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| 18 | There are spoilers ahead. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned. |
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| 20 | !Hajime's Party |
| 21 | Read about them [[Characters/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongestHajimesParty here]] |
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| 23 | !The "Hero" Party |
| 24 | Hajime's former classmates so-called due to the de-facto leader's, Amanogawa Kouki, having the status of '''Hero''' whose purpose is to save mankind from the threat of the Demons. Following Hajime's fall to the Abyss, the class ended up splintered into multiple groups, with Kouki leading a 3 party expedition team through the Great Orcus Labyrinth to train for the upcoming war while Sonobe founded the Ai-chan Defense Force in order to protect their teacher and find a purpose for the lives that Hajime saved. |
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| 26 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 27 | * AntiHeroTeam: Outside of bullying Hajime, they are relatively decent people and want to help the people of Tortus, though mainly to get back home. |
| 28 | * AwesomeButImpractical: Loggins notes that they have a problem of going for the flashiest attack immediately, with no concern for their environment and conserving stamina. |
| 29 | * CantCatchUp: After Hajime returned from the abyss, they quickly fall behind him and his party. |
| 30 | * ChildSoldiers: All of them are only in high school, yet they get magically drafted by a psychotic god to fight a losing battle for the human denizens of Tortus due to being granted cheat-level powers and skills. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome This goes as well as expected.]] |
| 31 | * DramaticIrony: After Hajime's "death" a contingent of students led by Kouki attempts to conquer the Orcus Labyrinth, reaching the 90th floor after four months of slowly making their way through the Magic Beasts within. (a) The first 100 floors are more or less a training ground for the '''true''' Labyrinth below & (b) Hajime in that time had already claimed the second Labyrinth along with the Orcus one, emptying them of anything valuable or useful. Needless to say, it can both funny and a little sad to watch them struggle through battles and celebrate their victories [[spoiler:while Hajime's party levels half a city and takes out 60,000 monsters by themselves]]. |
| 32 | * EveryoneHasStandards: The classmates are fine with ganging up on Hajime for his otaku status and his relationship with Kaori, but even they draw the line when they learn about [[spoiler:Hiyama leaving Hajime for dead as well as the former's subsequent murder of Kaori]]. |
| 33 | * {{Foil}}: To Hajime's Party - The "Hero" party made up of Hajime's former classmates are made of over twenty people and has the backing of the Church of Ehit; their goal being to save humanity and the world from the threat of the Demons. Hajime and his girls are all that make up their group (around 5 or so) and are only out for themselves, usually helping others for their own reasons, benefit, or simply a side-effect of their real goals. |
| 34 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Some classmates show shades of this, as even after bullying Hajime and not investigating the true cause of his "death", they still expected him to help them when they met him again after he became much stronger than them. Some of the boys even tried to get him to spill on how to make girls of Tortus fall in love with them after seeing the girls in Hajime's harem. |
| 35 | * JerkassToOne: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] While their bullying of Hajime only got worse once they were transported to the new world, [[spoiler: [[EveryoneHasStandards even they never counted on Hiyama trying to kill him the way he did.]]]] But by then, the damage had already been done, [[FromNobodyToNightmare Hajime was now a completely changed man.]] He no longer cared about any of his old classmates as people (except Kaori initially due to his debt to her and him remembering how she promised to protect him), because as far as he knew, and thanks to all of their prior treatment of him for so long, they were all in on it. And he was perfectly willing to let them all be killed by a powerful enemy in the labyrinth, had [[MoralityPet Myu and his party]] not talked him into it. But even then, he still makes it clear to them that he will not hesitate to kill '''any''' of them if they get in his way of going back home. |
| 36 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Back in Japan, they all ganged up on Hajime for being an otaku and "worthless" due to drawing the attention of the SchoolIdol. It only got worse when they were brought to Tortus and everyone, but Hajime, got impressive skills, magics, and stats. After Orcus, Hajime is stronger than all of them combined and only grows stronger as he conquers more Labyrinths; the true karma is that they're now so beneath him in terms of power, Hajime's former class isn't even worth the effort to ''think'' about revenge against them. |
| 37 | * NotWorthKilling: The '''''only''''' thing stopping Hajime from immediately putting a bullet in all of them ([[MoralityPet besides his party]]) the next time he sees them is because he thinks it's far more fitting to [[FateWorseThanDeath leave them all trapped to fend for themselves in this new world,]] while he finds his way back home. |
| 38 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: In comparison to the native inhabitants of Tortus, the Hero Party is very powerful as they managed to reach further than anyone else from Tortus in the Orcus Labyrinth, as their party is filled with people with rare and powerful jobs. However, they greatly fall short of Hajime and his party, who not only cleared the Orcus Labyrinth, but several others as well as managing to stop the demon invasion of the Heiligh Kingdom by themselves. |
| 39 | * SelectiveObliviousness: Due to the trauma they endured after nearly dying the first time they went into the Orcus Labyrinth and Hajime's own "death" in the labyrinth after he was blasted into the abyss, they deliberately ignored how it was a fire magic attack that caused Hajime to fall, instead convincing themselves that Hajime fell due to his own carelessness. |
| 40 | * StunnedSilence: They are utterly slack-jawed after witnessing Hajime wipe out the demon army with Hyperion. |
| 41 | * TeensAreMonsters: [[DeconstructedTrope Played straight at first, but ultimately deconstructed.]] They were only able to get away with treating Hajime the way they did for so long for two reasons: [[DeliberateValuesDissonance Japan's society letting them get away with it,]] and their status as "Heroes" in the new world. [[EveryoneHasStandards But after they believed Hajime was killed,]] that's when they all [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome have an immediate wakeup-call]] as to just what kind of world they're now living in, and how it '''won't''' be nearly as tolerant of their vices as their old one was. This is hammered home later when the team eventually faces a powerful enemy in the labyrinth that would've killed all of them [[TookALevelInBadass had Hajime not returned.]] |
| 42 | * UnwittingPawn: The class believes that they were chosen by the gods in order to save humanity from the threat of the demons and will be able to return home if successful. In reality, Tortus' Pantheon uses all life as pieces on their game board and couldn't care less about sending them home. |
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| 44 | |
| 45 | !!Kouki's Party |
| 46 | The backbone of the Hero Party expedition led by the ''Hero'' Kouki Amanogawa himself. Kaori Shirasaki and Eri Nakamura used to be members of this party until they left in favor of joining Hajime and the Demon race respectively. They, later on, join Hajime's adventure to clear the remaining 2 Labyrinths following the demon attack on Heileigh and Eri's betrayal. |
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| 48 | [[folder:Kouki Amanogawa]] |
| 49 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TetsuyaKakihara (Japanese), Creator/RiccoFajardo (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Creator/JoseAngelTorres (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 50 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/amanogawa_kouki_anime.png]] |
| 51 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see him in the light novel]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kouki02.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 52 | |
| 53 | The "perfect man" of the class. |
| 54 | ---- |
| 55 | * TheAce: On Earth, at least. He was known for being the best in academics and athletics. In the world of Tortus, this went straight to his head. [[spoiler:After joining Hajime's team it doesn't take long for him to turn into a BrokenAce.]] |
| 56 | * AllegoricalCharacter: In a DeliberateValuesDissonance way. Kouki's views of "justice" (in a GoodFeelsGood way), TheNeedsOfTheMany (i.e. thinking of the group besides one's own individuality), bullying and the use of BlamingTheVictim aren't all that different from what most of Japanese society thinks and functions as, and showing the ugly sides of it. |
| 57 | * TheAtoner: [[spoiler:He decides to return to Tortus to redeem himself for his actions during the story, then he gets summoned to ''another world'' as the hero.]] |
| 58 | * AttentionWhore: Deep down, he desperately craves attention and is pissed if he isn't the center of it or gets the proper amount that he thinks he deserves. |
| 59 | * AwesomeButImpractical: As early as the Tortus dungeon, he would use the most powerful attacks right away, but Meld would chastise him for not thinking of what would happen if such an attack caused a cave-in. He apologizes, but the look in his eyes shows he's only saying it to stay out of trouble. |
| 60 | * BarrierWarrior: He knows many defensive spells like ''Holy Shield'' and ''Sacred Shields''. |
| 61 | * BelievingTheirOwnLies: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}, PlayedForDrama, [[PlayedForHorror Horror]], and in words of [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Ocelot]]: "It’s easier to live a convenient lie than a painful truth." As things no longer go his way while the one person he personally dislikes gets better treatment, being exposed to the ugly sides of Tortus, and being forced to make morally-ambiguous choices causes Kouki to delve into his delusions of justice until things hit a boiling point during the [[spoiler:Frost Caverns of Schnee]]. In fact, breaking himself out of this mindset is a major trial for him during the ''After Story''. |
| 62 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: A DoubleSubversion. His kind and righteous behavior are genuine, just ''really'' misguided due to his naïve outlook. But as things no longer go his way in Tortus along with Hajime being the center of attention, his selfish and spoiled side starts to reveal itself. |
| 63 | * BlackAndWhiteInsanity: To Kouki, there's only right (his view) and wrong (others). Anybody who doesn't follow his view is wrong. [[spoiler:Since he is literally the Hero, he believes the class comes with OmniscientMoralityLicense, meaning he would be the good guy no matter the situation, which often leads to him engaging in InsaneTrollLogic level mental gymnastics to justify why he is still right and his opponents are wrong.]] |
| 64 | * BlamingTheVictim: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. His go-to solution to solving conflicts between two hypothetical parties is to always come down on the ones who are the ''victims'' (regardless if their situations are out of their control), and [[KarmaHoudini not the offending ones]] (regardless of their [[DisproportionateRetribution flimsy]] or [[ForTheEvulz non-existent]] reasons). While it's common in Japanese society due to DeliberateValuesDissonance, it does not do so well when it comes to the GreyAndGrayMorality world of Tortus. |
| 65 | * BlowYouAway: He has access to several wind spells, like Wind Bomb and Air Hammer. |
| 66 | * BookSmart: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. He's great in a purely academic setting, but in a practical environment (where he actually has to think and adapt), [[LackOfImagination he's completely helpless if left to his own devices]]. He also tends to make things worse when faced with an unfamiliar situation unless someone nearby can do the thinking for him. |
| 67 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Eri mind controls him at the climax to keep him as her lover and use him against his friends.]] [[spoiler:Becomes a case of MoreThanMindControl when, even after Shizuku broke the main control, he kept fighting since a part of him truly believed that Hajime had brainwashed all around him and couldn't accept not being the center of all attention.]] |
| 68 | * BrokenPedestal: As his flaws became more apparent as the story goes on, he loses the respect and admiration of those around him. [[spoiler:By the time of the ''After Story'', the only ones who still respect him are Shizuku, Ryuutaro, and Suzu.]] |
| 69 | * BullyingADragon: Despite even Kouki himself acknowledging that Hajime is ''much'' stronger than him or the rest of the Hero Party, he keeps on deliberately trying to pick fights with Hajime in various instances due to both disagreeing with his philosophies and Kouki's own jealously towards him. This is despite the fact that Hajime blatantly stated that he wouldn't hesitate to kill of his own classmates if they got in his way. If not for the fact that Hajime was able to [[TookALevelInKindness regain some of his former kind self]] due to the influence of his party, as well as Kaori and Shizuku friendship with Kouki, [[spoiler:Hajime would have finished him off after Kouki succumbed to his doppelgänger's taunting influence and attacked Hajime.]] |
| 70 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: Back on Earth, stopping [[spoiler:Eri's]] attempted suicide was just him doing a nice thing for a classmate, and he barely remembers it. For her, it was the first nice thing anyone had ever done for her, and was the start of her obsessive VillainousCrush on him. |
| 71 | * ButtMonkey: By the time Hajime [[TookALevelInBadass comes back stronger than ever]] after the events of the Orcus Labyrinth, it didn't take long for Kouki to, ironically, become the butt of the jokes along with his so-called "sense of justice" proving ineffective. |
| 72 | * ChickMagnet: |
| 73 | ** On Earth (and also on Tortus) many girls have confessed to him, and on Tortus he has a fan club formed by several girls infatuated with him. |
| 74 | ** In the ''After Story'' he managed to get two girls (one is a former queen and the other is a former goddess) from another world pining for him. Unfortunately for him, they constantly fight each other over him. It comes to a head when Myu presented him with a pair of engagement rings as his Christmas gift, causing these two rival girls to pressure him for the ring. |
| 75 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: Subverted and Deconstructed. He honestly believes that Kaori would naturally be with him since childhood, never figuring out that she had eyes for Hajime until she decided to join him. That was when his antagonism towards him became worse. |
| 76 | * TheChosenOne: |
| 77 | ** Ehitorujue intended to summon only him due to his hero class to counter Freid's influence on the status quo, the other classmates were summoned simply because the calling spell couldn't be precise enough. [[spoiler:Also intended to snatch his body after he powered up long enough.]] |
| 78 | ** [[spoiler:In ''After Story'', Kouki is summoned by other gods to be a chosen one again. Fortunately, he got better at being a hero when he was summoned this time around.]] |
| 79 | * CluelessChickMagnet: Shizuku and Kaori, having known him since childhood, are well aware that he has absolutely no clue how his "cliché lines" and winning smile affect women. In fact, they often address him as "the typical dense harem lead." [[spoiler:Deconstructed in regards to Eri, who became a {{Yandere}} just because of how dense he is.]] |
| 80 | * ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: '''Constantly.''' When even a musclehead like Ryuutaro can bite his tongue... |
| 81 | * CondescendingCompassion: This is how he normally addresses Hajime, and his friend Shirasaki, always sarcastically calling her "[[NiceGirl kind]]" because ''she actually treats Hajime like a human being''. [[{{Foreshadowing}} If anything, this is the first sign for the readers to know that Kouki isn't as kind and altruistic as he believes himself to be.]] |
| 82 | * CurbStompBattle: Any fight between him and Post-Orcus Hajime will end in his defeat. |
| 83 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: |
| 84 | ** He's a walking example of the [[StockLightNovelHero stereotypical light novel hero]] that's so prevalent in the genre but played in a more negative light. |
| 85 | ** Also to classical fairy tale heroes who, upon closer examinations, are rife with {{Double Standard}}s, ProtagonistCenteredMorality, and [[OriginalPositionFallacy Original Position Fallacies]] throughout their stories. Since the light novels don't run on that narrative and seeing "the hero" from another person's perspective, shows how utterly myopic and delusional that person would be. |
| 86 | * {{Determinator}}: By the end of his LastStand against the shadow beings in ''After Story'', he wasn't even conscious, but he still slashed at anything that came near him. It was shown even earlier when he is still immersed in his delusion. |
| 87 | * DumbassHasAPoint: {{Subverted|Trope}}. He yells at Hajime that all of [[spoiler:Eri]]'s victims might have been saved if the class had been warned, to which Hajime retorts that not only would Kouki disbelieve the warning, but would be enraged at Hajime accusing or insulting a classmate, and Kouki has to grudgingly admit Hajime's right. |
| 88 | * EmpathicWeapon: His Holy Sword started exhibiting a certain degree of sentience after exploring Haltina's Labyrinth. [[spoiler:It was revealed in ''After Story'' that the sword contained Ua Alto's soul, the former goddess of the Great Tree who had been overthrown by Ehitorujue. Aularodde can also turn into a matching sword with a black finish.]] |
| 89 | * EntertaininglyWrong: To the point of a RunningGag, but is seriously PlayedForDrama. Since he's always twisting the situation and what he observes to fit his own preconceived worldview, he very often makes careless statements that, while correct on paper, are wholly inappropriate or just plain wrong, and remains blissfully clueless as to why people don't appreciate his "sage wisdom". |
| 90 | * EntitledToHaveYou: Demonstrated in a way that ''[[EveryoneHasStandards makes even the rest of the class cringe]]'' in Volume 4: he outright tells Kaori that since she's his childhood friend, she should stay by his side forever, and clearly feels the same about Shizuku. It's not clear, even to him, whether this is out of romantic feelings towards them or a more self-centered "I'm the star and you're my supporting cast" attitude, but neither Kaori nor Shizuku is impressed by it. |
| 91 | * {{Expy}}: The author, Ryo Shirakome, states that Kouki is based on the male Saber from ''Anime/FatePrototype''. |
| 92 | * FakeUltimateHero: He sincerely believes that just by being the hero he's entitled to save the world no matter what and everyone summoned with him is supposed to follow his lead. His defeat against Gahard was only the start of a severe chain of defeat after defeat and when he joined Hajime's party, far from being one of the strongest members in the party, he was quickly identified as TheLoad. |
| 93 | * FatalFlaw: He has four major weaknesses. |
| 94 | ** His often-misplaced "[[ForGreatJustice sense of justice]]" is noted by many characters, particularly Shizuku, as being his greatest flaw. While his intention to uphold his sense of justice was genuine, he was so obsessed to force his naive sense of justice to the point of coming off as BlackAndWhiteInsanity. |
| 95 | ** [[IRejectYourReality He tends to frame everything to fit his own worldview]], making him oblivious to anything that ran counter to his worldview. |
| 96 | ** Kouki is shown to have a lot of {{Pride}} in being in the right, to the point he has no concern if he could ever be wrong. When he's no longer having his pride validated through his beliefs, it won't take long for Kouki to get incredibly frustrated and further delve into delusion to make sense of what he perceives as the world around him. |
| 97 | ** He is prone to [[MomentOfWeakness hesitating at critical moments]] when he encounters a situation that he is ill-prepared for or when faced with a more complex moral dilemma. His hesitation during the Behemoth attack in the Orcus Labyrinth nearly got his classmates killed if not for Hajime's quick thinking and intervention. While Cattleya's monster army initially cornered him, he was able to gain the advantage after unlocking Overload, only to hesitate when he realized that she had a family and wasn't a mindless monster, which gave her the opening to defeat him. |
| 98 | * {{Foil}}: To Hajime, both are heroes in the story, but while Hajime behaves like an AntiHero unconcerned about using lethal means and only cares about those he considers important to him, Kouki behaves like a KnightInShiningArmor who considers chivalry as important and will always pick to save the many, even if he needs to sacrifice the few. |
| 99 | * TheFool: Get past all his ramblings and preaching, and it's not hard to see him for what he really is. |
| 100 | * ForGreatJustice: This is {{deconstructed|Trope}} as his idea of "justice" depends on what ''he'' believes it to be, which unfortunately for him, tends to cause him to become easily manipulated into Ishtar's propaganda. |
| 101 | * GoodCannotComprehendEvil: In a UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming kind of way. In the light novel, Hajime specifically mentions that Kouki simply can not comprehend the concept of ForTheEvulz. As such, if he sees someone being bullied, he immediately believes that the victim must have clearly done something to provoke it. When he sees Hajime physically dragged off the training grounds by Hiyama and his three flunkies so the four of them can use Hajime as a punching bag, Kouki honestly believes it's Hajime's fault "for not taking the training seriously" and falling behind, despite the fact, that from the beginning, the training program was clearly not working for Hajime, period, regardless of how much effort Hajime put into it. |
| 102 | * GoodFeelsGood: Something that he's actually guilty of. He's more interested in validating his own "sense of justice" (read: self-righteous pride) than in actually taking the time to dig deeper than the surface. |
| 103 | * GreenEyedMonster: He is jealous of Hajime's ability and how it has improved (and his harem). As the story continues his envy increases, and (after knowing that Kaori and Shizuku fell in love with Hajime), he deludes himself into thinking that Hajime is a manipulator that uses brainwashing to achieve his goals. |
| 104 | * HateSink: A rare non-villainous example. In the web novel version, and very quickly in the manga, his UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming, SelectiveObliviousness, and [[TautologicalTemplar fervent insistence that he's always right and righteous]] have seriously drawn the ire of the fanbase. It is at the point that comments wish he'd get a "wake-up call" in the "got eaten by a monster and laughed at by Hajime for it while he's begging Hajime for help" kind of way. |
| 105 | * HealingHands: One of his favorite magics is healing magic. |
| 106 | * HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:A year after the end of the main story he gets summoned to yet another world to be a hero again.]] |
| 107 | * HeroesPreferSwords: His main weapon is the Holy Sword Uralt. |
| 108 | * HeroicRROD: [[spoiler:Or rather a villainous one during that part of the story, due to being brainwashed. He continues to abuse his remaining (life)power after Shizuku cut him from Ehit's power sources.]] |
| 109 | * HeroicWannabe: He genuinely wants to live up to his title of a hero, but due to his turning a blind eye to Hajime's suffering and self-righteous nature, he is anything but. |
| 110 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: |
| 111 | ** [[IRejectYourReality Because he lives in his own little world]], he is very poor at reading people. He sees [[BarbaricBully Hiyama]] as a friend, and can't see that he's using him to avoid punishment. |
| 112 | ** He takes [[SinisterMinister Ishtar]] at his world, even though he uses ExactWords when talking about getting the summoned heroes home. |
| 113 | * HotBlooded: He's seldom seen considering the long-term consequences of his actions, makes snap judgments, and frequently gets in over his head because he acts first, thinks second, later, maybe. |
| 114 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Something that even ''he's'' oblivious to being, especially when things don't go his way. |
| 115 | ** In his EstablishingCharacterMoment, he tells Hajime to do something about Kaori's "misplaced" kindness. This is coming from a guy who is so ObliviousToLove (besides Kaori and Shizuku, but even that's ambiguous), that he never thought of how much of ChickMagnet he is to other girls, which also has real consequences with [[spoiler:[[{{Yandere}} Eri]]]]. |
| 116 | ** For all of his talk of WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility, he rarely takes (if any) responsibility when things go wrong and often pins the blame onto others (mostly Hajime). |
| 117 | ** He tends to use BlamingTheVictim whenever a conflict happens between two hypothetical parties, especially seen in Hajime's case, yet whenever Kouki's on the losing side of a personal conflict, he'll never factor himself to blame. |
| 118 | ** One of the things he hates about Hajime is him being an {{Otaku}}, but Kouki's blind adherence to his idealistic principles and lack of social awareness ironically makes him more delusional than Hajime ever could be. |
| 119 | ** As his animosity and envy for Hajime grows, he starts to believe that the latter is ''brainwashing'' others to agree with him. This comes from a guy who constantly expects, and as shown in the trials of the Frost Caverns of Schnee, even fantasizes, for others to agree with him with no regard for their own opinions or feelings, since he's the one whose righteous. |
| 120 | ** A good portion of his beef against Hajime is his jealousy of how Kaori and Shizuku would prefer the latter's company over him, even believing that Hajime is either brainwashing them or using some method of force. Yet, whenever he's put in a TheNeedsOfTheMany situation, Kouki will have no problems sacrificing or endangering them for TheNeedsOfTheMany. |
| 121 | * IdiotHero: To the point where he makes his [[DumbMuscle best friend]] look like a genius in comparison. While he may be BookSmart, he's got his head so wrapped up in his "ideals", (read: up his own ass) that he comes across as a complete bumbling oaf, and in what little bit of truth Emperor Gerard could tell him, the Mercenary Emperor actually said as much. Of course, [[SelectiveObliviousness it flew over Kouki's head]]. |
| 122 | * IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: |
| 123 | ** Lack of self-reflection is a huge flaw in his beliefs, not that he ever once stops to think about the consequences or long-term effects of his methods. |
| 124 | ** He also doesn't understand how naive he is about the world around him, as he truly believes everything will work out in his favor. |
| 125 | * ImNotAHeroIm: In the ''After Story'', he openly refuses to be called "hero" during his personal arc, he's shown to be visibly uncomfortable when called that. Considering how he ended up becoming a FallenHero in Tortus, it's quite understandable. |
| 126 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: A {{deconstructed|Trope}} example. While Kouki doesn't have malicious intentions, his willingness to ignore anything that goes against his beliefs and blind idealism would've gotten him and everyone else killed or suffer a FateWorseThanDeath many times throughout Tortus if it wasn't for Hajime's constant interventions. The fact that he keeps denying his growing resentment for Hajime and his own flaws has only made things worse till he finally gets corrupted by [[spoiler:his magical doppelganger]]. |
| 127 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: The phrase "the path to hell is paved with good intentions" clearly applies to this guy. Not in the "[[WellIntentionedExtremist I know what I did was wrong, but expect things to turn out okay because I meant well]]" kind of way, but as in, "[[ObliviouslyEvil I don't care how my actions affect others because I meant no ill intentions]]", kind of way. As such, while he isn't actively kicking puppies, he does constantly ''trip over them'', especially where [[ButtMonkey Hajime]] is concerned. Then he simply goes on his merry way, completely oblivious to the damage he's done, leading to his friends and Ishtar ''constantly apologizing for him'' because as "TheHero", [[TautologicalTemplar he obviously can do no wrong]]. |
