Character list for Isekai Monster Breeder. With the novel completed in October of 2020 and the manga completed in May of 2023, spoilers abound. Proceed with caution.
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Protagonist Kazehaya Souta
Kazehaya Souta
Huh?! What's a cosplayer doing here and where am I?
One of many teens brought to the new world by Goddess Aphrodite. He doesn't want power, wealth, fame, or glory in defeating the demon king. He's true to his desires and asks for a harem of beauties as his compensation, to Aphrodite's chagrin, but with his success being the only way back to Heaven, she sighs and agrees to help him.- Achilles' Heel: His [Monster Tamer] class combined with his skill [Absolute Domination] allows him to capture just about anyone or anything, but it comes with some glaring downsides.The magic ball he owns must be thrown at the being he wants to capture, and it must make contact with said being.
- Intangible beings can have the ball pass right through them.
- The ball can be deflected by shields, physical attacks, and even magic.
- The ball must come contact with the creature directly. At one point, Souta fails to capture a golem because it's dusty, and the mud must be washed off first.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the novel, he went to the remains of Bakraja's organization looking to buy a slave and came upon Roth's casino by chance, losing a bunch of money on a whim. In the manga, he received a report from Rikku that a member of the Demon race might be up to no good there, so he actually had a legit investigation to undertake.
- Adaptational Angst Downgrade: In the original novel, being sexually assaulted by Rimmil on a repeated basis had Souta deeply traumatized, but he plowed through his trauma in order to try and save Carolina. In the manga, Souta, disguised as Roth, appears surprisingly calm and level-headed, but how much of that is a facade is ambiguous.
- Adaptation Deviation: A couple of prominent cases.
- In the novel version, there's two additional arcs where he gets an additional haremette and additional monsters, respectively.
- In the manga version, rather than return to his own mansion after his name is cleared, he takes over the demon king castle as the new demon king.
- All for Nothing: Downplayed and played for laughs. He struggles to get, in order of accomplishment, Ceil some rare ore to forge weapons with, Aphrodite a plush bed she can sleep on, and Carolina a library full of rare and valuable books for her to read, just so he can sleep in his own bed without the girls swarming him and kicking him out in their sleep. Despite succeeding with flying colors, and gaining a mansion with each of them having her own personal room as a bonus, they still sneak into his bed at night. At least the new bed is now big enough that everyone can sleep comfortably, so there is that.
- Ambiguous Syntax: His final narration in the manga can easily be interpreted as admitting that he has sex with the girls of his harem but leaves it vague. He first states that Carol helps him with Rummil, and Rummil does have a sexual history with him, and even the line "like when I was an adventurer" doesn't make it any less ambiguous as Carol very, very much wanted sex with him during his adventuring days. Then the next line is "Right now, Ciel, Yuuko, and Roth work as maids in the service unit. They also help my needs." Which is also a well-known euphemism for being sexually available to him. At least everyone's illustrated as being perfectly happy with the status quo, downplaying or removing all the unfortunate implications.
- Bag of Spilling: Downplayed. In the novel version of events, he ends the series with his level reset to 1, almost all his captured monsters dead, with his harem, and a fish as the only survivors, and Aphrodite herself going back to Heaven. Fortunately, with the subjugation of the demon king and his name cleared, his mansion and wealth is returned to him, and with Aphrodite coming back, he now lives a life of luxury.
- Chivalrous Pervert: Yes, he loves to perv out on the women in his slave harem and gets his jollies by pushing the envelope and tricking them into consenting to doing lewd things with him, peeping on them, or staring up their skirt/down their blouse when they don't want him to, but their physical and mental well-being trumps his by light-years. As far as actual sex goes, fully informed consent is mission critical.
- Crippling Overspecialization: The reason his class [Monster Tamer] is scorned is that his stats are abysmal, and all his combat prowess is based almost entirely upon monsters he can capture with his magic ball.
- Do Not Call Me Sir: He gets very uncomfortable when people address him in overly formal terms. He asks Carol to call him by name rather than "Master" and at the end he orders Rimmil to stop calling him Maou-sama, but she refuses because his position as Demon Lord demands she do so. He just sighs and lets it slide when they insist on formal terms in both cases.
- Easy Logistics: While gathering herbs in the early chapters, he learned he could store things in his magic ball, never mind the fact that he can hold a small army in there. It's not long before he starts carrying around an insane amount of stuff.
- Expy: He's like the unholy love-child of Kazuma from KonoSuba and Ash Katchum from Pokémon
- Goggles Do Nothing: Downplayed. His signature outfit that comes with the [Monster Tamer] job he's given for tranmigrating comes with goggles, and it's only when he manages to get himself a drake via fusing several monsters together that he can use them. The rest of the time, they just sit on his head as decoration.
- Good Is Not Soft: Does this ever apply. He helps the helpless, protects the innocent, and hates killing, but he's absolutely, positively no pushover, and he has no qualms about making death seem like a mercy compared to what he's got in store for you. Case in point: a gangster who was after Carol, to enslave her, and tried to go after Aphrodite came at him with a knife. He distracts the gangster and then puts the guy into his monster ball. He stops the guy from committing suicide and then gives him a Fate Worse than Death by fusing him with a wolf to turn him into a werewolf.
- Guile Hero: He can rarely win a straight up fight, so he defeats his enemies through cunning and exploiting their weaknesses. He even ends the series winning the final fight with a well-designed and complex plan that took weeks to pull off.
- Heel–Face Reincarnation: He's the reincarnation of the former demon king. His body remained in the new world, while his soul came to earth and inhabited the body of Souta.
- Heroic Neutral: He does genuinely heroic things, but he only acts when it directly benefits him or meddles with his interests. Sure, he rescues a little girl selling apples at the start of the story, because she's an adorable little girl, but those were some fresh and tasty apples! And they're cheap!
- A straighter example was meddling in Ciel's problems with a Loan Shark. Sure, Ciel's a sweet girl who needs help, but she's also the only one in town who can make weapons for Souta's growing monster army. Of course, he's going to step in and help her if he can.
- At the end, the Big Bad would have had much better chances in his goal to Take Over the World if he didn't send an army at Bell City and take Carolina away by force.
- Hypocrite Has a Point: He calmly denounces Roth for tricking people into slavery despite tricking a few of his ladies into letting themselves be captured by his magic ball. He's still right to condemn Roth as the latter's methods are much harsher and rather than treasure and treat them right, Roth horribly abuses, exploits, abandons, and sells off the people he enslaved through means so unethical, even the world setting condemns them.
- I Choose to Stay: While the manga skips over the decision, in the original novel, he makes a point of staying in Adelithe, because he actually likes life in the new world, considering his wealth, harem, mansion, and successful adventuring career. He could have taken his harem back with him, but he'd have no way to support the ladies and they clearly wouldn't have been happy.
