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Flum's Mansion | The Hero's Party | Capital Residents | Church of Origin | Demons

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Main Duo:

Flum Apricot

Jean, I will never forgive you!

The Protagonist. Formerly one of the chosen heroes sent to slay the Demon Lord, despite her weak Affinity. After she's betrayed by Maria and is sold to slavery by Jean, she discovers the true nature of her Affinity, and decides to live with the only slave she managed to save, Milkit.

Voiced by: Fairouz Ai (May 2021 Manga Promotion)

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• A-Cup Angst: Zig-zagged. Flum isn't exactly flat, but during Episode 02, she briefly seems somewhat insecure about how her chest isn't quite what she thinks it should be.
• Action Girl: Quickly becomes this after learning the true nature of her affinity, as she gets stronger and stronger each new arc thanks to learning how to use her powers and acquiring new cursed equipment.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Her hair is described as strawberry blonde in the Web Novel. The Light Novel instead describes it as reddish-brown, which is shown by the illustrations.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: A minor case in the manga: In the original LN, she prolonged the suffering of the slave merchant as much as possible, cutting his limbs one by one and cutting his head in half only when he was about to die from blood loss. In the manga, she immediately bisects him, so he dies without all that suffering.
• Always Save the Girl: If Milkit is in danger, Flum won't rest until she is safe again.
• Amnesiac Hero: Invoked twice.
  • During Episode 04, when Flum is rendered comatose by Satils, she is unable to remember anything. It is Milkit’s voice that allows her to regain her memories and wake up.
  • In Episode 06 of the web novel, Henriette uses her blood weapon powers to cause blood-clots in her brain, sealing all the "inconvenient" memories away. Flum is clearly not pleased when she figures it out.
• Armor-Piercing Question: When Welcy questions Flum's actions in killing multiple people, Flum points out that they were going to kill them. She then asks why is it so wrong to kill people who don't value other people's lives before they have a chance to kill them. That leaves Welcy at a loss for words.
• Armor-Piercing Response:
  • When Milkit revealed her face to Flum expecting Flum to be disgusted by how disfigured her face became and potentially want to get rid of her, Flum’s response is to accept her. She takes it even further by giving Milkit a Cooldown Hug, and she promised to find a cure for Milkit’s poisoning. This takes Milkit completely by surprise which Flum takes note of. Milkit’s attitude towards Flum changes considerably afterwards.
  • When Dein asks Flum if she would honestly choose her friends over her own life, Flum outright tells him that she would never sell out her friends as he did. Her response caught him off guard which leads to their final conflict to further escalate.
• Attempted Rape: While she hasn’t been at as much risk for this compared to Milkit, Flum has been in danger of this multiple times.
  • In Episode 01, several of the West Guild members were interested in making Flum into a prostitute and being her first customers.
  • In Episode 03, after Flum was blown up, Dein was fine with his men defiling her body. If she didn’t regenerate and they weren’t distracted, it might’ve happened.
  • In Episode 04, one of the Adventurers who kidnapped Milkit was interested in forcing himself on Flum.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Flum’s affinity of Reversal.
  • Because no one understood what Flum’s power was, it led her to be perceived as useless, especially by Jean. This culminated in him selling her into slavery to get rid of her.
  • Discussed with Gadhio in Volume 3 regarding her Reversal affinity. He thinks it's quite the useful power, as cursed weapons give penalties greater than the bonus of normal equipment. However, Flum points out that Reversal also makes any normal training method ineffective for her, and thus she has no way of growing stronger besides looking for a new cursed weapon, which is not easily found.
  • During the side story of Volume 3, Flum is attempting to overcome this issue by training with Gadhio, so she can get used to her abilities and try new moves that can be useful in combat.
• Bathtub Bonding: After saving Milkit from being tortured by Satils Francois in Episode 04, Flum starts bathing with Milkit. It is hinted that she wanted to do this with Milkit before, but between Milkit getting kidnapped by Nekt in Episode 03 and Satils' in Episode 04, this gave Flum the excuse she needed, so she could keep an eye on Milkit.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: Flum's original reason for holding the cursed sword despite believing it would kill her. If she was going to die anyway, better die on her own terms rather than accept the cruel death prepared for her by another person.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's usually a sweet and sensitive woman, eager to please, but push her hard enough, and she won't hesitate to chop you to pieces if she has the chance.
• Body Horror: She's been subjected to having extra limbs grow on her body as a result of Origin-powered attacks, and in the manga, she's had her limbs wrung out like towels. In both cases, the only cure was to painfully slice them off herself.
• Break the Cutie: Being sold off as a slave by Jean did this to her. After escaping with Milkit, she bounces back, albeit jaded.
• Broken Bird: Has become incredibly cynical following Jean betraying and selling her into slavery.
• Broken Pedestal: Discussed and subverted. She outright tells Milkit she is afraid that Milkit will hate her when she makes it clear that she will kill Satils for what she has done. Milkit assures Flum she would never hate her. When Welcy asks Milkit if Flum is always like this, Milkit defends Flum by telling Welcy that Flum is only doing this because she cares for her.
• Broken Tears: She goes through this when Ink tells her to kill her. Thankfully, thanks to Milkit, Flum has enough time to rethink the situation and then asks for Eterna's help which leads to Ink's life being saved.
• Calling Your Attacks: After completing her first quest as an adventurer to get her license, one of Dien’s men try harassing her and she shouts ‘Flum Punch’ before knocking him to the floor.
• Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Subverted. At the end of Volume 01/Episode 02, Eterna outright remarks that Milkit causes Flum to feel aroused. Later on, she gets Milkit to take a bath with her.
• Catch and Return: One of the perks of her unique Reversal spell is the ability to send projectiles used against her back to sender.
• The Chosen One: It is revealed that Origin chose Flum to use her Reversal powers to destroy something important to the Demons.
• Clothing Damage: Souleater's curse-turned-Healing Factor does not extend to her clothes, and she notes to herself at the end of Volume 2 she'll need to buy more clothing due to all the fighting she does. At one point, Flum gets herself blown up to save a slave girl that Dein was using as a human shield which leaves her clothes in such tatters. Ottilie has to lend Flum her coat.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: As demonstrated in Volume 03/Episode 04, if someone kidnaps or harms Milkit, she will inflict this on someone to obtain information on Milkit's whereabouts or to get revenge for her.
• Cooldown Hug: She gave several of these to Milkit during Volume 01 in Episodes 01 & 02 to assure Milkit she won’t abandon her. Something Milkit takes to heart.
• Covert Pervert: During the side story epilogue of the first Light Novel, Flum gets aroused when she hears Milkit taking a bath, and Eterna outright calls her out on that.
• Cursed with Awesome: Her Reversal power makes all her base stats 0, but she can wield cursed weapons, some of the most powerful stuff on the planet that no one else can touch, without serious penalty, if not death.
• Curtains Match the Windows: Her hair and eyes are the same color as auburn.
• Declaration of Protection: While she makes it clear she wishes to protect Milkit, she openly makes this declaration to her during the side story of Volume 3/Episode 4.
• Deliberate Injury Gambit: After getting her Healing Factor, she's either chopped off her own limbs or had them blasted off by healing magic on a repeated basis to escape an even worse threat.
• Determinator: No matter how bad the situation is, Flum will survive and will come back to Milkit. There is no room for doubt. If Milkit has been kidnapped, you better believe Flum will do everything to get her back.
• Establishing Character Moment: From the moment Flum obtained her curse sword, it became clear what kind of character the readers could expect to see from here on out. After killing the Slave Merchant's ghouls' she proceeds to torture him as payment for what he did before killing him showcasing a brutal side to Flum that not even she knew she had along with showcasing if people wrong her or others, they better be careful. She also has a tearful moment when she says to herself it is okay for her to live indicating she is capable of picking herself up from despair. She takes Milkit, the only other survivor of the massacre with her, despite not needing to which showcases that despite everything she still has compassion. She also demonstrates a pragmatic side because she plays along with Milkit's mindset regarding Masters and Slaves in order to get her to come with her.
• Everyone Can See It: Her budding romance with Milkit. As far as their friends are concerned, the two of them are already married despite her attempts at denying she feels that way.
• Extreme Mêlée Revenge: In Episode 6 of the web novel version, she retaliates to Ottilie's repeated murder attempts by beating her to within an inch of her life, to show her how it feels, and would have killed her if she wasn't under a no-kill order from the Demon Lord.
• Eye Scream: Her eyes take serious damage during her fight with Luke in Episode 05, but they heal up thanks to her regeneration powers.
• Fiery Redhead: She has reddish brown hair, and she isn’t afraid of giving people a piece of her mind. If you try to harm her, Milkit, or her friends, she won’t hesitate to destroy you.
