Character sheet for Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World. Spoilers may be unmarked.
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Light/Dark
Pathetic. And you say I'm the "inferior."
The protagonist. He was lured in by promises of a world without discrimination by the party "Gathering of Races" as the Token Human, but every single one of them was a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing that was only treating him kindly because they suspected him of being a "Master." When they unilaterally decided that he isn't, they decided to kill him "just in case." He swore vengeance when he found himself at the bottom of the dungeon Abyss, staring down a Cerberus (novel) Hellhound (Manga). He decides to act on it when he manages to make it home three years later to find he's the Sole Survivor of a Doomed Home Town.- Anti-Hero: He does help the helpless and protect the innocent, but his primary motivation is revenge against his former party and he's particularly brutal to any of the "superior" races he catches engaged in hate crimes against humans.
- Berserk Button: Mentioning knowing or being related to a "master" to him is almost guaranteed to make him go from "get out of my way" to "let's see how much torment you can take before you tell me all you know."
- Best Served Cold: Even taking into account it's a minimum of three years since he was betrayed by his party, and he's a level 9999 juggernaut with an army whose weakest combatant is level 1000, he still takes his time gathering intel so his certain win doesn't turn into a loss, and goes after his revenge targets one by one.
- Break the Haughty: His opening move in delivering vengeance upon his former party, and any tormentors, is to make them look like total chumps in a fight with himself, and once they're left with no choice but to admit they're beaten, drive them to despair by revealing just how far beyond them he actually is, and then meting out the punishment.
- Chick Magnet: All of his female summons find him cute and attractive, with Eri bashfully even suggesting having his child.
- Cynicism Catalyst: His party "Gathering of Races" (Manga) unilaterally deciding to torture and kill him for sport because he's "not a master" after spending quite some time pretending to be kind to him and then calling him "stupid" for believing it has made him rather jaded and cruel.
- Defensive Feint Trap: He uses a magical item to keep from aging so he looks exactly as he did when his party decided to "kick him out from the world" at age 12. As such, he looks completely harmless until a non-human supremacist comes after him and then he springs the trap, trampling their superiority complex to the ground, and after they're beaten, driving them to despair by revealing they didn't stand a chance in the first place, and then he gets serious about dishing out the punishment.
- Fantastic Racism: In self-defense! He's grown up under a system where humans are greatly discriminated against, and his adventuring party turning on him, "just in case" and mocking him as "stupid" for daring to believe their kindness as genuine has made him very suspicious of any non-human he meets.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He starts the story as a level 15 poor farmer's son, with a Gift that is quite lack-luster. After the three-year time-skip, he's a level 9999 juggernaut with a large army of which the weakest combatant is level 1000.
- God Guise: He's so powerful, Garuu accuses him of being a god. Light retorts "good idea. Now should I be a benevolent god, or an evil one? Guess I'll have to ask the world about it!"
- Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: While he often has sadistic ponderings as to how his vengeance targets are going to look dyed in despair, this only applies to them because he's got a legit grudge. When it concerns the innocent being trampled for laughs, especially himself, his home-town, and the adventuring party led by Erio and Miya, he has breakdowns, asking why, oh why they had to go through that. And then he retaliates with extreme prejudice.
- Good Is Not Soft: He's a real sweetheart until he has reason not to be, but once that line is crossed, the reprisal will be absolutely brutal.
- Hate Crimes Are a Special Kind of Evil: The one thing guaranteed to piss him off is to flaunt your self-perceived superiority by beating up on other races for a laugh, just because they come from another race, especially if the victim is human. Do it, and death will be a mercy compared to what he's got in store for you, and even then, the death won't be quick, easy, or painless.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: His Unlimited Gacha skill was thought to be "trash" and completely useless, until he finds himself at the bottom of the Abyss, where the intense concentration of mana brings out its true value, allowing him to summon an army of 9999 level allies, and grow to become level 9999 himself.
- Just Toying with Them: Justified on two fronts. First, it's not fun to just stomp his enemies right from the get-go, so he holds back just enough to make them think they have a chance. This makes it more gratifying when he finally brings down the hammer and they realize they don't have a snowball's chance in hell. Second, he wants to know just what he's up against when he finally goes to war against all the other races to bring a total and overwhelming end to the horrific, murderous persecution of the human race. He's not going to get any intel at all if he just stomps his enemies flat right away as opposed to baiting them into bringing out stronger and stronger attacks until they've used up all their trump cards and have no further intel to provide. Lastly, he's not going to go kill off his enemies if there's even a glimmer of a chance he can find out more about these "Masters" that have them so terrified they'd murder a helpless 12-year-old child (himself) and his home village "just in case."
- Revenge Before Reason: When Nemumu posits the theory that Light could use his Gift to spawn infinite minions and subordinates to wreck the world for him, and thus not put himself in danger by engaging in the killing himself, he goes very dark and in Tranquil Fury, asks her if she's trying to deny his vengeance. After clarifying that wasn't her intent, he snaps back to his cheerful self and gives her some headpats, promising to never hate her.
- Too Desperate to Be Picky: When he finds himself at the bottom of the Abyss dungeon, with a large monster ready to eat him, he uses his Unlimited Gacha since it's literally the only thing he can do. Fortunately, it summons the overpowered and loyal Mei.
Allies summoned by Gacha
Common to all
- Berserk Button: Any slight against Light, real or imagined, will instantly make them utterly murderous towards the offender and if Light isn't giving contrary orders, they'll carry out brutal killing.
- Dysfunctional Family: They see each other as siblings, and love to bicker and argue, to the point one wonders how they ever get anything done, but they will unite against any common threat.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: As far as they are concerned, Light's word is law, end of story.
- Undying Loyalty: Each and every one of them would lay down their lives for him if need be. Fortunately, at level 9999, that is extremely unlikely to happen.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: They love to bicker just for the heck of it, but push comes to shove and they will help each other out.
Mei
Tricking Light-sama deserves 1000 death!
The very first of Light's summons. She rescues him from becoming monster chow at the bottom of Abyss dungeon.- Awesome by Analysis: Her ability [Inspect] allows her to read the complete stats of whatever she looks at, if she desires.
- The Bait: In Light's plan to go after Garuu, she was tasked with baiting him back to the Abyss dungeon by providing a quest to find Light on her behalf.
- Healing Hands: The first magic ability she demonstrates is healing Light back to full health.
- Jack of All Trades: Can do just about anything with a reasonable amount of skill, though she's not as good as the specialists in the Abyss (Ellie is better than her at magic, Aoyuki is better at scouting and intelligence-gathering, Nazuna is better than her at combat, etc.). However, her extremely-wide variety of skills makes her the perfect top administrator of the Abyss' workings, basically running the whole show while Light pursues his revenge quest.
- Living Lie Detector: Her [Inspect] ability allows her to instantly tell if someone's lying.
- Master of Threads: Her main tool of choice seems to be magical string. She can use it to either turn her opponents into mincemeat, or create objects like a large elevator to descend a ridiculously deep pit.
- Ninja Maid: She's both a talented maid and powerful combatant.
- Subordinate Excuse: As is revealed in the flashback arc, starting in chapter 74, she used the fact that she's Light's maid to emotionally manipulate him into having him share a bath, completely nude, with her. Being a poor commoner, Light had no knowledge of the proper etiquette, so couldn't refuse.
- What the Hell, Hero?: In chapter 75, Light's leveling progress plateaus at level 4000. Mei suggests he use his [Gacha] gift to summon level 9999 subordinates and kill them for the exp. Confused, terrified, and enraged, Light calls her out for suggesting he even think of murdering his precious and loyal followers, like the evil adventuring party who betrayed, attempted to murder, and abandoned him. What's worse, Light already knows what it's like to lose people he treasures at that point as he's cut off from his family and home town, so murdering subordinates would be a double whammy of self-inflicted trauma.
