Characters / Kuro no Maou

Character sheet for Kuro no Maou Beware possible spoilers.

Main Characters: The Elemental Masters.

Kurono Mao

How did I get here?

The protagonist.

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• All for Nothing: He leads the battle defending Alsace brilliantly against incredible odds, allowing the non-combat civilians to evacuate while the adventurers with him defend the bulwark, and has several major tactical victories under his belt, with Cross Army facing significant casualties, but in the end it's all meaningless as Kurono has the entire team flee a pincer maneuver only for Misa to show up, slaughtering all but 15 out of the thousands of civilians and leaving only Simon alive while he, Lily, and Fiona are busy getting spanked by Ai who decided to stop pretending she was helpless.
• Arch-Enemy: Due to torturing him, experimenting on him, forcing him to kill his own countrymen, repeatedly mutilating and killing those close to him, and many more offenses against him, Kurono has a deep-seated and violent hatred for anything and everything that has to do with The White God Church and its followers.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: He quickly grows attached to Lilly because she's the first anyone to treat him kindly upon arriving to this new world, without asking anything in return.
• Break the Cutie: An ordinary student tossed into experimentation and torture for several months to make him into a weapon, followed by an entire village of close companions being mercilessly slaughtered and crucified, just about breaks Kurono entirely. He manages to recover his sanity thanks to Lily and Fiona, but neither are oblivious to the damage this has done to him.
• The Call Knows Where You Live: The White God Church makes his desire to live peacefully completely impossible.
• Cartwright Curse: Falling in love with him is dangerous for your physical and mental well being. Either he'll get ripped from your arms, you'll get caught up in his brutal battles, or you'll have to deal with Lily or Fiona. Suffice to say, these possibilities are not pretty.
• Chick Magnet: Mostly because he's a Nice Guy under all of his vengeance for the White God Church, those that party with him tend to end up attracted to him. Lilly isn't a fan of this.
• Cry into Chest: When he speaks with Lilly's adult form for the first time, she asks him to relay his backstory. Afterwards, she pulls him into her bosom, to comfort him and let him cry his eyes out, which he does, until he realizes she's not wearing a lick of clothing. The next morning, they go shopping and get that lovely Ancient Velvet dress.
• Dark Is Not Evil: "Black Magic" is forced into him by the White God Church "acolytes" who were experimenting on him, and he's got a much better conscience than they ever will. Even coming into contact with cursed weapons and items doesn't skew his moral compass.
• Elemental Powers: One of his ability as a Demon King is to turn his Black Magic into any of the seven others elements, so he could make black fire, lightning, ice, water, earth, wind and even light.
• Entertainingly Wrong: When Lilly begs him to avoid fighting Sariel a third time, he agrees because even when all the odds were in his favor, he was no match for her. Lilly screams that she doesn't want the two to fight again because she doesn't want to lose him.
• Evil Weapon: Kurono has a great affinity with "cursed weapons".
• Face of a Thug: He's noted to have sharp looking eyes that form a natural menacing glare, which causes no few amount of people to either become scared of him, misunderstand him, or both. Though, his eyes aside, he is also described as having a handsome face by a few people.
• Fatal Flaw: He's way too impulsive for his own good, although he does think things through.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He was just some random, unremarkable high school student before being brought over to this world. After what he went through, he becomes a dark mage filled with obscene amounts of power that begins gathering non-humans to his side, and starts severely undermining the White God Church as its single greatest threat.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: The White God Church put him through hell to break his will, eliminate his internal reluctance to murder, and make him a powerful Super-Soldier wholly dedicated to their cause. They got what they wanted alright, but he's completely and irrevocably hostile to them.
• Kidnapped by the Call: Spent the last day on earth with an ever increasing headache, collapsed in the literature club as he was getting confessed to. Woke up on a slab, unable to move, and got a Slave Collar attached to his head, then hell began.
• Made a Slave: In chapter 1, escaping thanks to a convenient earthquake in chapter 2, though months of hell were skipped over in the manga adaptation.
• Man Bites Man: How he defeated Cyprus who thought he had anticipated everything thanks to all the data he had on his former guinea pig. After losing his arms and being drained of all his mana, Kurono only had his jaws left, which have the power of an average animal thanks to the body modifications he suffered. Cyprus Didn't See That Coming.
• Master of the Levitating Blades: One of his favorite attack consist to manipulate blackening swords.
• Romantic Fusion: With Lily, thanks to the blessing of the Fairy Queen.
• These Hands Have Killed: When he was forced to fight "Experiment 48" to the death, and the man's mask fell off, he fell to the ground, wailing in despair, stating the trope by name. Bishop Judas smirked and gloated from one of the arena seats above.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Seeing the citizens of Irz mutilated, to the last child with his adventuring buddies, friends, and love interests crucified, and their bodies mutilated, made him go totally postal. The priest in charge telling him "I will crucify you like I did your pack" was a really bad idea.
• Trapped in Another World: He doesn't know how he can go back to his "home town," and White God Church who summoned him is hardly likely to want to tell him, even if they know.
• Walking Armory: Kurono uses all strong cursed weapons he could get his hands on, no matter their form.
• You Are Number 6: During his months of hell, all the acolytes who came into contact with him called him "Experiment 49." The moment he had any agency to act, he objected, violently.
• You Are Too Late: After learning that the capital of Daedalus had fallen to the Cross Army, he ran for days, non-stop to get back and warn Irz. Tragically, the Cross Army had already gotten there before he did.

