History Characters / Zaregoto

** [[spoiler:Taken to eleven in the final volume, uprooted radical. She announces to Ii that her next target is no one else than Humanity's strongest, Aikawa Jun. Post time-skip, Aikawa herself notes that she has managed to impersonate her to the point that she is actually decreasing her workload as a contractor, but keeps trying to kill her for some reason.]]

!Akagami Iria [[spoiler: the real Handa Rei]]

!Handa Rei [[spoiler: the real Akagami Iria]]

!Sonoyama Akane [[spoiler: the real (fake) Ibuki Kanami]]

!Ibuki Kanami [[spoiler: the real Sonoyama Akane]]

!Akagami Iria

!Handa Rei

* BigDamnHeroes: [[Teruko fights and defeats the killer in Kubikiri Cycle, saving Ii-chan's life.]]

* TheQuietOne: Teruko again. Hikari is astonished that she talked to Ii-chan and Iria herself notes that at the end of kubikiri cycle that her silence was not an act, she really doesn't talk much.

* BreakoutCharacter: Eventually gained her own spin-off novel series.

* HasTwoMummies: Has three dads: [[spoiler:Saitou Takashi, Kajou Akira and Aikawa Junya. Saitou Takashi is her real father, the other two were his friends and colleagues.]]

* WorldsStrongestMan: Subverted. She is only said to be humanity's strongest contractor. [[spoiler: But she did beat Omokage Magokoro at the end of Uprooted Radical (Part Three), who should be the strongest human being.]]

* HasTwoMummies: Has three dads: [[spoiler:Saitou Takashi, Kajou Akira and Aikawa Junya. Saitou Takashi is her real father, the other two were his friends and collegues.]]

* LonelyRichKid: Despite having an eormous mansion, she's as lonely as a woman living with her three maids on a deserted island can get.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Her name is from Iliad while her sister Odetto's name is from Odyssey.
* TheOjou: The Akagami family is one of Japan's five biggest plutocrats.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NatsukoKawatani (Akari), Creator/RyokoShintani (Hikari), and Creator/YukoGoto

* HatesBaths: It's mentioned several times in Kubikiri Cycle that she doesn't like bathing.

This page lists the characters of ''LightNovel/{{Zaregoto}}'' and their associated tropes.

The Blue Savant. Ii-chan's childhood friend and probably one of the only two friends he has before the start of the series, 19 years old. A genius in the field of computer engineering, she was once the leader of a cyber terrorist group with no name (she calls it Team but other member calls it other things).

A classmate and acquaintance of Li, though he doesn't remember her. She's annoyingly cheery and airheaded, but a nice girl. She invited Li to Tomoe's birthday, starting the second novel's plot.
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Killed Tomoe in an attempt to separate her from Li. Not only did Li never reciprocate her feelings, he eventually found out about the deed and subtlety confronted her about it, which drove her to suicide.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:The one who invited Li to Tomoe's party and killed her, starting the plot and being the main culprit during most of it.]]

* BulliedIntoDepression: Towards the end [[spoiler: it's revealed that Li knew about Mikoko's actions and their discussion while shopping was all about guilt tripping her, which eventually led her to suicide.]]

* MadLove: She's really interested in Li, despite him not being interested in her in the slightest. [[spoiler:Played even more straightforward towards the end, when it's revealed that none of Mikoko's friends actually liked Li and thought chasing after him would be useless, but they couldn't do anything about it.]]
* KillingTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:She's clearly interested in Li and thinks that her dear friend Tomoe is getting in her way. The solution? Kill her, of course!]]

* BrokenBird: She turns to be just as broken and melancholic as Li, which prompts her to open to him.

* SaffetyInIndifference: Doesn't really open up to anyone, maintaining distance and never showing much emotion. [[spoiler:Which leads to a chain of tragedies when she opens up to Li of all people.]]

* StepfordSmiler: Like Li, she feels like a defective product and is pretty melancholic. Unlike Li, she tries her best to avoid opening up about it, trying to show a good side to her friends.

* SanitySlippage: Her friend Tomoe's death doesn't sit well with her [[spoiler:so of course that her childhood friend Mikoko's death and status as the original murderer wouldn't sit well either. Towards the end of the novel she kills Akiharu, tries to torture and kill Li, destroys everything in her apartment (including her hamster) and finally turns herself in, being completely and utterly insane by this point.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: Her dear friend Tomoe is killed, [[spoiler:followed by the culprit, her childhood friend Mikoko, which drives her to kill his friend Akiharu to drive away suspicions after Mikoko's suicide. When confronted by Li, who doesn't care in the slightest about her excuses, she goes insane.]]
* VillanousLegacy: [[spoiler:The original culprit, Mikoko, dies around halfway through the novel, but her refusal to turn herself in drives Muimi to cover up for her, killing Akiharu and trying to kill Li in order to drive suspicion away from her after her death.]]

* FaceDeathWithDignity: When giving Li the Vespa, he tells him that he's sure he's going to be killed next. [[spoiler:Turns out he probably knew about Muimi's and Mikoko's actions, but instead of confronting them or telling the police, he accepted his friends as they were and accepted his death at his friend's hands.]]

* SacrificalLamb: Doesn't have as much role in the story as the rest of the group [[spoiler:and his death isn't expanded or grieved on, rather serving as means to Li to finally solve the case.]]

Li's neighbor.

