Characters / Cerberus High

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Overworld

Take-Down Squad

In General

Kazuki Akai’s squad consisting of Sherbet Summers and Axel Amsel. The idea of the squad was actually thought up by Sherbet but Kazuki officially became the leader after his fight with Xiomara Amsel.

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• Costume Evolution: The Take-Down trio are given maturer outfits to reflect their age in the sequel, which takes place 20 years later.
• Determinator: Even when the odds (and a literal god) are against them, these three just won't give up.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Kazuki managed to defeat Neo in his immortal god form with the assistance of his friends' souls.
• Interspecies Friendship: Between a human, a humanoid tanuki, and a werewolf.
• Interspecies Romance: Between Kazuki and Axel eventually.
• Large Ham: It's only natural when you live in a World of Ham.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Sums up Kazuki and Sherbet’s relationship.
• The Nicknamer: Sherbet and Axel love to give people dumb nicknames just for the sake of it.
• True Companions: Not only are they members of the same squad, but these three are also the best of friends.
• Vitriolic Best Friends: Sherbet and Axel at the beginning with the tanuki's distrust and the werewolf's teasing. It is when Axel confesses to her that he has feelings for Kazuki does Sherbet warm up to him fully and their banter becomes more lighthearted.

Kazuki Akai

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 1, Cerberus High II Chapter 2, Cerberus High: Hearts Forever Engraved Chapter 2

Cerberus High I Kazuki

^{Click to see *spoiler*} Cerberus Kazuki

^{Click to see Cerberus High II Kazuki}

^{Click to see Kazuki in the Prototype Comic}

"... Shut up! I don’t want to have to kill anyone else...!"

Kazuki Akai is The Protagonist of Cerberus High and a supporting character of the sequel. He is the only human attending the titular school and like the majority, was discarded and cast off like trash by those closest to him. Despite his attempts to steer clear of trouble, Kazuki gets embroiled in a hierarchical dispute between the school's cheer squad and The Dreaded Brazen Youths assassin league. The groups' leaders happen to be siblings and Kazuki catches the eye of the older Brazen Youths commander, Xiomara Amsel, who seeks to use the dormant power lying within to increase her tyrannical influence over the school. Kazuki retaliates against her with the help of Xiomara's younger brother and captain of the Cerberus Cheer Squad, Axel Amsel, and the tanuki kunoichi Sherbet Summers. The journey ahead of Kazuki, however, proves challenging with the mysterious origins of new dark powers and the ghostly girl named Rouge who had suddenly started to communicate with him from within his heart. All things which cause him to question his own humanity and be forced to confront the demons of his past.

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• 11th-Hour Superpower: Kazuki's Cerberus form which was achieved by absorbing the departing souls of Sherbet and Axel.
• Abusive Parents: Downplayed with Alonzo. After being assigned to be Kazuki's caretaker after the death of Yuu, Alonzo believed the small child's catatonia was just an act and would do things like trip him and blow cigarette smoke in his face just to get a reaction from him.
• Accidental Murder: Of Yuu and his three foster brothers five years ago.
• Afraid of Blood: He is terribly squeamish around blood which may be related to the incident at the foster home.
• All the Other Reindeer: Kazuki’s loner tendencies were the catalyst for his three foster brothers to bully him relentlessly, eventually taking their malice out on his only friend, a black cat named Cherish.
  • The awakening of his Raging Burst and the resulting deaths of his siblings and Yuu did not help his reputation, and his loner image was elevated to that of a monster.
• Ambiguously Human: Kazuki is treated as this until it is revealed that he is a homunculus created by Hades. The sequel shows that Kazuki himself has stopped identifying as human long into adulthood.
• Artificial Human/Born of Magic: Kazuki was created by Hades to appear human on the outside but was provided with the blood of the demonic entity, giving him abilities unlike any human or canid breed that has ever existed.
• Attack on the Heart:
  • Has his heart ripped out Axel in the A Mere Human Arc.
  • Is stabbed in the heart by Neo’s ESP which drains all of his blood.
• Audience Surrogate: He didn’t know much about the school he was being condemned to nor about the canid breeds that attend there. He gradually learns more about his surroundings along with the reader.
• Awful Truth: He grew up believing that he was abandoned in the woods by his parents. It really crushed him when he learned that he had no parents at all.
• Badass in Distress: The Underworld Arc starts off with Kazuki being thrown into the Underworld after trying to exorcise Rouge's soul from his body.
• Bad Liar: Kazuki is extremely bad at masking his emotions and can be read like a book.
• Battle Aura: Kazuki is surrounded by a menacing black aura when his blood reaches its boiling point.
• Bearer of Bad News: In the Underworld Arc, Kazuki had to break the news to Axel that Xiomara died. He did not take it well.
• Big Damn Reunion: After spending a while alone and trapped in the Underworld, Kazuki and his friends are finally reunited, but are unable to return to their homeworld with the loss of the grimoire.
• Birthday Buddies: Kazuki shares his September 14th birthday with Oralee.
• Blood from the Mouth: When Kazuki's heart was torn out by Axel, seen on this page in the Prototype Comic.
• Can't Live Without You: In Another Story, it is explained that Oralee and Kazuki cannot exist without each other as light cannot exist without darkness.
• Catapult Nightmare:
  • Kazuki was hinted to have suffered from night terrors as a child in Chapter 6.
  • The whole ordeal with Shadow Kazuki ends with Kazuki waking up in this way.
• Classical Anti-Hero: Thanks to his demonic blood, Kazuki is able to defeat anything that stands in his way with ease but he is constantly tormented by his own inner demons, which from his Dark and Troubled Past to his struggles coming to terms with what he really is.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Even when he isn't communicating with Rouge, Kazuki seems to space out a lot. Downplayed as he is a less eccentric example.
• Color-Coded Characters: Orange thanks to his iconic hoodie.
• Combination Attack: To defeat Elliot, Kazuki created a speeding vortex by combining his Raging Burst with Conrad's wind powers.
• Costume Evolution: In the sequel that takes place 20 years into the future, Kazuki wears darker clothes to match his darker hair.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Kazuki’s Zipping Burst ability. He avoids using it since it was the burst responsible for Yuu’s gory demise.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Kazuki wields two separate weapons of darkness and has it in his blood but has sworn to never kill again after the incident at his foster home.
• De-power: Kazuki is revealed to have lost his Eternal Onyx Blade ability ever since both of his tonfas were shattered by Neo.
• Dissonant Serenity: As Cerberus Kazuki.
• Doorstop Baby: Kazuki was found by a hiker named Yuu in the middle of the woods and was taken in.
• Eating Lunch Alone: Kazuki and Sherbet sit alone together at lunch which makes them sick out a sore thumb among the other students sitting with their respective squads.
• Elemental Embodiment: Kazuki embodies the element of darkness.
• Emotional Powers: His Raging Burst is at its strongest when his blood boils.
• Energy Ball: All his burst abilities are in the form of a black photosphere.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: In the first book's epilogue, Kazuki cuts his hair which had gone pretty long after his Cerberus transformation.
• Extreme Doormat: Started out as one. Even when he came out of his catatonia, Kazuki still allowed Alonzo to walk all over him. Kazuki begins to speak his mind as a result of all of the hardship he endured the longer he stayed in the school. He even starts using physical means to protect himself and those he loves.
• Eyes Never Lie: Axel doesn't believe Kazuki when he tells him that his sister is dead until he looks deep into the human's eyes.
• Facial Markings: In his Cerberus form and long after that.
• Fake Defector: Kazuki briefly joins Axel’s cheer squad to learn more about the inner workings of the school as he feels deep within his heart that there is something more to the werewolf’s childish dreams of school domination.
• Fantastic Racism: Due to his ignorance, Kazuki viewed all canid breeds as scary monsters. This is not the case, as Kazuki can attest from his time spent at school.
• Fiery Redhead: He isn't normally one given his timid personality, but when he happens to have one of his freakouts or becomes very passionate about something, be warned.
• Gayngst: Averted. Initially, Kazuki only felt angst for the interspecies part of the relationship when he was crushing on Axel as that is seen as more taboo than being gay. Kazuki gets over this and makes his feelings known with a Big Damn Kiss.
• Growling Gut: In Chapter 16 when Lita and Oralee offered to take Kazuki to a fancy restaurant. Kazuki's attempts to decline were silenced by his rumbling stomach, causing the two girls to laugh.
• Happily Married/Interspecies Romance: After becoming an Official Couple in the first book, Kazuki and Axel get married and adopt a daughter.
• Healing Factor: Developed one not long after getting the Mark of the Beast.
• Hearing Voices: He is able to hear the voice of Rouge communicating to him from within his heart.
• The Heart: Always tries to find the good in people and thinks twice about hurting another person.
• Heroic BSoD: After finding out the truth behind his existence.
• Heroic RRoD: Kazuki loses consciousness right after fully awakening his abilities in his fight with Axel.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Has extremely low self-esteem and often puts himself down.
• Hikikomori: Kazuki holes himself in his room after finding out about the Awful Truth about his existence. When he eventually opened the door to confront his worried pals, it was clear that he hadn't been taking care of himself. Thankfully, Kazuki gets out of his slump and returns to his old self.
• Hope Spot: When Neo charges at Kazuki with his EPS after the shattering of his tonfa blades, Kazuki is protected by a shield formed by his fractured weapon. However, this was all revealed to be just an illusion made by Neo to toy with Kazuki, and his EPS succeeded in stabbing him in the heart.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: Lita assumes he is one which Kazuki quickly denies.

Lita: Is that all? I honestly thought you’d ask something pervy. You are a teenage boy, right?

Kazuki: Not all teenage boys are perverts!

• Horrifying the Horror: Kazuki manages to horrify Elliot after he survives the cryptid's poisonous fumes.

Elliot: WHAT ARE YOU?!

Kazuki: I don’t know the answer to that myself.