Lilly

Let's stay together forever, Kurono!

• Anger Born of Worry: After rescuing Kurono from Sariel, she tears into him for putting himself into such a dangerous situation, because he almost died.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Because Kurono treated her kindly, she's completely smitten with him.
• Berserk Button: Don't get too close to Kurono if you're a female. She might just obliterate you for that.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Sweet she may be, but her anger is a force of nature, literally.
• Born from Plants: Like all fairies, but her case is special because she is half human. Her flower grew from the corpse of her pregnant mother.
• Broken Bird: The best way to summarize her mental state is that she needs Kurono to keep living as much as he needs her support to remain sane after Irz. Living for thirty-two years being treated like less than garbage by her peers, followed by the feeling of love and the realization that she's been completely and utterly starved of it that entire time, effectively broke a part of her despite the liberation. It's also why she lashes out violently if anything threatens Kurono, as the mere idea of stripped of it again will cause her to snap.
• Bullying a Dragon: She is the dragon. Being half-pixie, even her "child" form could literally squash the pixies like bugs. They've been treating her like crap since the day she was born. In chapter 10, this turns around to bite them, hard.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: Being half-pixie, she can't tell genuine falsehoods, but she can lead you to the wrong conclusion by clever use of Exact Words and lies of omission.
• Children Are Innocent: In her "child" form, she's a sweet, innocent girl.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Clingy, but not jealous, at first. As the story progresses, she becomes more and more jealous until she goes full-tilt yandere, and briefly both turns on Kurono and tries to kill all his other love interests to have him all to herself.
• Didn't Think This Through: Dressing herself and Fiona up in Playboy Bunny suits eagerly to try to cheer up Kurono ends up not playing in her favor when she realizes rather late that, yes, Fiona is equally if not potentially moreso attractive than her.
• The Dog Bites Back: Chapter 10, she retaliates against the entitled pixies who drove her out of fairy forest, the moment she was born, and dumped all their "bitch work" on her, fully expecting her to still be completely loyal to them and protect them from Cross Army.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Blonde, and a good, wholesome woman who loves Kurono unreservedly.
• Half-Human Hybrid: She was born as a human-pixie hybrid. However that works.
• Hates Being Alone: She insists Kurono shares a home with her, and who can blame her. She's lived by herself since the day she was born.
• Inhumanly Beautiful Race: Like all fairies, she is a peerless beauty.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: Since she's a half-pixie and grew up with the full-blooded pixies, she initially doesn't wear clothing. So at first, she doesn't understand why Kurono's uncomfortable around her nude body. Although, she began to wear clothes like the "Ancient Velvet" dress shortly afterwards.
• Life Drain: In times of desperation, she can suck the life energy of the surrounding forest to power up to her "adult" form, though it lasts for only a few minutes.
• Love Makes You Evil: Downplayed but present. Despite being treated like crap her whole life, she never dreamed of retaliating against the pixies who not only spurned her, but gave her all their "bitch work" without a word of thanks. Even the night she spotted pixie forest burning as a direct result of Cross Army's atrocities, her first thought was rushing to go aid them, until being in pixie forest, near the Queen Beryl, turned her into her adult form, and she realized she had no obligation to help people who saw her as "defective" on a good day. When she steals the Queen Beryl herself, rather than risk Cross Army going after it, the pixies call her mad, and she retorts "one day, you'll understand what it's like to be in love" before ripping off the wings of one of said pixies and making it very clear that her grudge demands their deaths if they don't immediately leave her sight.
• Metaphorically True: She explains being in possession of the Queen Beryl as a result of it being "entrusted" to her because the fairy forest was destroyed in battle with Cross Army. The place was indeed destroyed as collateral damage when Lily attacked Cross Army that was trying to steal the Beryl, but Lily took the Beryl without consent, and the pixies were powerless to stop her.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Her thoughts, actions, and behavior perfectly correspond to the body she sports. In "child" mode, she thinks and acts like one. In "adult" mode, she thinks and acts like the 32-year-old woman she actually is.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Pixies... if you wanted her aid and protection against Cross Army, it would have been a good idea to not treat her like crap from the day she was born, and heeded her advice to flee Cross Army, rather than trying to cajole her to face them head on, so the rest of you could cower.
• Older Than They Look: Lilly looks childlike most of the time, but she's actually 32 years old.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Upon her introduction, she destroyed not just a cave full of hostile goblins, but the entire cave the goblins were hiding in, with but a single blast, and that's not her at her strongest.
• Pointed Ears: She sports these, being a half-pixie.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: She badgers Kurono to buy her an "Ancient Velvet" dress because she looks cute in it. Said dress just happens to offer more protection than plate-mail, as well as several magic enchantments that prove invaluable when Cross Army shows up.
• Romantic Fusion: With Kurono, thanks to the blessing she received: "Fairy Union".
• Sleep-Mode Size: She spends most of her life in her "child" mode. Under the right conditions, such as a full-moon or casting a special spell, she assumes her "true form," that of a smoking hot 32-year-old woman.
• The Tease: In her adult form, she loves to sexually entice Kurono.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Do not threaten Kurono in her presence. She can, and will, attack with enough force to terrify Sariel, someone who can go toe to toe with an ancient dragon king.
• What Is This Feeling?: When Kurono eagerly talks about firearms production with Simon, Lilly kicks and turns in her room. The boy isn't some romantic hurdle, but because Kurono was showing him a curiosity that she had never seen, an emotion he hadn't shared with her yet, her confused frustration rapidly turns into depression and grief. Then she stares into a window and realizes exactly what she's feeling. This marks her starting to turn from a Clingy Jealous Girl to a Yandere.
  Lily: I — am jealous.
• Yandere: When Fiona seems like a potential Love Triangle problem, she immediately tries to nip it in the bud with a rule of no other romance in the party. And when Kurono visits Simon's house, Lilly burns the door down and aims to turn him into ashes until she realizes he's a male. And she still gets severely depressed because he never showed her such curiosity like he does with Simon. She then goes full-tilt crazy when Kurono had to take Sariel's virginity to free her of the White God's "blessing", attempting to kill all the other love interests until she's finally calmed.

