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Scarlet:

  • All-Loving Heroine: She doesn't discriminate. She helps everyone in need, regardless of background. This does, however, have limits. If you're a card-carrying villain who goes around kicking puppies, especially by threatening children for a laugh, she will have no mercy.
  • And Then What?: Sure, she asked the adventuring party she was with to head back for reinforcements, offering to stay behind to deal with the evil vampire who was too strong for the rest of her party to take on, and she beats him, hurrah! Now she has to deal with an entire basement full of very, very naked and very, very pregnant women who've been caged up who knows how long, several of whom are completely catatonic, alone, and she has no idea where to start! What's worse, even when the reinforcements arrive, they're likely to know even less!
  • An Arm and a Leg: When she finds herself in a battle with an even stronger Omnicidal Maniac evil vampire, the battle was so fierce, she lost one arm and both legs before she could kill the bastard with sunlight. She had to down two jars of blood the size of her head before she could recover.
  • Arrested for Heroism: Her good works on the planet Terrerium get her a "light" sentence of 10,000 years being forced to administer the world, and that's just on-the-job training. She'll have to do the same on many other worlds, possibly for eons.
  • Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: With Ubimelech hot on her heels, she has no choice but to push the "Apotheosis" button on the machine interface at the bottom of the Hourai dungeon. Midway through the transformation into a god, Ubimelech catches up with her and tries to kill her again. She wakes up in the divine realm being greeted by the gods' equivalent of a defense attorney, having been transformed into God Scarlet.
  • Batman Grabs a Gun: When she reincarnated, as a full-grown adult vampire, she swore off drinking human blood for fear of being Drunk on the Dark Side. Then sweet little Alicia develops advanced lung cancer and becomes mortally ill, no hope for a cure. Scarlet winds up having to drink Alicia's blood to save her soul. It's a truly heart-wrenching scene.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: She's as soft as a marshmallow, both literally and figuratively, giving even the most heinous of people the benefit of the doubt, but go Card-Carrying Villain in front of her, especially by harming, or threatening to harm, a child, and may the gods have mercy on your soul because You Are Already Dead.
  • But Now I Must Go: Once she manages to lead the large and disparate group of women back to their home village, she reveals that she was never planning on watching over them indefinitely as she has other obligations elsewhere. The reasoning is actually quite sound. Among Scarlet's many issues, she's got to worry that the gods are going to send more and more assassins after her, and bringing along a group that can't defend themselves into that is the height of insanity, but she never reveals this to them. She just gives them a large amount of money (which she has not use for anyway) to help them get back on their feet, and couple of ways to contact her in case of an emergency before taking off back to her dungeon and power-leveling like crazy.
  • Can't Refuse the Call Anymore: In the aftermath of dealing with evil-vampire Bolthorn, as she's being mobbed by the survivors, she comes to the conclusion that she can no longer proclaim she's not the spiritual successor to "Saint" Scarlet.
  • Chekhov's Armoury: Weaponized and played for laughs. Once she masters space-time magic, she creates an inter-dimensional pocket to store all her stuff, and also just throws all her trash in there, forgetting about it. When Ubimelech shows up and curbstomps her to 0 hp, even ripping out her heart and spine, crushing both, this pocket rips open, dumping a literal mountain of trash on his head, forcing him to flee.
  • Chekhov's Hobby: Back on Earth, he loved to browse the web and look up recipes. In this new world, this makes her a Supreme Chef, and even helps an orphanage have a stable income by teaching the orphans how to make basic soap, a novel commodity so rare that only nobles can normally afford it.
  • Classical Antihero: Despite the fact that she goes out of her way to help people she comes across, without prejudice, even giving the most heinous the benefit of the doubt, she sees herself as "selfish, hypocritical, and cowardly" because she's unwilling to drop her life or self-interests to do more, even when what she does is something so magnificent that the one she helped calls it a "miracle of God."
  • Combo Platter Powers: Mastery of magic in the dungeon has given her many abilities:
  • Daywalking Vampire: Almost. She can walk in sunlight, but only because she fashioned a skill that allows her to heal when exposed to light. Sunlight still results in instant sunburn, so she covers up whenever she has to be out and about during the day.
  • Ditzy Genius: She is a talented computer programmer, and has pretty much mastered the skill-system of this new world, even learning [Spirit Perception] to the point some people think she's centuries old, because that's how long it normally takes to learn. Yet, she doesn't have the good sense when she's grabbed in a soap shop, which can only be accessed by nobles in the nobles' district to yell out "Unhand me, Sir! What gives you the right to manhandle a Lady?!"
  • Does Not Know His Own Strength: Once she gets into town, she frequently shocks people by doing things like lifting a bull carcass one handed and laying it on a counter.
    "Wasn't that heavy?"
    Scarlet:"Nope."
  • D-Cup Distress: She hates the fact that her breasts are big enough to rival the head of a 6-year-old child, and finds them a nuisance, on a good day.
  • Did Not Think This Through: In a hurry before the administrator returned, he just skipped over most of the instructions and rules for transferring himself into the new world, even overlooking his "character's" gender, and then when looking up at the sky, confused the three moons for suns, until the real deal came over the horizon. OUCH! That was a painful lesson.
  • Enlightenment Superpowers: Her enlightenment rating is very close to 100% and her soul is described as being very clear and bright. It is implied that this means that she is very close to graduating from the cycle of Reincarnation and becoming a god herself.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: Philia, the orphanage director, who is clearly female, is not only madly in love with her, but gives her a "Shut Up" Kiss to confirm it.
  • Exotic Weapon Supremacy: She fights best with cestus (metal plates wrapped to the knuckles with belts). To date, she's only found one weaponsmith who makes and repairs them.
  • Forgot About His Powers: Truth in Television. Scarlet tends to forget her vast cornucopia of skills when she's under duress and spams her most common attacks, even when they're clearly ineffective. This has been pointed out to her on various occasions.
  • Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: She is a vampire, but helps the helpless, protects the weak and innocent, and does good deeds wherever she goes.
  • Friend to All Children: She's great around children and they tend to like her as a result.
  • Genre Blind: When she was male human on Earth (home country not specified), he never read any isekai sotries or novels so she had no idea what to expect.
  • Hammerspace: Found a magic bag in the dungeon that allows for unlimited storage of non-living things.
  • Healing Factor: She regenerates by drinking blood.
  • Hero Ball: She welcomes a party of heavily armed "heroes" with open arms, albeit while surrounded by fairies who were guarding her. The moment they set eyes on her, they immediately, and unprovoked, attack her with weapons of cold iron, which is so toxic to her she can't even touch it. Even with Sara using firearms in her defense, she would have died if the fairies' SOS didn't manage to reach the dark side settlement in time.
  • Horror Hunger: Aside from only being able to get nourishment from blood, she once found herself trapped on a dungeon floor with only insects, arachnids, and other loathsome creatures. By the time she encountered the boss, she was so famished, she went into a fugue and drank the ichor that passes for blood. After she woke from the fugue, she tried to vomit it up, in vain.
  • Humble Hero: She's all but allergic to praise.
  • Identical Stranger: To a previous Scarlet that lived on this new world some 500 odd years ago but was killed by the church's "Hero." The populace, who loved SAINT Scarlet, was not happy, and the church took a major hit to its reputation that it's still trying to recover from. While their physical appearances are different, the uncanny similarities in circumstances, personality, and even soul are enough to make a lot of people want to believe that she is the previous Scarlet somehow returned, though it is eventually confirmed that they really are two separate people.
  • Kung-Fu Wizard: Equally skilled in hand-to-hand combat and magic.
  • Lesser of Two Evils: How she feels about having to introduce the concept of "abortion" to this new world. On the one hand, she rightly considers Balthorn's unborn children innocents. On the other, if she did nothing, several of the traumatized women, after learning how horrid the bastard was, were perfectly willing to mutilate themselves to death, just to keep from having to bear that monster's blood offspring. With great reluctance, Scarlet does indeed perform the procedure on 6 hold-outs that would not be swayed by logic or emotion.
  • Mama Bear: Do! Not! Threaten! A! Child! when she's around. The consequences are never pretty.
  • Mugging the Monster: Many antagonists grossly underestimate her because she's suppressing her aura, trying to avoid attracting the attention of a human supremacist church that hates "demons", especially vampires like herself. Eventually, it reaches the point where the attacks from these small-fry becomes such a nuisance that she stops trying to hide her true nature.
  • Mundane Luxury: The new world is so backwards, everything she can provide is something fit for a king, even something so simple as a bar of soap...
  • Mystical White Hair: Chose to be reincarnated with silver hair.
  • No Periods, Period: Although she supposedly can get pregnant, seeing as Balthorn had no problem siring children, in the years since she reincarnated into this new world, she has yet to experience menstruation.
  • Our Vampires Are Different: Invoked. To counter her inherent weakness to sunlight, which she couldn't remove, she fashions a [Sunlight Vulnerability] skill that does the exact opposite and heals her from exposure to light.
  • Power Parasite: As a vampire, she gains skills from eating the blood of her foes.
  • Reincarnated as the Opposite Sex: Scarlet was a male soul before reincarnating as a female vampire.
  • Renaissance Man: She improves the world wherever she goes by small but significant little "inventions" like soap, paper, and the printing press.
  • Sharing a Body: Winds up sharing her body with Alicia, at least temporarily. She's seeking a way to bring Alicia her own body, so Alicia can enjoy Scarlet's cooking again, among other things.
  • Shrinking Violet: She is painfully shy.
  • Skilled, but Naive: She has mastered many skills, both combat and otherwise, but she knows so little, if anything, about the workings of society in this new world that she's very easily manipulated.
  • The Sleepless: As a vampire, she does not sleep.
  • Strong and Skilled: She is over level 260 and has mastered many skills, combat and otherwise.
  • Supreme Chef: To implausible levels. She can't taste test, since anything but blood literally tastes like shit to her, and she makes many meals that she never tasted before, but everyone loves her cooking. She often has to stop and wonder if the cuisine in this new world is really that bad as a result.
  • Too Many Belts: Once she manages to fashion herself a decent robe, she uses one belt on her waist to hold it in place, and three on her chest, plus two on her sleeves.
  • Truly Single Parent: At a certain point in the story, she decides to reincarnate Alicia by making herself pregnant with a strand of Alicia's hair and a skill she crafted from modifying the goblin "breeder" skill she got early in the story to the "artificial insemination" skill.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: After a bit of tinkering with the world's system, and some serious trial and error, she can change her body to look like another race, elf, human, beast-kin, and she can manifest wings that allow her to fly. She has yet to try changing her gender appearance.
  • Winged Humanoid: She eventually gains wings, and after much, much practice, masters flight.

