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"The World's Strongest" as well as Hajime's Battle Harem, they travel across the world looking to conquer the Great Labyrinths; Hajime in the hopes of finding the magic to send him back home, the girls mainly to get into Hajime's pants.

In General

• All Women Are Lustful: All of the girls in the party are shown to be somewhat perverted as they don't really hesitate to exploit any situation in which they can further their relationship with Hajime.
• Almighty Janitor: Zig-zagged. When Hajime's party register themselves as adventurers, the guild officials immediately recognize their collective strength and give them several rank promotions. However, Hajime made a request to have their status plates hide certain details, including their statistics.
• Anti-Hero Team: They're the protagonists but that doesn't make them heroes. Hajime's main motivation is to find the magic to send him back to Japan, and the girls follow out of love for him.
• Battle Harem: Hajime is the leader of a party consisting of pretty and powerful women who all want him for a lover.
• Babies Ever After: They will go on to be the mothers of Hajime's children along with his other wives save for Liliana.
• Character-Magnetic Team: They gather the allies as they traveled across Tortus and eventually unite the denizens of Tortus together.
• Heroic Neutral: While the likes of Hajime and Yue couldn't care less about the rest of the world (at least initially), the group's more kindhearted members such as Shea and Kaori are have shown more of a desire to help others if it doesn't interfere in their goals. And whenever Myu is part of the group, Hajime and the others will go out of their way to help others due to Myu's innocent belief in her "papa" and "sisters".
• Morality Chain: The girls are the only people that can keep Hajime from going full Omnicidal Maniac on Tortus.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Most of them are some kind of outcast, exile or eccentric.
• Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick: Hajime has this dynamic with all the girls in his party, to varying degrees. Hajime almost completely forgot how to treat people decently after his trauma at the Orcus Dungeon messed up his personality, so his female teammates act as his Morality Pets and are far more polite than him.
• Single-Target Sexuality: All the girls in the harem have complete devotion to Hajime. Kaori in particular takes the cake for being utterly Oblivious to Love except for her own (and her fellow haremettes') feelings for Hajime.
• Wrong Context Magic: Played With in that the magic they use isn't so much unheard of so much as so old that it was relegated into ancient legends. It doesn't help that two of the group are from races long thought extinct and another's from what is known until recently as the "hippie tribe" of the Beastmen. In the after story, this trope played straight as they found themselves in yet another world, sometimes by accident.

Hajime Nagumo

Voiced by: Toshinari Fukamachi (Japanese), Matt Shipman (English)^note Other languages: Cuauhtemoc Miranda (Latin American Spanish)

^{Click here to see his original appearance}

^{Click here to see his appearance post-Orcus (Left) and pre-Orcus (Right)}

The main character, a stereotypical nice guy, who's an otaku and bully victim, his story begins with a slew of bad luck: taken along with his class to a different world by some gods, given a crappy job and crappy stats, falling down to the depths of the Abyss under dubious circumstances, and mentally broken to the point where he decides survival and return are all that matters. Becoming ruthless and incredibly powerful by surviving the Orcus Dungeon, as well as encountering a vampire girl who becomes his companion, he quickly gave up all thoughts of revenge in search of a way back home after realizing the truth from the abyss he was trapped in, and will mercilessly deal with anyone or anything that opposes him or his companions in this endeavor. Cares for all of his companions, but loves only Yue. Though, he eventually opens up to the others, starting with Shea.

Specializes in Transmuting his environment, he also uses a collection of guns he crafted using fantasy ores and components. He also gained the ability to gain the skills of any monster he eats.

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• Accidental Proposal: When Hajime crafts the depleted God Crystal into jewelry for Yue and a Magic Eye for himself, she immediately takes it as a marriage proposal, and she doesn't let him say "no". Used again by Tio shortly after her introduction, but this time, Hajime denies her very clearly. By the time Kaori joins the party, he averts this by giving her magical bracelets instead.
• Adrenaline Makeover: Hard to believe they're the same person, though Hajime does note that his personality has greatly changed thanks to his experiences in the Orcus dungeon, to match the change in appearance.
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: He loves to pet Yue on the head when praising her, and she loves being pet on the head. He later does the same to the rest of his harem when he wants to show them genuine kindness.
• And Then What?:
  • In-universe and out. He's well aware that returning to Japan as he is now is going to cause problems, not to mention bringing Yue along for the ride. It's the primary reason he gave up on vengeance, because he can't really be bothered by what comes after. It's still his goal to return home, however. He'll just deal with those problems when he faces them, as he's got too much on his plate to deal with right now to even think about it.
  • During his fight with his double in the Frost Caverns of Schnee, he admits that he is anxious about whether he will be accepted when he gets back to his former world, but puts off thinking about it because he can't do anything about it now. After all, he does have to get back in the first place.
  • While discussing how to beat Ehit, after Hajime reveals that he and Yue had made an artifact that would allow them to return to their old world, his classmates loudly protest that he should have used it to send them back earlier. He rebuts them in this way, pointing out that Ehit would just pursue them to their world.
• An Arm and a Leg:
  • First thing that happens in chapter 5 of the manga is getting his arm ripped off by the Talon Bear, because it was still hungry after eating the Kicking Rabbit. When Ehit possesses Yue, he steals all of the artifacts Hajime had brought with him, including ripping his prosthetic arm from him.
  • He becomes a perpetrator of this himself after Ehit possesses Yue and retreats when he cuts off Aruvheit's arms to prevent him from fighting back or escaping. Then his legs.
• Anti-Villain: Has shades of this. After a betrayal sends him plunging into the deepest bowls of the Orcus Dungeon, plus living thru the ingestion of toxic monster meat induced transformation. Nagumo's survival instincts had been cranked so high up the meter, he'd lost sight of some kinder, nicer aspects revolving around his original persona. Taking to implementing pretty ruthless tactics when it comes to making sure everything goes his way in trying to get back home, being unafraid of resorting to violence or intimidation using mild deceits to manipulate the people around him for his own ends. What preempts the potentially dangerous ramifications of such thought processing, is the general sincerity in the harems kindness towards him, tempering his Hair-Trigger Temper and thus, mitigating the Unstoppable Rage picked up after living through his harrowing life or death experiences.
• Artificial Limbs: In the Orcus dungeon, he builds an artifact to replace his lost arm. He makes another one after Ehit stole the first. When he finally does return, he replaces his prosthetic with a less conspicuous one.
• Aura Vision: He eventually crafts a "demon eye" to replace his own lost eye and it allows him to see the flow and patterns of mana in spells.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: In general, Hajime has a knack for gauging his own, his allies', and his enemies' powers. Emphasized in the manga, where he spends a lot of time studying about the world in order to make up for his lackluster ability. He's the only one able to hold off a Behemoth when nothing the others had could even scratch it, because he used his lone "Transmute" skill in very creative ways. This certainly comes in handy when they start planning how to defeat Ehit, the literal god, along with his army of angels, Eri, and Kouki. He swiftly creates a solid plan, in which he gives unique roles to all members of his party, Suzu and Ryuutaro, Aiko, Liliana, and Kentarou Nomura, whom he remembered was an earth elementalist.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: In the manga, Hajime's post-Orcus outfit is slacks, a button-down shirt, and necktie, topped off with a waistcoat. All worn under the badass longcoat, natch. His LN outfit is similar but more Victorian in style, with an ascot tie.
• Badass Longcoat: He takes up a black longcoat while traveling through the Orcus dungeon.
• Battle Couple: With Yue, even when other members join the party, their teamwork is always the best, since they don't even need to talk to each other to work in tandem.
• Bookworm: He starts life in Tortus studying every book of lore he can get his hands on. Transitions into Badass Bookworm after taking a few levels in badass as a result of his experiences in the Orcus dungeon.
• Boom, Headshot!: He fatally shoots a slaver in the head for messing with Myu.
• Brutal Honesty: He's not afraid to hurt others by telling them the harsh truth. For example, when he realizes Kaori's insecurities about being around him and Yue, he gives her an ultimatum to get over herself or leave his party because nothing she does will change his love for Yue and if she wants to stay with him, she has to accept Yue as the Top Wife.
• Bully Magnet: Hajime is frequently bullied by Hiyama thanks to the former's status as an otaku as well as the crush of the School Idol Kaori. Not much changed when he came to the new world and ended up the target of rapists, slavers, high & mighty apostles and Jerk Ass Gods. This time around though, Hajime had the might & menace to send them packing; either on a stretcher or in a body bag.
• Came Back Strong: As pictured above, the effects of having his body broken down and rebuilt constantly in its attempt to survive after drinking the Sacred Water converted Hajime's Geek Physique into a leanly muscular one due to his body "overcompensating" for the injuries it sustained before and during the healing process. Even more importantly, all of his stats got massive boosts on top of gaining the ability to gain the powers of demons and monsters by consuming their normally toxic flesh. Combined with his anger over being betrayed and his ruthless ingenuity, our Classical Anti-Hero quickly became an Anti-Hero One-Man Army.
• Cessation of Existence: After Ehit snatched Yue's body and he recovered to some extent, he proceeds to lash around with this newfound ability, and the victims are many.
• Character Catchphrase: "I kill all my enemies. Humans, monsters, demons, even gods."
• Chick Magnet: Gains the feelings and love of multiple women as the story goes on.
• Chuunibyou: In the past, when he was in middle school. It's also how he thinks his current appearance looks, having an eyepatch that covers his Magic Eye and a black artificial left arm. This realization made him very depressed, but he got over it.
• Classical Antihero: At first, he had all the signs, including horrifically poor self-esteem. The bullying and insults he received for his "incompetence" didn't help. Being betrayed and dumped into the Abyss, and the horrific circumstances down there very nearly made him a Villain Protagonist.
• Combat Pragmatist: Does whatever is needed in order to remove anyone he considers an enemy stopping him from achieving his goal such as killing monsters to eat them to avoid starvation. And later he immediately kills one of the two cyclops guarding Yue's prison while the second was still freeing itself from its stone skin, stating that he doesn't want to wait until both of them were awakened, making the fight more difficult for him.
• CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: When Shea drowned and was unresponsive after the party was literally flushed out of Raisen dungeon, into a lake, Hajime does give her proper CPR, but both Shea and Yue interpret his actions as a romantic overture. Fortunately, Yue allows it as she believes that just this once, Shea did earn it.
• Cruel Mercy: The only reason why Hajime doesn't immediately put a bullet in of his classmates faces the next time they finally meet again after escaping the Orcus Labyrinth is because he believes it would be far more poetic to let them all die in the other world, experiencing the same level of helplessness and despair that they once subjected him to. Hiyama, on the other hand continued to push his luck and eventually paid for it.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He has the powers and blood of the monsters he eats and his black and red attire gives him the appearance of a villain, but is a noble person who still kept half his humanity.
• Deadpan Snarker: Even when he's dealing with monsters as well as his harem, Hajime has a sarcastic streak.
• Death from Above: Hyperion and its "light of condemnation". As the chapter name implies, not much of the target is left after its use.
• Death Glare: He's got an impressive one.
• Defrosting Ice King: Slowly, as the story goes on the girls manage to soften him.
• Demon King Nobunaga: His feats, his deeds, effectively made him one.
• Department of Redundancy Department: In the manga, we got this gem:

  Hajime: Now that you're our companion, if you go off and die, I will have to beat you to death.
  Shea: Hajime-san, you are not making any sense.

• Despair Event Horizon: Comes quite close to completely cross it, at the very least the grief of losing Yue made him unlock a conceptual magic of denying all existences, since to him, if Yue isn't in this world, this world doesn't deserve to exist, cue Get A Hold Of Your Self Man.
• Determinator: He survives falling into the depths of the Great Orcus Labyrinth partly by a lucky find of a Divinity Stone that heals his grievously wounded body, partly by eating monsters for lack of any other available food and gaining their powers because the Ambrosia from the Divinity Stone stops the monster meat from killing him, partly by transmuting the rock making up the walls of the labyrinth into Hand Cannons, but mostly out of a sheer ornery refusal to die.
• Devoted to You: Post-Orcus, Yue is the only thing in his mind, apart from wanting to go home - no love confession will work, no amount of seduction will sway him (other than Yue's, of course, in that case is always a Critical Success.) and he treats all other females as annoyances that should go home. The only reason the Unwanted Harem stopped being so is due to Yue, who is as devoted as Hajime, slowly getting him to approve of Shea.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He is the God Slayer in his own right.
• Disease Bleach: The enormous strain inflicted on his body from being torn apart by the consequences of eating lightning wolf meat and being put back together by the God Crystal changed his hair from the standard Japanese black, to Mystical White Hair, and gave him Tainted Veins.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Are you his enemy? Then you are most likely dead. Examples of this, a Criminal Group kidnaps little Myu and tried to abduct Shea in the process. The result was the total annihilation of said group, with its leader getting triple-tapped in the head.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: As he's training the Haulia, he frequently compares himself to the Sergeant in Full Metal Jacket, the movie that named the trope.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: He finds himself on both ends of the trope, on one hand, not many take him seriously, and Mugging the Monster is a common occurrence, on the other, it's usual for him to deny any and all respect to those in power, to the point the only leader in Tortus that had a polite treatment from him was Tio's grandfather, for causes completely unrelated to his rank.
• The Dulcinea Effect: He went from being willing to abandon Yue in her sealing room, to fighting a very tough fight against the scorpion guardian for her sake in the span of five minutes tops. Their common experiences with betrayal is what motivated him.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: His eyes post-transformation lack most of the glint or life they used to have, instead being a constant blood red with tiny pupils.
• Dynamic Entry: His return to Orcus to rescue the Hero's party, drilling through several floors of the labyrinth until his shaft obliterated a couple of Cattleya's monsters.
• Eternal Love: Hajime has no intention of dying before Yue and leaving her alone... and Yue is immortal due to her self-regeneration. By the time of the after story he wonders if he has a lifespan anymore due to his irregular nature, and still has vampirism, metamorphosis magic, soul magic and apostle conversion to ensure he won't die of age.
• Everyone Has Standards: While it is true that he doesn't give a shit about the problems of Tortus's natives, unless they happen to impact his own interests, he pointedly strives to avoid making them worse, if he can help it. He holds Yue back when some Imperial Soldiers/Slavers threaten to rape her, not because he was concerned about her bloodying her hands with human refuse, but to test precisely how much power he should use to penetrate their armor without having to worry about the bullet passing through the soldiers, and blowing up the house behind them, killing the completely innocent dwellers within.
• Extreme Doormat: Pre-Tortus, pretty much the entire class picked on him. The School Idol actually being nice to him only served to make this worse as the jealousy generated resentment directed at himself.
• Extreme Mêlée Revenge: After Hiyama kills Kaori in the sixth volume, Hajime kicks the schmuck repeatedly with his brute strength, and sends him to the outside of the city, with the monsters running rampant there.
• Eyepatch of Power: After losing his right eye and replacing it with an artificial one, he wears an eyepatch that makes him look even tougher.
• Eye Scream: In the battle with the Hydra, he loses his right eye while protecting Yue.
• Fatal Flaw: As exposed in Haltina Labyrinth, Yue is his greatest weakness-slash-Restraining Bolt, since without her he stops caring about details such as friendly fire, or mercy and gets angry much quicker. This weakness is exploited quite harshly by Ehit, when he possesses Yue, almost making him cross the Despair Event Horizon and turning him into a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds.
• Fool for Love: He's an extremely cynical Anti-Hero who cares not about others and needs to be convinced to land a hand even in the most simple of circumstances. He's also head over heels for Yue, forgets any basic etiquette rules if he's charmed by her, and his cool façade will quickly crumble into a mushy pink space if they start staring into each other's eyes. This happens quite often.
• Forgotten First Meeting: He and Kaori actually met before high-school, back when he was an early middle-schooler, but he had forgotten all about it, until Kaori mentioned it during the night before the Orcus expedition.
• Friend to All Children: He cares for children, and his first public act was to humiliate himself so a bully would spare a small child that accidentally splashed his clothes with a soda. Even after his despair, he still manages to be a older-brother/father figure to Myu.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He started off as a low-level student who was viciously bullied before being transported to a different world, and then he got betrayed and thrown into the abyss, and he came out a particularly brutal Anti-Hero teetering on Villain Protagonist because of it.
• Gatling Good: Metzelei^note German for Slaughter or Massacre, which is capable of firing as many as 12,000 rounds of railgun shots per minute. Their self-cooling barrels are capable of withstanding up to five minutes of continuous fire.
• Generation Xerox: Much like Oscar Orcus, Hajime is a "synergist" ridiculed by his peers, with a penchant for creation magic, who are far stronger than people believed he could be.
• Genre Savvy: Being an otaku, he's well aware of the Trapped in Another World trope and its implications. In the light novel, this makes him far, far more calm and composed than the rest of his class, including Aiko-sensei, who all as went into full blown panic when Ishtar said they couldn't go back. In fact, he happily lampshades that it could have been worse. They could have been summoned as slaves. Unlike the other otakus, he also doesn't give in to the Power Fantasy implications, knowing that This Is Reality, there's no Plot Armor in real life, and fantasy worlds tend to suck for people without plot armor, which coupled with his initial lack of OP MC status keeps him from becoming complacent the way the Hero Party did.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: After Yue got possessed, Myu, of all people, is the one to pull this on him. And it works, following with a conga line of punches from the rest of his party. On the other hand, much earlier, he gave one to Cam and the rest of Haulia clan who, at that time, started being genocidal to the bearmen army. This only happened in the manga, though.
  Hajime: Excuse me for misunderstanding, because your expression looks like that of the soldiers attacked you long time ago.
• Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: He and Yue enjoy themselves after enduring the harrowing and hellish Orcus Labyrinth.
• Good Is Not Nice: When entering Tortus, he was the penultimate Nice Guy. After his experiences in Orcus dungeon, he's come to the conclusion that he can no longer afford it. As such, he's rude, crude, and highly unpleasant, with little to no moral scruples about doing whatever it takes to make it home to Japan alive. Still, he's a decent and upright individual and doesn't attack you unless you go out of your way to provoke him first.
• Gratuitous German: He tends to name his weapons in German when he isn't naming them in Japanese. For example, "Donner"^note Thunder, "Schlagen"^note to hammer, hit, or strike something, "Orkan"^note Hurricane, and "Metzelei"^note Slaughter or Massacre.
• The Greatest Story Never Told: His Heroic Sacrifice in holding off the Behemoth was quashed by Ishtar, and the nobles of the human kingdom in Tortus. Not only do the classmates delude themselves into thinking he fell down into the Abyss from his own clumsiness, but the nobles all sigh in relief, spreading rumors that "only the incompetent one died" and Ishtar clamped down, forbidding any kind of investigation into his supposed death, pressuring the king to do the same. Captain Meld of the knights was clearly not pleased with that decision, but was powerless to overturn it. This came back to bite both them and Ehit in the balls.
• Gun Kata: He fights with his two guns.
• The Gunslinger: Types A and C, mainly. Guns are his main weapons after all.
• Hand Cannon: His guns amount to miniature rail cannons in pistol form that reduce most monsters to a bloody paste.
• Handicapped Badass: He loses an arm and an eye in the Orcus dungeon, but it doesn't stop him from kicking ass, taking names, and then kicking more ass.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power:
  • While he did miss out on some rather nifty powers when he found out he was a "Synergist," the way he applies his one and only skill not only allowed him to restrain the Behemoth, alone, but allowed him to survive the first level of the Abyss, for 40 days when any of the "cool" kids that got all those nifty powers and abilities wouldn't have lasted 40 seconds.
  • And that's on top of the lethal weapons he develops while trapped within the first dungeon, working in tandem with the monster abilities he assimilated through their meat to easily blast away any threats, or the heavy implication that his talents as a Synergist were actually prodigal compared to most others, and that all he needed was to be put in the back row for his gift to truly shine.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: In which he calls "treasure warehouse".
