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Protagonist:
Ren
No, I will not go to that toad-faced merchant!
- Absent-Minded Professor: Deconstructed and reconstructed. Multi-tasking in the lab led to an explosion for the 30+ researcher that killed him. Once awakening these memories, Ren soon develops a multi-processing skill that allows her to focus on up to four tasks at once. This allows her to fashion a well-camouflaged, golem-propelled carriage that she can drive in her sleep!
- Action Girl: And how. The only reason she doesn't take official guild requests to hunt down monsters is that it's illegal, due to her age. If the monsters come at her, on the other hand...
- Adaptive Ability: Her actions manifest new skills simply by existing. Waking up in the forest, after a horrible night, due to a broken ankle caused by the carriage crash has her manifest [Fatigue Resistance], [Pain Resistance], and [Hunger Resistance].
- Aesop Amnesia: Downplayed. After the events of chapter 125, Ren goes into overkill with counter-measures so it doesn't happen again, up to and including building a freaking Gundam! But once the shock wears off and she feels safe again, she leaves it all behind, including sneaking away from a sleeping Alyssa and Lily to go pick bamboo shoots alone in the forest. Lily and Alyssa tear her a new one for that, lecturing her for hours, while Norn pins her to the ground with her forepaw to make her reflect on her actions.
- All Periods Are PMS: Truth in Television. Since she's hit puberty at age 11, with breasts way larger than normal, among other things, her menstrual cycle is especially harsh, even modern painkillers not helping much. Fortunately, she does chance upon "birth control" medicine that helps to make this a non-issue.
- Almighty Janitor: By the time she's become an officially registered adventurer, she and her Fenrir "pets" can, and do, take out swarms of monsters it normally takes a C-ranked party to face, but being an 11-year-old, the highest adventurer rank she can get is E, with ranks going from G (complete rookie) to A The Ace.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She has black hair and doesn't like dealing with crowds, so when people swarm her, she ignores them and disappears into the woodwork.
- Androcles' Lion: She stumbles upon two badly wounded Fenrir. When they growl a warning at her, she splashes them with a healing potion, saving their lives. They serve her faithfully as a result.
- Attempted Rape: She gets paralyzed in the forest by a colorless, odorless, and undetectable poison, and then a gang of thugs show up and make an open show of trying to rape her. Fortunately, she's rescued by Beck, Lily, Alyssa, and a few others.
- Awesome by Analysis: Her [Appraisal] and later [Analysis] skills help her with this.
- Bad Liar: She can't tell a convincing lie to save her life.
- Blithe Spirit: She has no overarching goal in life. She does what she does, when she does it, flitting to and fro where her whims take her.
- Broken Bird: Attempted kidnapping and sexual assault is a highly traumatic experience. There are survivors who have taken decades to recover, and some who never recover at all. Even Ren's [Mental Tolerance] skill couldn't keep up, and it took her a full week curled up in Norn's fur before she even worked up enough courage to ask Lily to guide her to the market, holding hands the entire time.
- Call to Agriculture: One of her first projects is a personal vegetable garden. Her [Farming] skill levels to 5 as a result. When she's driven out of her forest by Ungrateful Townsfolk, she takes said garden with her.
- Character Catchphrase: "Well, it can't be helped."
- Chainmail Bikini: Justified as she wears it under her leather armor, and is custom-crafted to be form-fitting as silk threaded with thin mitrhil fibers.
- Chivalrous Pervert: The soul of the male researcher that inhabits her body is a man who has experience with at least one prostitute, which is how she knows the pattern of the racy underwear she sports.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: The biggest obstacle she has in trying to remain Beneath Notice is that she just can't help herself when she hears that the weak, innocent, or people she's fond of are in need of aid. Although her instincts were screaming at her to flee when Beck came to the blacksmith where she was training, asking for a custom-ordered adamantite magic sword, the moment she heard that said sword was needed to fight off a frost-salamander, a freaking dragon, heading to the village of O'Neil, where her home orphanage is, she not only agreed to craft the blade -even though she never so much as laid eyes on adamantite before- but went with the rest of her fellow orphans-turned-adventurer kids to the town to face the monster horde in person, even knowing that the toad-faced merchant could well be in the area and would use his contract magic to enslave her if he found her.
- Contrived Coincidence: Her Traumatic Superpower Awakening just happens to give her the skills she needs to survive a monster-filled forest, [Creation Magic], [Unlimited Storage], [Life Magic], and [Magic Attribute Aptitude: All Attributes]. The reason she starts the story with [Appraisal] is that was the skill she awakened at age 5 and is the reason she was being sold into slavery in the first place, supposedly.
- Covert Pervert: Ren's outerwear is very modest, as can be seen in the page image. She crafts her underwear to be as racy as she can manage, is turned on by her own body, and likes to secretly admire the nude bodies of other women she finds cute. The latter part does not apply to large communal baths, especially when other women give her strange looks.
- Dark and Troubled Past: As an orphan, her life has not been kind. She's been bullied by her fellow orphans, beaten, and starved, by having her food stolen, and then she was put on a carriage, to be shipped off to slavery. Then the carriage was attacked by bandits, driven off a cliff, and she's the Sole Survivor, with a monster filled forest being the safest option.
