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Character sheet for Redo of Healer

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Main Characters

Keyaru / Keyaruga / Keara

^{Click here to see him as Keara}

Voiced by: Yuuya Hozumi / Yōko Hikasa (as Keara)

The protagonist, he is known as the [Healer Hero] who suffered from huge amounts of sexual and physical abuse from his former adventuring party, before using the Philosopher's Stone to go back in time so he can exact revenge. Despite being more sympathetic than his enemies because of his backstory and his efforts in exposing the true colors of the Jioral Kingdom to its people, he largely does similar things as the Jioral Kingdom does, including rape, slavery and war-mongering.

When trying to lure out and kill Blade, he uses his healing magic to turn into a gender-bent version of himself called "Keara".

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• Accidental Truth: His cover story that the Kingdom of Jioral, especially the Captain of the Royal Guard, want to kill Flare for knowing too much about their Dirty Business is 100% true. He didn't know this when he sealed away Flare's memories and dragged her unconscious form out of the castle though, and even in the present still doesn't know all of it.
• Achievements in Ignorance: There's only supposed to be one way to clear the god bird's second trial, and that's to get the souls of those who've died as a result of your sins to let go of their grudges and forgive you. He found another way, torture and torment said souls until they flee from you in fear. Since the souls in question were all from his revenge targets and were wholly despicable and cowardly people, he was having so much fun, he didn't even realize it was a trial.
• Acquired Poison Immunity: The first step in his revenge is to build up his Drug Resistance so that he'll need less time to recover from Flare's drugs. He does this by spending days eating poisonous mushrooms before she arrives at his village.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the web-novel, Kureha offered up her virginity, completely unprompted, to atone for unjustly attacking Keyaru, Flare, and Setsuna, and he accepted. In the manga and anime, Keyaru fills the room of the inn with a powerful aphrodisiac that he's immune to, taking advantage of her extremely aroused state to have his way with her and manipulate her into being his "property".
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: The one form of affection Keyaru shows his "toys" that is likely to have no sexual component to it. The girls all love it, regardless.
• And Then What?: Which gets lampshaded by Setsuna. He gets asked what he's going to do once he finishes getting his vengeance against everyone who wronged him. He laughs and states he hadn't actually given that any thought, but plans to simply try to live his life quietly, only seeking the happiness of him and his, though anyone stupid enough to mess with that will not be forgiven.
• Anti-Hero: He's a "good guy" only when compared to his enemies and it's not because he's any less worse; it's just his enemies are just as bad as him but lacked even the Freudian Excuse.
• Atrocious Alias: The codenames he chooses are atrocious, but they do have good reasoning behind them.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: OHH YES! As Keara, he's so cute, his Battle Harem goes absolutely gaga, and Freia and Setsuna jump Keyaru and absolutely have their way with him!
• Awesome, but Impractical: Although only impractical for Keyaru's purposes. You may wonder how is it that a main character with the power to make people pop like gory balloons with a single touch is not immensely overpowered. The answer is that a quick instant death is not what Keyaru is looking for when it comes to people he truly hates, leaving his [Corruption] Heal only usable on Mooks. This comes up during Keyaru's battle with Blade. Once she activates her Super Mode, Keyaru realizes he cannot beat her in a fair fight and almost ends up using [Corruption] Heal on her, much to his own regret, saying that such an end to her would rob him of any satisfaction in taking revenge.
• Badass Adorable: Keyaru is a dark subversion. He looks quite young and cute in his true form, almost childlike. This only serves to accentuate the unfairness and vileness of his treatment at the hands of the Hero Party, and his evilness once he begins his quest for vengeance.
• Batman Grabs a Gun: In volume 5, despite Keyaru's unwavering stance of never dragging innocents into his schemes, the current demon king's level of atrocity is so extreme that he has to be stopped, regardless of the collateral damage. Since said demon king not only completely genocides his political rivals, men, women, helpless children, even breaking into houses to wipe out survivors, but then cowardly hides behind non-combatants while sending out elites to fight, Keyaru is left with no choice but to have Eve use the god bird to completely eliminate the town he's hiding in, leaving no survivors, while pointedly declaring that the demon king has no right to complain.
• Becoming the Mask: He's kind to his "toys" because it's just simply more fun when they dote on him and fight over the right to share his bed. By the end of volume 5, he genuinely grows to love them so much, he'd literally take a bullet for them, which he proves when he tanks Bullett's cannon blast, aimed at Eve.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: He began life as a simple farmer who wanted nothing more than to prosper at managing an apple orchard. Along came Princess Flare who dubbed him a "hero" and put him through hell, For the Evulz. This made him utterly murderous, thinking of nothing except how he's going to carry out graphic vengeance.
• Benevolent Boss: He treasures his party members and smothers them with genuine affection, even if it is entirely for pragmatic reasons.
• Bequeathed Power: He was granted his Magic Eye by the "Spirit of the Stars" as thanks for an ancient favor humanity did for the spirits. What this favor was has been long forgotten, but the contract remains in force, if you can meet the right conditions, which isn't easy.
• Berserk Button: If you value your life and your sanity, do not, under any circumstances, mess with his "toys", ie party members. If you do, consider yourself lucky to get away with a simple Mind Rape.
• Best Served Cold: He's unbelievably patient, and waits until the best opportunity to carry out his vengeance, no matter how much he has to suffer in silence to wait for said opportunity.
• Bigger Is Better in Bed: Due to him using "heal" on himself, he's rather... amazing at this according to Freia and Setsuna.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Especially when he's in his smaller, cuter, true form as opposed to his Keyaruga guise. No matter how he looks, he is now a brutal avenger to the core.
• Brainwashing for the Greater Good: In Volume 7, Keyaru brainwashes assassins, traitors, etc., and puts them to work for him rooting out the Ungrateful Townsfolk trying to depose Eve either out of greed, being butt-hurt that she doesn't retaliate "enough" against the injustices they faced under Hakuou, isn't sympathetic to the people who were Hakuou's enforcers, or any combination of the above.
• Cast from Lifespan: He can become a genuine Ideal Hero, but the cost is steep. In this state, he has only a max life expectancy of two, maybe three, years, if he doesn't shut it off in a matter of seconds.
• The Chessmaster: Always tends to plan ahead. With that being said, he can't always prepare for every single possible outcome, so not only can it bite him back, but it forces him to devise other solutions fast.
• Combat Clairvoyance: The power bequeathed to him by the god bird allows him to see a few seconds into the future, this has saved his life and that of his companions countless times.
• Combat Medic: Taken up to eleven. He can do much, much more than just healing spells.
• Combat Pragmatist: As powerful as he already is, Keyaru will not hesitate to resort to all kinds of dirty tricks to make sure the battle is as one-sidedly in his favor as possible.
  • A powerful sword wielder is out for his blood. One-Hit Kill magic is out of the question, he wants to rape and enslave her. Solution? Throw a vial that produces aphrodisiac fumes on the ground.
  • A villain is searching for Keyaru, accompanied by a cadre of Elite Mooks. Take them all head-on? Hell no, let's lure them into an abandoned building and, while they're all nice and clamped up in a restrained space, say hello to my friend Deadly Gas!
  • Need to crash an execution scheduled in an arena used for monster battles. The plan? Infiltrate the structure weeks in advance, and rig the enchantment normally used to keep the monsters in check to something more useful.
• Cosmic Retcon: Which he triggers himself in chapter 1, winding time back until just before he met Flare, so he could enact his vengeance and undo, or try to undo, the villainy of the so-called "heroes" he was dragged along by.
• Crime of Self-Defense: Which he lampshades. As an evil corrupt priest and his knight vanguard are off executing villagers, who are all crucified and unable to defend themselves, they try to turn around and blame him for each and every death. In return, he repeatedly turns the blame back around to where it belongs, the very knights doing the killing, while he is in front of many witnesses doing his best to rescue said villagers. The moment the villagers wind up dead from the poison Norn exposed them to beforehand, and Keyaru angrily accuses them of never planning on letting the villagers live, what little credibility they had falls apart, the only thing keeping the rage of the masses focused on Keyaru being the "death" of Flare. After Flare shows up, alive, the masses turn all their rage on the so-called knights and riot.
• Cruel Mercy: He has a real fondness for it. He will heal up his torture targets so the torture can keep going, and he sealed away Flare's memories so he could have her help him destroy her own corrupt kingdom and then restore them so she would break-down in despair. The latter has some "complications" because Freia is a genuine Rose-Haired Sweetie.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Keyaru is the worst outcome when a revenge fantasy protagonist has literally no morals to speak of. While similar protagonists like Guts and Ukei Kaito are sadistic monsters, at least they are held back by genuine standards and refuse to commit the depraved acts their enemies do and never step below their level. Keyaru, on the other hand has no restraints to hold him back from committing rape, war crimes and mass brainwashing, turning him into something equal to or worse than the assholes he fought against and despised.
• Deliberate Injury Gambit: To build up the [Drug Resistance] and [Pain Resistance] skills, he deliberately ate poisoned mushrooms and herbs, and let Princess Flare literally walk all over him. The moment his mind cleared in the castle dungeons, and the king was away, he retaliated and gave back as good as he got, both to Flare and her Royal Guard.
• The Determinator: Keyaru will not give up. Ever. No matter what it takes, no matter how much pain he must go through again, he will never give up until everyone who has done him harm lies broken before him.
• Didn't Think This Through: During an "experiment" in teaching Freia the "heat sense" spell that he invented and the "ice-wind spear" combination magic, he also invented, she proves far, far more effective than he planned, becoming a nigh-unstoppable One-Woman Army that he couldn't possibly defend against if she got her memories back and decided to come after him. He gets a cold sweat when he realizes this and desperately struggles to come up with a counter-measure that won't tip her off.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Downplayed. Keyaru's Freudian Excuse for what he is is not petty at all; being treated as a sex toy for a group of degenerate "heroes" is assuredly traumatizing. But starting a literal war over it with entire kingdoms and demonic realms taken over and multiple enemy generals raped, enslaved, tortured and murdered? Well, that's overboard.
• Doom Magnet: Messing with him and his is all but certain to have you die horribly, if you're lucky, but being decent and kind is almost as dangerous. Many of those who treated Keyaru kindly, because they were genuinely good people, had horrible things happen to them; his entire home village, Caruman, Miru-jii, and others were all horribly slain, maimed, and defiled, simply for the "crime" of having been near him at some point in his life.
• Driven to Villainy: The trauma inflicted upon him has driven him so bonkers, and trashed everything he cares for so thoroughly that he really has no choice but to become a psychotic Vigilante Man out for graphic vengeance, or die as an Empty Shell.
• Empathic Healer: The price for using his [Recovery Heal] skill is suffering through everything the target of his skill went through in life, in a single instant. If used on someone like Kureha who had to endure Training from Hell her whole life, and lost her arm in battle, it's amazing to not be traumatized. Fortunately, Keyaru picked up a [Pain Resistance] skill while in the castle dungeons...
• An Entrepreneur Is You:
  • He gets the funds to buy Setsuna by selling healing potions in the same plague-stricken town where he finds her.
  • As a child, he helped his farm make ends meet by turning the apples that could not be sold into pastries, which sold very, very well with the local merchants.
• Even Evil Has Standards: As thoroughly broken and crazy as he is, there are still some lines Keyaru won't cross.
  • If you're an innocent, he will give you every possible chance to walk away. Mess with his "property" and it's game on, no mercy. Or at least the mercy's in very short supply.
  • He won't chase down nameless soldiers that flee from a battle. They were just doing their jobs, and the penalty for fleeing under fire is death in Jioral anyway. Said soldier tries to lay hands on him and his in a bar though? Fair game.
  • No matter how vile you might be, he won't go out of the way to pick a fight with you if he doesn't have reason to believe you've come after him and his first.
  • He won't rape, drug, or brainwash a woman if she hasn't done anything to harm him or his, though his idea of "consent" isn't much better.
• Evil Virtues: The very same things that made him a good farmer make him a dangerous villain.
  • Patience: He's incredibly patient when carrying out his revenge.
  • Honesty: He tells the truth, but with a heavy dose of Exact Words, and driving his targets to despair by spelling out exactly how screwed they are.
  • Kindness: He treats all his "toys" with genuine kindness and compassion because he's not an idiot. He treasures them and their loyalty so they're eager to help him carry out his vengeance or their own, and he doesn't have to worry about betrayal, or find replacements all the time.
  • Honor: He also has a rather dubious sense of honor, and messing with it is the last mistake you will ever make.
• Exact Words: He is very fond of misleading people without outright lying. His words are true, but his intentions aren't.
• Eye Color Change: When he activates his Magic Eye, his left iris turn green and glows.
• Facepalm of Doom: This is the most common way Keyaru kills people with his heals.
• Fake Weakness: He makes Hawkeye think he can only use his [Corruption] Heal by physically touching someone, making him unaware all he had to do was get close enough for it to work.
• Faking the Dead: He kidnaps a brainwashed Flare by using his [Transformation Heal] ability to alter the corpse of a nameless female guard^note (the one who raped him on his first day at the castle) to look like Flare, while making Flare look like a random woman that he (disguised as the Captain of the Royal Guard) got drunk and is taking somewhere to have his way with.
• Farm Boy: Starts the story having worked on an apple orchard for his entire life until he turned 14 and getting a mark on his hand marking him a "hero".
• Faux Affably Evil: Sort of. Although his kindness is genuine towards his underlings, his pragmatism, general preference of Cold-Blooded Torture and Cruel Mercy push him closer to this. He is very cheerful and polite when describing the atrocities in detail that his victims will receive. And when performing them.
• Flaw Exploitation: His MO when dealing with his targets. Sadistic bitch tramples over him? Act as a victim until the right moment arises. Need to take down a Psycho Lesbian? Change his physical appearance to look like a girl.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Went from farmer, to slave, to avenger who can not only take out any of the so-called "heroes" in a one-on-one fight, but does everything in his power to make said fights as skewed in his favor as possible, to a conqueror who collapses and occupies entire demonic realms and kingdoms just with some planning and a Battle Harem of slaves.
• Give Me a Reason: Though he never says it aloud, this is his mindset towards his revenge targets from the original timeline. He often engineers scenarios where they're tempted or goaded to attack him and then he would have just cause, at least in his own mind, to retaliate. It's especially poignant when Norn has an army pounding on the gates of Branicca. He waits until his "close friend" Caruman is slain to go after her, personally. Then he reads her mind and finds out she was responsible for the extermination of his home village. At this point, Keyaru believes death is simply too good a punishment.
• Good Feels Good: Amazingly enough, he does still enjoy doing good things purely for their own sake even when he doesn't immediately profit from it. He even lampshades this on several occasions.
• The Good King: Surprisingly. After deposing King Proum, he takes the fate of the Kingdom of Jioral, especially its citizens, seriously, rewards those who serve him faithfully, diligently, and honestly, to the best of his abilities, and punishes those who betray or try to steal from his people very harshly, and this goes double for Eve's country. The countries are his toys, damn it, and he takes good care of his toys.
• Good Powers, Bad People: Keyaru's primary power is healing, but he is a sadistic, vengeful murderer and rapist who bends those healing powers to unexpectedly brutal applications.
• Guile Hero: If you can even call a war-mongering, slave-keeping Serial Rapist a "hero", of course. He is as cunning as he is powerful, perhaps even more so. He knows that he cannot singlehandedly win a war against Jioral's full might and that his opponents are at least as powerful as he is, if not more. Therefore, he plans ahead, fights dirty and develops contingencies. This is particularly evident in his assault on the Arena to save villagers from an execution, where he infiltrates the structure long before execution day to rig its enchantments to only benefit himself, and elaborates a plan to turn the audience's hearts against Jioral. Ultimately, although he fails to save the villagers due to factors entirely out of his control (via poisoned before being sent out to be executed), he succeeds at one of his goals at least with flying colors.
• Harem Seeker: Reconstructed. He makes a point of spelling out in the narration all the pitfalls involved in having a sizable group of ladies following you around and competing over your affections, the most notable of which being that one man is not going to have enough stamina to sexually satisfy all of them, every single day, multiple times a day, even without the whole "adventuring to save the world with gruesome vengeance" thing he's got going. Even so, he still looks to build up his harem as much as possible, because he gets great amusement from juggling the multiple relationships and keeping them all happy.
• Healing Magic Is the Hardest: The healing class is strongly looked down on and seen as mostly worthless on the battle-field. In fact, Princess Flare strongly considered killing him and gambling on another "hero" showing up somewhere else in the country because a good elixir or two is more practical than a normal healer. Even the fact that he can recover lost limbs wasn't enough to impress her.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: His healing skill was treated with nothing but derision by the so-called "heroes" of Jioral, but with them, and enough mana, he can do just about anything, even rewinding time a little over four years. The only reason he could go back in time was because he got his hands on a Philosopher Stone, an all-powerful magical item.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Which he's well aware of. The trauma he's suffered at the hands of his revenge targets has etched their methods into his soul, and he hates it that it all makes him act like them. This is the primary reason he fervently struggles to avoid doing any nastiness to those who don't antagonize him first.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Though it's buried under years of abuse, drugging, rape, resentment, and torture, the sweet, innocent farm boy is still there. When Keyaru is treated with decency and respect by people he's never met before, the "clean" Keyaru peeks out from under the filth for a breath of fresh air. Unfortunately, the world just doesn't let it last.
• High on Homicide: Delivering graphic vengeance on those who wronged him personally is his favorite "hobby." Delivering vengeance on behalf of those he loves is more of a duty that he has to perform, and he rarely takes joy in it.
• Honor Before Reason: For a certain dubious definition of "honor." He always gives his enemies the chance to throw the first punch in wronging him, no matter how vile he knows they are. If they treat him decently, leave him alone, or otherwise don't antagonize him in some way, or he's not certain they've harmed him and his, he won't go after them. Harm him, his loved ones, or his precious "property", and he will make certain you suffer horribly, little to no mercy to be found.
• Hypocrite: He hates his enemies for things he does himself, like drugging and raping, but they started it, they came after him first, and if they are really high on his list, he gives them a Fate Worse than Death before their own death. He also starts a war against the Jioral Kingdom and the demonic realm for the sake of revenge, despite it makes him no different from the war-mongerers that is said Jioral Kingdom for even pettier reasons.
• Idiot Ball: In his rush to get to Princess Flare, and escape, he was very diligent in his plans but forgot one small detail: He let the Captain of the Royal Guard live, forgetting all about him until it was too late. This comes back to bite him, hard.
• I Gave My Word: He honors his promises to the best of his ability, but said "promises" usually entail how graphic he's going to be in his revenge against those who wronged him.
• It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: As a result of being labeled a "hero" by whatever gods rule this world, he's been repeatedly raped, by both men and women, tortured, drugged, enslaved, and treated like absolute shit. Yeah, that sucks, both figuratively and literally.
• Jack of All Stats: Keyaru is an unusual example in that he's not naturally one, but he can use his "healing" to change his stat spread. He's not quite a Master of All, as regardless of his stats, his special skills always remain geared towards healing, so while he can mow down a relatively low-level army like nobody's business, he can only barely keep up with a powerful, dedicated fighter like Kureha Clyret until he starts resorting to dirty tricks.
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner: The role appointed to him by Eve in the demon territory, and he had to earn the position. The demon chiefs of all the respective tribes didn't think "a mere human" would be worthy, so they held a battle royale tournament to the death. One Curbstomp Battle in his favor later, and nobody dares cross him to his face.
• Let No Crisis Go to Waste: Takes advantage of an "unknown" disease to gather the funds to buy Setsuna.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: He routinely engages in sadistic rape and torture against those who have wronged him, and even some relatively innocent people who were only in his way due to a misunderstanding - notably Kureha - become the subjects of some rather Disproportionate Retribution. He also starts coups against the Jioral Empire and the demon king for the sake of revenge. But pretty much all the villains are such horrific people who commit the same crimes and don't even have Keyaru's redeeming qualities in the first place.
• Master Actor: Which he learned from Flare in his previous life. He can fool just about anyone.
• Morality Chain: Surprisingly. The fact that Freia loves him, or thinks she does, is the only reason she's an Ideal Hero. Should anything happen to him, the consequences won't be pretty. It also goes both ways. The fact that he wants his "toys" to like him keeps him from becoming an even worse person.
• Moral Pragmatist: He takes the moral stance that gives him the best benefits, always. Win the hearts and minds of the people by being an Ideal Hero? Sure, why not. Strike fear into the wicked and the scoundrels by being an Eviler than Thou Card-Carrying Villain? Sounds like fun! Anything and everything in between? Fair game. Case in point, he originally locked up Freia's memories as Princess Flare so he could relish having her help him totally wreck her corrupt country and then watch her fall into despair when her original personality returns and she realizes what she's done. He abandons this plan when she helps him depose her mad king father, leaving him in charge of the country, and he finds her an irreplaceable war-asset, fantastic lay, and total sweetheart who will do anything he says for the low, low price of simple words of praise.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: He pointedly never draws innocent people into his schemes, for a certain strange definition of innocent. If his enemies draw in innocents though, that's fine, that just gives him more reason to retaliate.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: After he takes down Renard in the castle and changes his appearance to look like him, and he, for no reason in particular, did not kill Renard to keep him quiet or prevent the kingdom from finding out that he is alive and free (since they would have no reason to attempt to force a corpse to continue healing), even though it would have covered his tracks better and would have been in character with his revenge scheme. As a result, not only does the Kingdom's government realize that he's alive relatively quickly when their "healer" doesn't heal, they send Renard himself after him. And since Renard has a grudge, he has no problem trying to drag our hero out of hiding by destroying his entire village and brutally raping the first person he loved, just to provoke him.
• No Experience Points for Medic: Averted in an interesting fashion, as Keyaru is able to gain experience and even copy techniques from those he heals (since he needs to mentally go through their life experiences to "understand" them enough in order to heal).
• Nominal Hero: If you can even call a sadistic Serial Rapist and slave-owner trying to take down entire kingdoms and demon realms for the sake of getting back at a bunch of sociopathic abusers a "hero", then he is one. The only reason why he looks heroic is because his enemies are really not that better or even worse, as they do similar things while lacking even the standards he has.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Downplayed. Despite the Kingdom of Jioral are a group of legitimately corrupt warmongerers and conquerors and he does manage his spoils well enough once he takes over, the hallmarks are all there. He only took it down alongside the demonic realm for the sake of getting back at the sociopathic assholes who tortured and sexually abused him. He also really isn't any better than his enemies in the cruelty department.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Compare the manic, sadistic way Keyaru conducts his revenge against Flare - followed by what might be the happiest Evil Laugh in history - to his absolutely chilling Tranquil Fury and obvious lack of any real satisfaction while dealing with the Knight-Captain after the sacking of his village.
• Past Experience Nightmare: The traumas he endured as a slave under the "hero" party come to haunt him in his nightmares, and they are especially graphic.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: His modus operandi. Even more specifically, he only targets perpetrators of evil done to him and his companions and loved ones, and not just any evil in general - even though he knows Princess Norn is a horrible person, he opts to leave her out of his revenge because she's never done any particular harm to him personally (until he starts suspecting that she was behind the execution of his home village, something he is completely right about).
• Playing with Syringes: If you provoke him, you should consider yourself damn lucky if he just kills you. He has a penchant for literally playing with syringes while field-testing new and interesting drugs he cooks up in his spare time on people who antagonize him, by hurting things he cares about.
• Power Parasite: In just about every way imaginable. He can steal Exp from people that haven't yet been converted into a higher level. He can steal special skills and abilities. He can even steal techniques by reading people's memories!
• Pragmatic Villainy: He treasures his companions and treats them with genuine kindness because it's in his interests to do so.
• Promiscuity After Rape: A very disturbing example since said promiscuity involves him doing to his abusers, what they had done to him. Lots of times.
• Psychotic Smirk: Keyaru's signature expression, which he breaks out when he's in the mood for torture and worse.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He loves pleasing his "toys" with cooking, cleaning, and doing the household chores while they're off training or otherwise occupied, and their praise doesn't hurt his feelings in the slightest.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has red irises and while he's very benevolent to those who treat him kindly, he's exceptionally dangerous and sadistic to those who earn his ire.
• Required Secondary Powers: Exploited. Because his healing powers are essentially Biomanipulation, to properly heal someone, Keyaru has to "scan" the personal history of their target's body. While this was initially to his detriment since he would experience every bit of physical and mental anguish they ever felt in their lives all at once, he would later exploit it as much as his primary magic to read minds and gain their battle experience, skills, and techniques.
• Resignations Not Accepted: Which he learns the hard way after his "companions" drug him into a brain-addled addict, tortured him, and treated him like livestock on a good day, purely because the price for his [Recovery Heal] skill was too traumatic.
• Royal Harem: By the time volume 7 rolls around, he is officially considered the husband of Eve and Flare, the respective queens of the Demon tribe and Jioral, as well as the other love interests in his party, Kureha, Setsuna, and Ellen.
• Secret Test of Character: His modus operandi. Since he suspects that there might be significant changes between the original timeline and the current, he gives those who tormented him in the original timeline a secret check to see if they've changed. If they leave him alone, he'll return the favor. If they treat him as they did before, "it's revenge game time. Let's see how many revenge points they pile up!"
• Serial Rapist: He's quite fond of Karmic Rape, and some of the members of his party are brainwashed into thinking he's their lover. He's been through it himself at their hands, and worse, but whether or not that's enough to make him sympathetic is highly debatable.
• Serious Business: Starting a battle that wrecks a place that serves him and his delicious meals is damn near the top of things he will seek vengeance for, as the Mad Cow demons learned, the hard way.
• Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: Averted in the manga and anime, where his [Transformation Heal] can magically change the target's clothes too.
• Shapeshifting Trickster: He can use [Transformation Heal] to change a person's appearance. He uses this skill to disguise himself, often to deceive others, or force someone into a different form. He can even change the target's biological sex though it doesn't change their genitalia.
• Sinister Scimitar: One of those is his weapon to emphasize his twisted personality.
• Skewed Priorities: When he starts wars to take over the Jioral Kingdom or the Demonic Realm, his motive is never about exposing the Kingdom's corruption or helping people, despite he did so as a "beneficial side effect". It was solely about getting vengenance against Flare, Blade and Bullet. At one point, he's also mad at King Proum killing Bullet (until he sees the cannon hero alive) because he would deprive him of a revenge target, despite it would be more of an issue that King Proum is trying to take over the world and become a God while Bullet is so goddamn awful that he's better off dead quickly and staying there.
• Slasher Smile: Flashes out a very wide and borderline comical one when he's torturing people or feeling sadistic.
• Sociopathic Hero: He's totally bonkers, but there is still a small part of him that seeks to make the world a better place... through gruesome vengeance!
• Stock Light-Novel Hero: A brutally dark subversion of the archetype. The series follows some of the same trappings as many fantasy light novels, like having a Genius Bruiser hero with an immensely powerful "cheat ability" and a harem. However, Keyaru only reached this point after barely keeping his sanity through the absolute wretched treatment he received, and even then he clearly lost his innocence and became a different person. He subverts many other associated tropes as well:
  • He is not a natural Chick Magnet - half the girls on his harem are as broken as he is and follow him because he helps them get revenge of their own, while the other half are brainwashed by Keyaru, two of them even being former enemies of his.
  • He is not the Chaste nor Celibate Hero commonly expected of a Harem Genre light novel. He has sex with the girls on his harem basically everyday, not to mention the Karmic Rapes he throws left and right.
  • His ability is initially seen as weak and useless in battle, with its main application causing him great pain. While he is ultimately undeniably powerful, especially after he develops it to its full extent, on its own it's still not enough to smoothly carry him through the overwhelming odds he faces as he goes up against The Empire, leading to his Guile Hero tendencies.
• Supreme Chef: While the dishes and recipes he makes are simple in concept, the process reads as Food Porn, and he can make monster meat, supposedly highly toxic under normal circumstances, not only mouth-watering delicious, but permanently boost the stats of his party members, including himself.
• Swiss-Army Superpower: His healing magic can do so many things that it's a much shorter list of what they can't do.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: As much as possible, he gives his targets the same exact treatment they gave him. If that includes rape, so be it.
• Teens Are Monsters: He is a serial rapist, murderer and slaver, at fourteen. Although, due to time travel, Keyaru technically is already 18 years old.
• This Is Unforgivable!: There is one thing he won't forgive. Anyone trying to steal from him. Whether it's his wallet, his inanimate possessions, or his lovely ladies, it's all the same. Try to take anything from him, and he will retaliate with extreme measures.
• Three-Way Sex: His favorite way to "pleasure" Freia and Setsuna is to do the two of them together. They both greatly enjoy the experience.
• Through His Stomach: The primary way he wins the genuine affection of his party members is to feed them food so delicious, they keep coming back for more of it, and of him.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: The god bird's second trial is meant to satisfy the spirits of the dead in order to succeed. For Keyaru, it's the spirits of those Asshole Victims he had killed trying to have their revenge by Zerg Rush the hero, but Keyaru instead took the pleasure of killing them again. The vengeful spirits found him to be terrifying even in afterlife, so they were forced to leave him alone.
• Tricked-Out Shoes: In the anime, one of Keara's shoes has a hidden blade for "her" kick to deal serious injury.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: A flashback shows that when he was seven, at the funeral of his parents, due to a monster attack, he was already a vicious, vindictive little sot. Once he wiped away his tears, he calmly and coldly began plotting the genocide of the entire demon race, regardless of clan or tribe, because he thought them responsible, relenting only because he didn't have the means.
• Tsurime Eyes: He sports sharper-looking eyes in his Keyaruga guise compared to his meeker appearance as Keyaru.
• Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Deliberately pulls one on Blade in his guise as Keara. When Blade freaks out after stripping him, he rubs in how she unwittingly tried to seduce and molest a man.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Vindictive streak notwithstanding, he was once an ordinary, kind-hearted person with a promising future ahead of him. The others' mistreatment of him as a healer was the catalyst that instead drove him into a path of revenge against those who have wronged him.
• Villain Cred: After freeing the Axe Hero from King Proum's (and presumably the evil god's) control by killing him, even he had to acknowledge him as the hero legends paint him out to be.
• Villain Protagonist: Despite being the protagonist, he's really no better than the insane monsters in-charge of the Jioral Kingdom. His first and foremost motivation is revenge for himself and those he gathers for his party. He murders, rapes, and steals, rampaging across the land, seeing the law as little more than a "guideline", and the this revenge actually helps the helpless and protects the innocent is actually just an a happy byproduct.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: His disguise as "Keara" was so beautiful and convincing that impresses his harem and is perfect to draw Blade into targeting him.
• Who's Laughing Now?: When he's got Flare at his mercy, the very first thing he says, just before he whips out the rape and torture, is this sentiment, nearly word for word.
• Why Can't I Hate You?: He has difficulty hating Freia because after he sealed her memories of being Flare she is a genuinely sweet, caring and loving girl.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The intense physical and mental traumas Keyaru has gone through have warped him into a cold-hearted person who believes brutal rape and brainwashing are acceptable punishments for evildoers and mows through armies like lawns. But can you really blame him? He wasn't treated any better, after all.
• Workplace-Acquired Abilities: His time as a farmer in the small village of Allan gave him many, many skills suited for adventuring: botany, for gathering herbs, hunting, fishing, trapping, and most importantly cooking. If his original squadmates were decent people rather than abusive, insane pricks, they would have been dining on simple, but elegant fare their entire adventuring career!

