Characters for Slow Life in Another World (I Wish!). Beware of spoilers.
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Protagonist and harem
Itsuki Shinomiya
These three skills will be fine [Pocket Change], [Alchemy], and [Agriculture].
The protagonist. He's introduced waiting for the train home, complaining about how his job is working him to death, not leaving him time to cook a decent meal or even watch his favorite anime. Little does he know that his job literally worked him to death and the "last train" he boards is actually a train to the afterlife. He meets the self-proclaimed goddess who transports him to the new world, after giving him a choice in what New Life in Another World Bonus he wants. Even the goddess is rather concerned at his choices, but he blows off her advice. If not for the goddess sending a message to Hayato to greet him on his arrival, he would have died within five minutes of arriving..- All-Loving Hero: Somewhat deconstructed. He doesn't hold a grudge even when he should.
- The very next day after the adventurer's guild grievously wronged him by destroying his potions and attacking him when he protested, he, Solte, and Aina go on a drinking binge with them, at his expense.
- He never, ever punishes Solte, no matter how violent she gets. The time she wrote a letter that is responsible for nearly getting him killed only gets a lecture, at most.
- Rather than let the law do its thing, he goes to Yaschis and puts his freedom at risk to add the very woman who tried to kill him to his slave harem.
- Always Save the Girl: His survival instincts go cry in a corner every time he sees a pretty girl in trouble, even if she's in trouble because she tried to kill him! He later goes and makes his own dream of living the slow life borderline impossible by presenting Origoll a Miracle Potion, which should be impossible for a human to make, to save her life, despite knowing the fact that doing so might, just might, put him in everyone's crosshairs.
- Blessed with Suck: The three skills he chooses, [Pocket Money], [Alchemy], and [Agriculture], seem like they have good synergy and would make for easy living at first glance, but even the goddess advises him that there are better alternatives, advice he blows off. In reality, these skills are all far more trouble than they're worth. [Pocket Money] doesn't even give him enough cash for a single meal and can only be used once per day. Alchemy produces things that are inferior to what he can make by hand and has a chance of failure, until he does the work by hand first, and that takes a lot of work. Agriculture is so twitchy and temperamental that Itsuky winds up never using it, at all.
- Bullying a Dragon: Despite knowing Solte is prone to violence and quickly angered, not to mention the magic that's supposed to keep her from attacking him isn't exactly working as advertised, he just can't resist riling her up for his own amusement. A fine example is the creation of the bullet vibrator. After he uses one to deliver an innocent massage on Aina, he then goes and whispers in Solte's ear how bullet vibrators are supposed to be used. Solte has a good and proper Freak Out and Itsuki borderline skips and jumps as he's walking out the door.
- Culture Clash: A lot of his stupidity is excusable thanks to different cultural mores between his native Japanese culture and the new world.
- In his native Japanese culture, a simple, presumably heart-felt apology is enough to smooth over all but the most egregious of offenses. In the new world, an apology isn't sincere unless it includes borderline Make an Example of Them compensation to go with it.
- On Earth in general Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil is the law of the land. In the new world, when a pretty woman offers herself into slavery to you, especially to pay off a debt, refusing is insulting.
- Did Not Think This Through: In the manga version of events, he's trying to calm Regne down in a brothel while waiting on Yaschis, and hears her rant about himself, as colored by the inflammatory letter she got from Solte. Rather than use one of the many tactics he should have learned during his time as a salaryman to de-escalate or bide his time until Yaschis, Solte and Aina showed up, he instead goes and says "the guy you are talking about is me!" This prompts Regne to come at him with a literal Megaton Punch and if Shiro hadn't shown up at that very moment, his head would have been reduced to Chunky Salsa. Sure, there's always the chance Regne would still have gone all murder-crazy after Yaschis showed up, but then she'd have to fight through Solte and Aina too, and Itsuki would have had better odds.
- Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: He pointedly does not believe in grudges. He put his own freedom on the line to rescue Renge via a bet with Yaschis that he can raise 120 mil Nohl in a week, just so she wouldn't wind up, maybe, in a brothel somewhere, and instead would be a slave in his service. But even he would like nothing more than to make Dardarill a nice pig-faced corpse after learning the lout bribed one of the butlers at Origoll's estate into casting a fatal curse magic on her, on the off chance that the town lord's death might elevate his own position. The lout is just that irredeemable.
