Characters / Cheat Magician Life That Started From Being Judged Useless

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Protagonist and summons

Kobuku Kento

Camilla, you seem to be misunderstanding something. If we could travel freely between worlds, my home country would bring an army that could reduce your country to ash in a single day!

Always mocked as "useless" by his class back in Japan, with his grandmother dead, his father having abandoned the family to screw around with a mistress, and his mother always away doing her own thing, he had no positive influences, and his teachers never gave him encouragement, just scorn, lectures, and ridicule, no matter what he did, so he just gave up, and was sound asleep in class when the summoning ritual took place. When it's his turn to be appraised by the [Evil Eye Crystal] presented by Princess Camilla, the crystal failed to react. Unwilling to take on a "useless burden," repatriate him back to Japan, or kill him outright to avoid offending her most promising healer, the former class president, Camilla "gives him a last chance to prove himself" and sends him to walk through a forest at sword point, to a supposed ally fortress city. She never tells him the forest is full of monsters, nor that the fortress in question is actually part of another country. It soon dawns on him, however, as he's quickly set upon by a horde of goblins that proceeds to try and eat him alive. As a result of this cruel act, he awakens both his [Dark] and [Light] magic and can use it without any chanting, both healing himself back to perfect health and calling to himself an army of skeletons that protect him until he's recovered and got his wits around him. As Kento has to learn how to live in this new world, his top two priorities are rescuing the rest of his class and getting them home, and make the Evil Princess pay, in that order.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Eye-color version. He's described as having black hair and eyes in the novel, but the manga has him with blue eyes.
• And Then What?: He was so busy trying to get restitution from Rosenberg and repatriating his schoolmates home, that he never considered what comes after. So when Seraphima asks him, he blue-screens for a bit before he finally comes up with "as long as me and mine are safe and happy, who cares."
• Antagonistic Offspring: Downplayed and justified. He and his father's relationship is so strained that Kent won't lift a finger to rescue him from a natural disaster and suspects his father wouldn't want the aid either, unless there was no other option. Because the lout is just so uncaring and neglectful that he has to be stabbed with a knife 20 times before he realizes his actions are hurtful and his apology letter is just condescending, at best.
• Anything but That!: Though he's been sorely tempted on many occasions, even when it's justified, like when an assassin came for him, he's been very squeamish about even trying to turn people into part of his genus. The reasoning is that he sees his genus as family and wouldn't want someone who tried to hurt him as a family member, and when he converts beings into undead, he basically overwrites their character, so the person he claimed would technically be someone else entirely, and he's just not comfortable with that.
• Bad Powers, Good People: His [Dark] magic is ideal for assassination and necromancy, but he uses it as ethically as he can and is a genuine hero, saving the city of Volzard on a repeated basis.
• Bait-and-Switch Comment: In chapters 175 and 176, as he's tucking Camilla into bed, he begins going over her sins against him. She thinks it's him once again taking her to task, and whines that she's apologized too much already. He tells her to be quiet and let him finish. He gets through the list to let her know that he forgives her and returns her affections. Cue the Beautiful Tears of Joy before she goes to sleep. D'aww...
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's a total sweetheart, but one would do well to not make him angry. He's not just a powerful magician, but he's deceptively clever and cunning, plus he's got an army of competent retainers that would love to mess you up if you offend him or his.
• Beyond the Impossible: It's supposedly impossible to use magic without chanting. He does it subconsciously. Even he can't explain how he does that.
• Both Sides Have a Point: Played with. After the rest of his harem learn about Seraphina in chapter 146, Kento, once again, is dragged before Asakawa, Manon, and Beatrice, and forced to apologize "for cheating." He defends himself by saying he was forced into having a relationship with her by the threat of armed conflict and that he did emphatically refuse her affections until said threat was brought to bear, all of which is true. Asakawa then retaliates by asking how Kento would like it if any of the girls in his harem were also romantically involved with another guy, and Kento admits that he wouldn't like it. The counterargument has a couple of key flaws; first, Kento is not in a harem willingly in the first place, and second, the guys Asakawa holds as examples are guys Kento pointedly doesn't get along with either. He is still forced to apologize in seiza, just because he's the guy in the relationship. AND they all still harp that Camilla is still no good.
• The Cassandra: Thanks to a bunch of impostors using his name and making up isekai stories for laughs, the police don't believe him when he comes forward to testify about what happened to him and his schoolmates.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': He just can't catch a break. When his Storm Cat genus accidentally loses bladder control in an alley, he has to clean it up, which makes sense, but when an arrogant and cocky tamer Rujia challenges him to bring out his strongest summon and she wets herself in terror after seeing said cat, he has to clean that up too.
  • His wives always, always, always, somehow smell it when Kent has a woman throw herself at him, even if it's in a distant land, he washes his clothes, and bathes. Whenever that happens, he's forced to kneel in seiza and gets lectured for hours.
• Cast From Hitpoints: When he learns body-enhancement magic from Lau and Reese, he learns it too well and winds up wrecking his limbs in the process of trying to use it. Lau gives him backhanded congratulations and then tells him that the only remedy is to practice until he can learn how to use it without hurting himself.
• Casting a Shadow: One of the biggest perks of his [Dark] magic is that he can send himself into any shadow and use it to teleport to another shadow he or his genus is familiar with, regardless of distance. He can also store corpses and other non-living things in there, completely inaccessible to others unless they also have a high degree of [Dark] magic.
• Celibate Hero: He's in a harem situation and has entertained the thought of going all the way with them on numerous occasions, as well as having several other women openly throw themselves at him for various reasons. In spite of all that, he keeps it in his pants because he's well aware he's got too much on his plate to deal with the aftermath as it currently stands.
  • Downplayed later on after his five official love interests insist on having sex with him, and he obliges, but he pointedly refuses and flees from any other woman who throws herself at him. He still admires pretty women, but he'd rather not give his four official wives reason to be mad at him.
• Character Development: He goes from being a boy that's timid and easily pressured to a legit S-class adventurer who can negotiate on equal footing with governments and from working himself to the brink of death, throwing his all into whatever problems are in front of him to a guy who can delegate and only moves in when the threat is too much for others to deal with instead. He also goes from being vengeance obsessed with Camilla and her knights to being a legit hero of Rosenberg. And straight up marrying Camilla herself.
• Chekhov's Skill: When he was in Japan, the school authorities loved to punish him for being narcoleptic and sleeping in class by forcing him to weed the school grounds. One of his first jobs in Volzard is weeding a farm.
• The Chessmaster: While he does occasionally make mistakes, he is very clever and cunning, always scheming to get the most out of any situation he has to face.
• Chick Magnet: He is very popular with women, and it's justified. He's cute, hard-working, powerful, influential, wealthy, dotes like crazy on the ladies who dote on him, is great with kids, and treats his obligations seriously. Any woman worth her salt sees he'd be a good husband and father.
• Chivalrous Pervert: He likes to peep, has frequent fantasies about the women in his harem, and a few outside it, loves getting sexually teased by women, aside from the clearly predatory dark-elf Reese, and is just generally mischievous, but he is very doting and protective of the women in his sphere of influence and takes his obligations seriously. In fact, learning that one of his male classmates welched on the responsibility that comes from (possibly) getting the girl he hooked up with pregnant made him so angry that he threatened the guy with a fireball the size of his head, and when that failed to register, just punched him in the face.
• Classical Anti-Hero: Due to his neglectful upbringing and all the scorn he's received from authority figures, his self-esteem is basically non-existent for a significant part of the story.
• Combat Pragmatist: The only time he fought fairly was spars in the CQC class. In a real fight, he uses every trick he can to skew the odds in his favor, even sniping his enemies from the shadow space where they can't reach him.
• Covert Pervert: Well, he'd like to be covert. Being a healthy, heterosexual teen, he does enjoy the harem situation he finds himself in, and frequently fantasizes about the attractive women in his sphere of influence. Of course, the women in question pick up on it, and the reactions are ... mixed.
• Consummate Liar: When he does lie, which is usually as tactical deception, he is scarily good at it. He scuppers not one, but two civil wars in foreign countries, by himself, by playing the enemy commanders like fiddles with clever half-truths.
• Defeating the Undefeatable: When going up against gryphons, which are thankfully rare, the general consensus is there are only two ways to deal with them. 1.) Turtle and hide until they get bored and go away to a better hunting ground. 2.) Flee the area in the middle of the night and pray they don't catch you because they're insanely fast, powerful, durable, attack from so high in the sky that they look like sesame seeds when they're the size of horses, and highly resistant to magic. It took five days of trial and error before Kento managed to put together a plan that actually worked, and even then, he needed the entire might of Volzard's garrison and the local adventurers to pull it off.
  • When he's facing off against the Gigas that Barshania's entire army couldn't even scratch, or rather they could only scratch it and it would heal up again, he used the same strategy as with the gryphon, stealing away its special abilities with a custom slave-bangle, and after the army vented their grudges, letting Reinhard and crew chop it to pieces. When two new and fresh Gigas showed up, he just stomped them with orbital bombardment, though he lost out on their monster stones.
• Death from Above: When he's helping Barshania deal with a monster known as Gigas, that has insane defensive strength healing factor, he listens to his skeletons speak about legends of a "spear of judgement" and the drawings they make look like a modern cruise missile. You inspires him to create golems that duplicate the effect. Cue orbital bombardment as his new trump card.
• Dramatic Irony: He learns in chapter 90 webnovel that he can go back to Japan, after much prodding and pushing from his class, but he's the one who wants to stay while the rest want to go back, and he can't take them!
• Expy: When he finally gets a response from his father, via letter, in chapter 113 of the novel, he sounds like a love child of Gendo Ikari. His father abandoned and neglected him because he didn't know how to show affection and was actively afraid of his own infant son, sexually exploited one woman while yearning for another, and when the woman he exploits inevitably has enough of his nonsense, she snaps and comes at him, then kills herself, all ending with meaningless and unsatisfying apologies and platitudes about how he was just scared and didn't realize he was being Obliviously Evil, leaving behind a bunch of emotional wreckage. After reading the letter, poor Kento now feels worse off about his own romantic entanglements, fearing becoming like his own father who had no affection growing up, if the letter's contents can be believed.
• Fatal Flaw: His desperate desire to be loved is both his greatest strength and most glaring weakness.
  • His desire for affection motivates him to repeatedly engage in heroics against horrifying odds for both Volzard and Lastock, the latter of which he has damn good reason to see as enemies, which impresses Camilla enough to swear fealty to him and fall in love with him.
  • On the other hand, this desperate need causes him to be dragged around by his harem and forced to apologize "for cheating" when a new woman shoe-horns herself in, no matter how much he emphatically tries to refuse her, nor the circumstances, and has led to giving more and more living expenses to ungrateful schoolmates who utterly refuse to try and become self-sufficient and keep coming back to him, hands out wanting more, as if they're his illegitimate children, until Klaus, the town lord, has had enough and orders him to stop.
  • It's telling that, despite having experience with far worse villains, and having people try to kill him on a repeated basis, to date, the only one he's ever straight up tried to kill is Camilla, when she (unwittingly) spat on his desire for affection by offering herself up for sex without having any affection behind it. Once she starts giving him some loving, he becomes much more receptive, only worried about offending Asakawa, otherwise he'd happily give Camilla the children she so desperately wants.
• Finger Gun: Justified. When he wants to fire his light magic attacks, he makes this gesture and fires bullets of light with impressive power and accuracy. When he tried using light magic to attack without the gesture, the results left much to be desired.
• Foe Romance Subtext: After Camilla has surrendered and sworn her servitude to him, he rewards her hard work and devotion with genuine affection and honest concern for her well-being, which she greatly appreciates. He tries to pass it off as Enlightened Self-Interest or Can't Kill You, Still Need You in regards to her, but his Skeleton lieutenants don't buy it.
• Friend to All Children: He gets along great with kids, even getting quite a few Precocious Crush proposals for his kind nature and genuine heroics in fighting waves of monsters. This is true regardless of Volzard or Lastock. The rare exception is usually a jealous suitor to one of his love interests, or an over-protective younger sibling of the same.
• God Guise: Exploited. When he's sent by Emperor Constant to deal with a border dispute between a tribe of his kingdom and a neighboring country that are fighting over ancestral lands, he hides in shadow space and proceeds to steal arms and armor from both sides, plants saplings from Devil's forest in the contested lands, has Fullham roar and rampage a bit there, blows up the explosives warehouse run by the foreign elements, and when both sides go to pray to their gods, uses area affect healing magic on the tribe that gave up the fight, while summoning a tornado which catches fire as it destroys their ships, convincing both sides that the gods want the fighting to stop and the contested lands to go vacant.
• Good Feels Good: He's the kind of guy who grows from praise. As such, he frequently overworks himself because the city of Volzard, as a whole, shows him gratitude for his hard work and many heroic acts.
• Good Is Not Soft: He's generally a very nice guy who frets at the thought of inconveniencing others, but if he finds himself dealing with monsters or people who are irredeemably evil, he has few problems being swift and brutal.
• Guile Hero: He's a powerful adventurer not just based on raw power, but clever and cunning ways to implement it. Case in point, when 10,000 orcs move on Volzard and start hurling boulders, he goes to the mountain near the local dungeon and gathers up even bigger boulders to drop on their heads using his shadow space.
• Healing Hands: He has powerful healing magic thanks to his [Light] attribute.
• Henpecked Husband: His harem, specifically Asakawa, drag him around, and he's always forced to apologize when a new woman forcefully inserts herself into it.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Zigzagged. In the new world, his name is as clean as the driven snow and precedes him with heroic feats. In Japan, however, the press just writes whatever the hell they want about him, without care if it's true or not. Public opinion swings back and forth like a bladed pendulum as a result. As much as it angers him, there's nothing he can do about it.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: In addition to the politics involved, the biggest reason he has problems dealing with his Unwanted Harem is that he's desperate for affection, and it doesn't take much to guilt-trip him away from refusing romantic suitors whose gestures are genuine.
• Intimidation Demonstration: He strongly prefers to put the fear of god into his enemies rather than kill them the vast majority of the time. This takes the form of paranoia gambits, implied death threats, using their own explosives to destroy their base and demoralize them, or even causing grievous injury to make them realize he's not to be messed with. If none of that works, then he's got no qualms killing them, even if he does wind up mourning at their grave afterwards.
• Just a Kid: People who've never met him tend to have strangely distorted images of "Demon King Kent Kokubu" and utterly refuse to recognize him when he identifies himself, even when he presents official ID, thinking he's a deluded brat who's faking it. When they learn the truth, they tend to pale in terror at his The Dreaded reputation.
• Light 'em Up: In addition to his healing abilities, his light magic can be used in attacks, very effectively.
• Living Emotional Crutch: On both ends. If he didn't constantly sneak into Asakawa's bedroom while she was a slave in Lastock, she would have died from overwork and despair. In return, going on dates with Asakawa and the rest of his Unwanted Harem keep him from breaking under the stress he faces as The Perils of Being the Best.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Downplayed. When pressed by Japanese diplomats and ambassadors, Kento spells out that his first loyalty is with Volzard over Japan, though he's still willing to work with Japan to repatriate his fellow schoolmates and in diplomatic relations. His reasoning is as follows:
  • Japan's education and legal systems completely failed him. Absolutely nothing was done on his behalf to redress his narcolepsy nor the parental neglect he lived under. Volzard, on the other hand, took a chance on him, giving him an interest free loan without guarantor nor collateral, and gainful employment, when he apparently had nothing to offer and was at his lowest.
  • The authorities in Japan, by and large, turn a blind eye to all his hard work, focusing on his magic powers and his harem, so they can see him as a skirt-chasing playboy, many of them even insulting him to his face, and even set him up with a Sexy Secretary, presumably in order to Honey Trap him, and have the gall to be offended when he's offended by that. Volzard, for the most part, appreciates all his hard work and suffering, rewarding him handsomely, and turn a blind eye to his harem antics, as that's his personal business, and polygamy is both legal and justified.
• Love Martyr: Even when he grows powerful enough to go toe to toe with Kraken, Gigas, Sea-serpents, and so on, he still flinches when Klaus scolds him, and he is always terrified of angering his wives. Klaus calls him out on the first one, and the last is justified, per their "Common to All" entry below.
• Mundane Utility: He uses his magic powers to clean out a hotel room, as part of a training exercise Secret Test, at one point. It Makes Sense in Context. Reese and Lau are duly impressed.
• Necessary Drawback: Since he can't put living things or people into his shadow-space, unless they're also able to use [Dark] magic, he can't rescue his classmates by teleporting into their cells and teleporting back out again. For this reason, it takes him a few months to put together the plan to rescue them.
  • His power parasite ability that he learned from Reese can't be used willy-nilly, as not only is it irreversible and absolute, but he suffers a rejection reaction that caused him extreme head-aches, nausea, and had him collapse. He speculates it will take a week between sessions to fully recover. Having to do it with over 200 people... the prospects are intimidating.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Kento doesn't like to kill people, so when he considers dropping a freaking meteor on Margrave Havre's demesne after he escaped jail by causing the first queen to try to kill Camilla and fleeing his cell in the chaos, and Kento learned that Havre's staff was preparing a "welcome home" party, Kento's skeleton lieutenants are taken aback and talk him out of it.
• Parental Abandonment: His father abandoned the family to go screw around with a mistress. His mother abandoned him for no given reason. His grandmother doted on him, but died.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: He gets almost perverted glee putting antagonists through their very own standards, as much as he can. He took great pleasure driving Camilla to despair when she was an antagonist. He manipulates several Manipulative bastards and bitches to their own doom. He steals the explosives of those who use suicide bombers and then uses said explosives to destroy their infrastructure. And lastly, he teleports a crime boss known for feeding people to monsters and threatens to feed her to monsters if she ever crosses him.
• The Peeping Tom: Justified. He peeks at both Camilla and Asakawa while they're bathing. For the former, he learned that she has a habit of talking to herself in the bath, so he peeps at her to learn what she's up to. For the latter, he's genuinely worried about her well-being, as she's frequently overworked to the brink of death, plus her assigned handmaiden, Erina, is Camilla's lackey and escorts her into the bath, so Kento needs to keep an eye on her to make sure there are no "unfortunate accidents." The fact that both women are very sexually attractive to him is a welcome bonus.
• The Perils of Being the Best: Because of his meteoric rise in fame and fortune, he's the target of scorn and envy from friends and enemies alike, is subjected to numerous Honey Trap events, and has many of his fellow classmates go full-tilt Ungrateful Townsfolk, not showing him gratitude for his efforts in rescuing them, demanding more living expenses after blowing through what he'd already given them, and badmouthing him both behind his back and to his face because of his multiple love interests, that he's earned. He also gets far more responsibility with each rank-up shoved onto him, forcing him to work even harder. Oh, and now he has to worry about assassins if he goes anywhere near Japan. EESH.
• Poke the Poodle: Not willing to jeopardize future repatriation and reparation negotiations, he passes up countless opportunities to kill Camilla in her sleep or when she's otherwise vulnerable, so he decides to humiliate her by making it look like she wets her bed. It's extremely effective.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: Combined with Eye Color Change When he manages to acquire all the magical elements, his hair and eyes turn white.
• Power Parasite: The method he learns from Reese that allows him to take his schoolmates home is to steal their magical power for himself, which is irreversible. When Zakiwasa, who constantly decries him as "disgusting", "trash", or the like volunteers, of all people, he succeeds in getting her back to Japan, and acquiring her ability to use fire-magic.
• Power Perversion Potential: He learns early on to use his ability to hide in shadow space to peep on women bathing or changing, but he only does it when it's warranted like with Camilla and Asakawa, or the women in question have given consent like Seraphima. He bristles when someone suspects he peeps on the unwilling without damn good reason.
• Pragmatic Hero: He prefers to obey the law whenever possible, simply because it's easier to live that way, but when an antagonist decides to use the law as a shield to hide behind while plotting villainy, Kento has little compulsion against bending or breaking the law to hold the scoundrel to task.
• Prone to Tears: He's very emotional and "his eyes sweat" very easily.
• Rags to Riches: He starts the story reaching the town of Volzard with little more than some ill-fitting clothes he salvaged from a monster-destroyed wagon. By the time he's managed to rescue his classmates, he's got so many monster stones and corpses, he could bankrupt the guild if he cashes them all in.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Kento is willing to forgive and forget (or at least try) a lot of nastiness, but rape triggers him like nothing else.
  • When he was being used as a surveillance device in an active bank robbery, he was willing to heed the police's commands to hold back and wait for the professionals to deal with it, until the robbers doped themselves on illegal drugs, forced a woman hostage to take drugs at gunpoint, and started getting ready to rape her. At that point, he disarms the crooks and sends his genus in to beat the ever-loving shit out of them when his sedatives don't work. He was forced to back off when the police threw a flash-bang into the area.
  • When he sees Camilla about to be raped, he beats off the guy, but when the oaf is later broken out of jail, and Kento sees that his servants are preparing a "welcome home" party, despite fully knowing what kind of guy he is, Kento seriously considers dealing with it by orbital bombardment until his skeleton lieutenants, who are all extremely blood-thirsty, talk him out of it.
  • When he learns that three of Camilla's knights treated one of Kent's schoolmates like a sex-toy against her will for the months that she was being held captive, because the girl was pregnant as he was preparing to send her home, he almost immediately used his shadow space to call Camilla to task and have them disposed of, or it would be war.
  • When one of his schoolmates that he managed to successfully repatriate gets kidnapped and rescued, and he has to spend the better part of a day healing her up again, because the Body Horror is that bad, and he learns she was also sexually assaulted he drags the sicko back to his special training ground and has his skeleton lieutenants put the guy through the exact experience, every single night, and then send him back, fully-healed, the next morning, so he lies awake in horror, fully aware of how it feels.
• Rage Breaking Point: Ever since he went to the Japanese authorities, trying to get help to repatriate his classmates, they've put him through a bunch of grief. He was laughed off as "just another impostor" when he first went to the police for aid in making contact with the families of his classmates. He was then slammed to the ground and near constantly provoked by an entitled Rabid Cop who could only see Kent as nothing more than an undisciplined brat that has no respect for his elders and would constantly backbite and insult him to his face, as nothing Kent did to try and get his schoolmates home was ever sufficient, even if Kent risked his life in the process. He got a flash-bang to the face for intervening in a bank-robbery/rape that the police sent him to. Heck, the Japanese government even had him deliver dignitaries and diplomats without reward, and had him escort his own would-be assassin to Volzard. Even the most sympathetic of the police instructed him to "temporarily" blow off his harem, purely for the sake of optics, which Kent promised to consider, and he did, for about 2 seconds before he went, "nope. I need the hugs, kisses, and lap-pillows I'm getting for my emotional, physical, and mental well-being, or I'll have a breakdown." His Japanese personal "appointment specialist" tricked him into healing a Celebrity Figure Skater by telling him it was an emergency and keeping him in the dark until he got there, then kept him out of the loop when the hospital staff broke Japan's equivalent of HIPAA, and spread the word, leading to an outcry when a woman with a little boy died in the waiting line for an organ, and got the runaround, with the secretary herself having resigned to avoid responsibility. Heck, he'd even got to the point where he Stopped Caring about the two-legged hyenas calling themselves reporters. But when the Japanese Government tried to throw him under the bus after he risked his life to save the Earth from colliding with an extinction level event asteroid, just because they didn't want to deal with the aftermath, he went "Enough is enough!" and is strongly considering cutting ties with Japan entirely.
• Red Baron: He has two. "Maou" and "Monster User."
• Relationship Reset Button: Six in-universe months of development between Kento and Camilla was lost when Kent learned that three of Camilla's knights raped at least one of his female schoolmates while they were in Rosenberg's captivity, impregnating her, and 17 more knew about it but kept silent. Fortunately for Camilla, it doesn't last, as he goes back to giving her hugs and kisses after they've been in a few nail-biting scrapes together just a few weeks afterwards.
• Refused by the Call: Thanks to the [Evil Eye Crystal] refusing to react to him, both in Lastock and Volzard, he's initially viewed as inept, though in Volzard, everyone who wants to contribute is deeply treasured.
• Restrained Revenge: He could get his revenge with disgusting ease on the Evil Princess Camilla and her abusive knights, as he's demonstrated that he could drop poison directly into their stomachs, stab them in the heart, or cut off their medulla oblongata with his [Dark] magic, and none of them would ever see it coming, or be able to defend themselves even if they did, yet if he does that, what's going to happen to the innocent citizens of Lastock who now have nobody to defend themselves from monsters? Or more urgently, who is going to reverse the summoning ritual and send all his confused, hurt, and angry classmates home? So, he settles for giving Camilla a nasty Paranoia Gambit, forcing her to solve her own problems and figure out a way to settle her debts as much as she can, or else.
• Royal Harem: Though he emphatically does not want to be a king, among his harem are not one, but two princesses, Seraphima and Camilla.
• Running Gag: Two of them. First, when he's playing his part as the Lone Survivor of a trade caravan, women would grab him and shove him into their chest to "comfort" him so hard he couldn't breathe. When that played itself out, the Volzard city authorities, Donovan and Klaus, would drag him off by the scruff of his neck when they wanted to have a chat with him.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: He doesn't let rules, regulations, or the law, get in the way of rescuing the helpless or protecting the innocent if he can help it.
  • When he's acting as surveillance in a bank-robbery, he is content to hold off while the experts try to negotiate with the hostage takers until he sees the robbers dope themselves on illegal stimulants and drug a woman at gun-point intending to rape her, when the police refuse to act, he and his genus rescue the hostages and beat down the robbers, only then do the police throw in a flash-bang.
  • When a nuclear reactor in France takes a hit from a meteorite, he uses Astral Projection to survey the damage and sees that if something isn't done, quick, the situation's going to make Chernobyl look like a picnic by comparison, he informs the Japanese authorities of it and they, in turn, inform France. Kent waits as long as he can for the French authorities to get their act together, but when he sees that just isn't happening, and things are only going From Bad to Worse, he just summarily teleports the melting-down reactor to the far side of the moon and washes his hands of it.
• Seven Heavenly Virtues: Believe it or not, he's got them all, and suffers for them.
  • Charity: He spares Camilla and her sadistic knights for all the horror they put him and his class through, because he's concerned about the citizens of Lastock, and he tries his best to give his schoolmates a leg up in Volzard so they have a fighting chance. The former fear him and the latter have quite a few Ungrateful Townsfolk.
  • Chastity: Yes, he peeped, fantasizes about the women who have made it clear they want him, and gets harem cravings every once in a while, but he keeps it in his pants and is unwilling to lay his hands on them until he's got everything stable enough to take care of the kids that are going to come from it. He gets constantly ribbed about it from several vectors.
  • Diligence: He works hard to meet his goals, perhaps too hard.
  • Honesty: He just can't tell a convincing lie to save his life, nor does he want to. He does disguise his identity when he first came to Volzard, but once he was certain Camilla wasn't actually affiliated with the place, eagerly came clean.
  • Humility: While he does grow from praise, it never gets to his head and he remembers his deprived roots.
  • Patience: He's only in a rush when the situation is dire. Left to his own devices, he's more than willing to wait or work at his goals as long as it takes without complaint.
  • Temperance: He doesn't care for wealth or luxury. As long as he's got a roof over his head and the needs of him and his are met, he's more than content.
• Shoot the Hostage Taker: Using hostages against him is a horrifyingly bad idea. Especially if they're people he cares about. He either terrifies the hostage taker, or would-be taker, with very, very credible threats that he won't hesitate to carry out, utterly wrecks the taker's goals and schemes, or if he fails to rescue the hostage, retaliates with extreme prejudice, making the taker go through the exact experience as the hostage, as much as possible.
• Sickening Sweethearts: With all the girls of his harem, including Camilla. Whenever he winds up doting on any of them, everybody around gets murderously jealous, especially the knights under Camilla, some of whom tried to enslave or kill him for the affront.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: Downplayed. When he's tasked by Klaus to train up those classmates of his who decided to stay and become adventurers, he takes them to the special training area set up by Reinhardt and throws monsters at them, letting the trainees figure out how to fight by themselves, but he watches over the fight carefully, ready to step in at a moment's notice, so the danger level is minimal.
• Skilled, but Naive: He's extremely powerful and talented with his magical abilities, making him the youngest S-rank, ever, but his experience seriously doesn't match is rank, so he makes a lot of rookie mistakes. Fortunately, he's a very quick study and seldom makes the same mistake more than once.
• Skipping School: Justified. When it became known that it might be possible for Kento's schoolmates to return, the Japanese education system sent textbooks with Kento for the all the students to take supplemental classes, to their chagrin. Kento himself never attends class because he just doesn't have the leeway, as he's off dealing with armies both monster and human, negotiating the reparations with Rosenberg, trying to prevent Rosenberg from being destabilized by enemies foreign and domestic, which would screw up said reparations, and trying to keep Japan in the loop, and to top it all off, being the only possible vehicle that could return said classmates, which is inherently extremely dangerous, and he has to deal with all his nominated tasks at the adventurer's guild too...
• Sleepy Head: In Japan, he was narcoleptic and would fall asleep in class, no matter how much sleep he got the night before or how hard he struggled to stay awake. His parents were so apathetic that even though the teachers would routinely give them notice that he fell asleep in class, all they would do was look at his poor grades and say "study harder" rather than take him to the doctor and try to find out what was wrong.
• Squishy Wizard: Downplayed. Outside of his magic, he's just a bog-standard human and knows it. That's why he goes to Donovan and signs up for CQC classes as well as getting training from Reinhardt, thus making him a bit less "squishy" if someone or something gets past his spells, somehow.
• Stock Light-Novel Hero: Reconstructed. He showcases what living the isekai "cheat" life is really like. It is not easy. He is the constant target of envy and jealousy, has gold diggers throw themselves at him, has had armies and assassins sent at him from both worlds because the powers behind these threats don't like the fact that they can't control him, and he's frequently not recognized because rumors about him don't exactly match how he really is. But he chooses to live that way because the women he's been forced to marry actually love him, and his efforts to secure the city he now calls home are appreciated.
• Stupid Good: He gives his classmates living expenses even when they mock him both behind his back and to his face, refusing to try and learn to fend for themselves. It takes something like Takayama being arrested for setting a building on fire, as a result of a brawl, to make him cut them off.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Though he sees himself as a citizen of Volzard first and foremost, the law doesn't agree with him. He is legally the victim of a kidnapping incident, dragged out of the country to a land with no diplomatic ties to Japan, so he's still legally a Japanese citizen, bound by Japan's laws. Ergo, when he inevitably marries his love interests, the marriages won't be legally recognized and trying will get him labeled as a criminal under Japan's bigamy laws.
• Technical Pacifist: To date, Camilla's the only person he's ever tried to kill with his own two hands. Most of the time, he either avoids killing altogether, although the victim often thinks death would have been better. He sees no problem letting his genus do the killing when death is the only possible way to deal with an antagonist, like bandits who are wanted dead, or letting the fool do something that gets them killed by someone else.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Downplayed. Since he's got the title "Maou" and Camilla insists on treating him as one, he decides to just roll with it, to strengthen his hand during negotiations, and to make the odds of getting reparation better.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Out of all the things he's been through, he can't find it in himself to forgive Princess Camilla for any of her wrongdoing, both abusing the rest of his class, and sending him, at sword-point, into a dangerous monster-filled forest to die.
  • Subverted after Camilla's been Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by worse antagonists a few times, realizes the horror she put Kent through as a result, and genuinely repents of her early nastiness. At this point, Kent falls in love with her and reciprocates her devotion. And There Was Much Rejoicing on both sides of the fourth wall.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Livre (grape) wine. His first job in Volzard was picking Livre in an orchard and was treated very kindly by his employers, so he has a real fondness for the drink out of sheer nostalgia.
• Traumatic Super Power Awakening: He awakens his magical powers as a result of being Eaten Alive by a horde of goblins.
• Two-Person Pool Party: Well, five person pool party. After finally building his own home, where he can live with his four official wives, Manon, Asakawa, Beatrice, and Seraphima, they barge in on him bathing, and do the deed all at once. With the only in-story comments being "I finally climbed the steps to adulthood" and "I can't do that every night."
• Unique Protagonist Asset: He's the only one who can use magic without chanting, either in his head or aloud. And it's not until Rujia, Melika's brother, has a power awakening that anyone else could use shadow space to move about.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: And Belligerent Sexual Tension. No matter how much Kento hates what Camilla did to him and the rest of his schoolmates, he can't help but be infatuated with her physical beauty, elegance, and royal aura, and openly proclaims such whenever he's asked about her. Camilla's picked up on it, yet the one time Camilla tried to act on it, she got punched in the face.
• Unwanted Harem: Reconstructed. He sought out the affections of Manon, the girl adventurer who was kind to him before he became rich and famous and showed him affection without asking anything in return. Circumstances force him into romantic entanglements, with Manon labeling him "a cheater." The women in question compete for his affections in a near-constant Lover Tug of War.
  • Beatrice— The daughter of Klaus Volzard and Anette Volzard. Her father is the town lord and her mother is Captain of the Guard in the garrison. BOTH of them are pushing him to marry her to tie him to the city, even being willing to feed him drunk and have her Honey Trap him.
  • Tadaka Asakawa— The class president. If not for him constantly sneaking into Lastock to heal her, she would have been overworked to death, and he's her Living Emotional Crutch. If he cuts her off, she may just kill herself, and boy oh boy would the rest of the class come after him then.
  • Seraphim of Barshania. The first princess. Part of the peace treaty with her home country requires Altar Diplomacy, if for no other reason then to assuage public fears because Kento managed to sneak past her guards and catch her sleeping. In their culture, that's a Shotgun Wedding.
  • Camilla— Klaus orders him to marry her in front of the other four, because Volzard needs options in the event the city gets cut off by monster stampede and Lastock of Rosenberg is now the closest city. They're not exactly thrilled with it, but they're not going to force Kent to apologize this time because it's absolutely necessary, in a matter of life and death.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Chapter 685 reveals that one of the many unintended consequences resulting from his many, many heroic acts and accomplishments is that adventurers his age see it and go "If Kent can do all that at my age, I can do it too" and try to emulate him, while lacking the proper skill, talent, power, and experience. The number of teen adventurers meeting an untimely death as a result is unprecedented.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: Averted. When Camilla's finally had enough of his Paranoia Gambit and gets down on her hands and knees, crying tears of remorse and pledging life-long service, he's overjoyed and does his best to keep his composure.
• We Cannot Go On Without You: Which the leadership in Volzard constantly reminds him. There are so, so many tasks that only he can do that if he works himself to death, everything would pretty much go sideways.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Invoked. When his grandmother died, he had basically no parental support system, so he had to learn how to support himself at an early age. This makes him far, far more mature than the rest of his classmates who, far more often than not, act as if they're his illegitimate children, always coming to him hands out demanding more, refusing to try to support themselves, and berating him when even the tiniest thing goes wrong, regardless of who's at fault.
• Workaholic: Because he's addicted to the feeling of gratitude he gets from the townspeople of Volzard and his desperate desire to be "useful" he frequently has to be ordered to stop and rest by anyone and everyone he sees as an authority figure to stop him from working himself until he drops, and then using healing magic on himself to start up again.
• Would Hit a Girl: As demonstrated by the fact that he punched Camilla in the face, twice, if he believes he has just cause, gender is not an issue as to who he will punch.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: He has both [Light] and [Dark] magic in abundance.
• You Can't Go Home Again: As he was investigating Japan's situation, he learns, to his horror, his mother stabbed his father 20 times, and although said father survived, he's in hiding from the press. His mother committed suicide in prison awaiting trial for said stabbing. An impostor that looks very much like him came forward to the police with an isekai story, but because Kento's father was in hiding, it took the police a week to verify that the fraud was a fraud. To mock the police, countless people come forward claiming to be him, all with different isekai stories. Also, said father sold Kento's cleared out and sold Kento's house while the latter was missing. So he can't go back to Japan full-time, even if he wants to.