| 128 | * InsaneTrollLogic: He really ''doubles'' down into this trope after letting the title of "Hero" get to his head, as any time when something doesn't filter correctly through his ForGreatJustice BlackAndWhiteMorality. [[spoiler:When he gets possessed by his magical doppelganger in the Frost Caverns of Schnee, he straights up hurls numerous [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech speeches]] of everything he hated about Hajime before and now, even for things that don't even involve him.]] |
| 129 | * IrrationalHatred: Regardless of how many mental gymnastics he pulls just to justify why he hates Hajime so much, there is ultimately no logical basis for it. |
| 130 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Once you get further into the story, it starts to become very clear that Kouki's ForGreatJustice attitude is more self-serving than altruistic, especially with things no longer going his way, and his constant SelectiveObliviousness before the events of Tortus. [[spoiler:As shown when he gets possessed by his magical doppelgänger in the final trials of Frost Caverns of Schnee, Kouki says ''he's'' right and everyone else around him is ''wrong'', and ''he's'' TheHero of the story who's destined to save the day with all the rewards that comes with it.]] |
| 131 | * JackOfAllStats: His stats have always been equal to each other, with him not specializing in any particular stat. |
| 132 | * KidnappedByTheCall: Ehitorujue only intended to summon only him [[spoiler:as a vessel to perform a GrandTheftMe on]]. In the ''After Story'', this happened to him ''three'' more times one year after he returned from Tortus. He was even explicitly labeled as a "summon magnet" in Shizuku's Wish. |
| 133 | * KnightInShiningArmor: He wears gold and white armour and certainly tries to live up to the fictional example, though with ''very'' mixed results. |
| 134 | * KnightTemplar: He honestly cannot, for the life of him, comprehend how his mindset can ever be incorrect, about anything. |
| 135 | * LackOfEmpathy: For a guy who's so obsessed with "justice", he surprisingly lacks the ability to empathize with others or their situations, thinking of only resolving things in ''his own way''. |
| 136 | * LackOfImagination: One of his major problems is that when faced with an unfamiliar situation, he is very poor at adapting. While fitting for [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity someone who only believes in extreme absolutes]] and doesn't seem to believe in personal growth, it's also justified in that Tortus is actually the first time he's ever actually encountered situations that didn't go his way, so he's never had to change or adapt before. |
| 137 | * LargeHam: Once in Tortus, and he learns what his special class is, he acts in loud and wildly exaggerated ways. |
| 138 | * ALessonLearnedTooWell: His grandfather taught him to believe in the best in humanity. Unfortunately, it has got to the point where he can't accept humans are capable of evil. That being said, his grandfather planned to tell him about the moral greyness of the world when Kouki was older, but passed away before he could. |
| 139 | * LightEmUp: Kouki prefers using spells from the light element due to his status as TheHero, even though he possesses an affinity for all. |
| 140 | * {{Manchild}}: {{Downplayed|Trope}} as he's only 17 at the start of the series, but his constant adherence to his "sense of justice" and refusal to admit to mistakes place him firmly in this trope. |
| 141 | * MoralMyopia: To sum it up, anything he does and preach is right because he's TheHero. |
| 142 | * MyWayOrTheHighway: This is what his "sense of justice" boils down to; anything he says or does is ''right'' by default, no matter how irrational, suicidal, or even hypocritical, and ''must'' be followed accordingly while the opinions of others are ''wrong'', no matter how rational, pragmatic, or even beneficial it can be. |
| 143 | * TheNeedsOfTheMany: A firm believer of this, when forced to pick a SadisticChoice between saving his love interest, or saving much more people in the final battle against the shadow beings, he chose the many. [[spoiler:He got lucky Hajime and the others appeared to lend him a hand]]. |
| 144 | * NeverHurtAnInnocent: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} as his idea of an innocent person is someone capable of having some good in their heart. No matter how much GreyAndGrayMorality tells him and everyone else that the "Innocent person" needs to be stopped before they kill him and his entire class. Over and over again. |
| 145 | * NiceGuy: {{Inverted|Trope}}. He's kind and polite to anyone he meets, but, due to his black-and-white "sense of justice", tends to come off as an unsympathetic {{Jerkass}} to those with more self-awareness. |
| 146 | * NormalFishInATinyPond: Thanks to his Hero class, he is strong when compared to most of his classmates. For post-Orcus Hajime and his wives, however, he is barely a blip on their radar. |
| 147 | * NoSocialSkills: While he's capable of interacting with others, it's mostly due to common agreement and his own natural charisma at work. Once those two things don't work out for him, as well as gets into disagreements that go against his beliefs, he proves himself to be hilariously, socially inept and can barely give a compelling argument that doesn't just boil down to, "I'm right and you're wrong". |
| 148 | * ObliviousToLove: As the narration puts it, he treats Eri like yet another GirlOfTheWeek. |
| 149 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: Kouki Amanogawa is one of Tortus' strongest fighters and TheHero with all the cheat-level powers to show for it; too bad for him that he is always playing second fiddle to Post-Orcus Hajime and his party members. |
| 150 | * PingPongNaivete: He's both BookSmart and charismatic, but is surprisingly impulsive and dramatically blind to social cues. |
| 151 | * PrinceCharmingWannabe: After seeing Hajime with his harem, he is convinced that they were forced by Hajime to follow him, as he offered them a chance to join the Hero Party in order to save the human race together. Needless to say, his offer was greeted with a severe lack of enthusiasm from all of the girls. |
| 152 | * SecretlySelfish: Not only is he completely oblivious to his own EntitledToHaveYou attitude to Shizuku and Kaori, but he had also constantly denied his own jealousy and selfishness. This eventually blew up in his face when he faces his own EvilDoppelganger as his own denial kept feeding it with more power, [[spoiler:eventually leading to him failing the trial and undergoing a DemonicPossession]]. |
| 153 | * SelectiveObliviousness: As lampshaded in the narration by Kaori and Shizuku, he's very, very talented at completely missing or ignoring anything and everything that doesn't align with or outright defies his preconceived world-view, and only hears what agrees with him. |
| 154 | ** Shizuku explicitly makes this clear to him in volume 4: |
| 155 | -->'''Shizuku:''' “This is a bad habit of yours, you know that? How many times have I told you not to make baseless assumptions?” |
| 156 | -->'''Kouki''': “I don’t make baseless assumptions...” |
| 157 | -->'''Shizuku:''' “Yes, you do. Kouki, you don’t even know the first thing about Nagumo-kun. Not about what he was like in Japan, or what he’s like now. All of those girls looked happy to be with him, you know that? You’re the one ignoring reality and interpreting things however you want... Even though all you really want is to convince yourself that Nagumo-kun’s some kind of demon who doesn’t deserve Kaori. If that’s not making baseless assumptions, I don’t know what is.” |
| 158 | * SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: He gets hit quite a bit by this, his point of view of what is a hero includes sparing any and all humanoid enemies, including the genocidal and AlwaysChaoticEvil devil folk, and he cannot quite understand why is it preferable to threaten the Imperial Family to abolish slavery, instead of fighting some guards to free ''one'' slave. |
| 159 | * SkilledButNaive: He's the top when it comes to combat-related skills, and he's not too shabby when in command of a party, but he honestly believes that humans are incapable of intentionally ill intent, even when he sees it with his own eyes. As such, he's quick to forgive genuinely evil people at the slightest show of repentance, no matter how fake, and comes down on the victims with extreme prejudice for the crime of ''being victims''. |
| 160 | * StockLightNovelHero: A dark deconstruction. The "hero" job he gets on coming to Tortus goes straight to his head and makes him go full-tilt TautologicalTemplar, thinking that his way, and only his way, is the epitome of righteousness, no matter how reckless, stupid, or suicidal his actions. It often takes violence to make him see how wrong he is, or keep him from endangering himself and others, and even then, he doesn't always get it. |
| 161 | * StupidGood: At his best. It can honestly be said that he's almost completely free of malicious intent (his resentment towards Hajime aside). |
| 162 | * TakingYouWithMe: A comedic example at the end of his personal arc: [[spoiler:when he was summoned to the fourth world, he didn't hesitate in using limit break just to grab Hajime to get dragged together.]] |
| 163 | * TautologicalTemplar: Since his job class is "hero", he believes he's always noble and just regardless of his actions or the situation. The fact that Holy Church enabled this attitude doesn't help matters. |
| 164 | * ThatCameOutWrong: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Because of his naive outlook and impulsive behavior, Kouki will often say things that ''really'' [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime would've only sounded better in his head]] and failed to see how inappropriate they can be interpreted. This is best seen in volume 4 where he tries to prevent Kaori from going with Hajime, much to everyone, including the ones who admired him, ''cringing'' at his words: |
| 165 | -->'''Kouki:''' It’s better if you stay with us. No, I’ll make sure you stay with us. Even if you hate me for it, it’s for your own good. I won’t let you go, no matter what!” |
| 166 | * TheoryTunnelVision: He's notorious for this, in that every argument he makes against Hajime is based on his personal ideas of morality. This is best exemplified after Hajime killed Cattleya, he objected to it "like anyone else would," despite the fact that others are giving him gratitude for saving their life. |
| 167 | * ThouShaltNotKill: He is very frightened of the mere idea of slaying an intelligent opponent, it takes him being part of a GuiltFreeExterminationWar against the shadow beings for him to finally be able to use lethal force. |
| 168 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: Over and over, he never quite understands how immense the power gap between him and Hajime is, and every time he gets just a little stronger, he quickly assumes he's about to reach Hajime. |
| 169 | * UngratefulBastard: Despite how many times Hajime saves him, he antagonizes Hajime to no end. |
| 170 | * UnskilledButStrong: Due to possessing the very rare "Hero" job, all of Kouki's stats are far beyond the average Tortus inhabitants and greatly surpass even the likes of Meld, who is acknowledged as the strongest knight in the Heiligh Kingdom. However, it is shown that despite his great power, he lacks the experience and battle skill of other skilled fighters such as Meld and Emperor Gahard. |
| 171 | ** [[spoiler:This is also why Hajime doesn't take his fight with a [[EvilDoppelganger doppelgänger]]-[[FusionDance fused]] Kouki seriously, as despite the fact that his stats increased to the same level as Noint, his lack of experience as well as his crazed rushes were easily countered by Hajime's calm and tactical fighting style.]] |
| 172 | * VitriolicBestBuds: [[spoiler:In the ''After Story'', he eventually admits to hating Hajime, to the latter admitting thinking the same, in-universe this moment is treated as a heartwarming moment since both stepped up from dismissing each other.]] |
| 173 | * WhatTheHellHero: He ''never'' approves of Hajime's actions and he's quite vocal about those that include mercilessly killing foes. [[spoiler:Or helping the Haulia butcher the Imperial Family to threaten Gahard into abolishing slavery]]. Of course, he also disapproves of those times Hajime ''doesn't'' take action, even if it is because there is no need to move, or he has a better plan ready to get the best results available. |
| 174 | * {{Yandere}}: This is yet another FatalFlaw of his, as it makes him become so easily manipulated. He claims that he wants to "save" Kaori and Shizuku from Hajime's "machinations", [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation it's rather unclear]] if he really does loves them, him believing that he does nothing wrong, [[IrrationalHatred he hates Hajime all that much]], [[EntitledToHaveYou just that him being possessive]], or the twisted combination of them all. |
| 175 | * YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: One of his few PetTheDog moments. He was incensed when the Nobles started mocking Hajime's death in Orcus dungeon and wrongly giving Kouki the full credit for getting his class out alive when everyone on the scene knows that the lion's share of the credit for that should go to Hajime. Needless to say, that while the ''open scorn'' gets squashed as a result, the nobles only take this as a further "proof" that Hajime's "only an incompetent who brings trouble to others" and Kouki is a "soft-hearted man who cares even for the incompetent", [[EntertaininglyWrong which isn't entirely incorrect]]. This line of thinking gives Hajime a great deal of grief for the rest of the story. |
| 176 | [[/folder]] |
| 177 | |
| 178 | [[folder:Shizuku Yaegashi]] |
| 179 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YumiriHanamori (Japanese), Creator/KateBristol (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Creator/DesireeGonzalez (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 180 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shizuku_1.jpg]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | Kaori Shirasaki's best friend, and a kendo champion. She's both the only girl and the only one marginally nice to Hajime. |
| 183 | ---- |
| 184 | * AllAmazonsWantHercules: She's part of Hajime's harem, falling for him mostly for his strength and dependability after adventuring with him for a while. Though it takes until the end of volume 9 for her to even admit it to herself. |
| 185 | * AllergicToLove: In a harem where most [[AllWomenAreLustful members aggressively strive to get into Hajime's bed]], Shizuku can ''faint'' from a mere kiss. |
| 186 | * AloofDarkHairedGirl: She has an air of "quiet dignity" that gives others the impression of being the ideal Samurai. The fact that she's a kendo champion only serves to accentuate this appeal. |
| 187 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Kaori is Shizuku's most beloved best friend, due to Kaori being the first girl to show her kindness and compassion during her childhood. |
| 188 | * {{Blackmail}}: A comedic version. To convince Hajime to accept Kaori into his party, she threatens to expose Hajime's embarrassing nicknames and spread them among the general population. |
| 189 | * ChildProdigy: She's a talented prodigy in Kenjutsu since a tender age of four. |
| 190 | * ChildhoodFriends: She has been best friends with Kaori since elementary school. |
| 191 | * CleavageWindow: Her swordsman outfit has a window exposing her cleavage. |
| 192 | * CoolBigSis: Hajime considers her as this towards her other childhood friends, her main role was restraining Kouki when he got out of hand. |
| 193 | * CutenessProximity: She really loves cute things. |
| 194 | * ElementalWeapon: The katana Hajime made her has [[BlowYouAway wind]], [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], and [[GravityMaster gravity]] powers. |
| 195 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: On both earth and Tortus, she has many female admirers. They even formed a secret branch to watch her called the Soul Sisters. |
| 196 | * {{Expy}}: The author, Ryo Shirakome, states she's based on Kaori Kanzaki from ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex''. It's made quite obvious as her character design and fighting style are nearly identical to Kaori's. She's even best friends with a girl named Kaori. |
| 197 | * FragileSpeedster: Shizuku can cut down her opponents in the blink of an eye, but one good hit is enough to take her out of battle. |
| 198 | * GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: She's shown to have a large collection of stuffed animals and plush toys in her room. |
| 199 | * ItsProbablyNothing: In the anime adaptation, she overhears Hiyama muttering to himself how things "went perfectly." When she sees him get all twitchy after she calls out to him, she flashbacks to all the times Hiyama bullied Hajime and came to realize Hiyama's {{Yandere}} nature but then shrugs it off as "overthinking things." |
| 200 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: After her original knight's sword is destroyed, Shizuku switches to a [[BlackSwordsAreBetter black]] katana made by Hajime. [[JustifiedTrope It's justified]] since her fighting style is based on the katana, so using other types of swords make fighting more difficult. On top of that, the katana Hajime made was only marginally worse than the PurposelyOverpowered holy sword. When he upgrades it again later, Shizuku's katana is the best sword in the world, bar none. |
| 201 | * LadyOfWar: Graceful, elegant, wields a blade with great speed and skills in battle. |
| 202 | * LoveEpiphany: She gets more than one during her adventures in the great dungeons, it takes her a while to finally admit loving Hajime. |
| 203 | * MasterSwordswoman: Trained since childhood in the Yaegashi Style, Shizuku is a peerless swordswoman who never lost a single Kendo tournament. After being granted several sword enhancement skills and superhuman physical abilities as a summoned hero and further extensive training, Shizuku becomes a formidable master swordswoman and one of the strongest members of the Hero's party. |
| 204 | * MatchmakerCrush: She supports Kaori's feelings for Hajime, but later on, she falls in love with Hajime as well. |
| 205 | * OnlySaneWoman: |
| 206 | ** Compared to the rest of the "cool kids," Shizuku has her head together the most. This is usually to her detriment since that means that she's relegated into cleaning up after her quirky friends. |
| 207 | ** Like Kaori, Shizuku was one of the only people in Hajime's class who treated him with any genuine kindness back in Japan. Unlike Kaori, Shizuku recognized how the attention Kaori gave him was contributing to his bullying problems. Also unlike Kaori, she seemed aware of how Kouki and Ryoutarou could be rather cruel to Hajime as well. While not without her own quirks, Shizuku is easily the most mature of the group and tries to rein the others in when they get out of line. |
| 208 | * RescueRomance: Later on, she falls for Hajime after he came to her help time and time again. |
| 209 | * RunningGag: [[spoiler:Kaori and Yue periodically muse about Shizuku possibly being the "final boss" in the battle for Hajime's affections, due to her ability to overpower Hajime verbally (see {{Blackmail}} above). This only increases after Shizuku confesses her feelings and joins their group.]] |
| 210 | * SamuraiPonytail: Her hair is usually tied up in a ponytail and she's specialized in a style of samurai martial arts that has been developed by her family's dojo for generations. |
| 211 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only girl in the "cool kids" group after Kaori joins Hajime's party. |
| 212 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: Hajime initially describes her as cold, rigid and aloof on one side, sweet and sensitive on the other. |
| 213 | * TeamMom: For the front line training in the Orcus Dungeon, though it's often more like team Kindergarten Teacher. She is quite sure the stress is giving her wrinkles and making her go bald. |
| 214 | * ThisIsUnforgivable: Shizuku never did like Hiyama for bullying Hajime and lusting after Kaori[[note]]In fact, she was the only one who doubted his sincerity when Hiyama begged for forgiveness for springing the booby trap on them, only putting it aside for the sake of looking out for her closest friends[[/note]], but she finally runs out of patience with him the moment she discovers his betrayal of the class and holds nothing but contempt for him when he stabs Kaori. Because of this, she has absolutely NoSympathy for him when Hajime kills him, nor does she have any qualms with Hajime doing so. |
| 215 | * TokenGoodTeammate: She's one of the few members of Hajime's class who's unambiguously a good person from start to finish. She wasn't just Kaori's genuine friend back in Japan, but also the only other person in the class besides her who treated Hajime kindly. She remains a kind and heroic person after arriving in Tortus and does her best to keep the rest of the Hero Party in line. |
| 216 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Kaori's Girly Girl. In Japan, she was the kendo champion to Kaori's ClassPrincess and in Tortus, she's the samurai swordswoman to Kaori's WhiteMagicianGirl. |
| 217 | * TomboyishPonytail: She's a tomboyish swordswoman with a long ponytail. |
| 218 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's a kendo champion and the only female melee fighter in the series other than Shea. While she's less girly than Kaori at a first glance, she's quite feminine and sensible, as shown by her love for cute things. |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
| 220 | |
| 221 | [[folder:Ryoutarou Sakagami]] |
| 222 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyuichiKijima (Japanese), Creator/AaronCampbell (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Eduardo Curiel (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 223 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ryutarou_sakagami_1.png]] |
| 224 | |
| 225 | Of the top trio of the "cool kids", he doesn't bother to hide his distaste for Hajime and does his best to drive Hajime out of Shirasaki's life. |
| 226 | ---- |
| 227 | * BareFistedMonk: Ryutarou fights primarily using his fists as befitting of someone with the ''monk'' class. |
| 228 | * TheBigGuy: Effectively serves as the primary muscle in Kouki's group, being the beefiest and stoutest member. |
| 229 | * DumbMuscle: Hajime describes him in the light novel as "even his brain seems made out of muscles". |
| 230 | * HiddenDepths: While he's every bit a DumbMuscle as both narration and characters mention, he's also one of the most sensible classmates, able to support Kouki without a doubt, carrying a flame for Yue, while understanding it will never work. |
| 231 | * HasAType: Both of the girls that he has fell in love with have the same child-like stature, once he confesses this fact to Suzu, she calls him out for being a Lolicon. |
| 232 | * HumanPopsicle: Almost gets turned into one due to trying to reach an easy way out inside a great dungeon. |
| 233 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Compared to Hajime's other bullies, he just wants to influence Hajime into becoming a contributing member of society. Unfortunately, the way he goes about it just makes him come across as another jerk that bullies Hajime for being an Otaku. |
| 234 | * JerkassHasAPoint: His initial hostility to Hajime on Earth is noted to not be due to genuine malice, but by a belief of always being productive, and that Hajime's prioritizing his hobbies over school means that he's not being productive. |
| 235 | * LoveAtFirstSight: With Yue, he understands how hopeless that is and is content with just watching her from the sidelines. |
| 236 | * PairTheSpares: He and [[spoiler:Suzu become a couple after the story, and decide to go back to Tortus together.]] |
| 237 | * UndyingLoyalty: He sincerely believes in Kouki and never gives up on him, even if that means fighting against him. |
| 238 | * VoluntaryShapeshifter: He cannot use metamorphosis magic on the magical beast, so he uses it on himself. |
| 239 | * YoungerThanHeLooks: Sakagami is 17, but is described with a very muscular body and is 190 cm (6'2'') tall. |
| 240 | [[/folder]] |
| 241 | |
| 242 | [[folder:Suzu Taniguchi]] |
| 243 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyasaItou (Japanese), Creator/DaniChambers (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Alicia Vélez (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 244 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/suzu_taniguchi_arifureta.png]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | A girl with inexhaustible energy and spunk. |
| 247 | ---- |
| 248 | * BarrierWarrior: She has the "Barrier Master" class which allows her to summon barrier magic even able to hold off a Behemoth, though she got this only after months of very hard training, long after Hajime "fell" in the dungeon. |
| 249 | * BreakTheCutie: Suzu is devastated by Eri's betrayal and attempt to kill her and the rest of their classmates. The usually cheerful Suzu becomes depressed as she realizes Eri was never her best friend to begin with due to Eri's obsession with Kouki. |
| 250 | * CombatHandFan: She sports two iron-ribbed fans after Hajime accidentally broke her bracers while upgrading them. |
| 251 | * GenkiGirl: She's got so much energy that she's constantly bouncing off walls. |
| 252 | * GirlishPigtails: To highlight her extremely childish personality, she wears her hair like this. |
| 253 | * {{Mascot}}: In-universe. She's officially the class mascot. |
| 254 | * MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:She considers the death and destruction caused by Eri (even her own suicide) to be her fault since she wasn't the one to stop her earlier attempt before Kouki, whose flawed personality made him unable (or willing) to help her recover her sanity.]] |
| 255 | * TheNicknamer: She has a habit of giving people nicknames such as "Hajihaji" for Hajime, "Kaorin" for Kaori, "Shizushizu" for Shizuku, "Sheashea" for Shea, "Ryu-kun" for Ryutarou and "Eririn" for Eri. |
| 256 | * NotGoodWithRejection: She fears being rejected. |
| 257 | * OlderThanSheLooks: She's 17 years old, but looks no older than 12 years old. |
| 258 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Every time she's sad it's a clear sign of how dire things are. |
| 259 | * PairTheSpares: She and [[spoiler:Ryuutaro become a couple after the story, and decide to go back to Tortus together.]] |
| 260 | * PersonalityPowers: BarrierWarrior but it also reflects her "[[StepfordSmiler mask]]". |
| 261 | * StepfordSmiler: Suzu crafted her cheerful and upbeat persona in order to cope with loneliness. |
| 262 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's afraid of bugs, and becomes especially distraught when she is only able to tame insect-like monsters before the battle against Ehit. |
| 263 | [[/folder]] |
| 264 | |
| 265 | !!Bastard 4 |
| 266 | A group of bullies torments Hajime back in Japan and form a separate party that works in tandem with Kouki's "Hero" party. |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Daisuke Hiyama]] |
| 269 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MinoruShiraishi (Japanese), Creator/OrionPitts (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Brandon Santini, Tommy Rojas [ep. 1] (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 270 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daisuke_hiyama.png]] |
| 271 | |
| 272 | One of the "cool kids." While not in the top three who harass Hajime, he is the most dangerous, due to his own sense of entitlement to Shirasaki and his own stupidity. He is also the one Hajime rightly hates the most. |
| 273 | ---- |
| 274 | * ArchEnemy: As his primary bully and the one who threw him into the Orcus Labyrinth, Hajime has a lot of animosity for him. |
| 275 | * BarbaricBully: He's always shown as TheBully to Hajime thanks to the latter's relationship with Kaori. After being transported to Tortus, his cruel side is revealed when he and his gang attack Hajime from all sides in their "training" and would've severely injured him further had Shirasaki didn't intervene. |
| 276 | * BetaTestBaddie: He's introduced, by Hajime's description, as spending every day looking for new and interesting ways to harass Hajime, as if it's his assigned homework, which is SeriousBusiness in Japan. In Tortus, he's overcome with murderous fury because he sees that Hajime and Kaori can hook up just fine, but he will never be good enough for her and he knows it. |
| 277 | * BlowYouAway: Hiyama's true specialty in magic, is what he used to manipulate one of the fireballs to strike Hajime in the back to ensure that he falls into the Abyss. |