Nazua
I'm not an idiot! I'll do the multiplication table to prove it!... 1x3= 4?
The "youngest" of Light's level 9999 summons, the true vampire knight.- Beware the Nice Ones: Sweetheart she may be, but she is a level 9999 vampire and has no qualms smashing her enemies to paste, unless that would annoy her boss Light, or her "sister" Eri.
- Her battle with an autonomous Mythical Weapon thoroughly demonstrates her insane abilities. Even if one were capable of standing up to her raw strength, thanks to her sword, she’s able to make four perfect copies that are all at the same level 9999 and essentially all are the real Nazua. And any damage she does take can be healed by returning her to her original state. Thus, if even one copy of her survives, she can just heal herself and make four more copies to start all over again.
- BFS: She fights with a sword even bigger than she is. It’s name is Great Sword Prometheus that also happens to be the second highest rank of magical weapons called Mythology Class, that grants limited Reality Warper abilities.
- Brainless Beauty: She's adorable, but she's so dumb, she can't even get to 1x3 on the multiplication table before she gets it wrong.
- Doppleganger Attack: She can create copies of herself thanks to her Great Sword Prometheus. She can make up to four copies that have the same level as she does. Anymore, and their strength starts to drop, with the upper limit being a thousand copies.
- Dumb Blonde: She's a platinum blonde and she's dumber than a box of rocks.
- Dumb Muscle: She's too dumb to formulate a battle plan, but she doesn't need it. Unless she comes across an enemy that's also level 9999, and good luck with that, she can simply overpower whatever she's sent against. Heck, some of her level 9999 friends say she could overpower them if she was really in the mind to do it. In fact, when placed in a spar against a combination of Eri and Aoyuki combined, Light couldn't tell which of them was the winner.
- However, Light does note that if an enemy is strong enough to pose a serious threat, than her lack of wits is a major weakness of hers.
- Good Is Dumb: She's a sweetheart, and dumber than a box of rocks.
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: She's a vampire and she's friendly to everyone, until she's given reason not to be.
- The Ingenue: She's very simple-minded and childishly innocent to extremely adorable levels.
- Reality Warper: To a limited degree. Her sword, Great Sword Prometheus, has the ability to twist providence and perform fundamentally impossible events, but mostly related to herself, as it can’t affect others. However, with this she’s able to make up to four perfect copies of herself to fight, each with the same Level and equipment she has (including a perfect copy of Prometheus). She can also instantly heal herself and any damaged equipment by rewriting everything to their original state.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: She's a level 9999 vampire whose eyes are blood red.
- Spoiled Sweet: She's constantly doted on by just about everyone at "Abyss" and it's made her completely adorable.
Eri
You can't even do the first part? Nazua, you really are an idiot!
The third of Light's level 9999 summons. The forbidden mage.- The Archmage: She's a level 9999 mage and rare is the spell she doesn't know how to cast.
- Cloud Cuckoolanders Minder: Far more often than not, she's the one who has to rein Nazua in.
- Everyone Has Standards: Although she’s a Mad Scientist with a penchant for Mind Rape, even she is disgusted by Shion’s level of callous disregard for everything and everyone for the sake of researching souls.
- Hot Witch: Called the Forbidden Mage and she's incredibly beautiful.
- Mad Scientist: She's a researcher whose ethics are very dubious, seeing as she has few problems with Mind Rape and torture.
- Mentor Archetype: She's the one who trained Light in how to use his unique Gacha Card magic and is responsible for getting him to level 9999.
- Mind Rape: She has few, if any, issues grabbing Light's enemies and yanking the information she needs straight from their minds, painfully. Kaito, Yaanaku, and Queen Leif III are all on-screen confirmed victims. Several others are implied.
- Miss Exposition: She's usually the one Light goes to in order to explain the world setting, the plot, or whatever magical trinkets and shenanigans Light's party has to go through.
- The Strategist: Due to her exceptional intelligence, Light trusts her for the big overarching strategy to his plots while he makes fine-tune adjustments based on what's in front of him.
Aoyuki
Nya! Light-sama!
The fourth and last of Light's level 9999 summons. The Monster Tamer.- Animal Motif: A cat. She loves to be scratched beneath her chin and often goes "Nya" to Light. She also exhibits many cat-like behaviors and poses.
- The Beast Master: She can tame just about any monster.
- Beware the Silly Ones: She acts like an adorable cat to Light, but she’s also level 9999, and can threaten horrible death to anyone who provokes her ire.
Gold
- Bling of War: His name is literally Gold, and his armor is just as durable as it is fancy and impossible to miss.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: He plays the fighter to Nemumu's thief and Dark's mage.
- Party Tank: His role is to deal with enemy dps and absorb as much physical damage as possible.
Nemumu
- A-Cup Angst: She's rather sensitive that her chest isn't all that impressive. It doesn't help that Gold keeps mocking her about it.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: As an assassin, she plays the thief to Gold's fighter and Dark's mage.
- Poisonous Person: If pressed, she can and will use poisons in battle, and her weakest poison can drop people to the ground in sheer agony with just a pin-prick.
- Waif-Fu: When she fights, she focuses on evading blows by acrobatics and specializes in agility.
The Mohicans
Those elves treating humans that way is absolutely disgusting. Are the human kingdoms really selling humans into slavery to them?!
A gang of "slavers" summoned by Light using the gacha cards.- Anime Hair: They all sport somewhat unrealistic mohawks.
- Everybody Has Standards: They may speak about buying and selling slaves like it's nothing, but they are all utterly disgusted at how humans are treated in the elf kingdom.
- Face of a Thug: As befits a gang, they all look extremely shady.
- Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: When they first appear in the story, they collect a little girl in the forest that was being used as bait by an elf-supremacist party, until the elves were eaten by a level 1000 hellhound. When they talk to her, they speak as if they're going to sell her back into slavery (because they don't know who might be listening), but then splash her with a healing potion, put shoes on her naked feet, and take her to a nearby merchant ally who proceeds to treat her kindly.
Ice-Heat, Mera, Suzu, and Jack, common to all.
From the reader's right to left, Ice-Heat, Mera, Suzu, and Jack
Light's level 7777 summons who serve as floor guardians on Eri's "White Tower."- Beef Gate: Each of them is slated as a tower floor boss to not only scatter Sasha's party, but let them know just how out of their depth they are, and with Eri's magic keeping anyone from dying in the tower, they don't have to hold back.
- Punny Name: Each of them is a pun based on an aspect of their character or job. Ice-Heat has mastered both fire and ice magic. Mera is a chimera. Suzu is a Cute Mute musketeer with her name being a pun that doesn't translate. Jack is a Jack-Of-All-Trades.
Mera
- From a Single Cell: To kill her, her entire body must be destroyed all at once, to the cellular level, and this is hardly easy considering she's level 7777.
- Hive Mind: Averted. Although she can create other creatures from her Voluntary Shapeshifting, she notes that the downside is that she has no mental link to them, and can only know what they experienced by reabsorbing them into herself. She even has to send a flare to signal them to return because they wouldn’t know to return otherwise.
- I Am a Humanitarian: She has no problems eating people, but they have to be hostile to her and/or Light first.
- Mook Maker: Thanks to her Voluntary Shapeshifting and ability to separate her body parts, she can create minions in any shape of creature to either scout areas or battle enemies.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: While the rest of Light's crew love to bicker, she's especially fond of arguing with Ice-Heat and vice-versa, but the two are actually very, very good friends and inseparable.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Her power to control every cell in her body allows her to shape them in whatever way she wants, including to make custom mooks.
