Guila

Name: Guila

Gender: Female

Age: 16 (The Seven Deadly Sins) → 32 (Four Knights of the Apocalypse)

Height: 165 cm

Weight: 53 kg

Blood Type: A

Birthday: December 6

Power Level (combat class): 1350

Magic: 700

Strength: 400

Spirit: 250

Holy Knight Rank:

Holy Knight Apprentice

Crystal (intermediate rank)

Vice Holy Knight Captain (later)

Affiliation:

Originally Hendrickson’s faction of the Holy Knights, later aligned with The Seven Deadly Sins and the Liones royal family.

Voice Actress (anime): Mariya Ise

Guila is a slender young woman with long black hair that reaches her waist and narrow eyes that often appear half‑closed in a calm smile.

Early on, her bangs are long and cover more of her face, but Meliodas cuts them short during battle, giving her a more open, sharper look.

She was born a commoner and grew up being shunned because of her father Dale’s alleged treason and disappearance.

This social stigma, combined with her ambition, gives her a strong sense of pride and self‑worth, as well as a defensive, cool exterior.

In the field, Guila is polite in speech but ruthless in action, striking hard and without hesitation.

Despite this, her true nature is deeply compassionate, loyal, and self‑sacrificing, especially toward her younger brother Zeal.

Around Zeal, her cold Holy Knight demeanor completely disappears and she acts like a gentle, protective older sister.

Her determination to keep him safe is the core motive behind almost every choice she makes, including accepting demonic power.

Within the series’ cast she is notably flat‑chested, something that becomes a recurring gag.

In the spin‑off parody The Seven Deadly Sins Academy, this becomes a major source of her insecurity and drives a more exaggerated, volatile personality, including heavy brother‑complex tendencies.

Guila and Zeal are the children of Dale, a former Holy Knight of Liones.

After Dale is accused of rebellion and declared missing, the family falls into disgrace, and the townspeople subject Guila and Zeal to persistent bullying and ostracism.

The truth is far darker than the rumors.

Dale was used as a test subject in Hendrickson’s experiments, his body transformed into a demon and driven to uncontrollable rampage.

For a long time, Guila knows only that her father disappeared in disgrace and that people despise her family.

This fuels her desire to gain power and status as a Holy Knight, hoping to protect Zeal and overturn their miserable situation.

Even after becoming a Holy Knight and proving her combat ability, Guila continues to face underhanded harassment and discrimination.

This reinforces her belief that only overwhelming strength can let her protect her brother and carve out a place for them.

Magic: Explosion

Guila’s innate magic is Explosion, the ability to create and freely manipulate explosive energy.

She shapes this power into floating “fire seeds” or energy charges, controlling their number, trajectory, and detonation.

Drift Bomb

Guila launches small, slow‑moving fire seeds toward a target and detonates them on impact or command.

The technique is suited for precision attacks and probing an opponent’s defenses.

Shot Bomb

Instead of a single seed, Guila fires multiple explosive charges at once.

This creates a scattered barrage that can overwhelm or hem in an enemy from multiple angles.

Brilliant Detonation

Guila compresses her magic and then releases it in a wide‑area bombardment, making countless fire seeds fall from the sky like rain.

Each seed explodes indiscriminately, turning the area into a devastating storm of explosions.

Chain Explosion

She arranges numerous slow‑moving fire seeds around an opponent in three‑dimensional space.

These seeds explode in sequence, chaining together to form a cage of blast and flame that imprisons and scorches the target.

Killer Mine

Guila plants fire seeds underground as magical land mines.

When stepped on or triggered, each seed explodes like a trap, ideal for controlling terrain and ambushing foes.

Flame Rapier

In Four Knights of the Apocalypse, Guila demonstrates a technique in which she sheathes her sword in explosive flame.

This Flame Rapier style combines her precise swordsmanship with explosive bursts at the point of contact for enhanced power and cutting force.

Demonization

Due to the demonic experiments carried out by Hendrickson and the demon blood she ingests, Guila carries demon factor within her body.

Originally, this power threatens to drive her into uncontrollable demonization, destroying her mind and humanity.

Gowther intervenes by manipulating her psyche, reshaping her destructive impulses into a different emotional structure.

This process allows Guila to tap into demonic power without succumbing to berserk rage, effectively granting her a stable, controllable demon form.

In Four Knights of the Apocalypse, she can temporarily assume a demonized state at will.

She maintains full control during this transformation, fusing demonic resilience and might with her explosive magic as a mature vice captain.

Combination Technique

Bomb Cyclone

Bomb Cyclone is a combination attack used with Howzer.

Howzer compresses his Rising Tornado into an extremely dense, narrow whirlwind, and Guila floods the vortex with her explosive magic.

The result is a high‑density tornado filled with chained explosions, creating a brutal, drilling storm that tears and detonates anything caught inside.

This improvised team attack showcases Guila’s adaptability and her ability to coordinate power with other Holy Knights.

Becoming a “New Generation” Holy Knight

Feeling painfully inadequate to protect Zeal and consumed by inferiority, Guila drinks demon blood to gain strength.

This transforms her into one of the “New Generation” Holy Knights, individuals granted abnormal power at the cost of their humanity.