Flare Algrande Jioral / Freia

Voiced by: Ayano Shibuya

The Magic Hero, princess of the Jioral Kingdom, and first of Keyaru's revenge targets. Despite her appearance, she's a horrific sadist who's obsessed in making Keyaru her sex slave, raping him and dosing him with addictive drugs. She was quickly brutalized and raped by Keyaru, then brainwashed into the first member of his Battle Harem, Freia.

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Tropes Applying to Both Versions:

• All Women Are Lustful: In both timelines, she's sexually attracted to Keyaru, and has no problems acting on it, but as an amnesiac Freia, she's happy to go all the way and it's far more Safe, Sane, and Consensual than before.
• Ambiguous Situation: In the manga, at one point, she sings a song that only she can sing, to prove her identity to the masses, and it's not something Keyaru taught her. Is she getting her memories back and still following him faithfully? The web-novel indicates that this is all part of Keyaru's plan and she's acting on it.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: Her singing voice is famous across the kingdom.
• Combo Platter Powers: With her mastery of all magical elements, save light and darkness, she can mix and match all sorts of powerful spells.
• The Ditz: While she's hardly stupid, she is scatter-brained. As Princess Flare, her family treated her with abject disdain for this, "forgiving" her because of her Hero status and massive magical firepower. Naturally, she became bitter and cruel. As Freia, Keyaru finds this to be one of most charming traits, and as a result, she's a total sweetheart who dotes on him like crazy and actively fights over her right to share his bed.
• Heel–Face Brainwashing: Subjected to it. As a direct result of having her memories of being Princess Flare sealed away, she became a total sweetheart. This gives Keyaru very complicated feelings. On the one hand, he likes this Freia persona. On the other, it makes getting even with Flare that much harder.
• Love Redeems: Up to eleven. The web-novel reveals that "Freia" is the flip-side of the coin of "Flare." They have the exact same personality, complete and utter devotion to pleasing the one they love. If she's devoted to someone who mistreats her and refuses to acknowledge her efforts, she's an Alpha Bitch Sadist, filled with self-loathing. If she's devoted to someone who shows her affection (genuine or not) and praises her good deeds, she's The Paragon Ideal Hero, with all Seven Heavenly Virtues.
• Ms. Fanservice: What with her big bust and choice of outfits.
• Pink Means Feminine: She has pink hair and, as Freia, is the most stereotypical girly-girl one can imagine. She loves clothes-shopping, being pampered in spas, playing dress-up, and even whipping out a make-up kit to make herself, and others, as sickeningly cute as possible. In fact, when Keyaru asks for her help in applying make-up, to make himself a Honey Trap for Blade, she went totally gaga, and was rather pouty that they had to then go and sell the dress afterwards since she couldn't dollify Keyaru any more.
• Questionable Consent: After having her memories sealed, she does indeed agree to sexual relations with Keyaru, and clearly enjoys it, even seeking them out, but one has to remember that Flare found sexual intercourse with Keyaru repulsive and only had sex with him as a result of rape, fearing he'd use a red hot iron instead if she refused.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Post brainwashing only, when she becomes the sweetest character in the series. Before that, she's a subversion, as despite having pink hair she's really a sadistic Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
• Sadist: While it is obvious that pre-mind-wipe Flare is a sadist, it is hinted at that she remained one afterwards. In Volume 7 chapter 15, her reaction to killing 3,000, and maiming 1,000 men with a Fantastic Nuke, is extreme arousal.
• Stock Light-Novel Calamity Princess: Double Subverted. She seems to fit every one of the criteria, although they are all twisted and warped. She's a princess with a pink-and-white color motif, great destructive power, and Keyaru adores her when he first meets her. This only makes the fact that she's actually a sadistic monster all the more disturbing. She does end up becoming a straight example after her Heel–Face Brainwashing, however.
• Unskilled, but Strong: In the previous timeline, she had powerful magics but had great difficulty using them efficiently or wisely. Keyaru trains her to have a bit more awareness, to be more effective and frugal with her mana, and use combinations of elements she never dreamed of. It's a roaring success.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The manga, in expanding Norn's backstory, shows how Flare used to be before becoming a "hero." She was bubbly, cheerful, energetic, and smothered Norn with affection. Once she got the "hero" mark though, King Proum made her the raging Bitch in Sheep's Clothing we met on her introduction, and Flare was cruel to Norn first.