- Does Not Like Men: She's sour on the male gender for various reasons. The most commonly stated being, 1.) Having the memories of a 30+ year-old-male makes her see sex with men repugnant. 2.) The predominance of males in her life have been incredibly pushy, at best, abusive at worst. 3.) She knows how gorgeous she is and the lewd stares she gets only serve to disgust her further.
- Does Not Like Spam: While she has no issues with orc meat, oil made from orc fat tends to make her ill, as in explosive discharges from both ends.
- Fatal Flaw: She thinks she's very careful and meticulous, but in reality she's very careless and haphazard.
- Friendly Sniper: Her preferred method of attack is to take throwing knives and use a wind-cannon to hurl them at enemies with a One-Hit Kill, striking in a vital place or going Your Head Asplode on them, from a great distance. If you don't give her reason to hate you, she's usually very open and friendly. Usually.
- Friend to All Children: Children really, really love her, as she's pretty, nice, patient, and an excellent role model. Her two doggie friends, and their soft fur, are popular too.
- Heroic BSoD: In the aftermath of the kidnap and rape attempt, she spends a week in Lily's home, curled up in a fetal position, terrified, refusing to go outside. Lily and Alyssa have to literally hold her hand in the market before she feels safe.
- Heroic Neutral: All she wants in life is to be left alone to tend to her own agency. If she sees her friends and loved ones in trouble, or the weak and helpless, she will rush in to help them, fearlessly facing terrible odds with little thought to her well-being, though she's still fond of the rewards. Though sooner or later, it usually comes back to haunt her.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: What she's come to believe about life. She's all but fearless in the face of monsters, rushing at them with little hesitation, even when facing large numbers. Humans that she doesn't acknowledge as friends start crowding her, and she will almost certainly bolt first chance she gets, especially after the events of chapter 125.
- Instant Expert: She learns and masters new skills at a supernaturally fast pace.
- Laborious Laziness: She doesn't shy away from making large efforts [Now] so she can laze around [Later]. Want to live a quiet life in the woods? Spend weeks building a two story mansion with indoor plumbing, and a Japanese bath. Want to make life a little easier in the kitchen? Build modern appliances and then spend hours with bureaucrats patenting them in the patent office. Planning a vacation with a couple of lady friends, but don't want to walk all the way, or rent a carriage? Spend the better part of a week designing your own carriage, piloted by golems!
- As can be seen in the second image, she braids her hair like that on a daily basis because she believes finding a barber is too bothersome.
- Living MacGuffin: After chapter 125, she doesn't just have to worry about the toad-faced merchant. Criminal groups have begun targeting her for kidnapping, slavery, and even Attempted Rape.
- Man, I Feel Like a Woman: When she manages setting up her home, the first thing she does is inspect her body... She finds it so enjoyable that, given a choice, she'd be doing it every night if it was possible, without getting interrupted, overheard, or "bothering the neighbors."
- Mentor Archetype: At one point, she opens a school to teach reading, writing, and basic arithmetic.
- The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: She may have the memories of a 30+ year old male cybernetic researcher, but she's got the physical and emotional maturity of an 11-year-old girl and acts accordingly.
- Necessary Drawback: Her [Creation Magic] ability is expensive in terms of mana cost. A handful of rice costs 10 MP when she only had 40 max, and the medicine for Coco cost her entire mana pool, when she had managed to get it to 100 MP. Fortunately, this cost can be reduced by various means, such as having the necessary raw materials to build or create what she wants or needs.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She stumbles on Coco, a badly injured little girl in the forest, goblins bearing down on her. She rescues the girl and learns that the poor child is looking for medical herbs to treat her mother, dying of the flu. Out of sympathy, Ren provides the girl medicine her mother needs and sends her home. Result: Once Coco's mother recovers, the entire village of Ungrateful Townsfolk come pounding on her door, demanding free medicine too, and because Coco's relatives sold the leftovers to a passing merchant, the local lord rounded up soldiers to seek her out. This prompts her to pack up and leave, even taking her house with her.
- Not the Intended Use: Her [Unlimited Storage] ability doesn't just have unlimited space for storage. The first time she scooped up a monster that she had killed, she wanted to dismantle it, for meat and fur. Not knowing how to properly butcher the animal, she tries pulling just specific parts of the animal out of storage, and the storage dismantles the animal for her...
- Only One Name: As an orphan, she has no family name.
- The Perils of Being the Best: Which she's well aware of. Every time word gets out about her amazing talent, regardless of field, someone, somewhere comes along and tries to exploit, monopolize, manipulate, or eliminate her.
- Properly Paranoid: Regardless of medium, she gets a lot of grief from the fanbase who think her intent to "not stand out" is ridiculous, until she's off gathering herbs come spring and a gang of thugs is just... suddenly there with no warning, and she's so completely paralyzed that she can barely breathe. Then they begin boasting of how easy it would have been to kill her if they wanted to, and proceed to try and rape her... as if she wasn't already androphobic before.
- Purely Aesthetic Glasses: Played with. Despite having no problems with her vision, she crafts a pair of glasses with [Appraisal Level 2] to hide the fact that she has [Appraisal] as an inherent skill, so she's not turned over to a certain toad-faced merchant.
- Rags to Riches: She starts the story wearing a one-piece rag that falls apart a few days after the fateful carriage crash, and has to fashion clothes out of wood-pulp, which pinched her when her breasts came in, leading to Man, I Feel Like a Woman and some solo sex. After a half-year of adventuring, among other things, her bank account has a figure so large, she can't read all the digits!