Skeletons

We are here to serve, Lord. Command us.

The wandering soldiers who died in battle and answered Kento's call for help.

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• Blood Knight: They are all knights, both in their previous life and in undeath, and there's few things they love more than going into battle with powerful and worthy foes.
• Dem Bones: Self-explanatory.
• The Gadfly: They are loyal and happy to serve Kento, but they love to rib him about his romantic troubles, especially the fact that he's got conflicted feelings regarding Camilla. They know he is murderously furious with her, and agree it's justified, but they also know he's strongly attracted to her and would like to bang her silly, if there was mutual romantic attachment, instead of the whole "apology sex" angle she was going for.
• Hero of Another Story: Chapter 98 of the novel reveals that they and their subordinates were tasked with protecting Prince Arthur from an ambush and gave up their lives for him, but never learned if their efforts bore fruit. Turns out Arthur did indeed succeed the throne and was renowned as a good king who brought untold prosperity to the country of Rosenberg.
• I Call It "Vera": Invoked. They ask Kento to name their iconic weapons, and Kento draws upon the names of legendary weapons from Earth Mythology. Reinhardt's great-sword is named Gram. Basten's spear is named Gae Bolg. Fred's twin swords are named Levatein, and Dirinslave
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: After rescuing Kento from goblins, they point out that the monsters to come are too strong for them, and they can't tear their own monster stones out, so they ask Kento to free all but three of them, Reinheart, Basten, and Fred, by ripping out their monster stone, sending them off to Heaven, and strengthening the remaining three so they can handle the perils ahead. After much hesitation and angsting, Kento complies.
• Morality Chain: They keep Kento honest and morally upright, even stopping him from murdering Camilla in a rage.
• Red Baron: Fred, Basten, and Reinheardt are known as "The Three Loyal Retainers" among other impressive titles.
• Undying Loyalty: They swear to serve Kento until their bodies are no more.
• You Remind Me of X: They serve Kento happily because he reminds them of their former Prince Arthur.

Lizardmen

As Kento is escorting fifty of his classmates to Volzard, they are attacked by a swarm of lizardmen. Kento and crew kill most of them and Kento decides to animate 5, to make his journey back a bit easier.

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• Monster Knight: They are no mindless beasts. They are well-coordinated and disciplined, acting with nobility and honor in service of their liege.
• You Can Talk?: They get this a lot. The original monsters were speechless, but the ones under Kento can communicate in the human tongue just fine.

Kobolds

A swarm of Kobolds Kento kills and then revives through necromancy, then reinforces with monster cores.

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• Killer Rabbit: They're small, cute, and fluffy. They're also strong enough to take down ogres.
• Pyromaniac: They love seeing explosives go off. So whenever Kent is up against an antagonist, they run up to him going "DAWN! DAWN!" which is how they interpret the sound of explosions.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Everyone loves to snuggle these guys. They also tend to greet people by going "Pet me! Pet Me!"
• You Can Talk?: Unlike Kobolds in the wild, these little guys can speak the human tongue just fine, which people say makes them cuter.

Storm Cat Nero

Killed while attacking Lastock, Kento takes its corpse and then makes it his genus as a test.

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• Badass Adorable: As Kento's genus, people find him very cute and cuddly, but he's still a storm-cat and very powerful.
• Blow You Away: When it was alive, it could use wind magic very effectively.
• The Dreaded: Both alive and as one of Kento's genus, it's a calamity class monster and on most occasions, it takes many adventurer casualties just to get it to leave the area. Kento did manage to beat one while protecting Lastock, but could not prevent knight and civilian casualties.
• Panthera Awesome: It's a panther too big to fit in a house.
• You Can Talk?: As with all of Kento's other animal undead, becoming part of his genus granted it the ability to speak, which the original monster did not have.

The Zenta

Three gigawolves Kento was tasked with subjugating by Camilla, since they were causing problems in Rosenberg. Kento agrees because he decides a gigawolf guard dog would be perfect to watch over his pending family home where he'll spend the rest of his life with his wives and children.

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• Big Friendly Dog: Invoked. After being killed by Kento and made into his genus, they all love to play like really big dogs.
• Canis Major: They are all wolves the size of horses.
• Combat Pragmatist: Camilla's knights couldn't deal with them since they launched hit and run attacks, grabbing one or two farmers in sparsely populated farming villages, hiding in the woods, and then hitting another village far away.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Kento learns where they hole up by using his Kobold summons, who know what Gigawolves smell like, thanks to Bran, to find their lair, and then Kento just uses his shadow magic to sever their medulla oblagata in their sleep.
• Invading Refugees: After Kento makes them part of his genus, he asks them what they were doing in Rosenberg. They reply that the were driven out of Devil's Forest and had to find a new place to call "home."
• Theme Naming: They are called the Zenta because Kento named them, Greta, Seta, and Theta.

Fullham, the salamander

A salamander Kento adds to his genus after defeating it while protecting the town of Berkheim.

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• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: It's over 10 meters long before the tail is taken into account. With the tail, it's somewhere between 15 and 20 meters. Kento never gets a precise measurement.
• Dark Is Not Evil: After becoming a part of Kento's genus, its scales became solid black, but it's a sweetheart as long as it's not provoked nor Kento's in danger.
• Playing with Fire: It spits out fireballs both before and after becoming a member of Kento's genus. Though the latter part was invoked by Kento reapplying its fire attribute.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Played straight when it was alive, as salamanders are very ill-tempered and inherently hostile to humans. As one of Kento's genus, it's actually a sweetheart most of the time.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: It gained gold eyes when it became an undead genus serving Kento.
• Tragic Monster: It didn't want to attack the city of Berkheim. According to the memories Kento gleaned as he was converting it to his genus, it was just walking along in its native jungle, minding its own business, when it fell through a spatial anomaly and wound up in the forest just outside the city, lost and confused, and when it tried to find out where it was, got attacked by the local adventurers, causing it to lash out in retaliation, forcing Kento to kill it in the defense of the city.
• You Can Talk?: Just like all the other normally non-vocal monsters in Kento's menagerie, it can speak in undeath but did not have the ability in life.

Sahel, the sand-lizardman

Formerly one of a herd of 150 sand-lizardmen that invaded and took over an oasis at a Barshain trade-route. Kent adds her to his genus after he had to intervene when an adventuring party, greedy for accomplishments, blew the plan to drive them out, endangering Seraphima.

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• Blow You Away: In both life and undeath, she can use wind-based magic.
• Kukris Are Kool: She fights with a kukuri, both in life and as Kent's genus.
• Non-Mammal Mammaries: She's a lizardman, a reptile, and she's got breasts after joining Kento's genus. Of course, they're hard to ignore since they're at his eye-level.
• Psychopathic Manchild: She was a child when alive but became an adult in the process of becoming an undead. So she's a particularly childish, yet bloodthirsty creature.

Thunder Cats Levin and Vuento

Two thunder-cat monsters Kent and his skeletons subdue and "tame" while exploring southern continent.

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• Badass Adorable: As part of Kent's genus, they are very huggable and friendly, but they are still powerful lightning wielding monsters if provoked.
• Elemental Hair Colors: Since they control lightning, their fur is yellow.
• Intangibility: While they were alive, the biggest problem Kent and crew had fighting them is that they're intangible until just before they strike.
• Man of Kryptonite: They're made of pure electricity, so they're especially dangerous to Fred, who is made of carbon composite.
• Panthera Awesome: They are cats big enough to ride on.
• Shock and Awe: They're called Thunder Cats because they control lightning.

Kent's harem

Common to all

• All Women Are Lustful: Make no mistake, Kent loves the sex they offer, but they're the ones that pursue him, not the other way around. Kent would have been satisfied with hugs, kisses, and some petting every now and then. To his surprise and amazement, his first sexual experience was taking a bath and having them barge in on him, doing the deed four on one. Plus before that, several of them tried to tamper with his food, pin him down, and honey trap him, forcing him to Marry Them All.
• Anger Born of Worry: Whenever Kent foolishly overworks himself, usually in genuine heroics, none of them hesitate to chew him out for it, especially Asakawa who goes into hours-long lectures despite the fact that she has a tendency to suicidally overwork herself too.
• Balanced Harem: Well, Kent certainly tries. He doesn't play favorites, so he tries to give them all equal loving, but due to their respective duties and outside obligations, this isn't always possible.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Given a choice, each and every one of them would monopolize Kent if she could, and they've all openly said so. When the harem was being put together against Kent's wishes, he'd be forced to apologize "for cheating" every time a new woman shoehorned herself into it.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Yes, the ladies of his harem give him plenty of hugs, kisses, lap-pillows, and lots and lots of sex once their marriage is official, (or in the case of Camilla, the intent of marriage is officially recognized), but chapter 669 reveals that Kent is right to be terrified of their anger. Asakawa, in addition to hours-long lectures, is fond of using physical enhancement to pinch Kent with enough force to make him bleed through clothing. Manon has a history of throwing heavy objects at him. Beatrice doesn't do anything herself, but she's fond of reporting on Kent to the first two and watching them go at it. Seraphima bites, and she's got feline teeth, meant for rending flesh. It's all played for laughs and if Kent tried to retaliate or run, he would be decried as a villain for either abusing or abandoning his women. The only exception is Camilla, who doesn't do any of that, and it was universally considered appropriate when Kent retaliated to her initial hostility, sending him into a dangerous forest at sword-point to die.
• Marry Them All: He either married or plans to marry every single one of these women, after getting mutual informed consent.

Manon

Kent, you cheater!

Kento meets this character in the adventurer's training class.

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• Abomination Accusation Attack: She's fond of calling Kento "a cheater" because the guy has other women forced unto him.
• Elemental Hair Colors: She specializes in water-based magic. As such, she sports blue hair.
• First Girl Wins: Played with. While Kento does his best to keep a Balanced Harem, she can be secure in the fact that Kento likes her without having to be forced into it by situations beyond his control.
• Lady Looks Like a Dude: Kento mistakes her for a guy at first.
• Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Kento learns Manon's a girl when the public bath attendant sends him in, while she's in the bath, and he gets an eyeful, and then a wash-tub being hurled at his head.

Tadaka Asakawa

It's okay. My prince will come.

Kento, you Ecchi!

Pressed into service as Camilla's "Saintess", she's forced to heal the citizens and soldiers of Lastock, with her classmates' training injuries being a distant second. Her workday is so harsh that if not for Kento constantly sneaking in to monitor her, she might have well worked herself to death. When she finds out, she becomes one of his primary love interests and regards him as her "Prince" and Living Emotional Crutch.