- Good Is Dumb: He means well, and all he really wants out of life in the new world is a Slow Life Fantasy. But he's a certified moron. He's quick to throw punches when he or his are insulted, but when the prospect of a real fight shows up, he goes Suicidal Pacifist. He openly ignores the advice of a goddess when picking out his transmigration skills, and when Reinrich is raking the adventurer's guild over the coals for attacking her apprentice, himself, tries to go Easily Forgiven on the guild, which Reinrich will pointedly not tolerate, as it affects and effects her very livelihood.
- Hero's Slave Harem: Reconstructed. His harem is composed entirely of slaves, a couple of which he sought out to keep them from going to a worse master, and some more who were shoved onto him. Keeping them happy and healthy is expensive and extremely problematic, at least one of them openly loathes him at first. But after he dotes on them for a while, they bend over backwards to make him happy, and Wendy is his de-facto wife. And yes, he and Wendy do eventually consummate that.
- Mundane Luxury: His life in Japan was so deprived, thanks to being grossly overworked and underpaid, that all he could ever have time and money for is instant noodles. What he loves most about living in the new world is not the mansion or the hot-tub, but Wendy's cooking, and he doesn't hesitate to say so, to the confusion of Aina and Solte, who haven't had such a deprived life, despite being adventurers who often eat the equivalent of MRE.
- Non-Action Guy: He chose not to get any self-defense skills and can barely throw a punch, so he lets his slave harem, who are almost all powerful action girls, do the fighting.
- Pinball Protagonist: He does very, very little, if anything, to advance the plot. Far more often than not, he's dragged along by the plot without his input.
- Suicidal Pacifist: He is such a pacifist that he won't fight back, even if people try to kill him. Sure, he was willing to throw a punch to protect Wendy from Dardarill, and nearly got into a fist-fight when the adventurer's guild destroyed his potions, but he goes out of his way to shield and protect the female adventurer that blasted her way into town to kill him and then when she "thanks him" for it by shanking him, puts his own freedom on the line to keep her from becoming a crime slave and, perhaps, wind up in a brothel. In fact, if it wasn't for Hayato being informed by the goddess, and his own harem watching out for him, he'd be dead several times over.
- Take That!: He is shown having night terrors thanks to his Black Company experience. When Shiro walks in on him suffering that experience, she lays down beside him and helps him sleep soundly during the night.
- Thou Shall Not Kill: He repeatedly stops Shiro from killing people that come at him, even when they pointedly refuse to be reasoned with, like Renge. This is just another facet of his Suicidal Pacifism.
- Unwanted Harem: Played with. Some of the women in his harem, like Wendy, are there because he actively sought her out. Others, like Aina, are there because they were shoved unto him by a situation beyond his control.
Aina
I already mentioned it earlier, Solte, but the people need the adventurer's guild. I will take on the debt to save their reputation.
The first of Itsuki's slave harem. She repeatedly tries to shove herself on and seduce Itsuki and is honestly gobsmacked at why he turns her down, even after he points out his hesitation at the Questionable Consent of their power dynamic, and the fact that Solte loves to drop kick, punch, or bite him every time she catches them in a compromising position, even after being in a slave collar causes her at least as much pain in the process.- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: She's gob-smacked and downcast every time she tries to push herself onto Itsuki and he tries to turn her down. She was even borderline insulted that he didn't want her to make herself a slave to settle the guild's debts.
- Bedmate Reveal: The very next day after the fiasco in the adventurer's guild, Itsuki finds her in his bed, right next to him, wearing racy lingere. He tries to turn her down only for Solte to show up, fully armored, and drop-kick him. Cue Big Ball of Violence.
- Culture Clash: She comes from a very Debt Detester culture which forces her to push herself into slavery to the man her guild has wronged. Itsuki comes from modern Japan, particularly the Apologizes Alot Extreme Doormat faction, where a simple apology is often enough to forgive all but the worst offenses, and Itsuki himself was a victim of the Black Company "work them to death and then replace them" aspect of Japanese society, so they often butt heads over the fact that Itsuki doesn't want her to be his slave and finds her desire to try and sex him up morally questionable while she feels insulted that he's rather hesitant about sexing her up and letting her be his slave.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: She constantly puts herself down because she thinks Itsuki doesn't find her sexy when she tries to make moves on him. She just fails to comprehend that Itsuki would like her to want to have sex with him for its own sake rather than want to have sex with him out of a sense of obligation. Solte always cock-blocking them doesn't help.
- Honor Before Reason: She had no obligation to sell herself into slavery to spare the adventurer's guild from Reinrich's wrath. The bald-headed idiot who attacked Itsuki and the thugs behind him who mocked Itsuki's loss are far more culpable, especially since Aina herself actually stopped the fight, and protected Itsuki from the bald idiot's sword. But she insists on it, even when Itsuki himself turns her down.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Literally. She's a Knight by profession and wears sparkling plate mail.