• I Call It "Vera": He has a penchant for naming anything and everything he builds, like his first rail-gun in the form of two pistols named "Donner." ^note meaning "Thunder".
• Idiot Hair: He has a notable ahoge at the start of the story, but loses it after his transformation, representing his loss of innocence and his newly lethal ingenuity.
• I Gave My Word: The one virtue that universally survived his experiences in Orcus dungeon is that he keeps his promises, to the best of his ability. That being said, one may not like the manner by which he keeps them.
• I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: In the beginning, he really had a poor sense of self-esteem and didn't see himself as worthy of being called "hero" or having the affections of Shirasaki.
• Implacable Man: When he is at full-blown rage mode he will wipe all enemies out personally with nothing to stop him
• Improbable Aiming Skills: By the time he starts training the Haulia clan to defend themselves, he has mastered the "pointless" skill of being able to hit his target, without fail, by using ricochets off of anyone and anything nearby, making his aim truly unpredictable.
• Inhuman Eye Concealers: He covers his Magic Eye with an eyepatch.
• Insecure Love Interest: At first, he really wasn't feeling up to being asked out by a girl, especially the School Idol, mainly out of fear of the bullying it would attract for him.
• Interspecies Romance: He's in a romantic and sexual relationship with Yue, a vampire. Other members of his harem include a bunny girl, a dragonwoman and a mermaid.
• In-Universe Catharsis: In the sixth volume, Hajime finally settles the score with Hiyama for sending him into Orcus as well as the death of Kaori Shirasaki.
• Invincible Hero: After Orcus, Hajime only met three enemies that forced him to go all out: the apostle Noint; Freid, who almost killed him with an ambush but still only managed to get a draw; and Ehit, who in their first fight utterly curbstomped him and left him for dead. Other than them? Nothing was able to even so much as slow him down. Even fighting against a doppelgänger of himself in a Secret Test of Character, instead of following the rules to weaken his enemy, Hajime simply decided to improve himself in the middle of the fight and overpower his opponent the hard way (justified by him using the doppelgänger's moves to locate tiny wasted movements that he could eliminate from his own fighting style).
• It's Personal: His motivation for killing Hiyama becomes a personal one when the latter not only plunges him into the Orcus Labyrinth but later kills Kaori in front of Hajime's eyes.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For all his unpleasant qualities, he still has a noble and decent core to his personality, and every follower he has follows him willingly because of it.
• Karmic Jackpot: He never would have survived the Orcus dungeon if he hadn't rescued Yue and won her loyalty. Even if mostly unwilling, or reluctant, his good deeds come back to him over and over, and in the end, guide him to victory, he would have never prevailed alone, or with only Yue.
• Kavorka Man: While he's not exactly hideous, the female followers he has followed him precisely because he's jagged around the edges. This is because he shows the world his personality as it really is, as opposed to hiding behind delusions of his own grandeur (Kouki), or pretending to be someone he isn't to draw people to him and then exploit them (Hiyama). The latter two who attract women purely on good looks or a personality that's entirely false cannot comprehend this.
• Kidnapped by the Call: He and his entire class were summoned to Tortus, supposedly by the god, Ehit, to help against the war with "Demons", completely without anybody's informed consent.
• Kill the God: Hajime wouldn't give two shits about Ehit and just wanted to go back home. But when the god kidnapped/possessed Yue, Hajime puts Ehit on the very top of his shit list. And nobody retires from Nagumo's shit list.
• Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: As a Synergist, effectively a glorified blacksmith, he gets no respect from the flashy magicians or "mighty warriors" whose weapons he may well need to craft. At least before he meets Yue in the Orcus dungeon.
• Love Redeems: He was about to become a brutal Villain Protagonist, were it not for meeting Yue and mellowing enough to later be able to hear Shea and Aiko out.
• Made of Diamond: One of the abilities he gained from eating monsters is the ability to coat his skin in a diamond-like aura to increase his defense.
• Madden Into Misanthropy: To the hilt. All the bullying he's received, plus the betrayal while fighting the Behemoth, made him reach the point where he's Stopped Caring about the rest of his class, or social etiquette, period. If being polite and pleasant gets you killed, why bother?
• Magical Eye: After losing his right eye to the Hydra, he crafted a new one with Creation Magic, called the Devil/Magic Eye, which is equipped with all sorts of magic-sensing abilities. It also always glows, forcing him to wear an eyepatch over it.
• Magnetic Weapons: His arsenal revolves entirely around this, as he emits electricity to accelerate his bullets.
• Make an Example of Them: He uses Hiyama's death as a warning to his fellow classmates that it's a very bad idea to cross him.
• The Man in Front of the Man: The man introduces his teacher as the "Goddess of Prosperity and Victory" in front of the people of Ur town, with himself, his arsenal, and his party as "Her Might".
• Marry Them All: In the end, he caves in and simply chooses to marry everyone (Yue, Shea, Tio, Kaori, Shizuku, Aiko, Liliana, and Remia). Yue is still the Top Wife, though.
• Master of All: As far as his stats are involved, Hajime has no peer at any role. Subverted in that his magical aptitude is abysmal, so while his magic power doubles Yue, its usefulness is limited to those skills he can acquire from devouring monsters, artifacts, God magic, or transmutation.
• More Dakka: Again, the Metzelei Gatling Gun. When Hajime has to absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes. Exaggerated with Metzelei Disaster, an upgraded electromagnetic Gatling cannon that fires seventy-two thousand rpm.
• Mugging the Monster: On the receiving end, to the point of Running Gag. Considering that very, very few of his enemies live long enough to get the word out...
• Nemean Skinning: After finding himself in the Orcus Labyrinth and losing his arm to one of the Bear Monsters; after he kills the bear, he skinned it and uses its pelt as an impromptu cloak and blanket for the rest of his trek through the Labyrinth.
• Never Gets Drunk: His Acquired Poison Immunity extends to alcohol, making him unable to get drunk anymore even if he wants to; he even laments this a little. At one point, he drinks booze that others can't even get near without vomiting from the stench, while Hajime isn't even a little dizzy.
• Nice to the Waiter: While he doesn't see any merit in being needlessly polite, he will respond in kind if people are polite to him and his first, especially if they're in any kind of service industry. He treats the Adventurer's Guild receptionist he meets in volume 2 with respect because, even though she's somewhat snarky, she still treated him professionally and courteously first.
• No Guy Wants to Be Chased:
  • He constantly goes out of his way to avoid Kaori's advances. Justified since he was unaware of why Kaori was so fixated on him and she has the tendency to land him in hot water whenever she tried to catch his attention.
  • For a while, he objected, quite loudly, every time Yue "pushed him down", even though the truth is that he greatly enjoyed the experience.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: Despite Saving the World by doing so, he just wants to take Yue back from the god who had stolen her body.
• Not Quite Back to Normal: Invoked. Upon returning home, Hajime's hair and remaining eye return to their original colors thanks to Kaori's Restoration Magic. However, he still retains his muscular body and instead of getting his original arm and eye back, he decides to keep his prosthetic replacements by disguising them. This is to prevent Tortus' existence from becoming public knowledge.
• Not the Fall That Kills You…: Falls victim to this when the bridge he was fleeing across broke apart and he was dumped into the Abyss. He got washed down a bunch of little waterfalls, like the water park slide from hell, until he finally wakes up on the Abyss's first-floor level.
• Neutral No Longer: While he was originally disinterested in fighting against Ehit due to focusing more on his goal of returning to Japan, Hajime declares it his mission to kill Ehit after the latter possesses Yue and steals her body for himself.
• One Head Taller: He's at least a head taller than Yue, his main love interest.
• Otaku: With a game developer and a manga artist for parents, he couldn't have come out any other way.
• Papa Wolf: As a father figure to Myu, he's willing to deal a Curb-Stomp Battle towards anyone who threatens her.
• Parental Substitute: He becomes the "papa" to Myu, a young mermaid girl. At first, he was completely against it, but very soon found himself treating her as if she was his daughter.
• Power Copying: Every time he eats the meat of a new species of Magical Beast, he gains its unique magical ability, at least as long as the new beast is at least as strong, if not stronger than the ones he's eaten before.
• Pragmatic Hero: Yes, he is firmly on the "heroic" scale of morality, even if it is protagonist-centered; however, he's not too hung up on the legality of his actions, or nuanced moral debates. He makes most of his decisions purely on cost-benefit analysis. That being said, don't try to strong-arm him into breaking his word, as he has no hesitation in going to all-out war to uphold it.
• Prematurely Grey-Haired: His traumatic experiences in the Orcus Dungeon caused him to become grey-haired at 17 years old.
• Raging Stiffie: Hajime gets one when Yue decides to join him in the bath.
• Razor Floss: During his Roaring Rampage of Revenge he releases a storm consist of something like a chain dancing in the air, which cut anything it touched ignoring any defense and erased them, with himself as a center. This ability overwrote the information of the target that said 'exist' into 'doesn't exist'.
• Readings Are Off the Scale: By the time he and Yue are finished with the Orcus Labyrinth, his status plate just gives his level as "???".
• Rebuilt Pedestal: Kaori doesn't take Hajime's new personality too kindly and she's quite shocked by his callous attitude, especially towards his old classmates. She eventually saw through his cold exterior and resolved to learn his new personality soon after.
