Michelle Octo

"*Sinful woman... Now, repent.*"
―Michelle Octo

**Michelle Octo**, codenamed **No. 8** and also regarded as the **Master of the Hellish Yard**, was an assassin in the USE Dark Star Bureau's PN and the underling of First Santa Claus. After carrying out a job to kill her lover Nyoze Octo, she swore vengeance on her former master and mother, possessed by the Demon of Wrath. She was one of Behemo's reincarnations.

## History

### Early History

"*Hey father, you labored on your own to raise me. I was born in a deserted house in the forest, I didn't even know my mother's face.*"
―Michelle's perception of her childhood
Michelle was conceived from an adulterous, incestuous affair between Elluka Marlon and Ma under the alias "Gakuga Octo", with Gakuga using the baby as a receptacle for Behemo's curse. After Michelle was born in EC 964, Ma left the baby in the Millennium Tree Forest, having her apprentice Hanma Baldured raise her, taking on the alias "Nikolay Tolle" while occasionally watching over Michelle in an abandoned house.

Raised in isolation and largely ignorant of her parents, over time Michelle concocted a delusion that her father Gakuga, at least, had not abandoned her and was instead just away for long periods of time, inventing occasions where Ma would come by and visit, or even celebrate holidays with her. While periodically waiting for her father's "return," Michelle was tormented at least once by the voices of Adam and Eve insisting she'd really been abandoned. Growing up in the forest, she also found herself protected again and again by apparent chance coincidences, unaware that the god in the forest, Clarith, was protecting her.

In EC 970, Michelle found a small Ziz Tiama that was really Pale Noël in a shape-shifted Grim the End and adopted him, believing him to be a Christmas present from her father. That night, when Pale approached her in a dream, she unwittingly made a contract with him as the Demon of Wrath and became close friends with her new pet "Ziz-san." As she grew older, Nikolay taught Michelle how to get along alone in the forest, under the guise of being a friend of her frequently absent father. He also taught her a limited amount of magic, including ice magic as well as how to telepathically communicate with Ziz-san.

### A Life of Crime

By the time she was fourteen, Michelle joined the Zeus gang in Aceid. In EC 978, when the Zeus member Dio Ames was found murdered, Michelle and Ziz-san accompanied the gang's leader, Narcissus Kissos, to a bar frequented by their rival gang Hades. After they were approached by the bar's owner, the Hades' leader Hardy, Michelle watched Hardy and Narcissus confront each other. When Hardy prepared to have all of the Hades members gang up on Narcissus, Michelle, who herself had been grabbed by a member, telepathically commanded Ziz-san to restrain their opponents with his tentacles.

With Hardy at her mercy, Michelle questioned him over Dio's death; when Hardy denied Hades' involvement in the matter, she had Ziz-san let the members of Hades go and prepared to leave with Narcissus. Just before she did, Hardy added that the wealthy Midas Touch might have been involved in Dio's death. Resolving to investigate later, Michelle and Narcissus parted ways after leaving the bar and Michelle took Ziz-san to the Millennium Tree Forest, dropping him off in the Lake of Amusement.

While there, Michelle visited with Nikolay in his tent, requesting that he look after her pet. After the two discussed Ziz-san for a time, Michelle talked about Nikolay's current drawing, learning it was of his estranged son, until he changed the topic to how he disapproved of her being in Zeus. After brushing off his concerns, Michelle went home. Three days later, Michelle called her back to meet with the others at their abandoned factory hideout. There, she and the other members of Zeus watched as Narcissus brought in a man called "Kandi", who made a deal with them to assassinate Midas Touch while he was sailing back to Elphegort on the S.S. Titanis.

After trying and failing to be included in the assassination party, Michelle chatted with Pan about the upcoming job, among other things. Three days later, Michelle accompanied some of her fellows to a port to await the return of the assassination party. When the group arrived, Michelle and the others were horrified to learn that their comrade Remes had been killed, and that Midas had spotted all of their faces and was in prime position to identify them later.

As all of her friends panicked, Michelle realized what she needed to do and telepathically commanded Ziz-san to sink the S.S. Titanis, killing everyone aboard. After she returned to her shocked friends, the group prepared to leave with the money they obtained; right before she left with them, Michelle received a doll that Ziz-san had fished from the wreckage. She and the others then returned to the hideout and listened to the radio report on the sinking. Later that year, Michelle heard Clarith speaking to her through the doll she'd brought back, telling her that a group was coming to capture her and to flee her home.