- Made a Slave: In order to Work Off the Debt of destroying Itsuki's potions however after the Renge incident she become's a permanently slave to him because she also feels responsible for not preventing the incident in the first even though she had no idea what was going on at all.
- Standing Between the Enemies: She goes and stands between Itsuki and the bald-headed lout who destroyed his potions and came at him with a sword, blocking both attacks as she tried to figure out what was going on.
Solte
I'm not letting you take advantage of Aina, you pervert!
The second of Itsuki's slave harem. She is extremely possessive of Aina and openly loathes Itsuki at the start of the story. She does grow to like him after a while, but she is extremely disliked on both sides of the fourth wall.- Abomination Accusation Attack: She is fond of thinking the worst of Itsuki and goes out of her way to accuse him of being a pervert who wants to exploit Aina, no matter how much Itsuki himself tries to turn Aina down or push her away.
- A-Cup Angst: She's already easy to piss off, but she's especially sensitive about the size of her chest. Fortunately for her, there is hope, as she's underage and still has plenty of room for growth.
- Beast Man: She's part human, part wolf.
- Blood Knight: Her favorite form of stress relief is going around beating up on strong monsters. What she hates most about being Itsuki's slave is not how he treats her, as she gets pampered like crazy, even though she doesn't deserve it. What she hates is that all the material requests he sends her and Aina on involves going to places with weak monsters that don't give her a challenge.
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: She's often very violent towards Itsuki and it's mostly played for laughs, even the slave collar magic that keeps slaves from attacking their masters doesn't really do anything to her when she decides to attack him.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: She gets angry with disturbing ease, and she gets violent when she's mad.
- Hate Sink: She's a decent enough character, from a moral standpoint, but her impulsiveness, irritability, impatience, and tendency to default to violence over the tiniest slight, real or imagined, universally draws the fanbase's ire. It doesn't help that she writes an inflammatory letter that is directly responsible for nearly getting Itsuki killed and making her second-best friend a for life crime slave by sheer virtue of multiple felony level crimes, including attempted murder.
- Leg Focus: She's very athletic and her skirt's so short, she can flash her panties just by standing still and pointing upwards. Naturally, the camera pans to her legs and butt whenever she's up for a fanservice scene.
- Made a Slave: When Aina making herself a slave to pay for the destroyed potions turns out to be insufficient to pay Itsuki reparations, she's shoved into a slave collar herself. She pointedly does not like it. It gets worse after the Renge incident mainly due to the fact that she was the one that caused all of it in the first place upgrading her status as a criminal slave making her a slave for life.
- My God, What Have I Done?: In the early days of her indentured servitude to Itsuki, she wrote a mostly accurate letter to a mutual friend of hers and Aina's who is also a powerful adventurer, but the language in said letter as extremely inflammatory. As she grew to like Itsuki, the letter was eventually forgotten. Until the letter arrived in said friend's hands. The woman in question came to the worst possible conclusion and tried to straight up murder Itsuki. Solte is horrified by the aftermath.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: Aina is her sister-in-arms, and Solte goes borderline Clingy Jealous Girl to keep anyone else from so much as leering. Considering that Aina repeatedly tries to shove herself on Itsuki, this causes all sorts of issues.
- Not Quite the Right Thing: All her antagonism towards Itsuki is purely for the sake of protecting Aina's chastity. Normally, that would be a good thing. In this case, Aina is pursuing Itsuki, not the other way around. This makes her needlessly antagonistic, abusive, self-righteous, and a completely unlikeable (to just about everyone but Itsuki) Sour Prude, ultimately leading to a completely avoidable murder attempt towards her beloved lord and master and putting herself and Aina back into debt slavery, plus putting Regne into slavery as well, at best at 40 mil each, at worst, Regne is a criminal slave for life.
- Spell My Name With An S: According to the other wiki, her name is supposed to be "Solte," but many translators, especially in the manga, go with "Sorte."
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Writing a scathing letter that borderline demonized Itsuki and sending it off to a friend that's a powerful adventurer in her own right led to the adventurer in question storming the city gates, forcing her way past the gate guards, trashing a saloon and brothel in a fight with Itsuki's top bodyguard and adopted daughter, nearly resulted in Itsuki's own death, and if Itsuki wasn't such a Suicidal Pacifist, the woman in question would have wound up a criminal slave shoved into a brothel. As it stands, the woman in question is luckier than she has any right to be and wound up being given a chance to become The Atoner as the slave of the very guy she tried to kill.