- The Worm That Walks: She's actually a mass of tentacles, and each of her bodyparts can operate separately. Even cutting off her head doesn't do squat. She just opens a mouth where her stomach is supposed to be, eats her head and grows a new one.
- You Can Not Grasp The True Form: She only briefly showed a bit of what she really looks like in chapter 35 as she's absorbing Nia and Kia alive, and it's nightmare inducing.
Ice-Heat
- Elemental Hair Colors: She sports red hair on one side, blue on the other, to showcase that she's mastered both fire and ice based magics.
- Fiery Red Head: Half her hair is red and she is a powerful fire mage.
- Kung-Fu Wizard: Fights equally well with magic and her fists.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her eyes are both red, and as a level 7777 Kung-Fu Wizard, is immensely dangerous when provoked.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: She and Mera love to argue just for the heck of it and are the closest friends among Light's subordinates.
Suzu
- Bottomless Magazines: Since her bullets are made of magic and she recovers her MP at an alarming rate, she never runs out.
- Cute Mute: She doesn't talk, but her gun does, and she's very attractive.
- Hermaphrodite: According to the data on her gacha card, she's both a girl and a boy.
- Madness Mantra: When Sharphat makes the mistake of insulting Light, she completely flips out and just starts shouting "Kill" over and over again rapid fire.
- Mage Marksman: She fights using a musket that fires bullets made of magic.
- Sentient Weapon: Her gun is self-aware and speaks on her behalf.
- Shrinking Violet: The reason that she doesn't speak is not a disability but just pure shyness. When she's sufficiently enraged, she can rant and rave just fine.
- Skewed Priorities: When she winds up fighting an elf Casanova Wannabe who insults Light, thinking that will make her choose him instead, she utterly tries to stomp him to death in a berserk rage. She isn't stopped by being told that Light wanted the guy alive for further torture and interrogation, but she does back off when she's told that the fact that he's flat on the ground as she's trying to stomp him is giving him a view right up her skirt.
Jack
- Cassandra Truth: He just comes right out and tells Mast that he's level 7777 and the elf doesn't stand a chance in a fight, and he can even use an appraisal item or skill if he doesn't believe it. Mast absolutely refuses to check and ignores this claim, even after getting rebuffed with ease, repeatedly.
- Jack of All Trades: He doesn't specialize. He can fight equally well in just about every field, even magic.
- Rage Breaking Point: He tries to reason with an Obliviously Evil elf who has deluded himself into believing that humans don't want to live because they're weak, ugly, and stupid, so he's doing them a favor by trying to exterminate them, and can't, for the life of him, understand why the humans don't appreciate it. After being one-sidedly attacked for a while, he finally snaps and goes all out, stomping the guy, his superiority complex, and delusions, to the ground.
- Spirited Competitor: He loves looking for strong opponents to challenge himself, but since he's level 7777, finding one that can actually give him a challenge and isn't already an ally is difficult.
Former Party
Common To All
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: They all pretended to treat Light kindly because they were considering him a "Master Candidate." When they unilaterally decided he isn't, they show their true colors and call him "stupid" for daring to believe them at face value, even though he had no choice.
- Create Your Own Hero: Their sadistic tormenting of Light is directly responsible for making him humanity's champion against their native races' abuse. Oh, Crap!.
- Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us: Their biggest excuse for their sadistic cruelty against Light is that their native races are terrified of what a "Master" might do, so preemptively seek to eliminate all "Candidates" while they still can.
- For the Evulz: They tormented Light just for the fun of it, and do the same to other humans.
- Hope Crusher: In addition to pretending to be nice to Light because they were checking to see if he's a "Master," they also gave him hope of ending the extreme Fantastic Racism endemic to the world setting, just to relish in his despair when they yank that hope away. Three years later, Light is showing them how despair feels on the receiving end, one by one, and he has no intention of letting them die easy...
- Just Following Orders: As they're tormenting Light, they justify themselves by saying "it's the orders from the higher ups" but this has no sincerity. They're just being sadistic. When he's got them at his mercy, they plead they had no choice because of their orders, and are sincere this time, but Light is still not swayed, because they were gloating about their self-perceived superiority just seconds before.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: By dragging Light to the dungeon Abyss and trying to murder him inside, after tormenting him for sport, they sent him to the bottom of the dungeon via a teleport trap and that's where he learned the true value of his Gift.
- Punny Name: With the exception of the elven characters, Sasha and Shion, their names are all a pun on their native race. Garuu (growl+howl) Beast-man. Draggo Dragonewt. Oboro Demon. Diablo Ghoul. Naano Dwarf.
Garuu
Gyahahaha! I will never get tired of hunting humans! Oh, a female? I'm going to mess her up and then sell her off too!
The Beast Man of the party, and the first of Light's revenge targets.- Always a Bigger Fish: Which he learns the hard way. He uses a magic crystal to summon a level 500 magic wolf, calling it a Fenrir, for an hour. Light counters by summoning a level 9000 Fenrir, the real deal, permanently, and then goes on to reveal that he didn't need to do that because both he and his maid Mei are each level 9999.
- Ambition Is Evil: Aside from filling his belly, all his motivation is purely to become the wolf-tribe's chief, purely for the sake of the position.
- Beast Man: He's some kind of humanoid wolf.
- Broken Pedestal: The rest of his tribe adored him after hearing him boast of his adventures and the quest to deal with the "inferior humans" such as Light, as much as his government (such as it is) would allow him to reveal. Then he tries to throw them under the bus to save himself and they call him out on it, at which point he reveals that they don't matter to him either.
- Conveniently an Orphan: He was an orphan of the wolf-tribe before being chosen for the mission.
- Despair Event Horizon: Jumps right over it with a jet-pack when Light reveals that it isn't just him and Mei the ex-party are going to have to deal with, but an entire army, with the lowest being a pack of level 500 non-combat maids.
- Did Not Think This Through: Which Light calls him out on, but he's too arrogant to believe. Mei, a human (-looking) maid comes looking for Light at least 3 years after he went missing, and Garuu himself knew the boy was the son of a poor farmer, not a noble, and certainly had nowhere near the amount of money Mei was promising as a reward, to start.
- Dirty Coward: When he realizes he doesn't stand a chance against Light, he begs forgiveness and tries to throw the rest of his tribe travelling with him under the bus to save himself. Mei kills off the rest of the tribe for lying about "Master" and Light drags him off to a Fate Worse than Death.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: He's got ragged scars across his face and he's a sadistic thug who loves hunting people for sport.
- Ignorant of His Own Ignorance: He brags of going from level 150 when he betrayed Light to level 158 when they meet again, years later. In the same time frame, Light has gone from level 15 to level 9999 and has an army of hundreds, the weakest combatant being level 1000. When he learns it, he can only shudder in terror and despair, his fur turning prematurely gray.
- Loves the Sound of Screaming: The reason he's pretty much addicted to hunting humans for sport is that he enjoys hearing their screams.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: To show how utterly despicable he is, when Mei came to him with a quest to find Light, the first thought that ran through his mind was how he was going to rape her the moment they got to the Abyss dungeon and there were no witnesses. Then after he'd had his fun, selling her off.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: His final on-screen moments are witnessing Light's army of powerhouses, the weakest combatant being level 1000, and he posits that the party have made for themselves a monster capable of destroying the entire world as easily as a kid smashing wooden blocks, by deciding to kill Light in the first place, out of fear of facing a "Master."
- Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony. He hunts humans for sport and food and is shown after the time-skip spending his reward for his part gorging himself on high-class meals and booze.
Sasha
To think that I would have had to marry a disgusting human if Light were a "Master." Humans Are Ugly EWW!
The elf of the party. She pretended to have romantic inclinations towards Light of the comedic "can't be honest to save her life" tsundere manner, but when the party turned on him, happily proclaimed that Humans Are Ugly and shot him in the leg to reduce Light's chances of escape from Garuu even further. She was the second target of Light's revenge.- Ambition Is Evil: Part of her reward for dealing with Light is marrying into royalty, so when she finds a letter indicating Light might have survived, she panics and goes into an obvious trap, for fear of having that pending marriage taken away.
- Bastard Bastard: She's an illegitimate child and is a sadistic bitch who was cruel to Light for no reason aside from petty sadism.
- Beauty Is Bad: As an elf, she's aesthetically pleasing, but she's needlessly sadistic and cruel to everyone who won't help with her agency, the moment she thinks she can get away with it.
- Driven by Envy: Her entire motivation is to one-up her relatives, as all of them loved to mock her for being the child of a mistress.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Yes, her family treated her like crap, but that doesn't excuse her doing the same to Light. He calls her out on it moments before he decides to send her to her own special hell.
- Gold Digger: All she cares about in a marriage partner is who can pay her the most gold. This is why she's ecstatic about marrying into royalty.
- Honey Trap: Attempted, averted, and deconstructed. When she finds herself at Light's mercy, she offers herself up for sex if he will spare her. All this manages to accomplish piss off Aoyuki to the point she lost her cool and nearly killed her for the insult, until Light rebuked her and made it clear Sasha is his prey.
- Ignored Epiphany: When she and Mikhael were up against Light, there are several times she realizes that he's toying with them and is far more dangerous than he appears, but she lets Mikhael talk her out of it, and she goes right back to her Evil Gloating. When the two of them are beaten and exhausted, with no hope of retreat, escape, this leaves her with no chance of negotiating any kind of surrender because she's burned every possible bridge.
- Insane Troll Logic: She rips off Dark's mask, because she suspects he's actually Light, but when she sees a horrific scar (which is an illusion Light prepared in advance), condemns him for showing her something so disgusting.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: She stops Shion from using torture magic on Light only because that would ruin the party's cover story that a monster got him.
- Seven Deadly Sins: Envy. She's always coveted what isn't hers, just because it's better than what she already has.
- A Taste of Their Own Medicine: She starts the story shooting Light in the leg, just for laughs. When they meet again, after he's finished trampling her superiority complex to the ground, Light, as an afterthought, hurls an arrow into her leg, before sending her off to horrific, never-ending torment, so he can see how she likes it.
- Trapped by Gambling Debts: Sort of. Part of the reason she goes after Light, despite every instinct telling her she's walking into a glaringly obvious trap, is that if word gets out that she failed to kill Light when she was part of his party, she'd have to pay back her reward, which she'd already spent, and then she'd not only lose her marriage to royalty but she'd be forced to Work Off the Debt in her even crueler family.
- Wounded Gazelle Warcry: When she's begging for mercy, she cries out that her sadistic cruelty against Light was only motivated by the desire for vengeance against her even more vain relatives. Light responds that vengeance is something he can understand, but she should have left him out of it.
Shion
Inferior, dark elf, man, woman, or child, what does it matter? Sacrifices are needed for evolution. That's the only truth.
The dark elf of the party. The third to become targeted by Light, though he had to go after her immediately due to a rumor she'd been killed, and he didn't want anyone to escape the vengeance he has planned.- Admiring the Abomination: When an eldritch horror decides to make her lab its home, she pulls out the welcome mat and greets it happily.
- Berserk Button: Calling her research trash and worthless, seems to be the only thing that can truly enrage her, as she only lives For Science!. She even admits that even if all her efforts end in failure, simply learning that such horrific methods are experimental dead ends, makes the effort invaluable.
- Enfant Terrible: Even as a small child, she was totally unhinged and only cared about researching souls to try and steal [gifts] from humans.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She is utterly flummoxed at the idea that people would actually care about each other, regardless of race. She also can't understand why Light, Mei, and Eri, a researcher with dubious ethics in her own right, would be absolutely sickened and enraged at her research policies, especially her eagerness to go around sacrificing people.
- Fantastic Racism: Averted, but in her case, it's not a good thing. She will sacrifice the souls of anyone she has to, regardless of race, For Science!.
- For Science!: She has no stated goal, whatsoever, in researching souls to try and steal [gifts] from humans to give to other races, not even racist leanings, as she sees all souls as equal for her intended research purposes and will happily, very happily, sacrifice anyone, regardless of race, gender, or age.
- Fusion Dance: She literally fused with the other world Soul Dragon as a pact for it to eat souls and her to watch as it digests them, thinking that will somehow help her research.
- Hope Crusher: She and the soul dragon intentionally let Momo wander the dungeon, just to make it a sick little game of how long she could last before she was captured and shoved into the dragon's gullet, to be placed into a grotesque undead body and subjected to unending torment.
- In Love with Your Carnage: She gets hearts in her eyes watching, or even thinking about, Soul Dragon going around mass-murdering people to eat their souls.
- Just Think of the Potential!: She tries to convince Light to help her research by selling herself as the paragon of virtue through promising that her soul-manipulation research can eliminate the intense and insane level of anti-human discrimination through evening out the races. Problem is, Light's not buying.
- Lack of Empathy: She literally doesn't give a crap about anyone or anything, aside from her self-appointed goal of researching [Gifts] and souls.
- Laser-Guided Karma: While Light is dedicated to giving all his former comrades this, special mention has to go to Shion whom Light subjects with a card that specifically tortures its target by summoning the number of monsters equivalent to the target’s sins, and who’ll be devoured only for the wounds to instantly recover to be devoured again.
- Loves the Sound of Screaming: She wanted to use torture magic on Light so she could enjoy his screams, and was visibly pouty when Sasha forbade her.
- A number of her lab assistants don't care about how many "inferiors" (humans) she kills in her experiments, but they ask whether _torturing them to death_ is strictly necessary when studying their souls. She bluntly replies that it isn't, but she enjoys it so much, that she indulges herself anyway.
- Mad Scientist: Completely and totally insane. She has no ethical scruples and when an eldritch horror proceeded to turn her lab and the entire island her lab is on into a dungeon, she's overjoyed at the chance to work with the monstrosity.
- Seven Deadly Sins: Lust. She gets off on the suffering she inflicts on people and on self-gratification, without a care for others.
- Shout-Out: She gets Dragged Off to Hell through a gate and shoved into a little cube. Hmmm, Hellraiser anyone?
- The Sociopath: She ticks off the entire checklist, from her lack of empathy, seeing nobody as people, and her only joy in life being the yanking out people's souls and experimenting on them.
- Speak Ill of the Dead: At her own parents' graves, she calls them idiots for dying in a lab accident, performing some unmentioned research experiment(s).
- These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Even the dark elves do not approve of her research choice. She was the valedictorian at mage academy but was expelled for taking human slaves and performing soul experiments on them, and then forced to resign from the labs of her own country when she refused to stop doing this kind of research.
- This Is Unforgivable!: Light was already wanting revenge on her for her part in tormenting him when they were together in [Gathering of Races], but his grudge pales in comparison to her twisted research goals and all the victims whose soul she tortured, especially sweet little Momo. Learning of it has Light so enraged that he frankly isn't playing around like he did with the rest, he and his party jump straight to threats of lethal force. Shion and her self-proclaimed Soul Dragon lover retort in kind.
