NiCO infroms Lisa that she is her 'replacement' - alarming Lisa as this means NiCO is working for Donovan and MIST. NiCO later meets Lisa Hamilton at the Hot Zone section of the Memorial Museum. Kokoro bests her, but NiCO gives her a photo of Kokoro & Helena as children with Fame Douglas. NiCO believes Miyako was a good mother to Kokoro, but this seems to anger Kokoro and the two fight. She seemed to have sought out Kokoro to repay Miyako for getting her a job with M.I.S.T. Later at the DOA Colosseum, NiCO meets with Kokoro. However, even in defeat NiCO refuses to reveal her true intentions. The pair fight with Christie emerging victorious. When Christie asks why NiCO would want to help with something like that, NiCO refuses to explain herself, piquing Christie's curiosity further. Returning to the Zero Laboratory, NiCO informs Christie that the purpose of the project is the revival of life. NiCO defeated it easily enough that she insisted they strengthen it to truly make it worthy of being called a prototype, also informing Christie when the latter questioned her motives of reviving Raidou. Having developed a robotic version of Raidou, NiCO, accompanied by Christie, tested the prototype's battle program at the Lost Paradise. She realized that Honoka was likely Raidou's daughter, and devised a plan to have her kidnapped in order to further the project. In order to resurrect Raidou, NiCO researched Honoka, who displayed similar powers. The Sixth Tournament and Raidou's Resurrection She was tasked with overseeing the resurrection of the fallen shinobi Raidou and given the codename 'NiCO'. Her genius caught the attention of Victor Donovan, who hired her to replace Lisa Hamilton as the head researcher for Project MIST. Finding herself attracted by its unique history and the fundamental philosophy of 'ilmu padi,' NiCO devoted herself to learning Silat while continuing her studies. During that time, she visited South East Asia as part of an intercollegiate research program, where she had the opportunity to watch a Pencak Silat match. NiCO would still follow in her father's footsteps and enrolls at MIT to become a scientist. Unfortunately, her father died when NiCO was still young, and her mother unexpectedly abandoned her, leaving her an orphan. She wrote an essay on him for school, detailing how his profession as a researcher inspired her. In her youth, NiCO wanted to follow in her father's footsteps to become a scientist. Spoiler warning! Major plot details and endings below.

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