Hila

Hila, later known as the Goddess of Death, is a death-energy Esper from Planet Aquamarine and the elder sister of Aurora. She begins as a Germinal commander forced into the organization's service by Aurora's captivity, but the rescue of her sister gives her the freedom to redefine strength as more than a means of surviving coercion. Through training under Ames, service beside Han Xiao, and inheritance of the Underworld, Hila becomes a Beyond Grade A combatant, a custodian of the dead, and eventually the head of the Supers Holy Land's Esper Department.

Biography

Escape from Germinal and the Aquamarine War

Hila first appears as the commander responsible for Germinal's Valkyrie laboratory. She recognizes the amnesiac test subject Zero and treats him as a dangerous experiment rather than an ordinary captive, refusing an immediate dissection but ordering brainwashing when he resists. Her authority, coldness, and willingness to use violence make her one of Han Xiao's first enemies, while her early E-grade power leaves her far below the figure she will later become. (Chapters 1–2)

That service is not freely chosen. Germinal keeps Aurora emaciated in a sealed cell and repeatedly extracts her blood and bone marrow, allowing Hila only brief visits through the glass. Hila trains, kills, and performs the organization's work because every increase in her usefulness appears to buy her sister another day. The arrangement turns protection into a form of captivity for both sisters: Aurora is the hostage, while Hila is made into the weapon that guards the institution hurting her. (Chapters 51 and 199)

When Hila fights Division 13 and Han Xiao during the war, her death ability already has both battlefield and psychological effects. She draws energy from nearby corpses, releases gray mental shocks, and turns gathered death energy into wide attacks, but Han can interrupt her concentration and injure her with ordinary weapons. The confrontation establishes both her danger and her limits at this stage: she can exploit a field of dead combatants, yet her body remains vulnerable and her control can be broken under pressure. (Chapters 140–144)

Han Xiao's infiltration of Germinal headquarters changes their relationship because his objective is to rescue Aurora rather than use her against Hila. Once Hila understands the plan, she helps break through the facility, reveals a secret route she prepared, carries her weakened sister, and follows Han's breakout instructions despite distrusting his motives. Her choice is personal rather than ideological—Aurora's safety comes first—but it removes Germinal's decisive leverage and lets Hila turn her strength against the system that owned it. (Chapters 238–247)

Freedom does not immediately give Hila a new purpose. When Emerald Grass's research with Aurora's hair evokes Germinal's experiments, Hila nearly attacks her until Han and Aurora intervene. She later admits that killing and training had made her feel safer because she could tell herself every death helped protect Aurora; once Aurora is safe, that justification collapses and leaves her empty. Han argues that her drive to fight is real even without coercion and that strength can still protect what she values. Hila accepts that she does not have to renounce combat to reject Germinal's path, beginning a distinction she maintains thereafter between ruthless action against enemies and indiscriminate slaughter. (Chapters 264, 282, and 299)

The Black Star Mercenary Group

When Han Xiao announces that he will leave Planet Aquamarine, Hila remains behind while Aurora recovers. Watching his ship depart, she says that he has no reason to return but promises Aurora that they will meet him again; the implication is that she intends to reach the galaxy herself rather than wait forever. This restraint reflects her priorities at the time: curiosity and attachment pull her outward, but she will not gamble with Aurora's health merely to follow him. (Chapters 310 and 318)

More than two years later, Hila is still living in Sanctuary Three even though Aurora has recovered and the sisters once planned to travel. She treats Bennett with reserved respect and helps respond when Aurora senses the life signatures associated with the Mutation Disaster. Han Xiao's silence makes her doubt his promise to return, but she keeps the key he left her and remains where the preparations he arranged can protect her sister. Waiting has become a choice to hold a vulnerable home together, not simple inactivity. (Chapter 507)

Han does return when the disaster reaches its crisis. Hila helps move Aurora back inside the protected region while Black Star and other Calamity Grades confront DarkStar, and she recognizes that she does not yet belong on such a battlefield. The realization is painful because she dislikes being protected and wants to repay Han, but it also gives her a concrete standard for future growth: ordinary planetary strength cannot safeguard Aurora against galactic enemies. (Chapters 552 and 570)

