Shallow Vernal

**Shallow Vernal**, also nicknamed as Shiro, is one of the main characters in the story, serving as the main antagonist of the main story's final arc.

## Appearance

She has long, silver-white straight hair that doesn’t have any curls reaching to her knees, they even seem like they’re faintly glittering, and golden eyes that don’t have any hint of cloudiness. Her body, which is about 169 cm (same height like Kaito), tall and dressed in white vestments, is so beautiful that you would think that her existence embodies the perfect divine proportions—– and most of all, she’s kind of eerie.

## Personality

She’s an outrageous natural airhead. To her, whether its sweets that taste bad or sweets that taste delicious, the beings living in the world or the sceneries you can find in it, they all have “the same value” in her eyes, and everything has no superiority or inferiority before her eyes. In that sense, you could say that she’s extremely benevolent, but that also means that she shows no love for anything at all. She puts most of the world on the same level and looks at it the same way. But this doesn't apply for Kaito Miyama.

Unlike her creations, she cannot deeply comprehend emotions and intentions. Even her other half Kuromeina gets exasperated with her at times.

## Background

The question of when Shiro was born or when she began to exist is something even she doesn't know. When her existence took a definite shape she was already at the end of a world, yet there was no particular reason for her to end so many worlds. She simply did it because it was natural for her to do so.

As the phenomenon putting an end of all "stories", she brought countless worlds and beings to their "final chapter" before finally meeting Makina.

She, who has lived an uncountable amount of time, had witnessed the emotions of the beings she ended. However, she herself has not experienced them. So she became curious; "What is a heart?". Thus she asked her if it was interesting to create a world and Makina answered with a question "If you're interested, why don't you try making one of your own?". And from there, Trinia was created in order for her to understand what the heart and emotions are.

She didn't know what to do after she created the world. For this reason, she made many changes to Trinia.

She thought that if a being that can defeat her existed, something might change. So she split herself in two, gave it form and her powers. This being was the Underworld King, Kuromueina. She was kind-hearted, but walked on a different path from her.

Then she put part of her power into a demon, in the hopes of making something special. This existence became Ein, the only King that didn't want to become a King. She became the first of Kuro's family, given the name Ein, holding the thoughts of beginning.

She created a being that specializes only in destruction, hoping it would make an impact. And the War King Megiddo was created. But Megiddo sealed her heart that sought only destruction, and instead gained a heart that enjoys fighting.

After accidentally acquiring the soul of an Evil God from another world, she made a being with magic power that directly affects emotions, so maybe she herself can learn what emotions are. The being is the Death King, Isis Remnant. Despite her suffering because of her curse, Isis never lost her kind heart and hope.

Then she created and altered a plant that didn't hold any emotion hoping to find a clue that will give herself emotions. That plant is now the World King, Lillywood Yggdrasil, who became the origin of many other plants who gained their own hearts, the Spirits.

She created a being with an abnormal evolution, thinking that she might be able to find the cause for the changes within her. This became known as the Dragon King, Magnawell Baskus Lardo Kurtzvald. The King of Dragons had a deep vessel, befitting someone having the largest body in the world.

She also lead a being from another world into Trinia, hoping that it would bring new changes. The being from another world turned out to be Alice, now the Phantasmal King. Alice was someone who deceived the world, and was also someone she could never match in the realms of the heart and emotions.

Despite all of the changes she brought about, she still didn't know what emotions were. But 20.000 years ago, when the demons invaded the God Realm, the being she gave her powers to, Kuro, punched some sense into her and showed her that she had, at the very least, a heart.

Whenever Kuro laughed or got angry Shiro wondered why Kuro, who was supposed to be the same being as her, could do such things naturally despite her being unable to do the same. The moment she began asking these kinds of questions she already had emotions, but her realizing that they were emotions took a while.

Using her omniscience, she looked into the future and found a future where she was laughing. Together with her in that future was the otherworlder, Miyama Kaito. The futures where she showed emotion all had similarities, the existence of Kaito. And thus she sought after Kaito, the singularity that will teach her emotions, the one that she has been seeking for most of her life.

Being the singularity that will teach her emotions, Shiro wanted to be special to him and make him hers.

In the next 19 000 years she created the hero summoning magic circle, signed the Treaty of Friendship and etc. in order to ensure that the future together with Kaito would come true.

Thanks to her manipulating the present, the future with Kaito became certain supposedly happening during the 102nd Hero Summoning. But there was a slight miscalculation, the being who had the same power as her, Kuro, was unaffected by the changes she made.

During the 100th Hero Summoning, Kuro manipulated and caused the summoning magic circle to go haywire, causing Kaito to be summoned earlier than expected. Without Shiro knowing about it, the person who became special to Kaito was Kuro. This caused her to become jealous and declare war on Kuro, as well as challenge Kaito to a final ordeal.

This miscalculation turned out much better than the future she wanted. Kaito as he was now brought an "end" to the phenomenon that ended everything, and sought after the being named Shallow Vernal. This caused her to become aware of her feelings, which was the reason why she wanted Kaito. But in addition to that, Kaito made her turn her gaze from herself to her surroundings.

Now she didn't stand at the end of a story, but in the middle of a happy story.

## Chronology

In the beginning of the story, during the time Kaito, Lilia, and the others went to the main temple in the Human Realm to receive blessings, Kuro asked Shiro to bless Kaito. At first Shiro gave Kaito a half-hearted blessing, and decided that was the end of it. While they were drinking tea and waiting for the others to be done with their blessings, she asked Kaito if Humans really yearned for great power. After hearing from Kaito that it's true as he himself has yearned for it, she decided to fulfill any one wish of his. However Kaito refused, answering that she could never give him what he wishes for. This caused Shiro to gain an interest in him, redoing her blessing and giving him her True Blessing.

Because of her True Blessing, as well as Kaito having signs of Kuro's magic on him, the Goddess of Time and Space, Chronois took an interest in him. This caused a meeting between Lilia, the one who was taking care of Kaito, and Kaito himself, with Chronois. During the meeting, because of a misunderstanding that happened because Kaito reacted strongly to Shiro talking in his mind, Shiro had to show herself. Chronois seeing Kaito talking informally to Shiro caused her to get angry, but Shiro repeatedly stated that she herself gave permission so there was no problem.

Afterwards, Shiro occasionally speaks in Kaito's mind, especially during times when she wants to do the things Kaito did with Kuro together with him as well.

## Trivia

* She will only cease to exist once all stories cease to be. She originally only existed to end stories and so she exists so long as there is an existence besides her.
* She learnt about dating sims from reading a male hero's mind, and shared the knowledge with Kuro.
* Although she can be called expressionless, Kaito can read her expression. According to Kaito, when she is happy the corners of her mouth go up a few millimeters, when surprised her eyes widen a bit and her eye brows are slightly raised, when she feels embarrassed she blushes slightly, and etc.
* She loves Kaito very much.
* She is hilariously bad at understanding what some of her actions will do in a chain of events. To the point that even Chronois is outright questioning her.
* She cannot comprehend the concept of preference. She doesn't know the difference between a good tasting or bad tasting food, as shown when Kuro gifted her horrible tasting baby castellas.
* She manifests a 3-dimensional doya when she feels happy. The size and brightness of the doya is directly proportional to her happiness.
* Shiro spent time pondering if someone can be the same person if they lacked memories of people that they've met; due to Kaito arriving too early and not meeting her like in the Original Timeline.