Nephilim

Nephilim (ネフィリム, Nefilim) is a Seija who is allied with Artemisia and is her loyal bodyguard and follower.

Appearance
Nephilim is a young boy with short black hair that covers his eyes and flows down most of his neck preventing his full face from being seen in most cases. During the time of present Ragna, he has two horns, one on the right side of his head that is fairly small and another on the left which is far smaller and almost unnoticeable. In the future these two horns grew far larger curving upward and growing past his head. Additionally, a third horn grew close to the one that rests on the right side of his head though it is noticeably smaller than the rest. He wears a jacket with the top covering his neck, with two belts around it, at the end of both sleeves there are similar belts around them both. He also wears white shorts with sneakers. A long black tail extends from his back with spikes near the end of it.

After fully maturing Nephilim grows far larger, becoming comparable to Woltekamui in pure size alone. Both of the horns he had extend and grow taking on a similar form to the design that they had in the future timeline. The third horn that he had grown in the future also becomes apparent after his evolution although it is noticeably straighter than its other version. Both of his hands and feet become more dragon like resembling that of the Seija's full dragon transformations. The belts around his sleeves and top of his cloak both disappear as a result of his transformation. His tail noticeably extends and becomes thicker, the spikes alongside it grow outward to match the tip of his tail. The boy's eyes also take on a great change taking on a ripple pattern that spreads over the surface of the entire eye.

Personality
Nephilim is a very timid boy, resembling that of a child with social anxiety. For a majority of the time that he is around others he rarely speaks rarely giving any input unless necessary. This however is not the case when he is around the woman, he protects Lady Artemisia. While he is still shy, he will give input and his opinion on many situations that plague her, or she is worried about. Even actively stopping her from doing things that he believes will harm her or the rest of her allies. Alongside his change in nature, he is extremely overprotective of her, always attempting to stay by her side so that she has the most safety that is possible. Even putting her safety and protection over his own life, even if he happens to be on the brink of death with no way else to go. The main reason for this is because of the way that he values kindness from others, and those who are exceptionally kind to a level such as Artemisia are those he wishes to protect above all else.

After the defeat of himself, Artemisia, and Borgius, Nephilim goes under a notable change in nature because of the event. While he is still timid, he is willing to go against or challenge the orders of his master if he feels that it will help her. Although he is not willing to say this to her himself because he does not want to see her angry at him. He is also willing to chip in more giving ideas on strategies or trying to help his allies figure out what their enemies next move is or what they might do. Because of the beating that Ragna had given to Artemisia, Nephilim has become obsessed with the dragon hunter, counting every second that he remains alive without fail. This has grown to the point where whenever he is mentioned he flies into a blind rage vowing that he will end the life of the one who hurt Artemisia. When he first evolved this anger grew to the point that he sensed Crimson's World Void across dimensions vowing that they would not escape his grasp.

Shielded behind his devotion to Artemisia and his value for her kindness, Nephilim despite how he feels for her has an ever staying feeling of loneliness. As he feels that despite how he is always with her he has never been as close as he wishes to be with Artemisia if at all. He is constantly attempting to figure out ways to grow closer to her heart similar to a Woltekamui. However, he has never found an answer. Nephilim is also analytical to a certain degree being able to figure out certain things within the midst of battle that people such as Artemisia could not see. Such as when Crimson attempted to use Ragna to make Artemisia use her trump card once more to make her run out of enemy.

Plot
Nephilim was turned into a dragon by Artemisia and made into one of the Seija, then becoming her bodyguard soon after. Within the original timeline Nephilim is assumed to have helped both Artemisia and the other Seija destroy the country as they did in the past. He is seen during the defeat of future Ragna alongside the other Seija. When asked his opinion on how to deal with him he states it should be in a peaceful way because of the teachings of Artemisia. Afterwards he is scared by Woltekamui after the 2nd class dragon states that no one else's opinions matter because he's stronger than all of them combined. After Artemisia stabs Ragna in the heart with a blade made from her blood, he watches the start of the hunter's transformation into a Seija. When he jumps for his sword Nephilim rushes over in front of Artemisia to protect her in case Ragna attempted to go on the attack. When Ragna commits suicide by stabbing his heart with a silver blade, Nephilim expresses his disbelief over how he rejected Artemisia finding it impossible to understand. He along with the rest of the Seija then fly away from the corpse of Ragna as he lays on the ground.

Capital Arc
Nephilim is in the King's chambers alongside Borgius and Artemisia, protecting the Winged King after the King of Leese prepares to launch a concentrated blast of light at her. He grows nervous and blushes as she thanks him for defending her in the face of danger, to which he responds by saying it is his duty although he stutters all the way through. When Artemisia makes the decision to turn back time to revive the King of Leese, Nephilim vanishes behind the guards within the room and knocks them out before they can do anything.