Wendy
Alright, let us begin the assessment.
Introduced in manga chapter 5, working at Yaschis's slave company. She's a [Special] type slave with the right to decide who will buy her services. She becomes Itsuki's de-facto wife after he wins her hand in a contest against Dardarill.- All Women Are Lustful: She wants sex with Itsuki more than he wants it with her, and in the end, she drags him to the bedroom so they can consummate their de-facto marriage.
- The Bet: The first of the slaves Itsuki wins in a bet with Yaschis. The second being the very woman who tried to kill him in a misguided Roaring Rampage of Rescue.
- Compete for the Maiden's Hand: The entire reason of the bet between Itsuki and Dardarill over her.
- House Wife: She specializes in the house-keeping chores, such as cooking and laundry.
- Interrupted Intimacy: On a repeated basis, she tries to seduce Itsuki, and when he reciprocates, someone comes along and interrupts them.
- She first tries for a Two-Person Pool Party only to have Aina and Solte walk in on them, and of course, Solte got violent.
- Itsuki invites her to bed, only for the little Cat Girl that is his daughter to wake-up, needing to use the bathroom, and proceeds to kill the mood.
- She finally gets the chance to have Itsuki screw her silly in the aftermath of Itsuki's near-murder when Aina and Solte take Renge and Shiro on a hunting trip and leave them alone. And There Was Much Rejoicing when they go through with it.
- My Fist Forgives You: When introduced to the female adventurer turned crime-slave who tried to murder Itsuki, she gives the woman a hearty dope-slap and calls it a day, never bringing up the topic again.
- Skinship Grope: Exaggerated. While assessing Aina and Solte as debt-slaves, she gropes and fondles Aina, to determine how much value should be placed on their ...ahem... nightly duties. Enraged, Solte pushes her off Aina, at which point, Wendy states Solte has no value in the bedroom.
- Team Mom: The dynamic between her and everyone else in Itsuki's mansion is typical of the phenotype present in 50's era sitcoms, with her as the "mom" and she likes it that way.
- To Itsuki, she's the home and hearth-tender who gives him the motivation to work hard to pay the bills but not so hard that he winds up killing himself.
- She sees Aina as the very responsible eldest daughter who wants to emulate her, and she's cool with that.
- To her, Solte is the obnoxious and rebellious teen who still loves her parents but sees them as little more than a nuisance in trying to learn her identity.
- Regne is the wayward prodigal child who did something monumentally stupid and caused a lot of grief but is trying to make amends, so gets a harsh scolding and a spanking to keep from a repeat performance and then a tender hug to know she's still loved.
- Shiro, of course, is the adorable and obedient youngest child who everyone loves to dote on.
- Through His Stomach: She wins over Itsuki and gains the right to take his virginity by her impressive cooking. Even Shiro notes that the meals she cooks for Itsuki in the mansion are tastier than what she used to cook in Yaschis's employ. Wendy is pleasantly surprised at the insight, as it was apparently a subconscious act.
Shiro
Will Master buy me?!
The first slave Itsuki encounters when reaching the city of Paragas. He sees that she's got a Growling Gut looking at the skewer he just bought. He offers to feed her, but Yaschis informs him that feeding slaves without permission from their owners is a no-no (and that does make sense), but then distracts Yaschis and shoves the skewer in her mouth anyways. She returns to the story in chapter 11 when Dardarill's thugs come after Itsuki and she shows up, on Yaschis's orders to be his bodyguard. She took a real shine to him and loves being pet on the head, getting scratched behind her ears, and just generally being treated as his daughter.- Adorably Precocious Child: She claims she doesn't want to be treated like a child, but she adores headpats, curling up on Itsuki's lap like a little kid, piggy-back rides, and all in all being treated as his daughter.
- Badass Adorable: She's cute as a button and can kick ass ten ways from Sunday.
- Baths Are Fun: Quite literally. Immediately after getting scrubbed down and entering the bath-tub, she loves to go swimming around (ironically, doggy paddle, despite being a cat-girl). The first time, Itsuki tries to tell her swimming in the bath is forbidden but then goes "meh, she's having fun and not hurting anyone, so why stop her."
- Bedmate Reveal: Shortly after Itsuki gets his mansion, as he's sleeping in his bed, he suffers a nightmare befitting of his former work environment. She lays down beside him. He wakes up and sees her next to him in the morning when he's woken up by Wendy.
- Big Eater: Her gut is almost always growling and when she stops to eat, it takes a lot of food to fill her up. Everyone wonders how she manages to maintain such a dainty and athletic body with all that food.