Alicia:

A blind little girl Scarlet finds abandoned in the woods, about to die of exposure, hunger, and hypothermia.
  • Awesome by Analysis: Once she "wakes up" in Scarlet's body, and is given access to Scarlet's home-brewed [Scan] skill, she happily uses it to identify new things and give Scarlet the low-down on the monsters she encounters.
  • Break the Cutie: Oh this sweet kid's had it rough! She was born blind, did not receive any kind of marketable skill, and coming from a dirt-poor family with Massively Numbered Siblings, when a famine hit her home village, she was taken into the woods by her parents and left there, all alone. And even after Scarlet found and rescued her, the moment she recovers, her lung cancer metastasizes, pieces of her lungs winding up in Scarlet's hands which is how Scarlet found out!
  • Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Combined with Cold Equation. Heart-breaking as it is, her parents abandoned her in a forest because there simply wasn't enough food to go around, and a blind, unskilled child like Alicia was the logical choice. Scarlet investigates, and finds that it's true, so deposits some wolf-meat on the door of Alicia's family with a note "thanks for letting me meet your daughter." The parents break down in Tears of Joy at learning the little girl was Happily Adopted.
  • Funbag Air Bag: Loves to use Scarlet's breasts as pillows. She's light enough that it doesn't bother Scarlet too much.
  • Happily Adopted: Once picked up by Scarlet, she happily calls the latter "big sis."
  • Hates Being Alone: And who can blame her. She can't see, and the last time she didn't hear anyone around, she was in a forest, left to die. So when Scarlet goes to the dungeon for a quick bite, and to grab some cooking ingredients while she's napping, she wakes up and has a panic attack, and Scarlet has to hug her tight for hours before she settles down, and realizes she's not going to be abandoned again.
  • I Can Not Self Terminate: When the cancer has reached its terminal stage, she begs Scarlet to drink her blood and secure her soul, before it's too late.
  • Incurable Cough of Death: Justified by terminal stage lung cancer.
  • Instant Expert: Scarlet, the one who hobbled together the [Scan] skill, couldn't get it to work right, despite spending weeks tinkering with it. Biggest problem being that it just spewed out too much inconsequential information. Alicia uses it once and almost immediately figures out how to prune away all the flavor text and present only the most critical and relevant data that Scarlet needs, in real time, thus actually making the skill practical in live combat.
  • Sharing a Body: Scarlet takes her soul into her own body, hoping to one day be able to revive the little girl.
  • Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: She was introduced as a five year old, and she's already thinking about making babies... Then when sharing a body with Scarlet, is a little too eager to see Scarlet hunt down and kill things.

Claret:

A dark spirit who finds Scarlet and immediately demands to become her familiar, confusing her with the Scarlet of 500 years ago whom she clearly loved.
  • Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Frequently begs for headpats and rubs from Scarlet.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: She's a dark spirit, but is good and kind, provided she's not provoked.
  • My Master, Right or Wrong: Scarlet's word is law, end of story.
  • Property of Love: Demands to be Scarlet's familiar.
  • Yandere: She is extremely possessive of Scarlet and gets murderous should anyone try to come between them.
  • You Remind Me of X: She thinks the current Scarlet is the same Scarlet she loved from 500 years ago. Upon hearing the testimony, current Scarlet is unnerved by the resemblance.

