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When Lucy is forced into her 'Nyu' personality, she is reduced to a basic
level of intelligence, with a diminished vocabulary and no access to her
vectors. As the chapters progress, we see her begin to learn - specifically
new words, like 'Kouta' and 'Yes'.

Early in the story, we learn that Diclonius children gain access to their
vectors and begin to kill humans at around the age of 3. Given that Nyu is in
a childlike state, and that she's learning much like a normal Diclonius child
would, does that mean that she too would begin to murder humans after around 3
years?

Or would the fact that she isn't _actually_ a child mean those consequences
wouldn't occur?

I've already finished the story, so no need to worry about spoilers.

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Side note: If I remember rightly, at some point in the later chapters (just
before Kaede house is attacked), a particular event occurs where Nyu regains
most of her intelligence, and can string together proper sentences. I can't
remember exactly what happens, since it's been a while since I've read it, but
for the question's sake, let's just assume that never happened, and Nyu stayed
as she originally was.


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Would Nyu have developed murderous tendencies after enough time had passed?


Fyi: The snapshots are **nsfw** , so they are put spoiler tags.

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**Kaede has been able to use her vectors in Nyu-mode and is also able of
speaking properly.** During the 6 months timeskip of chapter 72, Nyu was able
to learn speech and in chapter 87 she unlocked her vectors in Nyu-mode. See
below for more details. It hadn't been three years, but you were right in
thinking that she would be able to grow her second personality the same way
she did her first. I guess she could learn faster at this stage, as her brain
was fully grown by now, compared to when she was still a child. Kaede was also
always seen as the more intelligent Diclonius, because she was able to reach a
high age without being found out. And if it wasn't for her friend, she would
have never been caught, despite being a child.

When Kaede was taken hostage by Chief Kakuzawa in chapter 86, he claimed that
she had a split personality and that her Nyu-side could not use her vectors,
just as you claimed.

> [![enter image description
> here!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cgDW0m.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cgDW0.png)

This argument was countered in the next chapter though. In chapter 87, we can
see Chief Kakuzawa push Nyu to her limits, claiming that she has no place to
go to and that they should create a new world together filled with real
demons. Getting fed up with his story, she snapped and Nyu became able to
release her full power, despite staying in Nyu-form. Chief Kakuzawa (and thus
Lynn Okamoto himself) confirmed that she hadn't changed back to Lucy-form,
despite releasing really powerful vectors.

> [![enter image description
> here!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/50rAXm.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/50rAX.png)


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