- Unholy Matrimony: She and the soul dragon view each other as marriage partners because Shion lures in souls for him to eat and she sits back, watching him digest them, with awe and admiration. Light is visibly sickened by her boast of it, to her confusion.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: During her experiments into souls and trying to steal human [Gifts], trying to transfer them to other races, one of her magic rituals accidentally summons a soul-dragon from another world which proceeds to consume the souls of all her fellow researchers and offers her a Deal with the Devil that she happily accepts. What she doesn't know or care about is that if this eldritch monstrosity gets its end of the bargain, consuming a total of 10,000 souls, it will make the connection between her world and its own permanent and suck up Shion's world into its own dimension, destroying every man, woman, and child, regardless of race. Now Light isn't after her just for his vengeance any more, but to protect the planet from total annihilation.
- Villains Want Mercy: When she's being Dragged Off to Hell, she spends her last moments on screen repeatedly begging Light to save her. He can't, and wouldn't be inclined to try even if he could.
- We Have Reserves: When her experiment into souls went wrong, summoning an eldritch horror that proceeded to consume all her fellow researchers, she was ecstatic, because the horror was all too happy to share what it knew about souls and give her a nice, juicy power-up, in exchange for possessing her body.
- Would Hurt a Child: Race, gender, or age, there is no criteria that she will spare. In fact, Momo's soul begins to painfully fall apart just being near her as Light, Mei, and Eri are facing off against Shion and the Soul Dragon, and the injuries ghost Momo manifests are precisely what Shion put her through.
- Wowing Cthulhu: When she survives the soul dragon's roar by sheer chance, the eldritch entity was impressed, and when she shows absolutely no empathy to her fellow researchers, caring only about the merits of her research, the soul dragon offers her a Deal with the Devil that she happily accepts.
- Wrong Assumption: When Light has no choice but to banish Momo and her parents, to end their torment, she and Soul Dragon whip out more souls to torment Light with and confuse his Tranquil Fury for despair. At this point, they prove themselves Beyond Redemption as they start gloating and begging Light to show them more and more despair for their amusement. He responds by showing them how despair feels on the receiving end by showcasing that he came prepared with 100 million purification spell cards and activated them all at once.
Draggo
The dragonewt.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The highest leveled member of the party and its leader.
- The Leader: He was the leader of the party.
Naano
The dwarf of the party.
- The Blacksmith: He’s noted to create good mundane weapons, but his dream is to create a "legendary weapon".
- Blaming the Victim: His motivation for joining the party was in hopes of studying a Master in order to create a legendary weapon. He curses Light to suffer in the Abyss for the "sin" of being a fake (or so he thought).
- Evil Orphan: He’s noted to have been raised in an orphanage, and doesn’t care who he hurts or what depths he has to sink for his goal.
- Irony: He’s ecstatic for succeeding in creating a cursed Artifact level weapon, which is normally wielded by A and S ranked adventurers. This is right after Light and company finish exploring a Dungeon with multiple Mythic level artifacts and weapons.
- Insane Troll Logic: When Light points out that Naano will face execution for violating the pact every nation signed in forbidding the creation of cursed weapons, Naano dismisses it by insisting his cursed weapon will be a Legendary weapon to which there is no restriction, so it’s ok.
- Seven Deadly Sins: Greed. His one goal in life is to become famous by crafting a legendary weapon, and he will do anything to achieve that, no matter how horrible his actions are.
- Ultimate Blacksmith: While a talented blacksmith with mundane weapons, his dream is to create a Legendary Weapon like he read about in books.
- The Unfettered: For the sake of creating a "legendary weapon", there is nothing he won’t stoop to doing. Even if it’s creating a forbidden cursed weapon that every kingdom has outlawed.
Diablo
The ghoul of the party
Oboro
The demon of the party
Center
The centaur of the party.
Dwarves
Common to all
- Anti-Nepotism: They don’t decide who rules them based on bloodlines or family status. They decide based on who loses a game of Rock–Paper–Scissors.
- Enlightened Self-Interest: As long as you are competent and prove it, they won't care about your race. The dwarf government punishes dwarf bandits that attacked a human merchant caravan for messing with delivery of goods, and when they learn of humans being murdered in the local dungeon they issue bounties for information on the perpetrators, as messing with the adventurers risks the local economy.
- Fantastic Racism: The only fantasy race that averts this towards humans. Given that they are all a race of blacksmiths, they care far less about strength of levels, and more about one’s ability as a craftsmen.
- Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: The entire race is so dedicated to being The Blacksmith, none of them wants to be anything else; not even being king.
- Rock–Paper–Scissors: This is apparently their long traditional method of deciding kingship. Note that it’s the loser that has to be the king for a time.
Dagan
The current king of the Dwarf Nation.
- Beleaguered Boss: Hates being king, but he lost the Rock–Paper–Scissors game, so he’s stuck till his terms up.
- Establishing Character Moment: He’s introduced chugging down alcohol while bemoaning being king. He’d much rather go back to working on his craftsmanship.
- Every Man Has His Price: Despite his reluctance to meet with Light, Nemumu convinces him with a promise of giving him a Phantasm class magic item. He’s so over-the-top in his agreement, it makes her nervous.
- Properly Paranoid: He’s quite aware that being king makes him a target of assassination, and keeps a magic item on himself in case his guards or magic barrier fails. Not that any of that can stop one of Nemumu’s level.
- Someone Has to Do It: The Dwarf nation needs someone to be king to rule it, and that someone ended up being him. He’s not happy about it.
Elves
Kaito
Just wait. I will become a hero, then I will get my payback on those who mocked me and step on all those irritating bugs called "humans!"
A particularly arrogant elf Dark and party encounter in the dungeon city of Dagas, as he was pushing his way through the line, in disguise, and Dark called him out for it.- Barbaric Bully: He brutalizes anyone and everyone weaker than himself at the first chance, but cowers from anyone stronger than himself.
- Berserk Button: He's pretty easy to piss off already, but reminding him that he's nothing more than a cowardly bully, or worse, calling him the loser he is, will guarantee a response with lethal force.
- Blaming the Victim: When he goes to town on people, he always blames them for it. If they run or surrender, they're "cowards" that deserve to be hunted down and slaughtered. If they resist, they're "provoking" him, and need to be struck down. If they do nothing at all, they're "ignoring" him and deserve to be cut down for the affront.
- Devoured by the Horde: In addition to being tortured with magic by Mei and mind-raped by Eri to try and learn what he knows about "Master", Light sentences him to death for the murder of several members of a party of human children that Light just happened to befriend, and who Kaito decided to kick around for laughs, with the survivors having their dreams crushed by the trauma of the incident. He dies screaming in agony as he is Eaten Alive by a swarm of monsters called "Feast of the Dead" that Light summoned from one of his gacha cards.
- Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: He sees all humans as nothing more than repulsive bugs that disgust him, and he will try to strike them down whenever he can.
- Hated by All: It's no surprise that he's hated by humans for his cruelty, but even the upper echelons of the elf kingdom utterly despised him for his cowardice, bullying, theft of national treasures, and dragging their name through the mud in a dwarf-controlled dungeon. Especially since Dwarves and Elves don't get along and are always jockeying for position against each other.
- Hate Sink: He was already despicable before, but when he attacks Miya's party for having the cheek to warn him about the "adventurer killer" (not knowing it's himself), the entire fanbase erupts with rage, screaming for his death.
- Heroic Lineage: What he thinks he has, by being the descendant of a "Master." Even if he's right, this doesn't automatically make him a hero, and he certainly isn't heroic, at all.