• Red Baron: He gains a lot of epithets due to his exploits, but his most flattering one is "The Demon King", which fits his ruthless behavior rather perfectly, and he was unaware his moniker had a little deeper meaning to that.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: After being thrown into the dungeon and being forced to survive by eating monster flesh, Hajime's eyes become blood-red, and he's a lot more dangerous and ruthless.
• Roaring Rampage of Rescue: When Myu is seized from the local equivalent of a police station by the criminal gang that kidnapped and enslaved her, using explosives, said gang made one critical mistake: they sent him a ransom note and put his face on a wanted poster. Say hello to not only the total annihilation of the gang, but also the total obliteration of the town's Slave Trade Industry in just one afternoon.
• Rule of Symbolism: While it may not matter as much to a Western audience, to a Japanese audience with their incredibly strict gun-control laws, for a law-abiding citizen to take up a gun as a weapon is a major taboo – this serves as a metaphor for how far Hajime has fallen. Even after teaming up with Yue, he doesn't go back to using anything else.
• Running Gag: He suffers from two. The first is that he's the near-constant victim of Mugging the Monster regarding one or more of the attractive ladies in his party, all of whom pestered him to let her join, one way or another. The second is the constant event of Yue and Hajime getting lost in each other's eyes and creating a "Pink space", to the annoyance of all unrequited love interests. It should be noted that if left uninterrupted, these pink spaces tend to heat up quickly.
• Sanity Slippage: Subverted. Meeting with Yue saved him from going psychotic, but he was still briefly Driven to Madness by his ordeal.
• Science Hero: Even though his stats are sky-high, he never stops developing new tools to ensure his advantage is as strong as possible – this can range from a capsule that gets melted inside his stomach, releasing Ambrosia, to a Kill Sat capable of purging a hundred thousand enemies.
• Single-Target Sexuality: After becoming a couple with Yue, he more or less forgets other girls in the world exist, but he still can recognize their attractiveness. It's just that if Shea, Kaori, Tio, and Yue were to try the same clothes, or suggestive actions, while he will acknowledge the former's actions, he will be instantly smitten by the latter. It gets downplayed later when he eventually opens himself to Shea, admitting that he also loves her, and post-story he allows the other harem members to be pampered by him. Still, only Yue is special, and if forced to choose he will always choose her in a heartbeat.
• The So-Called Coward: The kids who bully him are fond of calling him "a gutless wimp", but in chapter 4 of the manga, he holds off the Behemoth alone while the rest of the class tries to break out of the trap Hiyama sprung with his grade-A idiocy.
• Spanner in the Works: He becomes this to multiple plans, particularly Ehit's.
• Speak Ill of the Dead: On the receiving end. Ishtar and the human nobles of Tortus only had nasty things to say when they heard he "died" in the Orcus Labyrinth. Kouki, of all people, was the most incensed by it.
• Stock Light-Novel Hero: Double Subverted. He never wanted to be the hero. He was perfectly content to hang out in the background and provide support with his "Synergist" skill, learning to use it in creative ways, despite the cruel treatment he got from his class. Then he saved them from a Behemoth, only to get blasted down a pit for his trouble and left for dead. Then as he crawled his way back out, meets Yue, falls in love, gives up on vengeance, and gets a harem so unwanted, he's shot at some of them, repeatedly, and that still doesn't stop them from following him around and trying to get into his pants.
• Terrifying Rescuer: The way he rescues what remains of the Haulia clan from the Imperial Soldiers/Slavers is so brutal, by Haulia standards, that Hajime utterly terrifies them. And remember, this is with Hajime holding back to gauge the minimum force required to breech human armor while minimizing collateral damage.
• Their First Time: Trade virginities with Yue while relaxing in Oscar Orcus's underground mansion.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Averted by the narrowest of margins, and only because he met Yue. If not for her, he would have easily become a true and utter sociopath, caring only about his own survival and killing everyone and everything in his way.
• This Means War!: After Ehit possessed Yue's body. Three days afterwards, he wages war on the bastard god, while others (read everyone on Tortus) kept the god's Legions of Hell busy. He goes on to Kill the God by himself.
• Took a Level in Cynic: At the start of the story, he would have rescued Yue without hesitation. After his nightmarish ordeal in the Orcus dungeon, he came very, very close to abandoning her in her prison because he believed her existence was nothing more than Schmuck Bait. Fortunately, he does ultimately decide to rescue her, even if it was for pragmatic as opposed to moral reasons.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In the beginning, he was adorkable, for being an insecure otaku, too scared of bullying to chat with a pretty girl. Then the "cool kids" betrayed him and dropped him into the Abyss of the Orcus dungeon, where he damn near lost his mind with thoughts of vengeance.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Implied, by virtue of his body become mutated so badly as a result of eating the flesh of magical beasts, Ehit simply can't simply possess him. He puts this attribute of his to a good use: by feeding Yue a large dose of his own blood, Ehit gets violently rejected from her body as a result.
• Training the Peaceful Villagers: He teaches the Haulia rabbitfolk how to defend themselves as he can't protect them the entire time, so that they can take care of themselves (with Drill Sergeant Nasty thrown in for good measure), but things go way further than what he intended. He even apologizes to them later for how he trained them into Ax-Crazy territory.
• Transmutation: Hajime starts out with a low-level skill in transmutation. After devouring monster meat and obtaining Orcus's Creation Magic, Hajime's transmutation powers grow to the point where he can craft modern-level weaponry as well as ancient artifact-level tools and vehicles.
• Tsundere: After meeting again with Aiko, Hajime stops rejecting all help requests instantly, but he still plays it tough, usually wordlessly asking Yue (who never says no to anything he wants to do) and making it look like he only does it for the profit, even if there is no profit, or said profit is of no consequence to him. He just can't admit caring about anyone other than his important ones. He even gets called this In-Universe.
• Tsurime Eyes: After his transformation, his Tareme Eyes became these in order to emphasize how hardened and cynical he is now, compared to before.
• Ultimate Blacksmith: He has crafted and designed all his weapons (plus Shea's hammer) along with many other artifacts, between them their Unmanned Flying Reconnaissance units, a two and four-wheeled vehicles, a whole set of communication items, a flying ship, etc.
• The Unchosen One: He wasn't supposed to be summoned to Tortus; Kouki was. He wasn't even supposed to fall into the Abyss; Hiyama was petty enough to try it. And he was supposed to have died of starvation in the Abyss, except that he found a mana crystal that saved his life from the toxic meat. And so by eating every monster he killed in the Abyss, his physiology was changed so much that he became the greatest threat to Ehit. And of course he could care less about any of that, since he now prioritizes going home above all else.
• Undying Loyalty: To Yue, as out of all of his female party members, the only one he truly loves is Yue who reciprocates these feelings. He loves her so much that he was willing to harm or kill Kouki if he says Yue's name without honorifics.
• Unluckily Lucky: To the point of Cosmic Plaything. His ability is the worst and weakest in the class, but he's the only one who can deal with the mightiest monsters. He gets blown off a bridge into a chasm and lands in the water-slide from hell...and on down the line.
• Villain Killer: He states that, under no uncertain terms, he always kills his enemies. This behavior ends up terrifying his classmates.
• Wave-Motion Gun: Hyperion can be described as a Kill Sat powered by magic and is a sunlight convergence laser. Hajime uses it to fire the "Light of Condemnation," a Pillar of Light that disintegrates whatever it touches.
• Weak, but Skilled: At the very start of the story, this trope fully applied. While the rest of his class either blew through their mana like water, or relied on large, powerful moves to deliver There Is No Kill Like Overkill, he used his very non-combat class in unique and intelligent ways, like paralyzing monsters with "transmute" before killing them. This impressed the hell out of Meld, the knight supervising their training.
• We Want Our Jerk Back!: The prevailing reaction, especially among the Haulia, post-training, when he acts in what they think is a decent and merciful manner. When they find out that Cruel Mercy is in effect, they actually sigh in relief.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: At the start, the only skill he had was "Transmute", and his starting stats were horrible compared to the rest of the class, which not even the official training helped with much. However, he was able to put it into good use by applying that skill to the ground and walls to entrap enemies, which allowed him to entrap enemies far above his stats. After consuming monster meats, he obtained several derivative skills out of it that ultimately enabled him to build his firearms.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Due to the agonizing hunger he experienced back in the abyss and shocking betrayal, his hair turns white, and he was dangerously close to becoming a Villain Protagonist.
• Would Hit a Girl:
  • Out of all the things Hajime lost in the Orcus dungeon, chivalry was definitely one of them. He has no problems with hitting women should they sufficiently piss him off, try to attack him, or get in his way. Prime examples being Shea and Tio, who he regularly slaps around because they are damn annoying.
  • He blows Cattleya's head off.
• Wrong Context Magic: Hajime takes the cake among his party members with how he uses his Synergist skills. He starts out conforming to the era and rules of Tortus, but once he gets strong enough he's able to construct automobiles and firearms. Modern weapons in a medieval setting prove fantastically deadly, especially when Hajime starts enchanting them with magic.