• Fingore: Flum can use her fingers and turn them into ranged weapons which helps her in her fight against Luke.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: She starts out as a girl with supposedly no special abilities to someone who can equip powerful cursed weapons and became a force to be reckoned with.
• Gayngst: Zigzagged. Flum has no issue being affectionate with Milkit, and she has no issue making it clear to others that she deeply cares for her. However, whenever someone indicates her affection for Milkit might run deeper than she claims, she tends to deny it. She even outright tells Eterna that isn't possible because they are both girls.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Flum has admitted she cannot understand why people such as Dein and Satils due to horrible things they do and live with themselves.
• Good Is Not Soft: Normally, she's a total sweetheart, but mess with her loved ones, especially Milkit, and she will have little hesitation about delivering gruesome torture, dismemberment, and graphic death.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Thanks to her reversed-cursed sword, Soul-Devourer, she can regenerate to full health from just about any injury, including (in her first big fight) being decapitated and having all her limbs torn off. Unfortunately, it does nothing to diminish the pain, and she suspects it would not resurrect her from head-splattering or if her heart was destroyed.
• Guile Hero: She's quite intelligent, solving difficult puzzles and mysteries with only the barest of clues and outsmarting most enemies that she can't simply overpower.
• Harmless Freezing: Played with. After equipping the [God Hating] boots she found in the abandoned Church research lab, her attacks gain the [Freezing] effect. While this debuff is not inherently fatal in itself, it does make whatever is affected extremely brittle, thus allowing blunt-force attacks to shatter it.
• Heal the Cutie: While she heals Milkit, her relationship with Milkit allows Flum to heal from the trauma that Jean inflicted upon her.
• The Heart: What she used to be in the Hero party. In her desperate attempts to be useful, she prepared the best food and tea she could, filled any awkward silence with small talks, and generally had the entire party focus on her. The remaining members don't have any real companionship with each other and without Flum distracting them from this fact, they quickly fall apart.
• The Hero: In Episode 05, Cyrill acknowledges Flum as the true hero of this story despite the fact she has the Hero title.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Flum’s weapon of choice is her cursed sword.
• Heroic BSoD: The events of Episode 03 slowly leave her more and more exhausted, both physically and mentally. After everyone she cares about disappears and she discovers Ink is a Manchurian Agent responsible for it, she finally breaks down and spends an unspecified amount of time crying and covering her ears as if to blockade herself from the rest of the world. She barely manages to bounce back afterward.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Flum is aware that she Took a Level in Cynic, and isn't all that happy about it. During the side story epilogue of the first Light Novel, she outright states she believes her heart has become dark.
  "No need for the compliments, Milkit. My eyes are just as dark and cloudy as my heart.”
• Holding Hands: She does this with Milkit a lot.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Even after figuring out the passive effects of Reversal, she had no idea what its offensive capabilities were or how to activate them consciously. Eterna had to teach them to her in Volume 2.
• I Regret Nothing: If Flum is confronted regarding the people she's killed before, this is her response to that because she believes that she was justified in killing them. When Dein tried playing mind games with Flum by having a slave boy present the decomposing head of the Slave Merchant, she makes it clear she is not going to fall for this sympathy play, and she has no regrets killing the Slave Merchant.
• Implied Love Interest: Interestingly, the first four Volumes of the series imply that Cyrill may have romantic feelings for Flum based on how she went through a Heroic BSoD following Flum ‘leaving’ the Hero Party. It is revealed Jean was partly motivated to get rid of Flum because he saw Flum as an obstacle to winning over Cyrill, and Cyrill completely breaks down after finding out Flum was sold into slavery.
  • Taken further at the end of Volume 04/Episode 05 when Cyrill saves Flum from falling, and she proceeds to carry Flum like a Princess, and she keeps holding Flum like this even when Flum asks her to put her down.
• It's Personal: Even before Satils kidnaps and tortures Milkit, Flum makes it clear she has every intention to kill her for poisoning Milkit.
• It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: At the beginning of the series, Flum does not enjoy being with the Hero’s party due to how most of them treat her as either a second-class citizen or with contempt, except for Gadhio or Eterna. During later Episodes of the Web Novel, she hates that Milkit and her other loved ones are targeted because they want to make use of her Reversal affinity as well.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Her go to method to obtain information from the enemy, especially when,Milkit is kidnapped during Volume 03/Episode 04.
• Jack of All Trades: While traveling with the Hero party, she picked up skills from just about everyone. She got herbal knowledge from Eterna, swordsmanship from Gadhio, magic from Jean (which she later refines further from Eterna), archery from Linus, and some other unstated things from Cyrill. Not very useful at first due to all her stats being 0, but once she gets her hands on cursed equipment that can raise her stats, she becomes a very skilled fighter. Gadhio further helps her improve when she asks him to help train her at the end of Episode 3.
• Karmic Jackpot: While there's no guarantee that things will go well for you if you're kind to her, it's almost certain that things will go badly for you if you treat her poorly.
• Killing in Self-Defense: A few of her killings are this. One notable example was in Episode 04 when she originally intended on letting an adventurer who kidnapped Milkit on Satils’ behalf go after he gave her the information she needed following the torture she inflicted upon him. When he attempted to kill her when her back was turned, she killed him without hesitation.
• Knight in Sour Armor: She wants to believe in people, do good deeds, and help the innocent but she's jaded and hardened by the considerable betrayal and abuse she suffered at Jean’s hand and how Cyrill treated her coldly as well.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Flum is this for Milkit, but at the same time her thoughts in the narration confirm she sees Milkit as her motivation to keep moving forward. In Volume 01/Episode 02, the narration indicates Flum is worried that they might be forming a codependent relationship while at the same time she refuses to let herself die until she can get Milkit to acknowledge her self-worth.
  • It is later revealed she was this to Cyrill as well who falls apart after Flum left. When Cyrill finds out Flum was actually sold into slavery, she breaks down further.
• Made a Slave: At the start of the story, she was physically dragged to a Black Market slave dealer by Jean and sold into slavery, despite her very, very loud protests. While what Jean did was illegal, he was able to get around it by branding her himself and doing a backroom deal.
• Man of Kryptonite: For Origin and all things that have received his power. Her Reversal affinity reverses the effects of Origin's spinning affinity, leading to the destruction of anything that is powered by it. This allows Flum to destroy the otherwise indestructible Origin cores.
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: With Milkit. Taking on the profession of Adventurer, which effectively makes her the breadwinner of their relationship, on top of being a Short Tank and an Action Girl, Flum is obviously on the masculine side.
• Necessary Drawback: Her Reflect spell requires touch, so using it to hurl back projectiles takes a truly uncanny sense of timing.
• Nice to the Waiter: She is always nice to Milkit after she became Milkit’s master. It is one of the factors that allows Milkit to recover emotionally, and they are able to form a bond.
• Not What It Looks Like: She says something along the lines of this when people react to her developing relationship with Milkit, especially when they embrace. This was most notable at the end of Volume 02/Episode 03, and Flum has a tendency to dig herself deeper when she tells them they are wrong.
• Oblivious to Love: While she teaches Milkit about emotions and concepts like trust, she doesn't realize her loyal maid is falling in love with her. That is until the end of Volume 03/Episode 04 when Milkit outright confesses to her. While it is dialed down from love to like, Flum begins seriously reconsidering the nature of their relationship.
  • This is taken up a notch in Volume 04/Episode 05. She acknowledges she likes Milkit, but when Milkit kisses her on the cheek, she still doesn’t get that Milkit is in love with her.
• Official Couple: With Milkit in the Web Novel. It is currently unknown if/when it will happen in the Light Novel.
• Oh, No... Not Again!: Flum has this reaction when Milkit is kidnapped in Volume 03/Episode 04. She blames herself for not being more prepared for this possibility. After she saves Milkit, she keeps her close as much as possible.
• One-Handed Zweihänder: Which is even lampshaded. Her Zwei-hander is so light (to her) she often wields it one-handed.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Adopts this mindset after the horrible treatment she suffered in the prologue. If you try to kill her or one of her friends, she won't hesitate to kill you. Keep piling up your crimes, and she will deliver you a Fate Worse than Death.
• Positive Friend Influence: Flum is an example of when one is removed. During her time in the Hero’s Party, she helped Cyrill handle her responsibilities as the ‘Hero’, she made the adventure more fun for Eterna, she helped give Gadhio a sense of purpose, and her presence helped make things easier for the Hero’s Party. When Jean sold her, it quickly became apparent there was no sense of camaraderie in the group. While certain members of the group were on good terms with each other, they were far from being a united front, and it fell apart not long after she was gone. She went on to be a positive influence on Milkit as well.