- Innocently Insensitive: For a bizarre definition of "innocent." When he turned Roth from male to female via magical means, through a race-change, Souta looks at Roth, admiring her new breasts, kindly asks permission to fondle them, and openly states he's envious. This does absolutely nothing to put Roth at ease, and Roth tries to punch him in the face, the attempt foiled by the metaphysics of Souta's magic ball. With no way to escape or fight back against her new indignity, Roth curls up in a Troubled Fetal Position until the rest of Souta's harem shows up, and the best they have to offer is Condescending Compassion, all of them saying "leave her rehabilitation to us."
- The Leader: Manipulative type. Sure, he treasures the ladies of his harem and dotes on them whenever he can, but he gets them to do what he wants by wheeling and dealing, flattery, and manipulating them every possible way.
- Man, I Feel Like a Woman: When he learns the [Transform] skill by turning Roth from male vampire to female succubus, the first thing he does is change himself to temporarily sports Aphrodite's body. Naturally he plays with his new breasts, and unfortunately Roth caught "her" and began with the sexual harassment. Then Carol showed up.
- Mr. Vice Guy: Lust. His primary goal for his isekai experience is to get himself a harem, and he proves himself to be extremely perverted, going out of his way to internally cheer whenever one or more of the ladies in his harem gives him fanservice, preferably of the Reluctant Fanservice Girl variety, but he is still a good person deep down and wants the girls in his harem happy.
- No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: Or rather, no resistance equals no gratification. He gets his perverse jollies by pushing the envelope in regards to the ladies in his harem, tricking them into giving consent or otherwise overcoming their resistance/reluctance to let him perv on them. Carol, his vampire maid, flat out flips her skirt at him, lets him stare down her blouse any time he wants, and straight up tells him that she wants him to do lewd stuff to her anywhere and any time, even getting jealous that he pranked Aphrodite with the aphrodisiac monster but not her. This turns him off, and it's not until he's possessing a goblin and she steps on the goblin in such a way that he winds up peeking up her skirt, without her consent, that he realizes she's actually pretty damn sexy.
- Not Me This Time: One of the many things cut from the manga that happened in the novel, is Souta's harem, namely Aphrodite, Caroline, and Ciel, suffering a string of panty thefts, and considering him the logical suspect, refusing to acknowledge his innocence until he points out that his perverted acts are bolder and flashier. Turns out the thief was a monster, the Cap Rat, which is a mutant Pack rat, and stole the panties just because they're light enough to carry and easy to get at. The monster escapes, but Souta's innocence in that particular case is confirmed, and the panties are recovered.
- Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: He's very perverted and loves to prank or trick the ladies in his harem into lewd acts, though never to the point that he betrays their trust, as he actually treasures them feeling comfortable enough with him that they will happily sleep beside him. When it comes to actual sex though, he has many hang-ups, most of which are, on-screen, Carol's fault. Especially ironic since Carol is the one who throws herself at him the hardest and is the most vocal about wanting sex with him.
- Carol is so jealous that she emits Killing Intent whenever she catches Souta and another girl flirting, especially Aphrodite, even though she knows the goddess has no problems sharing.
- Carol mentions pining away for another guy for 300 years in an unrequited love. Souta doesn't feel right trampling those feelings.
- Carol comes across as extremely desperate and needy, as she couches her desire for him as an obligation for saving her life, and that just doesn't sit right with him.
- Power Perversion Potential: He uses a monster with aphrodisiac properties to prank Aphrodite at one point, but he gets caught in the area of effect, with Carol dousing both himself and Aphrodite, ruining the mood. He gains a possession type skill at one point, which he uses to take over some monsters in his magic ball; a mushroom is used to try and grope Aphrodite in her sleep but her new plushy monster swatted it away, a goblin that Carol is training is used to peep up her skirt, and explore a bit of Casual Kink, and he uses a fox-type monster to give his female gnome blacksmith so much Lecherous Licking that she collapses in post-orgasmic afterglow. Carol eventually catches on and brings the "fun" to an end. He gains a Voluntary Shapeshifting ability and immediately transforms into Aphrodite to play with "her" body, as he's wearing it. A formerly male vampire turned female succubus in his harem retaliates to being sexually harassed and goes after "her" only for the transformation to wear off and Carol to walk in on them, the succubus in question getting the third degree as a result.
- Psychological Projection: Since he's so perverted that he builds a slave harem and thinks gender-bending through magical means is fun, he presumes Roth, who also went out of his way to make a slave harem, is also of the same mindset. As a result, he praises Roth's gender-bent body, openly proclaiming he's jealous of Roth's new breasts. A Compliment Backfire situation occurs. And unlike Souta, whose genderbending goes away on its own, Roth's stuck in her new form, irreversibly.
- Seven Heavenly Virtues: Despite being a very, very perverted teen, he's got almost the entire set.
- Charity: He goes out of his way to help the helpless where he can. The first on-screen case involves a little girl selling apples on the street-side. He buys some apples, not because he was particularly hungry, but to help her out. He's rewarded by the fact that the apples are particularly fresh and tasty.
- Chastity: As perverted as he is, he still treasures his chastity, and he was, in fact, deflowered by force.
- Diligence: He works as hard as he needs to in order to keep his entire slave army, monster and harem, happy.
- Kindness: He's nice to everyone if he can help it. When he can't be nice, watch out.
- Patience: This is a guy who endured weeks of searching the demon king's castle to try and find Carolina, and endured at least a week of sexual assault to secure his best chances at a rescue and defeating the evil Demon King impostor.
- Temperance: He likes creature comforts, of course, but the vast majority of his income and assets goes towards keeping his harem and monster army content.
- Humility is, by far, his most redeeming feature. He knows he's a pathetic weakling and if it weren't for his harem, he'd be dead many times over. He never, ever lets the praise for his accomplishments go to his head. He showers the ladies in his harem with gratitude every chance he gets. And he always pointedly tells himself there's nothing he could have done to deserve the sheer borderline idolatry Carolina gives him.
- Take a Third Option: He's lured into the Demon King's antechamber to pull a sword that's locked behind a mystic barrier only he can breach, but he winds up facing the Demon King who can stomp him even with said sword. At that point, he's offered the two options of handing the sword over, no guarantee of his safety, or try to fight with no chance of victory, or even survival. So he spites the usurper using Iblis's body by straight up destroying the sword.
- Thou Shall Not Kill: The times he will actually kill an opponent are rare. In the novel version, he only kills people twice over the entire series. He kills an evil Draconic Humanoid rather than capture her because the attempt would have doomed one or more of his harem, and he ends up luring the demon king into a certain-death situation rather than even try to capture him.
- Unique Protagonist Asset: If it wasn't for his [Absolute Domination] skill, the fact that he came to the new world as a [Monster Tamer] would have sucked, as most tamers can get one monster, if they're luckier than they have any right to be, but with the skill, he can capture and field an army, especially since his first capture, Aphrodite, gave him a level of 557! and the ability to capture one creature per every 10 levels, plus one to start, yikes!
