Characters for Genkai Level 1 Kara No Nariagari. Up to date with the current translation of the manga.
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Main Characters:
Tetsuya Takahashi
If only I had done better in high-school instead of immersing myself in that damn MMO.
Thanks to immersing himself in an MMO to the point his grades suffered, he didn't get into the college of his choice, got stuck in an exploitive workplace, and then when he tried to rescue a girl from sexual assault, gets dragged into another world with the perpetrators, who were trying to beat him to death, and the poor girl too, and when the oracle Meme reads his max level as 1/1, the king in charge of the summoning summarily sentences him to execution and thrown over a cliff. He survives the fall, only to be attacked by goblins and falls off another cliff as he's trying to escape, finding the long forgotten corpse of an earth-dragon. He absorbs the dragon and this gives him the strength he needs to fight back and win.- Absurdly Low Level Cap: What else do you call having 1/1 as a max level?
- Accidental Pervert: Where it concerns Lenya. She has no problem letting him see her nude humanoid body, but if he so much as asks about whether or not she has humanoid ears in addition to her cat ones, she screams out "pervert" and flinches as if he's trying to sexually exploit her.
- Always Save the Girl: His Fatal Flaw. If he sees a girl in trouble, he will try to rescue her, suffering severely as a result.
- Awesome, but Impractical: His two biggest spells are a real headache to use in battle. His meteor spell is very impressive with the sheer amount of damage it can dish out, and is also quite useful in other ways, but the enemy could literally see it coming a mile away, and can only be used outdoors or someplace with an insanely high ceiling, and to top it off is not Friendly Fire Proof. The Beam Of Darkness spell he got from absorbing the demon takes 5 minutes to charge, and he has to stand still for it, unable to do anything else.
- Awful Truth: In chapter 23.2, he learns that [Abyss] isn't some eldritch entity or alien god, but rather a gestalt of all the "defective heroes" that the human kingdom summoned and then threw into the Valley of Death because their transmigration abilities weren't obviously flashy enough.
- Bad Powers, Good People: His ability to absorb corpses and gain the powers of the beings whom the corpses are the remains of is depicted ominously. Aside from the fact that the mechanic of the ability is borderline Power Parasite (it's just shy of because he's not taking a living person's power but the target does have to be dead either by circumstance or his own hand) and in order to really gain power quickly he'd have to become a murder hobo, many people who have enhanced senses end up doing a Double Take because their first impression of him (usually lasting only for a moment causing them to dismiss it) is of an eldritch inhuman monster. Often, his ability to absorb the remains of beings to gain power is shown to be something of a Lovecraftian Superpower even if he doesn't show any signs of physical change...yet.
- Bathtub Bonding: He has no issues sharing a bath with both Lenya and Mek.
- Batman Grabs a Gun: When a literal demon shows up at one of his mercenary guild quest, said demon immediately targets him, smelling the "Abyss" curse he's straddled with. As he's getting pounded, the ghost of several other cursed people come forward and offer themselves up to his "Corpse Absorption" skill. Since they're people he didn't personally kill, he knows Mek would consider that grave-robbing, but with his life on the line, he does it, turning the tables on said demon.
- Best Served Cold: He wants revenge on the four delinquents who tried to beat him to death for the "crime" of rescuing the girl they were planning to assault and the trash king who blew his stack and ordered his summary execution, but he wants to survive the encounter so he intends to get strong enough first.
- Classical Anti-Hero: He's got a good heart, and it's in the right place, but he constantly puts himself down due to being terribly exploited and abused.
- Curse: As the party is leaving the Valley of Death, they meet a powerful undead in a suit of armor. It challenges Tetsuya to thumb wrestling. While he's in the match, Mek distracts him, causing him to lose. His life is spared, but he's marked as the vessel of "Abyss" from that point on.
- Good Is Not Soft: When he's up against Takei and has the lunatic at his mercy, he pointedly ignores the guy's whining and screaming, holding him down until he's dead.
- Kind Hearted Cat Lover: The reason he starts off on good terms with Lenya is that he meets her in her "cat" form and he tends to her. After getting her a drink of water from a nearby lake, he realizes he's dealing with a mischievous Cat Girl.
- Lethal Joke Character: His max level may be 1/1 but by having him suck up corpses without limit, he can quickly become a dangerous powerhouse.
- Magikarp Power: His max level being 1/1 and abysmal stats is a terrible place to start from, but because he gains skill points, abilities, and stats from absorbing corpses, he rapidly grows to be a dangerous opponent.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Repeatedly.
- Blowing off your schoolwork while immersing yourself in computer games will seriously hamper your prospects in life, and you could find yourself being stuck in an exploitive and toxic work environment with no other viable options.
- At least in the web-novel, he pulls out his cell-phone and considers calling the police when he sees four delinquents trying to corner and sexually assault a girl but ultimately decides that the cops aren't either going to arrive in time or take his call seriously (which could be Truth in Television depending on the district and neighborhood) which has him try to take the situation into his own hands, unarmed with no combat or martial arts training. Naturally, the delinquents target him with rage for wasting their time and trying to let the girl escape, so proceed to beat the shit out of him, stating that they'll happily beat him to death.