Yue

Voiced by: Yuuki Kuwahara (Japanese), Tia Ballard (English)^note Other languages: Melissa Hernández (Latin American Spanish)

A vampire princess who was betrayed (Actually deceived) by her family for fear of her power. Kept imprisoned away in the depths of the Orcus Dungeon, her powers kept her alive for over 300 years until Hajime rescued her and promised to take her along. She is in love with Hajime and mostly the only one whose feelings are reciprocated. Not as strong as Hajime, but she can use all types of magic, she doesn't need to chant and can combine them.

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• A-Cup Angst: Downplayed. When Shea foolishly starts bragging about having a bigger set of breasts, Yue turns to Hajime and point-blank asks him if he likes them bigger. Hajime wisely dodges the question.
  Hajime:"It's not their size that's important, it's who they're attached to."
• And I Must Scream:
  • She had been sealed down to her torso in a dark room for total 300 years by her uncle who desperately wanted to protect her from the Mad God who intended to use her as the vessel for his manifestation in Tortus.
  • While possessed by Ehit, she was aware of what was going on: while he was slowly destroying her soul, every bit of resistance against such destruction meant only crippling pain.
• The Archmage: She is the greatest magician in the world bar none, surpassed only by Ehitruje, and even then, she managed to claim the latter's powers for herself after the Grand Theft Me.
• Babies Ever After: Fulfills her wish of having her firstborn child with Hajime.
• Badass Longcoat: She wears a white trenchcoat as part of her adventure attire.
• Battle Couple: With Hajime. As illustrated in the manga, their synergy in battle is a work of art.
• Berserk Button: Do not suggest she's lacking in her chest. The consequences are pretty grim.
• The Bet: She promises to speak on Shea's behalf, allowing her to join the party, if Shea can manage to land a scratch on Yue by the time their 10 days of training is over. Shea manages to pull it off when a near miss hits Yue's cheek with a tiny fragment of rock.
• Black Magician Girl: She actually knows protective spells, and later restorative spells, but she's always focused on launching extremely destructive offensive spells, especially if she doesn't need to protect anyone, since she can rely on her regeneration to keep her going and just focus on dealing damage faster.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: What irritates her most about Shea joining the party is that she's almost never alone with Hajime anymore.
• Commonality Connection: Hajime turns to free Yue when he hears her say "I was betrayed" and falls in love with her because they were both betrayed and abandoned in The Abyss of Orcus' Dungeon by their respective people.
• Corner of Woe: Her "instructions" about how to use magic are far too incompressible for her teammates and Hajime states Tio would make a better teacher than her, leaving Yue sulking in a corner.
• Crippling Castration: She occasionally does this to overly persistent suitors in the light novel, earning her the nickname "Crotch Smasher".
• Cuteness Proximity: Being around Myu causes Cuteness Overload for Yue.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She is a vampire princess with the powers of darkness, but has a kind and caring heart.
• Daywalking Vampire: She's a vampire, but sunlight doesn't hurt her.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The way she's styled in the manga feeding on Hajime the second time is wildly suggestive. It doesn't help that she's completely naked except for Hajime's borrowed coat, sitting on him Cowgirl style, and moaning in an almost orgasmic manner.
• Eccentric Mentor: Hajime points out Yue doesn't make for a good teacher in magic because her lessons are impossible to follow by regular people. However, Kaori tries to cast a spell by doing the sound effects and silly movements that Yue taught her and it actually works, to everyone's disbelief.
• Expy: The author, Ryo Shirakome, based Yue off of Yukari Yakumo from Touhou Project.
• Fake Memories: Courtesy of Denreed and his associates just before he entombed her. Her true memories are triggered in the last great dungeon, leaving her vulnerable to the resident Body Snatcher to takeover her body not long afterwards.
• First Girl Wins: Played with. While Kaori was the first to meet Hajime, Yue is the first to join his party and fall in love with him in Tortus. Therefore, Yue took his virginity, and after his Accidental Proposal, she considers herself his wife. Thus any and all suitors have to get her approval before they can even think about merely flirting with him.
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: While a vampire, Yue is Hajime's most loyal and devoted companion/lover.
• From a Single Cell: As long as she has mana in her body, her "Auto-Regeneration" ability will completely restore her unless her entire body is destroyed all at once.
• Good Bad Girl: She is the one who always takes the initiative in the bedroom with Hajime, and she doesn't take "no" for an answer.
• Grand Theft Me: She gets possessed by Ehit, at the Darkest Hour.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's golden-blonde and is one of the kindest women in the entire story.
• Happily Married: As far as she's concerned, she's Hajime's legal wife, and is quite happy with playing that role.
• Hypocritical Humor: Yue has called Kaori a pervert for small reasons when she herself is far more perverted than Kaori, having done many of things she criticizes Kaori for thinking of. Yue is willing to admit this, if only to further rub her relationship in Kaori's face.
• Irony: A cabal of her advisors removed her from her position as Queen of the Vampires because they feared her power. The vampires would subsequently be wiped out during a war. If Yue were still their reigning monarch, there are pretty good odds that would have never happened. Subverted, though, as Ehit was the one instigating the war, and Yue was exactly what he wanted: with or without her, they were doomed anyway^noteYue would end up being used as a vessel for Ehit to manifest into the physical plane and annihilate every single life on Tortus..
• I Owe You My Life: She swears eternal love and devotion to Hajime because he freed her and let her escape from the Orcus Dungeon where she spent centuries trapped.
• Karmic Jackpot: Her people betrayed, sealed and, abandoned her in Orcus dungeon as a "monster." They're now extinct. Hajime frees her, and gains not only a powerful ally, but a lover far, far better than anything he could have ever imagined.
• Kiss of the Vampire: She loves to bite Hajime and suck his blood, with the blood-drinking being comparable to sex for both.
• Last of Her Kind: Her fellow vampires are long gone.
• Lecherous Licking: She licks her lips every time she tries to seduce Hajime.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Yue is the sexually aggressive Black Magician Girl to Kaori's exteriorly conservative White Magician Girl.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: As adorable as she is, her libido is utterly insatiable. She is always looking to "push Hajime down" at any and every opportunity that presents itself.
• Madness Mantra: Played for Laughs. In the first Specials episode, Yue's Secret Diary contains five whole pages that keep on saying how much she wants to be pregnant with Hajime's child, over and over and over again in a mantra-like way.
• Magical Girl Warrior: She's the best Magic user around, bar none.
• Mayfly–December Romance: With Hajime. His human lifespan is, on average, about 70 years, and he's already 17. She's immortal and does not age. Unless something huge happens, she's condemned to eventually watch him grow old and die. It is later revealed that his body modifications and the use of soul magic are able to extend his initial lifespan.
• Minidress of Power: After escaping the Orcus Dungeon, Yue's combat outfit is a white dress shirt and a black miniskirt with frills.
• Morality Pet: Combined with Morality Chain. Not only does she help Hajime reconnect with his kinder, gentler persona, but she serves to keep him a good and upright individual, even though she can't stop him from being a bit of a jerk.
• Naked First Impression: Hajime meets her nude because she was trapped in the Orcus Dungeon with no clothes on. His reaction to that is rather awkward.
• Naked on Arrival: She first appears naked while entombed in the Orcus Dungeon.
• Not Growing Up Sucks: She's afraid of what may happen with her relationship with Hajime since she will always look 12. After beating Ehit, she is able to freely change her outer appearance into older versions of herself.
• One True Love: To Hajime. Yue firmly believes her meeting and falling in love with Hajime was fate.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: "Yue" is the name Hajime gives her and she doesn't want to reveal her birth name.
• Our Vampires Are Different: About the only thing she holds in common with traditional vampires is that she sucks blood. Everything else is wildly different from her fellow vampires.
• Overly Long Name: Her birth name is long; Aletia Galdea Vesperitio Avatarl.
• Physical Goddess: Her level fits here to begin with, and with the help from Hajime, she takes her own body back from Ehit, along with his power.
• Please, I Will Do Anything!: As she was pleading with Hajime to free her from the Orcus dungeon.
• The Power of Love: The love between Hajime and Yue is able to solve a Spot the Imposter situation instantly even before her fake got to say a word. Also, when their feelings got temporarily reverted, they still worked in tandem, with just the barest amount of backstabbing.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt: Her wardrobe of choice, once she actually gets her hands on clothing. When she actually wears clothes, that is.
• Really 700 Years Old: Being a vampire she's over 300 years old, but has lived most of that trapped in a dark room alone. Even by the standards of her species, she's already Long-Lived, since most vampires live up to 200 years.
• Red Baron: She's known as "Ball Crusher" to adventurers due to what she does to men who piss her off.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: As a vampire, her eyes are red, and she's not someone you want to provoke, even if that is a very hard thing to do.
• Rescue Introduction: Hajime first meets her in the Orcus Dungeon where he frees her from her prison and both work together to escape to the surface.
• Rescue Romance: Yue falls in love with Hajime after he rescues her from her prison in the Orcus Dungeon.
• Romantic Vampire Boy: Gender inverted. Yue is a vampire and the human Hajime's primary love interest.
• Sealed Badass in a Can: She was sealed in the Orcus Dungeon for her own safety, courtesy of Dienreed. She's very powerful, and the resident Body Snatcher Jerkass God wants to take her body.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: When it comes to Hajime, she doesn't leave anything concerning her body or sex-appeal to the imagination. Despite his protests, Hajime is actually very, very grateful.
• Sleep Cute: Even though it is so suggestive as to be NSFW, the first time she's illustrated sleeping beside Hajime in the light novel is Moe personified.
• Sleeps in the Nude: She's known to do this with Hajime especially after a long battle or conquering a difficult Labyrinth.
• Stellar Name: "Yue", the name given to her by Hajime, means moon in Mandarin Chinese.
• The Stoic: Yue is usually stone-faced around anyone but Hajime.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She usually looks calm and solemn, but when it comes to Hajime, she's affectionate, passionate and utterly devoted to him.
• That Woman Is Dead: Her race and the realm she ruled are long gone, and betrayed her besides. She therefore refuses to use her birth name and asked Hajime to give her a new one when they first met.
• Their First Time: Yue is the first to give her maidenhood to Hajime.
• Top Wife: Even after Hajime is eventually persuaded to Marry Them All, there's no question that Yue is far and away first in his heart.
• Undying Loyalty: To Hajime, the only person Yue would never harm. Because of this, she even rejects other men and calls them "ugly", despite them being attractive, and wanted to sadistically torture Kouki and kill him because he keeps trying to take her away from Hajime.
• Vampire Lolita Archetype: Yue is a very powerful vampire with long blonde hair and a prepubescent body, over 300 years old, used to be a princess before she was imprisoned in the abyss, and reveals a Sugar-and-Ice Personality towards her love interest.
• Vampire Monarch: Subverted for two reasons: she never desired power, only to keep her kingdom safe, and because her family was too afraid of her not keeping that idea and decided to imprison her. They fooled her hard.
• Vampires Are Sex Gods: Being a vampire, Yue has a lot of blood lust for Hajime's blood and she enjoys using any opportunity to drink his blood or have sex with him. Yue is even known to attack Hajime sexually when they're alone or when she sees an opening. As found out in her diary, these desires border on addiction and she can't stand going long periods of time without having sex with Hajime.
• Withholding Their Name: Tio knows Yue's birth name, but she asks her not to divulge it because That Man Is Dead, asking Hajime to name her on their first meeting. In volume 10, her labyrinth-created copy states her birth name, Aletia.
• You No Take Candle: In the original light novel, she spoke in broken words and phrases. The manga removes this aspect of her character. Even in the original source, she overcomes it quickly, once she's fully recovered from her imprisonment.