- Unscrupulous Hero: As far as he's concerned, rules are just a guideline, and if it's more convenient to ignore or break them, he will. He will lie, cheat, steal, break out of prison, and otherwise do morally dubious things for the greater good or his personal profit, but he never willingly exploits the innocent.
Harem
Aphrodite
Send me back! Let me go! This is an insult to Heaven!
The self-proclaimed goddess of beauty and the in-universe Olympian goddess in charge of the world. She makes the mistake of daring Souta to test his monster ball on her, winding up the first of his slave harem.- Adaptational Intelligence: She's just a tiny bit smarter in the manga than the novel. In the novel, she dared Souta to throw the magic ball at her, convinced it wouldn't work. In the manga, Souta tricks her into it by asking permission to try something, without specifying what, and when she foolishly agrees, throws the ball at her going "catch!" and she reflexively grabs it out of the air, proclaiming that it's foolish to try that, since she's not a "monster." Cue the ball sucking her in, thanks to Souta's [Absolute Domination] skill she wasn't aware he had. In the casino event, the novel had Souta lay out, in excruciating detail, how Roth scammed her. In the manga, he just asks "didn't you notice how our odds of winning decreased the higher our bets were?" to which Aphrodite responded "now that you mention it..."
- Adaptation Deviation: In the original novel, she leaves Heaven and returns to Souta's side of her own volition. In the manga continuity, she's fired from her job as a soul navigator and sent to Souta's side regardless of her will.
- Affectionate Nickname: Souta takes to calling her "Dee" for short as a sign of affection, and she likes it.
- Artistic License – Religion: Although she's called Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, and one of the Olympian Gods, there's quite a few liberties taken with her characterization.
- Aphrodite not only had many mortal lovers, she was also married to Hephaestus, the god of the forge. In the story, she's a virgin and never had a boyfriend, until she found herself in Souta's harem.
- In the original mythology, she's also known as one of, if not the, goddess of war, which means she's either powerful in martial might or a brilliant strategist, if not both. In the story, she's both weak and stupid, save for her one and only magical attack that only works in her own realm.
- In the original mythology, she's the patron of prostitutes, in addition to being polyamorous and would have been flattered to help Souta put together a harem. In the story, she's rather prudish and Souta had to borderline extort/blackmail her into agreeing to help him.
- She's an Olympian god, and they're all notorious for being jerks. In the story, she's a total sweetheart.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: The series ends with Aphrodite kissing him on the cheek before she returns to Heaven and telling Souta she genuinely loves him, with him shedding Manly Tears, and spending the next few months feeling a bit lonely at her absence, then being happy and relieved when she returns.
- The Bait: Since the only thing she's really got going for her is her massive HP pool, Souta tends to use her to bait monsters far more often than not.
- Brainless Beauty: She's the World's Most Beautiful Woman and she's literally dumber than a box of rocks.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Souta calls her "Aphro" as a nickname, she gets very upset and insists that he call her "Dee" instead because her hair is smooth, flat, and long, not a facsimile of a Brillo pad atop her head.
- In a case Souta does call her out on, when they first go shopping for clothes, because her divine garments attract too much attention, Souta has to convince her to go with the more modest female adventurer's garb instead of the Dancer's Allure that she had her eyes on, as that would draw even more attention. Then when Souta outfits Carolina in the female Ranger's garb for adventurer activities, Aphrodite whines that Carolina's garment is pricier than hers, clearly not realizing that it isn't an issue of price, but practicality. Of course, once Souta has the leeway, he buys her that Dancer's Allure set that she has her eyes on, and tells her it's normal for her to be beautiful.
- Expy: Although she's called Aphrodite and is constantly touted as a god of Olympus, she acts a great deal like Aqua from KonoSuba.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's golden-haired blonde and a total sweetheart who treats everyone in the harem kindly, even Carolina, despite being the demon race's natural enemy.
- I Am Not Pretty: One would think that, as the goddess of beauty, people would sing her praises about how beautiful she is, especially all the Heroes she moved into the world of the story, but apparently this did not happen. When she's following Souta into the adventurer's guild, she's clinging to him in fear because everybody is Eating the Eye Candy and when Souta himself calls her pretty, she stops and is completely flustered.
- Indignant Slap: She delivers one of these on Souta early on when he pushes the envelope a bit too hard by ordering her to spin in place, which accidentally flips the skirt of her dress and shows off her panties, at which point she asks if he intended to give her lewd orders, and he couldn't deny the allegation. She bypassed the mechanic where being captured by his magic ball means she should be utterly unable to do anything that might harm him. Souta himself wonders how she could do that, whether it's based on intent or the fact she's a goddess. Regardless, he struggles to not push her that hard again.
- Interrupted Intimacy: When she's exposed to the Mad Mush's aphrodisiac spores, she literally pounces on Souta, pins him to the bed, and declares her intent to screw him silly, but before she can even kiss him, along comes Carol with a bucket of cold water and splashes them both down, then chews her out for making moves on him.
- The Load: She tries so hard to be useful, but she's far more often completely useless.
- Lust Object: To the point that even female non-human monsters find her irresistibly sexy.
- Miles Gloriosus: She loves to preen and boast about herself, even about her failings.
- Money Dumb: As a goddess who has never had to use money, she has absolutely no money sense.
- Mr. Fanservice: She's the most likely to wind up in a wardrobe malfunction, captured by monsters in a way to expose her unmentionables, or otherwise tricked, baited, or forced into a compromising position purely for fanservice.
- Mr. Vice Guy: Pride and Sloth. She will boast of herself at the drop of a hat, and although she is willing to work, she will also whine every step of the way, and actually prefers to lie in bed as much as possible.
- Nice Girl: How nice? She petitions Souta to rescue Carolina, even though gods like herself and demons like Carolina pointedly do not get along. Aside from their rivalry over Souta, the two of them get along swimmingly.
- Phlebotinum Battery: While she's rarely able to contribute to Souta's heroics directly, the fact that she's the first of the women he captured with his magic balls has done wonders for him. Living in his magic ball has him start at level 557, rather than level 1, which means a capacity of 56 monsters, and her presence there also unlocked several of his most useful starting skills, such as [Monster Combination], [Monster communication], and so on.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: While Souta never, ever makes the threat to abandon her, she repeatedly begs to not be thrown away because she's well ware of her status as The Load.
- Public Domain Character: The in-universe characters even go on to call her "one of the Olympian Gods" based on the Greek Mythology from which she hails, but it quickly becomes apparent that the author took a few liberties.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Granted, it wasn't her idea to go summoning a bunch of "Heroes" to her world. In fact, she was ordered to do it by a higher power, but among the teens she summoned, two of them wind up being directly responsible for bringing the very demon king she's trying to protect her world from into existence, one through no fault of his own, the other by being a skirt-chasing idiot. Souta is the former.