The change amplifies her destructive impulses.

She loses much of her empathy and moral restraint, slaughtering the townspeople who bullied her and killing innocent civilians without remorse.

At this stage she becomes a feared enforcer in Hendrickson’s faction and serves under Helbram as his subordinate in the Holy Knights.

Her polite tone contrasts sharply with her brutal, fearless combat style, making her both unsettling and formidable.

Early Confrontations

Guila first clashes with The Seven Deadly Sins in the City of the Dead, infiltrating as if in a deathlike state to launch a surprise attack.

However, she is outclassed by King’s overwhelming magic and is defeated.

Under orders from Hendrickson, she later crashes the Vaizel Fighting Festival to seize Meliodas’s broken sword and kidnap Elizabeth Liones.

Equipped with new armor and weaponry, she initially overwhelms Meliodas with her explosive magic and skill.

King arrives as reinforcement and defeats her again, forcing Helbram to intervene and extract Guila from the battlefield.

Although she fails to kidnap Elizabeth, she does momentarily obtain Meliodas’s broken sword, only to be outmatched once more when Meliodas awakens his power.

Doubting Helbram and Turning Against Him

After Jericho returns from investigating the armored giant and brings back Dale’s keepsakes, Guila’s doubts about Helbram begin.

Seeing the items and learning fragments of the truth makes her suspect that her father’s fate is tied to Helbram’s experiments.

When The Seven Deadly Sins storm the capital, Guila watches Helbram casually harm innocent citizens and attempt to pin all blame on The Seven Deadly Sins.

His disregard for the people and manipulative cruelty shock her, shattering her loyalty.

The turning point comes when Diane risks her life to shield Zeal with her own body.

Witnessing this selfless act for her brother makes Guila break with Helbram and stand against him, fighting alongside Howzer, who also rebels.

After a temporary ceasefire, Guila reflects on her choices and reveals profound regret over drinking demon blood.

Her earlier eagerness for battle gives way to the truth: she does not actually enjoy fighting and simply wanted enough power to protect those she loves.

Avoiding Complete Demonization

Hendrickson attempts to fully awaken the demon factor within Guila and Jericho, threatening to push them into irreversible demonization.

Gowther intervenes, using his mind‑altering magic to suppress their potential rampage.

Through Gowther’s intervention, Guila remains the only member of the New Generation who retains her enhanced power without succumbing to full demon transformation.

This makes her unusually strong among human Holy Knights, even after the war ends.

Gowther’s Memory Manipulation and “Fake Love”

In the post‑war period, Guila appears to have found peace and happiness.

She is depicted enjoying tea at home with Gowther, having fallen in love with him and believing that her affection helped her resist demonization.

Guila herself claims that what blocked the demon power was “the power of love.”

However, it is later revealed that this serenity is not natural but constructed.

Gowther had rewritten her memories and emotions, converting her resentment, jealousy, and hatred toward the Holy Knights into romantic love directed at him.

This artificial “love” is what stabilized her psyche and prevented her from losing control to demonic rage.

Because of this alteration, Zeal, once her single most precious person, ceased to be her sole emotional anchor.

The portrayal of Zeal alone and isolated underscores the emotional cost and distortion caused by Gowther’s magic.

Eventually, Diane becomes aware of Gowther’s wrongdoing and confronts him, forcing him to regain his conscience and sense of morality.

Gowther then reverses the memory manipulation, restoring Guila’s original feelings and perception.

Guila does not lash out in anger at Gowther after the truth is revealed.

Instead, she thanks him for allowing her to experience memories of her father as a kind, loving man before his transformation, and she calmly says goodbye.

New Role After the War

Following these events, Guila is appointed swordsmanship instructor to the second princess, Veronica Liones.

She moves into the royal palace with Zeal, gaining both a stable position and a safe environment for her brother.

This is particularly poignant because Guila once almost killed Veronica during the chaos under Hendrickson’s command.

Veronica’s choice to trust her as a mentor confuses Guila at first, but the two women gradually build a genuine friendship and mutual respect.

While others react in shock and fear when they learn Gowther is one of the Ten Commandments, Guila struggles to reconcile the criminal truth with the person she knew.

She finds it hard to believe that he is purely evil, reflecting her complex mixture of gratitude and hurt.

By the time of Four Knights of the Apocalypse, Guila is a woman in her early thirties.

She has matured into a composed and capable leader, serving as vice Holy Knight captain and commanding younger Holy Knights.

She retains the demon power that once threatened to consume her and has learned to wield it alongside her Explosion magic.

Now she can temporarily assume a demonized state without any risk of losing control, making her a hybrid combatant of considerable power.

Her Flame Rapier technique demonstrates refined skill and discipline, combining precise swordplay with explosive magic for efficient, controlled damage.

As a senior figure, she guides and supports the new generation of knights much as others once guided—or misled—her own generation.

Though no longer the tormented teenager desperate for strength at any cost, the legacy of her past choices and her complicated bond with Gowther still colors how she relates to others.

Her journey from ostracized commoner to respected vice captain underlines both The Seven Deadly Sins’ and Four Knights of the Apocalypse’s themes of redemption, identity, and the weight of one’s past.