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The Saint Candidates
The two women transferred from Earth as part of the Saint Summoning Ritual, Sei and Aira.
In General
- First-Name Basis: For the most part, the two of them stop using their family names upon entering Salutanian society. Not only do they mean nothing with their relatives in another universe but family names are the sole domain of nobility, so they might get accused of being commoners thinking themselves above their stations. The only time Sei introduces herself by her full name is before another noble, and even then as she's already publicly acknowledged as the Saint everyone lets its slide as on the hierarchy, she now stands with the royal family, hence a family name no longer raises eyebrows. In casual conversation, however, it's always going to be "Sei" or "Aira", no honorifics.
- Holy Hand Grenade: The Saint's Holy Magic is uniquely, devastatingly effective to the monster-producing miasma and the monsters themselves. When faced with a spring of the stuff that endlessly produces powerful monsters, Sei unleashes a golden blast of Holy Magic that utterly wipes out the miasma fountain, destroys the monsters, and returns the surrounding area to its natural, healthy state.
- Missed the Call: The Saint summoning ritual was only intended to bring one person from another world, not two, leaving (most of) the government of Salutania unsure whether Aira, Sei, or both are the Saint. This was Aira, Sei is the true Saint.
- New Life in Another World Bonus: Aira and Sei are each found to display two unique powers in the early chapters of the story. Aira gets rapid levelling (the LN reveals that Sei gets this as well, but none of the characters have noticed) and is able to use multiple types of elemental magic. Sei gets a 50% boost to all buff and healing effects she creates, and they both get Translator Microbes. Working out which unique powers belong here and which qualify as the Power of the Saint is one of the major hurdles the Salutanians must overcome as they attempt to identify the true Saint.
- The Power of Love: This is the key to unlocking the powers of the Saint, as Sei discovers over the course of the series.
- Shrouded in Myth: Because it's been so many centuries since the last Saint summoning, no one in Salutania is quite sure what they are capable of, or how their powers are supposed to manifest.
- Summon Everyman Hero: Sei was just an overworked twenty-something salarywoman and Aira was an Ordinary High-School Student. Both of them were magically plucked from Earth to save Salutania from the miasma and the demonic beasts spawning from it.
- Trapped in Another World: Both of them were suddenly yanked from Earth to Salutania. As the mages quickly explain to a frustrated Sei, there is no way back.
- Translator Microbes: As mentioned above, Aira and Sei are immediately able to understand everything everyone in Salutania says perfectly and communicate smoothly with them in turn. In anime in episode 2, it's shown as some sort of magic from the ritual appears to render the world's language (written or spoken) into Japanese for their convenience; this even extends to languages that even locals cannot understand with ease, like the "Ancient Script" used for many of the foundational magical texts.
Sei Takanashi
Sei Takanashi
Voiced by: Yui Ishikawa (Japanese), Celeste Perez (English)
The protagonist of the series. Sei was an average salarywoman in Japan, working an abusive, exploitative job to the detriment of every other aspect of her life. She finds herself mysteriously transferred to another world as part of Salutania's Saint summoning ritual, but due to the unprecedented result of two potential candidates and Prince Kyle's favoritism of Aira, she is quickly put out of the running and left to make a new life here with the kingdom's blessing.She quickly finds new, much better employment in the Royal Research Institute, growing and using herbs for healing potions, cooking, and all manner of other yet-undiscovered uses thanks to her past life and herbalist hobby on Earth.
- Beautiful All Along: Played with. Sei looked terribly ill and just plain terrible due to sleep deprivation, malnutrition, and overwork. After getting several weeks to feed herself properly, rest, and enjoy herself, she "transforms" into a strikingly beautiful woman. The locals attribute this to her powers but it was all inevitable or a complete accident, like Sei's homemade eye-bag cream somehow curing her eyestrain and giving her 20/20 vision.
- Chekhov's Hobby: Due to the nature of her abusive, exploitative workplace, we never see Sei engaging in much of her hobbies of cooking and herbalism. However, she does get visibly excited the first time that she discovers the Institute's herb garden and proceeds to prove over and over again how much of a natural she is with herbs.
- Death Glare: In the LN, Sei gives several of these in the immediate aftermath of her summoning. One of them was described in-universe as her giving a mage 'a look so menacing he nearly wet himself'.
