Aishwarya Lai

Czech Republic

* Prague

**Aishwarya** Lai (**アイシュワリヤ・レイ**) (**Aishwarya** Rai in the fan translation) is a sorceress that is the one of the de facto rulers of Amidahara, ruling from her Crimson Tower. She's a long time "friend" of Annerose Vajra and an occasional client.

She appears as a side character in Witch of Steel Annerose and as a background character in Taimanin RPGX.

## Personality

Intelligent, careful and mischievous does appear harmless but can become dangerous if one does not follow the rules she sets.

She has many "hedonistic" hobbies and enjoys sex a lot, being described as a "vamp". While being mostly friendly, she is a bit of a sadist, specially to her "best friend" Annerose Vajra. Twisted in many ways but not fully evil and holds true to her word. Aishwarya or Aishi if she talks to a friend, is morally dubious and specially enjoys backstabbing Annerose for fun.

She tries to steal her servant, Tachibana Rikurou, for herself or put Annerose in sexual situations. Overall, she is a pervert, if not a borderline nymphomaniac. She prefers to be called Aishe by her friends.

## Appearance

She has purple hair with her bang mostly covering her left eye of which both are blue, she also has a jeweled head piece, Brown Skin, and her attire consist of long sleeved gloves along with long high-heeled boots with gold lines underneath is a red skirt while she wears a black and violet strap jacket connected with a red collar attached to a gold chain.

## History

### Background

A powerful witch, which can read the future, known at times as the Crimson Queen of Amidahara.

She controls the "Crimson Tower" a casino-like establishment where the citizens of Amidahara engage in gambling and perverted activities, some of which Aishwarya herself takes part in. Aishwarya is a long time “friend” of Annerose Vajra and an occasional client, though Aishwarya can be dangerous even to her friends and Annerose is careful around her.

Before the start of Witch of Steel Annerose, she spent the last two years in Prague, the center of western magic. While Lai often does not fight, she herself is able to defend herself well, using blood magic, with which she can create blades.

### Visual Novels

After returning, she started to get interested in Annerose's new slave, Tachibana Rikurou. That had started to work for the Annerose Detective Agency six months ago, and gained the powers of an immortal servant. She helped him to capture a transformed cat, a lost pet of a client. Using her charm, Lai, had some "oral fun" with him, using her ability to read his future by exchanging fluids. Amused, by the short exchanged, she hopes to see him again.

Annerose, warned Rikurou later that making prolonged contact is not a good idea, because if a witch like Aishwarya knows the future of somebody, she could spy on them and decide their fate. Aishwarya also, is a troublesome person in Annerose's opinion not to be trusted.

Aishwarya later captured the weakened Li Mayfeng, which lost a fight against Rikurou and Annerose. The captive was used in a sexual game arena, to test Annerose and Rikurou. Being confronted by both for help to gain intel about Barde Barde's location, she tests Tachibana in a logic puzzle with either Mayfeng or Annerose to be punished if he fails. Winning the Chaos Arena-like game, she has sex with him to use her future sight. However, this was a trap of Barde that had given Rikurou a type of paralyzing curse, that was passed along unnoticed, by one of his pawns, Otonashi Miki, in order to incapacitate Aishwarya. With sex, this curse became active and Aishwarya was unable to move and became an easy target for Barde that appeared before the two of them and summoned a tentacled plant creature to capture, torture and ultimately absorb Aishwarya.

Aishwarya is finally killed by the creature as Barde removes her heart, that either always was or turned into a Philosopher's Stone. Annerose arrives too late to stop her death, but in her final act, she spat her own blood, which formed into the intel of Barde's location for Annerose and Rikurou.

### Timeline TABA

Does not appear, but her sister, Anushka Lai, now rules Crimson Tower. Since at least parts of Witch of Steel Annerose played out she is implied to be dead. However, a character card of her exists for gameplay.

### Timeline RPGX

Witch of Steel Annerose did not play out. Aishwarya is still alive and helps out Annerose Vajra in a mission to take out Astraeus. It is implied that she may have hired Astraeus afterward or gives him protection.

### Timeline Action

Witch of Steel Annerose did not play out. Aishwarya is still alive and implied in one of the event chapters featuring Annerose.

## Additional Material

* Killed in the OVA and unable to give the location of Barde with her blood, which leads to a bad ending.
* Survives in the Manga.
* Her body is eaten by the tentacle plant creature in the OVA.

## Powers/Abilities

**Main Weapon**: Blood Blade

* **Transformation Magic**: This ability is never actually shown in either game.
* **Blood Magic**: Can move her blood outside of her body and use it as a hard weapon, the blood weapon can also be poisoned.
* **Future Reader**: Can use an exchange of body fluids to look into the future of a person and use her foreknowledge of it to control them.

## Media

* Witch of Steel Annerose
	+ OVA
* Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena
* Taimanin RPGX

## Trivia

* She is the younger sister of Anushka Lai a demon appearing in Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena.
* It is mentioned Kagami's notes that she belongs to the same species high ranking noble demon species as Ingrid. However, the game never references it, and she is simply called a witch.
* The notes do, however, describe her as a "Vamp", which is another way to refer to a vampire or her ability to control blood. Vamp is also an old term to refer to the "femme fatale" archetype, to which she fits quite well, and finally Vamp is also a slang for bisexual. This is further implied in the fact she's interested in both Annerose and Rikurou in a sexual way.
* Aishwarya is considered powerful, but it is unknown how powerful, as she normally does not fight. Outside of fighting itself, once Aishwarya is able to read the future of somebody fully, they are almost her slaves as she knows every action they will take.

## Gallery

OVAConcept and use of summoned weaponWith Tachibana RikurouWith Tachibana Rikurou