Shea Haulia

Voiced by: Minami Takahashi (Japanese), Amanda Lee (English)^note Other languages: Gaby Servín (Latin American Spanish)

A Cursed Child of the Rabbit people, she has the ability to see the future. Originally hidden away for her white hair and precognitive ability, for petty reasons she used her power and exposed her existence to the other demi-humans. This resulted in her and her whole tribe being banished from the Sea of Trees, making them essentially marked for death until a "chance" encounter with Hajime and Yue. decided to be their companion in her own whims, she barely manages to join the two of them on their journey.

She is physically gifted naturally, but training grossly enhances her strength and magic, which can in turn be into physical reinforcements. She uses a sledgehammer in battle to deal massive damage.

She is the second girl Hajime gets romantically involved with, with Yue's consent.

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• Achievements in Ignorance: She's the one who finds Reisen dungeon, and purely by accident.
• Badass Biker: After she mastered riding the Steiff, she quickly became incredibly notorious for her boisterous riding habits, especially on Earth from After Story onwards since she preferred to race on the well-paved highways there. Hajime laments that she became better at using it than he was.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She hates battle and seeks peaceful resolution whenever possible. That said, if you're a fool who antagonizes her enough, or makes her fight, you will soon regret it, as Grid Half learned to his horror. She merrily piled up a mountain of Imperial Troop corpses as if she was collecting kindling for winter, and as for Grid himself, when he was on the brink of death, she literally punched him to the moon, but even she doesn't know if he made it all the way. Then when more Imperial Troops showed up, happily went right back to the slaughter, piling up even more corpses.
• Big-Breast Pride: Often likes to brag about her buxom figure, to Yue's anger.
• Blessed with Suck: Her "Precognition" ability is truly powerful and useful, but it consumes most, if not all, her mana in a single use, triggers on its own when she's in mortal peril (even once being shown activating in her sleep, to Hajime's annoyance since he presumed it was an Erotic Dream), and when she does consciously use it, she has no control over what vision(s) she receives, and those visions can change on her without notice. She prophesied that she and Hajime would be Happily Married, for starters, but Hajime was blasted into the Abyss and met Yue first.
• Bring Me My Brown Pants: After being comically skewered by arrows in Reisen dungeon, she wets herself, however, she found the Great Reisen Labyrinth when she was "looking for flowers" at the time.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Quite literally. Not only does she actually have bunny ears, (which pre-Orcus Hajime would have loved to play with) but as annoying as Yue and Hajime find her personality (again a personality pre-Orcus Hajime would have greatly enjoyed), she is a good addition to the party, if for no other reason than her stats are roughly 60% of post-Orcus Hajime, and that's easily four times the power of Kouki, The Ace of Aiko-sensei's class, who maxed out at 1500 in all stats.
• Butt-Monkey: Life seems to love making Shea suffer. She is introduced being chased by a huge demonic beast that resembles a two-headed Tyrannosaurus, spots Hajime atop his motorcycle, and promptly runs towards him in tears and tries to jump onto him for safety, pleading pathetically for help. He, being Hajime, refuses and drives the motorcycle away from Shea, causing her to land face-first onto the hard solid ground, twitching in pain. It only gets worse from there. it becomes far less after she and Hajime get together.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Has a sizable bust that is emphasized by her cleavage, and is a firm believer that bigger breasts make one more attractive. Hajime can't help but be attracted to them, though he makes sure not overtly show so as to not upset Yue.
• Cloudcuckoolander: It seems to be a racial trait of the Haulia as the rest of her clan has the similar thought process that she does, and she's quite odd.
• The Conscience: She serves the role of making sure her loved ones don't stray too far from the path of righteousness.
• Custom Uniform of Sexy: To Hajime's annoyance, even after Yue gets her proper clothing, she still shows off her belly and abdomen. In her case, it's justified in that "proper" clothing both doesn't fit well, and seriously interferes with her Fragile Speedster (in her case Lightning Bruiser) style of fighting, which is a Haulia racial trait.
• Determinator: She never gives up, on anything, be it a fight, be that Hajime, and hard work paid her dearly.
• Dogged Nice Girl: Hajime is annoyed by her advances and ignores her in favor of his girlfriend Yue, but Shea persistently keeps pursuing him to make him love her too, even if just a little. While Hajime always loves Yue the most, Shea's efforts to win a place in Hajime's heart do bear fruit eventually.
• Dramatic Irony: Thanks to a prophetic vision, she set out from the Haulia tribe to search for Hajime, and has been searching for months, only to encounter him after he's been hardened by the experiences in Orcus dungeon (not to mention that he already had Yue at his side at this point), which make him find her annoying, on a good day. Pre-Orcus Hajime would have loved to meet her, as one of his goals was going to the Sea of Trees to encounter a real-life bunny girl, and not as a slave. Heck, even Hajime notes that had he met Shea prior to going through Orcus, he would have happily taken her up on her romantic overtures and done a "Lupin dive" right into her chest.
• Establishing Character Moment: Her prophetic power leads her to the exact spot that Hajime and Yue end up when they exit the Orcus labyrinth. She then tries to use her body to win over Hajime, failing hilariously in her attempts. This sets the tone for her character as her powers comes in handy, and she never stops trying to get into his pants.
• Expy: The author, Ryo Shirakome, based Shea off of Reisen Udongein Inaba from Touhou Project, and Black Rabbit from Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?.
• Fastball Special: When Hajime was finally conscripted into rescuing her people, the first thing he does with her is throw her at the monsters threatening them.
• Fun Personified: To the point where Shea is essentially an Inverted Trope of the Knight of Cerebus. Up to the point where she is introduced, Arifureta is generally a very serious work of fiction. Shea is the first Plucky Comic Relief character to join the main cast and her introduction not only leads to a relatively light hearted arc but also signaled a shift to a Lighter and Softer tone compared to the time Hajime and Yue spent in the Orcus Labyrinth.
• Happiness in Slavery: Subverted. While the world at large thinks she's Hajime's slave, and Hajime certainly encourages this misconception with the way he publicly treats her, she follows him, not only of her own volition, but actually pestered Yue and Hajime until they let her tag-along.
• Image Song: Future Step".
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Has blue eyes and is childishly innocent.
• Insult Backfire: She is delighted to be called a monster from whoever she delivered a Curbstomp Battle to. It helps that her late mother convinced that only she can define herself, and she is surrounded with True Companions with similarly monstrous strength.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: In volume 7, she's set upon by Imperial Soldiers, who have a history of treating any beast-man, especially of the rabbit clans, as a Disposable Sex Worker, and that's the kind ones while she's wearing an elegant ball-gown. Doesn't stop her from piling them up as corpses like she was collecting kindling for winter.
• Kiddie Kid: She's very immature for a 16-year-old teenager.
• Little Bit Beastly: She looks completely human, plus bunny ears and a cotton tail.
• Mama Bear: As nasty as Hajime is when Myu is threatened, she's even more brutal. Hajime will use what he believes is the minimum force to make people never able to hurt her again. Shea...will squash them like grapes, slowly, if she's feeling generous.
• Minidress of Power: Her combat outfit comes with a miniskirt.
• Potty Emergency: She finds Great Reisen Labyrinth as she was looking for a place to use as a toilet.
• Rescue Romance: She falls in love with Hajime after he saves her and her family from the Empire's forces that were chasing them at Reisen Gorge.
• The Rival: Her relationship with Yue starts out as a rivalry over Hajime, before ultimately becoming more sisterly.
• Save the Villain: She stops her people from utterly annihilating the bear clan, despite the fact that her people were more than justified, as the bear-clan, under Regin, was trying to utterly genocide them. She doesn't do this because she has any mercy in mind for the bear-clan. She does it so her people don't become the Beast-man equivalent of the same Imperial Soldiers who happily bragged about raping, murdering, and enslaving every beast-man they came across.
• Seers: She can see the future. By the time she fought Mikhail, she became proficient enough to use it as Combat Clairvoyance.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: She seems to hint heavily at this, indicating time and again that she wants to do kinky stuff with Hajime, including screaming that she wants to share a room with him so he can take her virginity after they cleared Miledi's labyrinth. Everyone in the inn hears it, and it shocks the innkeeper so much she falls down.
• Slave Collar: Subverted. Hajime does indeed slap a collar on her, that she hates, to make it look like she's his slave so as to minimize the problems of having a beast-man in his party while in human-controlled towns. However, he later reveals, when he's confident they're alone and not being overheard, that Shea's collar actually has numerous magical enhancements that serve to protect her from imminent harm, and allow her to contact him by thought when she's in genuine distress, and allows him to track her position at all times. She considers herself his Property of Love from that point on, to Yue's chagrin.
• Stripperiffic: She fights in a revealing outfit that exposes her large cleavage, midriff and legs. She justifies herself in the manga; it's difficult for her to find clothes that fit her gorgeous figure.
• Took a Level in Badass: In just 10 days of training under Yue, she is, by Yue's estimation, near 60% of Post-Orcus Hajime's power. That's a terrifying thought...
• Vapor Wear: Both her tribal and adventure outfits have skimpy crop tops that reveal enough of her breasts to make obvious that she doesn't wear a bra.

