Levia Barisol

**Levia Barisol** was one of the four pillar gods of the Third Period. A psychiatrist from the Second Period, she left the ruined world upon the Climb One and later helped in the revitalization of the ruined Earth. After opposing her colleague Luna's decision for their creation, she rebelled against her and was sealed within the ruins of the Climb One. Due to contracting HERS, she began plotting to destroy the Third Period alongside her "brother" Behemo Barisol and several others. Once they escaped from the Sin ark centuries later, Levia and Behemo were incarnated in the corpse of Irina Clockworker.

## History

### Early Life

Levia Barisol was born in the Second Period, the product of an affair between her mother Rahab Barisol and one of her many lovers. At the age of six, she attended a university to study the mind, eventually graduating to become a psychiatrist at Held Yggdra's clinic and research institute in Russia, studying abnormal behavior and Hereditary Evil Raiser Syndrome. During her studies, the young researcher learned that this "malice" wasn't originally from their world. At some point during this time, Rahab instructed Levia in the Swap Technique developed by Held.

As the Second Period began to collapse due to the rampant spread of HERS, Levia was among the scientists selected to board the Climb One, one of several ships meant to find inhabitable planets for repopulation. Suffering from murderous impulses caused by malice, she consulted with a physicist, Seth Twiright, on how to cure herself. The living mask suggested she kill a version of herself from an "alternate reality."

Levia later made contact with the First Period, believing it to be a parallel world. As she prepared to kill the alternate version of herself she saw, Behemo Barisol, she realized that Seth was trying to get her to succumb to malice by committing murder, all so he could take her place on the Climb One. Levia instead rescued Behemo from his reality, returning to the world of the Second Period with help from the First Period developers.

She then had Behemo hired on as her coworker at Held's facility. Later, the two escaped the world's destruction on the Climb One with 70 other scientists. During the trip, Levia designed a Black Box Type L that could move one's spirit data into another body, albeit only with the consensus of all the living members of the ship. As they lost contact with their fellow spaceships, the crew of the Climb One realized they were the last inhabitants of the Second Period left, deciding to create a new species in the image of the earthlings. To this end, Levia was put in charge of creating their souls.

After finding a new planet to inhabit, they set about reconstructing the new world and race of humans. During this time, Seth, who had secretly boarded the Climb One, instigated the deaths of 62 scientists and contaminated the humans to have the possibility of developing HERS. Levia preserved the spirit data of her dead crew members, working with the grieving Held to have them reborn as forest spirits in the new world. Levia furthermore designed the Hellish Yard as a means to sort between HERS and "normal" souls.

The remaining crew, including Levia, proposed they reincarnate as gods to guide the humans, unaware that at least Levia was infected with HERS. When Held and Luna disagreed with this plan, Levia joined the others in their attempt to kill the two dissenters and regain consensus so they could use the Black Box Type L. This caused the Climb One to crash and kill everyone on board, leaving only their spirit data behind; although Levia and Behemo planned to escape by transferring themselves into the body of a dragon on the ship, created by Behemo, this had been sabotaged beforehand by Held and Luna.

Levia and her colleagues remained trapped in the Climb One for centuries while the new species of humans began building up their societies. Around this time, they forgot about the existence of TALOS due to Luna's manipulations. Eventually, the humans of Magic Kingdom Levianta discovered the Climb One, and both Levia and Behemo began whispering to the first Alice Merry-Go-Round, establishing her and her future descendants as prophets and themselves as gods, with a lofty account of the Third Period's creation. The two became worshipped in the new Levin faith and a temple was built around the broken down Climb One, renamed as the "Sin" ark.

### False Gods

While establishing themselves as deities, the earthlings came in contact with Seth Twiright, who had reincarnated as a human and later became a scientist in the Magic Kingdom Levianta; having succumbed to their HERS, Levia and the others plotted with him to spread malice and destroy the Third Period. As Seth refused to move them into new bodies, they also plotted to make proper bodies for themselves, planning to make them with earthling DNA so that they could use the Black Box Type L and free them from the Sin ark.