• I Am What I Am: Throughout the story, Kazuki has trouble coming to grips that he isn't as human as he previously thought. In his final battle against Neo D. Fowler in the Underworld, Kazuki Akai discards his vow in preserving his humanity by temporarily absorbing the departing souls of his fallen friends to become the Cerberus Beast. It is since then that Kazuki finally accepts who and what he is: not quite human but not quite a canid breed either.
• Idiot Hair: A tiny one that flops down.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: He wants nothing to do with the abnormal life he was given.
• I'll Kill You!: Repeatedly says this to Neo after finding out what he supposedly did to Oralee.
• Indirect Kiss: Almost has one with Oralee when she gives him her candy apple that she had already taken a bite from.
• In-Series Nickname: Sherbet calls him Kaz for short. She also considered calling him Softie Heart which he didn't hesitate to say was bad.
• Instant Expert: Learning how to harness his powers came easy to him.
• Japanese Politeness: Downplayed. Despite the fact that our world's races and ethnicities do not exist in this universe, Kazuki is coded to be Japanese and frequently expresses thanks by bowing deeply. However, there are times where he shows assertiveness to the point of becoming a Fiery Redhead.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: Kazuki's Only Friend at his foster home was a black cat he named Cherish. Black cats are also stated to be one of the things he likes on the wiki.
• Luminescent Blush: Happens four times in the series.
  • In Chapter 9, after defeating Elliot, Kazuki hugs Sherbet a little too tightly as he apologizes to her which Sherbet points out, causing him to become mortified.
  • In Chapter 12 when Rouge pops the question if he's in love with Axel.
  • In Chapter 13, as Kazuki reminds Xiomara of the promise that he made to Axel, Xiomara makes a comment about how her brother stole his heart. This makes Kazuki blush as it was true.
  • In Chapter 16 when Kazuki and Oralee almost share an Indirect Kiss.
• MacGuffin Super-Person: The peculiar existence of Kazuki alone has piqued the interests of many within the school due to his status of being not quite human but not quite a canid breed either. Something entirely new and unique.
  • Xiomara is a notable example as, throughout the Brazen Youths Arcs, Xiomara tries to sway Kazuki into joining her assassin's league as he possesses a great power like no other.
  • He also becomes a key piece in Neo's plans of godhood due to him possessing the blood of Hades.
• Magical Gesture: Kazuki points two fingers at his target when firing his Raging Burst.
  • Kazuki points three fingers instead of two when using his Hades! Blood Burst, which he awakens in his Cerberus form. This represents himself and his friends that he had fused with.
  • When using his Numbing Burst for the first time on Blanc, Kazuki crosses his arms to form an 'x' with two fingers pointed on each hand. He doesn't need to do this as shown in his fight with Xiomara when he fooled her by making it seem like he had fired his standard Raging Burst instead of his numbing one.
• Make Them Rot: His Hades! Blood Burst ability causes his target's body to disintegrate and reappear in their own personal hell for all eternity.
• Mark of the Beast: In his Cerberus transformation, Kazuki's Mark of Beast becomes enlarged and appears on his chest.
• Mistaken for Dyed: When Kazuki is trying to make sense of his newfound Healing Factor, Sherbet makes a joke that all the blood from having been decked in the face with a sculpture was just his red hair dye running.

Sherbet: There wasn’t a scratch but there sure was a lot of blood. Or was it just your hair dye running?

Kazuki: Oi this color’s natural!

• Mr. Fanservice: Kazuki has always been a cute boy but his Cerberus form gives him an adult makeover with some added muscle mass.
• Mukokuseki: Kazuki is an Asian-coded character with a complete Japanese name. However, he has bright red hair and blueish gray eyes.
• Nervous Wreck: It’s easy for him to absolutely lose it in pressing situations. Fortunately, Rouge is always there to calm him down and guide him through it.
• Not Quite Back to Normal: Even after the final battle between Neo and the releasing of souls of his friends, Kazuki still maintains part of his Cerberus transformation with his eyes being the only thing that reverted back to normal.
• Obviously Not Fine: How to tell if Kazuki’s not fine emotionally? If he dismissively says that he is.
• Older Than He Looks: Kazuki is 35 years old in the sequel but maintains his boyish looks from when he was 15.
• Orange/Blue Contrast: Kazuki's signature hoodie is orange and blue.
• The Paralyzer: Kazuki’s Numbing Burst can paralyze any part of his enemy's body.
• Parental Abandonment: Kazuki was believed to have been abandoned as an infant due to him being found by Yuu in the middle of the woods wrapped neatly in a blanket. However, this wasn't the case as Kazuki had no parents to begin with.
• Power Dyes Your Hair/Power Makes Your Hair Grow: In his Cerberus form, Kazuki’s hair becomes dark brown and reaches down to his knees.
• The Promise: Made a promise to Axel just before his fight with Xiomara to bring his sister back to her senses.
• Protectorate: To Sherbet before awakening his powers.
• Reincarnation: Of Rouge.
• Reincarnation-Identifying Trait: He looks exactly like Rouge when she was his age with the only difference between them being hair color and of course, gender.
• Roaring Rampage of Rescue: In Chapter 8 Kazuki mows down a bunch of cobras that magically spawned in his room just to the aid of his friends outside.
• Repressed Memories: He doesn’t remember much of the moment when Yuu died but he desperately tries to block out the ones still fresh in his mind.
• Self-Harm: To test out his new Healing Factor, Kazuki slit his wrist with a shard of glass.
• Sharing a Body: With his past life Rouge as a result of an oopsie in the reincarnation process.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: Blanc views Kazuki as a rival to his love for Xiomara due to the amount of interest she shows in the human. In Chapter 10 Blanc finally snaps and challenges Kazuki to a duel to the death despite Kazuki denying having any romantic feelings for Xiomara.
• The Shrink: In the sequel, he works as a counselor for troubled canid breed youths.
• Soul Jar: Kazuki was created to only be just a body for Rouge's soul when she reincarnated. However, the reincarnation was botched and Kazuki was given a will of his own while Rouge's soul slumbered within his heart.
• The Soulless: He doesn’t possess a soul of his own besides Rouge’s but that certainly doesn’t make him a monster.
• Spider-Sense: Kazuki's senses heightened exceptionally ever since he awakened his powers. With Rouge as his guardian, Kazuki would be alerted whenever a strong presence is in his vicinity.
• Stepford Smiler: In an attempt to figure out what was going on with Kazuki during his mental breakdown in Chapter 7, Sherbet and Axel confront him in his room. There, Kazuki tries to brush everything off by smiling but the two canids see through his facade, causing Kazuki's smile to waver have no choice but to spill his guts.
• Stranger in a Strange School: Kazuki Akai is the only human attending a school meant for delinquent candid breeds.
• Super Mode: His Cerberus form.
• Tareme Eyes: To contrast Rouge's tsurime eyes.
• Tears of Joy: Sheds these during his 16th birthday in the first book's epilogue.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Initially, Kazuki acted hostile towards Rouge, blaming her for his loss of normalcy and Yuu's death. Rouge, on the other hand, is frequently irritated with Kazuki when he refused to follow her orders and instead goes out endangering his own life. Kazuki's death would be bad for both of them because his body houses Rouge's soul, and she would also cease to exist if he died. All that changes at the end of the first book when Rouge's soul is finally put to rest and they both come to see each other as mother and son.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Justified. After the incident at his foster home, Kazuki swore to never take another life.
• Token Human: Kazuki is the only human attending Cerberus High.
• Took a Level in Badass/Neutral No Longer: After his first encounter with Axel, Kazuki becomes extremely hellbent on uncovering the inner workings of the school and rooting out the evil that plagues it all in the most humane way possible.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Red apples are stated to be one of his likes.
• Tragic Keepsake: Kazuki keeps a pink ribbon tied to the handle of his satchel to remember his cat Cherish.
• Trapped in Another World: Kazuki gets thrown into the Underworld after a ritual to exorcise Rouge from his body goes horribly wrong.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Kazuki's Cerberus form has him fighting shirtless.
• Willfully Weak: Tries to avoid using his true power in fear of what happened at his foster home repeating.
• Wing Ding Eyes: His eyes turn into swirls when he faints in Chapter 6 after his hemophobia is triggered.
• Wrecked Weapon: Kazuki's tonfa blades shatter at the beginning of hid fight with Neo.

Sherbet Summers

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 1, Cerberus High II Chapter 2

"Heck yeah it’s so. From today onwards you’re under the care of the Sherbet Summers. Got that?"

The main Action Girl of the main trio. Sherbet Summers is a fifteen-year-old tanuki-canid who becomes Kazuki's first true friend upon entering Cerberus.

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• Action Girl: The main one.
• Alliterative Name: Sherbet Summers
• Asleep in Class: In the one scene where Kazuki and Sherbet attended actual class, Sherbet was shown sleeping.
• The Atoner: Sherbet thought she had committed an immense sin against her friend Aya after their being falling out, despite the fact that it was the fault of both of their domineering parents. Meeting another human at Cerberus High and taking them under her wing was the ideal method for her to atone for her previous transgressions.
• Back from the Dead: Came back to life after Cerberus Kazuki released the souls of her and Axel when he defeated Ascended Neo.
• Badass Adorable: She's a cute tanuki girl with sick ninja skills!
• Badass Normal: Doesn't need any special powers like her teammates to kick ass.
• Big Damn Heroes: Busts down the doors of the gymnasium just to get to Kazuki in the A Mere Human Arc.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: On the surface, Sherbert presents herself as a shameless and reckless trickster but when you get to know her better she’s actually pretty sensible and level-headed.
• Butt-Monkey: No one gives her the respect that she deserves.
• Cheer Them Up with Laughter: When Kazuki was feeling a little down after his fight with Axel, Sherbet proceeded to joke about how popular he's gotten and how she should start protecting him from fangirls now. This succeeds in making him laugh.
• Cleavage Window: A small, heart-shaped one.
• Color-Coded Characters: Pink.
• Costume Evolution: As deputy headmistress in the sequel, Sherbet dresses more conservatively with a white long-sleeved turtleneck worn over an ivory blouse and a long, pink skirt.
• Deadpan Snarker: Almost always to Axel.
• Declaration of Protection: Devoted herself to being Kazuki's bodyguard right after meeting him.
• Eating Lunch Alone: Sherbet and Kazuki sit alone together at lunch which makes them sick out a sore thumb among the other students sitting with their respective squads.
• Edible Theme Naming: With her and her sisters: Sugar and Ducelina ^note "duce" meaning sweet in Spanish .
• Expository Hairstyle Change: In the first book's epilogue, Sherbet is stated to have much longer hair along with her natural brown hair color.
• Face Palm: Does this in Chapter 5 when Kazuki tries to convince her to give a wellness check on Axel.
• First Friend: To Kazuki.
• First Love: She was crushing hard for her childhood friend Aya.
• Genki Girl: She's full spunk and has an amazing smile!
• The Glomp: The first thing Sherbet does to Kazuki when the group reunites with him in the Underworld.
• Go Through Me: Sherbet to Axel in Chapter 4 as she shields Kazuki using her own body.

