During her escape from the Diclonius Research Institute, a sniper shot a bullet from a .50 caliber rifle on Lucy's helmet; that was partially slowed by the helmet she wore and her vectors, causing her to fall off a cliffside into the sea. Lucy's crueler personality fell unconscious and by the next morning Kaede woke up on the beach at Kamakura without any memories and with a childlike and infantile personality. The only sound she knew was Nyu. Starting to cry as she woke up on the beach