- Eating the Eye Candy: Sei's internal narration has a habit of doing this in the novels. First seen with her reaction to Prince Kyle's entrance, and occurring again during the introductions of most of the other men in the main cast.
- Healing Hands: Sei eventually learns how to use healing magic, specifically, Heal, the most basic of the spells. By using it on herself or touching someone directly, she can heal small cuts up to regrowing lost limbs.
- Humble Hero: Played With. Sei constantly downplays her increasingly incredible achievements though this is mostly from self-interest: she doesn't want the heaps of attention and extra work that being a miracle-maker would bring, likely from the lingering trauma of her exploitative workplace.
- Inventor of the Mundane:
- She introduces the concept of using precious medicinal herbs in cooking instead. Aside from getting decent meals for herself and everyone at the institute, she also accidentally invents buff food, boosting the physical capabilities of anyone who eats her food.
- She also creates extremely effective cosmetics and skin treatments like eye-bag cream and anti-acne ointments, thanks to her knowledge of modern medicine, herbalism, and her power amplifying the effects.
- Meaningful Name: "Sei" means "Saint" or "holy" in Japanese.
- Memento MacGuffin: Albert gives Sei a hair accessory that she wanted during their outing, with a gem imbued with his magic powers. When Sei is asked to help the Third Knight Order on a mission in the Western Forest, the accessory's magic activates when Sei is ambushed by a monster, summoning a giant ice wall with Albert's Ice Magic.
- Nice Girl: A very kind and humble lady who really wants to use her saint powers to help everyone even if it means depleting her own energy in exchange which causes huge worries for her friends.
- Off the Chart: Most prominently shown in the Light/Web Novels where Sei has access to the Appraise spell, but her stats are ridiculously high compared to the rest of the world. Her base level is 55 - 10 levels higher than Salutania's highest leveled man, Grand Magus Yuri Drewes. Her Holy Magic level is even higher, simply displayed as the infinity symbol. Not to mention the actual Saint's Magic which seems to be entirely outside the scope of the regular magic system.
- The Nicknamer: Downplayed. In the web novel, Sei frequently mentally refers to authority figures by their distinct characteristics, like "Intelli-Glasses" (AKA Erart Hawke). To their faces, she will refer to them by their titles or their names.
- Non-Action Protagonist: Sei is a supernaturally talented alchemist and healer, but she has no fighting abilities at all besides conjuring barriers, and relies on her Knight in Shining Armor Love Interest Albert Hawke and his subordinates to protect her on missions to purify miasma swamps.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Played With. Because Salutania has a different culture from Japan, sometimes Sei forgets that there are some things that are actually improper for a lady — particularly showing off her ankles. Both Albert and Jude have walked in on her while she was soaking her feet to cool off on hot days (Salutania having understandably not invented air conditioning yet).
- Supreme Chef: After Sei saves the Third Order of Knights from crippling injury or death, she asks for a kitchen at the institute and quickly gets one. She eagerly makes great use of this by using medicinal herbs as flavorings for chicken and other dishes, greatly improving the bland, tasteless quality of everything she's eaten so far. Unfortunately, she quickly has to stop cooking in public or for others as the institute quickly discovers that her powers have significant empowering effects, making a soldier fight with the strength of two; for Sei's safety, it's quickly kept under wraps.
- The Unchosen One: Prince Kyle quickly latches on to Aira as the Saint. He spends the next several months carefully training Aira while completely ignoring Sei. Sei is only this in respect to Prince Kyle and his supporters. The rest of the Salutanian government was more open-minded on the subject. Sei was the true Saint right from the start.
- Unique Protagonist Asset: Sei possesses abilities that neither Aira nor any Salutanian have: A 50% increase to the effectiveness of Healing or Buff effects she produces (whether through alchemy, cooking or magic), an infinite level Holy Magic skill (where normal mages are limited to level 10) and the Saint's Magic.
- What the Hell, Hero?: She's understandably pissed off after being abandoned by Prince Kyle after the summoning ceremony, since the other court mages have no idea what they're supposed to do with her, and it seems like they completely upended her life on Earth for no reason.
