Ms. M

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Ms. M first operated through Sirius, who reported that he had brought Luther Rondal under control at her instruction. Sirius believed Luther possessed a powerful aura belonging to “the Lord.” Ms. M later revealed that she had arranged for Sirius and Hanass to find and care for Luther in Tingen, making her involvement in his life long-standing. 3 65

As an Aurora Order operative, she oversaw human trafficking and sacrifices connected to a Flesh Abyss ritual. She regarded enslaved victims as expendable materials, admitting that she had planned to keep only the “purest” captives until the ritual had enough participants. 63 66

The Aurora Order’s trafficking operation also involved transporting slaves for another recipient. Ms. M nearly disclosed their destination to Luther, but stopped herself before identifying it. The Nighthawks’ discovery of the operation and disruption of its transport route forced her to use all the available captives for her own sacrifice rather than continue selecting victims from successive shipments. 66

Her later actions were driven less by devotion than by her desire for Luther’s body and its connection to the illusory sea. After being severely damaged in Enmat Harbor, she returned to Tingen and continued pursuing Luther. She later used a forbidden ritual to place part of her spirit inside a Holy Bible, enabling her to survive an apparent death and continue her body-seizure plan. 77 108 123 128

Avatar of Sophia Ivanova Einhorn

Ms. M’s origin is ultimately revealed through the restored memories of Sophia Ivanova Einhorn, a centuries-old Feysac royal and the Psychology Alchemists’ Council member Greed. Sophia created the avatar to purge the True Creator’s corruption. That avatar subsequently coveted the powerful “tide” belonging to Luther and died while attempting to claim it. Ms. M’s destruction therefore did not mean the death of her creator. 842

The connection was foreshadowed when the apparently innocent Princess Sophia recognized Luther’s Ms. M-shaped alternate personality as Ivanova Einhorn, whom she described as her younger aunt. Sophia could identify the face but could not recall Ivanova’s activities or personality. Her later restored memories reveal that the innocent Third Princess identity was itself a fabricated personality maintained through deep hypnosis. 589 842

Before the full revelation, Luther directly questioned Ivanova in a dream by creating an image of Ms. M. Ivanova immediately acknowledged knowing her and stated that she had sensed her death some time earlier, prompting Luther to confirm that he had killed her. 795

Appearance

Ms. M is an exceptionally beautiful woman whose gentle features sharply contrast with her inhuman presence. She commonly appears in a white robe, though she also adopts conservative Loen-style dresses and masculine black clothing while living in Tingen. 63 78 108

• Long, blood-red hair.
• Delicate face and a perpetually tender-looking smile.
• Golden eyes described as cold and inorganic; their pupils become vertical slits when she exerts hypnotic control. 63 64
• Curvaceous figure, often framed by white robes or form-fitting clothing. 63 78
• Wears a vivid crimson Rose Ring, the source of most of her apparent Shepherd-like abilities. 63 119
• After Enmat Harbor, her body continually tears and reattaches itself; limbs may detach without bleeding. 81 89 113
• Following the gas explosion during her confrontation with Luther, her white robe is shredded, wounds cover her body, and half her face is burned. 117
• Her appearance is reproduced almost exactly by Luther’s alternate personality M. Sophia recognizes this likeness as Ivanova Einhorn, providing an early clue to Ms. M’s connection to the Feysac royal family. 269 589

Personality

Ms. M speaks softly, welcomes enemies as guests, and often behaves with false warmth or maternal tenderness. She treats torture, sacrifice, and bodily violation as ordinary acts, using politeness to intensify the horror of her conduct. 63 77

She is patient, theatrical, and sadistic. During the battle at Enmat Harbor, she deliberately let the Nighthawks believe they had defeated her because she enjoyed watching their hope turn into despair. 64

Although she initially frames her actions as service to the True Creator, her later obsession is personal: she covets Luther’s resilient body and the authority of the illusory sea. She eventually states that reaching the sea “has nothing to do with the True Creator.” 108 123