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• Adaptation Name Change: In the original novel, her family name was Yukia. In the manga, it's Tadaka.
• Class Representative: She was the class president before the summoning ritual took place.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: She was willing to work herself to death to care for the people of Lastock, under Camilla's orders, but she has, and never will, forgive her assigned maid Erina for taking Funayama's corpse and throwing it into a monster-filled forest to be eaten, even if Camilla ordered it and Erina could not refuse. She also rightly hates Camilla and admits cheering when she heard Kento punched her in the face.
• Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: She and Camilla will never be friends, but after seeing the latter engaged in genuine heroics in the mines formerly ruled by the Calvine syndicate, and put herself in harm's way to protect Manon, Kent, and herself, as they were all offering healing services to the victims of an intentionally triggered landslide, she just can't bring herself to hate Camilla anymore.
• Good Parents: Unlike Kent's, her parents are actually excellent parents, and contrary to her interpretation, openly support her relationship with Kent, to the point that they would open their home for him if he just asks. Said parents don't even care about their young ages nor the fact that Kent's in a polygamous relationship.
• Healing Hands: Her use of [Light] magic only manifests as healing magic.
• Hidden Buxom: According to Kent, her bust is much more impressive than the illustrations would suggest.
• Hypocrite: She unilaterally declared herself Kento's fiancé and forced him into a relationship with herself, but when she learns of other women doing the same, she turns on Kento and forces him to apologize for "skirt chasing."
• Informed Attractiveness: In the manga, she's rather plain for a supposed School Idol. Then again, these classmates are all in the 8th-grade.
• Living Emotional Crutch: How she treats Kento.
• Master Actor: When Kento chooses to make her his "inside man," she plays her role perfectly, making very convincing shows or rage, sadness, despair, etc. on cue. Kento himself is terrified of how effective her play acting is.
• Morality Chain: Fear of angering her is the biggest contributing factor to keeping Kento on the straight and narrow, turning him away from Harem Seeker fantasies.
• Open Minded Parents: Contrary to her initial interpretation, when Kento actually meets her parents, he learns that they actually support the harem situation, because Asakawa is safe and happy.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: When she learns Kento has a history of peeking on her bathing, she pokes him in the sides with utmost precision to be as painful as possible.
• School Idol: She is one of the most desirable girls in the class.
• Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: She forces herself on Kento, calling herself his wife and refuses to take "no" for an answer.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Her attractiveness is much less "informed" when she's put in her Saintess outfit by Camilla. Most of her manga noted dullness was apparently due to her school uniform not doing her justice.
• This Is Unforgivable!: She utterly hates Camilla's villainy so much that even if Camilla manages to atone, she's not sure she can accept the fact that Camilla may well become a fellow love interest.
• Top Wife: She has taken it upon herself to dictate who can and cannot join the harem, and she's the one Kento's the most afraid of offending.
• Workaholic: Her Fatal Flaw. During her tenure as "The Saintess" in Lastock, she worked herself to the point of exhaustion, and beyond, treating the ill, infirm, and wounded citizens, despite being ordered to rest by Camilla and Erina. If not for Kento sneaking in and secretly healing her up again, she may well have killed herself.

Beatrice Volzard

You saw me in my undies (while treating my burst appendix), And Now You Must Marry Me, Kent.

Klaus's daughter.

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• Affectionate Nickname: She's fond of being called Rise by those close to her and orders Kento to do the same.
• But Liquor Is Quicker: With the help of her parents, she has Kento fed drunk and dragged into her bed, in order to have him wake up in a compromising position. Unfortunately for her, his kobold summons put a kibosh to that plan by keeping the two of them separated.
• Elemental Hair Colors: She's later revealed to have fire magic affinity and she sports red hair.
• Honey Trap: When Kento is passed-out drunk, she wears erotic nightwear and tries to sneak into the bed where he's sleeping. The plan fails only because Kento's kobolds came out of his shadow dimension and kept them physically separate.
• Hypocrite: She conspires with her father to drug and Honey Trap Kento, putting him in her bed to try and force him into marriage by having him in a compromising position, but when she learns that Seraphim Barshaina forced him into a relationship with the threat of armed invasion, she gets mad and drags him to Asakawa to force him to apologize.
• I Owe You My Life: Because Kento saved her life with healing magic, she is insistent on marrying him and won't take "no" for an answer.
• Little Bit Beastly: She has bunny ears on the top of her head, which she inherited from her mother. (Though they are hard to make out in the manga or the cover).
• Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: Just like Asakawa, she declares herself Kento's wife and refuses to take "no" for an answer.

Seraphim Barshania

The first princess of the empire.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: When Kento shows up at the strategy meeting where they're planning to invade Rosenberg, and her father and brothers start yelling "Capture him!" with him making them look like idiots as he dives into shadow space, and the next morning after Kento has wrecked the army camp, she can't help but grab her belly and double over laughing at how silly her relatives are.
• All Women Are Lustful: She has no issue letting Kent know that she finds him sexually attractive. She can tell when Kent is trying to peep on her as she's changing clothes, and is not only flattered by it, she gives him an engraved invitation. She further tricks Kent into an official marriage ceremony by keeping him ignorant of Barshania's customs, and conspires with her mother to spike the celebratory alcohol with aphrodisiacs and on their wedding night, pins him down, cow-girl style. The primary reason Kent didn't go all the way is that he didn't know they were married.
• Altar Diplomacy: Part of the peace treaty negotiated between Emperor Constant and Kento involves her being married to the latter, to ensure trade and friendly relations with Volzard. The alternative is marching over 40,000 troops on Rosenberg, which will bring Volzard all sorts of grief.
• Animal Motif: She sports a tiger motif, just like the rest of her family.
• Beautiful Dreamer: When Kento catches a brief glimpse of her sleeping face, he finds her adorable.
• Good Is Not Soft: She is somehow well aware of what's going on in Rosenberg and the actions of Margrave Havre. She doesn't intend to honor her part of the agreement to give the guy rulership of Rosenberg because the guy used the drugs she provided under the pretext of humanitarian aid maliciously.
• Moral Pragmatist: While her motives are inherently good and noble, she has a strong tendency to take the moral stance that brings her and her country the best benefits. Case in point: She planned to betray Margrave Havre because the latter abused the drugs she provided for his injured miners to turn the second and third princes of Rosenberg into brain-damaged drug addicts. She then argues with her father and brothers to honor their agreements with Kento because the boy has demonstrated exceptional talent at guerrilla warfare and would be a great boon to their nation just for that alone.
• Older Than They Look: She looks like she could be Melissa's classmate, with the latter being officially 12. She's old enough to lead an army.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: Her strategies and Kento's are eerily similar, even before they met.
• The Strategist: She's very competent in warfare.
• Vague Age: She's at least old enough to get married and lead armies, but her age has yet to be properly mentioned. The only concrete assertion is that she's older than her petite body would imply.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She calls out her father and brothers for forcing Kento to marry her by threat of sending troops at Rosenberg, and directly threatening his life and then going back on their words by proclaiming their intent to kill him because he agreed to the marriage as a direct result of his life being threatened in the first place.
• Women Are Wiser: She tends to be more level-headed and logical while her father and brothers are all hot-blooded and ruled by their emotions.

Princess Camilla Rosenberg

I am not a patient woman. Don't make me repeat myself over and over. Join or Die. Choose wisely.

The first princess of Rosenberg, she summons Kento's class to this new world to deal with her labor shortage, conscripting them into soldiers and tricking them into wearing slave bracelets. She forces them into Training from Hell by threats and the empty promise of sending them home with a reward when their task is done. She is directly responsible for Kento being sent into a forest full of monsters to die.

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• Abdicate the Throne: Intended. It was always the plan that she would step down in favor of Diethelm once restitution to Japan is complete and the kingdom is stable enough for him to take the throne in her place.
• Accidental Murder: Because she summoned Kento and his schoolmates by grabbing the entire third floor of Kento's school, 48 people died and 157 were grievously wounded, as the school building collapsed.
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: When she and Kent are alone, or close enough to it, he's taken to comforting her by petting her head like a puppy, and she loves it, actually getting jealous when she sees Kent mofumofu his pet kobolds.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Kento finally manages to turn the tables and have her cornered, she doesn't hesitate to beg for her life, though she will happily sell herself into Kento's sexual slavery if that will somehow make up for what she's done. Kento is not amused at the offer.
• Antivillain: Her actions are indeed horrific and unforgivable. But she only did it to safeguard the lives of her people at the pioneer city at Lastock, and would let herself become a Sex Slave to Kento, or lay down her life, in order to slake Kento's righteous wrath, though she'd rather stay alive.
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Ever since Kent punched her in the face when she first offered herself up to him, she's had serious doubts about her sex appeal to Kent, and it's greatly troubled her. When the story reaches the chapter marked "Temptation," she posits the question, almost word for word as she threatens to send herself to a monastery. She finds out that the answer is a resounding "YES", but once again, the reader is spared the details.
• The Atoner: She knows she can't undo her villainy, much as she might want to, and fully understands she can't be forgiven, but she still strives to make up for it, by being a good ruler going forward, giving proper remuneration when the bill comes due, and doing her best not to piss Kento off.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: She's the one who beheads some corrupt knights that raped one of Kento's classmates without end over months, saving him the trouble.
• Bathing Beauty: The manga shows her bathing whenever possible, and she's physically alluring.
• Bathtub Bonding: Attempted but averted. After she and Kento wake up side-by-side, because he collapsed while trying to heal Flochette, she invites him to share a bath with her. Not ready to cross that line, yet, Kento politely turns her down and they bathe separately.
  • She finally manages to convince him to share a bath with her (supervised by kobold summons) in the chapter "The Night of Aldaros is Late" when he shows up in her castle to help her with her task of writing apology letters, uniform drenched in sea-water (It Makes Sense in Context). Unfortunately for the readers, it's off-screen.
• Beautiful Dreamer: In chapter 174, she asks Kento to watch her sleep after Havre tries to rape her and his coup is foiled. Kento admires her sleeping face for a bit before going to sleep in his shadow space too.
• Bedmate Reveal: In chapter 146, Kento once again over-exerted himself to the point of collapse, trying to heal Flochette, Celia's mother, after doing a whole bunch of chores for Japan, Barshania, Volzard, etc. He wakes up with Camilla sleeping beside him. It is at this point, along with a stern lecture from Reinhardt, that Kento realizes Camilla's devotion is genuine and he's been unfairly cruel. Kento is finally convinced to reciprocate her affections and promises to do everything in his power to help her earn her forgiveness, which really tickles her pink.
• Being Evil Sucks: All her villainy has accomplished is angering over 200 emotionally immature teens that now have super-powers of various degrees, especially the protagonist Kento who now has an irreconcilable grudge and can sneak up her to anywhere, at any time, able to kill her with ease any time he so desires, with plenty of reason to desire it, and there's nothing she can do to protect herself. The only reason she's been spared so far is that Kento is sympathetic to the people of Lanstock that she's protecting. This has left her drowning in anxiety that her end will come at any moment.
• Benevolent Boss: She may have been cruel to the summoned teens and teachers, and she definitely has no mercy for insubordination, but she does treasure her men, and when she sent some of them to deliver a message to Volzard, she made it abundantly clear that the men are to prioritize their lives over the message they need to deliver.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: She highlights just how messy it can be to be sired in a Royal Harem. Her father doesn't just have three official wives, who are constantly at each other's throats vying for dominance, but has a revolving door of concubines and mistresses, only caring about his own entertainment, with a Prime Minister who will happily let the country be overrun by monsters to hold on to his job. The three official wives don't keep their jockeying for position civil, they resort to all sorts of horrific means, hostage taking and poisoning are clearly not off-limits, as Cecia clearly attests. Only Camilla's oldest brother doesn't have a twisted lust for her, because he's apparently a homo-sexual, and her two middle brothers, second and third prince, are on-screen engaged in a drug-fueled orgy, while scheming to use an expected monster stampede as a pretext to start a civil war and capture her, to rape until she's a broken shell before throwing her away. As for her youngest brother, he apparently has a fetish where he wants to see his sister Camilla being dominated, as he responds to Kento's boasts that he did just that with sexual arousal towards Kento himself.
• The Cake Is a Lie: She promised Kento a chance to earn a trip back home as one of her soldiers if he made it through a forest to an allied fortress city. Both the forest is full of monsters and the city in question belong to another country. If he somehow made it through the forest alive, identifying himself as an operative of Rosenburg would not have gone well. She also promises to send the class home with rewards if they serve well. This is not a promise she could keep.
• Character Development: Her personality changes so much between the early chapters where she's hostile to Kent and the late chapters where they completely dote on each other that readers of the novel can't understand why readers of the manga hate her, as she's basically a completely different person and one of the most sympathetic characters in the whole story.
• Culture Clash: In Japan, Police Brutality on prisoners is a crime and it's a scandal if that goes unpunished. In Rosenberg, it is technically a crime to abuse criminals and other prisoners, slave bracelet or not, but it's never enforced, so she and her knights saw nothing wrong with taking criminal slaves guilty of petty offenses and "freeing them from slavery" in the Devil's forest to be eaten by monsters after completing the summoning ritual, to protect royal secrets, nor in abusing the teens they summoned and tricked into slavery. Camilla realizes it when Kento points it out. Her knights, not so much.
• Deal with the Devil: How she sees pledging her life to serve Kento in exchange for the power she needs to protect her people.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: For most of Earth, throwing a corpse to be eaten by wild beasts is an extreme form of grave desecration. In this new world, it's common knowledge that people who die with a grudge have a disturbing tendency to rise again as undead, something Kent learns much later from many sources. As such, Camilla had little choice in giving Funayama an Undignified Death...
• Did Not Think This Through: True, reclaiming Devil's Forest may have been her only option, but she would have sooner or later been bumping up against Volzard if she succeeded. She could have made Kento's trek through the forest an official diplomatic mission, so if he succeeded, he wouldn't have such a grudge. Instead she made it an ill-advised Uriah Gambit, giving him a near-death experience and irreconcilable grudge.
• Evil Virtues: She's got a few.
  • Charity: She uses the labor she stole by summoning and enslaving 200 teens to raise the standard of living for her people, most of whom were refugees.
  • Chastity: She is neither easy nor cheap. She considers life-long servitude, restitution possibly in the hundreds of millions of yen, giving up secret above top-secret information, the summoning ritual mechanics, and a constant Sword of Damocles over her head to stay true to her attempts to be a good ruler and atone for her sins, a bargain compared to selling herself into sexual slavery under her victim Kento.
  • Diligence: She's very hard working, in the paperwork to run the city of Lastock, her own combat training, and the preparations to fend off a monster stampede.
  • Temperance: She gives as much of her budget to the people as she can, rarely indulging in any luxury herself. The only on-screen extravagance being her armor and modern-shower baths, and even they aren't that much above the norm.
• Faux Action Girl: She's introduced as a powerful swordsman, capable of hurling the (then overweight) Funayama one handed, by lifting him off the ground with a Neck Lift, and even defeats her two evil, drugged up half-brothers off-screen, but in scenes where she's attacked, Kento always has to come to her rescue. Though to be fair, she's out of focus unless Kento is rescuing her or otherwise needs to see her about something, so she may indeed well be a powerful fighter, but we don't get to see it.
• Foe Romance Subtext: Kento fantasizes about beating her down at times and knocking her boots with happy fun sex so hard she walks with a limp for a week at other times, both in equal measure.
  • In chapter 100, she almost works herself to death, trying to atone for her misdeeds, surviving only because Kento caught her and healed her with magic, but when she hears of an incoming horde of monsters, she bemoans not having the chance to hold her child before she dies. Kento replies "that's up to you." Leaving her flustered and confused.
• Forced into Evil: She didn't want to use the summoning ritual to bring over 200 people of unknown moral character into her world and use them as soldiers against their will; she simply had no other options, and she only intended to use the slave bracelets to keep them from acting out, due to a very justified fear of retaliation. Things just quickly spiraled out of control with Funayama's death by exhaustion.
• Forgiveness Requires Death: There is but one scenario in which Kento will forgive what she's done, and that's killing her and using his [Dark] magic to revive her as one of his genus. He very, very nearly went through with it when he had the chance, only backing off when his own top summon stopped him. Though he tricks her into thinking he did it because he rendered her unconscious and healed her badly bruised cheek, leaving behind notes that call her his genus, over and over again.
  • Later subverted after a great deal of character development and Kent learns her devotion is genuine, to the point he winds up marrying her.

• Freudian Excuse: She's got damn good reason for her actions. The west side of her country is being swallowed by a desert. The east side is dominated by the second and third prince, both of whom are so despicable, she looks like a saint by comparison. To the north is the capital, which is a Wretched Hive thanks to her father, the king, not giving a damn, and to the south is a dangerous monster-filled forest that she has to tame if there's going to be any chances of meeting the needs of her people, almost all of them refugees from said desert.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: True, she's in a really bad place, but that doesn't excuse the fact that she kidnapped over 200 children and some adults, and then tricked them into slavery and abused the hell out of them all, even if the official history, to which only the royal family is privy, is true.
• General Failure: She is neither stupid nor lazy, but her ability to make long term plans, strategies, and tactics leaves much to be desired. If her schemes had gone as planned, she would have burned through all the people she summoned from Japan, just in her training regiment, and the very first monster outbreak from Devil's Forest would have stormed right through Lastock, and trampled the rest of her kingdom unopposed, even if she had the best possible circumstances. As it currently stands, she is entirely dependent on Kento's good will just for her people to exist!
• Good Feels Good: She is ecstatic to find herself as one of the good guys once she swears fealty to Kent. Her people love her, she is admired far and wide, and above all else, the man she loves dotes on her like crazy and gives her all the sex she wants every chance he gets.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Though the gold was very well hidden at the start, she proves to be a very noble and benevolent woman with a head full of golden colored hair.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: She goes from being openly and viciously antagonistic to Kento to being a valuable ally. How much of that comes from appeals to her better nature and how much comes from genuine fear is unknown, even to her.
• A Hero To His Home Town: The people of Lastock adore her as their savior as her heroic acts on their behalf are genuine, and she deals with them up close and personal, but she's kept secret all the nasty stuff she did to Kento's class, so the townspeople are lost and confused about why "The Saint" isn't so friendly any more and why they'd run.
• Hero with an F in Good: More like a C-. Most of her early antagonism is a direct result of her environment and her upbringing. Once she swears obedience to Kento, and it's genuine, she becomes a much better person, is genuinely repentant of her nastiness, and honestly strives to provide what's best for her people and seeks Kento's affections, even asking to stand by Kento's side for life. But if he doesn't hold her hand, she tends to unwittingly slip back into her haughty "royal pride" when she lets her guard down.
• Hidden Depths: She's great at embroidery, which Kent learns by accident when he's paying her a visit as they plan her honor guard to escort her to Volzard.
• Hero-Worshipper: She's idolized the stories of her country's King Arthur since she was a small child and when Kento unwittingly emulates him, she starts falling for him too.
• Honey Trap: When Kento manages to take her by surprise, blade to the throat, to make reparation demands, her first act is to start stripping and offering herself up for sex. Insulted, Kento punches her in the face.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: She uses the summoning ritual which is obscure, difficult, time-consuming, and if she can be believed, very expensive. She gathers together over 200 custom made slave bracelets with special enchantments allowing her and her alone to remove them legitimately. It was only Kento's extreme proficiency with [Dark] magic that allowed him to brute-force past that. She and her knights spent months giving the summoned teens Training from Hell to deal with the monsters of Devil's Forest. Of course, setting up the exclusive maids for Asakawa and Takayama couldn't have been easy. It all went up in smoke because she was needlessly cruel at the very start of the story by sending Kento off to die. Something even she notes and lampshades.

  Camilla: "So I failed at the very first step, huh?"