Aira Misono
Aira Misono
Voiced by: Kana Ichinose (Japanese), Natalie Hoover (English, credited as Natalie Rose)
A young girl also summoned to Salutania and who quickly gains the favoritism of Prince Kyle. Though she doubts she's the Saint destined to save the world, the Prince's unfailing enthusiasm and support silence her and other's doubts.- Adaptational Badass: In the anime, Aira is shown practicing her Air and Water Magic, as opposed to her original depiction where she was pushed towards only developing her Holy Magic, and left unaware of her other affinities.
- A Day in the Limelight: She is featured in the spin-off The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent - Another Saint and features her point of view regarding her situation and everything that happened while Sei is doing her own adventures.
- Episode 7 of the anime, "Interlude" chronicles her life from the summoning ceremony to the present, with Sei only showing up in the background.
- Character Development: After being kept in the dark so long due to Kyle's control of her and learning from the King that she wasn't the real Saint as the First Prince claims she is, with the title going to Sei, Aira decided to finally think of what she wanted to do in her new life in Salutania and eventually made plans to join the Mage division.
- Elemental Powers: Aira has three affinities, Holy Magic, Air Magic, and Water Magic, though due to Prince Kyle's influence and misguided assistance, she's only tried to develop Holy Magic while she wasn't even aware of the others.
- Extreme Doormat: On Earth she did whatever her parents told her to do, living a somewhat sheltered life as a student. In the new world, she quickly became dependent on Prince Kyle for direction and protection. This changes after the prince is disciplined for insulting Sei, and after befriending her and Liz, Aira is able to start thinking and acting for herself.
- Fake Ultimate Hero: She ultimately becomes this, though not by her fault. Prince Kyle just insists she's the saint that was summoned, he gives her numerous advantages and privileges to try and improve her worth, and he's so confident and insistent that she's the saint that it drowns out her self-doubt. As is frequently shown, however, Sei is both more powerful and a better saint than she ever could be and people soon rally under Sei than Aira. The spin-off and eventual chapters later subverts this, even though Aira may not be the "Saint", she has an aptitude in magic in general and can be a powerful mage in her own right in the future.
- Hates Being Alone: The spin-off reveals that what ultimately led to her following Kyle's orders still until the prince's impulsiveness comes to a head and have the King reveal that Sei, not Aira, is the real Saint, is of fear that she'll be left all by herself with no one to help her in the strange world she is brought to, if she didn't follow and obey what Kyle told her to do.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: Sadly not through any of her own actions, but the fact that Prince Kyle was deliberately keeping her from going out and fighting monsters on behalf of the kingdom for her own protection, and her not stepping up to heal the wounded like Sei did, caused a great deal of resentment towards her throughout Salutania. Add to that the rumors that she and Kyle were engaged in an affair, and Sei's increasing fame for her activities, it's no wonder many started to call Aira "the False Saint". This is changed in the anime, where Kyle realizes his mistake and pulls a Zero-Approval Gambit to ensure he and not she is blamed for the scandal.
- Innocently Insensitive: As a modern-day Japanese high school student, she saw nothing wrong with talking to and trying to befriend the male students at the Royal Academy, even in a non-romantic fashion. She was unaware that speaking to male students who already have arranged marriages is a major faux-pas in Salutanian high society, and the fact that she seemed to spend all her free time with Prince Kyle, who is engaged to Liz Ashley, only made the problem worse and increased the resentment the other female students had towards her.
- Living Emotional Crutch: Kyle becomes extremely overprotective of Aira out of guilt for summoning her and scaring her. As a result, Aira is unable to interact with anyone outside of Kyle and obediently follows his lead no matter what he does. That is until the King calls him out and she realizes that she can't stay following what people ordered her to do.
- Mundane Utility: In Episode 7 of the anime she uses her Water Magic ability to extract the moisture from her wet clothes after a rainstorm, drying them out instantly. Of particular note is how she consciously calculated how much moisture to leave on her hair and skin, as any dermatologist will tell you that dehydration will lead to cracking and brittleness.
- Nice Girl: Like Sei, she's also kind, selfless, and gentle, and unsurprisingly gets along well with the latter when they interact even though they are summoned to Salutania against their will and barely know each other much.