Realizing she'd been found out, Michelle listened to the voice's further warnings and then fled,
deciding to go pick up Ziz-san first. As she approached the cave where he was kept, Michelle ran into Gammon Zero and Shiro Elphe, who had arrived to arrest her at gunpoint. As she fled to Ziz-san's pool, she ran into Nikolay, who went to meet with her pursuers, and then found to her horror that Ziz-san's pool had been frozen over. Gammon, Shiro, and Nikolay then arrived, and Michelle was enraged as Nikolay disavowed all ties to her and prepared to turn her in for her crimes. Prevented from fleeing by her former father-figure, Michelle was brought into custody.

### An Impossible Romance

Imprisoned for her crimes, Michelle fumed over Nikolay's apparent betrayal in jail, before being brought before Elluka Marlon in court. After she was sentenced, Gammon arranged to save her from prison, giving her the alias "Themis Eight" with the cover story that Michelle Octo had perished. For the next three years, Michelle lived under the care of the espionage organization Gammon headed named PN. During this time, Shiro taught her marksmanship for self-defense; once Michelle showed proficiency with a gun, she was inducted into PN as an assassin at the age of seventeen, given the codename No. 8. She also deduced that Elluka Marlon was the "Master" of PN.

For her new job, Michelle was sent to live in an apartment in Rolled, Lucifenia, in EC 982. In spring of that year, she went outside to look at a blooming cherry tree and there she met a man in a police uniform. The two fell to chatting, Michelle learning that the man was Jakokuese and bonding with him over her shared heritage through Gakuga. After further learning that they were both living in the same apartment building, the two introduced themselves, with Michelle learning that the man was called "Shakuson".

After spending some time together with him, Shakuson flirting with her before returning to work, Michelle went back to her room and found Gammon waiting for her with Postman. Michelle received from him a list of her five targets in Lucifenia, a paper giving her a picture and the location of her first target, and a handgun to complete the job with. She was then informed that Postman would deliver her info on her targets alone on subsequent visits, and that she'd be killed if she refused to complete her missions. Michelle discussed with Gammon that a police officer was living right above her, and not long after Gammon left.

Afterwards, Michelle began killing the targets on her list, assassinating Ghislain Aug, Rodolphe Hugo, and Thabana Johnson. During this time, she also grew close with Shakuson, the two enjoying spending time together. That summer, Michelle put on a red suit that allegedly belonged to her father and went with Shakuson to see the fireworks festival. While she enjoyed the fireworks with her friend, their conversation turned to the murders occurring in Lucifenia, with the police's investigation not turning up much. After spending a little more time together, the two went back inside while Michelle feared Shakuson learning her secret.

By Autumn, Shakuson had confessed his feelings for her; although conflicted, Michelle accepted and the two became a couple. After Michelle killed her fourth target, she returned to her room to find Postman there; after trying and failing to talk with Postman, Michelle received her new gun and ruminated on her last target, "Nyoze Octo", after Postman left. Not long after, she went up to visit Shakuson and found his room empty; while waiting for him to return, she stumbled on a letter written to him by his brother.

Reading it, Michelle was shocked to learn that "Shakuson" was Nyoze Octo, a member of the Tasan Party; having been convicted by Elluka on false charges, he and his fellows planned to take the judge down, and Bruno suggested Nyoze keep an eye on Michelle for that purpose. After Michelle finished reading the letter, Shakuson entered the room and Michelle, overwhelmed, excused herself and went home. She resolved not to tell her superiors that Shakuson was Nyoze, and continued her relationship with him. In the meantime, she watched as more soldiers arrived in Rolled as a result of the war going on in Evillious.

### Goodbyes in Winter

"*Sorry...*"
―Michelle to Nyoze
That winter, the end of EC 982, Michelle walked with Shakuson and the two discussed their holiday plans, agreeing to celebrate Christmas together. Once she'd returned to her room, however, Michelle found Postman waiting for her with a Naga Custom 44 and instructions to assassinate Shakuson, whose true identity had been discovered. That Christmas, Michelle met with Shakuson by the cherry tree where they first met. After receiving his Christmas present, a diamond ring and a marriage proposal, Michelle aimed her gun at Shakuson.