- Smart Ball: In manga chapter 40, she is the one who comes up with the strategy to capture the iron golem, not Souta, by using herself as bait while having Carolina fly around behind it and splash all the mud off, so Souta's magic ball could capture it.
- Tempting Fate: She starts the story daring Souta to test his magic ball on her. He does and she winds up his first haremette.
- This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: After the demon king's castle is lifted far enough away from the planet's surface that it infringes on her realm, she can finally unleash her magic and One-Hit Kill the demon king.
- Tsundere: Type B. She's pleasant and cordial to just about everyone. It's only the people who are close to her that see her irreverent and wacky side, and even then, the retorts are all downplayed.
Carolina Burton
My lord, next time you feel the need to do a perverted experiment, choose me!
A vampire Souta and Aphrodite find mortally wounded. The only option they have to save her life is to use his magic ball to capture her and use its inherent healing properties to restore her to health. She immediately pegs Souta as the "Demon King" she used to serve and swears loyalty.- Affectionate Nickname: Souta takes to calling her Carol for short and to show his affection.
- Badass Bookworm: Her favorite hobby is reading books of all kinds, and in fact asks Souta for a library as part of her service to him. She can also kick ass in most circumstances.
- Blaming the Victim: Two prominent cases. She blames Aphrodite for being the victim of Souta's prank with an aphrodisiac monster and blames Ciel for being lewded by a fox monster Souta had possessed. Nobody ever calls her out on it.
- Cassandra Truth: She pegs Souta as the Demon King she used to serve before his defeat 300 hundred years ago, but nobody believes her, not even Souta. She's right, but when he reincarnated, the memories of being the demon king were lost.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She is so insistent on monopolizing Souta's affections that she gets utterly murderous if she even thinks he's flirting with another girl.
- Crucified Hero Shot: When she's at Hyunkel's mercy, the lout has her strung up and tied to a giant cross, just for extra irony.
- Defiant Captive: During the entire time she was under Hyunkel's captivity, she never gave up, gave in, ate nor slept, quietly praying for Souta to come to her rescue.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: She noticed Souta tends to have eyes for Aphrodite the most, so tries to emulate Aphrodite for a significant part of the story, even letting herself get captured by the same tentacle monster that was molesting Aphrodite so she'd be in an identical fanservice scene. This only made Souta wonder if there was something seriously wrong with her head. He still enjoys the fanservice, mind, but that doesn't help her case.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: She puts Souta's goblin troops through harsh training, making them do repeated sword swings under the weight of increased gravity, and if any of them stop, she increases the gravity on all of them. To her credit, this manner of training actually works.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: She tends to fly into rages with alarming ease, especially when she thinks Souta is being insulted or Aphrodite's trying to make sexual advances on him.
- Happiness in Slavery: Too happy. When she found herself in Souta's service, she almost immediately started throwing herself at him, to the point that it turned him off, despite the fact that she's very aesthetically pleasing and he's a hormonal teen whose main goal is to build himself a harem of lovely ladies.
- Hostage Situation: When Iblis's body is restored to life by an usurper, and his armies start trying to level the town Souta's in, she surrenders herself under the promise her liege would be spared. Souta, doesn't take it well.
- Hour of Power: She can't whip out and use her super-mode willy-nilly. She can only use it for a few minutes and it has a cool-down of the better part of a day.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: She's Souta's ace in pretty much everything. For a significant part of the story, she is both his best fighter and mage. She excels in the household chores. She trains his monster troops to be their most effective and deadly. To top it off, she keeps the rest of the harem in line and working together smoothly.
- Mr. Vice Guy: Wrath. She gets angry with alarming ease, especially when she thinks Souta is insulted, or Aphrodite's making moves on him. This has repeatedly caused serious issues, even costing her an opportunity to get the rare books she likes when she drew a blade on the owner of the city's primary book-store as she and Souta were shopping there.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Unlike most vampires in fiction, she has horns on her head, has no weakness to sunlight, can eat food just fine, is not an undead, but still has several key vampire weaknesses, such as vulnerability to silver weapons.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: When Aphrodite was captured by the Aqua Slug monster's tentacles, she decided the best way to compete for his interest was to deliberately let herself be captured by the monster's tentacles too, providing an identical fanservice scene. Just so happens, doing that tied up all the monster's tentacles, so Souta was able to catch it with his magic ball, as his earlier attempt was rebuffed by the monster swatting the ball away with a tentacle.
- Single-Target Sexuality: She loves her demon king's soul not his body. When she pegs on Souta, she then finds every other man on the planet repulsive, even the body of the demon king she once served.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Hard and ruthless on one side, sweet and affectionate on the other.
- Super Mode: In addition to her impressive Ninja Maid mode, she can also whip out a powerful Vampire matriarch mode that can stomp all but the most powerful of the demon king's generals.
- Worf Had the Flu: She would have been able to beat her human pursuers with ease, save for the fact that she was already previously weakened by another of Aphrodite's summoned "heroes" who invaded her home, killed all her servants, and drove her out, badly wounded, just because the lout took the word of the local aristocrats at face value and never, ever bothered to do his own research.
- You Are a Credit to Your Race: Rikku, the Demon Hunter, who's had a grudge against "Demons" like herself openly praises her after Carol helped Souta take down Roth's crooked gambling den.
- You Were Trying Too Hard: The reason the demon king she originally served and Souta turn away from her attempts at romance is because they live for the pleasure of wooing, tricking, and seducing the women they've got their eyes on. She throws herself at them instead, which turns them off. It's only after Souta is able to peek at her goods without her consent that he starts paying attention to her and showering her with affection.
Ciel Alterod
I'd like to work with some rare and valuable minerals, Master!
Souta's third haremette and blacksmith. She's a gnome who was targetted by Bakraja's organization, due to outstanding debts, and the fact that Bakraja and Carol went "missing" meant they needed to gather funds fast. She winds up in his service in return for being rescued from a worse fate as one of the association's products.- Ascended Fangirl: She's always admired metal golems, particularly those made of rare metals like Adamite. When Souta manages to fuse one for her, she was tickled pink and gladly cozied up to the monster which dotes on her right back.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Downplayed. When Souta possesses a fox monster in order to lewd her and get away with it, Carol catches them in the act and states that Ciel's sexual proclivities are normally none of her business, but she should keep it in moderation.
- Covert Pervert: She dresses conservatively and never overtly makes passes at Souta, but she can frequently be heard mumbling in her sleep as if she's in an Erotic Dream, she openly enjoys Souta's lewd pranks, and she called Roth using a Honey Trap ploy on a prison guard "cool," with starry-eyed admiration.
- Foreshadowing: Her name is Ciel, which means "sky" in many languages, despite being a gnome. This foretells that she's going to be using the demon king castle's controls to send the structure high enough into the sky that Aprhodite can then claim the demon king is launching an armed invasion and can use her true power to retaliate.
- Girlish Pigtails: She wears her hair in this manner to highlight her childish joy and innocence.
