Emily

Emily is a child of the Arcadia inn whose kindness helps make the isolated Aengus Degaro, then living as Ethan, feel that he has found family. Her death in Beelzebub's destruction of Arcadia becomes one of the losses driving his vengeance and later mercy toward children. The Book of Life and Death eventually reveals that Emily is fated to be reborn as Aengus and Bella Bellfrost's daughter, and she grows into a world-shattering swordswoman within the restored Degaro household. (Chapters 4–72, 103, 247, and 446–466)

Biography

Arcadia’s first circle

Emily first meets Ethan as the seven- or eight-year-old daughter of Greta, the proprietor of the inn where he lives. Poverty has made her unusually responsible: she carries meals to his room, calls him down for breakfast, and tends the reception desk with the seriousness of an adult. These ordinary acts give structure and warmth to Ethan's early life, while her quick departures and initial shyness show that the bond develops through repeated daily contact rather than instant intimacy. (Chapters 4, 20, 25, and 41)

That familiarity becomes an explicitly familial attachment. Emily hides behind Greta when she sees Ethan wounded yet calls him “big brother” and wishes for his recovery; later, she runs to summon her mother when he returns after an absence. Greta and Emily's concern makes Ethan apologize for worrying people he believes should not care about a “nobody,” but their response helps establish that he is no longer socially alone. When Arcadia falls into crisis, he repeatedly thinks of finding them and ultimately describes mother and daughter as the closest people he has in that world. (Chapters 15, 41, and 53–58)

Emily's most consequential early choices occur during the beast assault. After a monster tears off Greta's arm, Emily fights adult thugs who seize her mother, continuing even though her small hands cannot overcome their strength; Ethan arrives and rescues her. She blames herself for Greta's wound, recounts the attack despite fear, and offers every recovered coin toward a restoration potion they could never otherwise afford. Her actions do not change the physical power gap, but they establish fierce loyalty and generosity under pressure, strengthening Ethan's determination to protect them. (Chapters 56–58)

The protection fails when Beelzebub's devouring attack reaches the refugees' campsite. Ethan runs toward Emily, Greta, and his other loved ones despite MANAS calculating a 99.99 percent chance of failure, but the entire camp disappears into the demonic vortex before he can reach it. Emily has no direct scene during the consumption, yet her absence persists in Aengus's decisions: he names her among the few who showed him kindness, remembers her while helping other children, and treats her death as part of the debt Beelzebub must answer for. (Chapters 72, 103, and 247)

Reincarnation and reunion

Years later, Aengus asks the Adjudicator to restore Arcadia's dead who remain in limbo or hell while leaving already reincarnated souls in their new lives. The Book of Life and Death reveals that Emily belongs to the latter category in an unusual way: she is already fated to be born that day as Aengus's daughter, while Greta has separately reincarnated as a noble's daughter in Mythraldor. Aengus declines to alter that fate because Emily has not displaced another soul, making her return a confirmed reincarnation rather than a manufactured replacement or part of the mass revival order. (Chapter 446)

Emily is born to Bella in the Prime Empire with Aria and Aengus present. Aengus welcomes the infant by her former name, and Aria already understands the reincarnation, but the newborn merely blinks and cries because she has not regained memories of her earlier life. Bella's initial surprise does not reduce her affection; she treats Emily as her own innocent daughter. The reunion therefore restores Emily to Aengus without immediately restoring her old consciousness, giving their former sibling-like bond a new parent-child form grounded in her present life. (Chapter 447)

Her birth helps draw the extended Degaro family together before Aengus's long departure. Aron Degaro accepts responsibility for protecting his sister, while Irina and Eleanora meet the infant during the wedding preparations. Bella is distressed that Aengus's synthesis work will keep him away while Emily grows, and he promises that the family will remain within his heart once the process begins. Emily has little agency as an infant in these scenes, but her presence gives the adults a concrete reason to rebuild and preserve a household after repeated separation. (Chapters 448 and 453–454)

In the epilogue, Emily has reached early adulthood in the Infinite Palace and trains with a glowing golden sword under Bella's eye. Her precise swings carry enough force outside the palace to shatter worlds, showing that the reincarnated child has become a celestial combatant even though the narrative provides no formal rank or training history. She still behaves as a daughter and younger sister: she pouts over comparisons with Aron, resents his five-year absence in the Underworld, and rushes into Aengus's arms when he returns, recognizing in reality the father who had often visited her dreams. (Chapter 466)

Appearance and personality

In her first life, Emily is a petite girl around seven or eight years old whose hair is worn in a ponytail. She carries herself with adult-like care while serving food or managing the inn desk, but danger exposes her physical fragility: she hides behind Greta when confronted by Ethan's wounds and cannot overpower the men attacking her mother. The source does not provide eye or hair color for this incarnation, so her early appearance is defined more by small stature and practical presentation than by detailed features. (Chapters 4, 15, 41, and 56)

After reincarnation, Emily is first seen as a newborn with small pearl-like eyes. By early adulthood she is striking, with an oval face, deep dark pupils compared to the void, and long fiery-red hair that falls down her back, visibly connecting her to Bella. Her glowing golden sword and the celestial garden of the Infinite Palace frame her later appearance, though the corpus does not specify armor, uniform, height, or whether any traits from her original body persist. (Chapters 447 and 466)

Emily is caring, dutiful, and emotionally direct in both lives. As a child she eagerly helps Greta, worries about Ethan, physically defends her mother, and offers the family's last money without hesitation; as a young woman she trains seriously but openly pouts when teased and complains that Aron has neglected the family. Her eagerness to embrace Aengus shows that frustration does not harden into emotional distance. The continuity is thematic rather than memory-based, because the story never confirms that adult Emily has recovered memories of Arcadia. (Chapters 15, 20, 41, 56–58, 447, and 466)