| 278 | * TheCorrupter: Him plunging Hajime into the pit is what led him to be a VillainProtagonist in the first place and the trauma of said event caused Shimizu to retreat further into his delusions that led to him betraying humanity in the first place. |
| 279 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Invoked as Hajime kills Hiyama in a similar manner to how the latter tries to kill him in the first place. [[spoiler:Getting knocked down into a pit filled with demonic beasts, and being LeftForDead while having his left arm eaten off first]]. Unlike with Hajime, [[spoiler:Hiyama had no chance of surviving and his half-eaten corpse was later buried unceremoniously with everyone hating him for his treachery.]] |
| 280 | * DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:You got to admit that despite his cowardly tendencies, he doesn't beg nor grovel after Hajime brutally beats him to the point where all of his limbs are broken and internal organs nearly ruptured, and still have the will to even declares that he'll kill him one day and still take Kaori as his girlfriend when Hajime holds him by the throat]]. This is {{deconstructed|Trope}} and {{subverted|Trope}} since he's only invoking this trope out of a combination of prideful delusion, hatred, and adrenaline from the extreme pain he's suffering from his injuries, which only serves to enrage Hajime to the point where he lost all patience and mercy for his former bully. [[spoiler:Leading to Hajime kicking him off the courtyard with monsters roaming around with the intent to not only give Hiyama a painful death, but for him to feel despair since he had no chance of surviving due to his crippling injuries. The anime even has him completely lose the bravado as he dies begging for someone to save him.]] |
| 281 | * DirtyCoward: He's perfectly fine attacking weaker people, like pre-Orcus Hajime, four on one, and attacking monsters when there's a large party covering for him, but when he's at a tactical disadvantage, he either sucks up, kowtows, or runs away. [[spoiler:Even his death is described as this (since he has no chance of surviving with the crippling injuries beforehand), only trying to flee from the oncoming horde of monsters.]] |
| 282 | * EatenAlive: [[spoiler:Hajime throws him off the courtyard into the jaws of the demonic beasts roaming around.]] |
| 283 | * EvenEvilCanBeLoved: [[spoiler:In the ''After Story'', his family [[AvengingTheVillain tried to avenge his death]] by going after Hajime, only to be broken down mentally by the latter through [[NoodleIncident unknown]] means.]] |
| 284 | * EvilIsPetty: Hiyama's biggest reason for hating Hajime and bullying him is because he's the object of Kaori's affections instead of him. This leads to his murder attempt so he can have a chance to get Kaori for himself, but when Hajime reveals that he survived and Kaori chooses to go with him, Hiyama starts to take a turn for the worst. |
| 285 | * EvilRedhead: Although he's a brunette, Hiyama's hair tends to have a shade of red, and he's definitely not a friend nor an ally. |
| 286 | * FalseFriend: Kouki sees him as a friend. He's just sucking up to Kouki for his own protection. [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil Kouki just can't bring himself to see it]]. |
| 287 | * GreenEyedMonster: He knows he's clearly ''not'' worthy of Kaori's affections, but chancing upon her going into Hajime's room late into the night, wearing only a flimsy negligee, and selfishly thinking Hajime's even ''less worthy'', due to his own selfish MightMakesRight philosophy, drives him into a murderous rage which is what ultimately inspires him to back-stab Hajime in the Great Orcus Labyrinth. |
| 288 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:By the time his corpse is found, it's described to be halfway eaten from the side.]] |
| 289 | * HatedByAll: Everyone hates Hiyama, especially Hajime, thanks to his treachery nearly getting them killed. |
| 290 | * HeroKiller: [[spoiler:He murders Kaori so that Eri could turn her into a mindless sex doll that would love only him. This proves to be the final straw for Hajime.]] |
| 291 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: His every action only helps in bringing his end faster. Particularly his initial betrayal of Hajime, which leads into [[spoiler:the latter kicking him into the horde of beasts outside of the courtyard]]. |
| 292 | * HopelessSuitor: [[spoiler:As Hajime points out, despite his feelings for Kaori, she would never return them due to the fact he couldn't stand the fact she was kind to him (Hajime), so when he bullied Hajime, Daisuke proved to Kaori what a disgusting person he is and thus turn off any romance. At some point he realized this himself, but didn't want to admit it.]] |
| 293 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After years of getting away with bullying Hajime and turning on his fellow classmates at every turn, Hiyama finally gets what's coming to him at the end of volume 6 when [[spoiler:Hajime kicks him out of the courtyard into the horde of beasts]]. |
| 294 | * LastDisrespects: [[spoiler:After his final betrayal results in his death, what's left of his body is later found, and the others think what happens next is kind: They dig a shoddy hole and dump him there and choose to only remember him as a horrible human being.]] |
| 295 | * LeanAndMean: He has a slim build, and is definitely not a nice person. |
| 296 | * LeftForDead: [[spoiler:Hajime beats him to within an inch of his life for mortally wounding Kaori, then throws him to the monster army. With the injuries he suffered beforehand by Hajime, Hiyama doesn't survive at all.]] |
| 297 | * LovingAShadow: No matter how genuine his feelings for Kaori are, the latter's [[LustObject superficial beauty]] is the really only thing he likes about her regardless of her other traits. [[spoiler:The fact that he went as so far as to kill her in order for Eri to resurrect her as a puppet who'll love only him says a lot.]] |
| 298 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: The night before the Orcus Labyrinth excursion, Hiyama realizes that Kaori will never become his as long as Hajime exists. With that knowledge in mind, Hiyama deliberately sets up an "accident" to happen to Hajime which results in his fall to the Abyss. This did not end well for Hiyama, especially since Hajime survived and become even stronger and more ruthless than the bully, preventing a second attempt from even happening. |
| 299 | * {{Narcissist}}: Hiyama only cares about himself and his own desires which is a huge trait that makes him disliked by all the students and what gets him killed in the end. |
| 300 | * NeverMyFault: After he blasts Hajime down into the abyss, and everyone else miraculously gets out of the dungeon alive, he goes into a dark corner, curls up into a fetal position, and, while pretending to be distraught about Hajime's supposed death, starts giggling, happily blaming Hajime, and calling it "divine retribution" that Hajime was blasted back into the Behemoth by his own fireball. [[spoiler:He continues to do this after his plan to betray his classmates failed, where he continues to blame Hajime for ruining everything.]] |
| 301 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: His betrayal of Hajime in the Orcus dungeon, dumping the poor boy into the Abyss, allowed Hajime to rescue Yue and take numerous levels in badass that would have never happened otherwise. [[spoiler:And then there's his killing of Kaori, which ends up giving her an opportunity to match Hajime's insane power.]] |
| 302 | ** On a grander scale, Hiyama's jealousy and betraying Hajiime is what lead to [[spoiler: Ehit's downfall.]] |
| 303 | * NotWorthKilling: Initially, once Hajime met up with his class again, Hajime made it clear to Hiyama that he knew he was the one who tried to kill him. And that he doesn't even consider him worth killing. This was rescinded when he [[spoiler:mortally wounded Kaori]]. |
| 304 | * OhCrap: When he sees first hand that Hajime is alive, knows he backstabbed him, and shows how much more powerful and remorseless he is, he enters a massive panic. |
| 305 | * PlayingWithFire: His only offensive spell is the basic Fireball. |
| 306 | * RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: He betrayed everybody that he knew, tried to murder Hajime, killed Kaori with the intention of having her turned into his zombie sex slave and left the rest of his classmates to die at the hands of Eri's zombies and Freid's monsters. His reward was to have his body broken by Hajime, who then feeds him to Freid's monsters ''alive''. Needless to say, Hajime showed him no mercy. Later, his classmates buried him in an unmarked grave far from the capital without ceremony or honors. Needless to say, apart from his family, nobody mourned Daisuke's death. |
| 307 | * SchmuckBait: He falls victim to some in chapter 3 of the manga. Despite being told, repeatedly, by the rest of the class, and the knight that was training them, not to go after the shiny gem in the ceiling, he continues to do so, calling everyone else "cowards." This triggers a trap that teleports everyone into a chamber where they come face to face with a Behemoth, and the only exit is blocked by an endless wave of skeletons, composed of prior adventurers that fell on the 58th floor, a place far, far above their current level. It was only Hajime's genuine courage that gave anyone the ''chance'' to escape. |
| 308 | * SevenDeadlySins: Daisuke proves on various occasions to suffer from all the Seven Deadly Sins. |
| 309 | ** {{Lust}}: Daisuke is an extremely lustful and perverted individual, obsessed with Kaori Shirasaki, the class' most beautiful and popular girl. However, he actually never really loved her, only seeing her as his property no matter how much he deludes himself otherwise, and was more than ready to do anything to have her only for himself -- [[IfICantHaveYou and when he realizes he won't be able to do so, he has no problem in killing her]]. |
| 310 | ** [[HairTriggerTemper Wrath]]: He is short-tempered and easy to enrage, with Hajime (who is ironically equally wrathful after he fell into the Orcus Labyrinth) being his main target, as he hates him for getting Kaori's attentions and believes he is more deserving of them. However, while Hajime has a lot of self-control and doesn't allow his anger to blind him, Daisuke always fails in controlling his wrath, which makes him act recklessly and, ultimately, results in his death at Hajime's hands. |
| 311 | ** {{Pride}}: Incredibly arrogant and overconfident. Even though he knows he is weaker than Kouki, he believes that he can bring down any enemy he fights with his dirty sneak attacks. He is proven wrong when his attempt to attack Hajime from behind is easily deflected, showing that he is much weaker -- and even then he believes himself better than Hajime since he still believes the latter is still the weak kid he betrayed months before, so he attacked him again while he was healing Shirasaki and promptly got brutally beaten down by Hajime and left to die. |
| 312 | ** [[LazyBum Sloth]]: Daisuke is lazy and indolent, never coming down to battle and leaving the dirty work to others and barely putting the work to improve himself. |
| 313 | ** [[GreenEyedMonster Envy]]: The main reason for Daisuke's hatred of Hajime is that Kaori gave the latter all of her attention - and his envy was such that he actually attempted to get Hajime killed. Multiple times. Not only does this fail in achieving the expected result, it actually leads to his own downfall. |
| 314 | ** {{Greed}}: Selfish, greedy, and egotistical, Daisuke believes that everything he wants must belong to him, so he'll never have to share those things with anyone -- and he uses this "logic" even towards people, particularly Kaori Shirasaki, the girl he lusts after. |
| 315 | ** [[VillainousGlutton Gluttony]]: He's never shown eating, but he's a glutton for power, as he keeps wanting to prove himself stronger than Hajime at all costs in order to kill him. |
| 316 | * SmugSnake: He's an arrogant douche that likes to lord his power over others, specifically Hajime. |
| 317 | * SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: When Hajime first returns, he refuses to believe he's the kid he killed, insisting it was probably a forged identity. Then Yue asks him a question: |
| 318 | -->'''Yue:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion You're not planning on getting in his way again, are you?]] |
| 319 | * SpannerInTheWorks: By causing Hajime to fall into the Abyss and find Yue, he threw the biggest spanner onto god's chessboard. He just doesn't live long enough to see his success. |
| 320 | * TeensAreMonsters: Hiyama is in his late teens and has a villainous personality. |
| 321 | * TokenEvilTeammate: Fans generally consider Daisuke to be the only one of the three villainous students that was truly evil. Unlike [[spoiler:Shimizu and Eri]], who have tragic backstories, Daisuke has no such excuse. As Hajime later pointed out, Hiyama was fully aware that what he was doing was wrong, but still chose, of his own accord, to do all these evil things because he was a sociopath. |
| 322 | * TooDumbToLive: In chapter 3 of the manga, he threatens a complete collapse of the dungeon the entire class is in by going after a gem, embedded in the ceiling, that's obviously too big to carry just because Shirasaki said it's beautiful. |
| 323 | * UngratefulBastard: |
| 324 | ** His response to Hajime saving his life at terrible risk and effort? Have the fireball that's supposed to be cover-fire for Hajime's own escape actually turn and hit him InTheBack, so he falls down into the Abyss, to be LeftForDead. |
| 325 | ** He did it again during [[spoiler:Eri's betrayal, this time disregarding Hajime's mercy to his previous betrayal. This time he paid the price.]] |
| 326 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: While he intentionally tried to kill Hajime, he probably never thought that his "death" would bring too much despair on a student that they're DrivenToVillainy (e.g Shimizu), until it was too late. |
| 327 | * VillainousBreakdown: Hiyama eventually loses his cool after Hajime continues to interfere in his plans. |
| 328 | * VillainsWantMercy: Combined with AintTooProudToBeg and EasilyForgiven. Once everyone had calmed down, long after fleeing the dungeon, due to Hiyama springing the trap that nearly got everybody killed and regained their composure, they rightly turned on him for putting them in that predicament in the first place. His response was to run to Kouki, kneel on the ground, and shed CrocodileTears, thus earning Kouki's forgiveness and getting the criticism to stop. He even winds up on Kouki's party close to his LustObject, Kaori. |
| 329 | * {{Yandere}}: He "murders" Hajime in the first volume for his obsession with Kaori. [[spoiler:It gets to point where he was willing to kill her and have Eri resurrect Kaori into a living doll to only love him.]] |
| 330 | [[/folder]] |
| 331 | |
| 332 | [[folder:Yoshiki Saito, Reiichi Kondo, and Shinji Nakano]] |
| 333 | ->'''Saito is voiced by:''' Shun'ichi Maki (Japanese) |
| 334 | ->'''Kondo is voiced by:''' Creator/TakeoOtsuka (Japanese) |
| 335 | ->'''Nakano is voiced by:''' Katsuyuki Miura (Japanese) |
| 336 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yoshiki_saito_arifureta.png]] |
| 337 | [[caption-width-right:210:Yoshiki Saito]] |
| 338 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/reichi_kondo_arifureta.png]] |
| 339 | [[caption-width-right:210:Reiichi Kondo]] |
| 340 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shinji_nakano_arifureta.png]] |
| 341 | [[caption-width-right:210:Shinji Nakano]] |
| 342 | |
| 343 | The trio of worst offenders. Together with Daisuke Hiyama, they strive to make Hajime's life hell back on Earth and do their damnedest in Tortus as well. |
| 344 | ---- |
| 345 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Kondo is killed by Eri. Since he was one of Hajime's bullies, there's little reason to feel bad for him.]] |
| 346 | * BlowYouAway: Saito's job class Aerothurge gives him an affinity for Wind Magic. |
| 347 | * TheBully: Much like Hiyama, the three relentlessly harass and beat up Hajime back in Japan for having Kaori's love and affection. |
| 348 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Shinji and Yoshiki eventually start a private security company after returning to Earth and became bodyguards of Liliana S. B. Heiligh.]] |
| 349 | * {{Hikikomori}}: After [[spoiler: Kondo's death during Eri's betrayal]] Saito and Nakano turn into shut-ins due to shock, they're never mentioned again. |
| 350 | * HopelessSuitor: Like Hiyama, Kondo has a crush on Kaori. He gave up after Hajime returned, out of fear of being killed. |
| 351 | * {{Irony}}: Their EstablishingCharacterMoment is harassing Hajime for being an {{Otaku}}, and later on, became shut-ins after the [[spoiler:death of Kondo]]. |
| 352 | * PlayingWithFire: Nakano's job class Pyromancer gives him an affinity for Fire Magic. |
| 353 | * ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler: Eri kills Reiichi and brings him back as an undead puppet, to demonstrate her necromancy powers to her former allies.]] |
| 354 | * TheResenter: They resent Shirasaki being friendly with Hajime and bully him relentlessly behind her back as a result. |
| 355 | * SmugSnake: They are in no way as smart, clever, or popular as they think they are, but they love to rub their supposed superiority in Hajime's face at every opportunity. |
| 356 | * ThoseTwoGuys: They are rarely if ever, seen apart. |
| 357 | [[/folder]] |
| 358 | |
| 359 | !!Ai-chan Defense Force |
| 360 | A group of demoralized students who decide to form their own party focused on using their talents and game-breaking skills to defend their childlike teacher Aiko Hatayama rather than risking their lives contributing to humanity's war against the demons. |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[folder:Aiko Hatayama]] |
| 363 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AiKakuma (Japanese), Creator/EmilyFajardo (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Angélica Villa (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 364 | |
| 365 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aiko_hatayama_anime.png]] |
| 366 | |
| 367 | The social studies teacher who was handling the class at the time everyone was summoned to another world. |
| 368 | ---- |
| 369 | * AffectionateNickname: The class is fond of calling her "Ai-chan" to her chagrin, due to her childish body. |
| 370 | * AgeGapRomance: After she falls for Hajime, Aiko gets worried about the 8-year age gap between them, especially considering he's [[TeacherStudentRomance her student]] and a minor. However, Hajime later points out both of her concerns are meaningless, as he will no longer be her student after he graduates and their age difference is no big deal since two other members of his harem are ReallySevenHundredYearsOld. |
| 371 | * AllLovingHero: Played with. She very much cares about the people of Tortus as a whole, but mess with her students and she will retaliate. [[spoiler:As Ishtar found out.]] |
| 372 | * TheAllegedBoss: Aiko is the class' teacher, and the only adult who was teleported to Tortus along with them. Unfortunately, while most of her students like her, few of them truly respect her as an authority figure. She understandably protests her students being drafted into a war against demons, but it only takes one RousingSpeech from Kouki to get most of the class to ignore her pleas and get onboard with the idea. |
| 373 | * ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: When Hajime rescued her from the Church, she clearly thought he was attempting something else with her only complaint is they shouldn't do it there. |
| 374 | * BigGood: Her official role in the final battle. |
| 375 | * BoringButPractical: Her ability to aid crop growth is so important it is compared to a divine blessing. |
| 376 | * CaringGardener: In Tortus, she's assigned the job of Farmer. Aiko mainly uses her Fertility Magic to significantly improve the soil fertility of large farm lands for producing food. |
| 377 | * TheComicallySerious: In-universe. The harder she tries to do her job as a school teacher, the more "childish" she comes across to the students. |
| 378 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: {{Downplayed|Trope}} as it wasn't anything tragic, but when [[spoiler:she was young, she was framed for stealing a bicycle by one of her classmates, who was the son of one of the town's wealthy and influential families. The only person who stood by her side, other than her family and friends, was her teacher that all the students despised for his strict attitude. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnPunished He managed to clear Aiko's name through his efforts but was forced to retire due to angering the boy's family]].]] This event is what inspires her to become the CoolTeacher she is in the present time. |
| 379 | * FantasticNuke: From a ''methane explosion.'' '''On accident.''' |
| 380 | * FarmGirl: In her backstory, she came from a family of farmers on her mother's side. It is implied to have contributed to her getting the farmer job. |
| 381 | * AGodAmI: She's declared the "Goddess of fertility" after the battle of Ui thanks to Hajime's propaganda. [[PlayedForLaughs Of course, she got no say in it]]. [[spoiler:This becomes important during the final battle.]] |
| 382 | * GoodCannotComprehendEvil: Having each been granted a StoryBreakerPower or two, several of her students take full advantage of their situation to do everything that they always wanted to do back in Japan but couldn't either because of peer pressure, lack of strength or the inability to get away with it. She is utterly incapable of accepting that they are just bad people deep down and fails to understand how they are capable of committing such heinous crimes without remorse simply because they can. As a result of which, she repeatedly falls for their lies, gets put in danger because of them and blames herself for failing them when their motivations have nothing to do with her teaching at all. |
| 383 | * HeadDesk: Her thoughts where it concerns Hajime. Regarding [[KissOfLife how he saved her]]. |
| 384 | * TheHeart: After the demon attack on the Heiligh Kingdom's capital, as well as the revelation of [[spoiler:Eri and Hiyama's]] betrayal, the class became mistrustful of each other, and that general mistrust undermined the class' cohesion. Aiko was the only person that everyone still had faith in, which helped her as she worked on trying to repair the broken trust between the classmates. |
| 385 | * HoneyTrap: An inverted example. The Holy Church of Ehit keeps sending "hotties" (handsome male knights) to seduce her to join their ranks so that they can monopolize her "Farmer" class. She winds up mesmerizing the Knights instead, [[ObliviousToLove though she's totally clueless about it]]. |
| 386 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Aiko initially tried to stop Hiyama's bullying regarding Hajime's very lack-luster class and stats by revealing her own. While she did mean well, she actually went and made Hajime feel worse. Though her stats were indeed lower than his, Hajime immediately realized that her myriad farming-related skills were highly valuable in a medieval setting like Tortus (as opposed to his own extremely common Synergist skills). |
| 387 | * LethalHarmlessPowers: One wouldn't think '''farming''' would be a dangerous weapon...until the Church of Ehit started aiding the "angel" that kidnapped her, tortured her, put her in a cage, and straight-up tried to murder her. [[spoiler:Boom goes Pope Ishtar and his flunkies in a FantasticNuke methane explosion.]] |
| 388 | * MoralityChain: By the time volume 6 rolls around, she becomes one of the very few people Hajime still listens to, as she honestly does her best to help him, and all the other students for that matter, retain enough of their personalities that they can adapt back to a peaceful life should they all ever make it back to Japan. |
| 389 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:The methane explosion that took down the Holy Church's cathedral went far beyond her intention of taking down the cathedral's barrier and killed everyone within it in an instant. This caused her to become so wracked in guilt that Hajime had to console her.]] |
| 390 | * ObliviousToLove: Aiko seems unaware of the feelings of the templar knights for her. |
| 391 | * OlderThanSheLooks: She looks like a middle-schooler but she's 25 years old. |
| 392 | * PeerAsTeacher: Aiko Hatayama is only eight years older than her class and smaller than many of her female students, so the class (aged 17 at the start of the series) tends to call her the AffectionateNickname "Ai-''chan''" and, outside of the self-appointed "Ai-chan Defense Force", tend to treat her as an AuthorityInNameOnly. |
| 393 | * PersonalityPowers: Her powerset of her "Farmer" job given to her fitting well to her "nurturing" aspects, being a teacher and all. |
| 394 | * SenseiChan: Due to her short height and youthful appearance, she's considered the class pet, rather than an authority figure most of the time. |
| 395 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Of the story's 18 volumes, she appears a bit at the beginning, then in volumes 6 and 10, and then in the final battle; she's still the person responsible for managing to turn Hajime from a very selfish anti-hero into someone willing to help others to avoid living "a lonely life", her heartfelt words immediately saving thousands of lives including her own, and both worlds in the long run. |
| 396 | * SquishyWizard: Her stats are very low, even moreso than Hajime's initial numbers. However, her farming-related magic is both extremely powerful and extremely useful. |
| 397 | * TeacherStudentRomance: She develops feelings for her former student, Nagumo Hajime, after he saves her life from poisoning by [[MouthToMouthForceFeeding feeding her a potion via mouth-to-mouth]] [[spoiler:and consoling her after her fermentation skill resulted in a FantasticNuke that killed everyone in the Holy Church's cathedral]]. |
| 398 | * TokenAdult: She's the only adult member of Hajime's class that was transported to Tortus alongside them. |
| 399 | * UtilityMagic: While her magic supplied by her "Farmer" Job offers little in the way of combat ability, her cultivation skillset allows her to directly manipulate Methane: a highly-flammable element. |
| 400 | * VillainKiller: [[spoiler:She's the one who does in Ishtar and his men. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone She... isn't proud of it.]]]] |
| 401 | [[/folder]] |
| 402 | |
| 403 | [[folder:Yuka Sonobe]] |
| 404 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiyuTomita (Japanese), Creator/MallorieRodak (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Itzel Mendoza (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 405 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yuka_sonobe_1.png]] |
| 406 | |
| 407 | The girl Pre-orcus Hajime saved, first- hand, before his "fall" into the Abyss. |
| 408 | ---- |
| 409 | * BladeEnthusiast: Sonobe specializes in utilizing the 12 knife artifact set that the church gave her. As long as Yuka had one knife, she can have the rest return to her regardless of how far they are. |
| 410 | * DudeMagnet: According to Liliana, Yuka is popular among the knights and people in the Heiligh Kingdom. |
| 411 | * {{Expy}}: Ryo Shirakome based Yuka off of Himeko Tachibana from ''Manga/KOn''. |
| 412 | * HeroicResolve: Even after learning that Tortus isn't a fantasy game, and is actually a very, very dangerous place, she still overcomes her HeroicBSOD and chooses to go with Aiko-sensei into danger to help others. |
| 413 | * IOweYouMyLife: Towards Hajime. She wouldn't be alive if he didn't intercept the Skeleton Knights' sword swing at her. |
| 414 | * PassingTheTorch: On the receiving end. She inherits the kindness, idealism, and childish wonder Hajime was forced to throw away to survive the Orcus dungeon. |
| 415 | * ShipTease: To Hajime, to the point that their classmates and ''even her own parents'' worry that she might end up as a mistress if "she's not active enough". |
| 416 | * TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler:After Kouki begins his travels with Hajime, she stands up as leader of the party.]] |
| 417 | * TookALevelInIdealism: Hajime's HeroicSacrifice leads her to become a better person, despite her own fears and insecurities. |
| 418 | [[/folder]] |
| 419 | |
| 420 | [[folder:Yukitoshi Shimizu]] |
| 421 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkiraIshida (Japanese), Creator/DerickSnow (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Rolando de la Fuente (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 422 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yukitoshi_shimizu_1.png]] |
| 423 | |
| 424 | Introduced in Volume 2, but named in Volume 3, he showcases what could go wrong if an {{Otaku}} who fantasizes about being whisked away to another world actually is. |
| 425 | ---- |
