Noi (能井) is an elite Magic-User, and the partner and long-time friend of Shin. She works with him as a cleaner for En, her older cousin.
Appearance[]

Anime color scheme
Noi has silver-white hair and red eyes. She is the fourth tallest character in the series and is very muscular. However her bulk and height are likely a side of effect of her devil training. As a result, other characters are often unsure of her gender at first, until she speaks or takes off her mask. Her ears are pierced multiple times, with five piercings on each ear. She has a curvaceous build.
Usually, Noi wears a zip-up tracksuit with her name on it in several places, gloves, and sneakers, though she also has other outfits for formal occasions. She wears a blue gimp mask with an exposed "skeletal" mouth, like the Chatterer cenobite from the Hellraiser movies. The mask appears to have been patched with duct tape on top, similar to the tracksuit. She has duct tape around both of her forearms and her calves.
Personality[]

Noi without a mask
Noi is a very confident, cheery and carefree person. So much so, that as Shin later mentions, she has stopped trying to avoid attacks because she can easily heal herself. Noi enjoys fighting and often competes with her partner Shin to see who can kill the most. Her bold personality can get them both into trouble because she doesn't bother to observe her surroundings carefully. The person she shows the greatest respect towards is Shin. She has a large appetite. She also enjoys fair fights and isn’t afraid of mostly any magic that comes her way.
Powers & Abilities[]
- Healing Magic. Noi's power is healing, which is one of the rarest types of magic. In the manga, her power is often used to heal Ebisu (who gets injured frequently) and the people that En turns into mushrooms. Noi can heal herself quickly and without the need to intentionally release her smoke, thanks to her ability. This makes her exceptionally resilient against physical attacks and virtually unkillable. She can also seemingly repair damaged objects, as seen when she healed Shins arm after it was melted, and seemingly restored his hammer to its original state. Her magic can also restore injuries on corpses, but she cannot bring them back to life.
- Physical Might. Noi is extremely strong, using her size and brute force to pummel enemies with her bare hands. She was shown easily punching through walls and cleaved a man in half with a simple chop.
History[]
Past[]
Noi is En's younger cousin and only known relative, though which side of the family she comes from is unspecified. The circumstances of how and when she encountered En, as well as her life prior then are unknown. Since at a young age, En used Noi's powers for his business and schemes, making their relationship complicated. Even if En, in his own odd way, respects and cares for her, Noi has no respect for En, as his past treatment of her has caused her to feel bitter and resentful.
According to En, he used to own the successful noodle soup franchise "Flower Smoke", which was around the time Noi was training for the Devil Exam. During her time as a bouncer in one of its restaurants, though she was not officially employed there, she met Shin. A thief with rotten arms, Noi caught him stealing food from the restaurant. She pursued him, confronted him, and demanded he pay for the food he stole. Instead, Shin proposed a magic fight, offering to pay only if Noi managed to defeat him. In order to guarantee a fair fight and, also, to show Shin the nature of her magic, Noi healed his arms. Showing him that her magic is not the type that is useful in a fight, Noi was going to suggest that they fight physically, without weapons, when Shin suddenly used the claw of his hammer to hit her in the back of the head. Taking this opportunity to run away, he promises to pay her back for healing him, leaving an angry Noi on the floor, bleeding.
At some point during her childhood, Duston, a powerful Devil, approached her with the offer of training to become a Devil herself. After a short time of training, she was the sole remaining applicant, as all the other candidates were killed in various manners (e.g. by giant bats, suicide, and accidentally getting killed by Duston). To make her body morph into that of a Devil, Noi used to wear heavy, impractical armor almost all of the time. As one of the effects of the Devil transformation, her personality was warped, causing her to become a carefree and violent as she loved to fight; alongside becoming incredibly brawny and tall as her body bulked up as apart of her devil transformation. She was in the final stage of her exam, when the trainees must spend a year refraining from using their magic, however when she decided to use her healing magic to save Shin, she thereby sacrificed her chance at devilhood. Nonetheless she still gained great boons from her failed devil training and became a physical juggernaut in the process.
Time passed, and En hired Shin to become his cleaner and paired him up with Noi. Working together, the two became close friends, through mutal experiences and their similar feelings about En. During the Blue Night festival, they were ambushed and separated by two shady Magic Users named Baku and Yaku, who had a history of coming after the two during previous festivals. Baku and Yaku wanted to make Shin and Noi sign contracts with them, which would force them
inta compliant partnershsip until the contrasct expi. . Shin and Noi eventually break free of their respective kidnappers and renew their contacts with each other.
Present[]
Noi appears for the first time in the fourth chapter of the manga, during a cleaning mission with its senpai Shin. With brute force, she kills some of the remaining Cross-Eyes members in a hideout to take an elderly unnamed Cross-Eyes to En. Nothing more than a head, the target is put in a cheap body bag and accidentally splashed all over Noi, to her disgust and Shin's annoyance. Subsequently, they meet En at a restaurant, who is dressing for the event (Noi uses a tight short leather dress with needles at the end). En entrusts them the mission to find and kill Kaiman and Nikaido (Due to their Magic User hunts in Hole, they killed Matsumura and injured Fujita, now present in the dinner with Ebisu, another of Kaiman victims).
Leaving to Hole at the Day of the Living Death, they find them and engage in a fight. Noi is surprised by Nikaido's skills and even asks her to be her friend, but remembers that she had to kill her anyways. After a tied fight, she overpowers Nikaido and almost kills her. Seeing that Shin beheaded Kaiman, she opens a Magic Door and escapes. The cleaners return to the sorcerer's realm believing that Kaiman survived somehow and that they need to find him. Noi is among the rest in turkey's house to make a doll of "The man inside the lizard head", following the doll through the city until they find a box inside an old building, where the doll went berserk. It almost kills Fujita and Ebisu. Noi nurses the two while Shin destroys the doll, then they open the box to reveal a rotten head. Noi fixes it with her magic, showing that the head belonged to "The man inside the lizard head mouth".
Trivia[]
- Can't walk in high heels
- Seems to favor leather clothes or form-fitting wardrobe.
- Noi's name (能井) uses the kanji for Talent or Ability (能) Nō and the kanji for Town or Community (井)
- Noi's Door takes the form a band-aid, a reference to her magic.