- Cat Girl: She sports cat ears and tail.
- Happily Adopted: Once Itsuki takes custody of her, she more or less becomes his daughter, and she's very, very happy to be treated as such.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: She wears outfits that are very risque, simply because she finds them comfortable, but she doesn't understand their effect on Itsuki and she's clearly not trying to be titivating.
- She also frequently bathes with Itsuki without intending any shenanigans. This is one of the few places where the cultural mores of the new world and Itsuki's Japan are in perfect sync, as it's perfectly normal for parents to bathe with their teenage kids, regardless of gender, up until just before they enter high-school, at 15.
- Lightning Bruiser: She's faster and more agile than a rabbit monster notorious for being untouchable because of said traits and she hits even harder than Renge, who is on screen seen punching through dragon scales harder than steel and canonically punched the latter with enough force to crater the stone floor she was standing on.
- Mood Killer: The first time Itsuki invites Wendy into his bed, Shiro mistakes his bedroom door for the toilet and walks in on them. Wendy and Itsuki are unable to either get back into the mood nor sleep a wink.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: While she's predominantly an adorable and very obedient child who makes the people around her want to pamper her like crazy, whenever there's a fight, she defaults to lethal force. It's understandable why Itsuki finds that unnerving.
Renge
Wait! Itsuki isn't as depraved as that letter mentioned? My God, What Have I Done?
The third member of Aina's party, who was out of town on the potion smashing incident and knew nothing about it until Solte's letter reached her. Unfortunately, the letter is highly inflammatory, and Renge takes off halfcocked, out to rescue her friends from what she sees as a depraved pervert who used underhanded means to get them into slavery. She barges past the town gate, takes Itsuki hostage, not knowing who he is, and when Itsuki tries to set up a meeting with Yaschis to try and smooth things over, tries to straight up kill him. It's only after she nearly succeeds and finds herself in captivity that she learns the truth, making her and her friends criminal slaves, for life.- Adaptational Modesty: In the original novel, when she's strung up by Yaschis, she's naked, so she'd have nowhere to hide or smuggle weapons to use in an escape attempt. In the manga, she's got threadbare shirt and shorts covering her more sensitive areas, and only her arms are chained down with magic sealing and "special copper" chains.
- The Atoner: She spends the rest of her life trying to make up for trying to kill Itsuki, thanks to Solte's inflammatory letter.
- Beast Man: Part woman, part fox.
- Blinded by Rage: The only possible justification she has for her (if it were anyone other than Itsuki) unforgivable behavior of trying to murder him and going through a bunch of innocents in the process. It's amazing she wasn't thrown on death-row for her actions.
- Crucified Hero Shot: Justified. Yaschis has to string her up, naked, with arms and legs tied to a giant X hanging off the ground because she is an adventurer powerful enough to solo a dragon, beat up and forced her way past the guards at the entrance to town, took innocents as hostages, and nearly wrecked one of Yaschis's brothels while fighting with Shiro.
- The Farmer and the Viper: The viper. When she's being chased by the town guards and takes Itsuki hostage, he helps her elude the town guards (which is actually pretty smart considering he could get easily killed if she tried to fight the guards and hold him captive at the same time), hides with her in the nearest of Yaschis's holdings, and arranges for a meeting with Yaschis to try and resolve her situation peacefully. She responds by trying to kill him first chance she gets, and after Itsuki holds Shiro back, moments before Shiro kills her, in legit self-defense, she responds by using an AOE earth-magic attack that puts everybody in the brothel in danger, and very, very nearly kills Itsuki. And when she's being arrested still tries to endanger everyone else with AOE attacks, forcing Shiro to have to knock her to the ground, and she be restrained with magic sealing equipment designed for very, very dangerous monsters. OUCH.
- Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: Wendy is more than happy to let bygones be bygones, since Itsuki has put the murder attempt behind him, but Wendy still calls her out on her rash and reckless mindset that lead her to think attempted murder was a good idea, so it doesn't happen again.
- Friend to All Children: Before she got Solte's letter and went after Itsuki, she is shown hanging out with some orphaned children in the town of Rokuku, where her quest to take down a dragon came from.
- Kung-Fu Wizard: She's both a powerful hand to hand combatant and mage, capable of using many different kinds of magic.
- Roaring Rampage of Rescue: Deconstructed. She takes off in a mad dash to try and rescue her friends from slavery, but she left her money and equipment behind, stormed the town gates, took a random innocent hostage, only to learn the guy is the man she's after and tries to kill him without bothering to listen to his side of the story. Only when she's in criminal custody does she learn that the man she tried to kill was the wronged party, and on top of that, the letter is brought to Yaschis's attention, and he points out that if Renge had read just a bit further, would have realized that Aina and Solte had already paid their debt and were about to be officially freed. But now because of her actions not only her friends that she tried to save have become become permanent slave's she herself has become one but to a worst fate if not for Itsuki the guy she tried to kill intervened.