- Happiness in Slavery: Of the lesser evil manner. She's glad to be in Souta's harem because the alternative was being in Bakraja's and since that guy straight up rapes his female slaves, Souta's a huge improvement.
- I Will Wait for You: Deconstructed. She took over her master's smithy while the woman was off hunting down remnants of the former demon king's army in a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, and tried to hold onto it until she returned. She almost wound up on the slave market under Bakraja's association, rescued by Souta at the price of being one of his slave harem instead.
- Our Gnomes Are Different: Unlike most gnomes in fiction, she actually specializes in blacksmithing.
- Sensor Character: As a gnome, she can literally smell ores. This makes her ideal to have in the party when Souta chose an ore-hunting quest, ironically, so he can find her the weapon-making ore she asked for, and succeeds indirectly by gathering a bunch of monsters that he ultimately fused into an Adamite (Adamantite) golem.
- Sins of Our Fathers: She's saddled with her father's debt of 3 million coin. The guy's whereabouts are unknown.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: She's one of the smartest girls in Souta's harem and wears glasses to prove it.
- Trojan Prisoner: While attempting to rescue Souta from jail, she not only tunnels under the jail using her gnome race inherent skills, she's also dressed in a very convincing facsimile of the prisoner uniform.
Yuuko
Hahaha! Are you the one who was defeating my companions?
A wraith the party is sent to subdue for desecrating a graveyard. Turns out she's a subordinate and fangirl of Caroline. She agrees to leave the graveyard, but is encountered again in an abandoned mansion using zombies to keep people away. While Souta and crew are trying to figure out some way she can live in peace, another adventuring party that's far less morally upright tries to muscle in, kill her for the reward money and eliminate Souta's party so there are no witnesses. When the evil party is dealt with, Souta tricks her into agreeing to join his harem by putting her in his magic ball.- Dark Is Not Evil: She's both a necromancer and wields advanced dark magic, in addition to having intermediate level fire magic, but she's no more evil than Souta himself, and he's pretty morally upright, all things considered.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: She's an undead being at least 300 years old, since she used to work under Carolina, but looks like a little girl in fancy clothes.
- Happiness in Slavery: Played with. She's clearly less than thrilled to find herself being sucked into Souta's magic ball and having to obey his orders, but since it's the only way she can live in peace, she puts up with it.
- Kinky Spanking: The first time she meets Souta, she hurls a fireball at him when he tried to capture her with his magic ball, and failed, due to intangibility. This fireball accidentally hits Carol instead. Carol is willing to spare her life because Souta said "no harm, no foul" after learning Yuuko's motives. Carol, however, was still miffed at having the adventurer gear Souta bought for her burned, so grabbed Yuuko, exposed her bum, and spanked her a good 100 times.
- Necromancer: She repeatedly builds up an army by tampering with or manipulating corpses and the spirits of the dead.
Roth Tryzarty
- Adaptational Sympathy: In the original novel, his rigged casino ploy was under the orders of Dragon Empress Kururu, who is an even worse boss than himself, and after being gender swapped through magical means, tried to rush off and face the evil Draconic Humanoid in the protection of Carolina. Since the manga adapts out the dragon empress arc, these noble traits are adapted out as well.
- Adaptation Name Change: In the original novel, their name is Rust. In the manga, it's Roth.
- Ascended Fangirl: Presuming it's not just butt-kissing, when she realizes she's in the presence of Carolina Burton, she proclaims that she's always been a big fan of Carolina, even as a young child, and now Roth gets to be Carolina's maid apprentice.
- Asshole Victim: Nobody has any qualms when Souta turns Roth from male to female and then sexually harasses "her." In fact, his harem openly encourages him.
- Attractive Bent-Gender: Invoked. Turning her from a male vampire to a female succubus made him, now her, very, very, very attractive.
- Bad Boss: When Aphrodite was fleeced at the gambling table, but still had enough sense to quit before going into debt, Roth responds to the news by beating up the employees he had running that table, until they were grievously wounded bleeding all over the floor.
- Beat Them at Their Own Game: On the wrong end. He fleeced countless victims into debt-slavery by using illusion magic to cheat at the games. Souta brings in Carol, who is better at illusion magic and cheats him in a high-stakes poker game. Due to the size of the payout, Roth invites Souta over to a back-room, which isn't in itself suspicious, but when he tries to attack Souta for daring to win, openly invites Souta to retaliate. There goes his scam, and his freedom.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Being an excellent chef and tailor, Roth could have made plenty of money legitimately, but because of his Fantastic Racism, he thought such subservient roles in the service of humans was beneath him, so became the Bad Boss of a crime syndicate and tried his hand at fleecing people in a rigged casino.
- Dirty Coward: He loves to abuse and lord it over others when he's got the upper hand, but when he's facing someone strong enough to utterly stomp him, he grovels like crazy.
- Dressing as the Enemy: While trying to break Souta out of jail, she uses a prison uniform she stitched together with her skills as a tailor to impersonate a guard. It's so impressive a match that it'd be impossible to tell she's actually not a prison guard without looking at a modern employee register, that the world of Adelithe doesn't have.
- Fantastic Racism: He has a glaring superiority complex against humans.
- The Fashionista: Another of Roth's hidden talents is that she, as the succubus maid, is an excellent tailor and fashions Aphrodite an elegant evening gown from the material of a discarded curtain.
- Good Feels Good: While Roth found the change from male vampire to female succubus traumatic, understandably so, it may have been the best thing to happen to them. As a male vampire, Roth spent every waking moment in a perpetual rage, and took it out on everyone around him, hiding it with a paper-thin veneer of civility, his superiority complex leading to one Stupid Evil act after another. As a female succubus serving under Carolina and Souta, she is almost constantly ecstatic at having her talents praised and although she will never admit it, likes working for Souta himself.
- Karmic Transformation: In addition to having a superiority complex against humans, he is also extremely sexist, with a glaring superiority complex over women, responding in sheer terror when in the presence of a woman he knows can, and will, utterly destroy him if he pisses them off. As punishment for targeting Aphrodite for sexual slavery, running a crooked casino, and trying to kill him when he won a bet in spite of the casino actively cheating, exposing the cheat in the process, Souta uses his magic ball to capture him and turns him from a male vampire to a female succubus and then lets Carol take over training and discipline. OUCH!
- The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: As a male vampire, Roth had many means to take a guard's keys when he wanted to liberate a prisoner, most involving violence. As a female succubus, when presented with the same problem, her go-to plan was to pull up her skirt, expose her panties and make vague promises of delivering sexual favor in return for the key. While Ciel openly admires the ploy, Roth herself was going "why the hell did I do that?!"
- Not What It Looks Like: Played with. When Carolina catches her straddling Souta, tied up on a bed, Roth tries to claim innocence by stating Souta was playing with a skill in a perverse manner. Carol was unimpressed. On the one hand, Souta was transformed into Aphrodite and decided to play with the new body's breasts. On the other, that doesn't excuse Roth pinning Souta to a bed, tying "her" up and then sexually harassing the latter.
