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Flum's Mansion | The Hero's Party | Capital Residents | Church of Origin | Demons
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West Quarter Adventurer's Guild:
Gadhio Lathcutt
No, I am a coward. And I must bear the weight of that label.
The guild-master turned swordsman for the hero party.- Action Dad: Zigzagged. He is not Hallom’s biological father, but she considers him to be her father, and he has helped raise her after her father died in a quest.
- Benevolent Boss: As long as you do your duties well, he will have your back 100%. Y'lla sees him as a Mean Boss because her laziness has him come down on her like a ton of bricks.
- BFS: His sword is so big the narration of the LN even describes it as an "inhumanly large blade". And just to make things even more ridiculous, he can use Cavalier Arts to envelop his sword with magically-controlled stones, making it three times bigger.
- Big Damn Heroes: Right when Flum is about to be overwhelmed by the modified soldiers of the Church and the Retribution eyeballs, Gadhio swoops in to save her.
- The Big Guy: The tallest guy in the party and Flum's circle of friends. He also has the best Strength and Endurance stats, surpassing even Cyrill, who is The Hero. On top of that, his Cavalier Arts allow him to use his Endurance stats to enhance his attacks even further, making him a true powerhouse.
- Crusading Widower: When his wife Thea was killed by a powerful monster, he originally thought it was just bad luck that he and his party ran into a mutated dragon. In the present, his investigation of the church revealed that the "mutant" dragon was a direct result of church Godhood Seeker experiments. Now he wants righteous vengeance, and is struggling to get it.
- Dark and Troubled Past: His teammates were killed in battle with a mutant dragon. One of them was his wife, the other was his best friend that left a wife and children behind. As the Sole Survivor, not only he is wrecked by guilt, but rumors of him being a coward that ran away and left his teammates to die have been spreading around. While he believes those rumors about him are truthful, Flum does not feel that way.
- Dishing Out Dirt: His Earth affinity allows him to manipulate earth and stone.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- It goes without saying he was disgusted to find out Jean sold Flum into slavery.
- He was reasonably angry at Y’lla for giving Flum a D Rank assignment instead of a F Ranked assignment during her trial assignment.
- Face of a Thug: He is a very friendly person, but all the scars on his face give a different impression.
- Gentle Giant: He has always treated Flum well. In fact, he made a point to teach Flum as much as he could, despite it seemingly being pointless due to her stats being 0.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a couple of noticeable scars on his face and he's a genuinely heroic character.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: He calls himself a coward due to his Survivor's Guilt, despite being anything but cowardly.
- Magic Knight: Thanks to his Cavalier Arts, he can use Prana to boost his fighting capabilities, as well as infusing his swords with Earth magic.
- Master Swordsman: His profession in the hero party. He is also the one who taught Flum how to use a sword.
- The Mentor: He was a mentor to Flum during their original journey in the Hero's Party, and he takes up the role during Volume 03/Episode 04 when he is training Flum during the side story.
- Nice Guy: He along with Eterna were nice to Flum, and he even referred to her as his protégé.
- Parental Substitute: The daughter of one of his now-dead adventuring buddies has taken to calling him "papa" since she grew up with him and her mother in the mansion originally built by the six party members working together.
- Pyrrhic Victory: In the Web Novel, he manages to avenge the murder of his friends and family on Echidna but loses his life in the process.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He is the guild leader, and he does not approve of Y'lla giving Flum a mission that nearly got her killed. He even allowed Flum to consider an appropriate punishment for Y'lla while allowing Y'lla to have a second chance after listening to Flum.
- Reforged into a Minion: In the Web Novel, Maria finds his dead body and puts an Origin core in it, reanimating the corpse and uses it as a weapon against Flum.
- Revenge Before Reason: When Origin is broken free and the royal capital goes to hell, quite literally, he catches Echidna, doped up on an Origin core, going after Flum. Rather than retreat with Flum and regroup, he charges head-first at Echidna, happily throwing his life away in the pursuit of vengeance for Echidna's "little prank" almost 10 years ago.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Similar to Eterna, he eventually leaves the hero's party as well.
- Second Love: He is this Kleyna after spending five years helping her raise her daughter. Volume 04/Episode 05 reveals he reciprocates those feelings.
- Secretly Wealthy: Flum and crew eventually visit his home, and it's so big and fancy that it makes Flum's mansion look like a simple cottage. For the years she had traveled with him, Flum never even had an inkling that he had a lifestyle where he could support such opulence.
- Shipper on Deck: He quickly takes a liking to the idea of Flum and Milkit getting together.
- Sole Survivor: He was originally a member of a six man team, three S-class and three A-class. He's the only one of the five members sent on a dragon suppression mission to come back alive. The sixth member had to stay behind, being at the tail end of her pregnancy.
- Supernatural Martial Arts: It was from him that Flum learned how to use Prana and other ki-based attacks.
- Survivor's Guilt: Since he was the only member of his party to come back alive after a fateful encounter with a "mutant" dragon, and was called a coward by the townsfolk, he thinks he is a coward and seeks to "atone" for their loss... until he learns the church is responsible for said dragon and now wants vengeance.
- The One Guy: During the events of Volume 02/Episode 03 and Volume 03/Episode 04, Gadhio is the only male fighter allied with Flum’s group. Subverted in Volume 04/Episode 05 when Linus joins.
- Tragic Keepsake: He's got a mansion full of them, but the reason he wears his black armor, despite easily being able to acquire vastly superior equipment, is that it's a memento of his time with his previous party and was a gift from his best friend, Souma.
- Unwitting Pawn: He and his party's encounter with the "mutant" dragon wasn't a chance encounter. His party was sent to face it as an official request of the kingdom, to test the effectiveness of Origin Core research. He only now learned of this and rightly wants vengeance against the corrupt church facilities responsible.
- We Have Become Complacent: He and his party treated the quest to face a dragon as just "more of the same" since they're used to handling dragons as a day to day occurrence. By the time they saw the vortex on the dragon's face, it was already too late for them...
Y'lla Jerishin
You two slaves don't look like adventurers. You'd be much better off as prostitutes. I can even recommend a good place for you...
The guild receptionist.- Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed. The manga extras gives her three stars on the wickedness scale. In both the original novel and manga, she at first refuses to sign Flum up as an adventurer, and she tells both Flum and Milkit to become prostitutes partly because she is too lazy to be bothered. However, she is a little less hostile to Flum in the manga. She also shows more reluctance to go along with Dein’s antics. She knows Dein's antics and wanted to spare them from one of his "pranks" but was resigned the moment he showed up and "recommended" the werewolf quest, bemoaning the senseless loss of life she was expecting when Flum and Milkit left the guild.