- Stopped Reading Too Soon: When she got Solte's letter, she took off to kill Itsuki after getting about half-way through. If she had actually finished, she would have learned that Solte and Aina didn't need her help and the situation was already resolved peacefully, with the girls' chastity intact. Because she flew off halfcocked, she put herself on the slave market, permanently. She's just lucky Itsuki is such a Good Is Dumb Suicidal Pacifist that he'd risk his own freedom to make her his slave, rather than let her suffer the legal consequences and maybe find herself in a brothel to make up for trashing one in the fight with Shiro.
Alchemist Guild
Reinrich
I told you before and I'll say it again, you're too soft, Itsuki!
The head of the alchemist's guild and Itsuki's mentor. When she visits the adventurer's guild to check on Itsuki and sees that the guild has not only destroyed the potions her apprentice made, after considerable effort, but openly threatened him, she demands the presence of the guild master to declare a boycott on the guild, threatening to never, ever do business with them again. The guild has to scramble to try and get in her good graces again or turn to the pharmacy guild for healing potions, a guild they hold in contempt for offering lower quality potions at far higher prices and for which they initially mistook Itsuki as a member, hence their hostility.- Aggressive Negotiations: Istuki is horrified when Reinrich, having the adventurer's guild over a barrel, demands recompense bordering on extortion to get back in her good graces for destroying her apprentice's potions and then threatened him with violence when he objected.
- Never Mess with Granny: She's so old, the fanbase confuses her gender, but she's not to be messed with, as she has Vetinari Job Security, and if she's slighted, she can very effectively shut down the adventurer's guild by refusing to ever sell her higher quality and lower cost potions to them.
- Secret Test: When Itsuki first walks in the door and addresses her by name, she goes The Magnificent and demands extra honorifics. She's displeased when Itsuki folds right away.
- Smoking Is Cool: She's introduced smoking from a Kiseru to indicate her influence and authority in town.
Adventurer Guild
Common to all
Huh?! Another idiot from the pharmacist guild?!
- Did Not Think This Through: They destroy Itsuki's potions, pin him to the receptionist's counter, and attacked him when he objected, presuming he's a member of the despised pharmacist guild, which offers potions of considerably lower quality and higher price than they can get from the alchemist guild, and have apparently been repeatedly trying and failing to pass them off to the adventurer's guild, without bothering to check. Surprise. He's Reinrich's apprentice and what's worse, has a letter of recommendation from Hayato "THE DRAGON SLAYER". To top it off, the receptionist Faris hadn't finished appraising said potions and providing Itsuki the fair market price. The entire guild had to desperately bow and scrape to keep Reinrich from cutting them off. It's only because Aina offered herself as a debt-slave to Work Off the Debt that Reinrich was willing to accept remuneration of 1 million Nhol to continue doing business with the guild.
- Noodle Incident: Just why does the pharmacist guild piss them off so much. Whatever the reason, just asking about it is a Berserk Button for them.
Townfolk
Yaschis
Oh, are you interested in Wendy, dear Customer?
The leader of both the slave market and the brothels. He is responsible for making Aina, Solte, Wendy, and several others Itsuki's slave harem.- Mr. Vice Guy: He is a morally upstanding man, but he runs several of the city's vices, the slave market, the brothels, and the alcohol distribution.
- My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That: When Itsuki first saw Wendy and heard she's a slave, Yaschis immediately picked up on the fact Itsuki was attracted to her, and Wendy herself would be willing to let Itsuki buy her.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He gives Itsuki a 20 or so million handicap against Dardarill because the other guy had several years of a head-start and had noble backing while Itsuki didn't. He also bends the law as far as it will go to give Itsuki ownership of the very same female crime-slave that tried to kill him, rather than let the law work things out, with said female slave going up for auction and most likely winding up in the brothels to make up for the damage she caused.
Dardarill
I won't accept it! I will never accept it! WENDY IS MINE! GUYS! KILL THEM ALL!!