- Reincarnated as the Opposite Sex: In her previous life, Ren was a male thirty-something engineer.
- Simple, yet Opulent: Ren's outfit looks modest in the page image, right? Underneath that is a custom-tailored set of undergarments made of silk woven with mithril fibers.
- Skilled, but Naive: She gains skills and abilities at an alarming rate, but being trapped in an orphanage most of her life has her not knowing much about how to interact with others and this new world, so her plan to remain Beneath Notice is poorly executed and tends to fail frequently.
- Speaks Fluent Animal: One of the perks of her Life Magic is that she can speak with full-grown beasts, so she frequently has conversations with Norn (though the narration only focuses on Ren's side). Belle is too young to know how to speak properly yet.
- Springtime for Hitler: All her attempts to remain Beneath Notice are doomed to failure, though she does her best to delude herself otherwise. She's just simply too eye-catching in terms of beauty, charm, and talent, even her personally built carriage, despite the camouflage, is simply just too far outside the norm to go unnoticed.
- Squishy Wizard: After becoming a Celestial, her INT is 500, her MGC is 300, and the only other base stat that is not in the single digits is CHA at 14, once she was able to get proper nourishment.
- Supreme Chef: Everyone loves her cooking. She gains [Cooking Lv 10] because she's an excellent chef, not the other way around.
- Swiss-Army Superpower: Her [Creation Magic] can do just about anything she wants, provided she can supply sufficient mana.
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Her memories of having been a 30+ male researcher, as well as her most precious skills, awakened as a result of a near-fatal carriage accident.
- Ultimate Blacksmith: By the time chapter 110 comes around, she's the only blacksmith in the kingdom who can work with adamantite, forging a sword which can rival the equipment normally found in dungeons, which are considered trials placed by god! Although Vector did keep his word to keep the origin of said sword secret, word of her skill somehow made it to shady individuals who tried to have her kidnapped to force her to work on their behalf.
- Was Once a Man: Before the carriage accident, she was a human. After, she's a Celestial.
- Wild Card: She cares only about her own interests. If those interests happen to align with yours, congratulations, you've just gained a powerful ally. For example: dangerous monster terrorizing the trade caravans? Meh, let someone else deal with it. Dangerous monster happens to be a giant bull? OOH! I want a nice steak dinner!
- Wise Beyond Her Years: Though still naive, she's an 11-year-old girl with the memories and wisdom of a 30-year-old man.
- Workplace-Acquired Abilities: She's a Supreme Chef because of her skill in the laboratory, and having to make her own meals.
Norn and Bell
Good doggie...
A pair of Fenrir Ren meets in the forest.- Androcles' Lion: The reason they follow Ren around is that she saved their lives with a healing potion.
- Animal Companion: Their role in the story.
- Badass and Child Duo: While Bell is no pushover in its own right, it is still a puppy, and its mother Norn is a powerful wolf.
- Big Friendly Dog: Norn is a wolf the size of a horse, and is a very friendly, playful canine.
- Canis Major: While only Ren knows their true breed, everyone quickly realizes they're "monsters" not ordinary wolves because of their sheer size.
- Combo Platter Powers: They come with several inherent abilities.
- Familiar: How they're registered at the adventurer's guild.
- I Owe You My Life: They follow Ren around because they would have died without her kindness.
- It Can Think: Unlike all the other animals of the forest, they responded to being splashed with healing potions with genuine gratitude, Bell even running up and excitedly lapping Ren's face. But that alone wasn't enough to go join Ren. Norn was cautiously optimistic, until Ren happily shared the provisions of her hunt a few times. At that point, Norn and Bell moved in and took up residence at Ren's home. They've traveled together happily from that moment on.
- It's Personal: Norn has a murderous grudge against the Ogre Lord that grievously wounded her and her cub. Since they're her friends and companions, Ren shares the sentiment and lends a hand in dealing with it.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: They serve Ren faithfully, regardless of her morality, because not only did she save their lives, but she treats them kindly, and they love the way she cooks the kills they provide her.
Western Forest
The forest closest to where Ren's carriage crashed off a cliff. There's a village about half a day away from where she set up her house. Coco
Onee-san. Are you a witch?
The little girl Ren rescues from goblins and gives the medicine to help her ailing mother.- Children Are Innocent: Sweet and innocent child.
- Fainting: She passes out when she sees Norn and Bell eating the goblins that attacked her, fearing she'd be next.
- Improperly Paranoid: In the manga, she's rather suspicious of Ren despite the fact that Ren has already got her in her home and hasn't done anything, even though she had plenty of opportunity.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Taking the medicine to her mother and saying it was made by "big sister witch", ie Ren, got the entire village of Ungrateful Townsfolk pounding on Ren's door, and worse, getting the attention of the local lord, who sent soldiers at Ren, forcing Ren to flee the forest.
Neil
Coco's older brother.
- Big Brother Instinct: He was suspicious of the medicine Ren gave Coco, since Ren's a complete stranger and the medicine's origin is completely unknown.
