Shaula

Shaula is a centuries-old, monstrous mabeast created by Daphne (the Witch of Gluttony) who possesses a hyperactive, deeply affectionate human form and serves as the tragic, eternally loyal guardian of the Pleiades Watchtower. deep within the Augria Sand Dunes For four hundred years, the world falsely heralded her as the legendary "Sage" who helped seal the Witch of Envy, Satella; however, this was a massive historical misdirection orchestrated by her beloved creator and master, Flugel, who intentionally transferred all his grand achievements to her name before completely vanishing from history Bound by an absolute, magically unyielding contract left by Flugel. Shaula spent those four isolated centuries executing anyone who dared approach the tower, using her devastating Hell's Snipe—a barrage of light-speed mana needles fired with pinpoint accuracy from miles away—while her perception was so severely warped by her mabeast nature that she could not recognize human faces, identifying entities strictly by their soul's wavelength or scent When Natsuki Subaru finally breached the desert. she immediately mistook him for the reincarnation or return of Flugel due to his overwhelming, miasma-heavy "Witch's Scent," throwing herself into a state of clingy, scantily-clad, and boundary-free devotion where she wore an orange-and-black outfit deliberately mirroring his modern tracksuit. Despite her bubbly, comedic demeanor and her habit of using eccentric modern slang taught to her by Flugel, Shaula harbored a deeply tortured psyche resulting from centuries of maddening isolation, which ultimately culminated in the heartbreaking event. When the unbreakable rules of the tower were inadvertently violated by Subaru's amnesiac state and the interference of the Archbishop of Gluttony, Shaula's contract forcefully overwrote her free will, mutating her into a colossal, mindless crimson scorpion tasked with slaughtering the very comrades she had grown to love. Even as a monstrous beast, her latent affection for Subaru caused her immense internal agony, and upon her defeat, she tragically dissolved into ashes, leaving behind a tiny, non-verbal crimson scorpion named Meili's pet—effectively erasing her original personality but cementing her legacy as one of the most powerful, fiercely loyal, and sorrowful figures