• I Did What I Had to Do: How she justifies her nastiness. Kento understands where she came from, after hearing her side of the story, but demonstrates that there are better ways, leaving her stunned.
• Lady of War: Beautiful, elegant, well-trained and toned, deadly in battle.
• Lap Pillow: Usually, Kent prefers to be on the receiving end, but whenever they get a quiet moment, Camilla's head winds up in his lap, with her head getting gently stroked. Her maid calls the entire scene "precious."
• A Lighter Shade of Black: As horrifying as her actions are, the rest of the royal family are so horrific that she looks like a canonized saint by comparison. Her father, the king, is a bloated hedonist who doesn't give a damn about the country, as long as his desires to eat, fuck, and be otherwise be entertained are met. Her older brother, the first prince, is an anorexic Nervous Wreck who is so weak-willed that as long as he wears the crown will just go along with whatever his advisors tell him. The second and third prince actively plot rebellion and civil war, and are overjoyed that the western half of the country is being swallowed up by a desert, because that means they'll face less resistance in their coup against the first prince and legally recognized heir, and actively plot to rape Camilla. There is a fourth prince, who at least is willing to listen to advice to be a good king, but is too sickly to actually do anything, apparently by poisoning.
• Living MacGuffin: By the time chapter 136 comes around, it's become clear that just about everybody of influence in Rosenberg is trying to get into her pants, by marriage, as a political ploy, to use her royal status for their own advancement. It's so bad that she considers Kento, the guy who punched her in the face and tried to execute her with a knife once, and still has a hell of a legit grudge as the least offensive. As for Kento himself, he has to constantly remind himself that the culture and values of Rosenberg are vastly different from Japan to keep from lashing out in an incoherent fury, seeing the poor woman being haggled on like she's at the slave market!
• Love Hurts: Once she falls for Kento, she frequently laments that her own villainy has made it near impossible for her to win his heart, especially when Asakawa lays down the gauntlet that if she doesn't make amends to her satisfaction, she can kiss any hope of getting Kento's affections goodbye.
• Love Redeems: Her devotion and affection towards Kento makes her a much better person than when she first appeared.
• Lust Object: Just about all the major named characters want into her pants, or have plans to put someone else in her pants. She's well aware of it and hates it. She wants to be with Kento and no one else.
• Mirror Character: She and Kento have many parallels that are also polar opposites. The list below is hardly exhaustive.
  • She and Kento have horrible families, but while Kento's family abandoned him, she all but fled from hers.
  • Both of them prefer living next to a monster-filled forest over the place where they were born and raised. Kento fell in love with Volzard because for the first time in his life, he gets recognition for his efforts and deeds. Camilla prefers Lastock because living next to a monster-filled forest is less scary than her home life.
  • They both have leadership positions and treasure their subordinates; Camilla rules over knights while Kento rules over his genus. While Kento has three competent and loyal lieutenants to bounce his ideas off of, and get advice from, Camilla really has no one she can fully trust, having to figure everything out herself, getting frustrated and angry when her knights point out her plans' flaws, yet provide no solutions.
  • Both Kento and Camilla are quite fond of the "carrot and stick" approach, but while Kento prefers the carrot, rarely, if ever, bringing out the stick to slap some sense into people, Camilla brings out the stick by default, often the carrot in question doesn't even exist.
• The Mistress: More or less. All the other ladies in Kento's harem see each other as equals, regardless of station, and are very amicable to each other. Even if she manages to put forward an atonement Kento and his class can live with, her villainy has permanently robbed her of the chance to ever be seen as anything but a side-dish, forever in a subordinate position. To her credit, she fully admits it's entirely her fault.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Her horrific actions at the start of the story are directly responsible for giving the world several of its best heroes, and many characters comment on it, from Klaus thanking Camilla for indirectly giving them the means to withstand several monster stampedes to Emperor Constant of Barshania praising her for Kent being there to save them from three Gigas that even one of was enough to utterly flatten his country.
• Ordered Apology: Once Kento has got his hands on proper recording equipment, by the order of the Japanese Diet, he demands a proper video-record apology from her. To her credit, she does her best to offer a genuine, sincere and heart-felt apology, where she takes full responsibility for her actions.
• Paranoia Gambit: On the receiving end. Kento keeps her horrified by subtle ques that he could come after her at any moment. It all starts with Kento making it look like she wet her bed, after dropping a sleeping pill directly into her stomach, then sneaking into other people's shadows and spreading rumors of Camilla's incontinence. Then when he's got her at knife-point, after rescuing all his other classmates, he lets slip several key facts that could only be possible for him to know if he's actively spying on her, and as Camilla is preparing for a massive monster stampede, receiving reliable intel from Volzard that it's going to happen, she keeps finding poorly hidden messages among her belongings showcasing that Kento is well aware of her current situation, and can easily get to her. AND he's demonstrated that offering herself up as a sex-toy for him isn't the answer.
• Playing the Victim Card: In the face of Kento's well-justified rage, both at his own attempted murder, twice, and at how Camilla had his class abused, including the Undignified Death of Funayawa, she plays up her Freudian Excuse as much as she can. Enraged, Kento punches her in the face a second time before he tries stabbing her to death, only stopped by his own soldier, Reinhardt, on the premise of If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
• Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: On several occasions, she's offered to let Kent kill her without resistance if he'll give up his grudge against Rosenberg. Fortunately for her, he prefers her very much alive, and he doesn't have a grudge against the kingdom, but he does insist that certain criminal knights be heavily punished, something she's all too eager to comply with.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: She's openly racist towards the kids she summoned, repeatedly referring to them as "monkeys" when she's speaking about them to her knights. It's one of the first things Kento calls her out on when he's turned the tables and has her at his mercy.
• Promoted to Love Interest: In the chapter "speech," Kent openly proposes marriage to Camilla in front of the Rosenberg royal court, pending on completing repatriation and restitution to Japan, after which she will step down from the throne in favor of Diethelm. She accepts. And There Was Much Rejoicing.
• Regal Ringlets: She's a royal and wears her blonde hair in rings.
• Relationship Upgrade: In chapter 146, the subtext is dropped entirely and she becomes a legit love interest, but Kento's yet to introduce her to the others as her prior villainy is still a serious sticking point for them.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: She offered herself up for sex to Kento when he called her to task, because she thinks that's all that "Maou" want. Kento does indeed find her sexy and would have loved to take her up on it in different circumstances, but what he really wants from her is a public admission of guilt and tears of remorse, the sexy-fun times can come later.
• Royal Rapier: She's a princess and fights with a rapier.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: She's a princess and leads the pioneer town of Lastock against the monsters of Devil's Forest.
• Running Gag: Played for drama. Apparently, even the heavens conspire to keep her from moving in with Kent and enjoying a Happily Married life.
  • Her attempts to atone and reconcile with Japan were set back by a Spiteful Suicide.
  • Kent was nearly beheaded because whoever was in charge of choosing the Japanese staff to go over was easily bought.
  • Diethelm has to go in her place to deliver an official apology because the meeting was targeted by war-mongering terrorists from Japan's side.
  • Camilla has to repeatedly delay her personal transit because remnants of Havre's faction are still launching terrorist attacks with suicide bombers. Some of them even targeting fellow bride Seraphima's caravan, leaving Kent no choice but to end the problem at its source, hitting the terrorists with their own explosives, wiping them out.
  • Nobles in her own country keep sending knight "inspections" at Kent to try and find fault because they think they're "more worthy" to be wed to Camila rather than some upstart commoner, until the knights in question come back saying "yeah. Don't piss-off the kid, as he not only has a mansion better than our castle, but he's got enough martial force to trample our country flat if he wants, and can do it easy!"
  • Hostile factions in nearby countries keep stirring up problems that would greatly destabilize Volzard, Barshania, or Roseberg if left alone, so Kent has to go deal with them.
  • An extinction level asteroid is on collision course with Earth, and Kent had to deal with that.
  • A typhoon floods out Lastock...
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Her horrid actions were all meant to keep a new "Maou" from coming to pass as a result of her summoning ritual. She gets her "Maou" from the very first of her victims.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: She and Seraphima love to bicker about who Kento finds sexier, with Camilla bragging that she shared a bath with him while Seraphima shared a bed. They are otherwise perfectly civil with each other.
• Spared, but Not Forgiven: The only reason she's alive is that Kento sympathizes with the innocent townsfolk of Lanstock, who would become monster chow the moment she and her knights are brought to task for their abuses. He has absolutely no intention of ever forgiving what she's done, and after he learns of the collateral damage their summoning caused in Japan, his anger soared.
• Sympathy for the Devil: After learning of her circumstances, and what she has to face from the rest of her royal family, even Kento felt a small pang of sympathy, but quickly shook his head and told himself "nope, that sympathy belongs to the townspeople, not her."
• Tampering with Food and Drink: When Kent has to wash off some cigar smoke that came from one of his schemes (It Makes Sense in Context), she slips some aphrodisiacs into his tea before joining him in the bath. He noticed and could have used his healing magic to sober up, but nah...
• Token Evil Teammate: As of chapter 98 webnovel, she's the only one among Kento's entourage that has, can, and will do horrible things to keep her people safe. She is neither proud nor ashamed of it.
• Tough Leader Façade: Deconstructed. Her early brutality was spurred in large part by the fact that she was emotionally, mentally, and politically cornered and couldn't afford to show weakness nor mercy. This has caused her to be needlessly cruel to the students she summoned, treating them as slaves and monkeys, earning their eternal ire. The fact that she is actually a good and gentle woman doesn't come out until hundreds of chapters and several in-universe months after Kento has rescued the rest of his class, but by then the interest on her karmic debt makes it near impossible to ever redeem herself.
• Two-Person Pool Party: So far, she apparently prefers sex either in the dark or sharing a bath with Kent. He's equally happy either way.
• Villainous Demotivator: The only way she could think to keep the majority of the class in line was with threats, violence, Training from Hell, and letting her knights abuse them. It quickly reached a point where the only thing keeping them from rebelling outright was the slave bracelet, and they were all quick to flee when Kento came along and gave them the chance.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: When Royal Knight Magdalos not only hurls a knife at Kento, but continues to insult him after the attack is blocked by Kento's genus, Camilla flies into a rage, draws her sword and not only comes for Magdalos's head, but rants a scathing The Reason You Suck speech at her. If not for Kento holding her shoulder and calling her back, Magdalos would have had her empty head flying across the tent where Camilla's entourage was celebrating the coming coronation.
• When She Smiles: Kento thinks her smile should be illegal, because it's just so unfairly endearing.
  "What is this cute creature!"
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: A rare hero on villain version. When Kento has her on the ropes and is opening repatriation negotiations, he eventually gets to the part about all the kidnapped schoolmates, except the dead and fed to monsters Funayama should be repatriated back to Japan. At this point, Camilla admits there is no such magic in existence. After going through several threats, especially selling her into sexual slavery to her two evil brothers, the second and third prince, Camilla screams out that she'd rather die than suffer that fate. Kento loudly proclaims that the only reason she was spared is her initial promise of repatriation, but since that has demonstrably been proven a lie, it's time for her to die. If not for Reinhardt grabbing Kento's arm and stopping him, Kento would have summarily executed her with a knife.
• You Remind Me of X: As she's offering a genuine heart-felt and tear-filled apology for her actions, she goes into exquisite praise for Kento and proclaims that he reminds her of the stories of Wise King Arthur who she's always admired since she was a little girl, and she offers up a Love Confession unprompted. This leaves Kento visibly flummoxed, which Camilla enjoys and his skeleton genus rib him about.

Classmates

Funayama

So. We're your "heroes" right? What perks do you offer us?!

One of the most dismissive students to Kento early on. He tries throwing his weight around immediately after the summon ritual is complete and gets taken to task by Camilla's knights.

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• The Bully: Flashbacks show that he loved to smack his fellow students, especially Kent, around whenever he felt like it, especially when he got a bad grade in class. This is the primary reason nobody gave a damn that Camilla's knights were cruel to him until he wound up dead and fed to monsters.
• Dishing Out Dirt: He's found to have a weak affinity to Earth magic.
• Make an Example of Them: While in Lastock's garrison, he gets fed up with his Training from Hell and decides to cause trouble and rebel. Camilla's knights decide to "punish" him for the "disrespect" but wind up taking it too far, killing him.
• Stout Strength: He's overweight and strong enough to go toe to toe with a fully armed knight, but not skilled enough to actually win, however.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: He starts the story being a real asshole to his teachers and fellow students, and when the summon took place, tried to throw his weight around, insulting a princess in the process, and wrestling her knights. So when he's magically measured and found to be sub-standard, Camilla, the princess in question, wasn't particularly motivated to watch over his training, and his fellow students weren't particularly sympathetic to his plight when the knights decided to use the training regiment as a mechanism to punish him. It's only when his corpse is thrown away to be eaten by monsters instead of being given a proper burial that people start to object, and then, only because it was a bridge too far, and he clearly didn't deserve that.
• Undignified Death: He isn't even given a burial. His corpse is thrown into the Devil's Forest to be eaten by monsters.

Takayama Shuichi

Rather than compensation, please have Celia brought to live with me!

Formerly the captain of the basketball team, he is found to have great potency with fire magic. Preferential treatment from Camilla and his assigned maid Cecile quickly goes to his head, making him think he's a better "hero" than he really is.

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• Breeding Slave: Downplayed. He is shown having sex with his assigned maid, Celia, just off-screen. Though he doesn't know it, until Kento informs him, Celia agreed because her mother's being held hostage by Camila's mother, the first queen, and Celia herself was tasked with siring his heir, hoping to appropriate his fire-magic talent for the royal bloodline.
• Doting Parent: When he learns his daughter was born, he rushes home and immediately begins doting on the little girl. Celia has chosen wisely.
• Drunk On Power: Thanks to getting a large talent for fire magic and preferential treatment from Camilla, his ego swelled quite a bit and he responded to all slights by throwing large fireballs around. Fortunately, a nice stint of being forced to Work Off the Debt when he went too far managed to cool his head.
• Jerkass Realization: He realizes he was wrong about seeing Kento as a traitor for refusing to bail him out, after he set a shoe-store on fire by accident in a brawl, when he's had to endure a nice speech from Klaus, the town lord, and then offered amnesty after helping fight off a monster stampede.
• Lethally Stupid: Unprompted, he reveals the drawbacks to Kento's light-based attack spell. Kento, Reese, and Lau call him out on it, and admonish him to never do that again.
• Love Makes You Dumb: He's a fairly normal teenage boy, but when the subject of Celia comes up, he frequently loses the ability to engage in critical thinking and becomes a raging ball of hormones that just wants her with him at all costs. He has to frequently be reined in and forced to think about the consequences and how to prepare for a self-sufficient life with her, their child(ren) and her mother, who can't return to Rosenberg and has to live with them.
• Miles Gloriosus: He talks a big game about his supposed prowess with fire magic, but in an actual battle, he's far more often a liability than an aid.
• Misery Builds Character: A few weeks of forced labor, after he accidentally set a store on fire in a brawl, takes most of the rough edges off his character.
• Please, I Will Do Anything!: Turns out he genuinely loves Celia and would happily forego any reparations if he can spend his life together with her, begging Kento to bring her out Lastock for him.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky: With a baby on the way, he needs far more money than his construction job gives him, so he signs on with the Flame Hounds, until Kento tells him that's suicidal. So, he joins Kento's Escort Mission guiding Reese back to Landsheld's capital for cash and practical adventurer experience. He has second thoughts when he learns it's not as glamorous being an adventurer as advertised and Lau's putting him through Training from Hell.
• Took a Level in Badass: After being trained by Kento and Lau, he's a much more impressive fighter and magician, and he displays impressive talent on an Escort Mission by blowing up a nest of bandits from over 100 kilometers away without collateral damage.

Yagi Yuusuke

Of course, I Yagi Yuusuke am a Pulitzer winning journalist! That idiot Kokubu and the Japanese government must be in cahoots to keep me down! That's why I haven't got my award yet!

Formerly wrote the school newspaper but is now just another of the summoned students.

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• Awesome by Analysis: He may be lazy and entitled, but he's not a complete moron. He experiments and learns that magic chants don't have to be said aloud, so he's able to use body enhancement magic "without chanting."
• Believing Their Own Lies: Whenever he writes or says something that's less than true, especially if it somehow flatters himself, he deludes himself into believing that it's completely and factually accurate, regardless of any evidence to the contrary and takes it as "slander" if he gets called out on it.
• Character Development: Very slow in coming. It takes the better part of 600 web novel chapters before he even begins to show redeeming traits.
• Did Not Think This Through: When he comes before Klaus with a "get rich quick scheme" that actually has merit, turning it in along with a well written report on the state of prenatal care in Volzard, he forgets several key details, expecting Kent to pick up all the slack. Kent and Klaus both call him out on it, and he begins to realize that maybe, just maybe, he needs to start working for himself and earning the good-will of Volzard.
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Downplayed. Kento's already demonstrated that he's particularly vicious to any man who would rape a woman, no matter how unsympathetic she is, but when Yagi gets honey trapped by having aphrodisiacs slipped into his meal and then having a particularly strong female adventurer literally pin him down so he can't escape, nobody's got any sympathy for him. To be fair, Yagi never mentions the aphrodisiacs part, he just tries to run away without explaining anything, so he comes across as a guy who used Kento's name to enjoy a one-night-stand and tries to run when the consequences catch up to him.
• Entitled Bastard: And completely shameless about it. No matter what Kento does for him, it's never enough. He completely ignores the fact that Kento was grievously wounded rescuing him and the rest of his class from slavery in Lastock under Camilla's clutches and demands more and more from Kento without a shred of gratitude, genuinely believing that Kento is responsible for his life for bringing him to Volzard in the first place. Even after his teachers, all of them, completely lose it and berate him, daring him to go back to Lastock and try and negotiate reparations on his own, he still shamelessly walks up to Kento, who heard it all, and demands a better quality of living than he wants to earn for himself. Kento decides to tempt him with the nearby dungeon, sparing no detail about the rewards and dangers, because if this lout dies in a dungeon, after being warned, it's not his problem.
• Fetish: He's a card-carrying furry, who loves girls with animal traits, and also a lover of big breasts.
• Foil: To Kent, as pointed out by Klaus. Like Kent, his life in Japan was just one failure after another, so he came to the conclusion that he's not good at anything except his fantasy of being the youngest ever Pulitzer winner, and blames his failures on everyone except himself, spiting every opportunity given him, believing that success should be his by birthright. Kent, on the other hand, was given a horrible hand to play, up until the point he was nearly Eaten Alive, and returned gratitude for the opportunities he experienced in Volzard, working hard to earn his success.
• A Handful for an Eye: When he and his female adventurer escort are jumped by an orc, he splashes a water ball filled with pepper powder in its face, allowing them to escape. The female adventurer in question is duly impressed.
• Hypocrite: He near constantly misrepresentsm Kent to anybody who will listen, and refuses to own up to it when he gets called out on it, but whenever Kent points out something about him that's less than flattering, especially if it's true, he angrily cries out "slander, defamation, pay me X-hundred-million-yen" and is flummoxed that his protests are brushed off.
• Intrepid Reporter: What he thinks he is, especially in the manga rendition. In truth, he writes a tabloid.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Well, the gold is about the size of a grain of sand on an otherwise normal beach, but even though he frequently tries to flee his marriage to Mirade, and utterly refuses to accept she's pregnant with his child, he does genuinely want her happy and does care about the unborn child's well-being.
• Lazy Bum: He fancies himself as a reporter, explorer, pioneer, etc., but he's really a shameless "get rich quick" scammer, and a lousy one at that. All he really wants in life is to sit around collecting money, and all the nice things that go with it, while doing as little work as humanly possible. Nobody likes him as a result.
• Making a Splash: The summoning ritual gifted him with water attribute magic.
• Miles Gloriosus: Deconstructed. Using Kent's fame to try and score himself "an exclusive interview" with dungeon diving adventurers, by boasting that he's the brain to Kent's brawn, when he knows he's not, got him targeted by one of them who just happens to be the younger sister of a known Gold Digger. He winds up literally dragged to a marriage hall and forced to sign an official marriage certificate, after being drugged with aphrodisiacs and winding up in a Honey Trap, with nobody sympathetic to his plight.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: In the novel rendition, he rekindles a fight that was peacefully settled by Kondo because he "said something unnecessary" resulting in Kondo being beaten unconscious and Takayama setting a store on fire by accident when he hurled a fireball at one of the youths in the fight.
• Red Baron: "Fake glasses" because he wears glasses and writes a tabloid, passing it off as "news."
• Sexual Karma: From his first appearance, he's been nothing but an entitled, lazy, and obnoxious clod who causes trouble for everybody wherever he goes and shifts the blame for it to everybody but himself. He winds up getting pinned down and honey trapped, then literally dragged to the government office and forced to sign official marriage forms to the very girl who did him dirty, and pegs none of his fetishes, with absolutely nobody sympathetic to his plight, especially when he tries to run.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He honestly believes he's a legit Pulitzer winning journalist; the world just hasn't realized it yet. At best he's a no-name tabloid writing hack. He presumes Kento and the Japanese governments are morons because they won't go along with his self-serving delusions.
• Smug Snake: He uses up all the living expenses Kento provided him buying up weapons and didn't go to class with Donovan, like Kento recommended, because he thought he knew better. This comes back to bite him when he uses those same weapons poorly in a common "kid's fight" and winds up arrested, being forced into labor to pay back his debt to society.
• They Just Dont Get It: No matter how often his "get rich quick" schemes blow up or backfire, or he's held to task for being such an entitled twit, it never registers, and he goes right back to thinking the world legit revolves around him, but he's so Surrounded by Idiots that he never gets the perks he thinks he deserves.

Tadaka Sagara

One of Kent's first rescues from Lastock. She is initially one of those entitled teens who blows all her living expenses right away and then comes back, hands out, begging for more, but she soon redeems herself by working at Flavia's, a local tailor, and introducing modern fashion to Volzard.

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• The Fashionista: She's an excellent tailor, and spends her free time designing new outfits to sell at Flavia's.
• Gone Horribly Right: Downplayed. Nervous about her idea of introducing a swimming pool not taking off, she strong-arms Kent and his four wives to advertise it by showing up in swimsuits she provided. The First Day the garrison had to cut off admission because too many people wanted to come in at once.
• Inventor of the Mundane: In addition to designing new and interesting garments for Flavia's shop to sell, she comes up with the idea of introducing the concept of a swimming pool to Klaus, both for the public and for the garrison to use in the soldier's training regiment on hot summer days. Klaus happily agrees, if for no other reason than to get men and women to meet and hopefully increase the local birth rate, and children are really, really needed there.

Kaizawa

Formerly the leader of a group of delinquents before the mass-summoning event, she appears to be like the vast majority who act as if nothing Kento does for them is ever good enough, but she's surprisingly very, very supportive of him when she thinks nobody is watching.

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• Beneath the Mask: She insults Kento to his face, calling him "disgusting," "trash," and so on, but she's secretly a Hero-Worshipper who sings his praises, even writing a blog back in Japan, with tales of his deeds, including photographic evidence of his major battles.
• Everybody Has Standards: She's fond of calling Kento all sorts of disgusting names for dating multiple women at once, but when Kento's male classmates tried to emotionally corner him and guilt-trip him into dumping Asakawa, she openly proclaims that's worse, and shames them on it.
• Playing with Fire: Before Kento took the ability, so he could get her home, she used to be able to wield fire-based magic.
• Shaming the Mob: When Kento is cornered by a horde of male schoolmates because Asakawa has her eye on him, she calls them all out for their petty jealousy and cowardice, happily telling them that while she sees Kento as "trash" for apparently being a skirt chaser, they are worse.
• Social Media Before Reason: Which restores Kento's honor. When Fuyanama Sr. goes full-tilt conspiracy theorist, calling Kento the mastermind of the class mass-kidnapping, regardless of what the evidence says, she writes a blog and distributes it using her parents' influence as professional authors to show what really went on in Volzard, and highlight Kento's many heroic feats. This forces Japan's Diet to officially recognize the other world.

Sekiguchi

A female student who jumps off Volzard's ramparts when Kento tries, and fails, to bring her back to Japan, using methods other than the tried-and-true method provided by Reese, kissing her until he sucks out her magic powers, which is pointedly very, very dangerous for him.

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• Dying Declaration of Hate: Before she jumps off the Volzard ramparts to her death, she curses everybody, Camilla, her teachers, the people of Volzard, and of course, Kento himself.
• Fingore: When Kento and she touch with matching finger pricks, in the attempt to infuse her with [Dark] magic so he can take her to Japan, her fingers explode. She runs off in a rage before Kento, or anyone else, can heal her up.
• Spiteful Suicide: She jumps off the Volzard ramparts to her death, purely to stick it to Kento and her teachers for trying experiments rather than just kissing her and taking her home.

Tayama

One of Funayama's flunkies back in Japan. He winds up dying when a rock thrown by an orc hits him in the head.

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• Boom Head Shot: How he dies, from an orc-thrown rock.
• Playing with Fire: Until he died, he used fire-based magic.
• Social Media Before Reason: Kento, at considerable risk, sets up cellular phone service between the students and Japan, so there are no more homesickness induced suicides. He and his buddy abuse this privilege by filming selfies as they hunt goblins and other monsters from Volzard's ramparts. While he's making victory signs into the camera, an orc throws a rock at his head, killing him.

Watase

The second of Funayama's flunkies. He was right in the line of fire when his buddy, Tayama, was killed by a rock thrown by an orc.

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• Angst Coma: When Tayama died, Watase went into shock and became completely unresponsive until Japan's government ordered and provided therapist arrived and treated him.
• Social Media Before Reason: The reason his buddy was taking selfies attacking goblins from the castle ramparts was because Watase egged him into a "who can get the most goblin kills" contest, streamed by cell-phone camera.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Goblins approaching Volzard from Devil's Forest do need to be killed, true, but choosing to make a contest of it with Tayama and launching a selfie-live-stream about it cost him his friend's life.

Mita

The student killed by a gryphon when he foolishly sneaked away from the others and the teachers to try and take a picture of it to impress a girl on his phone's contact list.

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• Social Media Before Reason: He sneaks away from the teachers and his class and hangs himself out a window to try and take a picture of a retreating gryphon. The gryphon sees him and smashes the part of the building he's in to get at him.
• Too Dumb to Live: Tayama at least had the excuse that he was atop the ramparts and was killing goblins that were advancing on Volzard from what he thought was a safe distance, which is perfectly justifiable. This twit hung himself out a window to try and get a picture of a man-eating monster way, way stronger than he is that would grab him before he could react the instant it saw him. Even the teachers and Klaus of Volzard write off his apparent death as suicide by stupidity.

Fujii

The second of the two students that sneaked away from the teachers to try and photograph a gryphon. He survives the encounter and it only serves to make him more bitter.

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• Driven by Envy: His biggest motivating factor in Volzard and Japan was sheer envy at Kento's success, even after seeing just how hard the latter worked and the risks he faced. He was also driven by envy at Kizawa's wealth and fame, due to her blogs.
• The Resenter: Being utterly unable to match Kento's success, regardless of his efforts and frequently having to be rescued utterly humiliated him and made him bitter and angry, even though he knows he should be grateful for everything Kento's done for him.
• Social Media Before Reason: Jealous of Kizawa's fame and wealth through her blogs, he tried to take a photo of a rampaging gryphon, for cash, and egged Mita on to do the same. He lived, his friend didn't.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: When he gets to Japan, as seen in his perspective chapter, in exchange for cash, he signs on with a research lab to see if it's possible to use magic on Earth, long-term, and this involves using monster stones to recharge his mana. From his perspective, it worked well, and he was just harmlessly flipping girls' skirts with wind magic, relatively speaking. In reality, he was suffering extreme Sanity Slippage and was actually ripping the poor girls to shreds with his wind magic, when the police tried to stop him, still hallucinating, he punched through the officers like they were bloody water-balloons, graphically ripping out their organs, forcing the police to shoot him dead to stop him. Kento had to put further repatriations on hold as a result.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: He overdosed on medicine made from ground up monster stones, which gave him euphoric feelings of power, made him hallucinate, and start changing into a monster.

