Shirley (Fate/Zero)

Shirley (シャーレイ, Shārei?) is a resident of Alimango Island. Shirley was born as a native of Alimango Island, growing up in an extremely poor educational environment that did not even allow for her to attend elementary school. She relied on the teachings of Father Simon, the local priest, to learn reading and writing, but that was enough to stimulate her ample intellectual curiosity. She was able to obtain a Master's Degree through correspondence courses by the age of thirteen, causing Norikata Emiya to take an interest in her as an assistant when he arrived with his son, Kiritsugu Emiya. She became put in charge of handling the Emiya household's miscellaneous daily tasks like cleaning and shopping, picking up traces of magecraft due to Norikata not bothering to hide his true nature from her.[1]  Four years older than Kiritsugu, she became close friends with him. Still close with Father Simon, he often lectured her that working in their household would cause her to be "ensnared by the devil", giving her a silver knife and telling her it is a useful talisman with which she should never part.