Rachel

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Rachel (蕾切尔)
Alias(es)	Aster Crowley; Melvin; Evelyn Carlo; Rachel Jones; Lovers; Skadi, the “Deep-Sea Hunter” 32 68 102 110
Species/Race	Human; her original male body and current female Demoness body remain separate entities linked by her spirit 77
Gender	Female in her current Demoness body; originally inhabited Aster Crowley’s male body 32 77
Affiliation	Tarot Club, as Lovers 73 90
Occupation/Role	Beyonder; bounty hunter and pirate hunter operating at sea as Skadi 102 110
Status	Alive 113
First Appearance	Chapter 4, as Aster Crowley 4

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Spirit Guide — Death Pathway	By Ch. 78	Rachel formerly followed the Death/Corpse Collector Pathway as a Spirit Guide; its special-class missions remained available after her transformation. 78 79
Demigod-level combat power — Sealed Artifact 1-27	66	Destroyed 1-27’s container, sacrificed her left hand, and embedded the artifact in her left eye. Evelyn Carlo’s virtual personality was destroyed during the binding, but True Creator corruption preserved Rachel’s mind. 66
Demoness of Affliction — Sequence 5	68	Her system identified her as a Level 50 Demoness of Affliction after the Witch’s Kiss gloves disappeared and the name “Aster Crowley” vanished from her panel. 68
Gatekeeper — Sequence 5, Death Pathway	88	Secretly awakened the Gatekeeper power within herself, gaining access to an internal Underworld and the ability to open its gate. 88

Background / History

Rachel transmigrated into the body of the bankrupt noble Aster Crowley with knowledge of the game Sequence Wars. Before becoming Rachel permanently, she used identities such as Melvin and Aster while navigating the Beyonder world and attempting to alter events she knew from the game. She rescued Fors Wall and Xio Derecha from ghosts in ruins in exchange for Fors’s teleportation stone and a favor. 13 85 88

While pursuing Lanevus in Kuman City, Aster used the Witch’s Kiss gloves to assume a female Demoness form. The gloves’ virtual personality, Evelyn Carlo, helped Aster imitate feminine mannerisms, but prolonged use risked letting that personality permanently influence him. As Rachel, she killed the Serial Killer Rawlins, interrogated his spirit, and discovered Lanevus’s connection to the Red Moon Bar and Amanda Street; Lanevus escaped before she reached his safe house. 32 33

Rachel later seized Sealed Artifact 1-27 during its breach beyond the Azure Door. The binding cost her left hand and eye, destroyed Evelyn, and gave her artifact-assisted demigod-level combat power. Her body remained permanently female afterward, while the original Aster body and its Death Pathway characteristics remained separate from her Demoness body. 66 68 77

Will Auceptin later warned her that constantly changing names left her vulnerable to fate-based interference. After considering identities including Aster, Melvin, and Evelyn, she chose Rachel as the name she genuinely considered her own. 94

Lost Memories

Rachel suspects that her amnesia predates her transmigration. Will Auceptin recognized her former identity and implied that she had once aided him, while a pale-yellow system mail apparently sent by her past self instructed her to deepen her contract with Alidibus and investigate the sea-based Brewing ritual. 87 88

A corrupted Listener relic triggered a vision involving Roselle, Edwards, and Ailued approaching Fourth Epoch ruins. Rachel suspects she may be connected to Ailued, a Death Pathway demigod associated with Roselle, but cannot determine whether the vision was a genuine recovered memory or an illusion caused by True Creator corruption. 97 98

Appearance

Rachel normally appears as a petite woman under 1.6 meters tall, with long black hair and mismatched eyes. Her current body is a Demoness body rather than the original body she inhabited as Aster. 33 70 77

• Her left arm was severed while binding Sealed Artifact 1-27; the injury also damaged her spirit body. 66 75
• She can create a temporary ice arm with movement and tactile sensation, but maintaining it consumes spirituality. 73
• Sealed Artifact 1-27 is embedded in her left eye. 66
• Her contract with Alidibus turned her right eye bronze, making it a distinctive feature she often conceals. 84 95
• A Devil-created human-skin disguise can make her appear as a tall, gray-haired woman with a functional left arm; it conceals her Demoness aura but overheats her body and has a static aura that can expose the disguise to prolonged Spirit Vision. 95 97

Personality

Rachel is pragmatic, irreverent, and deeply shaped by her former life as a player. She approaches dangerous foes as encounters to be studied, exploited, or “farmed,” and enjoys experimenting with new abilities for unusual applications. Her role-playing habits also influence her use of aliases and her enthusiasm for developing the Skadi persona. 57 101 105

