Franca

Biodata

Power Progression

Background

Original Life and Transmigration

Franca remembers a family consisting of her parents and younger brother. Her mother expanded a small restaurant into a larger business, then closed it after several difficult years. Franca recalled the family’s subsequent life as relaxed and happy, with her mother enjoying cards, friends, and travel 1007.

According to her account, she and the other transmigrators arrived as spirits and revived inside the bodies of people who had recently died. She did not know why this had happened and continued searching for an explanation 335.

Initially, she lived on the original body owner’s savings. Without that person’s skills or academic qualifications, she sought work waiting tables and doing kitchen chores. Her refusal to make counterfeit goods or deceive customers repeatedly led her to quit or be dismissed; few jobs lasted a full month 948.

Becoming a Witch

Franca entered the Beyonder world without reliable guidance and later regretted her pathway choice. Consuming the Witch potion transformed her into a woman. Although initially captivated by her new appearance, she accepted the body as her own rather than treating it as another person 186 898.

She originally intended to switch to the neighboring Hunter pathway at Sequence 4 and regain a male body. Her attempt to enter the Iron and Blood Cross Order through the Savoie Gang was also a Tarot Club assignment 175 366 400.

Her priorities eventually changed. After learning that she could not return home, she chose to preserve the relationships and stability she still had. When challenged by her mirror counterpart, she acknowledged that she had become accustomed to being a woman and feared further upheaval 1044.

Appearance

Franca is tall and long-legged, with flaxen hair, lake-colored eyes, and a frequently smiling expression 174 186.

• Hair: Usually worn in a simple high ponytail 174 790.
• Features: Brown eyebrows sweeping toward her temples, a straight delicate nose, and rosy, relatively thin lips 174.
• Clothing: Commonly wears women’s shirts, riding breeches or fitted trousers, jackets, and boots 174 334 557.
• Supernatural beauty: Her appearance and charm intensify after advancing to Pleasure and again after becoming a Witch of Pain 322 790.
• Disguises: Uses the borrowed accessory Lie to alter her appearance, including impersonating Pauline and Aurora 441 813.

Personality

Franca is outgoing, teasing, and habitually profane. She enjoys card games, dislikes retiring early, and often turns unfamiliar Beyonder combinations into playful nicknames. Lumian describes her as a contradiction: knowledgeable and analytical in some situations, but surprisingly simple and naïve in others 270 289 306 638.

Despite her bravado, she is tenderhearted. She cheers Jenna up with deliberately silly card-game forfeits, offers Lumian financial assistance, and hesitates to harvest useful materials from a corpse that still looks human. Jenna credits her with providing support during the hardest period of her life 233 275 392 853.

Her compassion does not prevent practical violence. She teaches Jenna that revenge requires strength and opportunity, and that personal aversion cannot always justify rejecting an effective method against an enemy 249 287.

Homesickness shapes her emotional life. For a long time, she avoided confessing to Jenna because she could not decide whether she would stay if a route home appeared—or whether bringing Jenna to an unfamiliar world would be fair. Her later anger over Jenna and Lumian’s intimacy centers on feeling abandoned by the two people closest to her 852 853.

Abilities & Skills

Assassin and Instigator Abilities

Franca retains and strengthens the abilities of her earlier pathway stages as she advances 203 322.

• Concentrated strike: Channels her strength into a single blow, knocking Louis Lund unconscious 203.
• Stealth: Uses invisibility and shadows, moves without footprints, and conceals her scent and spiritual radiance 386 477.
• Instigation: Advises Jenna on manipulating situations and recognizes when others are exploiting her lack of Beyonder knowledge 309 423.
• Counter-surveillance: Combines anti-divination, mundane observation, disguises, and techniques learned from Lumian 385 386.

Witchcraft and Curses

Her witchcraft includes black flames, frost, curses, invisible spider silk, and protective substitutes 287 322.

• Frost manipulation: Creates a working ice key and later uses thin sheets of frost to open a window 287 941.
• Invisible threads: Entangles targets with spider silk; these threads become stronger after her Pain advancement 362 790.
• Mirror-mediated curses: As a Pleasure Witch, can curse someone by capturing their image in a mirror and covering it with black flames, without requiring blood, hair, or nails 477.
• Targeted curses: As a Witch of Pain, can reflect a particular body part and direct the curse’s effects to that area 790.
• Defensive witchcraft: Uses Mirror Substitute and Wand Substitute; Pleasure also grants protection against fatal injuries and preliminary recovery 322.
• Combat limitation: She later identifies insufficient burst damage as a weakness, apart from curses and Full-Force Strike 1074.