Axel: How precious… but I did say that I would kill Kazuki if he ever turned his back on the squad

Sherbet: The hell you will! You’d have to get through me first! (shields Kazuki)

• Happily Married: To Ember in the second book.
• Highly-Visible Ninja
• Hyperspace Arsenal/Nothing Up My Sleeve: Sherbet has an unlimited arsenal of ninja weapons up her sleeve. Literally.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice/Taking the Bullet: In Chapter 10 Sherbet is impaled in the solar plexus after jumping in front of Kazuki to shield him from Blanc's ice pillars. Miraculously, she survives.:
• Let's Get Out of Here: Sherbet grabs Kazuki’s hand to make a break for it after incapacitating Axel with her shurikens knowing that the werewolf would get back up again in his beast form.
• Little Bit Beastly: She's a tanuki-canid.
• Middle Child Syndrome/The Un-Favorite: She is the middle child of three girls and was seen as the family disappointment when she still lived at home.
• Official Couple/Second Love: She and Ember become an item at the end of the book.
• One-Hit Kill: Neo destroyed her brain with just a single head tap.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: She feels weak compared to Axel and To the point that she feels that she needs to put her life in danger to prove her worth to the team.
• People Puppets: Sherbet falls victim to Elliot's Pandora's Box, becoming the cryptid's puppet, and is forced to attack Kazuki with her kusari-fundo. Conrad stops her from strangling Kazuki by trapping her inside a mini whirlwind.
• Putting the "Pal" in Principal: In the sequel, Sherbet is far from being an authoritarian figure as deputy headmistress of Cerberus High.
• Romantic Wingman: Sherbet becomes this to Axel. After the werewolf confessed to her that he was in love with Kazuki, Sherbet made it her mission to get the two of them together.
• Sneaky Departure: Every night she snuck out of the window of her home to visit her gang. One night she is spotted by her little sister Sugar who waits until the morning to rat her out.
• Stay in the Kitchen: Before the start of Kazuki and Axel's fight, Axel asks Sherbet to sit in the bleachers with Mitzy and Roxy.
• Street Smart: How she knows how to avoid danger. Being in a gang also made Sherbet a skilled pick-pocket.
• Tanuki: She's a normal tanuki-canid but who possesses no shapeshifting powers.
• Temporal Theme Naming: Her surname is Summers.
• Vitriolic Best Friends: With Axel.
• V-Sign: She is often drawn striking these.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: While she is recovering in the infirmary in Chapter 11, Sherbet reveals to Kazuki and Axel how weak she feels compared to them. Hearing her say this outrages them and they both give her a heartfelt reminder of how much of an essential role she plays in their squad.
• You Remind Me of X: She explained to Axel in Chapter 11 that the reason she was so passionate about being Kazuki's protector was that he reminded her of her childhood friend Aya who was also human.

Axel Amsel

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 3, Cerberus High II Chapter 2

“Little Red, Little Red… Seems like you haven’t had a real taste of what this hellhole has in store for mere humans like you.”

The Lancer of the main trio. Axel Amsel is a sixteen-year-old werewolf-canid who happens to be the captain of the Cerberus Cheer Squad. He is the younger brother of Xiomara Amsel.

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• Absurdly Sharp Claws: In his were-form.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: In the Prototype Comic made in 2018, Axel's clothes were mainly purple instead of indigo.
• A Father to His Men: His cheer squad is extremely valuable to him.
• Affectionate Nickname: Kasumi calls him Axe-papa to differentiate him from her other dad.
• Alcoholic Parent: His father turned to the bottle as a way to cope with the death of his wife and, as a result, became inattentive to his two kids.
• Alliterative Name: Axel Amsel
• Aloof Ally: Subverted. Initially, Axel had no interest in joining Kazuki’s team but all that changed after the whole fight with Elliot.
• Apologetic Attacker: Axel apologizes with a smile on his face before ripping out Kazuki's heart.

Axel: Forgive me for this, kay? ❤

• Angry Collar Grab: Axel does this to Kazuki after learning about Xiomara's death in the Underworld Arc.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Axel acts as childish as ever around his elder sister Xiomara. Because she is so against using her werewolf abilities, he likes to toy with her in hopes of her snapping.
• Back from the Dead: Came back to life after Cerberus Kazuki released the souls of him and Sherbet when he defeated Ascended Neo.
• Bare-Handed Blade Block: Axel caught the blade of Kazuki's tonfas with his bare hand during their fight in the A Mere Human Arc. Granted Axel has an Healing Factor and had transformed both his hands into his werewolf ones.
• The Big Damn Kiss: Axel is kissed by Kazuki in the finale when all the Overworld characters return to their homeworld from the Underworld.
• Big Sister Worship: Axel has always looked up to his big sister Xiomara. Despite being so hellbent on overthrowing her in the school’s hierarchy, Axel still deeply cares for his sister and really wants to bring her back to her senses.
• Butt-Monkey: Axel's suave act often backfires and when it does, Sherbet is always there to laugh at his expense.
• Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: After confiding in Sherbet about his crush on Kazuki, Axel can't seem to maintain his suave act around the human.
• Charm Person: He knows how to use his silver tongue to his advantage. He’ll charm almost anyone to get what he wants, regardless of gender.
• Clothing Damage: Kazuki's Raging Burst tore through the front of Axel's shirt after he allowed the blast to hit him with open arms.
• Color-Coded Characters: Indigo.
• Costume Evolution: As an adult in the sequel, Axel wears a typical dad get-up. He wears a blue band on his right wrist and a matching bandana on his left ankle to maintain his Fashionable Asymmetry.
• Egocentric Team Naming: Axel suggests the name The Axel-lent Axel and his Less Axel-lent Cheerleaders when the question of the team name is brought up again in the infirmary in Chapter 11.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Axel's tunic is half black and indigo.
• Friend to All Living Things: Axel has a soft spot for small critters such as chipmunks and rabbits due to them being his only source of companionship as a child. His love of animals is the reason he becomes a veterinarian in the second book.
• The Gadfly: Likes to get under people's skin.
• Gibberish of Love: It happens twice Chapter 28 when Sherbet tries to get him to confess his feelings to Kazuki. However, the second time Kazuki gets the idea and kisses him.
• Girl Posse: Consisting of Mitzy and Roxy.
• Happily Married/Interspecies Romance: After becoming an Official Couple in the first book, Axel and Kazuki get married and adopt a daughter.
• Hairstyle Inertia: He'd had the same hairdo his entire life.
• Healing Factor: Due to being a werewolf.
• Heavy Sleeper: When it rains, you can be assured that Axel would be out like a light.
• Idiot Hair
• The Illegible: He has notoriously bad handwriting.
• Jerkass Façade: He was imitating his sister's brash personality throughout most of his introductory arc as he felt that inducing fear into Kazuki was the best way to make him join his side.
• The Lancer
• Laughing Mad: After Kazuki breaks the news to him of Xiomara's death, Axel suddenly throws his head back to let out a hearty laugh before grabbing Kazuki by the collar, pinning him against a wall.
• The Leader: He was the Charismatic Type to his Cheer Squad before he left.
• Luminescent Blush: Quite a few times in the series. Namely when Rouge reveals that Kazuki is in love with him and after being kissed by Kazuki.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits!: One of the many reasons why he despises Blanc with such ferocity.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Likes to get dangerously close to Kazuki. Mostly to annoy Sherbet but also due to his feelings for the human.
• One-Hit Kill: Neo destroyed his brain with just a single head tap.
• Official Couple/Interspecies Romance: With Kazuki.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: Doesn’t need the full moon to transform.
• Parental Neglect: His father became neglectful of him and his sister after the death of their mother.
• Precision F-Strike: Axel snaps and delivers one to Kazuki after being informed of his sister's death.

Axel: Don’t fuck with me. Like hell would Xiomara be done in by such a lame-ass attack.

• Pointy Ears: Due to his werewolf race.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Xiomara’s Blue.
• Rhyming Names: Axel Amsel
• Scars Are Forever: In the sequel, Axel is stated to still have the scar on his left shoulder and right hip from being shot by Rey.
• Shipping Torpedo: Absolutely hates the idea of Blanc becoming his brother-in-law.
• Sibling Rivalry: With Xiomara.
• Slasher Smile: Frequently donned this during his first encounter with Kazuki in his psychotic, Jerkass Façade phase.
• Taking the Bullet: Subverted. In Chapter 10, Axel attempts to shield an injured Kazuki from Blanc's ice pillars but is beaten to the punch by Sherbet.
• Time-Passage Beard: Had grown a beard in the period of the first book and the sequel.
• Vitriolic Best Friends: With Sherbet.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Desperately wants to be seen as a worthy adversary to his sister.

Cerberus Cheer Squad

In General

The Cerberus Cheer Squad is the squad founded by Axel Amsel. There are more members than just the three that are named as revealed in Chapter 7.

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• Chest Insignia: All of their uniforms have a C on the chest.
• Only One Name
• Put on a Bus: Stayed back on the embarkation to the Underworld.
• Teleportation
• Two Girls and a Guy: The main cheerleading trio.

Mitzy & Roxy

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 3

“I am Roxy! Dingo twin #1!”

“And I am Mitzy! Dingo twin #2”''

“And together we are… Axel’s Cheerleading Twin Posse!"

Axel's twin dingo entourage who are both just there to constantly inflate his ego. They can be described as your typical airheaded cheerleading pair but with a frighteningly short temper.

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• Action Girl
• Angry Animalistic Growl: Did this to Sherbet on two separate occasions to show their disdain for her.
• The Ditz: They are't shown to be bright.
• Dogfaces: They both possess tiny dog noses along with a perpetual Dog Smile.
• Fangirl: To Axel and anyone they find attractive as shown by their reaction upon first seeing Blanc.
• Genki Girl: The two of them are very hyperactive.
• Girl Posse: They are Axel's girl posse.
• Little Bit Beastly: They are both dingo-canids.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: The twins are differentiated by their x scar placement and their hairstyle. Mitzy's scar is on her right cheek while Roxy’s is on her left. Roxy's hair is styled in a high ponytail while Mitzy wears hers down.
• No Indoor Voice
• Only One Name
• Put on a Bus: Stayed back on the embarkation to the Underworld.
• Razor-Sharp Hand: Their chops are said to be able to slice diamond.
• Say My Name: CAPTAINNNNNNNNN!!!
• Sibling Team
• Single-Minded Twins
• Squee:
  • Squealed when Axel gave them a wink in Chapter 4.
  • Also when seeing Blanc for the first time.
• Theme Twin Naming: Both their names end in y.
• Undying Loyalty: To Axel.
• Water Wake Up: How Mitzy wakes up Kazuki after knocking him and Sherbet out. The thing is that she had thrown that bucket after he had woken up by himself, causing Kazuki to be needlessly soaked.
• "X" Marks the Hero: Downplayed since they are minor characters. The twins have an “x” scar on the opposite cheek from each other with Mitzy’s being on her right while Roxy’s is on her left.

Conrad

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 7

“It’s alright to hold back but sometimes you have to put your foot down if it means protecting the weak. You can’t have your biggest enemy in this battle be yourself, Kazuki. I’ve seen how much you honed your skills, but your inner demons throw all that effort out the window.”

A minor character. Conrad is a coyote-canid who’s affiliated with Axel Amsel’s Cheer Squad, serving as his Number Two and eventual successor.

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• Combination Attack: To defeat Elliot, Conrad and Kazuki combined their powers which created a speeding vortex.
• Expy: Conrad's design was inspired by Johnny Joestar's.
• The Ghost: Conrad is mentioned in the sequel but never makes an appearance.
• The Leader: Of the Cerberus Cheer Squad after Axel left. You can assume that he is the level-headed type.
• Little Bit Beastly: He's a coyote-canid.
• Number Two: He is Axel's right-hand man.
• Only Sane Man: Acts in a way more level-headed manner than his leader Axel and his twin dingo posse.
• Put on a Bus: Stayed back on the embarkation to the Underworld.
• Technicolor Eyes: His eyes are gold.
• You Are in Command Now: Becomes the new Cheer Captain after Axel officially left the squad.