- The Determinator: In his quest to get more of the medicine from Ren, he would stop at and pound on her door, day after day, after day, after day, refusing to leave her alone until he got it, disrupting Ren's hunting and gathering that she needed to do for winter until she stealthily approached the village and handed it to Coco as a messanger, because she wanted nothing to do with him, and told Coco to spread the word, there will be no more medicine EVER. Neil and the Ungrateful Townsfolk still didn't get it.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: He sees Ren getting along with a couple of other adventurers, whom she rescued from ogres, and agrees to their heart-felt gratitude. At this point, he has the gall to yell out "how are they any different from me?!" His fiance, Tess, has to physically drag him away, yelling "why do you care so much about that child?!" He still doesn't get it.
- Dumb Muscle: Which he's well aware of. He's great in being an adventurer hunting monsters, but he's terrible in social settings.
- No Social Skills: When his mother recovers, he goes to Ren's home to thank her but winds up interrogating her instead.
- Obliviously Evil: Even when Ren spells out how creepy he is for stalking her, he just can't bring himself to comprehend how wrong his behavior is.
- Please, I Will Do Anything!: Desperately pleaded to get some more of the same medicine Ren provided to Coco to deal with his sick lover's flu. At this point, Ren abjectly refuses, not just because he's an annoying twit who was also expecting to get it for free, after browbeating and interrogating her, but because it was abjectly impossible, seeing as it would have taken 100/100 MP to craft it, and she'd already used up half her MP hunting that day, with no mana potions available.
- Stalker without a Crush: Holy moley! No matter how Ren tells him to leave her the hell alone, he follows her everywhere, even ambushing her coming out of the inn. It's gotten to the point where Tess, the woman Neil supposedly loves, glares at Ren out of sheer jealousy, and Neil still doesn't get it.
- They Just Dont Get It: No matter how Ren tells him she doesn't want his company, because he's annoying, insistent, and pushy, he keeps tracking her down to "apologize." This drives Ren nuts.Neil:"Why do you keep trying to make me leave?"
Ren:"……Because for some reason you keep on trying to enter my house. Do you really not understand? Why a girl is living in such a remote location by herself? It's because I just want to live quietly. Do you understand? I made that medicine because you kept on being persistent and annoying, so I had no choice but to make it in order to get you to stop." - Too Desperate to Be Picky: Having no other source of medicine, not from lack of funds, but because a flu epidemic wiped out the supply, he had no option but to allow his mother to consume Ren's medicine.
Collie
Coco and Neil's sister.
- Bit Character: Shows up rarely, doesn't do much, but is just as irritating as Neil.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Tries to get Neil to understand that browbeating, interrogating, and being pushy is not the way to ask a favor, show gratitude, or offer an apology. "Tries" being the key word as Neil completely fails to comprehend the concept.
- Entitled Bitch: After her actions in the Ninja Looting entry below, not to mention the fact that her family is directly responsible for getting Ren chased out of her forest home, she drags her party to where Ren has set up camp, and insists on getting a share of the meal Ren is preparing the children, despite having done absolutely nothing to help gather the ingredients, which the children did. When she's called out on it, she turns red with a mix of embarrassment and rage, before the third member of her party drags her aside and explains it to her, and even then, she still can't bring herself to accept it. Even after the guild-master lectures her, she still acts as if she and Ren are BF Fs and demands free meals, a share of the herbs Ren harvests, everything!
- Knight Templar: Ren gets the feeling that she's completely of the mindset that her idea of righteousness is the only "correct" idea of righteousness and she will push, pull, and badger you until you comply if you disagree. This belief is backed up by Neil's side chapters where he narrates that she'd get into heated fights with others by trying to push her sense of "justice" on them, and Neil, of all people, had to step-in and clean up the mess.
- Meaningful Name: Or Punny Name depending on who you ask. Her name is Collie. Collies are a well known breed of dog. A female dog is a bitch. This Collie is an Entitled Bitch who seemingly believes Ren owes her a living.
- Ninja Looting: Without being prompted or asked, she joins Neil in outright stalking Ren, then when Ren joins with other children in collecting herbs, tries to lay claim to a share of the orc meat when Norn kills an orc that's attacking the group, calling herself an "escort." When she's denied, she retaliates by going to the herb gathering spot and cleaning it out, right in the face of everyone. Ren can only look upon this self-righteous bitch with disgust, planning to report her actions to the guild-master, which Ren does.
- Obliviously Evil: Like most of her family, aside from little Coco, she truly does not seem to comprehend how disruptive she is in Ren's life.
Tess
Neil's fiancee.
- Bit Character: Shows up so rarely, she doesn't even have speaking lines, save the one time she yanks Neil away from Ren...
- Fangirl: She follows Collie around.
- Flat Character: She's Neil's lover and Collie's fangirl, and that's all we really know about her.
- Misplaced Retribution: Rather than call out Neil for stalking Ren, she glares at Ren as if Ren is trying to steal her lover. Ren's reaction is "WTF, girl?"
Beck
The founder and highest leveled member of Neil's party of adventurers.
- The Bus Came Back: He returns to the story in chapter 105 during a martial arts festival.
- King Incognito: Chapter 107 reveals he's actually Vector, the second prince.
- Only Sane Man: Ren can actually respect him because he's the only one in the party who has any decency and at least tries to respect her boundaries.
