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Overview

Chiz is an S-Class Cosmos Esper who works as the lobby manager of Pink Paws Bank and doubles as an urban guide in Hethereau. Unlike most characters obtained through the Scarborough Fair gacha system, Chiz is unlocked by reaching City Tycoon Level 18, making her a progression-based reward tied to the game's business empire system.

Despite her S-Class rarity, Chiz stands out for her accessibility: every player can obtain her through gameplay rather than spending gacha currency. All of her Awakening effects can be progressed in-game without needing duplicate pulls, further distinguishing her from gacha-exclusive S-Class Espers.

Character Profile

Personality

Chiz is shy and soft-spoken, struggling with social interactions despite her customer-facing role at the bank. During the beta, players first encounter her standing outside Pink Paws Bank, nervously trying to convince passers-by to sign up for a debit card. Her halting, unfinished sentences and visible discomfort create a character who is endearing precisely because she is so clearly outside her comfort zone.

Her official quote, "So... do you want to apply for a...", trails off without completing the pitch, capturing her personality in a single line. Despite her shyness, Chiz is diligent and takes her responsibilities seriously. Her dual role as bank lobby manager and urban guide suggests she knows Hethereau's streets intimately, even if she finds it difficult to share that knowledge with strangers.

How to Unlock

Chiz is not available through the gacha system. Instead, players must progress through the City Tycoon business empire system and reach Level 18. City Tycoon is a progression system where players purchase properties across Hethereau, manage shops, assign companions to work in businesses, and build up a commercial empire. Reaching Level 18 requires sustained engagement with the system over multiple play sessions.

Because Chiz is unlocked through gameplay rather than gacha, she is guaranteed for every player willing to invest time in the City Tycoon system. This makes her one of the most accessible S-Class characters in the game alongside Esper Zero (the protagonist, given for free).

Chiz is one of the few characters in Neverness to Everness who is unlocked through gameplay progression rather than pulls. This makes her particularly valuable for free-to-play players, since obtaining an S-Class character without spending gacha currency is exceptionally rare. Reaching City Tycoon Level 18 requires significant investment in the business management systems, but the reward of a fully functional S-Class Cosmos Esper makes the effort worthwhile.

Combat

Chiz is a rhythm-based Main DPS character whose damage output depends heavily on precise input timing. When players hit attack windows with perfect timing, she delivers strong single-target damage that makes her effective against bosses. However, her reliance on timing mechanics gives her a steep learning curve.

Combat Ratings

Her high difficulty rating (5 out of 5) reflects the precision required to maximize her damage. Perfect timing allows strong boss damage, but the high skill requirement limits consistency for players who have not mastered her rhythm patterns. Her mob clearing is rated low (2 out of 5), meaning she struggles with groups of enemies and is best deployed in boss encounters or single-target scenarios.

Elemental Synergy

As a Cosmos Esper, Chiz interacts with the Esper Cycle through the following reactions:

Awakening

All of Chiz's Awakening effects can be progressed in-game without requiring duplicate gacha pulls. This is unique among S-Class characters and means dedicated players can fully unlock her potential through gameplay alone, reinforcing her identity as the "free" S-Class option.

Pink Paws Bank

Pink Paws Bank is a financial institution in Hethereau where Chiz is the lobby manager. The bank handles debit card services and general banking for the city's residents. Chiz's role places her at the intersection of NTE's urban life simulation elements and its combat gameplay. This reflects the game's ambition to give every character a civilian life beyond fighting anomalies.

Pink Paws Bank is also connected to the City Tycoon system, as it represents one of the commercial sectors players engage with while building their business empire. Reaching the required City Tycoon level to unlock Chiz naturally involves interacting with the bank and similar establishments throughout the city.

Voice Actress

Chiz is voiced in English by Alice Himora, an American voice actress known for her roles as Robin in Honkai: Star Rail, Nekomiya Mana in Zenless Zone Zero, and Gullveig in Fire Emblem Heroes. Her casting brings experience with anime-adjacent gacha game roles to Chiz's shy, hesitant delivery.

Team Building

As a Cosmos element character, Chiz contributes to key elemental reactions in the Esper Cycle:

Chiz pairs well with Anima characters like Nanally or Jiuyuan for the Blossom reaction, adding passive area damage to complement her own kit. She also synergizes with Psyche characters like Fadia for the Luxation reaction, which helps with positioning in tighter encounters. Her Cosmos element also pairs with other Cosmos characters like Edgar or Hotori for additional coverage.

Trivia

• Chiz is one of only two S-Class characters available without gacha pulls, the other being Esper Zero (the protagonist).

• Her name "Chiz" may be a playful reference to "cheese," which pairs with her mouse-like personality and her association with the bank's mascot branding (Pink Paws).

• Unlike most S-Class characters who require duplicate pulls for Awakening upgrades, all of Chiz's Awakening effects are earned through in-game progression.

• Her B-tier ranking and 5/5 difficulty score make her one of the most skill-dependent characters in the game, rewarding players who invest time in mastering her rhythm-based combat.

Grain Resource and Skill Charges

Chiz's damage output scales with a character-exclusive resource called Grain, displayed on a mouse-themed bar at the bottom of the screen while she is on field. Landing basic attacks generates Grain, and the current Grain total is what amplifies her outgoing damage.