She is capable of ruthless, transactional behavior: she kills pirates for bounties and Beyonder Characteristics, coerces undead into unfavorable contracts, and uses Charm to influence others when convenient. She openly recognizes that she is not a good person and believes her former actions likely completed her Instigator digestion. 79 102 103

Despite this, Rachel is not blindly reckless. She avoids unknown Fate Pathway powers, refuses to investigate threats without preparation, seals dangerous items rather than immediately exploiting them, and maintains escape plans even when operating with demigod-level combat strength. 79 98 100 109

Her relationship with Klein reveals a more restrained capacity for companionship. She teases him, charges interest on his debts, and intrudes on his domestic life, but also offers shelter, intelligence, equipment, and practical aid. Calling him a “friend” carries genuine significance for both of them. 72 76 78

Abilities & Skills

Dual-Pathway Condition

Rachel possesses non-adjacent Death and Demoness Pathway Beyonder Characteristics. Her sanity is preserved because the characteristics remain housed in two separate bodies rather than truly fusing.

• Forced fusion could cause a dangerous Backflow phenomenon, merging her bodies and aggregating incompatible characteristics. 77
• Advancing without separating the characteristics risks loss of control. 72
• She does not naturally develop stable composite abilities because the characteristics have not fused. 77

Gatekeeper and Underworld Arts

As a Gatekeeper, Rachel contains an Underworld within her body and can command or store spirits.

• Underworld Gate — Extracts the spirit bodies of weaker targets; combined with Language of the Dead, it instantly killed White Whale Charles, Blind Snake Laluck, and their crew. 102
• Language of the Dead — Communicates with spirits and coordinates mass soul extraction through the Underworld Gate. 102
• Undead control — Commands undead scouts, messengers, anchors, and captured spirit bodies; some unusual undead can resist her control. 33 70
• Position exchange — Can exchange locations with a controlled undead, allowing prepared escape routes. 100
• Corpse control — Reanimated Agalito’s demigod Devil corpse after removing its Beyonder Characteristic; the body remains strong enough to fight an ordinary Sequence 5. 109

Underworld Passage

Rachel’s contract with the Phoenix Alidibus grants her Underworld-related movement abilities.

• Teleports through the Underworld and can use the ability for infiltration, travel, and rapid escape. 76 84
• Can project a spirit body through barriers to speak or observe without opening a door. 79
• Frequent use became substantially easier after she reached Sequence 5, though it still consumes spirituality. 76

Demoness of Affliction Abilities

Rachel retains the abilities of a Sequence 5 Demoness of Affliction.

• Charm and Pleasure — Passively attracts ordinary men and can distort targets’ judgment, fear, desire, and loyalty. 86 104
• Demoness’s Disease — Spreads disease effects and can be used to assess the strength and number of nearby Beyonders. 79 91
• Invisibility — Conceals her presence for infiltration and escape. 33 81
• Black Flames — Attacks physical and spiritual targets; especially dangerous to spirit-body enemies such as Wraiths. 32 91
• Demoness Threads and substitutions — Creates movement lines, seals routes, manipulates objects, and supports prepared decoys and Mirror Substitution. 32 85 107
• Instigator influence — Can make listeners instinctively accept her statements, such as convincing the Saint Adolphe’s passengers that the pirate threat had ended. 102

Sealed Artifact 1-27

Sealed Artifact 1-27 is a demigod-level artifact embedded in Rachel’s left eye. Its spiritual imprint, Ulyss, grants Rachel access to Frost Elf and Storm-related powers.

• Frost and Ice — Creates ice arms, Ice Prisons, ice spikes, ice blades, and large-scale freezing effects. 73 81 105
• Ice Mirror — Moves herself or completely frozen targets through reflective ice surfaces. 81 100
• Storm abilities — Grants lightning and other Cataclysmic Interrer-style powers. 70 96
• Ocean Affinity — Allows breathing underwater, resisting pressure, sensing currents and marine life, rapid underwater movement, and controlling water. 98 99 104
• Marine enhancement — The ocean can approximately double her combat strength. 96
• Limitations — The artifact imposes repeated Spirit Body, Mind, Physique, and Rank judgments that can contaminate or shatter her spirit, transform her into ice, or cause other lethal effects. 73
• Ulyss’s resistance — Rachel’s access to 1-27 depends partly on negotiation with Ulyss, who seeks eventual resurrection through the mental imprint within the characteristic. 72 100

Alidibus’s Contract

Rachel’s contract with the Phoenix Alidibus provides additional undead-related abilities.

