Nora Valkyrie turned up in Kuroyuri as an orphan without a home who had to scavenge for food. Some time later she met Lie Ren when she was being bullied by a group of boys who did not recognize her but could tell she was poor and wearing strange clothes. Later during the attack on Kuroyuri she was saved by Ren. Both she and Ren applied years later to Beacon Academy and were accepted together.