The arrogant son of a very influential individual with dubious legal standing. He is insistent that Wendy is rightfully his, against all empirical evidence, including the fact that she used her right to decide who can buy her to tell him "no." He challenges Itsuki in the street as Wendy is guiding the latter around town, so Yaschis proposes a bet as to who is the better breadwinner, the one who can get Wendy's purchase price together in a week will become her owner. Itsuki got a discount from the full 120 mil to 80 because Dardarill had a 50 mil head start.- Always a Bigger Fish: In chapter 7 of the manga, he tries to use his father's name as a club to threaten Yaschis to force the man to shoo Itsuki away from Wendy, when informed that Yaschis himself had loaned Wendy to Itsuki to show the man around town, and the two were effectively on a date. Yaschis turns out to be even more influential than Dardarill's father and Dardarill was the one cowed.
- Ambition Is Evil: Not content with the power he or his father have, chapters 32-34 (manga) reveal that this pig-faced lout bribed one of the town lord's butlers to curse her with a fatal curse that can only be broken with divine intervention, on the slim hope that his father's position is elevated so his own position will be elevated in the process. If Darwin hadn't already killed him by that point, he's certainly considering it after hearing the news...
- Black Sheep: Out of all of Darwin's children, he's the rotten apple, the rest are all decent and noble.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: In chapter 10, we finally have a hint as to why the adventurer's guild loathes the pharmacist guild so much. Turns out, he's a top manager of the pharmacist guild and he's arrogant, cowardly, crooked, and doesn't hesitate to use his father's name, thugs, and other despicable means to get his way.
- Crippling the Competition: He sends a gang of thugs to try and mug Itsuki as the deadline draws near. Unfortunately for him, Yaschis saw this coming and assigned Shiro, who took a shine to Itsuki, to be his bodyguard.
- Drugs Are Bad: He uses his position as a manager of the pharmacist guild to smuggle illegal drugs. Although his father's status is of dubious legality and morality, this is a bridge too far for the guy.
- Entitled to Have You: To Wendy. Even after she repeatedly told him "no, I use my rights to determine my owner to refuse you," he's utterly convinced she's his by birthright and utterly refuses to leave her alone.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: By getting Itsuki roped into a competition, Wendy wound up going to a good home as Itsuki's defacto wife. As a result of his Sore Loser temper tantrum, Itsuki wound up getting a lovely mansion in compensation, which allows Itsuki and his harem to live very comfortably.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Whenever he's denied something, he defaults to going "do you know who my father is?!" And making veiled threats that his father will do something... unpleasant to whoever earns his ire, though he never states specifics.
- Sore Loser: When Itsuki beats him in the competition, fair and square, he refuses to accept the verdict and has thugs attack both Reinrich and Yaschis. This draws his father's attention to the situation, and his fate is sealed at that point.
- Uncertain Doom: After Itsuki wins ownership of Wendy away from him, his father calls Itsuki into their home, apologizes for Dardarill's misconduct and states the boy will never bother him again, after being "suitably punished". He doesn't go into specifics, but Dardarill never shows up in the story again.
- Wrong Assumption: When he's called to Yaschis and sees Itsuki, a day or two before the deadline, he presumes Itsuki's there to surrender, and starts to preen and boast. Then he learns from Yaschis that Itsuki had already collected the 80 mil he needed to buy Wendy, fair and square. Not willing to accept the verdict, Dardarill calls in thugs to attack and kill everyone present, including Yaschis and Reinrich. Darwin holds him to task for the last part and the off-screen punishment is promised to be so bad, Darwin was expecting Dardarill to try suicide to try and get out of it.
Darwin
Oh, I see, a drifter. Perhaps you'd like to marry my daughter Melanie?
Dardarill's father. The lout's actions against Yaschis, Reinrich, and Itsuki is the final straw against the little creep.- Ambiguously Evil: As the boss of the west quarter, his moral and legal standing is in doubt.
- Eyepatch of Power: He has an eyepatch and as ruler of the West District is a very powerful and influential individual.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: After learning of what his son Dardarill did, he not only punishes the lout, but offers fair compensation to all the parties involved, and even offered his daughter's hand in marriage to Itsuki, who declined, instead choosing a house to live in as his compensation.
Derma
Hoh? This drifter is very, very interesting.
Darwin's other son. He takes an almost immediate interest in Itsuki after Dardarill was brought to task, ahead of schedule, thanks to the contest over Wendy's ownership.- Bisexual Love Triangle: He is competing with his foster sister Marie over Itsuki's affections. Itsuki might be interested in Marie at some point, but is patently heterosexual and would never be interested in Derma.
- Incompatible Orientation: He's romantically interested in Itsuki who is firmly heterosexual and would never accept romantic overtures from another guy.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: Unlike his boorish foster brother, he exudes elegance and wealth.
