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Shax Lied is a freshman student attending Babylus alongside Suzuki Iruma in the Abnormal Class.
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Appearance
Shax wears the typical boy's uniform at Babylus, except he doesn't wear the bow tie leading to it being wide open. His coat is also shorter, being just above his waist. He wears a pair of yellow earrings, a yellow undershirt with wavy black design on the bottom, and slightly off white shoes. He has pointy ears, purple eyes that are usually just slits, and a yellow hair with jagged patterns. He also has what looks like a horn broken into 3 pieces, shaped like triangles. One pair is stuck to his hair while the rest are levitating and facing away from each other.
Personality
A cheerful guy who is often seen playing some kind of game. He himself admits that he is addicted to gambling as well as games, and even chooses a battler that allows him to indulge in his hobbies. Osamu Nishi's initial character concept for Lied labeled him "a trickster who knows he's cute." [4]
History
At some point, he got carried away gambling and accidentally sent a student to the hospital, resulting in his placement in the Abnormal Class.
Synopsis
Babyls Enrollment Arc
On the first day of classes, Shax, along with the rest of the class bet on Iruma's capability of evading the traps they have set in the classroom. During the class' first activity (flying race), he flew along with his classmates casually while playing his game console. His performance during the race merited him the entrance rank of Aleph (1).
Harvest Festival Arc
Alongside Iruma, he was assigned to Bars Robin [5]. Although he initially felt like nothing was going to improve because of Robin-sensei's unreliability, upon meeting his sister Bachiko and being ordered to perform seemingly random chores such as laundry and portering, he decided that he would study under Robin-sensei after all. This ended up exhausting him, as he was forced to match Robin-sensei's enthusiasm in wanting to clear all of Lied's games (which he brought when he was told to bring his favorite thing) in six days, telling him that it was needed to train his concentration.[6]
Abilities
Controller (Sense Stealer): Shax' Bloodline Magic. Lied has the capability to steal one of the target's five senses and turn it into his own. The corresponding organ of the wielder turns black, which signifies which organ he had stolen. Following his intense training with Bars Robin, he amplifies his level of concentration and is able to continuously thieve victim's senses without wasting his mana.[7]
- Concentrated Power: When Shax steals his own senses while being really stressed out (by having to read a book while playing a game with a music bombarded on his ears) he amplifies his concentration skill, further deepening his acute senses that enables him to locate anything.[8] By sacrificing one of his senses, he can manipulate that specific sensory to target. For example, he steals his own hearing for him to hear conversations from a location.[9]
- One-Shot Focus: An overbearing ability from his Controller bloodline magic, Shax is in an astute condition, being able to accurately uses his senses in its greatest level. Only by being in pain, distressed and exhaustion due to low mana can activate this.[10]
Acute Senses: Not only a great sense stealer, his own five senses are strengthened to be able to be greatly focused and can be used to see, hear, smell, and/or touch traces of magic.[11]
Enhanced Tail Strength: Having used his tail for a sitting place, Lied has aquired enough strenght to even walk short distances with it. During the Evidol games he beat everyone except Gyari almost immedietly. He may have lost because of Gyari's advantage of having two tails.
Relationships
Iruma
Since they were paired up during training for the Harvest Festival, Shax and Iruma have grown closer. They often play video games together[12] [13], and they each view the other as their "little brother." [14] [15]
Elizabeta
Shax has a crush on Elizabeta, but has never successfully expressed this. [16]
Shakky
Shax and his older sister Shakky have a contentious relationship. They often bicker when they're together, but they're still shown to care for each other (as when Shax gives a hungover Shakky water, and Shakky happily notes that he's enjoying his school life).[17]
Trivia
- His first name is officially written in English as Lied from the mangaka's tweet, additionally this can be seen at the last page of Volume 15.
- In demonology, the demon Shax is a Great Marquis of Hell and commands thirty legions of demons on evil horses. He is known to take away the sight, hearing and understanding of any person under the conjurer's request, and steals money out of kings' houses, only to return it 1200 years later if everything is still in order. He also steals horses and everything the conjurer asks. Shax can also discover hidden things if they are not kept by evil spirits, and sometimes gives good familiars, but sometimes those familiars deceive the conjurer.
Reference
- ↑ Episode 16
- ↑ Manga Chapter 139
- ↑ Manga Chapter 66
- ↑ Mairimashita Iruma-kun Manga Chapter 88.5
- ↑ Mairimashita Iruma-kun Manga Chapter 95
- ↑ Mairimashita Iruma-kun Manga Chapter 98
- ↑ Mairimashita Iruma-kun Manga Chapter 117 p.4
- ↑ Mairimashita Iruma-kun Manga Chapter 128
- ↑ Mairimashita Iruma-kun Manga Chapter 129
- ↑ Mairimashita Iruma-kun Manga Chapter 133
- ↑ Mairimashita Iruma-kun Manga Chapter 117 p.6
- ↑ Mairimashita Iruma-kun Manga Chapter 144
- ↑ Mairimashita Iruma-kun Manga Chapter 177
- ↑ Mairimashita Iruma-kun Manga Chapter 144
- ↑ Mairimashita Iruma-kun Manga Chapter 185
- ↑ Mairimashita Iruma-kun Manga Chapter 181
- ↑ Mairimashita Iruma-kun Manga Chapter 144