- Out of Focus: As Sei is the protagonist and is older, more experienced, and works primarily with professionals and administrators, we never get to see much of Aira's activities as a saint candidate, only ever indirectly hearing about her when Liz talks about the academy and the waves she's making. In-universe, the two don't see or hear about each other for 6 months up to a year.
- Shrinking Violet: She is shy and obedient, which is why she let Kyle run the show, despite knowing that she should have her say in matters regarding her situation. Unfortunately, her inability to assert herself, as well as Kyle's foolishness leads to more trouble in the long run.
- Unwitting Pawn: Though he was nicer about it than most examples, Kyle wanted Aira to be completely loyal to him, so that he could monopolize her Saint powers to secure his path to the throne of Salutania, and took steps to keep her isolated from others so she would remain dependent on him.
The Royal Research Institute
A government research facility specialized in creating and studying the effects of medicinal herbs for use in magical potions.
Jude
Jude
Voiced by: Taku Yashiro (Japanese), Nazeeh Tarsha (English)
One of the researchers at the institute, Jude is the first one that Sei meets and eventually becomes her friend, instructor for potion making, and go-to-source for anything involving water, his specialty. He is a child of a family of merchants.- Curtains Match the Window: He has green hair and green eyes.
- Making a Splash: He has an affinity for Water Magic spells. As a medieval fantasy pharmacist, it's extremely useful for making potions and other medicinal products.
- Mentor Archetype: He was the one to teach Sei about potion making and continues to help her with her research, especially considering how unusual and exceptional her products can be.
- Nice Guy: A good and supportive friend to Sei when it comes to making potions together.
- Only One Name: As a commoner, he has no family name.
Johan Valdec, Director
Johan Valdec
Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (Japanese), David Matranga (English)
The head of the institute. He is a calm, friendly man who keeps a very relaxed and easy-going pace at the institute, though he's not above messing with his subordinates for fun.- Benevolent Boss: Even when not compared to the abusive employers Sei had in her past life on Earth, Dir. Valdec is an incredibly generous and easy-going employer. He's got plenty of patience for Sei's antics (though he's not above riling her up himself), ensures that his employees are cared for and his division properly compensated, and he does his best to ensure that Sei's increasingly fantastical achievements don't attract the wrong sort of attention to her (or end up stripping the stockroom and the herb gardens bare).
- Childhood Friend: He's known Albert his whole life, and is close enough to refer to him as just 'Al'.
- The Gadfly: He is very friendly towards Sei and wants nothing more than to help her succeed, as he does the rest of his employees. He is also extremely fond of teasing her and others for his amusement.
- Mentor Archetype: He acts as something of a paternal figure to Sei, giving her advice about potion making, helping her make sense of Salutania's politics and social customs, along with some good-natured riling Sei up at her expense, particularly when romance is involved.
- Nice Guy: Very easygoing and friendly. He accepts Sei into the institute without questions and even helps her learn how to make potions while also giving her useful feedback.
- Running Gag: He frequently has to boot Sei out of the institute and force her to take time off, to stop her from over-producing healing potions and burning through their herb supply single-handedly.
- Shipper on Deck: He not so subtly pushes Albert and Sei closer to each other, and loves to tease them about it while doing so.
The Salutanian Knights
The Third Order
Albert Hawke, Captain
Albert Hawke
Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese), Ian Sinclair (English)
An officer of the Third Order, he is known as the "Winter Knight" for his serious, no-nonsense personality and unfailing professionalism, coupled with his blue eyes and his affinity towards Ice Magic. After Sei saves him and the rest of his troops with healing potions, he quickly grows fond of her and becomes Sei's most prominent love interest.- Defrosting Ice King: Well, Captain in his case. He is known as the "Winter Knight", icy as his blue eyes, a serious, no-nonsense sort of military officer, alongside being able to use rare Ice Magic. Around Sei, however, he begins to show a much more affectionate, playful side.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": For the most part, Sei refers to him by his title, "Captain", likely a remnant of Japanese Politeness.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He's a principled, valiant, and polite gentleman and a knight, as reflected by his radiant blonde hair.
- I Owe You My Life: Says this almost word for word when he formally greets Sei for the first time.
- An Ice Person: He has a natural affinity to the extremely rare Ice Magic.