The Brazen Youths

In General

Xiomara Amsel’s assassination league. Its main members are her right-hand man Blanc Isolde, and Ember Hertz.

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• Arc Villain: Of the Brazen Youths Arc.
• Costume Evolution: The Brazen Youths trio are given maturer outfits to reflect their age in the sequel, which takes place 20 years later.
• The Dreaded
• Fire/Ice Duo: Xiomara's main assassins are Ember (a hellhound) and Blanc (a frosthound).
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: Ember, Blanc, and Elliot ^note he is able to conjure up lightning storms as a part of his jinxes.
• Nice Mean And In Between: When it comes to the main trio Ember is the nice one, Blanc is the mean one, and Xiomara is in between.
• Two Girls and a Guy: The main brazen trio.

Xiomara Amsel

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 4, Cerberus High II Chapter 2

“Please stop this petty sibling rivalry. It’s boring.”

Xiomara Amsel is the Big Bad of The Brazen Youths Arc being the commander of The Brazen Youths assassination league. She is a nineteen-year-old werewolf-canid who is also the estranged elder sister of Axel Amsel. Under her reign, Cerberus High maintains its broken system and reputation.

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• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Did this to Blanc in Chapter 4 to calm him down after the frosthound was trying to go confront the sudden immense surge of power in the gymnasium.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: In Chapter 10 Xiomara seeks out Kazuki with her two main assassins to plead with him to join her league of assassins.
• Aloof Big Sister: Despite serving as Axel’s parental figure growing up, Xiomara was just as neglectful and cold to him as their father. The only time she would put her book down and actually tend to her younger brother was when he got hurt.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She rivals Rouge in this aspect.
• Animal Motifs: A snake despite being a werewolf. This is because of her snake-like finesse and the fact that she's a Manipulative Bitch.

Kazuki: You’re a snake who preys on those who’ve lost everything. Lost souls seeking solace and belonging!

Xiomara: A snake? Well, that’s a first.

• Anime Hair: She rocks a badass anime mullet with the bangs spiked up.
• Babies Ever After: In the sequel's epilogue which takes place 5 months after the ending shows Xiomara finally giving birth to a baby girl named Lumaia.
• Back from the Dead: Came back to life after Cerberus Kazuki defeated Ascended Neo.
• Badass Biker: Shown riding a motorcycle to the school while 4 months pregnant in Chapter 8 of the sequel with her husband Blanc in the back.
• Badass Bookworm: Reads a lot in her spare time.
• Baddie Flattery: Gives one to Kazuki doing their fight out in the schoolyard.

Xiomara: Very good. You managed to block my were-kick. You truly are on a different level than Axel.

• Big Sister Instinct: In the Underworld Arc, Xiomara runs to Axel's aid after sensing that he was in trouble during his fight with Rey.
• Boomerang Bigot: Despite being a canid breed herself, Xiomara looks down on other canid breeds outside of her assassin league with disdain and even referred to them all as savages.
• Bridal Carry: She is carried this way by Blanc after her fight with Kazuki.
• Cassandra Truth: No one believed Xiomara's doom's day premonition until the night of the red moon finally comes.
• Charm Person: Has a penchant for targeting new students first entering the school as they are the most hopeless and vulnerable.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Her Crescent-Moon smile that she loves to shoot at Kazuki from time to time.
• Cleavage Window: Has a large heart-shaped one on her poncho in her Cerberus High II design.
• Clothing Damage: Justified. Kazuki’s Zipping Burst rips through flesh like a piranha, leaving Xiomara bare in more ways than one. Thankfully, Xiomara was quick to heal from these gory injuries.
• Color-Coded Characters: Purple.
• Costume Evolution: In the sequel, Xiomara wears a white poncho that is open in the middle and has shoulder cut-outs along with two straps in a formation of a crisscross below her bust. Underneath it, she wears a long lilac shirt that exposes a significant amount of her cleavage, black gloves covering half of her hands, and a silver band choker around her neck. Xiomara wears dark violet trousers and black high-heeled sandals with ankle straps.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Xiomara easily defeats her brother in the gymnasium by dislocating both his arms.
• Dark Action Girl: To contrast the bright and bubbly Action Girl Sherbet Summers.
• Death Glare: Perpetually has one even when she's smiling.
• Devoted to You: Has this effect on Blanc who felt that she had made his life purposeful again.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Xiomara's halter top is half purple and black.
• Forehead of Doom: Had one before she stopped slicking back her bangs.
• Goth: To contrast Axel’s preppy style.
• Graceful Loser: Took her loss in her fight against Kazuki with stride.
• Healing Factor: Due to being a werewolf.
• Heel–Face Turn/Defeat Means Friendship: Instantly turns to the good side after being defeated by Kazuki.
• Hot Blooded Sideburns: A not-so-hot-blooded example.
• Ice Queen: Why Blanc is so attracted to her.
• Idiot Hair: Similar to Axel's but has two instead of one.
• Kick Chick: Unlike her brother whose forte is were-punches and slashes, Xiomara prefers transforming her legs to deliver deadly kicks.
• Lack of Empathy: Doesn't care about all the times she put her younger brother's life in danger.
• The Leader: She's the Mastermind type to her assassin league.
• Letting Her Hair Down: She doesn’t bother keeping her bangs spiked up after being defeated by Kazuki, giving her a friendlier look.
• Little Big Sister: She’s almost a foot shorter than her younger bro.
• Living Emotional Crutch: To Blanc. So much so that he is unable to go on after her death.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The Masculine Girl to Blanc’s Feminine Boy.
• Manipulative Bitch
• Meaningful Name: Her name is of Spanish origin meaning “battle-ready”.
• Modesty Shorts: Black spanks under her skirt.
• Nice Mean And In Between: The one who’s in-between.
• Nobody Touches the Hair: Having her hair messed up is stated to be one of her dislikes on the wiki.
• Older Than She Looks: She’s nineteen and 4’11.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: Briefly appears as a ghost to give Blanc the courage to defeat Akuji.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: Doesn’t need the full moon to transform.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's 4'11 but was able to subdue her almost 6'0 brother.
• Pointy Ears: Due to her werewolf race.
• Pregnant Badass: Downplayed as she doesn't fight but is shown riding a motorcycle to the school in Chapter 8.
• Promotion to Parent: Became Axel’s parental figure after the death of their mother and the subsequent neglect of their father.
• Prophecies Are Always Right: Her premonition of the world ending in the sequel was proven correct.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Axel’s Red.
• Red Right Hand: Anyone could tell right away which one is the nice sibling and which is the crazy one by just looking at her and Axel. Could it possibly be the sharp vacant red eyes that are perpetually giving you a Death Glare?
• Reverse Arm-Fold: How she stands when she is introduced.
• Rooting for the Empire: Her backstory explains how all of the books that she used to read were ones with bleak realities and hopeless futures in which the adversary always won.
• The Runaway: Ran away from home just to go to Cerberus High.
• Sacrificial Lion: First major death in the series.
• Scars Are Forever: Since her brother, Axel is still marred from Rey's attack after all these years, it can be assumed that she possesses a scar where her heart is.
• The Stoic: To contrast Axel’s boisterous nature.
• Super-Reflexes: In Chapter 6, she managed to avoid every slashing attack from Axel without breaking a sweat.
• Taking the Bullet/Instant Death Bullet: Xiomara gets fatally shot in the heart by Rey’s “Silver Bullet Breacher'' after trying to shield Axel who was shot prior in the hip. This causes Axel to be struck once more in the left shoulder from the bullet going through Xiomara’s body.
• Tough Love: Often scolded Axel whenever he got hurt as a child so he wouldn’t rely so much on his healing factor when he eventually developed one.
• Villain Takes an Interest: Throughout the Brazen Youths Arc, Xiomara tries to sway Kazuki into joining her assassin's league as he possesses a great power like no other.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Inverted. Xiomara specializes in Submission Holds.

Blanc Isolde

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 4, Cerberus High II Chapter 2

“QUIET! I WILL LET NO ONE BECOME BETWEEN ME AND XIOMARA! I MADE IT MY LIFE GOAL TO MAKE HER INTO MY WIFE ONCE SHE BECOMES HEADMASTER!!!”

Blanc Isolde is a minor antagonist of the Brazen Youths Arc. He is a nineteen-year-old frosthound-canid who serves under Xiomara Amsel as her right-hand man and lover.

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• A Glass in the Hand: The immense power released from Kazuki’s Raging Burst all the way in the gymnasium is too much for Blanc’s senses to handle, resulting in him injuring his hand from gripping his glass of water too hard.
• An Ice Person
• Babies Ever After: In the sequel's epilogue which takes place 5 months after the ending, he and Xiomara are shown to have been gifted with a baby girl named Lumaia.
• Back from the Dead: Came back to life after Cerberus Kazuki defeated Ascended Neo.
• Blood from the Mouth: When he succumbs to Akuji’s poison.
• Boomerang Bigot: His family believed that they were above all canid breeds due to them being the most favored breed by human society. This caused him to look down on his fellow canid peers growing up and he still does as a Cerberus student.
• Break the Haughty: After being expelled from his all-human private school and condemned to Cerberus High, Blanc was just like the canid breeds he had been looking down on for so long. His life was given repurpose after when he was recruited by Xiomara to join her league of assassins.
• Bridal Carry: Blanc carries Xiomara this way after her fight with Kazuki.
• Chick Magnet: A lot of girls at Cerberus seem to be attracted to his feminine looks and the fact that he’s a frosthound. However, he makes it well known that he only has eyes for Xiomara.
• Color-Coded Characters: White.
• Colorful Theme Naming: His name is French for white.
• Costume Evolution: While he was already an adult in the first book, Blanc's sequel design truly shows his maturity over the years.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Blanc is very possessive of Xiomara.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Possesses very feminine traits.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Shown with much shorter hair and different bangs in the sequel.
• Fire/Ice Duo: With Ember.
• Glass Cannon: Hand-to-hand combat isn't his forte given his frail body. Long-range attacks are more of his forte as he prefers taking out his enemies using his unlimited ice arrows.
• Hair-Trigger Temper
• Happily Married: To Xiomara in the sequel.
• Important Hair Accessory: In the Underworld Arc, Blanc removes his black hair tie as a sign of him no longer holding back. He places it inside his deceased girlfriend’s crossed hands.
• Jerkass: To everyone else but his beloved Commander.
• Kicking My Own Butt: Blanc becomes a victim of Akuji's poisonous senbons during his fight with the demon in the Underworld Arc. In order to snap his body out of the poison's advancing effects and continue fighting, Blanc drives his ice arrow into his own leg.
• Little Bit Beastly: He’s a frosthound-canid.
• Long-Range Fighter: See Glass Cannon.
• Luminescent Blush: His face flushes like a tomato whenever Xiomara reaches out to caress his face or hand to cool him down.
• Malicious Misnaming: Axel calls him Frostie just to rile him up.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The Feminine Boy to Xiomara’s Masculine Girl.
• Monochromatic Eyes: He has blank white eyes.
• Mystical White Hair: This causes him to be treated like some sort of unicorn around the school.
• Nice Mean And In Between: The meanie of the assassin trio.
• Parental Abandonment: His parents disowned him after being expelled from his private school.
• Power Stereotype Flip: He’s pretty quick-tempered for someone who manipulates the cold element of ice.
• Pretty in Mink: His main outfit featured a lot of dark teal fur trimming.
• Rape as Backstory: Implied to on the receiving end of a lot of sexual abuse from a boy named Tristan when he still went to his private school.
• Showgirl Skirt: A rare male example. Worn over his pants is a long cloth that only covers his backside.
• Single-Target Sexuality: He’s Xio-Sexual.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Blanc reigns second as the character who swears the must in the series with the first being Eden.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: The book describes it as frost gathering at his hand.
• Stranger in a Strange School: Blanc was the only canid breed when he attended his all-human private school.
• Sugar-and-Ice Guy: He’s only capable of not being an asshole to Xiomara.
• Tsundere: His pride gets in the way of not being a Jerkass all the time so he comes off as this.
• Undying Loyalty: To Xiomara.