Tio Klarus

Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa (Japanese), Morgan Garrett (English)^note Other languages: Vanessa Olea (Latin American Spanish)

Member of the secretive dragonmen race, was on a mission to gather information about Hajime and his class but fell asleep and was mind controlled by an evil magician, during the battle with Hajime she learned about her S&M predisposition, turned into a masochist and calls Hajime her Master. Her human form's strong, compared to even the heroes, her dragon form surpasses them at least a couple times.

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• Antiquated Linguistics: She speaks in an antiquated form of Japanese, like using the pronoun "warawa" to refer to herself.
• Ass Shove: Hajime woke her up in dragon mode for interrogation by shoving an iron rod up her ass, waking her long-suppressed masochism in the process.
• Best Her to Bed Her: Hajime trashed her and rammed the spike from his Pile Bunker up her backside. She had pretty much decided previously that she wouldn't love anyone who couldn't beat her in a fight, which left her with no credible suitors among her own people.
• Brains and Bondage: When Tio isn't indulging in her perversions, she's genuinely an awe-inspiring archmage and scholar old enough to have witnessed civilizations raise and fall, with all the knowledge, wisdom, and experiences that implies. Problem is, she's almost never not a pervert around the guy who made her aware of her Casual Kink and that guy happens to be the story's protagonist and main POV character. Representing the very best of her race yet acting like a masochistic pervert is a big part of the reason why Yue's image of Dragons broke down to pieces after meeting her.
• Broken Pedestal: For Yue. Yue had long heard that Dragons were the epitome of wisdom, dignity, and elegance. Tio once was, and then Hajime unwittingly triggered her masochism. Now she's just a pervert, to Yue's disgust.
• Bullying a Dragon: The problem when she actually likes it.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: When she's not indulging her masochism, Tio is frighteningly intelligent, knowledgeable, and deadly. It's just that she's almost always indulging her masochism...
• Butt-Monkey: After joining Hajime's party she turns into the main target of his punishments, not that she minds, since she will outright demand to get some if she feels left behind.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: The Light Novel never stops emphasizing just how big her chest is. If Shea is a melon, then Tio is a watermelon.
• Casual Kink: She become a masochist after getting trounced by Hajime's party. And she was sturdy enough to shrug off a lot of his abuse as well.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: The party tends to forget that she's the longest-lived member of the party, and before meeting Hajime and turning into a pervert she was the really respected princess of the dragon race. While it's unusual, when she drops her antics and behaves seriously all advice that comes from her is completely sound.
• Cupid's Arrow: Not an arrow but a huge stake fired from Hajime's Pile Bunker weapon into a very delicate place while she was dragonized. This incident awoke her masochistic traits and from that point on she followed Hajime as his "slave" affectionately.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She wears black clothing and her dragon form is dark and sinister-looking and breaths black fire, that it can be hard to believe that she is Good All Along and a victim of mind control, that Hajime question it at first.
• Energy Weapon: Her main Breath attack in her dragon form is a black laser beam she fires from her mouth. She can use it in her normal form too.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Played for Laughs. She's a masochistic pervert that enjoys being insulted, but bringing down her species' prestige (or in this case: Yue's opinion of her that extended to her species) just hurts too much.
  • Also Played for Laughs. She enjoys pain, but she does not like the feeling of revulsion. This is shown when Kouki's Nice Guy attitude during their first interaction was enough to make her (along with Yue and Shea) cringe in disgust.
• Expy: The author, Ryo Shirakome, based Tio off of Ophis from High School D×D, although he recognizes Tio's body type and personality are the polar opposite to Ophis'.
• Image Song: "Dragon's High".
• The Immodest Orgasm: Hajime slamming that huge metal rod into her rear, twisting it around, letting it sit for a while, and then yanking it out did...things to her.
• Kimono Fanservice: Her traditional Dragonmen robes look like a Japanese black kimono with floral designs.
• Love at First Punch: From what she said, Hajime is the first person ever to deliver such heavy defeat on her (not to mention what he did afterwards), while none of her suitors (back to her days as princess) could even land a scratch.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Her dragon form is 7 meters long with golden eyes and has black scales.
• Pointy Ears: She has long and pointed ears.
• Really 700 Years Old: She's well over 500 years old. She was around to know Yue's real name.
• Sense Loss Sadness: Compared to the rest of her kin, her defenses were so strong, she couldn't even feel anything, good or bad, no matter what they did. Then along came Hajime and made her feel pain again...
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Due to her awakened masochism fetish, Tio awakened to perversion as she is shown entirely comfortable with using her beauty to entice Hajime.
• Technicolor Fire: She can breathe black fire in her dragon form and fire it from her hands in her normal form.
• Too Kinky to Torture: She found Hajime sticking his iron rod into her butt while she was in dragon form to be a bit enjoyable. Even when he tries to punish her physically she seems happy about it.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Her kin of Weredragon implied to expose Ehit​ to the same effect as Hajime's does, as dragons are classified as Magical beast, her kin is, by default, "tainted".
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: She mostly resides in her human form, but she can serve as a mount for high-speed air travel or as a reliable tank in her dragon form. In one of the last fights against Freid, she exposes her ultimate trump card: "Dragon God Manifestation". She exceeds her usual western dragon form and bears the appearance of an eastern dragon, being over 100 meters long.
• Weredragon: Tio is a member of the Dragonmen, a tribe with the power to transform into dragons.

Kaori Shirasaki

Voiced by: Saori Onishi (Japanese), Skyler McIntosh (English)^note Other languages: Verania Ortiz (Latin American Spanish)

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One of Hajime's classmates and the most popular girl in school, admired by many but with eyes only for Hajime. She's a user of healing magic, and later gains a pair of greatswords as well as disintegration magic.