As she prepared to fire, and Shakuson commented on how she must have learned his identity, Michelle confronted him on him seemingly just using her to try and take down the Dark Star Bureau. Nonetheless, she tried to convince him to run away with her; Shakuson refused. In the process of citing the reasons it couldn't work, he revealed to Michelle that Elluka Marlon, her "Master", was in fact her true mother. After Shakuson comforted her when she became hysterical at this revelation, Michelle drew back and, filled with sorrow, shot him. She then tried to commit suicide, shooting herself in the temple.

Several minutes later, Michelle came to in the snow, shocked to have survived. She was greeted by a strange man, who brought her inside to talk. The man, Pale Noël, explained to her that he was the Demon of Wrath and the true identity of Ziz-san, showing her how Grim the End could shapeshift into a ziz tiama, among other things. He further explained that she had survived her suicide attempt because she was in a contract with him, Michelle becoming annoyed to hear how he'd tricked her into contracting with him as a child. Once the conversation returned to her desire to die, Pale urged Michelle to live.

As he transformed Grim the End into a mask and golden bullets, Michelle listened while he offered her a choice: she could use the bullets to kill the people that were, to her, the most evil, or she could kill herself with them. Eventually, Michelle decided to not shoot herself, accepting the golden bullets. A day after killing Shakuson, Michelle fled the country to escape Postman and the police, settling in Retasan. On her fourth morning there, she was drugged and captured by the Tasan Party. Blindfolded and brought to a cell-like room, Michelle found herself before Nyoze's younger brother, Bruno Octo.

### Leviantan Civil War

"*Relinquish your fortune. If you return everything you stole from the people, your life will be spared.*"
"*I will never hand over my fortune to you!*"
―Michelle and Elluka
Confronted by the brother of her last victim, Michelle spoke with Bruno and, as he questioned her, explained that she had gone to Retasan to escape her employers, now hating PN. As Bruno brought up her mother being the head of PN, Michelle asked to confirm this and learned the entire history between the playwright "Gakuga Octo" and Elluka Marlon, understanding Gammon saved her because she was "Master's" daughter. From there, Bruno discussed the Tasan Party and its goals with Michelle as he attempted to persuade her to join, particularly their mutual interests in taking down the Dark Star Bureau and ending the war.

As they continued to talk, Michelle learned that Nyoze was the one to learn that she was an assassin for PN. She also discussed with Bruno her youth in Aceid, among other things, as he continually tried to persuade her to join their cause for the sake of "justice" and protecting people. During the conversation, Bruno brought up the letter she'd found from him to Nyoze, revealing that Nyoze had truly loved her and refused Bruno's proposal to use her. As Bruno suggested she take vengeance against people like Elluka, who had stolen the one she loved from her, Michelle finally agreed to help the Tasan Party.

Nearly half a year later, Michelle visited the grave of Shiro Elphe, who had been murdered by General Tony Ausdin during his massacre at the village of Zenosai. As she paid her respects, she was approached by Bruno and she told him about her relationship to Shiro, agreeing that Elluka had betrayed her memory by allowing Tony to escape justice. The two then began discussing the progress of the Tasan Party and all the strange occurrences happening in the world, as well as Michelle ruminating on what she'd learned about her father's history with Elluka. Bruno then brought Michlele away from Shiro's grave, announcing how it was finally time for revolution in the wake of Tony's trial.

By August EC 983, the Tasan Party had instigated the Leviantan Civil War. During the fighting, Michelle infiltrated the home of General Tony Ausdin while wearing Pale Noël in his mask form. Attempting to shoot Tony, Michelle chased him outside of his mansion and found him in the garden with his family. After confronting him for his crimes and surviving his attempt to kill her, Michelle shot Tony with Shiro's own Naga Custom 44 handgun. She then allowed his wife and son a chance to flee, brushing off Pale's criticism of this. Afterwards, Michelle went to meet with Bruno and the other militia soldiers at Elluka's mansion.

Surprised to find it already burning when she arrived, despite her instructions for her to be allowed to handle Elluka, Michelle learned from Pale that Elluka might have contracted like her and may be responsible for the fire. Soon after, despite Bruno's protests, Michelle entered the mansion herself to face her mother before ahe died. She soon found Elluka in her study, flabbergasted to find her talking to a doll and learning that it was the same one she'd had all those years ago, a demonic vessel like Grim the End.

Michelle then confronted her mother, revealing her identity and charging her with all of her evil deeds to the public and to her. Michelle was soon stunned to learn that Elluka was never responsible for making her an assassin, and in fact had only known her codename while Gammon handled everything; she also likely didn't know she was her daughter. As her doubts grew with their conversation, Michelle offered Elluka a chance to be saved in exchange for her whole fortune. Finding her unable to repent, and incensed to see her doting on "Nemesis", the doll, Michelle shot Elluka with one of her golden bullets.