Divination and Spiritism

Franca regularly supplies the team’s divination and spiritism expertise, fields in which Lumian considers himself inferior to her 564.

• Magic Mirror Divination: Investigates substances, assesses danger, identifies objects, and questions supernatural entities 182 287 407 615.
• Dream Divination: Retrieves buried memories to reproduce Aurora’s mannerisms during an impersonation 813.
• Arrodes: Summons the mirror to locate Jenna and the apparent Lumian inside a Painted World when ordinary divination fails 468.
• Ritual cooperation: Conducts a mirror ritual invoking Mr. Fool while Lumian requests Naporidisli’s expulsion from Flores 618.
• Limits: Divination can fail to locate people or offer reassurance that does not prevent unexpected separation and danger 327 468.

Mirror Magic

Franca uses mirrors for escape, deception, curses, and access to the Mirror World 190 322 730.

• Fixed entrance: Establishes a permanent entrance through a ritual to the Primordial Witch, with Lumian increasing the likelihood of success through Push Destiny 707.
• Companion extraction: Plans to enter the Mirror World, reach mirrors carried by her teammates, and pull them inside 730.
• Decoys: Can use mirrors inside and outside a room to create a phantom intended to draw an opponent’s attack 941.
• Restrictions: Mirror access can be blocked. Her Mirror Buckle fails during the confrontation with Perle, and a mirror becomes impassable during Dream City’s collapse 730 999.

Fascination and Disease

The Witch of Pain potion makes Fascination an ability Franca can activate deliberately rather than merely a passive effect of her presence 790.

• Disease range: Initially spreads pathogens across a radius of thirty-something meters; she expects the range to exceed forty meters with mastery and approach fifty with digestion 790.
• Disease progression: Describes roughly ten seconds of incubation, ten seconds of mild symptoms, then rapidly worsening illness. After two or three minutes, victims may become immobile or face sudden death 790.
• Assassination: Can exploit illness for prolonged, less direct attacks 790.
• Countermeasure: Lumian’s Hunter flames destroy many of her pathogens and reduce their effects 790.
• Weaponized hair: Pierces skin, injects black flame, and causes localized stiffness on contact 790.

Answering Prayers

As a high-ranking Witch, Franca offers assistance through her honorific name and seeks believers who can serve as anchors 1075.

• Healing through prayer: Extends spider silk through a point of prayer light, numbs the contacted tissue with Petrification, and delivers Healing Potion directly into a believer’s stomach 1050.
• Practical support: Collects Beyonder characteristics with Lumian to prepare future priests for proselytizing 1066.
• Protective response: Promises to help the Professor, Periodic Table, and Prototype if they invoke her name, provided she is not otherwise prevented from responding 1075.

Equipment & Items

• Sleeve sword — A concealed weapon for which she considers Scorpion Venom a useful coating 227.
• Ring of Punishment — Pierces a target’s spirit body within five meters, inflicting extreme pain and temporarily removing the will to resist. Franca also lends it to Jenna 224 287.
• Lie — A borrowed transformation accessory used for infiltration and impersonation. It amplifies existing emotions; Franca returns it because she fears becoming trapped in obsessive adjustments to her own beauty 364 441 845.
• Primordial Witch’s Bone Statue — Helps locate a suitable ritual site for a Fixed Entrance to the Mirror World. Franca continues keeping it nearby after her demigod advancement without apparent abnormalities 707 1039.
• Mirror Buckle — An item she attempts to activate for entry into the Mirror World 730.
• Ice Talisman — Another means of Mirror World travel; she sometimes avoids using it when she suspects a trap 845 941.
• Traveler’s Bag — Carries clothing, potions, and supernatural equipment 790 981.
• Certain-Hit Gun — Possesses Certain Hit and Certain Death shots, with serious illness among the costs of its special effect. A later change restores thirteen special shots and adds an effect that intimidates enemies and impairs thought and movement without requiring a hit 981 1056.
• Mystery’s Face — A Grade 1 Sealed Artifact obtained by exchanging Beyonder characteristics and Mystical Items with Mr. Fool 1075.