Tropes Applying to Princess Flare:

As Flare

• Adaptational Sympathy: Downplayed. In the novels, she's only a cruel and vicious sadist with no redeeming trait in sight. In the manga, in the current timeline, all her cruel acts against Keyaru were orders from King Proum, as opposed to something she did on her own initiative, and disobeying his orders never ends well, regardless of the reason. In the anime, she takes it a bit further. She's merely startled when learning Keyaru's a [Healer], as opposed to something more obviously fit for fighting, whereas in all other versions she's openly disgusted. In addition, she hesitated to dish out the cruelty King Proum demanded, until he got "insistent". She still took advantage of Keyaru while he was drugged.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: She begs Keyaru to stop as he rapes her and that it hurts, to which Keyaru says that he’ll enjoy it more if she’s in pain.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Flare uses the Rose-Haired Sweetie trope like heavy make-up: When she is in public she covers her face in it, and only in private does she lets her true face appear.
• Blatant Lies: When she finds herself at Keyaru's mercy in her own sound-proofed bedroom, she tells him that she drugged him for his sake because the pain backlash of his abilities was too great. This would have been a plausible excuse if she hadn't gone on to subject him to a whole bunch of other nastiness in the process.
• Bring My Brown Pants: The shock of being raped by Keyaru made her piss herself in the animé.
• Broken Pedestal: Original timeline Keyaru worshiped the ground she walked on, and would have done anything if she had simply asked nicely. However, he was traumatized by healing Kureha, due to the pain backlash, she threw him in a dungeon to be drugged and tortured. This caused his devotion to die a cruel death.
• Crippling Overspecialization: She's focused all her talents on magic power, so when Keyaru steals her mana, she's helpless in his arms, and he takes full advantage. Once she's in his party, amnesiac, he strives to make this no longer the case, so he doesn't lose his precious "companion" too soon.
• Dirty Coward: Tortures Keyaru and puts him through hell just for sadistic pleasure but when Keyaru manages to get her alone with him and retaliated, she immediately tries to justify her actions but are ignored and begs to not be tortured till her memories are erased.
• Even Evil Has Standards: For all her evil even she was utterly terrified of Norn, and in the previous timeline she looks like as if she was going to vomit when Norn told her that she poisoned the water supply of the demonic cities, and was appalled when Norn casually advised (and threatened) her into hitting the Demon cities with the spell equivalent of a nuke as a distraction.
• Evil Feels Good: Subverted. In the original timeline, her sadistic cruelty against Keyaru did bring fleeting pleasure, but she'd quickly fall back into a pit of self-loathing shortly afterwards.
• Femme Fatale: Flare is this in spades, her beauty and choice of wardrobe had young Keyaru and most of the kingdom smitten with her. Which Flare capitalizes on to manipulate those beneath her and hide her true self. If she wasn't an insane jerk who goes out of her way to be as horrible as possible, Keyaru would have given the world to her.
• Fingore: Subjected to this before Keyaru really has his fun with her. If she could keep herself from screaming until the last finger was snapped, he'd have ended his revenge there. And then Keyaru heals them before he reaches the last finger.
• Forced into Evil: The truth of her situation in Jioral. If she didn't commit the atrocities Norn suggested, Norn made not too subtle veiled threats about her continued existence.
• For the Evulz: She put Keyaru through hell just because she enjoyed it.
• Freudian Excuse: Implied. The moment Keyaru sealed her memories, resulting in her waking up amnesiac in his presence, she stopped being an Alpha Bitch and became a total sweetheart. Further, when Keyaru was first carrying out his vengeance upon her, the punishment she was expecting from her father for the "crime" of being raped by Keyaru made the threat of being raped with a red-hot iron pale in comparison.
• It's All About Me: Flare only loves herself as she wasn't bothered when Blade or Bullet died in the first timeline and doesn't care about her sister.
• Psycho Pink: Flare has pink hair and she's a textbook Sadist.
• Sadist: Gleefully enjoys torturing Keyaru with a Slasher Smile on her face.
• Sensor Character: She can somehow sense where a new "hero" is. Keyaru had to deal with her first, or any escape attempt would be tragically short-lived.
• Slasher Smile: When she's showing her true colors, she makes a nearly comical deranged grin, if not a disgusted look.
• The Sociopath: Flare lacks empathy, has poor planning skills, and is manipulative. She also displays a grandiose sense of self-worth, superficial charm, and a need for stimulation given she frequently sadistically tormented Keyaru. Subverted, as the manga shows she originally did love Norn; someone with Anti-Social Personality Disorder can never genuinely love someone (sans themselves).
• Starter Villain: The first person Keyaru targets in his revenge.
• Stupid Evil: Where do we begin?
  • The moment she heard Keyaru's class was [healer], she was tempted to kill him, and run the risk that it would be 15 years before another "hero" would be chosen by the gods.
  • Rather than gently guide him into his brand new ability, she throws him off the deep end by ordering him to work on Kureha, who's been in grueling battle since she's a small child, and lost her ability to fight along with her sword-arm in battle, traumatizing him.
  • Rather than let him recover and learn how to deal with his ability in a far less stressful manner, she has him drugged into an Addled Addict, beaten, tortured, and treated like a lab-rat and sadistically torments him.
  • When she puts together the party to go after the demon king, she lets the rest of the party abuse him even worse than she does, and keeps him docile by drugging him into obliviousness, and has the gall to be shocked that this all goes horribly wrong.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: She drugs the tea she serves Keyaru as he's recovering from using [Recovery Heal] on Kureha, which renders him unconscious, so he wakes up in the dungeon later. Even if Keyaru was aware of it, he can't refuse without committing lese majeste, which could get him killed on the spot.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Princess Flare was adored by the public at large, the original timeline Keyaru being no exception. If she had simply had the patience to let him bloom properly, he would have been the same martial and magical powerhouse he is in the new timeline, but also completely devoted to her and her pleasure.
• Villain with Good Publicity: And how. She had the entire population of Jioral fooled for years.
• Villainous Breakdown: After he's had his way with her, Keyaru makes sure to break Flare completely by letting her know he'll remove all traces of her original self and turn her into his slave. She's reduced to a sobbing mess before being erased from existence.
• Villainous Princess: Flare, who summoned Keyaru from his world, proceeds to turn him into a slave and supports the evil reign of her father, King Proum Jioral. Though she is much nicer when turned into Freia.
• Villains Want Mercy: When she's at Keyaru's mercy, she begs forgiveness. Keyaru makes her beg to take her virginity by threatening her with a red-hot iron instead.

Tropes Applying to Freia:

As Freia

• Ace Pilot: When Keyaru manages to put together a magic-powered bi-plane, the blueprints of which is something he remembers from the previous timeline, and lets her fly it, she masters it with ease and pulls off complicated aerial maneuvers with a smile.
• Adaptational Heroism: In the web-novel, she and Setsuna kill off Bako when they no longer had a use for him, simply to silence him and get him out of the way. In the manga, Bako straight-up tries to murder them in revenge for the death of Renard, a wholly despicable individual, and they have no choice but to kill him, in clear and legitimate self-defense. In the anime, Bako is not even in the picture—she and Setsuna simply knock the guards out before doing their thing.
• Adaptational Intelligence: In the novel and manga, Freia takes Keyaru at his word at all times, and sees him as heroic just because he says so. In the anime, she's actually suspicious of his motives and questions him carefully. She winds up trusting him and considering him a hero after he earns it with several genuine heroic deeds and self-sacrifice in providing the antidote to the poison afflicting the mercenary city of Ranalita.
• Amnesiac Resonance: The mere mention of her sister's name is enough to make her feel genuine terror, though she doesn't know why.
• Badass Adorable: Post-brainwashing, by virtue of her cuteness and cluelessness.
• Brother–Sister Incest: As a part of Keyaru torture against Norn, he drowns her with aphrodisiacs and orders her to rape her blood sister.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She's content to share with Setsuna, but she really wants Keyaru to screw her silly, at least as much, and tends to get pouty if she feels left out.
• Good Feels Good: It needs to be said that Keyaru did nothing to alter her personality, at all. All he did was seal away her memories as Princess Flare. As Freia, she finds rewards nice and all, but what she really enjoys is doing good works purely for their own sake. As Flare, she lived her life in a constant state of self-loathing, and took it out on the people around her.
• Good Is Not Soft: Freia may be a total sweetheart, but do evil things in her sight, and she won't hesitate to give you a gruesome death.
• Happiness in Mind Control: She is genuinely happy to have absolutely no memory of her time as Princess Flare, and is an Ideal Hero who adventures to save the world.
• Happiness in Slavery: In the web-novel, Keyaru calls her his servant and lover, after he's sealed her memories and she wakes up amnesiac. In the manga, he comes right out and calls her a Sex Slave. Upon doing so, she lets him have sex with her and is clearly ecstatic.
• Hero-Worshipper: As Freia, she constantly sings Keyaruga's praises.
• Instant Expert: When Keyaru teaches her two spells he invented, from scratch, she masters them within hours, making their test run a completely one-sided hunt. According to Keyaru, even the most talented of mages, able to use multiple elements, require years to reach the same level of competence with just one new spell.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: What Keyaru is training her to be, to remove her Crippling Overspecialization on her magic. She's just a few months away from "graduating" as of Volume 3.
• Psychological Projection: As Freia, she's an Ideal Hero and sees Keyaru as such, or at worst, a Pragmatic Hero. The reality is quite different.
• Seven Heavenly Virtues: Believe it or not, she's got them.
  • Charity: Whenever possible, she helps the helpless.
  • Chastity: She's entirely faithful to Keyaru.
  • Diligence: She is a hard and honest worker who always does her best, content with simple words of praise.
  • Humility: Although she does like to be praised for her efforts and competence, she won't go tooting her own horn unprompted.
  • Kindness: She's a total sweetheart.
  • Patience: She's almost never in a rush, willing to endure quietly until she's accomplished her goals.
  • Temperance: She likes luxury and pampering, but she's content to simply have a roof over her head, food, clothing, and Keyaru's affections.
• Tareme Eyes: Freya's eyes have a softer, rounder shape compared to Flare's sharp and narrow glare.
• Undying Loyalty: To Keyaru, she is completely devoted to him and will do anything he asks. Keyaru questions that her sweet behavior to him maybe because she wasn't influenced by the Gioral kingdom and if that's the case then this would have been Flare`s real personality.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Messing with Keyaru in the current timeline, and letting her find out about it, will almost certainly get an attack spell coming your way.

Kureha Clyret

You gave me the ability to fight again! I will repay this debt!

Voiced by: Natsuki Aikawa

A hero of the Jioral Kingdom who's one of its few genuinely kind and well-meaning soldiers. Unfortunately, she's also very naive and is blind to the Kingdom's corruption.

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• Absurdly Sharp Blade: During the run on the demon king's final sanctum, she demonstrates a sword technique that allows her to slice through molecules. Taking down an orichalcum golem in a single slash.
• Adaptational Consent: Her consent in her first-time with Keyaru varies between adaptations:
  • In the web-novel, Kureha offered up her virginity, completely unprompted, to atone for unjustly attacking Keyaru, Flare, and Setsuna, and he accepted.
  • In the manga, Keyaru fills the room of the inn with a powerful aphrodisiac that he's immune to, taking advantage of her extremely aroused state to have his way with her and manipulate her into being his "property."
  • The anime is in-between the above two: she initially offered up her virginity, but was unwittingly under the influence of the aphrodisiac Keyaru had set up prior.
• An Arm and a Leg: Introduced missing her sword-arm until Keyaru miraculously restores it.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Gets hit by one when she fervently insists the memories of soldiers engaged in Rape, Pillage, and Burn that were shoved into her mind are fake.
  "If Jioral soldiers aren't raiding demi-human villages for slaves, where do the slaves come from?"
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Before Keyaru's party fights King Jioral, she was captured by him and was implanted with the power of immortality, turning her into his warrior slave. The eye was ingrained into her heart, so if Keyaru were to pull it off, she will die. Keyaru manages to force her to clog her sword into his arm before a combination of Guren's Purification Fire and his own healing magic removed the eye from her body, reverting her back to normal.
• But Now I Must Go: Leaves the party near the end of volume 2, after the Allan Village arc as part of Keyaru's long-term plans. While Keyaru has reservations about seeing one of his "toys" go, Setsuna and Freia are glad to see her gone.
• Character Development: Though it happens entirely off-screen, she becomes considerably more savvy and less immediately trusting of "righteous" people and what they say, performing her own independent investigations. She's still naïve and falls for the really talented cons, but hey, baby steps.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Freia and Setsuna do appreciate her efforts for the party, and the fact that she's physically strong, skilled with the sword, and can gather intel by mingling with Jioral troops without raising suspicion, but they are strongly irritated by her Horrible Judge of Character and Knight Templar tendencies, proclivity to monopolize Keyaru's bed, purely to try and impregnate herself, and her self-righteous idealistic lectures really raise their ire. When she leaves the party at the end of volume 2, as part of Keyaru's long-term plans, they sigh in relief when she's gone.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Takes the words and appearance of the royal family at face value, and she doesn't have the excuse of coming from some backwater village, or being drugged against her will.
• Idiot Hair: A prominent cowlick, and she can be quite wrong in her world-view.
• Implacable Man: Proves nearly unstoppable in her single-minded pursuit of Keyaru. She easily knocks aside Freia and Setsuna, switches to her back-up sword after Keyaru destroys her first one, learns to avoid his strikes and stabs herself in the leg to counter being drugged mid-battle.
• Inspector Javert: She is a genuinely good person in a deeply corrupt kingdom but unfortunately, she buys wholeheartedly into Jioral's propaganda. She eventually confronts Keyaru over supposedly slaughtering the Jioral forces "protecting" the Ice Wolf village (they were actually going to capture all the residents and sell them into slavery) and stealing the fighting style of her family (he copied it while healing her thanks to the unique properties of his healing). Not that Keyaru is particularly innocent, but Kureha's reasons for attacking him are completely wrong.
• Jumped at the Call: When she gets a chance to be the replacement Hero of the sword, she runs forward and grabs it with both hands, despite it being a thoroughly life-threatening endeavor that Keyaru can't bail her out of if it goes wrong.
• Knight Templar: She sees you as "evil" and she will come at you with her sword, your pleas ignored, even empirical evidence of your innocence.
• Master Swordsman: What her entire bloodline is dedicated to.
• Mind Rape: Keyaru has to sacrifice an arm to her sword to do it, but he grabs her head and uses [Imitation Heal] to shove the memories of many Jioral soldiers engaged in "slave hunts" to snap her out of her attack on him and his party, for the "crime" of trying to stop them.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Her household is very loyal to the Jioral Kingdom, and so is she. She pays for this, harshly, due to the kingdom's nastiness.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: Her assertion that Norn needed to be rescued from the Kingdom's villainy proves absolutely correct at the epilogue of volume 4 when it's revealed that King Proum not only made Norn and Flare psychotic, deliberately, but was planning to "evolve" them into Humanoid Abomination Super-Soldier puppets with no will of their own. At the time she said her assertion though, she presumed Norn was a Princess Classic not an Enfante Terrible.
• Selective Obliviousness: By her own admission, she was so swept up in Jioral's propaganda that she turned a blind eye to many "suspicious" things. A good lecture from "Flare" snapped her out of it.
• Skilled, but Naive: She is a powerful swordswoman, but she's extremely gullible, never doing any independent investigation, and once she's convinced someone's "evil", tries to straight-up murder them, their pleas ignored, even if backed up by empirical evidence of their innocence.
• Stupid Good: She takes any and all testimony from "righteous" people without any independent investigation, and treats it as gospel. She has to be forced to see the truth through Mind Rape, and even then still needs convincing.
• The Victim Must Be Confused: She ignored the testimony of both Freia and Setsuna, deluding herself into believing Keyaru had magically compelled them to testify on his behalf and even openly attacking Freia with a sword when asked to stand down. Keyaru had to Mind Rape her with the Awful Truth to make her stop.

