Character sheet for characters in Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?
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Crimson Vow
An all-female adventuring brigade, composed of the protagonists. They are quite possibly one of the strongest groups in the entire world, in spite of being several decades younger and less experienced than most other parties and adventurer guilds. In General
- Almighty Janitor: You don't see a lot of parties of C-ranked hunters who are each as strong as an entire team of higher ranks.
- Amazon Brigade: One of the rare all-female parties, their example and a certain incident related in a bonus chapter in the manga starts a new trend of more women-only parties.
- Combination Attack: Mile instructs her teammates to rapidly heat and cool a target to make it brittle and shatter its armor.
- Combat Pragmatist: All three have a tendency to be rather practical in combat. They often use nonlethal attacks that are almost guaranteed to put their opponents to their knees, such as clouds of water filled with high-concentration capsaicin (the compound that makes food spicy), but they have no problem killing anyone if they think it's necessary.
- Dark and Troubled Past: All of the girls except for Mavis had some pretty traumatic backstories:
- Reina's father being murdered by bandits who intended to kidnap and sell her, and her second family suffering a similar fate after another merchant betrays them to another group of bandits. Consequently bandits become her Berserk Button, and she wants to burn every single one that she runs into as a result.
- Pauline's somewhat successful father who ran a trading company gets murdered, and his company is transferred to a shady businessman who then also forces her mother to become his mistress. She asks her mother to let her fulfill the revenge against the shady businessman so that her mother didn't have to get her hands dirty.
- Mile, aside from being reincarnated from Earth after dying young, is forced out of her house after her mother dies and her father remarries a lady who is essentially the evil stepmother from Cinderella. She's dirt poor after running away from home, and constantly ends up doing things which makes her stand out more despite her wanting to have an average life.
- Mavis (mostly) had a loving family, but they disapproved of her wanting to be a knight and tried to force her to be a Proper Lady. She simply runs away to learn how to be a Hunter.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble:
- Sanguine: Mile - Genki Girl Cloudcuckoolander.
- Choleric: Reina - Hot-headed with The Power of Hate.
- Melancholic: Mavis - Valiant and Prone to Tears.
- Phlegmatic: Pauline - Rational Soft-Spoken Sadist.
- Interclass Friendship: Played With. At the start of the story, the Crimson Vow have wildly different social statuses but circumstances made them equal. Mile was the daughter of a Viscount but was on the run from her family, Mavis is the daughter of a Count who ran away from home, Pauline was the child of a rich merchant's household who had no access to the family's wealth and Reina was the daughter of a poor peddler. However as they resolve their various situations, Mile is technically the Viscountess Ascham, Mavis is a noble in good standing, Pauline's mother now runs the family business but Reina remains the orphan of a peddler.
- Mook Horror Show: Once Mavis, Pauline, and Reina get stronger, they along with Mile often defeat their opponents so quickly that any bad guy who wasn't directly targeted watches in horror as their comrades are taken out.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: A Black Magician Girl with a fiery temper, a tomboyish runaway Knight in Shining Armor who's Prone to Tears, a seemingly sweet and motherly water mage with a kilometers-long sadistic streak...and Mile, who makes the others look completely sane. This quirky group are the world's strongest Hunters.
- Training from Hell: What Mile's training with the other girls amounts to at first. They can barely keep up with her, though it pays off well later on, such as when Mavis uses Mile's "1.2 attack speed" attack, which several opponents are unable to keep up with. Or Reina and Pauline being able to cast spells faster, and control their movement such as when Reina causes one of her fireballs to go over a mage's ice shield.
Mile/Adele von Ascham/Kurihara Misato
- Voiced by: Azumi Waki (Japanese), Sarah Anne Williams (English)
Misato Kurihara, an intelligent girl who wasn't able to make any friends due to her abilities was killed by a truck after saving a little girl. She soon learns that she is given a chance to be reborn in a fantasy world with her memories intact by a person who claims to be 'God' and offers her an abilities to live in the next world. “Please, make my abilities average!” is what she says.
Reborn as the noble Adele von Ascham, she soon realizes that 'God' granted her wish by setting her abilities to the average between the weakest life form on the planet (an amoeba) and the strongest (an Elder Dragon), which came out to 6800 times more powerful than an average human. After many incidents occurred, she soon takes the alias 'Mile' and attend the Hunter's Prep School, where she met with Reina, Mavis and Pauline to form the Crimson Vow.
- The Ace: She was this in her previous life, but the result being a lack of friends, something she wished for. Played for Laughs in her second life where she's just good at everything, her friends becomes exasperated when she tries to lie her way out, say "It's a family secret technique".
- Achievements in Ignorance: Due to her ditzy nature, she oftentimes is unaware of the amazing things she does. Some examples include accidentally revealing her father's murderous plot to usurp the Ascham name, and getting justice for her murdered biological mother and paternal grandfather; creating an entirely new class of ridiculously effective barrier spells that make anything she protects with it invincible, purely out of desperation; and revolutionizing magic through her understanding of the exact workings of the nanomachines, rather than the flawed methods the natives have developed.
- Something of an inversion where magic is concerned, as she is not achieving amazing things because she doesn't know they're not possible, but rather because she is the only person who knows they are.
- A-Cup Angst: Any time she faces an enemy, they will either compliment or insult her for her lack of breasts. Curbstomp Battle ensues. She even measures Reina's chest at night to make sure she isn't getting a bigger chest then her.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Her hair is described as "silvery" in the light novels. The covers give it purplish highlights, which the anime turns into straight-up purple hair.
- Almighty Janitor: Is only ranked as a C-rank Hunter despite being well, her. Was even more egregious before, when she started out as an F-rank when she first joined, and solving this issue (as the Guild couldn't afford to be seen "wasting" someone of her talents, lest it draw the ire of its other Hunters) was why she went to the Hunter's prep school in the first place.