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• Barrier Warrior: Due to specializing in light magic, many of Kaori's spells are shields and barriers.
• Belated Love Epiphany: She didn't realize she's in love with Hajime until he fell into the abyss and she became terrified she would never see him again.
• BFS: She dual-wields two big longswords while her soul is inhabiting Noint's body.
• Came Back Strong: During the demon races' invasion in the Heiligh Kingdom, she's killed by Daisuke Hiyama. After her death, her soul is transferred to Noint's body and she's revived as an Apostle.
• Changing Yourself for Love: In the past, she developed interest in Otaku hobbies in order to better relate to Hajime and have a better chance at becoming closer to him, even listening to his advice on what anime and manga she should check out.
• Childhood Friends: Kaori met Shizuku in elementary school and they have been best friends ever since.
• Class Princess: Kaori has an extremely friendly and caring personality, which combined with her beauty, strong sense of responsibility, and tendency to look after others, makes her immensely popular with her classmates.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: From the first chapter after being summoned to Tortus, she sought to monopolize Hajime's attention. Even as the class is being served their meal by attractive maids, he wisely kept his gaze focus directly ahead as he could sense her killing intent. She possesses the supernatural ability to sense when Hajime is being nice to other ladies from the other side of the continent, much to the Hero Party's panic and dismay.
• Clueless Dude Magnet: Kaori is the object of affection for almost everybody in her class, but she's completely unaware of her male classmates' crushes on her due to her own crush on Hajime. Deconstructed since her cluelessness caused her to fail to realize that her fawning over Hajime in front of everyone in the class only made her admirers jealous and they took it out on Hajime.
• Combat Medic: She wields a lot of offensive power while retaining her healing magic after her soul hijacks Noint's body.
• Covert Pervert: She's often told by the other girls in Hajime's party that she is a closet pervert. An example is when she spoon-fed Hajime with her spoon, and then quickly ate all the food with the used spoon. She also has a habit of trying on provocative outfits such as a Sexy Santa Dress, a maid outfit, or the traditional Ankaji belly dancer outfit to make Hajime compliment her.
• Death Seeker: Briefly lapses into this territory after Hajime's fall into the Abyss. While Kaori deludes herself into believing that Hajime is alive and requires her help to maintain her sanity, she is perfectly fine with dying whether it's from pushing herself past her limit or protecting the people she loves if it means she can reunite with Hajime again. Luckily Hajime's survival and return bring her back from the brink.
• Declaration of Protection: She promises to use her healing magic to protect Hajime in the Orcus dungeon. Needless to say, though no fault of her own, she fails, badly.
• Demon Head: Whenever Hajime is getting involved with another girl, a demon wearing a hannya mask and wielding a sword appears above Kaori, much to her classmates' horror.
• Determinator: After Hajime fell down in the abyss, Kaori never stopped believing that Hajime survived the event, refusing to believe Hajime died until she finds his corpse, which is her motivation to grow stronger and brave the dangers of the Orcus Labyrinth. Even if Hajime says he's devoted only to Yue, she won't quit. It eventually bears fruit when Hajime finally accepted the rest of his harem after defeating Ehit.
• Dogged Nice Girl: Despite Hajime choosing Yue as his lover, Kaori decides to simply be close to him, expecting the current relationship to end at some point and her being there to catch Hajime. However, he points out that in the unlikely case that happened, it doesn't mean she would become his lover. The only way Kaori can be with him is by joining his harem.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: As powerful as her new Apostle body is, Kaori didn't become an Instant Expert in wielding the weapons that come with it, to the point that she couldn't even fly properly for quite some time. Additionally, the magic crystal within no longer gives endless supply of Mana, which could've allowed her to spam her healing spells and sustain her Limit Break nigh-indefinitely.
• Expy: The author, Ryo Shirakome, based Kaori off of Sayuri Amamiya from Tokimeki Memorial Only Love.
• Generation Xerox: She is very similar to her mother when she was younger. They both fell for a Nice Guy and both manifest a representation of their potential when they're in Yandere mode ^note  (a Hannya for Kaori and a Shiro Yasha/White Demon for her mother, but also originally owned the Hannya). But like her father, Kaori is generally nice even to her rivals in love, while her mother treats her rivals as cockroaches and an even worse Yandere, though still a nice person.
• Give Geeks a Chance: She already loved Hajime back when he was an Otaku and she was the School Idol. However, it's deconstructed because the other male students became bitter and jealous of the introverted Hajime for getting all the attention from Kaori and Hajime slowly grew to subconsciously resent her for unintentionally making things harder for him.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: She tries to pull away from Hajime's team because she feels like she's not contributing to the group where all are powerhouses. She managed to snap out of it during the trials in the Sunken Ruins of Melusine.
• Idiot Ball: When she saw Myu calling Hajime as her daddy, Kaori immediately snapped and interrogated Hajime right in public view, presuming Myu is Hajime's biological daughter from one of his harem and he might have more of them, despite Myu being around 4 years old while Hajime had only having been separated from her for four months.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: She's killed this way by Hiyama. Worse still, he was so intent on enslaving her as a zombie that her last ditch wide-area healing spell wasn't able to heal her from it.
• Innocently Insensitive: She genuinely did mean well back on Earth when she paid way, way too much attention and affection on Hajime. She just couldn't comprehend that her efforts only served to make his situation worse, thanks to the resentment of the "cool kids".
• Insecure Love Interest: After meeting with Hajime again, she starts feeling inferior to Yue, both in combat progress and in the race for Hajime's heart. Makes sense, since Yue is the Black Magician Girl to her White Magician Girl role, and at that point, the place of Hajime's favorite girl already belonged to Yue. This insecurity gets dragged to the point Hajime warns her to snap out of it or leave the team.
• I Will Find You: She devotes herself to finding Hajime and reuniting with him after his fall into the Orcus labyrinth, holding to a dim hope that he may still be alive.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Kaori is the exteriorly conservative White Magician Girl to Yue's sexually aggressive Black Magician Girl.
• Love at First Sight: She started crushing on Hajime from the moment she first saw him back when they were in middle school. Since she didn't even know his name, she started stalking him to learn more about him and only properly met him when they were in high school.
• Love Confession: Shortly after they find themselves in Tortus, she spells out her feelings for Hajime. Although he himself feels completely unworthy of her at that point, he does accept her admiration. Sadly, the events of Orcus dungeon cut their relationship tragically short, for a while. Later, when Hajime saved her in Volume 4 she confesses her feelings for him and decides to follow him.
• Love Makes You Stupid: Kaori was perfectly willing to jump down the chasm after Hajime if Shizuku and Kouki hadn't gone out of their way to restrain her. Later on in Volume 4, she thought that Myu was Hajime's biological daughter after hearing her call him "Papa" despite the time gap between Hajime's fall and return being 4 months, even creating a huge scene in the process.
• Loving Details: Various side stories revealed her stalking habits on Hajime in order to uncover his personal details and preferences that he never told her, such as his residential address and favorite drinks.
• Magic Staff: She received a healing staff from the kingdom that boosts her healing abilities.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Inverted. In the side-stories, and when the POV of the light novels switches over to her, she somehow senses that Hajime's been "snatched away" by another girl, ie Yue (and Shea). She is clearly not thrilled with the revelation.
• Nice Girl: She's known for being the nicest girl in Hajime's class.
• Otaku Surrogate: Back when she was in Japan, Kaori decided to indulge herself into anime pop-culture because she wanted to like the same things Hajime liked, dragging a beleaguered Shizuku in her journey.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: She's actually an amazing healer that kept Kouki's team alive for a long time, and she could be perfectly considered the most valuable person in that team. Alas, she's a White Magician Girl in a team of monsters who can destroy anything on their path with minimal effort, so her chances to be useful are limited to helping people outside of the team. This makes her insecure to no end, especially compared to Black Magician Girl Yue, who's second only to Hajime in power. After she was resurrected by Hajime's team, she requests her soul to be transferred into Noint's restored corpse, effectively making her Came Back Strong to be monstrously powerful enough to match the rest of Hajime's team.
• Peerless Love Interest: Hajime was always aware of Kaori's feelings and he actually felt grateful for them, but still kept his distance, since he was just an Otaku outcast and she was the School Idol. Her affections just meant Hiyama would escalate his bullying against Hajime if he reciprocated.
• The Rival: She's competing with Yue for Hajime's affection, or at least she thinks she is. Later on, she admits she's more Shea's rival for the position of second lover.
• Samaritan Relationship Starter: She saw Hajime kneeled toward a bullying delinquent to save another kid. She reasoned it's normal the strong people could solve problems by force but weak people who stand up against an adversary, like pre-Tortus!Hajime, are more admirable.
• School Idol: She's described as one of two idols in their school, the other being Shizuku. This position also makes it difficult for her to approach Hajime without causing undue problems to him.
• Stalker with a Crush: After Hajime piqued out Kaori's fancy by helping out an old lady and her grandson, Kaori decided then and there to befriend him. Much to Shizuku's horror, Kaori's idea of "befriending" Hajime would be staking out the junior high school that he attended from his uniform since she doesn't have his name or address. Shizuku noted that his life would've turned upside down had Kaori managed to find him.
• They Just Dont Get It: She just could not comprehend that all her efforts at making Hajime "her charity case" were getting him nothing but resentment from the rest of the class, even when Kouki and Sakagami flat out said, right next to her, their plans for beating the snot out of Hajime precisely because Kaori was being "too kind" to him.
• This Is Unforgivable!: She can find herself neither forgiving nor forgetting the fact that somebody blasted Hajime with a fireball while he was trying to run from the Behemoth. While Kouki has deluded himself into thinking it's an unfortunate accident and that the fault lies entirely with the Behemoth smashing the bridge Hajime was on, she knows better, and the only reason the perpetrator doesn't wake up to find himself face down in a pool of blood is because she doesn't know who did it.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She's the Girly Girl to Shizuku's Tomboy. In Japan, she was the Class Princess to Shizuku's kendo champion and in Tortus, she's the White Magician Girl to Shizuku's samurai swordswoman.
• Took a Level in Badass: After Hiyama kills her in Volume 6, Kaori requests that Hajime's group take her soul and transfer it to Ehit's apostle Noint's body, giving her the ability to freely manipulate mana, dual wield greatswords, fly, and use Noint's Disintegration Magic in addition to her own healing powers, allowing Kaori to finally keep up with Hajime and the monsters that comprise of his party.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: When Kaori learned about the Glanz Crystals and how they were often used in proposals among nobles, she commented on how lovely that sounded while stealing a quick glance at Hajime. It was so quick that no one should've noticed, and no one did except for two people who were looking at her at the time, Shizuku and Hiyama. This innocent tease of attraction made Hiyama jealous, leading him to try and get the Glanz Crystal for Kaori only to trigger a trap that teleported the party to the 65th floor, leading him to eventually attempting to kill Hajime, and later to kill her. Thankfully, the last part didn't stick.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Her friendship with Yue develops into this. They have a rivalry because of their love for Hajime, with Yue being particularly fond of teasing Kaori, but they eventually accept each other as fellow members of Hajime's Battle Harem.
• White Magician Girl: Her role in Hajime's party is being the sweet-tempered Priestess whose main utility is recovery and light magic for support purposes.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: She expects a number of romantic tropes to happen, only to get shot down over and over by Hajime himself. When she finds out about Hajime's relationship with Yue, she quickly considers herself Yue's main rival and confesses her love to Hajime to enact a Love Triangle, only to be immediately rejected without a hint of doubt. Then, she tries to turn the situation into a Balanced Harem where no one can get too close to Hajime, demanding Yue to stop kissing Hajime without permission, once again being rebuffed by Hajime, since he is Yue's lover and he doesn't need anyone's permission to kiss her or flirt with her. Ultimately, Hajime has to spell it out to her; Yue is the Top Wife, so Kaori has to settle for being part of his harem or give up on him.
• Yandere: Played for Laughs. Her outbursts of jealousy over Hajime can come with Slasher Smile, Killing Intent and a terrifying Demon Head.

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