Rachel Gardner

Rachel Gardner is a 13-year-old girl with blonde hair and blue eyes.

She usually wears a striped shirt under a jacket with no collar.

Her outfit includes short pants and boots, making her look ready for action.

She carries a black shoulder pouch, which holds her sewing kit and other small items.

Her appearance is often described as beautiful for her age.

Rachel comes across as calm, quiet, and very smart.

She stays cool in dangerous situations.

However, she sometimes seems like she has lost normal emotions, making others uneasy around her.

Rachel believes strongly in "God," and she says that is why she cannot commit suicide.

People notice she wants to die, but not by her own hands.

She starts off seeing Isaac Foster only as someone who could kill her, but grows to care about him over time.

Some of her actions, like sewing up dead animals, show her strange and disturbed side.

Rachel grew up in a broken home.

Her father was a police officer who became an alcoholic and violent.

Her mother suffered from mental illness and often fought with Rachel's father.

Rachel was used to hearing them argue and suffered emotionally from their fights.

One day, she found an injured puppy and wanted to keep it, but her parents ignored her.

When the puppy died, Rachel sewed its body as if to fix it.

Her parents discovered her behavior, leading to even worse fights.

Finally, Rachel witnessed her father kill her mother. In shock, Rachel used her mother's hidden gun to shoot and kill her father.

She then sewed her parents' bodies together, trying to create her “ideal family.”

Rachel was found by police and sent to a care facility, where she continued killing small animals and sewing them up.

She met Daniel Dickens in counseling, who, seeing something special in her, arranged for her to be brought into the strange building as a resident and made her a "sacrifice."

Rachel is very intelligent and quick-thinking.

She is skilled at using her sewing kit, not just for normal crafts but also in disturbing ways.

Rachel knows how to use a handgun, since she used one to kill her father.

She stays calm even in scary or stressful moments.

• Isaac Foster: Rachel forms a strong bond with Isaac. She sees him as someone who can kill her, but she also grows to care deeply about him. Their connection changes both of them.
• Daniel Dickens: Rachel meets Daniel as her counselor. He is drawn to her unusual eyes and brings her into the building, playing a major role in her fate.
• Abraham Gray: Gray creates a space for Rachel in the building and watches her actions, suspecting her true nature.

Waking Up in the Building

Rachel wakes up in the lowest floor of a mysterious building.

She has lost most of her recent memories.

When she explores, she arrives at the B6 floor and meets Isaac Foster (Zack).

The Wish to Die

She struggles to remember why she’s there.

Rachel remembers some things, like why she came to the hospital (she saw someone killed) and memories about her parents.

Despite acting quiet and calm, she shows strange traits—like sewing up a dead bird and saying she's "fixing" it.

The Deal with Zack

After an event on the B5 floor, Rachel wishes to die—actually, she wants to be killed.

She asks Zack to kill her, but he says he can't unless she looks more “human.”

Zack realizes she’s clever and makes a deal: he will kill her if she helps him escape the building.

Rachel agrees and believes she can't commit suicide because “God told her not to.”

Rachel’s True Nature

As the story moves forward, it’s revealed that Rachel is actually the murderer assigned to B1.

She has only partial memories at first, but when all her memories return, the truth is revealed.

Rachel suffered deeply from her family’s violence, leading to her emotional breakdown.

Her way of dealing with pain was to “fix” things by sewing them up, whether dead animals or even her parents' bodies, after she killed her father with a gun.

The Cycle of Guilt and Redemption

Rachel was taken to a care home after her parents died.

She continued to kill small animals, claiming it was because she loved them and wanted to make them hers forever.

Daniel, her counselor, helped cover up her past and brought her into the strange building as a resident.

Meeting God and Losing Herself

In the building, Rachel meets a blind old lady, who leaves her a Bible and blesses her.

After this, Rachel reads the Bible and realizes her guilt.

Feeling she can never be forgiven, Rachel changes her own memories to escape the pain.

She is knocked out and placed at the bottom floor as a “sacrifice,” where her story in Angels of Death begins.

The Final Escape

Through her journey with Zack, Rachel forms a new belief, seeing him as her "god."

When her memories return at B1, she tries to kill Zack, fearing he will leave her.

But Zack convinces her that they are both human, and their bond grows stronger.

At the exit, Rachel is shot by Daniel. Zack, unable to save her himself, turns himself in so she can be saved.

Later, when Rachel learns that Zack has been sentenced to death, she falls into despair.

But one night, Zack escapes from prison, breaks into the facility, and keeps his promise to Rachel.

They escape together into the night, their fate after that unknown.

Police records only say the two remain missing, and their search is still ongoing.

The spelling of her name is "Rachel Gardner."

The name Rachel means "lamb, young sheep, or purity."

Her last name, Gardner, most likely comes from the job "gardener," not related to "guard" or "protection."

The series title “Angels of Death” refers to the main characters, including Rachel, who all have names from the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament.

"Please, I have a wish—kill me—"

• Rachel is thought to be very beautiful for her age.
• In the anime, it is shown that she looks a lot like her mother, who was probably also very beautiful.
• In official police records (from the novel), the whereabouts of Rachel and Zack after their escape are still unknown.