- Brutal Honesty: During Volume 04/Episode 05, she bluntly stated a that the people who were killed must’ve been pretty stupid for going outside when other people were previously killed in a similar manner while the killers were still at large. Flum and the others don’t say a word because they agree with her.
- Cruel to Be Kind: She claims she is trying to be nice when she suggests to Flum and Milkit that would be better off being prostitutes rather than adventurers. She genuinely believes that adventuring would get them killed, or worse, and she expected prostitution would be a safer venue.
- Everybody Has Standards:
- She will passively let Dein do whatever he wants to in the Guild, and has no issue being called one of his cronies. However, she is offended when Flum suggests she is sleeping around with Dein and his men to get on his good side.
- The moment Dein became a church lackey, she grew to loathe him and the way he used his men like cannon fodder.
- After finding out Flum was betrayed and sold into slavery by Jean because he didn’t like her, she is rather appalled that one of the Heroes would do something like that.
- Hypocrite: After she tried to get Flum to become a prostitute, she has the nerve to get upset and Flum when she throws that idea back in her face when Gadhio considers firing her.
- I Choose to Stay: In Volume 04/Episode 05, when Flum, Eterna, and Gadhio are evacuating the ones they care about, Y’lla chooses to remain in the Capital by Slowe’s side.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: After Flum gets her pay reduced, she at first protests, but is reminded she is lucky Flum didn’t ask for something worse to happen to her. She decides it is best to not say anything else to Gadhio.
- Last-Second Chance: When Gadhio hears -from her own lips, no less- that she is guilty of sending Flum, a brand new recruit, on a D-rank quest dealing with werewolves, after having disguised it as an F-rank quest, he was seriously considering firing her, as such a potentially lethal "prank" is pretty much attempted murder. He then turns to Flum for her opinion. Since Flum believes there's still hope to redeem her, Flum recommends a cut in pay instead; however, Gadhio warns that the next time such a thing happens, he will throw the book at her.
- Lazy Bum: She doesn't want to do her job, at all. She prefers to just sit at the bar and look pretty.
- Mugging the Monster: She never manages to connect Flum Apricot with the Flum Apricot of the hero party until Gadhio himself shows up to resume his guild master duties and she connects the dots. By then, she's done quite a bit to antagonize Flum, whom she just saw as a slave turned prostitute not worthy of taking up adventuring.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: Even after Flum proved herself a legit adventurer, she goes out of her way to lock horns and bar Flum's advancement as much as possible.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: The fact that she fed Flum a D-rank quest, disguised as an F-rank -which could easily have been fatal-, is something Flum will always call her out on, and when the guild-master returns, this has consequences.
- Pet the Dog: Even when she was at her worst, she treated Slowe relatively well.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Her relationship with Flum is a curious one. Flum obviously hates her for enabling Dein's potentially lethal prank when they first met, but not quite as much as she hates Dein and his men since she never does anything evil of her own initiative. On the flip side, Y'lla has no issues with Flum personally, but she hates how her conflict with Dein ruins the peace of the Guild and makes her job harder. So they spend every scene together throwing barbs at each other without it ever escalating into violence, outside of slapping Flum when Flum points out how hypocritical she is. Y'lla being disciplined by Gadhio and getting suitable comeuppance for her past misdeeds makes her realize she needs to tread carefully. She is much friendlier to Flum afterwards. Flum is even surprised by this change in attitude.
- Shipper on Deck: Sort of. In Volume 04/Episode 05, she and Slowe see Flum and Milkit acting affectionate toward each other. When Slowe asks Y’lla what is the nature of Flum and Milkit’s relationship, she tells him not to think too hard on it.
- Spell My Name With An S: The English release of the manga spells her surname as "Jelicin" in the extras of volume 1. Volume 3 of the Light Novels spell it as "Jerishin" instead.
- Tempting Fate: She dares Flum to call the guild-master to complain about Y'lla's many abuses. The moment she finishes ranting, Gadhio steps in and reveals he's the guild-master and then brings Y'lla to task.
- Took a Level in Kindness: After getting chewed out in Volume 03, she becomes a little nicer in the following Volume. She even shows some concern regarding Flum's wellbeing much to Flum’s surprise.
- Ungrateful Bitch: While she is understandably annoyed that Flum got her pay reduced, Gadhio points out Flum could have recommended a far worse punishment. Based on how she changed her attitude in the subsequent Volume, this trope most likely no longer applies.
Dein Phinneas
- Adaptation Expansion: In the manga version of Episode 02, Dein’s role differs. Rather than not appearing at all in the plot and conducting his activities off screen, he begins planning to deal with Flum after she returns from her herb quest. He kidnaps Milkit personally in Chapter 12, and he assaults her when she pushes his berserk button.
- Adaptational Badass: In the Web Novel, all he does before becoming a pawn of the Church is send some goons after Flum. The expanded plot of Episode 3 in the Light Novel better shows how much he achieved and how cunning he can be. As part of his plan to deal with Flum once and for all, he frames her for murder in broad daylight, spreads fake "Wanted" poster all over the district, sends not only his men, but also bribed soldiers after her, and predicts which routes she would take to escape and creates several barricades to block her. Sure, this all still failed to kill her because he underestimated her and her allies, but this huge display of resources and manpower shows that Dein truly ruled over the criminal world in the West District.
- Armor-Piercing Question: He attempts this with Flum when he asks her if her life was in danger would she really choose her friends over self-preservion. Flum quickly answers with an Armor-Piercing Response that she would never sell out her friends.
- Ascended Extra: Throughout the entirety of the first Volume and the first two Episodes, he only physically appears once, and he is only mentioned a few times afterwards. He becomes a major reoccurring antagonist throughout the entirety of Volume 02/Episode 03.
- Asshole Victim: He was such a despicable lout that nobody sheds a tear when Flum steals his beating heart to give Ink a heart-transplant and free her from the church's cruelty.
- Berserk Button: In Chapter 12 of the manga, Milkit insults him which causes him to kick her unconscious immediately.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: When he first appears, he greets Flum politely, helps her register for the guild. He shakes Flum’s hand, and he happily sends her on her merry way after recommending a "starter" quest. In reality, he goaded Y'lla into giving Flum a quest that was three times harder than advertised just to amuse himself along with soothing his men because they're butt-hurt that a couple of slaves wanted to sign up and they couldn't get said slaves to attack them first so they could retaliate.
