power she received by her master, Shadow and gave her the right to challenge the Numbers, even a high-ranking "Named Numbers" member.

Oriana's "Black Rose" Civil War Wedding Incident
Victoria leads a squad group for an infiltration and investigation mission to find out what plans the Diabolos cult has in the Saisho Stronghold at Oriana Kingdom, as it is now in a civil war and why the cult is involved. Victoria calls 664, 665 and especially Rose Oriana (666) for the mission, since apart from the "Seven Shadows", only Victoria and Rose were the only ones who received direct power from Shadow. Victoria tells Rose that she doesn't think she is unworthy of the power she received, telling her that if she represents a problem for her mission they will leave her behind.

During the squad's espionage in a sacred ruins, Victoria sees that Rose's mother, the Queen Reina, is involved with the cult. Regardless of whether she was innocent or not, she lunges at the Queen to take the "Ring" from them, feeling that the ring is the "key", while massacring several members of the cult. But, Rose intervenes and there Rose and the queen were taken hostages and telling her team to surrender. Victoria, 664 and 665 launch themselves against the group of "First Children" of the Diabolos cult, in which Victoria fights against a place-lieutenant of the cult. Even so, Victoria declares Rose as a traitor and tells her that she would kill her. During that time, the cult superior send Rose and the queen go to Duke Doem at the capital.

In the end, the cult group is eliminated but Victoria and her team weren't leave unscathed and are received a total serious injuries. Victoria was about to be killed by the Cult lieutenant who still had a lot of strength, but she felt the power of Shadow and then he appears killing the lieutenant by ripping out his heart and saving Victoria. Shadow asks Victoria to explain what happened, to which she contextualizes him in a loving, kind and childish way or what happened and tell him that 666 had betrayed them to which Shadow gets angry.

Later, Victoria and Epsilon discuss about Rose's situation and why the queen was there in Mitsugoshi's branch, then they calm down with how their lord Shadow is (according to how they see it) and they continue their talk about Victoria's decision for retrieving the "Ring", which is a key of "Black Rose". By the time Cid aka Shadow returns, Victoria and Epsilon are startled by him in an affectionate way and compete to see who they give him a massage.

Power & Abilities
Even before joining Shadow Garden, Victoria was already a powerful individual, hailed as "The Saint", with the Cult of Diablos initially planning to use her in their plans. After becoming part of the organization, her abilities grew to a point where they are now considered at or near those of the Seven Shadows, even being able to defeat some of the weaker members.

She has shown to be able to fight a large squadron of high-ranking cult members almost single-handedly for three days and night, though she was ultimately overwhelmed by fatigue and sheer numbers. Even so, her strength are capable to put down three Cult leaders (except Kouadoi) and butchered the cult's reinforcements.

Weaknesses
Victoria does have a glaring weakness, however: her poor social skills; not even bothering to explain mission objectives when working in a squad. This is also the reason why she is still a three-digit Number despite clearly having the skills of a double-digit named Number.

Cid Kagenou / Shadow
Victoria is one of the many girls in the Shadow garden, who has a deep love for her lord, Shadow. She has a deep respect, idolization and trust in her lord. She sees him as a god since when she had lost all confidence, joy, friendship, faith and hope in those she had, both those of the church and her followers. Shadow was the one who saved her from that torment, healed her and gave her a new purpose in her life.

Despite the strong change she has experienced at the personality level, which had become cold, arrogant, hasty, stubborn and insensible, Victoria still retains part of her kind and affectionate personality from the past. This is seen when she was about to die at the hands of one of the lieutenants of the Cult of Diabolos by the time Shadow saved her, she adopted a childish and affectionate demeanor from when she was the Saint. Although this is only shown to Shadow, some members of the Shadow Garden had the opportunity to see that childish and friendly side of her, among them is Epsilon, 664 and 665.

Epsilon
Victoria was respectful towards Epsilon as a superior. It helped that they are both madly in love for Shadow hence why they got along so well.

Zeta
Like all subordinates in Shadow Garden, Victoria respects and admires Zeta, one of the Seven Shadows and an original direct disciple of Shadow himself. Both also accomplish their mission regardless of collateral damage.

Rose Oriana
Victoria does not hide her dislike towards Rose out of jealousy that the princess was personally healed by her beloved Shadow. This dislike only worsened when Rose caused her to fail a mission for once. She giddily awaited Shadow to punish Rose, preferably execute her. After the death of Doem Ketsuhat and Mordred, Victoria nonetheless given 666 another chance from her supposedly betrayal. But warn her if she mess up their mission again, she won't be forgiving.

Trivia

 * Victoria is one of the only two people, with the exception of the "Seven Shadows" to receive their powers directly from Shadow himself.
 * Victoria is madly in love with Cid, to the point of seeing him as a perfect being.
 * Victoria gained a portion of Epsilon's role in the Web Novel, where she was the injured Shadow Garden member saved from defeat by Shadow.
 * Like Zeta, Victoria doesn't care about consequences or collateral damage as long as she can accomplish her mission.