- The Archmage: In terms of raw magical power, she comes up to roughly half the power of the greatest Elder Dragons. And with her high authorization levels, she can output upwards of 3.27x as much as someone with her already-absurd level of raw power could throw around by directing communicating with the Nanomachines that make up the setting's magic system. Do the math.
- Besides raw power, her superior understanding of the world's magic system and modern knowledge allow her to make up more spells on the fly and teach them to others.
- Badass Adorable: She's a cute preteen who can put up a good fight against an Elder Dragon. Amazingly even she specialized in magic, she's very good in swordsmanship without even trying (which leads her to using a magic sword).
- Bag of Holding: A variation. Though Mile usually accesses it from the front pockets of her clothes, she's actually accessing a pocket in some alternate dimension using her magic. The natives have their own version, called "Storage Magic", but it works on different principles and is vastly inferior to Mile's; most notably, her pocket dimensions have no concept of time or mass, so nothing decays or deteriorates over time and anything of any size and weight can be shoved in no problem (especially useful for carcasses or food), and it's basically infinite, to boot.
- It should be noted that this becomes a frequent plot-point for Mile, and an illustration of how ridiculously overpowered she is. For context, any mage that can use storage magic is instantly bumped up to C rank, ignoring several years worth of necessary experience and training; are highly valued by merchants, adventuring parties, and militaries alike, to the point where you don't need to do anything else but be a magical porter; and while the best mages are limited to about two tonnes worth of cargo, Mile can place as much as she likes, and doesn't even need to worry about decay or deterioration!
- Berserk Button:
- Calling her flat-chested in the anime will force her to use her real power to knock you out.
- In the light novel, she has a major issue with "bad writing", even in real life. If a situation ends in a Deus ex Machina, she'll rant until hoarse.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Mile is very nice and sweet, and more polite than most due to remembering her Japanese Politeness, but if she feels it appropriate she will not hesitate to crush those that anger her. Especially if you harm her friends or treat her as an item.
- Blood from the Mouth: Blood comes out of her mouth after getting slammed into a stone wall from an elder dragon's tail attack inside the temple. The dragon, who is capable of speech, tells the others that Mile is already dead, but the three girls don't believe him, and try what they can to stall it to give Mile time to recover.
- Cloudcuckoolander: To the point where her friends from Eckland Academy have even developed an "Adele Simulator" by which they could predict her actions almost perfectly by lowering intelligence, fully separating from common sense, and increasing carelessness by a factor of five.
- Comically Invincible Hero: Not many enemies she's encountered can actually pose a legitimate threat to her. Even her first enemy in the story isn't much of a Warm-Up Boss.
- Covert Pervert: In the anime;, she forces her party members to take their clothes off while measuring them for swimsuits.
- Cuteness Proximity: She has little defense against the really cute, especially if it goes into Moe tropes. When she encounters a five-year-old Cat Girl watching the desk at an inn, she becomes borderline obsessed. Of course, she's not the only one, as the other girls are just as eager to play with the cutie and while her father tells them not to use cat toys and such to get her attention, he also lets slip that he's confirmed they don't work.
- Dark and Troubled Past: In her new life, her father had her mother and grandfather killed so he could usurp the viscount title. Then, he hid away, brought in a mistress and her daughter as his new wife and child, and proceeded to neglect and bully Mile until she was old enough to be shipped off to Eckland Academy. She eventually had to leave the academy and take on the identity of the Hunter 'Mile' to avoid being killed, when her identity was revealed.
- Didn't Think This Through: She decides the best way to go on vacation is to go to the nearest beach and spend time with her friends there. Meanwhile the locals there were wondering why the girls are on the beach half-naked (i.e wearing bikinis), to the embarrassment of the other girls.
- Ditzy Genius: She may be smart, but she has absolutely no common sense, and some poor social skills beside. Fitting for someone who spent almost all of her life on a pedestal.
- Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help: She constantly ends up helping people who need it, such as when she thought the innkeeper's daughter Lenny was kidnapped along with other young girls. Earlier she also protected a young boy who tripped in front of a royal carriage, and jumped on top of him to prevent the soldiers from killing him. In both of these incidents, she ends up showing off way too much of her power, and tries to play it off as best as she can with unintended consequences following her afterwards.
- Entertainingly Wrong: She's her own worst enemy when it comes to making friends, because she thinks that she has to be normal to have friends. This causes her to run away from her first set of friends, because she doesn't think that she'll still be their friend if they think she's the vessel of a goddess.
- Flash Step: She utilizes this in combat a few times, going from being far away from her opponent, to suddenly appearing right in front of them in the blink of an eye.
- Genki Girl: Her ditziness can sometimes come off this way, turning what would normally be a serious moment into a more comedic one, such as when she, Reina, and Mavis don a Paper-Thin Disguise to rescue Pauline from an unwanted political marriage.
- Girlish Pigtails: She has some of her hair tied up in pigtails because they make her look even cuter.
- God in Human Form: She pretends to be one after she accidentally creates an entirely new class of super-powerful magic in a blind panic.
