<p>With a disclaimer that based off my reading of it, I thought the events made sense.</p>
<p>As one of En's cleaners, and Noi's companion, part of Shin's job is implicitly to not let anything bad happen to her if he can help it- we know the assassins were seeking to ambush them for the purpose of signing the contract, which could result in their work going down the drain.</p>
<p>We also know that Noi's healing isn't instantaneous and can be interrupted, which resulted in her being incapacitated in the <em>present</em> Blue Night festival. (Chapter 26- her body gets blasted into pieces and we don't see her for a while.) Furthermore, without the advantage of offensive magic save for Shin's support, her own means of resisting the blasts is limited - Shin would be well aware of this fact.</p>
<p>Noi is capable of holding her own in a fistfight, but she still has to be able to react in order to save herself. (Chapter 27- Noi even acknowledges that the would-be kidnappers' objective was to get them unconscious.)</p>
<p>This could have formed Shin's main thought process- to prevent Noi from being too injured to run or fight back against their attackers or any opportunistic magic users jumping in.</p>
<p>While it's true that in both paths</p>
<ul>
<li>'Shin covers Noi, Noi heals him' = Noi heals Shin</li>
<li>'Shin doesn't cover Noi, Noi gets
blown up' = Noi heals herself</li>
</ul>
<p>result in Noi having to tap her healing, Shin was anticipating</p>
<ul>
<li>'Shin covers Noi, Noi doesn't get badly injured' = Noi has a chance of escape</li>
<li>'Shin doesn't cover Noi, both Shin and Noi get taken out' = Noi is kidnapped and forced to sign a contract</li>
</ul>
<p>(Alternatively, and in my view, it's entirely possible that Shin didn't factor his own well-being into that equation, he saw a cannon aimed directly at Noi's back and instincts took over.)</p>

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<p>When Noi was trying to be a devil, she was banned from using magic for a year. One day when was having dinner with Shin, some assassins came in and blew a bomb on them. Shin being the white knight he was immediately shielded Noi from the blast which blew up his lower body. Noi used her magic to heal him which ruined her devil prospects.</p>
<p>This stuck out as particularly strange to me. Shin had already known Noi healed. If she got blown up, she would've healed anyway. She would've used her magic, sure, but when Shin tried to protect her and got almost killed, she still used magic. I just thought of Shin's attempt at whiteknighting as particularly boneheaded and pointless because he should've known, for the time they've been together, that Noi would save him. She would lose her devil ticket either way. This particular plot point feels contrived to me, like it was included merely for a heartfelt moment.</p>
<p>Has the author ever elaborated on why things went down that way? Perhaps in interviews or responses to fans' letters?</p>

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It's simply shin didn't think 'for the time they've been together, that Noi would save him.'
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Is there a canonical reason why Shin saved Noi when she was trying to become a devil?
# Is there a canonical reason why Shin saved Noi when she was trying to become a devil?
Posted by: username_0 on 2024-02-27
When Noi was trying to be a devil, she was banned from using magic for a year. One day when was having dinner with Shin, some assassins came in and blew a bomb on them. Shin being the white knight he was immediately shielded Noi from the blast which blew up his lower body. Noi used her magic to heal him which ruined her devil prospects.

This stuck out as particularly strange to me. Shin had already known Noi healed. If she got blown up, she would've healed anyway. She would've used her magic, sure, but when Shin tried to protect her and got almost killed, she still used magic. I just thought of Shin's attempt at whiteknighting as particularly boneheaded and pointless because he should've known, for the time they've been together, that Noi would save him. She would lose her devil ticket either way. This particular plot point feels contrived to me, like it was included merely for a heartfelt moment.

Has the author ever elaborated on why things went down that way? Perhaps in interviews or responses to fans' letters?
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> **username_1**: It's simply shin didn't think 'for the time they've been together, that Noi would save him.'  
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### Answer by username_2 on 2024-04-25. Score: 1
With a disclaimer that based off my reading of it, I thought the events made sense.

As one of En's cleaners, and Noi's companion, part of Shin's job is implicitly to not let anything bad happen to her if he can help it- we know the assassins were seeking to ambush them for the purpose of signing the contract, which could result in their work going down the drain.

We also know that Noi's healing isn't instantaneous and can be interrupted, which resulted in her being incapacitated in the *present* Blue Night festival. (Chapter 26- her body gets blasted into pieces and we don't see her for a while.) Furthermore, without the advantage of offensive magic save for Shin's support, her own means of resisting the blasts is limited - Shin would be well aware of this fact.

Noi is capable of holding her own in a fistfight, but she still has to be able to react in order to save herself. (Chapter 27- Noi even acknowledges that the would-be kidnappers' objective was to get them unconscious.)

This could have formed Shin's main thought process- to prevent Noi from being too injured to run or fight back against their attackers or any opportunistic magic users jumping in.

While it's true that in both paths

* 'Shin covers Noi, Noi heals him' = Noi heals Shin
* 'Shin doesn't cover Noi, Noi gets
  blown up' = Noi heals herself

result in Noi having to tap her healing, Shin was anticipating

* 'Shin covers Noi, Noi doesn't get badly injured' = Noi has a chance of escape
* 'Shin doesn't cover Noi, both Shin and Noi get taken out' = Noi is kidnapped and forced to sign a contract

(Alternatively, and in my view, it's entirely possible that Shin didn't factor his own well-being into that equation, he saw a cannon aimed directly at Noi's back and instincts took over.)
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