- Icy Blue Eyes: He's got blue eyes and a personality to match (around everyone except Sei).
- Love at First Sight: He fell for Sei after she healed him with an advanced potion, and she was the first thing he saw when he woke up.
- Magic Knight: He's one of Salutania's best swordsmen who can also use Ice Magic for offense and defense.
- Mundane Utility: When Sei laments that she can't get chilled drinks as conveniently as she could back on Earth, he uses his rare Ice Magic to put cubes in her drink and his.
- Nice Guy: He's a big example of a Knight in Shining Armor despite some people of Salutania except Sei viewing him as a 'Winter Knight'.
- Personality Powers: He's got Ice Magic powers and is incredibly stiff, formal, and emotionally detached—"cold", if you will.
- Shared Family Quirks: He and his older brother, Erhart, are both incredibly serious, professional men who rarely so much as crack a smile to anyone. Sei is also one of the few people able to get them to crack a smile and warm up.
- Rescue Romance: A rare male example, Albert was on death's door after a battle with the demons, and was saved thanks to Sei's first advanced healing potion, which she administered personally.
- The Stoic: On or off duty, Albert is almost always professional and shows few signs of any emotion whatsoever. It makes Sei very surprised as he's nothing but jovial, kind, and expressive when around her, though that turns out to be specifically towards her.
- However, when he stops Prince Kyle from hitting Sei, Albert is utterly pissed and Not So Stoic.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: Boyfriend in this case, but dude slaps the hand of the Crown Prince with a fair bit of force to stop Kyle from hitting Sei (changed to grabbing his wrist in the anime). Given Albert's expression during the scene, he likely would have done worse to Prince Kyle had the King not arrived to rein in his son.
The Salutanian Court Mages Division
Another government research facility, specialized in magical spells, the nature of magic, and the creation of enchanted items. Unlike the Research Institute, their members also provide field support for knights on monster subjugation operations.
Erhart Hawke, Deputy Magus
Erhart Hawke
Voiced by: Yuichiro Umehara (Japanese), Reagan Murdock (English)
The second-most powerful mage in Salutania. Cold, unfailingly professional, and stoic, his ruthless efficiency, constant attention to detail, plus his ability to use the rare and powerful Appraise spell means he's almost always at the enchanting room, making sure that the knights are properly equipped with the best of the enchanted gem cores they can produce.- Mean Boss: When Sei proves able to near-effortlessly infuse gems with powerful enchantments despite being a beginner, he wastes no time handing her gems and calmly asking her increasingly difficult attributes and combinations of them, as if she were a machine. Upon realizing what's happening, Sei sarcastically welcomes "unpaid overtime" back.
- Mystical White Hair: As befitting his incredible affinity for magic and his skill in it, he has long, silver-white hair.
- In-Universe Nickname: "Sir Intelli-Glasses/Intelli-Glasses-sama", used by Sei to refer to him during narration but never to his face.
- Not So Stoic: After Sei enchants a rare magic stone with a particularly difficult resistance attribute, he smiles and says "well done". This amazes all his subordinates, who remark that he never smiles.
- Shared Family Quirks: Like his younger brother Albert above, Hawke is incredibly cold, unfailingly professional, and almost emotionless. Similarly, they both have a fondness for Sei and reveal a warmer, friendlier, more expressive side of themselves to her.
- Stoic Spectacles: He is incredibly intelligent, his work checking and creating enchanted gems is primarily mental and requires meticulous attention to detail, and is overall a very serious, no-nonsense person. That he wears glasses just helps emphasize all these traits.
Yuri Drewes, Grand Magus
Yuri Drewes
Voiced by: Yūsuke Kobayashi (Japanese), Ryan Colt Levy (English)
The most powerful mage in all of Salutania and the head of the Court Mages. He is a mysterious figure, cheerful and passionate in appearance, with an intense, all-consuming passion for magic and magical research.- Adaptational Badass: Yuri gained strong offensive magic in the transition from Web Novel to Light Novel, going from defending the knights and the offensive mages to wiping out hordes of monsters with giant pillars of flame. He retained the more offensive move set in the anime.
- Attack Reflector: As the name implies, his Reflect spell will send enemy attacks back to the source, protecting his teammates and dealing psychological damage to their morale, too.
