Cinderella (Anachiro) — GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE

Before she could assist the Goddess Squad against the orbital Lift, Red Shoes secretly implanted a refined Corruption code during a maintenance check. Cinderella lost control of her own body. OLD TALES depicts her aware but trapped behind an invisible barrier, watching another version of herself attack humanity, her comrades, and eventually the Goddess Squad. Her horror and attempted resistance are distinct from the actions of the corrupted body.

The V.T.C. authorities designated the weaponized, corrupted Nikke a Heretic and named her Anachiro. Her attacks helped derail the operation she had dreamed of supporting. The Goddess Squad fought her as an enemy, unaware of the helpless Cinderella behind the murderous reflection.

After she was freed from immediate hostile control, Cinderella endured confinement and harsh treatment in a government research facility. Abe rescued her and tried to restore both her safety and her sense of self. On discovering that Red Shoes had deliberately infected her to promote a vision of coexistence with the Raptures, Cinderella killed Red Shoes. Their surviving teammates initially doubted Cinderella’s account, causing another painful rupture within Old Tales.

Overwhelmed by what had been done through her body, Cinderella considered ending her own life. Abe found her and refused to accept that the worst chapter defined the whole story. Their conversation about the image in Glass Slippers helped Cinderella reclaim her name and choose to act. After Oswald and the other Grimms models confronted her, evidence of Red Shoes’ experiments helped clear the immediate dispute, and Cinderella committed herself to challenging the Rapture Queen.

With Abe, Hansel, Gretel, and Little Mermaid, Cinderella advanced toward the orbital Lift to strike at the source of the Raptures. Her team overcame a Rapture that had incorporated Red Shoes’ legs, and Cinderella rejected an attempt to corrupt her again. But a devastating beam attack from above tore apart the ascending elevator and separated the group. Abe fell while insisting that Cinderella continue upward rather than turn back to rescue her.

Cinderella reached the space station; as she later explains in the main campaign, her intervention disrupted the route by which new Raptures reached Earth. The operation did not end the war. She fell back to the surface and remained unresponsive, while Abe survived, searched for her for five years, and then spent years trying to restore her amid scarcity, damage, and the erasure of the second-generation project from official records.

Abe’s long effort to protect Cinderella continued even after severe damage, alterations to her body, and loss of much of her technical knowledge and memory. In the modern era she is known as Grave. She hides Cinderella in the Crystal Region and seeks Glass Slippers, which holds the code needed to wake her. When the Commander’s group becomes involved, Cinderella finally revives, recognizes Grave beyond her changed face, and chooses to continue the fight against the Raptures under her own name.

She subsequently joins forces with the Commander’s allies in conflicts involving Behemoth, Leviathan, and the Four Beasts, while retaining her commitment to Grave. Her battle performance is formidable, but her story is not simply about greater destructive power: reunion, memory, and the possibility of rewriting an old failure shape her decisions.

Cinderella learns that Little Mermaid, or Siren, has survived, and refuses to leave Hansel and Gretel out of the future she hopes to build. In GINGERBREAD HOUSE, the group finds the twins living with the Heretic Bernoullia, who saved Gretel after catastrophic injuries. Hansel's years of isolation, distrust of humanity, and fear of losing Gretel make reunion far more difficult than Cinderella hoped.

Cinderella listens instead of demanding an immediate return to their former lives. She and Grave also confront the pain left by Grave's lost memories. In conversations with Bernoullia, Cinderella is challenged to consider whether a body shaped by corruption can still belong to a person who chooses who she is; the possibility of further transformation is raised, not shown as an accomplished power. After the twins reconcile with their friends, Hansel and Gretel leave with Cinderella, Grave, and Siren to face the Queen. Mori remains behind to help Bernoullia. The reunited group sets out together, but no final victory is established in the material cited here.