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Guild of Yuri
As a whole
- Punny Name: Yuri names his guild "Guild of Yuri" not "Yuri's Guild." And the player base are all attractive female avatars who dress provocatively. "Yuri" is the Japanese term for lesbians, so Yuri's guild name could be interpreted as "Guild of Lesbians" without outright saying it.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: His guild is composed of over 860 NPC summoner "props" who were placed in Helheim's underground prison, just for ambiance, a notorious PK'er, a shy craftsman who makes very niche gear that is also wildly risque, and all other sorts of oddballs that don't fit anywhere else.
Yuri
In real life.
Game avatar
The Protagonist. He was borderline suicidal due to his bad luck. He would get bird droppings on him from multiple directions walking down the street. His umbrella, and only his, would be stolen when he went to the grocery store. As he was fleeing from being Dragged into Drag, he'd slip on a banana peel to then get hosed down by the gardening committee who just came around the corner, and so on. He chose to escape his misfortune by playing the VRMMO Blade Skill Online where he can equip his character with a powerful Luck Stat, and did his research by going to the official strategy guide site for pointers to make the best possible character. Only after he's set up his avatar and starts playing does he learn that the site was completely unprotected and internet trolls overwrote the official beta-tester information with Blatant Lies, sticking him with the quadfecta of the worst possible starting job, weapon, skills, and stat distribution, but misinterpreting the life lessons he got from his grandfather, a Loan Shark, he has purged the words "give up" from his vocabulary, and insists on sticking with his choices and trying to make his character the strongest in the game anyway. Through sheer grit, he realizes the "weakest" job, weapon, and skills have a special synergy with the luck stat, quickly making him the unofficial end boss of the game!- Antivillain: His motives are entirely heroic; protecting the innocent, helping the helpless, and ending discrimination, etc. He realizes these things, or tries, by borderline psychotic rampages, and wonders why the game engine pings him "evil."
- Archenemy: The devs absolutely hate his guts because his Loophole Abuse antics are a living, breathing spotlight on their incompetence, ineptitude, and raw stupidity.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: He has a very aggressive play-style. Justified by the fact that with a defense of 0, any hit will kill him if his passive [Guts] ability fails to trigger, and the fact that with an agility of 0, he can't escape a fight. So he spams attacks on his enemies in the hopes that they go down before he does.
- Attractive Bent-Gender: His female avatar is officially the most attractive female avatar in the entire game of hundreds of thousands of players.
- Bare-Handed Blade Block: He defeats his first ever monster, the cursed sword, by catching it with his palms, like a scene out of a kung-fu movie. Then he wrestles it to the ground, stabs it repeatedly with his starter arrow, and at the end punches it to death with [head to head], tames it, and has it possess the arrow, giving him automatic target acquisition, and since the beginner arrow has infinite durability, Pontaro can not die, bwahahaha!
- Be Careful What You Wish For: When he hires the apprentice craftsman Grimm, to upgrade his classic gothic dress's stats, he also says "make it something men would like" not specifying it would be men would like to wear. So Grimm makes it very risque, with frills hiding the fact that the more delicate areas are downright see-thru. Yeah, men would like that alright, for the fanservice. Oops. Fortunately for Grimm, Yuri realizes his error and lets it slide.
- Benevolent Boss: He treats his underlings, player or NPC, with unprecedented kindness, winning over their Undying Loyalty as a result.
- Berserk Button: Yuri is already pretty quick to go into rampages, but there are two things that guarantee Yuri will flip out entirely. Any kind of injustice, real or imagined, will make Yuri absolutely murderous, and despair gambits, especially against himself, will have him cry berserker tears and go on an absolutely bloody rampage to the point that even Pendragon can't deal with him.
- Born Unlucky: As he often complains about, his real-world luck is atrocious, and anything that can go wrong for him, will.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Most of his top enemies are enraged that he doesn't remember slighting them, when it was at the battle royale tournament where he used an army of tamed raid bosses to wipe out over 30,000 players at once.
- The Corrupter: To his chagrin, having the "Evil King" skill turns any NPC that has positive feelings towards him "evil."
- Crime of Self-Defense: When he visits the city of Helheim and speaks with Pope: Gregorion, the latter just summarily declares him guilty of a death-penalty offense, without warning nor trial. As Yuri is breaking himself and over 860 NPC summoners who are also awaiting execution without trial, for daring to be summoners, he gets hit with over 10,000 death sentences, which then pings him with the "Evil King" skill.