Relationships

• Lumian Lee — Teammate, fellow Tarot Club member, and later intimate partner. She teaches him mysticism, assists his investigations, and confronts him when his relationship with Jenna leaves her feeling excluded. Her Two of Cups card is later transferred under his Major Arcana card 175 262 852 858 1034.
• Jenna — Close companion, housemate, Assassin trainee, and lover. Franca supports her advancement and recovery from grief; Jenna accepts Franca’s former sex and transmigration after her confession 218 275 423 845 853.
• Aurora Lee / Muggle — Fellow Research Society member and friend. Franca remembers her as gentle, humorous, and kind, mourns her death, and agrees to keep it secret to protect Lumian’s investigation 175.
• Anthony Reid — Teammate and Psychiatrist. Advises Franca on making her undercover disclosures convincing without appearing suspiciously candid 400.
• Madam Judgement — Her supervising Major Arcana holder before the later Tarot Club reassignment. Franca reports major findings and emergencies to her 264 378 468 1034.
• Hella — Research Society associate who helps Franca and Lumian survive Loki’s attack and warns them about dangerous investigations 390 702.
• Gardner Martin — Savoie Gang superior and former sexual partner. Franca hopes to reach the Iron and Blood Cross Order through him, but eventually fights him 275 400 477.
• The Black Witch — Witch Sect superior who gives Franca assignments and poses a surveillance risk to her companions 845 1094.
• Rosanne — Dream City colleague and ally. Franca works alongside her, helps ease her distress through companionship, and risks advancement to save her during the collapse 948 986 999.
• Melissa Moretti — Meets Franca in Trier and receives an offer of help finding alternatives for her Alchemist advancement ritual 1178.

Story Role

Trier Investigations

Franca becomes one of Lumian’s regular partners in investigating Underground Trier. Their early exploration leads into a dangerous Mirror World, where they encounter circumstances resembling the disappearance of Christo’s caravan. After escaping, Franca notices that the returned Elken awkwardly opens a door with his left hand despite being right-handed 187 190.

She also helps investigate the Bliss Society and its connections to the Old Dovecage Theater, where Jenna studies acting. Subsequent operations include infiltrating Deep Valley Quarry, confronting April Fool’s Day members, and investigating the People in the Mirror 214 287 390 441 615.

Witch Sect Infiltration

Franca’s contact with Bruns Soren, also called Blanche, creates an opening into the Witch Sect. She uses carefully limited disclosures, disguises, and cooperation against hostile Beyonders to improve her chances of passing its assessment 398 400 420.

The infiltration provides advancement resources but also brings scrutiny from the Black Witch. Jenna eventually moves out because prolonged observation could expose her own secrets 753 845.

Dream City

In Mr. Fool’s dream, Franca assumes the identity of Luo Fu, a twenty-five-year-old office worker with three years of employment history. These are details of her assigned identity, not her established real age or career. She joins the Intis Group’s Administration Department to approach Zhou Mingrui and observe Rosanne 932 940 948.

Her attempt to warn Zhou about the supernatural drinks causes her expulsion from the dream. Later, after returning, she shoots Zarathustra and uses a Healing Potion to postpone the resulting serious illness until after police questioning 954 981.

During a collapsing corridor emergency, ordinary escape routes and Mirror World access both fail. Franca chooses to advance to Witch of Despair, deliberately seeking the Primordial Witch’s attention as a possible means of saving the group. The advancement succeeds 999 1039.

Demigod Activities

After Dream City, Franca reveals her demigod status to her telegram group and warns its members about the approaching apocalypse. She subsequently answers prayers, arranges advancement rewards and protection for fellow transmigrators, and reaches Sequence 3 1048 1050 1075.

Her later activities include investigating Louis Gustav’s disappearance under the Black Witch’s orders and offering Melissa Moretti help with her advancement ritual 1094 1178.

Honorific Name

Franca gives the following honorific name when offering protection to the Professor, Periodic Table, and Prototype 1075:

The one who never ages, the Keeper of Disease and Plague, the Witch accompanied by strife and disaster, the cup bearing pleasure and pain, the great Franca Roland.

Notable Quotes

“Now that opportunity is here.”
— Before attempting her emergency advancement in Dream City 999

“I don't think gender matters. What matters is a person's character, spirit, and moral integrity...”
— Responding to her mirror counterpart’s accusations 1044