Nu

"Please leave the rest to me. I’ll extract information from him."

- Nu to Shadow

Nu (ニュー) (Νύ), formerly known as Nicoletta Marquez (ニコレッタ・マルケス) is a member of Shadow Garden, being one of the Named Numbers. Initially codenamed No. 93, she quickly rose through the ranks and she is currently Gamma's personal assistant and bodyguard.

Appearance
Nu is an extraordinarily beautiful young woman with dark brown hair and eyes with matching color, fair skin with a clean skin complexion. Her hair is parted to give her face full view, her long hair ending roughly around her waistline, with two locks of hair partitioned beside her cheeks ending at breast length, and decorative choker around her throat.

When working under the Mitsugoshi Company, her attire is professional, as to be expected of a woman in a commercial workforce. She wears a collared V-neck, deep blue mini-one piece atop a white dress, stockings with high heels.

When operating as a Shadow Garden Numbers, she wears the standard Slime Bodysuit with golden decorations and adornments to denote high rank. Her torso carries the standard unitard center connecting to the top with a jacket shouldering, with parallel gold trims descending the center of her torso from her breasts to her pelvis. Her sleeves have gold decoration circling under her deltoid, with violet gem coloring, with a thin gold trimming on the back that forms a T on the upper back. She wears matching cesti with gold accents, a small harness under her breasts with golden clasps that connect to the back of her attire, and her belt is a suit standard with gold hip guards and violet centers. She has symmetrical detailing of three belts across both her thighs, and boots with gold trims along the joints and gold decoration at the pull loop just before the collar, and golden leg guards forward of each of her boots.

Personality
"I’m not as kind as Master Shadow. Don’t think I’ll let you die in peace."

- Nu to her enemies

Nu is a dutiful and hardworking young lady who always interacts with her superiors and customers with a beautiful smile. Beneath that persona, however, lies a dark side and she can be quite ruthless and cruel to her enemies, especially those that slighted her beloved master, Shadow. Her enemies would sometimes be sadistically tortured to make them see the error of their ways.

In her old life, Nu was very passive when she was a young noble girl, following the orders of her family. Despite being controlled throughout her childhood, she was somewhat content with her situation due to the small joys she did gain from it. Even in present day, she held some fondness for her old life.

After meeting Cid, Nu became very loyal to him and has shown to have a crush on him, thanking him for granting her freedom. She displays an open hostility towards anyone who causes the slightest grievance towards him and would not hesitate to kill in order to protect his true identity.

Powers & Abilities
Despite having just joined Shadow Garden, Nu quickly rose through the ranks to become one of the Named Numbers, with even Alpha validating her skills. She has shown to be athletic, intelligent, and professional, making her the perfect fit to serve as Gamma's bodyguard.

Adept Combatant
Despite not having the immense strength and mana reserves her superior has, Nu proved to be an excellent fighter as she disarms a man without moving from her stance at least in battle. While Nu doesn't match Gamma's intellect when acting as her assistant, she is the better fighter when it comes to being her bodyguard as she was assigned to handle all of Gamma's fights due to Gamma's extreme clumsiness in coordination and technique of harnessing such power.

Master of Disguise
In addition to her combat skills, Nu is also skilled at disguise. But unlike most members of Shadow Garden, this is her greatest skill as she is an expert in disguising her figure to avoid detection and infiltrate enemy bases. When she meets Cid and accompanying him in the Academy, Nu dressed herself in an academy uniform with an inconspicuous presentation, blending as a background character and she is able to mask her presence during missions. Cid only recognizes her because he remembers her voice.

Swordsmanship
As a Shadow Garden agent, Nu is trained in their advanced and unique swordplay. When she joined her sisters in repelling the terrorists, she used to swordplay to slay numerous attackers.

Standard equipment:

 * Slime Bodysuit:
 * Slime weapons:

Interrogation Specialist
Nu is also capable of being an interrogator who uses several methods of torture to crush her victims and force them to reveal their secrets, which shown when she will use any means to get information out of the Cult of Diablos members.

Makeup Slime
By taking the Slimes normally used to create the bodysuits, they can instead be used in specialized masks to disguise someone as another person. Nu applied this to Cid by helping him to be disguised as "Mundane Mann" for entering the Bushin Festival tournament, without fear of being exposed to his true identity as Shadow.

Trivia

 * When Nu first met Cid, she was the newest member in Shadow Garden, thus would have been roughly at 600 among the Numbers. However, she advanced in rank by displaying capability to her numerical superiors until she reached the Named Number Rank of Nu, no. 13.
 * Nu's real age is unknown, but she stated that if she didn't have a Demon Possession, she would have been attending the academy in her second year, which means she was roughly one year older than Cid at the time of her introduction.
 * However, in the game "The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden", Nu's said that her age is 18 years old.
 * Within the game, it is revealed that Nu was the first possessed human to be saved by Shadow Garden, as well as symbolizing future humans with possession can be saved.
 * Technically, the first known human to be cured of possession in this world would be Claire Kagenou.
 * Nu would actually be the first human to be cured after Shadow Garden's establishment.
 * Nu's seiyuu, Maaya Uchida, previously played Rikka Takanashi from the light novel series, Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai!, a person with Eight Grade Syndrome similar to Cid Kagenou.
 * Nu is one of the girls, in Shadow who has shown to have certain feelings of love for her Master, although this as such is not entirely clear in the light novel, in the web novel, in the manga and in the anime. except in the game.
 * Within the game, Nu shows that she is in love with her lord, to the point of asking him that if he likes her, she could accompany him in bed. 
 * The light novel, web novel and Manga, has Nu only optioning to kill her former fiancé if he learned the truth about Shadow's identity. In the anime and Game, Nu is seemingly willing to murder him on sight if Cid hadn't arrived and talked her down.