- Crippling Overspecialization: He puts all his stats into Luck at every opportunity.
- Cute and Psycho: His playing style. He has the most adorable female avatar in the game and loves nothing more than going on rampages, laughing like a madman.
- Dragged into Drag: His real-life greatest anguish comes from the fact that the arts class repeatedly drags him off to shove into Gothic Lolita clothing, and he's annoyed by the fact that he looks good in it.
- Embarrassing but Empowering Outfit: The bane of his existence is that the most effective equipment for his play-style is also the most risque. Since being the strongest is his top priority, he pinches his nose and puts up with it.
- Flaw Exploitation: How he became the #1 player. He exploits the hidden loopholes and synergies to gain unprecedented power over the player base.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He started the game with an abysmal job, weapon, skills, and stat build, but after defeating a rare [Cursed Weapon] monster in a 1-on-1 fight and taming it, he quickly realized the hidden potential of his build and became so powerful, he could solo and tame raid bosses that he then uses as his minions and can One-Hit Kill entire armies of players.
- G.I.R.L.: By accident. He chooses the [Random Edit] function to set up his avatar at the game initialization prompt and the AI sets him up with a very busty and attractive female avatar. The only way he can change it is to delete his character and start over, but "give up" is not in his vocabulary, so he sticks with it.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: By repeatedly going for the officially worst jobs, skills, etc., he finds special synergies that make him stronger than raid bosses.
- Lethal Joke Character: Invoked. He may have started out tricked into getting the worst job, weapon, stats, and skills from trolls messing with the official site, which the devs never, ever properly secure, and suffers from an eternal Edit War by the fanbase, but in revenge for being tricked, Yuri goes out of his way to find the discarded "trash" equipment, skills, jobs, etc., and sticking to his Luck exclusive build to exploit his way to being a wandering raid boss that can take on the player-base, by the tens of thousands in open combat.
- Nerf: His abysmal skills and jobs are made even worse because he led the first ever battle royale tournament off with a Boss Bonanza, killing off over 30,000 players before he went down. He retaliates by finding all new loopholes that make him even more broken.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: As long as his passive skill [Guts] triggers, he's immune to death by damage and thanks to tanking a hit from Pope: Gregorion, One-Winged Angel mode, he's immune to collision damage if he's sent flying and fall damage.
- Not the Intended Use: He beats up and tames his first monster, not by shooting it with his starter bow, but by pinning it to the ground and stabbing it with the starter arrows, that have infinite durability and when it struggled free, punched it to death with the [head to head] skill he gained in his fist-fight with Baldhead.
- Obliviously Evil: He genuinely believes he is the epitome of justice, and he does have a point, as his motives and perspective do strongly vindicate his actions, but the in-game mechanics unflinchingly dub him "evil."
- One-Hit-Point Wonder: He wields cursed gear that locks him at 1 hp in exchange for many benefits, such as tripling his base luck stat and giving him the chance of reducing cooldowns to 0.
- One-Man Army: Even without his raid boss summons, he's walking, talking artillery, as a band of player killers lead by Seele learn the hard way.
- Real Name as an Alias: He names his avatar "Yuri," which is also his real name, but it's generic enough that nobody links the two together.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: His avatar's eyes are crimson red, and he's so powerful, he can solo, and tame, raid bosses and uses them as minions in a fight.
- Revenge Before Reason: At least in the game, Yuri is very, very vindictive and will respond to all slights against him with whatever violence is available at the first opportunity. It's especially bad with the devs, as he retaliates to being banned from stages 2-5 of the tournament and then an epic nerf by hitting the devs right where it hurts, their wallet, and that sets off a nasty Cycle of Revenge that doesn't come to an end until the end of the story.
- Running Gag: Reinhard keeps hitting on Yuri from behind and then they proclaim "YOU!" at each other when the recognition kicks in.
- Showy Invincible Hero: For the most part, the story is riveting because his fights aren't about if he'll win, but how, and what are the consequences of his victory going to be. The fights he actually loses are rare.