### Rise To Power

"*Now we are all... sons of bitches.*"
―Someone following the successful test of Punishment
After the civil war, Michelle became a hero to the people and, thanks to the Tasan Party, narrowly avoided being charged with her murder of Tony and Elluka. After her crimes in Zeus were revealed, however, she was sentenced to ten years imprisonment and spent her twentieth birthday in a jail cell. That night, she spotted Postman watching her in her cell, before the figure disappeared. By EC 989, Bruno Octo had arranged for Michelle's early release and she rejoined the Tasan Party, becoming elected as its vice leader.

In the meantime, the Tasan Party gained power internationally and in Elphegort in particular. Much later, Bruno Octo disappeared and Michelle deduced that he had gone to the Millennium Tree Forest, which had by then become known as "Evil's Forest", seeking the Venom Sword that Elluka had stolen from him. After traveling to Yatski village eleven years after she had last left the forest, Michelle decided to give Bruno up for dead in light of the rumors about how dangerous the forest had become. After eating at a bar, Michelle was approached by a servant of Nikolay Tolle, who brought her to Nikolay's mansion on the edge of town.

Meeting with her former caretaker, Michelle found him bedridden and near death. Michelle finally spoke with Nikolay over his apparent betrayal of her so many years ago and questioned him over his true reasons for handing her over to Gammon. While they talked, Nikolay apologized for how her friends had all been murdered in prison and offered for her to take her revenge by killing him. Although no longer hating him, Michelle decided to kill him for both revenge and to give her caretaker a quick death, and shot Nikolay with her Naga Custom 44.

Later, with Bruno missing, Michelle succeeded him as President of the Tasan Party; by EC 993, the party had gained enough power to take control of the Elphegort government, with Michelle becoming the country's dictator. Michelle then ordered Elphegort's army to invade Lucifenia. Sparking a war with the USE, Michelle immediately allied her nation with Beelzenia and Jakoku, and war spread across the entire world.

With the USE army pushing a two-front offensive upon Elphegort, Michelle visited the underground laboratory Lunaca Labora seeking a weapon to make Elphegort stronger. With Pale Noël's reluctant help, Michelle revived the "boy of destruction" that he had sealed away, which had the power to destroy all of the Third Period. She then presented it to Elphegort's scientists and ordered her military to launch a secret project to develop a weapon based on the "boy": Punishment.

### Hell Called Evillious

In EC 998, a prototype for Punishment was created and moved to the Millennium Tree Forest for testing. With a golden key in hand, Michelle inserted it into the black box and fired the weapon, resulting in the entire Millennium Tree Forest being scorched by the blast. A second testing was arranged soon after; although intending to destroy Maistia's western coast, the weapon misfired and destroyed Onigashima instead. With both tests successful, numerous models of Punishment were pointed across the world.

As the conflict continued, Michelle attended a war meeting with her underlings General Areus Hymn, Gigaty, Polrio, Grand, Mima, and Encheri. As Areus expressed his concern over how poorly Elphegort was doing in the war, Michelle reassured him by reminding him of Punishment; when Areus gave further doubts over the death toll and potential of misfire, Michelle claimed that she intended it to be used more as a threat than a first resort. The meeting was then adjourned, and Michelle returned to her room to do more work. Looking out the window, she saw a commotion with a woman trying to enter the party's headquarters with a cart.

When Polrio came to deliver papers to her, Michelle discussed the commotion with him; she witnessed the woman reveal a tiger in the cart and watched as the headquarters came under attack from several soldiers, realizing that they were from PN and Maistia. After Polrio delivered her to safety with the other Tasan Party officials, Michelle stood by as the headquarters and the safe room were invaded, several of her officials becoming injured or killed. As the leader of her attackers attempted to shoot her, Michelle caused the gun to misfire and injure his hand.

She then confronted the leader, recognizing him as Gammon Zero, and soon after had him restrained and searched; given a note found on Gammon's person, she learned that someone had leaked information about Punishment to the opposing side. Speaking again with Gammon, Michelle acknowledged that he had saved her due to being the daughter of someone he loved, and that he was the reason she'd become the woman she was today. Michelle then shot him, taking her revenge on Gammon once and for all.