• The Power of Hate: Not her personally, but her cursed equipment. Cursed equipment is borne of the grudges from its previous owner upon death, the stronger the grudges, the stronger the curse. Since Flum's [Reversal] affinity reverses the effects of whatever equipment she wields, the stronger the previous owner's grudge, the stronger she gets.
• Power of Love: Zigzagged. While Flum's feelings for Milkit have helped her, she does not entirely understand what her developing feelings for Mikit are at this point.
  • During Volume 01/Episode 02, when Flum is in a desperate situation to kill an ogre that’s been hunting her, her thoughts bring her to Milkit, and that pushes her to push herself enough to finish the ogre.
  • During Volume 03/Episode 04, the sound of Milkit's voice awakens Flum from her comatose state. Satils lampshades this cliché.
• Properly Paranoid: During her feud with Dein, she is worried that he will target Milkit which is why she has Eterna keep watch over her. She is proven correct because Dein has Milkit targeted when he tries to have Flum killed, but Eterna prevents them from harming her.
• Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: She quickly forms a bond with Milkit. The closeness between them is noted by Eterna, Sara, and even Ink. Part of the series is about Flum and Milkit going beyond this.
  • She used to have a very close relationship with Cyrill, and Milkit shows concern regarding this. Flum reveals while she was close to Cyrill, and she doesn’t hold a grudge against her, she’s a lot closer to Milkit.
• Rags to Riches: Over the course of the first Volume and the first two Episodes, Flum goes from being in rags to earning significant rewards that allow her to begin building a life with Milkit along with obtaining a house.
• Resigned to the Call: Flum makes it no secret she was reluctant to join the Hero Party. She only joined because Origin chose her, and her appointment brought honor to her village.
• Revive Kills Zombie: Though she's not a zombie, her Reversal ability applies to healing spells as well as curses, making them highly harmful to her—as Sara accidentally discovers during a battle.
• Sadist: Flum is afraid she might become one. While she may not enjoy committing torture, she does realize that inflicting pain on others has been easy for her. She won’t hesitate to conduct torture if she is delivering karmic retribution to someone who wronged her, Milkit, or anyone else she cares about or to obtain the information she needs. When she figured out who Milkit’s former master was, her immediate thoughts were to make the person suffer for what she did to Milkit. She also wants to make Jean suffer for selling her into slavery, and she sometime fantasizes about getting even with him.
• Scars Are Forever: At one point, Flum is advised that there is magic that can remove her Slave Brand, but because Jean seared her cheek with a hot iron first, the brand is covering a vicious brand-shaped scar. So even if Flum does get the slave tattoo removed, she will still be branded a slave for the rest of her life.
• Security Cling: Flum does this quite a bit with Milkit.
  • After preventing Milkit from being raped and killing her attackers, Flum clings to her while assuring her that nothing that happened was her fault. Flum reflects on how fortunate that Milkit was alive.
  • After rescuing Milkit from the deprivations of Satils, Flum has Milkit sleep in her bed and clings to her as much as humanly possible, so she's never taken away again.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: During Volume 03/Episode 04, Milkit gets Flum to wear a maid outfit much to her embarrassment and much to Milkit's delight. Despite how embarrassed Flum is to wear it, Milkit believes Flum looks great in it.
• She's Not My Girlfriend: In Volume 04/Episode 05, she tells Eterna she and Milkit are not lovers because they are girls, but she does want to be with Milkit forever as her partner.
• Short Tank: She ticks off the entire checklist. She wears somewhat boyish clothes such as short shorts, has short hair, and is an Action Girl that still has some feminine interests.
• Sickening Sweethearts: With Milkit. The way the two of them dote on and flirt with each other almost sends their friends into diabetic shock.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Did this with Sara twice in Volume 01/Episode 02. She pointed out that criminals who aren't imprisoned will only commit more crimes without real punishment, and they won't just 'learn their lesson'. Later when Sara attempted to prevent Flum from killing someone who murdered an innocent man, injured two others, and attempted to assault Milkit, Flum makes it clear that some criminals need to be put down. She was proven correct because when she briefly spared the man's life, he slashed her throat, but her healing powers allowed her to survive before she killed the man in retaliation.
• Single-Target Sexuality: She is far more subtle than Milkit. However, in Volume 04/Episode 05, Flum outright tells Milkit she is the only person she has ever been this physically close to, whether it be sharing a bed or holding hands.
• Single Tear: When Eterna informs her that nobody had actually agreed with Jean to sell her off, and they actually missed her, Flum lets out a single tear of joy and relief.
• Stranger in a Familiar Land: In the web-novel epilogue, it's only been four years since the defeat of Origin, but the royal capital has changed so much. Thanks to human+demon cooperation and technology sharing that she doesn't recognize the place and initially thought centuries had passed while she was fighting in Origin's home dimension.
• Tempting Fate:
  • After realizing she was duped by Dein and issued a D-Rank quest instead of a F-Rank, she laughs that she isn't so weak, as her current stats are only slightly below C-Rank monsters. Then an actual C-Rank monster appears to interrupt her quest.
  • After Sara, Ottilie, and Eterna disappear as a result of investigating the mystery behind Ink in Episode 03, Flum thinks that she will be fine as long as Milkit is still with her. Guess who is the next person to disappear?
  • In Episode 04, Flum begins keeping a closer eye on Milkit specifically because she doesn't want to risk someone kidnapping her again.
• This Is Unforgivable!:
  • Acknowledges that Jean selling her into slavery allowed her to meet Milkit, and it ended up bringing a lot of good things to herself and her friends in the long run. However, she will never forgive him for that no matter what.
  • When she discovers Dein's goons killed innocent people just because they were her friends, her mind is consumed by rage. She was already dead set on killing them before finding out what they were trying to do to Milkit.
  • When Flum figures out Satils is Milkit's previous owner and the one who poisoned Milkit, she makes it clear she will kill Satils for what she’s done. This was before Satils kidnapped Milkit, and Flum made good on her promise to end Satils’ life.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy. Best exemplified in Volume 03/Episode 04 with their clothing preferences. Milkit gets Flum a maid outfit to wear. Despite Milkit thinking Flum looks adorable, Flum can’t stop feeling embarrassed wearing it. She opts to remain wearing her adventurer-type outfit due to being an active fighter.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She is an Action Girl who takes on the profession of an adventurer/fighter, and she is basically the breadwinner of the household. However, she enjoys shopping with Milkit and is a decent cook. While it isn’t as good as Milkit, she is able to help out in the kitchen.
• Took a Level in Badass: Several times over in the earlier arcs, going from "dead weight in battle" to dangerous Action Girl. This is the combined result of obtaining cursed equipment that raise her stats, finally getting real experience in battle, and receiving guidance from her allies on how to best use her Reversal affinity. Whenever she gets a new piece of cursed equipment, this trope is invoked.
• Took a Level in Cynic: The ordeal she goes through at the start of the series makes her realize the world is full of villains who can ruin the lives of innocent people and go unpunished. She adopts a Pay Evil unto Evil a mentality because of it.
• The Unfettered: It is Flum's goal to be able to forge a life that she and Milkit can live in peace. If someone kidnaps or tries to hurt Milkit, Flum will not hesitate to torture and cut down anyone who is a threat to that. She also feels a strong sense of protectiveness for her other friends, but Milkit is her 'irreplaceable treasure' that no one should mess with.
• Unstoppable Rage: Thanks to her Healing Factor, it's nigh impossible to stop her once she is set on her objective. Ergo, if you piss her off, you better start praying.
  • One of the best examples of this was following letting Dein blow her up in Volume 02/Episode 03, her body healed while his men weren’t paying attention, and she proceeded to slaughter them for both laughing at her pain and for attacking Milkit.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: While she can usually rebuff insults and slights against herself, messing with Milkit is a fundamentally bad idea. This is also retroactive. She will, at the first opportunity, go against those who have harmed Milkit, even those before she and Milkit met. It takes a lot of restraint to stop herself from killing Satils after she figures out that she was the one that poisoned Milkit. After Satils kidnapped and tortured Milkit, Flum kills all the Adventurers Satils hired, and she tortures Satils herself to death.
• Undying Loyalty: Flum has made it clear she and Milkit are in this together. No matter what, Flum is not abandoning her. She is also loyal to her other friends, Eterna, Gladhio, Sara, and Ink, and she refuses to turn her back on any of them.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: This was Flum’s first thoughts regarding Milkit when they first met in the Slave Merchant’s prison. She consistently makes it clear that she believes Milkit has beautiful eyes. The manga even makes her internal thoughts regarding Milkit's eye the first line for Flum.
• You Can't Go Home Again: It is established early on that due to her Slave Brand she can never return to her home village again. However, in Episodes 03 & 04, Flum does hope to see her family and friends again one day after things settle down, and she wishes to introduce them all to Milkit.

