Choi Hasul

Hasul carries the look of a high schooler, roughly seventeen or eighteen, her delicate youthful prettiness sitting at odds with the brutality of her reputation.

Outwardly Hasul stays withdrawn, quiet and remote and slow to show feeling. That stillness conceals a fast, violent temper, and she disposes of villains who cross her through savage means without a second thought. Yet the cold killer the world sees masks a young woman buried in self-loathing and regret. A loveless childhood paired with cruel circumstance forced her into a criminal life she never sought, and the weight of it sits heavy on her. Beneath all of it she holds one quiet hope, to live as a true Hunter, not for glory but as an escape route out of a wretched past and toward something better.

Among the villains crowding Last Paradise, Hasul piled up a death toll too great to count, every one of them cut down by her Scythe of Harvest, a giant blade made with a Starpiece, crafted by the Apostle of Evolution, and carrying Itarim energy that Beru could sense. As a child her mother left her at an orphanage run by a director who played the saint for sponsors while abusing the children the second no one looked, and Hasul endured terribly there. During her first high-school winter she awakened as an S-Rank, and in a parting act of defiance she set the orphanage ablaze to spare anyone else its cruelty, sure she had killed the director still inside. Believing herself a murderer now, she ran, crossing into a North Korea swarming with dungeon-break monsters precisely because it offered a place to disappear. Only afterward did she understand what she was, and the knowledge left her despairing over a wasted shot at the celebrated life of an S-Rank Hunter. Settling in Last Paradise, she took up the role of Reaper, gathering the Fruit of Alfheim, and grew into the most renowned among them, infamous for beheading any villain who dared make a pass at her.

During the North Korea arc, Hasul stopped by Beru Baguette, the bakery Sung Suho was running, where she swapped Fruits of Alfheim for his strawberry bread after he bent his auction terms in her favor. As she ate, she radioed her patron Woojul under the Shadow of Paradise codename to report a riot Suho had set off, then was jumped in an alley by the real Beru, who grabbed her scythe and demanded its origin before Suho recalled him. When Suho came out and Woojul confirmed the two were allies, he handed her a strawberry cake as an apology. As Alfheim started consuming the city's villains and unleashing the Spirits of Frost, the Apostle of Paradise snared Hasul in an illusion drawn from her crimes, meaning to make her the High Priestess vessel of the Outer Gods, but the bread she had eaten, blessed using the Forest of Echoes' Spring Water, guarded her mind and let her break loose and hit back. Once Suho drove the Apostle off, she warned him of a final harvest meant to birth an Enforcer, a fruit Sirka destroyed in time, and she saw Arsha arrive as a swarm that Suho directed to track down the other Elvenwood.