The following year, Michelle visited the site of the destroyed Millennium Tree Forest and found Evil's Theater there, completely intact. Going inside, she entered the room where all of the vessels of sin Elluka had collected were kept; while there, she was greeted by her father, "Gakuga", who confronted her over using the "boy of destruction" to destroy the forest. Michelle then related everything that she had done for Elphegort's sake, including killing Gammon. Gakuga also brought up Michelle's murder of Nikolay; during the course of their discussion, Gakuga revealed to Michelle the truth of how he was trying to protect her.

Gakuga also brought in Postman, and explained how the figure had once been Nikolay's son until his training went dangerously wrong. While Michelle was devastated by these revelations, Gakuga began trying to grab Grim the End; he revealed he was able to do this due to having six of the Demons of Sin inside him, and planned to absorb the Demon of Wrath from Michelle. Gakuga was then stabbed by Postman using the Venom Sword, releasing Michelle.

Realizing Gakuga wouldn't die unless killed by a contractor, Michelle prepared to shoot her own father, as Gakuga bemoaned how he was trying to save the world. As Gakuga started to talk about Behemo's curse, Michelle shot him with Grim the End, killing him and causing his consciousness to secretly take refuge in Postman. After mourning over her father's corpse, Michelle returned to the Tasan Party's headquarters. There she fired the Punishment weapon a final time and destroyed all life in the Third Period.

### World's End

After the destruction of the world, Michelle's soul was separated from her body and became deluded into thinking she was still Behemo, while her body stayed alive due to her contract. As the Third Period merged with the Hellish Yard, the soulless body ended up in the Grave Yard and began to instinctively carry out the last things that she had done before losing her soul: killing Gallerian and destroying the world. Not long after, Rin Avadonia fetched Michelle's body and brought her to the delusional Behemo, using the body's memories to break the delusion and merge body and soul back together.

With her consciousness restored, Michelle stood in the ruined world with Rin, Lemy, Pale, and Clarith, as Rin explained to her the truth of all that had transpired. She then talked to Clarith and Lemy with Pale, learning how the three had all watched over her and protected her in their respective ways. After talking with her old friends a little longer, Michelle heard Rin suggest they go to Evil's Theater next to solve some remaining mysteries he had of the world's end. Agreeing to help, Michelle and her friends set out to save the world.

### Alarming Developments

Splitting up with Lemy, CLarith, and Pale, Rin and Michelle trekked towards the site of Evil's Theater. They planned to visit it and then the remains of Lucifenia, with Michelle hoping to thank Postman, whom she'd realized was an incarnation of Alexiel, for saving her life. As they walked, Michelle began to complain of her fatigue, bantering with Rin about her contract keeping her alive as she stopped to rest. She continued to bicker with him as he pressed her to keep going, before finally relenting, and the two discussed their plans and current situation as they walked.

Eventually the two reached the illusory remains of the Millennium Tree Forest, talking to each other about how it was there despite the real forest being destroyed. Their conversation soon turned to the owner of the Black Box where Rin learned all of her information, Michelle under the assumption that "Sickle" was really Luna Hazuki. The two continued their conversation, with Nemesis also briefly catching sight of another forest spirit, before Held joined their conversation as a bluebird.

Held and Michelle proceeded to banter about her destruction of the world and the nature of "evil"; during the debate, Held directed her attention towards the Black Box Type S in the sky that they should deal with, with the group realizing the box wasn't an illusion like the rest of the world and could potentially do harm. Michelle and Rin thus resolved to go check it out, particularly as Evil's Theater was underneath it. They then bid Held farewell, Michelle refusing his offer to go see Behemo's old colleagues. During their farewells, Held explained that he became an earth god on the Moon Goddess' will.

As they trekked south, Michelle and Rin discussed the Moon Goddess, whose identity Michelle was unsure of. Arriving at the black box, the two watched as Bruno Octo addressed dead soldiers of the Tasan Party and laid blame for the world's end on her and all the other "evil" souls of the world. Hearing Bruno conclude that they must destroy the alleged sources of all evil--that being the demon contractors Carlos Marlon, Gakuga Octo, Alexiel, Gumina Glassred, and Michelle herself--Rin and Michelle departed.

Leaving the forest, they discuss what they heard in Bruno's speech as well as speculating about their next move. Determining Bruno intended to use the Black Box Type S against the demon contractors, Michelle and Rin decide to seek out Pale and Lemy, Pale being the creator of the Black Box Type S. After talking further, the two eventually decided to head to Lucifenia as they originally planned, in part to talk to Alexiel and in hopes of meeting Lemy there.