Watanuki

The last of the students Kento steals the power from via kiss. In the process, he learns she's pregnant, at which point she confesses that she endured months of rape under Camilla's knights. Enraged, Kento offers to hunt down the offending knights and kill them, then goes to Camilla, where she finds and beheads them, saving him the trouble.

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• Child by Rape: Though she can't be certain, the chances are high that pregnancy is a direct consequence of her rape experience.
• Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: She can't identify the father of her child because she was raped by three of Camilla's knights for an extended period of time and was then so traumatized that she became very sexually loose, and the one male student she can identify completely disavowed paternity, abandoning her.
• Promiscuity After Rape: Her horrifying experience left her feeling Defiled Forever and she sought out sex with at least one other schoolmate and even propositioned Kento for sex as he was preparing to send her back to Japan. Even without knowing her story, the teachers chose to send her back first because they realized she was acting very strangely.
• Rape as Drama: She endured rape for months and is clearly traumatized by it. She even punches her belly a few times because she can't properly identify the man responsible for the pregnancy, whether it's one of the rapists, or a classmate she sought Sex for Solace from.

Maejima

A male schoolmate that takes advantage of Watanuki's trauma for a cheap one-night-stand. He cruelly dumps her and mocks her as he takes the option to repatriate to Japan. His absolute refusal to do anything for Watanuki pisses Kento off.

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• Blaming the Victim: He pointedly refuses to do anything, at all, to help Watanuki, especially after he sexually exploits her, by saying it's her fault she was going around spreading her legs. Kento is almost as pissed as he was towards the corrupt knights who raped Watanuki in the first place.
• Entitled Bastard: After Kent stumbles upon him cruelly dumping Watanuki, he spends a bit of time soothing her, and then shows up a few minutes late to the repatriation site. Maejima and his groupies decide it's a great idea to start throwing out insults and resentment. Say hello to a nice chant-free fireball staring you in the face.
• Somebody Else's Problem: Knowing Watanuki suffered an extended rape experience, he takes advantage of her vulnerability for what he sees as a cheap fling, and when she asks for support, blows her off, refusing to take any responsibility. Even when Kent calls him out, resulting in Kent punching him the face.

Kamisawa

Sekiguchi's closest friend. She initially blames Kent for failing to rescue Sekiguchi from her suicide attempt, but when she gets back to Japan, she quickly becomes a Death Seeker as her friend's parents, the media, and all her so-called friends take out unjust criticism against her. She hooks up with a very, very convincing sicko online who promises her a mutual suicide pact but once he's got her captive, tortures her to a state of total Body Horror instead.

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• Body Horror: When she's rescued from captivity by the police, she's so horribly maimed that modern medicine couldn't even come close to even trying to fix her up again. The novel's description is graphic. Her nose was burned off with chemicals, her fingers and toes were cut off, her right eye was crushed, her right breast was torn off with some kind of serrated blade, she has burn scars over 80% of her body, and her genitals were mutilated. She had to be sedated so she wouldn't harm herself and others, and Kent had to repeatedly head back to Volzard and take hour long breaks because the mana cost nearly knocked him out trying to heal her piecemeal.
• Death Seeker: When she got back to Japan and tried to visit her friend's parents so they can mourn together, said parents went full-tilt You Should Have Died Instead and she was so horribly and irrationally criticized that she wanted to commit suicide.
• Rescue Romance: Attempted but averted. She proclaims that she loves Kent after he fixes her up, but Kent gives a panicked "Nope" to that idea and flees the scene, knowing full well his wives wouldn't like it and he's aware that her self-proclaimed love is really just a short-term psychological phenomenon, not genuine affection.

Joichi Kondo

One of the four leading male students that decided to stay in Volzard.

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• Chick Magnet: Downplayed. He's not quite as famous and wealthy as Kent, and he's known for being rather stoic, but he's also highly regarded by women because he's diligent, honest, wise and faithful. He tends to be targeted romantically, but not to the point that he has to fend them off with a stick.
• The First Cut Is the Deepest: He was in a committed sexual relationship with a 10-year-older female adventurer Lorenza, who lived in another city, three days away by carriage, but when he shows up there as part of an escort mission, he finds a note that states she went off with another guy. He's devastated for a while after that.
• In-Universe Nickname: He's known as "Hard working Joe" even in chapter titles.
• Locked Out of the Loop: The note stating Lorenza broke up with him was placed by her partner, Pamela, who found her stabbed to death by a three-man party of drunks that tried to treat her as a cheap whore and came at her with daggers when she told them to take a hike, starting by kicking the guy who grabbed her breasts in the crotch.
• Only Sane Man: Out of his party of Takayama, The old and new duo, and himself, he's the only one who takes his job seriously to the end, and actually plans for the future. Takayama jumps off the escort carriage and runs straight home to his wife and daughter, skipping turning in his report, the old and new duo run off to spend their pay on prostitutes.

The old and new duo. Nita and Katsuya

• Abhorrent Admirer: To women everywhere. Their reputation as skirt-chasers who will pester pretty much anything in a skirt and inability to gather savings, instead choosing to peruse brothels at their earliest convenience, and being horrible in the sack, has so alienated the women of Volzard that even the brothels in question shut their doors on them.
• Desperately Craves Affection: Too desperate. They come on to women so hard that they actually drive them away. So they turn to prostitutes to get the "loving" they need.
• The Dividual: They travel around as a matched set.
• Foil: To each other. They have similar yet polar opposite sexual function problems. One of them suffers from PE and ED, getting so excited that he blows his load right away and can't get it up again. The other suffers from anorgasmia, meaning he can spend hours with a girl until she's an unresponsive wreck and still not be satisfied.
• Hookers and Blow: They pay their rent on time, true enough, but they are so desperate for female company that they spend all their disposable income on prostitutes, which makes it even harder for them to build a nest that would attract genuine love interests.
• In-Universe Nickname: They go by "old and new duo."
• They Just Dont Get It: NO matter who tells them that they need to stop blowing all their money on prostitutes, start treating women as people, instead of chasing them around like their gonads are going to catch fire if they don't get laid, and start saving for the future if they want to improve their reputation and attractiveness, they simply refuse to let it register. It's only when the brothels ban them that it finally starts to sink in.
• You Were Trying Too Hard: Which they're called out on by Corey, the manager of the pharmacy Muell works at, but it fails to register. They're told that if they want women to actually find them attractive, they need to build a nest where women would feel safe, and to start saving for the future. They ponder it for a few moments but then prioritize short-term gratification by going to prostitutes.

Teachers

Ayako

Ayako is in the center.

One of the first teachers introduced. The knights of Rosenberg confuse her as a student and put her through the same Training from Hell. She does not handle it well.

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• It's All My Fault: As can be seen in the page image, she holds herself responsible for the horrors the class went through in Rosenberg, especially the death of Funayama, the class repeatedly tells her that it isn't but it never registers.
• Older Than They Look: She looks like a teen, which is why she was thrown into the girls' dorm of the summoned teens, but she is an adult of at least 30 years of age.
• Sensei-chan: Due to her young appearance, she was referred to as "chan" back in Japan. In Rosenberg, the situation is too dire for any such affectionate nicknames.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Thanks to being Locked Out of the Loop of Camilla's character development, and feeling like she failed her students, she absolutely, positively cannot find it in herself to forgive Camilla's early villainy. Kento keeps quiet to her about the fact that he intends to marry Camilla as a result.

Oda

The first teacher to be sent back to Japan.

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• The One Guy: Until Kento learns of an alternate way to send the summoned people back to Japan, he's the only guy who was sent.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: While he was in Volzard, he did his best to bend the rules for Kento as far as he could, knowing how much the poor boy has on his plate.
• Silent Scapegoat: The reason he asked Kento to send him back ahead of any more students is so he can weather the storm of the rabid hyena calling themselves "reporters" rather than letting minor children have to deal with it.

Kudo

The teacher Kento has to deal with most.

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• Mouth of Sauron: He's the most frequent voice-box for the other schoolmates' thoughts and feelings regarding the situation in Volzard.

Nakagawa

A teacher who grew extremely impatient upon learning Kento found a way to get the summoned people back to Japan that didn't involve kissing them and then collapsing in agony. He snaps and forces his way into the reverse summoning ritual despite knowing the dangers, causing a student to be grievously harmed.

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• Asshole Victim: Considering that he knew he could seriously injure or kill the student he shoved aside to jump into the repatriation ritual in progress, because Kento demonstrated that anyone or anything stepping out of the boundary would be severed at the molecular level, and still shoved a female student past the boundary so her leg was severed at the knee, there was no sympathy to be had for him and his entire family, not even from Kento who pleaded for the innocent three-year-old daughter of his would be killer to be spared.
• Did Not Think This Through: Because he would not wait his turn and shoved his way into the repatriation ritual already in progress, not only does he seriously injure the innocent student he shoved out of the way, but he gets beat up by the remaining students that went back to Japan with him, gets arrested, and because the student witnesses in Volzard used their cell-phones to record and stream the incident, whatever the hell was going on back home that made him so impatient got media attention, making everything worse for him and his whole family.
• Exhausted Eyebags: He began to sport these after getting in touch with his family and learning of an unidentified "extremely stressful situation" back home.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: By his heinous act of shoving his way into a repatriation ritual in progress, grievously injuring a student, he took public criticism of Kento, the police, and the students sent back and unto himself. Kento is secretly "grateful" for it.
• Sleep Deprivation: Deconstructed. As a result of failing to get enough rest, worried about some unspecified "extremely stressful situation" back home, he grew increasingly impatient and unstable until he snapped and forced himself into a repatriation ritual in progress, without care for the student he could have easily killed, and this made whatever mess he was desperate to deal with much, much worse.

Fortress city Volzard

Kurt

The guard that saw Kento coming out of Devil's Forest and carried him into the city.

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• Everyone Can See It: The fact that he's got a crush on Meliane is glaringly obvious, even to Meliane herself. She's just waiting for him to get enough courage to ask for her hand in marriage.
• Knight in Shining Armor: Literally. He's a knight of Volzard and embodies all the virtues a knight should have.
• Nice Guy: He rescues a total stranger coming out of a dangerous forest and is good to Kento, just for the sake of it.
• Out of Focus: He carries Kento through the city gates, escorts him to the adventurer's guild, takes him to Amanda's Inn, and a couple of days later joins him for dinner after work in his favorite pub and is rarely seen again, but as a garrison commander does have a huge influence on the plot behind the scenes.

Meliane

What, you alone survived Devil's Forest? You poor dear.

The head waitress at her family restaurant. She's the girl Kurt has his eyes on.

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• Bitch Slap: She gives one to her younger brother when the lout refused to even thank Kent and herself for his rescue, acting like it was a given debt slavery wasn't going to be his fate.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: The main reason Kurt is so attracted to her. Her breasts are so large, Kent's entire head fits in her cleavage and a table doubles as a push-up bra when she's sitting normally.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: She's the responsible to her younger brother Nicola's foolish.
• Horned Humanoid: She's got what appears to be ram horns on her head.
• Impossibly-Low Neckline: How, just how, does that maid outfit stay on?

Nicola

HMMPH!! Don' argue with my sense of taste!

Meliane's younger brother.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: In the web-novel, he gets a proper introduction hundreds of chapters into the story where Kent is rescuing him from Volent. In the manga, he's introduced shortly after Kent arrived in Volzard and shoves Kent to the ground storming out of the family restaurant as Kent was trying to go in and buy lunch.
• Angry Chef: Before he gave up on trying to cook for the family restaurant, he was a very bitter and angry cook for trying and failing to copy his father's recipes.
• Devoured by the Horde: Acting as a porter to get past the stringent rules against dungeon diving, he winds up swarmed by giant ants as the party that hired him left him behind.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish.
• Horned Humanoid: Just like his sister, he's got goat horns on his head.
• I Just Want to Be Special: He was raised by his parents and taught how to run the family restaurant, but finds that all beneath him so desperately tries to be an adventurer, and takes dangerous shortcuts, such as skipping Donovan's classes...
• Never My Fault: The biggest reason why he never improved himself, ever since he was a child, is that he absolutely, positively refuses to accept responsibility for his failures. It's always someone or something else to blame, and nobody every appreciates his self-proclaimed "talent."
• Shadow Archetype: To Yagi. They are both lazy and entitled twits who have way more ego than sense, but at least Yagi is smart enough to not take dangerous short-cuts, and even with Kent's name doesn't go dungeon diving, cause he knows he'd wind up dead. This twit can only see the fame and glory he thinks is rightfully his and refuses to see the situation he's actually in.
• They Just Dont Get It: He gets fleeced and abused by latching on to one horrid adventuring party, left with a hefty debt, so he goes and joins a second party that turns out to be less than honorable.
• Too Dumb to Live: After being rescued from his gambling debts, caused by letting himself get exploited by a horrible adventuring party, he joins another horrible party as a dungeon porter. He gets Devoured by the Horde.
• Trapped by Gambling Debts: His first appearance has him dragged before Meliane by one of the three local Loan Sharks.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Kent rescues him from being shipped off to debt-slavery and his sister from sexual slavery, with an interest free loan on a much, much lower principal, and his response is to tear the deed that is the loan's collateral to shreds, without a word of gratitude, and then go and put himself in danger again.

Muell

Gilik, would you stop it with Myne?

The first of the Adventuers Kento meets, Gilik has his eye on her and is very, very jealously possessive.

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• Cat Girl: She sports cat ears and a cat's tail.
• Covers Always Lie: The chapter covers all make it look like she and Kento are romantically involved. This is not the case. She is, in fact, devoted to Gilik.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: When Gilik winds up being pursued by another girl, one he was forced to take on as an apprentice, Muell doesn't bear any hard feelings. In fact, she encourages them hooking up and gives them her blessings.
• The Not-Love Interest: She's one of the girls that interacts with Kento most in the city of Volzard, but she's completely devoted to Gilik instead.
• Operation: Jealousy: An unusual take. When she and Gilik were children, she found it cute that he would hover over her as she collected herbs and medical ingredients. As they became legal adults, she began to resent that he was using this as an excuse to slack off and not improve himself from his D-rank standing, so she kicks his ego in the keister by telling him she'd marry Kent if he doesn't push himself to become an A-rank in less than a year.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: She's got pink hair and is a sweetheart.

Gilik

An adventurer introduced with Muell. He takes an immediate dislike to Kento for thinking the poor guy is hitting on Muell when she shoves his face into her chest as she's "comforting" him regarding his cover story of being the only survivor of a trade caravan going through the road near Devil's Forest. Kento and Gilik have been rivals ever since.

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• Beast Man: He's part dog, part man.
• Childhood Friend Romance: He and Muell grew up together and they're total sweethearts.
• Does Not Like Women: Growing up in a family with only his mother and several older sisters, he's borderline gynophobic. Muell is the only girl he comfortably hangs out with.
• Hourglass Plot: When the story began, Gilik was literally the top dog in the adventurer's guild training courses and would love to browbeat Kent about it. Kent spent the better part of a year being trained like crazy, earning rank-ups in the guild, and worked himself nearly to death with genuine heroics. Kent rose to be the youngest S-rank, ever, while Gilik remained a D-Class and, thanks to his own superiority complex and grumpiness, keeps facing setbacks one after another.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's rude, crude, grumpy, needlessly antagonistic and almost always very unpleasant, but he rescues some fledgling adventurers in trouble purely for its own sake, at terrible risk to his own reputation, mentors them correctly when he's press-ganged into it, and winds up sharing a bed with one of his female apprentices, at her insistence, because deep down, he does genuinely care.
• Kavorka Man: He's rude, crude, unpleasant, perpetually poor, and not exactly handsome, but he does manage to win over two love interests, sequentially, with the former cheering on the latter.
• Like Brother and Sister: The relationship between him and Muell eventually downgrades from a romantic pursuit to a more familial one. Neither of them are bothered by it.
• The Rival: He and Kento constantly try to one up each other.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: He and Kento just do not get along. It doesn't help that Gilik is fond of both literally and figuratively looking down on Kento and Kento retaliates by trolling him.

Amanda

Any more talk about going to the dungeon, and I'll ban you! GOT IT?!

The innkeeper of the inn where Kento stays in Volzard.

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• Apron Matron: She runs the inn and serves meals.
• Berserk Button: If you're going to talk about visiting the local dungeon, you're banned from her establishment. Her daughter once got close to a patron who went dungeon diving and never returned. Amanda doesn't want her daughter to go through that again.
• Parental Substitute: She serves as Kent's de-facto mom, and in fact reminds Kent of the time before his mother just kind of... Stopped Caring, which hits especially hard after the woman committed suicide in the wake of his disappearance.

Melissa

HMPH! Kenta is just a stupid kenta!

Amanda's daughter.

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• Adorably Precocious Child: She's a total sweetheart who tries too hard to be a grown-up.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: How Kento sees her.
• Cuteness Proximity: She goes gaga at seeing Kento's kobold summons and always demands to snuggle them, even if she has to sneak into his bed.
• Like Brother and Sister: Kento sees her as the little sister he always wanted, but never had. She eventually starts seeing him as a Cool Big Bro, once he becomes famous.
• Mundane Object Amazement: When she visits with the Tadaka (Yuika) family in Japan on New Years, she's awestruck at all the wonders of modern society, cars, elevators, airplanes, you name it.
• Precocious Crush: She's a young girl who Kento sees as a little sister, but she dreams of marrying him one day. For his part, Kento is convinced she'll eventually outgrow it.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: The reason she's initially rude and dismissive of Kento is that she got close to another patron and he went and died on her, going into a dungeon. She presumes the same of Kento and did her best to keep her distance. When she begins to see that Kento actually loves the city of Volzard and isn't even remotely planning to risk his life needlessly, she warms up to him in a hurry.

Donovan

Kent. Just who the hell are you?

The head of the adventurer's guild.

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• Reasonable Authority Figure: As long as you're not a threat to the city and do your best to contribute to the guild, he doesn't care about your past or background, and actively supports you.
• Running Gag: Two of them. 1.) He's fond of grabbing Kento by the scruff of the neck and dragging him around. 2.) Whenever Kento complains of being given too much responsibility, or even expresses pity at Donovan's workload, Donovan loves to push the paperwork over and proclaim "okay, the guild's yours, you can take over from here, right?"
• Spotting the Thread: He realizes Kento's been bullshitting him when Kento takes a blow from Girik that audibly cracks some bones and then uses chant-less healing magic to keep the spar going.

Klaus Volzard

I'm not letting you lay your hands on Beatrice. Please stay in the city, you can marry my daughter. DAMN IT! KEEP AWAY FROM HER!

The lord of the city of Volzard.

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• Benevolent Boss: He rules the city with a firm but gentle hand.
• Blue Blood: He's of noble birth and an upstanding man.
• Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Kento might be the savior of the city, he might have saved the girl's life, but damn it, Kento is not getting his hands on her, no matter how much she wants it... Until Anette, his wife, taps on his shoulder, and even then resents it.
• Henpecked Husband: As tough as he is, he's downright terrified of offending his wife. That's why no mistresses, concubines, or harems.
• Master of the Mixed Message: Where it concerns his daughter, he flip-flops like crazy. He tells Kento that he lays hands on her, his life is forfeit, and then goes and feeds him drunk and has her try to sneak into his bed to tie him to the city, and back and forth, and back and forth.
• Rage Breaking Point: In chapter 89, when it comes to pass that Kento spreads the word that Camilla's promise of a repatriation spell is a lie, he gets tired of Kento's classmates being Ungrateful Townsfolk, orders Kento to stop supporting them and makes it clear that if they don't shape up in a hurry and keep causing trouble, they'll face immediate expulsion from the city. With Devil's Forest now in "overflow" mode, that's a clear and present death sentence, exactly like Kento faced at the start. Said classmates hush up in a hurry at that point.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He doesn't care who you are or where you're from. Serve and protect his city, he's got your back 110%. Make trouble for the city, and you're on thin ice, that's cracking...
• Rousing Speech: A master of it. It's a skill he obviously needs, seeing as he has to round up soldiers and adventurers to protect the city pretty frequently.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: He may be the town lord, but he mingles with the people all the time.
• Spare to the Throne: He took up the mantle of town lord after the death of his elder brother. The particulars remain unknown.

Anette Volzard

Captain of the guard garrison and the wife of Klaus Volzard.

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• More Deadly Than the Male: She's even stronger than Klaus and he's terrified of her wrath as a result.
• Open-Minded Parent: She fully supports Beatrice's desire to marry Kento. She doesn't even mind if the girl winds up part of a polygamous relationship. In fact, she openly tells Kento to make a harem, as long as Beatrice is part of it, and he makes Beatrice happy.
• Parental Hypocrisy: She forbids her husband Klaus from having a harem, yet openly encourages her prospective son-in-law to have one.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She quietly, calmly, yet very angrily denounces Kizawa Sumika and her groupies for openly smack-talking Kento despite the fact that he rescued them from slavery under Camilla, provides them living expenses so they don't have to struggle like he did, and used the good will he's earned from saving the city, twice, to get them a place to live in the barracks, temporarily, until they find their own place, yet stubbornly insist on refusing to do anything to become self-sufficient.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: She's the wife of the town lord and runs the garrison.

Adventurers

Flame Hounds

A particularly nasty adventurer party, nominally A-ranked. Kento first meets these guys when the son of a powerful and influential merchant company hires them to try and drive Kento away from Beatrice, or kill him if he refuses. Kento scares them off by demonstrating that he's nowhere near as weak as he looks.

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• Karma Houdini Warranty: They have a great deal of villainy under their belt even before meeting Kent and have avoided serious consequences by hiding behind their clout and legal loopholes, but when they help a Loan Shark go after one of Kent's friends, Meliane, they take it too far and karma finally catches up with them. They get their rank lowered to their actual level of ability and trustworthiness, and if they fight it or get caught doing anything shady again, their best prospect is banishment from Volzard, and Kent volunteered to be nominated to go hunt them down if they foolishly decide to go the bandit route.
• Miles Gloriosus: One has to wonder how they managed to make A-rank. Sure, they use people as bait and steal the accomplishments of others, but the guild tests people before moving them up in rank, and these guys aren't anywhere near as talented or powerful as they boast.
• Playing with Fire: Their entire party specializes in fire magic.
• Stealing the Credit: They are utterly shameless in stealing the accomplishments of others, after using them as bait and killing them. Kento catches them in the act, planning to have a water-mage face incoming salamanders, then attack him from behind to steal his kills and accomplishments. When the mage in question learns of it, he pulls a Mook–Face Turn.
• Villain with Good Publicity: They are utterly shameless in using their ill-gained rep to get out of the trouble they caused, recruit new members to their party, then use them as bait to kill and discard once the bait is no longer useful.

Graciela

An A-rank adventurer Kent encounters in the academic city of Bakkenheim. She is initially a decent enough person who treats Kent like a little brother, but when she realizes that Kent is the youngest S-rank adventurer ever, and she's not the top dog around anymore, she is quickly consumed with jealousy and resentment, desperate to bring him down, even if she destroys herself in the process.