| 426 | * BadPowersBadPeople: He specializes in Dark Magic, strong in causing all sorts of debuffs, including brainwashing, and uses it to amass a monster army [[spoiler:to annihilate the city of Ur, soldier and civilian alike, to kill his teacher, Aiko and the rest of his class]] purely to be a "hero" in his own eyes. |
| 427 | * TheBeastmaster: He has the ability control monsters. It is implied that the main reason the monster forces recruited him was to keep him from using this ability against them. Since he is shown to be powerful enough to control a Dragonmen, it's probably true. This makes it a StoryBreakerPower in its own right. |
| 428 | * BulliedIntoDepression: PlayedWith. Seeing ''Hajime'' get bullied made him withdraw into himself in class and avoid others. Upon coming to Tortus, he continues to sulk and sneak off alone. |
| 429 | * CoupDeGrace: [[spoiler:He's mortally wounded when Reiss attacks Aiko after Hajime defeats the monster army and captures him. Not wanting Aiko to blame herself for Yukitoshi's death, Hajime {{Mercy Kill}}s him with gunshots to the head and heart and tells her it was "because he was my enemy."]] |
| 430 | * DarkIsEvil: He's gifted with "dark magic" when he comes to Tortus, and he's a completely depraved person. |
| 431 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Like Hajime, he's an AscendedFanboy GoneHorriblyWrong. He shows that being a fan of "other world" harem anime to the point of immersion is not the best strategy to prepare for such an event actually happening. In fact, if you can't hack it in the real world, where life is ''relatively easy'', you're not likely to do well if you suddenly find yourself in a setting like those common to "other world" anime, harem or otherwise, because you're not going to be strong enough, physically, mentally, or morally to deal with a life and death situation. |
| 432 | * DrivenByEnvy: He admits that his betrayal of the class was due to his envy and hatred of Kouki and his status as the hero. |
| 433 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: He has pale skin and black hair, and is overall not a stable person. |
| 434 | * EyesNeverLie: Implied in the anime to be the reason why [[spoiler: Hajime kills him. After Shimizu begs for his life and swears loyalty to him, Hajime notices Shimizu's eyes turning away, which likely meant he was lying. {{Alternative|CharacterInterpretation}}ly, he might've been looking towards Aiko, showing that he'd [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder target her again]]. In the LN and Manga, Hajime sees that Shimizu was BeyondRedemption and completely insane, with no chance of recovery.]] |
| 435 | * {{Foil}}: To Hajime. They're both {{otaku}}s, and both dreamed of going to another world where they'd be appreciated. [[AscendedFanboy Once in the other world]], however, Yukitoshi got "cheat-level" stats and [[CripplingOverspecialization over-specialized on them]], and became jealous of his even more broken classmates. In contrast, Hajime got a non-combat class and comparatively poor stats and did his damnedest to turn them to his advantage through a combination of NotTheIntendedUse and [[{{Determinator}} sheer ornery cussedness]], and didn't act on his resentment toward the others. |
| 436 | * GeneralFailure: Unlike Hajime, who attended and studied Meld's tactics and strategies sessions, and learned from them, he only focused on the aspects of his "Dark Magic" that served him, particularly the brainwashing. As such, when he found himself in charge of the large army of monsters he spent weeks building up, his "plans" were a complete disaster, not even preparing an exit strategy or an orderly retreat (although granted, he couldn't have expected Hajime to turn up with machine guns, rocket launchers, and two level 70+ spellcasters). By the time he realizes he's in over his head and tries to run, it's already too late for him. |
| 437 | * {{Gonk}}: When compared to the rest of his male classmates, Yukitoshi's face is notably gangly along with his skin being deathly white with blank eyes. |
| 438 | * HaremSeeker: And a complete failure at it. He does not have even one character or personality trait that would be attractive to the opposite sex but refuses to believe it. The only reason he hasn't tried to make a brainwashed harem of sex-slaves is that it's too difficult, too unstable, and too time-consuming to use on actual people. |
| 439 | * HeroicWannabe: He will do anything and everything to be a "hero", no matter who he has to side with or kill. |
| 440 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: Deconstructed. His desire to be special is what made him vulnerable to the manipulations of the Demon Army in the first place. |
| 441 | * LonersAreFreaks: Even his parents and family were rightly concerned that he devoted so much of his life to his "other world" fantasies that he had no social contact. |
| 442 | * NeverMyFault: To InsaneTrollLogic levels. Despite the fact that he withdrew from the class, and rebuffed anyone who tried to approach him, he insists his loneliness is their fault for ignoring him. |
| 443 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He calls his class "retards" for not worshiping him. |
| 444 | * RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:He's fatally shot by the very demon that convinced him to betray humanity in the first place.]] |
| 445 | * SayingTooMuch: Even Hajime was sympathetic to his plight [[spoiler:after the Demons fired through him to try to get at Aiko]] until he promises to provide Hajime with a harem of brainwashed sex-slaves. [[spoiler:This makes Hajime realize he's too far gone into his delusions to be rescued and gives him a MercyKill.]] |
| 446 | * ShadowArchetype: To Hajime. He's far, far more chuuni than Hajime will ever be, and when he finds reality doesn't match his imaginations, he retreats even further into his fantasies. |
| 447 | * StockLightNovelHero: Oh, he would very much like to be one, but he's so fixated on the benefits that he completely ignores the perils, and completely falls apart, retreating even further into his fantasies, the moment even the tiniest little thing goes wrong. |
| 448 | * SuperLoser: He does actually put in the effort to learn and master every aspect of his gifted "Dark Magic" ability, and through carefully applied brainwashing, manages to amass an army of tens if not hundreds of thousands of monsters, but his ego is so fragile that he completely falls apart if even the tiniest thing doesn't go his way. |
| 449 | * UnskilledButStrong: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. He hones his "Dark Magic" ability into a force to be reckoned with, even managing to subdue Tio when he catches her napping. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a clue as to what he's doing so his battle debut becomes a complete disaster. |
| 450 | * YouAreWhatYouHate: He hates "chuuni bastards" with a passion, but he's the most "chuuni" character in the whole setting and is completely oblivious to it. |
| 451 | * ZergRush: Deconstructed. He never bothers to learn the strengths and weaknesses of any of the species of monsters he manages to subdue. He just sends them at his target all at once. When this encounters the battle-hardened Hajime's party, it utterly fails him. |
| 452 | [[/folder]] |
| 453 | |
| 454 | [[folder:Atsushi Tamai]] |
| 455 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Makoto Kaneko (Japanese), Creator/GarretStorms (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Emmanuel Bernal (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 456 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/atsushi_tamai_anime.png]] |
| 457 | |
| 458 | A hot-tempered guy who speaks without thinking at times. |
| 459 | ---- |
| 460 | * BlowYouAway: His swords unleash wind when swung. |
| 461 | * DualWielding: In battle, he wields a pair of curved swords. |
| 462 | * HeroesPreferSwords: Justified, since his job is Cutlasser. |
| 463 | * HotBlooded: He is noted to be hot-headed and reckless. |
| 464 | * RazorWind: He launches these when he swings his blade. |
| 465 | [[/folder]] |
| 466 | |
| 467 | [[folder:Noboru Aikawa]] |
| 468 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Masaya Wada (Japanese) |
| 469 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/noboru_aikawa_1.png]] |
| 470 | |
| 471 | A boy who loves bikes. |
| 472 | ---- |
| 473 | * BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: Noboru's primary weapon is an axe capable of unleashing powerful blows. |
| 474 | * ThoseTwoGuys: He's often seen with Akito and Atsushi. |
| 475 | [[/folder]] |
| 476 | |
| 477 | [[folder:Taeko Sugawara]] |
| 478 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MayuMineda (Japanese), Creator/BrittanyLauda (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Valentina Souza (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 479 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/taeko_sugawara.png]] |
| 480 | |
| 481 | A student who turns into a sadist after being assigned the job of a Whip Master. |
| 482 | ---- |
| 483 | * {{Expy}}: Ryo Shirakome based Taeko off of Akane Sato from ''Manga/KOn''. |
| 484 | * GirlishPigtails: She's a young girl with her hair styled into low pigtails. |
| 485 | * {{Dominatrix}}: She is noted to have started acting like one after becoming a ''Whip Master''. |
| 486 | * SuperSpeed: She is able to fling her whip faster than sound. |
| 487 | * WhipOfDominance: PlayedForLaughs. She used to be an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent but after she took the job of "Whip Master", she notably began to develop {{Sadist}} and {{Dominatrix}} tendencies the better she got with the whip. It's unknown if this is a side effect or if handling a whip just awoke that hidden side of her personality. |
| 488 | [[/folder]] |
| 489 | |
| 490 | [[folder:Nana Miyazaki]] |
| 491 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Risa Tsumugi (Japanese), Creator/MacyAnneJohnson (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Analiz Sánchez (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 492 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nana_miyazaki.png]] |
| 493 | |
| 494 | A high-spirited girl with a tendency to get carried away. |
| 495 | ---- |
| 496 | * {{Expy}}: Ryo Shirakome based Nana off of Eri Taki from ''Manga/KOn''. |
| 497 | * AnIcePerson: Her speciality is ice magic. |
| 498 | * IcyBlueEyes: She's an ice mage with blue eyes. |
| 499 | [[/folder]] |
| 500 | |
| 501 | !!Other Notable Students |
| 502 | [[folder:Eri Nakamura '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']] |
| 503 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AsukaNishi (Japanese), Creator/MeganShipman (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Karla Tovar (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 504 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eri_nakamura.png]] |
| 505 | |
| 506 | A bespectacled classmate and a close friend of Suzu. Her class is Necromancer. |
| 507 | ---- |
| 508 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: To Kouki. He's very freaked out to find out Eri is an insane {{Yandere}} who attempts to turn the entire class into zombies just to keep him as her mindless slave. |
| 509 | * AbusiveParents: Her mother blames her for her father's death and her stepfather repeatedly abuse her physically until his detainment from an AttemptedRape. [[TruthInTelevision Unsurprisingly]], her mother blames Eri further for ''[[BlamingTheVictim seducing]]'' her second husband, leading to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and shattering any hope of reconciliation. Needless to say, it led to the point where she [[DrivenToSuicide wanted to die]] if it wasn't for Kouki passing by on a jog. |
| 510 | * AxCrazy: She's completely deranged, feels nothing of killing people (and her body count is quite impressive) and the moment she stops caring about appearances, even her speech becomes slurred. |
| 511 | * BadPowersGoodPeople: She's a shy cute girl with necromancer power. Until it turns out to be a cade of BadPowersBadPeople instead. |
| 512 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: {{Deconstructed}}. Kouki was the first person to be kind to her in a long time. However, this moment was a minute moment to him. Therefore, she was desperately dedicated to him, craving the affection again. Upon coming to the new world, she became a {{Yandere}} for him. |
| 513 | * BespectacledCutie: She's a bespectacled beauty, giving off the air of the stereotypical CuteBookworm. Then it turns out to be an InvokedTrope on her part to hide her true {{Yandere}} personality. When she takes off the glasses, it's revealed she isn't anywhere as sweet or innocent as she appears. |
| 514 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: She's not anywhere near as nice as she pretends to be, but she's got the entire class fooled. |
| 515 | * {{Blackmail}}: She blackmails Hiyama into being her slave by promising to keep quiet regarding the fact that she knows he's directly responsible for intentionally blasting Hajime into the Abyss with a fireball. |
| 516 | * BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: While actively blackmailing Hiyama, she specifically lampshades the trope. Acting incredulous that he would even imply the thought of her blackmailing him. |
| 517 | * BlamingTheVictim: Her stepdad repeatedly abused her until he [[AttemptedRape attempted to rape her]], leading to his arrest and her mother beating her for "seducing" him. |
| 518 | * ComplexityAddiction: Her plans for Kouki have to be among the most convoluted method to achieve her goals. She could have simply taken advantage of his LeeroyJenkins tendencies and let him die as a result of his own devices and then "resurrected" him as her puppet, but instead, she blackmails Hiyama, contracts with the Demons, sabotages the defenses of the human city, and uses a ZombieApocalypse to critically injure all of her classmates so she could try turning them to her puppets one at a time while forcing the rest to watch. Not only does this ultimately fail, but she completely enrages and alienates Hajime, who is only stopped from giving her a FateWorseThanDeath by Freid's armed invasion. |
| 519 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Her father died saving her from an accident, resulting in her mother demanding of her [[YouShouldHaveDiedInstead to die in his place]] and beginning to [[AbusiveParents keep abusing her]], and as soon as her mother remarried, [[RapeAsBackstory this stepfather tried to rape her]], he gets arrested for his crime, resulting in her mother abusing her for the crime of "robbing her husband from her", '''[[FromBadToWorse again]]'''. Finally fed up with the abuse, she threw a HannibalLecture to her mother and escaped; all while her mother was later arrested for assault and abuse. With nowhere to go, [[DespairEventHorizon she decided]] to simply [[DrivenToSuicide put an end to her own misery]], until [[KnightInShiningArmor Kouki]] [[InterruptedSuicide talked her out of it]], which got her infatuated to him [[{{Yandere}} that much]]. Her life improved since, [[BrokenBird but her mind was still not in good shape by that point]]. |
| 520 | * DarkIsEvil: She wears all black and is not a good or stable person. |
| 521 | * DefeatEqualsExplosion: She dies by detonating herself after being defeated. |
| 522 | * DirtyCoward: She doesn't hesitate to abandon Hiyama the moment Hajime has him at his mercy. Even after Ehit transforms her into a Human-Apostle hybrid, Eri still prefers to avoid fighting Hajime out of fear. |
| 523 | * DrivenToSuicide: After being defeated by Suzu, Eri uses a self-destruction spell to explode herself. |
| 524 | * EvilLaugh: She does a wicked laugh after backstabbing Shizuku. |
| 525 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: She seems like a harmless BespectacledCutie, but her true self is a deranged and manipulative psychopath obsessed with Kouki. |
| 526 | * FalseFriend: To Suzu. Eri just pretended to be best friends with Suzu since she only sees Suzu as a tool to get close to Kouki and tries to kill her along the rest of their classmates once she has captured Kouki. |
| 527 | * ForcefulKiss: Inflicts this on Kouki while she had him captive. |
| 528 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: When the Hero's Party are cornered by Cattleya and her monsters in the Orcus Labyrinth, Eri is the first one to suggest surrendering and joining the demon army in order to avoid being killed, an early sign she's not as virtuous as her classmates. |
| 529 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: PlayedWith. While she's the only relevant classmate to wear glasses and a major villain, she reveals her true {{Yandere}} nature ''after'' taking off her glasses. |
| 530 | * FreudianExcuse: If not for the abuse she suffered from her [[BlamingTheVictim mother]] and [[LecherousStepparent stepdad]], she probably wouldn't be as screwed up as she is. |
| 531 | * TheGlassesComeOff: She takes off her glasses after betraying her classmates, fully signifying her FaceHeelTurn. |
| 532 | * HopelessSuitor: Eri became obsessed with Kouki, whose dense personality made him oblivious to her darker personality until it was too late. |
| 533 | * HotLibrarian: She was on the library committee before being brought to the world of Tortus and is quite beautiful. |
| 534 | * HypocriteHasAPoint: While Eri herself isn't any better regarding [[EntitledToHaveYou her own feelings towards Kouki,]] she isn't exactly wrong to call out her classmates on their selfish belief that only the popular kids like Kouki, Shizuka, and Kaori have the right to be around each other, and that everyone else should just stay away. Seeing as how this would [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom eventually]] lead [[TheBully Hiyama]] to do everything he did once they got to the new world, her words hit home more than they might seem. |
| 535 | * IHaveYouNowMyPretty: When she has Kouki at her mercy, she puts a SlaveCollar on him and poisons him through a kiss to slowly turn him into her slave. |
| 536 | * InterruptedSuicide: Her suicide attempt was stopped by Kouki. This does not bold well for him, as she had become insanely possessive of him afterward. |
| 537 | * InTheBlood: She is just as mentally unstable as her abusive mother, along with a warped sense of love. |
| 538 | * TheKingslayer: In Volume 6, she has King Eric killed as part of the demon invasion of the Heiligh Kingdom. |
| 539 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: [[CluelessChickMagnet Kouki]]'s [[ObliviousToLove neglectful behavior]] to her feelings is what drives her off the deep end. |
| 540 | * {{Necromancer}}: She officially has the Necromancer class and invented an inferior form of "Age of God's" spirit magic that allows her to directly control the souls of the dead and reanimate them. She's capable of perfectly controlling an entire army of undead with their memories, personalities and skills intact. |
| 541 | * AnOfferYouCantRefuse: She offers to have Hiyama serve as her slave so he can have Kaori as his "girlfriend", or else she will expose him as an attempted murderer. |
| 542 | * PersonalityPowers: She is [[MaskOfSanity dead from within and hides it well]], fitting, considering how she uses her powers. And from how Kouki interrupted her from suicide but never really cared about her sanity, she's CameBackWrong, as her power symbolized it all. |
| 543 | * PowerIncontinence: Can barely control her Necromancer power. This is a complete lie, she's quite talented with Necromantic magic and personally wipes out the Heiligh government. |
| 544 | * PurelyAestheticGlasses: She doesn't actually need glasses to see well and just wears them as part of her BespectacledCutie facade. |
| 545 | * RedemptionRejection: Despite Suzu's attempt to appeal to their friendship and reassuring her that her classmates will forgive her for her betrayal, Eri instead chooses to kill herself with a [[TakingYouWithMe self-destruct spell in a last-ditch effort to kill Suzu]], despite admitting things might have been different if she had met Suzu before Kouki. |
| 546 | * RescueRomance: Pre-Tortus, she was about to commit suicide before Kouki [[TalkingDownTheSuicidal talked her out of it]]. She developed a crush on him that turned into a dangerous obsession. |
| 547 | * ShrinkingViolet: She is very meek and shy, in public. In private, she's utterly psychotic. |
| 548 | * VillainousBreakdown: She loses her cool when Hajime foils her plans towards the end of the series. |
| 549 | * VillainsWantMercy: The moment Hajime arrives and easily obliterates her undead soldiers and prepares to attack her, she shamelessly begs for her life by offering to reanimate Kaori as his undead slave, which only serves to enrage Hajime further. |
| 550 | * WalkingSpoiler: Without knowing her true {{Yandere}} nature, the audience won't know anything about her major role as the series goes on. |
| 551 | * {{Yandere}}: Eri is obsessed with Kouki, who she sees as her beloved savior even though he obviously doesn't think anything special about her. She's willing to kill her entire classmates (including Kouki's childhood friends, Kaori and Shizuku) to claim him for herself. |
| 552 | [[/folder]] |
| 553 | |
| 554 | [[folder:Kousuke Endou]] |
| 555 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunyaEnoki (Japanese), Creator/JustinBriner (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Ángel Rodríguez (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 556 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kousuke_endou_1.png]] |
| 557 | |
| 558 | A member of Nagayama's party with a very weak presence and can't be noticed by labyrinth monsters or automatic doors. |
| 559 | ---- |
| 560 | * ButtMonkey: His natural lack of presence causes Endou to become quite misfortunate at times. Let's see: Automatic Doors do not open for him, Endou gets sent flying from Kaori who accidentally mistook him for a ghost, ends up missing dinner one time since no one woke him up and is forced to eat rotten leftovers forcing the assassin to find a functioning toilet in the castle. |
| 561 | * ChickMagnet: [[spoiler:Following in his boss Hajime's footsteps, he too gained a harem of his own in his spinoff.]] |
| 562 | * {{Chuunibyou}}: After returning to Japan, Endou has picked up some chuuni habits of his own, largely thanks to his skill "Abyss Lord". Whenever it triggers, he behaves like a full blown chuuni, slicking his hair back and putting on a pair of MagicalEye themed sunglasses, though he gets depressed and embarrassed about it when it wears off. This actually ends up endearing him to Hajime, not only making Endou into Hajime's NumberTwo, but making the two close friends. |
| 563 | * EyesOutOfSight: His hair covers his eyes all the time. When he enters his "Abyssgate" persona, he slicks his hair back... But he ''still'' covers his eyes with a pair of sunglasses. |
| 564 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: After spending a long time being TheNondescript, Endou manages to acquire the skill "Abyss Lord" and the Age of Gods gravity magic, allowing him to become the strongest out of his class aside from Hajime. |
| 565 | * HidingBehindYourBangs: His hair tends to cover the upper half of his face, representing his status as TheNondescript and one of the several introverted loners in the class. |
| 566 | * IAmTheNoun: One of his CharacterTics while using his "Abyss Lord" skill is saying things along the line of "I am the Abyss". |
| 567 | * InvisibleIntrovert: He has a low presence - to the point where he sometimes isn't noticed by ''automatic doors''. He ends up with the Assassin class in the other world, allowing him to sneak past monsters in the labyrinth. |
| 568 | * TheNondescript: Not even Magical Beasts nor the automatic door caught his presence, it even comes to handy for the former case as he goes sending the distress call of the entire class to Hajime. |
| 569 | * NumberTwo: To Hajime in the Afterstory. |
| 570 | * RedBaron: [[spoiler:He's later called "Abyssgate" by both his friends and enemies.]] |
| 571 | * StealthHiBye: His specialty. Even before being isekai'd to Tortus, Endou would just suddenly appear and disappear from everyone's sights if he didn't make his presence known. Getting the ''Assassin'' job only '''amplifies''' this talent. |
| 572 | [[/folder]] |
| 573 | |
| 574 | [[folder:Jugo Nagayama]] |
| 575 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Shouta Yamamoto (Japanese) |
| 576 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jugo_nagayama_anime.png]] |
| 577 | |
| 578 | An old friend and classmate of Kousuke Endou and Kentarou Nomura. He leads his own party. |
| 579 | ---- |
| 580 | * TheBigGuy: One of the physically strongest members of the class. |
| 581 | * HeroicBuild: He is the tallest member of the class after Ryutarou. |
| 582 | * MightyGlacier: As the heavy knight of the group, he serves this role. |
| 583 | * SuperEmpowering: Many of his spells revolve around increasing his strength and defense. |
| 584 | [[/folder]] |
| 585 | |
| 586 | [[folder:Kentarou Nomura]] |
| 587 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Shinei Ueki (Japanese) |
| 588 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kentarou_nomura_anime.png]] |
| 589 | |
| 590 | An old friend and classmate of Kousuke Endou and Jugo Nagayama. He secretly holds feelings for Ayako Tsuji. |
| 591 | ---- |
| 592 | * ChildhoodFriend: He is one of Jugo and Kousuke's oldest friends. |
| 593 | * DishingOutDirt: As a geomancer, he often fights using rocks. He is able to make the rocks take on different forms, like walls and spears. |
| 594 | * GeniusBruiser: For a guy that could easily be DumbMuscle, he is pretty quick on the uptake. LN 04 he won the gamble he made regarding the Earth magic spell "Dark Gaol". Cattleya cast it and the monsters dodged. He realized that and when they ran for it he threw the spell at the monsters. When they dodged it broke the pursuit and gave the Hero party room to escape. |
| 595 | * HeroicBuild: He is noted to have bulked up since arriving at Tortus. |
| 596 | * TwiceShy: With Tsuji. The two of them have feelings for each other, but they are both too shy to openly acknowledge them. |
| 597 | [[/folder]] |
| 598 | |
| 599 | !Church of Ehit |
| 600 | The religion of Mankind who worships the god Ehitorujue and responsible for introducing Hajime's class to the Tortus, not to mention some of the more wide-scale issues. |
| 601 | [[folder:Ishtar Langbard]] |
| 602 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Shouto Kashii (Japanese), Creator/KentWilliams (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Creator/CarlosSegundo, Rubén Moya [ep. 2] (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 603 | |
| 604 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ishtar_lombard_1.png]] |
| 605 | |
| 606 | The Pope of Eht (Ehit), and the one who explains the reason why Hajime's class was summoned to Tortus. |
| 607 | ---- |
| 608 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He gets blown up by Aiko, but he was such an evil asshole that you're expected to cheer for it.]] |
| 609 | * GenderBlenderName: Ishtar is the name of a female deity. |
| 610 | * LightIsNotGood: Aside from being ObviouslyEvil, he is dressed in white and gold and is the pope of holy faith. |
| 611 | * MeaningfulName: [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology The goddess he gets his name from]] is [[JerkassGod not the most pleasant fellow]], the god he worshipped [[GodIsEvil is not]] [[MadGod the sanest fellow]], either. |
| 612 | * MrExposition: He spends the vast majority of his screen-time explaining the world of Tortus to the audience and Hajime's class. |
| 613 | * MyMasterRightOrWrong: He's totally obedient to Ehit, no matter what the latter does. |
| 614 | * ObviouslyEvil: This guy practically has "corrupt bishop" written all over him. |
| 615 | * SummonMagic: He performed the summoning ritual that brought Hajime's class to Tortus. |
| 616 | * WrongGenreSavvy: He's expecting everyone summoned from Hajime's class to be a NormalFishInATinyPond and save Tortus from the demon threat. They're all normal humans without special powers and have to undergo serious training to get, learn, and effectively use abilities and talents. Most of them don't even use their heads in a fight and just go for the biggest and flashiest moves and spells they can on any opponent, regardless of the situation. Then again this is what his patron god wanted: disposable pawns. |
| 617 | [[/folder]] |
| 618 | |
| 619 | [[folder:Simon L.G. Levellair]] |
| 620 | An exiled bishop of Ehit introduced in the epilogue of volume 7, along with his granddaughter. |
| 621 | ---- |
| 622 | * KingIncognito: He walks in the capital city of Heleigh hiding his identity as a bishop of Ehit to learn what's really going on, instead of taking the propaganda at face value. |
| 623 | * {{Manchild}}: He's introduced sucking his thumb for no reason. |
| 624 | * ObfuscatingInsanity: He escaped execution for "heresy" by pretending to be a little nuts. Even in the present, he still acts a bit odd to get people to lower their guard. |