- Badass Bookworm: Despite the fact that he's primarily an administrator and magic researcher, and he looks very thin, frail, and lanky, he can and does take to the field alongside the knights.
- Barrier Warrior: In the web novel, his specialization is in Holy Magic and defense. He still has the Holy Magic in the Light Novel and Anime, but loses most of the defensive magic duties to Sei.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He gets extremely worked up about magic and magic spells, the undiscovered elements of Holy Magic and the Saint's power especially, it's an almost-all-consuming obsession for him. Still, he manages to do his other duties just fine and his base levels alone encourage Salutania to look over his eccentricities.
- Curtains Match the Windows: His eyes are the same hue as his hair.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Sei almost exclusively refers to him as either "Grand Magus" or "(the) Division Commander", two ways to refer to his position.
- Exact Words: He's incredibly blunt and straightforward about what he wants and thinks—though be careful, as that's often exactly what he means, assume implied messages and commands at your peril.
- Mentor Archetype: To Sei, regarding her Holy Magic and her budding Saint powers. He's infamous in his division for not shutting up about the subject the moment someone expresses even a cursory interest.
- Power-Strain Blackout: The Saint summoning spell caused him to fall into a coma for a few months, though he makes a full recovery after waking up.
- Training from Hell: He is extremely fond of giving this to the unfortunate mages under his care. It's not unusual for his students to end up passed out on the ground or slumped in the halls from sheer exhaustion, looking like they've just been murdered.
- Veteran Instructor: He's incredibly talented and can handle himself on the field just fine, but for the most part he's kept back in the royal capital to teach lectures, give hands-on training, and conduct magic research.
- Young and in Charge: He looks like he should be a recent graduate of the Royal Academy, not at the top of one of the most prestigious institutions a graduate can end up in.
The Royal Academy
The staff and students of the Salutanian Royal Academy, a prestigious school meant for teaching their students magic, military tactics, and monster subjugation.
Elizabeth "Liz" Ashley
Elizabeth Ashley
Voiced by: Reina Ueda (Japanese), Bryn Apprill (English)
A daughter of Marquis Ashley. She is an incredibly high-ranking lady and has the appearance to match, but nonetheless remains an incredibly kind, humble, and compassionate soul. She is one of Sei's first female friends in Salutania.- Arranged Marriage: To Prince Kyle. The issues he causes by ignoring her in favor of Aira are an occasional plot point.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Her long hair is bright gold and she's a complete sweetheart.
- Spoiled Sweet: As the daughter of the marquis family, she's got money, she's got influence, she's got prestige, and it shows with her long, luxurious blonde hair, her jewellery, and her fancy dresses and accessories. However, she is still incredibly kind to everyone, even a commoner researcher like Sei; she impulsively uses a yet-proven cosmetic cream to give her friend, Lady Nicole, confidence that it'll work on her terrible acne; and she likes being beautiful for her own sake, not to sell herself to prospective husbands.
- Tranquil Fury: When Kyle denounces Sei as a fraudulent Saint in public, Liz is understandably furious and calmly asks him if he had any idea what he just said.
Nicole Ardler
Nicole Ardler
Voiced by: Marika Kouno (Japanese), Kimberly Woods (English)
A noble daughter who is a friend of Elizabeth's. She suffered from self-confidence issues stemming from puberty-induced acne, exacerbated by Aira's transferring in and getting the attention of several engaged young men, her fiancee included.- Informed Deformity: She is said to suffer from severe acne due to puberty; partly because of it and partly because of Aira transferring into the academy, she stops going altogether after the world's usual cures fail to help her. In the anime, the worst we see of her face looks like freckles rather than the severe, ugly scarring acne can cause; this was probably due to TV anime conventions and budget restrictions.
The Royal Family of Salutania
In General
- Lord Country: They're named after the kingdom they rule over.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Kyle looks like a much younger, more immature, less refined version of his father, Siegfried.
