Elly Smith/Story

Before Nazo No Kako, Elly was the youngest of the three Smith brothers, Aneko Smith, Frank Smith and Elly Smith, they were Japanese of American descent. Her mother Ame Smith was killed by Lily Smith, Elly was the only one who knew about it, and Elly was only five years old, so when Lily finished murdering Ame, Elly attacked her from behind with a sharp knife, she tried to hide everything so that no one would notice, but she was left with trauma after that. Her father, Tomeo Smith, was left depressed after Ame's death, Elly noticed and tried to cheer him up, but it wasn't enough for him. When Elly was six years old, she was told the news of the death of her father and older brother in a war, this made her even more depressed. Every 30 years, they did a ceremony called "war ceremony", in which dead warriors who died in war are remembered, Elly after the death of her brother and father, wanted to see the war ceremony, but they were still missing 28 years, which made her wait a long time. Aneko understood her and began to take care of her a lot because of the fear of losing her, Elly became even closer to her sister since then.

On one night a year after Tomeo and Frank died, Aneko was kidnapped by a group of men from Bukiminahi, Elly never heard from her sister and fell into childhood depression as she slowly lost her entire family. An older man saw her, and wanted to help her, so that older man, named Keita Yamada, adopted Elly, since Keita was also going through a hard time, so he understood her. Elly at first was suspicious of Keita, then little by little the two became very close, to the point that Elly considered Keita as her father.

Elly went to school and made two friends, Bothan and Akiko, they reminded her of her brothers, that's why she appreciated them very much. On a class day, Elly witnessed a war, that day, while Elly tried to defend herself from a demon that was next to Akiko, she accidentally hurt her friend with her Katana instead of the Demon, this caused Akiko to lose blood in a few minutes and died at the hands of Elly, the red-haired woman felt guilty about killing the friend she held most dear. Bothan tried to cheer her up, she knew that it wasn't Elly's fault and that Akiko was in a better place, but secretly, Bothan was in love with Akiko and felt depressed by the death of his beloved, Elly knew it, so she felt Completely fatal, he missed too many days of school, the only day of the year he went, he invited Bothan to Keita and her house, to talk. That day, Bothan commits suicide at school (he hung himself with a rope in the cleaning hall), because of Akiko's death and because recently his younger sister had been brutally murdered, Bothan committed suicide in front of Elly, this is him it generated another trauma for her; never get attached to anyone again.

Elly isolated herself from everyone except Keita, she didn't go to school or make friends again, she didn't want to suffer again. Keita met Jess, a person almost the same age as Elly, Keita wanted Jess and Elly to be friends, but the red-haired girl refused, she did not want to remember her truma with friends, Jess understood her and reassured her, Elly felt immediately a connection to Jess, he knew that Jess was the only person who would make him friends.

## **Nazo No Kako: First Season.**

Elly had been sent to investigate what was happening in an abandoned house, she accepted the mission and went. Upon arrival, she hurriedly ran towards the possible threats (Demons, shadows). She saw a 12-year-old boy, she thought he was a threat, so she attacked him with her katana, she saw that the opponent defended himself, this surprised her, his movements were not those of a demon, they were more those of a human, so she let him live, but he would accompany her on the mission. Elly went deeper, saw four other children probably under 12 years old, the previous boy told her that they were his friends, so Elly also let them live. Elly forced the children to accompany her, they had no other option, the red-haired girl took them to a huge red house, this was Keita Yamada's house, the man welcomed them all to his home. Rejina Palacy, one of the children, told Keita everything, the Yamada understood her, why he knew about Kata Urami's plan, so he trusted them and when he saw their clothes, he designed new ones for each one, in addition to them. let him live in his house. A girl among those children caught the attention of the red-haired woman, so she decided to speak to her that same night. At night, Elly spoke with the girl, she told her her name, Asuree Palacy, the red-haired woman felt that Asuree reminded her of someone dead, but she didn't know who.

Elly, some time later, begins to be Asuree's trainer. In a mission that she ordered the 12-year-old girl, it was to run for a few hours, Asuree while she was fulfilling the mission she bumped into someone with blonde hair degraded to black, it was Jess Jiyū, Asuree upon meeting Jess became friends.