• Build Grain with basics. Each basic attack adds Grain to the bar. Interrupting her combo (swapping out, dodging into a recovery frame) does not zero out Grain, but ending the combo early slows the rate at which she accumulates it.

• Three skill charges. Chiz's skill has three independent charges that refresh sequentially. Using charges in rapid succession fires a short burst rotation that scales with current Grain, so dumping charges at full Grain maximizes per-skill damage rather than spreading them across the cooldown window.

• Hold-skill spin. Holding the skill button with three charges available consumes all three at once in a spinning-attack finisher. The spin drains Grain over its duration, so it doubles as an offensive burst and a resource reset if the player wants to exit Chiz's field cycle cleanly.

Grain Market Ultimate

Chiz's Ultimate ability, Grain Market, transforms the Grain bar at the bottom of the screen into a live graph display. Instead of tracking a single linear resource pool, the graph fluctuates over the ultimate window, and Chiz's skills deal bonus damage when cast at the graph's peak. This is the core of Chiz's rhythm-based identity: timing her skills to the graph's local highs rather than spamming them produces a noticeable damage multiplier.

Why it earns the "rhythm-based" label. Most other main DPS characters in the launch roster reward straightforward skill rotations without deep timing layers. Grain Market inverts that design: the optimal Chiz ultimate rotation demands that the player watch the graph and fire skill casts on the peaks rather than on cooldown. Players who can maintain that timing consistently see Chiz's raw damage climb well above her baseline tier ranking. Players who cannot maintain that timing see her damage drop significantly below her baseline, since off-peak casts contribute less than a comparable character's flat-timed rotation.

Training advice. Because Chiz is unlocked for free through City Tycoon Level 18 rather than through pulls, most players end up with her mid-early in the account's lifespan when they are still mastering the combat system. Treat the first few dozen combat sessions with Chiz as rhythm practice rather than optimal clears; the muscle memory for peak-timed casts transfers later to similar mechanics introduced by future characters, and the free Awakening progression means the character's damage ceiling rises in the background regardless of the player's starting skill level.

Awakening Cadence Across City Tycoon Levels

The City Tycoon path that delivers Chiz does not stop at her base unlock. Past her Level 18 unlock, additional copies of Chiz and her signature Arc weapon continue to drop as milestone rewards through the rest of the tycoon track. The full pipeline runs to Level 45, the highest tycoon rank exposed in the latest closed beta. Each tycoon level past 18 deposits another reward toward Chiz's progression, so a player who keeps climbing the tycoon track ends with Chiz fully awakened and her signature Arc fully refined without ever spending a Solid Dice or a Trikey on her.

Because duplicates control Awakening progression, a fully tycoon-tracked Chiz reaches her A6 Awakening node and equips her signature Arc on the same account that has never pulled on a banner. This is the design intent: the City Tycoon hobby loop doubles as an alternative character progression line that does not draw on the gacha pull budget.

Signature Arc and the One Million Fons Threshold

Chiz's signature Arc is built around the same Grain Market resource as her base kit, but it adds an account-state condition that no other launch Arc shares: the Arc reaches its peak damage multiplier only when the player has at least one million Fons on hand at the moment Chiz is on field. Spending Fons below that threshold reduces the Arc's bonus, and topping back up above one million restores it. Players who treat Chiz as a free-to-play main DPS therefore have a soft incentive to bank Fons rather than dump them into vehicles, cosmetics, or non-essential property purchases right before a hard combat run.

Practical consequences: a fully built tycoon-funded Chiz with her signature Arc and a one million Fons reserve outputs noticeably higher per-skill numbers than a copy that is otherwise identical but holds five-figure Fons. The Arc does not check inventory at every tick, so spending and re-earning the threshold is a smooth on-and-off effect rather than a hard reset of stacks.

Stable-but-Capped Damage Profile

Early and mid-game performance from Chiz is consistent. Her Grain bar fills on basic attacks, her three skill charges stack into a hold-skill spin, and her Grain Market Ultimate amplifies skill casts that land on the live graph's peak. This makes Chiz a reliable carry through the opening months of live service, especially for accounts that still rely on the Standard Banner selector or have not yet anchored a limited-banner DPS. At the very high end of endgame content, Chiz's damage ceiling is slightly capped relative to a fully built Nanally, because Nanally scales further with her follow-up attack passive and limited-banner Arcs. Treat the Cosmos slot on a tycoon-anchored team as filled by Chiz for the entire 1.0 window without worrying about an immediate replacement.

Base Stats Reference

Quick numerical reference compiled from the in-game character profile. Stats listed at character Level 1 represent the base values before Awakening, Console Modules, Cartridges, or Arc weapons modify them.

Level 1 Base Stats

Chiz's starting numerical baseline before progression systems begin layering bonuses on top.

Slot and Progression Counts

Each character is built from a fixed grid of skills, console-side passives, and progression tiers. The counts below describe the maximum slots ever exposed for this Esper, regardless of which ones are unlocked at any given Awakening rank.

Voice Actors

Chiz is voiced across the three primary localizations supported on launch.