- Parental Incest: He identifies himself as homosexual, but only attracted to men better than himself. #1 on the list is his own adopted father, Darwin. Itsuki is #3. Itsuki is pointedly not interested.
Meira
You won't marry me? What a shame.
Darwin's daughter.- Altar Diplomacy: The reason she pushes to be Itsuki's wife is that her adopted father, Darwin, wants ties to the local "Drifters" and since Haruto's out of the question, Itsuki will have to do.
- Bathtub Bonding: Invoked, by ambush. As Itsuki was walking Origoll to his mansion's bath, he was so focused on the town lord that he never noticed Meira walking calmly behind them. It's only after everybody's in the bath, butt naked, that he realizes she's there. He has a good and jolly Freak Out as a response.
- Third-Option Love Interest: She's the only woman romantically interested in Itsuki without being in his slave harem, at least until Origoll throws her hat into the ring.
- Women Are Wiser: Of all the members of the Darwin family, she's the wisest and most level-headed.
Origoll
Thanks for the elixir, Onii-chan!
The town lord of the city.- Bathtub Bonding: Invoked. In the wake of Itsuki curing her, she stops by his mansion and insists on sharing the bathtub with him. Being the town lord, Itsuki has no choice but to bow to her whims.
- Crash-Into Hello: Itsuki first meets her as she's running down the street and crashes into his back.
- Delicate and Sickly: As a result of poisoning, she is laid low and almost died. Fortunately, Itsuki was able to provide an antidote with an elixir, but it still sapped her lifespan in the process.
- Girlish Pigtails: She wears her hair this way to symbolize the childish glee and innocence she wants to project.
- Older Than They Look: As a halfling, she looks like a child, but she is actually 40. She loves to catch people by surprise by playing it up.
- Rescue Romance: Before Itsuki cured her, she loved to flirt with him, just for the lolz. After he saved her life, she got serious.
- Secret Test of Character: She seeks out Itsuki and pretends to be a lost child, just so she can see what kind of guy he is. After he walks her home, she reveals to the audience that she's Origoll, the town lord, and then reveals herself to him much, much later.
Others
The goddess
I'm sorry, but You Are Already Dead. I'm here to whisk your soul away to be reincarnated, as an adult, in another world.
A self-proclaimed goddess who greets Itsuki as he's supposedly boarding the last train home, only to inform him that he died from being overworked by his Black Company and he's being whisked away to another world, like he was just fantasizing about. She's quite concerned when Itsuki chooses three skills that have absolutely no element of combat or self-defense and insist on those three lack-luster skills as his New Life in Another World Bonus. Reluctantly, she heeds his wishes and sends him on his way. She does him the favor of sending an oracle to a previous transfer, or he'd be dead the instant he arrived.- Beauty Equals Goodness: She's gorgeous and she's also an extremely benevolent goddess.
- Call to Adventure: It's her job to transmigrate people from Earth to the world she manages.
- The Ghost: We don't really know much about her as she only appears at the start and is rarely mentioned.
- One-Shot Character: She's only seen at the start of the story and never again.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: She wears glasses and is a highly intelligent goddess.
Hayato Hayakawa
Thank the goddess, I made it in time.
An adventurer who rescues Itsuki from a giant insectoid monster at the start of the story. Like Itsuki, he's a "Drifter", i.e. person summoned from Earth.- Battle Harem: He's introduced with a harem of powerful female adventurers, all of whom help him in his daily life as a powerful adventurer.
- Big Damn Hero: Just as Itsuki trips on a tree root and is about to be eaten by an unidentified giant insect, Hayato swoops in and saves him.
- Casual Danger Dialog: In chapter 9 (manga), Itsuki calls him using the guild card's "communication feature" about advice regarding the items in the bag he was given as an arrival gift, and Hayato answers the call. Thing is, the call came in while Hayato and his harem are fighting what looks like an oversized cockatrice at the time, and Hayato talks to Itsuki like there's nothing going on at all.
- Famed In-Story: The adventurer's guild has a Mass "Oh, Crap!" when they hear Itsuki had a letter of introduction from him and they destroyed Itsuki's potions, and came at him with weapons when Itsuki protested, without bothering to check first.
- Hero of Another Story: He's pursuing the standard isekai LN plotline of slaying monsters with his Battle Harem, and only visits Itsuki's Slow Life Fantasy plot occasionally.
- The Magnificent: He's known as Hayato "The Dragon Slayer."
- Out of Focus: He's rarely on-screen.
- Trapped in Another World: Like Itsuki, he's originally from Japan. Unlike Itsuki, he pursued the Stock Light-Novel Hero route of becoming an adventurer.
