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**Chi** (カイ, *Kai*?) (pronounced as **Kai**), formerly known as **Karen von Herzog** (カレン・フォン・ヘルツォーク, *Karen fon Herutzōku*?) is a member of Shadow Garden, being one of the Named Numbers. She was formerly one of the Velgalta's Seven Blades and a Named First Child of the Cult of Diablos, titled **Shooting Star** (流星ながせ, *Nagase*?), until she defected to Shadow Garden. Initially codenamed **No. 111**, she quickly rose through the ranks and is currently Epsilon's subordinate.

## Appearance

Chi is an elf with emerald-green eyes, an athletic build, and a modest chest. Chi has short, jaw-length blonde hair in an asymmetrical cut which has right-side directed curtain bangs, under which is a single, decorated braid reaching down to her collar bone. As her bangs cover her right eye, this is due to her wearing a two-strap eyepatch, which conceals where the eye that was gouged out by Sergey Gorman.

As a member of Shadow Garden, she wears a dark slime bodysuit with subtle gold trimming to contrast her dark colors along her figure, providing a veiled opening at the sternum for ease of body temperature and a gold-edged chevroned collar. Her bodysuit also sports a stylized military-inspired jacket with wrist-length sleeves, with simple gold lined cuffs and minor frills at the cusp of the sleeves, compared to a rib length torso above a narrow belt. Her jacket's gold decorations include a short shoulder cape which reaches down to her posterior, adorned with golden shoulder pads to display her position among the Named Numbers. Her waistline has a guard lining around the femoral section of both legs, with both attachments tied by a **V** strapping to a strap around her upper thigh. Her boots are formed into a military design with two thick golden chevron cuffs, thin gold chevron lining at the cap-toe, golden lined midsoles between short-lifted outsoles at the heels of the boots. The design of her suit is near identical to Omega's, but her counterpart doesn't have a shoulder cape.

She sometimes decides to dress more in men's clothes, since according to her, it helps her to collect information in different details, other than what she likes as woman.

## Personality

Chi has a serious and stern demeanor but is surprisingly shy and blushes often. She was abandoned like the others in Shadow Garden when stricken with Demon Possession and became loyal to their cause of destroying the Cult of Diablos.

Chi, formerly known as Karen von Herzog, was a former member of the Velgalta's Seven Blades. She was also a First Child of the Cult of Diabolos. When she was stricken with Demon Possession, she ran to a remote village in the region of Madlid chased by another member of the Vegalta's Seven Blades, Sergey Gorman.

Chi, like Rose Oriana, has shown that she has a lot of pride and sentiment; thus, it hurts her a lot when said pride is trampled on. When she began her Physical Skills and Swordsmanship testing days, by fighting Alpha, as a test opponent, she believed that she could still stand out and assert her pride, as one of the Velgalta's Seven Blades. Alpha, despite being younger and seemingly possessing less magical prowess, managed to overcome Chi. Alpha explained to her that while Chi indeed held a formidable title due to her strong abilities and magical power, these attributes were only superior to knights and ordinary magical warriors. Upon hearing Alpha's remarks, Chi broke into loud sobs in the presence of all Shadow Garden members. She realized that the sole remaining aspect she held dear was now rendered useless, compelling her to discard her entire past and start anew.

However, later on, when she realizes the scope of her previous actions in the name of the Cult of Diablos. She began to regret everything she had done and became hellbent on setting things right. While active on Shadow Garden missions, Chi is steadfast in her duties, executing her objectives to their fullest, with the sole exception being when she is shown an exceptionally grewsome scene, at which she is known to lose her composure.

When Chi is in her civilian dressing, she is seen to be friendly toward citizens and her coworkers, Omega especially as the two are partners and direct subordinates to Epsilon.

### Web Novel

Chi is a quiet person; she only responds to orders from her superiors with short sentences or only responds with nods. She behaved like that not because she was disobedient to her superiors, but because she was a social phobic person.

She experiences anxiety and fear in social interactions, as evident when Shadow issued a direct order and Chi responded by trembling in fear. However, Shadow swiftly alleviated this by softening the atmosphere, offering her advice in a comforting manner.