Milkit

Why did you take me, Master?!

^{For Flum's eyes only} 

The only slave Flum managed to rescue from the sadistic slave merchant to whom Jean sold her.

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• Action Survivor: In spite of having no combat abilities, she still survives many encounters with horrible people and terrifying monsters alongside Flum.
• Actually Pretty Funny: Milkit couldn't help but laugh when Eterna expresses her hatred for Jean openly.
• Anger Born of Worry: She gets upset with Eterna for leaving the house and causing them all to worry about what happened to her when all she left was a rather cryptic note.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: During the battle with Satils, she loudly declares she loves her Master more than Satils can hate anyone.
• Apologizes a Lot: She constantly apologizes for things that aren’t her fault, including when her maid outfit is ripped by two thugs that assault her. She feels especially apologetic to Flum because it was the outfit her Master bought for her.
• Attempted Rape: While Flum and Sara are in a cave, fighting for their lives, as a direct result of a landslide triggered by Dein’s henchmen, said henchmen break into the inn where she's staying, murder the inn-keeper, and Flum busts the door of their room in to see her pinned to the bed, her maid outfit torn, and said henchmen getting ready to gang-rape her. At this point, Flum explodes with rage and starts slicing them to bits.
  • Dein gives his men to go ahead to do what they want with Milkit if they get their hands on her. This time Eterna literally washes away Dein’s men before they have a chance to put a hand on her.
• Bandaged Face: Thanks to being exposed to "mustardo poison," she starts the story with half her face covered to hide her boils and festering wounds. Even after this is healed, she's had the bandages on so long, she's actually embarrassed showing her face to anyone. Flum seeing her face in private is a very intimate gesture.
• Bathtub Bonding: A reluctant example. After Flum saved her from being tortured by Satils Francois in Episode 03, Flum insisted they start bathing with each other. Milkit eventually agreed much to Flum's eagerness and Milkit's embarrassment.
• Beautiful All Along: Though it's partly Flum's biased impression, once her mustardo-toxin disfigurement is cured, she turns out to be extremely pretty. Flum becomes convinced her old slave master poisoned her out of jealousy. Volume 03/Episode 04 actually proves Flum's speculation was right on the money.
• Beautiful Slave Girl: Zigzagged. She always sold to different Masters because of her looks. Eventually, this was subverted by the effects of mustardo poisoning ruining her once beautiful face. While she is cured later, by the time it happens she is only a slave inside her own mind, as neither Flum nor any of their friends treat her as such.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Flum was the first person in her fourteen years of life to not treat her like a tool. For that, she gains Milkit's love and eternal devotion.
• Bedmate Reveal: In the aftermath of Episode 03, Flum wakes up to see Milkit sleeping in her bed and finds her adorable. Then Milkit wakes up and the two start flirting... Starting in Episode 04, Flum invites Milkit to sleep in the same bed as her, and they start sleeping in the same bed regularly.
• Born into Slavery: Implied. As far back as she can remember, the only human interaction has been master-slave. She is utterly incapable of functioning if she doesn't have a master to serve. Volume 03 further indicates that she was born for the express purpose of being sold into slavery.
• Broken Bird: The only human interaction she can understand is Master-slave, and that's the most benevolent aspect of her backstory.
• Character Development: She starts out as completely stoic and incapable of understanding human relationships beyond 'Master and Slave'. After meeting Flum she becomes more expressive. She becomes more willing to share her thoughts and opinions.
  • Ironically, Milkit's character development causes her say some profound words to Nekt that triggers her own character development in Episode 04.
  • In Volume 04/Episode 05, Milkit is capable of expressing jealousy regarding Flum’s friendship with Cyrill while the narration acknowledges that Milkit knows that is not how slaves should feel. In the same Volume, some other characters are impressed by how Milkit is able to speak openly about her feelings or about love.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: In Volume 04/Episode 05, Milkit shows she has a bit of a jealous side when she learns out Flum and Cyrill were close friends. Milkit quickly surmises that Cyrill is probably enamored with Flum.
• Clothing Damage: Her maid outfit is damaged by Dein's men when they assaulted her, but Flum prevents them from going further. Milkit also repairs said clothing. When she is being tortured by Satils, she uses a knife to cut her clothes and strips her into nothing by her underwear which she found more painful than physical torture because she loved the clothes Flum bought for her.
• The Confidant: While Flum is understandably not very trusting of others after all the horror inflicted upon her in Episode 1, she has little issue telling Milkit that she was one of the selected heroes, but was betrayed and sold into slavery. She is always completely open about her feelings for Milkit too.
• Cooldown Hug: During Volume 3/Episode 4, Milkit gives one to Flum when the voices are affecting her, and it allows her to remain grounded.
• Cry into Chest: Flum allows Milkit to cry into her chest or rest her head into her chest when she is having trouble.
• Curtains Match the Windows: Her hair is the same color as her eyes (gray according to the text, blue according to the illustration).
• Damsel in Distress: Justified. Since she was raised in slavery, she was never taught magic or self-defense.
• Damsel out of Distress: In the web novel version, when she is being held hostage along with other several key loved ones from those allied to Flum, she is the one leading the breakout, not the former A-Rank adventurer, and takes down quite a few goons in the process.
• Despair Event Horizon: Volume 03/Episode 04 reveals that she previously went through that and Flum was what allowed her to recover.
• Devoted to You: She is devoted to Flum. This was further emphasized at the end of Volume 03/Episode 04 when she put her life on the line to wake up Flum when her mind and body were rendered comatose. She makes it clear that she wishes to help Flum and not just be helped by Flum.
• Emotionless Girl: At the start of the story, her emotions are stunted, due to a lifetime in slavery making her internalize the idea that she is not human, but an object. After spending some time with Flum, she slowly recovers her emotions.
• Everyone Has Standards: Milkit has a hard time understanding why Cyrill would treat Flum so poorly when she was once her friend.
• Extreme Doormat: Having been a slave her entire life, Milkit will do everything her master says, and won't do anything when there isn't a master to order her around. Flum is working to make her abandon this kind of mentality with mixed results.
  • In the Volume 01/Episode 01, Milkit offers to prostitute herself to earn money for both of them, and she would have on Flum’s command. It took a lot of insistence on Flum’s part to get her to abandon that idea. By comparison in Volume 03/Episode 04, she is capable of occasionally talking back to others or taking the initiative.
• Facial Horror: When she was a slave under Satils, she came into contact with "mustardo poison" unknowingly. Flum presumes Satils slipped it into her food. As a result, it turned half Milkit’s face into a puss-filled maze of festering wounds. It takes her a week of constant medical care to recover.
• First Kiss: While it was a kiss on the cheek, Milkit gave Flum her first kiss.
• For Want Of A Nail: In Volume 02/Episode 03, Flum acknowledges in the narration that if Jean hadn’t sold her, she never would have met Milkit, and Milkit would’ve been eaten by ghouls. A thought that does not please Flum in the least.
• Grew a Spine: Part of her character development. When Flum was in danger, she willingly put her own life on the line to save her.
• Gory Discretion Shot: When she removes her bandages in the manga, her face is just off-panel as a written description of Flum's reaction is crudely written on the scene.
• Hair Color Dissonance: Her hair and eyes are described as light gray but illustrated as blue.
• Happiness in Slavery: Of the "beloved servant" category, heavy emphasis on "beloved." Flum views her more as a bride rather than a slave and openly states she's the perfect housewife.
• Hates Being Alone: Whenever Flum has to leave Milkit behind to go on a mission, Milkit always gets anxious about Flum returning. The narration of Volume 03 goes into detail about how the closer she and Flum get the more anxious she feels whenever Flum has to leave her behind.
• Hates Being Touched: Her previous master lied and told her that her Facial Horror was contagious so she'd flinch away from any human contact, positive or negative. When Flum wanted to comfort her, Flum had to grab her and force her to endure a Cooldown Hug, and then order her to value herself before she started to see herself as a person. Now this has been subverted because she enjoys Flum’s embrace. Flum embracing her stops her from having dark nightmares from her past.
• Heal the Cutie: Courtesy of spending time with Flum.
• Hidden Depths:
  • In addition to her housekeeping skills, she is also an amazingly talented sculptor and jeweler.
  • Early on Milkit proves to be observant and excellent at retaining information. When Flum is having trouble remembering something she saw or heard, Milkit is the one who reminds her what it was.
  • She is also very observant and has good eyesight. This comes in handy when Flum is in danger. Milkit is able to keep track of Flum’s location, and she can see Flum’s arm.
  • Volume 02/Episode 03 establishes she is adept at learning how to read and write despite receiving no prior education.
• Hope Is Scary: Prior to Flum, those masters who treated her kindly only did it to build her up so they could enjoy tearing her down again. It takes months of Flum showing her genuine kindness before she begins to have faith that this isn't going to happen again.
• I Am Not Pretty: Even after being cured of her Facial Horror, she's been so insulted by previous masters that she refuses to believe Flum when she's called "cute."
• I Will Only Slow You Down: At the start of the story, she repeatedly tells Flum that she's hardly useful for Flum's chosen "adventurer" lifestyle, and Flum would be better off trading her for another slave. Flum actively agrees with this but repeatedly insists that she's never going to be thrown away, and shows that she means it. Rescue Romance ensues.
