Nu

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 Number ranks. She currently works as an employee of the Mitsugoshi Company, as well as being Gamma's personal assistant and bodyguard.

When she was rescued by Seven Shadows and joined the organization, she was given the codename No. 93 and during that tenure, she rose through the ranks thanks to her intelligence and fighting skills until she earned a "Named" Rank no. 13 and becoming Named Numbers when she would identify herself as Nu that which makes her a valuable asset to the organization.

Appearance
Nu is a 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 fors 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
Although Nu just entered the Shadow Garden organization after being cured, her intelligence, professionalism and physical prowess were so strong that Alpha herself validated her skills, quick rise in rank and making her one of the double-digit Numbers, which she are given a Greek name. She is eventually assigned to be the personal assistant and bodyguard of Gamma, who is one of the Seven Shadows.

Adept Combatant
Despite not having the immense strength and mana reserves her superior has, Nu proved to be an excellent fighter as she disarming 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 said swordplay to slay numerous attackers.

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 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 is roughly one year older than Cid.
 * However, in the game "The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden", Nu's said that her age is 18 years old. (It is not yet clear if the events or the information that the game provides about the characters can be considered canonical)
 * Within the game, it is revealed that Nu was the first possessed human to be saved by Shadow Garden, as well as symboling that future possessed humans can be saved.
 * Technically, the first person cured by Shadow Garden would be Claire Kagenou by Shadow, who refined the technique upon Alpha.
 * 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 Kagenō. She also played a number of these character archetypes including Ranko Kanzaki (THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls), Kaguya Yamai (Date A Live), Fischl von Luftschloss Narfidort (Genshin Impact) and Megumin (Konosuba Drama CD).
 * 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 she likes her, she could accompany him in bed. (It is not yet clear if the events or the information that the game provides about the characters can be considered canonical)
 * 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.