- Reformed, but Not Tamed: Bordering on Boxed Crook. Roth never actually respects Souta and clearly doesn't like being part of the harem, but serves faithfully due to fear of offending Carolina Burton who can, and will, give out a major beating, at best if Souta is not treated with respect.
- Smug Snake: When he and Souta first met and the former tried to attack the latter, even Roth's Super Mode was so weak, Souta could have beat up the guy using just his fists, but Roth went around acting like he's unbeatable and had Souta dead to rights, after Souta had stomped all his bodyguards. It's only when Souta whipped out his Adamite golem, purely for the sake of ending the battle quickly, that Roth realized he was in trouble, but by then, it was too late for him to save himself.
- Stupid Evil: His rigged casino, using illusion magic, and employees that didn't hesitate to brag about it when they thought they were alone, was bound to fail sooner or later. In fact, Souta is astonished at how easy the scam is to see through. In fact, the scam was so easy to see through, Brainless Beauty Aphrodite saw through it the moment she calmed down after she was fleeced.
- Supreme Chef: Her cooking is fit for royalty, and she is thrilled to do it for Carolina-sama.
- Villains Want Mercy: When Souta has him dead to rights, he doesn't hesitate to beg for mercy, even promising to hand over his own slave harem to Souta if he's spared. Souta captures him, frees all the slaves present and uses Bell City's legal system to recover all the illegally acquired and sold slaves, regardless, and then puts Roth himself through a Karmic Transformation.
Lemis Littlefold
A mermaid princess who is rumored to be able to manipulate the weather. She invites Souta into her kingdom to thank him for rescuing her pet turtle from a shark. Unfortunately for both of them, Kurou somehow followed Souta in and laid waste to the place in his self-righteous zeal. Kurou doesn't leave the area until the entire place is wrecked, leaving her the Sole Survivor. With no other prospects, she joins Souta's harem, just to survive.
- Adapted Out: By skipping the "Mermaid Princess" arc, the manga cuts her out of the story entirely.
- Androcles' Lion: By proxy. Because Souta rescued her pet turtle, she invited him into her city for a reward, and later joined his harem as thanks for saving her life.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: Souta describes her as a one in a 1000 year beauty and she's a good, kind woman.
- I Owe You My Life: She begs Souta to capture her with his magic ball as a matter of a life-debt. Souta agrees because he can see no other option for her continued survival, thanks to Kurou's antics.
- Mundane Utility: Souta uses her weather manipulation magic as air-conditioning in his mansion, and to make frozen deserts everyone enjoys.
- Weather Manipulation: Though she's not as powerful as the rumors claim, she does have magic able to affect the local weather, slightly.
Rumil Fonnel
- Adaptational Consent: In the novel version, she orders Souta, disguised as (female) Roth to her quarters, drags the apparent succubus maid into her room, throws her onto the bed and then straight up rapes "Roth" with a strap-on, on a repeated basis. The manga version skips all that content and only shows the scene where Souta (as Roth) gives her oral sex as part of the ploy to steal her magic key to get at the usurper who commandeered the Demon King's body.
- Bed Trick: Self-inflicted. She repeatedly drags "Roth" who she thinks is a very attractive succubus into her bed, only learning, after doing that for at least a week, that she's been dragging Souta, the man she condemned Carolina for serving, into her bed, and then when it's all over, she learns the original and real Roth was originally a man too, but was genderbent through magical means. In the novel, she's surprisingly cool with that bit of info.
- Disappointed in You: She openly states she's disappointed that Carolina chose to serve Souta because the boy is lacking in physical strength compared to herself. Although it's unintentional, Souta winds up spending the better part of a week showing Rimmil that physical strength and martial might, while important, isn't everything and ultimately ends up putting Rimmil herself in his magic ball.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: A high-ranked individual in an organization brings a low-ranked woman into a secure area for which she has no clearance to engage in sexual trysts, and this results in disaster? Where have we seen that before?
- Et Tu, Brute?: When she realizes "Roth," who she's been dragging to her bedroom over several days, is the one who sabotaged Demon King castle defenses and brought the human Hero army in, she acts as if she's been betrayed by her lover. Then she realizes "Roth" is Souta, the guy she mocked Carolina for choosing to serve. She faints in response and Souta takes advantage to grab her with his magic ball and swipe her pendant that she uses to get into the demon king throne room, where Carolina is being held against her will.
- Eyepatch of Power: She wears a patch over one eye and is the strongest of the Demon King generals.
- Fatal Flaw: Lust. She's directly responsible for sabotaging the Demon King Castle by ordering the new maid into her quarters for repeated shagging without properly vetting the new meat.
- The Guards Must Be Crazy: Initially justified in that the Demon King's forces were severely understaffed and needed all the help they could get, so they didn't have the opportunity to properly vet all the incoming "demons," especially a succubus maid by the name "Roth," but then she completely screws over her base's security by going into the common mess hall instead of her designated officer's mess, approaches the New Meat, and orders her to attend to her in her own bedroom, guiding "Roth" right past the security into the most sensitive areas of the castle. All because she was utterly convinced nobody could beat her and her living armors in a straight-up fight, and she was right about that, but Souta, disguised as Roth, wasn't there to fight...
- I Fight for the Strongest Side!: She fought on behalf of the fake "Demon King" who commandeered the real's body because he could, with his army, stomp the humans unopposed. She happily serves Souta, the guy who beat her in a fight using many of the fake's armies against her and captured her with his magic ball fair and square, and then defeat the fake by luring him into Heaven, where Aphrodite could use her full might against him.
- Psycho Lesbian: She's not interested in men, and she loves to sexually exploit any women under her command that she can get away with.
- Supermode: She's already very impressive as is, but if she wants extra power, she can transform into a centaur and become even more powerful.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: For the rest of the series, Souta was able to wing it, either relying on guile, using Aphrodite as bait, his army of captured monsters, or Carol as his heavy hitter, or some combination, to get past the trouble he faced. Rumil alone utterly stomped Souta's best monster, and Carol's super-mode won't even match Rumil's ordinary mode, plus Rumil had an army with her that even the strongest adventurers present couldn't contend with.
- We Can Rule Together: Impressed with him going through her army, she offers to recruit Kurou to join the army of the Demon King. She first tries with money, and he says no. She tries with attractive women, and he blue-screens, but before he can reboot, she attacks him.
Other Heroes
Gard Westburg
You're a promising adventurer, would you mind helping us defeat the demon lord?