• Karmic Jackpot: It seems the way people treat her affects their karma.
  • The Slave Merchant and Satils abused her regularly during her time as a slave, and they both end up suffering karmic deaths at Flum’s hands.
  • Dein’s men attempt to assault her, and Flum saves her by killing them. Dein and his organization are defeated by Flum in Episode 03.
  • Flum regularly protects her and teaches her to have self-worth. Flum gains her Undying Loyalty and is an excellent housekeeper. She later saves Flum’s life because she wants to save Flum.
  • Eterna cures her face of the poison. She helps give Eterna a good home life to enjoy.
• Lap Pillow: She provides one for Flum at the end of Chapter 14 of the manga after Flum saves her from Dein.
• Living Emotional Crutch: While Flum is usually this for her, Milkit proves to be capable of providing emotional support for Flum.
• Love Confession: After previously declaring her love for Flum during the final fight with Satils in Volume 03/Episode 04, Milkit privately confesses to Flum while also putting Flum's hand on her chest. This ends up overwhelming Flum. Afterwards, Milkit dials it back to liking Flum.
• Love Epiphany: Milkit spends most of Volume 03 trying to understand her feelings for Flum before realizing she loves her.
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: With Flum. She is the feminine side, being Flum's housewife in all but name.
• Meido: What she ultimately becomes in Flum's home. Getting a maid outfit was the first clothing Flum buys for her because she specifically requested it.
• Messy Hair: When Flum meets her, she looks like she was never given proper hair care since she was born. It's one of the first things she fixes after gaining some money in the guild.
• Mirror Character: Milkit is a reflection of what Flum could have become. They both suffered from a lack of self-esteem, and they were both treated as if they were worthless by others. They were both abused by nobles. They were both betrayed and sold into slavery with Flum being betrayed by a member of the Hero’s Party, and Milkit being sold by her parents. After Flum frees them, they both become a Living Emotional Crutch to the other, and they both gain a better sense of self. It gets to the point that in Episode 02 that Flum admits to herself that she and Milkit may have a codependent relationship, and in Episode 04, Milkit is more afraid of living in a world without Flum than dying.
• Never Learned to Read: Due to being a slave, she was never taught to read into Flum started teaching her. In Episode 2, Flum purchased a book, so she could start teaching Milkit.
  • Volume 02/Episode 03 establishes that Milkit has caught on to how to read and write quickly.
• Not Afraid to Die: Zigzagged. Her view on death is connected to her Character Development and relationship with Flum. When she is first introduced, she didn’t particularly care if she lived or died. After meeting Flum, she started to value her own life more, and she has stated how she didn’t wish to die because she has something to live for. However, when Flum’s life is in danger after being captured by Satils, Milkit doesn’t hesitate to put her life in danger to save Flum. As far as she is concerned living without Flum is scarier than her own death.
• Not So Above It All: She comes to enjoy teasing Flum. Not to the extent as Eterna or Ink, but she has her moments.
• Not So Stoic: It doesn’t take too long for Milkit to begin regaining her emotions after meeting Flum. This was most prominent during the Cooldown Hug scene Flum has with her during Episode 01.
• Only One Name: Justified due to being born into slavery.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: If she is visibly upset about something, you know it is bad. The narration indicates Eterna makes a mental note of that.
• Parental Abandonment: There is no information regarding the whereabouts of her parents. See Parental Betrayal.
• Parental Betrayal: She was sold by her parents into slavery when she was an infant. Apparently, she was born for the express purpose to be sold into slavery.
• Physical Scars, Psychological Scars: Milkit has scars that go beyond the slave brand on her cheek.
• Plagued by Nightmares: During Volume 02/Episode 03, it is implied she has a dream involving Flum dying. In Volume 03/Episode 04, it is revealed she still has reoccurring bad dreams of the slave merchant and her previous owner tormenting her. This more or less ends after Flum allows her to sleep in the same bed with her. Apparently, Flum’s embrace is the cure for Milkit’s bad dreams.
• Please Wake Up: To Flum during Volume 3/Episode 4.
• Protectorate: She is generally protected by Flum, but when Flum isn't around, she is protected by Eterna.
• Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: It doesn’t take long for Milkit and Flum to become this, including Flum feeding Milkit in front of other people. Part of the series involves the pair’s feelings growing beyond this.
• Queer Establishing Moment: While Milkit’s relationship with Flum is a slow burn, the reader sees their relationship is developing into something more. While some of their moments are within the Pseudo-Romantic Friendship territory, Milkit has more moments that go beyond that. During the climactic fight of Episode 04, Milkit outright declares she loves Flum, but she later has to dial it back to ‘liking’ her. Followed by Milkit kissing Flum on the cheek in the middle of Episode 05.
• Rags to Riches: In the first volume, she is introduced as a bandaged slave girl in rags. By the end of the volume, Flum’s reward for successful missions has resulted in them obtaining a house and money. Flum makes it clear to Milkit that this house belongs to Milkit as much as her.
• Rei Ayanami Expy: Introduced with a bandaged face, having a backstory of horrendous isolation and abuse, being the target of derision and jealousy, and way too stoic for her own good, but slowly and surely warming up to the main character after plenty of tender loving care.
• Sickening Sweethearts: With Flum. She treasures her master so much, she spends all her free time building figurines and jewelry in her honor. Flum is genuinely grateful. Pretty much anyone who sees them thinks they are an item or questions the exact nature of their relationship.
• Single-Target Sexuality: The only person she has ever expressed any interest in has been her Master Flum.
  • In Volume 04/Episode 05, Milkit states that while Flum is surrounded by others, she only has Flum, and it makes her anxious.
• Sleep Cute: Volume 04/Episode 05 provides an illustration of Milkit’s sleeping face. Flum finds Milkit’s sleeping face adorable. She even finds Milkit’s face when she is half asleep adorable as well.
• Smarter Than You Look: It is easy to dismiss Milkit for being a slave that lacks any kind of formal education. However, Flum makes good on her promise to help Milkit begin learning how to read and write, and Flum is rather impressed by her progress. By Episode 02, Milkit has learned how to cast 'Scan' and read to an extent. In Episode 03, she is learning how to write in ernest.
• Sole Survivor: In the Web Novel, it is revealed that she is the only surviving member of her family as her biological parents died long ago.
• Spanner in the Works: When Satils captured Flum, Nekt outright told Milkit it was unlikely they could save Flum which meant Flum would most likely be delivered to Origin, and it would guarantee his victory. However, after convincing Nekt to help her reach Flum, Milkit is able to grab Flum’s hand and call out to her. Milkit’s voice not only reawakened Flum, but she gained a new cursed equipment from the people Satils had killed which allowed Flum and her friends to emerge victorious.
• The Stoic: Deconstructed. Milkit starts off this way because of how her life as a slave had destroyed her, especially when she was the slave of Satils Francois. Satils lampshaded that Milkit became this after she had poisoned and disfigured her. She started to become Not So Stoic after meeting Flum.
• Supreme Chef: Her cooking skill is excellent and receives universal praise.
• Tears of Joy: Milkit experiences this in Chapter 14 of the manga after Flum survived being poisoned by Dein and is able to save them both from being crushed by a boulder.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl. She prefers wearing maid outfits due to liking the uniforms, and it further emphasizes her skills and enjoyment of more traditional housewife duties. When she tries to get Flum to wear a maid outfit as well, Flum is reluctant to wear it, and she takes it off shortly after.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: By the end of Episode 02, Flum's kindness has finally gotten Milkit to open her heart, losing her Emotionless Girl traits and openly demonstrating how happy she is living with Flum.
• Undying Loyalty: To Flum. Which is part of her early Character Development. For most of her life, Milkit always obeyed her masters because that's what slaves do. Flum was the first person she wanted to help because she liked her, and not because of any "master-slave" relationship.
  • In Volume 03, when Flum makes it clear she is going to kill Milkit’s former master after she tortured Milkit, Flum expresses worry that Milkit will hate her only for Milkit to rebuff that and assure Flum she would never hate her.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: When Flum saw her, she fell in love with Milkit's shining eyes, which she found to be beautiful even though Milkit was in a terrible state at the time.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Due to growing up as a slave, Milkit has trouble understanding any emotion, especially love. She has difficulty grasping concepts such as trust, so Flum has to explain them to her. Milkit isn't aware that she is developing romantic feelings for her 'Master'. Subverted in Volume 03/Episode 04, when she figures out she likes/loves her Master.
• What You Are in the Dark: Milkit is loyal to Flum and cares for her ‘Master’, but she proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt at the end of Volume 03/Episode 04. When Flum is captured by Satils, it would be understandable that Milkit would want to take shelter when she was advised to. However, she refuses to, and she insists on doing anything she can to save Flum.
• When She Smiles: Her smile is genuinely heartwarming, on both sides of the fourth wall.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When Flum is feeling down because of her Heroic Self-Deprecation, Milkit assures her that she does not have a dark heart.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Satils sold Milkit back to the slave merchant, she was deemed worthless due to Satils poisoning her and ruining her face. She would have been subjected to this trope of Flum didn’t save her.

