Liz Smart

Liz Smart is a member of Strange Grief. One of the three Smart siblings in the clan.

Appearance
Like her sister, she has pink hair and irises but wears her hair long and styled into a ponytail. She also has noticeably tanned skin. As noted by Tino, she has a rather small bust.

While adventuring she wears a revealing tight red leather outfit, including pants that resemble daisy dukes. She wears fingerless leather gloves that extend past her elbows and a relic called Rise to Heaven that takes the form of thigh-high metal boots.

When not adventuring she sometimes wears more casual attire but keeps her relic equipped in the form of an ankle bracelet.

Personality
With her friends she usually displays an cheerful, innocent, straightforward, narcissist and happy go lucky attitude and adopts a more flirtacious personality when interreacting with Cry specifically. Liz has a more competitive relationship with Luke and Sytry with regards to combat ability and romance respectively. Towards her disciple, Tino, Liz is relentlessly abusive and overbearing. She is unrelentingly critical of Tino's performance and abilities, and subjects her to extremely demanding training in an effort to improve her capabilities. Because of this, Tino is terrified of Liz.

Outside of her own party Liz has a dismissive and often mocking attitude towards other adventurers. She displays little respect for anyone else in her profession. The root of her disdain for adventurers outside her party, including Tino, seems to spring from their failure to live up to their own potential, rather than how their abilities compare to Liz's specifically.

Perhaps because of this, Liz is a terrible teammate for groups outside of Strange Grief. Despite her abilities, Cry refuses to send her on missions with other members of First Step as her unpredictable and uncooperative behavior make her a danger to normal adventurers.

Liz's philosophy for combat, as conveyed to Tino, is "think after you kill." Liz has a habit of ignoring the status of opponents (or allies) and will attack anyone who annoys her. She often fails to realize the rank or threat posed by her adversaries, and is surprised to learn she has defeated the enemy leader.

Liz has considerable pride in her abilities and can't stand the thought of failure, especially if it happens in front of Cry. She holds Tino's inadequacies to be her own failures and will become enraged at having been "embarrassed" in front of Cry, to the point of appearing to be psychopathically deranged to others.

Whenever Liz gets worked up the only person who can talk her down and disperse her anger is Cry. Liz will be more tolerant of Tino if reassured of her contributions by Cry and Liz's rage will evaporate if Cry is nice to her. She can often be dissuaded from a rampage by Cry promising to spend time with her.

Her pride and determination to win is so high like her party members that she will stab her own waist by a knife to continue her fight.

Background
Liz is one of Cry's childhood friends who formed their own party in the pursuit of becoming level 10 treasure hunters. In their group she fulfills the role of thief. It is unknown how she developed her superhuman abilities but, like the rest of her group, she hold's Cry's wisdom and guidance as the source of her development.

After Strange Grief arrived at the Imperial Capital and realized that they needed to get stronger, Liz decided to train at a martial school for Thieves where she would surpass all of her peers and acquire the legendary moniker of Severed Shadow, springing from the myth that she moves so fast her own shadow cannot keep up with her.

At some point Tino approached Cry with the goal of becoming his disciple and Cry passed along the responsibility of mentoring her to Liz. From Cry's perspective this was merely him pawning off the burden, but Liz took this as another test Cry set for her that she's dedicated herself to passing.

Abilities
Liz is considered one of the most powerful and dangerous treasure hunters based in the city of Zebrudia. What sets her apart from others is her unmatched speed.

Liz has shown the ability to run hundreds of kilometers in a few hours with no signs of exhaustion. In combat she can close large distances between her an her opponent before anyone can even perceive her moving. She can easily catch bullets fired from a machine gun individually and toss them aside while wearing a mask that completely obscures her vision. Though she can use daggers in combat her preferred method of attack is using kicks delivered while wearing her relic boots Rise to Heaven.

Even though Liz often acts with an air of obliviousness in regards to enemies and threats towards her in hostile situations, she actually possesses extremely keen environmental awareness. She can tell immediately when people she knows like Cry and Sytry are nearby and is able to instantly pick up on being watched by someone in a crowded marketplace regardless of them being far away and making no discernable movements toward her.

Despite the offensive capabilities afforded to her by her speed she's noted by her opponents and teammates to be comparatively lacking in attack power. It's speculated by their enemies that her threat is mitigated by putting up a strong enough defense. She is also unable to use any kind of magic and only possesses enough mana to charge up three relics before almost dying.

Trivia

 * Unlike Cry and Tino, Liz doesn't like sweets.
 * She can detect Cry's position because of his scent.
 * Despite all members of Strange Grief initially possessing a laughing skull mask, Liz at some point stole and destroyed Cry's for an unknown reason.