     Edgeworth Village 

Common to All:

  • One-Shot Character: The named characters from here, save Alicia, are only mentioned once in passing, and never heard from again.
  • Perpetual Poverty: The village is in a real bad state. The crops can't even yield enough for the locals, let alone visitors, the nearby forest is filled with monsters, making hunting difficult and dangerous. About the only merit are passing adventurers, and they don't do much for the economy, just go to the bar and drink, taking their loot onward to the city, where they can get better prices.

Russel:

The adventurer's guild master.
  • Gentle Giant: Towers over Scarlet, but is a jovial old sort who treats her kindly.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Because he bent the rules for Scarlet, allowing her to register for the guild by using a portion of the proceeds of a sale from monster materials, he was able to procure from Scarlet enough food to feed most of the local village.
  • Mr. Exposition: As the guild master, he fills in Scarlet about much of the world's backstory, especially regarding Saint Scarlet, after whom she's named.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Bent the rules a bit so Scarlet could register.

Mint:

Owner of Mint's general store.
  • Dramatic Irony: He packs up the 23 wolves Scarlet killed, bringing the windfall back to the village, not realizing Scarlet had already sold boar meat to the adventurer's guild, enough to feed the village for a day.
  • Entertainingly Wrong: Posits that Scarlet may not be a reincarnation, but in fact the original, having hidden away for centuries and returned. He makes a fair point in stating the original Scarlet was a case of Never Found the Body.
  • Honest Corporate Executive: Runs his store honestly, and fairly.
  • Intrepid Merchant: Travels between Edgeworth Village and Linsingston City, and the road is hardly safe.
  • I Owe You My Life: Rescued by Scarlet when their paths crossed as she was heading to the city while he was headed back to the village.

Alan:

Mint's subordinate, who manages his store while Mint trades between the village and the city.
  • Lazy Bum: He barely does anything to keep the store running. Scarlet had to shout when she entered an apparently empty store wherein he dragged himself out to talk to her.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: He kept trying to peek under Scarlet's hood, which annoyed her to the extreme.

Zimmer:

One of the town guards.
  • Internal Reveal: Reveals to Mint Scarlet's acts in the village of Edgeworth.

Phillip:

Alicia's father.
  • Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: It was his idea to abandon Alicia, as he had no choice. There simply wasn't enough food to feed her.
  • Despair Event Horizon: Coming back empty-handed, repeatedly, from hunting, he was loathe to come home and face his starving family, until he heard that someone dropped off a large gift of food, with a note "thanks for taking care of her until we met."
  • Outside-Context Problem: He can't make heads or tails of why someone would drop off food outside the home of a family that abandoned their child, and do it anonymously. He agrees with his wife, Hilda, that he shouldn't dwell on it too much, and just enjoy the gift with gratitude.

Hilda:

Alicia's mother.
  • Accidental Truth: She proclaims that the food must have come from Saint Scarlet, or someone who got a second chance from the gods. Just so happens current Scarlet is someone who got a second chance from the gods, by stealing a reincarnation ticket to this world.
  • Secret Test of Character: Scarlet was watching and listening outside the window to hear the family's straits, and heard, to her horror, that the situation was so bad, they can't even guarantee the kids are fed on a daily basis. So it wasn't a case of Alicia being tricked because she's blind.

     Linsington City 

Philla:

The owner of an orphanage in the city.
  • Because You Were Nice to Me: Because you were nice to "us." She's romantically fond of Scarlet because the latter helped make the orphanage self-sufficient and really lightened her load by fixing up the orphanage and giving the kids a trade.
  • An Entrepreneur Is You: At Scarlet's behest, she sets up a soap making industry to sell to the novelty store.
  • Love Confession: She confesses her love for Scarlet with a "Shut Up" Kiss.
  • Our Dwarves Are Different: Aside from her lack of height, there is mo indication of the fact she's a dwarf to the audience. It isn't until her P.O.V. chapter, 41.5, that this gets revealed.
  • Parental Substitute: She serves as the surrogate parent for all the orphans.
  • Put on a Bus: When Scarlet leaves town, she has to stay behind, with the promise that they will one day meet again.

Martin:

The owner of the soap shop.
  • Gut Feeling: He's got a great intuition and he sniffed out that Scarlet was planning to set up a soap-making business.
  • Please Spare Him, My Liege!: Tried to protest that Scarlet was not a common whore and dragging her off to use as a Sex Slave was poor form. Unfortunately, all he managed to accomplish was to delay Marquis Bacchus's lust for a little while.

     Adventurer's guild 

Aaron:

One of the three adventurers guarding Mint's carriage.

Mary:

Another of the adventurers guarding Mint's carriage.
  • All Women Are Prudes: Aaron's skirt chasing drives her nuts, not out of jealousy, but because it's skirt chasing, even when it's none of her business.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: She and Aaron fight all the time.

Florian Strongear

The guildmaster in Linsington City

Japetus Titanicus:

The guildmaster of the guild at Knossos
  • Blood Knight: The moment he has Scarlet in front of him, and is reminded of Strongear's recommendation, he jumps and tries to force her into a fight. His assistant yanks him by the ear and tells him "NO" in no uncertain terms.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: Calling him "odd" would be a major understatement.
  • Dumb Muscle: All he knows how to do is fight. His poor, overworked assistant has to do everything else.
  • Manchild: Despite being a full-grown man, he has as little impulse control as a toddler. He's received at least 13 official warnings from guild HQ, which makes Scarlet wonder what's the point if nothing else is going to happen to him.
  • No Indoor Voice: The man's lowest volume setting is "shout at the top of my lungs." The rest of the time, he's even louder. Scarlet has to resist covering her ears in his presence. Something else he's been warned repeatedly about, to little avail.

     The Church 

As A Whole:

  • Berserk Button: Being called a saint by the populace without being a member will have the clergy go nuts, and try to kill the candidate, if they can't be convinced to join. Scarlet's death made this policy public knowledge, and even 500 years later, the church's standing has hardly improved.
  • Did Not Think This Through: We finally see how they deal with "demon lords" in the early 100's chapters. They just take the god's oracle at face value and send a party of "heroes" at whoever He indicates is a demon lord without any additional investigation. These assassins march in, attack the guy without any question, then go home and throw a party. The church fails to realize that not only does this perpetuate the "light" vs "dark" war by making the other side rightly more vicious, but is directly responsible for the death of Saint Scarlet and the public backlash, but also resulted in an attack on a city of fairies, a racial ally, and could well get the public's hackles up again, even worse than last time, as these so-called "heroes" tried to straight-up murder a very, very pregnant woman that the public adores.
  • The Fundamentalist: They are obsessed with having their religion be the only religion of the land. Any other teachings, even as a bed-time story, that is clearly marked as fiction, can be met with lethal force. We know this because Scarlet's "fictional" bed-time story that she shares with some orphans has an orphanage director warn her that should the church hear it, she would be marked as a heretic, hunted down and killed.
  • Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Scarlet's name is Berserk Button among the church. She's the most open case of someone being nominated as a "saint" by the populace without having being sanctioned by the church first. Rumor has it that others who had this happen were made to "disappear," but Scarlet's death was public with a flimsy cover story. Even 500 years later, word gets back to them that someone is referring to her as a saint, and the church will make certain that person is "silenced."
  • Light Is Not Good: They are well known to use Light element magic in many of their rituals and spells, but they are, at best, a morally dubious organization with pretty window-dressing.
  • Make It Look Like an Accident: Their anointed "Hero" killed Scarlet and then said he found her among a bunch of demons and confused her for one of them. Nobody bought it. The so-called hero's name was ruined and the church is still looked upon with suspicion, even 500 years later.
  • My Way or the Highway: It doesn't matter how good your works, reputation, or how beloved you are by the public, you are a "heretic" if you refuse to join their ranks.
  • Rejected Apology: They try to repair their reputation by nominating Scarlet as a saint post-humously. The public backlash was extreme, and even though most of the details have been forgotten with time, the church is still sore about it 500 years later.
  • Vetinari Job Security: The primary reason the church exists as an organization, despite the distaste of the public at large, is that they raise up "heroes" and "saints" that protect humanity from the ever-present threat of the "dark" races with which the "light" races are in a war of annihilation. Without the church, the "dark" races would have won long ago. Even with the church, mankind hangs by a thread...

     Antagonists 

Marquis Bacchus:

The city lord of Linsington City
  • Aristocrats Are Evil: He's a Marquis, and he rarely hesitates to engage in vile actions, such as calling a woman in a department store a whore and dragging her away to sexually abuse.
  • Bad Boss: He treated his servants so badly that when Scarlet was making her escape from his mansion, the head butler didn't need much of an excuse to turn a blind eye to her and corroborate her story that Marquis Bacchus and his criminal henchmen turned on each other.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: No battle, no fanfare, no verbal smack-down. He's gloating at Scarlet one moment, a corpse with a hand-sized hole in his torso the next. His two top henchmen had even less of a chance.
  • Entitled Bastard: He believes everything and everyone in the city is rightfully his, and sees "Scarlet's Orphanage" as an eyesore because it sits on "his" land without paying taxes. Since he can't make them go away, he can, and will, just plain crush them, sell the kids, and then level the orphanage building to exploit the land it's on for his maximum profit. Scarlet does not take this well, at all.
  • Entitled to Have You: To Scarlet. The moment he sees her, he asks "how much?" Not getting the reference, Scarlet hesitates, and he takes her confusion as consent to drag her away and make her a Sex Slave.
  • Evil Gloating: When Scarlet is in his estate, he brags that he has a history of selling orphans into slavery, and after he's had his fun with Scarlet, he'll shut down the orphanage and sell off the rest. This causes Scarlet to SNAP!
  • The Hedonist: All he cares about is his own pleasure, and he's completely shameless in trampling anyone and everyone to get it.
  • Hostage Situation: He threatens the orphanage Scarlet's sweet on to compel her to step into his estate. This proves a fatal mistake.
  • Insane Troll Logic: He sees a very physically attractive woman perusing soaps, so she must be a prostitute. Since she's a prostitute, she must be more than willing to be his Sex Slave, right?
  • It's All About Me: The only person who is a person in his mind is himself.
  • Make It Look Like an Accident: Scarlet makes his death look like the result of an internal revolt.
  • Meaningful Name: His name is Bacchus, often known as the Greek god of debauchery, and he's a total hedonist who only cares about his own pleasure.
  • Motive Rant: Scarlet, coming to his mansion because his agents are using her favorite orphans as hostages, asks him what he intends to do should she agree to his terms for being a Sex Slave. He shamelessly states that he's going to enslave the orphans anyway, because he feels entitled to the land the orphanage is on. Seeing Scarlet outraged, he promises to make her top favorite a "pet" after they've been slapped into collars and chains. When Scarlet wakes up, she's standing behind him with her hand through his torso.
  • Mugging the Monster: He attacks Scarlet, a 260+ level Vampire, thinking she's a total weakling. Turns into Bullying a Dragon when his agents learn she's a D rank adventurer with the strength of a B rank, or at least should have, and he still antagonizes her.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: When he walks into the soap store, he sees Scarlet and demands she lower her hood. When she politely declines, he grabs her and forces her head to turn in his direction so he can get a good look at her face, regardless of her wishes.
  • Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Since he's the city lord, he sees no problem with doing clearly illegal things, since who would dare arrest him, right?
  • Serial Rapist: Scarlet's not the first woman he's dragged into his estate to play around with. She is, however, the first to walk away, chastity intact.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Harassing, provoking, taunting, and going out of your way to antagonize a rookie B rank capable adventurer known to have poor impulse control and powerful, hard to identify spells? Let's see if your blood is as weak as your mind!
  • Would Hurt a Child: He ran a kidnapping ring to grab orphans and sell them into slavery to fatten his own wallet, and planned to seize the rest in "Scarlet's Orphanage."

Vampire Bolthorn:

The Arc villain of the bandit subjugation arc.
  • Abusive Dad: He sees nothing wrong with seeing his own children as snacks when he's in a pinch. This drives Scarlet into an Unstoppable Rage when she sees it.
  • Axe-Crazy: He's violent total nutjob that just wants to kill anything and everything around.
  • Child Soldier: Not him, but many of his minions are small children he sired through rape.
  • Cult: He has his followers, which are his flesh and blood, worship him as a god.
  • Death by Irony: His own rampage, destroying his base, is the reason he dies under the morning sun.
  • For the Evulz: He didn't have a reason for his rampage aside from simply the joy of slaughter.
  • Karmic Death: He rampaged, raped, and murdered across the land because he believed himself a god, superior to everyone. One of his "inferior" victims, Scarlet, pinned him down in the morning sunlight and would not let go until he was nothing but ash.
  • Knight of Cerebus: When he showed up, the story got DARK!
  • Load-Bearing Boss: He is so fixated on trying to rape Scarlet, and then trying to straight-up murder her when she proves too strong to simply pin down, that he ignores the collateral damage, causing his lair's upper levels to collapse. Cue the Sun.
  • Medical Rape and Impregnate: Scarlet, searching for survivors, finds a basement full of women heavily pregnant with his children, as a result of rape, which is why he targeted said women. Many of them have their bodies and minds broken by the experience to the point they can't tend to themselves.
  • Monster Progenitor: He fields an army of dhampir he sired through mass-rape.
  • No Body Left Behind: Exposed to sunlight and pinned in place by Scarlet, he's reduced to ash.
  • Offing the Offspring: He's on-screen sucking one of his followers, his own child, dry of blood, both for nourishment and for kicks.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: He rapes and murders just for the sake of it.
  • Serial Rapist: He has raped countless women to sire a large dhampir army.
  • Social Darwinist: Only the strong have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. The weak should be privileged to be viewed as livestock.
  • Stupid Evil: He hunted all the local animals and monsters around him to extinction, and then captured entire villages, drains the men and children dry of blood, and rapes pregnant all the women of child-bearing age, chaining them up in a dungeon, barely enough food to support the pregnancy, forcing them to carry the children to term, and then treats said children as snacks for the smallest failure, real or imagined. Upgrades to Too Dumb to Live when fighting Scarlet without care for the collateral damage, until, too late, he sees why Scarlet was desperately trying to hold the fort together, and it wasn't the villagers she sensed on the lower layers.
  • Taking You with Me: Inverted and Subverted. Scarlet latches onto his throat to regenerate while pinning him down in sunlight, once he's Deader than Dead, she uses her darkness magic to shield herself until she's fully recovered and clothed, then goes on to check on his surviving victims.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: He's got more levels than Scarlet, making him considerably stronger, but he has fewer combat skills, experience, strategies and tactics, so he just tries to bulldoze through everything she had to offer. Unfortunately, he demolished his base in the process. Hello, Sun, come here often?
  • Wake-Up Call Boss: The first villain Scarlet had to fight who had a legitimate chance to kill her in straight-up combat.

