Queen's Shadow

The Queen's Shadow is a supporting character of The Rising of the Shield Hero. They are one of the main shadows who is loyal to Queen Mirellia and is in charge of protecting Melty.

Appearance
The queen's shadow gender is unknown and is able to use magic to appear exactly like Queen Mirellia. In his disguise as a noblewomen Naofumi determined him to be in her early 20's with purple hair. They are also capable to coping and mimicking the appearances and voices of other characters.

Personality
The Queen's Shadow is quite serious and professional. They follows the orders she was given as intended. However, in a side story, the Queen's Shadow was depicted as having some fondness for Melty. They are shown to joke often when in conversations with other characters like Naufumi. When they are not having serious conversations.

Abilities
As a shadow, the Queen's shadow is highly skilled at both concealment and disguises. They are able to use magic to change their appearance, regardless of the desired gender. They also capable of several forms of magic. Which can be used for deception or weaken opponents.

Background
The Queen's shadow is a member of Melromarc's shadows - a secret organization which serves the royal family. They are similar to a "secret service" and may be used as bodyguards, assassins, escorts, messengers and spies. The Queen's Shadow had forsaken his name in order to become part of this organization.

As Melty was sent back to Melromarc to repair the relation between King Aultcray and Naofumi, the "Queen's Shadow" was sent to look after her during that time. He watched from the shadows as Melty met Naofumi and they journeyed to Melromarc.

Volume 3
Naofumi found Melty playing with filolials and brought her back to Melromarc, however the Queen Shadow was present for the whole scene and was just hiding in the background. Leaving from talking with the King after the third wave, Naofumi is met by the Queen's Shadow who was dressed as a noblewoman and was escorting Melty. In contrast to everyone else, the Queen's Shadow thanked Naofumi for his work.

Later on, when Naofumi was framed for kidnapping Melty and had the other heroes chasing him, the Queen's Shadow helped Naofumi escape. He convinces Naofumi to go to meet the Queen instead of leaving to Siltvelt.

Volume 20
With Melty becoming Queen on Melromarc, the Queen's shadow continued to work as her hidden bodyguard. When Lurolona Village was sent back in time, Melty and the Queen's shadow were included in the transfer. Apparently the Raphs were aware of her existence but kept it a secret after some negotiating. Since last time Naofumi had talked to her, she had been training with shadows from Q'ten Lo and had become even more skilled. The shadow's skills at infiltration and espionage became essential since it allowed Naofumi to negotiate with Mamoru and learn about the enemy nation of Piensa.

Volume 22
The shadow plays a more prominant role in volume 22 than in previous volumes. The shadow shows up wounded along side its partner which is a member of the Raph species. They reveal that they were found and ambushed and were both terribly wounded by Piensa a's new weapons which are unable to be healed via normal means. For when one tries to heal the wounds they get deeper and cause blood to spill from the wounds. The Shield hero gets rid of their unhealable wounds using 0 territory. After the shadow has recovered a little from the wounds Naufumi brings them out leveling. His reasoning is to allow them to get stronger and be able to fight back if it comes to that. The shadow then brings up a rumor that had been apparently circulating around via the villagers. That Naufumi was leveling people up to be his lovers. To which Naufumi adamantly denies and gets angry about. To which he plans to ask all the villagers about later. After this Naufumi responds saying they don't even know the shadows name or which gender the Shadow is. The shadow declines to reveal this information which leads to Naufumi just continuing to call them Shadow. This does cause the Shadow to lament that being called by there title makes them think they understood how Melty felt when Naufumi kept calling her Second Princess.

Relationships

 * Mirellia Q Melromarc: Mirellia is the true monarch of Melromarc which her shadow recognizes. The shadow is completely loyal to Mirellia and will follow her commands.
 * Melty Q Melromarc: Is Melty's personal shadow and bodyguard. Who watches to keep her safe.

Trivia

 * The Queen's Shadow is distinguished by her speech. In the light novel his accent pronounces "s" like a "z". In the anime, she ends her sentences with "I daresay".
 * The Queen's Shadow is depicted as male in the light novels but female in the anime.