| 625 | * ReassignedToAntarctica: Before the story began, he was exiled to a remote backwater village in the desert for the "heresy" of saying beastmen and demihumans should not be abused, and then only because he recanted, or he would have been executed. He's brought back to the capital by princess Lilliana's official summon. |
| 626 | * SecretKeeper: He's been holding on to a "legend" passed down along his family... |
| 627 | * SpotTheThread: He figured out that the cover-story for what happened to the Holy Church of Ehit was a fabrication by someone with a grudge on Ehit. |
| 628 | * WackyParentSeriousChild: He's introduced as the wacky parent to Sybil's serious child. |
| 629 | |
| 630 | [[/folder]] |
| 631 | |
| 632 | [[folder:Sybil L.G. Levallair]] |
| 633 | Simon's granddaughter. |
| 634 | ---- |
| 635 | * AlliterativeFamily: '''S'''imon L.G. Levellair, '''S'''ybil L.G. Levellair. |
| 636 | * WackyParentSeriousChild: She's introduced as the serious child to Simon's wacky parent. |
| 637 | [[/folder]] |
| 638 | |
| 639 | !!Apostles |
| 640 | |
| 641 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 642 | * TheAgeless: Apostles are biologically immortal and can only be killed if their head or heart is destroyed. |
| 643 | * ArtificialHuman: They're an artificial race of beings that were created by Ehit to oversee and manipulate the events of his "gameboard" in Tortus. |
| 644 | * BadHabits: They often disguise themselves as nuns in order to spy on anyone who doesn't fit Ehit's vision. |
| 645 | * BattleBallgown: Their combat outfit consist of a white sleeveless dress which has metal plates covering both sides of the waist as well as a winged helmet on the head, gauntlets on the arms and graves over the legs. |
| 646 | * {{BFS}}: Apostles' primary weapons are two pairs of longswords. |
| 647 | * CleavageWindow: Because of the chest plate and the NavelDeepNeckline of the dress underneath, an Apostle's outfit has a gap in the chest area that gives an ample view of the cleavage. |
| 648 | * CloneArmy: All Apostles look identical and were created by Ehit to be his personal soldiers. |
| 649 | * CreepyMonotone: They speak with a very monotonic voice. |
| 650 | * DisintegratorRay: One of their most powerful abilities is to disintegrate other things, whether it be matter or magic. |
| 651 | * TheDragon: They're Ehit's most obedient and powerful minions. |
| 652 | * DualWielding: Apostles dual-wield two swords in combat. |
| 653 | * EmotionlessGirl: Apostles have no emotions as their only purpose is to follow Ehit's orders. |
| 654 | * FeatherFlechettes: They can use their wings as ranged projectiles to attack enemies with. |
| 655 | * GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Apostles' attire consists of a silvery white battle outfit with golden highlights. |
| 656 | * {{Golem}}: [[spoiler:Several Apostles transfer their consciousness into Hajime's Arachnae golems after he kills Ehit.]] |
| 657 | * TheHeavy: Being a god, Ehit only observes Tortus from outside his "gameboard". However, he directly orders the Apostles to manipulate or eliminate "pieces" according to his whims. |
| 658 | * HenchmenRace: Ehit created the Apostles for them to help him move the world in the direction he desires for the purpose of his game. This includes eliminating those that become too powerful and/or unpredictable, like Hajime. |
| 659 | * IcyBlueEyes: They have cold icy blue eyes, that are stated to convey mechanical, emotionless frigidity. |
| 660 | * InstantRunes: Unlike other magic casters, who need to draw a magic circle on a external object to cast spells, Apostles can simply use their feathers to create a magic circle to instantly cast magic. |
| 661 | * LightIsNotGood: They're dressed all in white and resemble angels. However, they're the servants of a JerkassGod. |
| 662 | * MyMasterRightOrWrong: Their purpose is remove anyone that doesn't fit in Ehit's gameboard, and nothing else. |
| 663 | * MysticalWhiteHair: They have silver hair which adds to the otherworldly allure in their beautiful appearance. |
| 664 | * NavelDeepNeckline: Under their BattleBallgown, they wear a white dress that's open to well below the navel. |
| 665 | * NumericalThemeNaming: All of the Apostles' names are based on German ordinal numbers. |
| 666 | * OccultBlueEyes: Their blue eyes signify their otherwordly nature. |
| 667 | * OneGenderRace: All Apostles are female. |
| 668 | * OurAngelsAreDifferent: Apostles are artificial beings created by the JerkassGod Ehit. Their function is to monitor their creator's "gameboard" and ensure that all of the "pieces" behave according Ehit's wishes. |
| 669 | * ReiAyanamiExpy: Apostles appear as young women with silver hair, blue eyes and an {{emotionless|girl}} expression. Lacking a will of their own, they just act to follow their JerkassGod creator's orders. |
| 670 | * ShowgirlSkirt: The Apostles' BattleBallgown has a long skirt that splits at the front to reveal the legs. |
| 671 | * TheSoulless: Apostles don't have souls, being nothing but Ehit's armed puppets. |
| 672 | * {{Valkyries}}: Hajime [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that the Apostles' appearance strongly resembles that of Valykries from Myth/NorseMythology. The Apostles' job of manipulating the people of Tortus to serve Ehit's wishes is similar to that of the Norns as well. |
| 673 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: They have silver hair and are the JerkassGod Ehit's most dangerous servants. |
| 674 | * WingedHumanoid: They have retractible silver-feathered wings. |
| 675 | [[/folder]] |
| 676 | |
| 677 | [[folder:Noint]] |
| 678 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaSato (Japanese), Creator/KatelynBarr (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Fernanda Ornelas (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 679 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/noint_full_body.png]] |
| 680 | |
| 681 | The first Apostle that Hajime faces. |
| 682 | ---- |
| 683 | * ArcVillain: Along with [[spoiler:Eri]], Noint is one of the villains in Volume 6, due to Noint being ordered to help in [[spoiler:Eri]]'s betrayal because [[ItAmusedMe Ehit found it amusing]]. |
| 684 | * DoppelgangerAttack: Noint demonstrated the power to make a clone of herself using the feathers on her wings, as a way to deceive enemies mid-battle. |
| 685 | * GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Her body is used to revive Kaori.]] |
| 686 | * HeroKiller: She kills [[spoiler:Meld]]. |
| 687 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: She is killed after Hajime uses his railgun-enhanced Pile Bunker to pierce through her mana crystal.]] |
| 688 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: PlayedWith. While Noint acknowledges that Hajime has become too powerful to be a pawn of Ehit, she still underestimates his power as she thinks that she can dispose of him without too much difficulty. [[spoiler:Of course, Hajime kills her, though after an admittedly tough fight against her.]] |
| 689 | * WingShield: Noint can use her wings as a shield, as she demonstrated when she used them to guard against Tio's fire breath attack. |
| 690 | * WreckedWeapon: [[spoiler: Her twin longswords are destroyed during her battle with Hajime, as he noticed that her swords were chipped during their battle, so he deliberately aimed at the weakened part, in order to give himself the edge in their fight by disarming her, given that their stats were around equal.]] |
| 691 | [[/folder]] |
| 692 | |
| 693 | [[folder:Hearst]] |
| 694 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hearst_arifureta_zero.png]] |
| 695 | |
| 696 | The first Apostle that was created by Ehit. |
| 697 | ---- |
| 698 | * SuperToughness: Oscar and Naiz threw a ''meteor made of lava'' at her and it still wasn't enough to kill her. |
| 699 | * WakeUpCallBoss: She attacks Oscar, Miledi and Naiz at the end of ''Zero'''s first volume, making them realize Ehit has puppets way more powerful than they could imagine. |
| 700 | [[/folder]] |
| 701 | |
| 702 | [[folder:Ahat]] |
| 703 | |
| 704 | An Apostle who appears as a villain in the prequel ''Arifureta Zero''. |
| 705 | ---- |
| 706 | * KillAndReplace: Ahat killed Ace, one of the top subordinates of Baharl Devault, and disguised herself as him to infiltrate his organization. |
| 707 | [[/folder]] |
| 708 | |
| 709 | !Kingdom of Heleigh |
| 710 | |
| 711 | [[folder:Knight Commander Meld Loggins]] |
| 712 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YasuhiroMamiya (Japanese), Creator/PatrickSeitz (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Andrés García (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 713 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/meld_rogins_1.png]] |
| 714 | |
| 715 | The knight in charge of training Hajime's class to be the "heroes" who save the world of Tortus. |
| 716 | ---- |
| 717 | * DidNotSeeThatComing: In a good way. He figured Hajime's Synergist class was useless in a fight, until he saw Hajime use "Transmute" to hold a monster captive before finishing it off. This impresses him beyond measure. |
| 718 | * HeroicBuild: He fits the stereotypical image of a Knight. |
| 719 | * HoldTheLine: Subverted. In the manga, he is illustrated trying to hold the Behemoth at bay so the students can escape, but Kouki trying to come to his aid, and Hajime actually restraining Behemoth with "Transmute" allows everyone else to escape. |
| 720 | * IgnoredExpert: He was tasked by both Ishtar and the king to mentor and train the students in Aiko's class to be effective soldiers in the war with the demons, but his experience and wisdom is ignored in favor of political expediency in the matter of the "accidental" fireball that caused Hajime to be driven down to the depths of the Abyss. He knew that if left unattended, it would only get worse, not better, over time. If it was actually an accident, without proper counseling, the guilt would build until those that felt responsible cracked under the pressure and turned on humanity, feeling themselves completely beyond redemption [[spoiler:which actually happens as early as Volume 2 when one of the too-traumatized students listens to a demon promising to make him a "hero" if he killed Aiko-sensei]]. If it was deliberate, as it clearly was, then the one responsible needs to be found, and quickly, to be brought to justice and to prevent further sabotage. Because Kouki kicked up a fuss, Meld was forced to stop the investigation, and leave the students to their own devices. |
| 721 | * KnightInShiningArmor: He embodies everything an ideal knight strives for. |
| 722 | * MentorArchetype: He's tasked with teaching the students how to fight, and win, battles with the Magical beasts that compose the majority of the demonic threat. |
| 723 | * MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:He's killed by Noint while battling a legion of undead created by Eri.]] |
| 724 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Though it is his job to make Hajime's class effective child soldiers, he doesn't want them to die. Thus he does his best to balance the difficulty of their tasks so they're challenging but not too life-threatening. Hiyama completely screws that plan over. |
| 725 | * SacrificialLion: One of few genuinely heroic characters from Tortus [[spoiler:who gets killed to show how twisted Ehit really is.]] |
| 726 | [[/folder]] |
| 727 | |
| 728 | [[folder:Princess Liliana S. B. Heiligh]] |
| 729 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Noriko Shibasaki (Japanese), Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Adriana Núñez (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 730 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/liliana_s_b_heiligh_1.png]] |
| 731 | |
| 732 | Daughter of King Eric and Queen Luaria and big sister of Randell, she shows quite the insight for her age and is proactive about her kingdom's needs. |
| 733 | ---- |
| 734 | * ActionGirl: Thanks to Shea's training, she's pretty good at martial arts. |
| 735 | * AltarDiplomacy: She agreed to be engaged to Baius, the crowned prince of the Hoelscher Empire, due to the circumstances of her kingdom desperately needing the assistance of the Hoelscher Empire. |
| 736 | * AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:She got lucky Hajime was surveying the Imperial Palace when her fiancé tried to force himself on her.]] |
| 737 | * AwfulWeddedLife: Prince Baius is such a misogynistic {{Jerkass}} that Liliana knows marrying him will make her miserable, but she's willing to make the sacrifice for the sake of her kingdom. [[spoiler:Fortunately, the Haulia behead Baius before Liliana marries him.]] |
| 738 | * BarrierWarrior: Her specialty is barrier magic. |
| 739 | * ButtMonkey: The moment she gains focus in the story, things stop going her way, at all. |
| 740 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: She's quite hurt about Hajime's completely nonchalant attitude towards her rank. |
| 741 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's a pretty and benevolent princess with blonde hair. |
| 742 | * KickingAssInAllHerFinery: She can easily defend herself in a one-on-one fight while wearing her pretty princess dress. |
| 743 | * PrincessClassic: She's very much a good and pure-hearted princess stereotype. She expects some advantages out of this, but sadly, she lives in a world that cares little about her privileges. |
| 744 | * PrincessesPreferPink: She wears a pink and white dress, as it's typical of pretty and feminine princesses. |
| 745 | * RescueRomance: She's saved by Hajime three times: first from bandits, second from the Demon Invasion in the capital and last her fiancé Prince Baius. Because of this, she starts to develop feelings for Hajime. |
| 746 | * SequentialArtist: [[spoiler:After marrying Hajime and coming to Earth, Liliana becomes her mother-in-law's manga assistant. She even goes on to create her own manga that is basically her SelfInsertFic in which she inserted herself in Yue's position as the main heroine as she recounted Hajime's adventures. Her manga was so successful that it won Manga Rookie of the Year Award.]] |
| 747 | * WhenSheSmiles: On those rare occasions where she smiles genuinely, as opposed to forced, formal "courtesy" smiles, she lights up the room. [[spoiler:As highlighted when dancing with Hajime in the Hoeschle Imperial Ball.]] |
| 748 | * {{Workaholic}}: A trait shown during in ''After Story'', she can get depressed if things aren't stressful enough, and when Hajime told her to get a ''part-time'' job she ended up getting more than half a dozen, including managing a chain of restaurants. |
| 749 | * YouAreInCommandNow: Since she's a princess in a HeirClubForMen, the throne will be for Randell, but her father's death forces her to take charge of what remains of the Heiligh kingdom. |
| 750 | [[/folder]] |
| 751 | |
| 752 | [[folder:King Eliheid S. B. Heiligh, Queen Luluaria, Prince Randell]] |
| 753 | ->'''King Eliheid is voiced by:''' Masafumi Kimura (Japanese), Bradley Campbell (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Raúl Solo (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 754 | |
| 755 | The royalty introduced in the opening of the light novel, greeting Hajime's class as the coming "heroes." |
| 756 | ---- |
| 757 | * AdaptedOut: They don't appear in the manga, at all. |
| 758 | * HopelessSuitor: Prince Randell has a PrecociousCrush on Kaori, but Kaori treated him as a rambunctious little brother. |
| 759 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: They appear so rarely on-screen, that they might as well not exist. [[spoiler:Eventually, King Eric is slain by Eri's brutal massacre of the entire Heiligh's government.]] |
| 760 | [[/folder]] |
| 761 | |
| 762 | !Hoeschle Empire |
| 763 | |
| 764 | [[folder:Emperor Gahard Hoeschle]] |
| 765 | The ruler of the Hoeschle mercenary empire. He has serious doubts about Kouki's effectiveness as "Hero." |
| 766 | ---- |
| 767 | * CommanderContrarian: He ''really'' does not want to put the hopes of humanity on the "Hero" Kouki and if it wasn't for Ishtar's influence through the church, he wouldn't. |
| 768 | * DefensiveFeintTrap: After asking for a duel to test Kouki's talents and abilities, he takes up a "defenseless" stance to lure Kouki into attacking carelessly. Kouki falls for it, hook, line and sinker. |
| 769 | * EntitledToHaveYou: To Shizuku. He insists she's "his," no matter how much she rebuffs him, and has the gall to get jealous if she shows affection to anyone else. |
| 770 | * HaremSeeker: He already has a wife, several concubines, and he's still looking for others, especially Shizuku. She is clearly ''not'' pleased with the attention. |
| 771 | * JerkassHasAPoint: He has not faith in Kouki as the "Hero", and despite how downright stubborn he can get with his doubting, Kouki does indeed prove to be nothing more than a deluded HeroicWannabe. |
| 772 | * KingIncognito: He disguises himself as the bodyguard of one of his country's ambassadors, and the disguise was very effective on everyone, except Pope Ishtar. |
| 773 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: |
| 774 | ** Subverted, while the Haulia coup went perfectly, he still tried to play it tough, just to cause his son's death, he still resisted, only to give in when the threats went up to bombing civilian centers. |
| 775 | ** When it comes to Hajime he's much quicker to warn all his followers not to challenge him, unless they wish a quick death. |
| 776 | * MightMakesRight: The prevailing opinion of the Empire, which he runs. |
| 777 | * TheUnapologetic: While he ''does'' technically apologize, the apologies are so insincere as to be nothing more than lip-service. |
| 778 | * VirtueIsWeakness: What he hates more than anything else about Kouki is his "idealism." |
| 779 | [[/folder]] |
| 780 | |
| 781 | [[folder:Prince Baius Hoeschle]] |
| 782 | The first born of Emperor Gahard Hoeschle. |
| 783 | ---- |
| 784 | * AltarDiplomacy: To secure the Empire's alliance to Lilliana's kingdom, he and Lilliana are to be married. |
| 785 | * ArrangedMarriage: To Princess Lilliana. She is clearly not pleased with the arrangement. |
| 786 | * AssholeVictim: Even his father doesn't mourn him. |
| 787 | * AttemptedRape: Of princess Lilliana. [[spoiler:Fortunately Hajime had ways to stop him, unnoticed.]] |
| 788 | * TheBully: As he lampshades himself. What he loves most is to torment and break those who defy him. |
| 789 | * HaremSeeker: He already has even more concubines than the Emperor, but he seeks to make Lilliana his TopWife, purely so he could [[MaritalRapeLicense legally rape her]]. |
| 790 | * KilledMidSentence: He never got a chance to finish insulting the Haulia and identifying himself before his empty head went flying. |
| 791 | * TheLoinsSleepTonight: Inflicted on him by Hajime as a PoisonAndCureGambit to keep him in line and serve Hajime's plans by having Baius injected with a serum that makes him impotent. Considering the fact that Baius is a SerialRapist that gets off on abusing and violating women, this is a FateWorseThanDeath. |
| 792 | * MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Exactly like Hiyama and his flunkies, he beats up knights under the pretense of "sparring" or "training." |
| 793 | * OffWithHisHead: He gets beheaded by the Haulia Tribe. |
| 794 | * PoisonAndCureGambit: To get the Prince in line while protecting Princess Lilliana, Hajime has Baius injected with a serum that [[FreudianThreat makes him impotent]]. He claims he'll give the Prince the cure if he does what Hajime wants. |
| 795 | * PrinceCharmless: He's a total boor, at his best. |
| 796 | * ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: As the crown prince, he constantly abuses his position to outright ignore Imperial Decree, especially rulings against violence. |
| 797 | * ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: He defaults to violence in everything. |
| 798 | [[/folder]] |
| 799 | |
| 800 | [[folder:The Imperial Soldiers, and "Boss"]] |
| 801 | A company of soldiers encountered by Hajime and the remnants of the Haulia tribe after emerging from Reisen Gorge. |
| 802 | ---- |
| 803 | * AggressiveNegotiations: Thinking they had an overwhelming tactical and strategic advantage over Hajime, they began making all sorts of demands and threats. Seeing Hajime unfazed only served to make their "offers" more and more despicable and depraved, rather than make them realize that maybe, just maybe, there's something seriously, dangerously wrong about the situation they're in. |
| 804 | * DidNotThinkThisThrough: They see Hajime, unscathed, ''walking out'' of Reisen Gorge, a place so dangerous it's commonly used as an execution ground, and which they are too scared to enter, yet they go out of their way to provoke him. There are thousands of reasons why this is suicidal in tactical and strategic terms. |
| 805 | * AHeroToHisHometown: They were given a hero's funeral in Hoeschle empire, despite their actions being anything but heroic. |
| 806 | * MauveShirt: While not important enough to warrant naming recognition, they were recognizable to the point of being evangelized in their home country. Not to that it helps them to the point of [[LethallyStupid surviving their own idiocy]]. |
| 807 | * MuggingTheMonster: Sure, they're an army company, and Hajime's burdened with the then defenseless Haulia tribe, while Yue only looks like a child, but before provoking Hajime, they should have considered that maybe there's a damn good reason he emerged from Reisen Gorge. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis UNSCATHED]]. |
| 808 | * NoNameGiven: None of them is ever named. |
| 809 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The moment they saw Hajime emerge from Reisen Gorge, the Haulia in tow, they immediately proclaimed their intent to rape all the female Haulia, but while "negotiating" with Hajime, their slovenly commander openly proclaimed his desire to violate Yue as well, while forcing Hajime to watch "as a free lesson to a brat who doesn't know how the world works." To the last man, they did not live long enough to regret this incredibly poor decision. |
| 810 | * SuicidalOverconfidence: They see Hajime walk out of Reisen Gorge, and immediately presume they've already won the fight with Hajime. They never paused to consider why he's emerging unscathed and is completely unfazed by their threats. |
| 811 | * TooDumbToLive: Really, provoking a guy who confidently walks ''out'' of an execution ground, unscathed? |
| 812 | * VillainsWantMercy: After the utter elimination of the rest of the company, the last man, who had dropped his weapon in a panic, begged, pleaded, and offered his complete surrender to Hajime if he'd be spared. Hajime only spared him long enough to get critical information regarding the rest of the tribe, who are all either killed or long gone into Imperial Slavery by that point, before killing him too. |
| 813 | * WouldHurtAChild: They see Yue cling to Hajime's arm, and immediately threaten to rape her, after cutting off Hajime's arms and legs so he's ForcedToWatch. |
| 814 | * WrongAssumption: They see Hajime with the Haulia and presume he's a simple slave-trader that they can bully around. They completely neglect the fact that they've seen him come out of Reisen Gorge, unharmed. |
| 815 | [[/folder]] |
| 816 | |
| 817 | [[folder:Grid Half]] |
| 818 | The Imperial Soldier who led the slaver soldiers who captured, raped, and killed many Haulia before Shea could find Hajime. |
| 819 | ---- |
| 820 | * MoralMyopia: He leads a group of "soldiers" who are little more than mindless raping, murdering thugs, responsible for genocide upon the Haulia, but upon seeing Shea, alive, in Hoeshcle castle, as Hajime's escort, while his soldiers listed under Imperial Solders and "Boss" are dead, drives him to a near apoplectic rage. |
| 821 | * MyCountryRightOrWrong: He's very loyal to the Hoeschle empire, and Garhard himself, regardless of their many, many sins. |
| 822 | * StupidEvil: He gathered together an army to lead a genocide against the Haulia, just so he could capture and enslave Shea [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil for his own exclusive use]]. This come back to bite his ass hard when Shea repaid his cruelty by single-handedly slaughtering his troops while he was ForcedToWatch as he was pinned into a wall. |
| 823 | * SuicidalOverconfidence: He sees Shea, alone, throw his men around like ragdolls, and he ''still'' believes she's nothing more than "a weak rabbitman" who his troops can beat with ease. |
| 824 | * ThisCannotBe: When he sees Shea, ''a rabbit man'', punch one of his subordinates, fully equipped in platemail, across a courtyard with a single blow of her fist, he cannot believe his eyes. |
| 825 | * VillainsWantMercy: When Shea's wiped out the rest of his men, leaving him barely alive, he begs for her to spare his life, making all sorts of promises, including leading Shea to her missing family. She complies by ''literally'' sending him [[ATwinkleInTheSky flying to the moon, without a rocket]]. |
| 826 | [[/folder]] |
| 827 | |
| 828 | !Beastmen/Demi-humans |
| 829 | |
| 830 | [[folder:Cam]] |
| 831 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Nobuaki Kanemitsu (Japanese), Randy Pearlman (English) |
| 832 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cam_haulia_anime.png]] |
| 833 | |
| 834 | Shea's father and leader of the Haulia clan, what's left of it. |
| 835 | ---- |
| 836 | * ActualPacifist: Prior to meeting Hajime, he, and his whole tribe, were so pacifistic that they would jump out of the way of ''flowers and bugs''. Needless to say Hajime didn't respond well to that, at all. |
| 837 | * CategoryTraitor: He and his people are seen as "criminals" and "traitors" because they defied the demi-human's rather foolish "everyone with inherent Mana Manipulation ability is a monster and must be executed" law and chose to raise Shea in hiding instead. |
| 838 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He makes Shea look normal by comparison, and that's not easy. |
| 839 | * EvilGloating: Hajime's training is just a bit ''too'' effective at training the Haulia to become killing machines, and he starts to sadistically gloat over Rejin of the Bear clan, after utterly annhiliating Rejin's squad, before preparing to sadistically slaughter what remains of the bear clan, in direct retaliation for untold ''years'' of abuse at their hands. Shea and Hajime both put a stop to it, not because of any mercy towards the Bear clan, but because neither Hajime nor Shea wanted the Haulia to become as depraved as Imperial Slavers. The fact that Hajime had a bit of CruelMercy to deliver unto Rejin is also a factor. |
| 840 | * KillerRabbit: By the time Hajime finishes training them, the Haulia clan is a force to be reckoned with, and he is no exception, and the Haulia are all rabbit-people. |
| 841 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Because he and his clan had the unmitigated gall to ''raise Shea kindly'' instead of letting her be executed as a baby, due to the fact that she was born with the inherent "mana manipulation" skill, his entire clan was labeled as criminals, chased out of the Sea of Trees and hunted down by Imperial Slavers "because they gave sanctuary to a 'monster' like ''her.''" |
| 842 | * YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Which he lampshades telepathically to Hajime in Volume 7. However, when Emperor Hoechle complains aloud, Cam reminds him of his country's and his own treatment of Beastmen, [[PayEvilUntoEvil and how the Hoeschle Empire is being judged by its own standards of war]]. |
| 843 | [[/folder]] |
| 844 | |
| 845 | [[folder:Jin]] |
| 846 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jin_vanton_anime.png]] |
| 847 | |
| 848 | Former leader of the Bear-clan. He does not take the arrival of Hajime and the Haulia tribe well. In fact, he is one of those who utterly brutalize the Haulia while Hajime is trying to negotiate a visit to the Great Tree. [[MuggingTheMonster Big Mistake]]. |
| 849 | ---- |
| 850 | * AdaptedOut: The anime skips the entire Verbergen storyline. |
| 851 | * BearsAreBadNews: Subverted. While he is a bear, and is quite hostile, by the time he appears in the story, Hajime is way, way past him. He realizes this far, far too late. |
| 852 | * GameBreakingInjury: Hajime retaliates to Jin trying to rip his head off with claws, by breaking Jin's arm and rupturing several internal organs and bones. While Jin survives the experience, he loses the ability to ever raise his paws in combat again as a direct result. ''This is Hajime being "nice."'' |
| 853 | * AHeroToHisHomeTown: He is beloved by the people of the Bear clan as their strongest and "most noble" warrior. Due to the fact that he treats the Bear clan, and only them, kindly. |
| 854 | * MuggingTheMonster: He attacks Hajime, intending to brutalize "the human intruder." He gets so curbstomped, he can never fight again. |
| 855 | * SuicidalOverconfidence: Despite the fact that Hajime showed clear and irrefutable proof that he cleared the Orcus dungeon and is someone the people of the Sea of Trees don't want to antagonize, he thought he could "remove" Hajime easily. He would live to regret it. |
| 856 | [[/folder]] |
| 857 | |
| 858 | [[folder:Regin]] |
| 859 | Jin's successor. He stages an ambush at the "Great Tree" to avenge Jin's defeat. He would live to regret it. His men don't. |