- Body Horror: When Flum manages to literally get her hands on him, she uses her unique spell Reversal to turn him inside out! Painfully, and still technically alive.
- Break the Haughty: His plan to kill Flum fails. Many of his men are killed by Flum and Eterna while the bribed soldiers he had under his thumb are exposed and punished by Ottilie. Some of the survivors of his gang decide it's better to sell him out. He then tries to threaten the Church to recover, only to find out that they have far more power than he could ever have imagined. By this point, his pride crumbles apart and he accepts becoming a lackey of the Church just to save his own skin.
- Combat Pragmatist: His initial strategy for his final duel with Flum is to bombard her with magic spells at distance without letting her get close. He is also not above using smokescreens to create openings.
- Didn't See That Coming:
- As well thought as his plan in Volume 02 was, it was still ruined by a couple of factors he couldn't account for. After all, he never scanned Souleater, had no idea what Flum's affinity did, and didn't know she had many powerful friends to protect her. He also didn't know that Eterna was living in Flum's house, and she would be able to protect Milkit from his men.
- And then there is his final mistake: Because Ink only spews out the Retribution eyeballs when she is unconscious, he never considered she could have any control over them. But Ink subconscious does affect the behavior of the eyes, and so they choose to ignore Flum and instead attack Dein, dooming him when he was about to kill Flum.
- Dirty Coward: After becoming Flum’s enemy, rather than face her himself, he opts to either have his men attack Milkit and/or use a mob attempt corner and kill Flum.
- The manga takes it further by having Dein force Flum drink poison as he holds Milkit hostage. He proceeds to beat and hurt Flum while she is weakened.
- The Don: He took advantage of Gadhio's absence and Y'lla's laziness to make himself a little king over the west quarter, and rule the adventurer's guild with a crooked iron fist. The moment he decided to antagonize Flum and then attack a church orphanage that's also a front for unethical human experiments, this unraveled in a hurry.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: He pulls this trope all by himself, on a foe that wasn't even pitying him. In the middle of his fight with Flum, Dein starts ranting about how he had no choice but becoming a slave to the Church and the Spiral Children, and that anyone would do the same in his place. As Flum points out, it really sounds like he is asking for her sympathy (which she has no intention of giving him). Unfortunately, realizing that he fell to the point of asking his enemy for pity destroys what is left of his sanity, and he proceeds to resume his attacks while yelling the trope name.
- Entertainingly Wrong: All he knows about Flum is that she is a slave and always saves innocent people that are victimized by Dein and his men. Therefore, he assumes that she is a softhearted person that would be demoralized if another slave blamed her for his misfortune. Except that in reality, Flum is a hardened individual who immediately deduces Dein's scheme when the slave boy starts talking and is unfazed.
- Establishing Character Moment: He acts nice to Flum. He gets Y'lla to give Flum a trial assignment, and he shakes her hand. His true colors are revealed when he tells his men he gave Flum an assignment that's at least three times harder than a trail assignment is supposed to be. He drinks to the idea of Flum and Milkit getting killed.
- Fatal Flaw: Wrath. He is unable to control his rage. His inability to do so results in his continuous encounters with Flum which ultimately ends his life.
- Fate Worse than Death: As Flum is using her unique magic to turn him inside out, he spends his last moments begging her to kill him while he's still "human." Flum doesn't believe dying quietly or quickly is enough of a punishment for him, so just lets the Body Horror play out. Subverted because Flum later found a good reason to kill him for real: they needed his heart for Ink's heart-transplant.
- For the Evulz: He didn't have a reason to coerce Y'lla to put Flum on a much harder quest than advertised, he just wanted to amuse himself by sending off a rookie adventurer to what he thought was certain death.
- Freudian Excuse: He was born into a noble family, but his house fell into ruin and his parents died when he was still young, leaving him to grow up in the slums known as the West Quarter, where all sorts of horrific atrocity happen to children on a daily basis. He clawed his way up to being in control of the gang for his own survival.
- The Ghost: In Episode 02 of the Light Novel, he does not physically, but his presence in the plot is still felt. After Flum gets some of his men arrested, he sent two of his men to sabotage Flum on her quest and kill Milkit. At the end of the Episode, Flum acknowledges that she’ll need to deal with Dein, and there issues come to a head in Episode 03.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: It doesn't take much for Dein to lose his cool which is something Eterna lampshades.
- I Lied: Dein promised Flum that he would spare the slave girl he intended to use as a human bomb, but after Flum blows herself up, he was going to let his men make use out of her. This was only prevented because Flum’s healing abilities saved her life, and she killed a number of his men.
- Ignored Epiphany: He sells out his loyal subordinates and joins the Church to save his own life. Then said subordinates become puppets to the Church, and Flum pointed out that even though she finished them off, they were already dead. Dein seemed to briefly feel guilty about this, but Dein being Dein, he then moved onto how his situation was all Flum's fault.
- I Shall Taunt You: During the majority of Episode 03, he shows up, taunts Flum that her loved ones are in danger, just to rile her up and runs away after triggering the church's automatic defenses to harass Flum.
- Kick the Dog: He constantly attempts to target Milkit because he knows that would hurt Flum. In Volume 01/Episode 02, he allows his men to assault Milkit because Flum got some of his men arrested. In Volume 02/Episode 03, he has a squad of his men Target Flum's home to have it burned down while Milkit was inside. If Milkit attempted to escape, his men had free reign to do what they wanted with her. Later in the same episode, he attempts to put Milkit's life in danger by revealing important information that would make her a target for the eyes. Milkit is only spared because Eterna covers Milkit's ears with water.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: As arrogant as he is, he never picks a fight against someone clearly stronger than him. As soon as Ottilie arrives to help Flum, he bails. When confronting Eterna later, he similarly leaves the job to the Retribution eyeballs and quickly runs before she can get him.
- Never My Fault: He irrationally blames Flum for everything going wrong in his life, despite him being the one who antagonized her first. By the time of their last fight, it's obvious that he is just using her as a scapegoat for all the negative feelings he has bottled up but is too proud and cowardly to confront.
- Not So Similar: He tries to guilt-trip Flum by saying the two of them are flip-sides of the same coin, because they'd both happily do whatever it takes to protect their friends and family. There's just a few too many flaws in his argument. Flum doesn't run a criminal gang, going around attacking innocents, sell out her friends when things backfire on her, nor screams for vengeance when everything wrong.