Kyle Salutania, the First Prince
Kyle Salutania
Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese), Adam McArthur (English)
The current heir to the throne of Salutania. Upon meeting Aira at the summoning ceremony, he takes it upon himself to personally nurture and support her into becoming the Saint, though his tendency to have extreme tunnel vision, refusal to admit he was wrong, and his overenthusiasm in protecting Aira works to both their detriments.- Adaptational Heroism: The anime interprets his continued ignorance of Sei's accomplishments as an intentional Zero-Approval Gambit to shield Aira from his mistakes — he takes his promise to look after her so seriously he's willing to commit political suicide for it. The anime also softens his punishment as a result: he comes clean to Siegfried about his act in private, and only gets house arrest in turn.
- Adaptational Jerkass: In the Light Novel, Kyle doesn't notice Sei during the summoning ritual. He noticed her in the Anime, he just didn't consider her worth speaking to and rudely ignores her.
- Arranged Marriage: To Elizabeth Ashley.
- Disappointed in You: His impulsive actions put him in the receiving end of this from his father.
- Dramatic Irony: The Another Saint spin off has Kyle noticing that Aira had a strong potential with magic. He would have been right about it if he didn't keep insisting that Aira is a saint because of that potential while ignoring the actual Saint, Sei herself.
- Evil Is Petty: Evil might be pushing it, but he chose to ignore Sei and focus his charms on Aira simply because of the way they looked when they were summoned.
- Failed a Spot Check: Light Novel Kyle didn't notice Sei when he went to check on the summoning ritual.
- Fatal Flaw: Pride. Anime Kyle did notice Sei during the summoning ritual. He ignored her because of her appearance; he'd assumed her to be someone of low status, not worth addressing.
- His Own Worst Enemy: Another Saint reveals that by focusing on Aira, he ends up fulfilling what he wished to prevent. That is, proving that he is not an Inadequate Inheritor to the throne. His own Selective Obliviousness and impulsive action during the start of the story end up being his own undoing.
- I Reject Your Reality: He absolutely refused to admit he backed the wrong Saint candidate despite all the evidence of Sei's powers and the judgement of the Grand Magus, among many others, simply assuming it's all disinformation meant to deny his claim to the throne. It's only when the King stepped in that he was forced to admit and see that he was wrong.
- Inadequate Inheritor: The Another Saint Spin-off reveals that he feels that he is this compared to his younger brother, and see him as Always Someone Better, and thus he focused on joining the efforts with the Saint Summoning Ritual to prove his worth. Unfortunately, this drove his tunnel visioning focus on Aira than the actual saint, Sei.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He might have come across as a rude and arrogant prince only towards Sei by rudely ignoring her after being summoned but for him when it comes to Aira, he genuinely shows kindness to her when she breaks down in tears over not going back to her own world permanently and is willing to care for her wellbeing when she has difficulties adjusting to living in Salutania.
- Prince Charmless: While in the anime he's downplayed in comparison to the light novel, his treatment of Aira (possessive and controlling) and his decision to completely spite and ignore Elizabeth in favor of her is anything but charming. It also has the unfortunate effect of causing Aira's classmates to ostracize her.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: As part of his schoolwork and his dedication to his duties as future king, he takes a personal role in monster extermination and helping his saint candidate, Aira, level up and unlock her powers. The latter ends up being a futile effort thanks to Sei being the true Saint and his refusal to believe he was wrong only backfires terribly on him and Aira.
- Selective Obliviousness: Light Novel Only: During the months after the Saint Summoning Ritual, Kyle never once manages to pick up the fact that a second woman was summoned from Japan. This despite Sei's summoning, presence in the research institute, and ever-longer list of feats all being common knowledge around the palace and Sei being friends with his fiancee. Ultimately Kyle doesn't face reality until after the King is forced to step in.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Thanks to his unshakeable belief that Aira must be the Saint, he ends up insulting, ignoring, and maltreating the actual Saint, Sei. It's only due to everyone else being so kind and compassionate and Sei's being unable to live independently that she stays in Salutania, develops her powers, and goes on to perform all manner of miracles. With Aira, he ends up isolating her, keeping her friendless and miserable with his insistence she must be the Saint.
- Upper-Class Twit: Zig-zagged.
- As the first prince of the country and heir to the throne, he is putting plenty of work into his studies and training at the academy, participating in monster subjugation duties, and he takes a personal role in helping Aira level up, acclimate to the world, and help unleash her true power as a saint candidate.