A self-proclaimed descendant of one of the Heroes who defeated the last demon lord 300 years ago. He charters Souta's help with the promise of a 30 million coin payment if they succeed, but once Souta's out of the room, turns to his party and proclaims that he has no intention of paying, just planning to move in when both sides are worn out and eliminate the victor, taking the credit themselves.- Agent Peacock: Although he's apparently heterosexual, as he reacts to Domon's Love Confession and sexual advances with unbridled horror, he carries himself and dresses himself in very effeminate ways.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: When he tries to run after trying to backstab Souta and straight up murder Yuuko just for cash, giggles, and glory, Souta retaliates by spraying him and all his men with the same aphrodisiac monster he earlier used to prank Aphrodite. The entire group went into gay confessions with each other, with Gard's top lieutenant and bodyguard crushing on him, both literally and figuratively. As Souta says, a fitting fate for a group calling itself "Bouquet of Roses" an euphemism for male homosexuality!
- Engineered Heroics: His plan was to let Souta go and face the rumored "Demon Lord" in the east quarter, wait until Souta was about to deliver the final blow and then move in to claim the credit, coming back to town as a "hero."
- Evil Hero: He may be descended from a hero that lived 300 years ago, but there's not a single drop of genuine heroism in his veins. He's arrogant, condescending, cowardly, and opportunistic, seeking out the most promising adventurer, roping him in with promises of wealth and glory, letting him do the heavy lifting, and then taking the sweet rewards for himself when it's all done.
- Would Hurt a Child: When he storms Yuuko's house, expecting Souta to be on the brink of death, in a likely Mutual Kill situation, and then sees Souta and Yuuko talking, he comes to the conclusion that Yuuko is a child, and therefore easy prey, and tells his goons to attack. There is no other way to interpret those actions than he would attack children, just for laughs.
Domon Barkdash
Allow me to deal with these small fry, my Lord.
Gard's top lieutenant and his strongest minion.- Bodyguard Crush: He's the strongest of Gard's men, protects Gard, and has a crush on Gard himself.
- Number Two: He's Gard's second in command, giving the men orders when Gard is unavailable, distracted, or otherwise indisposed.
Moruzumi Shinji
- Bit Character: His appearances are few, very far between, and he doesn't do much on-screen.
- Fanboy: He's a huge fan of Aphrodite.
- Flat Character: He really doesn't get much in the way of characterization.
Kurou Ryuuki
- Adaptational Sympathy: Because the manga removed the mermaid princess arc, it is made to seem that his attack on Carol, an innocent, was a one-time thing, rather than an ongoing pattern.
- Chuunibyou: As lampshaded by Souta, this guy is really nothing more than an extremely introverted high-school aged boy who hides inside his own wild imaginations, and his "edgelord" persona is just part and parcel of that.
- Dark Is Evil: He wields cursed swords, dresses head to toe in black clothing, and at best is heavily misguided in his actions.
- Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us: His interpretation of the goal Aphrodite set for him, defending the world of Adilethe from the Demon King, manifests as wiping out the "Demon" races before the Demon King appears and they join his side. On paper, this makes sense. In practice, this drives the neutral, innocent, and even benevolent demons to the side of said Demon King, in self-defense. He doesn't realize this is an issue until Souta, disguised as Aphrodite, calls him to task on it, but by then, he's already completely annihilated the mermaid city, with the princess herself left no option save to join Souta's harem to survive.
- Dual Wielding: He fights with twin swords.
- Dumb Muscle: Deconstructed. He can not formulate a plan any further than "there's my enemy, attack, hit it until it dies." This winds up with him easily manipulated by human supremacists and the usurper in disguise.
- Fatal Flaw: Lust. He just can't resist a pretty face. Hyunkel was able to use him as a pawn to steal Iblis's body from the human kingdom by using a "princess" to string him along with promises of sexual favors. The instant the seal was broken, this clod wound up with the "weakened" condition and was arrested as helpless as a newborn.
- He also suffers from an unbelievable inability to do his research before he goes "Demon Hunting." After he and Souta are broken out of prison, it's revealed that he has a rather impressive organization backing him, an organization he built, as Souta and crew wind up hiding out in one of Kurou's safe-houses as they plan their next steps. How he was unable to tell the difference between the malignant and benign demons, without willful malice, boggles the mind.
- Heel Realization: In the novel version of events, even after he's chewed out by Souta posing as Aphrodite, he's still utterly genocidal towards the "demon" races. It's only when he and Souta are forced to share a prison cell, and Souta punches him in the face, with the two having nearly equal stats thanks to the prison's Power Limiter, that he realizes just how evil his actions have been.
- I Choose to Stay: While the manga completely skips over his decision, in the novel, he chooses to stay in Adelithe because he's a social outcast back on Earth, but in Adelithe, he can be a successful adventurer.
- Ineffectual Loner: What he used to be on Earth.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the novel version of events, he intentionally breaks the magic seal on Iblis's body on behalf of the usurper, because he couldn't be bothered to stop and think that this was a bad idea. Souta, who winds up sharing a cell with him, punches him in the face in response, and with both of them under the effect of a magic limiter, Souta manages to make it hurt.
- No Social Skills: The reason he's such an edge-lord in Adelithe is that he just doesn't know how to communicate, with anyone, so he became somewhat famous as a powerful solo adventurer/demon hunter.
- Would Not Hit a Girl: Deconstructed. When he defeats Carol, he only fought back enough to utterly disarm her and then sells her into slavery under Bakraja. He later goes after a mermaid princess and completely annihilates her home city but does nothing to her personally, just leaving her to die without any other options, if it weren't for Souta being there to offer her a place in his harem. And even though he sees Souta as a traitor for siding with benevolent "demons," can't bring himself to fight the latter while he was disguised as a woman.
Allies
Rikku Garvanent
- Adaptation Deviation: In the original novel, Souta stumbled upon Roth's casino by chance, as Souta was looking to buy a slave. In the manga version, she mentions Roth's casino to Souta's entire harem, and Souta volunteers to investigate on her behalf.
- Fantastic Racism: She has been grievously wronged by "demons" during the war with the Demon King three hundred years back, and she's being harassed by one of his former generals, who is a nasty Female Misogynist, so she's got a raging hate boner for all of the "demon" race.
- Noble Bigot: Her reasons for being a Demon Hunter are all heroic, as the "demons" she hunts do indeed have a raging superiority complex and harm others for sport. She overcomes her bigotry when Souta and Carol prove their noble nature by bringing down Roth's crooked casino and freeing the many innocent victims.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The reason she was absent from her smithy at the start of the story, the same one Ciel worked at, is because she's on a bloody path of revenge against one of the former demon king's generals who grievously wronged her first.
- Shipper on Deck: She openly supports Ciel+Souta, to Ciel's embarrassment.
Enemies
Bakraja Ackerman
(Puts dagger to his own throat) Working for a weakling like you?! I would rather die!
The leader of the slavers hunting down Carol near the start of the story. Souta was perfectly willing to avoid him and keep Carol hidden until he saw this lout attack a little girl selling apples on the curb, just to vent his frustrations. At that point, Souta captured him with his magic ball and when this lout became suicidal out of shame and spite, decided the best way to resolve the dilemma was to turn him into a werewolf.- Evil Power Vacuum: When he "goes missing," Souta's party, and the locals, are subjected to plenty of additional grief as several groups and former subordinates duke it out to fill his now vacant position.