- Pet the Dog: This goes hand in hand with Pragmatic Villainy to extent, but he is willing give his subordinates leniency for failure if something happens that was beyond a reasonable scope to expect.
- Playing with Fire: His affinity is fire, and he demonstrates it by shooting several fireballs at Flum during their duel.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Even when his subordinates fail him, he never does anything worse that demoting them to the bottom of the hierarchy. He can still find uses for them in the future, so cutting them off entirely or killing them is detrimental. The lack of harsher punishments also makes them like him more.
- Red Baron: He is known in the West District by a title he got by being a manipulator who hardly does any dirty work personally, but still manged to climb to the top of the hierarchy in the place. Translated as The Intrepid Scoundrel in Light Novel and as The Valiant Coward in the manga.
- Revenge Myopia: To disproportionate levels. Flum and Sara beat up some of his men after they tried to steal from Leitch, and they sent them to jail afterwards. He retaliates by having his men set up a trap in the caves of Anichidey, where the herb Leitch needs to save his wife grows, trying to murder Flum and Sara and indirectly dooming another woman in the process. As if that's not enough, his men also assault an inn-keeper, murder said innkeeper’s friend, and try to gang-rape Milkit. When Flum kills them in self-defense, he dedicates all his resources and connections to killing her and Milkit.
- Smug Snake: He is very proud of himself for being The Don in the West District, but compared to the power and danger of the Church of Origin, he is no different from a bully boasting that he took over a sandbox. Realizing this does a number to his sanity.
- Stealing the Credit: He ranked up to A-rank by stealing the proof of accomplishment from other adventurers, according to the narration. Even when Flum fights him, her Scan shows he's only at the level of a B-Rank, thanks to a bunch of nifty gear he got from his "friends".
- Villainous Breakdown: When he and Flum finally comes to blows, it quickly becomes obvious that Dein's boasting is just a desperate attempt to justify selling himself and his friends to the Church. He hates being a lackey and feels terrible about undoing everything he did in life, but is too cowardly to do anything else, and the inner conflict changes him into a madman who can only think of killing Flum, a convenient scapegoat for his own mistakes.
- Villainous Valor: Ironically, the climax of Episode 3 shows that he can be just as much of a Determinator as Flum when it comes to defending his own life.
- Would Hurt a Child: His treatment of Ink and Milkit showcase he doesn't mind harming children and young teens.
- Taken further in the manga adaptation, when he kicks Milkit for saying something that insults him.
- You Have Failed Me: Zigzagged. While he will remove those who are useless, he is relatively merciful as long as you are helpful and do your job. He doesn't mind it too much when some of his men are forced to retreat due to Flum, and he wished to avenge the men that Flum killed in Volume 01/Episode 02.
Dein’s Lackeys
- All in the Manual: They are never named in either the Light Novel nor manga adaptation. However, Manga Volume 02 extras revealed the names of three notable ones being Grimmie, Budras, and Quarante.
- Break the Haughty: They aren’t so happy after Flum teaches them a lesson.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: All of them are on the receiving end of this. Budras and Grimmie are beaten by Flum while Quarante is taken down by Sara.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Grimmie is depicted as smoking in the profile picture, he along with his fellow lackeys have a ‘Bad Guy Level’ of six stars. Grimmie is also smoking a cigar while attempting to rob Leitch.
- Kill It with Fire: Grimmie attempted to kill Flum with fire magic.
- No Name Given: Outside the manga extras, they are unnamed henchmen.
- Small Role, Big Impact: All three of them unknowingly changed the trajectory of Flum and Milkit’s lives.
- After Flum completed her trial assignment, Budras suggested that Flum sold herself to get the job done only for Flum to knock him to the ground. Kicking his ass not only showed the guild that Flum shouldn’t be underestimated, but it put Flum on the radar of Dein’s gang.
- Grimmie and Quarante stealing from Leitch triggered a domino effect. Flum deciding to apprehend them caused Flum to meet both Leitch and Sara. This also led to Leitch recruiting Flum for the Herb quest which led Flum to discover Origin research facilities as well as herbs that could cure Milkit‘s face. She also was rewarded a new house which led her to meeting Eterna again and gaining a new ally who would help her against Dein’s forces.
- When one of Dein’s men [[betray him]], it causes Dein to take some massive desperate actions. That results in Dein becoming a servant of the Church and selling out his remaining men.
Slowe Uradnehs Spoilers for Episode 05
The adventurer's guild janitor.
- Action Survivor: Manages to survive an attack from the Children branch of the church despite having no combat prowess to speak of.
- The Good King: Amazingly enough. Once Origin's dealt with, he and the Demon Lord Sheitoom sign a peace treaty, and both sides prosper greatly, so greatly in fact that Flum doesn't even recognize the royal capital a mere four years after the battle with Origin himself.
- Happily Married: In the web-novel, he winds up marrying Y'lla in the epilogue.
- Puppet King: He's placed on the throne by Cardinal Satuki at sword point.
- Really Royalty Reveal: In Volume 04/Episode 05, he learns he's a bastard child of the king as a direct result of being attacked by the [Children] branch of the church and being dragged to the throne by Satuki.
- Remember the New Guy?: He is introduced during Volume 02/Episode 03. It is justified since Flum went to the guild sparingly to reduce the conflict she would get into with Dein, so she didn’t have much of time to get to know other workers.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: During the beginning of Volume 03/Episode 04, Y'lla is being confronted by Gadhio regarding her Lazy Bum attitude and putting Flum in danger, Y'lla tries to get Slowe to back her up, and he decides it is best to not get involved.
Royal Army:
Ottilie Fohkelpi
- Adaptational Early Appearance:
- She is introduced in the Light Novel in Volume 2, which covers Episode 3. She didn't enter the Web Novel until Episode 6, though Henriette does mention her in Episode 5.
- The manga adaptation gives her a second dose of this trope by having her appear right after Flum has moved in to her new mansion, but before Milkit's face is healed and Ink is introduced. In practice, she went from debuting at the beginning of Episode 3, to debuting at the end of Episode 2.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the web-novel, she's a belligerent antagonist who tries to straight-up murder Flum in a jealous rage twice! The light novel version, meanwhile, is a lot friendlier from the beginning and does not hesitate to help out Flum when the latter is in trouble.
- Adaptation Personality Change: Goes hand in hand with Adaptational Heroism. While she is still madly in love with Henriette, her personality is far more stable. She is friendly with other people, such as Milkit, Ink, and Eterna, and she has genuine friendship moments with Flum.