Fiona Soleil

Sweet stuff is life.

• Because You Were Nice to Me: Shows up to rescue Kurono in chapter 10 because he gave her some Ice Candy in chapter 7, after finding her collapsed on the side of the road.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Her thought process is quite odd, to put it mildly.
• Cute Witch: Wears the stereotypical witch attire, is physically appealing.
• Debt Detester: Shows up in chapter 10, rescuing Kurono, because she feels that she owes him a favor.
• Deus ex Machina: In the manga, she appears to rescue Kurono in the town of Irz with little, if any, foreshadowing.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: She's surprised and tickled pink when Lily invites her to the party with herself and Kurono, and Kurono himself welcomed her without objection. For her adventuring past, she would, understandably, be thrown out of adventuring parties, even half-way through a quest, because her Power Incontinence endangered them all. What shocks her even more is that when Kurono is accidentally caught in the collateral damage of one of her spells, he still thanks her for doing her part, rather than getting angry, because she did what she was asked to do as part of the battle strategy.
• Ms. Fanservice: Lily has the bright idea to dress Fiona and herself in Playboy Bunny suits during a village festival. Turns out that Fiona is particularly well-endowed, not that her mage robes usually showcase it - Lily isn't particularly happy when Kurono strongly notices this factoid.
• The Ojou: Implied. Kurono states that she has the air of a stereotypical "ojou" personality, and with a family name must be a Blue Blood.
• Playing with Fire: Her first on-screen spell is a wall of fire.
• Power Incontinence: She has a terribly hard time controlling her magic output. Chapter 12 of the manga reveals that the pillar of fire she used to annihilate a large number of Cross Army soldiers was, in fact, Ignis Shield, the weakest fire-based spell in existence.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: She leaves Cross Army in disgust, considering them unworthy of her time and talents, after seeing what they're like, up close and personal. While she is right about that, the reason she left was because the food they provide is terrible.
• Serious Business: If you promise her sweets, don't welch on it!
• Sweet Tooth: Given a choice, all she'd ever eat would be sweets in one form or another.

Allies:

Nyareko

The Irz guild receptionist.

• Be Careful What You Wish For: Was introduced to the story bored out of her skull, wanting a bit of excitement. Cross Army brought way more than she could have ever wanted.
• Cat Girl: As a war-cat, she obviously has more feline than human features.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Among the first to fall to Cross Army.
• Dispense with the Pleasantries: Doesn't like overly formal language.
• Ms. Exposition: Briefs Kurono on how the adventurer's guild works, and how to raise his rank.

The Irz Slayers

From left to right, Harry (harpy), Claydor (lizardman), and Aten (lamia).

The only member missing in this picture is Nino.

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• Cruel and Unusual Death: Mutilated and crucified.
• Hold the Line: They went to fight first, evacuate last when Irz came under attack. They never made it out.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: An unusual and unbalanced party to say the least.

Nino

Good luck with Atten, Kurono!

The first adventurer Kurono meets.

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• Cat Boy: Has many feline features.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Initially hostile to Kurono because he thought the girl he has his eyes on, Nyareko, was a bit "too friendly" with Kurono. He gets over it.
• Everyone Can See It: His attraction to Nyarko is glaringly obvious.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Extremely obnoxious, but a decent person who treats his allies right.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: When Cross Army came knocking at Irz and the civilians were safely evacuated, he advocated surrender. Unfortunately, this just made things worse as Cross Army refused the surrender and struck his party down like wild animals.
• Shipper on Deck: Strongly supported Kurono+Aten, despite being aware that Kurono and Lily were an item. Strangely, nobody had an issue with that.

Aten

The Lamia member of Nino's party.

• Because You Were Nice to Me: She develops a crush, quite literally, on Kurono because he treats her with respect and doesn't laugh at her dreams, when many others would.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: It's not enough that the Cross Army murdered her while she cried for Kurono's help, but the reader gets to see the aftermath after they severed her lamia tail from her body and crucified the human half. Kurono does not take this well at all.
• I Owe You My Life: Originally, Kurono was merely with Nino's party as a porter. When the Dortus (Mammoth) was going to stomp her like a bug, Kurono jumped up and delivered a One-Hit Kill to the beast, saving her life. She's been very clingy with him since.
• The Lost Lenore: Next to Lily, she was one of the first potential romances for Kurono as he regarded her particularly closely in return. Consequently, it's her horrifying death in particular that tops off Kurono's trauma from everyone else's murders to undergo an immense psychotic breakdown followed by a Heroic RRoD.
• Snake People: She's a Lamia.
• Tragic Dream: She wanted to join up with Kurono's party to become a better adventurer, Nino's party giving their full blessings, then Cross Army comes along...