- Fat Bastard: As can be seen in the page image, he's got a huge pot-belly and is a despicable sot who got his jollies by enslaving, raping, and murdering members of the "demon" races, making a profit by selling his slaves was just a bonus to him.
- Fate Worse than Death: He thinks being captured by a "weakling" like Souta is one, but that's nothing compared to what Souta had in store for him when he tried to commit suicide.
- Karmic Transformation: After reading the many titles of murder, rape, and various other heinous crimes this guy has in his stats sheet, Souta believes this guy has renounced the right to life, but doesn't want to kill him, and certainly can't afford to set him free, even if he knew how. After a bit of mulling it over, Souta comes to the conclusion that the best way to redeem him is to "reincarnate" him by fusing him with a wolf and turning him into a werewolf. Especially, since this guy loves to enslave "demons" simply because they're another race. In the race stats, werewolves are listed as "demons."
- Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Souta, being a slaver himself, doesn't have a particular grudge for this guy marketing slaves, but when he reads the rape and murder titles on the guy and learns that they're a direct result of the way he handles his slaves, condemns him to a Karmic Transformation.
- Spiteful Suicide: Attempted and averted. He puts his own knife to his throat with the intent to kill himself, to spite Souta for capturing him. Souta stops him by commanding him to drop the knife, and he complies because, as part and parcel of being captured by the magic ball, he's Incapable of Disobeying.
- Would Hurt a Child: Considering that he earned Souta's ire by attacking a helpless and innocent little orphan girl who was selling apples on the sidewalk, yes he would.
Debt collector from the Bakraja Association
Of course the 3 million's not enough! You ever hear of "interest"?
According to a written notice of liability he waved at Souta in chapter 26, Ciel's father borrowed 3 million coin from the association and disappeared, leaving the debt in Ciel's name. Despite her paying it off on a payment plan, this guy demanded the entire principal in a lump-sum. When Souta delivered payment, thanks to subjugating a cockatrice, he then loudly proclaims that Ciel still owes an additional 3 million for interest. When Ciel pays that, from the funds of selling her smithy in order to travel with Souta, he then tries to claim he miscalculated and the interest plus penalties is actually 5 million, coming at Ciel with a knife and trying to drag her into slavery. At this point, Souta's had enough and summons his spanking new werewolf monster to punch him in the face and threaten him to never, ever show his face again.- Delinquent Hair: He sports a Faux-hawk, a tuft of unruly hair where a mohawk usually is with a nearly shaved head all around it.
- Loan Shark: He runs the part of the association responsible for collecting on debts, and since he refused to show a ledger, just making up interest fees and penalties on the fly, the entire business is clearly less than entirely legal.
- Moving The Goal Posts: He first demands Ciel pay 3 million coin. When Souta provides said payment, he then insists on another 3 million "for interest and penalties." When Ciel pays that, he claims he miscalculated and the fee is actually 5 million, demanding Ciel sell herself into slavery to make up the difference, drawing a blade and trying to drag her off by force. At this point Souta calls "foul" and responds with violence of his own.
- No Name Given: His name is never mentioned.
Dragon Empress Kururu
One of the demon generals and the Archenemy of Rikku. She used to be Roth's boss, until he was captured and turned into a woman, added to Souta's harem.
- Adapted Out: With the removal of the Dragon Empress Kururu arc, she's removed from the storyline, and the 100 million in loot that was Souta's share of the raid on her base instead came from Souta's participation in crushing Roth's crooked gambling den.
- Bad Boss: She has absolutely no tolerance for failure, or perceived betrayal, with Roth testifying, after being compelled to speak truthfully, that she'd beat her minions half to death, at best, for either.
- Draconic Humanoid: She's called Dragon Empress because she's a were-drake.
- Fatal Flaw: Arrogance. She thought she was so superior to Souta's harem that she didn't take any of them seriously, thinking that once she repelled his magic ball with a wind barrier that she could take her time and kill him, slowly. Surprise, she gets drowned in lava by Souta's Adamite golem.
- Female Misogynist: She surrounds herself with underlings who are either male or genderless and gets murderous whenever another female enters her sight. The instant she saw that Roth was gender-bent, she went completely postal.
Hyunkel
I'll never forgive you! Die! Hahaha! You may have the demon king's soul, but you're just a frail human! Dying squashed like an insect!
The usurper who stole Iblis's body and then assumed the demon king's identity. He's always had a mad obsession with Carolina, even when they were both working under Iblis, and spared Souta just long enough for the latter to get past a mystical barrier guarding the Demon King's sword. He goes apoplectic when Souta spites him by destroying the sword against his own barrier.- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: As can be seen, he's double if not triple Souta's height and clearly hostile to anyone not himself or under his control.
- Big Bad: He's the source of all the strife in the story, at least in the final chapters.
- Entitled to Have You: To Carolina, going on 300 years, he utterly refuses to heed her wishes and even possesses Iblis's body, just to stick it to her.
- Evil Gloating: Deconstructed. The fact that he went out of his way to have Carolina kidnapped and brought before him to taunt and torment, and the fact that he gloated as he squashed Souta like a bug, literally, gave Souta plenty of time to play out his plan to drag the Demon King's castle into Heaven, where Aphrodite could then smite him in return.
- Fatal Flaw: Arrogance and wrath. Because he thinks himself vastly superior to everyone, he never takes others seriously, and because he's quick to anger with poor control, he's easily baited into self-destructing.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: His original body wore glasses, and he's so despicable, even the worst of the Demon King army didn't like him. They just tolerated him because of his cunning and might.
- Karmic Death: If Carol's testimony is accurate, he's always pranced around as if he's even superior to the gods, and this only grew worse when his master plan to take Iblis's place and body came to fruition. He meets his end at the hands of a legit goddess.
- The Magnificent: He's known as "The Hermit."
- Make My Monster Grow: When he first meets Souta, he's maybe a few inches taller. When he loses it after Souta throws the demon king's sword through the barrier, resulting in the sword being lost forever (novel), or disappears only to return months later (manga), he grows to be several times taller and bigger than Souta, enough that he can crush our protagonist like a bug, literally.
- Tricked into Another Jurisdiction: He was so busy tormenting Carolina and messing with Souta that he never realized the castle he commandeered was heading into Heaven until Aphrodite, at full power, showed up, but by then, it was already too late for him.
Others
Chloe Grais
- Cat Girl: The first thing that catches Souta's attention about her are those cat ears atop her head.
- The Not-Love Interest: She is the girl Souta interacts with the most outside of Aphrodite herself, but Chloe never joins up with Souta's harem and just stays a receptionist for the entire series.
- Quest Giver: Although Souta and crew get quests from the adventurer's guild board, she's the one who puts those quests there and she determines which quests adventurers can get based on their rank.