| 860 | ---- |
| 861 | * AdaptedOut: The anime skips the entire Verbergen storyline. |
| 862 | * AintTooProudToBeg: In volume 7, he goes and grovels before the Haulia tribe, seeking aid for Verbergen against the Demons. Cam and the Haulia find it an eyesore, but help fight off the Demons anyway. |
| 863 | * AvengingTheVillain: Though Jin is AHeroToHisHomeTown, he's a villain to just about everyone else. As such, Regin didn't take Jin being crippled by Hajime well and went after the Haulia tribe instead, for a bit of RevengeByProxy. That particular plan backfired, spectacularly. |
| 864 | * TheBully: The narration shows that he loved to throw his weight around in The Sea of Trees, prancing around like he owned the place. His utterly humiliating defeat at the hands [[KillerRabbit of the Haulia]], not to mention Hajime's CruelMercy that spared his life, all brought an end to that, permanently. |
| 865 | * MuggingTheMonster: He and his "merry band" attacked the Haulia, expecting them to be pushovers, due to their long, long pacifistic tradition. Little did he realize Hajime had been training them to defend themselves, and he just volunteered himself and his men to be part of a live-fire exercise, showcasing what they've learned. |
| 866 | * PointyEars: He has long pointy ears that are common for elves. |
| 867 | * RevengeByProxy: Since he's well aware that he's no match for anyone who can take Jin down in a single blow, he decides to "make Hajime despair" by going after Hajime's Haulia "guides" believing them to be the same ultra-pacifistic pushovers that have been the demi-human's whipping boys for years if not generations. Boy, did he ever wind up regretting that. |
| 868 | * VillainsWantMercy: After he got utterly trashed by the Haulia, he surrendered and begged for his life. The Haulia were planning to slowly and sadistically kill him anyway until Shea and Hajime showed up, and made a living example of the bear clan instead. |
| 869 | * WrongGenreSavvy: He fully expected the Haulia to be so utterly pacifistic that they jumped out of the way of bugs and flowers when he set upon them, and that Hajime would never see the Bear Clan coming, until it was too late. He was dead wrong on both counts. |
| 870 | [[/folder]] |
| 871 | |
| 872 | [[folder:Gin]] |
| 873 | The first demi-human encountered by Hajime upon entering the Sea of Trees. |
| 874 | ---- |
| 875 | * AbominationAccusationAttack: Upon spotting Hajime and the Haulia, he immediately accuses them of being an invader and traitors, respectively. He wisely backs down in a hurry when Hajime demonstrates just how strong he is. |
| 876 | * AdaptedOut: The anime skips the entire Verbergen storyline. |
| 877 | * IntimidationDemonstration: On the receiving end. Before he can even finish saying the word "charge," Hajime shoots a bullet that grazes his cheek and obliterates the tree behind him and then aims at Zam, one of the men hiding in ambush, waiting for the order to attack. The tiger beastman wisely backs down. |
| 878 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: After seeing how ''easily'' Hajime could have wiped him and his entire patrol out, he backs down and negotiates in good faith with Hajime. |
| 879 | ** In After Story, he decided to overlook Shea's murderous intent on Altina after she tried to pass herself off as Shea's stepmother. |
| 880 | * MyCountryRightOrWrong: He is very loyal to his home country of Verbegen, and though he knows he doesn't stand a chance against Hajime, he is still willing to die, if need be, to keep his people safe. Hajime is impressed by this beyond measure. |
| 881 | * NoNameGiven: He wasn't named in main story, It wasn't until late in Tortus Travel Journal that his name was revealed. |
| 882 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Once he learns that all Hajime wants in the Sea of Trees is to visit the sacred tree, Uralt, and the reason why (to visit the "true labyrinth"), he happily would have let Hajime and the Haulia go there, and get out of his hair, but being a mere Captain didn't have that authority, so he asks to call for one of the Verbegen elders. Hajime agrees, and is greatly impressed that the Tiger beastman offered up such a rational solution. |
| 883 | * ThisCannotBe: He is openly shocked upon seeing the ring Hajime brought with him bearing Orcus' crest. |
| 884 | [[/folder]] |
| 885 | |
| 886 | [[folder:Ulfric Heipyst]] |
| 887 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ulfric_heipyst_anime.png]] |
| 888 | |
| 889 | An elf, and the first elder to meet with Hajime in the Sea of Trees forest. |
| 890 | ---- |
| 891 | * AdaptedOut: The anime skips the entire Verbergen storyline. |
| 892 | * MasterArcher: His skills in archery was noted to be legendary. In After Story, he made good use of it to pin Altina (who was no slouch in archery herself) down to the ground. |
| 893 | * MrExposition: He provides Hajime, and the audience, a great deal of information regarding the Great tree and the unique "fog" conditions to gain access, as well as a great deal of trivia regarding the rules and traditions of Verbegen. |
| 894 | * OurElvesAreDifferent: Unlike the haughty and proud elves of most fantasy stories, Ulfric is pleasant, kind, and highly reasonable, greeting Hajime warmly despite having every reason to consider him a threat and an enemy. |
| 895 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The most reasonable by far in Verbegen. He honestly strived with all his might to avoid needlessly antagonizing Hajime or the Haulia who were under Hajime's protection, even once proposing spreading the word that the Haulia were Hajime's slaves so they'd be considered "dead" rather than "traitors" by the population of Verbegen and thus be left alone. He did this because of Shea's "death penalty" sentence as a direct result of her inherent Mana Manipulation ability and the Haulia covering for her. By the time Hajime's team visited Verbegen the second time, his granddaughter had developed masochistic tendencies while the rest of the elders had turned into Kaori's worshippers, leaving him alone as the OnlySaneMan. |
| 896 | * TakeMeInstead: He goes to the Demons and promises to guide them to the "True Labyrinth" if they spare the civilians of Verbegen. The Demons foolishly gloat their desire to raze the city anyway. [[OhCrap Then the Haulia show up]]... |
| 897 | [[/folder]] |
| 898 | |
| 899 | [[folder:Altina Heipyst]] |
| 900 | Grandaughter of Ulfric Heipyst, effectively the princess of elves. |
| 901 | ---- |
| 902 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: Becomes this to Cam Haulia, as she acted like his second wife in After Story. |
| 903 | * CasualKink: She learned to become a masochist from Tio, which just grew as Shea beaten her viciously to keep her from seducing Hajime followed by Cam doing the same for his newfound sadism. |
| 904 | * ProperLady: She appears to be this at first, but due to Tio and Shea's influence, she had become as much a masochist as Tio. |
| 905 | * RescueIntroduction: Though she was rescued by the Haulia tribe, Hajime was the one who released her from her shackles. Unfortunately, her unrequited feelings for Hajime was crushed in the most brutal way possible. |
| 906 | [[/folder]] |
| 907 | |
| 908 | [[folder:Zal]] |
| 909 | The leader of the Tiger Clan. |
| 910 | ---- |
| 911 | * AdaptedOut: The anime skips the entire Verbergen storyline. |
| 912 | * ThatWasntARequest: He foolishly informs Hajime that the Haulia, including Shea, especially Shea, were all marked for execution irrevocably, for the "crime" of raising her kindly instead of turning her over upon birth because of her ability to directly manipulate Mana. This was done with the explicit intention of strong-arming Hajime to do things Verbergen's way. Needless to say, Hajime doesn't take that well. |
| 913 | * ThisMeansWar: On the receiving end. Hajime doesn't take Verbegen's threat on the Haulia, at that point under his protection, well as a result of Zal's foolish declaration. Fortunately, the rest of the council of elders were more reasonable. |
| 914 | [[/folder]] |
| 915 | |
| 916 | [[folder:Myu]] |
| 917 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuiOgura (Japanese), Creator/LaraWoodhull (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Gaby Servín (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 918 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/myu_arifureta.png]] |
| 919 | |
| 920 | A young Dagon girl from Erisen who got kidnapped to be sold as a slave, but was saved by Hajime and Shea while they came across her in Fuhren. |
| 921 | ---- |
| 922 | * TheCutie: She's a little girl with a sweet and innocent personality. Her main role is giving CutenessOverload to both the characters and the audience, as Yue points out that Myu is just too cute. |
| 923 | * EarFins: As with all members of the Dagon race, Myu's ears are fan-like fins. |
| 924 | * HeadPet: In the {{Crossover}} with ''Arifureta ZERO'', she befriends a white whale that can [[{{Sizeshifter}} turn small]] and place itself on top of her head. |
| 925 | * IdenticalGranddaughter: She's implied to be the descendant of Meiru Melusine's sister, explaining their resemblance to each other. |
| 926 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: One of Myu's side stories revealed that she possessed a prodigious talent in marksmanship, to the point that she even noticed her own shot was off by five millimeters at sniping range of 100 meters. |
| 927 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: She badmouths Oscar, Miledi and Meiru by repeating the rude statements Hajime said about them. Myu doesn't seem to even realize she's being rude. |
| 928 | * LikeParentLikeChild: When Myu gets older, she developed some of the traits her adopted father has. |
| 929 | * MoralityPet: It's clear that Hajime has tone down his {{Jerkass}} tendencies out of care for Myu. At least when she's around. She can also convince him of doing things he's not keen to do, such as helping Ankiji when they are suffering from a poisoned oasis. |
| 930 | * OurMermaidsAreDifferent: She belongs to a species called Dagon, possessing fin-like ears and webbed hands. |
| 931 | * PrecociousCrush: She wants to marry Hajime when she gets older. |
| 932 | * TaremeEyes: Her big, round eyes only make her even more adorable. |
| 933 | * ThirdPersonPerson: She refers to herself in third person, as small children in Japan normally do. |
| 934 | * TokenMiniMoe: By far the youngest member of Hajime's party, and by far ''the'' most adorable character of the series. |
| 935 | * TranslatorBuddy: In the {{Crossover}} with ''Arifureta ZERO'', Myu is the only one who can understand the magical white whale that summoned the main characters of both series. |
| 936 | * TroubledBackstoryFlashback: In one of Arifureta's spinoff manga, Myu narrated her own kidnapping experience. To Tio's horror, it turned out that the carriage she was locked in was cramped with kidnapped children, and several of them had died and was jettisoned in their journey to Fuhren. |
| 937 | * VerbalTic: She almost always ends her sentences with "-nano". |
| 938 | [[/folder]] |
| 939 | |
| 940 | [[folder:Remia]] |
| 941 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SayakaOhara (Japanese), Creator/CaitlinGlass (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Analiz Sánchez (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 942 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/remia_arifureta.png]] |
| 943 | |
| 944 | Myu's mother. |
| 945 | ---- |
| 946 | * AffectionateNickname: She addresses Hajime as "Darling" whenever she gets her chance. |
| 947 | * AgonyOfTheFeet: Her leg was badly injured by Myu's kidnappers in her attempt to retrieve Myu. Luckily Kaori was able to heal it during their stay at Erisen. |
| 948 | * CharacterCatchphrase: She is fond of saying "Ara Ara". |
| 949 | * DudeMagnet: She is this among the Dagons, as she have enough fans to form a protection committee. |
| 950 | * EarFins: Like the rest of her race, her ears are fan-like fins. |
| 951 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: One of the women in her village wants to marry her as Myu's Pappa. |
| 952 | * PluckyGirl: Though she's nowhere as capable as Hajime and his team, she certainly shows her strong willpower whenever Myu is involved. |
| 953 | * SignatureLaugh: When she laughs, she goes "Ufufu". |
| 954 | * TheTease: She gave Hajime an offer to settle in her household as Myu's father right in front of his harem, and shrugged off their glare with a smile. |
| 955 | [[/folder]] |
| 956 | |
| 957 | !Demons |
| 958 | The race with whom Humanity is at war. They recently upset the war's balance with the capacity to acquire unknown and very powerful monsters. |
| 959 | |
| 960 | [[folder:Freid Baghur]] |
| 961 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi (Japanese), Creator/BrandonPotter (English) |
| 962 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/freid_baghur_anime.png]] |
| 963 | |
| 964 | The Demon encountered by Hajime in the volcanic dungeon. |
| 965 | ---- |
| 966 | * AlphaStrike: Pulls one on Hajime in the Grand Gruen Volcano, nearly killing him instantly with the help of his dragons. |
| 967 | * BarrierWarrior: One of his beasts, a turtle magical beast, has the ability to manifest a powerful protective barrier. |
| 968 | * TheBeastmaster: He controls and summons Magic Beasts. |
| 969 | * FantasticRacism: He is fully convinced that Demons are inherently superior to humans in all respects. |
| 970 | * GlassCannon: He is able to unleash powerful attacks that can even trump [[OneManArmy Hajime]], but he is completely incapable of taking a hit. In fact, he panics when Hajime and his allies start wearing away his turtle-monsters' summoned barriers, and he starts summoning more and more turtles to compensate. |
| 971 | * HumansAreInsects: He sees humans as pests to be exterminated. |
| 972 | * KnightTemplar: He constantly refers to himself as Alv's "Apostle". Hajime had even compared him to Ishtar, who was similarly fanatical to his cause. |
| 973 | * LoadBearingBoss: Invoked. He deliberately destroys the volcano dungeon's protective artifact when it looks like Hajime actually has a chance to beat him. |
| 974 | * MilesGloriosus: He's constantly boasting of being the most powerful and talented being that is or ever was. In truth, he hides behind the abilities of his summoned magic beasts, and when it looks like someone can get through or around them, he puts all his efforts into fleeing and exterminating his opponent ''indirectly'' like blowing up the volcano they're fighting in. |
| 975 | * MonsterProgenitor: He gained Metamorphosis Magic, necessary to create magic beasts from the glacier's dungeon. |
| 976 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: For all of his KnightTemplar and FantasticRacism personality, he was skilled enough to conquer two Labyrinths, and is very handsome too boot. Unfortunately for him, Yue was leagues above him and has a SingleTargetSexuality to Hajime. |
| 977 | * SpannerInTheWorks: The reason the plot starts at all is due to him acquiring Age of the Gods magic from one of the Dungeons, and just with Metamorphosis Magic he was able to completely upset the world's balance and forced Ehitorujue to summon Kouki and his classmates. |
| 978 | * WorthyOpponent: Sees Hajime as one, which is decidedly ''not good'' for Hajime, as it makes the demon more desperate, despicable, and cowardly. |
| 979 | [[/folder]] |
| 980 | |
| 981 | [[folder:Cattleya]] |
| 982 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HitomiNabatame (Japanese), Creator/AmberLeeConnors (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Ileana Escalante (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 983 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cattleya_arifureta.png]] |
| 984 | |
| 985 | The demon tasked by Freid to clear the Orcus Labyrinth, she also intended to recruit Kouki's party. |
| 986 | ---- |
| 987 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She's engaged to Mikhail and carries a locket with his portrait. Kouki, on the verge of killing her, freezes up when he sees it and hears her would-be last words about Mikhail, evidently on the realization he's about to kill an actual person rather than another mindless monster. [[ExploitedTrope She quickly takes advantage of the unexpected opening to regain the upper hand]]. Unfortunately for her, [[NoNonsenseNemesis Hajime has no such qualms]]. |
| 988 | * GetItOverWith: Once Hajime has her at his mercy and deduces her intentions, she outright demands him to just kill her already and not bother trying to capture her. Hajime obliges, despite Kouki's protests. |
| 989 | * OhCrap: She has one when Kouki does a LimitBreak attack, and almost successfully kills her. She then has another when Hajime shows up. |
| 990 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She did try to flee the battle against Hajime, only a bit too late. |
| 991 | * ShootTheMedicFirst: On the receiving end of this. Her bird-like familiar, which was capable of healing herself and her forces, gets taken out in the fight against Hajime. |
| 992 | [[/folder]] |
| 993 | |
| 994 | [[folder:Mikhail]] |
| 995 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MakotoIshii (Japanese), Chris Cason (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Arturo Cataño (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 996 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mikhail_arifureta.png]] |
| 997 | |
| 998 | Cattleya's lover. |
| 999 | ---- |
| 1000 | * GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:While he regrets not being able to avenge his lover, he does die, satisfied that he put forth his best effort.]] |
| 1001 | * MotiveRant: He goes on to proclaim Cattleya's [[InformedAttribute supposed virtues]] when fighting Shea, and finding himself on the losing end. Shea calls him out on it in that if the situation was reversed, he wouldn't want her ranting at him if he had harmed her loved ones and she came at him for revenge. |
| 1002 | * RevengeByProxy: Since Freed was fighting Hajime at the time, he went after Hajime's companions, starting with Shea, just to spite Hajime. Turns out Shea was stronger than he is. |
| 1003 | * RevengeMyopia: Which Shea calls him out on. He is hell-bent on avenging Cattleya. The fact that Cattleya tried to murder Hajime's class, and Hajime himself, refusing to back down when given the chance, is completely irrelevant. |
| 1004 | * YouMonster: [[spoiler:He calls Shea this as she kills him. [[InsultBackfire Shea takes it as an acknowledgment of how strong she's become]].]] |
| 1005 | [[/folder]] |
| 1006 | |
| 1007 | [[folder:Davros]] |
| 1008 | The demon tasked with conquering Verbegen's "true labyrinth". |
| 1009 | ---- |
| 1010 | * FantasticRacism: Looks down on all non-Demon races, especially beastmen. |
| 1011 | * GeneralFailure: He's nowhere near as good a commander as he sees himself. The only reason he had any initial success in his raid on Verbergen is because Fried equipped him with overpowered monsters. The moment he faces an actual challenge, he completely falls apart. |
| 1012 | * GlorySeeker: He doesn't care a whit about anybody's wellbeing. All he wants is his own name being glorified in the Demon race's history books. |
| 1013 | * HairTriggerTemper: The moment even the slightest thing goes wrong, he completely flips his shit. |
| 1014 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He "fights" using every dirty trick in the book. Yet when he runs into the Haulia tribe and they use guerrilla warfare on him, he completely flies off the handle at their "dishonorable" fighting style. This goes double when he demands a one-on-one duel with Cam. When Cam hits him with his own [[AnArmAndALeg tactics]], he completely breaks down, calling the Haulia clan as a whole "cowards" for crippling him. |
| 1015 | %%* OffWithHisHead: How he meets his end. |
| 1016 | [[/folder]] |
| 1017 | |
| 1018 | !The Seven Liberators |
| 1019 | The people who designed the great Labyrinth dungeons. They are the protagonists of the Arifureta ZERO prequel novels. |
| 1020 | ---- |
| 1021 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 1022 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arifuretazero_ln_jp_v06_02.png]] |
| 1023 | [[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Vandre Schnee, Lyutilis Haltina, Naiz Gruen Caliente, Oscar Orcus, Miledi Reisen, Meiru Melusine, Laus Barn]] |
| 1024 | |
| 1025 | * TheArchmage: Each of the Seven Liberators possessed an [[MasterOfOneMagic Ancient Magic]] on their own, which are leagues above even the special magic possessed by average Atavists. And they've made a good use of it to build the Labyrinths, though even with their combined abilities they could only create three Concept Magics. |
| 1026 | * BadassCrew: They were a group of Ancient Magic users who were already powerhouses on their own and when fighting together, only Ehit's Apostles had the chance to defeat them. |
| 1027 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: They certainly have their shares of quirks, but make no mistake, piss them off and you will regret it. |
| 1028 | * DoomedByCanon: The main series establishes that their own attempt to defeat the gods was unsuccessful, leaving them with little choice but to build the Great Labyrinths to pass on their knowledge to anyone capable of overcoming each of the labyrinth's trials for potential future liberators. |
| 1029 | * FaustianRebellion: They were descendants of the gods who each possessed one of the seven ancient magics from the Age of Gods. They rebelled against the gods' complete lack of respect for life and attempted to free mortals from their abusive control. |
| 1030 | * FireForgedFriends: Most of them didn't want to join the Liberators at first, but ended up becoming good friends as they made an alliance to fight powerful enemies like the Holy Church and the Demon Lord. |
| 1031 | * FlingALightIntoTheFuture: The main purpose of their great labyrinth is not only to preserve the Ancient Magics, but also to test the challengers to ensure they could withstand the various methods the gods had used to lay the Liberators low. |
| 1032 | * GhostReunionEnding: [[spoiler:At the end of the main story, Miledi's soul finally passes on and the last thing she sees before dying is her fellow Liberators greeting her in the afterlife.]] |
| 1033 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: The legend is that they rebelled against the gods to try and destroy the world of Tortus. The truth is they were acting to free the people of Tortus from the JerkassGods, but said gods have a very effective [[VillainsWithGoodPublicity propaganda]] [[ChurchMilitant machine]] in place. |
| 1034 | * LaResistance: The main goal of their organization was to free people from the tyranny of Ehit and his Holy Church. |
| 1035 | * RageAgainstTheHeavens: At the prime of their power, the Holy Church have a policy to bring the Atavists into their custody, especially those who are able to use Ancient Magic. The Church's machination had provoked every single one of them to stand against the gods in ''Arifureta Zero''. |
| 1036 | * SinkOrSwimMentor: Much as they want Tortus free of the gods, their labyrinths are designed so that only the truly worthy are capable of overcoming them to the end (and gaining the god-level magic ensconced within). This is especially true for the Labyrinths made by the female Liberators, as they're very prone of throwing a number of absolutely trollish challenges. |
| 1037 | * TakeUpMySword: The true intention of the dungeons. They were built to test the mettle of men so that hopefully someone would arrive who had the skill, the power, and the moral character to which they could bequeath their power. |
| 1038 | [[/folder]] |
| 1039 | |
| 1040 | [[folder:Oscar Orcus]] |
| 1041 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakumaTerashima (Japanese), Seth Magill (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Alberto Bernal (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 1042 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oscar_orcus_1.png]] |
| 1043 | |
| 1044 | The creator of the Orcus dungeon. Original Wielder of Creation Ancient Magic. |
| 1045 | ---- |
| 1046 | * AccidentalPervert: Miledi once broke the wall of the shower stall Oscar made for her, exposing her naked body in front of him. |
| 1047 | * AccidentalProposal: His pleading to Meiru to heal his adoptive siblings in Velnica was misinterpreted as a marriage proposal by her pirate crew. |
| 1048 | * AffectionateNickname: Miledi Reisen's ghost still calls him "O-kun" millennia later. |
| 1049 | * AlliterativeName: '''O'''scar '''O'''rcus. |
| 1050 | * AwfulTruth: His recording reveals the real reason for the fight. The gods are, without an exception, each and every one of them, a MadGod. |
| 1051 | * BadassLongcoat: Oscar's signature black trenchcoat was enhanced to be sturdy and offer up a degree of protection from physical attacks and spells. It was later enchanted with gravity magic in order for Oscar to freely manipulate it as though it were alive. |
| 1052 | * BelligerentSexualTension: With Miledi. Oscar had little patience for Miledi's obnoxious personality and it caused them to argue often. They couldn't hide they were attracted to each other, though. |
| 1053 | * BigBrotherInstinct: He's highly protective of his adopted siblings. |
| 1054 | * BrainyBrunette: He's a genius Synergist with black hair. |
| 1055 | * TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Oscar tried to stay away from the rebellion at first, but he joined the Liberators because the local bishop kidnapped his adopted siblings. |
| 1056 | * ChainPain: One of his artifacts is the Metamorph Chains, which allow him to channel his mana through them and restrain his targets. These chains later got enchanted with Gravity Magic and Spatial Magic. |
| 1057 | * ChickMagnet: Being handsome on top of being the resident gentlemanly craftsmen within the Orcus Workshop makes him incredibly popular among the ladies. |
| 1058 | * ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: He's actually the protagonist of the prequel, but he fits otherwise. Orcus is a prodigious and gentlemanly Synergist who is popular with the ladies. Hajime, on the other hand, started out as a poor schmuck of a Synergist with only the SchoolIdol's affection to his name and was considered useless until he fell into the Abyss. |
| 1059 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Invoked. He was such a ChildProdigy at crafting that Karg decided to make him inherit the Orcus title, but refused to make any weapons for his clients and willing to accept tons of insults over it. This ultimately gets deconstructed due to [[spoiler:Ping Warress ended up helping the local bishops to kidnap his siblings.]] |
| 1060 | * ElementalWeapon: His umbrella artifact is equipped with multiple elemental spells, including [[BlowYouAway wind]], [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[MakingASplash water]], [[AnIcePerson ice]], [[DishingOutDirt earth]] and [[ShockAndAwe lightning]]. |
| 1061 | * {{Expy}}: The author, Ryo Shirakome, states he based Oscar off of Harry Hart from the ''Film/{{Kingsman}}'' film series, in particular the way he fights with his umbrella. |
| 1062 | * FamilyMan: He cares greatly about his family and will go to great lengths in order to protect them. |
| 1063 | * GiverOfLameNames: While his craftsmanship is impeccable, the townspeople of Velnika unanimously agreed that he was terrible at naming his goods. |
| 1064 | -->'''Miledi:''' O-kun, you've got a terrible naming sense. |
| 1065 | * HouseHusband: Due to his orphanage and craftsman upbringing, he was highly skilled at housekeeping. |
| 1066 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: Oscar always knew there was something abnormally powerful about his {{Transmutation}} magic and tried to conceal it as much as he could because drawing attention to himself would mean the Holy Church and other big powers coming after him and potentially endangering his family. He was going to keep a low profile and live a quiet life until Miledi changed his life. |
| 1067 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has long black hair tied back into a ponytail. |
| 1068 | * MasterOfThreads: His Sable Gloves released superfine threads of Spirit Stone enchanted with gravity magic to control them. |
| 1069 | * MeteorSummoningAttack: Oscar created an artificial meteor made of lava and with Naiz's help, teleported it to crush the Apostle Hearst with it. To his disbelief, that wasn't enough to kill an Apostle. |
| 1070 | * TheNondescript: In the prequel, a RunningGag is characters claiming that Oscar's glasses are his only distinctive feature. At one point, people even fail to recognize him if he isn't wearing glasses. |
| 1071 | * ParasolOfPain: His main weapon is an umbrella crafted by himself out of Azantium with wide variety of imbued spells. |
| 1072 | * RefusalOfTheCall: At the start of the prequel, Oscar refuses to join Miledi's quest to defy the Holy Church and create a world where everyone is equal, since he considers it's too dangerous for himself and his family to go against the order of the world. |