     Scarlet's village/Hourai Commonwealth 
A village that spawns organically around Scarlet's dungeon, in territory near the south and west entrances.

Fairies

A group of fairies that take up residence in Scarlet's back yard.
  • Berserk Button: They have two that the elves, as a whole, consistently press.
    • Don't deny them their fun.
    • Don't abuse spirits.
  • Black-and-White Morality: They seemingly lack the ability to comprehend nuances of morality. Everyone is either "good" or "bad." There is no in-between.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: They have the temperament of small children but they are very, very talented in their craft. The tailor who fashioned Scarlet's new robe made her gown and undergarments of spider-silk that is superior to plate-mail composed entirely of orihalcum, and is still very, very easy to move in.
  • Fantastic Racism: Downplayed. They tend to see all other races as more or less homogeneous blocks and speak about them in generalities, good or bad, but when in the presence of an individual member, they judge that person by his or her own merits. They adore Scarlet, despite being a vampire, an arch enemy of their race, because Scarlet is nice to them, gives them delicious food, and lets them play with her, even joining in their festivities from time to time.
  • Innocently Insensitive: Since they have little to no taboo about nudity or personal space, they don't understand why Scarlet would be aghast at having one, or more, of them fly down into her clothing and grope her silly. In fact, one of them pouts like a little kid being denied candy because she didn't get to go flying down Scarlet's cleavage after another fairy flew out, with the excuse of going through Scarlet's most "intimate" areas as part of getting the measurements for Scarlet's new outfit that she was going to tailor.
  • No Nudity Taboo: They see nothing wrong with stripping themselves, or even Scarlet, completely naked in public, and they're strong enough that they can pull it off faster than Scarlet can react, despite literally being small enough for several to fit in one of Scarlet's hands.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: They see nothing wrong with flying into Scarlet's clothing and going through some rather... delicate areas, and even describing her naughty bits without restraint, no matter how embarrassed that makes her. In fact, they don't seem to comprehend the concept of embarrassment.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: They may be tiny, but they are quite powerful. Without any assistance, they can easily reach floor 61 of Scarlet's dungeon.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Since the elves refused to heed their concerns regarding spirits, they took as many of them as they could and fled their homeland, going to Scarlet's back yard when they heard that someone is really, really good to them. Then they met Scarlet, who not only gives the spirits mana treats without even being asked, but then turns around to give delicious sweets to the fairies themselves, and it's party time!
  • Serious Business: Debts are a matter of life and death for them and it isn't simply a cultural more or a matter of law and order. It's an inherent aspect of their very being. In chapter 139, they actively resist when Scarlet tries to put Orphne's soul back into her body because owing someone their life is an irreconcilable debt and it would be a slap in the face of Orphne's Heroic Sacrifice. The only way Scarlet can get them to agree is to take custody of Orphne, for life. The fairies themselves don't like it, but that's the way they are.
  • Sweet Tooth: Holey moley do they love sweets. Nothing will motivate them to work hard better than offering them sweet treats. In fact, when Scarlet asks for some help to bake a cake, they volunteer in swarms of hundreds!
  • Work Hard, Play Hard: They take to everything in life with the utmost zeal. If they have to perform a task, like making clothing for a human-sized model, they will not rest until it's done. If they're at a celebration, they party from dusk till dawn, or they pass out from intoxication, whichever comes first.

Dark Elves/ Dokalfar

A group of them that sets up shop in ruins that have an alternate entrance to Scarlet's dungeon.
  • Berserk Button: If you value your life, do not call them "dark elves." For some unexplained reason, they respond as if it's a racial slur, and it makes them absolutely murderous.
  • Despair Event Horizon: With the loss of Saint Scarlet, the village fell apart, and they tried to return to their ancestral lands, but because they bowed out of the last battle between the "Hero" and "The Demon King" they were not welcome. They just recently returned, at great personal cost.
  • Dramatic Irony: Their village was set up in the "Demon" continent next to an entrance to Scarlet's dungeon, not knowing that there's another entrance on the "Human" side, which is how Scarlet found her way in.
  • Hero Worship: They have statues of "Saint" Scarlet everywhere.
  • Insistent Terminology: They are proud Dokkalfar, not some knock-off "dark" elves, thank you very much.
  • I Will Fight No More Forever: Sick and tired of the Forever War, they bowed out and became refugees, seen as "traitors" and hunted. If not for Saint Scarlet coming to their aid and giving them a village to live in, they would have been hunted to extinction by the rest of the "dark" races.
  • My Greatest Failure: The surviving elders from the time of Saint Scarlet deeply regret that there was nothing they could do to rescue her at her darkest hour.
  • Recognition Failure: Despite statues of Saint Scarlet everywhere, the scouting team that meets current Scarlet in the dungeon just thinks she's a regular vampire, and treat her with disdain. When current Scarlet sees a statue of Claret and points it out by name, and the genuine article then manifests and vouches for Scarlet, suddenly the hunting party rushes to escort them to the village elder.
  • You Are Too Late: When they heard the sounds of battle near their home village, they mobilized en masse, as quickly as they could, only to see a distraught Claret sitting in a pile of ash that was once Saint Scarlet.

Imps:

Racial enemy to the fairies, but with Scarlet acting as the mediator, a peace treaty was successfully hammered out and both sides get along swimmingly, even though they still frequently hurl insults at one another.
  • Foil: To the fairies. Both groups are extremely childish and formed full-grown from pockets raw mana, with many cultural similarities, but imps tend to be a bit more mischievous.
  • Logical Weakness: Since they're small, light, and have large wingspans, they can be swept aside by strong winds.
  • Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: The imps we've seen are actually good and decent, even willing to put themselves in harm's way to come to Scarlet's aid. They just have a bad reputation because they're mischievous and prone to pranking people.
  • The Prankster: They love pranks, either on the giving or receiving end.