Claydor

• The Big Guy: Biggest and strongest of the Irz Slayers party.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Carved to pieces, and torso crucified.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Defied. He's decent and noble.

Harry

• Ambiguous Gender: Harpies are traditionally female in fiction, but is named Harry and is very androgynous.
• Human Pincushion: Combined with Death by Irony. Was an archer, gets shot by arrows to death.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Wears glasses, and is somewhat intelligent.

Vulcan

Beaten in one punch by a total rookie? Man, how embarrassing!

The most powerful of the adventurers from Alsace that showed up and rescued Kurono back at Irz.

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• Anti-Magic: He had a sword that can absorb magic, it is one of the reason he was a rank 4 adventurer.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Adventurers as a whole respect strength and battle-skill as the penultimate virtue in leadership, and he's the biggest proponent of it, even when Kurono bests him in a duel.
• Beast Man: He's a werewolf.
• Boisterous Bruiser: He's loud and hammy when he's in a fight, and few can best him.
• Defeat Means Respect: Beaten in a duel for leadership of the emergency request, he praises Kurono and heeds the latter's wishes, despite Kurono being a rank amateur. His fur's a bit ruffled when Kurono asks for advice until he learns Kurono is from a distant land and needs the superior wisdom and experience of his adventurer seniors.
• Healing Factor: A cross army soldier threw a bomb at him and assumed he was badly injured. Said soldier is shocked and horrified when he just calmly gets right back up and then proceeds to show said soldier what it feels like to be cut in two. Although it was also because his mana-eating sword had weakened the attack.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: While absent from the manga, the original novel demonstrates that he and the people he's with are killed by his own blade being controlled while he's still wielding it by Misa. The manga only shows Kurono arriving on the scene to find this guy's arm cut off and the blade in his chest, through his heart.
• Made of Iron: He can take and shrug off a truly impressive amount of damage. Kurono has to hit him with a dark-magic drill, at point-blank range, to beat him, and he gets up and shakes it off like nothing just seconds later.
• Super-Strength: As a werewolf, he was stronger than Kurono who had received a body upgrade. Even a cross army soldier with boost magic was not his match.

Moz

Fine, fine, you win, you thief!

One of the adventurers from Alsace that rescues Kurono in Irz.

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• Dark Is Not Evil: He's some kind of skeletal being and dabbles in necromancy and other "dark" magics, but he's a decent and honorable chap, protecting helpless villagers from the atrocities of Cross Army. He also raised many young adventurers.
• Dem Bones: He's some kind of skeletal mage.
• Expy: Of Brooke, from One Piece. He even makes the same bone or skeleton related jokes about himself.
• Our Liches Are Different: Implied. He's some kind of spell-casting skeleton, but he's not Always Chaotic Evil, and carries few of the traditional Lich hallmarks.

Simon

Wait, wait, wait! It took me weeks to design and build a single-shot gun that can work in live combat, and you want me to design a far more intricate and advanced weapon in only a few days?!

An adventurer that Kurono encounters in Alsace that invented guns in this new world.

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• Dude Looks Like a Lady: A jealous Lily burns down the door to his workshop, for fear of Simon romancing Kurono. She learns he's a guy, but is still not happy that Kurono and he are spending too much time together, working on designing firearms.
• Friendly Sniper: He takes up this role in the defense of Alsace, shooting through the visor of the plate-mail donned by Cross Army's heavy armor. While this is very, very impressive, he still needs more experience as he has a disturbing habit of poking his rifle barrel out the window where he can be seen.
• Locked Out of the Loop: He was away hunting when Cross Army invaded and the emergency request came in. When he meets Kurono, he's brought up to speed, fast.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: His break-action, single-shot rifle is truly impressive for the world he's in, allowing him to punch way, way above his class. Kurono just happens to know about far more impressive modern firearms, so talks him through designing and modifying them for immediate production and use, to help in the defense of Alsace, or at least allow for the evacuation of the villagers therein against the far more numerically overwhelming Cross Army invaders.
• Sole Survivor: Out of all the adventurers Kurono meets in Alsace, he's the only one to survive, and then because one of the more senior adventurers hid him under a wagon from Misa's rampage, at the cost of her life. He is clearly traumatized when Kurono's party finds him.

Crusaders:

White God Church

• Always Chaotic Evil: With very, very rare exception they, and everyone they work with, are all truly loathsome individuals. Wild-eyed, foaming at the mouth fanatics, genocidal racists, axe-crazy psychos, mad torturers, even madder scientists who see nothing wrong with all sorts of unholy experiments, and total sociopaths who see nothing wrong with grand-scale slaughter as long as they get paid, all fill their ranks. And they have the gall to call themselves "righteous."
• Black-and-White Insanity: You're human or very, very close to it, and wield holy magic, you must be Always Lawful Good, regardless of your actual actions. Anything else? Always Chaotic Evil, deserving of nothing but a Cruel and Unusual Death. When Cross Army goes into the fairy forest, searching for the Queen Beryl, burning everything in their path, they come across Lilly. They think she's a goddess. They don't realize she's an enemy until a split second before she blasts them to atoms.
• Corrupt Church: While the actual doctrine has yet to be revealed, the top brass clearly don't believe in it, as they knowingly do all sorts of nasty things that don't align with their own preaching, summoning Kurono Mao in and of itself and their own top secret "Heavens Army Project" being at the top of the list.
• Demonization: Quite literally. They group almost all non-humans, and many humans who aren't in the rank and file, even if they themselves kidnap said humans from other-worlds in the "demon" category and then launch a Guilt-Free Extermination War. The "demons" who are their victims clearly don't agree.
• Did Not Think This Through: Going into a sacred forest to loot and plunder, burning everything in your way, and not expecting the local deity, if there is one, to be enraged at your acts of desecration?
• Faceless Mooks: The rank and file all wear helmets or masks that conceal their faces. Only certain named characters are exempt.
• Hate Sink: They are universally reviled, and the fact that they openly laugh after "purifying" the locals by mutilating and crucifying them doesn't help their case.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: They presumably have an ideology that demands the extermination of all non-humans they come across, at the orders of "White God." They're really just taking everything of value, including territory, purely for their own greed. The non-human "monsters," for the most part, have no reason to fight them, aside from pure self-defense.
• Moral Myopia: They march in force upon the continent of Pandora, looking to slaughter every man, woman, and child, in the name of "White God", openly laughing at the corpses of their victims. When their intended prey retaliate and show no mercy, because they clearly can't afford, said intended victims are "monsters."
• Tautological Templar: Since White God Church scripture is "holy", everything they do in its name must also be "holy" without exception. If White God exists, it doesn't agree.
• Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": Once they manage to breach the defenses of Daedalus and invade in force, they go to all the local towns and "proselytize" by mutilating and crucifying every non-human they come across, and making whatever local human population they meet Join or Die, and even those who get spared are so bad off, they often wish they had died.

Apostles

• The Ace: Of the Crusaders, each Apostles is a One-Man Army.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Most of them were ordinary peoples before they received the power of the White God.
• Superpower Lottery: Unlike others gods, the White God gives the strongest powers to her Apostles. In addition to their specialized abilities, they all have unlimited mana, Super-Strength, Super-Toughness...

Bishop Judas

Yes, despair for me, Devil King!

• Beard of Evil: Long, full beard, sadistic sot who laughed at Kurono while he was wailing after being forced to kill another human being.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: He summons Kurono to this new world in chapter 1, puts the man through hell, laughs about it, but in chapter 4, rewards Sariel for letting Kurono escape by breaking her slave collar, fully prepared for her to trying to kill him in retaliation for the crap she went through as a Church slave, then slinks off after telling her that everything is going according to plan.
• Ironic Name: His name is Judas, and he's a bishop in a fantasy church with a great deal of Christian imagery, namely the cross and the ranks for church workers, Acolyte, Priest, Bishop, Apostle, Cardinal, Pope.
• Just as Planned: In chapter 4, he proclaims that Kurono's escape, including the convenient earthquake were all part of a larger scheme he's got going. Sariel actively agrees, and states she will do her part...
• Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: How does he test the effectiveness of Kurono's collar? Ordering him to die, and smirking as Kurono falls to the ground, then resurrects him.
• Torture Technician: For the sake of science.

Seventh Apostle Sariel

It is not my duty to kill you here, will you please go away?

• Always Someone Better: Kurono, at his best, doesn't stand a chance against her, at her worst, and yes, he's tried.
• An Arm and a Leg: Her left arm was destroyed in battle with the dragon king Graniware, and she's had to grow a new one. In Kurono's attempt to assassinate her with a cursed "Basilisk Needle", she gouges out her own left hand to stop the poison.
• Awesome by Analysis: She's able to copy Kurono's most powerful move after only seeing it once.
• Dissonant Serenity: No matter how grave the situation, or how much threat she's in, she hardly ever emotes, and greets just about everything with a solemn "stony" face.
• Dressed Like a Dominatrix: After being taken by Kurono she used an Indecent Armor, that looks like a black bikini.
• Emotionless Girl: Not only is she emotionless and has no personal interests, before meeting Kurono, but she seems unable to express emotions on her face anyway. Ai tried to ask her to smile but even that was too difficult for her.
• Evil Former Friend: Invoked. She's the girl who was confessing to Kurono before he was dragged off to this new world. She winds up being accidentally summoned as well, 50 years prior to his arrival, and thus winds up undergoing "Final Baptism," having her memories erased and being forced to serve as an apostle.
• Foil: She's Kurono's polar opposite, in just about every manner conceivable, despite also being summoned to this new world and presumably having gone through the same treatment.
• Gone Horribly Right: Whatever she's gone through has made her obedient to the church, but not loyal. She obeys her orders, to the letter, no more, no less. As a result, she has openly let Kurono escape, repeatedly, and quietly cheers him on when she realizes he's going to clash with her subordinates at a nearby village.
• Heel–Face Turn: After Kurono, aided by Lily, Fiona, and one other, manages to defeat her and free her from White God's "divine protection," she joins Kurono on his quest to resist the Cross Army crusaders.
• I Work Alone: She asks her men to retreat to fight Spada's army herself.
• Just Following Orders: Despite spelling out, in precise detail, how genocidal White God Church would be in trying to "proselytize" the continent of Pandora, she still considers it "her duty" to comply with her orders and crush whatever enemies she's ordered to fight against. Kurono attempts to assassinate her on the spot in response.
• Light Is Not Good: She wields light and holy based powers, and takes orders from the genocidal White God Church.
• Noodle Incident: At some time in her past, she apparently harmed herself with her own apostle powers. The details are not forthcoming, but her fellow Apostles, particularly Misa, love to mock her for it.
• Oh, Crap!: When she sees Lilly's ultimate attack right above her. She just barely manages to survive it, surrounded by a crater, and a massive breach in a castle wall behind her.
• Power Gives You Wings: She can manifest wings of light.
• Super-Senses: Up To Eleven. She was able to sense an oncoming earthquake, and warned her superior, Cardinal Ars, to take cover before it struck.
• Sympathy for the Devil: In universe. She covertly supports and empathizes with Kurono, despite the fact that the church calls him "Devil King."
• Virgin Power: In order to be an apostle and have the protection of White God, she has to be a virgin. So Kurono takes her virginity to set her free, rather than kill her. Lily is not happy about this, and momentarily turns on him as a result.
• White and Red and Eerie All Over: Because of being a homonculus she is extremely pale with white hair and red eyes.