- Gone Horribly Right: After saving a little child from the wrath of royal soldiers and the third princess Morela (and concocting a convoluted "secretly being used as the vessel of a Goddess" ruse as a consequence), Adele inadvertently attracts the King of Brandel's attention. He intends to make said princess befriend her without any scandals, but Adele somehow manages to lie to the messenger (who wasn't at the incident) that it was her step-sister Prissy instead, and then proceeds to flee Eckland to avoid her family's wrath. When Prissy and the Viscount Ascham appear at the royal court, however, both the eyewitnesses and another Noble family familiar with House Ascham quickly realize Prissy is not Adele, and thanks to her mysterious, suspicious disappearance from Eckland Academy just days earlier, the Count Vischam's murderous usurping of the house are finally revealed. The king arrests him, Adele's stepmother and stepsister, and with all other heirs dead or in jail, Adele unintentionally becomes the only heir to the Ascham family, and the royal family spend years trying to find her still.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: She was always extraordinary in her previous life and as a result couldn't get close to others. She pretty much always just wanted to be like everyone else, and desperately wants to be normal in this new life.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: The main motivation behind her desire for normalcy; she feels that her abnormally exceptional looks and skills are the reason she was unable to make friends, so she figures that if she could become a normal girl she could make friends on her own. Unfortunately, due to the "God's" Loophole Abuse, that didn't work out - and she has trouble realizing that friends are throwing themselves at her despite her not being any kind of normal.
- I Have Many Names: Kurihara Misato, Adele von Ascham, Mile, and Miami Satodele. What's particularly notable is that each identity is effectively an alter-ego for the one before it. Miami Satodele is the Pen Name of Mile as an author, Mile is the identity Adele von Ascham assumed as a Hunter after running away from her home country, and Adele von Ascham in turn is Kurihara Misato's reincarnation.
- Innocently Insensitive: In her bid to appear "normal" and "average", Mile has tried to sandbag in tests and purposely lose in competitions. This wounded the pride of those around her since in their eyes, she was mocking them by not giving her all. This is a problem especially in her days in Eckland Academy and the Hunters Prep School where Mile was not able to disguise the fact that she was doing this at all due to a lack of experience.
- Instant Cosplay Surprise: Played with when infiltrating the Beckett Company mansion, Mile produces cloaks and masks out of nowhere, complete with a special introduction sequence for the "Crimson Fountains of Blood".
- I Thought Everyone Could Do That: A recurring issue early on, particularly with her "Storage magic" which has an effectively limitless capacitynote and freezes anything it holds in time. The typical form of Storage Magic everyone else uses drains them constantly and has a hard limit based on the wielder's ability on how much it can hold.
- The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort: Notably averted. As she wasn't aware that she was Nigh Invincible, when attempting to throw fights, she effortlessly parries every attack her opponent sends at her until they aim at the thickest parts of her armor, so that she wouldn't get hurt by being hit in a less protected spot, causing multiple characters to take note of it. Later, she does know that most enemies couldn't even hurt her, but still prefers to use some form of dodging or parrying simply because she'd stand out even more if she didn't.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: An unusual case where the main character gets to pull this trick. Though she's ludicrously powerful, she goes out of her way to seem roughly equal to her teammates, by hiding her true strength and providing her friends with upgrades. Even to the reader/audience, and to herself, it's not clear how strong she truly is. Except when circumstances require her to quit goofing around and go all-out. The first major example happens when they have to take on three elder dragons; Mile herself nearly gets one-hit-killed, and the others can't do much more than distract them. She ends up having to address the nanomachines by name, and give them direct orders in three languages, to power through.
- Magic Knight: She's just as stupidly overpowered magically as she is physically, which lets her fulfill any role in the party, and fight effectively at any range. She prefers to use magic, and has it as her explicit specialization, though. Despite this, especially in the Light Novel, she ends up using her sword more often than not, as her party has two other magic casters, and only one frontline fighter.
- Meaningful Rename: Misato/Adele, signifying that Mile is an equal mix of both her past and present livesnote .
- Messianic Archetype: The world she was sent to has been abandoned by the gods - but one such god sent her there with ridiculous levels of power, possibly enough to set the world right.
- Mystical White Hair: As befitting her absurdly OP stats, and her tendency to revolutionize and create entirely new magic (frequently by accident), she has silver-white hair.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Played for Laughs. She tries to act like a normal high school aged girl, but continually ends up doing things that make her stand out even more. Her desire for a normal average life continues to slip away as a result.
- Only One Name: As "Mile" she has no last name.
- Otaku: As Misato, her primary hobbies were anime, manga, books and video games.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Mile gets her request to be completely average. Unfortunately she is the mid-range when compared to power levels between creatures in the new world such as a horned rabbit and an elder dragon. But since humans are on the lower end of the spectrum, she is still much more powerful than they are.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Her attempts to pretend at being an average girl typically fall flat within minutes, typically because doesn't even realize how ridiculous her abilities are, because she reflexively uses them, or simply because she's just not very good at lying.
- Pop-Cultured Badass: Specifically Japanese otaku culture. Often references various manga, anime and tokusatsu in both narration and speech. Of course for the latter no one else catches the references.
- Punched Across the Room: An elder dragon swipes its tail at Mile inside the temple, sending her flying across the room and slamming hard enough into it that aside from the obvious dent in the wall, causes her to suffer a Blood from the Mouth moment.
- Pungeonmaster: Especially in her narration in the light novel, Mile makes a lot of puns when she speaks too. In the anime, this is sometimes translated into a Visual Pun to make it more recognizable.
- Rank Up: For much of the story, she is technically a viscountess of Brandel. Come chapter 120, the king promotes her two ranks to marquis.
- Reincarnate in Another World: She falls into the category of isekai protagonists who got hit be a truck, died, and were reborn in a fantasy world.
- Remembered I Could Fly: She repeatedly forgets to use her detection magic, only to find out they are surrounded when she does.
- Rich Bitch: Averted. Monika, Marcela, and Aureana initially assume Mile was this. But then they find out she's barely got any clothes, and has a bone hidden inside her desk drawer, assuming Mile was chewing on this to stave off starvation. Their anger turns into pity, and they genuinely befriend her afterwards.
- Running Gag: Whenever she says something anachronistic, her friends will question it and she'll hastily says "it's a secret family technique". Lampshaded in Episode 9 where the rest of the team complete the sentence for her, and in Episode 12 where they use that line for her.
