Catherine "Cathy" Ward

**Cathy** *(*キャサリン・ワード*Catherine Ward)* is one of the characters in *Satsuriku no Tenshi*, and the main antagonist during Episode 2, where she first appears.

## Appearance

Cathy is an attractive young woman of above-average height and pale skin. She has naturally wavy shoulder-length blonde hair and side-swept bangs. The tips of her hair are dyed pink. Cathy has dark green eyes and long eyelashes. In addition, Cathy also wears makeup, most notably dark red lipstick.

Her outfit is reminiscent of a prison warden and consists of a black, short-sleeved blazer with puff sleeves and a matching mini skirt with a slit up the side. Cathy also wears a white button-up shirt and red tie. On her head, Cathy wears a small rectangular hat, reminiscent of a side cap worn by the military and accessorises with a pair of red gloves. On the index finger of her right hand, Cathy wears a ring over the top of her glove. Her high-heeled, thigh-high boots match the rest of her outfit. She is almost always seen with her small red riding crop.

## Personality

Cathy is mainly characterized by her interest in sinners (as she calls Zack and Ray *"my lovely sinners"*), and how she wants to punish them[*citation needed*]. She calls herself "The Condemner" as a reference to how she takes care of her sinners. Sadistic, she sets up complicated deadly games on her floor and enjoys watching people getting crushed by them; or succeeding, making them even more interesting subjects to her. She's also rather extroverted and eccentric, and very expressive[*citation needed*]. At one point, she was called a sadist-masochist by Zack[*citation needed*].

## History

Cathy attended a prestigious high school and was popular among the students[*citation needed*]. During her high school years, Cathy became acquainted with Lucy, a classmate who held Cathy in very high regard[*citation needed*]. Lucy adored Cathy's perfection and often portrayed Cathy as a human who should have high boundaries to pass judgement on humans and punish the ones who sinned[*citation needed*].

One rainy day when Lucy was reading the newspaper, she was shocked to find out that Cathy's parents were killed. It was said that Cathy's parents are both doctors so Cathy had a good education[*citation needed*]. But both were killed by angry family members because of serious medical errors. Originally, Lucy thought that Cathy would be in despair and needed help and comfort, but when she went to the funeral, she found out that Cathy remained completely unmoved and told Lucy to not say the same words as others[*citation needed*]. She then made an oath to herself that she would always stay loyal to Cathy because of her perfection[*citation needed*].

After her parents' death, Cathy's popularity immediately went downhill as she stayed the same and seemed completely indifferent about it. Schoolmates called her "disgusting" and even messed up her locker while Lucy tried to clean it off for her[*citation needed*]. Her former school friends formed a group together to bully her[*citation needed*].

One day while Lucy was walking down the school hallway, she overheard a conversation in a classroom. She took a peek and found out that the bullies had stolen acid from the lab and planned to throw it onto Cathy's face[*citation needed*]. Lucy barged in and had a fight with the girls until they were interrupted by a teacher.

Afterwards, Lucy met Cathy in a classroom and heard that she was impressed with what happened as she saw the incident through a window[*citation needed*]. Lucy expressed her loyalty to Cathy, claiming that she would do anything for her. Because to her, Cathy's everything is justice and those who bullied Cathy are sinners, she even said that Cathy's the only one in the world who has the power to decide who are sinners and who are not[*citation needed*]. Cathy was shocked by this confession but said that it was a matter of course and told her to do the job smartly[*citation needed*].

The story continues a few days later while Lucy was walking down the hallway and got shoved into a classroom by the girls who previously stole the acid. It was later known that one of the girls was suspended but came back to seek revenge[*citation needed*]. She brought a man to school for the plan to make her apologize and beat up Cathy later on by threatening her with a knife[*citation needed*]. Cathy appeared by the door and calmly asked what they were doing. When the girl replied that she was punishing Lucy, Cathy sat on the table, much to the girl's annoyance. But when she tried to attack Cathy she ended up getting kicked.

In response, man tried to attack Cathy but was stopped by Lucy. She yelled at the girl for being foolish and claiming that only Cathy has the power to apply judgment no matter what happens, she asked Cathy who's the sinner[*citation needed*]. But was interrupted by the man who slashed her with the knife by accident. She asked the question again and Cathy replied with "you know who it is"[*citation needed*]. The girl then became furious with the "judgment" and said that the man was the one who stabbed Lucy but he had already left. Cathy told the girl that she deserves punishment but she doesn't even know what she has done wrong[*citation needed*]. The girl then ran off in a rage.

