Nightshade

**Nightshade** (ナイトシェイド *Naitosheido*) is a group-quest boss monster from Grimzelia.

## Appearance

Nightshade resembles a young woman with pointed ears and spiky splayed pigtails. She wears a vampire-like cloak and dress with thigh-high boots. Most notably, she is almost always seen wearing a mask that completely covers her face. As the mask is her true form, she has no actual face and reverts to a black blob once the mask is destroyed.

## Plot

Nightshade first appears alongside the other group-quest monsters that have been summoned by Lamia.

As the Heroes arrive at Shogakukan to rescue Ea, Nightshade appears at the reception desk, disguised as Ea herself. She then drops the Heroes through a trap door, separating them.

Later, Marimo discovers the room where Ea is being held captive, but Nightshade, Puppeteer, and Medusa lie in waiting, ready to attack. After Puppeteer weakens her, Nightshade then attacks Marimo, using her Dimension Hand to shift her intestines and then planning to kill her by crushing her heart. However, she is stopped by Medusa who petrifies Marimo instead. Nightshade is then sent by Medusa to deal with the other Heroes.

Disguised as a weakened Marimo, Nightshade is discovered and tended to by Karasu. Nightshade uses the opportunity to strike and shifts Karasu's intestines around, weakening her. Rin Mei then arrives and Nightshade attempts to fool her as well, but Rin Mei sees through her disguise (her breasts were too large to be Marimo's) and stabs her. Nightshade dissolves into goo, but then reappears as Yuki-Onna and attacks Rin Mei. Nightshade is then struck by Karasu and reverts to her true from, revealing herself as Nightshade. After explaining her copy ability, Nightshade turns into Princess Titan and attack Karasu and Rin Mei, but is stabbed as she attempts to strangle the latter. Nightshade then turns into Moth Lady, but is struck once more by Karasu. However, as Nightshade changes back to normal, Rin Mei strikes and slices her mask in half, having correctly deduced that the mask is her true body. Nightshade cries out in agony as she dissolves into goo, this time completely defeated.

## Abilities/Skills

**Copy**: Nightshade is able to take on the appearance of anyone she has fought in battle. However, she is not always able to perfectly duplicate the appearance of others, as seen with Marimo where Nightshade maintained her large breast size, whereas Marimo has small breasts. Also, while copying Princess Titan, Nightshade became a smaller thinner version of her. Nightshade's copy ability lasts until she is struck by an attack, after which she is forced to revert to her regular form.

**Dimension Hand**: Nightshade is able to phase her arm through solid matter. Primarily, she uses this to force her hand into an opponent's body and shift their internal organs around, making them nauseous and weak.

* **Heart Crusher**: An instant death attack. Using her Dimension Hand, Nightshade crushers her opponent's heart.

## Gallery

Nightshade appears with the other group quest monstersNightsshade disguised as EaNightshade reveals herselfNightshade attacks MarimoNightsahde prepares to use Heart CrusherNightshade disguised as MarimoNightshade is struck by Rin MeiNightshade dissolves into gooNightshade takes Yuki-Onna's formNightshade takes the form of Princess TitanNightshade as Moth GirlNightshade's mask is destroyedNightshade's true faceNightshade is defeated

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 28
2. ↑ Chapter 30
3. ↑ Chapter 36