- Sliding Scale of Beauty: One of God's solution to making her an "average" girl in terms of looks was giving her beauty that fulfilled the the Golden Ratio
, making Adele a "universal beauty" that everyone considers attractive, at the very least. - Stock Light-Novel Hero: She's a rare female example which lampshades and parodies this trope. Being an overachieving student who is burdened with high expectations in the real world, upon performing a Heroic Sacrifice to save the life of a little girl from being struck by a truck, Misato meets God and is given the chance to reincarnate. However Misato requests in her next life she be as average as possible. But the Creator's idea of 'average' has her reincarnated as Adele, a girl with power that is exactly half of the highest possible value, which is still still massively overpowered compared to everyone else.
- The Strategist: Of the Crimson Vow. Her friends are astounded that despite being as air-headed as she is, Mile is rock solid when it comes to battle tactics.
- Tranquil Fury: Mile is described as having three levels of anger. With minor anger she can be loud and violent, but when she's truly furious she suddenly goes quiet and seemingly emotionless. And then if her fury is brought even further to an absolute desperate rage she lets everything burst out at once.
- Try to Fit That on a Business Card: By the end of chapter 120, her full title is Adele von Ascham, Marquis of the Kingdom of Brandel, Countess of the Kingdom of Tils, Countess of the Albarn Empire, Marquis of the Kingdom of Aubram, Countess of the Kingdom of Marlane, Countess of the Kingdom of Trist, Countess of the Kingdom of Vanolark, and Cardinal of the Papacy.
- Unskilled, but Strong: It's only because of her absurd physical strength and speed that she's a threat in close combat. Any experienced swordsman will quickly see she lacks finesse, and doesn't even understand the finer points of melee combat like feinting, stances, and footwork, but she sure as hell doesn't need them. No shortage of them have expressed dismay that Mile wants to focus on her explicit specialization, magic.
- Winged Humanoid: She creates a set of angel wings from her back by forming them out of ice.
- Wrong Context Magic: In a number of ways, but the biggest recurring example is her "storage magic." For everyone else, this type of magic consumes a lot of energy and has strict volume/mass limitations; hers does not, and anything she puts in storage remains frozen in time until she retrieves it. Casually stockpiling dozens of gigantic lizard corpses for long periods of time without them rotting away is not remotely possible for anyone else. This is because she isn't really using storage magic at all—she secretly calls it a "loot box"—but accessing dimensional pockets where the concept of time and space are completely non-existent.
Reina
- Voiced by: Sora Tokui (Japanese), Colleen O'Shaughnessey (English)
Also known as Crimson Reina, she is a mage specializing in fire magic. She was born to a traveling merchant, and became a hunter at an early age, giving her the most practical knowledge and experience amongst the Crimson Vow party members. She has a signature fire spell called Crimson Hellfire. Despite being fifteen years old at the start of the series, she is assumed to be a similar age to Mile, the youngest member of their group, due to her height and appearance which is a source of anger for her.
- A-Cup Angst: She's very sensitive about her small stature and flat chest. She often keeps Mile around just to look a bit bigger by contrast.
- Badass Longcoat: Her frock coat is a lot lighter than most mages' robes. It billows out when she casts Fireball.
- Beleaguered Boss: She tends to get frustrated when Mile does something silly. Reina goes nuts when Mile starts complaining about working too hard, pointing out that she's not officially the boss anyway.
- Berserk Button:
- Do not call Reina a child or treat her like one (unless you're an older woman who's saved her life).
- Bandits too sometimes press Reina's Berserk Button because both her father and a hunter party that took her in were killed by bandits.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She doesn't like the fact that Marcela and her friends used to be so close to Mile/Adele. Sometimes she keeps Mile close to make herself look older by comparison, but she also keeps her around a lot out of jealousy.
- Curtains Match the Window: She has crimson red eyes and hair.
- Cute Little Fangs: She normally has a fang sticking out when she opens her mouth because it looks cute in a hot-tempered Tsundere like her.
- Black Magician Girl: As a Black Mage she only casts offensive magic (elemental fire and ice), not utility magic. Being short, she's also rather feisty.
- Enraged by Idiocy: As the Tsundere, she starts off frequently annoyed by Mile pulling off seemingly ridiculous feats of magic, such as casting spells without an incantation or repairing a sword by sticking it in the ground. Grows to accept it more by the end.
- Expy: Red hair, fire mage, fiery temper, sensitive about figure, likes killing bandits... her character was clearly inspired by Lina Inverse.
- Fiery Redhead: Fire magic aside and hair colour aside, she has quite the temper.
- Happily Adopted: Deconstructed. After her father is killed, she's initially picked up by a travelling guild of adventurers who take good care of her. However these adventurers also end up dead, doubling the trauma factor of losing her closest family again.
- Meaningful Rename: As "Crimson Reina". This was not done as a reference to her red hair or mastery of flame magic. Rather it was to honor the hunter party, the Crimson Lightning, that took her in after her father was killed.
- Older Than They Look: Looks to be about Mile's age or slightly older when she's 15 and Mile is 12.
- The Power of Hate: Her hate and anger at the bandits that killed both her father and the party that took her in massively spiked her magical powers from not being relevant in a fight to laying waste to the entire bandit band and allowing her to become a Hunter in her own right.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: As the group's de facto leader, Reina is extraordinarily pragmatic. She accepts that while Mile is nuts, she does know a lot about magic. She's also willing to accept she's wrong and switch tactics when things go pear shaped and the team is in danger, dropping her tsundere facade in the process. Justified because of her experience and combat upbringing.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Color-Coded for Your Convenience against Mavis' blue theme, Reina is often hot headed and rambunctious, not having Mavis' noble upbringing.
