Shikikoza (Anime)

Shikikoza (シキコーザ Shikikooza) is a mednoble, assigned to protect Myne with Damuel during the trombe extermination.

Shikikoza has an inferiority complex to Myne due to her being a commoner with a large amount mana.

Shikikoza heard of Myne being granted blue robes when the High Bishop complained to anyone who would listen. He fully agrees that it is an affront to give a mere commoner such privileges.

During a standard trombe extermination mission Shikikoza, along the layknight Damuel are assigned to guard the Blue Shrine Maiden and keep her safe, so she can perform the Healing Ritual once the feyplant is destroyed. The Head Priest gives specific instructions that not a single hair on the girl shall come to harm.

While the Head Priest and other Knights are fighting the trombe, Shikikoza uses his position to bully both Myne and Damuel. He pulls on Myne's hair and kicks her in the stomach, before transforming his magical wand into a knife and threatening to gauge out her eyes.

When the girl in fear and desperation reaches out toward the Head Priest, he ends up cutting her hand. Where the blood falls on the bare earth, new trombe sprouts come out of the ground and quickly entanble Myne. Damuel immediately begins to apply the God of Darknesses blessing to his own weapon to try to free the girl, but without success. Shikikoza retreats to a save distance and it isn't clear what he does while Myne is caught in the feyplant.

Eventually the Head Priest and the other knights defeat the trombe that have grown around Myne and Damuel gets rid of the last few vines binding her, with Shikikoza not getting even a single attack on the plant in.

When the Commander and the High Priest question him, he just states that he has no need to defend himself, since the shrine maiden is a mere commoner.

Ferdinand reminds Shikikoza that the Commander has ordered him to guard Myne and that the Head Priest himself gave the explicit order that not a single hair on her can be harmed. Furthermore Myne's elevation to a blue shrine maiden was approfed by the archduke himself and thus calling here a mere commoner is tantamount to speaking out against Lord Ehrenfest himself. Disobeying the orders of a noble of a higher rank and speaking out against the archduke in such a blatant fashion are all severe crimes.

The details of his punishment have yet to be released in the Anime, but it is known that his case has "taken a rather complicated turn" on account of his mother's desperate attempts to avert or at least lessen whatever kind of punishment is waiting for him.


 * The Japanese version of his name is "Shikikōza", which spelled backwards means "Small-Fry Knight" (雑魚騎士, zako kishi). The English translator was going to change to a different name in English with a similar meaning for localization, but the author requested a name that sounds similar to the original because of the anime.