Ember Hertz

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 4, Cerberus High II Chapter 2

“Oralee. I will never, never let whatever is after you get to you. I swear on my life”

Ember Hertz is a minor antagonist in the Brazen Youths Arc. She is a seventeen-year-old hellhound-canid who serves as an assassin under Xiomara Amsel’s “Brazen Youths”.

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• Action Girl
• Ascended Extra: Plays more of a prominent role in the Underworld Arc.
• Back from the Dead: Came back to life after Cerberus Kazuki defeated Ascended Neo.
• Bare-Fisted Monk
• Blood from Every Orifice: When she transfers the ghosts tormenting Oralee into her Mark of the Beast brand resulting in her death.
• Boyish Short Hair
• Color-Coded Characters: Beige.
• Costume Evolution: As the headmaster of Cerberus High, her sequel outfit consists of a green suit.
• Fire/Ice Duo: With Blanc.
• Happily Married: After becoming an Official Couple in the first book, Ember and Sherbet get married.
• Hairstyle Inertia: She and Axel are the only ones who don't undergo an Expository Hairstyle Change.
• Hellhound
• Idiot Hair
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Retreated from her fight with Conrad after Elliot appeared.
• Line in the Sand: Before venturing to the Underworld, Ember gives everyone a chance to back down, explaining that it's a mission they might not come back from.
• Little Bit Beastly: She’s a hellhound-canid.
• Mysterious Past: Ember's past is never shown explicitly unlike the rest of the cast.
• Nice Mean And In Between: The nice one.
• Nice Girl/Token Good Teammate: Unlike the rest of Xiomara’s assassins, Ember is very personable and kind-hearted which is why she’s often overlooked by her peers.
• Playing with Fire
• Power Stereotype Flip: Even though she has fire elemental powers, Ember has a very mellow and pleasant personality.
• Putting the "Pal" in Principal: Ember is far from being an authoritarian figure as the headmaster of Cerberus High.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Approaches the whole Elliot's-going-to-end-the-world thing in the sequel in a levelheaded manner.
• Scars Are Forever: Her missing right eye has a vertical scar going down it.
• She Is the King:
  • In the first book, she is referred to as Sir Ember by lower assassins.
  • In the sequel, she referred to the school's headmaster while her wife is the deputy headmistress.
• Sleepy Head: Ember was always asleep in the scenes showing the main assassins in their dorm.
• Smarter Than You Look: Her expertise in all things occult was shown to surprise Kazuki and Axel.
• Spell Book: It is revealed that she owns a grimoire she keeps sealed off in her drawer.
• Tomboy

Elliot (unmarked spoilers)

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 8, Cerberus High II Chapter 2

“I’ll let you go only if you beg me.”

Elliot is a minor antagonist featured in the Brazen Youths Arc. Elliot is a black shuck-canid who serves as an assassin under Xiomara Amsel’s The Brazen Youths. He appears to be a young adult but in actuality, Elliot is eight-years-old due to his short life span of 20 years. In the sequel, he outlives his life expectancy and becomes a frail 28-year-old.

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• A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: When bumped into Sherbet while wearing his bandages, Elliot presented himself as a polite young man but when his abominable cyclops eye was bared, his personality does a complete 180 and he becomes a vicious and maniacal monster.
• Blindfolded Vision: Wears bandages over his face to conceal his cyclops eye.
• Casting a Shadow: All cryptid canid breeds have shadow-based abilities.
• Creepy Child: Illustrated in his backstory.
• Cyclops
• Disney Death: He was thought to have been killed by Kazuki and Conrad's Combination Attack in the first book but miraculously survived and had spent the years quietly building up his clan. No one questioned it when he had seemly burst into shadows as that was typical when a cryptid died.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: As a small child, the only article of clothing he wore was a long ragged black tank top similar to a dress, causing him to be easily mistaken for a girl.
• Ear Notch: A part of his left ear is described to have been gnawed off.
• Enfant Terrible: Elliot has had the reputation of being a terrorizer ever since he was a young pup guarding his cemetery.
• Evil Cripple: In the sequel, he's bound to a wheelchair and is working with Red Star to destroy the world.
• Evil Laugh: His laughter is described as cackling.
• Evil Old Folks: In the sequel.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: As an old man in the sequel, Elliot’s hair is much shorter in length and has retained its black color.
• A Father to His Men: In the sequel, he considers all members of his clan to be his own children since they are much younger than me.
• Harassing Phone Call: Elliot disrupts the peace of Kazuki's and Axel's quiet Tuesday morning with a phone call that reveals he's still and is currently planning the end of the world.
• Hellish Pupils
• Humanoid Abomination
• Little Bit Beastly: A black shuck-canid.
• Only One Name
• People Puppets: Sherbet becomes Elliot's puppet after being ensnared by his Pandora's Box.
• Redand Blackand Evil All Over: His color scheme is primarily red and black and he’s batshit crazy (without his bandages).
• Red Baron: He was known simply as Black Shuck by the townspeople he used to terrorize as a young pup.
• Slasher Smile: A frequent donner one when his bandages come off and his true personality is revealed.
• Snakes Are Sinister: Summons a bunch of shadow snakes to Kazuki's room that releases poisonous fumes when killed.
• Spontaneous Generation: He spawned from the shadows making him fit right into the cryptid category of canid breeds.
• The Jinx: He was born with the sole purpose of bringing death and misfortune to all those his contractor permits.
• The Soulless: Cryptids don't have souls as they are born from the darkness without parents.
• Younger Than He Looks: Justified. He appears to be in his senior year attending Cerberus but is actually eight years old due to his ephemeral lifespan.
  • In CHII, he's 28 years old but looks 78.

Others

Alonzo

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 1

“Aww, c’mon, kid. Don’t look like that. If you keep your head down and stay out of trouble, you’ll surely fit in!”

Alonzo was Kazuki Akai’s caretaker until he dropped the boy off to stay at the notorious school.

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• Abusive Parents: Downplayed to Kazuki. After being assigned to be Kazuki's caretaker after the death of Yuu, Alonzo believed the small child's catatonia was just an act and would do things like trip him and blow cigarette smoke in his face just to get a reaction from him.
• Cool Shades: Always wore shades in the small amount of screentime he had.
• Jerkass: See Abusive Parents above.
• Only One Name

Yuu Akai

Yuu Akai was the man who found Kazuki Akai in the woods right after he was begotten by Hades.

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• Half the Man He Used to Be: His entire upper half was consumed by Kazuki’s Zipping Burst.
• Muggle Foster Parents: Fostered Kazuki Akai, an Artificial Human that was created with the blood of Hades to be a Recarnation of an archdemon's daughter.
• Posthumous Character

Lump

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 2

“Fear not, young hooded boy, for I am going to paint that visceral red a fabulous blue!”

“Along with that girl’s pretty little neck.”

The main person Sherbet was fighting in one of the school's free-for-alls the moment before Kazuki entered. Lump later challenges her to a rematch which ends in him running away with his tail between his legs.

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• Catchphrase: Always has to add the word 'fabulous' to his sentences.
• Eccentric Artist
• Little Bit Beastly: A dachshund-canid or wiener dog.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Shares his name with Picasso's dog Lump.
• Sissy Villain

Shadow Kazuki

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 7

When Kazuki finally learns the truth behind his existence, his despair manifests into a being known as Shadow Kazuki who attacks him in the recesses of his mind with Rouge nowhere to help him.

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• Absurdly Sharp Claws
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Of Kazuki’s despair.
• Break Them by Talking: Shadow Kazuki was able to stop Kazuki from struggling when being ripped in half by repeating a bunch of "you're nothing" to him. This succeeds in rendering Kazuki completely limp and he even starts to echo his evil imposter's despair-inducing chant.
• Eyeless Face: To contrast Wraith Rouge’s No Mouth.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Ripped Kazuki in half vertically with just his bare hands. Thankfully, Kazuki woke up.
• Self-Duplication: Shadow Kazuki duplicates himself when he rips Kazuki in half.

Underworld

In General

The Underworld is a dystopian realm that’s stuck in the Victorian era that was created by Hades. This realm parallels The Overworld in which our main characters inhabit as instead of humans and canid breeds living amongst each other, it’s demons and imps. Those who die in the Underworld are said to have their souls eaten by the Cerberus Beast. However, there are few that manage to make it to the Elysium, where they find eternal paradise.

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• Fantastic Racism: Imps are the Underworld counterpart of canid breeds with how they are treated in their respective world.
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Underworld resembles Victorian England/France.
• Horned Humanoid: The demons.
• The Imp: Imps are a race of lower demons that make up the minority of the Underworld. They are characterized by their unusual skin color, pointed ears, and tail.
• Our Demons Are Different: Demons in this series are just like humans except they have horns.

Rouge Bellerose

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 3, Another Story Chapter 9

Wraith Rouge

^{Click to see Blossomed Rouge}

^{Click to see Rouge in the Prototype Comic}

"Whatever you’re planning to do to me just get on with it. I’ve been long broken."