After the Mutation Disaster and DarkStar attack are contained, the sisters finally leave Aquamarine. Han arranges for them to study under Ames on Floating Dragon, and Hila enters galactic society acutely conscious of the distance between herself and veteran mercenary commanders. In a later ground battle she asks to participate rather than stay sheltered, then absorbs streams of energy from recently killed DarkStar soldiers. The experience reveals that deaths can strengthen her Esper ability, but she rejects using planetary slaughter as a cultivation method and limits her violence to enemies on an existing battlefield. (Chapters 580 and 583)

Ames's instruction is severe and deliberately hands-off: her students are expected to endure, improvise, and grow rather than receive careful protection. Hila accepts that style because it answers her fear of being unqualified when danger arrives, while Aurora develops alongside her rather than remaining only someone to be hidden away. Their life-and-death abilities also attract Ames's interest as an unusual paired phenomenon, creating a teacher–student bond that survives long after formal training ends. (Chapters 552, 612, and 667)

Mutation Disaster and the Secret War

Years of training turn Hila into a mature Grade B combatant, but Han Xiao's continuing ascent still feels impossibly distant. When he asks her to join him after reaching Calamity Grade, she agrees immediately: she wants enough power to protect Aurora in the galaxy, repay Han, and work beside him rather than see him only at long intervals. Her promise gives the training an endpoint beyond personal security. (Chapter 715)

After more than a decade under Ames, Hila and Aurora leave Floating Dragon despite an offer to remain as senior officers. Hila bows to Ames in genuine gratitude, then chooses the earlier promise to find Black Star. The departure is neither rebellion nor rejection of her teacher; it is the first time Hila can leave a powerful protector because she has reached Grade A and trusts both sisters to survive the journey. (Chapter 728)

The trip immediately demonstrates the results. Hila kills pirate crews across several ships with a death-energy attack that destroys their minds, absorbs the residual soul energy, and reflects on the slight increase in her power. She keeps the captured ships for Han instead of pursuing loot for herself, while Aurora pilots their vessel. Their division of labor shows that Aurora is now a capable partner and that Hila's lethal ability can support a shared objective without becoming a pretext for random killing. (Chapter 729)

Within the Black Star Army, Hila becomes captain of the Black Star Guards and commands strong officers rather than serving as an ornamental bodyguard. She receives prisoners, brings new guards such as Hadavy into the unit, and accompanies Han on operations with Feidin, Aurora, and other officers. Her conviction that weakness is a crime remains severe, but it now drives training and duty inside an organization whose people she has chosen to defend. (Chapters 731, 745, 769, and 824)

The Evolution Cube and Crimson Dynasty

Han Xiao's rise to Beyond Grade A draws Hila into a much harsher strategic world. As Guards captain she watches dynasty allies test him, worries when his battles place him beyond the unit's ability to intervene, and remains ready to follow him into the Central Galaxy. Her role gives her proximity to the highest-level conflicts without erasing the gap between a Calamity Grade guard and the opponents now surrounding Black Star. (Chapters 769–800)

That gap becomes explicit when Han refuses to bring the Black Star Guards to the operation against EsGod, explaining that they would be burdens in a fight of that scale. Hila accepts the order but leaves dissatisfied, and Aurora anticipates another punishing training cycle. The exclusion does not break her loyalty; it converts humiliation into the determination to reach a level at which Han cannot reasonably leave her behind. (Chapter 886)

After EsGod's capture, Hila waits at the dock for Han's return and disguises her concern as the duty of a Guards captain. Han uses a power taken from EsGod to strengthen the pathways and upper limit of her Esper ability, choosing her before other candidates. Hila's sparse room contains only photographs with Aurora, Ames, and Han, quietly identifying the three bonds around which her otherwise austere life is organized. Soon afterward she leaves the captain's post with Ames, promising not to return until she reaches Beyond Grade A. (Chapters 899 and 929)

The Flickering World

Hila spends roughly twenty years away from the army, traveling and training with Ames instead of seeking public attention. She returns on Planet Aquamarine only after fulfilling her promise, and her first public action as a Beyond Grade A is to defeat Tolaen when he challenges Ames. The victory gives her the title Goddess of Death and a credible record of her own, rather than fame borrowed from her teacher or Black Star. (Chapters 929, 993, and 1000–1002)