Setsuna

You will help me enact my revenge, Master?

Voiced by: Shizuka Ishigami

A demi-human slave Keyaru brought from the Slave Market. She was her village's strongest warrior, but she hit a level cap at a low level of 7 and can't do anything bar patrolling the village before everyone there was captured by soldiers from Jioral to be sold as slaves.

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• An Ice Person: As with all members of the Ice-Wolf tribe, she can summon ice with her claws, and her ice is not easily melted.
• Beast Man: As a member of the Ice-wolf demihuman tribe, she definitely qualifies.
• Birds of a Feather: She and Keyaru bond over their shared desire for revenge against the Kingdom of Jioral.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She's resigned to knowing she's not in a monogamous relationship with Keyaru, in any way, but it really grates her when Keyaru picks up a new girl to add to the party, even though he dotes on her like crazy and doesn't play favorites.
• Cruel Mercy: A trait she shares with Keyaru. When Keyaru finds the source of the poison that's affecting Ranalitta, the city where she was kept in a cage, he offers her the choice, cure the poison, or strengthen it to make it fatal. She chose "cure" not just because she didn't want to hurt innocents, even by accident, but because she doesn't find poisoning the well fun. She'd prefer to kill her foes with her bare claws. Keyaru heeds her request and gives her an approving head-pat.
• Curtains Match the Window: She's got Icy Blue Eyes and pale blue hair.
• Cute Little Fangs: Has small fangs that go with her wolf-part and her youthful appearance.
• Defiant Captive: No matter what the slave merchants did, she would never give up or give in.
• The Determinator: Her hatred for the Jioral Kingdom and its slavers allowed her to power through horrific abuse and the terminal stage of a terrible "disease" affecting the town she was being caged in, until the day Keyaru bought her and made her part of his party.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Whenever she's given the task of training Freia in close-quarters self-defense, she's harsh, but fair, pushing Freia to do her hardest, despite the latter's tearful complaints. Keyaru admits that it's the best possible training Freia could get, and the one most suited for her to improve her chances of survival.
• I Know Your True Name: As is the case with all races other than humans, she must keep her "true name" secret or she risks getting bound, heart, mind, body, and soul, until death.
• Little Bit Beastly: She has wolf ears, a tail and some fur on her arms, but looks rather human otherwise.
• Made a Slave: Captured by royal knights disguised as mercenaries and caged, then sold to Keyaru as "damaged goods".
• Mate or Die: When she was introduced, she was already at her level cap, at level 7. This caused her to be outstripped by all but the very weakest of monsters and enemies. Her only avenue of advancement is to have full-blown sexual intercourse with Keyaru. Without it she's dirty dancing with death.
• Morality Pet: Quite literally. The fact that Keyaru near constantly dotes on her, pets her head, and smothers her with affection is one of the few remaining sympathetic aspects of his character.
• My Biological Clock Is Ticking: Though she doesn't say it aloud, she's desperate for Keyaru to impregnate her. Keyaru noticed, but even though he finds the idea charming, he just can't take the risk to her body that being pregnant and in battle brings, so he uses magical contraception until everything's stable and she can carry and deliver a child safely.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: She looks like a child, being small enough to sit in Keyaru's lap, and often does. Once Keyaru manages to get her to level 20 and above, she can mow through armies like a lawnmower mows through grass.
• Property of Love: She gives her "true name" to Keyaru, willingly, and of her own volition, making him her master, for life.
• The Rival: She and Freia have a friendly rivalry to see who is a better girlfriend and lover for Keyaru. The man himself finds it quite charming.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: She's very exhibitionistic and loves it when Keyaru makes love to her in the great outdoors, she has an audience, or both.
• Sword and Sorcerer: The relationship between her and Freia. She takes up the close combat while Freia bombards the battlefield with magic. They're a tough team to break through.
• Tears of Joy: Every time she mates with Keyaru, leveling up in the process, she weeps tears of joy because she can feel herself leveling up, and finds it quite pleasant.
• Third-Person Person: Setsuna always refers to Setsuna this way.
• Undying Loyalty: While most of the party was "recruited" through some form of karmic Mind Rape or something similarly horrible, Setsuna instead has a genuine and lasting bond with Keyaru over their shared desire for revenge. The only other member of the harem to join completely willingly was Eve, and that was partly out of desperation.
• The Unpronounceable: In the manga, her "true name" is rendered in illegible scribbles. In other adaptations, the scene cuts away before she reveals it to Keyaru. Subverted when it's revealed to be Nayuta.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: She is entirely devoted to Keyaru, and if she's not given contrary orders, she will bring violence down on anyone who dares try to harm him.
• Weak, but Skilled: Somewhat Deconstructed. Since she hit her cap at level 7, she worked on polishing her techniques to keep up. This only got her so far before she was completely outstripped by just about everyone. She piled up so much excess EXP in the process that every single time Keyaru increases her level cap, she immediately maxes out again, until she reaches level 20!

Eve Reese

I could not protect...

I have sworn upon my wings that I will kill the Demon King and that I will live on!

Voiced by: Natsumi Takamori

A demon whose own kind has been exterminated by the current Demon King.

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• Adaptational Personality Change: In the manga, when Keyaru offers to help her with her "max level", she refuses, and that's it. In the web-novel, she gets irritated when he calls her an unsexy child and insists she can have sex if she wants to, but then gets cold feet part-way. Amazingly, Keyaru does respect her boundaries, but she gets chewed out by Keyaru and his party for it.
• Being Good Sucks: She is a genuinely good and kind woman, who wants what's best for her people. Aside from getting a genuine loving and committed relationship from Keyaru, it has brought her nothing but grief.
• Cast from Lifespan: The cost for using the god bird's power is a portion of her life, and a large one. She can only use it maybe 5 times before the toll kills her, and there's no known way to recover, not even Keyaru can fix this.
• Casting a Shadow: She can use darkness-attribute magic.
• Covert Pervert: When she's woken up by hearing Keyaru and Setsuna loudly having sex in the same room, she covers her eyes with her hand as she's complaining and then peeks through her fingers.
• Don't Make Me Destroy You: After two of the ten chiefs of her tribal council, composed of her strongest war-allies during the resistance to Hakuou's tyrannical reign, engaged in public, obvious, and incredibly stupid betrayals, Eve sentences those two clans to the Karmic Death entry below and then turns to the rest and says "don't make me do these cruel things. I don't like it." Then leaves the room and cries in Keyaru's arms.
• Doomed Home Town: As she and Keyaru's party were headed off to face the god bird's trial, the current demon king showed up and murdered her entire race, man, woman, and child, breaking into homes to look for survivors. The only people Keyaru and co-managed to save were 10 little girls...
• The Farmer and the Viper: In the aftermath of the defeat of Hakuou, and taking the reigns as demon king, she gave the oppressors acting under Hakuou's orders blanket amnesty, since they had no choice but to obey, and gave the oppressed, her war-bond allies, a ruling council. As thanks for that, both groups join hands to depose her, because the council wanted their own race as king and the oppressors wanted someone sympathetic to them on the throne. The moment Keyaru heard of it, he was pissed to unprecedented levels, and that's saying something.
• Good Is Not Soft: She is a total sweetheart, but the moment she learns of the Stupid Evil betrayal coming from her former allies that she rescued from Hakuou's tyranny, at horrific personal cost, she gives Keyaru carte blanche to give them deaths that are especially graphic, even by his standards. She has no choice, as said "allies" think it's a jolly old gag to send assassins at her bedchamber, and she has to retaliate, harshly, so the rest see that this is not either a joke or a good idea.
• Horned Humanoid: After ascending to Demon King, she grew horns.
• The Horseshoe Effect: Suffers from it. With the oppressors under Hakuou not being happy because "their inherent superiority" goes unrecognized when she takes the throne and appoints the chiefs of those who were oppressed by Hakuou to be her tribal council, and said council doesn't feel their grudges were sufficiently addressed, several members of both groups join forces to try and depose or assassinate her, and are stupidly brazen in their attempts.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The first time she tries to use her light-based magic, her aim is so terrible, she wears out her mana completely using the collateral damage to beat down a monster. It takes several days of hard training, and having Keyaru literally hold her hand to get over it.
• I Owe You My Life: To Keyaru. She's grateful he saved her life from bounty hunters, even if it was for his own reasons. She still needed a bit of convincing to join his party.
• Karmic Death: She hands out a few of these before letting Keyaru take over.
  • When the snow-leopard tribe joined forces with the hedgehog tribe to build tunnels under the castle walls, in broad daylight so they could sneak an army into the castle and exterminate Eve and the remains of her people, Eve sentences the chief and his entire extended family to be locked in a cage with a really large dog that would eat them alive, slowly, taking two full weeks to finish. It's karmic in that this is how the hedgehog tribe helped Hakuou bring Eve's race to technical extinction. The rest of the clan were exiled to a pioneer village and removed from power. The entire hedgehog tribe were sent with them.
  • When the wind-weasel tribe chief sends an assassin into her bedchamber, while Keyaru was there, doing man and wife things with Eve—Keyaru read the assassin's mind, knowing said chief planned to celebrate the extinction of Eve's people, had the assassin succeeded—the chief has the gall to try to pass off the attempt as a harmless joke as he's begging for forgiveness. Eve used her Compelling Voice to order him and his entire tribe into a magically sealed arena, with no food or water, to fight each other to the death, until only one survivor remained, and the survivor would be sold into slavery.
• Last of Her Kind: Pretty damn close. Thanks to the current Demon King's inferiority complex, he's put a bounty on her people, massacring any and every one of them that's found, leaving her race technically extinct.
• Light 'em Up: She can use light magic, which is rare.
• Living MacGuffin: It isn't just the current Demon King's faction and bounty hunters that's after her. The anti-demon king faction, which is going around murdering all his supporters, is targeting her too, to use as a political pawn. Unfortunately for them, a certain cat-girl demon came at Keyaru with a knife. Well, so much for that.
• Morality Pet: Even more so than Setsuna. To date, she's the only girl in Keyaru's harem whom Keyaru does not put through brainwashing, drugs, rape, or Sexual Extortion. He seeks to win her heart on its own merits, and have her become his of her own volition, because he is in awe of the first timeline's "Demon King" and wants her to be that way for him.
• Mystical White Hair: Her hair turns silver as a result of passing the god bird's trial and gaining it as a familiar.
• Not So Above It All: She's as turned on as Freiya and Setsuna over Keyaru's Gender Bender form despite being the least interested of them at the start.
• Only You Can Repopulate My Race: She is the only one in Keyaru's harem with whom he does not use magical contraception. Aside from trying to bring her race out of extinction, she needs an heir to cement her claim to the demon throne. While it's not known if Keyaru can impregnate her, there certainly hasn't been a lack of trying, from either of them.
• The Peeping Tom: Now, before she was ready to get her max level raised, she was very voyeuristic and not only peeps on Keyaru having sex with Setsuna and Freia but pleasures herself so much she reeks of it, and honestly believes the rest of the party doesn't notice.
• Punny Name: Her full name sounds a hell of a lot like "Iblis", the Arabic/Islamic equivalent to Lucifer.
• Relationship Upgrade: After successfully completing the god bird's trial with Keyaru's help, and he helps her save what few of her people managed to escape The Purge, she gives him Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex, and is his willing bed-partner from that point on, even repeatedly giving him love confessions.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Even though she knew it would eat away at her life, she ordered the god bird to retaliate against the Demon King's elites that massacred her hometown, leaving no survivors.
• Sheltered Aristocrat: Heavily deconstructed. When the current Demon King put out a hit on her race, she was still a child who was heavily coddled and was a complete neophyte. She lost her bodyguards and was in real bad shape when Keyaru comes across her.
• Soul Power: The truth about the "familiars" that she used in the fight with the "heroes" back in chapter 1. Those are not familiars. They are the souls of the rest of her tribe that were murdered by the current timeline's Demon King and his tyranny. Their resentment is what drives her to kill him and avenge her people.
• Technical Virgin: While she hasn't had sexual intercourse with anyone, as of volume 4, she does get sexual gratification with Keyaru through considerable amounts of masturbation, voyeurism, and foreplay. Amazingly, Keyaru patiently waits until she's good to go all the way on her own volition.
• Tired of Running: Sick and tired of being hunted, she happily joins Keyaru's group to take her revenge on the current Demon Lord, who hunted her clan to near extinction, for his own insecurities, and the fact that he gained the throne through cowardly means.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky: Although she didn't trust him, at all, she agreed to "hire" Keyaru because she was desperate and had no other viable options.
• Tsundere: Which gets lampshaded. She's an adorable Type-B.
• Unskilled, but Strong: She was born with a level of 50 of 70 and has immense martial and magical power, but no training or combat experience, and upon her introduction is almost killed as a result. If not for Keyaru coming to her aid, bounty hunters would have nabbed her, and that would have been it.
• Winged Humanoid: She's got wings in both timelines.

Norn Clatalissa Jioral / Ellen

That I'm the younger sister of trash. It makes me want to puke!

Voiced by: Minami Tsuda

Flare's younger sister, and the true power behind the throne. She was the chief strategist of the Jioral Kingdom who was behind Renard's ransacking of Keyaru's village, and a horrific maniac with a sadistic streak a mile wide, even when compared to Flare and Blade. She is now captured by Keyaru and brainwashed by him into a harem slave called "Ellen".

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Tropes applying to Both Versions:

• Brother–Sister Incest: And sister-sister incest. First Keyaru has Flare, doped up on aphrodisiacs, pin her down and engage in all sorts of sexual activity, then after he permanently destroys her identity as Norn, tells her she's his little sister Ellen, and convinces her that they had that kind of relationship. So she acts on it.
• Death of Personality: Keyaru finds her tactical genius way too valuable to destroy with mind-breaking torture, mind-rape, or any of the other methods he used to secure the rest of his party, he finds her too dangerous to let live to strike back, and he finds her actions, including the sadistic total annihilation of his home village, especially the death of Anna, too heinous for a simple death. He uses drugs, hypnosis, and his own [Imitation Heal] ability to permanently make her forget she was ever "Norn", the second princess of Jioral.
• Evil Counterpart: Despite all the differences in ability and personality between her and Flare, they have the same fundamental core to their personalities. They are desperate to please those they love. If they try to please someone who treats them as if nothing they do is ever good enough, they become twisted and sadistic. If they try to please someone who genuinely appreciates them, with head pats, kind words, and plenty of affection, in any sense of the term, they are total sweethearts who will happily work themselves to death if they're not stopped.
• Heel–Face Brainwashing: Just like her elder sister, she was captured, tortured, then brainwashed by Keyaru into a loyal member of his Battle Harem.