- Poor Communication Kills: Chapter 126 explains why the scoundrels had access to Ren in chapter 125. The escorts Beck provided as part of the contract to forge the magic sword started to slowly but surely bleed off as time passed, leading Ren to believe the situation was getting better until one day there were none, so Ren presumed the threat had passed. What actually was going on is that the escorts were being bled off in pursuing criminal groups that took an unhealthy interest in Ren, but Beck never bothered to advise her. The final escort ran to Beck for backup when he noticed a large criminal group way too big to deal with solo, again Ren remained completely unaware. This leads to Ren being ambushed, and if the louts were just a tiny bit more focused on their work rather than amusing themselves by tormenting and sexually assaulting her for a laugh, she would have been long gone by the time Beck, Lily, Alyssa, and the entire gang of fellow orphans-turned-adventurers arrived. Most likely in the hands of the "client," a merchant with a terrible reputation who obviously wanted her for less than honest reasons. Ren, rightly, feels horribly betrayed by this.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: After seeing first hand how multi-talented Ren is, rather than going the stereotypical Self-Fulfilling Prophecy route, trying to manipulate, dominate, and chain her down to force her loyalty, which would naturally alienate her, he instead rewards her efforts handsomely and earnestly lends his aid and protection so she wants to stay loyal to the kingdom he's in.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: You're a royal, and someone who has earned your favor and is a huge asset to your country, not to mention has proven herself a genuine hero, is set upon by nefarious individuals, getting clearly traumatized. What do you do? You go and inflict immediate, perhaps disproportionate, retribution an the perpetrators and everyone who supports them, so it never happens again.
- Terrifying Rescuer: He protects Ren from a kidnapping and rape attempt by beheading one of the culprits right atop her while she's paralyzed and pinned beneath him.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Which Ren lampshades at the end of the Ogre emergency subjugation. Neil, Tess, and Collie pass her as she's resting at the Harula city gates, but he's nowhere to be found.
Villager A
Entitled, unnamed villagers and merchants who show up at Ren's door, repeatedly, demanding free medicine, the moment the snows finished melting, and wouldn't take "there is no more" as an answer, until Ren got sick of it, and the threat of a nearby city lord sending soldiers to capture and subdue her forced her to pack up and leave, fleeing in the middle of the night.
- Entitled Bastard: Just because Coco, a small, helpless child, got medicine for free, that doesn't mean an able-bodied, full grown man will get it for free too, even if it was available. Unfortunately, he's only the first of many who thought that if Coco got some for free, then he could get it free too.
- Evil Gloating: Some of these middle-aged men gloated that rumors had spread to a Local City Lord regarding Ren, not to mention said Lord getting his hands on Ren's potions, and soldiers would be headed out to seize her. This prompts Ren to move out, taking her home and garden with her.
- Evil Old Folks: Middle-aged, and entitled twats who thought they could browbeat Ren into giving free medicine, either for exclusive use, or to get rich.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Since they drove Ren out of the forest with their entitled jerkassery, she wasn't there to protect them when a large band of ogres and an Ogre Lord marched through the area. By accounts from the guild master's side-story, this army of ogres did serious damage to all the villages these guys came from, nobody able to stop them, until they set their sights on Harula, and Ren, Norn, and Bell, with their personal grudge against the Ogre Lord, stopped them.
- No Name Given: None of these entitled asshats is ever named, and there's no need to, really.
- Ungrateful Townsfolk: They respond to a girl giving medicine to the terminally ill, out of goodwill, not with gratitude, but demanding she give it to them too, for free, so they can get rich, or else the Local Lord will "hear of it" and soldiers will come her way, thanks for the important information.
Harula
The closest city to Western Forest and where Ren starts her adventuring career. Nicole
A merchant Ren meets en route to Harula.
- A Friend in Need: How he sees Ren coming to his aid, both with a water shortage and from an orc attack, which his hired escorts fled from, hamstringing him in the process to use as bait.
- Gender-Blender Name: Nicole is usually a woman's name.
- Happily Married: Has a wife and children.
- Honest Corporate Executive: Honest and noble merchant.
- Intrepid Merchant: Travels and trades between Ollie, the town where Ren's orphanage lies and Harula. The safest path is several weeks long, by carriage, while the shortest and cheapest swarms with bandits and monsters, which is how Ren's carriage crashed.
- I Want Grandkids: When he sees how gorgeous Ren is, he immediately starts making plans to marry her off to his son.
Elsa
Nicole's daughter.
- Cheerful Child: She's a sweet child who's a total chatterbox and will happily talk your ear off if you pay any attention to her.
- Innocently Insensitive: Being a young child, she couldn't understand why Ren would want to hide her looks under a hood, so yanks the hood off, at which point Nicole starts muttering about introducing Ren to his son.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She both loves being the adventurer in the stories about heroes and the princess the heroes are rescuing.
Lloyd
A boy who was helping Nicole with his trading between Ollie and Harula.
- Bit Character: He was just there as a warm body to help Nicole haul goods on his carriage, he serves no other purpose and doesn't have much of a role in the story where he appears. Once Ren is in Harula, he never shows up again.
- Carry a Big Stick: Fights with a club.
- Hold the Line: He, along with Nicole, volunteered to hold back half-a-dozen orcs to allow for Ren and Elsa's escape. Fortunately for Lloyd and Nicole, such a brave act was unnecessary, as Ren, Norn, and Bell delivered to the orcs a Curb-Stomp Battle.