The Titans:

The dark race's counterpart to dwarves.
  • The Alcoholic: They live for booze of all kinds. When Scarlet introduced them to vodka and whisky, they were ecstatic.
  • The Big Guy: They are huge. The smallest of them is ten feet tall.
  • The Blacksmith: They love working on the forge, and it's such an artform that Scarlet once got mesmerized watching them work for hours, completely losing track of time.
  • Gentle Giant: They are friendly and jovial despite their massive size.

The Dragonoids:

A race of draconic humans.
  • The Alcoholic: One trait they share with the Titans is the love of booze, of all types. When Scarlet introduces vodka and whisky, the two races' respective leaders immediately went into a drinking contest.
  • Lizard Folk: They have many reptilian features.
  • Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Since they're aloof and grouchy, people tend to think they're malicious. In truth, if you manage to earn their respect, they are honest, loyal, and completely devoted to the well-being of whatever community they find themselves in.
  • Strength Equals Worthiness: Their primary requirement for leadership duties is physical strength.
  • Winged Humanoid: They all have large reptilian wings that allow them to fly.

Peitho Suada:

The guild master's assistant in Knossos. Scarlet poaches her to run her village's "Hunter's Guild." For Peitho, this has been a godsend.
  • Beleaguered Assistant: She's constantly driven to the brink of madness trying to keep up with Japetus's antics. Fortunately for her, Scarlet brings an end to all that by snatching her up and bringing her back to her own village.
  • Cloud Cuckoolanders Minder: She's got the most unpleasant task of trying to keep Japetus in line.
  • Hypercompetent Sidekick: In truth, she's the one who runs the Knossos branch. Japetus is only a figure-head who would run off to face any violent subjugation mission without care if Peitho didn't constantly rein him in.
  • Metaphorically True: She lures Scarlet into dealing with a "bandit problem" affecting nearby villages by telling her that there's a man in the area who can fill her in on vampires. This is indeed somewhat accurate. The "man" who can fill Scarlet in on vampires is the leader of the bandit gang, a vampire himself. While Scarlet can understand and even empathize with Peitho's motives for this deception, she's still not amused at being deceived.
  • Must Have Caffeine: One of the biggest resons she likes being the secretary to Scarlet's Hunter's Guild is that she gets fresh coffee as part of her job. Back home, she'd have a hard time getting a cup since it has to be imported from a distant land.
  • Workaholic: Though she has managed to tone it down from the level of where it wouldn't be a surprise if she was found dead at her desk (the usual state when she was in the Adventurer's guild back at Knossos), she still overworks herself and her sleep suffers.

Sarah O'Connelly:

The first assassin sent after Scarlet by the gods.
  • A-Cup Angst: She's always felt inferior regarding her chest, and the new body she got in this new world has not changed this. When she notices Scarlet's eyes facing in that general direction, she cries out how inadequate she feels, and how jealous she is of Scarlet's generous bust. Scarlet offering to trade places if it was possible doesn't help.
  • Born in the Wrong Century: How she feels once she finds herself in the new world with none of the tech perks of her previous one.
  • The Bus Came Back: She joins the story early, ending the encounter in chapter 75. She returns in chapter 131 when she realizes Scarlet's the only one who can cook "Schteev," aka Borscht, well, just in time to be Scarlet's bodyguard when church assassins show up.
  • Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": She has some really bizarre names for things that would be common items on Earth.
  • Did Not Think This Through: When she was "hired" to hunt down Scarlet, she wasn't really paying attention and neglected many important details, the most critical of which is that if she's not keeping her prereincarnation memories, how is she going to know if the gods who sent her after Scarlet would keep their end of the bargain. When she realizes the gods could royally screw her over and she'd never realize it, she has a breakdown.
  • Friendly Sniper: Once she returns to the story, with a self-fashioned sniper rifle, she's this, even happily working under Peitho in the Hunter's Guild and hanging out with Scarlet in Eli's home, getting Schteev all the time.
  • Gun Nut: She loves modern firearms. Unfortunately, she's thrown into a pre-industrial world with no firearms and given a sword, which she doesn't know how to use. When Scarlet fashions her a firearm, and ammunition, even if it's all vastly inferior to the sword she's carrying, Sarah's tickled pink and becomes Scarlet's BFF!
  • Heel–Face Turn: When she returns to the story proper, she becomes one of Scarlet's strongest supporters and returns the favor when the "hero" party try to assassinate Scarlet in her home.
  • Heel Realization: When she and Scarlet have a heart to heart, she realizes that she actually has no just cause to go after the local Friendly Neighborhood Vampire and feels like a complete idiot.
  • Hollywood Tactics: She's a sniper but spent most of the battle with the "hero" party shooting at heavily armored targets. Granted, at the start, this did help Scarlet hold out until reinforcements arrived, as the armored targets were the greater threat.
  • It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: She's sent into this new world to find Scarlet, and is given the best local equipment for the job, but she has no training in how to use it, wasn't advised of the local tech level, and was given a tracking device that, at best, only works intermittently.
  • Kidnapped by the Call: While waiting in line in the afterlife, she was grabbed, dragged to the office of the "god" in charge of the world that Scarlet reincarnated into, briefed on how Scarlet is "evil," and then reincarnated as a full-grown adult, equipped with all the available skills, at level 1, and decked out head-to-toe with anti-vampire equipment... and no idea how to use any of it!
  • Nothing Personal: Goes after Scarlet only because the gods told her to, not because she has a grudge. When she realizes the gods are dicks and were just using her, she happily takes up Scarlet's offer of friendship.
  • Skewed Priorities: She will happily rescue Scarlet because Scarlet is the one and only source of her favorite food, not because Scarlet is a good woman who deserves her loyalty.
  • This Is My Human: She willingly becomes Scarlet's second familiar as part and parcel of the surrender negotiations.
  • Through His Stomach: Scarlet gets her to stand down by preparing her Trademark Favorite Food and then wins her over completely by using magic to fashion a gun for her, even showing her how to make ammunition.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Borscht, though she calls it something else.
  • Unwitting Pawn: She was used as a disposable pawn by the god of this new world to locate and identify Scarlet. Said god never expected her to actually succeed in the mission to kill her.