Other Residents:

Eterna Rinebow

Oh, hello, Flum. Your friend there has mustardo poison I presume?

The former top mage of the hero party.

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• A-Cup Angst: The Side Story in Volume 03/Episode 04, it is revealed she is not too thrilled about her physique.
• The Ace: Thanks to her parents, she knows a lot about herbs, and she is capable of curing diseases that can't be cured by healing magic.
• Action Girl: She can defeat an army of thugs while drinking tea.
• Alchemy Is Magic: Averted. She can use magic but brews potions by mundane means.
• Anger Born of Worry: In Volume 03/Episode 04, Eterna wakes up to see that Flum and Milkit are missing Flum had gone off to save Milkit from Satils, and Eterna had no idea.
• The Atoner: It is more or less implied that part of the reason she sticks with Flum and Milkit is that she feels bad for not realizing something was wrong when Jean claimed Flum went home when he actually sold her into slavery.
• Awesome by Analysis: She takes one look at Milkit and immediately identifies her as a victim of "mustardo poison" without even a proper examination.
• Badass Bookworm: She is probably the most intelligent character in the entire series, and she is someone who should not be underestimated.
• Birds of a Feather: She becomes attached to Ink very quickly because she can relate to how the girl feels without any home or family to go back to. In the following volume, another reason is revealed: She was also a guinea pig for the experiments of the Church.
• Closest Thing We Got: Eterna is a lot of things, but a doctor is not one of them. Still, she is the only one among the heroes with medical knowledge, and since the only way of letting Ink survive without being a Manchurian Agent is to transplant Dein's heart into her chest, she had to play the role of surgeon for her. In fact, the role of an entire team of surgeons, since she was using water tendrils to do everything alone.
• Cloudcuckoolander: She is quite odd. While she is not an Emotionless Girl, she tends to emote in a very weak and subdued manner, to the point of having to tell Flum she is pissed at Jean for selling her to slavery. Then there is her habit of wearing a massive witch hat even indoors.
• Cool Old Lady: She is at least sixty years old and a lot of people appreciate her for what she has done for them.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: When Dein's goons attempt to burn Flum's house down and harm Milkit, she makes short work of them while drinking tea.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: When the human experimentation was scheduled to be shut down, her adoptive parents and the top researchers were ordered to dispose of her to hide the evidence. Said researchers died stalling the church's knights so she could escape.
• Empathy Pet: Her bird-like creatures fulfill this role in the manga. While it is implied they are like this in the Light Novel, it is outright shown in the manga. They are shown to share Eterna’s dislike for Jean, and they react positively when reuniting with Flum in Chapter 10 of the manga.
• Everyone Has Standards: While she never liked Jean, she outright hates him after finding out he sold Flum into slavery and told Flum that everyone agreed to it when in reality Eterna would never have agreed to such a thing.
  • She is disgusted by how Dein's men would target Milkit, and she does not offer them any mercy for their attempted murder of her.
• Family of Choice: Flum and Milkit quickly accepted her into their new home, and she becomes a member of the household. This gets tested later on in Volume 03/Episode 04. As much as she loved her parents and would have liked to live a life with them, she ultimately chooses the life she's forged with Flum, Milkit, and Ink, and she stated they are more important to her than a dream.
• The Gadfly: She enjoys teasing Flum over the nature of her relationship with Milkit.
• Happily Adopted: Although her adoptive parents did perform extremely dangerous and painful human experiments on her because they were forced to, they otherwise treated her with love and kindness, leaving her wanting for nothing, especially knowledge.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: It is hard sometimes for Flum to know how Eterna is feeling, but it becomes clear that she does care. In the manga adaptation, Eterna outright states she liked Flum as a person. She also treats Milkit, Sara, and Ink rather well.
• Hot Witch: She's a stereotypical witch and is very attractive.
• Hypocritical Humor: One of the insults she lets out at Jean upon learning what he did to Flum consisted of Virgin-Shaming him. As revealed in the Side Story of Volume 2, Eterna herself is a virgin.
• Making a Splash: She specializes in water-based magic.
• The Mentor: She was one to Flum during their time in the Hero’s Party, and she retakes the role after reuniting. She helps Flum learn more about how she can potentially use her reversion powers.
• Mundane Utility:
  • Turns out she can use water magic for more than just combat. For example, ensuring Flum and Milkit can always take a bath at their mansion, despite living in a world with Middle Age levels of technology.
  • Flum also speculates she uses water magic to do her hair, since it is always impeccable, even in the morning.
• Nice Girl: While Flum admits she has a hard time reading Eterna, Eterna has consistently been kind to her. During the first chapter, she treats Flum relatively well. When they reunite at the end of the first Light Novel volume, she makes it clear that she would never have supported Jean selling Flum into slavery despite him telling Flum otherwise. She continues to showcase her kind side to Flum, Milkit, and Ink during the subsequent volumes.
• Nice to the Waiter: Eterna is rather kind to Milkit, and Milkit is happy to make her tea and breakfast.
• Older Than They Look: Until Episode 04, the only thing about Eterna's age people were sure of was that she is much older than her appearance suggests, even if nobody knew why. It's because of the experiments she was subjected to when she was young. Even Eterna isn't sure of her exact age, though she does reveal she is around 60 years old.
• Orphan's Ordeal: During the fourth episode, it's revealed that she was a war orphan, and her life was so bad that being kidnapped and subjected to human experimentation was an improvement!
• Pretty Freeloaders: Subverted. She quickly proves to be useful to Flum and Milkit by curing Milkit of her poisoning. During Volume 02/Episode 03, she plans on selling tea to earn her keep. She also protects Milkit and Ink when Flum isn’t around, and she is willing to help with chores in the household, such as going shopping with Milkit.
• Red Baron: She is known in some circles as the "timeless witch", both due to her skills and her age.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She is the first to leave the Hero party voluntarily following Jean selling Flum into slavery. Primarily motivated due to Jean’s poor attitude.