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• Chainmail Bikini: She wears chain-mail leggings and top with very thin cloth covering her navel.
• Deader than Dead: For attempting to murder Augusto, she isn't just executed, her body is cremated, her bones are ground to powder, and she's buried in an unmarked grave, so she won't be back as an undead.
• Helping Would Be Kill Stealing: Exaggerated. Her biggest resentment of Kent comes from the fact that he intervened when a salamander was bearing down on the city, and her poorly orchestrated response not only failed to stop it but led to many needless casualties. In fact, rather than being grateful he protected the city and saved her life, she resents him "stealing her prey."
• Hypocrite: On her first appearance, she shoves her way into a closed-door meeting between Kent and Reese, where he's getting a nominated mission, just so she can muscle into a share of his rewards and fame. Kent, being a nice guy, and Reese being a reasonable figure, let it go, and Graciela does indeed prove helpful. When a salamander has shoved its way past Graciela's party and is bearing down on the city, Kent intervenes to rescue the city and her party. She doesn't let it go, accusing him of kill-stealing, when even Reese says it isn't so, and repeatedly schemes to avenge herself, making her situation worse and worse.
• Malicious Slander: Which is quickly debunked, even without the video evidence Fred collected of the scheme. She accuses Kent of stealing from the cargo of evacuees on his nominated mission to recue the people of the fortress checkpoint Sakklar, which was being overrun by monsters, after previously trying and failing of accusing him of Engineered Heroics. Because the scheme also impugned the character of the local guardsmen, they came to Kent's defense and the evacuees defended his character. When Reese hears of it, she's less than amused and brings down the hammer on Graciela for it.
• Moral Myopia: She tries to slander Kent with a false theft accusation and tries to ambush him, blades drawn, outside a restaurant, in public, yet she's completely convinced herself that he is the coward. She gets called out in it by many parties, but she refuses to believe it.
• Nice Girl: Subverted. When she first meets Kent in the Bakkenheim adventurer's guild, as he was there trying to keep his appointment with Reese, she rescues him from being badgered by other rowdy adventurers, and she even helps him on a few nominated missions, but she quickly becomes resentful of his superior abilities and talents, even being willing to stoop to slander and false accusations of theft to bring him down.
• Red Baron: "Oni Eater" which she never shuts up about.
• Revenge Before Reason: Even when the rest of her party gets the message that messing with Kent is a bad idea, she has utterly fixated on taking him down, by any means possible, in revenge for all her self-inflicted humiliation and loss.
• Revenge by Proxy: When all of her schemes to go after Kent not only fail, but make everything worse for her, and she realizes he's too tough a nut to crack, she goes after Augusto Volzard, the son of Klaus and the heir, purely because they have the same hometown.
• Revenge Myopia: She repeatedly schemes and conspires to go after Kent in revenge for humiliation and loss that's entirely self-inflicted, but she genuinely believes she's got the moral upper ground. To wit:
  • She forces her way into a closed door meeting between Kent and Reese and into his nominated quest, citing the emergency nature of the quest as an excuse. Kent and Reese let that go. Kent intervenes when the salamander she's fighting proves too tough for her and her party, saving her life and the city. She does not accept her own reasoning that the emergency nature of the situation allowed him to intervene, even after Reese points it out, and Kent even offered to get her a new salamander that she could take down herself, an offer she refused.
  • She racks her brains to find some way to slight Kent for the affront of "stealing her prey" and accuses him of Engineered Heroics when he comes to her rescue again as she's trapped in the town of Slakka after she lured monsters there by carelessly showing off her strength, throwing rocks at goblins and leaving the corpses alone. When this ploy doesn't work, she comes up with the "brilliant" plan of trying to frame him for theft from the cargo of evacuees, which at best, would have resulted in stripping his rank, at worst could have gotten him executed.
  • When attempting to frame Kent backfired, and she wound up losing her rank and being exiled, which was Reese being extremely lenient, she decides to have her entire party try to ambush him as he's coming out of a public restaurant, in broad daylight. Kent uses the Portal Cut drawback of his repatriation technique to disarm the entire party and warns them that he's not looking for a grudge, but he's not going to just sit back and let them keep coming at him, and next time, they might just lose some limbs. The rest of the party gets the message, and she has to be punched a couple of times with wind boosted punches before it dawns on her that he's too tough a nut to crack, with Kent even taking away her broken sword, just in case.
  • After Kent demonstrated himself too tough to take head on, she goes after a complete innocent, Augusto Volzard, again in public, and tries to kill him, just to spite Kent for being from Volzard. The town guard don't take this lightly, and after Kent is able to save Augusto's life, the latter demands she be severely punished, with the death penalty now being very much on the table, and completely wrecks her self-serving arguments that Kent is responsible for being a kill stealer.
  • As she's being dragged away by the guards, she screeches like a rabid beast that she's "Demon Eater" Graciela and she will, without fail, kill everybody in Volzard for daring to wrong her.
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: Which hits her like a truck. She was a decent enough person and earned her A-rank by merit, but the moment Kent outshines her, she starts scheming to bring him down by "teaching him the etiquette of adventurers" by any means, fair or foul.

Maride

A female adventurer who gets along with Yagi, of all people, and winds up married to him, via Shotgun Wedding.

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• Brawn Hilda: She's built like a tank, throws herself into battle with zeal, and rampages like a barbarian, making everybody show Yagi just a tiny bit of sympathy when they learn of what he has to live with.
• Happily Married: Believe it or not, she's content being married to Yagi, despite the guy's many, many flaws.
• Hero-Worshipper: She is introduced awe-struck with the stories her older sister Fleur, the receptionist, tells of Kent's exploits, so hoped to marry him, downcast when hearing he already has four wives set up for him, but lights up again when Yagi starts bragging of being the brains to Kent's brawn, and goes for Yagi instead.
• Honey Trap: When Yagi used Kent's name to recruit her as an escort to head to the local dungeon and interview the dungeon diving adventurers, the interview took longer than planned and they had to spend the night. The inn owner conspired with her to drug their tea with aphrodisiacs, and then she pinned Yagi down and had her way with him, then dragged him to the government office, forcing him to sign the official marriage forms.
• Opposites Attract: The reason she's so happily married to Yagi is that they're polar opposites. She's fearless while he's cowardly, strong where he's weak, straightforward where he's deceptive, the list goes on.
• What Does She See in Him?: Everybody, on both sides of the fourth wall, wonders just what the heck she sees in Yagi that makes her want to be married to him and screw him silly, every. single. night.

Fel

An adventurer who used to be par of Graciela's party before the latter went and got herself smacked with a death-sentence for trying to kill Augusto Volzard.

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• And Then John Was a Zombie: Literally. As a result of drinking the experimental magic-boosting potion she was provided by Gillian, she turned into a literal zombie and had to be struck down.
• Dying as Yourself: Double subverted. When she realized she was turning into a monster, she abandoned the rest of her party and fled into a monster-filled forest, hoping to die before she turned. When Kent later "tames" her, she winds up dying as herself at the hands of Gillian.
• Happiness in Slavery: Of the lesser evil variety. Kent normally asks the monsters he kills if they're willing to join his genus after death, and they do so gladly. He had to [enslave] her soul to bring her back, because he needed to know what she knew about the monster-making potions to stop the number of victims from climbing. He otherwise respects her wishes, even the clearly suicidal wish to try and avenge herself on Gillian who is an S-rank while she was an A-rank in her life.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: She told Graciela that messing with Kent was a bad idea when he single-handed disarmed the entire party, gave the legit threat of lopping off their limbs if they kept coming at him, and beat Graciela herself down with punches when she refused to stop trying to antagonize him. Graciela refused to listen.
• Making a Splash: Both in life and undeath, she specialized in water-based magic.
• No Body Left Behind: When Gillian shattered her monster stone, she disintegrated to dust.
• The One That Got Away: She had a crush on a guy in life, but he was interested in someone else. So she asked Kent to deliver a message and some coin to him after her Final Death. Kent complied anonymously. Turns out the guy liked her too, but had stronger romantic feelings elsewhere.
• Revenge Before Reason: As one of Kent's genus, she insisted on going after Gillian to avenge him turning her into a zombie, even though she knew she couldn't beat him. She did actually manage to wound him and give him a hard fight, but still lost.

Podel

A middle-aged adventurer that's always looking to mentor younger adventurers, and the mentoring is genuine, to then exploit their gratitude and leech off their accomplishments.

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• Bullying a Dragon: When he and Galik are down on their luck, facing a massive debt, as a result of their client dismissing them from duty while their escort mission was still underway, to then lay the blame for the cargo being stolen at their feet, he bumps into Kent flirting with Manon, after just completing a very high-paying nominated quest. Envious and jealous, he makes a Shame If Something Happened threat against Manon and then schemes with Galik to sell the poor girl into slavery to try and clear their debts, even after Kent promised to retaliate. For his part, Gilik points out that while Kent is Just a Kid, his genus are the real deal, and there could be kobolds in the shadows listening to them, even in a dilapidated warehouse they picked at random. Fortunately, their debts are cleared when Kent, doing an unrelated mission, finds the stolen loot and turns it in to the guild for a handsome "finders fee."
• The Svengali: He mentors young adventurers, genuinely wanting them to succeed, so he can then ride their coat-tails and suck up the sweet juice of their successes.

Volzard's entertainment district

Volent

The first of the three bosses in the entertainment district. He pings Kent's radar when he goes after Meliane to collect on Nicola's debt.

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• Balance of Power: The reason Klaus is reluctant to single out any of the bosses in the entertainment district is that they keep each other in check. If one of them falls, the others will wage a gang war over the assets.
• The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: The bad. He sits between Menendez, who is jovial and reasonable, and Olivia who is just straight up vile.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He spent at least a decade forcing people to sign contracts under threat of force and "emigrating" them to neighboring countries as debt-slaves after engaging in usury. He gets to see how it feels when Kent, Klaus, and Meliane come to him at the due-date for Nicola's debt and force him to either agree to a settlement of 1 million Helt and the leniency of only three years back-taxes to Volzard, or face having to pay 10 years of back taxes in exchange for leaving Nicola's debt as is. He goes with the former and Kent pays the debt with a guild approved loan.
• Loan Shark: He builds up his wealth by offering loans to people who can't borrow money elsewhere and then turns the screws when they can't pay it back.
• Leonine Contract: The way he does business, as he's fond of forcing people to sign contracts under threat of force, until he finds himself facing one at Klaus's hands.
• Loophole Abuse: He cooks the books of his loan industry by forcing his "clients" to sign a new loan with much lower rates of interest than the illegal rates they originally agreed to, so he can underpay on his taxes and not be taken to task for usury, since the interest of the loan is hard to track without the back-ledger.
• Shame If Something Happened: He warns Kent to "be careful" around the entertainment district as a result of exposing his tax embezzlement and usury to Klaus.

Menendez

The second of the three bosses in the entertainment district.

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• Affably Evil: He's very pleasant and polite, despite the fact that his business in the entertainment district is of dubious morality and legality, and the fact that Kent meets him after he chopped off one of his son's arms and mailed it to Kent as an apology gift.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Downplayed. When Kent heard about Lorenzo's antics, he was deeply torn as to how to proceed. He didn't want to be too brutal with a 10-year-old, but he couldn't just let the racketeering behavior go either, and that kind of thing does demand severe punishment. As Kent is pondering it, he gets Lorenzo's severed arm as "an apology gift." Both Kent and Menendez agree, after a bit of back and forth, that painfully reattaching the arm and a warning that a repeat performance will get Lorenzo teleported into the heart of Devil's Forest, alone and unarmed, is the perfect punishment.
• Balance of Power: The reason Klaus is reluctant to single out any of the bosses in the entertainment district is that they keep each other in check. If one of them falls, the others will wage a gang war over the assets.
• The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: The good, relatively speaking. He runs a gambling den and is willing to chop off limbs of henchmen, including his own son, if their insolence is severe enough, but he's friendly, polite, and keeps the nastiness to a minimum in his sphere of influence.
• Honor-Related Abuse: Justified. He loves his son Lorenzo, but the brat, despite being only 10, was well on his way to being a real problem. The kid rounded up a gang and beat up Rujia, the boy Kent rescued from Havre's clutches, to such a degree that he needed intensive medical care, and tried to kidnap Asakawa's younger sister, even being willing to beat up a very pregnant Watanuki at Amanda's shop, just for being in his way. He only backed off when one of Kent's kobolds came out to play and Menendez had to freaking cut off his arm before it finally registered that such behavior is clearly not acceptable.
• Noble Demon: He's perfectly willing to negotiate with Kent on friendly basis and thanks him for grafting his son's severed arm back on. He's even willing to accept that if Lorenzo does anything else like going after classmates, treating women as objects and beating up their friends to get at them, then it's okay for Lorenzo to find himself all alone in Devil's Forest.
• Parents as People: He loves his son, siring the kid when he was 50 winters old, but the brat does something that jeopardizes his life and livelihood and that of his men, and the brat is better off dead.

Lorenzo

Menendez's son and classmate to Melissa, Rujia, and (temporarily) Mio, Asakawa's younger sister.

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• An Arm and a Leg: His own father chops off one of his arms and mails it to Kent as an apology gift. That's what it took to make him realize that going after Kent's relatives and servants was a bad idea.
• The Bully: As a result of being the son of one of the three bosses of the entertainment district, he's taken to pushing all the other kids in his class around, borrowing the power of his father's name. This comes to a screeching halt when he decides to target Mio, brutalizing Rujia in the process, both of whom are near and dear to Kent.
• Children Are Cruel: Because he had his eyes on Mio, he decided to brutalize Rujia when the boy refused to hand her over to be his "servant" to the point Rujia had many broken bones and could barely stand. He's only 10 years old.
• Enfante Terrible: At 10 years old, he thinks the right way to get a girl's attention is to make her a "servant" (read: sex toy) and any guy with her deserves to be beaten into the hospital if he says no. This is something his father repeatedly tried to tell him was unacceptable, and it took getting his arm chopped off, mailed away, and then painfully reattached, with the threat that a repeat performance will result in near-certain death, before it finally registers.
• Harmful Healing: On the receiving end. Kent does reattach his severed arm, but Kent made it extremely painful as a deterrent, so this brat doesn't repeat the despicable behavior of thinking he's entitled to pretty girls and can beat up the guys with them when the guys say "no."
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His attack on Rujia awakened the latter's ability to go through shadow space, chantless, as the latter was trying to rush and rescue Mio.

Olivia

The third and last of the bosses of the entertainment district. She is also the most vile. She used to be a prostitute before she took control from her previous boss via suspected Klingon Promotion, but there was never proof. She winds up on Kent's radar when he stumbles across a child slave being chased by her enforcers, while he's taking a stroll in the city of Volzard.

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• Balance of Power: The reason Klaus is reluctant to single out any of the bosses in the entertainment district is that they keep each other in check. If one of them falls, the others will wage a gang war over the assets.
• Bondage Is Bad: She stars in the only BDSM scene to date and she's an evil woman without question.
• Fandisservice: She is very physically attractive and has an on-screen scene where she prances around erotically, naked, but it's extreme BDSM where her (supposed) son and enforcer Dozzio is in chains and getting smacked around with paddles and a riding crop, even getting off by being whipped in the crotch, all the while Dozzio is calling her "Mama."
• Genre Savvy: She's aware that Kent can peep from the shadow space and has magic tools that can record video, so she has secret meetings with Dozzio using their BDSM sessions and whispers things in his ear, and even the whispers are in code.
• The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: The evil. She is the most vile of the three. She smuggles in children that were illegally enslaved, even by the laws of their home nations where slavery is legal, and sells them to perverts who sexually exploit them.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: She calls off all plans to retaliate against Kent screwing up her extremely distasteful and illegal slave smuggling when he teleports her and Dozzio to Devil's Forest and then the southern continent and lets them know that if his friends and family are harmed, and he has cause to believe she and her organization are responsible, he will happily teleport her and Dozzio right into a gryphon's nest, or worse.
• Malicious Slander: She provokes Dozzio into a rage against Kent by proclaiming that if Kent is left unchallenged, sooner or later he'll rape her.
• Nicknaming the Enemy: After Kento stumbles upon her slave smuggling racket, she takes to calling him "The Calamity."
• Older Than They Look: She's old enough to have a 30-year-old man as her son, but she looks like she's in her early thirties, tops. Yes, she's human, Kent checked. How she managed to pull it off is unknown.
• Parental Incest: She and her son Dozzio have a relationship that includes extreme BDSM, and that's just what's on-screen, and it's apparently been going on for some time.
• Revenge Before Reason: According to Klaus, she is never satisfied until she's retaliating against any and all offenses against herself, real or imagined, and warns Kent not to go after her without permission.
• Revenge by Proxy: If the target(s) of her ire are too tough, she has no problems going after their loved ones.
• Villain Ball: Despite knowing that Kent could be spying on her at any time and has magic tools that can record and play back both image and sound, she openly schemes with Dozzio on how to go after Kent's family and Make It Look Like an Accident. Kent responds by teleporting her and Dozzio into Devil's Forest and Southern Continent and tells them, point blank, that if anything happens to him or his, he'd have no problem leaving them there, even pointing out he knows where a gryphon's nest is, and could easily leave them as monster chow.

Dozzio

Octavia's son and top enforcer.

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• Casual Kink: Exaggerated. He is an extreme "M" and gets off on being punished by Octavia, especially if she hits him in the crotch with a whip.
• The Dreaded: Just about everyone in the entertainment district fears him, and the rest of Volzard clears the way when he walks down the street.
• Dumb Muscle: He's a powerful enforcer and dumb as a pile of rocks.
• Mama's Boy: An extreme villainous example. He takes any suggestion of mere inconvenience against Olivia with extreme displeasure, even threatening Klaus and the garrison at one point.
• Relative Button: Any mention of Olivia around him had better be in the best possible terms or he is all but certain to get violently enraged.
• They Just Dont Get It: When Olivia flat out tells him that Kent's not to be messed with, he just can't wrap his head around it. He keeps proclaiming that all their problems can be solved by Kent's death, even after Olivia herself tells him it's downright suicide to try.

Pioneer city Lastock

Celia

Takayama's exclusive maid.

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• Babies Ever After: She winds up pregnant by Takayama. Being a good and decent man, he faces up to his responsibilities and does his best to make sure she and the child are not left wanting.
• Child by Rape: It is revealed by Flochette in chapter 645 that King Alexis Rosenberg never had any consent from her in regards to sex or marriage, and the pregnancy was clearly not desired by him or the other three queens in any way.
• Heroic Bastard: She's the king's illegitimate daughter through a commoner mistress, and is a good, kind woman in horrible straits. Though the "mistress" was forced into marriage before her birth.
• Hostage Situation: Her mother is kept captive by Camilla's mother, the First Queen, to compel her to serve Camilla and have sex with Takayama, ultimately for the purpose of getting pregnant with his child, to hopefully add his fire-based magic to the royal bloodline.
• Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Camilla orders her to be Takayama's sexual partner. The two of them wind up genuinely loving each other and getting Happily Married, even cranking out a beautiful daughter.
• Romantic Fake–Real Turn: Implied. She is genuinely anxious when Takayama is sent into actual battle, with high chances of his death. Even Camilla asks her if she has developed feelings for him.
  • When Kento finds her in Lastock imprisoned and offers her the chance to come to Volzard, she admits that she does actually love Takayama and was genuinely grief-stricken when hearing of his supposed death.
• Shower of Love: She is shown having sex with Takayama in the bath under a shower just barely off-screen.

Erina

Asakawa's exclusive maid.

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• Bathtub Bonding: She bathes Asakawa and bathes with her.
• Conflicting Loyalty: On the one hand, she greatly admires Asakawa and genuinely wants to serve her. On the other, she's a citizen of Rosenberg and serves under Camilla. When the two inevitably come into conflict, she's genuinely torn.
• Feed the Mole: She's completely unaware that Kento and Asakawa have been showing her what they want her to see until Kento has finalized his plans to break every one of the captured teens out.
• Just Following Orders: Justified. Camilla has a disturbingly low tolerance for insubordination and has been shown killing soldiers who disobey too much. So she had no choice but to obey when Camilla ordered her to dump Funamaya's body in the Devil's Forest. Asakawa still isn't moved or willing to forgive her.
• The Mole: She spies on Asakawa to make sure the latter doesn't get any strange ideas.

Paul

One of Camilla's knights, the one responsible for Funayama's death.

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• Defensive Feint Trap: During Kento's rescue operation, he fakes being unconscious and as Kento is leading "Camilla's slaves" to safety, backstabs Kento with quite a bit of Evil Gloating to boot.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Deconstructed. He took immense displeasure at Funayama's early "disrespect" to Camilla and used harsh training as an excuse to brutalize the boy, but he took it too far, killing him.
• Suicide by Cop: Attempted but averted. Fearing his death would affect later reparation negotiations, Kento has his genus subdue, disarm, and neutralize him rather than kill him. Seeing this, Paul tries to actively provoke Kento's forces into killing him, rather than face the shame of being beaten and coming back empty-handed.

Gert

One of Camilla's knights guarding the class teachers.

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• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Discussed. When he noticed one of the teachers was suspiciously hopeful, he suspected a rescue operation was planned and intended to torture said teacher into compromising the details. Kento managed to pull off the rescue before this happened.
• Spotting the Thread: He notices several things that jeopardize Kento's escape plan, forcing Kento to speed up the rescue in response.

Rondel

The knight assigned by Camilla to deliver a message to Volzard.

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• Ensign Newbie: He's put in charge of a small order of knights far more experienced than himself to deliver the message. It left him a nervous wreck until his task was complete.
• Harbinger of Impending Doom: When he returns to Camilla's side, he tells her of Volderzard's warning about the soon coming monster stampede from Devil's Forest.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: He's far more scared of disappointing Camilla than failing his mission or falling in battle and has nothing but respect for her.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Just like Camila, he thinks the summoned students are nothing more than talking monkeys whose only purpose is to serve Rosenberg, to hell with their well-being. Unlike Camila, he doesn't outgrow this thinking and is irrationally paranoid and hostile to Kento, after the latter rescued the town of Lastock on a repeated basis.
• Ungrateful Bastard: How does he decide is the best way to thank Kento after the boy repulsed a horde of over 10,000 orcs bearing down on Lastock, hounded the remnants that detoured around Camilla's knights into the rest of Rosenberg, killing off the vast majority, and wore himself out treating the critically injured? Trying to slap a slave bracelet on him in his sleep, after Camilla herself gave him clearance to rest in the clinic, all while trying to push his way past the very townspeople Kento rescued, screaming the mantra of Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us. When Kento calls him out on it, he has the gall to be offended and accuse Kento of "deceiving Camilla-sama" and would have gotten violent if Kento didn't have him drugged to sleep.

Royal Knight Magdalos

Prince Alphonse's mistress, and the last one to see him alive.

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• Did Not Think This Through: She hurls a knife at Kento as the latter, tongue loosened by wine, was openly flirting with Camilla. This was a bad idea for many reasons, but the most critical are outlined below.
  • She's in the presence of not one, but two royals, Camilla and Diethelm, both of whom have not only given Kento an engraved invitation to be... less than polite with them, but they also commanded it of him. If Kento hadn't called them off, out of the goodness of his heart, they could have killed her with legal impunity for the affront.
  • It is well known that Kento has a literal army watching over him in shadow space. Said army immediately jumps out of the shadow space and draws blades to her throat for the affront. If not for Kento's benevolence, she would have been killed on the spot, rightly so.
  • Had she succeeded in her foolish attempt, she would have also destroyed the evidence of the crimes committed by Havre and Florence, eliminating all legitimacy in Camilla's and Diethelm's resistance. Kento calls her out on this one.
  • Her outcry "Kento's suspicious, he must be eliminated!" is far more apt towards herself. She's the last one who saw Alphonse alive, drank wine while he drank water, resulting in his being poisoned to death while she lived, and has the most to gain from the royal line being taken over by Havre.
• Misplaced Retribution: She bears a murderous grudge against Kento for the death of her lover Alphonse, even though Kento provided hard evidence, in the form of a recording, that Havre Calvine is the one responsible.
• The Mistress: She was Alphonse's lover despite him being married to another.
• Subordinate Excuse: The fact that Alphonse was her direct superior is the reason she was able to be in his tent and have an intimate relationship with him.

