Lulu

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**Lulu** (ルル *Ruru*) is a companion of Civil and Soara Habaki. Either through natural ability or by theoretical possession of an Elemental Eye, she is capable of hearing the voices of Elementals. A powerful, high-ranking stone elemental that once accompanied Leuf Vellize is currently in her company.

## Appearance

Lulu is a girl with viridian eyes, brown skin, and bobbed, chin-length straight black hair parted on the right; consequently, her bangs often cover her left eye. She typically wears a simple white frock with a flower-patterned, bow-sporting yoke; the frock's flower-lined hem falls below her knees. Both of her wrists are adorned in three gold bangles, and her feet are clad in sandals.

The stone elemental that accompanies her and once accompanied Vellize appears to be a crystalline solid around which orbit eight jagged shards and a smooth, thin band.

## Chronology

When Civil A. Sabaramond catches word of an incident with whiffs of sorcery—an 'invisible flock of hands' spotted over a Shinjuku rooftop—he heads to Japan in order to find the potential sorcerer behind the incident. Lulu and Soara Habaki join him. Shinjuku's evening sky greets them with a thunderstorm when they arrive, and Civil responds by ingesting one or more lightning elementals on a rooftop. Lulu and Soara respond by sheltering in the rooftop's enclosed stairwell, the former teary-eyed and the latter shouting over the torrent that she can hardly hear Civil at such a distance. Civil's tunic flaps about in the wind as Civil alights on the rooftop, the original simplified Byandy imperial emblem fully visible on the tunic's back; Lulu questions the wisdom of displaying the emblem so freely, but Civil thinks it no longer matters in light of recent events.

At a call from 'HQ' about an emergency call Hideaki Habaki has made from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Civil puts aside his hotel search to temporarily plunge the MPD building into a blackout, providing Habaki an opportunity to escape and join them on safer rooftops. Lulu and Soara stay out of sight as Civil greets Habaki; Habaki initially is gratified to see Civil, thinking Civil has come to his rescue, but he is proved wrong when Soara, the daughter he 'donated' to the Bastard Children of Sabaramond as a test subject and whom he has long thought dead, emerges to payback the pain he caused her tenfold.

Lulu and Civil discuss places to eat on the maintenance room's/enclosed stairwell's rooftop while Soara assaults Habaki below, neither paying the unilateral fight mind until Habaki, dangling by his neck in Soara's fist, chokes out that he can still be useful to the organization. Civil is quite sure Habaki is mistaken, remarking that Habaki spent too much time looking forward when he ought to have at least glanced behind him, both in Soara's case and in this very moment—in this moment, a bullet streaks through Habaki's skull, killing him instantly.

Civil grants Soara three minutes to pursue the two offending snipers located in another building. Soara takes over three minutes and destroys the building's scaffolding in the process, during which time Lulu and Civil descend to the street, though she is able to catch up with them before long. They continue walking until Civil stops and turns, a glint in his eyes; Lulu asks if something is the matter, and he replies he felt a strange sensation—one from the direction they came in, Soara notes, but Civil says they ought not to return whence they came given the likelihood of encountering police.

In the hours post-nightfall, Civil has Soara steal the phones of and strangle the Shinoyama personnel monitoring the purlieu of the Torture Building, upon the rooftop of which the 'invisible hands' incident took place. Civil spends some amount of the rest of the day analyzing the personnel's cell phones; what Lulu does is unknown.

Over breakfast or lunch at an eatery the next day, Civil talks to Lulu and Soara about the data he gleaned from the stolen phones: apparently, the personnel's main duty is to monitor and protect neophyte fortuneteller Polka Shinoyama, though Polka's half niece Sayo Shinoyama also resides in the Torture Building. Lulu wonders if Polka can truly see the future, whereas Soara dwells on the potential strength of whatever organizations are keeping tabs on the place.

The trio head to the Torture Building to see Polka's skills for themselves, though, given the crowd of milling customers they find when they arrive, they will have to queue first. Lulu's appearance draws the attention of people close by, with one woman wondering if she, too, is a fortuneteller. She blushes at the attention and turns her own to Soara, who seems tense; at Lulu's inquiry into her wellbeing, Soara comments on an uncanny chill tinging the air. A male customer in front of them eagerly chimes in that Soara's sense must be genuine, for the residing fortuneteller is a genuine article.

Civil invites the man to discuss the fortuneteller with them, making up a backstory for himself and his companions by the time the four of them are at the front of the queue. There, the two men talk about the invisible hands incident and Phantom Solitaire's involvement, eventually bursting into mutual laughter at the man's suggestion Solitaire and a preternatural entity were rehearsing an elaborate dance routine. Lulu is pleased to see how well the two are getting along. Before the man enters the divination room for his appointment, he introduces himself as Mikoto Saimyouji and suggests Civil find him on social media. Civil does, and learns from Saimyouji's Twittia account that he is a medical examiner.

Once Civil's number is called—customer number 26—he tells Soara and Lulu to wait for him in the corridor. Lulu anxiously asks if he will be fine alone, but Soara assures her that very few people could hope to best "this guy." Lulu and Soara sit together for an undefined amount of minutes until Lulu straightens, having heard the elemental's voice. While she listens, the other customers undergo a collective mood shift; muttering idiosyncratic excuses for why they must leave, they begin vacating the corridor and the premises altogether.

As soon as Lulu understands the elemental's guidance, she bursts into the divination room to pass along the warning: this place is dangerous, if not under attack as they speak. Civil asks with disappointment whether Lulu and Soara cannot handle it on their own, but Soara vouches for Lulu's ever-reliable ears. When Civil stands to leave, Soara is the first of the three out of the door—whereupon a barehanded strike to her side sends her hurtling toward a wall.

Soara's attacker, Taipei, accuses her of being the culprit behind the slew of recent attacks on Shinoyama personnel. Soara refuses Civil's assistance in the fight which promptly begins between her and Taipei, one which Lulu and Civil watch side by side until Civil's cell phone rings. When Civil's countenance changes at the Caller ID, Lulu asks what the matter is. With a low chuckle, Civil whispers into her ear before intervening in the fight: concurrent with Kochou Eightport's camera flash, he steps forward and blasts Taipei away from Soara with a burst of magic.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 7, Chapter 57.
2. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 6, Chapter 52.
3. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 7, Chapter 53.
4. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 7, Chapter 54.
5. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 8, Chapter 62.
6. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 8, Chapter 63.
7. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 8, Chapter 64.
8. ↑ *Dead Mount Death Play* (Manga): Volume 8, Chapter 65.