Nimitz Leak

"Nimitz Leak"

- contemplating her powers as a Dark Lord.

About
Nimitz Leak is a miserable girl from Apemunta village, a small rural community located along the outskirts of western Leazas. After being subjected to a series of pitiful events, she fortuitously came to acquire the powers of the Dark Lord Lexington.

Throughout her childhood Nimitz endured relentless bullying and ridicule from her peers, who would often mock her for her unkempt appearance and awkward mannerisms. Both of Nimitz's parents were largely inattentive to her well-being, causing them to provide her with little emotional support through her suffering. This combination of a poor home and school life steadily led Nimitz to close herself off from the rest of the world, isolating herself from others to stew in contempt and self-hatred.

In the year LP0003, Nimitz became a student of Melfeis Promenade, a recently hired teacher at the village schoolhouse. Observing Nimitz's unhappiness, Melfeis would often approach her after class to talk with her about her thoughts and feelings in an effort to make her feel more at ease. While Nimitz was initially reluctant to open up to her teacher, Melfeis' compassion and attentiveness caused her to gradually open up to her until she started to view her as a confidant she could place her trust in. Over time, Nimitz began to view these visits with Melfeis as the highlight of her days, and would even schedule them of her own accord as a means of venting her frustrations and receiving constructive advice.

Later on into the school year, a boy named Amades Kakades transferred into Nimitz's class after his family moved to Apemunta village from another town. Amades differed from the rest of Nimitz's peers by always treating her kindly, and would come to her defense whenever he witnessed her getting harassed by their classmates. Nimitz was unused to such positive treatment, and quickly became infatuated with Amades in response. Unsure of how to act on her newfound attraction, she revealed her feelings to Melfeis, who encouraged her to be honest and upfront about them. Despite Melfeis' advice, Nimitz remained too shy confess her love to Amades, and chose to instead settle on being his friend. Despite the abuse she continued to suffer from others, the warmth brought into her life by Melfeis and Amades allowed Nimitz to feel hope and fulfillment for the first time ever.

The happier life that Nimitz had found for herself came crashing down two months after the conclusion of the 7th Leazas-Helman War, where she visited her school after hours for her usual consultation with Melfeis to find her teacher in the process of having sex with Amades. Seeing the teacher she had come to trust with the boy she loved filled Nimitz with an overwhelming combination of betrayal, confusion, and humiliation which made her retreat even further into her mind and away from the world than she ever had before. In her trauma, she abandoned school altogether and spent the next several week locked in her room wallowing in a near-catatonic state of despair. Her isolation caused her to grow even more estranged from her parents until she felt as though she had lost her place in their household. No longer capable of bearing the bad memories she associated with either her school or home life, Nimitz eventually fled Apemunta Village in the middle of the night without a word in search of a new beginning for herself.

After leaving her home village, Nimitz traveled to a neighboring community and began working at a part-time job that provided live-in housing. Though at first cautiously optimistic about starting her life anew, she found her situation to be no different than it had been in her hometown, as the older women that she worked with started to speak ill of her much in the same way her classmates had. Alone and unloved, her misery reached new heights in the year LP0007, when she was attacked by a group of thugs while on her way home from buying groceries. While the thugs initially motioned to assault her, they abandoned the act after see her face more closely, dismissing her as being too ugly to be worth the effort. The incident reinvigorated the grief and humiliation of seeing Melfeis and Amades together that Nimitz had repressed in her mind to such a degree that she lost all hope and resolved to take her own life as an escape. Purchasing a knife and a pair of sweet buns, she ate a final meal to calm her nerves before slitting her wrists.

Just as Nimitz began to cut herself, she was called out to from behind Atlanta, an Apostle of the deceased Dark Lord Lexington. Seeking an individual with a strong proclivity for performing evil acts, Atlanta acknowledged Nimitz as an ideal host for her master due to her deep-seated resentment of the world. Atlanta offered Lexington's Demonic Blood Soul to Nimitz, claiming that consuming it would be much easier to do than dying. Lacking the reason to question Atlanta's intentions in the moment, Nimitz obliged and ingested the blood soul, welcoming Lexington's being into her body in the process. While Atlanta had intended for Lexington's will to overpower Nimitz's and gain full control over her body, the extent to which the young girl had kept her Soul guarded from others miraculously prevented the Dark Lord from reaching it, creating a strange equilibrium within herself that enabled both her own soul and Lexington's to coexist without either overwriting the other.