- One Degree of Separation: He's Elsa's cousin.
Ziggy and Kimble
The pair of adventurers hired by Nicole to escort him between Ollie and Harula, since his regular escorts were unavailable.
- Casanova Wannabe: They believe they're real lady's men and frequently make lewd, perverted comments in Ren's direction. In reality, they are total clods.
- Dirty Coward: They didn't even try to fulfill their end of the escort contract. When orcs attacked the caravan, they fled first chance they got, even hamstringing Nicole to use him as bait.
- The Dividual: They travel as a matched set.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: Subverted. When the caravan they were escorting fell under attack by 6 orcs, they tried to drag Ren off in the confusion, but Bell drove them off.
- Jerkass: They've brought Nicole nothing but grief since he hired them to escort him. In fact, they're introduced yelling about not being enough water for their needs despite being a much smaller party of adventurers than Nicole normally works with, and he loaded the normal amount of water. Ren suspects they did something to the water reserves, just so they could complain about it.
- Made a Slave: Their breach of contract was so heinous, along with many, many other petty crimes of which they're guilty, that the official criminal sentence handed down to them at trial is working as slaves in a mine.
- Miles Gloriosus: They love to boast that they're powerful adventurers, slaying monsters for a living, and throw their weight around. An actual monster attack happens, and they run away, even using their client as bait to buy time for their escape.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Their cowardice, jerkassery, and pettiness is the reason Ren was able to get aboard the carriage heading to Harula with Nicole and his daughter, Elsa, and fleeing before the orcs, allowed Ren to show her stuff, putting her in Nicole's good books, making entry to the city, and joining the adventurer's guild much, much easier.
- The Peeping Tom: They'd take turns following Elsa and Ren whenever the two had to go go pick flowers. Fortunately, Norn and Bell were around to keep the clods from getting too close and doing worse...
The Adventurer's Guild Master, Warzel
Wait, wait, wait a minute! You did all this, before even signing up to be an adventurer? And what's more YOU'RE ONLY ELEVEN?!!
- Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Being guildmaster has not been easy on him. Not only does he suffer such a constant manpower shortage, that it takes attempted murder to justify giving any discipline harsher than a verbal rebuke, but along comes this eleven-year-old little girl who consistently outstrips his most veteran members, for fun apparently, but she constantly proclaims that she doesn't want to stand out, and means it, and can't be put to work where her talents really lie, because she's just too damn young!
- Can Not Keep A Secret: What Ren suspects of him when the C-class adventurers that were with him, and he was trying to protect from the ogre swarm and ogre-lord go and start badgering her for showing up and saving the day, in violation of the agreement where Warzel would keep her name out of it, until Warzel showed up and told the lot to can it, and then apologized, stating that they were on-loan from the capital, and not directly under his authority.
- Mandatory Unretirement: He was a Retired Badass who was yanked out of retirement and forced to run the perpetually woefully understaffed adventurer's guild in Harula.
- Obstructive Code of Conduct: He would very, very much love to raise Ren's rank as high as it can go, seeing that she can take down monsters even he would have a hard fight one on one with, and with incredible ease, not to mention that she's exemplary in leading parties, training new members, and brings forth fantastic results regardless of what she does for the guild, but he can't because the law mandates that she can't go any higher than E-rank, and is restricted to only harvesting herbs, because she's 11, and the minimum age for taking subjugation quests is 13, due to the danger involved.
- Only Sane Man: In the "resigned to accept it because there's nothing he can do about it" way. Not only does all the wackiness of having a perpetually critically understaffed guild drive him bonkers, but Ren, the 11-year-old girl that refuses to stand out, and hates both fame and glory is also the most eye-catching adventurer in the guild, due to her good looks, charm, the sheer audacity of her antics, and her cooking. He's basically just given up trying to figure her out for the sake of his sanity.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Bends the rules for Ren as much as he can because she comes through when the guild's in a pinch, and is a good, honest worker that only benefits the guild, even if covering for her exploits is a migraine inducing affair.
- Reluctant Ruler: He did not want to be guildmaster of Harula, he was forced into it by the crown, and he hates it! He would rather be enjoying his retirement, along with his so-called friends who bailed on him, and left him running the place by himself.
- Spotting the Thread: Though he keeps it to himself, Ren's clumsy attempts to hide her skills from him don't fool him a bit.
- Too Desperate to Be Picky: At his wit's end, facing off against an Ogre Lord, and no less than 16 ogres, along comes Norn with a written note saying "1.) Exempt me from punishment for subjugating. 2.) Give me an equal share of the ogre materials. 3.) Keep my name out of it. Agree and I'll kill these guys for you." Not believing that she could actually do it, he agreed to her terms. One howl from Norn later, and those ogres fell over, dead, through means he can't understand, then the Ogre Lord's leg exploded, and as it was falling over Norn goes over and beheads it with her paws.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Says this in his internal monologue word for word when he finds out the very busty girl who killed six orcs, while protecting the merchant Nicole, is not only looking to sign up for becoming an adventurer, but is only 11-freaking-years-old.
The inn's cook
Why did you put me in the background, camera-man-san? Don't you realize how important I am?!!