The Tolaen battle displays how completely her ability has changed. Hila faces him head-on despite his physical advantage, accumulates Death's Erosion through repeated hits, detonates the stacks with Reaper of Souls, and uses Abyss of the Dead to pull at his spirit when he tries to turn the fight into an energy contest. Tolaen surrenders after losing part of his maximum health and suffering injuries that will take years to recover, while Hila stops only after making the result unmistakable. The battle also exposes a limitation: her death energy consumes enormous power, and without fresh kills she initially lacks enough energy-recovery techniques for indefinite attrition. (Chapters 1000–1001)

Promotion gives Hila the right to found an independent organization, but she decides to remain with Black Star. She explains that her earlier pursuit of strength came from insecurity and that, now capable of protecting herself, she has not yet chosen a separate purpose; she also refuses to leave immediately after owing so much of her path to Han. He appoints her Deputy Army Commander, while she treats the title as less important than the chance to continue fighting and improving. (Chapters 1002–1004)

In the Flickering World's fourth exploration phase, Hila asks to command a front-line fleet because she wants experience against other Beyond Grade As. When Gorutan tries to poach her and seize Planet Phiri, she rejects his offer, refuses to retreat, and accepts a duel against a far stronger pinnacle opponent. She turns his accompanying fleet into a source of healing, hides key abilities until his anger creates an opening, and uses Reaper of Souls to inflict a serious wound before his counterattack destroys the planet and triggers her Death Rejection. Hila cannot win, but she proves she can make a pinnacle fighter pay; when she worries that her brutal tactics have created trouble for the army, Han publicly accepts the consequences of defending his deputy and old friend. (Chapters 1014 and 1016–1019)

The danger escalates when the Arcane Church and Federation of Light target Hila as both a future threat and leverage against Black Star. Warned that a challenge may be a trap, she refuses Tolaen's bait and orders the stronghold fleet to respond according to procedure, but the enemy coalition eventually isolates her. Under focus fire she forces open a life-and-soul link with Aurora across an immense distance, accepts her sister's help instead of insisting on solitary protection, and continues fighting even while urging Han not to endanger his true body for her. The attack fails, and the awakened link leaves Hila able to draw on Aurora's vitality remotely and later grant a one-time form of Death Rejection to others. (Chapters 1045–1062)

Intelligent Plague and the Association

The sisters' new link reveals the Underworld, a failing secondary dimension created by the ancient life-and-death Espers Eros and Nerkese. Onicelu explains that Hila and Aurora are not reincarnations: their Esper abilities are data-form seeds containing the prior users' accumulated understanding. The Underworld itself had been absorbing the energy crossing between the sisters, and it needs stable life and death power to survive. Hila enters the dimension without bringing Aurora into an uncertain environment and chooses to hear Onicelu's offer, accepting both an opportunity to grow and responsibility for a legacy she did not know existed. (Chapters 1078–1079)

Inheritance makes Hila's progress rise with the recovery of the Underworld. She continues routine spars with Han and insists that he fight seriously, even when repeated defeats leave her battered. She does not claim credit for the Intelligent Plague response, which she did not participate in, but she monitors the changing military situation in the Flickering World and returns to the competition zone rather than withdrawing into private cultivation. Her growth remains connected to work and risk outside the dimension. (Chapter 1145)

When Han disappears into the secondary dimensions for months, Hila suppresses news of the loss of contact to prevent the army from wavering. She simultaneously guards the Underworld and prepares to confront a swarm of Space Lice herself when she believes the dimension is threatened. Han's return relieves her, but she responds first as Deputy Army Commander—rebuking him for the instability his absence caused—before allowing the personal concern underneath to show. (Chapter 1206)

The restored Underworld expands Hila's role beyond that of a fighter. Souls drawn into it can become Hero Spirits, and Aurora's life energy can temporarily provide those spirits with bodies and their former combat power. The Mark of the Underworld lets approved bearers collect souls and eventually summon Hero Spirits, but every revival still consumes the sisters' energy; control of the dimension is therefore a responsibility with continuing operational costs, not limitless resurrection. (Chapters 1217 and 1236)

Hila's institutional standing catches up with her combat status when the Beyond Grade A Association elects her as a director under Han's presidency. She remains less interested in ceremony than in useful authority, but the post makes her one of the people responsible for a community facing pressure from the universal civilizations. Her position also reflects a broader change: the former coerced operative now helps govern an organization built to keep powerful individuals from being treated as expendable tools. (Chapter 1251)