- Trauma Button: In the anime, witnessing Adele being "killed" by bandits triggers traumatic memories of her father's death, and the first time she's ever killed a human being.
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Her fire magic awakens for the first time when her parents are killed, though she isn't able to use it yet. Later, she creates her first combat spell when her adoptive parents, the Crimson Lightning hunter party, are murdered by another gang of bandits at the advice of a treacherous merchant. It's super effective.
- Tsundere: Mile immediately calls her as much in their first meeting in the anime, where Reina claims it's not like she would care if Mile accidentally stumbles into the incredibly dangerous slums, she just happened to warn her that time.
- To her chagrin, Mile instructs Reina to deliberately act this way at the maid cafe, although it delights her customers.
- She decides to embark on an exceptionally difficult quest just as the team decides to practice being less dependent on Mile, the strongest member of the Crimson Vow. "It's like admitting we can't do anything without you!" She later becomes sensible and overturns this, as the danger becomes more concrete.
Mavis von Austien
- Voiced by: Fumiko Uchimura (Japanese), Claire Corlett (English)
The official leader of the Crimson Vow (although it is always Reina that does the actual "leading"), a swordswoman of noble birth. After running away from home in the hopes of becoming a knight, she met the other members of the Crimson Vow at the Hunters' Prep School and helped to form the party. She is tall and has an androgynous appearance, making her popular with other girls.
- An Arm and a Leg: She loses her left arm below the elbow when fighting a trio of Elder Dragon warriors. Fortunately Mile is able to have the nanomachines build her a prosthetic. While Mile offers to regrow the original in about a month, she opts to keep it as it's far stronger, faster and more capable than the original, not to mention being able to channel magic for her like her sword. Later, it's revealed that the nanomachines went much further than that, adding in inertial dampers, kinetic energy transference systems, hyperspace energy scattering and connective strengthening subsystems to her entire body while they were at it.
- Authority in Name Only: In theory, she's the leader of the Crimson Vow. In practice, Reina does most of the leading, Pauline is in charge of finances, and Mile is The Strategist. Mavis is argubly doing the least leading of them.
- Berserk Button: In the anime she does not like people confusing her for a guy, making it a point to note to Mile several times she was a girl.
- Bifauxnen: An androgynous beauty that could be mistaken for a handsome young man. In the original Japanese of the anime, Mile initially refers to her as "Onee-niisan!" Explanation In the English dub, she refers to her as "Miss Sir."
- Boyish Short Hair: Her short hairstyle is part of what makes her look so androgynous.
- Breast Plate: Her chest armour consists of two separate metal cups like a bra, joined together by her cleavage.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: She has done best figuring out how to do things Mile didn't teach her other than being inspired by Mile's stories to use the power of 'Ki', since she can't use magic. Examples would be fire breath, healing someone else with a kiss and Combat Clairvoyance inspired by Mile's "search magic".
- Even the Girls Want Her: Draws admiring glances and sighs from other women due to her looks, gentle character and knightly manner.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's a noble-hearted and knightly woman with golden hair.
- I Have Brothers: Her father, an Earl with an illustrious military career, and her three older brothers also becoming distinguished military officers inspired her to become a knight just like them. Her brothers are notably displeased with this decision.
- Important Haircut: She cut her long hair when she ran away from home, signifying her abandoning being a regular noble lady like her family wanted and becoming a knight. It should be noted that in Medieval Europe, long hair is seen as a sign of the nobility as only they could afford the tremendous upkeep and leisurely lifestyles that would make it possible and convenient. Conversely, the short hairstyle is far more practical as a front-line fighter.
- The Face: The primary reason she's the Party's "Leader" being the oldest and most mature looking, not to mention well-mannered member of the party.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Her ambition in life, and how she always tries to act.
- Prone to Tears: Despite being the tomboy of the group, she's very emotional. When her father does the same thing when they return home after rescuing Pauline, the other girls realize that this trait runs in her family.
- Rebellious Princess: She's the daughter of a count, and she ran away from home because her family wouldn't let her be a knight.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's the calmer blue-eyed Blue Oni to Reina's hot-headed red-eyed Red Oni.
- The Runaway: She ran away from home to try to become a knight—and also escape her overprotective and overly-affectionate brothers.
- Rule of Cool: Mavis will often say lines and do things, in her own words, 'because it's cool'.
- Stock Shōnen Hero: A Rare Female Example. She's Hot-Blooded(in combat), really devoted to the Lawful Stupid version of chivalry and does frequent Training from Hell to get stronger as well as powering through by sheer force of will. Her hair is even blonde and spiky(by female standards).
- Tomboyish Voice: She has a slightly low voice to match her tomboyish character.
- Tomboyness Upgrade: She used to have long, flowing hair and generally look like a gentle, feminine princess, until she decided to leave that lifestyle behind to become a knight.
Pauline
- Voiced by: Masumi Tazawa (Japanese), Veronica Taylor (English)
A mage specializing in healing and water magic, she is the daughter of a merchant and the resident bookkeeper of the Crimson Vow. Despite her miserly manner, she typically has a gentle appearance and demeanor but is known to show fits of rage when provoked.
- Adaptational Wimp: The anime severely reduces her power and violence. For example, in the light novel and manga, in her exam, she stabs the testing mage, casts a high-level heal to restore her shattered arm and then launches two giant balls of flame at her, deliberately missing and leaving two giant craters directly behind her. In the anime, she casts a simple heal on some minor scratches and then threatens to hit the mage over the head.
- Agony Beam: Her favorite combat spells, generally involving anything from boiling water, to what's basically pepper spray.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Played with to the point of Running Gag. Poor Pauline nearly gets left behind by her party in two separate incidents. Even in the dramatic personae of the light novels, she is often placed on a different page from the rest of the Crimson Vow.