- Arch-Enemy: To Jack Murray. Her preventing him from capturing Milkit, Ink, Hallom, and Kleyna has caused them to become direct rivals to each other. One of the illustrations of Volume 04/Episode 05, makes it clear they intend to clash again.
- Axe-Crazy: In the web-novel version she is completely nuts on a homicidal level. Her response to Flum getting Henriette to make a much needed Love Confession is to "thank" Flum by dragging her into a battle to the death over who is more loved! While she can be a little crazy in the Light Novel, it is far less so.
- Big Damn Heroes:
- Twice in Volume 02. First she comes to Flum's aid when Dein and his men have her cornered, and later she and Eterna show up to hold back the Spiral Children when they attack Flum and Gadhio.
- In Volume 03, she and her men save the survivors of Sheol.
- During Volume 04, she saves Milkit, Ink, Hallom, and Kleyna from Jack when he attempted to take them hostage.
- Bloody Murder: Her Genocide Arts consists of manipulating blood as a weapon. This includes making her blood enter the body of her enemies to kill them from within.
- Caught with Your Pants Down: Sort of. During Volume 03/Episode 04, Flum and Milkit pay her a visit to see if she might have any information on the Necromancy Team. They see her embracing Henriette‘s bedsheets and messing around with them. The scene causes Flum and Milkit to go through Color Failure.
- Childhood Friend Romance: She and Henriette have known each other since they were children, and she is completely smitten over her.
- Creepy Good: The ability to weaponize blood sounds quite creepy, and the smiles she gives in battle look downright evil (at least in the illustrations of the Light Novel). Nonetheless, she is a good person and Flum's friend.
- Establishing Character Moment: Her introduction in the first half of Chapter 11 of the manga acts as this. Ottilie pulls off a Big Damn Heroes moment as she mercilessly cuts down corrupt guards who are threatening Flum, and she licks their blood from her sword. Afterwards, she bows to Flum out of respect, and she proceeds to freak out over Flum being branded a slave. While Ottilie has a civil conversation where she apologizes to Flum for what happened, she also can’t get through a conversation without displaying her love for Henriette.
- Everyone Has Standards: During her introduction scene in Volume 02, she is repulsed by the fact Jean sold Flum into slavery and apologizes to Flum for not being able to help her. Later in the said volume, she is also disgusted by the corrupt members of the Army joining Dein in framing Flum for a crime she didn't commit, and she makes it clear that Dein is a horrible person recruiting a bunch of men to target one girl.
- Friendship Moment: She gives Flum her coat to cover her up when Flum's clothes are destroyed.
- Girlish Pigtails: According to Kiki, Ottilie has been wearing her hair in pigtails since she was little because Henriette complemented on how good she looked with them.
- Heel–Face Turn: Only in the Web Novel. She is firmly on Flum’s side when she is first introduced in the Light Novel.
- Not Good with Rejection: After the second time she tries to murder Flum in the web-novel, with Flum miraculously managing to turn the tables and hurt her back, she flat-out tells Henriette that she's terrified of losing the latter's love to someone else. Henriette angrily decries her for trying to kill an important captive and sends her away. Ottilie responds to that by trying to kill herself. Flum saw that last part coming.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Her Light Novel counterpart. Even though Flum is considered a slave, she tells her that she is welcome to visit the Army barracks. When she realizes that might be difficult for Flum to do that, she actually goes to pay Flum a visit instead.
- Spared, but Not Forgiven: In the epilogue of the web-novel, Flum mentions how she feels unsatisfied how Ottilier hasn't suffered enough for attempting to murder her on a repeated basis while she was a helpless captive, but lets it go because Flum could flick her to death with her pinky and there's no point.
- Undying Loyalty: She will follow any order from Henriette. That includes resigning from the Royal Army before it can be absorbed by the Church Knights. She is reluctant, but she ultimately decides to follow Henriette’s wishes.
- Yandere: In the original web novel, she tries to murder Flum on two separate occasions, both involving Henriette. Her reasoning is "since Henriette Oneesama can do no wrong, and Oneesama is interested in Flum, then Flum must have 'defiled' Oneesama somehow. Unforgivable! All who defile Oneesama must die!"
- You Shall Not Pass!: Immediately after her second Big Damn Heroes moment, she holds back Luke and Fwiss together with Eterna, so that Gadhio and Flum can keep running.
Henriette Bachsenheim
Major General of the Royal Army.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: In the Light Novel, she first appears in Volume 2/Episode 3. In the web novel, she first appears in Episode 5.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the original web-novel, she's in collusion with the corrupt church "for the greater good" and antagonizes Flum in several significant ways, the most glaring of which are using blood clots to mess with Flum's memory, which even she realizes is immensely dangerous, and then making Flum the target of Ottilie's murderous jealous rage twice. In the Light Novel, she takes more of the role of a Reasonable Authority Figure from her introduction, and she is on Flum's side.
- Authority in Name Only: Not just her, but the Royal Army as a whole. Thanks to the king letting the Church run the show at the Kingdom, the Army has been slowly losing their role in society to the Paladins, the soldiers of the Church. Coupled with the corruption within the Army, Henriette has far less power than her title of Major General implies. At the end of Volume 3, the Royal Army is formally disbanded and its soldiers are adopted into the Paladins, leaving her without any title or political power.
- Bloody Murder: In the web-novel, she also has the ability to use her blood as a weapon and a tool.
- Childhood Friend Romance: With Ottilie. It seems to be one-sided from Ottilie's part at first, as Henriette downplays how obsessed her childhood friend is with her when talking with Flum, claiming she is like a little sister. However, the ending of Volume 3 confirms their love is mutual, when Henriette promises Ottilie that they can "kiss, or beyond" if they succeed in thwarting the Church's plots and meet each other alive again.
- Oblivious to Love: In the web-novel version, she's completely self-deluded into thinking Ottilie's fanatical obsession with her is entirely platonic, even after Ottilie tries to murder Flum in a jealous rage, twice. It's not until Ottilie tries to commit suicide for being rejected that she gets it. In the Light Novel she not only is aware of Ottilie's feelings, but she reciprocates them.
- Onee-sama: Addressed as such by Ottilie. Fitting, as she is older, more mature, and has better control over her feeling than her. She also claims Ottilie has been like a little sister to her since childhood.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She is established as this from the start in the Light Novels. One of the few persons of authority in the Kingdom that isn't part of the conspiracy of the Church. The only reason she isn't openly fighting them like Flum does is because she can't risk the life of all the men under her, but she still supports Flum the best way she can.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: In the web-novel, she sides with the Chimera branch of the church and has several of Flum's non-combat friends held hostage so her combat allies stand down, and Flum herself is put through all kinds of nastiness, trusting that the Chimera would rebuild the capital city and purge the other two research branches without incident... Needless to say, this does not go as planned, at all.