| 1073 | * RingOfPower: His Treasure Trove is a ring with a ruby which is actually an artificially created HyperspaceArsenal where things could be stored just by putting some mana in it Orcus could retrieve the stored item, the withdraw item could appear anywhere within a 1 meter radius of him. |
| 1074 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: He's the calm and levelheaded guy to the obnoxiously energetic and cheerful Miledi. |
| 1075 | * ScienceHero: Oscar has scientific talents and knowledge that are at least several millennia ahead of his time, having used his Creation Magic to create Artifacts with designs that incorporates advanced applications of scientific knowledge. |
| 1076 | * SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: In the prequel, he has to repeatedly correct people who mistake Miledi for his girlfriend. |
| 1077 | * SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Oscar is the most intelligent of all Liberators as well as the only one in the group who wears glasses. |
| 1078 | * SpecsOfAwesome: His Obsidian Spectacles are enchanted with many spells. |
| 1079 | * SprintShoes: His Onyx Boots increase his leg strength exponentially, and are enchanted with the wind magic "Updraft" to [[InASingleBound aid with their leaps]]. They're also enchanted with mini-barrier magic "Holy Shield" at the soles, to which create temporary platforms to help leap in mid-air. |
| 1080 | * TheStrategist: Oscar is a highly capable strategist, whether it is coming up with a well-thought-out plan before entering a fight, or having to immediately improvise a new fighting strategy. |
| 1081 | * StrongGirlSmartGuy: He had this dynamic with Miledi. Oscar was a supergenius Synergist with very powerful handmade artifacts under his belt and Miledi was a GravityMaster who could crush almost anything in her path. |
| 1082 | * {{Transmutation}}: Being a Synergist, Oscar can control and transform any kind of ores, minerals or materials in any way or shape he desires. |
| 1083 | * UltimateBlacksmith: His mentor has a ''very good'' reason to unilaterally pass on the title of Orcus to him. Though he never got the inspiration to build any of Hajime's overpowered firearms and modern vehicles, he was able to create a God's Crystal on top of his ridiculously versatile armaments and traps. His orphanage was so well-defended that it was even more secure than a royal palace, culminating in his labyrinth being a veritable BrutalBonusLevel, complete with RagnarokProofing. |
| 1084 | * UndyingLoyalty: He would follow Miledi anywhere, even if she were to to go the depths of Hell itself. |
| 1085 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Vandre Schnee, as both of them have diametrically opposite Ancient magic and architectural preferences. He even crafted a BFS called Dragon Slayer specifically against him. |
| 1086 | [[/folder]] |
| 1087 | |
| 1088 | [[folder:Miledi Reisen]] |
| 1089 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{Yukana}} (Japanese), Creator/SarahWiedenheft (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Noriko Takaya (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]] |
| 1090 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/miledi_reisen_anime.png]] |
| 1091 | |
| 1092 | The creator of the Great Reisen Labyrinth. Original wielder of Gravity Ancient Magic. |
| 1093 | ---- |
| 1094 | * ACupAngst: Mocking Miledi's small breast size is a RunningGag in the prequel. |
| 1095 | * TheAllegedBoss: Officially, Miledi was the leader of the Liberators, having taken the position after Belle/Belta's death, but none of her companions took her seriously because of her silly personality. Oscar was the one the Liberators actually listened to. |
| 1096 | * TheAloner: After the Liberators' defeat, Miledi spent thousands of years confined in her dungeon without any contact to the outside world. |
| 1097 | * AttackItsWeakPoint: Her giant golem had a small core, and destroying it is the only way to beat her. However, said core was protected with layers of layers of Azantium. |
| 1098 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: She was the youngest of the Seven Liberators. Her companions treated her as their annoying but endearing little sister who they all wanted to protect. |
| 1099 | * BelligerentSexualTension: With Oscar. They rarely stopped arguing, but their mutual attraction was obvious. |
| 1100 | * BlackMagicianGirl: She's a headstrong and brutal [[GravityMaster gravity magic master]] with a fearsome destructive power. |
| 1101 | * BlushSticker: Her golem body has permanent blush marks. |
| 1102 | * CleavageWindow: Her dress has a diamond-shaped cleavage cutout. |
| 1103 | * ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Just as Oscar is to Hajime, the prequel has Miledi as a contrast to Yue in the role of female lead. Both are blonde, flat-chested {{Black Magician Girl}}s of noble birth, but Yue is TheStoic and ''very'' sexually aggressive while Miledi is a GenkiGirl and doesn't dare to make a pass on Oscar that goes beyond teasing. |
| 1104 | * CrazyPrepared: Her traps are designed to be sprung without fail, even if the hapless dungeon explorer manages to avoid tripping the switch, they go off anyway. Hell, in a "cliché" boulder-staircase trap, destroying the boulder causes ''a second boulder'' to come forth that also sprays acid as it rolls. |
| 1105 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: She was TheExecutioner of the Reisen family, indoctrinated by the CorruptChurch. As such, she would perform executions on behalf of the church, surrounded by the grief, vengeance and misery of her victims, which she tried to ignore with a constant ThousandYardStare until Belle came along. |
| 1106 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Her family executed the criminals sentenced to death by the Holy Church. Miledi never questioned her father's or the church's orders until her tutor[=/=]CoolBigSis Belle was exposed as a defector from the church and thrown into the Reisen Gorge. Thanks to Belle revealing Ehit is an evil god, Miledi realized a world controlled by the Holy Church is wrong and rebelled against her father to join the organization that sought to free people from Ehit and his CorruptChurch. |
| 1107 | * DefrostingIceQueen: In her childhood, Miledi was a cold-hearted EmotionlessGirl who was raised to be a merciless killing machine. Meeting and bonding with her CoolBigSis Belle taught her emotions and after Belle was executed for treason against the church, Miledi became a GenkiGirl by taking on Belle's personality. |
| 1108 | * EmptyEyes: In her childhood, her eyes were dark and lifeless because she had to give up her free will and emotions to execute the Holy Church's criminals. Her eyes gained shine thanks to Belle teaching her how to feel emotions. |
| 1109 | * TheExecutioner: She was a descendant of the Reisen family, a family of executioners who threw the Holy Church's criminals into the Reige Gorge. Miledi herself started executing criminals when she was only eight years old until her father executed her CoolBigSis and she rebelled. |
| 1110 | * FinalBoss: She's the boss monster of the Great Reisen Labyrinth. |
| 1111 | * GenkiGirl: She's obnoxiously full of energy. |
| 1112 | * {{Golem}}: After the Liberators were defeated, Miledi had her soul transferred into the body of a small mechanical golem. |
| 1113 | * GravityMaster: She's the inheritor of Gravity Magic. |
| 1114 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Leaving aside her obnoxious behavior and past as an executioner, the blonde Miledi is a good-hearted person whose goal is to create a world where everyone is free and happy. |
| 1115 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She ensures Hajime and Yue can escape Ehitorujue's realm, at the cost of her life.]] |
| 1116 | * HisQuirkLivesOn: She took on a lot of Belle's personality after her death, such as her cheerfulness and habit of annoying people. She also started wearing a ponytail to copy Belle's hairstyle. |
| 1117 | * HopeBringer: To the Liberators, Miledi was a living ray of hope that inspired them to fight for freedom and equality. |
| 1118 | * IcyBlueEyes: In her childhood, Miledi had cold and distant blue eyes because her family raised her to be an emotionless killing machine. Then she subverted it when she changed her personality to be more cheerful like Belle's. |
| 1119 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Most people think Miledi is the most annoying person in the world, and rightfully so, considering how much she loves to {{troll}} the hell out of others. Her heart is still in the right place, as her greatest wish is for people of her world to live freely. The prequel also shows she deeply cared about her fellow Liberators and her sister figure Belle. |
| 1120 | * KarmicButtMonkey: Miledi is a massive {{Troll}} who never gets tired of pissing off people for the hell of it. Whenever her obnoxiousness is repaid with physical abuse, usually from Hajime or Oscar, she has every bit of it coming. |
| 1121 | * KickChick: One of her few physical attacks was the "Miledi Kick", which [[EnhancedPunch enhanced by her gravity magic]], could send her enemy flying and break all the bones in their body. |
| 1122 | * KidHero: In ''Zero'', Miledi is the only one of the main heroes who is under 18 years old, being only 14-15 years old. |
| 1123 | * KiddieKid: She's 14 years old for most of ''Zero'', but acts very silly and childish for her age due to Belle's {{Womanchild}} personality rubbing off on her. |
| 1124 | * LonelyRichKid: Miledi was the daughter of a noble family, but throughout her childhood, she wasn't close to anyone but her personal attendant Belle. |
| 1125 | * MagneticHero: ''Zero'' is about Miledi's journey to gather a group of Ancient Magic users that would fight alongside her against the Holy Church. Most of her comrades refused to join her at first, but Miledi's strong will and idealism ended up winning them over and they swore loyalty to her. |
| 1126 | * ManicPixieDreamGirl: In the ''Arifureta Zero'' novels, Oscar was planning to live a quiet life while hiding his true potential until the quirky and free-spirited Miledi suddenly forces her way into his life and drags him into her adventure to change the world. |
| 1127 | * MarionetteMaster: She remote-controls an army of golems, reconstructs and repairs them when they get damaged. |
| 1128 | * MinidressOfPower: Her main outfit is a white and black minidress with frills. |
| 1129 | * TheNicknamer: She picked Belta's habit of nicknaming others. |
| 1130 | * NoSocialSkills: A lot of her {{Troll}}ing is motivated by lack of social skills since her only reference for positive social interaction was her CoolBigSis Belle who almost never stopped joking around and teasing her in an annoying way. |
| 1131 | * OjouRinglets: Miledi has two ringlets in front of her ears and shoulders. She's a daughter of the legendary Reisen family in the Grandort Empire. |
| 1132 | * PerpetualSmiler: As a golem, she has a permanent smiley face. Even as a human, she would rarely stop smiling. |
| 1133 | * PlayfulCatSmile: ''Zero'''s manga often has Miledi drawn with a catlike smile when she's in her {{Troll}} mode. |
| 1134 | * ThePrankster: The dungeon is full of traps, with signs just afterwards, that showed they were meant as pranks, ''deadly'' pranks, mind, but pranks nonetheless. |
| 1135 | * PsychopathicWomanchild: All her dungeon's signage is written in an overly cutesy, energetic tone and linked to traps that would have been deadly if Yue and Hajime weren't already grossly overpowered thanks to their experiences in the Orcus dungeon. |
| 1136 | * RebelLeader: After Belle/Belta died, Miledi succeeded her as leader of the [[LaResistance Liberators]]. |
| 1137 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: She's the obnoxiously energetic and cheerful girl to the calm and levelheaded Oscar. |
| 1138 | * SelfMadeOrphan: She destroyed the Reisen family [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge in retaliation for their execution of Belta Lievre]]. |
| 1139 | * SheCleansUpNicely: Oscar and Naiz were stunned when they saw Miledi elegantly dressed up for an evening at the casino. They immediately snapped out of it when Miledi started teasing them like usual. |
| 1140 | * SillyMeGesture: Both as a human and a golem, she likes doing the gesture with the wink and the tongue sticking out. |
| 1141 | * SlipperySwimsuit: When roughhousing with Meiru while both were wearing swimsuits, Miledi lost her bikini top and fell on top of [[AccidentalPervert Oscar]]. He hugged her so her naked breasts wouldn't be exposed to Meiru's whole crew. |
| 1142 | * SoleSurvivor: Miledi is the only one of the Seven Liberators who is technically still alive during the main story, having transferred her soul into a golem to avoid passing on for millennia. |
| 1143 | * SquishyWizard: She's quite powerless when she's unable to use her magic. |
| 1144 | * StalkerWithoutACrush: When she tried to recruit Oscar for her fight against the Holy Church, Miledi refused to take no for an answer and followed him around for an entire week until he finally gave in. |
| 1145 | * StrongGirlSmartGuy: She was the magically powerful, if {{squishy|wizard}}, GravityMaster while Oscar was her supergenius Synergist partner. |
| 1146 | * ThirdPersonPerson: She tends to talk in the third person, calling herself "Miledi-chan" to sound cutesy. |
| 1147 | * ThousandYardStare: As a child, she always had an empty stare because of the executions she had to do every day. She could grow out of it thanks to Belle. |
| 1148 | * TookALevelInCheerfulness: When she was a child, Miledi was an EmotionlessGirl. As a teenager, her personality drastically changed to become quite similar to that of the cheerful and carefree Belle/Belta. |
| 1149 | * TookALevelInIdealism: Early in her life, Miledi was utterly convinced the Holy Church's laws were "absolute" and it was natural for heretics to be executed for defying the way their world works. Belle's influence caused Miledi's worldview to do a 180, which motivated her to fight against the church for the sake of people's freedom and happiness. |
| 1150 | * {{Troll}}: The signage in her dungeon is clearly intended to irritate, annoy, and seriously piss off anyone who comes across it. This is a reflection of her entire personality. |
| 1151 | * {{Tsundere}}: As a child, she was a Harsh type to Belle as she deeply loved her as her CoolBigSis, but her cold upbringing made her have a hard time expressing emotions and often used Gravity Magic on Belle whenever the latter annoyed her. As a teenager, she was a Sweet type to Oscar because Miledi had changed into a friendly and cheerful GenkiGirl, but still got easily annoyed at Oscar especially when he turned on the charm to not let her tease him all the time. |
| 1152 | * {{Tykebomb}}: The Reisen family raised Miledi to kill the criminals sentenced to death by the Holy Church. She changed thanks to Belle's influence and rebelled against her own family to join the Liberators. |
| 1153 | * VictoryPose: Whenever she pulled a BigDamnHeroes, she made a cutesy pose by standing on one leg and making a VSign with her fingers, plus a SillyMeGesture. |
| 1154 | * YoungAndInCharge: She was already leader of the Liberators at only 14 years old. |
| 1155 | [[/folder]] |
| 1156 | |
| 1157 | [[folder:Naiz Gruen Caliente]] |
| 1158 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatoshiHino (Japanese) |
| 1159 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/naiz_gruen_caliente_anime.png]] |
| 1160 | |
| 1161 | The creator of Grand Gruen Labyrinth. Original wielder of Spatial Ancient Magic. |
| 1162 | ---- |
| 1163 | * AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: He refused to use his Spatial Ancient Magic for fighting because he was terrified of the destruction it could cause if he let himself lose control over it again. |
| 1164 | * AgeGapRomance: He ended up married to Yunfa who was twenty years younger than him. Miledi [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it]] in ''Zero'''s epilogue when she calls out Naiz on being a man in his mid-thirties with a super young wife. |
| 1165 | * AngstNuke: The villagers of Gruen Village killed Naiz's mother and brother because his liege branded them as heretics. Losing himself to anger and despair, Naiz let his Spatial Ancient Magic run amok and when he came to his senses, the village and all the people in it were gone. |
| 1166 | * TheAtoner: The destruction of his hometown had weighed heavily on him, causing him to swear off using his magic to fight until he met Oscar and Miledi. He then decided to atone by using his powers to save people from the evil church. |
| 1167 | * AttackReflector: He could use Spatial Magic to redirect his enemies' attack straight back to them. |
| 1168 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: His ability as an Ancient Magic wielder was exposed to his jealous friend, leading to his regional lord to kill his family in an attempt to forcibly adopt him. This eventually caused him to destroy his own hometown by sheer rage. |
| 1169 | * DieOrFly: When Naiz was 15, Solda took him and Yogun to hunt down a pack of monsters that was plaguing the village as a training exercise. Unfortunately, there were more monsters than they anticipated and were about to be eaten by one of them. This forced Naiz to awaken his Spatial Magic at the last moment and managed to kill the monster just in time to save everyone. |
| 1170 | * DoomedHometown: His village was destroyed by his ''own powers'', no less, after the local villagers had disowned and killed his family after they were branded as heretics. |
| 1171 | * AGodIAmNot: Him using his Ancient Magic to help people at the desert makes the locals revere him as a guardian deity, but he wanted no such praise when he was only doing good to atone for destroying his own hometown. |
| 1172 | * LonerTurnedFriend: Before he joined the Liberators, Naiz helped people in need, but avoided socializing with them more than he needed to and tried to isolate himself for the most part. He finally found trustworthy friends in Oscar and Miledi, leading him to join their journey. |
| 1173 | * MistakenForPedophile: Two preteen girls were deadset on marrying Naiz, which caused a lot of awkwardness for him. He did eventually marry one of them, but at least waited until she came of age. |
| 1174 | * OnlySaneMan: He's fairly normal and levelheaded, in comparison to his companions. Lampshaded by Hajime by way of Myu: |
| 1175 | --> '''Myu:''' "Such a decent person, compared to the other three. He must be having a hard time." |
| 1176 | * RedBaron: He was called "Fairy of the Desert", a moniker was given by Susha to cover up his existence. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to keep the church from hearing about the "Guardian Deity of the Desert". |
| 1177 | * RefusalOfTheCall: Much like Oscar, Naiz refused when Miledi first asked him to join the Liberators since he didn't want to use his powers to hurt people. |
| 1178 | * SociallyAwkwardHero: Naiz wouldn't flinch as he faced an Apostle or a Leviathan, but just walking through a big crowd made him like he was about to pass out. |
| 1179 | * SpaceMaster: His Ancient Magic specialty makes him capable to manipulate the space around himself, allowing him to either bend or expand the space near him or [[{{Teleportation}} move himself to another space or location]]. And he's good enough with it to keep the Red Dragon Volcano from erupting. |
| 1180 | * TheStoic: His primary defining trait is rarely letting his emotions show. |
| 1181 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: The manga shows Naiz's father looked like a middle-aged version of him. |
| 1182 | * TeleportationRescue: He became well-known in the desert for using Spatial Ancient Magic to teleport people away from monsters. This is also how he met Oscar and Miledi. |
| 1183 | * VolcanoLair: Before he met Oscar and Miledi, Naiz lived at a hideout he built inside a volcano. He eventually set up an entire Labyrinth there. |
| 1184 | [[/folder]] |
| 1185 | |
| 1186 | [[folder:Meiru Melusine]] |
| 1187 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiwaSaito (Japanese), Creator/KristenMcGuire (English) |
| 1188 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/meiru_melusine_anime.png]] |
| 1189 | |
| 1190 | The creator of Sunken Ruin of Melusine. Original wielder of Restoration Ancient Magic. |
| 1191 | ---- |
| 1192 | * AlliterativeName: '''M'''eiru '''M'''elusine. |
| 1193 | * BigSisterInstinct: Her motive for trying to take over Andika was to free her younger half-sister Diene from her father's imprisonment. She also joined the Liberators because she thought of Miledi as a little sister and wanted to protect her. |
| 1194 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: She has a voluptuous figure that is emphasized by her CleavageWindow. Her flat-chested sister Diene is also shown to be envious of her due to it. |
| 1195 | * CleavageWindow: Her top has a huge diamond-shaped cutout that reveals a lot of her cleavage. |
| 1196 | * CoatCape: As a pirate, she wore a white jacket like a cape. |
| 1197 | * CombatMedic: Besides being a pirate captain with proficient swordsmanship skills and water magic, she could heal any wounds with Restoration Magic. |
| 1198 | * CoolBigSis: Miledi quickly came to see Meiru as a cool older sister figure, especially since Meiru [[ReplacementGoldfish reminded her of Belle so much]]. |
| 1199 | * EarFins: Due to her dagon heritage, she has fin-shaped ears. |
| 1200 | * ElementalHairColors: She's a water magic user with aquamarine hair. |
| 1201 | * ElementalWeapon: She wielded a sword that could transform into a long water whip extending from the guard. |
| 1202 | * AFatherToHisMen: Meiru considered everyone in her pirate crew to be her family and they would follow her to the ends of the world. |
| 1203 | * GroinAttack: One of her sadistic attacks was crushing a man's balls with her bare hand. |
| 1204 | * HeroicBastard: She's one of the main heroes of the prequel and it's revealed she's an illegitimate daughter of a vampire king. |
| 1205 | * ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Meiru decides to adopt Myu as her little sister when she meets her. |
| 1206 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As Miledi describes her, Meiru is a sadistic woman who likes to bully others, but is also a kind and protective CoolBigSis. |
| 1207 | * LethalChef: Her pirate crewmates dreaded her cooking, as her sadistic cooking method often results in [[MasochistsMeal dangerously lethal food]]. |
| 1208 | * MagicKnight: She's both a powerful water mage and a swordswoman. |
| 1209 | * MakingASplash: She's a very powerful user of water magic. |
| 1210 | * MarkOfTheSupernatural: Her red eyes are proof of her being half-vampire. |
| 1211 | * MenCantKeepHouse: Inverted. She was so sloppy to the point of being incapable of doing even the most basic housework. |
| 1212 | * MinidressOfPower: Her standard outfit has a miniskirt. |
| 1213 | * NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Meiru is the daughter of a dagon woman and a vampire. |
| 1214 | * PirateGirl: She was a pirate captain of her own crew. |
| 1215 | * {{Psychometry}}: One of the uses of her Restoration Magic is seeing the memories of any place she's in. |
| 1216 | * RedBaron: She became known as the "Saint of the Western Ocean" as she used her Ancient Magic to heal injured people she found at the sea. |
| 1217 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: She's a {{sadist}}ic half-vampire with red eyes. |
| 1218 | * RoyalBastard: Her father was the king of the vampire nation of Dastia. Before Meiru was born, her mother left her father in order to protect both him and their child from any consequences of their relationship due to his high-ranking position as royalty. |
| 1219 | * {{Sadist}}: She is prone to exhibiting sadism. However, even she has trouble dealing with Lyutilis, as she was TooKinkyToTorture. |
| 1220 | * SelfMadeWoman: She grew up in a slum and her mother was taken away from her by the ruler of Andika, leaving Meiru to fend for herself. She fought to survive and eventually became the captain of her own pirate crew. |
| 1221 | * ShapingYourAttacks: One of her spells makes water take the shape of a [[{{Orochi}} multi-headed snake]]. |
| 1222 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: She fights in a skimpy outfit that exposes her cleavage, midriff and legs. |
| 1223 | * TimeMaster: Her Restoration Magic has the power to turn back the time of anyone and anything, allowing her to either seal or reopen wounds and grow back missing limbs as well as undo or redo the damage done to inanimate objects. |
| 1224 | * TheTrickster: She have the tendency of leaving her allies in a DieOrFly situation. |
| 1225 | * WaterIsWomanly: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Meiru was a beautiful merwoman who used water magic and Restoration Magic with amazing healing capacities. Personality-wise, however, she was a PirateGirl with a big {{sadist}}ic streak and knew nothing about housework. |
| 1226 | * WhipSword: Oscar made her the Limitless Whip Blade, which could elongate its size to restrain enemies as well as unleash a powerful electric shock. |
| 1227 | [[/folder]] |
| 1228 | |
| 1229 | [[folder:Vandre Schnee]] |
| 1230 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vandre_schnee.png]] |
| 1231 | |
| 1232 | Half-dragonman/demon hybrid and the creator of the Schnee Ice Caverns Labyrinth. Original wielder of Metamorphosis Ancient Magic. |
| 1233 | ---- |
| 1234 | * BraidsOfAction: His hair was braided on one side and he was a Liberator with Ancient Magic. |
| 1235 | * ChildByRape: He was born as a result of his mother being raped by the demon lord of the Igdol Empire. |
| 1236 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He was a bastard child born from a dragonwoman who got picked up for his Metamorphosis Magic, and when the monsters he made had been annihilated in the war, the demon lord raped his mother ''again''. When Vandre find out, he went berserk with his dragonification and heavily injured the demon lord, and her mother used the last of her strength to transform to protect him, leaving him too traumatized to use his dragonification until he met Miledi's team. |
| 1237 | * HalfBreedDiscrimination: Being a hybrid, Vandre was treated with contempt due to the demon's supremacist doctrine. |
| 1238 | * HatesTheirParent: Vandre hates his father for all of the suffering he put him and his mother through in order to obtain power. In return, his father saw Vandre as nothing but a tool due to his Metamorphosis Magic. |
| 1239 | * AnIcePerson: He had an affinity for ice magic. |
| 1240 | * NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: He's a demon-dragonman hybrid, though with a much darker origin than Meiru, as he was a ChildByRape. |
| 1241 | * PointyEars: Due to having demon and dragonman blood, Vandre has pointed ears. |
| 1242 | * PowerPerversionPotential: In the side stories, Yue had noted that Metamorphis Magic can be used to [[BreastExpansion expand her breast size]] after they cleared his Labyrinth. |
| 1243 | * RescueIntroduction: In ''Zero'', he meets the other Liberators when he asks them to rescue him from the Demon Lord's dungeon. Although, he uses a slime to create a RemoteBody to help them with his own rescue. |
| 1244 | * ScarfOfAsskicking: He wears a white scarf and is one of the most powerful mages of his time. |
| 1245 | * TheTransmogrifier: His Metamorphosis Magic has the power to remake the form of living beings and inanimate objects. Normally, it's used to turn a normal organism into a monster, or even manipulate the magic stone of a monster and remake them. |
| 1246 | * VerbalTic: For some reason, whenever Vandre spoke through his slime Batlam's mouse form, he ended his sentences with "ya". |
| 1247 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Oscar Orcus, as both of them have diametrically opposite Ancient magic and architectual preferences. |
| 1248 | * {{Weredragon}}: He inherited his mother's Dragonification ability. |
| 1249 | [[/folder]] |
| 1250 | |
| 1251 | [[folder:Lyutilis Haltina]] |
| 1252 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lyutillis_haltina.png]] |
| 1253 | |
| 1254 | The creator of the Haltina Labyrinth and the Sea of Trees forest where the demihumans and beastmen live. Original Wielder of Evolution Ancient Magic. |
| 1255 | ---- |
| 1256 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: Being a hardcore masochist, Lyutilis would beg Meiru to insult and torture her whenever they were together. However, even a {{Sadist}} like Meiru was greatly disturbed by Lyutilis' masochism and did everything she could to get away from her or physically restrain her, which only made Lyutilis want to be abused even more. |
| 1257 | * BenevolentPrecursors: The demi-humans and beast-men would have been either wiped out or enslaved long ago if she hadn't set up the Sea of Trees for them, and built Verbegen as their capital city, a wonder the beast-men are all quite proud of. |
| 1258 | * CasualKink: Much like Altina, she's also a masochist, but she one-upped it with her blatant affection for Meiru, who happened to be a sadistic Dagon lady. |