In BT 05, Levia and Behemo acted as Maria Moonlit's parents and told her that they would destroy the world if their worshippers did not cleanse the Sin ark by creating human vessels for them. Prophet Merry-Go-Round then shared these lies with the nation and started Project 'MA' to create suitable vessels for the gods to inhabit; though its second project was successful and produced the twins Hänsel and Gretel on December 27, EC 0, the mother Meta Salmhofer kidnapped them and fled to Elphegort shortly after. As future projects faced continued failure, Levia and Behemo grew impatient.

After Kiril Clockworker witnessed his fiancee Elluka Chirclatia accidentally murder his little sister Irina in EC 13, the twin gods decided to entice the man to use the Black Box Type L, moving them into the dragon body and freeing them; they knew that as a clone of Seth, he would be able to use the black box. Impersonating Irina, Levia led him to take Irina's corpse and bring it to the Sin ark within the Levia-Behemo temple, all under the pretense of resurrecting her.

After Kiril found and unlocked the ark, he used the black box. However, before Levia and Behemo could transfer into the dragon body, the mindless beast grew violent and began destroying the ark and surrounding temple. During the chaos, the black box transferred Levia and Behemo's souls into Irina's corpse before it broke down completely.

### Eternal Sorceress

*Main Article: IR*

Once incarnated into Irina Clockworker's corpse, Behemo became the active consciousness while Levia slumbered in the subconscious. "IR" met with Held a few years later and was tasked with collecting the vessels of virtue, accepting the quest to pass the time during her newfound immortality.

Over the centuries, IR traveled across Bolganio, helping anyone in need that she came across and getting involved in the Venomania Incident, the Disappearance of Saintess Conchita, the Lucifenian Expansion War, and Marlon's tyrannical period. During the latter years, she incarnated two Forest Spirits as humans, Lich Arklow and Eater Sabella, training them as her apprentices.

IR and Lich later continued the search for the vessels across the continent, all while pursuing Elluka, who was also looking for them. After IR confronted the Angel of Diligence and forced their spirit into her own, her memories as Behemo reawakened. In denial of her true nature, IR continued pursuing the red cat mage and eventually confronted her at Merrigod Plateau on January 30, EC 611. After Elluka activated her Black Box Type S during their duel, Levia and Behemo were drawn into Behemo's mental world.

### Reawakening

Manifesting in her original form, Levia ascended the stairs of the illusory Leviantan temple before her and was met by Elluka and Lich in their true forms. Recognizing Lich as her former colleague from the Second Period, she greeted him before realizing that he had lost part of his memories as a result of reincarnating.

After being joined by Meta Salmhofer and Behemo, Levia silently watched while her brother discussed "IR's" true identity with Elluka. After they finished their conversation, she watched as Elluka revealed how she had experimented on Meta, giving her the ability to summon the "Court".

Elluka then had Meta invoke the Court, operating as a sphere of judgment that equalized everyone and made it possible to kill gods. Challenging Levia and Behemo to continue their duel, the five of them were suddenly interrupted by the arrival of Adam and Eve Moonlit. The duel then began in earnest; as their magic all clashed, Levia was blown out of the Court by the resulting blast.

### Meeting in Hell

After the blast, Levia ended up in the Hellish Yard. Not remembering the route to the ground world from there, she traveled to the gates of the Heavenly Yard and found Seth in his mask form nearby. She began stomping on the angel until she was approached by Lich; greeting him, Levia explained how the blast had apparently brought them there. After reintroducing Seth to the puzzled man, she further speculated that Seth's arrival seemed to have opened a hole in the mental world. In response to Lich's questions, Levia admitted that she didn't know where the others had ended up.

She furthermore added that she didn't know the way to the ground world, suggesting that Lich should visit the Heavenly Yard and speak with Held; when Seth requested to be left behind, having lost interest in both heaven and the ground world, Levia left him to his own devices. After she passed through the gates, she notced that Lich hadn't followed her, learning that he couldn't due to being a living mortal. As Lich questioned her again for options, Levia revealed that Behemo might know a way to cross between the different worlds, due to being the Master of the Heavenly Yard.