• Walking Corpse — Lets a powerful undead temporarily take control of her body, reducing pain and allowing her to divide her attention. 98
• The contract transformed her right eye bronze and is connected to her Underworld Passage. 84
• Rachel distrusts Alidibus’s motives and was warned by her past self not to trust his account of her forgotten history. 88 98

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Sealed Artifact 1-27 — Demigod-level Frost/Storm artifact embedded in Rachel’s left eye; the source of Ulyss’s imprint and much of Rachel’s combat power. 66 99
• Roselle’s black belt — Identifies Rachel as Demoness and grants [Unyielding], allowing lower-Sequence users to resist rank suppression; it does not eliminate the actual power difference between ranks. 84
• Human-skin disguise — Devil-made disguise acquired from a Beria Family Devil; alters Rachel’s height, appearance, aura, and apparent left-arm condition. 87 95
• Agalito’s Devil longsword — Sequence 4 Devil Beyonder Characteristic formed from Agalito’s spine. It grants powerful curses and Devil traits but drains blood, corrupts the wielder, lowers nearby intelligence, and requires reinforcement of its ice seal every three days. 109
• Corrupted Listener relic — A black ear linked to the True Creator. Rachel used it under Mr. Fool’s protective ritual to trigger a possible memory fragment. 92 97
• Crimson crystal — A Devil-attracting object linked to the Demon Family and a dead Blood Archduke; Rachel sealed it in ice after recognizing its corruptive influence. 90 98
• Storage undead spirit — Stores her possessions in exchange for one soul per day. 102
• Mechanical prosthetic commission — Sharf agreed to construct a sensory mechanical left arm using a Trickmaster Beyonder Characteristic for five hundred pounds and a Sequence 9 characteristic. 111

Relationships

• Klein Moretti / Sherlock Moriarty — Partner and friend. Rachel provides him shelter, intelligence, equipment, and access to Beyonder contacts; Klein later modifies an isolation ritual to protect her from the Listener relic’s corruption. 72 76 78 97
• Ulyss — High Elf spiritual imprint within 1-27. Rachel negotiated access to the artifact’s power; Ulyss seeks resurrection through inheritance of her mental imprint. 72 99 100
• Alidibus — Phoenix bound to Rachel by contract. He grants Underworld-related abilities and warns her about the crimson crystal, but Rachel remains suspicious of his motives. 84 98
• Will Auceptin — Sequence 1 Snake of Mercury and chairman of the Life School. He claims to have known Rachel’s former self, gives her the Snake Shedding buff, and advises her to establish a true name. 87 94
• Azik Eggers — Powerful ally who gave Rachel Roselle’s belt, offered Creeping Hunger for later, warned her against Alidibus, and temporarily repaired her damaged arm’s spirit body. 84
• Alger Wilson / Hanged Man — Tarot Club associate and maritime intermediary. Alger led Rachel to Sharf and learned that she operates at sea as Skadi. 110 111
• Leonard Mitchell — Former Nighthawk ally. Rachel helped protect Leonard and Dunn during the Tingen crisis; Leonard later recognized her as the wanted Evelyn Carlo but chose caution over exposing her. 70 90
• Alban — Third mate of the Saint Adolphe and Rachel’s maritime representative. Rachel appointed him to handle bounties and correspondence, while placing a Witch’s Curse on him for tracking. 102 104
• Sharf — Bayam Artisan commissioned to make Rachel’s mechanical left arm. 111
• Fors Wall and Xio Derecha — Rachel, then operating as Aster, rescued them from ghosts in ruins shortly after transmigrating. 13

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Early Tingen activities — As Aster, Rachel rescued Fors and Xio, investigated Lanevus, and used the Witch’s Kiss gloves to operate as the female Demoness Rachel. She killed Rawlins but arrived too late to capture Lanevus. 13 32 33
• Sealed Artifact 1-27 incident — She sacrificed her left hand and eye to bind 1-27, gained demigod-level combat power, and used Underworld Passage to answer Swain’s call for help. 66
• Alliance with Klein — Rachel aided Klein after his resurrection, shared Ince Zangwill as a target, hosted him in Backlund, and helped establish his Sherlock Moriarty identity. 72 76
• Backlund investigations — She sought treatment for her arm, pursued Qilangos, investigated Devils and the Demon Family, and became increasingly dissatisfied with the Tarot Club’s inability to support her level of power. 77 90 91
• Journey to the Five Seas — After accepting Rachel as her true name, she travelled toward Bayam, adopted the Skadi identity, and began hunting pirates for bounties and Beyonder Characteristics. 94 102
• Agalito hunt — Rachel pursued and defeated the King of Immortality through ice constructs, decoys, Underworld Passage, and the Death Announcer’s betrayal. She survived with serious injuries, secured Agalito’s corpse and Sequence 4 Devil characteristic, and became a potential candidate to replace him among the pirate kings. 105 107 110
• Bayam preparations — Rachel arranged for a mechanical arm, began working with Alger and Alban, and accepted Anderson Hood’s invitation to a dangerous expedition near the Ruins of the War of Gods. 111 113