Rouge Bellerose is an important ally in the Cerberus High series being the past life of The Protagonist Kazuki Akai. She is a demoness originating from The Underworld who is the daughter of Casimir Bellerose, a benevolent yet unorthodox archdemon of Hades. Her father had sealed her Eternal Onyx Blade when she was an infant, believing that this would ensure that she would live a normal, peaceful life and that fighting was never on her mind. Unfortunately, fate still showed to be unkind as on the night of September 14th Rouge and her family were all attacked and slain by the Viscera Purgers, a nefarious anarchist group led by Vincent Fowler. As their mansion was being consumed by flames, Casimir used the last ounce of strength left in his gravely wounded body to crawl over to his equally dying daughter to comfort her in their final moments. Overcome with despair, Casimir threw his head back to let out a final wail, cursing the entire Underworld for bestowing such a cruel fate to his dear family. Hades heard the archdemon’s lamentations and granted his daughter a second chance at life in the Overworld. Rouge's physical body disintegrated with only her heart remaining so both it and her soul could be stored inside of an artificial body created with some of the god's essence. Unfortunately, the transfer process between different worlds proved too great for even a deity of his caliber. And thus, for the next 15 years, Rouge lied dormant inside her heart while the body gained a will of his own along with the name Kazuki Akai. It is when Kazuki has his heart ripped out by Axel Amsel in the A Mere Human Arc of the story that Rouge finally awakens from her slumber and becomes the human's Guardian Entity to help him traverse the notorious Cerberus High with a cool head.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: In the Prototype Comic made in 2018, Rouge’s hair was red like Kazuki’s.
• Aloof Ally: Has no interest in helping anyone but Kazuki.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She rivals Xiomara in this aspect.
• Anti-Hero: Rouge is portrayed as cold and jaded through her interactions with Kazuki and her disdain for his companions, but despite this, remains on the side of good and has her morals.
• Attractive Zombie: Neo sure thinks so.
• Back from the Dead: After being reborn in the Underworld Arc, Rouge returns to her homeworld 15 years after her death to rescue Kazuki.
• Bathtub Scene: In the Underworld Arc, Rouge treats herself to a bath which is interrupted when she suddenly senses Kazuki's presence.
• Bifauxnen: Despite her feminine figure and the fact that she is never seen in men's clothing, the author describes Rouge's features to be handsome in contrast to Kazuki's babyface.
• Blood from the Mouth: After having her throat slit by Nadia.
• Broken Bird: Becomes callous and jaded since her reawakening, caring only for Kazuki’s well-being and nothing else as she views all other characters as expendable.
• Chill of Undeath: In her blossomed form.
• Colorful Theme Naming: Her first name is French for red.
• Cool Big Sis: To Rey when both of them were still living happily in the Bellerose family manor.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Her death, as well as the deaths of her family, made her a bit of an asshole once being reawakened inside of Kazuki.
• Daddy's Girl: Was extremely close to her father when she was still alive.
• Damsel in Distress: Gets abducted and held captive by Neo as the gang fight to save her throughout the second half of the Underworld Arc.
• Divine Intervention: Rouge was able to save Eden from being wiped out by Requiem's universe reset. She was also able to salvage a scrap of Adam's journal when Cerberus destroyed it.
• Died Happily Ever After: At the end of the first book, Rouge is shown happy with her family in Elysium.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Her first death. Spent her final moments being cradled by her equally dying father Casimir.
• Disappears into Light: Her second death.
• Family Eye Resemblance: Inherited her father’s silver eyes.
• A Fate Worse Than Death: The thought of Rouge becoming Neo's doll forever makes the gang hold off on returning to their homeworld to recuse her instead.
• Flower Motifs: Roses.
• Forced Sleep: When she still lived within Kazuki's heart, Rouge had the ability to put the human to sleep whenever she liked.
• Go-Go Enslavement: The primary getup she wears while being held captive in Neo’s room is a very Stripperific Victorian lolita dress.
• Guardian Entity: Served as this when she still resided in Kazuki’s heart.
• Headbutt of Love: Did this to Kazuki followed by a forehead kiss before disappearing forever.
• Heroic Ambidexterity: Word of God says Rouge shares her ambidexterity with Kazuki.
• Hidden Disdain Reveal: When Rouge and Axel are roomed together in a tavern, she bluntly confesses that out of all the others, she hated him the most. But, she adds that after seeing how deeply the werewolf cares about the mission, it’s no wonder why Kazuki is in love with him.
• Idiot Hair: One matching her Reincarnation Kazuki.
• Just Friends: In the final chapter of Another Story, Rouge "son-zones" Eden after he requests a kiss before he dies.
• Like a Son to Me: Why she is unable to kiss Eden on the lips.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Devotes herself to being one for Kazuki throughout The Brazen Youths Arc as if any bad would happen to him would equally spell disaster for her.
• Ms. Fanservice: By far the most well-endowed female in the series.
• Mysterious Waif: To Kazuki when she first appears to him in her wraith form.
• Naked First Impression/Naked on Revival: The gang’s first time meeting her in her new physical form was when she was forced out of Kazuki’s body stark naked.
• Nerves of Steel: Until Neo found just the right way to break after mentioning how she never got the chance of becoming a mother.
• No Mouth: Her wraith form lacks a mouth.
• Out-of-Clothes Experience: Her wraith form within Kazuki’s heart.
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Her “blossomed” form, shown in the majority of the Underworld Arc, is just a notably more mature version of her original body at the time of her death.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: She holds a lot of power in Elysium which is evident by her new appearance. In this form, Rouge's hair no longer has its red sheen to it and her right side lock is now white.
• Pragmatic Hero: Rouge is shown to put Kazuki's safety above all else to the point that she tries to dissuade him on putting his life on the line for the sake of his friends.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
• Reincarnate in Another World: Rouge was meant to reincarnate in the Overworld away from the cruelness of the Underworld. Kazuki was created to be that otherworldly body her soul would be put in.
• Satellite Character: Rouge has no goals of her own other than to defend Kazuki and get him to conquer his fears.
• Say My Name: Rouge tells Kazuki in Chapter 4 that the only way to awaken his powers is to say her name. After looking deep within his heart, Kazuki calls out her name and summons his Eternal Onyx Blade for the first time.
• Scars Are Forever: She sports a ragged scar across her neck in her blossomed form which was the wound that did her in back in her homeworld.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Was unfazed by her naked rebirth after being expelled out of Kazuki’s body. However, she did bother to cover herself when she was naked a few chapters later when Rey walks in.
• Shipper on Deck: Rouge seems to act a tad bit friendlier towards Axel Amsel; seeing how much Kazuki is in love with him. Not to mention before dying, she asked Kazuki to kiss Axel for her.
• Slashed Throat: Her cause of death in her original body. Neo’s mother Nadia ambushed her from behind, dealing the fatal blow.
• Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration: See Synchronization.
• Spoiled Sweet: She certainly wasn't stuck up when she was younger and treated Rey like he was a part of the family.
• Statuesque Stunner: Girl’s six feet tall!
• Summoning Ritual: Performs an incantation ritual with all the other archdemons to summon the heart of Adam.
• Sweet Tooth: One of her favorite things is sweets.
• Synchronization: Even long after the separation of host and soul, Rouge is still linked with Kazuki in her new blossomed form. Every wound that is inflicted on Kazuki, Rouge’s body sustains permanent damage from it. On the other hand, if Rouge were to take any damage those wounds would heal in an instant with Kazuki’s body being unaffected.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Throughout The Brazen Youths Arc Rouge would get frustrated with Kazuki whenever he refused to follow her orders as if he were to get killed she too would cease to exist. All that changes at the end of the first book when Rouge's soul is finally put to rest and they both come to see each other as mother and son.
• Telepathy: Uses this to communicate with Eden after he becomes deaf and mute.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Her first death as an innocent fifteen-year-old. This causes Casimir to curse the entire Underworld for it.
• Trauma Conga Line: Let’s see…
  • dying a long and painful death in the arms of your equally dying father
  • finding out your brother has become a pawn of the very group that destroyed both of your lives
  • having your mind and body simultaneously violated
  • being emotionally and physically abused by your psychotic brother
  • discovering your captor is keeping the corpse of his mother stored in his closet
• Troubled Fetal Position: Rouge is seen floating this way in the brief vision Kazuki has before he fell unconscious in Chapter 3.
• Tsurime Eyes: To contrast Kazuki’s tareme eyes.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: In life, Rouge was a very selfless and soft-hearted girl who always had a warm welcoming aura surrounding her. Disrespecting her father Casimir was the only thing that she absolutely can not tolerate. But everything changed when she died and was resurrected inside Kazuki.
• You Remind Me of X: When Eden is devastated when finding out the sheer gravity of Requiem’s universe reset, Rouge is reminded of Kazuki who fell into the same despair.

Viscera Purgers

In General

The anarchist group founded by Neo D. Fowler’s father Vincent Fowler two decades before the events of the story. He sought to better The Underworld by wiping out all of Hades’s archdemons who he believes are holding him back from creating a world that's just like Elysium.

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• Badass Cape: The Viscera Purgers are often seen in public dressed in white cloaks with the organization's insignia on the back.
  • Neo's cloak, in contrast to the others, does not have a hood and only covers half of his body, similar to that of a Musketeer. The Leader of the organization would have a gold emblem instead of silver.
• Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: They have it in for Hades's archdemons.
• Curse: Those who refused to go along with the ritualistic suicide to make way for the next generation would be cursed with the souls of their deceased brethren. Whoever holds the power of the Viscera Purger's head is the only one who is able to lift the curse. Nadia fell victim to this due to her cowardice as well as Oralee years later.
• Light Is Not Good: Their cloaks are white, and every leader who rises to power possesses a blade forged from true light, yet their utopian objectives come at the expense of all Hades' archdemons and anybody who is related to them by blood.
• Oddly Small Organization: The group's second-generation only consists of five people. Four in Another Story.
• Ordered to Die: Two months after successfully wiping out of the archdemons and all those tied to them by blood, Vincent gathered all his followers to the basement of the headquarters where they would all kill themselves in a ritualistic suicide. As their fearless leader, Vincent had no qualms about joining his followers in death.
• Summon a Ride: With the emblem on their cloaks, the purgers are able to summon a magic coach carriage to transport themselves to any location.
• Time Stands Still: It was explained in Cerberus High: Another Story that the Viscera Purgers were able to execute all their evil deeds without anyone seeing them due to Vincent activating a stasis field around the area.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: The means of killing and destroying the lives of many.

Neo Delwyn Fowler

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 15

“Your submission pleases me but there’s still some fire left in your eyes that needs to be snuffed out.”

The Big Bad of the Underworld Arc. Neo is the second-generation leader of the Visceral Purgers and the son of Vincent Fowler, the ringleader behind the slaying of the Bellerose household 15 years ago.