Sanctum Revival and the Super Crisis

As the Underworld returns to its peak, it becomes a second revival route beside the Sanctums, though one with different costs and limits. Hila shares ownership with Aurora and bears the same Mark used to collect possible Hero Spirits; the resulting force gives the association resilience, but it also makes the sisters responsible for the freedom and continued existence of every soul retained there. Hila's answer is practical stewardship rather than philosophical certainty: preserve the force, control access, and strengthen it for crises that ordinary survival measures cannot answer. (Chapters 1217, 1236, and 1251)

Her protectiveness toward Aurora also begins to change form. Aurora has spent most of her life under Hila's or Black Star's protection, yet eventually travels with Feidin and acts on her own desire to help. The text does not record a single formal moment when Hila relinquishes control, but Aurora's continued independence shows the consequence of their shared growth: the younger sister is no longer a hostage, patient, or passive energy source, and Hila no longer defines safety as keeping her physically beside her. (Chapter 1286)

During the association's confrontation with the three Universal Civilizations, Hila serves inside its leadership rather than pursuing a personal war. Others assume that her closeness to Han may give her privileged knowledge, but she admits when she has none and waits for his account with the rest of the directors. Before the World Tree conflict begins, she revisits Germinal's ruins with Aurora and finally states that her claim of doing everything for her sister had concealed how lost she herself was. Recognizing that Han rescued her as well as Aurora closes the moral argument she began after Germinal's fall: strength did not save her until she could choose what it was for. (Chapters 1313 and 1326)

The World Tree War

Hila enters the World Tree War with that past settled but not forgotten. The Underworld is used to preserve the souls of soldiers who would otherwise die permanently, and she and Aurora become its recognized masters. When newly collected Hero Spirits fear they have been made slaves, Hila brings Han in to explain the wartime arrangement and its promised end, then takes responsibility for organizing them. The episode exposes the coercive edge of the power she controls, while the promise that unwilling spirits may rest after the war places a boundary around its use. (Chapters 1335 and 1343)

She also enforces discipline among revived Beyond Grade As. When Aegon Vardnadze turns on Han despite having received a new life, Han kills him and Hila immediately pulls his soul into the Underworld, warning the other Revivors that renewed life does not put them beyond consequences. Her response is severe and partly punitive, but it protects a revival system whose beneficiaries had begun to treat Black Star's restraint as weakness. (Chapter 1350)

The World Tree later severs Hila's long-distance link with Aurora by sealing Aurora's consciousness, and Hila is the first to notice. She enters a killing rage, destroys World Tree experts, and consumes enemy souls to strengthen herself instead of sending them into the Underworld. Even then she regains control when Han offers a plan against the Heart Tree King, disengaging despite fresh wounds and coordinating her movement with his mechanical forces. (Chapters 1359–1360)

Han temporarily entrusts Hila with the Spacetime Amber, whose use they had practiced in advance. She teleports through her Advancing in the Dead Sea ability at the instant his avatar restrains the Heart Tree King, presses the Amber into place, and seals the Tree King before he can self-destruct. The capture deprives the World Tree of a replaceable Tree King position and turns Hila's personal fury over Aurora into a strategically decisive success rather than an uncontrolled pursuit. (Chapters 1360–1362)

The war continually strengthens both Hila and the Underworld. The dead make large battlefields favorable to her, while allies such as Feidin identify inexhaustible deposits of remnant souls that she can digest naturally. She trains within the Underworld and accepts technical guidance from the revived EsGod despite disliking his tone, judging expertise more important than pride. As one of the dimension's masters, she also lets its strongest Hero Spirits reorder their hierarchy through combat, a characteristically martial solution that leaves the best fighter at the top. (Chapters 1380 and 1396)

Information Form and the Final Relay

After victory, Hila accepts appointment as chief of the Supers Holy Land's Esper Department and relinquishes her Black Star Army offices, though not her relationships with its people. Her wartime record and the Underworld's importance leave the appointment uncontested. She immediately asks Han to teach her the path to Transcendent Grade, showing that peace changes her responsibilities without ending the drive for strength that has shaped her life. (Chapter 1446)