Other parts of Rosenberg:

First Prince Alphonse Rosenberg

The heir apparent to the throne and Camilla's nominal ally.

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• Ambiguously Gay: According to Basten, he's married to a woman, but Kento accidentally catches him being the "bottom" in a homosexual tryst. Later changed to Ambiguously Bi when it's revealed that he also has a female mistress in the form of Knight Magdalos.
• Inadequate Inheritor: He is clearly not fit to wear the crown, but his father doesn't care and lets him have it just because he's the first born.
• Killed Offscreen: In chapter 158, Kento learns he died of poison while spending a night with a female mistress from the royal knights. Said mistress is quite broken up about it.
• Lean and Mean: He's anorexic and all he cares about is wearing the crown. He sees nothing wrong in using a monster stampede as a Pretext for War.
• Nervous Wreck: He is so weak willed and neurotic that he just goes with whatever his advisors tell him, as long as he gets to keep the crown.

Bernst and Christoph, the second and third princes.

Introduced plotting to take advantage of a predicted monster stampede to fake aid to Lastock, ambush Alphonse, and then capture and rape Camilla. Kento is suitably sickened.

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• Ambition Is Evil: All they care about is seizing the crown for themselves, whatever villainy they have to go through is A-OK.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: They work together in trying to launch a coup to take the crown and don't care how nasty they have to get to do it.
• Cavalry Betrayal: Intended. Kento spies on them to see their response to the warning that a monster outbreak is imminent. They doubt the warning's sincerity but use it as a pretext to send troops at Lastock and should the outbreak occur, use said troops to capture Camilla, slaughter all the citizens, blaming monsters for the deaths, and then take their sweet time raping her broken, just for laughs.
• Despotism Justifies the Means: They just want the crown purely for the sake of having it.
• The Dividual: They move about as a matched set. Where one goes, the other follows.
• Eviler than Thou: They make Camilla look like a canonized saint by comparison, as she at least cares about the people of her country.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Their active malice, making Camilla so cornered she felt she had no choice but to use the summoning ritual that history dictates will 100% guarantee a Maou coming to their world, is what kicks off the plot.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Their own drug use and abuse catches up to them, fast. They screw up their own plans to trick Camila into thinking they're the reinforcements she asked for to then murder the civilians while raping Camilla, just for laughs, because they start hallucinating and just swinging their swords wildly, forcing Camilla to kill them in self-defense, though she does get skewered by some of these two's retainers.
• Hookers and Blow: Kento catches them hosting a drug-fueled orgy, with many men and women in attendance, the drugs in question both in the alcohol they're drinking and coming from an incense burner.
• Let No Crisis Go to Waste: They are ecstatic that the west side of their country is being swallowed by a desert, as that makes it easier for them to launch a coup against their eldest brother, and their response to hearing of an imminent monster outbreak from Devil's forest is to use that outbreak to swoop into Lastock and wipe out Camilla's knights, the civilians, and do unspeakable nastiness to Camilla herself, just for laughs.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Their intent to capture and rape Camilla makes every last one of her victims, including Kento, so sickened that they sympathize with her and plot to kill these two.
• Siblings in Crime: They are two brothers engaged in high treason for laughs.

Fourth Prince Diethelm Rosenberg

Camilla's younger brother and the only other sibling that actually cares about the fate of the citizens.

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• Commonality Connection: Kento begins to sympathize with him when he learns he has the same crippling self-esteem issues Kento had before being brought to this new world, thanks to a "family" that routinely beat him down and insisted that nothing he ever did was good enough.
• Deal with the Devil: How he views swearing fealty to Kento in exchange for being granted the crown.
• Did Not Think This Through: Which Kento calls him out on. He responds to being told that he was poisoned by immediately demanding the death of the poisoner. Kento points out that this is not always the right response, especially in this particular royal family.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: When Kento sees him for the first time, Kento remarks that he looks like a girl.
• Homoerotic Subtext: When Kento boasts about knocking Camilla down a peg or two, Diethelm reacts as if he's sexually aroused by Kento, freaking Kento out.
• White Sheep: The only member of the royal family with no crimes to his name, yet.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: A bit too naive, honest, and well-meaning to survive the Rosenberg royal "politics" on his own.

Margrave Havre Calvine

The noble in charge of Rosenberg's mines. He and his crew are directly responsible for giving the drugs to the second and third prince and as of chapter 136, openly admit aiding the foreign desert nation Barshania.

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• Asshole Victim: Even Kento, who rightly has issues with torture and Camilla's knights abusing prisoners, doesn't spare any pity for this guy being tortured to death in the castle dungeons by Camilla's knights as payback for his actions, where he used explosive barrels on civilians, just to stick it to Camilla and Kento for daring to defend themselves from his ambitions, and defeating him.
• Attempted Rape: In chapter 174, one of Kento's kobolds grabs him off his escort mission to Camilla's bed chamber, to find this guy engaged in quite a bit of Evil Gloating and trying to force himself on her. Kento records the gloating and then kicks him away.
• Believing Their Own Lies: He fully believes his propaganda that he is the savior of Rosenberg, by plotting to eliminate the royal family, and drag Camilla into his bed kicking and screaming after a Sham Wedding, even though he colluded with foreign powers, not to mention being the cause of all of Rosenberg's troubles. When his plots are exposed and he is rightly dubbed a traitor, he comes back and launches terrorist attacks at the "Ungrateful Townsfolk" as he tries to take the over the capital by force.
• Big Bad Wannabe: He is completely unaware of it, but even if all his plans had gone right, there's no way he'd be on the throne of Rosenberg for long. Seraphima and Barshania in no way intended to honor her part of the bargain and let him take control of the country, and even though he somehow got ahold of explosives, even if he managed to get Camilla to surrender the crown, the three queens and the nations he supposedly had backing him would have turned on him first chance they got.
• Blackmail: He extorts Prime Minister Florence Thalberg into murderers against the first and fourth princes by reminding him of his previous villainy and the consequences.
• The Chessmaster: Despite coming from a commoner upbringing and a backwater province, he is clearly not stupid and plans for every contingency, even making plots for unlikely scenarios and attacking from unexpected vectors. Unfortunately for him, he conspired against not one but two even better chessmasters, Kento and Seraphima, and utterly got wrecked, twice.
• The Corrupter: The second and third princes were already bad, but he made them worse by feeding their ambitions and giving them dangerous illegal drugs.
• Engineered Public Confession: Kento foils this guy's coup by broadcasting every last bit of Evil Gloating the guy did to Camilla and all the schemes he put forward with agents of Barshaina, revealing to one and all that he's the one responsible for all the trouble Rosenberg is in.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Which Kento calls him out on. When Kento foils his coup, he throws out a sob-story about how hard his commoner life was working the mine under his father, and that's why he's justified via Might Makes Right in murdering the king and trying to purge the royal family, save Camilla who he intends to repeatedly rape after a Sham Wedding. Kento throws his own sad backstory at him as well as his own Might Makes Right tautology by pointing out that he's stronger.
• A Hero To His Home Town: He is a scheming, despicable worm who would happily watch his country burn just as long as he gets put in charge, but the people of his demesne adore him and welcome him back, even if he openly confesses of doing it and being treasonous.
• I Control My Minions Through...: Whatever means work. He's not choosy about his methods. He uses blackmail, bribes, drugs, threats, material benefits, loyalty, kindness, honey-coated lies, whatever.
• I Have Your Wife: He has no qualms against using hostages to do his will. He forces a dark mage to try and frame Kent for attacking some outlying villages by holding her brother captive and tries to force Camilla to surrender by placing barrels full of gunpowder among the civilian population of the capital as they're celebrating New Years. Kento foils them both, and once again beats the stuffing out of him.
• Les Collaborateurs: He and his group actively aid the hostile actions of a foreign nation in exchange for power.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: He's so well built that Kento describes him as a gorilla in a tuxedo.
• Not Me This Time: He is the first suspect for being the source of the "rumor" that lead the first queen to think Camilla was responsible for the death of her son, and tried to kill her in revenge, but he honestly had nothing to do with it, as he wanted Camilla alive, to rape repeatedly, if nothing else. Though he is petty enough to have done it if he truly knew he had no chance.
• Slobs vs. Snobs: Clearly the slob as he thinks that he's inherently better than all nobles just because he comes from a commoner background.
• Staged Populist Uprising: Pulled off with disgusting ease because the royal family, aside from Camilla and Diethelm, are so utterly despicable. He tricks Knight Captain Cromwell into treason by marshaling the entire royal knight order to wipe out Camilla's faction after killing the king himself with a hidden blade.
• Underestimating Badassery: Despite getting his hat handed to him by Kento when the two meet for the first time, he can only see the boy as Just a Kid. When the kobold squad come out to play, his entire faction mocks them. When Nero comes out to play in response, he starts to panic but retorts, Just One Man, and proclaims the storm cat is just Camilla's bodyguard and they can still win. Out pops Kento's Gigawolves, and, too late, the entire faction tries to run.
• Undignified Death: He doesn't even get a public execution for his twin acts of treason. He gets quietly tortured to death in the dungeons under the royal castle and left to rot in ignominy.
• Villainous Legacy: His defeat and capture isn't the end of the troubles coming from his territory, not even close. He has an entire syndicate ruling the mines, and its top five executives are all at least as cruel and petty as he is. They're willing to let the entire population of miners starve to death, and they booby trap their mines, so even if royal knights manage to get to them, they can set off explosives remotely and intentionally trigger a landslide, just for laughs. Even long, long after the syndicate in his demesne is dealt with, remnants of his faction persist in being an issue, no matter how hard they're beaten.

Flochette

Celia's mother and the fourth queen of Rosenberg.

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• Awful Wedded Life: Her "marriage" to King Alexis was, at its best, just him coming to her chamber and treating her as his sex toy, coming at her with blood-shot and clouded eyes and ravaging her like a rabid animal, no concern for her well-being, and the three other queens were horrible, horrible women who forced her to give birth in a stable, like a beast, because they can't stand the thought of a "commoner" being born in the castle, and then treated her like a maid, on a good day, for the rest of her married life, until she was being poisoned in the dungeons and Kent had Camilla rescue her.
• Category Traitor: Because the king unilaterally decided to make her his bride and impregnated her, her home village basically exiled her, considering her a traitor to her commoner heritage. The three other queens looked at her with pity for being a commoner dragged into royal politics against her will, until they learned she was pregnant, at which point they revealed their true colors as cold-blooded vipers and became extremely vicious.
• Delicate and Sickly: In addition to her stint in a dungeon, she was poisoned with the same poison as fourth prince Diethelm, but for a much longer time, and in smaller doses, so it would be undetectable. By the time Kento was able to examine her, healing magic was not enough. He had to draw upon the earth magic he earned taking a second class-mate home to draw the toxic metals out of her bone marrow, and even then he collapsed from mana exhaustion before the treatment was complete.
• Mama Bear: When she learned that Camilla was using her daughter Celia as a Breeding Slave to keep Takayama content, she would have killed the princess for the act if she was able, but once in Volzard and sees that Celia and Takayama are Happily Married, is grateful for the Perfectly Arranged Marriage.
• Mundane Luxury: Growing up in a poor farming village, what the other three queens consider a dirty hovel is the lap of luxury to her. As such, even if she had the option of going back to her home village, she has no desire to.
• My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: Her view of Rosenberg is nothing but negative, and she doesn't hesitate to say it.
• Rape as Backstory: Turns out there was no consent of any kind in her "marriage" to King Alexis. When he visited her village to seek shelter from the rain, he rewarded their hospitality by demanding she serve his meals, personally, then captured and raped her pregnant, marrying her to keep from siring a "bastard" child.

Florence Thalberg

The Prime Minister of Rosenberg

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• Big Bad Duumvirate: He conspired with Havre to launch a quiet coup against the throne, so he can stay on and Havre can become king.
• Gender-Blender Name: Florence is traditionally a woman's name. He's a man.
• Greater-Scope Villain: His treachery is directly responsible for giving Camilla no option but to use the summoning ritual at the start of the story and is also directly responsible for the second and third princes moving on Lastock to Rape, Pillage, and Burn.
• I've Come Too Far: By the time his role in the story is exposed, he's in so deep, he either puts Havre on the throne, or he faces execution.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: To a treasonous degree. He deliberately squashed Camilla's requests for aid, Barshsaina Empire personal letters, and communication between the royal family members, so Havre could start a massive four faction war, ending with him on the throne. All so he can hold on to his cushy Prime Minister post.

Torvil

Prince Alphonse's handler.

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• It's Probably Nothing: He takes, reads, ignores, and destroys the letter from Camilla, delivered by Kento, warning Prince Alphonse of the danger of poisoning, as a result of the same poison being used on Diethelm and Fourth Queen Flochette, never bothering to inform his patron. He has the gall to be surprised when Prince Alphonse winds up dead by poison as a result, and Diethelm calls him to task on it.
• Last-Second Chance: Prince Diethelm, the one Kento openly supports for king of Rosenberg, gives him one last chance to redeem himself by swearing loyalty to the crown, and meaning it. If he ever gets up to his old shenanigans, he will be struck down on the spot.
• The Man Behind the Man: He laid out all the policies that Prince Alphonse followed, and Alphonse was so weak-willed that he just rubber-stamped everything.

The three queens

The three women aside from Flochette who were married to King Rosenberg

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Common to all:

• Alpha Bitch: All three of them are horrible women and are actively competing to see who can be the worst of them.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: They were all of noble heritage when they married the king and their belief in their inherent superiority by bloodline is precisely what makes them repugnant to everybody, including each other.
• Arranged Marriage: All three of them were married to the king for political reasons. None of them have any affection for him. As noted when Hargrave murders the king by beheading. They don't even mourn. They just up and try to force Camilla to find another "worthy" husband right away.
• Hate Sink: Even before they make their first appearance, everybody wants them dead.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: They murder all their political rivals by poison in a way to try and pass it off as illness, even targeting each other's children.
• Revenge Myopia: When they do despicable things, it's all well and good, but when something despicable happens to them, they're justice incarnate for trying to avenge themselves immediately. Case in point. The first queen has a squad of knights barge into Camilla's room and stab her in the gut while the queen herself force-fed Camilla poison, after said queen hear a rumor that Camilla was responsible for poisoning Alphonse to death, which was physically impossible.
• Snobs Vs Slobs: Clearly the snobs as they think all commoners are inherently beneath them and love to look down on everyone else, including each other.
• Ungrateful Bitch: Who cares if the guy Camilla has her eyes on has saved her life on a repeated basis, even when he's got every right to see her as nothing but an enemy, is an S-rank adventurer powerful enough to solo an army, has won her heart by treating her kindly in spite of the fact she tried to murder him, and saved the entire royal family, including their old, wrinkly backsides, from a coup launched by Margrave Havre Calvine, who even bribed, tricked, and lied to the royal guard? Oh, no, he's clearly unworthy of her, because he's [Eww] A COMMONER. Why can't that stupid girl understand that?! It's especially bad for Camilla's mother since if it wasn't for Kento, her kids would have died before the other two's and she'd have no standing at all!
• Would Hurt a Child: They are strongly suspected of trying to poison Diethelm for years and he's just now reached the legal age of majority.

The First Queen:

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• Put on a Prison Bus: She is last seen in the story proper, gagged and bound in chains, taken away by the captain of the royal knights for her attempt at regicide, since Camilla was The High Queen of Rosenberg, duly authorized by the royal court. Her final fate is unknown, but it's certain that she can kiss her life of luxury goodbye.
• Revenge Before Reason: When some as yet unidentified individual straight up lied and told her Camilla poisoned her son Alphonse to death, she immediately storms Camilla's bedroom with a squad of knights, has Camilla skewered by swords to the ground and force-feeds the latter poison, then sits back gloating as the poor woman lies dying. Kento responds with a Roaring Rampage of Rescue, having Reinhardt beat up the knights and queen while he focuses on saving Camilla's life, and it was damn close, as Camilla actually did die for a few seconds.
• Vicariously Ambitious: To guarantee her son ascended the throne, she apparently poisoned Diethelm and Flochette, and when Alphonse would up dead by poison and Camilla ascended the throne, she tried to straight up murder Camilla, both for revenge and to make sure none of her "competition" laid claim to it.

The Third Queen, Camilla's mother:

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• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She just can't, for the life of her, understand why Camilla would be infatuated with Kento "the Maou" and (gasp) a commoner, who repeatedly showed Camilla kindness and came to her rescue, despite logically having every possible reason to see her as an enemy. She also pointedly ignores the fact that Kento is a certified S-rank adventurer, a quasi-noble in his own right, because only someone born into nobility is a worthy person in her eyes.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Her husband, the king, pointedly ignored her and locked her up in the castle after she gave him two children, so when Havre Calvine sneaked in to engage in trysts with her, thanks to Florence, it's understandable that she'd latch on to a man that showed her kindness, and it's also understandable to hide him away when he breaks out of jail and tells a tall tale about the charges being faked, but siding with your paramour against your child that he has repeatedly tried to kidnap and rape, and setting him loose to engage in terrorist attacks is clearly not sympathetic, at all. The fact that she shamelessly admits it, with pride, when Camilla questions her strips her of all sympathy she might well have deserved.
• Principles Zealot: She utterly refused to recognize Kento as a viable husband for Camilla, lecturing the latter about it, because "only a noble is worthy of marrying into royalty" and pointedly ignored all of Kento's many, many merits, especially the fact that Camilla would be dead, or worse if Kento didn't repeatedly come to her rescue.
• Put on a Prison Bus: For her part in Havre's coup, both of them, she's locked in a tower of the royal castle, and left there to rot.

Melika and Rujia

The siblings being exploited by Havre in his coup.

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• Death Faked for You: Kento "interrogates" them in Camilla's dungeon, makes up a story that he executed them for their part in Havre's plots and then converted them into part of his genus to smuggle them out and repatriate them in Volzard, where they can live in peace.
• Delicate and Sickly: Rujia was very sickly, and getting him treatment is the reason Melika came to Rosenberg, because her home country couldn't treat his unspecified illness.
• Hostage Situation: Melika, the dark mage, was forced to help Havre in his treasonous ambitions because he held Rujia, her younger brother, hostage, with explosives.
• I Owe You My Life: They both swear allegiance to Kento after he rescues them from the castle dungeons and gives them freedom in Volzard. For his part, Kento says their gratitude and well-being is enough reward.
• Puppy Love: Rujia has a major crush on Mio, with the latter giving him plenty of hugs and kisses, both to exploit his shadow-magic ability, and for laughs.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky: Melika was very desperate to treat her younger brother, so agreed to be tattooed so she could use dark magic and become a necromancer and work as a weapon of war for Kuria and then under Margrave Havre for the chance to have her little brother's illness treated.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Rukia awakened the ability to use shadow-space, without chanting, as a result of getting literally curbstomped by Lorenzo.
• Undying Loyalty: They are so grateful to Kent for freeing them from Havre's villainy that they will do anything for him, with Melika becoming his live-in maid and Rujia enduring a bone-breaking beatdown trying to protect Mio, Asakawa's younger sister.

King Alexis Rosenberg

The father of Camila, Celia, and all the princes of Rosenberg.

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• Adipose Rex: On both his first and last appearance in the story proper, he's so obese and his legs have so atrophied that he can not walk by himself and requires two retainers to carry him. Plus he's the king of Rosenberg.
• Asshole Victim: Nobody mourns him after Havre Calvine beheaded him with a sword magically altered so it can be disguised as a belt and stretch like rubber.
• The Caligula: He's so horrid a king by sheer laziness that he's known as "The Fool King."
• The Hedonist: All he cares about is his own pleasure and being entertained 24/7. He even "married" Flochette after visiting her village seeking shelter from the rain, just because he was bored of "noble" ladies and wanted to taste a village commoner girl for a change of pace.
• Marital Rape License: While the other queens have yet to reveal their backstories, for Flochette, this guy used the fact that he's king to force her into marriage with himself, so he can legally rape her as much as he wants, but lost interest in her entirely once he realized she was pregnant with his child.
• Off with His Head!: How he dies, which is surprising, since it was obviously purely decorative.
• Red Baron: "The Fool King" though nobody dared tell him to his face.
• Too Important to Walk: To the point that he let his legs atrophy so he's unable to walk, even if he wants to.

Other parts of Landshelt, the country Volzard resides in.

Gunther

A masked man Kento meets as he's about to speak with Reese, the capital branch's guild master.

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• Paper Tiger: He pretends to be Reese's bodyguard, but he's a decoy.
• Sensing You Are Outmatched: When he meets Kento, he almost immediately realizes he'd be in a world of hurt if the two fought.

Lau

A kindly old man who hangs around Reese. He's the actual bodyguard.

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• Hero of Another Story: Klaus and Donnovan wouldn't be alive if this man didn't rescue them early in their adventurer careers from a heinous adventurer party who used them as bait to lure ogres away from a village and then take the credit and rewards. The party in question foolishly attacked Lau to try to hide their sins and wound up crippled, fined, and expelled from the guild, their reputations forever ruined.
• Retired Badass: He used to be an S-rank adventurer before he retired to become Reese's bodyguard.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: When he's not putting Kento and Takayama through Training from Hell, he just throws problems at them and sits back, waiting for the boys to solve it themselves.
• Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: He looks like a harmless old man, but he's strong enough to make Kento's genus scared, and they can face ogres without worry.

Reese

The capital branch's guild master. She came to Volzard to test if Kento was qualified to rise from A-rank to S-rank.

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• Dark and Troubled Past: She survived a shipwreck into what was once part of Rosenberg, was kidnapped and enslaved unable to resist, sold into prostitution, and forced to service a long, long line of depraved and lustful men who abused her horribly, always healed back up again with light magic so she could keep going. Eventually, she found a way through Sex Magic to break free of the enslavement and became a leading figure in Landshelt's Slave Liberation.
• Femme Fatale: She absolutely radiates sexiness, but Kento states that she feels to him like an anaconda staring at a tree-frog.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: She promises to teach Kento the method to put living people in his shadow space, so he can take his classmates home, if he agrees to be her baby-daddy. Kento is rightly frightened of the prospect.
• Promiscuity After Rape: After being forced into prostitution for an extended period of time, she no longer holds much faith in monogamy, and is now sexually predatory.
• Rape as Backstory: She was forced into prostitution and was never given the choice to say "no."
• Really 700 Years Old: She looks like a woman in her early thirties, but is actually over 250, thanks to being a dark elf.
• Sex Magic: The other reason she's promiscuous is that she learned that she can steal mana from her "clients" and convert it into her own magic when her own mana is insufficient. This is how she managed to break the slave bracelet she was forced to wear and escape her brothel hell.
• Smoking Is Cool: She's introduced smoking from a long-handled pipe and reeks of elegance and sexiness.
• Stripperific: Her outfit is described as something normally worn by a belly-dancer, with Kent and several Japanese diplomats not knowing where to look, and has been also described as Tempting Fate that it could fall off at any moment.
• The Vamp: After her horrific backstory, she sees sex as a weapon and negotiating tactic, and can not, for the life of her, see it as a sign of affection.

Rujia

The tamer who used her Gigawolf familiar to pull the carriage bringing Reese to Volzard. She takes an immediate dislike to the fact that the locals are calling someone other than her "Monster User."