After the incident, Lucy said that if she wanted to give the sinners punishment, she could carry out them for her and she wanted to go by her justice[*citation needed*]. Cathy agreed to that and also told her that the way she could say such sharp words while she's furious was amazing[*citation needed*]. The scene then turned to the train accident where Lucy pushed the girl who sought revenge earlier onto the train tracks, killing her instantly[*citation needed*]. Lucy thought to herself that one day no one will be able to oppose Cathy[*citation needed*].

This loyalty remained even after graduating from high school when they both found work as prison guards for the same prison[*citation needed*]. They became the "condemners" there and killed several convicts before Cathy got an invitation from Gray to go to the underground facility and become one of his Angels. Pleased to be accepted by Gray, Cathy quit her job at the prison and, in her final act there, "condemned" Lucy for killing too many "sinners"[*citation needed*]. Lucy was the first person Cathy murdered[*citation needed*].

### Episode 0

In the prequel of the manga, Cathy and Lucy were said to be prison guards for an unnamed state prison, where they meet Daniel Dickens[*citation needed*]. Many convicts were sent to have counselling with Danny because of the horrifying scenes of Cathy and Lucy killing convicts they saw in prison. One convict shows a horrifying expression when having counselling, to which Danny claims to be normal. But when he asked him about how it was in prison, the convict snapped and shouted that the two women were killing convicts one by one and that he would be next[*citation needed*]. He yelled that it was terrifying and that the screams in his ears won't stop. The convict was then taken by Lucy and another prison guard to a solitary confinement cell[*citation needed*].

## Plot

### Episode 2

Cathy greets Ray and Zack when they reached her floor, praising Zack in particular whom she deems as an ideal sinner[*citation needed*]. She would allow them to reach her, but only if they go through each trial on her floor. She directs them to go through with the criminal procedure like taking mugshots and explain the stages of her floor. When Zack and Ray reach the first room and Zack become trapped on an electric chair, Cathy reveals herself through a monitor. She begins to torture Zack by activating the electricity of the chair to the fullest rate and won't stop until Ray solves the mechanism of the electric chair[*citation needed*].

In the next room, she traps both of them and begins filling the room with poisonous gas while only providing them with one gas mask and five minutes to solve the riddles[*citation needed*]. She laughs and mocks Zack when he accidentally broke the keycard necessary to open the door because he entered it the wrong way, and refused to give them exit, prompting Ray to blow up the whole room using the available batteries, wires, and handkerchief as a bomb since the gas is flammable[*citation needed*]. Praising their effort, Cathy allows them to continue to the next room where she is holding her prisoners captive, offering both Ray and Zack eternal imprisonment as her playthings, which Zack strongly refuses[*citation needed*].

Cathy finally meets them face-to-face when Zack and Ray reach two separated rooms[*citation needed*]. Cathy explains that they must inject themselves with two syringes in which one of them is a possibly lethal drug to open the door. To make it easier for them, Cathy allows one person to inject both syringes[*citation needed*]. After Zack injects both syringes into himself and lost to his urge to kill, they reached the last room where Cathy is watching them. She shoots an automated gun before Zack could kill Ray and gives Ray a gun so that both of them can fight on an even ground[*citation needed*]. Cathy promise the one who survived would receive a better punishment. Both Zack and Ray refuse to harm one another, so Zack cuts himself open, seemingly killing himself[*citation needed*].

This enrages Cathy as she can't find any joy in killing Ray who she deems a failure as a sinner[*citation needed*]. She steps out from behind the bullet proof glass which had been protecting her and checks on Zack. The gun which she had given Ray was empty[*citation needed*]. Cathy is delighted to find Zack still alive and is determined to kill him, but before she is able to Ray then reveals her own gun and shoots Cathy. Angered by the sudden change, Cathy prepares to kill Ray again, but her hand that was holding the remote to the Gatling gun is cut off by Zack who was still able to move[*citation needed*]. Now defenceless, Cathy is killed by Zack[*citation needed*].

### Episode 3

When Rachel returns to B3 with Gray, Cathy appears as a hallucination and taunts Ray for brutally killing all the prisoners she had imprisoned[*citation needed*]. She makes another appearance later in the Episode as an apparition during Ray's trial[*citation needed*]. Cathy insists on giving the first testimony against her and accusing Ray of outwitting her. She claims that Ray convinced Zack to cut himself so Cathy would be forced out of safety and then shot her. For this reason, Cathy demands that Ray be sentenced to be drowning[*citation needed*]. However, to her surprise, Ray is indifferent to the water torture she was given and Gray ends Cathy's testimony, forcing her to step down.