Skills, laws, and abilities

Emily's two lives have sharply different power profiles. The Arcadia child has no recorded class, rank, law, or combat skill and survives through courage, family cooperation, and intervention from stronger protectors. Her reincarnated adult self can deliver world-shattering sword swings within a celestial household, but no status panel identifies the source, formal grade, energy system, or chronological milestones of that strength. The article therefore treats the epilogue feat as her latest demonstrated capability without inventing intermediate ranks or inherited laws. (Chapters 4–72, 447, and 466)

Practical competence and courage

Before Arcadia's destruction, Emily's demonstrated capabilities are domestic and social rather than supernatural. She serves guests, manages the reception area, fetches Greta quickly, and remains attentive to injuries and danger. When thugs seize her mother, she struggles physically and screams for release until hoarse, but cannot break an adult's stone-like grip. The encounter establishes resolve and situational awareness while also setting a firm limit: courage does not grant her enhanced strength, and Ethan must intervene to save her. (Chapters 4, 20, 41, and 56–57)

Her response after rescue shows an ability to communicate critical details under trauma. Emily explains the monster attack, the severed arm, the intervention of an inn guest, and the theft by the later assailants, allowing Ethan and Iris to understand Greta's condition. She then recognizes that a restoration potion is financially unreachable and offers their recovered coins anyway. These are practical applications of responsibility and trust, not a named intelligence or support skill, and the source never gives her formal training in medicine or combat. (Chapter 58)

Reincarnation and retained identity

Emily's reincarnation is verified through the Book of Life and Death, which records lives, deaths, karma, timelines, and rebirths across the Omniverse. The Adjudicator identifies a soul connected to Aengus and confirms that she is fated to become his newborn daughter. This mechanism does not operate as Emily's own ability, and Aengus explicitly chooses not to change it. The infant's lack of former memories shows that soul continuity does not mean immediate autobiographical continuity; whether those memories return later is never resolved. (Chapters 446–447)

Aengus's later dream visits let the adult Emily recognize him before their physical reunion, but the narrative attributes the visits to the absent father rather than to a dream-travel power of hers. Likewise, Celestial Synthesis preserves her world and family inside Aengus's growing cosmic existence, but Emily is a protected inhabitant rather than the user of Universal Synthesis. These interactions give her continuing access to her father across separation and a stable celestial home while leaving their mechanisms outside her personal skill set. (Chapters 454, 457–458, and 466)

Celestial swordsmanship

As a young adult, Emily wields a glowing golden sword with focused, precise technique. Her motions look ordinary inside the Infinite Palace, yet each swing would carry world-shattering force beyond its protected setting, demonstrating controlled destructive output rather than uncontrolled environmental damage. The corpus does not name a sword art, element, law, enhancement, or target, so the feat supports tremendous physical or energy-backed swordsmanship but not a specific mechanism such as Creation, Ruination, fire, or divine light. (Chapter 466)

The same scene supplies meaningful limits. Emily grows winded after training for a while and lowers her weapon, while Bella contrasts her endurance with Aron's ability to train for days without rest. Emily protests that she is not tired, but her heavy breathing indicates real exertion despite her world-level striking force. No defensive feat, movement speed, healing power, battle victory, or ability to shatter the Infinite Palace itself is shown, and the palace context appears to contain effects that would devastate ordinary worlds. (Chapter 466)

Relationships

• Aengus Degaro: Emily first treats Ethan as an older brother and helps make the inn feel like a family home. Her death deepens his grief and vengeance, while her fated reincarnation as his daughter allows him to welcome her back without displacing another life. During his later absence he visits her dreams, and she embraces him immediately upon his physical return. (Chapters 4–72, 103, 247, 446–447, and 466)
• Greta: Greta is Emily's mother and employer in Arcadia, and Emily fights desperately to protect her after a monster severs her arm. Their bond is separated by death and reincarnation: the Book of Life and Death says Greta has become a noble's daughter elsewhere in Mythraldor, while Emily is reborn into the Degaro family. No reunion between their new lives is shown. (Chapters 4, 15, 20, 41, 56–58, and 446)
• Bella Bellfrost: Bella gives birth to the reincarnated Emily and accepts her fully despite learning about the baby's former identity. She later supervises Emily's sword practice, teases her about endurance, and mediates her resentment toward Aron, establishing a close mother-daughter relationship that does not depend on Emily remembering Arcadia. (Chapters 447, 454, and 466)
• Aria: Aria knows Emily in Arcadia and later understands her reincarnation before Bella does. As Emily's second mother she assists at the birth, helps receive the wider family, and remains beside Bella during Emily's adult training and Aengus's return. (Chapters 15, 447, 454, and 466)
• Aron Degaro: Aron vows to protect his newborn sister and become stronger than their father. By adulthood he has become Emily's benchmark and source of irritation: she rejects Bella's comparison with his stamina and complains that his Adjudicator responsibilities have kept him away for five years, implying affection strained by absence rather than open hostility. (Chapters 447–448 and 466)

Items

• Golden sword: Adult Emily trains with an unnamed glowing golden sword whose strikes can carry world-shattering force beyond the Infinite Palace. The corpus does not identify its grade, origin, maker, unique abilities, or whether the force comes from the weapon or Emily, so it cannot be connected to any named item article or treated as an independent source of her full power. (Chapter 466)