- Berserk Button: She's very easily angered by dirty business practices. Anytime she catches someone engaging in bad business practices she'll give them a thorough dressing down. And if she catches someone engaging in dishonest business, she unleashes every ounce of her merchant skills to completely destroy them financially.
- Beware the Nice Ones: On the surface she's a quiet, sweet, motherly girl who's always eager to help. But when mad she is eager to torture. When in the Hunter school's final examination her opponent questioned the school's standards for accepting her friends, she immediately shouted "Shut the hell up you flat-chested BITCH!" before launching a furious onslaught that quickly crushed the B-rank mage.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: So well-endowed even a cow is all about her boobs.
- Dude, Where's My Reward?: when a merchant refuses to pay up for some lizard hides, Pauline uses her negotiating skills to subvert this.
- Guile Hero: Is the go-to girl in the Crimson Vow for deception, trickery and manipulation.
- Intrepid Merchant: Being the daughter of a merchant, Pauline is the one who often sees the profit motive and is willing to go to some length to make a quick copper.
- Making a Splash: Generally favors water magic when she does get in fights. Usually with said water being laced with pepper spray. Or heated to boiling.
- Money Fetish: Generally Played for Laughs. Pauline is the one most concerned about money and her favorite hobby is counting the coins in the party's stash.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: She looks like a sweet and soft-spoken person, but she'd rather torture people than kill them, and she clearly enjoys seeing her enemies in pain. On the positive side, this leads her to strongly favor pain-inducing attacks, such as when she fought a powerful demon by quietly casting a blast of wind to carry large amounts of capsaicin directly into his rectum, while desperately stifling her laughter.
- White Mage: The party's main healer.
- Younger Than They Look: She's fourteen, but she looks like the oldest and most motherly of the team.
Eckland Academy
The Wonder Trio
Adele's three closest friends from Eckland Academy, who end up becoming three of the most powerful and skilled magic users of the school after tutoring from her. After Adele is forced to run away from the school, they train and figure out a way to try to find her again.
In General
- Awesomeness by Analysis: the three are very intelligent, in some ways far sharper than Mile. Given their low "thought pulse", the majority of their magical power stems entirely from their ability to analyze and comprehend the forces they're working with. More to the point, they are able to quickly innovate to levels beyond anything they'd be willing to do.
- When Adele teaches them how to use her Inventory (a parallel universe where time doesn't flow which can be packed with unlimited amounts of materials without any concern), they quickly see countless methods with which it could be abused, especially with three of them accessing the same universe and thus able to extract what others stored, allowing them to effectively teleport anything, even living people. Along with the potential to crush an economy with ease, they quickly figured how the ability to teleport supplies and soldiers could create an insurmountable military advantage. While many of the potential uses were sealed and only amounted to reasons they could never tell a soul, they also devised methods to use it to escape capture, with all three coming to agreements to check storage when separated in case one was captured and stored herself (and to always check before storing oneself so as to avoid all three being trapped eternally in a timeless void). The nanomachines assigned to them express no end of delight at how sharp they are and how quickly they pick up on deeper and deeper aspects of their pwoers.
- Bodyguard Babes: After she and the others sign up to become Hunters, their primary training focus is on pretending to be the handmaidens or close relatives of female nobles, to protect them from threats, whilst also being totally unassuming and able to accompany them to private areas like the bathroom.
- I Will Find You: Months after Adele's abrupt disappearance and taking on the name "Mile," they're still running their Adele Simulator to figure out the best way to try to reunite with her again. It's explicitly stated none of them planned to become Hunters, until they realized that would be what Adele would mostly likely do to earn a living.
- Secret-Keeper: As a promise to Adele, they kept their promise to everyone about the secret behind their incredible magic casting techniques, and later, Adele's "Goddess" stunt with the Third Princess Morena.
Marcela
- Voiced by: Maki Kawase
The third daughter of a baron and a friend of Adele's. At first she intends to teach Adele a lesson for being popular with Monika and Aureana. But once they learn of Adele's sad past and get to her know her better, they become close friends. Along with Monika and Aureana, after learning more of Adele and Adele teaching her the proper way of magic, they soon becomes Eckland Academy's Wonder Trio.
- Anime Hair: She has incredibly impressive hair, reaching nearly down to the floor whilst still retaining their voluminous, drill-like shape, and being noticeably wider than her body is.
- Early-Bird Cameo: In the anime, Marcela appears as a Nendoroid doll before being introduced on screen.
- Flowers of Femininity: She wears a red rose on the top left side of her hair, a symbol of her being a ladylike Ojou.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She initially intended to be mean to Adele when they first interact, but drops it when she discovers Adele barely has any clothes, finds a bone in her desk drawer and assumed she was chewing on it to stave off hunger (it was actually to feed a stray cat), and learning of her highly dysfunctional family background.
- Regal Ringlets: Combined with Ojou Ringlets. She has two ringlets falling in front of her shoulders and two much larger ringlets in the back.
- Tsundere: Though she likes to act like the high, mighty noble who's only very reluctantly obliging Adele's wishes and providing for some of her needs, she considers her a very beloved friend.
Monika
- Voiced by: Kiyono Yasuno
The daughter of a merchant and a friend of Adele's. Along with Marcela and Aureana, after learning more of Adele and Adele teaching her the proper way of magic, they soon becomes Eckland Academy's Wonder Trio.
Aureana
- Voiced by: Hisako Tōjō (Japanese), Tara Sands (English)
A commoner attending Eckland Academy on scholarship and a friend of Adele's. Along with Marcela and Monika, after learning more of Adele and Adele teaching her the proper way of magic, they soon form Eckland Academy's Wonder Trio.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Although Marcela makes most of the decisions, Aureana is the real brains behind the Wonder Trio. She subtly guides her friends to take the best available options.