• Shipper on Deck: She immediately becomes one for Flum and Milkit after moving in with them at the end of the first Light Novel volume. In the second volume, she makes remarks about how Flum and Milkit must 'love' each other. During the third volume, she has fun pointing out that Flum and Milkit are basically going on a date.
• Sole Survivor: She's the only survivor of human experimentation to make "artificial demons."
• Superman Stays Out of Gotham: During Volume 02/Episode 03, Eterna offers to help Flum deal with Dein, but she declines and tells her to stay home to protect Milkit. This ends up being a wise decision on Flum's part due to Eterna being able to protect Milkit when Dein's men decide to attack Flum's house.
• That Makes Me Feel Angry: Though her tone and body language don't change, she mentions being extremely irate when she hears that Flum was sold into slavery by Jean. She also feels irritated by the intentions of Dein's men to burn Flum's house and kill Milkit.
• Token Adult: Eterna lampshades at the end of Volume 02/Episode 03, that she is the only adult in their group.
• What You Are in the Dark: She refuses to succumb to her temptation to be with her parents again in Volume 03/Episode 04 because she believes she would betray Flum, Milkit, and Ink.
• Workplace-Acquired Abilities: Her adoptive parents taught her medicine when she wasn't actively being experimented on and genuinely treated her with love and kindness.
• You Shall Not Pass!: In the climax of Episode 3, she arrives together with Ottilie to hold back Luke and Fwiss, allowing Gadhio and Flum to keep advancing.

Sara Anvilen

So you need some help finding herbs?

The first of the church paladins Flum meets in the capital.

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• Action Girl: The youngest example in the series.
• Awful Truth: Her faith is shaken to the core when she and Flum stumble upon ruins that showcase her church engaged in unholy Godhood Seeker human experimentation.
• Big Eater: She eats far more than either Flum or Milkit on the trip to Anichidey, despite being the smallest girl in the group.
• Character Development: She grows up from being the naive girl she is introduced as in Volume 01/Episode 02. This is showcased in Volume 04/Episode 05 when she is more open to listening to what Neigass has to tell her regarding Origin.
• Cheerful Child: Very chipper and upbeat.
• Child Soldier: She's a 10-year-old child thrown into the front lines of the church of origin peacekeeping.
• Commuting on a Bus: Following the events of Volume 02/Episode 03, Sara is more or less written out of the main storyline, but the reader is kept apprised of her status occasionally during the Intermission Chapters.
• Cry into Chest: She cries into Neigass' chest at the beginning of Episode 04.
• Cute Bruiser: A 10-year-old girl who can easily beat up grown men.
• Establishing Character Moment: She is taking down one of Dein’s men after he and his friend robbed Leitch in her introductory moment. She is shown to have a strong sense of justice but is a little naive because people like Dein’s lackeys are unlikely to reform unless they are properly punished by the law. She shows a willingness to listen to others. She also is willing to help a man get herbs to save his wife despite it being against the Church of Origin’s laws.
• The Farmer and the Viper: She pleads with Flum to stay her hand when Flum manages to corner one of Dain's henchmen who tried to murder both Flum and Sara and then participate in a gang-rape on Milkit. As "thanks," the henchman jumps up and slashes Flum's throat. At this point, Flum's Healing Factor kicks in and Flum warns Sara that some people just can't be rehabilitated, killing the bastard.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: A golden-haired blonde and a sweet kid who genuinely wants to help others for its own sake, not for a reward.
• Healing Hands: Uses healing magic.
• Good Wears White: She primarily wears a white outfit, and she is one of the most virtuous characters in the series.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: When Neigass, of all people, rescues her and Flum in the ancient church ruin, she's still suspicious and hostile, because demons supposedly destroyed her hometown when she was 2. Then Flum asks her to Scan Neigass. Sara does so to see that they are horribly outmatched, so she stands down and disarms.
• Light Is Good: She uses light magic, and unlike Maria, she really is as kind and selfless as she looks.
• Little Miss Badass: At 10 years old, she already has stats on the level of a C-Rank adventurer. Flum, who at this point has two cursed pieces of equipment boosting her stats, barely manages to surpass her.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: When the Church of Origin turns on her because She Knows Too Much, she sides with demon Neigass to survive.
• Nice Girl: Sara is so nice, she makes Flum, a very heroic person herself, question her own morals during their first meeting.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Twice.
  • She helps Flum find an herb to save the merchant Leitch's wife and they both get trapped in a church ruin with Lovecraftian horrors that try to kill them.
  • She tries to find where Ink, a scared, lonely, and blind child, lives to take her home and winds up almost killed by one of her church's unholy experiments going horribly wrong.
• Odd Friendship: She forms one with Neigass who is a Demon while she was a member of the Church that opposes them. While she is a polite, kind, and upbeat kid, Neigass is an adult woman who is mostly serious but has a side that likes to tease people.
• Second Episode Introduction: While she is technically introduced in the first Light Novel Volume, she is introduced in Episode 02. Likewise, she makes her debut in the second Volume of the manga adaptation.
• Skilled, but Naive: She's a powerful and talented paladin but because she's 10 hasn't fully developed her sense of morality or fully honed her ability to judge character.
• To Be Lawful or Good: Predominantly good. She is okay with breaking the rules of the church to help people.
• Token Mini-Moe: A very young girl who fights alongside teenagers and adults.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky: When she finds herself being rescued by Neigass, a demon, she goes along, putting aside her trepidation that she's with her church's natural enemy.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: She wants to see people as inherently good and would repent of their sins, given the chance. She, sadly, gets to see herself proven wrong on a repeated basis.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: She may be a bit naive, yes, but she's surprisingly savvy for a 10-year-old, realizing people have the right to pursue herbal cures if the church's magic doesn't work. She also keeps her eyes and ears open, rarely letting a preconceived notion blind her to people's true nature.

