Zest

Zest is a Demon who originally served her creator, the Demon marquis Zolgear, as his aide. She was sent by the current Demon Lord faction to act as a scout alongside Lars to survey the conditions of Tojo Residence. After Zolgear's defeat, she temporarily served Maria's Mother, Sheera as she lost her original purpose and merely compiled with the demand to join the Moderate Faction. She ultimately serves Basara as she was tied to Basara in the Master and Servant Contract through Sheera's curse.
She was voiced by Seiko Yoshida in the Japanese version, and by Julie Ann Taylor in the English version.
== Bio ==
Zest is one of the demons, made by Zolgia to be his right hand, sent to keep an eye on Mio alongside Lars, who is originally envious of the pacts that Basara has with Maria, Mio and Yuki, since they care for each other. She later joins Basara's group as the fifth female and third demon girl following Zolgia's defeat and her defection to the Moderate faction. After spending time with Maria's mother, Sheera, Basara discovers that her bust had become considerably larger. She and Basara are convinced by Sheera to make a third master–servant pact, to not only increase their strength but also to protect Zest, who would be in danger should the tension between the demon factions increase. Although Zest was able make a proper master–servant pact with Basara, unlike Mio and Yuki, the aphrodisiac effects of the curse still activate due to Zest's own doubts of her worthiness of being Basara's servant. In contrast to her serious nature during battle, Zest is actually meek and timid on the outside; she sometimes dresses as a maid for Basara and adds the "-sama" honorific to his name. She later becomes the first of the girls who is pregnant with Basara's child.
==Appearance==
Zest is a tall woman with short white hair, tanned skin and golden/greenish eyes. She was created by Zolgear according to his tastes of women, and thus has shapely and sturdy figure. She has a tail which resembles a rabbit, which may imply that she may be created from the corpse of such animal. Her rabbit ear like horns also implied her peculiar origin. When in her battle attire is a revealing middle of her chest and tight black dress, with black gold shoulder plate and white stocking, this was also her everyday attire until she came to serve Sheera, which replaced it with a modest looking maid attire.
In Volume V, Basara noted that after serving Sheera, Zest's boob size grew considerably.
==Personality==
Zest is known to be fiercely loyal to her master. Cold and calculating, she never go against her master's decisions. She, however, does not practice blind obedience and would advise her master should she feels that her master's decisions would result in undesirable consequences. This trait was exemplified as she advised Zolgear to refrain from raping Mio Naruse before her powers are completely extracted, as this will result to the loss of her powers which was essential if Zolgear were to overthrow the current Demon King, Leohart.
Cold as she is, nonetheless, it did not mean that she did not have the capacity of having and feeling emotions. This was first implied when she scouted the Toujou Residence during Basara's subjugation of Mio and Yuki Nonaka, wondering if Zolgear would love her as Basara would to his servants, or what if Basara were her master instead, although she asserted that she felt "no jealousy whatsoever". Her emotions became even clearer as she served Sheera, and later, Basara. It appeared that she has a complex and constantly wonders whether she is useful enough to her master.
She is also revealed to have a humble and meek personality when she is not fighting her master's enemies, and is the only one amongst those bounded by the Master-Servant contract with him to address Basara with the honorific "-sama".
==External links==
*http://shinmaimaou.wikia.com/wiki/Zest
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