- Heroic Wannabe: He stole an elven holy sword and is desperate to find a way to exceed level 1500, so he can be a "hero" worthy of the goddess and show his worth as a descendant of a "Master".
- Humans Are Insects: To him, all humans are nothing more than filthy bugs that have to be squashed.
- Insane Troll Logic: He and his dark-elf companion push their way through a line to enter the Dagas dungeon, wearing face-concealing hoods and masks, and when he's called out on it, yells "Do you know who I am?!", Light fires back "How could I, when nobody can see your face?", which brings mocking laughter from the surrounding people.
- Also, Kaito just tries so hard to be benevolent towards the weak, pathetic humans, but they just insist on dying horrifically to his sword! If they flee from him, they're cowards, and should be slaughtered. If they fight back, they're provoking him with their stupidity and should be slaughtered. If they do neither, they're ignoring him, and, you guessed it, should be slaughtered.
- It's All About Me: So much so that when he finds himself being judged by Light, using his very own standards, his last lines in the story are "Why! WHY DO I HAVE TO SUFFER LIKE THIS??!!"
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Which backfires. When Light lets himself get hit by the holy sword Gradius, and it does no damage, Kaito tries to negotiate a surrender. This only serves to make Light even angrier as Kaito never let any of his victims surrender. When Light demands he pick his sword back up and fight to the bitter end, he tries to run, and that results in being smacked down, captured, and suffering both physical and mental torture until everything he knows about "Master" is taken from him, and then graphic execution when nothing else can be gathered.
- Last-Second Chance: When Light captures him, he's offered the chance to be set free if he can win a fair one-on-one fight, with Light swearing a magical-compelling oath, and under extremely generous terms. He proves that he's no hero by trying to flee. At this point, Light loses all respect for this guy and decides to torture him for what he knows about the "Master" he loves to brag about.
- Miles Gloriosus: He loves to boast about having the blood of a "Master" in his veins and being a "hero" but he's nothing more than a coward who loves to brutalize everyone weaker than himself and cower before those who are stronger.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: He thinks simple things like the basic decency of waiting in line don't apply to him because he's descended from a "Master".
- Super Loser: At level 1500, he's plenty powerful, but he's nothing more than a cowardly bully who loves to make himself feel special by beating up the weak.
- Would Hurt a Child: He brutally murders several human children before Light becomes aware of the situation and can intervene.
Hardy, captain of the White Knights
When the trash is noisy, the tea tastes bad!
The elf-queen's son.- Broken Ace: He's the strongest known elf with a level of 3000, but he's brutal, sadistic, and desires nothing more than the total extermination of humans "just in case", letting his subordinates do whatever they want.
- Circular Reasoning: Masters are dangerous because they protect/avenge humans. Humans birth "Masters." Humans are pests that must be exterminated to prevent the birth of Masters.
- Entertainingly Wrong: When he's up against Nazuna in the tower, his internal monologue where he completely misreads her actions makes total sense, based on his long, long combat experience and inherent superiority complex. Especially the part where he sees her stow her sword and come at him bare-handed, thinking that she'd never match his speed with his considerably smaller blade. What really happened was that Nazuna is way too powerful for her own good and was trying to hold back her strength, and failing.
- Field Power Effect: He can magically summon a dome-shaped barrier of total silence to conceal not only his own foot-steps but any party members he may have with him.
- General Ripper: He is absolutely convinced that humans are the greatest threat to his people just by daring to exist, with the rise of a Demon King, a genuine genocidal threat to everyone being a close second, having him concede it as a "choice between evils" if he has to rely on a human [Hero] to fight it.
- Hypocrite: He calls for the complete and total extermination of humanity because humans give birth to "masters" that are an inherent and deadly threat, seeing humans as pests because of it, but the only reason he even exists is because a Master hooked up with one of his ancestors, allowing him to be born and having a growth limit of at least level 3000. And despite knowing he's a "sub-master," never realizes the contradiction.
- Light Is Not Good: He and his "white knights" unit dress all in white and use light-magic in combat, even summoning angels, but they're all genocidal, sadistic asshats.
- Necessary Drawback: His silence field blocks all noise going in or out for everyone in his party, with him being the only one who can hear anything, and he still can't talk, so there's no verbal communication possible, and if they're spotted, someone can easily sneak up on them instead of the other way around.
- We ARE Struggling Together: He and the Prime Minister are always butting heads because the Minister wants to do away with the matriarchy and install a patriarchy, and actively backbites even when the entire elf nation is in crisis from an unknown threat.
Nia and Kia
A pair of elf twins on the knight order. Each of them is level 1800 and they boast of being descended from a "Master."
- The Dividual: They travel as a matched set and even finish each other's sentences.
- Enfante Terrible: They have ages in the single-digits, or the equivalent in elf-years, and are first seen having bought a human slave, who is a child, having nailed the poor kid to a tree and then throwing daggers at him like he's a dart-board, until Hardy shows up and ends their game by killing the child.
- Laser-Guided Karma: When Ice-Heat and Mera are done toying with them, they get roasted by Ice-Heat's flames to a crisp and then Mera taunts them about how they loved to torment and torture humans for sport before swallowing them alive to later deliver to Light to be tortured for fun and information.
- Shooting Superman: When Mera and Ice-Heat are done pretending to be trying to avoid their attacks, standing perfectly still as they get slammed with wind blades, Nia and Kia just start spamming wind blades, thunder spears, and all sorts of spells yelling "work, damn it!" for a few minutes and then run when none of it makes the two level 7777 summons even flinch.
- Underestimating Badassery: When they wind up in the white tower facing Mera and Ice-Heat, they completely believe they're in the superior position, when just getting in the tower required a large group of adventurers luring away 6 level 1000 monsters.
Mikhael
Sasha's fiance.
- Exact Words: A victim of it. Light lets him believe he's going to be spared by saying that he doesn't have a grudge and won't do anything to him, but then hands him off to Eri and Mei who are murderously furious for all the Evil Gloating this guy did during the "fight" with Light in the tower.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and is just as sadistic and genocidal as the rest of the knights.
- Hope Spot: When he and Sasha are beaten, he sees a teleport spot manifest nearby and thinks the rest of the knights are showing up for a rescue. They do show up, alright, badly beaten by the rest of the tower guardians.
- Just Following Orders: When it finally dawns on him that picking a fight with Light, and taunting him with a bunch of racist Evil Gloating, was the worst possible choice he could have made, he tries to absolve himself of blame by saying he had no choice but to obey the orders of his government. This does nothing to spare him.
- So Long, Suckers!: Attempted and deconstructed. He brags that he'll escape and return with a bigger and stronger army, now that he knows all of Light's trump cards, with Light unable to stop him, until he tries to use his teleport magic artifact to find that it's not working. This makes Light even less willing to offer any mercy or accept his surrender.
- Villains Want Mercy: When Light has completely crushed all his artifacts and Sasha's angel summoning ocarina are destroyed, he tries throwing Sasha under the bus to save himself. This does him no favors.
Sharphat
Ditch that boring guy Light and be my girlfriend. I'll make you happy!
The knight in charge of detecting and disarming traps.- Casanova Wannabe: He thinks he's a charming ladies' man, but the only reason he ever has a bed partner is that he buys female human slaves. Of course, he's quick to discard them the moment he gets bored.
- The Cake Is a Lie: On his first appearance, he's snuggling a female human slave and pretends to dote on her, but when she's out of the room, he reveals that he doesn't care about her, at all, and is only stringing her along by the promise that she's safe as long as she keeps him happy, intending to kill her and dump her when he gets bored, and she's not the first, by a long-shot.
