Meanwhile an investor in Marlow's research named Professor Gilbert had become anxious to see the results and hired an amateur detective, Johnny Garland, to track down Marlow.
Because of Marlow's connection to Lady both Johnny and Shania met while on his trail and decided to find answers together, although nether had any idea of Lady's former identity as Grace since Johnny's memory was still extremely hazy. As Lady's whims brought her to Chicago she came upon the recently killed Edna Capone , sister of the infamous Al Capone.
Lady kissed Edna's body and Edna recovered and changed the same as Killer, but unlike Killer, Edna was not as accepting of her own awakened Malice and became corrupted despite or perhaps because of her efforts to remain in touch with her humanity. After a tragic play out of Edna's consuming need for vengeance, Shania and Johnny were put hot on Lady's trail, as was Professor Gilbert.
Shania was ill-prepared for Lady even with powerful spirit contracts on her side and was mortally wounded. Lady seeing Shania's anger revived her with her kiss of Malice implanting a corrupting presence that would consume Shania's soul if left unchecked as it eventually had done to Edna.
Gilbert begged to tag along with Lady and Killer and would surely have met with a violent end at Killer's hand many times if he was not capable of interpreting Lady's primal needs to return to her true state of Malice. Gilbert showed her and Killer a seal known as The Gate. The Gate was a barrier to a primordial world of pure Malice that was sealed off by a spiritual filter long ago to keep from overflowing into the world. The Gate was, up until a few decades prior, unbreakable by any means, but thanks to Nicolai Conrad 's release of the world's bound up Malice there was enough free range hatred for Lady to begin breaking into the Gate.
Johnny and Shania were set to prevent the Gate from opening by releasing a seal similar to the one Nicolai had broken, but this one contained bound up Will. Killer's confrantations with them caused Johnny toinadvertently tap into the forces of Malice that went into his resurrection and transformed into a creature similar to Lady temporally. The weakened Killer returned to Lady and Gilbert at the Gate but Lady adapted to the new element of Will by acting as a conduit for the excess Malice in the world and concentrating it on the Gate to destroy its seal.
While Lady continued her work, a highly agitated Killer demanded answers about her true nature and connection with Johnny from Gilbert. After Johnny and Shania had tracked down Roger Bacon and gotten answers on their end they set off to stop Lady once and for all at the site of the Gate.
Killer was of course ready to defend her but even after a further transformation through Malice was killed protecting Lady as she opened the Gate. Lady was for the first time moved, after seeing Killer die she brought his body with her into the Gate but with Killer already filled to the brim with Malice at the time of his death Lady was unable to raise him this time.
When Johnny and Shania met Lady deep within the Gate she was for the first time, crying.
She brought down her full pain and hatred now acting out of lose instead of instinct. Lady does not turn back into Grace upon defeat after the encounter. If Grace's soul was at all bound by Lady's existence it was never able to manifest even in death. Upon Lady's death she dissolves into the ether along with Killer but as they fade the two cling to each other. For most of the game Lady is unassuming but for her power. She vacantly stares into the distance and does not talk or react to what others say. She is an animal that reacts purely on instincts. Though Killer appears to be in a one-sided relationship with her, she appears to be greatly saddened by his death as the one person that connected with her true malevolent nature and did not back away.
Lady has the power to move quickly over great distances, teleport herself and allies and can home-in on people and areas containing great Malice. She can absorb and dispel Malice in concentrated bursts of red energy. She can also choose to infect others with the same red energy to regenerate and empower them in the same way Malice was used to regenerate Grace; With no Will to offset the sudden bursts of Malice, those she infects become uncontrollably in touch with their evil sides and their bodies mutate into monstrous forms.
Lady is also highly resistant to damage. Lastly Lady can summon or create hostile creatures that embody the Malice of local sources. Covenant Asmodeus Astaroth Dr. Sign In Don't have an account? His reason for giving it to Aimi was that she was the first human he came into contact with after arriving on in the Human World. He also is very knowledgeable about the Demon World, and fairly inventive, making numerous gadgets to aid Shadow Lady.
He has a perverted streak in him as well. He lives with Aimi, fulfilling the role of a sidekick, and disguises himself as her younger brother. A detective with the Gray City Police Department. He has a knack for invention, and tries to incorporate his inventions into his police work albeit fairly ineptly on most occasions. He also is obsessed with discovering Shadow Lady's secret identity, though his reasons for doing so change throughout the course of the series.
At first, it appears that his intention in doing is purely to reform her and use her powers for just causes, as opposed to mischief-making , but in a confrontation in the finale story arc, he alleges that he pursues her because he is in love with her. Before his obsession with Shadow Lady, however, Bright pursued inventing for recreation, and even put on demonstration shows for local children with Lime as a partner and fellow inventor. Bright's former inventing partner.
During their time together, she also developed a crush on him that he did not reciprocate. An inventor herself, she invents a costume and various gadgets in order to become Spark Girl. As Spark Girl, she attempts to reveal Shadow Lady's secret identity as part of a plot to steal her powers to use them for good, as Bright wanted.
Unfortunately, she is thwarted and humiliated by her fight with Shadow Lady. How she came into knowledge about how to reverse Shadow Lady's transformation however, is unclear. Throughout the series, he actively pursues Shadow Lady, but never succeeds in catching her. The plans he uses as the series moves forward become progressively more ridiculous until the final story arc.
Shadow Lady's powers are derived from magic eyeshadow made by De-Mo. The standard color gives her a revealing costume consisting of a revealing short black skirt, stockings, boots, long gloves and small wings , enhanced strength and agility, and feelings of immense elation and arousal. If the costume becomes extensively damaged she can spontaneously "freshen up" and cause it to rearrange itself on a molecular level to recover her.
The small wings on her back don't allow her to fly or glide, but make her lighter on her feet, allowing for faster movement. She also has several other eyeshadow colors called "Expert Changes". These grant Shadow Lady extra abilities and enhancements, such as claws and other cat like abilities Crimson Cat , bird wings that enable her to fly Sapphire Bird , and super-speed and heightened jumping abilities Saffron Bunny.
In the final story arc however, Aimi's compact is destroyed, and the Expert Changes are lost.
Anything that removes the eyeshadow such as wiping or washing it off will immediately reverse the transformation. Exposing the costume to water causes a very violent reaction which weakens her until the costume finally breaks down and reverses the transformation completely. Though the story's canon alleges that Aimi first became Shadow Lady when De-Mo cornered her and put the magic eyeshadow on her, Katsura also published a one-shot comic offering an alternate story as to how Aimi first became Shadow Lady.
This alternate story is comparable to stereotypical "magical girl" plots like Sailor Moon.