Ai

This is so boring, Uncle! When's the fighting going to start?

A "mercenary" that's introduced helping a Cross Army scouting brigade.

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• Armor-Piercing Attack: Her arrows are not just near impossible to dodge, but insanely difficult to block. One of them even pierced Kurono's blade and damaged his eye, taking the eyeball with it when Kurono yanked it out.
• Cute and Psycho: Looks like a child and gets her jollies in brutal combat.
• Enfante Terrible: She's a human preteen and she's a nutjob who loves seeing bloody battles.
• Everyone Has Standards: The field rations Cross Army provides may be downright awful, but she's still not going to get better food at the price of being a Sex Slave to the leader of her mercenary brand that signed a long-term contract with Cross Army.
• Homing Projectile: When she stops pretending, she can fire arrows that turn around and hunt the people that dodged them.
• Hypocrite Has a Point: Tells Kurono that he "obviously has a screw loose," and she's right, but she's a total nutjob who brings a pet cat to the battle-field and gets her jollies watching bloody murder.
• Spotting the Thread: She noted, or rather, smelled the ambush Kurono and party set up to catch the scouts she was with, but was ignored. She's the only one to escape and report to her superiors, who then proceed to yell at her "for cowardice."
• Power Limiter: She has a few of them to restrain her power as an Apostle, she wears them on purpose to hide her identity and to make her fights more challenging.
• Stronger Than They Look: She withstood Fiona's strongest fire-based spell, at point-blank range, and emerged completely unscathed. Since she was focused on escape and not battle, Kurono's team didn't realize she left and presumed she was burned to ash. It proves a very costly mistake.
• Villainous Valor: For reasons that remain unstated, she stops Misa from killing Kurono, Lily, and Fiona at the battle of Alsace.
• Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: She makes her appearance looking and acting like a ditzy kid that barely knows which end is the business end of a bow, but she's at least strong enough to make Misa back down, and skilled enough to trounce Lily, Kurono, and Fiona combined with little effort.

Eleventh Apostle Misa

I want to go kill some "demons" already!

A fellow apostle to Sariel.

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• Axe-Crazy: She's envious that Sariel fought against Granimere, and the only form of entertainment she can get is hunting down and killing innocent men, women, and children because she calls them "demons." She joyfully annihilates all but 15 civilians of Alsace, and of the adventurers guarding the place, only Kurono, Lily, Fiona, and Simon survive.
• Girl with Psycho Weapon / Sinister Scythe: To go with her horribly twisted personality, her holy armament is a massive war-scythe.
• Hypocrite: At some point in the past, she deliberately used her own divine arm on herself, to boast how her weapon could even harm an apostle. Yet whenever she and Sariel are in the same space, she goes out of her way to taunt and torment Sariel for accidentally harming herself with her own weapon. Despite the fact that all of the other Apostles call her out on it, she refuses to stop.
• The Lad-ette: Just going by the page image alone, she's very tomboyish. Granted, she is only in the presence of other women at that point, but few women think the proper way to sit while wearing a skirt is to plop down on the chair spread-eagle like that. Teen boys tend to sit that way all the time.
• Moral Sociopathy: She genuinely believes she's a good woman, but she's entirely psychotic and lives for the pleasure of annihilating entire populations just for the thrill of it.
• Psycho Pink: She has pink hair.

Twelve Apostle Mirabelle

A fellow apostle to Sariel.

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• Dude Looks Like a Lady: He got a beautiful androgynous apparence.
• Hopeless Suitor : To Sariel.

Clergy

Cardinal Ars

Go, Sariel. Recapture "experiment 49."

• Bit Character: Shows up briefly in chapter 2 and is never seen again.
• Bullying a Dragon: Is completely dismissive of Sariel and mocks her at every opportunity. Had she not been wearing a slave collar at the time, with her being ordered to protect and serve, she could, and likely would, have turned him into a stain all over the room.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Openly brags that what the "experiments" are going through in the "Heavens Army Project" is despicable but does not care.
• Smug Snake: Prances around as if he's untouchable because of his rank.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: Sends Sariel, alone, to deal with an escaping "experiment 49" flaunting "her power is too much for a mere 'experiment' to deal with." We later learn that he also did not allow Sariel to use her full might in dealing with the situation. This is the only reason Kurono had any chance of escape.
• What Measure Is a Mook?: Looks at his subordinates with complete scorn, and treats the "experiments" with nothing but contempt.