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: He makes the mistake of telling Suzu "ditch that boring guy Light and become my girlfriend. I'll make you happy." Lock, Suzu's gun, calls him a suicide candidate seconds before Suzu completely flips out and hits him with a Macross Missile Massacre.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: He tells Mast that his stubborn tautology is going to get him hurt one day, because Sharphat is a sadist who just likes to torment humans. Mast does indeed wind up seriously hurt when he stubbornly sticks to his Mercy Kill tautology while fighting Jack, who only looks human, but is a level 7777 summon, and won't stand for that self-righteous crap.
Mast
Why can't anyone understand my mercy?! I know the humans are just too stupid to understand, but why does everyone else oppose me?!
The knight who wound up facing Jack.- Attack! Attack! Attack!: He just keeps launching attacks at Jack over and over again, no matter how quick and easy he gets shrugged off.
- Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Exterminating the humans, to the last child, is "saving the world" because he's "rescuing them from their suffering." But extending actual compassion and sympathy is evil.
- Cast From Hitpoints: He can feed his life-force into his halberd to make himself and his attacks stronger.
- Condescending Compassion: He "cares" for the humans and feels sympathy for them, so decides to "save" them by killing them off because they're weak, stupid, and ugly. He just thinks they're too stupid to appreciate his "noble" intentions.
- Obliviously Evil: For the life of him, he just can't understand why nobody would agree that his desire to exterminate humans to "save" them from their suffering is a noble goal.
- Psychological Projection: He claims that he would rather commit suicide than be as weak, stupid, and ugly as a human, then humans, as a whole, should be thrilled that he's killing them off instead of "ignoring their suffering."
- Tautological Templar: Since ending human suffering is noble, then the means by which the suffering is ended doesn't matter, even if that means killing the humans to extinction. This is so ingrained in him that he's willing to die for it.
- They Just Dont Get It: Every time he attacks Jack and gets rebuffed, he just attacks again with a bigger and harder attack. It takes getting his halberd shattered on Jack's [Iron Body] skill and being launched across the room with a punch into unconsciousness to make him stop.
- Weapon Specialization: He fights with an enchanted halberd.
Elf Queen Lief III
What happened to Hardy and the White Knights?!
- Accomplice by Inaction: She never, ever rebukes or condemns Hardy, her son, for his extremist and genocidal views, merely laughing it off as a Sarcastic Confession, no matter how much Hardy himself stated his Irrational Hatred was genuine.
- Mind Rape: Eri grabs her head and forcefully reads her memories to learn what she knows about "Master" under the guise of learning if she was only sending knights in response to reports of a dragon, or was only using that as a Pretext for War.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Eri tries to read her mind, after wiping out her royal guard like they were bugs she was spraying with a can of Raid bug-spray, she tries to run but doesn't make it far before being ensnared by Eri's spell.
Dark Elves
Yanaaku
Hahaha! Yes, see my prototypes. They are invincible!!
The first dark elf encountered by Light aside from Shino.- Blatant Lies: When he's at Light's mercy, he tries to garner sympathy by claiming that Kaito forced him to do his "research" under the threat of lethal force, and he's also a victim, despite spending all his screen appearances telling everyone how "sublime" his research is, and gloating during the "fight" with Light's party that "inferiors are too stupid to understand his genius." Light doesn't call him out on it, but asks if he ever spared his "test subjects" when they groveled. When a yes wasn't forthcoming, Light lets him realize he's not being spared.
- Devoured by the Horde: For being Kaito's accomplice, he also gets swarmed by "Feast of the Dead", screaming in agony all the while.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: He is so unhinged that even dark elves exiled him, and they have Playing with Syringes as their norm. His traveling companion Kaito also finds him and his research utterly disgusting, despite being on the same side.
- Groin Attack: Nemumu renders him unconscious by kicking him in the crotch from behind.
- Insult to Rocks: When Nemumu kicks him in the groin after his puppets were taken down, she complains that she now has to replace her boots, since they're permanently soiled.
- Mook Maker: By magically fusing monster materials and traits into humans, he creates horrific monstrosities that he then controls like puppets.
- This Can Not Be: When Gold and Nemumu take down his puppets and the puppets don't get up again, when he put in several automatic revival traits on them.
Gigis
Master? What's that? I have no idea what you mean!
Shown as the representative of the Eastern tribe of Dark Elves. He tasks Yudh with investigating the dungeon that used to be Shion's lab.- Blatant Lies: When Yudh asks him if he knows anything about "Masters," he fakes ignorance but Yudh is not fooled, reading the guy's tell.
- Exhausted Eyebags: Yudh asks him if he's getting enough rest and points out the circles under his eyes.
- Real Politik: He tasks Yudh to investigate the lab because the other three tribes are trying to use the mishap as an excuse to exert dominance and steal away the East tribe's authority.
Yudh
You damn brat! There's no way an "inferior" like you can beat me!
The dark elf providing Shion test subjects. First appears in the Shion revenge arc.- Asshole Victim: He's so utterly repulsive that the ghost of a little girl, Momo, is ecstatic when "big brother" Dark goes into detail about how horrifying his fate is going to be.
- Card-Carrying Villain: When he's trying to cripple and torture Dark in the dungeon that used to be Shion's lab, he brags and boasts that he murdered human villages purely so he can kidnap children to feed to Shion's experiments. Dark responds by repelling his attacks with ease and then taunting him if he really beat up human "inferiors" to get at the kids, or just cowardly sneaked in and took helpless children in the middle of the night...
- Dirty Coward: He loves to torment people weaker than himself, driven to a murderous rage when he's rebuffed. When he learns that Dark is actually level 9999 and nothing he can do will hurt the latter, he abandons his female companions, screaming for someone to help him, personally, running as fast as his legs will carry him. This ultimately doesn't help as he's launched to the sky and then slammed to the ground.
- Driven by Envy: He admits in chapter 55 that he's always been jealous of humans for their ability to get [Gifts] so targets Dark after coming to the conclusion that Dark's got a powerful one he can try and steal for himself using Shion's research.
- Harem Seeker: He's already got two yandere dark-elf sisters who are so jealous they throw death threats at each other following him, and he hits on Nemumu, right in front of them.
- Hate Sink: His on and off screen actions are so odious, especially to the little ghost girl Momo, that the fanbase wants the torture he endures on screen.
- Loves the Sound of Screaming: He proclaims to Dark after seeing the ghost girl Momo that he never gets tired of hearing little kids scream in fear and pain as he's tormenting them.
- Miles Gloriosus: He loves to boast that his party can beat the elf country's white knights in a straight up fight, without using magic items, they just carry such items for emergencies. Not only is his three-man party outnumbered 2 to 1, but the white knights are led by a level 3000 elf "sub-master" while he has no "master blood" and after he's beaten, is appraised at approximately level 2000.
- Sanity Slippage: As he attacks Dark, to find his attempts getting rebuffed, he gets more and more deranged, until it finally dawns on him that Dark is way, way stronger than himself. At that point, he falls into a total panic, starts Shooting Superman, and tries to flee when he's used up all his trump cards, including a staff with an instant death spell. He gets slammed to the ground and promised an Engineered Public Confession, Cold-Blooded Torture, and then, after all that is done, a Cruel and Unusual Death. The ghost girl Momo is ecstatic hearing about this guy's coming fate.
- Underestimating Badassery: He thinks taking down Dark's party would be a cakewalk despite knowing they're powerful adventurers who earned a high rank after many dangerous quests.
- Would Hurt a Child: He openly brags about kidnapping children and putting them in experiments so cruel, torture would be an improvement.
Eila and Laie
How dare you try and seduce our Yudh, bitch?!... Don't lie, Yudh is so handsome there's no woman who doesn't want him!
