Marlya always carries a rifle in her missions, and while she and Ash Clad are almost unstoppable, she doesn't have the experience her squad-mates have controlling or communicating with her fairy. So instead of relying on magic, she uses her rifle with incredible accuracy, not needing the help of others to pinpoint her target. By the time the season ends, it's obvious why she managed to integrate herself into a dangerous mob family: She may look cute and hate fighting, but she is as deadly as anyone else in the squad.

Before the war, Maryla lived in poverty. After the war, with her hometown destroyed, she had nowhere to live. And yet, she survived. This is because her father always taught her how to find food and shelter and how to be able to defend herself if she needed too. While in the introductory flashback she seems defenseless, as the series advances, we figure out that she’s the only one out of the Dorothea Squad who could save everyone if they were trapped in a mountain with only a rifle and no food.

If you befriend Maryla, she will not ignore you or figure out you will always be there for her. In fact, it will be the opposite: Maryla is convinced that it’s perfectly fine if she gets left behind in exchange for her friends and squad members’ survival. And this extends to people she barely knows: If you do something good for Maryla, she will never forget and she will find a way to pay you back, even years after the fact.

When we meet Maryla as a child, she seems defenseless. Of course, her hometown is burning and the only other survivor is her older friend Veronica who seemed to know better what to do to stay alive. But later on, we find out that Veronica was a much more sheltered girl, while Maryla had a harder life. So it’s not a surprise to find out that in sticky situations, Maryla is not defenseless even if she somehow doesn’t have access to her rifle.

If you are Maryla’s friend, you know you can count on her to look for you to the ends of the Earth even if you don’t want her to. Veronica learns this the hard way, and even when she became a wanted criminal and Maryla became a sort of cop, Maryla still won’t give up on her childhood friend. Basically, if you need a helping hand, Maryla will give you her whole arm. That’s devotion.