Priest Kylvan

Shame the demons are all so mindless beasts that they can't understand God's will to die, horribly!

The "priest" in charge of the squad that purged Irz.

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• Anime Hair: Look at the page image.
• Bullying a Dragon: Loudly proclaims his intent to crucify Kurono when he comes upon Kurono having a psychotic break, despite being informed that Kurono is going through his men like a laxative. It's a fatal error.
• Fantastic Racism: Can only see non-humans, and even humans outside of Cross Army, as "demons" which is synonymous with mindless beasts in his own mind. As such, they don't deserve the right to exist, speak in the human language, or even surrender when attacked.
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: He openly states that the mere existence of non-humans is an unforgivable sin.
• The Fundamentalist: White God Church doctrine is the only moral compass and law that matters. Anything, everything, and everyone outside it must die and be "purified" by crucifixion.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: To his shock, Kurono's attack tears through his magical shield and slices him in half at the abdomen.
• Ignored Epiphany: Realizes Kurono is more dangerous than he thought when his initial attack fails, but then goes right back to thinking he's vastly superior when hiding behind his magic shield, completely flummoxed the moment Kurono cuts through it.
• Karmic Death: Thought it was a fun game mutilating and crucifying the population of Irz? Let's see you laugh off being sliced in half at the abdomen!
• Light Is Not Good: Wields light magic, is a sociopathic self-righteous lunatic who hunts down anyone and everyone outside Cross Army to torment, only allowing humans to surrender, and judging by the fate of the refugees Kurono encounters, he makes those he "spares" wish they had died.
• Moral Sociopathy: He genuinely believes he's morally honest and upright, but he's completely omnicidal to everyone outside Cross Army, and doesn't care much about the fate of his subordinates either, finding Kurono's retaliation and slaughter on his troops a mere nuisance, at best, until he's at the business end of Kurono's blade, and starts wondering why god abandoned him.
• Revenge Myopia: Benefits from it. Despite all the nasty stuff he does, even treating his own soldiers as a nuisance, for the crime of dying in the face of the enemy, who is retaliating against them, his soldiers believe that only Cross Army has the right to avenge its fallen, of which he's a member.
• Smug Snake: He loves to flaunt his "priest" title, both to keep the troops in line and to prop up his belief that he's infallible and invincible. Highlighted best when he's fighting Kurono.

  (Fires a massive light spell in Kurono's direction, hitting the smoke screen.)
  "I have overcome yet another of god's trials!"
  Random Soldier:"As expected of Priest Kylvan! Took him down in one blow—-" (Bang! Bullet to the brain.)

• Suicidal Overconfidence: Since he believes he's doing god's will, he thinks he's completely invincible. He's wrong!
• Tautological Templar: Since White God, if it even exists, is pure and holy, he believes everything he does in the name of White God must also be holy, without exception. If White God exists, it clearly doesn't agree.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Shows up at the end of chapter 9, dies half-way through chapter 10.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: He not only calls all non-humans "demons" but sees them as nothing more than mindless animals, and feels insulted when they speak to him in the human language.
• Would Hurt a Child: Even children are not exempt from his genocidal policies.
• Wrong Assumption: He believed Kurono was under berserk state and had lose his ability to think like an animal and he didn't realized his "smoke screen" could weaken his One-Hit Kill. Then Kurono retaliates. At this point, he begins to acknowledge that Kurono is far more dangerous than he imagined.

Bishop Knowles

We can't afford to tour around the back and let these "demons" escape! You know how cunning these inferior species are!

The Church Militant in charge of the main force laying siege to Alsace.

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• Bald of Evil: Not a hair on his head, and a genocidal ass-hat.
• Dishing Out Dirt: He attacks with earth and stone type magic.
• Evil Gloating: Deconstructed. The entire fight with Kurono, he continuously boasted of his and White God's inherent superiority to "devils" and bragged about his long, long career of striking down heretics, apostates, devils, etc. This gave Kurono plenty of time to puzzle out his powers, attack patterns, strengths and weaknesses so he could exploit them.
• Fantastic Racism: He considers everyone outside of Cross Army as an inferior species.
• Fat Bastard: He's obese and a total ass-hat that thinks he's superior to everyone, to genocidal levels.
• Fatal Flaw: Arrogance and rage. His fervent belief in his inherent superiority blinds him to many, many pitfalls and obvious traps. His rage at things not going his way makes it so he never learns from his mistakes.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He is disgustingly easy to piss off, and he completely flips his shit the moment even the tiniest thing doesn't go his way.
• Honor Before Reason: He flips out and calls Ai a coward because she returned to base and gave him intel about what the army was going to face in the form of Kurono, rather than stick around at a losing battle and let herself get killed.
• I Can Still Fight!: Lampshaded word for word when he was physically dragged away from the battle-field as his sub-commanders ordered a retreat.
• Smug Snake: He is quite powerful, but thinks he's invincible. The only reason he didn't fall to Kurono's blade was that a mercenary intervened, and then turned to demand a bunch of cash for the timely rescue.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: Sends his army at the defenses of Alsace head-on. He won't even brook surrounding, entrapping, and siege the place.
• This Cannot Be!: He shouts this almost word for word when Kurono manages to pry him out of his "impenetrable" armor and wound him. If not for outside interference, he would have died.