When Han later surveys the Holy Land, Hila has built her residence beside an advanced training room and continues practicing even in peacetime. The same visit reveals a quieter change: she has adopted a small skeletal beast and openly dotes on it. Training remains central to her identity, but the hobby shows that she can now spend attention on affection and ordinary enjoyment instead of treating every moment as preparation for the next threat. (Chapter 1460)

Han's reflections during that visit return to the bond that began when he and Hila were enemies on his first day in the new universe. He now understands them as companions who have supported one another throughout the journey. Hila's latest state is therefore not retirement or dependence on the past, but a more balanced life in which cultivation, public authority, attachment, and personal interests can coexist. (Chapter 1460)

Appearance and personality

Hila is a human woman with long burgundy-red hair that often falls across part of her face, mixed Western and Eastern facial features, and a physically mature, athletic build. She first wears a tight black bodysuit as a Germinal commander; years later she favors red-and-black nanofiber combat clothing, and her colder bearing increasingly matches the Goddess of Death title. Her clothing changes with equipment and rank, but red hair, dark battlewear, and an austere presentation remain consistent visual traits. (Chapters 1, 140, 715, and 728)

She is reserved, proud, direct, and intensely competitive. Hila rarely speaks without a purpose, dislikes being patronized or protected, and responds to inadequacy with harsher training. Her apparent indifference masks unusually durable attachments: she worries about Han while calling it duty, respects Ames without becoming dependent on her, and organizes most of her life around Aurora's safety. She can be merciless toward enemies and still believes weakness invites exploitation, yet she refuses indiscriminate killing, accepts correction from people she trusts, and eventually recognizes that her old ruthlessness had been as much self-deception as sacrifice. Her sparse room and later care for a pet reveal a private tenderness that she seldom shows publicly. (Chapters 282, 715, 824, 899, 1002–1003, 1326, and 1460)

Abilities and class

Esper progression and death energy

Hila is an Esper whose ability is identified early as Necromastery and later described more precisely as control over death energy. She advances from E grade at Germinal to Grade B under Ames, reaches Grade A before leaving Floating Dragon, and attains Beyond Grade A after two decades of further travel and training. The underlying ability is one of the Super High Risk Esper Abilities and carries inherited knowledge from the data-form seed left by Nerkese, but Hila remains a distinct person rather than Nerkese's reincarnation. Her latest confirmed grade in the corpus is Beyond Grade A; she asks to learn the Transcendent path, but no completed promotion is shown. (Chapters 2, 51, 715, 728–729, 1000–1002, 1078, and 1446)

Death energy can be shaped into rays, waves, storms, barriers, and close-range reinforcement. Its attacks combine physical and mental effects and, after Hila reaches Beyond Grade A, can include true damage and lingering secondary damage. Even before then, she can release direct mental shocks and project effects through physical obstacles; at higher levels she can kill crews without first breaking apart every ship. Strong defenses, sufficient resistance, interruption, and superior speed or force can still reduce or evade its effects, and powerful opponents such as Gorutan can overwhelm Hila faster than ordinary regeneration compensates. (Chapters 140–144, 729, 1000, and 1017–1018)

Soul absorption, growth, and recovery

Recently dead beings leave energy or residual mental fragments that Hila can absorb to strengthen her Esper ability. Large battles therefore provide both immediate fuel and long-term growth, and the effect scales with the number and quality of the dead; Calamity Grade victims produce a more meaningful increase than ordinary combatants. The power creates an obvious temptation toward mass killing, but the Hila of this timeline explicitly refuses to slaughter planets for cultivation and primarily draws from enemies or casualties of wars already underway. (Chapters 583, 729, 1018, and 1360)

At Beyond Grade A, Vampiric converts roughly ten to twenty percent of damage dealt to living targets into health. This makes Hila much stronger in group combat than in a duel: she can move through an enemy fleet, damage many vital targets, and use them as a distributed source of regeneration. It does not supply the same advantage when there are no additional enemies to drain, and it does not prevent a sufficiently powerful blow from reducing her to zero health. Her energy economy is a separate limitation; early after promotion, her main energy-recovery route is killing, so a nonlethal duel without available victims can force her into unfavorable attrition. (Chapters 1000–1001 and 1017–1018)

