Ming·Z·Lu

CV
Akie Kotabe
2/14
 Blood Type
AB
 Weight
Unknown
Wearing suits,
gaming and
controlling
the Dream World

## Appearance

The boy has a pair of light golden eyes and looks about 13 to 14 years old, handsome and elegant. He always wears a black suit with a white silk scarf and a pair of white square toe leather shoes.

## Biography

Little is known about his true origins, he claims to have lived for thousands of years and knowing Luminous for just as long. His current story begins in Black Swan Bay, where he was located by a young Renata, a fellow orphan. Since Herzog kept him locked in "Room zero", he adopted "Zero" as his name. He became friends with Renata and they attempted to escape the facility together, making an oath to stay by each other's side.

After the presence of a spy was discovered, Herzog decided to evacuate with Bondarev while the whole bay was bombed in order to preserve secrecy. The experiments that Herzog made on Number Zero's body made him incapable of moving by his own will and he was too weak to dodge the bombs. In order to keep their oath, Renata sacrificed herself to save him. Seeing his friend die because of him, Number Zero brought her back to life and promised that he would never abandon her.

They left to locate her parents in Moscow. Learning that they sold her to Herzog when she was three years old, he killed them and made a new deal with Renata. Based on his own nickname, he changed her name to "Zero" and made her his servitor.

In 2009, he contacted his "brother" Luminous and started calling himself 'Ming.z.Lu" He started manipulating him with the sole purpose of gaining control over his body and life through a series of four deals. Three of them were made, resulting in the defeats of Norton, Fenrir and Izanami.

During the return of the White King, he fused with Mingfei and temporarily gained his original form back. He finally acquired the last quarter of Mingfei's soul in exchange for defeating Odin, but he had to give it back after failing to win the fight. Slowly gaining a more sympathetic attitude towards Mingfei, he helped him until his original body was finally located.

## Relationships

### Luminous

Luminous calls this boy "Little Devil" and, in return, he calls Luminous "Brother". Despite no indication he is his brother, nor liked, Ming·Z does so anyway.

Ming·Z tends to stop time or transfer Luminous to a dreamland to talk. However, much to the latter's annoyance, he does so to make attempts at steering the other's behavior. Often, he suggests that Luminous accept dealings that involve himself gaining a quarter of Luminous' soul for a service. That, or give out free gifts as a preview of his capabilities in frustration at constant refusal.

### Zero (Renata)

As Z, he befriends both Renata and (Player) at Black Swan Bay's orphanage. At some point, the two make an oath. After Renata dies during the attack, he recovers her body and presumably revives her.

## Skills

### Ultimate Skill - Ability Boost

At Lv.1, Ming·Z·Lu brings the dream world into reality, randomly granting 1-4 buffs, including Crit, AP, Multiple and CD, lasts 10 sec.

*Anything that hasn't happened can be changed.*

### Special Skill - Royal Whispers

At Lv.1, When attacking, Ming·Z·Lu has a chance to create a zone that disables skills at the target's feet and reduces the target's Move SPD for 10 sec.

*Snap, and the flowing air stopped.*

### Passive Skill - Blood Gift

At Lv.1, Increases Multistrike and Multistrike%

*A gift of blood, a sword of blood, which will never break.*

## Trivia

* In the novel, some details are clearer
	+ Ming·Z's real identity is...
		- Z/Zero originates from his room number at the orphanage
		- Ming·Z is the name of Luminous' cousin, which had greatly confused the latter
	+ He has a physical body and can detach from it. He aims for Luminous' soul, and by proxy his body, to one day free his own from its current imprisonment