Meli

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Meli (梅丽)
Alias(es)	Doctor Meli; Big Sister Meli 8 33
Gender	Female
Affiliation	Church of the Holy Light, later reorganized as the Holy Church 6 17
Occupation/Role	Doctor, former clinic owner, Holy Light Priest; later titled Silvermoon Priest 5 6 47
Status	Alive as of her latest documented mention 47
Residence	Huayu Town; later relocates to Corona City with the Holy Church 9 23
First Appearance	Mentioned in tavern conversation 5; appears directly at her clinic 6

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Priest awakening	6	Receives a Holy Light Seed through Leah and completes its trial. Immediately unlocks Healing Technique, which Leah recognizes as evidence of unusually deep faith.
Level 30 Priest	14	Explicitly identifies herself as level thirty when volunteering to accompany Leah to defend Peace Village. Ultimately remains behind to safeguard the church.
High Priest / Archpriest	26 27	Addressed by these titles during discussions about appointing Reilly to lead the Church’s intelligence organization.
Silvermoon Priest	47	Identified by this title when Leah gives Reilly tea that Meli personally prepared to slow aging. The circumstances of her promotion are not described.

Background / History

Childhood and medical work

Meli’s mother died while she was young. When Meli was six, her father discovered that she lacked aptitude for becoming a ninja and grew indifferent toward her. He spent much of his time away on missions and eventually never returned, leaving her with memories of an isolated childhood 6 7.

As a doctor in a border town in the Land of Rain, Meli charged very little for treatment and helped residents who could not afford care. Before Leah gained Holy Light powers, Meli had already treated one of the children in her group and provided food and money for medicine. She wanted to take the children in, but feared that Scarface would use them to threaten her 5 6 8.

Rescue and conversion

Scarface’s gang repeatedly disrupted Meli’s clinic after she refused his advances. He eventually arrived with armed followers and a wedding dress, attempting to force her into marriage. Although Meli resisted, the surrounding patients were too afraid of his ninja abilities to intervene. Leah stepped in and killed him, then declared Meli under her protection 5 6.

Meli initially offered her savings as thanks. After recognizing Leah beneath her hood and learning the source of her power, she asked to become a believer herself so that she could protect herself and others. Her awakening as a Priest gave her an immediate healing skill 6.

Establishing the first church

When Leah explained that she lacked funds to build a church, Meli offered her centrally located clinic instead. She also welcomed Leah and the children into her home. Their first shared dinner brought her to tears, and she asked whether they were now family; Leah and the children affirmed that they were 6 7.

Local craftsmen helped convert the building out of gratitude for Meli’s past care. Meli insisted on paying them despite their guilt over failing to confront Scarface, explaining that ordinary people could not safely oppose a ninja. After the church opened, she continued treating patients in a second-floor room and was initially its only Priest with Healing Technique 7 8.

Supporting the Holy Church

As refugee relief and training expenses strained the church’s finances, Meli introduced Leah to merchant Reilly. Their meeting secured a buyer for holy water at 5,000 ryo per bottle. After an attack on the church, Meli used Truth Spell on the captured shinobi, revealing their intelligence mission and a possible impending Sand offensive 9 10.

Meli remained responsible for the church while Leah went to reinforce Peace Village, and later moved with the Holy Church to Corona City. She reported the Priests’ progress in potion-making and recommended Reilly for the new intelligence department 14 23 25 26.

During negotiations with Hanzō, Meli printed the cooperation agreement and accompanied the delegation to the Holy Light Hall for its signing. By her later mention as a Silvermoon Priest, she was preparing tea capable of slowing aging 31 32 47.

Appearance

• Described as a beautiful, full-figured woman with a graceful, dignified bearing 6 7.
• Has slender eyebrows and a familiar gentle smile when receiving patients 6.
• Moves with small, elegant steps; a later passage describes her red lips 25 31.

Personality

Meli’s compassion is practical: she provides affordable treatment, shares food, offers her property to the Church, and insists that workers receive payment. She does not condemn the townspeople for failing to rescue her, recognizing that their fear reflects a genuine lack of power rather than indifference 5 6 8.

Her gentleness does not prevent her from being firm. She refuses Scarface, persists until Leah accepts her clinic, and reprimands Leah for underage drinking because the older children must set an example. Within the household, she combines affectionate teasing with concern for everyone’s meals, rest, and safety 6 25 33.

Meli is less confident with administration than with medicine or cooking. When Leah asks for help with paperwork, she retreats to preparing lunch—not simply from laziness, but because she fears making mistakes that Leah would have to correct 28.

Abilities & Skills

Medicine and Healing Technique

Meli practiced medicine before becoming a Priest, taking patients’ pulses and advising them about their health. Her Holy Light awakening added supernatural healing to that work 6.

• Unlocks Healing Technique immediately upon awakening 6.
• Heals patients’ minor aches and ailments with white light 8.
• Continues providing medical care after her clinic becomes a church 8.
• Explains that faith offers the possibility of gaining power, but personal effort remains necessary 8.

Truth Spell

Meli can compel otherwise uncooperative prisoners to disclose information 10.

• Uses the spell on Xiliu’s two captured students 10.
• Obtains their mission details and warning of possible Sand shinobi activity 10.

Potion-Making and Restorative Tea

Meli reports the Priests’ collective breakthroughs in medicinal research; the text does not attribute every recipe to her individually 25.

• The Priests develop energy, antidote, strength, agility-enhancement, stamina, and life potions 25.
• Their life potions are described as comparable to holy water, offering an alternative to its production process 25.
• Personally prepares tea that helps slow aging, later given to Reilly 47.

Cooking

Meli’s cooking becomes a recurring part of the household’s shared life 7 33.

• Prepares generous meals and gives the children manageable kitchen tasks 7.
• Makes octopus balls that Leah and the younger children particularly enjoy 33 35.
• Saves food for Leah when an enemy alert interrupts dinner 33 36.

Property / Items

• Clinic and home — A large, two-story building in the center of town with a spacious rear courtyard. Meli offers it as the first Church of the Holy Light and a home for Leah’s group 6 7.
• Anti-aging tea — Personally prepared by Meli; Leah gives Reilly two packets before his journey to the Land of Wind 47.

Relationships

• Leah / Artoria — Former acquaintance, rescuer, fellow believer, and chosen younger sister. Leah protects Meli, while Meli provides a home, medical support, meals, and guidance 6 7 25 33.
• Leah’s younger siblings — Chosen family. The children promise to protect her, and Meli affectionately calls them her “guardian knights” 7.
• A-Ping — Younger-brother figure. Meli respects his growing independence and later suggests that romance might help him recover from the pain of diverging friendships 25 46.
• Li Ming / the Holy Light — Source of her Priest powers and object of her faith. She experiences the Holy Light as merciful and gentle during her awakening 6.
• Reilly — Trusted merchant contact and later fellow Priest. Meli helps establish the holy-water partnership and recommends him for intelligence leadership 9 10 26 27.
• Mina — Fellow Church member. Meli’s teasing draws attention to Mina’s feelings for A-Ping 46.
• Unnamed father — A mission-bound ninja who became emotionally distant after discovering her lack of ninja talent and later never returned 6 7.
• Scarface — Harasser who attempts to force her into marriage; killed by Leah during the rescue 5 6.
• Local patients and craftsmen — Beneficiaries of her care whose gratitude helps the first church gain workers and public trust 7 8.

Notable Quotes

“Leah, we're family now, aren't we?” 7

“Against a ninja, ordinary people can do nothing but throw their lives away.” 8

“All right! I understand. But no more drinking. Remember, most of us Holy Light Clerics are still children!” 25