Tropes applying to Norn:

• Adaptational Early Appearance: In the novel and manga, she doesn't physically appear until Keyaru's village (those who survived Renard) are being put on a public execution platform as part of her gambit to try and capture Kearu as a result of Renard's failure. In the anime, she shows up and pets King Proum on the shoulder as the latter is giving Renard the mission to hunt down Kearu for "the death" of Flare.
• Adaptational Villainy: The manga adaptation of the novels considerably ups her in-person cruelty.
• Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: In the manga, she's introduced being strong enough to stomp people's skulls to paste, and kicks "pets", even the size of giants, across the room. When Keyaru manages to catch her in her carriage at Branicca's gates, he picks her up like a helpless child, with her unable to do anything about it. This wasn't an issue in the novels, as she had no special strength, and only hit John.
• Bad Boss: In addition to beating up on John, she's on-screen seen stomping a guy to death for delivering unwelcome news. But only in the manga.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She gives Flare a run for her money in this regard. She could as well be the poster girl for Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon, but has convinced many she is just "Face of an Angel".
• Cain and Abel: The Cain to Flare, believe it or not.
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: Which actually saves her during the attack on Branicca. Had she partaken of the wine that was tainted by Keyaru, the laxative, despite being well diluted, would have been too much for her system, not just giving her diarrhea, but possibly going as far as killing her.
• The Chessmaster: She's always got schemes and plans cooking, and is always thinking up contingencies, and contingencies for the contingencies. Much as Keyaru rightly sees her as the most evil being alive, he's loathe to go after her without damn good reason, because the odds of her crushing him like a bug, both literally and figuratively, are all but certain.
• Combat Pragmatist: Even more than Keyaru. She does not spare innocents, at all. Men, women, children, it does not matter. She will complete her objectives, in the bloodiest manner possible.
• The Dreaded: As much as they are sadistic and vicious Serial Rapists and sexual deviants, it tells when Blade and Bullett of all people are instantly appalled by Norn's poisoning of the demonic realm's water and manipulating Flare into nuking the demon's cities. That's not even getting into Princess Flare; Her original self is deathly terrified of her, and even in her completely amnesiac Freia self trembles in raw terror at the mention of Norn's name; Keyaru states she could squash him like a bug, even with his previous run-through knowledge and "Hero" skills mastery.
• Dirty Coward: Just like her sister, when Keyaru killed Hawkeye, she immediately begged for help and begged Keyaru not to kill or torture her, only to be ignored.
• Driven to Villainy: Combined with Driven to Madness. She used to be a genuinely sweet child, but with Flare getting a "hero" crest, King Proum forced her and her sister into being bitter enemies, constantly at each other's throats. Since Norn couldn't be either a magical or martial powerhouse, she was shipped off to an overseas academy and put through an "education" that makes Japan's notorious "pressure cooker" form of education look like a picnic. She came back both a strategic genius and a sociopathic monstrosity. King Proum then went on to encourage and reward her psychosis, leaving her no choice but to become an unholy terror who literally kicks around "pets" for "stress relief."
• Dying Declaration of Hate: The last words she will ever say as "Norn"?
  Norn: "Go to hell."
• Eviler than Thou: Every nasty thing Flare did, she did nastier. She doesn't even see Flare as a sister, but as a tool, and considers her "trash" for her death.
• Evil Feels Good: Deconstructed. Kicking "pets" around brings her temporary pleasure and "stress relief" but it grows old, fast. Either the so-called pet in question doesn't survive the experience very long, seeing as she has super-human strength, or she grows bored when the pet's reactions become predictable, as she demonstrates with "John" who's the most recent, and longest-lived, of her pets to date. In fact, she's introduced bringing in a new demi-human "pet" precisely because she's grown bored of "John."
• Evil Genius: Her insistence that she's smarter than everyone else in the entire kingdom is not without merit. She is, in fact, a mensa-level genius who excels at strategy and tactics, using the previous timeline's "Hero" party to scout out enemy territory so she could capture city by city. Keyaru dreads facing her in a clash precisely because he believes she's the one person who can outsmart him, and absolutely crush him with her own combat pragmatism.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: She's cute, loves to prance around in a cutesy manner, and is evil to the core.
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: She's always wanted to straight-up murder Flare for "being stupid trash that drags her down" but couldn't because as the "Magician Hero" Flare's magical power makes her a Person of Mass Destruction strategic weapon. Even after Flare's supposed death, she still gets agitated upon hearing the latter's name. When she hears Flare is alive and aligned with the Healer Hero, she goes full tilt Ax-Crazy, "accidentally" crushing the messenger's head underfoot, killing him.
  • She feels the same way about anyone or any place that shrugs off discrimination. Although she herself treats everyone else the same way, as trash, she absolutely, positively must raze any town or city where multiple races live and work side by side in peace and prosperity. It's a complete anathema to her War for Fun and Profit mindset. In volume 3, she launches an attack on Branicca, to then brainwash the humans into claiming they were oppressed, purely for this reason. For some unexplained reason, she did not do this in the previous timeline.
• For the Evulz: Granted, she always seeks to profit from her abject depravity, but the primary motivation is her sheer enjoyment of the suffering she brings.
• Freudian Excuse: Believe it or not, she has one. Though their father does love them, he set up Flare and Norn to be bitter enemies, constantly looking down on and abusing each other.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Hoo boy.
  • Volume 2 reveals she's Flare's Freudian Excuse, driving her to greater and greater acts of villainy, to keep her position, and her life by being "useful" through more and more martial accomplishments. What's worse, all the abuse Flare heaped on Keyaru? Norn's the one who taught Flare that's how you're supposed to show affection to your subordinates. Which is revealed by John, some kind of demi-human she forces to act like a dog, and kicks around when she feels "stressed."
  • She's the one who provided Renard the plan to capture the citizens of Keyaru's home village to use as hostages to draw him out. She's repulsed at how badly he screwed the pooch, literally, by raping to death the most valuable of the hostages.
  • When Renard screws up, she commands the execution of the villagers of Allan, and then brings in Blade, the "sword hero", though she absolutely loathes the Psycho Lesbian.
  • A flashback to the previous timeline shows she's entirely responsible for orchestrating the entire war with the demon race, and making the strategies to manage it.
• Gut Feeling: Preparing for an easy victory in Branicca, the hairs on her neck started to rise in fear for no explained reason. She brought her strongest knights, bodyguards, and Blade. It still wasn't enough.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: According to Keyaru in the web-novel, she actually feels inferior to Flare, and hates it, so covers it up by acting superior to Flare, looking down on her, and abusing her to keep her down.
• Karmic Rape: For a violent, warmongering maniac who likes to kick down and trample over Human Pets for "stress relief" and only did such to cover up her Inferiority Superiority Complex over Princess Flare, he purposefully humiliated her in the most psychologically humiliating way possible — forcing a heavily drugged Freia (Flare's new ego) in a dog costume to sexual assault her for an entire day and constantly move the goalposts until he gets to rape her too, before using drugs, hypnosis and his latent Upgrade [Heal] ability to make sure she's his loyal servant.
• Laughably Evil: Sadistic, warmongering maniac she is, because her default expression is a wide, manic grin that widens for every sadistic streak she has and she's evil to an absolutely ridiculous degree, she can come across as pretty difficult to take seriously.
• Let's You and Him Fight: Her "tried and true" method of putting down rebellions in her country is bringing in her agents in the Demon race to raze the village where the rebellion is occurring. She rebuffs their request for aid the first time around, and then when they are most cornered, she brings in her knights, but only after the rebels have sworn allegiance and then punishes the initial rebellion with withering tax rates, and if they can't pay, enslavement.
• Mad Love: According to Keyaru, she does indeed feel affection towards her older sister, but she can't admit it, even to herself, and thus tries to have Flare killed, to erase the annoyance in her heart. In the web-novel, Keyaru fully expected Norn to come rushing out of the capitol, and her nest of bodyguards to come after Flare after finding out she's alive, giving him the motive and opportunity, however thin, to try and kill her in return.
• Mirror Character: Suprisingly, to Keyaru. Both of them are incredibly cruel war-mongering conquerors and slave owners who can take out entire empires and demonic realms through cunning and precision, and relish in sadistic Cold-Blooded Torture against their enemies. She also shares a similar Slasher Smile or wide grin Keyaru as a default expression, driving to the point that Keyaru is really no different from the scum who rules over the Jioral Kingdom in terms of methods and motivation.
• Never My Fault: While she does accept the consequences of her plans going south, she never, ever accepts the responsibility or the blame. It must be because her subordinates, pawns, or mooks screwed up somehow, like the "trash" they are.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: A miscalculation on her part. Yes, poisoning the denizens of Keyaru's home village so rescue is impossible did hurt him greatly; however, this turned around and completely discredited the elite guard unit and the Corrupt Church that were calling said villagers "heretics" and using them as hostages so Keyaru would turn himself in, gave Princess Flare and Keyaru immense legitimacy in their claims that the kingdom is corrupt beyond measure, and triggered a bloody riot.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • She was utterly disgusted by the fact that Renard drew Keyaru's ire by raping Anna to death, not because of the raping, but because it's a waste of the time and effort she spent training Renard, and the loss of a valuable hostage.
  • She absolutely loathes Blade, the sword "hero", both for her rampant and all but indiscriminate skirt-chasing, and the fact that she's a cross-dressing Psycho Lesbian obsessed with her sister, Flare. If Blade was a man, all the rest could be temporarily overlooked as Blade could at least produce an heir, but a Clingy Jealous Girl lesbian just won't do.
• Psycho Pink: Norn is one of the most evil characters in the kingdom and her hair is pink.
• Slasher Smile: One of the most common expressions she makes is a wide, borderline comical toothy grin, especially when she's torturing someone.
• Sore Loser: Her villainy is always a "hunt" or a "game" to her, purely for her own amusement, in addition to how she might profit. She absolutely loathes to lose and will retaliate with overwhelming force the moment it happens.
• Surrounded by Idiots: She thinks she's the only "intelligent" person in the entire kingdom, and she's enraged, at best, when her scheming blows up, blaming all her "lower than trash" pawns who lost to Keyaru.
• Tiny Tyrannical Girl: She's noticably shorter than Flare and Blade, but way more sadistic and dangerous.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The manga goes on to expand her backstory. She used to be a genuinely adorable bundle of joy who idolized her older sister Flare, who went on to dote on her like crazy in return. Then Flare got her "hero" crest and King Proum put an end to all that, forcing Flare to make death threats on Norn for "not measuring up" leading Norn to becoming the sociopathic menace she was on her introduction.
• Villain Respect: After the Allan Village Arc, she comes to quietly accept that Keyaru is not "trash" and is indeed a very troublesome opponent to her plans, goals, and motives. Not having any of the previous timeline's knowledge, she has great difficulty understanding why he's so eager to be a thorn in her side.
• Villains Want Mercy: The moment Keyaru gets his hands on her, literally, and gently slaps her around, she starts begging for her life, and is shocked when it's pointed out to her how she trampled the lives of others.
• War for Fun and Profit: She starts up fights with the demi-humans, demons, whatever, to reap the plunder and sadistically enjoy the torment and suffering. Everyone is merely livestock to her, and she schemes to slaughter and "harvest" when the time is most ripe.

Tropes applying to Ellen:

• Amnesiac Resonance: With her intellect and her strategic genius, it’s only a matter of time before she starts questioning who she is and piecing together that she was actually Princess Norn. In volume 9 it’s revealed that doing so unlocked her sealed memories, though she continues to ally herself to the protagonist, at least for now.
• Brainwash Residue: Even after recovering her memories as Norn, she must fight against her own kingdom while bearing the sin and continue to see herself as “Ellen”, retaining affection for Keyaru and continuing to work as his strategic backbone.
• Cheerful Child: Ellen is a very sweet and happy child, eager to please. In fact, Keyaru frequently has to rein her in so she doesn't overexert herself.
• Elephant in the Living Room: While Eve does strongly question the sheer implausibility of Keyaru finding his long-lost sister in Branicca, a city not only in a different country, but far, far from his home village, nobody questions the fact that despite Ellen supposedly being Keyaru's younger sister, Ellen has no problem screwing him like a rabbit in heat, and actively seeks the sex out.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: While Ellen may be a total sweetheart to Keyaru's party, Norn's sociopathic traits remain just beneath the surface. In the prelude to the attack on King Proum, as Keyaru, Ellen and Afule are planning out how to deal with the aftermath, she happily indicates that she fully intends to Make an Example of Them to the first country that dares lash out over the grudges Jioral inflicted, or even over simple greed. Afule is rightly terrified by the prospect.
• Support Party Member: Ellen offers absolutely no fighting strength, at all, even after enduring Setsuna's training. But her tactical and strategic skills are still an amazing aid on the battlefield, helping Setsuna take down a golem that's twice her level, by pointing out its weak-spots and giving her the correct strategy to exploit them.

Guren

A divine beast that hatches from the egg given to Keyaru as a dowry from Eve's father.

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• Anti-Magic: Her purification flame holds off King Proum's immortality, allowing Keyaru to land the final hit against the Three Champions and save Kureha from her brainwashing.
• Breath Weapon: She can breathe fire that can kill the "Black Knights" created by King Proum.
• The Fake Cutie: She charms the rest of the harem by making herself as cute as possible, but it's just an act.
• The Ingenue: When Keyaru explicitly asks for sex, she refuses, shouting that incest is wrong, but when he starts to massage her, he easily tricks her into accepting full-blown sexual intercourse because she finds that it feels good, but she doesn't realize what she's doing.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: As a human, she truly doesn't understand the concept of modesty or chastity.
• Little Bit Beastly: Her humanoid form still sports a fox tail and fox ears.
• Mysterious Waif: There's plenty to her that even she doesn't understand, and much of what she does know, she's forbidden by ancient magics from mentioning, upon pain of death.
• Our Phlebotinum Child: She's hatched from the egg by taking in mana from Keyaru's party, 70% coming from Keyaru, 30% coming from a mix of Freia, Ellen, Setsuna, and Eve.
• Parental Incest: Keyaru tricks her into having sex with him, despite technically being his daughter. Nobody objects to this for some reason.
• Servile Snarker: She may be Keyaru's familiar, but she doesn't hesitate to snark at him every chance she gets.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: She can go from her fox-kit form to a humanoid fox, or even a human form matching Keyaru, at will.

Jioral Kingdom

An unbelievably corrupt and evil war-mongering Kingdom who employs "heroes" and "adventurers" that are nothing short of glorified strike teams to terrorize and conquer nearby countries and demonic realms.

In General

• The Empire: A kingdom of evil who desires nothing short of global domination, with its king heavily obsessed in obtaining godhood.
• Hate Sink: With the exception of Kureha, Hawkeye and maybe the three Champions, all of these people are seemingly made to be as unlikeable and vile as possible to the point of being borderline Black Comedy, including Flare and Norn, before they're brainwashed and enslaved. They largely commit similar crimes as Keyaru does, aside that they're just flat-out assholes who just want to rape and murder for the sake of.
• Laughably Evil: They're a group of vicious sadists and conquerors who go out of their way to be as despicable as possible, but they're so unbelievably and shockingly evil that it comes across as being entertaining.
• Villain with Good Publicity: They have a good reputation amongst the general public, but their core personnel are all insane Serial Rapists, war-mongerers and conquerors.

Proum Jioral

Raise your head, Healer Hero

I look much better in the anime, don't I, "Hero of Recovery"?