This change follows her exposure to the sea’s aura during Luther’s attack at Enmat Harbor. The aura restored her clarity and freed her from the True Creator’s control. Rather than abandoning cruelty, she redirected it toward her own ambition, believing that the sea could allow her to reach the highest Sequences or even transcend them. 123

Her manipulation also exploits aspirations and family attachments. She attempts to make Cecilia feel inferior to her Beyonder brother, then offers mystical knowledge and advancement while denying the siblings any genuine freedom to refuse her demands. When discussing the Shepherd ritual, she deliberately identifies Cecilia’s willingness to die for Luther as a potential resource for his advancement. 88 104 105

Her composure deteriorates as her body fails and Luther successfully resists her. During their final confrontation, pain, anger, and desperation increasingly break through her gentle facade; after the ritual goes out of control, she loses human intelligence and becomes an instinct-driven monster. 113 115 126

Abilities & Skills

Hypnotism and Psychological Suggestion

As a Sequence 6 Hypnotist of the Spectator pathway, Ms. M possesses exceptional mental manipulation. Her golden eyes and voice can suppress resistance, alter behavior, and force victims to act against their own interests. 64 77 119

• Hypnotized Leon and turned him against Daly during the Enmat Harbor battle. 64 65
• Controlled Luther and Cecilia with Psychological Suggestion upon entering their home. 77
• Used coercive mental control to force Luther to accompany her to the body-seizure ritual. 114
• Her mental manipulation is her own ability, rather than a power supplied by the Rose Ring. 119
• Shattered Edward’s attempt to draw her into a dream before the dream could fully form. 65

Rose Ring: Flesh and Blood Magic

The Rose Ring granted Ms. M both Grazing and Flesh and Blood Magic, allowing her to imitate a far stronger Secrets Suppliant-pathway Beyonder. 119

• Creates Flesh Bombs, including transforming a severed arm into an explosive projectile. 63 64
• Implanted living flesh into Luther and Cecilia, causing agonizing internal attacks and giving her leverage over both siblings. 77 84
• Used victims’ bodies as furniture, including a chair formed from a fused investigator. 63
• Demonstrated abnormal regeneration and reattachment of detached limbs, though her damaged body could not fully heal. 81 89
• Survived Luther’s first use of Language of Foulness, which forced her to break her own neck; she manually restored her head to its proper position. 81
• Used implanted flesh to monitor the siblings and threaten them with internal injury or an explosion. Cecilia’s implanted flesh was transferred into a Lifeform in a Bottle, while Luther removed and destroyed his own during their final confrontation. 84 113 114
• Restored most of her visible wounds by activating the ritual array and kissing the Rose Ring, although this did not permanently resolve her underlying instability. 115

Her implanted flesh did not provide infallible surveillance. Black threads emerging from Chanis Gate temporarily suppressed its blood aura and blocked her senses, allowing Luther to seek supernatural assistance without her knowledge. 85

Absorbed Beyonder Powers

The Rose Ring had absorbed abilities from at least a Demoness, Magician, and Pyromaniac, explaining Ms. M’s varied combat methods. 119

• Disease — Inflicted a rapidly worsening illness on Luther, progressing toward fatal organ failure. 116
• Paper Figurine Substitute — Replaced her damaged body with paper effigies to evade apparent death. 64 65 115
• Flaming Jump — Reappeared through flames and used fire-based movement to intercept Luther. 65 116
• Air Bullets — Attacked with invisible projectiles during her final battle with Luther. 115
• Fire attacks — Used scarlet fireballs against Edward at Enmat Harbor and, after her ritual transformation, attacked the Nighthawks with a massive swarm of scarlet fire crows. 67 125

Her Paper Figurine Substitutes were finite. During the East Borough battle, Luther observed that an attack which would previously have triggered a substitute instead struck her actual body, giving him reason to believe that her supply had been exhausted. 116

Luther later suspected that the ring’s disease ability came from a Grazed Demoness of Affliction. This was his inference when comparing it with the abilities of the dagger Pain, rather than a confirmed identification of the ring’s Grazed soul. 163

Ritual Knowledge

Ms. M possesses extensive knowledge of Aurora Order rituals, sacrifices, and forbidden methods of body transformation.