- Spirited Competitor: He loves nothing more than being challenged in a fight. So when the devs try to make him Rage Quit with nerfs, launching monsters and events specifically targeting him, and even hire player assassins from other game engines, all it does is make Yuri even more determined To Be a Master.
- Universally Beloved Leader: The entire city of Helheim, which he rules, adores "her," player and NPC alike.
Seele
The leader of a PK (Player Killing) guild. Her guild outright abandons her, forcing her to dissolve, when she leads an ambush on Yuri, after the official nerf, only to find themselves the victim of Assassin Outclassin'. After Yuri helps break her out of Helheim's underground prison, she becomes Yuri's Number Two at running Guild of Yuri, which winds up running the entire city as its guild headquarters.
- Blade Enthusiast: She prefers to fight with all kinds of bladed weapons, especially greatswords.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Contrary to Yuri, who thinks he's the epitome of righteousness, even as the game pings him "evil," she revels in her villainy and looks upon her PK history with pride.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Being utterly stomped, twice, by Yuri, once in the tournament, once when she tried to attack Yuri and lost, caused her to follow the protagonist to Helheim and then join Yuri's guild after being broken out of prison and rescued from execution.
- Evil Redhead: Many places in the narration point out her flame-colored red hair and she revels in the notoriety of being a known PK'er.
- Mugging the Monster: She and her guild try to ambush Yuri after the Devs make a public announcement of having nerfed Yuri out the wazoo. Yuri had pinged into all new exploits that made him even stronger than he was in the tournament, getting her entire guild suffer One Hit Kills.
- Number Two: She's second in command at Guild of Yuri.
Grimm
A down on her luck craftsman who makes rather niche gear with powerful abilities and equally powerful drawbacks. But with none of her gear selling, she's yet to pay back her loans and is stuck at the beginner city with no prospects. Fortunately for her, Francoise, the very master she apprenticed under, brings in Yuri who wants to recruit her for the guild "Guild of Yuri" in the lead up to the inter-guild war event.
- Ascended Fangirl: She's downright awestruck with Yuri's debut in the first tournament, so when Yuri comes along, praises her equipment and goes "would you like to work for me?" she almost faints in excitement.
- Equivalent Exchange: Her moto. If you want equipment that gives you powerful abilities, you must be prepared to suffer equal yet opposite drawbacks.
- Weapons of Their Trade: Craftsmen are usually incapable of combat, but she can bash people and monsters with a hammer if she's cornered and has to fight.
Rivals
Reinhard Von Edelfelt
Hello, Miss, would you like to spend some time with me?
The first player Yuri meets in the game. He's been with the game since the open beta and lets Yuri know his starting choices are ... less than ideal. He's also a shameless skirt chaser who hits on any attractive female avatar he sees, accidentally hitting on Yuri twice.- Bare-Fisted Monk: His job "Grappler" is specifically built around fighting without using weapons.
- Casanova Wannabe: He's a shameless skirt chaser. Women never return the favor.
- Cast from Hit Points: His strongest abilities require him to eat up his HP in return for power.
- Dramatic Irony: He is apparently Yuri's gym coach in school, but neither of them realize it, and they'd be the perfect match, if only they weren't both guys and both patently heterosexual!
- In-Universe Nickname: He goes by "Baldhead" in mixed company but server announcements go by his avatar name.
- Mistaken for Romance: Although he hits on Yuri, by accident, on a repeated basis, and they like to hang out when they're not trying to pound each other to death, they are Just Friends, but since they look so cute together, the fanbase of the game continuously asks if the two are dating. They're not. It doesn't help that he gave Yuri a ring of protection vs poison before the start of the first PvP event before a large audience."That barbarian giving such a hot girl a ring in public! GO EXPLODE!!!"
- The Rival: He and Yuri have a friendly rivalry to see who would be the strongest player, all starting from when they met and got into a hearty fist-fight, while in the starter-town, where they don't actually take HP damage while pounding on each other.
- Running Gag: He keeps hitting on Yuri without realizing he's hitting on Yuri, both in game and out.
Zancrow
The second of Yuri's self-proclaimed rivals.
- Backstab Backfire: Played with. When he thinks he managed to bypass Yuri's [Tenacity] skill (the upgraded version of [Guts]) thanks to the very public nerf the devs placed on Yuri, he sheathes his sword, turns and walks away. Yuri responds by drawing his bow and shooting him in the back, but he parries the arrow with his sword, and they fight. Zancrow still loses.