Voiced by: Takaya Hashi

The acting king of the Jioral Kingdom and a ruthless conqueror who constantly sends "heroes" to occupy nearby kingdoms and demonic realms. His final goal is to ascend into a god through the Philosopher's Stone.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: As can be seen in the page image, he doesn't look so Obviously Evil in the anime.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Subtle but profound. In the original web-novel, he goes into the dungeon holding Renard and stoically tells him "I have no intention of apologizing" before charging Renard with the task of bringing Keyaru back, alive, for a Fate Worse than Death, as punishment for the "death" of Flare. In the manga, he has Renard brought to the throne room, and is openly weeping while ranting and raving at Renard, blaming him and his incompetence for the apparent death of Flare, his dear, beloved daughter, and tells him he deserves a public, gruesome execution, but he's given one last chance to redeem himself, bringing in Keyaru, dead or alive.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the anime, although Flare remains an unsympathetic sadist who beat up a drug-addled Keyaru in the castle dungeons, the one who is ultimately responsible for most of Flare's Stupid Evil actions is him, as he's the one who ordered Keyaru to heal Kureha, and after his breakdown, ordered him thrown into the dungeons, drugged, repeatedly raped, by both men and women, tortured and experimented on.
• Ambiguously Human: Lampshaded. When Keyaru scans him with his jade eyes, he sees a question mark next to the king's race. [Human (?)]
• Bad Boss: Orders the execution of the entire family of the Captain of the Royal Guard for the death of Princess Flare before investigating the "healer" in his dungeons and finding out the captain was innocent, but hey, the captain lost a fight with a non-combat class "hero", so the punishment is fair, right?
• Beard of Evil: As seen in the page image, he's got a beard and mustache so thick, his mouth is barely visible, and he's one of the top evil people in the kingdom.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: As he's begging for his life, he wishes to be given the chance to atone for his crimes. Keyaru gives him the opportunity alright, not by letting him keep the throne, promising to be The Good King from then on, then gives him and his followers an absolutely humiliating death.
• Big Bad: The epilogue of volume 4 reveals that he is directly responsible for all the horror in the story.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: After he's deposed and stripped of his "Black Knight" powers, he becomes the rightful whipping boy for all the resentment he's piled up among his people, being hauled along as luggage, completely naked— along with his biggest supporters, the nobles that led the Corrupt Church that happily labeled any and all villages the king himself wanted disposed of as "heretics," especially if they supported equality among the races, so the Royal Knights could Rape, Pillage, and Burn them— are driven on a complete loop around the entire royal capital, being pelted with stones, sticks, trash, and verbal abuse. The "nobles" wound up dead. He wound up one giant bruise, no longer able to speak, before being executed, by beheading.
• Devil in Plain Sight: He's utterly monstrous, but the public never quite notices.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He does genuinely love his daughters and will go to extremes in Disproportionate Retribution to avenge any harm to them.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: In addition to the evil god's power that made him and his knights "evolved immortals," he plans on using the Philosopher's stone to cast "Forbidden Spells" to cement his rule. He's completely unaware that what he's really doing is dooming his entire world to be consumed by a God of Evil.
• Godhood Seeker: In both timelines, his ultimate goal is not to Take Over the World, but to ascend as a god. In the current timeline, he openly declares himself a god and puts the entire population in a Morton's Fork. Either willingly offer up their lives to his forbidden spell ascension, or he sends the immortal Black Knights at you to take them. This results in the kingdom becoming a Wretched Hive.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Volume 4 reveals a lot of things.
  • He's Norn's Freudian Excuse and is responsible for the brutal and abusive Sibling Rivalry between Norn and Flare that causes both of them to become sadistic and psychotic. He did this deliberately.
  • He may not have made Bullett, the gun/cannon hero, into a depraved pedophile, but he certainly encouraged and supported it, even providing Bullett with an orphanage, as a branch of the local church, and filling it with little boys who suit Bullett's tastes, then helping him with his "collection," and providing cover stories to hide the deaths.
  • He's responsible for the current Demon King's rise to power, resulting in genocide on Eve's people, bringing her race to technical extinction. (Only little girls and Eve remain.)
  • In the original timeline, he sent the "Hero" party against Eve because she was in the way of his Take Over the World plans.
  • Through his connection with the current Demon King, he has found a way to turn his knights and himself into Humanoid Abomination Super-Soldier puppets that are entirely bound by his will and can not be killed by normal means, not even completely destroying their bodies by burning them to ash. He also planned to do this to all the "heroes" and Norn, to Take Over the World and maintain his stranglehold on power, forever!
• Hidden Eyes: His eyes are never visible, always hidden in shadows.
• Humanoid Abomination: His One-Winged Angel form is a hulking tentacle monster with a single eye covering his face (bar his mouth) and a giant Belly Mouth on his body.
• I Have No Daughter!: Forswears his daughters in the prelude to the final battle with Keyaru, not knowing nor caring that they're right there in the room.
• Keystone Army: As the epilogue of volume 6 reveals, if someone can manage to take him down, or strip him of his "evolution," all the Black Miasma Knights he's created lose their powers, and their lives. This leaves him at Keyaru's feet, helpless, with his pleas for mercy only making things worse.
• Knight of Cerebus: The moment he gets truly involved, the story suddenly shifts into a more serious mood with Kureha being mind controlled, Bullet going away to plan something way worse...and it goes on. Unlike Norn or Blade's evil, his worst acts are not migtated by any sort of unintentional outrageousness and are played around as horrifically as they could.
• Laser-Guided Karma: His Godhood Seeker rampage either drove out or killed all his ministers, tax collectors, and governors, and wiping out all his army as a result of the knights dying when he lost his evil miasma powers, the archers and mages taken down in self-defense, resulting in leaving the country a total wreck after his downfall, with all his neighboring countries holding a righteous grudge. Keyaru and "Flare" had to use the power and influence of their "champions of humanity" status to keep everything stable until Ellen, working feverishly for ten days, could cobble together an interim government so Keyaru could then fly off to Eve and help her secure her reign, not to mention hunt down Bullett, who still has the Philosopher's stone and could be up to even more nastiness.
• Magic Knight: His official class, as shown on the character sheet Keyaru gleams by scanning his status.
• Never My Fault: The instant he lost his "immortality evolution" in front of Keyaru, he tried to claim the black miasma had completely clouded his mind and taken away his free agency, thus absolving himself of all guilt for his atrocities. Keyaru, knowing the truth, doesn't buy a word of it.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: It's like he's Genghis Khan reborn. He has all the same doctrines regarding warfare and conquest. He even has the concept of the "golden family." The royal family can do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, but so much as harm a hair on any of them, and your entire bloodline is wiped out, as the Royal Guard learned when he was framed by Keyaru for the death of princess Flare, who is not even dead.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Contrary to the original timeline where he only wanted the Philosopher's stone to Take Over the World, in volume 6, he unleashes his Black Knights, mixed in with his regular army, and attacks everybody who doesn't bend the knee to him with Blind Obedience, even his own townsfolk, and he doesn't even care about his Villain with Good Publicity status anymore. This turns the adventurer's town Ranalitta into a sea of flames.
• One-Winged Angel: He starts as a rather easy-to-defeat foe at level 41 and is heavily underleveled compared to Keyaru's party, which has a total level of well over 200. He realizes this, and absorbs the Black Miasma to turn into a hunlking tentacle monster whose level is higher than Keyaru's party combined.
• Orcus on His Throne: Even until volume 4, he's only left the throne room once, and that was an overseas trip for delicate negotiations with one of the neighboring kingdoms.
• The Unapologetic: Doesn't even bother to apologize to the Captain of the Royal Guard for ordering the execution of his family unjustly, and states that he's not ever going to.
• Unwitting Pawn: He thinks he's made himself and his newly minted immortal knights an unstoppable army for his own rule and conquest. While he's damn near unstoppable, he's made himself and his "evolved" minions conduits for an evil god that's going to consume him and his army first and then move on to the rest of the world.
• Vetinari Job Security: As loathsome as he is, the primary reason a coup hasn't occurred, nor Keyaru killed him, is that the moment he dies or steps down, Norn would rise up and take his place. Norn is infinitely worse! This all comes to an end with the capture and Heel–Face Brainwashing of Norn resulting in Keyaru taking him down at the first opportunity.
• Villain Has a Point: Renard allowing Keyaru to get the jump on him and beat him up as part of his escape plan is a major act of incompetence and does deserve punishment.
• Villains Want Mercy: The moment he's helpless before Keyaru, and realizes Keyaru isn't buying his bullshit story about Demonic Possession, he begs for a chance to atone, as The Good King. He gets his chance to atone, by being the whipping boy for the grudges he himself instigated among his own people.
• We Can Rule Together: When Keyaru confronts him in the antechamber to the Instant Allegiance Artifact King Proum himself set up, the king promises to make Keyaru his right hand, even forswearing his daughters for failing him, calling them mere tools. Keyaru refuses outright, not just because he wants revenge on this asshole for condoning the abuse he endured in both timelines, but because he knows that acceptance means becoming a mindless puppet.
• You Have Failed Me: The premise he gives to justify executing the family of the Captain of the Royal Guard. Since the captain got beat up in a fist fight with the "healer hero", who isn't even a combat class, then the guard captain is entirely responsible for the consequences of the "crimes" Keyaru has done, and deserves equal punishment.

Renard

I'm sure you understand it now, the pain of making the princess "sad." Even though this is only 1%.

You did nothing, freeloader!

Voiced by: Yasuaki Takumi, Eri Akiyama (female form)

Captain of the royal guard, and the first person to torture Keyaru. He was ordered to ransack Keyaru's village as retribution against Flare's disappearance, and met his end when Keyaru turned him into a girl to be raped and killed by several drugged thugs as they're all burnt alive.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: To Flare. He's completely smitten with her. She finds him repulsive, even more than she does Keyaru, and that's saying something.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: In the anime he's less thuggish looking, but just as despicable.
• Evil Gloating: Bragged about raping Anna and Keyaru's foster mother, while wearing Keyaru's face, with a massive self-inflicted burn scar. It is the last mistake he will ever make.
• Fatal Flaw: Lust. He was so fixated on the idea of getting a chance to rape and dominate Flare that it led him into an obvious trap, to face a gruesome Karmic Death.
• Hypocrite: He rapes women for disgusting pleasure but when Keyaru changes his gender and has drugged men rape him to death he begs Keyaru to stop this and asks if he`s heartless to do this, this is coming from the guy who raped Anna for fun then was taunting Keyaru about it.
• It's All About Me: Cares about no one but himself and only goes along with the Gioral kingdom to get sick pleasure from killing and raping.
• Karmic Death: His greatest joy was raping women to death. He's made to literally choke on it. With the drugged up rapists continuing to rape his gender-bent corpse, to the point they didn't even notice the building they were in was set on fire, with Keyaru walking away, bored.
• Knight of Cerebus: Think the story is dark enough as it is? He doesn't agree.
• Mad Love: Is completely fixated on Flare, but dares not act on it because he's aware of her standing as princess and what would happen to him if it was found out. Of course, once he puzzles out that Keyaru might have smuggled her out of the castle in disguise...
• Misplaced Retribution: Being both an receiver and the one who gave it, to extremely disproportionate levels. King Proum ordered the execution of his family, before investigating if he's even tangentially responsible for Flare's death, or even if she's actually dead in the first place, and is completely unapologetic. So what does he do? Goes after and annihilates Keyaru's home village, raping Keyaru's Childhood Friend and Parental Substitute so brutally she bites her tongue to death to escape the torment, right in front of her husband!
• My Master, Right or Wrong: As he's pounding on Keyaru no less than 20 times, for no rational reason, only stopped by the Alchemist because Princess Flare ordered he be kept alive, he turns and states this is only 1% of the pain Flare feels for being "made sad." Considering how the king treats him later, this may not be an exaggeration.
• Never My Fault: Abjectly refused to accept responsibility for any and all of his failures or crimes, blaming Keyaru for all of them in his mind. This just makes Keyaru more determined to make him see how it feels on the receiving end.
• No Name Given: His name is not mentioned in the original web-novel at least not until well into Volume 2, just before he's about to die horribly, even by the standards of this setting.
• Out with a Bang: Through the use of drugs and a bit of a clever Gender Bender [Transformation Heal], Keyaru shows him how it feels being on the receiving end of being raped to death.
• Post-Rape Taunt: Gloats to Keyaru about raping Anna in front of the whole village.
• Revenge Myopia: Wants to enact bloody vengeance on Keyaru for beating him up and humiliating him, forgetting the fact that he beat up Keyaru tied to a chair, just for giggles.
• Self-Harm: So filed with self-righteous hatred at Keyaru, and forced to bear the guy's face, he takes some kind of implement and burns his own head to the point it's no longer recognizable. Considering what ultimately happens to him, he needn't have bothered.
• Serial Rapist: His favorite pastime is raping women to death, something he takes a disgusting amount of pride in doing.
• The Sociopath: He is a low-functioning example who views women as objects that he could violate to his heart's content such as when he raped Anna to death whilst pretending to be Keyaru.
• Stupid Evil: Which even he lampshades. Had he used Anna as a hostage instead of raping her to death, his chances of drawing out Keyaru, or at least surviving the encounter, would have been much, much higher.
• Too Dumb to Live: Taunting the guy who has you at his mercy that you brutally raped someone you think is his lover? When he's known to be vindictive, vicious, and sadistic? And he's showing your gender-bent reflection in a mirror? If Keyaru wasn't pressed for time and wanted to have "fun", this would have got him an even worse fate.
• Underestimating Badassery: When Keyaru walks right into his office, stating that he's going to pay back each and every one of the 20 odd punches he got, completely unprovoked, this captain (at least in the manga) happily jumps up, shouting that he's going to crush Keyaru like an ant. The next scene, the captain, disguised as Keyaru, is shown so battered and bloody, that he can't even speak, and gets even more beatings from his fellow guards.
• Villains Want Mercy: When he finally realizes how Keyaru has arranged his Karmic Death, he begs if Keyaru has any empathy for his fellow man. Keyaru responds that he once did, until Renard himself took it away. At this point, Renard pales in despair, realizing he's doomed.

Bako

I will push through my own sense of justice!

Vice-captain of Flare's royal guard, and an ally of Flare and Renard.

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• Adapted Out: Does not appear in the anime.
• Apologetic Attacker: Yelled out "Forgive me" as he was swinging his sword down on Freia's head. Fortunately, she was a bit quicker with her magic and killed him first.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Captain Renard gave him a job when nobody else would, so he turns his sword on Flare to avenge his death.
• Conflicting Loyalties: Loyal to Flare, but equally loyal to Renard. When he heard Keyaru rescued Flare from Renard, he turned on the former Flare and tried to kill her.
• Revenge Before Reason: Turned his sword on Freia for being allied with Keyaru, because he believed Keyaru killed Renard, completely overlooking Renard's villainy and cruelty.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed off in the same chapter he was introduced, at least in the manga. In the web-novel, he is also killed because He Knows Too Much, rather than in legitimate self-defense.

Taretoya

Do you not understand?! The more you resist, the more villagers will die!!

Voiced by: Kenyuu Horiuchi

The evil clergy in charge of the knights carrying out the execution of what remains of Keyaru's home village.

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• Awesome by Analysis: Of the 40 odd people in his group, he was the only one to realize in time that Keyaru had altered the magical barrier to attack them, instead of Keyaru. It didn't help much.
• Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Killing helpless villagers is righteousness, running in to rescue them is the height of evil.
• Crime of Self-Defense: It's Keyaru's fault that he's killing villagers because Keyaru won't just let himself be killed.
• Evil Old Folks: Old enough for his hair to turn grey, and an evil, sadistic sot who has helpless women and children killed in an arena, just for laughs.
• No Name Given: In the manga, his name is never mentioned. In the web-novel, his name is barely mentioned in passing, shortly before the barrier falls and the arena spectators rush the stage lynching him and his elite "knights" in retaliation for the murder of the villagers, and the lie that the beloved Princess Flare was murdered by Keyaru.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: Boasted that Keyaru was helpless when he activated the barriers... until Keyaru retorts that only he and eight elites survived the initial activation, and reinforcements aren't coming. Cue a Mass "Oh, Crap!".
• You Have to Believe Me!: When the villagers wound up dead, thanks to Norn's delayed action poison, thus showing the audience and Keyaru that he wasn't going to let the villagers live, regardless, he tries to protest that he knew nothing about it. Neither Keyaru nor the audience believed him.

Trist Organ (Hawk Eye)

It would be a shame if something were to happen to such a talented young man because of a "misunderstanding."

Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu

One of the top three fighters in Jioral. Keyaru fights him when he's going to capture Norn.

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• The Ace: Only three people are skilled enough in Jioral to earn a Red Baron title. He's one of them.
• Aloof Archer: A stoic and introspective warrior who fights with bow and arrows.
• The Dreaded: Even with his previous run-through knowledge, Keyaru doesn't think he can beat this guy, at all.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He's succeeded by a grown daughter who goes full-tilt Revenge Myopia on Keyaru, trying to massacre him and his party to avenge her dead father. She pointedly refuses to admit that Keyaru only killed him in self-defense and the defense of the entirely innocent townsfolk of Branicca.
• Exotic Weapon Supremacy: In close quarters, he attacks with "aniki", some kind of needle thin throwing knives.
• Graceful Loser: His last act before exploding into Gore is to applaud Keyaru for besting him.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Falls victim to this. He believed that Keyaru had to touch him directly to kill him, not knowing that Keyaru's Divine Armament extended the range of his [Corruption] Heal.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Upon seeing that his forces wouldn't be able to outmatch the crowd, he recommends a strategic retreat to Norn rather than trying to continue to subdue them with inferior forces.
• Named by the Adaptation: Inverted in the web-novel, he's named in passing. In the manga, he's only known by his "Hawk Eye" alias.
• "Pop!" Goes the Human: Even though Keyaru had managed to grab for himself a Divine Armament, he was still too strong to play around with, so death by instant cancer it was. Keyaru only regrets losing out on stealing his special skills.
• Red Baron: "Hawk Eye".
• Sensor Character: He can detect someone's bloodlust from over a kilometer away.
• Shame If Something Happened: As listed in the page quote, he confronts Keyaru in a shop, as he's selling potions and makes a veiled threat not to interfere with Norn's Rape, Pillage, and Burn.
• Token Good Teammate: A very downplayed example. Unlike the other elites of the Jioral Kingdom, Hawk Eye comes across more as a No-Nonsense Nemesis with several more virtuous traits, such as loyalty, pragmatism and respect for a strong adversary compared to other villains, and there is also no indication that he rapes or tortures anyone, which - in this setting - is worthy of note.
• Untouchable Until Tagged: So skilled was he that Keyaru literally could not touch him to absorb his skills.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: The first opponent to give Keyaru genuine trouble in a fight despite going all-out. While Keyaru had struggled against Kureha and Blade, these were opponents he didn't want to use his Corruption touch on, out of respect for the former and refusal to let the latter get away with a quick death. When he fights Hawk Eye, he has no such qualms (as the fight isn't personal) and he has an artifact that heals wounds that are not instantly lethal in seconds and extends the range on his One-Hit Kill to one meter around him instead of touch range. He's still taken to the very brink of death.
• Weak, but Skilled: While both Keyaru and Setsuna agree that Keyaru, a non-combat "hero", can overpower him, neither of them think Keyaru can possibly win a fight if the two were to openly clash, at least not if the fight was fair.
• Worf Had the Flu: When he confronts Keyaru as Keyaru is in disguise, going after Norn, Keyaru had all the advantages, save one, force of numbers (in the Light Novel, Hawk Eye was also poisoned with powerful laxatives), and even then, it was damn close.

Redhead

Hawk Eye's daughter.

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• Bottomless Magazines: Somehow, she was able to continually shoot at Keyaru without running out of arrows, until he caught up to her and dislocated her arms, pinning her down.
• Bungled Suicide: Bit her tongue off to try and die rather than let Keyaru defile her. It was a futile effort.
• Evil Redhead: Literally. Red, flowing hair, and completely complicit with the villainy of Jioral.
• Hypocrite: Let's see, wears a mask, hides behind an army, shoots at a guy and his companions from a distance beyond where they can reach while pinned down by the army she's hiding behind, and the guy she's shooting at is the coward because he once tainted the wine of an army, who was far superior in skill and numbers to himself, when they were planning to raze the town he was in and he had to fight back? Not to mention having to fight dirty to survive all the other times he had to fight back against Jioral sending armies at him unjustly?
• Karmic Rape: Far more than Keyaru's usual fare. Since she willingly and happily sided with rapists who go after innocents, Keyaru not only raped her into an Empty Shell, he left her to the "tender mercies" of her own army, who happily took over where he left off.
• Revenge Myopia: Shot at Keyaru and tried to murder him in order to avenge her father, who sided with Norn to burn down an entire town, looking to enslave the human survivors, even against Jioral law, and massacre everyone else.
• Too Dumb to Live: Calling a guy who ran through a literal rain of arrows to come after you, and who can solo armies a coward? After you've given him a legitimate grudge already?

Afule Ranalitta

The mayor of the town of Ranalitta.