• Directed the Flesh Abyss ritual and its human sacrifices. 65 66
• Created the Lord’s Holy Bible by peeling away her own skin and placing part of her spirit within it. 128
• Forced Luther to recite the Bible in Ancient Hermes, accelerating his Listener Potion digestion through mental and physical torment. 108 111
• Prepared a ritual intended to dissolve Luther’s flesh, blood, and Spirituality into nourishment for herself. 111
• Used six sacrificed followers’ bodies and souls to assault Luther’s Mental World, intending to eliminate his resistance and replace him during her Shepherd advancement ritual. 123 127
• Planned to dissolve the Rose Ring back into Beyonder Characteristics for use in her advancement; her subordinates prepared the necessary potion and remaining materials. 128
• Explained that the Shepherd advancement ritual required consuming seven willing human sacrifices, or four willing Beyonders, after drinking the potion to replenish the body and resist losing control. 105

She also taught Luther the Three Laws of Beyonder Characteristics and identified the Assassin Characteristic among Madam Sharon’s possessions. She disclosed that the Listener potion she had supplied him used a Characteristic left behind by a deceased Listener. Her knowledge of the Assassin pathway included the physical transformation caused by its Sequence 7 Witch potion. 89 99

Powers During the Failed Body-Seizure

Through her invasion of Luther’s body, Ms. M temporarily gained access to powers that did not belong to her original Hypnotist Sequence.

• Briefly wielded incomprehensible authority strong enough to repel the black threads produced by Saint Selena’s ashes. 125
• Used Luther’s Language of Foulness, issuing the command “Die!” against Dunn, Klein, and Leonard after losing control. Leonard stole the ability with Blood Vessel Thief, preventing another death command. 126
• Retained dangerous regeneration, corrosive flesh and blood, and disease attacks in her monstrous state, despite losing her ability to fight intelligently. 125 126

Equipment / Items

• Rose Ring — A crimson Beyonder item containing Grazing, Flesh and Blood Magic, and absorbed powers from several pathways. Her advancement preparations included a potion intended to dissolve it back into its Characteristics; her followers subsequently mixed the ring into the potion forced upon Luther. 63 119 122 128
• The Lord’s Holy Bible — A forbidden scripture created from Ms. M’s own skin and spirit; used to influence Luther and facilitate her possession plan. After faking her death, she transferred the remainder of her spirit into it. 108 128
• Black bottle — Used to collect life force and Resentment of the Dead for ritual materials. 89
• East Borough ritual array — A prepared sacrificial formation falsely presented as a healing ritual for her injuries. 111
• Sharon’s healing liquid — A red liquid refined from the vitality of people who died in Tingen. Ms. M drank it to alleviate her bodily damage, but its stabilizing effect was temporary. 99 108 128

