Ella_Koga

Based on the best-selling manga and anime. The series begins with her memorably violent escape from the research facility that held her captive, and how she is subsequently taken in by two college-bound cousins, Kouta and Yuka. A bullet wound to the head sustained during her escape creates a split personality for her, and in this childlike persona she is found and taken in by the cousins and named Nyu (or Nyuu). Though Nyu is often the dominant personality, Lucy still emerges again at different times, especially when Nyu feels threatened. Lucy's escape prompts the research facility to send out forces, both human and Diclonius alike, to recapture her, which puts a strain on the otherwise peaceful life she comes to find the cousins and their growing "family." As the series goes on, new characters get introduced and past connections, which are often tragic, are revealed among the main characters, especially Lucy and Kouta.

Elfen Lied: The Novel Series

Professor Kakuzawa tells Bando that his battle with Lucy has left him infected with the Diclonius virus and that any children he has will be Diclonius, who present a threat to all humans. Her vectors carry the virus and spread them when she attacked Bando. When Kakuzawa implies that this is somehow a happy occasion, an enraged Bando attacks him but is contemptuously batted back due to his injuries. Chastised but not bowed, Bando protests that the same result will occur if he simply never has kids, but Kakuzawa insists that his castration will provide scientific insight into the Diclonius threat. However, there seems to be a way Bando can avoid this loss.


Back at the Maple House, Kouta, Yuka, and Nyu return and Mayu has already drawn the bath and made dinner, insisting that this is repayment for having a place to live. Kouta visits the onsen first, and Nyu, naked, climbs in with him and shoves his hand against her breast and rubs against him, getting on top of him in an embrace just short of sex. With her rubbing up against him, Kouta cannot think straight, also fearing that Yuka will walk in and see this spectacle. Instead, it is Mayu who walks in, and immediately she becomes fearful that Kouta may secretly be like her abusive stepfather. In any event, she quietly despairs that all men are the same as she leaves.


Kakuzawa speaks of an antidote to the virus that is in development but is not ready as yet. He offers Bando a kind of trade in exchange for letting him dodge the operation. Kakuzawa shocks Bando by offering to fake his castration in medical records if Bando agrees to sire Diclonius children.


Prosperity or Death