Other Students
Kelvin
One of the most talented students of Eckland Academy in the fields of physical prowess and combat arts... until Adele/Mile came along, at least, and accidentally dethroned him, and becomes her rival instead.
- The Ace: As mentioned above, he was Eckland Academy's most talented and powerful knight candidate before Adele came along.
- Affair? Blame the Bastard: Averted. Though he is the youngest son of his father Baron Bellium's's illegitimate children, he was loved and accepted like his legitimate children all the same. It was only due to financial issues and political reasons that he was not sent to the more prestigious Ardleigh Academy, like the first three Bellium children, and his sister.
- Armor-Piercing Question: "Was your passion for self-improvement up until now really something you yourself wished for? Or is it something you reluctantly forced yourself to do to protect the pride of the title 'Baron’s fifth son'?"
- Berserk Button: He does not appreciate anyone holding back against him in combat.
- Broken Ace: His being so consistently, effortlessly outclassed by Adele does not do wonders for his self-esteem. He may still become a formidable knight or hunter in the future, but it means little to him if he can't even meet his rival on an even playing field.
- The Bus Came Back: He finally gets a focus chapter well after a dozen volumes after Adele left Eckland. While a junior officer in the Army posted to a border barony, he gets charged with defense of the barony while the actual baron runs for sanctuary with all his portable wealth during the Empire's invasion. After successfully repelling the invaders (with some help from a passing-through Mile), the King strips the Baron of his rank for abandoning his post and gives it to Kelvin.
- Comically Lopsided Rivalry: One of the very first people Adele accidentally, consistently, obliviously outclasses, much to his chagrin. It gets to the point where the staff unsuccessfully try to lecture Adele about the "fragility of a man's heart."
- Determinator: After his disastrous first sparring match with Adele, he had a rematch with her once a month for the entire year and two months she studies at Eckland.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: After already accidentally defeating him once in their first sparring match, Adele holds back and tries to let him win with an easy blow to her side. Kelvin sees right through the attempt and makes it clear he would have preferred to have been honestly overwhelmingly defeated than earn a hollow victory.
- Rags to Riches: To an extent. He rises from the untitled younger son of a cash-strapped noble to being minor nobility in his own right.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Is on the receiving end from Adele. In part:"... And even if you managed to beat me, a girl who doesn’t even aim at being something like a knight, where would that leave you? What would you tell them at the knight examination? 'I dedicated the entire three years of my school life to beating a girl that works at a bakery. That girl is now learning how to be a good housewife and mother.'"
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Basically forgotten about after Adele leaves Eckland. Even when Mile and the Crimson Vow pass back through the area, he doesn't even get mentioned, much less appear.
- Would Hit a Girl: He has absolutely no qualms with going all-out against Adele/Mile. Unfortunately, his best won't be nearly enough, which is a major sore spot for him.
Family
House Ascham
Adele/Mile's family, composed of her deceased mother and grandfather, alongside her father, Viscount Ascham, and her stepfamily, an unnamed Stepmother, and Prissy, their daughter and Adele's half-sister.
- Abusive Parents: The Viscount Ascham, Adele's biological father, arranged for the "mysterious death by bandits" of the previous Viscount Ascham, Adele's maternal grandfather, and his own wife, Adele's mother and Ascham by blood. He then proceeded to remarry to then abuse and neglect Adele.
- Parental Favoritism: Adele's father and stepmother treat her badly while they try to make it out that her half-sister Prissy is the true heir of House Ascham.
- Wicked Stepmother: Adele's stepmother acted the same as Cinderella's stepmother and did nothing but treat her like dirt.
House Austien
Mavis' family, composed of the Earl Austien, and her three older brothers, all of whom are proud knights of their country.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Despite her father being a renowned knight, he is amazingly emotional, especially when Mavis goes off on her own and tries to run at her carriage with her friends inside. Apparently Like Father, Like Son applies, since all three of her brothers did the exact same thing.
- Badass Normal: Earl Austien has no powers, but he's the first opponent who actually gives Mile grief in swordplay.
- The Chessmaster: The Earl arranged for Mavis to meet Pauline and create the Crimson Vow, knowing that his errant daughter and the rest of the Vow would stand by Pauline and help her when it came time to bring down Pauline's father. He'd set up the events leading to Pauline's revenge before she ever made it to Hunter Prep.
- I Gave My Word: When Earl Austien finds that Mavis is determined to stay with the Crimson Vow, he challenges Mile to a duel, stating that if she can beat him, he would let Mavis do whatever she wanted for a while longer. When she eventually defeats him, he keeps his promise, though he still chases after their wagon when they leave town the next day.
- It Runs in the Family: The girls find out that Mavis's tendency to be Prone to Tears is also found in her father, who does the same teary eyed reaction, bawling as he chases after Mavis's wagon and begs her to come back home. For her part, Mavis simply asks the wagon driver to speed up a little bit so that he actually doesn't catch up to them.
- Knight in Shining Armor: The Earl Austien and his three sons are all esteemed knights and officers in their country's army
- Knight Templar Big Brother: Much to Mavis chagrin, her three older brothers are very insistent on stepping in to protect her, even if she's more than capable of defending her own life or honour. It should also be mentioned that their motivations are not entirely innocent.
- Like Father, Like Son: Both father and sons have a tendency to be Prone to Tears, and while Mavis inherited this trait herself, it's not at an embarrassing level as theirs.
- Little Sister Heroine: Mavis' three brothers are all a little too overprotective and adoring of their beloved younger sister, and the Japanese text explicitly calls them siscons. note Mavis seems more annoyed than disgusted by this, and it's all Played for Laughs.