## Modus Operandi

As a jailer, Cathy takes joy in torturing prisoners whom she deems to be unforgivable sinners. Before becoming an Angel, Cathy would escort her prisoners into an empty prison cell without surveillance cameras or to an underground room of her own devising where she would torture them using a variety of tools[*citation needed*]. Cathy would either punish the prisoners herself or have Lucy torture them as she watched[*citation needed*]. However, despite having happily tortured the prisoners, she would order Lucy deal the killing blow. It is only when she is chosen to become an Angel that Cathy finally begins to commit murderous acts herself[*citation needed*].

As a floor master, Cathy doesn't immediately kill her victims, but rather has them go through various trials and riddles on her floor. She provides her victims with a choice to remain alive but imprisoned on her floor for eternity or to attempt to solve her torturous and unfair trials[*citation needed*]. Unlike the other floor masters who would kill all of their victims, Cathy makes several exceptions, imprisoning them within her floor as her playthings.

## Quotes

* "A sinner has no right of choice." – Episode Two, to Ray

## Relationships

### Isaac Foster

Cathy takes an instant liking to Zack, viewing him as her 'ideal sinner' due to his monster-like qualities[*citation needed*]. Ever since Zack and Ray came to her floor, Cathy tends to taunt Zack, enjoying to see him suffering her punishments throughout her floor and is very intent on ending his life with her own hands. For this reason, she becomes furious when Zack cuts himself open, which denies her the joy of executing him[*citation needed*]. Zack, as he does with the rest of the floor masters, develops instant hatred for her due to her mind games and her sadomasochistic tendencies that cause him to become her main target. This further intensifies when Cathy indirectly reminds him of how he used to be treated as a tool[*citation needed*]. As a result, he has no hesitation in killing Cathy, feeling satisfied when he finally killed her.

### Rachel Gardner

Cathy doesn't pay much attention to Ray as she prefers Zack more[*citation needed*]. Cathy also considers Ray boring due to her apparent apathy and calls her a failure of a sinner, so she doesn't feel excited when it comes to punishing Ray[*citation needed*]. Only when Ray shows her hidden cold and fierce nature when she shoots Cathy that Cathy finally recognizes her as a sinner.

### Daniel Dickens

Cathy has known Danny since before their becoming floor masters, both working at the same prison state[*citation needed*]. Cathy's interest in Danny is first shown when she realized that Danny was similar to her, and with their interest crossed with each other, both mutually agreed to keep quiet about each other's twisted secrets. Cathy sometimes confided in Danny about the prisoners that she wished to punish, using the results of the counselling to make her punishment easier[*citation needed*]. Despite having rather civil interactions, Cathy doesn't make Danny an exception of a sinner that she wants to punish, a fact that Cathy admits to Danny himself[*citation needed*]. Danny is fully aware of this and keeps a certain distance from Cathy and never talks to her unless it's necessary, though even before this Danny had stated that he never liked Cathy[*citation needed*].

### Lucy

A woman who has been loyal to Cathy since childhood[*citation needed*]. They attended the same all-girls' school where Lucy praised Cathy for her 'perfection.' After Cathy's parents were murdered, Lucy remained loyal to Cathy, even going as far as to save her from her bullies. Cathy at first didn't pay much attention to Lucy and thought she was an idiot whom she couldn't have a decent conversation with[*citation needed*]. However, after witnessing how far Lucy would go for her sake, Cathy found her useful and kept her by her side, which lasted until they became jailers[*citation needed*]. Cathy manipulates Lucy to do her bidding and has her deal the finishing blow when it comes to killing prisoners. It's later revealed that Lucy's loyalty made Cathy choose her to become her first victim[*citation needed*]. When she is chosen to become a floor master, Cathy kills Lucy herself, and Lucy is pleased to know that she is the first person Cathy killed[*citation needed*].

## Trivia

* She is the only floor master who purposely left some of her victims alive.
* Her floor is the one with the most riddles and the longest to solve in the game.
* The causes of death on her floor are based on state death penalties.
* She is bad at drawing[*citation needed*].
* She is stated to be a spendthrift by both Gray and Danny because of her extravagant shopping habits, and because her floor is the most expensive by far[*citation needed*].
* She cackles with the signature Noblewoman's Laugh, which Zack displays immense irritation for on numerous occasions.
* In Episode 0, she claims to have never once felt doubt in her life.
* In the game, her M.O. is foreshadowed in B4, Eddie's floor, where the body of a man killed by gunshot can be found.
* The background of Cathy remains unknown in the game, but is elaborated upon in the manga adaptation and continued in the prequel manga, Episode 0.