Death's Erosion and Reaper of Souls

Each successful death-energy hit can apply Death's Erosion, up to fifteen stacks. The marks progressively suppress recovery and defense, remove beneficial effects, reduce attributes, damage cells, and drain health. Higher resistance shortens their duration, and abilities that disperse death energy can counter them, but ordinary resistance removes stacks one by one rather than clearing the entire effect. At maximum stacks, recovery is heavily curtailed and all buffs can be stripped, making even durable opponents increasingly vulnerable the longer Hila maintains contact. (Chapter 1000)

With fifteen stacks present, Hila can use Reaper of Souls to detonate them and perform a death judgment. A successful judgment kills the target; against someone too strong for that outcome, the detonation still removes a large portion of current and maximum health, after which Hila can begin applying stacks again following a short cooldown. She can also use Extradition of the Dead to add multiple stacks at once, allowing a sudden Reaper combination after concealing her setup. Tolaen survives but suffers lasting loss, while pinnacle-level Gorutan resists the judgment and still loses about one fifth of his health. (Chapters 1000–1001 and 1018)

Abyss of the Dead and Advancing in the Dead Sea

Abyss of the Dead uses deposited soul-fragment residue as a mental battlefield. Targets experience a dark abyss filled with the faces and grasping hands of the dead, while Hila contests their mental state and attempts to pull the spiritual body away from physical control. The effect can inflict fear, chaos, paralysis, or stun and leaves the target unable to maintain other defenses; nearby observers may feel lesser aftereffects. It is not irresistible—Gorutan breaks free after a short period, and strong mental resistance or outside intervention can limit the window Hila gains. (Chapters 1001 and 1017)

Advancing in the Dead Sea lets Hila turn her body into an energy form and teleport within an area saturated by her death energy, with a short cooldown between movements. It supplies a mobility option that her mid-range fighting style otherwise lacks, can turn an apparent direct hit into a reforming body, and later combines with the King transport system for long-distance battlefield insertion. Its range depends on prepared death-energy coverage or an external transport step; it is not unrestricted teleportation to any location. (Chapters 1018 and 1360–1361)

Death Rejection and the link with Aurora

Death Rejection allows Hila to reform after her health reaches zero. When Gorutan's attack destroys Planet Phiri and her body with it, her spiritual form gathers death energy into a new body; an Aurora-derived life potion then restores her from the weakened post-revival state. The technique negates a death rather than the attack itself, and immediate follow-up pressure remains dangerous while she is reforming. (Chapter 1018)

The assassination attempt in the Flickering World awakens a blood-and-soul link through which Aurora can send vitality across interstellar distance. As long as Aurora has stamina and the connection remains intact, Hila gains extraordinary regeneration, but the transfer can exhaust Aurora and hostile information or psychic effects can sever the link by incapacitating her. Hila's evolved Death Rejection—Awakening can also give an outsider one death immunity that restores part of their health and refreshes their condition; the same recipient cannot be granted it repeatedly. (Chapters 1049–1050, 1061, and 1359)

Underworld and Hero Spirits

The Underworld is a secondary dimension powered jointly by Hila's death energy and Aurora's vital energy. It can preserve captured souls as Hero Spirits, and Aurora can form temporary bodies that restore those spirits' former combat power until the supplied vitality runs out. If such a body is destroyed, the soul returns to the Underworld rather than disappearing. Hila and Aurora control admission, embodiment, and release through Onicelu, while marked allies can collect souls and summon spirits with permission. (Chapters 1078–1079, 1236, and 1343)

The system has significant constraints. It requires both sisters' forms of energy, drains them in proportion to use, and places stored spirits under the dimension's control; it is therefore not the same as unconditional resurrection or free life. A soul used as a Hero Spirit also cannot simultaneously be consumed for Hila's rapid personal growth. The Underworld grows stronger as it receives more souls and energy, and its recovery in turn accelerates Hila's power, creating a reinforcing link whose latest wartime state supports a vast force of dead experts. (Chapters 1145, 1236, 1343, and 1360)

Power progression

Relationships

Aurora

Aurora is Hila's younger sister, the person whose captivity originally determines almost every choice Hila makes. Hila accepts Germinal's dirty work, builds an escape route, and risks herself because she believes strength is the only reliable way to keep Aurora alive. After the rescue, that protectiveness remains loving but overbearing: Hila worries about food and sleep after even brief separations and initially treats danger as something Aurora must be excluded from. (Chapters 199, 238–247, 282, and 1002)