     Others 

"Saint" Scarlet:

The character after whom the reincarnated vampire is named.
  • All-Loving Heroine: She did not discriminate. If you were in genuine need of help, she would stretch out her hand to help you, rich, poor, noble, peasant, even condemned criminals pulled a Heel–Face Turn thanks to her, and opened orphanages and charities in her name.
  • And I Must Scream: What her imprisonment amounted to, with the second Scarlet only being able to speculate on why she's even still sane.
  • Back from the Dead: The second Scarlet ends up discovering some equipment trapping her soul, and activates the equipment's resurrection functionality.
  • Enlightenment Superpowers: It is implied that she was on the brink of becoming a goddess herself before she was murdered, which is implied to be part of the reason she was murdered in the first place.
  • Follow in My Footsteps: Current Scarlet has apparently inherited her spirit as she's doing things so similar to her that the resemblance is uncanny. Even the fanbase believes current Scarlet is somehow a reincarnation of her.
  • Good Is Not Soft: She may have been an all-loving heroine, but she was not endlessly forgiving. If you were a corrupt noble that abused his authority and tried to lay hands on her, or otherwise refused to repent and redeem yourself, she would pull no punches and completely annihilate you.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: In universe. Current Scarlet speaks with some Dokkalfar who were very close to Saint Scarlet and hears their side of the story regarding her final moments. The Dokkalfar testify that although they did not see the battle, the aftermath involved Claret sitting in a pile of Scarlet's ashes, completely unresponsive, and surrounded by the mangled corpses of helpless dokkalfar children!
  • Immortal Immaturity: Despite being centuries older, she is a lot more childish than the second Scarlet. The second Scarlet wonders whether that was her original personality in the first place or a side effect of her imprisonment.
  • Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Her name is a touchy subject among the church. Should word get out that someone is calling her "Saint", the church will send hitmen after that person.
  • Make It Look Like an Accident: The church's cover story is that their anointed "hero" found her among a pack of demons and mistook her for one of them. Most of the people who were helped by Scarlet, especially merchants, called "bullshit" on it and accused the so-called hero of being a church sanctioned hit-man. His reputation was destroyed, and the church, reluctantly, had to excommunicate him, just to protect their own backsides. Even 500 years later, the church's reputation has yet to recover, and the anointed "hero" is spoken of with contempt and disdain.
  • Post Humous Character: She's been dead roughly 500 years by the time she's mentioned in the story.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: She supposedly had red eyes and was very, very powerful.
  • Sealed Good in a Can: After killing her, rather than let her return to the cycle of Reincarnation, her soul was imprisoned in some special equipment hidden at the bottom of a dungeon. The second Scarlet suspects that this was done with the goal of eliminating her enlightenment.

     Gods 
Various members of the celestial bureaucracy.
  • Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: The ones we've seen were once humans that ascended and were granted divinity. This could be stripped away and they be shoved back into the reincarnation cycle if their crimes are bad enough.
  • Dark Secret: The god in charge of the world Scarlet reincarnated into hid something at the bottom of Scarlet's dungeon and is desperate that none of the other gods find out, even being willing to resort to deadly force. It is strongly implied that the "hero" who slew Saint Scarlet was his lackey.
  • Enlightenment Superpowers: Their leaders believe that by constantly recycling souls into the cycle of Reincarnation, it is eventually possible for them to attain enlightenment and ascend into beings like themselves, hence their motive for maintaining it.
  • God Is Inept: The reason Scarlet was able to steal a pass to this new world is not only because the god in charge left his terminal completely unsecure, but the security gods left his office wide open and unguarded. What's worse, when the administrator god returned, rather than report the fact that a wayward soul found a way into his office, going by the half of the print-out he found that resulted from Scarlet being whisked into this new world before the print out finished printing, he sat on this information for months as he mucked about trying to keep it hush, hush.
  • Jerkass Gods: At their most benevolent, the gods we've seen have physically grabbed wayward souls and shoved them around. Sarah even testifies that one of the big and beefy "gods", presumably in charge of security physically grabbed her and physically dragged her to the office of the god in charge of Scarlet's world to press-gang her into going after Scarlet. Both gods are later revealed to have specifically chosen Sarah to be a disposable pawn.

Toth:

The god nominally in charge of the world Tertium.
  • God Is Inept: The reason Scarlet was able to gain access to his office and use the administration system to set herself up in Tertium is because he left the office open and unsecure while he was on vacation.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: As punishment for putting Letty in that torture chamber to strip the "enlightenment" from her soul, he and Ubimelech were sentenced to suffer a "kinder" version of the same fate, having their enlightenment siphoned off less painfully, but much, much slower.
  • Lean and Mean: He's described as thin as a reed and is directly responsible for what happened to OG Scarlet, trying to do the same to Current Scarlet.
  • Noodle Incident: Just what were he and Ubimelech trying to hide on Tertium? Whatever it is, their crimes against OG Scarlet and Scarlet were just 2 out of over 80 charges, each!
  • Revealing Cover Up: The fact that he tried to hide his incompetence by fudging the paperwork regarding Tertium and sending both local and reincarnator assassins after Scarlet tips off the celestial bureaucracy that he and Ubimelech are up to no good.

Ubimelech:

One of the "Security Guard" gods who conspired with Toth.
  • Curbstomp Battle: Delivered one of these to Scarlet. Despite being well over level 200 and armed with a duel-scythe of orihalcum and adamantium, she was as helpless before him as a new-born baby.
  • Dumb Muscle: All he knows how to do is go around and punch things. The word "subtle" isn't even in his vocabulary.
  • Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: Him and Toth hunting down Scarlet was "such a pain" that he just proceeds to literally tear into her when they meet without bothering to explain himself, and when she's on trial officially charges her with the "crime" of disobeying his order to die. That particular charge was literally laughed out of court.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: For his part in what happened to OG Scarlet, and for attempting to murder Current Scarlet, he's shoved into a "kinder" version of the very same device Letty was shoved into, to have his enlightenment stripped away until it's gone and to be shoved back into the cycle of reincarnation.

Ferriah:

The god sent by the celestial bureaucracy to be Scarlet's "defense attorney."
  • Amoral Attorney: Justified. She's not there to determine guilt or innocence, just to make sure Scarlet's rights as a newborn god are protected.
  • Little Bit Beastly: She has owl's wings and legs with clawed talons.
  • Skewed Priorities: She never liked the fact that the world of Tertium was treated as one giant MMORPG by the gods. This is not because she's against treating the native sentients as nothing more than mindless bots, but because she couldn't get an avatar that matches her biology.

     The "Hero" party 
A five man team sent by The Church by order of the pope and an oracle from the administrator, aka "god."

Common To all:

  • An Arm and a Leg: Some of their members wound up losing limbs in the fight. The leader had his dominant arm ripped off by Scarlet to stop him from swinging the cold iron sword, and the elf spirit-mage got one of her arms blasted off when Sara used a high-powered round to shoot through her magic spells.
  • Asshole Victim: Even Scarlet sheds no tears at their deaths. She even goes one further and lets Claret kill their leader after he's disarmed, helpless, got a mithril sword shoved through his lungs, and is on the ground doing his damnedest to look tough.
  • The Atoner: When Ubimelech shows up and tries to kill Scarlet, they are first in line to donate the blood she needs to recover.
  • Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Attacking a very pregnant woman without provocation of any kind, after she had her people rescue you from a monster filled forest hip deep in snow is "justice." A magic weapon that steals souls is a "holy artifact." But Scarlet is "evil incarnate" for welcoming them with open arms in the first place? Eh, what?
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: As the leader lay on the ground, choking on his own blood before a very pissed off Scarlet, a state he directly instigated, he taunts "do your worst, Demon Lord." Scarlet responds "I never called myself that, whatever. Claret, kill him!"
  • Did Not Think This Through: Granted, their best chances of success for fighting a vampire is during the day, but they attacked Scarlet while she was literally surrounded by allies, including the fairies, who are also a racial ally of humans and the church that hired them. How they expected to succeed and not be labeled pariahs for all time, excommunicated by the church like the last Scarlet-slaying "hero," is anyone's guess.
  • Fantastic Racism: Anyone from the "dark" races is automatically evil. They will attack with deadly force on sight.
  • The Farmer and the Viper: Scarlet hears word of the five of them struggling in the forest near her dungeon home and the surrounding community. So she asks the fairies to help bring them over and find out what their situation is. The moment they see Scarlet, they whip out a sword of cold iron and try to straight up murder her.
  • Fighter, Mage, Thief: Their wolf-kin Beast Man scout served as the thief, they had two mages, and two heavily armored close-combat fighters.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: After going on numerous adventures, fighting and killing several "demon lords," they're all quite close.
  • Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: Scarlet never gives up on hating them, but can't bring herself to punish them either, once they realize they were in the wrong and offer a sincere apology.
  • A Hero to His Hometown: The only ones to call them "hero" are the church that hired them, and even that with great reluctance.
  • Hollywood Tactics: While they were all well trained and equipped to deal with all of Scarlet's "dark race" allies, and had plenty of battle experience fighting those races, the fact that they attacked Scarlet while she was literally surrounded by armed allies wasn't bound to end well. The best they could have hoped for was a Pyrrhic Victory. As it stands, not only did they fail, but they lost the soul-stealing artifact and two key members, with a third grievously wounded by gunfire.
  • Just Following Orders: Although their scout had serious misgivings about undertaking the mission against Scarlet in the first place, the rest of the party pushed on because it wasn't a church request, but "an order." Even after their overwhelming defeat, where they strongly consider telling the church where to shove their "holy" sword made of cold-iron, they still tell each other they had no choice because it was their orders.
  • Kryptonite Factor: The cold iron sword they wield is extremely dangerous to mana-based life, fairies, imps, and especially vampires. All such beings can't even touch it, though it's not exactly safe to handle the blade with human hands.
  • Ludicrous Gibs: What happens when an anti-materiel round hits an unarmored bodily joint? Limbs go flying, that's what.
  • Outside-Context Problem: Their initial biggest advantages against Scarlet were the fact that she never heard of Cold Iron before and the soul-stealing dagger. This had her on the back foot, literally, at the start of the fight, but once Scarlet was out of immediate danger and had time to think up counters, lost most of its advantage in a hurry.
  • Punch-Clock Hero: They're not really heroes. They're just mercenaries that go and kill who the church tells them to, for the right price.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The instant their assassination attempts, two of them, went wrong, they tried to flee. Scarlet was willing to let them go the first time until she noticed they were taking off with Orphne's soul. The second time, they attacked her as she tried to take it back. At this point, she was so enraged that she gave up all thoughts of mercy and did her damnedest to make sure none of them got away. Two of them are confirmed dead, the rest escaped by using a magical smoke/chaff grenade, but one of them is grievously wounded and certain to die without immediate and extensive medical aid.
  • Sir Swears Alot: Their members are quick to lay into scathing profanity laced rants when things don't go their way.
  • Suicidal Overconfidence: The moment they see Scarlet, they launch attacks at her, thinking themselves already victorious. Granted, it was a tough fight for Scarlet thanks to taking her by surprise with the sheer lethality of their cold iron sword, but the way they launched their attack was, at best, lethally stupid, at worst, sheer madness.
  • Would Hurt a Child: While they claim they don't like hurting pregnant women, they're all too happy to kill a "vile vampire demon lord" who has done them no wrong even if she's a very, very pregnant woman, and making certain the unborn child dies too.
  • Your Soul Is Mine!: Their leader had a "holy artifact" in his possession that when used with a special dagger would steal the soul of whoever was stabbed. He tried to stab Scarlet but wound up stabbing the fairy Orphne instead. Scarlet then had to go on the warpath to rescue the fairy's soul.

Meleager:

The leader of the party.
  • Cluster F-Bomb: His default reaction when things turn on him is yelling "Fuck! FUCK! FUCK!!!"
  • Defiant to the End: When Scarlet has him beaten, pinned to the ground, and his fate is entirely in her hands, with the rest of his party having run away, or dead, he glares at her and says "Do your worst, Demon Lord." Scarlet is beyond pissed at him by this point and has Claret kill him.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: His own visor helm became a hindrance in the fight with Scarlet when the Imp chieftain knocks it out of place with his halberd.
  • Light Is Not Good: He dresses entirely in white platemail and is a despicable scum who would happily murder a pregnant woman and her unborn child, who have done him no wrong, for money.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Once Scarlet has figured out how to counter the fact that he was wielding a sword of cold iron, he loses his composure and starts swinging wildly, glaring at her like a mindless beast. At this point, Scarlet starts to dominate the fight.
  • Weak, but Skilled: Scarlet had him greatly outpowered, but he was dominating the fight with her, even with Sarah shooting at him, because he's got far more experience in actual swordfighting. Then there's the fact that he was wielding a cold iron sword which limited Scarlet's options even further.

Idmon:

The elf spirit-mage.
  • Hypocrite: When she's later shown in the story, sitting in a bar with her two other fellow survivors trying to drown their sorrows with booze, she angrily proclaims that the spirits in Scarlet's village must have been lured there like children being lured in by promises of candy, and it's her job to contact the elf country to "rescue" them, so that the elves can use them in spirit magic, by luring them into contracts by promising them mana treats to then use them as batteries.
  • Irony: Her actions are entirely motivated by her love of the spirits, but they result in said spirits absolutely loathing her, aside from those she's already contracted, for attacking Scarlet completely unprovoked.
  • Obliviously Evil: Although her contracted spirits are well-fed, they are clearly over-worked and unhappy, but she remains completely unaware of this fact because she can only sense their general location, not actually see them.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Which the rest of her party lampshades. As they're approaching Scarlet's village, she drops her sleepy-head demeanor and stares wide-eyed and jaw agape in the village's direction by sensing an overwhelming number of spirits in the area.
  • Sleepy Head: She's always half-asleep, unless she's in battle or something serious is going on.
  • Weather Manipulation: As the party is trying to flee from Scarlet's village, Orphne's soul captive, she summons a powerful thunder-storm to counter Hajra's dragonoid tribe. Sarah brings an end to this interference by shooting her with an anti-materiel round to get through her fellow mage's stone-wall barricade.

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Alicia and Fate:

Scarlet's twin daughters.
  • Badass Adorable: They are the cutest little 5-year-old girls one is ever likely to meet, yet they can, and do, defeat a gang of dhampir twice their age, number, and with genuine battle experience, after the lot insult their mother.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: They are very, very possessive of their mother, Scarlet, and don't want anyone else taking her attention away from them.
  • Siblings Wanted: When they are introduced to OG Scarlet, "Letty" as their "little sister," they are ecstatic at the new addition to the family, especially Fate, as she gets to be the Cool Big Sis for a change.

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