Others:
The Slave Merchant
Yes, you did something wrong! You tricked me into spending lots of money on you! Now die for my entertainment!
The slaver who bought Flum from Jean.- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The moment he sees that Flum is a threat to his life, he kneels and begs to be spared, offering to let Flum pass, unmolested. Flum doesn't believe him and cuts him in half.
- Asshole Victim: The first of many that Flum would deliver a Karmic Death to.
- Dirty Coward: When Flum breaks free from his jail cell, he begs for mercy after he just massacred other innocent slaves.
- Fat Bastard: He's clearly obese and is a despicable person who traffics in slaves, but if he can't sell them, feeds them alive to ghouls for his sadistic amusement.
- Fatal Flaw: He's a man blinded by greed and impulse buying. Despite seeing Jean beat up Flum before branding her with the slave mark and selling her, he ignores his merchant's instincts that he might be getting a raw deal and spends a ton of cash for a novelty, one of the "heroes," only to later learn that she's got 0 for all her stats, then turns around and blames her for it.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: In the manga, the moment Flum uses Soul-Devourer to break out of the slave cell, she cuts him in half, vertically, as he's begging for his life.
- Hate Sink: Between Turing innocent people into slaves, feeding slaves he can’t sell to ghouls, sadistically giving the slaves a cursed sword, and being a dirty coward, there isn’t anything to like about this scum.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: His own zwei-hander is the tool of his destruction.
- Hope Spot: In the manga, as one of the slaves in the cell with Flum begs for her life, even offering herself up as a Sex Slave, he bends close to the bars like he's actually interested and when her face lights up, stabs her to death, bored.
- Never My Fault: He buys both Flum and the cursed zwei-hander, Soul Devourer, without using his Scan skill on either first, spending huge amounts of money, despite his misgivings, then turns around and blames Flum for the latter.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: By placing the cursed zweihander in the cell with Flum, and invoking a Morton's Fork, die by cursed sword or die by ghoul, he forces Flum to pick up the sword. The moment she picks up the blade, her ability reverses the sword's effect, making her a genuine threat to evil-doers, like himself.
- No Name Given: His name has yet to be revealed.
- Off with His Head!: In the Light Novel, Flum partially cuts off his head after cutting off his limbs.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears in the first two chapters of the Light Novel, but his appearance set a number of events in motion. If it wasn’t for him, Jean might not have had an opportunity to sell Flum into slavery which also led to the Hero’s party falling apart after she was sold. It is also because of him that Flum learned the true nature of her affinity, and she met Milkit. It is also revealed in Volume 3, he had a significant impact on Milkit’s life, and he still haunts her dreams.
- Starter Villain: The first antagonist Flum has to fight.
- Stupid Evil: There's little, if any, in universe explanation for the fact that he spent a ton of money buying a cursed sword, simply because he was told it was Epic tier gear and doing the same with Flum when Jean offered to sell her without using Scan on either item first, despite the fact that he could do so quietly. Then, rather than even trying to figure out some way to use them to recoup his losses, he tosses them in a cell and lets ghouls into the cage, watching from the other side of bars that anyone can easily reach through, and on top of everything else, he was alone in this secret basement of his with no bodyguards whatsoever. All done because he's a sadistic asshat who thought watching people being Eaten Alive was the height of entertainment.
- Too Dumb to Live: Not that running away was likely to help, but getting on your hands and knees in front of a slave that you yourself helped to kidnap and put through a sadistic little game of Morton's Fork, especially after destroying your credibility by killing the last one who pleaded for mercy right in front of her, is suicidal.
- Villains Want Mercy: After Flum slices his pet ghouls to pieces and shatters the bars to the slave cell with her Epic tier new sword, he opts to drop to the ground and beg for his life. Flum was unmoved and killed him.
Leitch Mancathy
- Brother–Sister Team: With Welcy.
- Easily Forgiven: Subverted. While his actions were understandable, he lost the trust of those who believed in him. He agrees with this.
- Everyone Has Standards: He is not a fan of the slave trade. He will act polite to Satils for professional reasons, but he is disgusted by the person he knows she is, and he is disgusted by the crimes she supposedly takes part in, which are later proven to be true by Flum and his sister, Welcy.
- Forced into Evil: In Episode 6, Cardinal Satuki sends Chimera beasts at his home, threatens his wife, and has him cooperate in kidnapping Flum's non-combat friends and family, "rewarding" him with a license to sell medical herbs if he agrees, killing his wife and children and arresting him to be executed for smuggling medical herbs if he refuses. The guilt for complying crushes him most of the Episode.
- Honest Corporate Executive: An honest merchant who operates his business entirely above board.
- Karmic Jackpot: Similar to Flum, it appears the karma one receives depends on how he is treated.
- During Episode 2, Dein's thugs strong-arm robbed him which causes Flum and Sara to get involved. By the end of Episode 3, Dein's organization has collapsed.
- Sara and Flum come to his aid and are well rewarded.
- Flum and Sara also agree to help save his wife. After they get necessary medicine, Flum ends up getting a small mansion to live in, free and clear (though Flum will still have to pay taxes). Flum also finds Eterna there as a tenant and live-in doctor, so Milkit's face winds up cured. Additionally, Sara learns an awful truth regarding the Church which leads her to make certain decisions later on.
- Nice Guy: One of the nicest people in the series. He is unfailing polite even with people he just met, does not discriminate slaves like Flum and Milkit, and is an Uncle Pennybags to boot.
- Please, I Will Do Anything!: Desperate to save his wife from an unspecified illness, he sought out promising but low-ranked adventurers to get the herbs he needed for her medicine without drawing the church's attention. He's stunned when Sara, a paladin, shows up and offers to help, anonymously.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Very humble in spite of being a phenomenally rich merchant, and does not care that Flum and Milkit have slave brands on their faces.
- Uncle Pennybags: He is so wealthy that when Flum, as her reward, asks him for an inexpensive, but reputable, inn where she and Milkit can live, gifts her a small mansion free and clear. He also gives Flum a bag of gold coins as a bonus and a enhanced ring to deliver to Sara as her reward, as he knows Sara is not legally allowed to accept a reward for the job. Having already gotten permission from Sara beforehand, Flum and Milkit use this money to handle their living expenses.