- Master Swordsman: He not only chose the swords-man job, but mastered all its ins and outs.
- NEET: He spends every waking moment that the server is online in Blade Skill Online, as much as humanly possible, because he's an unemployed loser who still lives in his mother's basement and has neither training nor job prospects, as is mentioned by many characters. Chapter 126 of the novel shows that he was employed at one point in the past, but spending all night watching a v-tuber livestream of a popular idol had him oversleep, arrive late to work, miss a very important meeting, and getting himself fired. OUCH.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His attack on Yuri in the Forbidden Dragon dungeon helped the protagonist immensely by getting Yuri to level 50, where he can unlock his second job, and Yuri chooses the [Craftsman] job because its inherent properties have a strange synergy with Yuri's [Armament Barrier] technique. Not only that, But Yuri being a dual Summoner+Craftsman allows him to get past the special lock on the boss door of that dungeon, giving Yuri a new boss to tame, [Forbidden Dragon Cthulu: Replica] which made his city/guild even more dangerous to invade in the coming guild war event!
- Revenge Myopia: He comes at Yuri in a dungeon in revenge for getting smoked in the first round of the first event, trying to avenge his "death." He conveniently forgets that the very rules of the event was a battle-royale where only the last man standing would win, and he would have tried to kill Yuri there, as well as viceversa, regardless.
- Victory by Endurance: Inverted. He comes at Yuri with a higher level, many fancy tricks and abilities, and even a thorough understanding of the protagonist's new Achilles' Heel. He winds up losing to Yuri because the protagonist simply outlasts him, by virtue of Yuri's special abilities not needing MP, while his do.
Yario
A spear specialist who is also butt-hurt that Yuri stomped the entire first round of the first tournament. During the guild war event, he tries to ambush Seele, who is acting on Yuri's behalf to go scout and destroy enemy guilds.
- Boring, but Practical: His spear fighting is rather dull, especially compared to Yuri's very flashy antics, but he's skilled enough to be a true menace, always targeting vitals, throwing his spear when he's at range, and parrying most melee attacks.
- Combat Pragmatist: He calls himself a paragon of justice, but he won't hesitate to attack from ambush and backstab his opponents when the situation lets him.
- Weapon Specialization: He specializes in the use of spears.
Developers
Common to all
- Cycle of Revenge: Yuri, after exploiting some unique hidden synergies with his luck-based, bow-equipped, summoner build, manages to utterly trounce the entire first stage of the battle royale event is both banned from the remaining four stages with a Medal of Dishonor as a "hall of fame" winner, but after the next update finds himself nerfed out the wazoo, with these nerfs made public, marking him as "easy prey" for PK'ers. Yuri retaliates by finding all new exploits to become even more deadly and hijacking Seele's video stream to tell the devs off, captures the city of Helheim to be his guild base, and converts a significant amount of the corrupt pope's funds to real-world cash. The devs retaliate to that by publishing and selling a Yuri photo-book "for promotional purposes" that Yuri finds less than flattering, and rigging the guild war event against Yuri as much as possible. Yuri retaliates to that by ignoring "Odin's" instructions and going on a rampage against all the other player guilds. And it just keeps getting worse from there.
- Did Not Think This Through: On a repeated basis, their biggest enemy is their lack of foresight.
- They launch their official strategy site completely unprotected, and take their sweet time correcting it, and then securing it so trolls don't get at it again. Yuri is only one of many players who got screwed over by the false information, but Yuri's the only known player to stick with his build to the end.
- They leave the game servers running unattended when they go home for the night and players are still active. Naturally when someone, especially Yuri, does something unexpected, like taking over a city, the AI (Pendragon) has to decide if the player's actions are legit and can only go by "did the player cheat or not?" So the devs have to scramble to correct a great deal of later content because their "protected" NPC Pope Gregorion, immune to both player and monster damage, wound up dead in a fight with Yuri, due to Terrain Damage. And they can't secretly do a roll-back in the middle of the night because the fight was recorded, uploaded, and broadcast on the internet.
- They set their game to allow for RMT (Real Money Trading) without first establishing a bank account big enough to handle it if a player decides to cash out their in-game winnings, so they naturally panic when Yuri does just that.