- Angry Chef: Does this ever apply. Every time Ren sees him, he's sporting a Death Glare at her, at best, though he quickly turns red with rage when she politely refuses to back him up in stating his stolen recipes are rightfully his, or complying with his demands to simply give him her recipes, free of charge, to increase his menu options.
- Did Not Think This Through: He demands Ren share her recipes as the price for borrowing the inn's kitchen to cook her personal meals. He never dreamed that she'd politely refrain from using the kitchen, ever again, and would make her own stove.
- Entitled Bastard: He genuinely believes he's entitled to the recipe of any inn guest who happens to eat in the dining room.
- Fatal Flaw: Pride.
- Mean Boss: If he's saying anything to his underlings, it's usually in the form of yelling insults and loudly barking orders at them.
- No Name Given: His name is never mentioned.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He's a hired chef, not the inn's owner, a noble, or anything of the sort, yet he loves to throw his weight around as if he runs the place.
- Stealing the Credit: He repeatedly steals Ren's recipes and passes them off as his own, even when he gets it wrong, despite watching her in the kitchen like a hawk. The inn's patrons catch on rather quickly, and call him to task on it, humiliating him.
Lily and Aryssa
Aryssa is on the far left, Lily is on the far right.
- A-Cup Angst: Lily is deeply jealous of Ren's breasts and is even on-screen grope-harassing them.
- All Women Are Lustful: When circumstances forced them to share a bath with Ren, they went out of their way to ogle Ren's nude body first, making loud and off-color commentary every step of the way, with many an "ooh" or "aah". Ren ogled them in return but kept her opinions to herself.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: When Ren makes it to the royal capital and is introduced to their parents, Lily's mother whips out the baby pictures and cheers at Lily bringing home a bride!
- Bathtub Bonding: En route to the royal capital, traveling with Ren, Ren whips out her home and the three of them share the same bathtub, both for practicality and so Ren could admire the scenery.
- Childhood Friends: Aryssa and Lily have been friends since childhood.
- Girlish Pigtails: Aryssa wears her hair like this and has both the joy and innocence that goes with the trope.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Lily has golden-blonde hair and is a good, kind woman, happy to serve.
- Modest Royalty: They are the daughters of duke houses, yet they both work at subservient fields,as waitresses in an inn, and they live off of their wages. It's only when they're visiting family, on vacation, that they live it up, with their parents' blessing.
- Scullery Maid: Lily and Aryssa are waitresses at the inn in Harula.
- Shout-Out: Chapter 31, "I fed the Lily sisters", where they feature prominently, is a lampshaded allusion to Yuri Shimai.
- Through His Stomach: Aryssa and Lily become enamored with Ren's cooking.
Fellow Orphans
Triella
Ren! You... You're alive!
The first orphan turned adventurer Ren meets in Harula.- Cool Big Sis: How Ren saw her in the orphanage. Triella is one of the few fellow orphans to try and defend Ren from bullying.
- The Glomp: Upon meeting Ren in Harula, she grabs the latter in a bear-hug, refusing to let go.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Blonde haired, and a good kind woman who looked after her younger fellow orphans, until she fled the orphanage, taking quite a few fellow orphans with her, for fear of getting sold into slavery.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Blue eyes and not a trace of malice in her body.
- Team Mom: Runs the "house" all the orphans-turned-adventurer live in.
Rocco
Me, Ren-Sensei! I know the answer!
The youngest of the orphans turned adventurer introduced.- Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Loves it when people rub her head.
- Cheerful Child: Very happy and upbeat.
- Child Prodigy: She's even younger than Ren and is so talented with magic that she learns it even faster than Ren does. That's saying something.
- Instant Expert: It took days for Ren to learn each and every one of her magical abilities. Rocco learns those abilities herself in minutes.
- Punny Name: "Rocco" is a nick-name. Her full name is ''Ricorice', named after the candy licorice.
- Squishy Wizard: She's quick on the uptake in magic, but being younger than 11, she's even weaker, physically, than Ren.
- Super-Intelligence: She's really, really, really smart. She masters reading, writing, and basic arithmetic, from zero prior study, in less than a day! The language in question being Japanese too, which has thousands of characters to memorize and interpret.
Kain
The ringleader of the bullies that tormented Ren in the orphanage.
- Did Not Think This Through: Ren is right to call him an idiot. He never considers the long term consequences of his actions. He blows all his money on sub-standard equipment he's never going to use, because he's too young to take the "beat them till they die" missions he likes, and by the time he's old enough, he's going to need new stuff anyway. When he does get around to buying meals, he goes for the most perishable stuff, never buying anything preserved, and doesn't keep any savings for later. He alienates his fellow escapees by trying to take their equipment when he sees it's better than his own. In short, it's amazing that he hasn't been killed by his own stupidity yet.
- Dumb Muscle: Ren rightly calls him and his two minions "the idiot trio." He's only good as an adventurer by going up to things and beating them until they die. He's absolutely hopeless in anything else, even planning a budget for his next meal...
- Entitled Bastard: He honestly believes that because he and Ren were both friends when she was 5, they would always be friends regardless of how he brutalized her. He had to be asked how he felt about being beat around by a Drill Sergeant Nasty orphanage attendant before he could even begin to comprehend why Ren would not like it. Even then, he still thinks Ren's his friend and would always offer a helping hand when he gets himself in over his head.