Welcy Mancathy
Leitch's younger sister who is a reporter trying to expose corruption.
I'm think I'm starting to understand what my brother meant when he said you were trustworthy ... Maybe ...
- Brother–Sister Team: With Leitch.
- Everyone Has Standards: Similar to her brother, she does not like the idea of slavery, she is disgusted by Satils, and she hates the corruption of the church.
- She is understandably freaked out when Flum tells her that she killed someone for information on Satils, when she sees Flum cut down multiple adventurers, and when Flum is torturing Satils to death.
- Intrepid Reporter: She is always trying to get a good scoop, but she does her best to find it the right way, and expose the truth in the best manner possible.
- Is It Always Like This?: She asks Milkit if Flum is always this violent, and Milkit tells her that Flum is only acting like this because she cares for her.
- Nice Girl: She generally a kind person who is attempting to uncover the corruption in the capital and help others.
- Tagalong Chronicler: Acts as this when she accompanies Flum and her friends during certain points in Volume 03/Episode 04.
Kleyna
- Action Girl: She was this when she was an Adventurer. When she along with her daughter, Milkit, and Ink are nearly kidnapped, the Church official makes note that she is most resilient to his magic.
- Doting Parent: She completely dotes on her daughter Hallom.
- Happily Married: She used to be. She doesn't mind the idea of getting together with Gadhio.
- The Mourning After: She never remarried after her husband's death, no matter how much her daughter Hallom tries to push her and Gadhio together.
- Retired Badass: She's gone from adventurer to home-maker in the aftermath of her husband's death.
- Scars Are Forever: As proof of her adventuring past, she has deep scars on her arm.
- Second Love: Volume 04/Episode 05 indicates her affections for Gadhio are indeed reciprocated.
- Someone to Remember Him By: Her daughter Hallom is living proof that she was once married to her husband Souma, also of the adventuring party.
Hallom
- Cheerful Child: Very happy and upbeat.
- Children Are Innocent: A sweet child who welcomes Gadhio and Flum, calling Gadhio "papa." It's also likely the reason she was able to sense something wasn't quite right about Thea before anyone else.
- Happily Adopted: She's insistent on calling Gadhio "papa" even though the two aren't related, and she knows it.
- Shipper on Deck: She very much wants her mother Kleyna and Gadhio to get married.
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: She really wants to cling to, play with, and get praise from Gadhio, and wants him to let her call him "papa."
Satils Francoise Spoilers for Episode 4
Leitch's primary business rival and Milkit's previous owner.
The last time we were together, you wouldn't react to anything, no matter what I did. Not really a desirable trait in a toy.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: Satils briefly appears in Milkit’s flashback in Chapter 12 of the manga which loosely adapts the events of Light Novel Episode 02.
- Arc Villain: She is this for Volume 03/Episode 04.
- Back from the Dead: After Flum tortured her to death, she's briefly seen in a crowd. Flum immediately gives chase but loses track of her. She returns later to cause more problems for Flum and her friends.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Her existence is established during the first volume, and she becomes an antagonist during Volume 3.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: She smuggles healing herbs to the church, runs illegal slave rings, and engages in all other sorts of illegal activity, subtle and gross, including kidnapping.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Satils suffers from two cases of these at Flum's hands, but they are well deserved.
- Dirty Coward: She acts high and mighty when she tortured the helpless Milkit, but she is quick to beg for her life when Flum comes to Milkit’s rescue, and she is not frightened by her connections to the church.
- Entertainingly Wrong: She mocks Milkit for wearing a maid outfit, believing that her current master only bought her to fulfill some kind of fetish. She also believes Flum doesn't actually care about her, and will not be saving her. She is wrong about all of them. Flum bought her those clothes because Milkit liked them, and is already in a rescue operation to save her. In fact, she breaks through the wall a few minutes later to save Milkit.
- Establishing Character Moment: She is introduced interrupting a conversation with Flum and Leitch. She looks over Flum with great interest while also giving Flum a rather creepy vibe. It doesn't take long for Flum to see her suspicions confirmed regarding Satils' character.
- Evil Is Petty: She proved that simply by poisoning Milkit for looking cuter than her. She takes this further with every action he takes.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She is incapable of understanding the bond between Flum and Milkit.
- Fatal Flaw: Pride. She believes she is perfection, and everyone else is beneath her. She believes she is untouchable. Flum proves her wrong twice.
- Fur and Loathing: Wears a red-dyed fur coat regardless of the season and is an odious individual.
- Gory Discretion Shot: She suffered a Cruel and Unusual Death, but the specifics are not written in detail. All that's mentioned is that there was a magically sharpened torture knife involved, and there was much screaming with the loud sounds of bones breaking.
- Hate Sink: She fed Milkit poison to disfigure her just because she was jealous of Milkit’s natural beauty. She proceeded to torment Milkit for years until she got bored and resold her to the Slave Merchant. Afterwards, when she sees Milkit happy with Flum, she has Milkit kidnapped because she can’t stand one of her former slaves being happy. She proceeds to torture Milkit until Flum comes to save her. She then becomes a Dirty Coward and begs for her life when Flum makes it clear she will make Satils pay for what she did to Milkit. When she comes back to life she takes joy in going after Flum and Milkit, and she attempts to kill them both. She is especially joyful when she captures Flum and taunts Milkit all while putting Flum through a Mind Rape that renders her comatose and unable to remember anything.
- Irony: After she kidnapped Milkit, she mocks Milkit by saying the relationship she has with her current Master, Flum, could never involve love. At the point, Milkit is trying to understand what her exact feelings are for Flum. Satils may have accidentally given Milkit the answer she was looking for.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: Satils had been buying, torturing, and murdering young slave girls since long before the events of the series. While Leitch and Welcy had been gathering evidence of her crimes, it was taking time for them to make progress. It wasn't until Satils had Milkit kidnapped that Flum ended up killing her only to be revived to cause more havoc under the service of Origin. Eventually, she is killed by Flum and Milkit for good.
- Karmic Death: She suffers this twice at the hands of Flum for all the crimes she has committed in both lives.
- Laser-Guided Karma: In addition to suffering a Karmic Death, she suffered additional karma post-mortem. After her crimes were exposed in Episode 04, her reputation as a businesswoman plummeted. By the events of Episode 05, all her businesses had been closed and shuttered.
- Mind Rape: She subjects Flum to this via Voice of the Legion when she captures Flum in her monster body.
- Money Is Not Power: Satils learns the hard way when she pisses someone like Flum off, no amount of money will allow her to buy herself out of trouble.