Real name Migiwame Toshiki. The son of two Zerozaki, Zeroshiki and Hataori, which makes him the only "born" Zerozaki. Raised mostly by Soushiki, the only person in the Zerozaki clan that Hitoshiki recognizes as family (at least before Iori came along). He appears for the first time in the second novel, Kubishime Romanticist, where he's acting as a serial killer known as the Kyoto Prowler. He eventually befriends Li in a strange way, mainly due to their deep understanding of each other.

* BigDamnHeroes: Saves Li [[spoiler:while he's being attacked and tortured by the killer in the second novel.]]

* EvilCounterpart: What Li would have become hadn't he restrained himself. Likewise, Li is what Hitoshiki would have become had he restrained himself.
* EmptyShell: Like Li, he's a defective product and a no longer human. Unlike Li though, he does casually laugh and show some emotion, which may be sincere or not, and it's what diffentiates them.

* OddFriendship: With Li of all people. Probably because they see each other as a reflection in a mirror.

* StrawNihilist: Just like Li, he doesn't really care about anyone around him. Taken even further, since he apparently just lives in the streets and kills people without much thought.

* BadassDriver: She's able to drive at high speed without even paying attention to the road, apparently.

* DontCallMeSir - Only her enemies call her Aikawa-san, but Ii-chan does it anyway.

* ForeseeingMyDeath: [[spoiler:Her powers are limited to seeing only two years into the future, as that is when she is going to be brutally murdered]].

* BunnyEarsLawyer

* {{Badass}}: Everything about her, really.

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Teruko does this to Iichan.

* [[spoiler:ArcVillain]]: Of the first novel, Kubikiri Cycle.
* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins: Not only does she succeed in killing and replacing Sonoyama Akane, but she faces no consequences for her actions. Iria allows her to leave the island a free woman, and Aikawa states that the fake's genius is so great that she won't struggle to adapt to her new identity's responsibilities.]]
* [[spoiler:KillAndReplace: What she did to Ibuki Kanami, Sonoyama Akane and all her other unnamed victims.]]

* [[spoiler:ForeseeingMyDeath: Her powers are limited to seeing only two years into the future, as that is when she is going to be brutally murdered.]]

* [[spoiler:Villanous Legacy:]] [[spoiler:The original culprit, Mikoko, dies around halfway through the novel, but her refusal to turn herself in drives Muimi to cover up for her, killing Akiharu and trying to kill Li in order to drive suspicion away from her after her death.]]

* [[spoiler:TheMole]]

* KnifeNut: Uses knives to fight.

* {{Expy}}: Of [[LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}} Shinobu Oshino]]. Both are diminutive (though Shinobu only regresses to the form of a child when de-powered), eccentric, hyper-energetic, constantly barefoot, have RapunzelHair, and lazy. Actually it is the other way around since Zaregoto was written way before Monogatari.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AoiYuki

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair

* ActionGirl: And how so!
* Main/Badass: Everything about her, really.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Her Parents.

* {{Ubermensch}}

* [[spoiler:ArcVillain]]: Of the second novel.
* [[spoiler:BigBad: The one who invited Li to Tomoe's party and killed her, starting the plot and being the main culprit during most of it.]]

* [[spoiler:GreenEyedMonster: The reason she murdered Emoto Tomoe]]
* [[spoiler:KillTheOnesYouLove]]: She really admired Tomoe and thought of her as one of her best friends [[spoiler:which didn't stop her from killing her.]]

* [[spoiler:NeverSuicide: Subverted. In the end, she actually did kill herself.]]

* [[spoiler:KillingTheHypotenuse]]: She's clearly interested in Li [[spoiler:and thinks that her dear friend Tomoe is getting in her way. The solution? Kill her, of course!]]

* FairCop
* PunnyName

* !In General

* [[spoiler:CuteAndPsycho: She is mentally unstable, which is the cause of all the problems in The Kubitsuri High School.]]

* LonelyRichKid

* [[spoiler:KillTheOnesYouLove]]: She really admired Tomoe and thought of her as one of her best friends [[which didn't stop her from killing her.]]

* ShrinkingViolet
* SdrawkcabName

* Foil: To Tomoe and Mikoko.

!Sasa Saki

Real name Migiwame Toshiki. The son of two Zerozaki, Zeroshiki and Hataori, which makes him the only "born" Zerozaki. Raised mostly by Soushiki, the only person in the Zerozaki clan that Hitoshiki recognizes as family (at least before Iori came along).

* GenkiGirl

* [[spoiler:NeverSuicide: Subverted]]

* JapaneseDelinquents

* MysteryMagnet

* UnreliableNarrator

* ActionGirl
* Badass

* InsufferableGenius
* JackOfAllTrades
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast

* SerialKiller

* [[spoiler:KillAndReplace: What she did to Ibuki Kanami, Sonoyama Akane and all her other unnamed victims.]]

* {{Transgender}}: Izumu identifies himself as male.

* AngstySurvivingTwin: Subverted. [[spoiler:She killed her twin sister herself, which is the reason she has been exiled to the Wet Crow's Island in the first place.]][[spoiler:DoubleSubverted in that she actually didn't, it was a lie told by the maids in order to explain why she wouldn't call the police.]]

* AngstySurvivingTwin: Subverted. [[spoiler:She killed her twin sister herself, which is the reason she has been exiled to the Wet Crow's Island in the first place.]]