When Lich stated his decision to diligently wait for Behemo, Levia expressed her amusement at the idea before explaining it could eventually happen if Behemo succeeded in destroying the world. When asked to clarify, she noted that she no longer had any interest in destroying the Third Period. After stating that, she made her farewells and left for the Heavenly Yard.

### Return to Heaven

Once she arrived in the Heavenly Yard, Levia was surprised to find that the moon's landscape had transformed, the former site of the earthlings' research facility surrounded by rice fields. After determining it was the doing of Luna, who had become the moon goddess of the world, Levia brushed it off and decided to find the "Akashic Recorder" to check on the progress of the Third Period. After finding the device within a black box, she was exasperated to find it locked. Manipulating a panel on the side, she was able to peer in and was surprised to spot a human soul inside.

Using a microphone mechanism, she talked with the soul and learned that she had been trapped in the box for unknown reasons by "Sickle." Introducing herself as "Sickle's" former colleague, Levia tried to persuade the soul to let her get them out of the box; asking for her name, she eventually learned that the girl was Mora Avadonia. After instructing Mora on how to leave the box and pointing her towards the Gardens of Elysium, Levia entered the box herself. Grabbing the Akashic Recorder within, Levia slowly learned all the history of the Third Period up until that point.

Reviewing the ground world's history, Levia learned more about Mora and her role as one of the "keys" to the "Four Endings," as well as how Behemo, Elluka, and Meta had fused into MA and how several of her colleagues had reincarnated as Angels of Virtue. She also learned that several of the ghoul children created by Seth were frozen in the underground Freezis facility beneath Castle Hedgehog in Marlon, with one of them having escaped at some point. Once she had finished, Levia contemplated the information she had obtained; annoyed about the continued existence of Seth's ghoul children, she decided that they needed to be eliminated.

Using the device, she sent a message to the Zorach Family guarding the underground facility, telling them to terminate the devices and the bodies within them. After this was carried out by a member of the family, Levia exited the Akashic Recorder and found Held waiting for her along with Mora. As Held chastised her for her current behavior, Levia brushed him off and dismissed Held in turn for his loyalty to Sickle. Before Mora was returned to the black box, she chatted with the girl about her failure to meet with Kyle in the Gardens of Elysium. After suggesting that Kyle would reincarnate in the east in about 200 years, Levia said her farewells and left.

### Eastern Maid

In EC 828, Levia had Mora reincarnate in Jakoku to meet with Kyle as she wanted. When the enraged Sickle ordered her to retrieve Mora, Levia arrived in the ground world and decided to masquerade as a human until Mora potentially failed to meet Kyle. Taking up the identity of "Reina Tsukimoto," Levia became a servant for the Okuto Family, serving the samurai Anan Okuto. Following the great fire that struck Enbizaka in EC 838, Reina was assigned to care for the severely burned Kayo Sudou after she was taken in by magistrate Gato Okuto. Over the years, Reina fed and nursed the helpless tailor back to life, Kayo repeatedly mistaking her for her dead son, Izumi.

In EC 842, Enbizaka's local doctor made a house call to Kayo and Reina learned that Kayo had made a miraculous recovery. Reina chatted with the doctor about his medical expertise before going to prepare dinner for Kayo and the doctor. After she returned and fed them, she watched as Anan arrived and interrogated Kayo about the location of her family's blades once again. Reina then argued with Anan over his pointless interrogation, getting even more upset when he announced that Kayo was being evicted from the Okuto residence and insisting that her mind hadn't properly recovered yet.

Anan further explained that he was now aiding the Freezis Foundation and that Reina would return to serving him; after bemoaning the situation, and then requesting that Kayo tailor her a proper maid outfit, Reina said her goodbyes and traveled to the foundation's trade house with Anan. Later that year, Kayo visited Reina and give her the requested maid outfit, to Reina's pleasure. During her work, Reina found Grim the End by chance in the luggage of a Freezis trading ship. Later on, when a new employee at the trade house named Inukichi became infatuated with her, she continually ignored the man, only agreeing to a date after he persistently asked.