- However, he also completely ignored Sei when she and Aira were first summoned; refuses to let Aira even see the gravely injured Third Knight Order, let alone heal them with her saintly powers; and is notably absent from all of Sei's increasingly grand and impressive achievements. This is portrayed as foolishly misguided at best, and horribly arrogant at worst. In-universe, the Third Order curses his denying a saint candidate an excellent chance to prove her worth; King Salutania laments his son's stupidity and the politics that keep him from seriously punishing him for his arrogance; and the king gives Sei herself a formal apology in Kyle's stead (likely because he'll refuse or just make it even worse by trying).
- Ultimately, it's Played Straight after he insults Sei to her face by calling her a fake Saint in public, right after his own father, the king, had proclaimed her as such. He loses his right to succession and proceeds to go into house arrest for several months, alongside the members of his political faction.
- Would Hit a Girl: During the loud and extremely public argument with Liz on who is the real Saint, Kyle notices Sei in the crowd and heads toward her in a rather aggressive manner and is very likely that he would have hit her had he not gotten stopped by a very angry Albert.
Siegfried Salutania, the King
Siegfried Salutania
Voiced by: Jin Yamanoi (Japanese), Kevin M Connolly (English)
The King of Salutania and Prince Kyle's father. A kind, humble, reasonable man who wants the best for his people in this time of crisis, he's nonetheless crippled by faction politics and the idiocy of his first son Kyle, forcing him to compromise, kowtow, and try to reel in everyone's worst impulses.- Beleaguered Bureaucrat: His kingdom is in a crisis, beset by monsters and monster-producing miasma wherever you turn. The local knights and mercenary companies are unable to keep up with subjugation, they're being produced faster than they can keep up. The Saint that is supposed to solve this problem hasn't appeared, necessitating a risky, unprecedented move of trying an ancient ritual that was only meant to be used once. Industries are being crippled to destroyed, people are dying, basic medical supplies are in increasingly large demand with ever-dwindling supply, but the nobles below him are still playing politics and factions, everyone demands to be sent helped first regardless of their worth to the kingdom as a whole, and his first son, the guy stepping up to the throne if Siegfried dies, is an impulsive idiot who'll likely lead the kingdom to ruin. Safe to say, despite the absolute power King Siegfried holds in theory, it isn't enough to help him.
- The Good King: He's depicted as a good, kind man and a fair ruler of the kingdom. He's genuinely apologetic to Sei for all the crap she took from his son, and tries his best to reward her for all the good she's done for Salutania.
- Older Than He Looks: You would think the man is a young uncle or an older brother, not the father of Kyle who's somewhere in the ballpark of 17-20 years old. Granted, he could have ascended to the throne at a young age and taken a wife in his teens.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Unlike Prince Kyle, he knows not to insult or doubt the woman who's been making miracles left and right all over your kingdom and has garnered a huge support base of loyal followers and admirers, regardless of whether or not she is the Saint they tried to summon. He laments being unable to formally apologize to and make compensation to Sei but all his attempts at rewarding her with titles, land, an estate in the royal capital, and servants are all rejected either by her or Dir. Valdec of the institute by proxy.
Rain Salutania, the Second Prince
Rain Salutania
Voiced by: Aoi Ichikawa (Japanese)
Prince Kyle's younger brother.- Always Someone Better: The Another Saint Spin-off reveals that Kyle, even though he's the oldest, realizes and see his younger brother as far better than he is, which unfortunately drove him to be focused on the Saint Summoning Ritual to prove his worth.
- The Wise Prince: From what little is shown about him, he is this in stark contrast to his brother, who shows traits of being an Upper-Class Twit. Ultimately, he is officially in charge of Aira's matters shortly after Prince Kyle was placed in house arrest and lost his rights to the succession of the throne.
- Out of Focus: In contrast to his father and the First Prince, his appearances are minimal and Sei has yet to properly interact with him in person. He does make some more appearances in the spin-off, however.
- Youngest Child Wins: In a way. Even though Kyle is the Crown Prince, Rain is the one who has the most approval from the knights and nobles. And following Kyle's own impulsiveness in calling out Sei, the real saint, a "fake" in public, Kyle's public approval and rights to succession of the throne is becoming slim and it caused Rain's public approval to rise instead.
