Asher Lyubov

**Asher Lyubov** (アセル＝リュボーヴィー, *Aseru Ryubōvuī*, lit. "*Acel Lyubov*", Yen Press: **Asel Lyubovi**) is a character introduced in *Plunderer*. She is the second lieutenant of Althea Royal Guard and member of the special troop known as Gefängnis, which works under Jail Murdoch's orders.

## Appearance

Asher has long hair and wearing military uniform that appears to looks similar to a dress.

## Personality

Initially, Asher is shown to usually portray herself as someone who is soft-spoken, debilitatingly shy and kind hearted. However this in truth masks her true personality of being a psychotic and extremely blood thirsty murderer. This is most seen where she initially takes advantage of her innocent physical appearance and her gentle demeanor in order to lure in her opponents before viciously killing them. Much like her teammates in the Gefängnis, Asher herself views killing as her lifestyle and despite her loyalty to Jail Murdoch, won't hesitate to kill for her pleasure even if it goes against his orders.

## Plots

### Past Events

Asher is originally a criminal captured by Jail Murdoch. She later joined part with Gefängnis troop under Jail's suggestion.

### Story Events

#### Special Service Arc

It's first noted by Alexandrov Grigorovich that most of soldiers left Althea after Jail deserted the Althea Royal Guard. Asher is one of the soldiers that left the army.

Asher first appeared in Chapter 49. Under Jail's order, she and the other Gefängnis members went to save Sakai Tokikaze, Erin and the children from White Special Service. As Asher appeared behind the spy of White Special Service, she asks them to "drink" some of her "love nectar". Asher then used her poison ability which killed one of the spies by eroding his skin. The other spy was scared so Asher hugged that spy into her breasts, while creating more poison liquids she told him that she will use his bones for her and Jail's wedding ceremony.

After seeing the other member angered at Jail's order of forbidden killing, along with Sakuragi told the other member that they will kill her for not following Jail's order.

#### Last War Arc

Asher is later ordered by Jail to stay on the city with Erin and other two Gefängnis members, as Jail wanted them to protect the children so he must face Robert Du Vanvich and his army all by himself. Despite the order, along with other two Gefängnis members still following Jail's behind without noticing.

When Nana Bassler and other children almost attacked by Althea Royal Guard's soldiers, Asher went to saves them together with other two Gefängnis members. Soon, Jail realized the Gefängnis troop keep following behind him, so he order them to stay outside Althea to protect children. When Jail is about to enter the city, Asher requests Nana to stop him, as he will most likely die in the hands of the Royal Guards later on. After Jail kissed Nana, Asher come close to Nana and told her that she won't mind that Jail loves Nana, as long as both her and Asher can become Jail's wife, in which confused Nana. Then, Sakuragi and Acel stated that Jail is more harder to be beaten now, due to Nana is now being a part of his convictions.

Three months later, the final battle between Royal Guard and Special Service has finally begun. Along with Jail, the Royal Guard's soldiers went to face against the Special Service troop lead by Nikola. During the war, Jail orders Asher to use her poison at all the Special Service's soldiers, while he created the Iron Devil to protect himself and reminds her to not killing anyone. While Asher trying her best to not killing, she said can't hold her killing intent anymore and releases a huge poison bomb, which resulted of majority of Special Service members being killed by her poison. Jail tried to stop Asher but she has completely lost control. Soon, after Jail realized that the Gefängnis cannot be redeemed, he only felt pity on all the Special Service members that were killed by them, for seeing their conviction of evil and being scared.

##### Epilogue

After the end of final war, Jail disbanded the Gefängnis troop and let the remaining members do whatever they wants. As three years had passed, the former Gefängnis members begin to frustrated due to how peaceful the world had become since Jail was promoted as the king. They wanted to kill people just like in old times, but they can't do anything due to the fact the Ballots being disabled from functionality, thus lost their supernatural powers.

## Abilities and Power

Asher's count is 76000. According to Alexandrov, she was one of the strongest soldiers of the Althea Royal Guard.

* **Poison Manipulation**: The power to manipulate poisons, which she refers to as "love nectar". As seen during the war against the Special Service army, Asher herself was powerful enough to create and envelop entire battalions of soldiers with gigantic amounts of her poison and literally massacre hundreds of soldiers and reducing them to literal mountains of dissolved flesh and bones.
	+ **Poison Transmutation**: Asher can turn the air around her into a poisonous liquid. The poison is powerful enough to eat away at a person's skin, muscles and flesh and reducing them to bones. Asher's poison was also shown to be acidic enough to melt and disintegrate metal, as seen where it had also destroyed the Special Service's hand guns and melted right through Jail's iron and steel within minutes.
	+ **Poison Bomb Generation**: Asher can create explosives made of poison. Asher herself showcased that the range of her poison bombs to be wide enough to slaughter entire armies.
	+ **Poison Immunity**: Asher herself is immune to her own poison and as such is completely unaffected by it.

## Trivia

* Asher's face resembles Ikaros from Minazuki Suu's previous works, *Sora no Otoshimono*.
* Based on her name, she may be a Russian.
* Unlike most of female soldiers appeared in this series, Asher wears a different uniform that look similar to a open back dress.

## Reference

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Plunderer* Volume 15
2. ↑ *Plunderer* Chapter 31