Relationships

• Luther Rondal — Target, enemy, and intended vessel. Ms. M arranged parts of his early life, forced his Listener advancement, and sought to consume his body and Spirituality. His attack at Enmat Harbor inadvertently introduced the sea’s aura into her, freeing her from the True Creator’s control. 3 65 78 111 123
• Cecilia Rondal — Hostage and leverage against Luther. Ms. M implanted flesh inside her, tortured her to force Luther’s obedience, and attempted to draw her into the Beyonder world. After Cecilia became an Assassin, Ms. M compelled her to gather materials and obtain a house for the ritual. 77 78 88 104 111
• Sirius — Subordinate ordered to monitor and control Luther; his letter first exposes Ms. M’s interest in Luther. 3
• Hanass — Agent whom Ms. M arranged to help care for Luther in Tingen. 65
• Ince Zangwill — Temporary partner and prior acquaintance. Ince used Alzuhod’s Pen to push events forward while Ms. M carried out their plan against Blackthorn Security Company. He concealed information from her and exploited her loss of control to exhaust the Nighthawks and damage Saint Selena’s ashes. 128
• Edward — Nighthawk captain killed by Ms. M after he attempted to protect Daly during the Enmat Harbor battle. 63 65
• The True Creator — Her declared god and the center of her Aurora Order rhetoric. The sea’s aura freed her from his control, after which her pursuit of its authority became personal rather than divine. 63 66 123
• Lorotta, Al Hasan, and Borgia — Former subordinates who survived the Enmat Harbor incident because they had been elsewhere when it occurred. They revered Ms. M and unconditionally supported her later plan; Lorotta intended to kill Cecilia while Ms. M seized Luther. 124
• M — Luther’s alternate personality, subconsciously modeled on Ms. M as someone suited to manipulating people’s hearts. Despite their nearly identical appearance and Luther’s repeated suspicions, M is not Ms. M’s surviving spirit. 269 436 590
• Sophia Ivanova Einhorn / Greed — Ms. M’s creator and main body. A Sequence 3 Dream Weaver, Feysac royal, Psychology Alchemists’ Council member, and Twilight Hermit Order member who created the avatar to purge the True Creator’s corruption. She survived the avatar’s death and subsequently manipulated Luther through a fabricated princess identity. 842

Story Role / Major Arcs

Enmat Harbor Incident

Ms. M confronts Edward’s Nighthawk team inside a blood-soaked ritual site, seated before a glowing doorway and using a fused investigator as a chair. Initially believed to be a Sequence 6 Rose Bishop, she uses Flesh Bombs, substitutes, disease, flames, and hypnosis to overwhelm the team. 63 64

She kills Edward, incapacitates Daly, controls Leon, and forces Luther to witness the Flesh Abyss. Her interest in Luther is revealed to stem from the “pure” aura within his body. 65 66

Rather than flee, Luther resolves to stop the mass sacrifice. He uses Azik’s bone flute to summon two undead, which seize Ms. M and throw her into the flesh while he attempts to alter the ritual array. Ms. M struggles free, attacks him with an Air Bullet and disease, and tries to prevent the interference. The gravely injured Edward intervenes with the Grade 1 Sealed Artifact 1-114, redirecting the disease onto her. 66 67

Luther later pierces her with the Chaos Wand and pins her to a flesh bomb before detonating it at close range. The attack severely damages her body but also carries a trace of the illusory sea’s aura into her, restoring her clarity and freeing her from the True Creator’s control. 89 123

Captivity at No. 6 Daffodil Street

Having survived the Enmat Harbor incident, Ms. M returns to Luther and Cecilia’s home, greeting them from their living room after their visit to the theater. She implants her flesh into both siblings, occupies their house, and coerces Luther into advancing to Sequence 8 Listener by torturing Cecilia. 76 77 78

After Luther’s advancement, she claims that he must help rebuild the organization he destroyed in Enmat Harbor. She orders him to continue working normally, conceal the situation from his colleagues, and quickly digest his potion, promising that satisfactory service might earn both siblings their lives and further potions. Luther recognizes that her failing body and covetous interest in him do not fit this explanation. 81

She forces Luther to digest his potion through the Holy Bible and pressures Cecilia into assisting her with ritual materials. While presenting herself as a source of mystical knowledge, she uses every offer and threat to make the siblings dependent on her. 104 108 111

Ms. M directs Luther to collect a Demoness’s accumulated life force and resentment, then drinks the healing liquid he obtains from Madam Sharon. As a reward, she explains the Three Laws of Beyonder Characteristics and reveals that Cecilia could advance using Sharon’s Assassin Characteristic. Her apparent generosity also facilitates Cecilia’s involvement in her plans. 89 99 104