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• Achievements in Ignorance: Turns out she's no tamer, at all. The giga-wolf she's so proud of is actually a beast she picked up as a puppy, thinking it was just a normal dog. To make sure it doesn't attack people without permission, Reese also put a disguised slave collar on it.
• The Beastmaster: She's a renowned tamer and is very proud of her tamed giga-wolf, Bran, which hasn't reached adulthood yet.
• Break the Haughty: She comes at Kento all cocky and arrogant, boasting about her self-perceived superiority and insulting all the adventurers in Volzard. The last part prompts Kento to give her a taste of her own medicine, causing her to wet herself in fear when she sees Nero come out to play and the storm cat starts to flex.
• Bring Me My Brown Pants: She wets herself in terror when she sees Nero and the cat starts to flex.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Or rather, horrible judge of might and competence. She judges things entirely by superficial appearance and can only see Lau as a harmless old man, and Kento as some backwater kid to mock, even accusing him of forging his adventurer's A-rank license so she wouldn't have to admit she was wrong.
• Lethally Stupid: Just to flex a bit, she calls for her familiar, a giga-wolf, Bran, through a crowded street and adventurer's guild. Even if the beast didn't cause damage itself, the ensuing panic could well have.
• Mugging the Monster: She decided to drag Kento to the tamer's training field to try and browbeat and mock him for daring to use her "Monster User" title without permission, even though Kento himself never asked for it and wishes people would stop doing it. Kento admits that he looks like a harmless child, but he is, in fact, an A-rank adventurer slated to be an S-rank and has a lot of impressive accomplishments under his belt, not the least of which is repeatedly saving the town of Volzard from overwhelming monster threats. She refuses to believe it until Kento brings out Nero, and then she wets herself and runs off crying swearing vengeance for her humiliation.
• One Degree of Separation: She's Gunther's sister.
• Revenge Myopia: She swears vengeance on Kento for humiliating her, but refuses to admit it wouldn't have happened if she didn't mock, taunt, and try to humiliate him first.
• Serious Business: Only she can have the title "Monster User!" Even though Kento told her he had no intention of using that alias, and it was forced upon him, she refused to believe it and tried to take the title from him by force, flexing by showing off her giga-wolf. She pays the price for her haughtiness when Kento whips out a storm-cat and starts to flex himself.
• Small Name, Big Ego: She's nowhere near as famous or powerful as she thinks she is, but loves to brag as if she's the best tamer on the continent and tried to humiliate Kento for it. Was that a mistake.

Augusto Volzard

The eldest son of Klaus and heir to the town's lordship.

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• Bookworm: Whenever he's got a free moment, he's got his face buried in a book.
• Comically Serious: He's very stiff and proper but Kent finds it hard to hold in his laughter as the guy's bunny ears flop around after even the tiniest of gestures.
• Little Bit Beastly: He inherited his mother's bunny ears.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: When Kent is escorting him and his two other siblings, aside from Beatrice, he gives Kent clearance to use his shadow-space teleportation to visit Japan and Rosenburg, as long as Kent leaves more than sufficient genus bodyguards, which he does.

Angelina Volzard

Beatrice's older sister.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Those to whom she's close can call her Dee.
• Friendly Address Privileges: In recognition of the fact that Kent is going to marry Beatrice, she insists he call her "big sister" rather than "san" or "sama".
• The Gadfly: She loves to tease Kent just to get a reaction.
• The Tease: To the chagrin of Asakawa, Beatrice, and Manon, she loves to sexually tease Kento, right in front of them. While Kento clearly likes the affection, he's scared of the aftermath.

Baldini Volzard

The second son.

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• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Augusto tells Kento that this guy has a serious inferiority complex towards his siblings, due to being born with less mana capacity than his siblings and getting poor grades in school due to that, so he overcompensates by lording over those in lower social strata, and that the best approach is for Kent to avoid him whenever possible.
• Little Bit Beastly: Like Augusto, he inherited bunny ears from his mother.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: He vehemently opposes Beatrice's pending marriage to Kent. Angelina harshly warns him to keep it under wraps because Kent is a legit S-Rank adventurer, and it's much better to have him as an ally than an enemy.

Omegus

A famous pharmacist and potion inventor. There are also some dark under-currents regarding him.

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• For Science!: He had no motive or goal for his highly unethical potion research, he just found it "interesting."
• Mad Scientist: His healing and magic imbuing potions are already the best on the market, without rival. He still went through the expense, effort, and extremely unethical experiments to try and see if they could be "better", not caring that many of his test subjects became monsters as a result.
• Non-Idle Rich: He's so wealthy he can outbid others in auctions to buy extremely large and rare monster stones, twice in a row over two months, and he's a leading potion maker and researcher.

Gilian

Formerly an S-rank adventurer, he retired to become Omegus's bodyguard.

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• The Aggressive Drug Dealer: He dons a disguise and goes around to adventurers with lacking magic abilities and shoves Omegus's experimental potions in their hands, hyping their effectiveness, but refraining from mentioning potential drawbacks. Several prominent adventurers were turned into monsters as a result.
• Magic Knight: Equally skilled with wind magic and an enchanted rapier.
• Poke in the Third Eye: He somehow notices when Kent's looking at him from shadow space and sends a windblade near the entrance of the shadow as a "greeting."
• Retired Badass: He retired from being an S-rank adventurer to become the bodyguard of Omegus.
• Underestimating Badassery: He strikes down Fel, formerly one of Graciela's party, after she became a monster, then became one of Kent's genus, when she went at him in revenge for turning her into a monster in the first place. He thinks Fred, one of the three skeletons, who is Kent's most powerful genus and has centuries of combat experience would be just as easy a fight. His prized rapier is shredded as well as his pride, as he can do nothing to counter the skeleton's attacks.

Japan Investigation Unit and other Japanese citizens:

Detective Katayama

The police detective who first sees Kento come out of shadow space. In response, he grabs the kid and slams him to the ground, in the process of trying to arrest him. He remains needlessly antagonistic, as if he's trying to intentionally alienate Kento and sabotage the investigation.

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• Bullying a Dragon: He's seen Kento's genus, especially Nero, the storm cat, and he still gets very handsy and violent with Kento every chance he gets. The only reason he hasn't been torn to pieces by Kento's rightly angered genus is that Kento himself doesn't want to deal with the fall-out of this rabid cop's death.
• Jerkass: He's completely and needlessly antagonistic to Kento every chance he gets, despite the poor kid doing everything in his power to help the police investigation, and bringing forth exemplary results.
• Rabid Cop: His knee-jerk response to Kento is violence at every opportunity. In fact, when Kento first came to the investigation HQ to assist and deliver letters from his classmates to their relatives, this cop grabs him, slams him to the ground, and tries to brutally arrest him.
• They Just Dont Get It: No matter how his partner Sudou tells him that his needless antagonism might jeopardize the investigation, he refuses to relent and just keeps on being antagonistic.

Inspector Sudou

The police inspector assigned to be Kento's liaison. He does everything humanly possible to help Kento with returning his classmates to Japan and helping their families cope.

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• Being Good Sucks: Because he's an honest, reasonable, and even-tempered officer, he keeps getting stuck dealing with the rabid Funayama Sr. who is desperate to get his son back, despite being an impossibility and just keeps getting more and more belligerent with each appearance.
• By-the-Book Cop: He enforces the law fairly and with an even hand, helping Kento as much as his police authority allows.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He helps Kento as much as possible and when Kento needs to get feminine hygiene products for his female school-mates, pays for the purchase with his own funds, since Kento clearly has no cash, thanks to his isekai experience wrecking what little bit of his home life he had.

Funayama Sr.

Funayama's father.

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• Blinded by Rage: The only possible explanation for why he thought going with a self-proclaimed internet newsfeed reporter's plan to fake setting himself on fire to protest Japan trying to normalize relations with a country that paid reparations for harm done to Japanese citizens was a good idea.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Deconstructed. In his own POV chapter, he proclaims that he took to drink to try and cope with the stress of having his son go missing and then when the media rightfully took him to task for his crack-pot theories that Kento, one of the victims who was cooperating with the police and bringing the students home, was the ringleader, just because Kento's father is an adulterer, and Kento has multiple wives in the other world.
• The Farmer and the Viper: When he collapses and almost dies, Kento reflexively comes out of shadow space and saves his life with healing magic. His immediate response is to try and grab Kento and beat him, demanding where his son is. Fortunately for Kento, one of his genus slipped sleeping pills into his stomach, knocking him out.
• Insane Troll Logic: He catches a glimpse of Kento right before he has what appears to be a stroke, rendering him unconscious, so Kento must somehow be the mastermind of the mass-kidnapping event and is escaping being held to account by pretending to help the police!
• Like Father, Like Son: He's just as much of a pompous jerk as his son, as he defaults to threats and trying to throw his weight around to get what he wants.
• Never Suicide: Enraged at being marginalized by the press because the truth about Kent's heroics came to light and nobody believes his crack-pot rants that Kento is a mass-kidnapper using supernatural powers to escape justice, he jumps on the opportunity to shame the police and Japanese government by staging a self-immolation protest with what he's told is a stage magician's trickery. On live camera, the guy who approaches him instead makes it look like he willingly burned himself to death unprompted, and it almost works, if not for a passing witness with a cell-phone who recorded Funayama Sr. being doused with a second unidentified accelerant rather than "water" as the guy in the video proclaimed.
• Percussive Therapy: Deconstructed. On his most recent appearance in chapter 122, he vents his rage at not getting his son back, or being told where Kento is, by slamming his fist into Inspector Sudou's desk until it breaks, but collapses with some kind of cerebral trauma from the effort.
• Revenge Before Reason: He has utterly fixated on the delusion that Kent is somehow the mastermind of the incident that brought down a school, causing nearly 50 deaths, and over 200 people to go missing, and just barely is willing to believe the other world exists. As such, since he can't get his son back, alive and well, he does everything in his power to turn public opinion against Kent and destroy the boy in retaliation, utterly refusing to believe his son is even dead.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: All he wants is his son returned, or at least knowledge that the kid is dead so he can mourn and move on. Since that is not forthcoming, all he can do is rant and rage at the people he thinks might have the answers.
• Taking You with Me: When he realizes the so-called "fake self-immolation" is real and he's been duped into Murder by Suicide, he grabs the guy responsible in a bear-hug as he's burning to death while splashed with unknown accelerants.
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: All the other families involved with Kento's schoolmates received letters from their children but he's still in the dark. So he keeps getting more and more belligerent with the police who can't tell him anything. When unscrupulous reporters publish Kento's photo at his mother's grave, he fixates on trying to find the kind and strangle the truth out of him.
• Unwitting Pawn: He lets his desire for vengeance lure him into a scheme put forward by unknown organization(s) that are trying to sabotage Japan's relationship with the other world and goes with a self-proclaimed "internet news feed" to protest the reconciliation with what he was told was a stage magic fake self-immolation trick. It's only when he's being burned alive, for real, that he realizes he's been had.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He thinks he's in one of many doujin, hentai, or the NC-18 series "Confinement King" where the protagonist is a horribly abused teen who does indeed abuse supernatural powers to make himself a harem. Especially as the last does indeed have him faking cooperation with police and one of the haremettes is a brainwashed cop. He refuses to accept the actual reality that this is a more traditional isekai story, and the protagonist is just as much a victim as his son was.

Takagi Keiichirou

The therapist assigned to the summon victims by Japan's authorities. For reasons unknown, as of this post, he has a visceral hatred of Kento and loves to look down on the boy at every opportunity, thinking he's righteousness incarnate for doing it, regardless of who calls him out.

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• Ambiguous Situation: He pales in terror when Klaus tells him off for provoking Kento, threatening to literally throw him out of Volzard if he doesn't cool it, and part of that involves telling this lout that Klaus has neither the willingness nor the ability to corral Kento like the wild animal Takagi loudly insists the boy is. Is Takagi terrified for his own safety, or fear of what an out-of-control Kento might do? Whatever the case, he sure as death and taxes isn't telling.
• An Arm and a Leg: Fred chops off both his arms to stop him from beheading Kento with a garrote.
• Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: To an insane degree, that makes Klaus and Constant look downright reasonable by comparison. Despite his daughter being only three-years-old, living in Japan, and having absolutely no contact with Kent, Takagi is absolutely convinced that Kento is out to get her to add to his harem, because he's just that much of a Drunk with Power skirt-chasing playboy.
• Break the Haughty: In chapter 172, he's dragged into Klaus's office, having been punched in the face off-screen so hard he's got a black eye and swelled cheek, and Klaus rakes him across the coals for his irrational and unjustified hatred towards Kent, especially the part where Takagi completely neglected to investigate Kent's background, failing in his Therapist profession he's so proud of.
• Cyanide Pill: When his assassination attempt on Kento fails, he poisons himself to death by cracking a dental implant.
• Did Not Think This Through: He goes full-tilt Entitled Bastard in front of Kento when the latter refuses to search a Gryphon's guts for a schoolmate it dragged off and presumably ate two days ago, after Kento worked day and night to try and bring the beast down for the safety of everyone in Volzard and tries to pass it off with Comes Great Responsibility. Kento defends himself by pointing out that taking down the Gryphon, at considerable risk, is already more than enough to qualify, and he has no further obligation. At this point, he once again angrily decries Kento "guy who only chases women's asses" right in front of the women in question. Asakawa angrily gives him a tight slap and loudly proclaims that he has no right to complain because Kento's not only gone way above and beyond his obligations already, but the women in his harem are the ones who sought him out, not the other way around.
• Dr. Jerk: The way he treats Watase, and the fact that it works, proves that he at least has some competence as a therapist, but his constant condescension of Kento and pointed bias against him should have disqualified him from being sent to the new world to be the schoolmate's therapist.
• Entitled Bastard: Coming off of five days and nights of trying to kill a particularly troublesome gryphon, Kento is in no mood to go and dissect the beast to try and find a classmate who stupidly leaned out a window, against the orders of the teachers and Volzard authorities, so he asks Takagi to do it, if it's so important to him that he's making a fuss about it. Takagi responds by demanding Kento do it because "all [he does] is chase women's asses." At that point, Asakawa has had enough and slaps some sense into him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The only thing we can say for sure about him is that his wife and three-year-old daughter are genuine. Everything else is a mystery under investigation.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Even after Klaus tells him that it wouldn't be a surprise if the city of Volzard were to disappear, were it not for Kent's heroics, this guy can't understand, for the life of him, why Klaus would want to protect Kent from people trying to control, corral, or unjustly criticize him.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: In the end, the reason for his visceral hatred of Kento and trying to kill him, are completely unknown. All the characters can do is speculate.
• Holier Than Thou: He loves to proclaim himself as the epitome of righteousness and Kento as nothing more than an irresponsible playboy, because Kento won't dedicate every waking second to bring back his classmates to Japan, for free, even if it kills him. He utterly refuses to believe that Kento can't do that!
• Hypocrite: Which Klaus calls him out on, but it fails to register. He expects rewards for doing his job, but Kento refusing even if the tiniest demand, for any reason, means the boy is nothing more than a guy "who only chases women's asses" and deserves to be insulted and lectured until his "irresponsible nature is fixed."
• Improperly Paranoid: He's convinced that his three-year-old daughter will somehow wind up in Kent's clutches, which is why he's so brutally vicious to the boy.
• Irrational Hatred: For reasons unknown, he's utterly convinced that Kento is nothing more than a skirt-chasing playboy who is merely fooling around and intentionally neglecting to return his schoolmates to Japan. It doesn't matter who calls him out on it, his mind's made up and he won't let facts "confuse" him.
• Kill and Replace: Implied. Upon his death after failing to assassinate Kento, the police learn from Takagi's parents that this guy isn't him. The real Takagi was a high-school runaway who was estranged from his family and then dropped off the grid 12 years ago, with this guy assuming his name and getting a legit PhD in Psychological Therapy. The real Takagi is presumed dead.
• Principles Zealot: In chapter 172, Klaus hears how this guy tried to throw his weight around with the crew dismantling the Gryphon and has had enough. He's dragged into the town-lord's office and forced to spit out why he's so irrationally hostile to Kento, the guy to whom Volzard owes a tremendous debt of gratitude. Turns out, Takagi is utterly convinced that the only guys who would have harems are irresponsible skirt-chasing playboys, who need to be tightly controlled, have no right to be hailed as heroes, and need to be forced to narrow down their list of love-interests to one and only one woman. Klaus rakes him across the coals and tells him either he cools it, or he's literally getting booted out of the city through the front gate, and good luck surviving that.
• Refuge in Audacity: Discussed. The JSDF, Klaus, and Kento himself point out the fact that going in obviously hostile and biased against Kento, immediately raising suspicion and catching everyone's attention, would make him a failure as a spy or assassin, but then again, he's obviously got special forces training as he carries a garrote around, can flash-step, and makes almost no noise when he walks, so maybe he was deliberately playing the fool to divert everyone's suspicions.
• Villainous Breakdown: In chapter 174 as a result of realizing that Klaus utterly refuses to corral Kento, and being informed that Kento can't be corralled, seeing as the boy is stronger than all the martial might of Volzard combined, Takagi fakes an apology, bows his head, and when Kento returns the gesture, produces a garrote and tries to behead the poor kid, and then killed himself to prevent anyone from learning anything. It's only because Fred smelled a rat and was ready, slicing off both this guy's arms, that Kento survived, and even then it was touch and go for a few days.

Empire of Barshania

Emperor Constant Barshania

The emperor of the Barshania empire.

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• Did Not Think This Through: When Kento comes out of shadow space right in their strategy room, and declares he has intel on Rosenberg, the emperor's knee-jerk response is to yell "CAPTURE HIM!" and try to grab Kento by force. Naturally, Kento retreats into shadow space, treats the empire as hostile, and demonstrates overwhelming superiority by wrecking the entire army camp, without a single casualty. Oh, and also harasses the castle with his kobold genus all night long.
• The Good King: He is a fair and just ruler, beloved by his people.
• Henpecked Husband: He may be a mighty emperor, but he's completely submissive to his wife.
• Impossible Task: Even though Kento demonstrated that he can get into anywhere in the castle and wrecked the army's tents the night before, completely ruining their invasion plans, the emperor demands approximately 880 kg of iron in less than 5 days from Volzard as a peace offering, or else he's going to find a way to march 40,000 troops on the now very vulnerable Rosenberg. He knew Volzard doesn't even have that much iron. Fortunately, Kento was able to plead for the iron from Japan, which wants to negotiate sending mineral survey teams to the new world, now that the Japanese Diet has declared the new world official.
• Love Makes You Dumb: He and Seraphim's brothers are all wise and competent rulers, beloved by the people, but whenever the issue of Seraphim comes up, their familial love for the girl causes their IQ to plummet, to the point Kento rightly calls them "idiot father and brothers."
• Shotgun Wedding: He demands Kento marry Seraphim because the latter was in the unwed girl's room at night. Refusal means Kento will find himself dead.

Empress Lisaveta

The empress of Barshania and Seraphima's mother.

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• I Want Grandkids: She not only pushes for Seraphima and Kento to get married, she's not shy about saying that she wants Kento to get Seraphima pregnant as soon as possible.
• The Man Behind the Man: Constant may run the empire, but she runs Constant.
• Slipping a Mickey: She covertly puts aphrodisiacs in the celebratory booze that comes at the end of the marriage ceremony she convinced Seraphima should be kept quiet from Kento.

Shalthan:

Marquis Dominguez

The noble in charge of the port town where Landshelt usually docks for seafaring trade. He initially tries to force Kent to become a subordinate and hand over the corpse of a sea-serpent that attacked the trading ship Kent was guarding per his Escort Mission contract. This eventually catches up to him in a big way.

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• Bullying a Dragon: His introduction has him seize the ship Kent rode in on and refuse to let it leave dock with duly purchased trade goods and send an army, led by his own son, against Kent, who had defeated three Kraken and a sea serpent that attacked the ship he rode in on, all single-handed, demanding the corpse of the sea-serpent and Kent's fealty. To the surprise of nobody but himself, Kent easily fends off the army, and demonstrates to the army commander that he's not to be messed with by using shadow space to reach into the boy's chest and giving him a brief heart massage.
• Call It Karma: When Kent teleports him to the the home of the local lord of the Landshelt territory that houses the port of Jobate, he winds up having to pay restitution for his villainy of 400 million Helt, but since he only had 200 million available, he winds up having to pay 40 million a year for five years, as opposed to his intended profits from monopolizing a trade route.
• Engineered Heroics: Attempted but averted. He conspires with an underling to send three pirate warships at the port of Jobete in Landshelt and then arrive with six of his own warships to subdue the pirates, with the intent to demand part ownership of the docks he would "conveniently" rebuild and in revenge for Kent brushing im off earlier. Unfortunately for him, by sheer chance, Kent arrived at the docks to see the pirate attack in process, beat up and captured the pirates, interrogated the pirate captain, even sharing top libre wine with the guy for his cooperation, and then went to the Marquis directly, recording the scheme from the Marquis's own mouth.
• Immortality Seeker: The reason he was desperate to get his hands on the sea-serpent's corpse is an old myth that eating sea-serpent meat grants immortality. Despite it being a known fact that eating monster meat has a high chance of turning people into monsters themselves. Truth in Television as it used to be popular in China for people to consume mercury, despite it being highly toxic, because they believed it was part of an immortality elixir.
• You Have Failed Me: He does not tolerate failure lightly. He fired the guild-master of the local adventurer's guild in his territory and replaced her with a lackey because the woman, rather than offer a fair price for the sea-serpent corpse, tried to tie Kent down to the territory with mandatory titles and land that Kent had no need for, causing him to take the corpse away and sell it elsewhere. He also turns on and imprisons the guy who proposed the Engineered Heroics against Jobate, despite agreeing with the plan, because it failed, through circumstances the guy couldn't control.

Princess Philia

The sixth child of the former king. Her entire family was murdered before her eyes by an angry mob. Kent rescued her as he arrived at the capital of Shalthan to complain about one Marquis Dominguez. She's lived at Kent's mansion in Volzard ever since.

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• Angst Coma: Seeing her entire family murdered and the corpses defiled, helpless to do anything, left her with the eyes of a dead fish and completely unresponsive, until Kent takes her to his home and has her looked after both by his wives and by children of her own age, Melissa and Mio, where she quickly gets better.
• Cheerful Child: Once she is introduced to Mio and Melissa, she quickly becomes a happy and well-adjusted child who loves her life in Volzard.
• Children Are Innocent: She doesn't have a single shred of malice in her body, even though her family was murdered in front of her due to a Staged Populist Uprising.
• Lone Survivor: Of the entire royal family, she's the only one to survive, and then only because the mob, for reasons unknown, decided to murder her last. She had younger siblings that were murdered ahead of her.
• Princess Classic: Prior to the rebellion and murder of her family, she was an adored and sheltered princess whose only contact with the masses was waving happily at them from a distance.
• The Scapegoat: Along with the rest of her family. Her father, the king, was actually a fair ruler, and responded to massive floods in the country's farms by sending 80% of the national budget for disaster relief, but this aid never made it to the farmers in question. Luciano, the head strategist of the rebellion, used this as an excuse to rile up the farmers and stage a revolt, leading to the deaths of every last member of the royal family, Philia herself rescued by Kent by sheer chance.

Luciano

The head strategist of the rebellion.

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• The Ghost: He has yet to make an appearance in the story proper despite leading a rebellion for reasons unknown.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: The reason(s) for him staging a rebellion are unknown. Especially since he just disappeared once the capital was taken and he gained access to the accounting ledgers, leaving everything behind.
• Keystone Army: With his disappearance, the rebel army quickly fell apart.
• Staged Populist Uprising: When the disaster relief the king sent to farmers facing floods never arrived, he used the farmer's suffering as the impetus to launch a rebellion, which split the country into three pieces and briefly took control of the capital, disappearing once he got there and read the ledgers.

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