Noel Niihashi

Noel Niihashi is a Witch working for Wing Bind in Reverse London. She is the partner of Ninny Spangcole. Noel is a tall, curvaceous teenage girl with blue eyes, waist-length black hair, long bangs, a perpetually solemn expression, and a small, white, horn-like extension on her left temple. As a student in London, she wears a South Braxton uniform, which consists of a black 3-button suit over a white undershirt and thin dark ribbon tie, a short black skirt, knee-length black leggings, and brown dress shoes. Her Witch attire consists of a green suit over a white undershirt with a thick red bow tie fastening a short, red-and-black plaid cape to her neck; a short green skirt with a holster for her Witch Kit on her right thigh; knee-length black leggings, with the left one featuring three horizontal white stripes near the top; and brown dress shoes. During her days off, Noel wears a simple, light-colored sweater and no pants. Noel is a fairly stoic young woman who reacts to most situations with a mixture of seriousness and deadpan observations. She likes wearing uniforms, as they tell others who she is without her needing to do so herself, and prefers that others call her by her first name. However, she also has a somewhat sillier and less aloof side; she is fond of Balgo Parks's pet dog, Osushi, carrying treats to feed him with, and is very fond of Japanese culture, to the point of taking Noel as her first name because it is a girl's first name in Japan and having the narration theme from the Dragon Ball anime as her cell phone ringtone. Notably, even when displaying this softer side of hers, Noel remains calm and serious; the only two times she has ever lost her composure have both stemmed from Osushi (having absorbed negative emotions from Balgo and gaining the ability to speak the human language as a Dark Dragon) asking to see her panties, which resulted in her furiously screaming for Balgo to show himself the first time and pursuing Balgo and Osushi with murderous intent the second time. When not on the job and relaxing at her home, Noel is more cheerful and openly kind, taking joy in watering her Planty Potties and reading the daily newspaper; however, she does not like having to look after Balgo and cordons off his room with a curtain that he is not allowed to pass through without permission. Unlike Ninny, Noel is more interested in the money she is paid for performing her duties as a Piper than she is in proving herself and moving up the ranks of Wing Bind; this results in her performing reckless actions like attempting to capture a Bud Buck alone so she does not have to share the reward money and picking a flower from one of its antlers without permission in order to sell it later. She also has no desire to join the Sabres, and is content with simply pasturing and harvesting from Dragons. Noel is the target of daily sexual harassment from Balgo, and rebuffs each of his attempts to see her panties with physical violence. However, despite how angry she got at him upon seeing Osushi demand to see her panties as well after absorbing his negative emotions, she expressed some concern that he might receive the death penalty for coming into contact with a Dragon and later complimented him as being "pretty impressive" after he defended Ninny from Shelby.