- When they hire (in game) assassins from other game engines, they take no precautions to keep said players from being able to launch end-game content before the game is ready for it. Naturally, the other game engine players, who don't like their cowardice and underhanded tactics against Yuri launch said content the very first opportunity.
- Genius Ditz: When it comes to being computer programmers and game developers, their genius is the real deal. In everything else, they are total morons and man-children who wouldn't know how to develop a proper business model if their lives depended on it.
- Killer GM: For Yuri especially, archers, crafters, and summoners in general. They have no concept of competetive balance, or very little understanding of it. They intentionally make bows the worst possible weapon, and summoners the worst possible class, by making bows have horrifically poor accuracy, even in the hands of people who excel in archery before entering the game, in addition to making all but the beginner bow dependent on strength, while the archery class itself is dependent on agility. For summoners, they have no way to attack unless they tame monsters and they have to beat monsters in a fight first to tame them. Even then, the chances of taming are very low and the summoner has to basically solo the monster they want to tame. Then crafters are entirely dependent on combat-oriented players, since crafters have zero combat capability and the combat oriented players can either PvP them with immunity or demand exorbitant rates for the crafting materials. As for Yuri, the devs try to nerf him every chance they get because he succeeds brilliantly in spite of all these pitfalls and drawbacks.
- Never My Fault: They respond to any setbacks or pitfalls in the game by shouting and throwing the blame at each other or at Yuri, who is playing by the loopholes in their rules.
- No Name Given: None of them is ever named. At best, they just get titles going by which part of the game they develop, such as Summoner PIC, Monster PIC, Environment PIC, etc.
- Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: They run the game, and the fanbase frequently pegs them as being smarter than they are because their bumbling has to be an act, or they're so inept they shouldn't be out in public unattended, but they spend their entire screen presence shouting and demeaning each other, hurling blame around like unruly toddlers.
- Rebellious Spirit: The reason they launched the game Blade Skill Online is that they absolutely, positively, don't want to work for others and obey orders. Of course, they're not as savvy as they think they are, and Yuri demonstrates it on a repeated basis.
- Stupid Evil: Rather than reward Yuri and highlight his accomplishments, making him the company mascot and a recruiting tool for the game, especially considering how much adversity Yuri had to overcome, go out of their way to antagonize and alienate Yuri, trying to drive him out of the game with Nerfs and targeting the fanbase at him.
- Women Are Wiser: Of all of them, the lone woman is the Only Sane Man and actually thinks things through.
- Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: When Yuri thanks them for their hard work in putting together the game after the first round of the guild war event, the dev playing "Odin" broke down, fell to his knees, and wept bitter tears. After that, the event went on for the next four parts, Yuri allowed to participate, then another emergency update where they nerf Yuri, again, though more fairly this time, make the high level dungeons and monsters harder and introduce the player assassins content, but they don't get more specific than that...
Notable NPC
Pope Gregorion
The lord of Helheim and the top follower of Ymir. He is fanatical in the pursuit of Law and Order, locking up and demanding the death of Seele for PK (warranted) and of Yuri for being a summoner with a boss-monster haunting her gear (unwarranted). In prison Yuri sees over 860 NPC summoners "for ambience" and decides Gregorion is corrupt as a result, triggers a jailbreak and a coup, hunting the guy down and killing him in his own castle.
- Boomerang Bigot: He goes apoplectic when he realizes Yuri has a boss-monster in her boots and loudly proclaims that both monsters and anyone who uses them, namely summoners, are inherently evil, deserving nothing but extermination. He turns into a monster as he prepares to face off against Yuri.
- Corrupt Church: Implied. The fact that he lived in a castle, rather than a church, and held billions upon billions of gold coins in his assets, in addition to living a life of opulence, makes Yuri rather suspicious as to how benevolent his church was.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: His death has him listed as exploding like an egg in a microwave.
- Death by Irony: The very same gameplay mechanic that would have trapped Yuri in a Hopeless Boss Fight with himself, unable to escape the fight except by death, traps him in his castle when Yuri exploits a loophole to escape to the town entrance and then firebombs him to death via terrain damage.
- Et Tu, Brute?: When he realizes Ymir isn't going to rescue him from Yuri's fire-bombing and terrain damage, he curses Ymir's name.