The two women who follow Yudh around as his party members.- Beat Them at Their Own Game: On the wrong end. Eila goes up against Nemumu who is a better dance battler and a better poisoner, and Laie goes up against Gold who is better in dealing with more traditional fighting, her own forte. What's worse, they try to trash-talk Light's party and get more effectively trash-talked back, causing them to lose their cool.
- Berserk Button: Any insult against Yudh, even if it's warranted, makes them utterly murderous.
- The Berserker: Eila can make herself go berserk to move faster and hit harder in return for losing her consciousness.
- Clothing Combat: Both of them have magic items in their clothing that double as weapons, especially Eila who has a shawl which can rearrange itself at the user's will.
- Chained by Fashion: Laie has chains on her clothing that she can lash out at enemies with.
- Dance Battler: They fight with dance-like moves, especially Eila who is taller and more graceful.
- Underestimating Badassery: Like many antagonists before them, they are so racist that they think they can easily beat Nemumu and Gold with ease, while Yudh is torturing Dark. As always, it comes as a shock when they wind up tasting the floor.
- Yandere: They are so possessive of Yudh that they constantly hurl credible death-threats against each other, never mind any girl Yudh hits on.
Dragonewt
Centaur
Ghouls
Demons
Other Humans
Miya
Wow, Dark. You can use tactical spells, and even without chanting! We're witnessing the birth of a legend!!!
The mage of a party of human children Light meets in the Dagas dungeon. Her talent with magic is enough for all nine races to write her a recommendation to the magic academy, an impressive feat, especially for a human. She was partying with her brother and two other childhood friends to raise the money for her tuition and for practical experience.- Attempted Rape: After Kaito has struck down the other three members of her party right in front of her, as she was still too shocked to resist, Katio openly demands she spread her legs for him, insisting that him desiring sex with her is a privilege.
- Chekhov's Gun: Dark gifts her a magic bracelet from the gacha with merits he doesn't understand in return for her giving him burn medicine to treat his (non-existent) burns. Said bracelet magically yanks her out of danger and into Light's room at the inn when Kaito comes for her life, shattering in the process.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She has pink hair and is a very polite, happy, little girl who adores her friends and wouldn't know the meaning of the word "malice" if you gave her a dictionary.
- The Smurfette Principle: She was the only female in the party.
- Tragic Dream: Kaito's attack on her party left her badly wounded, and several of her friends dead. She can no longer earn the funds to attend the magic academy she had her eyes on, and even though she was cured, the attack left her too traumatized to go dungeon diving ever again.
Erio
Miya! RUN! We'll hold him off!
Miya's brother.- Chekhov's Skill: When Gold, Dark, and Nemumu helped them fend off a Forsyth Mantis, Gold taught him how to use a shield offensively and a sword defensively. This set of skills helped immensely when facing the level 1500 Kaito, as a well-placed shield bash knocked the arrogant "hero" elf to the ground, which is supposed to be an Impossible Task due to the masssive level difference.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Despite having a level of 21, he manages to knock down Kaito, who is level 1500, while bleeding from several wounds, giving Miya several precious seconds to try and escape Kaito's rape attempt.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Yes, knocking Kaito to the ground, despite the over 1400 level difference is a feat to brag about, but he nearly dies in the attempt.
- Spared by the Adaptation: He dies in the original web-novel, since there was no dark elf "researcher" who wanted him alive. In the light novel and manga, Yunaaku patches him up with some emergency first aid, which allows Light to use healing magic to stabilize him long enough to take him to a hospital.
Gimura and Wardy
The remaining two members of Miya's party.
- Hold the Line: Attempted, but averted. They try to hold off Kaito so Miya can escape, but he slices through them with so much ease, he reduces them to gibs with just the air-pressure of swinging his sword.
- Ludicrous Gibs: They are sliced to little chunks of meat by Kaito, just for laughs.
- Sacrificial Lamb: They are brutally killed on screen just to showcase how murderously racist the non-human races are.
- True Companions: They and the siblings Erio and Miya stuck together through thick and thin.
Momo
Wah! Amazing! Big brother is so strong!
The ghost of a little girl Dark and crew find in the dungeon that was once Shino's lab.- Break the Cutie: Comes pre-broken for convenience. She's getting better hanging around with Dark...
- Cheerful Child: When Dark dotes on her even a little bit, she's cheerful and cute.
- Children Are Innocent: She's a sweet and happy child who almost immediately bonds to Dark when they meet and he treats her with kindness, despite his party being suspicious she's a dungeon-created trap.
- Cute Monster Girl: She's a ghost and is absolutely adorable.
- Doomed Home Town: Her entire village was wiped out by Yudh's party, either directly or as part of Shion's experiments.
- Hero-Worshipper: She never gets tired of singing Dark's praises, nor the rest of his companions. She even happily declares she'd become a maid when she grows up after meeting super-maid Mei.
- Morality Pet: One of the characters Dark/Light dotes on to show that he's not a complete psycho, and still has redeeming traits, even if his primary motive is revenge.
- No Name Given: Turns out "Momo" isn't really her name, and even she doesn't know what her name is. "Momo" is just a term Soul Dragon uses to refer to humans, as it keeps calling Light, Eri, and Mei "pathetic momos."
- Not Allowed to Grow Up: As a ghost, she can never grow older or mature. She'll be stuck as a little girl forever.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She's got pinkish hair and is an adorable child.
- This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Being a ghost, she's immune to the sphynx's lotus-eater illusions. So when Dark gets trapped in the illusion, despite knowing that it's an illusion, the fact that she runs up to him and begs him to wake up is what snaps him out of it.
Yume
Brother! BROTHER!!!
Light's younger sister.- Cheerful Child: She's a very happy and well-adjusted girl.
- Meido: She was given the job of being Lillith's personal maid to keep her safe.
- Tears of Joy: She is so overcome with joy and relief at meeting her older brother Light again that she breaks down crying.
Princess Lillith
God or demon, it doesn't matter. The human kingdom needs him to stop being oppressed by the other races!
The crown princess of the human kingdom. She finds herself on Light's radar when he learns she's responsible for rescuing his sister Yume from their Doomed Home Town. Once he's confirmed the Yume he heard about is the Yume that is his sister and has been treated well, the princess is invited to a private meeting and rewarded handsomely, plus asked if she wants one favor, anything he can grant. Without hesitation, she asks for his aid in ending the oppression of the other races. Light agrees.- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's golden-haired blonde and rescued a poor, helpless, little girl with an expensive potion, just because it was the right thing to do. This pays her huge dividends down the line.
- Karmic Jackpot: She rescues Yume with a healing potion and keeps her safe by offering her the job as a royal maid. Light rewards her with a casket of healing potions and a barrel of gold far too heavy to carry, and when she points out that she'd love to take it, but can't possibly carry it back, Light sets up a mechanism where she can withdraw from the gold whenever she needs.
- Princess Classic: She's the crown princess, and her kingdom's left her with basically no power. The other races grinding her country underfoot on a constant basis doesn't help.
- Secret Test of Character: Which she passed with flying colors. Light swaps out Yume with a facsimile and monitors her actions, in addition to interviewing Yume herself. After seeing that the princess is good and noble, invites her to a private meeting where she's rewarded handsomely.
- Too Desperate to Be Picky: With the other races constantly demanding humans be handed over for slave labor, or else, and constantly taking other valuables from the human kingdom, she's not in a position to care if Light is a benevolent deity or a demon of destruction, and accepts whatever conditions he asks for in exchange for his aid. Since he owes her a life-debt for saving Yume and has a grudge with the other races himself, he agrees to aid her, free of charge.