- Might Makes Right: When he hears about Pauline's grievances towards the businessman who was trying to force her into a political marriage with one of Austien's sons, he declares that they fight to determine who's right. Fortunately, thanks to spending time training to be a Hunter, she easily delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to the businessman and the viscount. Earl Austien later says he knew about their corruption, and would've stopped it sooner or later, but found Pauline's situation to be a great moment to arrest them and allow her some payback.
- Noble Bigot: Earl Austien is an old-school lord in both the positive and negative senses. He's dedicated to justice, even for commoners, and his honor is unimpeachable, but he has very defined views about the role of noblewomen, which is part of why Mavis ran away.
- Papa Wolf: Earl Austien. If anyone harms Mavis, he do anything to protect her or go after the ones who harmed her.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Part of the Earl Austien's great love for Mavis is because she strongly resembles her mother. Whether or not she's still alive is never clarified.
Others
Nanomachines & Nano
- Nano voiced by: Wataru Hatano
The nanomachines created by the "gods" to enact the world's pseudo-magic. They harbor a collective consciousness along with individual will, and are able to communicate with individuals with sufficient authorization. In the light novels they only communicate with Mile via sound, in the manga they create a small robot-like image to represent themselves to her, and in the anime they create an image of a cute animal through which to communicate, dubbed "Nano". Due to Mile's high authorization note and the rarity of actually being addressed directly, they are often quick and eager to please, and occasionally show signs of displeasure when not employed frequently, going far beyond their instructions to prove their worth.
- Allergic to Routine: The nanomachines' lifespans are eons long. All that time is spent locked into strict rules guiding their routine, floating around listening for thought pulses to implement according to their protocol. This's part of why they love Mile so much. At level 5 authorization, she's able to hold conversations with them, and can make vague or open-ended requests, leaving much to them. As a result, through her they're able to gain a great deal of freedom to do things they couldn't have done before. Mile has nanomachines lined up in wait to gain jurisdiction over her next idea (and become very depressed when her ideas are scrapped, like when her friends refused to have any part of her Magical Girl Transformation Sequence idea), and whenever they're given a request they'll gladly stretch logic to its breaking point to come up with activities that fit.
- This comes to a particular extreme in volume 13. After saving a girl who reminds her of her little sister in her past life, Mile sends out a recruitment message for any nanos willing to take the job of protecting her and her family, only to be brought to her knees by the sheer number of nanobots pounding their eager volunteer against her eardrums. Afterward, the selected bots discussed and cheerfully concluded that absolutely any independent action was permitted as long as it helped "protect" the girl and her family, providing true independence for the first and possibly last time in hundreds of millions of years. They are so excited that at times they begin to sound a bit like frat boys with a keg.
- Blessed with Suck: The nanomachines have incredible capabilities that allow them to do almost anything, but their programming renders them unable to do anything at all without "orders" in the form of a thought pulse from an intelligent organism. Even when rifts in space start opening up, allowing creatures to invade and threatening the future of all life on the world, they have to scream desperately in Mile's mind begging her to order them to fix it, like in web novel chapters 200 or 275.
- Glory Seeker: the nanomachines are surprisingly eager to show off. A collection of nanomachines is honored to receive an assignment from Mile to manage Mavis's sword and dagger and channel Mavis's will through them; when the dagger nanomachines get an opportunity to respond to Mavis's will fighting elder dragons, they go all out while the sword nanomachines stew with jealousy. When later Mavis call on the sword for aid against abnormally powerful ogres, they are beside themselves with excitement and not only optimize the sword to impossible strength and sharpness, but also make it emit golden light just to show off.
- Invisible to Normals: Apparently Nano and other nano-machine controllers are only visible to individuals of exceptional magical capability. They are not permitted to communicate or reveal their presence to any being under a level 3 authorization, something which only a few humans have achieved near the end of their lives.
- Mentor Mascot: Nano frequently delivers necessary exposition to the audience, along with having the appearance of a cute, fuzzy animal. As revealed in episode 5 that Mile was responsible; she wanted either Pikachu or Kerberos/Kero, but since she couldn't transmit the exact images from her past life, she could only attempt to describe them as best as she could, and the nanomachines approximated as best as their capabilities allowed them. This cross between both designs was the result.
- Mr. Exposition: As mentioned above, Nano explains certain elements of the world, like how Mile's power level compares to the most other humans.
- We Are as Mayflies: In a sense. The nanomachines, individually and collectively, live on for eons. As such, they have proven quite happy to show special attention to individual humans at Mile's request (such as listening carefully to one girl's weak thoughts to enhance her magic), as this would be an entertaining change of pace and would last an instant in their view of things.
Lenny
- Voiced by: Hiyori Kouno (Japanese), Cristina Vee (English)
The innkeeper's daughter in the Kingdom of Tils.
- Hidden Buxom: To the point where both Mile and Reina are shocked; understandably so, considering Lenny is 10 years old.
Dr. Clairia
An elf scholar the heroes rescue (along with several other people) while infiltrating a beastman camp.
- Actually, That's My Assistant: Mile initially mistakes her for the guild master's daughter; after his actual daughter makes herself known, Mile then assumes Clairia must be the professor's assistant. Her assistant turns out to be the forty-something man Mile thought was the professor.
- My Name Is ???: Because she hasn't been introduced yet, the art at the beginning of book 4 of her camping with the main characters (all of whom have their names written next to them) labels her as "???."
- Our Elves Are Different: Noted to have stronger senses (smell, anyway) and magic just by virtue of being an elf.
- Pointy Ears: Averted. The narration specifically points out that elves in this world don't have pointy ears.
- Put on a Bus: Inverted; at the end of book 4, the Crimson Vow goes off on a long journey, not realizing she wanted to come with them.
- Vague Age: Elves, as per tradition, live extremely long lives and don't show it; even the narrator doesn't know how old she is, saying only that she's "several times, or even tens of times" her apparent age of about 15.