Imbued with Lexington's power, Nimitz's figure transformed into that of a towering female Oni, leading Atlanta to mistakenly assume that her master had succeeded in possessing her. While frightened by her sudden change in appearance, Nimitz feared how Atlanta would retaliate if she learned the truth even more and chose to pretend as though she were Lexington to remain beneath suspicion. Eager to return to spreading carnage with her master, Atlanta sent a message to the Elite Dark Lord Kayblis, who had at the time ordered a full-scale invasion of the Human Realm by the forces of the Monster Army in an event that would come to be known as the 2nd Dark Lord War, reporting that Lexington had been revived and was willing to lend his strength to his cause. Kayblis made no effort to validate this claim, trusting that Lexington would do anything for an opportunity to fight, and agreed to give Nimitz authority over a division of the Monster Army attacking Leazas. Stationing their army in the city of Prettiria, Atlanta began preparations to attack the Leazas Army while Nimitz hid away in her private quarters panicking over her new circumstances.

During the events of Rance X, one month after the beginning of the 2nd Dark Lord War, the forces of the Human Realm were, through various circumstances, formally united under the warrior Rance to create the United Human Army. Due to possessing the Dark Sword Chaos, one of the only weapons capable of penetrating the Invincibility Field that protects Dark Lords from all forms of damage, Rance was able to form a specialized squad made up of humanity’s finest warriors designed to fight against and defeat each of the Dark Lords invading human territories. Titled the Dark Lord Extermination Squad, this group allowed humanity to begin to mount a more effective resistance against the Monster Army, providing hope in a seemingly hopeless situation.

With Rance's aid, the Leazas Army was able to subdue one of the enemy Dark Lords and secure a more advantageous position against the monsters. As both of the Dark Lords that had initially been charged with invading Leazas previously had ties to the Hornet Faction, the group that had opposed Kayblis during the War of the Factions for control of the Monster Realm, he feared that defeated Dark Lord had betrayed him to assist the Human Army and ordered the second to be removed from the battlefield to prevent further mutiny.

As the sole remaining Dark Lord in Leazas, Lexington's army was called to take action for the first time in the war by capturing the city of Scale. Before heading out to battle, Atlanta held a rally in honor of the revived Lexington intending to reinvigorate the dejected spirits of her soldiers. Atlanta praised her master as possessing strength rivaling an Elite Dark Lord, but was met with doubt by her subordinates, who only knew Lexington as the sole Dark Lord to have been killed during the previous Dark Lord War. Nimitz was brought in front of the soldiers in an effort to inspire more confidence in them, only to further weaken their resolves by acting awkward and timid before them. While Atlanta attempted to justify Lexington's timidity by claiming he had not yet fully regained his strength, the damage had already been done and the monsters marched toward Scale full of uncertainty and drained of any enthusiasm.

When Nimitz's army arrived at Scale it was greeted by the forces of Leazas' Black and Red armies, which immediately engaged it in battle. Lacking any combat experience, the confused and frightened Nimitz swung at the enemy soldiers randomly using Lexington's large golden rods. To her surprise, she found herself to be surprisingly effective as a combatant, as Lexington's tremendous strength enabled her to swat away her attackers with a single strike while the invincibility field surrounding her body prevented her from taking damage. Her fear gradually transformed into excitement as she realized she could now take out her frustrations on others without fear of retribution, and she gleefully began to pursue the terrified human soldiers as though it were a game. The rampage was quickly halted by the appearance of Rick Addison, the general of the Red Corps and the strongest warrior in all of Leazas, who nimbly dodged each of Nimitz's attacks before launching a barrage of blows of his own at her. Despite lacking a means of damaging Nimitz, Rick's superb swordsmanship made him able to disorient her through sheer speed and precision until she collapsed onto the ground in a fetal position, too scared to continue fighting. Rick was caught off guard by Nimitz's strange behavior, causing him to hesitate for just long enough to allow Atlanta to temporarily blind him with the Magic spell fire blast, opening an opportunity for Nimitz to retreat.

Despite the battle ending in the Leazas Army's favor as a result of Nimitz's actions, the impressive power she displayed during its early stages nonetheless inspired confidence in her soldiers, who greeted her with cheers when she returned to Prettiria. Her cowardice had infuriated Atlanta, however, who questioned why she was unable to defeat a single human. While Nimitz was able to placate Atlanta's suspicion by insisting that she had not yet replenished her strength, it did nothing to convince Lexington's other Apostle Juno, who had traveled to Leazas after hearing of his master's revival and remained dubious of her identity. Atlanta dismissed Juno's claims of Lexington being an imposter as a product of his hatred of large-breasted women, causing Juno to cryptically tell her that she would come to regret her decision to live in denial. Juno gave a final glare in Nimitz's direction and coldly stated that he looked forward to seeing her performance in the next day's battle before leaving the Monster Army's base, followed closely behind by Atlanta, who demanded that he show more respect to their master.