### The Battle and the Black Box

"*Who is she thinking of while continuing to gaze at the black fireworks dancing in the sky?*"
―Michelle watching the Black Box crash
Arriving in Lucifenia, Rin and Michelle found it had become a battleground between the spirits of Lucifenians, and more of the dead Tasan soldiers, with Alexiel having already fled. After Michelle dissuaded Rin from jumping in needlessly to help, the two spotted the Glass Mercenaries nearby and approached them, Rin hiring them to also fight in the battle.

Much later, when the Black Box Type S started to suck up all the souls on the battlefield, Michelle approached Anne and the other souls left in the palace. After meeting with Anne directly, Michelle promised to deal with the box and headed to the rooftop. Once there, she carefully took aim and fired at a weak spot in the black box's design, causing the box to malfunction, emit sparks, and crash. With all the souls sucked into it released, Michelle learned from the freed Germaine Marlon that the box's function was actually "formatting" souls, not sending them elsewhere, meaning it wasn't the kind that Pale made after all.

Internally determining one other person who could have made it besides herself, Michelle announced she and Rin would go again in search of Alexiel and Lemy. She also suggested going to see Carlos as well and argued with Anne against the possibility of also talking to Lich Arklow to help revive the world. With Rin's persuasion, Michelle finally agreed to try and help in this matter as well, and she and Rin set out first for Beelzenia. Arriving there, the two met with Eater Sabella in his Worldeater form; after they introduced themselves, Eater took them into the mansion.

Meeting with Carlos Marlon, Michelle spoke with him, debating about all that Carlos knew of the Second Period from his time as a demon and his knowledge gained from Vlad Tuberci. Not long after, Lich was summoned to the meeting and Michelle asked him about his intentions in the ended world, relieved to hear that he himself had no intention of trying to revive it. Afterwards, Carlos announced his intentions to go to Evil's Theater to stop Bruno. Michelle soon invited herself along; after Rin was also convinced to join them, the party set once more for the Millennium Tree Forest.

### The End of Capriccio

Arriving at Evil's Theater with Carlos, Michelle and Rin helped engage in battle with the theater inhabitants, Michelle and Rin dealing with Bruno directly. During their battle, the three of them were interrupted by the irregular twins Hänsel and Gretel. The twins were soon followed by Alexiel, who had become possessed by Gallerian's consciousness inside her and had absorbed all of the demon contractors in the theater.

As Gallerian attacked them in Alexiel's body, the twins Hänsel and Gretel prematurely began their Re\_birthday ability to stop him. After Gallerian escaped the rapidly transforming theater, Michelle pulled Rin out to safety as well, although forced to leave Bruno behind. The party flew away from the theater on Eater's back. From afar they watched the theater turn into a giant black box, Michelle explaining to the concerned Rin how it might be "formatting" everyone inside.

Soon after, Michelle and the others learned the possessed Riliane had also successfully escaped, spotting her on the ground. Appraising the situation, and seeing that Gallerian threatened to suck all of Evillious into hus developing vortex, Michelle urged Rin to decide between the world or her brother. Rin instead came up with a plan to get Gallerian out of Alexiel first before defeating him, to which Michelle reluctantly agreed. Touching back down, Eater let Rin off to distract Gallerian and flew away again with Michelle.

### Humanity's Demise

Reaching the center of the area, while the forest spirits cloaked her presence Michelle put inscription marks on the ground to boost her power. She then created a tornado that sucked up Rin and Gallerian; riding on Eater, Michelle pulled Rin out of the tornado while Gallerian was still trapped inside. Not long after, the tornado began to weaken from Gallerian's magic. Gallerian began flying towards Michelle and Rin, only to be stopped by Clarith, and soon nearly every soul, singing the Clockwork Lullaby.

During this, the demon Marie Annette flew up to Michelle and the others with a green onion from Lemy. Conceiving of a plan, Michelle used the green onion to request of Lemy that she have Pale break her demonic contract. She then attempted to pull a body swap on Gallerian; as Gallerian resisted the spell and used one on Michelle in turn, the two struggled until Rin attacked Gallerian with Grim the End, breaking her control on the contractors inside her.

As Rin and Gallerian talked, Gallerian's soul finally returned to a stable level, allowing him and Michelle to have a beginning conversation as father and daughter. After Rin and Alexiel later created a new world with the Re\_birthday function, Michelle participated in the ball at the Lucifenian Royal Palace, before being incorporated into the Fourth Period, where she, as Behemo became one of the members of the "Evillious" SNS group chat, commenting on the state of the new world.