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• A God Am I: Once becoming the new head, Neo completely discards his late father’s dream of building a utopia. He is now using his newfound powers to achieve godhood by becoming immortal. He achieves this.
• Bait the Dog: In his introduction, Neo presents himself as a caring friend towards Rey who need to be comforted after Rouge’s unprecedented return. However, right after putting the imp to bed, Neo lets his true personality surface as he devises a plan to kidnap the melancholic demoness.
• Bastard Bastard: Neo desired his mother was a Jerkass to his father every chance he got. However, his love for Nadia didn't stop him from murdering her when he believed she had abandoned him.
• Become Your Weapon: Fused with his Ephemeral Platinum Saber after it drained all of Kazuki’s blood from his heart.
• BFS: His Ephemeral Platinum Saber. Or EPS for short.
• Big Bad
• Blinded by Rage: After noticing fractures in Kazuki’s bladed tonfas, Neo tries to rile Kazuki up even more by lying about killing Oralee. Neo gets the reaction he was hoping for and Kazuki charges at him, resulting in the shattering of both his tonfas.
• Break Them by Talking: Was able to penetrate right through Rouge’s cold exterior by mentioning how she never got the chance to become a mother.
• Bridal Carry: Neo carries Rouge this way when he kidnaps her.
• Comforting Comforter: Does this to Rey in Chapter 15 when the imp had fallen asleep in his arms. Neo carries him to his room where he tucks his sleeping myrmidon in.
• Complete Immortality: When he ascends.
• Crystal Ball: Neo is able to summon a crystal ball that he uses to see events happening in other locations.
• Don'tLookAtMe: Has a meltdown whenever Cerberus Kazuki and the original three-headed hound gaze upon him with judgment.
• Drunk with Power/Start of Darkness: The moment he killed his mother and sealed the souls of the deceased former generation within her amulet was when Neo discovered his lust for power.
• 11th-Hour Superpower: Neo’s god form he achieved from fusing with his EPS after using it to drain all of Hades’s blood from Kazuki’s heart.
• The Glasses Come Off: As a child, Neo often wore eyeglasses but ditched them after sealing the ghost of the ghosts of the former purges within his mother's amulet upon killing her.
• Hellish Pupils: These are the only physical traits he inherited from his father.
• High on Homicide: The act of killing his mother gave him a sort of high he had never experienced in his young life.
• I Love the Dead: Neo sexually assaulted his own mother’s corpse after killing her.
  • He is also extremely attracted to Rouge due to her having cadaveric-like attributes in her new body.
• Improbable Age: Justified. He became the new head of the Viscera Purgers at the age of 10 due to his father wanting only those with pure, unaffected hearts to be the centerpiece of his Utopia.
• Knight of Cerebus: The story took a much darker tone with Neo’s introduction in the Underworld Arc
• Ladykiller in Love: Lampshaded by Akuji.

Akuji: Is it the same woman as before? Has the great Neo D. Fowler finally fallen for someone?

• The Leader: The Mastermind Type of the second-generation of Viscera Purgers.
• Meaningful Name: His name Neo is a prefix meaning “new”. This is a reference to him becoming the new head of the Viscera Purgers after the old generation committed mass suicide.
• Memento MacGuffin: The amethyst amulet he has embedded in the left breast of his tailcoat was something he took from his deceased mother’s body upon killing her as a memento and a sign of reverence.
• Mind Rape: The aphrodisiac Neo hits Rouge with as she is being assaulted by him causes her mind to go haywire while everything else slows to a snail’s pace.
• Narcissist: Coupled with being a misogynist.
• Parental Incest: For as long as he could remember, Neo harbored sexual feelings for his own mother. He finally acted on these feelings after killing her.
• Parental Neglect: His father Vincent had no interest in raising a child of his own.
• Pimped-Out Cape: Neo's cloak, in contrast to the others, does not have a hood and only covers half of his body, similar to that of a Musketeer. And as the The Leader of the organization, his emblem is gold instead of silver.
• Sadist: Enjoys putting Rouge through hell as he views her as his plaything. The idea of an archdemon’s daughter submitting to him excites him.
• Self-Made Orphan: Not long after his father killed himself, Neo, at twelve years old murdered his remaining parent Nadia.
• Slasher Smile: Being a blood-thirsty sadist, he dons this a lot.
• Smug Snake: Loves taking the time to toy with his opponents he considers inferior before taking them out.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He really took after his mother Nadia.
• Technicolor Eyes: He has purple eyes.
• Villainous Breakdown: Seeing Cerberus Kazuki's eyes during their battle triggered this. Neo has his final one inside his Forever-Still Space when he is made to be judged by the three heads of Cerberus for all of eternity.
• Villainous Crush: On Rouge.
• Wicked Cultured: Other than being a disgusting Sadist, Neo is also a skilled pianist.
• Yandere: Wants to keep Rouge as his mindless doll forever.
  • He was also one to his mother Nadia.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Said something along these lines to Rey before killing him.

Rey

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 15

“You know what responsibility you have now as a special person to Master, right sister? You must do everything in your power to continue making him happy.”

Rey is a minor antagonist of the Underworld Arc and the adopted younger brother of Kazuki Akai’s past life, Rouge. He is the Sole Survivor of the slaying of his whole adoptive family that was orchestrated by the radical anarchist Vincent Fowler 15 years before the events of the actual series.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: Despite all the monstrosities he's committed throughout the Underworld Arc, Rey's gory demise at the hands of the person he thought was his friend is tragic.
• Alien Blood: He has blue blood.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: His skin is pale blue. Having unnatural colored skin is common of those of imp blood.
• Artificial Limbs: All five of his fingers on his left hand were replaced with those of a ball-jointed doll by Vincent when he found him in the alley.
• Back from the Dead: Vincent brought him back after finding him dead and alone as a child.
• Barefoot Loon
• Bitch Slap: Delivers one to Rouge the morning after witnessing her get raped by Neo.
• Blind Obedience: Love makes you blind.
• Breeding Slave: Not him but his mother and the rest of the imps from the illegal baby-making factory Rey was born in.
• Cry into Chest: This was the first thing he did upon being reunited with his beloved sister whom he believed to have been dead for the past 15 years.
• Cute and Psycho
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: His youthful looks and his questionable fashion choices make him fit this trope.
• Emotional Powers: His formidable Breacher Palm ability is channeled through extreme anger and bloodlust.
• Et Tu, Brute??: Rey is killed by Neo who lures the imp to a Love Hotel under the guise of spending the night together.
• Evolving Weapon: His Breacher Palm evolves into his Silver Bullet Breacher Palm.
• Fatal Flaw: Envy.
• Fingore: Had all five of his fingers severed clean off as a small child by a bunch of hooligans.
• Happily Adopted: By Casimir. Didn’t last long.
• Heal It With Fire: To avoid the small imp from bleeding out, the goons who severed Rey’s fingers cauterized them with each of their cigarettes.
• The Imp: Rey is literally an imp; the lower race of demons that make up the minority of the Underworld.
• Intimate Hair Brushing: A not so intimate example as this is one of the many things Rey does to Rouge to keep her dolled up and pretty for Neo.
• Jerkass: Lacks patience for anyone else besides Neo.
• Killed Offscreen: Rey's death at the hands of his master Neo is implied to be a gory one with his bloody crown brooch confirming it a few chapters later when Neo reveals it to Kazuki.
• Love Martyr: Wholeheartedly believes that his master Neo can do no wrong. This is made absurd when Rey gets angry at Rouge when she stood up for him after Neo had punched him in the face.
• Madness Mantra: In Chapter 23 Rey's mind goes haywire at the thought of spending the night with his beloved master and begins internally repeating the word love.
• Meaningful Name: Rey is Spanish for king.
• Never Be Hurt Again: Was promised this by Vincent.
• Nose Bleed: Has one while imagining himself and his beloved master spending the night together.
• The Nose Knows: Rey has a very keen sense of smell and becomes disgusted when he finds out how much Kazuki smells exactly like Rouge.
• Older Than He Looks: Justified. Due to his imp blood, he looks like a preteen despite being 23.
• The Power of Hate: The emotion that fuels his Breacher Palm.
• Power Palms: His Breacher Palm.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Reverts back to his old puerile self when around Rouge just to get under her skin as he believes that she’s just an imposter sent by the gods to test his willpower and that the real Rouge actually did die on that horrible night.
• Sanity Slippage: His broken mental state begins to worsen exceptionally with the return of his sister Rouge.
• Scars Are Forever: Rey has a long scar going across the bridge of his nose and on the left side of his lip from the abuse he faced during his youth on the streets.
• Shy Finger-Twiddling: Does this while waiting for Neo on the bed of their love hotel room.
• Sole Survivor: Of the Bellerose family massacre 15 years prior to the start of the story.
• Street Urchin: Rey lived on the streets before being adopted by Casimir.
• Sweet Tooth: Justified. He developed one from being around Rouge who was a big sweet eater herself.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Macarons!
• Tragic Keepsake: The gold crown brooch he wears on his collar was a gift to him from Rouge since she always loved to dress him in cute clothes
• Trauma Button: To anything related to the tragedy that claimed the lives of his adoptive parents and sister.
• Tron Lines: When his Breacher Palm is activated, Rey gains cyan circuits that go up to his arm.
• Undying Loyalty: To Neo.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Which makes Rey's new psychotic personality so much harder for Rouge to accept.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
• Yandere

Lita

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 15

“Whatever your goal is you’ll never achieve it because Kazuki and his friends will be there to stop you!”

Lita is a character featured in the Underworld Arc. She is a twenty-five-year-old demoness who serves under Neo D. Fowler as a member of the Viscera Purgers.

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• Anime Hair: Her hair is primarily short with a large solitary curl falling on the right side of her face.
• Cool Crown: Wears a tiara on her forehead.
• Curtains Match the Window: Purple hair and purple eyes.
• Defiant to the End: Even after being mortally wounded by Neo, Lita refuses to show weakness and rightfully chastises him.
• Early-Bird Cameo: She was the tall figure with Rey in Chapter 15. This was confirmed by the author as there was no of knowing who it was as she was wearing a hood at the time.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Her pupils are white diamonds.
• Face Death with Dignity: After transporting Oralee to safety, Lita closes her eyes and relaxes before being decapitated by Neo.
• Kick Chick: She's a master at muay thai.
• Mama Bear: She’s extremely protective of Oralee.
• Off with Her Head!!: Was swiftly decapitated by Neo.
• Only One Name
• Parental Substitute: To Oralee.
• Sensual Spandex: Her outfit really makes her stand out in a world that wears only Victorian-styled get-ups.
• Sound-Only Death: A single slashing sound is used to signify Lita's decapitation to the reader.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: In Chapter 19, Lita and Oralee managed to disappear in the short time Kazuki took his eyes off of them when they were in the middle of blessing children.

Akuji

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 19

“It’s Akuji, Neo. I brought some lasses over that might be to your liking. How about we have some fun together?”

Akuji is a minor antagonist in the Underworld Arc. He is a twenty-five-year-old demon who serves under Neo Delwyn Fowler as a member of the Viscera Purgers anarchist group. He was brought into the organization from the same orphanage as Lita.