## Powers & Abilities

Before defecting to Shadow Garden, Chi was the most powerful warriors as a Named Child, considering "First Children" who have provided outstanding contributions to the Cult of Diablos which even earned her the title of Velgalta's Seven Blades. Thanks to her exceptional prowess and combat ability, Chi quickly rose through the ranks and making her one of the double-digit Numbers, which she is given a Greek name. She is eventually assigned to be the direct subordinate of Epsilon, one of the Seven Shadows.

### Physical Abilities

Chi, like many before and after her joining, trained daily to improve upon her physical prowess. Such is necessary to be ready for a fight or to retreat to safety. This includes self-defense, martial arts, and strength training.

### Swordsmanship

Before joining Shadow Garden, Chi as **Karen**, had very strong magical and swordsmanship skills, being a "Named Daughter" of the Cult of Diabolos. Shortly after being rescued and healed by the members of Shadow Garden, After being retrained, Chi's abilities increased strongly, along in part with her use of magic, which made her one of the reasons why she was named, to the Named Numbers of Shadow Garden.

In the story of the Game, it is seen that Chi, when she was a member of the Cult, and one of the Velgalta's Seven Blades, of the **Velgalta empire**, Karen dominated in strong terms, the handling of the Spear.

### Magic

Chi is an expert in magic, as a former member of the Diablos Cult, and being a Named Child, she had great magic power, upon being cured of her Demonic possession, she gained strong control of magic, since she maintained her slime suit during the magic distortion effects of the Holy Sanctuary infiltration. Such is a requirement given Epsilon's renown within Shadow Garden for her refined magical control.

### Special Techniques:

#### Quick Flash

A speed-enhancing ability, derived from early practice of speed magic. Before joining Shadow Garden, Chi as Karen, had said ability, as a former member of the Devil Cult, as a "Named" Daughter.

**Improved Quick Flash:** After being rescued, healed and joining **Shadow Garden**, her ability improved more effectively, thanks to the teachings and training, which Shadow taught the Seven Shadows who then in turn taught this to the first members who they came after them, as was the case with Lambda.

### Standard Equipment

* **Slime Bodysuit:** A standard issue in Shadow Garden, with Chi's having notable decoration to express higher rank and authority within the command structure compared to the rank-and-file.
* **Slime Weapons**:
* **The Rolapoid**: An instant camera for missions of espionage, a reverse-engineered technology from Shadow Wisdom by Eta.

## Trivia

* Chi (pronounced Kai) is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet (Xχ). This derivation was confirmed in a director's tweet about Chi's illustration—her official light novel debut is in Volume 6.
* Chi is the first Web Novel character to have a canonical debut appearance in Anime and Games before the light novel.
	+ Apparently, it was Chi's name who was revealed to be the defector from the Cult of Diablos that Nu had previously mentioned in the first light novel, before being officially debuted.
* According to Alpha and Epsilon, they would have been able to heal the wound in Chi's eye, shortly after saving her from Demon possession, if they had had their lord Shadow present, or if they had the ability of their lord to heal damage or scars, along with internal or external damage to the body.
* Despite being women, Chi and Omega like to dress up as men occasionally. According to the two, this is so they can have other means of information gathering, unlike other Shadow Garden members. Although sometimes, they cross-dress their clothes for fun.
	+ Originally, according to some words from the author, when he was writing the characters of Chi and Omega, he had thought of making them the only men in Shadow Garden. But the idea was discarded, seeing the strong controversy that would arise with the story developing in the community. This is why the characters wear men's clothing, reflecting in some part of the author's discarded ideas.
	+ Erroneously at the beginning, Chi and Omega were mistranslated as men in the Web Novel, before the anime premiered, which caused strong controversy in the Latin American and partly North American community when it was announced that all possible characters would be taken from the 3 versions of the story: the Manga, Web Novel, and Light Novel. But that would follow the Light Novel story route to which those translated were not fully corrected, until the full release of the anime and the game release.

## References

1. ↑ *Volume 1 Chapter 5: Mastering the Peaceful Life of a Nobody!*