Ink Wreathcraft Warning! Major Spoilers for Episode 3!

I can't remember anything but my name, Ink!

A child Flum finds collapsed in the west quarter just outside the adventurer's guild. Not wanting her to be raped, murdered, or worse, Flum takes custody of her, and hell ensues.

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• Action Survivor: Despite the fact she has no power of her own, she manages to survive pretty terrible situations as well.
• Billy Needs an Organ: Since her heart was surgically removed as an infant and an Origin Core was put in its place, the only option that had any chance of letting her survive without being a Manchurian Agent and having eyes swarm out of her head every time she goes to bed is to transplant Dein’s heart into her chest, without having time to do tissue and blood compatibility checks or anything of the sort. Eterna spells out how miraculous a successful procedure would have to be. Thankfully, a miracle does come to pass in Ink's favor, and she survives.
• Blatant Lies: Her claims of not remembering anything but her own name. Nobody ever takes it seriously, and the more obvious it becomes that she is involved in something big, the more they start demanding she just tell the truth.
• Body Horror: If the fact that her heart was removed with an Origin Core put in its place wasn't already pretty bad, when she goes to sleep, her face turns into spirals filled with eyes. It scares the hell out of Flum who locks the door.
• Dirty Kid: Besides her Skinship Grope moment, her reaction to Milkit presenting herself as Flum's slave is to ask if she meant that in a kinky way.
• Dying as Yourself: She attempts to convince Flum to kill her while she is still herself before her eyes can potentially kill her, Milkit, or Eterna. Thankfully, it doesn't come to that due to Eterna being able to replace her Origin Core with Dein's heart.
• Eyes Always Shut: They're stitched shut for some reason.
• Facial Horror: When she loses consciousness and goes to sleep, her face literally twists and countless bunches of eyes go crawling out.
• Family of Choice: When given the choice of going back to Mother and the Spiral Children or taking her chances to go back with Flum, Ink chooses Flum much to Mother's anger.
• Genki Girl: A tragic example. She displays even more energy than Sara during the first half of Volume 2, because for someone who had a life as terrible as hers, a normal life with average commodities really is a new and exciting thing.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: When "Mother" threw her away and called her trash, after The Reveal that the only way to shut off her Origin powers is to kill her, she begs Flum to kill her, since Flum is the only known character who can destroy Origin cores.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: At the climax of Episode 03, she rejects Mother's offer to come back to her because she wants to live like a normal human, and going back to the Spiral Children would mean becoming a monster who kills people for Origin.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: The reason she escaped the research facility. Even though she never had a normal life, she could still feel that something was off about her family, and she wanted to live with people who actually cared about her. It didn't help that the other Spiral Children would bully her for being a "defective" first-generation experiment.
• The Load: She admits to Eterna in Episode 04, that she views herself as this. Eterna as well as Flum and Milkit make it clear they love having her around, and her presence makes things nicer. This can be subverted in certain instances due to her strong sense of hearing can be useful.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: The Retribution eyes she manifests are clearly an unnatural occurrence, even by the story settings, she wasn't even aware of it until Flum managed to spot it by sheer accident, and Ink has absolutely no control of it with the end result to any and all poor fools that fall victim to it being death by Body Horror.
• Making a Splash: While it doesn't play a role in the story since the focus is on her Lovecraftian Superpower, it's shown when Flum scans her early on that her natural affinity is water.
• Manchurian Agent: Until she was informed by Flum, she was completely unaware that every time she goes to bed, swarms of eyes Retribution swarm out and blend into the surroundings. Then whenever certain triggers take place, the eyes automatically swarm whoever or whatever triggered them, causing fatal Body Horror upon any poor sap in their path.
• Power Incontinence: Even after learning of her Origin Core powers, she has no control over it, at all.
• Protectorate: Eterna generally plays the role of protecting her, but Flum protects her as well.
• Sadistic Choice: On the receiving end. Thanks to the cruel experiments to which she was subjected as an infant, she would either be a Manchurian Agent or a corpse. By a miracle, she was able to get a functional heart transplant. Even though Eterna and Flum managed to pull off the operation, and she survived it, she's in medical isolation for half-a-year, due to the risk of complications.
• Second Episode Introduction: While she technically makes her debut in Episode 03, it takes place in the second Light Novel Volume.
• Shipper on Deck: She gets the impression that Flum and Milkit are an item shortly after meeting them. In Volume 04/Episode 05, Ink outright asks Eterna what exactly is the nature of Flum and Milkit’s relationship to which Eterna gives an ambiguous answer.
• Skinship Grope: Did something to Sara while they were bathing that caused the other girl to yell at Ink to stop touching her.
• Spanner in the Works: Her eyes end up being this during Dein’s final attempt to kill Flum.
• Super-Hearing: Without her eyes, she gained this. This proves helpful when she is able to hear conversations or pinpoint when enemies were attempting to ambush the group.
• Token Mini-Moe: Alongside Sara. In fact, Sara has to leave the capital not long after Ink enters the scene, so she more or less replaces her as the Token Child of the group.
• Walking Spoiler: There's a reason for the folder warning. There is no way to give any meaningful description of her character without spoiling the twists of Episode 03/Volume 02.
• Wise Beyond Her Years: Possibly due to the experiments, but based on the language she uses, it is easy to forget she is only a ten-year-old girl.
• You Have Failed Me: "Mother" tossed her away and literally called her "trash" in disgust because she's actually not a total psycho, like the rest of the Spiral Children the facility turned out.
• Zerg Rush: While individual Retribution are easily dealt with, they swarm in endless numbers. Fighting them will eventually have them make contact with the body and inflict lethal Body Horror. Even fleeing is not likely to allow escape.

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