Nephilim is next seen within a secluded area of the king of Leese's castle inside a barrier of his creation while editing the design of the barrier that surrounds the capital. His work is then interrupted by the appearance of Borgius who tells him to return to his work on the capital's barrier despite his arrival, despite this Nephilim is overjoyed to see him and tells him about the status of his work. Informing him that he already decided on the humans that will be erased and that all that was left was biding time. As he is complimented for his work, he tells Borgius about the status of Artemisia saying that she has gone out to the city's streets. This leads him to being yelled at by the elderly dragon for allowing such a thing, as he attempts to say he can still track her movements this only makes him angrier. Borgius berates Nephilim for his incompetence and says that he has failed as a bodyguard if he has allowed such an action. The words of the man bring him to tears, and though he tries to apologize he is told to save it because he needs to know where she is not baseless apologies.

Nephilim arrives within the capital's streets in an attempt to find Artemisia, upon finding her he yells out her name slowly growing closer because of how tired he is. He expresses how glad he is that he found her because of how angry Borgius was at him for allowing his master to leave his sight. Nephilim stands upright when faced with Ragna expressing interest in who he may be because of the fact that he appears to be a dragon hunter. Artemisia tells him that she was having a nice conversation with him because he appeared to not be well because of crowd sickness. Nephilim tries to reply by saying that such a sickness was fake and made-up however while he was denying the existence of it, the boy expels barf from him stomach. Artemisia comments on how he's the same as Ragna and how they should go somewhere with less people after he states how he does not feel well because of the vast number of people.

Nephilim is seen with Artemisia shortly after his expunging of fluid from his lungs, as she talks about how she thanks him for being their for her he grows flustered replying that it wasn't hard to do it at all. Saying that he simply wanted to support the kindness he always showed himself and everyone around her. The winged king says that she isn't nice at all though this just caused an even greater reaction for Nephilim. He says that there's no way that she could be anything but nice, however after saying those words he apologizes for yelling at her. Artemisia asked if the parents of the child she was with were on the list to be exterminated to which he replies yes. Nephilim begins to explain how within his barrier he can dispose of people quickly and painlessly just as Artemisia desires a death to be. While in the middle of their conversation Ragna reappears behind the two of them stating that he wishes to redo their prior exchange. Ragna attacks Nephilim with a silver blade while speaking which causes him to fall over, killing the Seija on the spot. His body breaks into a variety of pieces.

Nephilim revives himself using his regenerative barrier, the moment that he is revived to a 'near death state' he uses one of his barriers on Ragna to restrain his movement. He thinks to himself about the current situation and talks about how he just narrowly escaped his own impending doom. Nephilim speaks on the abnormality of Ragna's silver aura, though he focuses on how his constant switching between barriers to allow for his healing and Artemisias protection hastened his death. While he thinks on how he can only hold the hunter for a few seconds it was ok if he was capable of allowing Artemisia a few more seconds of life. When Ragna releases the full power of his silver aura, Nephilim is filled with surprise because his barrier was going to shatter. He begs for said barrier to remain standing even if it was for a single second, that he would use his last drops of life and he had no care for his oncoming death. As Nephilim resolves himself to help Artemisia he is devoured by slime

After Artemisia rewinds time to before the battle began, Nephilim reappears behind her within his dragon form. He then smashes both Slime and Ragna, growing enraged at the memories of what he did to Artemisia before she rewound time. Leading to a barrage of blows on Ragna and slime to kill both of them. This assault is halted by Artemisia after she tells him that it's enough and that he needed to look at his own hand. Reverting back to his human form Artemisia comments how she always thought of Nephilim as dependable and asks if he could set up a barrier around them to make sure no damage hurt the people. Walking away from the winged king, Nephilim turns his attention back to her when Ragna rushed at her within stopped time. Setting up his strongest defensive barrier, he vows that he would never allow someone like Ragna to harm Artemisia again. When she is chopped into pieces by a silver sword, he catches her head within his arms not wanting it to be destroyed. Turning his back to Ragna he wraps his wings around her in an attempt to protect her from harm. Turning back around as Ragna faces backlash for using the Silver Aura Battle Arts, he is told by Borgius to take Artemisia and flee the area to protect her. After getting above the capital's main area, he thinks about if Ragna was caught within the blast however he states that it failed because of his companions. Remaining in the air, Nephilim wonders about what Chimera was and inquired about who Crimson was although he was unable to see her face. He is then told to not let his guard down, and then asks Artemisia to stop time again. As Artemisia trembles and attempts to turn the worlds time back Nephilim tells her not to as the enemy would want that. He holds Artemisia in his arms as she screams in sadness.

Later Nephilim is seen talking with Borgius, discussing the maturation period, during which he is told that his maturation period was instant meaning that he had more potential than Woltekamui. This revelation shocks the boy and leads him to say that it is not possible because in the battle at the capital he was useless. Meanwhile if Kamui had been there he wouldn't have let such a battle occur. He states that his potential is meaningless if he can't grow stronger now, this desire leads to him fully maturing, with Artemisia in his arms he states he will find the ones who attacked her. Sensing the World Void created by Crimson, Nephilim begins to try and break into the pocket dimension. When Ragna releases Silver Aura Battle Arts within the dimension, Nephilim finds the group easily beginning to break into the space. Stating that he will destroy the space and drag them out of it half of his head is blown apart by a blast of energy from Golem. Regenerating the rest of his head Nephilim says that he won't allow them to get away because they are his to kill. The resulting powers leads to the destruction of the World void, though Nephilim was unable to catch them.

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