Their later relationship becomes a partnership between complementary powers. Aurora pilots their ship, fights and travels independently, provides Hila with remote vitality, and co-owns the Underworld. Hila gradually accepts help instead of defining herself as the sole protector, though any threat to Aurora can still drive her into a killing rage. By the end, the sisters remain closely linked without being confined to the same place or role. (Chapters 729, 1049–1050, 1078–1079, 1286, and 1359–1362)

Han Xiao

Han Xiao begins as Hila's captive and enemy, then becomes the person who rescues Aurora and gives Hila a path out of Germinal. Their relationship is built through repeated reversals of protection: he saves both sisters, she trains to become useful to him, he supports her freedom to reach Beyond Grade A, and she later commands fleets and fights wars at his side. Hila disguises concern as duty and speaks more freely with him than with subordinates, while Han trusts her with authority, dangerous intelligence, and eventually Spacetime Amber. (Chapters 1–2, 238–282, 715, 899, 1002–1004, 1145, and 1360–1361)

Their bond is neither a formal romance nor a simple commander–subordinate relationship in the supplied text. Hila's private hopes, photographs, and worry show deep attachment, but her most consequential decisions—remaining in the army, accepting independent command, inheriting the Underworld, and joining the Supers Holy Land—also have strategic and personal reasons beyond Han. By the final period, both regard the other as an old companion whose presence helped define the person they became. (Chapters 899, 1002–1003, 1079, 1206, 1326, and 1460)

Ames

Ames is Hila's teacher and one of the three people represented in her otherwise undecorated room. Her demanding instruction gives Hila the strength to leave Aquamarine's scale of danger, while her refusal to overprotect the sisters forces them to become self-reliant. Hila leaves after more than a decade but does so respectfully, later travels with Ames again to pursue Beyond Grade A, and continues to call her teacher. Their bond survives because both value freedom and strength more than permanent hierarchy. (Chapters 552, 667, 715, 728, 899, and 929–1002)

The Black Star Army and the Beyond Grade A community

Hila's closest professional circle develops inside the Black Star Army. She commands guards such as Feidin and works alongside administrators and officers including Sylvia, Herlous, and the artificial intelligence Phillip. She is not sociable, but her stability as Guards captain and Deputy Army Commander lets others act under Han's absences, while her directness makes her a recognizable center of authority rather than merely his oldest acquaintance. (Chapters 583, 745, 769, 899, 1003, and 1206)

Among Beyond Grade As, Hila is an Association director and later a department chief. She works under Han's presidency with figures such as Kasuyi, accepts that peers may fear the Underworld, and uses its custody over dangerous Hero Spirits—including EsGod—to support the common defense. Her authority over the dead can inspire distrust, but the World Tree War demonstrates why the community accepts it: she can preserve fallen combatants, return them to battle, and personally help capture enemies whom ordinary killing would only allow to revive. (Chapters 1050–1051, 1251, 1343, 1361, 1396, and 1446)

Items

Spacetime Amber

The Spacetime Amber is Han Xiao's Universal Treasure, not Hila's regular possession. Before the decisive Heart Tree King operation, Han trains her to use it and temporarily entrusts it to her because her death-energy teleportation can reach a restrained target faster than he can complete the seal alone. Hila successfully forms the amber around the Tree King and Han's grappling avatar, after which Han retrieves the treasure. Its importance to her is therefore tactical and relational: it is the instrument of her most consequential coordinated capture and evidence of Han's exceptional trust. (Chapters 1360–1362)

Crimson Snake battle suits

Hila uses Black Star Army combat suits from the Crimson Snake line, including a first-generation model prepared for Beyond Grade A combat. The armor supplies protection, communications, mobility, and stored life potions derived from Aurora; after Death Rejection reforms Hila at Planet Phiri, a Crimson Snake suit immediately injects vitality and restores her from the vulnerable aftermath. The suits can still be damaged or destroyed under concentrated Beyond Grade A attacks, so they supplement rather than replace her own defenses and regeneration. (Chapters 1016–1018 and 1049–1050)