After the two had left, Nimitz hurriedly returned to her personal quarters, locked the door, and reassumed her human form. With the high from the day's battle still ringing through her head, she affirmed to herself that she would utilize her newfound powers as a Dark Lord to take her revenge on humankind. Taking out her diary, she opened a list of people that had wronged her and made a vow to brutally kill each and every one of them. She also added Atlanta and Juno's names to the list, intending to kill them after gaining all the information about Lexington needed to continue impersonating him to prevent them from exposing her.

The next day, Nimitz assumed Lexington's appearance once more and led her army toward Scale. On the way to the battlefield, Atlanta reported that Rance, the United Human Army's leader, was present among the Leazas Army's forces. Atlanta revealed that Rance possessed Chao and was thus capable of damaging Dark Lords, but reassured Nimitz that he was no match for his power. Having lacked any prior knowledge of Chaos, Nimitz was shocked to learn that there were weapons that could still harm her as a Dark Lord, but was forced to take action before she could fully process this information. Nimitz fought off the Leazas Army with the same untrained fury as she had the previous day, deriving a particular amount of sadistic glee from hearing the panicked human soldiers vainly call for help as she killed them. She eventually crossed paths with Rance, who eagerly led his allies into battle against her after seeing the glamorous appearance of her Dark Lord form.

Without the aid of her invincibility field, Nimitz stood no chance against Rance in combat and was steadily beaten into submission. Rance mockingly derided her lack of skill as the battle continued, claiming her to be the weakest Dark Lord he had ever encountered. The cruelty in his eyes made Nimitz recall painful memories of the people who had mocked her, which, in conjunction with her growing terror of the possibility of getting killed, prompted her to run away in fear yet again. Her retreat was seen by her subordinates, who followed suit by fleeing behind her, ending the battle overwhelmingly in Leazas' favor.

The night after the second failed attack on Scale, Nimitz sat in her room despondent, berating herself for causing yet another major loss for the Monster Army. She was comforted by Atlanta, who reassured her that she would make up for her failure when she fully regained her power. The meeting was interrupted by a monster soldier, who informed the trio that a large pack of Oni had appeared requesting to see Lexington. The oni introduced themselves as former followers of Lexington who had escaped from Hell after hearing of his revival, and cheerfully asked to fight alongside him once again. Along with praising Lexington's tremendous strength, the oni commended the beauty of his newfound female form, which flattered Nimitz immensely and compelled her to accept them as subordinates. With both her army and her confidence buffered by her new minions, Nimitz called for another assault on Scale, determined to make up for her previous losses.

The next morning, Nimitz led a large army of oni to attack Scale, refraining from taking the frontlines herself for fear of getting attacked by Rance. The Leazas Army was unprepared for the Monster Army to launch a counterattack so soon after its previous loss, placing it at an immediate disadvantage in the battle. Its efforts were further complicated by having to fight against oni, which were both several times stronger than the average monster soldier and completely devoid of any kind of fear of death, allowing them to fight ferociously until their last breath. In spite of the apparent direness of the situation, the human forces were able to gradually wear down the oni by luring them into gathering together and firing at them with the Tulip #2 Maresuke, a high-powered cannon that had recently been commissioned by Leazas to be used as part of the newly-created artillery branch of its military. As the oni were blown away by the cannon, Rance and his allies steadily closed in on Nimitz's location, driving her to run away in fear for a third time. Her sudden disappearance made the oni also withdraw due to lacking the interest to continue fighting without Lexington, ending the battle with Leazas victorious.

After returning to Prettiria from her third successive failure, Nimitz was confronted by an infuriated Atlanta, who demanded to know why she continued to flee from battle. Nimitz attempted to justify her actions as strategy, but was quickly countered by Juno, who quipped that Lexington would never speak of such a thing. Juno's comment ignited Atlanta's suspicion, constraining Nimitz to field their questions for much longer than she ever had to previously. While she was eventually able to get the Apostles to leave her alone in her room, she did nothing to placate their skepticism and feared that she would soon be exposed as an imposter. She soon convinced herself that the only way to rid herself of their skepticism was to bring positive results on the battlefield, only to immediately feel great reluctance to do so after the fear of having to face off against Rance again swept across her mind. Finally, she came to the decision that she would instead infiltrate the Leazas Army's base during the night and assassinate Rance in his sleep, allowing her to achieve her goal without requiring her to face him directly, and anxiously headed out in the direction of Scale to put her plan into action.