| 1259 | * {{Druid}}: It is strongly implied that she built the Sea of Trees as a refuge for the demi-humans and beast-men to live in harmony with nature. |
| 1260 | * ElementalHairColors: Her magic and dungeon are deeply associated with nature, especially forests. Fittingly, Lyutilis had long green hair. |
| 1261 | * FlowersOfNature: She wears a crown made of flowers, befitting her position as the creator of the large forest that is the home of the demihumans and beastmen. |
| 1262 | * FriendToBugs: She loves insects due to them being her only real friends since her childhood. |
| 1263 | * TheHighQueen: She was the queen of the Haltina Republic back in the day. |
| 1264 | * InLoveWithYourCarnage: She was turned on by Meiru's sadistic personality after witnessing the latter's duel against the commander of the republic's commando unit Valf Rugal. |
| 1265 | * PointyEars: Being an elf, she has long pointed ears. |
| 1266 | * ShelteredAristocrat: Her sheltered life made her naïve about the world. |
| 1267 | * WastedBeauty: On the outside, she looked like [[TheHighQueen a wise elf queen]] with a beauty comparable to the God's Apostles (which says a lot, considering that they're an InhumanlyBeautifulRace), with the regal disposition to match. But those who gets to know her up close would be shocked to learn who she really was in person. |
| 1268 | -->''So she's an airhead, a masochist, a loner whose only friends are bugs, and has the cringiest naming sense of all time. Isn't this a bit much, even for an ancient magic user?'' |
| 1269 | [[/folder]] |
| 1270 | |
| 1271 | [[folder:Laus Barn]] |
| 1272 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/laus_barn.png]] |
| 1273 | |
| 1274 | The creator of the Divine Mountain Labyrinth and the former commander of the Holy Templar Knights. Original Wielder of Spiritual Ancient Magic. |
| 1275 | ---- |
| 1276 | * BaldHeadOfToughness: He went bald in his early thirties and was the strongest of the Holy Church's knights. |
| 1277 | * BaldnessAngst: He was pretty sensitive about going bald in his thirties. |
| 1278 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Plays this much straighter than all the other Liberators, as he had been part of the Holy Church until his defection. |
| 1279 | * PapaWolf: What had tipped him off the edge, as Hearst forced him to [[spoiler:brainwash his own son and Laus decided to have none of it.]] |
| 1280 | * {{Necromancer}}: He could bring people back from the dead (with a time restriction) by keeping their soul from leaving their body or transferring their soul from one body to another. |
| 1281 | * SoulPower: As a master of Spiritual Magic, Laus was able to manipulate the soul of any living being. The true power of this magic is the ability to interfere with things like energy inside the body, such mans, heat, electricity, thought, consciousness and memory. |
| 1282 | * WorldsBestWarrior: He was regarded as the strongest Knight within the Holy Church. |
| 1283 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: He's 27 when the events of ''Arifureta Zero'' took place, but had aged prematurely due to stress from Ehit's machinations. |
| 1284 | [[/folder]] |
| 1285 | |
| 1286 | !!Related |
| 1287 | |
| 1288 | [[folder:Ruth Orcus]] |
| 1289 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ruth_29.png]] |
| 1290 | |
| 1291 | One of Oscar's adopted siblings who was raised at the same orphanage as him. |
| 1292 | ---- |
| 1293 | * BigBrotherWorship: He believes his big brother Oscar is the coolest and strongest in the world. |
| 1294 | * RebuiltPedestal: Ruth had lost his respect for Oscar because he knew his brother was holding back his true potential and letting his co-workers look down on him. He regained his admiration for Oscar after his brother rescued him, their siblings and other children who were kidnapped by the church. |
| 1295 | [[/folder]] |
| 1296 | |
| 1297 | [[folder:Belle / Belta Lievre]] |
| 1298 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/belta_lievre.png]] |
| 1299 | |
| 1300 | Miledi's personal attendant. She was actually a former Divine Priestess who was betrayed by the god Ehit and founded the Liberators to oppose his tyranny. After her true identity was exposed, Miledi's father executed her and Miledi inherited her will to free Tortus from Ehit's control. |
| 1301 | ---- |
| 1302 | * BeneathTheMask: Belle acted prim and proper in front of the Reisen family. She revealed her true carefree and goofy personality when no one but Miledi was looking at her. |
| 1303 | * BigBreastPride: She's confident about her buxom figure and enjoys taunting Miledi about it to trigger her ACupAngst. |
| 1304 | * BigSisterBully: A playful example. Belle never got tired of teasing and annoying Miledi by making fun of her flat chest and stealing her desserts. Miledi often attacked Belle with Gravity Magic in retaliation. |
| 1305 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: She had very big breasts that made Miledi annoyed whenever they bounced in front of her as Belle mocked her flat chest. |
| 1306 | * CoolBigSis: She was a playful and goofy, but very loving older sister figure to Miledi. |
| 1307 | * DefectorFromDecadence: She was originally a Divine Priestess at the direct service of Ehit. However, she discovered her god's true wicked nature when he tried to kill her for learning the true nature of his Apostles. After that, she founded LaResistance to fight Ehit's church. |
| 1308 | * TheDefroster: It's thanks to her that Miledi changed from an EmotionlessGirl who mercilessly executed people at the church's orders to a GenkiGirl who values life and freedom. |
| 1309 | * DefusingTheTykeBomb: Miledi believed the orders of Ehit's Holy Church were absolute until Belle taught her about the value of life, love and freedom. Thanks to Belle, Miledi stopped thinking of herself as a tool to kill heretics and became leader of the Liberators to carry on Belle's will. |
| 1310 | * DePower: After Ehit fatally wounded her and Laus Barn revived her, she lost her divination magic and most of her regular magic skills. |
| 1311 | * DiedInYourArmsTonight: After being thrown to the Reige Gorge, a tearful Miledi held Belle's hand as she died. |
| 1312 | * DyingDeclarationOfLove: As she was dying at the depths of the Reige Gorge, Belle confessed to Miledi that she loved her like a little sister and Miledi returned the sentiment. |
| 1313 | * EvilStoleMyFaith: She was a devout Divine Priestess of Ehit until she discovered his Apostles are inhuman monsters and Ehit had her killed, claiming that he can do whatever he wants with his "playthings". |
| 1314 | * HeKnowsTooMuch: Her divination magic made her discover Ehit's Apostles' inhuman nature and Ehit had her killed for "having seen too much." She was saved thanks to Laus Barn. |
| 1315 | * HidingBehindYourBangs: In the manga, her hair covers the right side of her face to highlight her dual personality while she was working as a spy disguised as a maid. |
| 1316 | * HiredHelpAsFamily: The Reisen family hired her to be Miledi's personal maid. Belle did act like a servant in public, but in private, she was Miledi's CoolBigSis who was closer to her than anyone in her family. |
| 1317 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Ehit impaled a sword through her chest after she saw his Apostles had no future she could foresee. |
| 1318 | * {{Manchild}}: ZigZagged. She was in her twenties, but acted like a cheeky and goofy teenager who loved to annoy Miledi when they were alone together. Still, she could act like a mature and wise older sister figure when she wanted to. |
| 1319 | * NoBadassToHisValet: Belle was the only one who always treated Miledi like a normal girl even though Miledi was the user of Ancient Gravity Magic and the heiress of an infamous noble family of executioners. Miledi was surprised Belle really wasn't scared of her even though she knew she could crush her with her Gravity Magic if she wanted to. |
| 1320 | * ParentalSubstitute: While Miledi sees Belle as her big sister figure, she was also the closest thing Miledi had to a mother and she learned of familial love through her. |
| 1321 | * PosthumousCharacter: She was executed a few years before Miledi met Oscar at the start of ''Zero''. Everything known about her comes from Miledi's flashbacks. |
| 1322 | * {{Seers}}: She once possessed divination magic, which allowed her to predict a person's future. She lost the magic after she was killed by Ehit and revived by Laus Barn. |
| 1323 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: In a short story, she tells Miledi that she wants a man who has a handsome smile and a good sense of humor, is kind, honest, strong, brave, and a good housekeeper. |
| 1324 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: She only appears in Miledi's flashback in the prequel, but she shaped Miledi's ideals and entire personality ([[{{Troll}} for better or worse]]) which led her to gather the Seven Liberators and create the path that eventually leads Hajime to fight Ehit. |
| 1325 | * TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: She died twice. First, Ehit himself had her killed and later, Miledi's father executed her after she was exposed as a traitor of the Holy Church. Seeing such a kindhearted and benevolent woman die like that made Miledi and Laus realize Tortus was a CrapsackWorld ruled by JerkassGods, driving them to try and change it. |
| 1326 | [[/folder]] |
| 1327 | |
| 1328 | [[folder:Susha and Yunfa]] |
| 1329 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/susha_and_yunfa.png]] |
| 1330 | |
| 1331 | A pair of young sisters who meet Naiz, Oscar and Miledi in the Crimson Desert. They join the Liberators after they stand up to defend their rescuer Naiz from the Holy Church. |
| 1332 | ---- |
| 1333 | * BabiesEverAfter: ''Zero'''s epilogue mentions Yunfa is pregnant with Naiz's child. |
| 1334 | * ClingyJealousGirl: Susha stares at Miledi with DullEyesOfUnhappiness when Yunfa makes her get the idea that Miledi is a potential love rival. |
| 1335 | * GirlishPigtails: Yunfa, the younger of the sisters, wears her hair in pigtails. |
| 1336 | * MagicMusic: Yunfa could bolster an ally's physical prowess by playing a violin. |
| 1337 | * PrecociousCrush: In ''Zero'', Susha is twelve and Yunfa is eight. Both have a big crush on Naiz who in his late twenties, much to his embarrassment. |
| 1338 | * PromotionToParent: Their parents were killed by monsters when they were very young, leaving Susha to take care of Yunfa on her own. |
| 1339 | * RescueRomance: Naiz saved Susha and Yunfa when they almost died at the desert. Both of them had PrecociousCrush on him since. After [[spoiler:Susha died]], Naiz eventually married Yunfa when she came of age. |
| 1340 | * TeenPregnancy: Yunfa was around 16 years old when she married Naiz and became pregnant with his child. |
| 1341 | [[/folder]] |
| 1342 | |
| 1343 | [[folder:Kiara Wanda]] |
| 1344 | [[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kiara_wanda_29.png]] |
| 1345 | |
| 1346 | A rabbitman girl from Andika. She joined the Liberators and became an intelligence agent after Andika sunk into the sea. |
| 1347 | ---- |
| 1348 | * BubblyWaitress: She originally was a waitress at her family's inn and quickly became friends with the Liberators while they were staying there. |
| 1349 | * HalfHumanHybrid: Her father was human and her mother was a rabbitwoman. |
| 1350 | * HideYourOtherness: Miledi gave her a [[MagicalAccessory necklace]] that made her rabbit ears invisible to help her blend into human society. |
| 1351 | * LittleBitBeastly: Due to being half-rabbitman, she had white rabbit ears and a tail. |
| 1352 | [[/folder]] |
| 1353 | |
| 1354 | [[folder:Diene Devault]] |
| 1355 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/diene_devault_29.png]] |
| 1356 | |
| 1357 | Meiru's younger half-sister. |
| 1358 | ---- |
| 1359 | * AlliterativeName: '''D'''iene '''D'''evault. |
| 1360 | * EarFins: Being half-dagon, she has fin-shaped ears. |
| 1361 | * HalfHumanHybrid: She has a human father and a dagon mother. |
| 1362 | * HealingHands: She had special magic that could heal wounds and restore mana, but it wasn't as powerful as Meiru's Ancient Restoration Magic. |
| 1363 | * IdiotHair: She had a lock of hair sticking up to emphasize her childishness. |
| 1364 | * LonelyRichKid: Her father was the richest and most influential man in Andika, but because he knew the Holy Church would take Diene away if they found out about her restorative magic, he confided her in an underground cell and didn't allow her to have any contact with the outside world. |
| 1365 | * MacGuffinSuperPerson: The Holy Church sought to capture Diene because of the high-level healing properties of her special magic. |
| 1366 | * NavelWindow: Her dress had a small slit that showed her navel. |
| 1367 | * PracticallyDifferentGenerations: She was about nine years younger than her older half-sister. |
| 1368 | * SexySlitDress: She wore a dress with a slit on both sides to show off her legs. |
| 1369 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: She looked nearly identical to her older half-sister and mother. |
| 1370 | [[/folder]] |
| 1371 | |
| 1372 | [[folder:Baharl Devault]] |
| 1373 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/baharl_devault_29.png]] |
| 1374 | |
| 1375 | The head of the Devault family which ruled over Andika and Diene's father. |
| 1376 | ---- |
| 1377 | * AbductionIsLove: After Reej caught his attention, he kidnapped her and forcibly confined her to his home. She refused all of his gifts, but eventually accepted him and had a child with him. |
| 1378 | * AbusiveParents: He forced his daughter to live in an underground cell, forbid her from leaving the house and beat her when she used her special magic without permission. He did it to protect her from the Holy Church, but his actions made Diene and Meiru see him in a bad light for a long time. |
| 1379 | * ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Reej refused to submit to him even after he tried to buy her love with expensive gifts. Baharl became enamoured with her unbreakable spirit. |
| 1380 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: A disguised Apostle punched a hole through his chest. He survived thanks to Meiru's Restoration Magic. |
| 1381 | * InterspeciesRomance: He fell in love with a dagon woman and had a child with her. |
| 1382 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He acted cruel and bad-tempered because of his harsh life as an outlaw, but he ultimately did love his daughter and would do anything to protect her. He also apologized to Meiru for kidnapping her mother since he didn't know Reej already had Meiru when he took her. |
| 1383 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: Since Reej never told him she already had a daughter before meeting him, he didn't know about Meiru until he met her. |
| 1384 | * PapaWolf: He took on an Apostle in disguise, who already had pierced a hole through his chest, to protect his daughter. |
| 1385 | * ParentsAsPeople: He does care about Diene in his own way, but doesn't know how to express it because he had never known familial love. In the end, he risked his life to protect her and decided to improve himself after Meiru saved his life. |
| 1386 | * RedemptionEarnsLife: After an Apostle mortally injured him, Meiru would have left him to die if he haven't gotten the wound while protecting Diene and apologized to Meiru for taking Reej away from her. Although she didn't exactly forgive him, Meiru saved him with Restoration Magic because she recognized he deserved a second chance to live for Diene's sake. |
| 1387 | * RuggedScar: He was a criminal boss with a large scar that ran diagonally across his face. |
| 1388 | * SelfMadeMan: He started as yet another criminal in the slums of Andika, but gradually obtained power and built an organization that came to rule over the entire island. |
| 1389 | * SparedButNotForgiven: After realizing Baharl did care about Diene, Meiru used Restoration Magic to save him from a fatal wound. She still would never forgive him for taking her mother from her, but decided to let him live since his death would make Diene sad. |
| 1390 | [[/folder]] |
| 1391 | |
| 1392 | !The Gods |
| 1393 | |
| 1394 | [[folder:Ehit]] |
| 1395 | !!Ehitorujue |
| 1396 | The God of mankind and the one behind the abduction of Hajime's class. |
| 1397 | ---- |
| 1398 | * AchillesHeel: Monsters, and those who have been [[TouchedByVorlons tainted by their essence]][[labelnote:for example]] {{Weredragon}}s like Tio, or Hajime himself [[/labelnote]], are [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth inherently poisonous to him]]. |
| 1399 | * ArchEnemy: He's the greatest enemy of several characters. |
| 1400 | ** To Uralt, as he's the one who overthrew her and [[SealedGoodInACan trapped her in a sword]] in the first place. |
| 1401 | ** To Kouki. [[spoiler:He abducted Kouki to be his vessel and used him from day one. He decides to discard Kouki for being to weak.]] |
| 1402 | ** To Hajime. [[spoiler:Ehit taking his class from earth is what led to him almost dying in the Orcus dungeon and Kaori being killed by Noint.]] |
| 1403 | * BigBad: ''Everything'' bad that happens in the story is his fault. |
| 1404 | * CivilizationDestroyer: He completely annihilated the Vampires and pushed the Dragonborn to the brink of extinction. [[spoiler: Then decided to destroy all of Tortus out of spite.]] |
| 1405 | * CompellingVoice: Divine Statement allows Ehit to control anyone that hears his voice. |
| 1406 | * ComplexityAddiction: Justified. He's an insane, sadistic "god" who gains entertainment from watching "pawns on the game board" struggle and suffer, so he deliberately ignores and disregards the simple and effective solution for any "problem" or "anomaly" and goes for the most bizarre, convoluted, illogical, inefficient, and immoral method he can, just so he can sit back and see what happens, and to generate the most collateral damage possible. |
| 1407 | * CreateYourOwnHero: It was his purpose to bring Kouki to Tortus [[spoiler:to acquire a vessel capable to leaving his realm and be able to travel to other worlds]]. Hajime wasn't something under his calculations. |
| 1408 | * DeityOfHumanOrigin: At first, he was a normal human in a [[TheArchmage world where magic was really advanced]], but after acquiring Concept Magic and modifying himself over and over, it wouldn't be a stretch to consider him a real god. |
| 1409 | * DemiurgeArchetype: Ehit belonged to a race from another world. When that world was destroyed, Ehit was among a group of survivors that escaped to Tortus. In order to escape death, Ehit transcended into a god and developed a religion called the Holy Church. Eventually, Ehit's personality became extremely cruel, leading him to be responsible for mass religious wars, disasters, and famine. In order to ensure a series of perpetual warfare in Tortus, Ehit created several servile gods that each race would worship individually, and would be willing to fight on their behalf. |
| 1410 | * FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. While he is every bit as powerful as he claims, that doesn't stop him from gloating all the time, giving the heroes a chance to strike back. |
| 1411 | * {{Foil}}: To Hajime. He's considered as what would've happened to Hajime if he hadn't met Yue and regained his humanity. |
| 1412 | * ForTheEvulz: This is what his attitude towards Hajime could be surmised as: he wishes for Hajime's despair, and while he could've easily killed him multiple times, Hajime is the perfect toy to torture for all eternity. |
| 1413 | * AGodAmI: He likes to call himself a god, and when Hajime observes his soul it shines silver, differentiating him from other souls. |
| 1414 | * GodIsEvil: Thousands of years after becoming the last survivor of his world, after the others simply gave up and passed on peacefully, he came to consider that the mortals are only there for his amusement, and their suffering is the finest entertainment. |
| 1415 | * GrandTheftMe: He has a habit of doing this to the strongest Atavists of the era. [[spoiler:Which is why the beastmen tribes persecuted against the Atavists (with Shea as the latest victim) and Yue's uncle locking her away in the depths of the Orcus Labyrinth. That said, he cannot possess vessels of monstrous origin such as Tio, or those who have been modified monstrously like Hajime, which is why he didn't straight up possess Hajime to kill off his harem.]] |
| 1416 | * ImmortalsFearDeath: While his fellow gods just [[CessationOfExistence end their immortal life]], [[WhoWantsToLiveForever put the simple end to their boredom]], he instead [[TheSociopath instigates the war and torments every life on Tortus]] just for [[ForTheEvulz his sick pleasure]]. |
| 1417 | * IShallTauntYou: He doesn't stop taunting Hajime after [[spoiler:acquiring Yue's body.]] |
| 1418 | * JerkassGod: Hajime knew that this asshat had a few screws loose. |
| 1419 | * LightIsNotGood: He has the appearance of a holy angel, but that is not telling of his evil nature. |
| 1420 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After spending several millenia subjecting Tortus to his twisted whims, [[spoiler: Hajime decided that Ehit's warranty is now expired.]] |
| 1421 | * OmnicidalManiac: Due to considering the suffering of mortals as his only source of entertainment, his final goal is to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt exterminate]] Tortus before abandoning the world and starting anew in other worlds, starting with Earth. |
| 1422 | * OneWingedAngel: After Hajime expels him from Yue's body and puts a bullet in him, he [[VillainousBreakdown absorbs his creations (angels and monsters alike)]], he becomes a [[EldritchAbomination monster that consists of a big lump of meat]]. |
| 1423 | * TheSociopath: He is the one who instigated the war between humans and demons, and when they're forming the truce, he sends his angel to ruin it, ForTheEvulz. |
| 1424 | * VillainBall: |
| 1425 | ** He grips it with a death grip, he could've come out victorious at any point with zero effort of his part by simply either teleporting Yue to the devil's castle or teleporting Hajime back home before he acquired conceptual magic. Then he only sends one apostle after Hajime when he finally detects him, instead of, say, a hundred of them, when he had ''thousands'' available. |
| 1426 | ** Even after he acquires Yue's body and defeats Hajime with zero effort, instead of killing him right there and be done with it, he announces when he will come back to destroy the world and gives Hajime the chance to recover and strike back, to be fair, Yue was FightingFromTheInside to some degree to stop him. |
| 1427 | ** Above all else, he could have whisked Hajime away back to Earth, where Hajime ''wanted to go'' and got him out of the way, perhaps permanently, but instead antagonizes him at every moment, just for his own sick pleasure. |
| 1428 | --->'''Hajime:''' I've had the knowledge of all seven of the liberators that fought against your god shoved into my brain. Did you never think for a second that they would have at least been aware of your god's abilities? They spent a millennia preparing various tests to prepare someone strong enough to fight god, but you never consider that they didn't spend a second thinking about the challenges of that fight? Are you stupid or something? |
| 1429 | * VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:He goes berserk after Hajime outplays him in the final battle and Yue regains control of her body.]] |
| 1430 | -->'''Ehitorujue:''' [[spoiler:Kill... kill... kill... I'll kill you, irregular!]] |
| 1431 | [[/folder]] |
| 1432 | |
| 1433 | [[folder:Alv]] |
| 1434 | !! Alv |
| 1435 | The deity that the Demon Kingdom worships and wishes for the destruction/enslavement of the Human Race. |
| 1436 | ---- |
| 1437 | * AintTooProudToBeg: When he got caught in Hajime's Concept Magic, he doesn't hesitate to start begging Hajime to spare his life. Unfortunately, Hajime had no intent of sparing him after everything he did. |
| 1438 | * DeadPersonImpersonation: During Hajime's audience with the Demon Lord, Alv took on the form of [[spoiler:Yue's uncle Dianleed]] in order to persuade her into becoming Ehit's vessel. |
| 1439 | * TheDragon: Served as Ehit's, having controlled the Demon Race to oppose the humans in the cosmic chess game. |
| 1440 | * KarmicDeath: He was brutally killed by Hajime's existence-denying chains, right after he gloated at Hajime in his DarkestHour. The narration also noted that Alva had toyed with others the same way as Hajime did when he begged for mercy. |
| 1441 | * SmugSnake: Like Ehit, he has a massive god complex and felt entitled to being treated as such. |
| 1442 | [[/folder]] |
| 1443 | |
| 1444 | [[folder:Uralt]] |
| 1445 | !! Uralt |
| 1446 | The original goddess of Tortus who was tasked in protecting the World Tree prior to Ehit's takeover. |
| 1447 | ---- |
| 1448 | * EmpathicWeapon: Her soul resides in the Holy Sword that Kouki wields, which began showing sentience within the Haltina Labyrinth. |
| 1449 | * GodOfGood: Was the noble god of Tortus before Ehit usurped her. |
| 1450 | * MorphWeapon: In After Story, The Holy Sword is revealed to be able to transform into multiple forms. |
| 1451 | * SealedGoodInACan: Following Uralt and her champion's defeat by Ehit's hands, she sealed her soul inside the Holy Sword she created to oppose him. |
| 1452 | * UndyingLoyalty: To Kouki, even more so than anyone else, as the Holy Sword had stood by his side even when he was brainwashed. In After Story, the sword insisted to tag along in his journey for redemption. |
| 1453 | [[/folder]] |
| 1454 | |
| 1455 | [[folder:Aularodde Lea Refeat]] |
| 1456 | !! Aularodde Lea Refeat |
| 1457 | The goddess of Heaven's Tree. |
| 1458 | ---- |
| 1459 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Kouki had won her over simply by giving her a can of Monster Energy, with the spent can becoming her NumberOneDime. It's quite a JustifiedTrope considering that she hadn't had anyone being as nice as he was in the last 5000 years. |
| 1460 | * CompleteImmortality: She literally cannot die or even faint as long as the Heaven's Tree is intact. It also doubles as AndIMustScream in the battlefield, as she had gotten used to surviving through various traumatic injuries. |
| 1461 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: At first she appears to be a dignified goddess who attempted to beckon Kouki to fight her cause. When her summoning call was rejected, she quickly breaks down to reveal the haggard, overworked goddess who was one foot away from death by exhaustion. |
| 1462 | * {{Foil}}: She is this to several characters. |
| 1463 | ** To Yue. Both of them were effectively immortal and borderline MadwomanInTheAttic, and their meeting with their lovers had similar premise, but the girls was won over in contrasting manner. |
| 1464 | ** To Liliana. While Liliana is a voluntary workaholic who experience withdrawal symptoms when she isn't working, Aula was thrusted into her goddess role and worked like a corporate slave in a black company. |
| 1465 | ** To Ehit. Both of them were deities who had effectively [[GoMadFromTheIsolation gone mad from their isolation]]. While Ehit is a MadGod who plunges the inhabitants into a ForeverWar out of sheer boredom, Aula is a kind but workaholic goddess who worked endlessly in a CrapsackWorld to the point of being completely enslaved by her job. |
| 1466 | ** To Uralt. Both of them are rival goddesses who had pledged their UndyingLoyalty to Kouki. Uralt is a lost goddess whose soul resided in his Holy Sword and insisted in tagging along with him in After Story, while Aula is an immortal goddess who can transform into a black wooden sword of similar caliber. And both of them are trying to one up the other. |
| 1467 | * MayflyDecemberRomance: To Kouki. It's also a case of EarnYourHappyEnding for Aula, since her life until then had been a lifetime of endless work in managing her world. |
| 1468 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Aula is easily one of the oldest character in existence, holding onto her job for a whooping 5000 years. |
| 1469 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: After 5000 years, she finally managed to find her dream husband. Unfortunately for her, she had to contend with Uralt and Moana as her love rivals. |
| 1470 | * SleepDeprivation: So much so that she looks like she was about to die from overwork, complete with ExhaustedEyeBags. |
| 1471 | * {{Workaholic}}: She had been the EternalEmployee in her world management for a whopping '''5000 years'''. As someone puts it, she has been ''completely'' dyed with the color of a corporate slave, as her solution to everything is to throw even more workhours into her job and apologize profusely for her incompetence. |
| 1472 | * WorldTree: Her world's tree was noted for its enormous size, named as Heaven's Tree for it is literally tall enough to pierce the heavens. |
| 1473 | * {{Yandere}}: She fell head over heels for Kouki ''with ridiculous ease'', desperately clings on him like no tomorrow and too delusional to hear his rejections. |
| 1474 | [[/folder]] |
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