- Mugging the Monster: She used Scan to examine Flum and saw her inherent stats were all 0, so figured that kidnapping Milkit from Flum's estate would be a simple task, especially since she sent two rank A adventurers at Flum's mansion and had two A-rank and one B-rank standing guard in her own. Flum, with her cursed gear, is accustomed to punching above her weight class, tortured one of the guys who kidnapped Milkit into confessing, since the other escaped, and then tore through the adventurers guarding Satils' house like a laxative before going "Open!" Says Me into Satils’ own hidden torture chamber, and then showed Satils what it's like to be on the receiving end.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If she hadn't gone and kidnapped Milkit purely for the sadistic joy of trying to torture the poor girl to death, Flum wouldn't have had just cause to break into her house and expose a bunch of church nastiness. Additionally, thanks to Satils taking joy in taking her time and telling Milkit that her beloved master didn’t care for her and wouldn't be coming to her rescue, it gave Flum enough time to save Milkit.
- One Degree of Separation: She's the one who backed the slave merchant that threw Flum into a cage with ghouls at the start of the story.
- Please, I Will Do Anything!: When threatening Flum with the church didn't work, she tried to bribe her way out of trouble. At this point, Flum displays that Money Is Not Power and boldly states that death is not a sufficient punishment for what Milkit went through. Then goes on to demonstrate it.
- Revenge Myopia: After being resurrected, she wants to take revenge on Flum and Milkit despite the fact Flum only killed her in retribution for the torture she inflicted on Milkit in the first place.
- Rich Bitch: She's dressed to flaunt her opulence and is a despicable individual.
- Sadist: Her favorite pass-time is taking beautiful people and defiling them, in every way imaginable, physical, psychological, emotional, and mental, and then throwing them away when she's done. If she sees they've somehow recovered, she kidnaps them again to pick up where she left off.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Her church backing allowed her to flaunt the local law enforcement in the capital, and when Flum broke her way into the torture chamber, catching her in the act of trying to torture Milkit to death for her sadistic pleasure, she makes threats that the church will retaliate. Already on bad terms with the church due to their villainy, this threat does not sway Flum, but makes her angrier instead.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: If her connections aren’t enough, she thinks her money will get her out of any trouble she’s in until she met Flum.
- Smug Snake: She sees herself as perfection and everyone else is below her.
- Spell My Name With An S: In the fan translators spells Satils name as either Satirus or Satils. The official spelling of her name is confirmed as Satils.
- Villainous Breakdown: When Milkit of all people point out she is just a puppet for Origin, she does not take this well and attempts to murder Milkit outright.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: In the Web Novel, her fate at the end of the Episode 4 is unknown. Presumably the destruction of the research facility involved caused her to shut down like everyone else affected by the Necromancy branch of the church, or she was eliminated by the church to cover up their human experiments.
- Subverted in the Light Novel. Her death is explicit by having Flum and Milkit witness it personally. Her first and second deaths prove to be quite gruesome.
Demiceliko Radius & Tryte Ransila
Two A Ranked adventurers Satils hired to kidnap Milkit.
- An Arm and a Leg: Flum cuts Demiceliko's limbs off when she is torturing him for information on where they took Milkit.
- Asshole Victim: Both of them along with the two other unnamed Adventurers Satils hired are this for kidnapping Milkit, so she could torture her.
- Attempted Rape: Based on their dialogue, Demiceliko had every intention of forcing himself on Flum if he came out victorious. Tryte is apparently no better.
- Blatant Lies: As he is begging for his life, Demiceliko claims that it was all just a job for him, and that he never had any fun doing it. Pretty much every word that came out of his mouth during his fight with Flum contradicts this.
- Dirty Coward: They both poisoned a female adventurer, so she could be an easy target for them. Both attempt to attack Flum from behind.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: The fate of not only both of them, but also of two other unnamed adventurers, all cut down in half by Flum after she finds out where they taken Milkit.
- Idiot Ball: Demiceliko held onto it. After getting his limbs cut off by Flum and being subsequently tortured, he thinks it is a good idea to attack Flum from behind. The consequences are not pretty.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Their role as 'Adventurers for Hire' by Satils made a lot of Volume 03/Episode 04’s plot possible. Kidnapping Milkit led to Flum's confrontation with Satils. It is also revealed they murdered Sucy which jump started the Necromancy team.
- Straw Misogynist: Demiceliko spends a significant portion of his fight with Flum making sexist remarks towards her.
- Too Dumb to Live: After getting his limbs chopped off you would think Demiceliko would at least wait to see if he could get someone to heal his limbs back together. Instead, he attempts to attack Flum again who easily overpowers him.
- Underestimating Badassery: Underestimating Flum is what led to their deaths as well as Satils'.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Both meet their end at Flum's hand shortly after their introduction.
Gadhio's deceased former party.
As a whole
- Cynicism Catalyst: Their deaths made Gadhio hard and bitter, especially once he learns that their encounter with a "mutant" dragon was orchestrated by the Corrupt Church.
- Post Humous Character: Long dead by the time they're introduced.
- True Companions: While they were alive, they were inseparable, even building a three story mansion in the capital where they would all live.
Thea
- Came Back Wrong: During the Necromancer arc, she shows up at Gadhio's mansion, tries to get him to resume their happy marriage, and leads him to the research lab, but when Flum shows up at the location, quickly goes full-tilt Zombie Apocalypse with the rest of the test subjects, forcing Gadhio to give her a Mercy Kill.
- Happily Married: She and Gadhio were married and very much in love before her death.
- Heroic Sacrifice: The only reason Gadhio's alive in the present is that she shoved him aside, taking the fatal blow in his place.
- The Lost Lenore: Killed by a monster shortly after she and Gadhio were married. Gadhio never moved on and remarried, no matter how much Hallom tries to push him together with her mother Kleyna.
Souma
Gadhio's best friend and the leader of the party.
- The Rival: He and Gadhio had a friendly rivalry going, in all things. When he married Kleyna and they had a child on the way, Gadhio went and married Thea, so as to not be left behind. Gadhio's marriage was tragically short-lived.
Lowe
He's the reason Gadhio's mansion has a large collection of cursed gear.
- Collector of the Strange: He would gather up cursed equipment, but could never bother to part with it. As such, the mansion he built with the others has a basement full of the stuff. His surviving fellow members couldn't bear to dispose of it either, in his memory. Gadhio is glad to gift it to Flum so it can honor his memory by being useful.