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• Benevolent Boss: His servants and townsfolk admire him because he's good to them.
• Captain Obvious: Keyaru thinks he must have some kind of special ability to be able to recognize Freia through her disguise. When asked, he retorts that it's easy to puzzle out who Freia is when she uses magic nobody else can. Keyaru internally facepalms when he realizes that he should have considered that.
• Sacred Hospitality: As thanks for saving his town from the Black Knights, he treats Keyaru and co. to his mansion, the VIP quarters usually reserved for visiting nobles. Seeing no reason to refuse, Keyaru and co. take full advantage of it.

"Heroes"

Members of Keyaru's former adventuring party and elite troops of the Jioral Kingdom, they're actually vicious Serial Rapists, sexual deviants and conquerors, and are Keyaru's targets in his quest for revenge. For Flare and Norn, see the main characters section.

Blade

To our meeting.

Voiced by: Mami Fujita

The Sword "Hero", she is a crossdressing woman who wields the Divine Armament Sword "Ragnarok". In reality, she is a sadistic misandrist, Serial Rapist and sociopath who lures women into pub dates only to slip aprodisiacs into their drinks and bring them back to her torture cellar to rape them.

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• Adaptational Badass: In the web-novel, getting pricked by Keyaru's dagger had the paralysis poison drop her like a rock, leaving her at Keyaru's mercy. That's not enough in the manga or anime, as her sword's passive ability regenerates back the poison damage taken.
• Adaptational Dumbass: In the web-novel, Keyaru wasn't faking it when collapsing from the combo of aphrodisiacs and sleeping drugs and woke-up chained to a bed. Blade genuinely had no idea of the danger she was in. In the manga, Blade and Keyaru have a genuine, knock-down, drag-out brawl with considerable amounts of collateral damage, yet Blade passes up the opportunity to kill “Keara” in favor of getting her rape itch scratched and feeding her delusion that she and her sex toys are better in bed than a man. Then she goes and turns her back on Keyaru while separated from her sword and Divine Armament, making her easy prey for his retaliation.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: She's described as a red-head in the web-novel, but illustrated as blonde in the manga and anime.
• Agony of the Feet: Literally hamstrung by Keyaru, as he cut the tendons in her ankles, leaving her unable to even stand, much less run away.
• Asshole Victim: It goes without saying, but no one was mourning her when she met her gruesome end.
• Ax-Crazy: She spends every waking moment in a perpetual rage, looking to rape as many women as she can, and the slightest inconvenience causes her to lash out with wild abandon.
• Barbarian Heroine: With the lattermost part in name only. Her main "tactic" in a fight is to just chop, chop, chop away at her target, relying on her superior brute strength and reflexes as well as her Divine Armament to compensate for her glaring lack of skill. In the manga, she even goes into a blind rage as a result of her prey (a genderbent Keyaru) fighting back and trying to poison her and hulks out as a result, with the muscles in her arms and legs swelling to the point of tearing through her clothes.
• Bifauxnen: She resembles a handsome young man which wins her the attention of several women in the village.
• Blatant Lies: In the anime, she at least has the sense to pretend she comprehends why raping every woman who catches her eye, leaving her broken or dead, is wrong when Keara calls her out on it as she's pleading to be spared, pointing out how just moments prior Blade had Keara on the receiving end, chained to a bed. Blade insists that if Keara had said "no", Blade would have quit her shenanigans right then and there. Keara, knowing Blade's actual personality, doesn't believe a word of it.
• The Brute: She believes she's a Master Swordswoman, but she really just swings her Divine Armament sword around with no finesse or technique, just raw strength. Her armament makes up for it with super strength, super agility, status ailment immunities, and a powerful healing factor so nobody can exploit her many, many openings.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When an old man confronts her, carrying Keara in her arms, he shouts out that he's seeking vengeance for his raped and murdered daughter. Blade has to stop and go through three or four names and still gets it wrong. When he mentions his daughter's name, Blade finally remembers her, as a terrible lay, because the poor girl simply refused to "get in the mood" so she was unceremoniously killed off and dumped in a ditch.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: In a Psycho Lesbian way. She gets bat-shit crazy murderous with jealousy when she sees any man, or woman, romantically interested in her target, and very, very nearly goes Murder the Hypotenuse on Keyaru repeatedly in the first timeline, to Flare's amusement.
• Crippling Overspecialization: In the anime, she is completely helpless without her Divine Arm, a fact Keara exploits to its fullest.
• Death by Despair: After leaving her incapacitated in a room with three drugged thugs starved for sex and flesh alike, Keyaru gives her two choices: satisfy their libido until dawn to survive, or be Eaten Alive. Despite her hatred of men she deploys laudable efforts to survive until she sees Flare (or rather Freia) watching. Upon realizing that her beloved is still alive and saw her in such an undignified state, Blade loses all will to live and gets devoured.
• Did Not Think This Through: She never considers the long-term consequences of her actions. In the manga, she yells "Whoopsie" after throwing Keara both because she's lost her newest toy without getting her rape itch scratched first, and because she'd have to spend time hunting down another victim.
• Dirty Coward: When Blade is about to meet her end, she immediately begs Keyaru (disguised as Keara) to stop the drugged up men from raping and eating her, when just moments ago she wanted to rape and kill Keara.
• Does Not Like Men: She loathes men to the extreme, considering them unsightly, filthy, and flinching with total disgust near one. When she started getting turned on beating up on Keyaru, despite herself, her loathing made her even more abusive and violent.
• Eaten Alive: Keyaru didn't think Karmic Rape was enough punishment for her debasement and abuse, oh no. He doped three of his would-be gang-rapers with drugs that gave them an insatiable appetite for sex and flesh, then dragged her into the same room, and woke them up...
• Entitled Bitch: After constantly abusing Keyaru, she demanded he heal her when the party ran out of elixirs and they were up against the demon king, who had stolen all their mana. Unfortunately for her, that's after Keyaru had acquired the [Drug Resistance] skill and was no longer in a drug-addled coma. When she's spotted in the manga, in the current timeline, her thought bubbles show that she believes she has some kind of god-given right to kidnap, drug, and rape any woman who catches her eye, and if the woman doesn't play along, the would-be victim is an insolent bitch who deserves "discipline."
• Entitled to Have You: To Flare. She would literally beat the shit out of Keyaru whenever Flare went and sexually abused him. Especially when Flare went and poured the drugs she made him addicted to on her crotch and had him lick it...
• Even Evil Has Standards: She's a sadistic psychopath and a serial rapist, but in the previous timeline, even she thought Norn's poisoning of the demonic realm's water is too far, and she's appalled when Norn casually suggested Flare to hit the Demon cities with the spell equivalent of a nuke as a distraction.
• Fastball Special: In the manga and the anime, she throws Keyaru at the old man who attacked her with such force that in the manga had both of them smash through a concrete wall, but in the anime Keara managed to kick the old man into a crate and she landed on her feet.
• Fatal Flaw: Literally. Lust and overconfidence lead to her death, as she scouts out rape victims every time she enters a city, even a city she and her army brag about planning to raze in three days. The concept of a Honey Trap being used to lure her out never entered her mind.
• The Fighting Narcissist: She believes she's both a Master Swordswoman and the most beautiful woman alive, and loves to flaunt it in battle. The merest implication that she's neither, or the tiniest scratch to her face, and she loses what little restraint she has, lashing out without care for the collateral damage.
• Fingore: Keyaru starts his revenge against her by slicing off her fingers, one by one, driving her to despair by making her unable to wield a sword, ever again.
• Forceful Kiss: If her victim refuses to drink a beverage she doctored, she will swig the drink and then use this method to force it down her intended victim's throat.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Inverted; she's blonde, young-looking, a Serial Rapist, and a Psycho Lesbian. Averted in the original novel, where she's an Evil Redhead.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: When things don't go her way, even in the tiniest, she's quick to flip her shit and resort to violence.
• Hidden Buxom: When alone with Keara, she is revealed to have a pretty serviceable bust when she was preparing to have her way with her captive.
• Hulking Out: In the manga, when she becomes so enraged that she doesn't care about holding back anymore, her thighs and biceps become so huge they tear off the clothing over them, and she goes completely berserk, little to no thought, save the gruesome death of her intended prey.
• Hypocrite:
  • Blade despises men, seeing them as filthy and disgusting. Thing is, she pretty much embodies every negative thing she sees in every guy.
  • Upon realizing her latest would-be victim, Keara, is a cross-dressing man, she screams "Cross-dresser! Pervert, pervert!" Despite the fact that she's a cross-dressing woman disguised as a man to lure in rape victims.
• It's All About Me: The only thing that matters to her is her pleasure, end of story. Anyone and everyone who gets in the way must be disposed of.
• If It's You, It's Okay: She has an incredibly twisted case of this when it comes to Keyaru. Although she hates him with all her might, that doesn't stop her from getting turned on when she's beating the daylights out of him, or in the anime, french-kissing him in order to get a taste of Flare's essence while masturbating. In the manga, Keyaru even says that she would force him to dress up in women's clothing and have him masturbate in front of her.
• Karmic Rape: By Proxy, courtesy of Keyaru. She who was fond of her drugging and raping her victims meets her end at the hands (and teeth) of drugged up rapists.
• Lady Looks Like a Dude: Invoked. The general public believes she is a man and she's fond of crossdressing and charming women with "his" good looks...
• "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: In the manga, when she's on the receiving end of Keyaru's rage, she repeatedly spews out that she's done nothing wrong, and her rape victims actually liked her "love." This only serves to enrage Keyaru further and further, as even having her fingers sliced off one by one fails to enlighten her how wrong her premise is.
• Psycho Lesbian: She has an obsessive (and ultimately futile) fixation on Flare and beats Keyaru to near-death whenever he takes Flare's attention away from her. And the only reason she didn't force herself on Flare is that Flare could give her "consequences" that no other woman could. She prowls pretty much every city she ever visits in search of unfortunate girls to target with her "affections", and you can be sure she won't comply with the term "no". The one time we see her in the act, her poor partner is left physically broken by Blade's ridiculous physical strength and very unsafe sexual implements after the fact.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: As she's carrying Keara through the allies, pondering the best way to defile her most recent conquest, she sounds like a spoiled rotten little brat pondering how to play with and break a toy she just won at a carnival game.
• Serial Rapist: There is a long, long trail of women she's violated and literally left broken, if not dead, on the side of the road with her insane strength and anything but safe and sane tastes in sexual gratification, including the generous use of non-consensual drugs.
• Slipping a Mickey: Her favorite trick to lure in women who refuse to walk home with her of their own volition. The moment their backs are turned, she dumps aphrodisiacs and sedatives in their drinks, and then carries the unconscious form back home with her.
• The Sociopath: She knows exactly what she's doing, only cares about herself, and is ready to rape and murder on the slightest provocation. She has a playful demeanor but it's so superficial that the moment she doesn't get her way, she starts getting violent. And she thinks nothing of the dozens of broken rape victims that she has left in her wake. She even thinks she's entitled to them.
• Standard Hero Reward: How she justified kidnapping and raping women. As a "Hero", she believes she's entitled to have women throwing themselves at her, looking to sexually please her in any and every possible way, and she's greatly irritated that she has to "remind" women of that.
  Blade: "It sure is tough being a 'hero', huh?"
• Stress Vomit: When she starts stripping down Keara and sees a penis under the panties, she immediately doubles over and loses her lunch, repeatedly.
• Unsexy Sadist: She is completely unable to seduce anyone unless she's got them drugged, and then chained down, not even if her life literally depends on it. Keyaru shoves her into a room with three drugged up rapists who can only be swayed away from their hunger for human flesh by appealing to their lust. Struggle as she might to make herself sexy to them, she ultimately failed and was Eaten Alive.
• Unskilled, but Strong: She has enormous strength and speed thanks to her Hero status and Divine Armament, but her sword "technique" consists only in brutishly chopping around with so little skill Keyaru is embarrassed during their fight.
• Villains Want Mercy: When she realized she is the one who can't run, can't fight, and a Cruel and Unusual Death was coming her way, she shamelessly begged and pleaded for her life. Keyaru didn't even bother to retort how she ignored the pleas of others. She is fed alive to a trio of drugged up cannibal rapists.
• Yandere: Beat up on Keyaru because Flare looked on him with lust and sexually abused him. While Keyaru was willing to give Flare a second chance in this new timeline, the moment he spots Blade, he goes totally murder crazy and nearly got caught because he had trouble controlling his killing intent.

Bullett

Voiced by: Tetsu Inada

The Cannon Hero wields a Divine Armament cannon, he is a suprisingly cunning and intelligent foe despite his big and burly appearance. He is also a pedophile who obsesses in raping young boys and would kill them once they grow older.

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• Adaptational Curves: In the anime, he is actually very fit and muscular instead of fat.
• Agent Provocateur: In the aftermath of Proum's rampage, he doesn't go into hiding, try to figure out what to do with the Philosopher's stone he stole, or even go back to being a simple Pedophile Priest building up his harem of brainwashed little boys that he rapes and makes into a spy network like he did in Jioral, oh no. He goes to the leadership of the Grantsbach Empire and spins a cock and bull story about how Keyaru has sold out humanity to the demons and plans to invade them to start a bloody war, just because.
• Believing Their Own Lies: He appears to fully believe he is a loving but strict Big Fun perfect father.
• Big Fun: What he thinks he is. He's really a Fat Bastard.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Presents himself as a good and jovial man, the "perfect" father, loving but strict, and he genuinely believes it. In reality, he's a completely depraved child rapist who rapes little boys and murders them before they become "ugly adults."
• Broken Pedestal: Kureha grew up under this guy and spent her life looking up to him. When he leads an army of "Black Knights" into the demon king's chamber and brags about raping little boys, boasting of wanting to do the same to Keyaru, as well as putting countless genuine innocents in mortal danger, if not killing them, leaves her disgusted and enraged.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Once he's been "evolved" by King Proum, and made into an immortal, he pointedly stops hiding his true nature, and openly boasts of how he's attracted to little boys, loves to rape them, and then kill them to "keep them beautiful forever." Even to people like Kureha, to whom he pretended to be a good and kind "perfect father" to the orphans sent to him.
• The Chessmaster: Before becoming a "hero" and Pedophile Priest, he was the leader of Jioral's intelligence network, as such he's got a mountain of experience in subterfuge and wetwork. This makes him a very, very dangerous individual to have to go up against, even without taking into account the sheer firepower his Divine Armament brings into the equation.
• Crazy-Prepared: His long, long service as the leader of Jioral's intelligence service has got him always expecting the unexpected. Even though he wiped out Keyaru's dragon knights, and their dragons, having the corpses cut to pieces, he was still prepared with anti-air measures when he marched Grantsbach troops through a ravine en route to the Jioral capitol. If Keyaru didn't have Combat Clairvoyance, he and Flare would be dead, and Jioral would have been completely annihilated by Bullett and his 5000 odd man army and several "heroes" he had with him.
• Creepy Souvenir: Supposedly he has a magically preserved collection of little boys he "loved" and then killed to keep them from becoming "ugly adults."
• Depraved Homosexual: Or Depraved Bisexual. It's never made clear. On the one hand, Keyaru's memories say he's a shotacon rapist; on the other, his memories also say he was attracted to Princess Flare. He would force-feed Keyaru mouth-to-mouth, and beat Keyaru for running away, then "apologize for losing control" by raping him.
• Domestic Abuse: Beat on Keyaru for trying to flee when smothered by having food shoved into his mouth, through a Forceful Kiss, and Bullett never understood why Keyaru would run from that...
• Dying as Yourself: Subverted. He uses his last bullet to shoot himself in the head, but King Proum has him "evolved" anyway, though he found a way to hold on to his free will...
• Even Evil Has Standards: He's a serial pedophile rapist, but when Norn revealed that she poisoned the demon cities' water supply, he looks like as if he was going to vomit and none of the "hero" trio are approving of Norn's casual suggestion to have Flare nuke the demon cities to begin with, and he was disgusted when he discovered what Proum was doing to so many of his knights. Being "evolved" himself, however, made him lose some of his standards.
• Evil Versus Evil: When King Proum orders him to go after Keyaru, and he balks because he knows his odds aren't great, even with all the advantages in his favor, The Caligula shows his true colors and tries to "evolve" him. Seeing this coming, Bullett arranges for Kureha to meet Keyaru instead to help take down Proum, permanently.
• The Farmer and the Viper: During his time as a spy, he was once gravely wounded on a mission and nursed back to health by a kind young boy. Bullett "rewarded" his kindness by raping him to death. Afterwards, he joined the clergy to seek a replacement for the boy, which he found in Keyaru.
• Fat Bastard: Clearly overweight and looks forward to raping numerous young boys, Keyaru included.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses, and loved to rape Keyaru, just because.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Without fail, every time the target of his self-proclaimed affections didn't respond in a way that matched his fantasies or delusions, he'd immediately become enraged and lash out with violence. A moment later, he'd bemoan "losing control" and then decide that the best way to "atone and show his love" is to rape the poor kid.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: His death by demon king has his legs, waist and torso still upright, while his head and chest are on the ground, a few feet away.
• Immortality Seeker: He ends Volume 7 proclaiming that he used the Philosopher's stone to infuse himself with dark powers so he can keep on raping little boys, forever.
• Interplay of Sex and Violence: As he's attacking Keyaru and co. in the demon king's throne room, he's sporting a massive erection, and points it out, taunting Keyaru on how he plans to rape and murder him.
• It's All About Me: Which King Proum, of all people, calls him out on. Despite all his preaching about how he "loves" all the little boys he rapes and abuses, the only person he really cares about is himself.
• Love at First Sight: For a very sick definition of "love." The moment King Proum had a messenger show him Keyaru's picture, he took it to a private place and masturbated over it, becoming obsessed with capturing Keyaru and raping him.
• Mad Love: The best-case scenario is that he genuinely did have some kind of weird affection for Keyaru, but the fact that Keyaru was drugged to the gills by Flare, and the fact that any and all forms of rejection were met with violence clearly indicates that this "love" was all purely in Bullett's head and had no relation to reality, whatsoever.
• Mage Marksman: The true form of his Divine Armament is a pistol charged with bullets of mana. As long as he's got mana, he has Bottomless Magazines.
• Mighty Glacier: Powerful, but slow. If Keyaru wasn't drugged out of his mind, he could have easily run from him.
• Ninja Looting: When Keyaru and co. have taken down Hakuou at tremendous cost and effort, Bullett swoops in with a legion of "Black Knights" and takes away all the loot, especially the Philosopher's Stone that was Keyaru's just reward, and trump card in case things really go south.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: It is his policy to kill all his "loves" while they are still "beautiful."
• Obliviously Evil: He genuinely believes he's the Good Shepherd he presents himself to be. He just hides away his shotacon fetish because he believes the masses just wouldn't understand his "love" for them.
• One Degree of Separation: He's a friend of Kureha's father, and she grew up under his guidance, never seeing his ugly side.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: As he himself lampshades. He doesn't want anyone else to kill Keyaru.
  Bullett: "Don't let anyone else kill you, so I can show you my 'Love', my sweet, darling Keyaru!"
• Pædo Hunt: According to Keyaru's memories, which contradict themselves all the time, he's got a powerful shota fetish, and tried to kill him the moment he looked like he was growing up and stopped looking like a child.
• The Paranoiac: He doesn't trust anyone. Proves Properly Paranoid when he gets summoned to the king's secret chamber and the king suddenly decides to "evolve" him. It still doesn't save him.
• Pedophile Priest: The epilogue of volume 4 reveals King Proum made him a priest in the local religion and had him run an orphanage full of little boys that suit his tastes.
• Released to Elsewhere: All of his victims are officially listed by King Proum as being adopted, earning a trade, taking up the war effort, etc. In reality, they are all killed and hidden away where he can admire their "time stopped" beauty at his leisure, so he never stops "loving" them.
• Smarter Than They Look: Despite he looks like a burly, ugly brute you'll often see in a hentai doujin, he's actually suprisingly intelligent and worked in Jioral's intelligence division, making him way harder to take down than Flare and Blade.
• So Long, Suckers!: After he's brought in Jioral's black knight legions, stolen Keyaru's rewards, and murdered a bunch of Keyaru's allies, putting the Battle Harem in grievous danger to cover his own escape, he taunts Keyaru to chase after him, daring him to try and take his rightful property back, and promising to "love" Keyaru with rape and murder.
• Stout Strength: Just because he's fat doesn't mean he's weak. He's strong enough to carry a cannon as his primary weapon and withstand the recoil, without additional support.
• Terms of Endangerment: In the current timeline, once he learns about Keyaru, and the two meet, he openly calls Keyaru "my sweet, darling Keyaru" as he boasts of his plans to rape and murder him.