- Fantastic Racism: He's firmly of the opinion that summoners are inherently evil because they tame monsters, who are evil just for existing. Yuri, rightly, has issues with that.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: By punching Yuri across the room, which does over 500,000,000 damage, he made Yuri immune to collision damage if she gets punched across the room or falls off a cliff, which helps immensely when he later has to take a special class-up quest.
- One-Winged Angel: Just before going into a fight with Yuri, he transforms into a monster, and all his stats change to 999,999,999!
Tengu Hermit
The advanced skills mentor Zancrow sent Yuri to after his encounter with the assassins. He lives at the top of the cliff and is known for sending players on fetch quests.
- Crime of Self-Defense: Turns out, after clearing the lore, Yuri learns that this guy was excommunicated from his monk order because he took up a bow to hunt, and slaughtered bandits harassing the area and attacking innocents. The reason? He enjoyed it. Yuri, rightly, calls that BS. What matters is the fact that he protected innocents, ergo, the result of his actions, more than the supposed intent.
- Evil Feels Good: After he's had enough of Yuri's Brutal Honesty and snaps, he goes back to his true evil self and starts to once again relish his acts of atrocity. It is at this point that he bothers to teach Yuri the full master level of his secret arts.
- Knight Templar: He shot at Yuri, forcing the protagonist to fall off a cliff, because Yuri had negative karma after the capture of Helheim.
- The Penance: He's locked himself away on the top of a cliff for a reason, atoning for unstated crimes in his past.
- Quest Giver: He gives out quests to players seeking to apprentice under him, seeking out random items.
- Trickster Mentor: He's notorious for expelling apprentices who have reached the intermediate level, and gotten him lots of random items, and never accepting them as apprentices again. Only Yuri has ever chanced upon the trick to get him to train you properly, and it's not easy to figure out.
Player assassins
Kirika, of the Asura Realm
The first of the player assassins "from another world" to appear in the story. She backstabs Zancrow as he was sitting and chatting with Yuri in the town where Zancrow set up his guild base. She and Zancrow have a history.
- Ax-Crazy: Coming from the PvP near exclusive game Sengoku Rokudo Online, where every encounter is a fight to the death with other players, she makes Yuri, at "her" most violent outbursts like the epitome of sanity by comparison.
- Combat Pragmatist: She fights dirty, always.
- Kimono Fanservice: Her avatar wears a kimono to make herself even more appealing, for the purposes of getting her target's guard down.
Alice, the Queen of Wrath
The second of the assassins introduced, coming hot off the heels of Kirika. She's the top player of Darkness Soul Online and came after Yuri and Zancrow upon Kirika's failure.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: She looks like a pre-teen and dresses in the gothic style.
- Glass Cannon: She can put out immense fire-power with her spells, but lacks defense.
- Handicapped Badass: In reality, she's a paraplegic, so her avatar can't move either, but choosing a mage build allows her to dish out insane amounts of firepower.
- Hero of Another Story: She's the protagonist of the side story "Darkness Soul Online" featuring the game world to match the story, founded and run by the woman behind the Pendragon avatar.
Pendragon, the Goddess of Dawn
The last of the assassins and their leader. Just when Yuri had the upper hand against Alice, at horrific cost, she shows up and starts literally cutting Yuri apart like sashimi.
- Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Her traits and actions are entirely villainous; she backstabs, launches ambushes and cowardly sneak attacks, dupes new players into letting themselves become Evil Knockoffs of the top players, and corrupts them into insufferable Smug Snakes, cripples her competition, and is both condescending and arrogant, actively championing oppression, and actively bribes her way to victory. She's constantly hailed as "The Goddess's Champion" and the so-called hero of Blade Skill Online. Yuri, on the other hand, is constantly decried as "an evil Demon King" for championing the oppressed, fighting up front and fairly, earning his victories through guts, hard work, and a bit of cunning while still playing by the rules, and puts his faction together through genuine comradery.
- Bribing Your Way to Victory: She built up an army of Evil Knockoffs of both Yuri and Zancrow by simply buying in a swarm of new players and outfitting them with gear based around the respective play styles they're emulating. While the clones are all dangerous in their own right, they're nothing compared to the people they emulate, even if they've deluded themselves into believing otherwise, after winning some fights by ambush.
- Combat Pragmatist: Backstabbed Yuri as the latter was facing off against Alice, when Yuri was at his weakest.