While explaining the Shepherd advancement ritual, Ms. M suggests that Cecilia already qualifies as someone willing to die for Luther. He angrily rejects treating his sister as a sacrifice and insists that his family matters more than advancement. 105

Her preparations increasingly disrupt the siblings’ lives. She makes Cecilia temporarily leave school to collect materials, including “extreme emotions” from the lower streets and Harbor District, and supplies money for the purchase of a detached East Borough house to hold the ritual. 111

The siblings secretly undermine her control. The Goddess’s concealment prevents Ms. M from discovering Luther’s preparations, and the Lifeform in a Bottle removes her flesh from Cecilia. Ms. M remains unaware of this safeguard when she takes Luther to the ritual site. 87 113 115

Body-Seizure Ritual and Destruction

As her injuries worsen, Ms. M brings Luther to an East Borough ritual site and reveals her intent to take his body. Luther resists with the Hidden Sage’s rune, Language of Foulness, Demon-Hunting Bullets, and a gas explosion, but Ms. M persists through her substitutes and ritual preparations. 114 115 116

During the confrontation, Luther removes and destroys the flesh inside his body. Ms. M also discovers that her attempt to activate Cecilia’s curse no longer works. Cecilia attacks her with the Demoness dagger, but Ms. M knocks her aside and continues her ritual efforts. 114 115 117

Despite her severe wounds, Ms. M continues praying and approaching Luther. He stabs her abdomen with the dagger fused with Demoness Characteristics, whose cold power cuts off her life force, before shoving her away when her lack of resistance makes him suspect another scheme. 117

After Ms. M’s apparent death, Dunn examines her recovered Characteristics and the Rose Ring, establishing that she was actually a Sequence 6 Hypnotist rather than a Shepherd. However, she has transferred her spirit into the Holy Bible, allowing her invasion of Luther to continue. 119 128

Her followers subsequently trap Luther and the Blackthorn Squad, revealing Ms. M’s face fused to his chest. They dissolve the Rose Ring into a potion and force Luther to drink it. Six worshippers then stab themselves and enter his melting body as willing sacrifices. 122

Her final ritual fuses her with Luther’s body and lets her briefly manifest overwhelming authority. However, contact with the illusory sea destroys her mind; she loses control, fails to become a Shepherd, and collapses into blood and chaos. 125 127

The out-of-control body continues attacking Dunn, Klein, and Leonard outside Blackthorn Security Company, using disease and Luther’s Language of Foulness. Leonard steals the latter ability, while Dunn uses Saint Selena’s ashes to restrain the monster. Luther’s returning consciousness interrupts its attempt to devour Leonard. 126

Luther then uses Grazing to suppress the monster and its stolen abilities. He cooperates with Dunn to bind it, allowing Klein to destroy it with a Sun Flame charm. Although Luther survives the explosion, the potion remains unstable. 127

A later reenactment reveals that Cecilia’s sacrifice saves Luther from losing control: she merges with him and drives Ms. M and her sacrificed followers from his body. Her sacrifice completes his advancement to Shepherd rather than allowing Ms. M’s attempted advancement to succeed. 263

Ince’s involvement is subsequently revealed: their partnership helped arrange the attack, but he withheld information and used Ms. M’s failure to weaken the Nighthawks and their strongest artifact for his own advancement plan. 128

Posthumous Identity and the Feysac Connection

Following Ms. M’s destruction, Luther begins seeing a red-haired, golden-eyed woman in white robes. Although he initially treats her as Ms. M’s reappearance, the figure is eventually identified as M, a personality split from his own mind. M explains that the original Ms. M suffered mental annihilation after looking directly at the sea. 133 269