The Three Champions

Before Blade, Bullett and Flare exists three other heroes, the Axe, Spear and Gun heroes, infamous for their exploits in the battle against demonkind. Because of King Proum obtaining the Philosopher's Stone, they have now obtained immortality. Keyaru fights these immortal heroes prior to confronting Kureha and King Proum.

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• The Ace: Were considered some of the strongest combatants of the Jioral Kingdom, even more so than Flare, Blade and Bullet.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: It's implied by the Axe Hero after his death that they're under control by some evil entity that turned them into seemingly mindless weapons when King Proum grants them immortality.
• Combat Tentacles: Courtesy of being granted the power of immortality, they can sprout tentacles out from their body to attack.
• Dying as Yourself: After being defeated, the Axe Hero regains his own consciousness, and tells Keyaru that they're being tricked not by King Proum, but rather another entity before disintegrating.
• No Name Given: All of them were only known by their weapons, and their real name is unknown.
• Legendary Weapon: Averted. According to Keyaru, the Axe Hero's axe is not a divine armament unlike Blade and Bullett's weapons but a bog-standard battle axe.
• Precursor Hero: For a twisted sense of "hero", they're known as Jioral's most powerful attack squad for their battlefield exploits.
• Resurrective Immortality: All of them gain immortal, tentacle-infested bodies thanks to King Proum's Philosopher's Stone. However, it can be countered by Guren's purification flame.
• Retractable Weapon: The Spear Hero's weapon is retractable.
• Terrible Trio: Downplayed. They're still members of a horrific attack squad working for King Proum in his world conquest, but nowhere is it indicated that they're as disgusting and awful as Blade, Bullet and Flare.
• Token Good Teammate: A downplayed example. They're still ferocious attack teams for a world conqueror, but just like Hawkeye nowhere is it stated that they're complicit in the same type of degenerate acts Flare, Bullet, Blade and Norn routinely indulge themselves in. In fact, Keyaru seems to give the Axe Hero more repsect than anyone else he's fought.
• Two Guys and a Girl: The Axe and Gun hero are men while the Spear hero is a young woman.
• Unwitting Pawn: After being killed by Keyaru, the Axe Hero tells Keyaru that he's not being tricked by King Proum, but an entity he called "the royal".
• We Hardly Knew Ye: All of them were disposed of by Keyaru within several chapters without knowing any of their characterization.
• The Voiceless: The Gun and Spear Heroes have no dialogue.

The village of Allan

Anna

Remember when you said you would become a Hero and save the village, Keyaru?

Voiced by: Asuka Nishi

Keyaru's neighbor, Childhood Friend, and Parental Substitute. She is raped and killed by Renard taking the form of Keyaru.

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• Childhood Friend: Of Keyaru.
• Decomposite Character: In the original novel, she was both his Childhood Friend and Parental Substitute. In the manga, Keyaru has foster parents, and she was also his First Love.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the manga, she bites her tongue off while being raped by Renard impersonating as Keyaru. In the anime, she dies after seeing the real Keyaru one last time.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: At the start of Anime's Episode 6, as Renard contemplates on facing Keyaru in his room, Anna is seen on the floor, with her eyes blank from what he did to her beforehand.
• Girl Next Door: Quite literally. She's always lived next door to Keyaru, and she's a good, wholesome woman.
• Go Out with a Smile: In the anime, after seeing Keyaru running up to her, she dies with a smile on her face. This could mean that unlike the previous adaptations, she knows that the general who publicly humiliates her wasn't the Keyaru she previously saw.
• Happily Married: At least until Renard paid the village a visit, with a large army.
• The Lost Lenore: Keyaru's first love, and the one who got raped to death by Renard in front of her husband.
• Morality Chain: One of the few things or people that kept Keyaru from really going off the deep end. Her death broke him worse than the four years of crap he went through in his previous life.
• Motherly Side Plait: As can be seen in the page image, and she's Keyaru's Parental Substitute.
• Nice Girl: Sweet, sensitive, and gave Keyaru genuine love and affection (platonic, of course) without asking anything in return.
• Parental Substitute: When Keyaru's parents died, she helped raise him.
• 13 Is Unlucky: Second half of Manga's Chapter 13 describes her ultimate fate.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Raped to death without having done anything wrong to anyone.

The boy

A prepubescent boy who survived the cruel "trial" that brought the rest of the village to death. He completely buys into the Jioral propaganda that Keyaru is the villain at fault for the church's villainy and swears vengeance.

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• Irrational Hatred: Of the needing someone to blame variety. With the knights and inquisitioners dead, he needs somebody to hold accountable, and Keyaru, gets volunteered. Keyaru instructs the merchant who adopts this kid to let the boy believe it, as the kid's going to need something to motivate him to keep living, and if wanting vengeance is all he's got, so be it.
• Misplaced Retribution: Intended. He blames Keyaru for the death of everyone in the village of Allan, save for Keyaru and himself, especially the cruel death by rape of Anna, fully believing the lies spewed by Renard, Taretoya, and the Royal Family and wants vengeance on Keyaru for it all. The merchant who takes custody of the boy promises to make him see the truth, but Keyaru vetoes the plan and tells the merchant to leave the boy to his own conclusions.
• No Name Given: Regardless of medium, his name is never revealed.
• Revenge Before Reason: He wants vengeance on Keyaru and is last seen refusing to be swayed. Keyaru says he welcomes the attempt, when the boy's good and ready.
• Sole Survivor: By some unstated miracle, he survives Norn's poison and Taretoya's cruel "exorcism" public display. The rest of his village was slain, cruelly and unjustly.

Demons

Caruman

Thank you and enjoy your purchase, sir.

Voiced by: Reiou Tsuchida

A demon merchant Keyaru met in Branicca.

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• Adapted Out: He doesn't make an appearance in the manga. Keyaru's rage is instead instigated by the death of the sweet and innocent baker who provides him and his party with many cakes and sweets.
• Due to the Dead: Keyaru leaves flowers at his grave before departing Branicca.
• Everyone Has Standards: He admits seeing nothing wrong in profiting by taking advantage of the arrogant and unwary, but when he's up against someone truly Genre Savvy, goes the extra meter to make a good impression and be above-board.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In the anime, he dies protecting children who are fleeing from Jioral's self-proclaimed "Holy Knights."
• Honest Corporate Executive: An honest and above-board merchant.
• Inspirational Martyr: Used as a "friend that Keyaru wants to avenge" as an excuse to go after Norn.
• Intrepid Merchant: When he ran out of stock, and couldn't buy more, he went hunting for it, and the monsters in the area are pretty tough.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: A down-to-earth demon merchant who manages to bring out a nicer and more humane side in Keyaru. He's dead within a couple of chapters, with his last moments spent saving children from the clutches of Jioral. This is lampshaded by Keyaru himself when he captures Norn.

Keyaru: I had a friend in Branicca. His name was Caruman, and he was a demon merchant. He was a good guy. He...he laughed and said he dreamed of opening a shop in a bigger city one day! But his life ended without his dream coming true. He was killed, and for what? That's right, Norn! It's your fault!

• We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed off in a couple of chapters after being introduced.

Miru-jii

Eve's father.

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• Died Standing Up: With many mortal wounds, when Keyaru and Eve showed up, to rescue the little girls he was protecting, he died the moment he felt relief at the deaths of their tormentors.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the original novel, he's an Almost Dead Guy who dies from exhaustion the moment Keyaru and company arrive and get his charges out of danger. In the manga, he blows himself up to kill the lamia that's constricting him to death.
• Openminded Parent: Does not mind his daughter winding up in Keyaru's Battle Harem, in fact, he celebrates it. Keyaru legitimately makes her happy, so it's all okay.
• Sacred Hospitality: Provides Keyaru with a feast for bringing Eve home safely, and hunting not one, but two, large beasts to feed the village.
• Taking You with Me: In the manga, his last moments are spent fighting a lamia trying to constrict him to death. With no way to escape, he blows himself up, killing said lamia as well.
• Ungrateful Townsfolk: Averted. He and his tribe were originally highly suspicious of Keyaru's party, since Demons and Humans have a very bad relationship, especially since some humans only see his race as a source of high-value magic ingredients, but after Keyaru's party helps them with their famine-level food shortage, even if it is temporary, he and his tribe welcome them happily, with open arms.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed off a few chapters after his introduction, protecting the little girls that are all that remains of his race.
• Winged Humanoid: As a racial trait, all his people have wings.

Carol

The chief of the Star Rabbit demon tribe.

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• Gender-Blender Name: "Carol" is traditionally a female's name, and he's male.
• Hostage Situation: The Demon King secured his cooperation by providing his daughter the "medicine" he claims will make her better. In reality, this so-called medicine is an addictive poison that not only made her sick in the first place, but is making her worse, and because it has a narcotic, it dupes the poor girl into thinking she's getting relief because the pain momentarily goes away.
• Les Collaborateurs: Despite signing an alliance with the Fallen Angel tribe, of which Eve is a member, he's working with the current Demon King, who is genocidal.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When he realizes the "medicine" he's been feeding his ill daughter was a trick from the current demon king, and was no medicine at all, but an addictive poison that was actually making her sick.
• Suicide Mission: Gives one to himself. Knowing he's been played like a fool, forced to betray his allies to the demon king's cruelty and tyranny, not for the lives of his people, but for his daughter's well being, and that that was a lie, the only path he can see going forward is taking the fight to said demon king, knowing his death, either from the demon king's guards, or his own people, is high.

Demon King Hakuou

The current demon king.

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• Beast Man: Has the head of a lion.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Wished to become the demon king. Once he got the throne, he quickly began to regret it, as he stole the position and clearly did not have what it takes to deal with the hidden dangers.
• Compelling Voice: As with all Demon Kings, all demons that hear his voice must obey his orders, but once the orders are carried out, they return to themselves. Since many of his orders were loathsome, this stirred a great deal of resentment, leading to crackdowns, starting a vicious cycle of atrocity and hatred that led to his own doom.
• Death Seeker: After being possessed by a "fetus" of the evil god, he was compelled to do its evil deeds, including genociding the clan of the rightful candidate and her allies, thus he was hoping and praying someone would come along, strong and skilled enough to kill him. When Keyaru shows up and does just that, he's grateful.
• Dirty Coward: Level 180, and a complete coward who took the throne by murdering all his fellow candidates, wipes out entire races belonging to his political rivals, fills the castle with death-traps, hides his army behind innocents, and dares to lord over Keyaru that he wipes out one town.
• Evil Power Vacuum: So the great tyrant is dead, and his villainy was stopped, there will be dancing in the streets, with all bygones being bygones, right? WRONG! His victims are going to want payback against those who happily oppressed them. The oppressors are going to insist they did nothing wrong and will try to put someone sympathetic to them back on the throne, and if they don't get it are more than happy to resort to assassinations and guerrilla warfare, especially since that's how they got their demon king on the throne in the first place. Keyaru, being well aware of this, has to spend a great deal of effort making Eve' throne stable before he can go chasing after Bullett and the stolen Philosopher's stone, to keep it from winding up in Proum's rotten undead hands.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: Sought out and stole the throne, genuinely wanting to improve the lot of his tribe and their allies. Once he got on the throne, he realized it's not a seat of authority, it's a Leaking Can of Evil, and since he wasn't fit for it, got taken over and doomed not only his people, but the world.
• Moral Myopia: A genocidal warlord that dares to state humans are more atrocious than he is when he's the one who's genocidal.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: By stealing the demon king throne and digging into the demon king legacy, he unleashed the God of Evil the demon king was supposed to seal away, at least partly, and laid the foundations for the evil god to come back and destroy the world.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wanted to become the demon king solely to improve the lot of his tribe, but because he stole the position from its rightful choice, he could not resist the commands of the Evil God the demon king is supposed to seal away, and became a cowardly, genocidal, paranoid tyrant that destabilized his people and laid the foundation for the destruction of his entire world.

Grantsbach Empire

Carl Ratel

A high-ranking officer of the army that arranges to have Keyaru kidnapped.

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• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Helpful hint, just because you can beat up on the "hero" who defeated the demon king, doesn't mean you should.
• Fantastic Racism: He is entirely human supremacist. Considering humans and demons have been at war for generations, this is hardly surprising.
• Mugging the Monster: He tries to drug and interrogate Keyaru, binding him with anti-magic rings. He doesn't realize that none of that is actually effective, since Keyaru played along so as to get a lead on Bullett, who might be the one instigating Grantsbach to attack.
• Oh, Crap!: When he's told Jioral and the demon king Eve are allies, he turns pale in fear.
• Underestimating Badassery: Because he had Keyaru in a cage, since Keyaru was being cooperative and playing along, he thought he had Keyaru by the short hairs and could brutalize him however he wanted. Unfortunately, his clumsy torture attempts pushed Keyaru's Trauma Button, and Keyaru, a genuine level 200 hero at that point, decided to stop pretending and retaliated. Carl learned first hand what torture really is, and would have died, graphically, if Keyaru didn't intend to use him for a misinformation campaign of his own.
• Villainous Breakdown: When Keyaru got tired of being one-sidedly beat on, he blew his stack, shouting at his troops for drugs and what-not. It goes so wrong, Keyaru winds up bored, until it's his turn to "play."

Others

Star Spirit

Per the ancient covenant, we shall repay the kindness humans have given unto us and award you the power of the spirits.

Voiced by: Fumi Hirano

The spirit who gave Keyaru his Magical Eye at the start of the story.

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• Adaptational Skimpiness: In the manga, she wears a simple dress. In the anime, she wears nothing but ribbons.
• Magic Kiss: She grants Keyaru his ability with a kiss.
• One-Shot Character: She appears near the start to give Keyaru his magic eye abilities and is never seen or heard from again.
• Small Role, Big Impact: She's a one-shot but Keyaru's journey would be infinitely harder without her contribution.
• Vapor Wear: In the anime, all she wears are shoes and ribbons that don't even cover her butt.

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