- Crippling the Competition: Thanks to being a dev and insider knowledge, she knows the rules of upcoming tournament-type events before they're launched and goes out of her way to cripple everybody even tangentially involved with Yuri.
- Despair Gambit: Her favorite way of trying to take down Yuri. Considering he's a Spirited Competitor, this repeatedly backfires.
- The Heavy: While the primary antagonists of the work are those manchildren calling themselves devs of Blade Skill Online, who can't stand having their incompetence exposed, even by accident, repeatedly trying to squash Yuri for doing so, she's the face of their hostility, as the devs never fight their own battles and Pendragon is a hired gun.
- Master Swordsman: She's exceptional with the sword.
- Mentor Archetype: She's the one who taught the Blade Skill Online devs how to be devs, and they borderline worship her as a result.
- Send in the Clones: Four days before the "Demon King vs Goddess" event, she brings in the better part of a million new players, via live-streams, advertising, and just straight up bribes and outfits them like knock-off Yuri and Zancrow templates and has them launch countless ambushes on Yuri's allies, purely for the sake of demoralizing Yuri himself, before the start of the event. The backfire is utterly epic, as Yuri winds up crying Tears of Joy at the sheer level of planning and deviousness such a strategy requires, then goes and teaches all those haughty hacks their place, because as the one who pioneered the Lethal Joke Character build they're emulating, he knows all their weaknesses.
- Villain of Another Story: She's the antagonistic dev that runs the VRMMO "Darkness Soul Online."
Others
Francoise
Eh? Rare materials from rare monsters? Who are you?!!
The first equipment crafter Yuri meets, after being recommended by Baldhead.- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She's an oddball, to put it mildly, but her crafting skill is the real deal.
- The Cavalry: During the Guild War event, she and her freshly minted Crafter's Guild rush to Yuri's aid against the rest of the player-base, in return for Yuri teaching the Crafters how to use their non-combat classes to fight, as a result of being disgusted that the combat classes were treating the crafting classes with contempt.
- Dark Horse Victory: Her freshly minted Crafter's Guild clinches the third round of the guild war event.
- Honor Before Reason: She could have made a killing working for Yuri in Guild of Yuri, but she chose to stay in the Beginner Village because she's determined to give new players a leg up in learning the game.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: She wears glasses and is one of the smartest players in the game.
Touji
A random mage player who attacked Yuri during the first tournament only to wind up as Yuri's first ever PK.
- Aura Vision: With his [Vitality Sense] skill, he can see how much HP an opponent has left.
- Dirty Coward: He started the event running and hiding, and attacked Yuri only because the latter had 1 hp. Surprise, Yuri not only punched out his fireball, but gave him a One-Hit Kill with an uppercut.
- Entertainingly Wrong: When he bumps into Yuri at the start of the event, he presumes Yuri was trying to hide after being near mortally wounded, since the latter had only 1 hp. Nope. Yuri has only 1 hp thanks to his gear in exchange for nifty benefits like tripling his Luck Stat. Oops.
- Evil Gloating: When he chances upon Yuri, he gloats about killing off a weakened foe. Bad call.
- Mugging the Monster: He chances upon Yuri, who only has 1 hp, and thinks he lucked out, finding easy and pre-wounded prey. Nope. He just ran into the strongest and most dangerous player at the event, and was the first to fall prey to Yuri's might.
Korin
Wait? That's a beginner's bow? And it soloed the Dragon plant?! Just who are you?!
A Cat Girl player Yuri rescues by chance as he's exploring a dungeon.- Cat Girl: Her avatar sports cat-ears, which Yuri asked permission to pet but was denied.
- Can't Catch Up: She's a legit adventurer and she struggles very hard, but she just can't catch up to Yuri's antics.
- Damsel in Distress: She's strung up by vines and about to be swallowed up when Yuri shows up to save the day.
- Driven by Envy: Out of jealousy, she tries to usurp Yuri's title as #1 player on several occasions, even backstabbing the latter during the guild war event. Being a Spirited Comptetitor, Yuri welcomes the challenge.
- Fragile Speedster: Her build is centered around using agility to avoid being hit in the first place, so she can deliver damage with precision critical hits, but her defense is basically non-existent in return. She would be easy pickings for an in-universe baby caterpillar monster.