Before learning this distinction, Luther repeatedly treats the phantom as a remnant of his enemy. He questions her about the human-trafficking case and the Tide, attacks her when she blocks his departure, and uses her as a target while testing Lucky Roulette. The phantom’s later intervention against Lanevus’s divine offspring and her manipulation of its flesh beneath the Tide belong to M’s appearances, not a confirmed survival of the original Ms. M. 169 189 231 241 250 269

Barros Hopkins later exploits Luther’s fear of Ms. M’s survival in a nightmare. Within the illusion, M claims that she was never his split personality, that Ms. M was her cover identity within the Aurora Order, and that she has always served Barros. Luther recognizes the experience as false and shatters it, but the deception leaves him more suspicious of M. These claims do not establish any actual allegiance between Ms. M and Barros. 415 436

Sophia’s recognition of M as Ivanova Einhorn renews Luther’s fear that Ms. M survived. He investigates M’s Mental World with Antiya’s assistance, but every memory confirms that she originated from his own divided consciousness and has no connection to Ms. M beyond her appearance. 589 590

The apparent survival of Ivanova nevertheless remains a separate concern. Luther includes her among the possible targets of his Feysac mission and seeks information about her in Saint Millon, while M continues to deny possessing memories of either Ivanova or Ms. M. 763 777

When the Tarot Club examines the red-haired, golden-eyed Spectator-pathway woman possessing Audrey, Luther recognizes her resemblance to Ms. M and volunteers to participate in the operation. Since he accepts that Ms. M’s soul was annihilated, he reasons that this woman is probably Ivanova, the person he has been seeking in Feysac. 785

During their subsequent dream encounter, Luther conjures an image of Ms. M and asks Ivanova whether she knows her. Ivanova acknowledges the connection and says that she sensed Ms. M’s death; Luther confirms his responsibility. This establishes that Ivanova knew the deceased Oracle before the complete explanation of their shared identity emerges. 795

The final distinction is revealed when Sophia’s suppressed memories return. She is Sophia Ivanova Einhorn / Greed, and Ms. M was her deceased avatar. A divination warned Sophia of a destined death after the avatar’s attempt to seize the tide brought its master into conflict with her. She responded by creating the innocent princess persona, establishing contact with Luther, and staging her own death with assistance from the royal family and the Church of the God of Combat. 842

Sophia’s subsequent consumption of a Sequence 2 Discerner potion belongs to the surviving main body’s progression. It does not reverse Ms. M’s mental annihilation or turn Luther’s M personality into a surviving fragment of the avatar. 590 842

Notable Quotes

“Please... give me your body.” 117

“This place is truly beautiful, isn’t it? Do you know? To reach this place, I practically gave everything I had.” 123

“It has nothing to do with the True Creator.” 123

Trivia

• Ms. M was widely mistaken for a Sequence 5 Shepherd because of the Rose Ring’s abilities; her recovered Beyonder Characteristics identified her as a Sequence 6 Hypnotist instead. 119
• Her disguise relied partly on others’ assumptions: when questioned at Enmat Harbor, she denied being a Rose Bishop but never actually claimed to be a Shepherd. 119
• Her apparent self-repair was incomplete after Enmat Harbor: Luther could hear her flesh tearing and rejoining, and her limbs sometimes detached on their own. 81 89
• The later personality called M resembles Ms. M in appearance, but is confirmed to be a personality split from Luther rather than a surviving fragment of Ms. M. 269 590
• Luther later recalls her selection of Air Bullet, Flaming Jump, and Paper Figurine Substitute when choosing abilities from a Grazed Faceless soul. He particularly recognizes the effectiveness of combining Flaming Jump with a Pyromaniac’s fire abilities. 155
• In the author’s Volume One reflections, Ms. M was described as an intended “crazed, powerful, and inscrutable villain” whose portrayal instead became too godlike, falling short of the intended characterization. 130
• Her avatar status explains how the original Ms. M could be mentally destroyed while a living woman associated with the name Ivanova Einhorn remained in Feysac. This is distinct from the mystery surrounding Luther’s independently created M personality. 269 589 590 842

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