Cyprus

Yes, number 49, struggle more, cry in pain! You.. YOU BASTARD! YOU DARE TO FIGHT BACK AND ACTUALLY HURT ME!!!

The leader of the mercenary party that had Ai in its ranks. He's also the one who commissioned the "Slave mercenary" project run by Bishop Judas and has several "experimental subjects" in his retinue.

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• Bad Boss: He's constantly seen smacking around the "experimental subjects" that are too traumatized into an Empty Shell to defend themselves.
• Cool Sword: He had a Mithril sword, which became the property of Kurono.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Even though he's an asset to Cross Army, his actions are so odious, even the worst of them can't stand him.
• Karmic Death: After the battle of Alsace, while all the other survivors are licking their wounds, Lily has him tied up in a forest, well aware of what he did to Kurono, and how he bragged about being a sadist. Lily takes her sweet, sweet time torturing him to death so he sees how it feels on the receiving end. He dies screaming, broken, and begging, nobody coming to his aid.
• Light Is Not Good: After Kurono's escape, he came prepared with plenty of counter-measures involving Light-based magic that actually drains Kurono's powers, even getting a "mythic silver" sword specifically to counter Kurono's cursed blade. Yet, he's an asshat so odious even Cross Army can't stand him.
• Sadist: What he enjoys most about the God's Army Project where he gets "slave mercenaries" from is not the mind-broken troops he gets and their powers, but the process involved in making the troops that way, taking delight in seeing them broken, begging, and in despair and pain, which he boasts as he's trying to recapture Kurono to put him back into the program.
• Smug Snake: Literally. He has snake like constructs coming out of his back and thinks himself vastly superior to everyone.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: He thought he had 100% chance of victory because of all the data he had on his former guinea pig and the difference in equipment. After losing his arms and being drained of all his mana, Kurono bit him with his jaws that were enhanced thanks to the body modifications they gave him.

Others:

Granimere

HUMAN BARBARIANS!

The king of Deadalus

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• Breath Weapon: Breathes a cone of dark magic.
• Black-and-Grey Morality: Is on the "grey" side. This dragon wanted to unite the continent of Pandora, getting into frequent fights with neighboring countries in the process. Faced its end against the genocidal Cross Army.
• Fatal Flaw: Impatience and Overconfidence. It actually had the upper hand against Sariel, and could have killed her, if it restricted itself to physical attacks as she was unable to penetrate its scales, but its attacks were devastating against her, tearing through her defenses, and clothes, like paper, all save the Breath Weapon, which she could deflect. So it unleashes a breath weapon attack while she's literally in spitting distance as a "final blow," leading to its death.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Using its Breath Weapon against Sariel as a "final blow" while she was still mobile proved fatal, as this allowed Sariel to enter its mouth and attack its brain from the inside, though she did not emerge unscathed.
• Keystone Army: Downplayed. Even though Sariel was in no shape to fight after taking it down, the dragon's death shook the confidence of Daedalus's army. This momentary lapse was all Cross Army needed to win the battle of Gordolan plains and take the capital.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Shows up in only one chapter, its death paves the way for Cross Army to invade and genocide.
• The Worf Effect: A powerful ancient dragon, and the first character in the manga able to harm Sariel, but dies in the battle to her.

Leader of the Vigilante Corps

I won't trust dirty adventurers to handle the "sacred duty" of protecting the villages!

• Blaming the Victim: When he and Kurono meet again after the disaster that was Alsace, he manages to redirect the ire of the survivors away from himself and unto Kurono by stating that it was his plan that resulted in all the deaths, including his father, conveniently shrugging off Kurono's own assertion that he deserted his post in the middle of the night and fled with vital supplies. Already suffering Survivor's Guilt, Kurono could do nothing to stop the crowd from stoning him. It was only because Lily and Fiona were there to help Kurono that he walked away.
• Dirty Coward: He made a lot of noise about the adventurers responding to the emergency request to protect refugees from Cross Army failing to protect a village in Cross Army's path, because the adventurers, under Kurono, were focusing their efforts on protecting the border city of Alsace, where they have their best chances, but the moment Cross Army shows up on the horizon, he takes 20 of his best men, half of the refugee provided provisions and flees as fast as his stolen horses can carry him.
• Miles Gloriosus: Loves to boast and brag about how superior he is to adventurers, but when offered to fight Cross Army while the adventurers protected the villagers, he balks, and then he abandons the villages he's got a "sacred duty" to defend the moment he spots Cross Army approach.
• The Neidermeyer: There is basically no merit to his orders. He makes the job of his subordinates, and anyone who has to work with him as difficult as possible. He loves to foist the risk on those under his command while he sits in comfort and safety and calls himself "brave." The moment he realizes he may actually have to fight, he flees in the middle of the night.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: He did nothing but get in the way of Kurono's preparations for the coming attack of Cross Army and even went the extra mile by refusing to let his troops train with the adventurers, so they could have better chances.
• Psychological Projection: Since he's a complete coward who hides behind his title, authority, and a great deal of boasting, he's quick to accuse others of cowardice when they're not willing to put themselves in harm's way for his convenience.