### Legacy

Following the destruction of the ground world, the mortal realm began merging with the Hellish Yard and all souls of the Heavenly Yard were pulled from the moon into the ruined planet. Shortly after its destruction, the god Sickle prepared to intervene and tasked Rin with meeting some of the souls who had been possessed by the Demons of Sin.

## Personality and Traits

"*She led her life always being led along by someone. Because she recognized that herself, she always directed her anger outwards. 'I'm not the one to blame, it's some other person.'*"
―Behemo about Michelle
Michelle was a just, passionate but wrathful woman, blaming others for her own mistakes and directing her anger towards them as a result. Possessing an eye-for-an-eye mentality, Michelle was quick to take revenge when she saw fit, justifying it as righteous vengeance and holding decades-long grudges. She also took any means to that end, even breaking the law, and reveled in the destruction of her enemies.

This mentality, conversely, made her set on doing things she perceived were ways to atone for her own transgressions, to the point of committing more wrongs to atone for previous wrongs. As part of her atonement for her crimes, Michelle worked to help Elphegort as its dictator, using the Great War and Punishment in order to save both the country and the entire world.

Due to her true nature as Behemo, Michelle was a HER and desired the destruction of the world, hearing Behemo's voice in her mind as part of her condition. Like Behemo, she also preferred to escape reality and construct comfortable delusions, as with her perceived familial relationship with Gallerian. After learning of Gallerian's true history with her, Michelle felt betrayed by everyone she knew, having been constantly dependent on someone for most of her life. She thus decided to destroy the world if she couldn't save it, culminating her destructive tendencies. After regaining her past memories as Behemo at the world's end, however, Michelle became more subdued about her actions, although having little regret for them.

As a youth, Michelle was not above criminal activity, having been a member of Zeus. As part of this, she was loyal to her friends and took extreme measures to protect them, using Ziz-san to sink the S.S. Titanis. As she grew up, Michelle also hated studying, finding school boring. During her later life, Michelle also took measures to avoid assassination, and referred to herself in an archaic manner, considering herself Master of the Hellish Yard and Evillious to be hell. With regards to ethnicity, Michelle considered herself both Elphe and Jakokuese, using her Jakokuese identity to connect with both Gallerian and Nyoze.

## Skills and Abilities

"*Understood. Then…I shall have ‘No. 8’ take care of it. They are our most accomplished assassin in the Dark Star Bureau’s Special Maneuvers Task Force, ‘PN’, after all.*"
―Gammon regarding Michelle
Michelle was a trained killer and had immense skill with wielding a revolver, although she had skill with other kinds of guns besides. After becoming part of the Tasan Party, Michelle gained immense political power within the decade. As the dictator of Elphegort, she held absolute power over the nation and its military. Following the development of Punishment, Michelle was able to freely fire the device at will using the golden key she carried and could potentially wipe out all of the Evillious region with the weapon.

Due to her contract with the Demon of Wrath, Michelle was unable to be killed by ordinary means, essentially making her immortal. Despite this, the contractor's wounds didn't automatically heal while near the demon's vessel, leaving a serious scar following her suicide attempt. Regardless, she was still able to wield Grim the End, allowing her to use the demon's power to kill other contractors through the vessel; to complement her fighting style, Michelle transformed the golden key into a bullet for her revolver. Thanks to Hanma, she was also capable of a small amount of magic, specifically telepathic communication and ice magic.

## Character Connections

Pale Noël: Michelle's pet and partner. Originally knowing Pale as her pet "Ziz-san" and unaware of his true nature, Michelle bonded with him and the two worked together as beast and master, Michelle becoming distraught by his "death". Once Pale was revealed as the Demon of Wrath, Michelle continued to work with him and depend on his abilities, although she became skeptical of whether or not he was really her friend. This skepticism later compounded when her memories as Behemo returned.

Behemo Barisol: Michelle's true self. Behemo having HER influenced Michelle subconsciously throughout her life. When the world ended and after her soul was restored to her body, Michelle came to terms with the fact she was Behemo, although continuing to identify as Michelle for simplicity's sake and in respect to her physical body.