- Hypocrite: His default actions in regards to Ren are violence and abuse. When he tries to grab and beat up on Ren in Harula, he has the gall to call Norn "dangerous" when the wolf snaps at the offending hand, and refuses to see himself as dangerous for the fact that he tried to grab and beat up Ren in the first place, and has a history of doing it.
- During their time in the Orphanage of Fear run by the Toad Faced Merchant, he was fond of taking Ren's meals by force, along with those from other "grown up" kids and giving them to the smallest kids, shouting "you're grown up now, they need it more," leaving Ren and the others so hungry they could not sleep at night, but he never once gave up one of his three meals a day to anyone.
- Loving Bully: When he and Ren meet in Harula, he admits having romantic feelings for her, but she calls "bullshit" on it because he would steal her meals, beat and brutalize her, constantly.
- Mutually Unequal Relation: When he says Ren is his friend, and friends should help each other, she agrees that friends should help each other, but that they are clearly not friends, and never will be. It takes a lot to get it through his head that Ren does not consider him a friend in any way.
- Rejected Apology: He does ultimately apologize for the grief he gave Ren when the two were growing up, but because he does so immediately after being refused aid in setting up a merchandise stall, something he has zero talent in, she rejects him and tells him it's way too late to apologize, and he should be grateful she's indifferent to him.
- Spared, but Not Forgiven: Since he's completely unrepentant, entitled, and has great difficulty understanding why Ren utterly hates him for his abuse, she utterly refuses to forgive him, no matter how he apologizes, but rather than give him the grief she believes he deserves, because she simply finds it too troublesome, she gives him indifference. She's not going to go after him, but she's not helping him either. If he does benefit from her actions, it's entirely unintentional.
- They Just Dont Get It: Ren yelling at him that she doesn't like being beat up, and having Norn snap at him wasn't enough for him to realize that he's a clod for going after her that way. His fellow orphans have to tie him up to a chair and lecture him for a solid three days, with him trying to break free and chase her down, repeatedly, him getting beat down every time he tries it, before he finally gets the message and leaves Ren alone.
- Too Dumb to Live: His decision making is so stupid, it's amazing he's still alive.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Since the Toad Faced Merchant never provided enough food to go around, making sure the smaller children were fed first makes some sense. Unfortunately, since he was fond of taking the meals of the "grown up" kids by force and never sharing his own meals, all his actions accomplished was alienating his fellow orphans, but he's so dumb he doesn't realize it, nor care.
- Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: When he encounters Ren in Harula, and realizes she knew he was there, he gets enraged that she didn't seek him out, and uses that as a justification for trying to grab her and beat her up.
Boman
The second of the "idiot trio."
- Bystander Syndrome: He may not have actively aided Kain in bullying Ren, but he was perfectly content to stand by Kain without doing anything while Ren was in distress.
- Entitled Bastard: He's always expecting others to do things for him. When he notices that the capital is having a cooking stall contest, he fully expected Arle and Ren to help him out, while he put forward the absolute minimum effort, if he put in any effort at all.
- Mutually Unequal Relation: From both Ren and Arle. He cries out that they're all friends and friends should help one another, at which point Arle and Ren point out his past that when they were in trouble and needed help, he did nothing, so why should either of them consider him a friend.
- The Slacker: Deconstructed. He almost completely blew off Ren's reading, writing, and math classes, preferring to play around rather than actually do his work seriously, figuring he could come back and study later "when it really mattered." Well, too bad. It was a limited time offer, as a favor to Ren's fellow orphans. So now he's got to struggle and wallow in his illiteracy fueled poverty and suffering.
Ryuu
The third of the "idiot trio."
- The Atoner: At some point off-screen, he realized the treatment Ren got was abhorrent, and his part in laughing at her while she suffered is unforgiveable. So he struggled and suffered to make himself a better person. While Ren has no intention of forgiving him, she does praise him for the gesture.
- Damned by Faint Praise: Ren praising him for changing from the lout who just pointed and laughed as she suffered to an honest and upright guy who honestly struggles to make the world a better place leaves him more chagrined than the condemnation for his past.
- Kick the Dog: While Ren was on the ground, crying, after Kain beat her up and stole her food, leaving her half-starved, he would point and laugh at her, every single time. Even though he realized this was a horrid thing to do, and is struggling to be a better man going forward, Ren has no intention of forgiving him.
- Secret Test of Character: When Ren first greets him as a student in her class, she deliberately provokes him, to see what kind of man he'd become in the year or so while she was away. When he failed to rise to the bait, and instead put forward a very sound proposal to provide the ingredients and pay for Ren to cook them lunch, she realized he's changed, and is a much better person than before.
Arle
Another of the female orphans turned adventurer.
- An Entrepreneur Is You: She also has the dream of running a food-stall or restaurant of her own, but unlike Boman, actually takes the time and effort to actually learn what she'll need to prosper, instead of just sitting back and expecting others to do the work for her, and bail her out when things go wrong.
- Epiphany Therapy: For no less than three days, she would tie Kain down, lecture him, and drop-kick him into unconsciousness every time he tried to escape and chase Ren down until he finally got the message that Ren does not like him and to leave her alone.
- Foil: To Boman. While both of them dream of running their own food-stalls, she takes the work seriously, as opposed to him who just likes to slack off.
- Kick Chick: Her on-screen fights to date all involve kicks and drop-kicks.