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• A Lady on Each Arm: Akuji was introduced knocking at Neo's door to know if he wanted to have some fun with two girls he had picked
• Braids of Action: A rare male example. Akuji styles his long locks in a single braid.
• Childhood Friends: Implied with Lita.
• Flung Clothing: Akuji throws his cloak to the wind at the start of his fight with Blanc.
• Hot as Hell: Somehow manages to be hornier than the sick and sadistic Neo D. Fowler himself.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Met his end when he was impaled by Blanc's ice pillar.
• Only One Name
• Poisoned Weapons: His poisoned senbons.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning
• Smoke Out: When Blanc sends a rain of ice arrows down on Akuji during their fight, the demon throws a smoke bomb before the icicles could reach him. He appears behind the frosthound while he is confused and strikes him in the back with his poison senbons.
  • He throws another one before lunging at Blanc armed with a stun baton.
• Static Stun Gun: Keeps a stun baton holstered on his belt.
• Utility Belt: Where he keeps most of his gadgets holstered on.
• You're Cute When You're Angry: Says to Blanc at the beginning of their battle when the frosthound became enraged at his laid-back attitude.

Oralee AKA Child of Light

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 16

“This person’s missing his horns, we have to help him!”

She is a 15-year-old demoness who is the youngest member of the Viscera Purgers with her being just 2 months old when the purgers of the old generation took their own lives in a ritualistic suicide.

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• The Baby of the Bunch: At fifteen years old, Oralee is the youngest member of the Viscera Purgers.
• Birthday Buddies: Oralee shares her September 14th birthday with Kazuki.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Oralee acts like a brat to Rey whenever the imp doesn't want to play with her.
• Can't Live Without You: In Another Story, it is explained that Oralee and Kazuki cannot exist without each other as light cannot exist without darkness.
• The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party: Rey was always the one to be her playmate whenever she threw one of these. He had no choice but to comply to avoid having to face Lita’s wrath.
• Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy: Gave a wordless curtsey to Kazuki after blessing him in Chapter 17.
• The Ghost: Oralee is mentioned in the sequel but never makes an appearance.
• The Ingenue: Too innocent for her own sake.
• Meaningful Name: Her name means “light” in Hebrew.
• Mystical White Hair
• Indirect Kiss: Almost has one with Kazuki when she gives him her candy apple that she had already taken a bite from.
• In-Series Nickname: She was referred to as the Child of Light by Vincent.
• Only One Name
• Pimped-Out Cape: When she awakens as the Child of Light, Oralee's Viscera Purgers's hood reappears as a long king’s robe with a gold emblem instead of silver.
• Protectorate: To Lita.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Her hair is white with a pinkish tint and she is the purest little thing!
• Stealth Hi/Bye: In Chapter 19, Lita and Oralee managed to disappear in the short time Kazuki took his eyes off of them when they were in the middle of blessing children.
• Take Care of the Kids: Oralee was handed over to a 10-year-old Lita by her mother right before committing suicide.
• Tastes Like Friendship: Oralee runs over to Kazuki and offers him a bite of her candy apple after seeing him in distress. He politely refuses with a blush as she was presenting him the part that she ate from.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: When Lita's bereaved mother hands her Oralee, the dark-skinned demon is enchanted by the baby's heterochromatic eyes.

Vincent Fowler AKA Victor Harper

Vincent Fowler is the late father of Neo D. Fowler and the first generation leader of the Viscera Purgers. He sought to better The Underworld by wiping out all of Hades’s archdemons whom he believes are holding him back from creating a utopia. Near the end of his reign as head, Vincent began recruiting orphaned children to replace the old generation since he believed their purity would serve as the foundation of his new world. In Another Story, it is revealed that his real name is Victor Harper.

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• BFS: His Ephemeral Platinum Saber.
• Hellish Pupils
• Insane Troll Logic: Vincent's reasoning for committing genocide only makes sense to a crazy cult leader like him.
• Necromancer: His Puppeteer Mage-craft at his used to bring Rey back from the dead when they first met.
• The Nose Knows: It was implied in Another Story that Eden had inherited his ability to sniff out all of Hades's archdemons and their descendants from his father.
• Parental Neglect: Was a neglectful father to his son Neo.
• Posthumous Character
• Predecessor Villain: He was the first-generation leader of the Viscera Purgers.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: Committed mass murder for the sake of ridding the Underworld of all its impurities.

Nadia Edwards

Nadia Edwards is the late mother of Neo Delwyn. Fowler and a former maid of Casimir Bellerose. She quits her job after finding out she’s pregnant with Vincent Fowler’s child Neo at the age of nineteen.

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• Crocodile Tears: Nadia weaponizes her tears to make her son Neo take pity on her so he could lift the curse. She stops crying for a second to smirk at this fact.
• Dirty Coward: Fled the organization right before the ceremony which required all purgers over the age of 13 to take their lives via poison to pave way for the new generation to be the engineers of the new world. Those who didn’t go along with the ritual would be cursed for the rest of their lives by the ghosts of their deceased brethren.
• Fake Pregnancy: Blurted out that she was pregnant when Neo was about to kill her. However, this only further enraged her son who felt like she had abandoned him. Neo then cut her open to extract the "parasite" from her only to discover that she had lied about her pregnancy.
• Gutted Like a Fish: After killing her this way, Neo searched in her open cavity to see if she was pregnant.
• Dual Wielding: Her weapons are two daggers she keeps in thigh holsters hidden under her skirt.
• Improbable Age: She was the former head cook of the Bellerose household at age 16.
• In the Hood: Was the hooded person who killed Rouge 15 years ago.
• May–December Romance: Had a fling with Vincent who is 23 years her senior.
• Meido: Formerly.
• The Oldest Profession: Nadia turns to prostitution to make ends meet after becoming a renegade.
• Parental Incest: One-sided. She was oblivious to her son’s lust for her to the very end.
• Peek-a-Boo Corpse: Her corpse had been sitting inside Neo’s closet for years without anyone knowing until Rouge made the unfortunate discovery.
• Posthumous Character
• Spoiler Character: Nadia alone is intertwined with a lot of twists and turns in the story.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Looks just like her son Neo.
• Supreme Chef
• Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: Neo killed her with her own daggers.
• Wight in a Wedding Dress: Neo dressed Nadia's corpse in a wedding gown and still wore it when she was brought back as a grotesque zombie in Neo's Forever-Still Space.
• Zombie Gait: Has this when she is brought back as a Wight in a Wedding Dress.

Hades and Archdevils

In General

Archdemons exist in The Underworld to serve as the guardians of Hades that are elected every fifty years with every generation being composed of five males and two females. They are able to harness a dark ability called the Eternal Onyx Blade which is a blade that is able to be materialized by just sheer willpower alone. Uriel is hailed as the Grand Archdevil as he was Hades’s right-hand man and the first known user of the Eternal Onyx Blade according to the history books.

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• Black Swords Are Better: Their Eternal Onyx Blade.
• Dark Is Not Evil: The archdemons are the pillars of the Underworld and all possess a dark ability called the [[Eternal Onyx Blade.
• Demon Lords and Archdevils: Archdemons are the disciples of Hades.
• Great Offscreen War: The archdemons' battle against the Viscera Purgers following the death of Casimir. It's not even shown in a flashback.
• Posthumous Character
• Rule of Seven: Throughout the Underworld's history, there had been only seven archdemons.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Their Eternal Onyx Blade is summoned by just will alone.
• Two Girls to a Team: Only two girls are allowed into the main seven.

Hades

Hades is the demonic god of the Underworld. He created Kazuki Akai’s body to be the human vessel to harbor Rouge’s soul when she reincarnated in the Overworld.

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• Deity of Human Origin: A flashback in Another Story shows how Hades used to possess a mortal body.
• Divine Intervention: How Hades was able to reincarnate Rouge.
• Sadly Mythtaken: Some liberties were taken with Hades's backstory shown in Another Story.

Cerberus

See 'Another Story''

Grand Archdemon Uriel

See Another Story

Casimir Bellerose

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 24 (flashback), Chapter 27 (ghost), Cerberus High: Another Story Chapter 1

“You see, Rouge, you have to keep on fighting for those precious. Kazuki and the others are in desperate need of your prayers right now.”

One of the seven archdemons of the Underworld God Hades. Casimir Bellerose is the late father of Kazuki Akai’s past life, Rouge, and the adoptive father of Rey.

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• All for Nothing: He sealed Rouge’s Eternal Onyx Blade when she was just a small infant, believing that would be enough to ensure that his daughter will live a normal peaceful life and that fighting was never on her mind. Unfortunately, fate still showed to be unkind following the tragedy that took the lives of him and his family that fateful September night.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Downplayed. Casimir often deviated from the traditional way of archdemons, causing him to be looked down upon by his fellow disciples of Hades. However, he is still well-liked by the rest of the population.
• Blackmail: Played for Laughs. Blackmailed Darcy into not reporting him to the higher-ups by revealing many photographs of the younger archdemon’s womanizing side.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best
• Doting Parent: To both his biological daughter and his adopted son.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
• Family Eye Resemblance: Shares his silver eyes with his daughter.
• Family Man: Abandoned his archdemon duties to spend more time with his family that he dotes on.
• Interspecies Adoption: Adopted Rey who’s an imp.
• Left for Dead: Was left to bleed out on the floor with his daughter as flames consumed their entire home.
• Perma-Stubble: In part to show his age and his carefree disposition.
• Posthumous Character: Died 15 years before the events of the story.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Darcy’s Blue.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Casimir was the first to die at the hands of Vincent’s people since he was considered the weakest out of all seven archdemons (it was to make a statement to the rest of the archdemons).
• Sinister Scythe: His Eternal Onyx blade.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Darcy. Albeit onesided on Darcy's part.

Darcy Cadmus

Debut: Cerberus High Chapter 27 (ghost), Cerberus High: Another Story Chapter 1

“Giving up already? Man, this isn’t like you, Rouge.”

Darcy Cadmus is a Posthumous Character who served as one of Hades's seven archdemons alongside Rouge’s father Casimir Bellerose. He often criticized Casimir for his unorthodox ways as he had a strong adherence to anything that tarnishes the name of Hades.

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• Blackmail: Played for Laughs. Darcy was blackmailed by Casimir into not reporting him to the higher-ups by revealing many photographs of the younger archdemon’s womanizing side.
• The Casanova: As revealed by the blackmail photos Casimir had of him.
• Dual Wielding
• Dude Looks Like a Lady
• Embarrassing Nickname: Rouge calls Darcy "Uncle Darcy" much to his chagrin.
• Gentleman Snarker
• Posthumous Character: Died 15 years before the events of the story.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Casimir’s Red.
• Royal Rapier: His Eternal Onyx blade.
• Technicolor Eyes: Had peach-colored eyes.
• Undying Loyalty: He’s EXTREMELY loyal to Hades.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Casimir. Albeit onesided on Darcy's part.
• Youthful Freckles: Had freckles and was said to be younger than Casimir.

Others

Blair Bellerose

The deceased mother of Rouge Bellerose.

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• Alliterative Name: Blair Bellerose
• Etiquette Nazi: Due to being a high-class Victorian mother, Blair is very prudish and doesn't want her daughter doing anything unbecoming of a lady.
• Posthumous Character: Died 15 years before the events of the story.