When a member of the Rangu Clan, Saruteito, approached the house and started repeatedly calling out for someone, Reina rushed out and learned that she wanted to speak with Anan Okuto. Although she lacked an appointment, she nonetheless alerted her master and Saruteito was able to have a meeting. Much later, when Kayo was arrested for her murders and the magistrate continually failed to execute her due to her kindness magic, Reina stole her confiscated scissors. With them and Grim the End, Reina approached Nobu-kiko and took him aside to speak privately in Kayo's tailor shop, planning to put an end to her charade.

### The Tale of Enbizaka

After giving Kayo's scissors to the boy, Reina watched as Nobu-kiko refused to keep them, noting that the boy's memories of his previous life were still locked away due to the Third Period's rules. Deciding that this was fine, as her true goal had already been accomplished, she simply explained how Kayo had committed her murders to get revenge on Kai Miroku due to learning that he was responsible for the Enbizaka fire. She also mentioned how this was different from how events were supposed to unfold.

Hearing Nobu-kiko's wish to save Kayo from her deathless fate, Levia gifted him Grim the End and suggested he transform it into a sword to execute Kayo with. Warning him to be careful, as the key no longer had an angel inside it, Levia sent the boy on his way. Then, as she prepared to ascend back to the Heavenly Yard, Levia approached the reef where Rahab was having a confrontation with MA. Ignoring MA entirely, she found Kagura Okuto's disembodied spirit and offered to bring her to heaven.

As they flew back to Onigashima, Levia talked with Kagura about what happened with Grim the End, her deception on the ground world, and especially Kayo's fate. They then arrived at Enbizaka's execution grounds; saying farewell to Nobu-kiko and his friends under the pretense of "Reina" going to see her family abroad, Levia ascended to the Heavenly Yard with Kagura in tow.

### World's End

When Themis Sudou destroyed the Third Period in EC 999, Levia disappeared from the Heavenly Yard, ending up in the Grave Yard. Watching from afar as Mora reunited with Kyle, she mused that the climax was close at hand and that MA had outwitted them all. Following Mora and Themis' defeat of MA, as well as the ball within Marlon Castle, Levia teleported to within the Climb One, joining Behemo as he talked to Mora about the nature of the First Period and how the earthlings were digital avatars from the Second Period brought into reality. After Kyle and Mora utilized a black box to perform a Re\_birthday and create a new world, Levia became one of the members of the "Evillious" SNS group chat, commenting on the state of the new world.

## Skills and Abilities

Levia was knowledgeable in the creation and study of the mind, being a trained psychiatrist and child prodigy. She also had some skill with using firearms. Aside from this, Levia possessed general knowledge about the workings of Second Period technology and was able to operate it, being one of the few capable of performing the Mind Swap Technique via black box, while also able to make her own additions to it.

After becoming a god, Levia had extreme longevity and automatically reincarnated after death. Despite this, she was still subject to the rules of the Third Period, although she was still free to move between worlds without harm. She also possessed great magical power and was able to fly. Beyond this, she was able to perform the Body Swap Technique.

## Character Connections

Behemo Barisol: Levia's real world counterpart. Knowing him to be her parallel world self, Levia initially saved him, although coming to dislike Behemo over time. She was thus opposed to his "embarrassing" crossdressing habits, preferring not to spend time with him. Despite this, she was willing to work with her "brother" over the course of her rebellion against Luna, but continued to view him as an embarrassment after they were both freed from Irina.

Luna Hazuki: A fellow earthling and researcher aboard the Climb One. Although originally fine with working alongside Luna, Levia became resentful of her philosophy to let the humans work things out for themselves and caused chaos in the Third Period because of this.

Held Yggdra: A fellow earthling and Levia's colleague in the Second Period. Levia worked with Held reasonably well, though she was often exhausted by his strictness. Despite her resentment over Held's alliance with Luna and her attempts to kill him later on, these feelings mellowed out after she was freed from Irina's body.

Kayo Sudou: A woman that Levia met as "Reina". Levia came to care about Kayo to some extent while nursing her back to health, and commented later that she found her to be an interesting person.

Anan Okuto: Levia's master during her time as "Reina". Levia dutifully served Anan as his maid, although was not above quarreling with him when she disagreed with his decisions.