Nyoze Octo: Michelle's lover. Finding him eccentric but kind, and bonding with him over their shared Jakokuese heritage, Michelle quickly came to like Nyoze under his alias "Shakuson" and the two became close. Because of this, Michelle became conflicted by their vast differences in profession and what she saw to be differences in their character, as well as distressed when believing he may have just been using her for the Tasan Party. Michelle naturally experienced deep regret at his death, longing to have had a happy future with him forever after.

Elluka Marlon: Michelle's master, mother, and half-sister. Michelle was originally loyal to Elluka as the "Master" and followed her every order, although becoming resentful of her work as an assassin and wrathful towards her for her having to kill Nyoze. After learning she was her mother, she similarly resented her failure to acknowledge her. Although much of her wrath towards her was mitigated by learning Elluka was not responsible for the pain she caused her, Michelle still resented her obvious greed, as well as the love and attention she gave to the Clockworker's Doll instead of her. She ended up killing her without remorse.

Nikolay Tolle: Michelle's caretaker. Ignorant of Nikolay's past, Michelle saw him as a friend of her father's and gradually came to consider him like a father to her. Because of this, she was shocked and enraged by what she perceived as his betrayal, leading to her arrest. Despite her rage, by the time they met again her anger had cooled and Nemesis parted with him on good terms, killing him by his request.

Ma: Michelle's father and grandfather. Knowing him as "Gakuga Octo", Michelle was unable to accept that he wasn't around and created a delusion of him as a loving albeit often absent father, constructing entire memories of him giving her gifts for Christmas, teaching him to wear kimonos, and other such things. After learning the truth about "Gakuga," Michelle was devastated and reviled him, killing Gallerian and resolving to destroy the entire world in the wake of his "betrayal".

## Trivia

### Conceptualization and Origin

* Michelle is based off the canon character Michelle Marlon and is role swapped with Nemesis Sudou.
* Michelle's actions leading Elphegort in the Great War parallels many events from World War II, including forming an alliance with Beelzenia and Jakoku similar to the Axis Powers and invading Lucifenia, a country typically inspired by Francel
* Despite this, Michelle's manufacturing of Punishment and her initial test of it on Jakoku parallels the United States during the Manhattan Project, with Michelle saying "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" as said by scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer; the themes of nuclear warfare are strengthened by the destruction of the First Period, which is also implied to be via nuclear warfare like Michelle's destruction of the Third Period.
* Michelle's actions in the Leviantan Civil War take place in August, the eighth month of the year, possibly referencing her codename; she also has an "eight-armed" octopus as a pet.
* The Master of the Hellish Yard's relation to the Hellish Yard is connected to the event of Hell in Hieronymus Bosch's The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.

### Curiosities

* Michelle shares several parallels with Lemy, both wielding guns as their preferred weapon, being regarded as Master of the Hellish Yard, and having similar codenames.
* Her featured song in the Seven Deadly Sins Series was also uploaded on August 8th.
* Rin suggests that Michelle's Elphe appearance despite her parents being Jakokuese and Marlon is due to the world's rules breaking down.

## Appearances

* And Then the Girl Went Mad -Ending Tale on a Moonlit Night-
* The Last Revolver (first appearance)
* Judgment of Corruption
* The Muzzle of Michelle
* Heartbeat Clocktower (appears in PV)
* Master of the Hellish Yard (song)
* Ending Boy Hänsel (mentioned only)
* Seven Crimes and Punishments (alternate timeline)
* Master of the Heavenly Yard
* Waltz of the Departed
* Deadly Sins of Evil: Fifth Pierrot (mentioned only)
* Deadly Sins of Evil: The Tailor of Enbizaka (indirect mention only)
* Deadly Sins of Evil: Judgment of Corruption
* Deadly Sins of Evil: The Muzzle of Michelle
* Deadly Sins of Evil: Master of the Heavenly Yard
* Entr'acte of Evil: The Son of Evil Worldguide (mentioned only)
* Waltz of Evil: The Deadly Sins of Evil Guidebook
* Seven Crimes and Punishments (story) (alternate timeline)
* Outlaw & Lychgate (mentioned only)
* Quartets of Evil (non-canon appearance)
* Seven Crimes and Punishments! (non-canon appearance)
* The School Capriccio of the Dead (non-canon appearance)
* Evils Forest
* Evils Kingdom
* Evils Court (mentioned only)
* The Muzzle of Michelle (album)
* Seven Crimes and Punishments (album)
* Master of the Heavenly Yard (album) (mentioned only)
* Clockwork Lullaby (album)
* Evils Extra (mentioned only)