- Once he manages to get his hands on the earth dragon corpse, his stats sky-rocket and he starts stealing skills from his enemies. Congratulations, but he initially relies way, way too much on raw power to push himself through every battle, and comes far closer to death than he had to.
- Since he had no combat experience or training before coming to this new world, even the way he handles a sword is horrible. Mek tries to teach him how to wield a blade by setting him up with a sword against some low-level goblins, so even in the worst case scenario he won't get too badly hurt. He swings the sword like a baseball bat. It's only because he was up against goblins that this worked.
- The injuries he got from an acid attack to his back shielding Lenya from a poison lizard and the burns to his hands he got from blocking the charge of a flame weasel have left debilitating scars, even after healing, presumably with magic.
- Symbiotic Possession: He's the vessel of an entity known as "Abyss" which occasionally manifests to bail him out of trouble. Mek worries about using this power too often as this entity's goals and nature are unknown.
- Too Desperate to Be Picky: When Shun survives his "Darkness Explosion" skill at its max and comes back for a duel, he sees no option but to use his pact with Abyss, despite knowing absolutely nothing about the entity in question.
- Unluckily Lucky: He starts off the story being brought to this new word with a max level of 1/1, but in exchange comes with a powerful skill. He gets thrown down a cliff into a ravine to be chased by monsters to be thrown down another ravine where he finds the long forgotten corpse of an earth dragon. After cleaning up the corpse and the goblins who tried to murder him for sport, he goes into a cave to consider his options and is set upon by a spider monster, which leads him to encountering Lenya, and being chased by the Spirit of The Dead monster leads them both to Mek, who proceeds to train them to get strong enough to get past the golem that allows them to head out of the ravine and to freedom, and better chances of survival.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Thanks to absorbing the earth dragon and quite a few other monsters, he's got a lot of power and options but doesn't understand how to use those abilities and his strength in the best or most efficient manner. Fortunately, Mek's training helps immensely in that regard.
- Victor Gains Loser's Powers: A variation. He doesn't automatically get the abilities and power of the beings/people he kills but by absorbing their corpses. So basically, in order to get really powerful he'd have to constantly find himself Atop a Mountain of Corpses.
Lenya
- Action Girl: She's not just a pretty face. She can hold her own in a fight just fine.
- Animorphism: She can take on the form of a house-cat or a panther large enough for a full-grown man to ride on.
- Cat Girl: In her humanoid form, she has cat ears atop her head and a cat's tail.
- Fire-Forged Friends: She and Tetsuya bond very closely as a result of being in several battles together while trying to escape the aptly named "Valley of Death."
- Genki Girl: She is very energetic and upbeat.
- Hypocritical Humor: In the manga's chapter 6, she angrily denies she uses "Nya" in her sentences, going "Nya" as she's doing it!
- The Ingenue: She is extremely childish and innocent, seeing nothing wrong with barging in on a guy bathing, joining him in the bathtub and even using her cat-form to crawl into his shirt at night to then transform into her girl form in her sleep.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: She sees nothing strange about showing off her nude body or sharing a bath with a guy.
- I Owe You My Life: She bonds with Tetsuya because he rescued her from both an Absorption Spider and a Poisonous Lizard, both dangerous beasts that could have easily killed her.
- Our Nudity Is Different: Don't even ask if she has humanoid ears, and for the love of whatever deity you believe in, don't try to touch them. She will react as if you're doing something extremely perverted and uncomfortable. Her elf mentor Mek actively encourages this mindset for some reason.
- Shape Shifting Excludes Clothing: Averted. While she can remove her clothes, voluntarily, she can shapeshift to either cat form, while still wearing them, and back again without harming or losing her clothes in any way.
- Sleep-Mode Size: When she's overly exhausted, she automatically transforms into her "house-cat" form.
- Super Mode: Her giant panther form is faster and stronger than her humanoid form, and her humanoid form is no pushover.
- Verbal Tic: She ends her sentences with "Nya," but she's completely unaware she's doing it, and will deny it, violently, if someone else points it out.
Mek Samafers
You are a pervert! Humans can't be trusted after all!!
Welcome to my home and our family, Tetsuya.
An elf Tetsuya meets while helping Lenya. She is first introduced with a curse that makes her look like a walking, talking teddy-bear.- Abomination Accusation Attack: When she first sees Tetsuya, she accuses him of coming to loot her home and when he says that's not his reason for being there, she angrily decries that he's there to torture them. Fortunately, Lenya speaks up on his behalf and she apologizes for her rudeness.
- When they're all in the bath together later, because Lenya walks in on Tetsuya, and then Mek walks in on them, as Tetsuya is preparing to wash Lenya's hair, as Lenya herself asked him to, she angrily accuses him of trying to touch Lenya's ears, scaring the poor girl, and then shouting that Tetsuya's an untrustworthy pervert.
- Accidental Pervert: When the attractive female receptionist comes running in a panic to announce the incoming human invasion of elven lands, she does so wearing nothing but a towel for some reason. When Mek runs up to beg her to let the party go to elven lands to deal with the incoming threat, the towel falls off. Unprovoked Pervert Payback ensues.
- All Women Are Lustful: The instant she gets her true elf body back, she preens in a mirror for a moment then pins Tetsuya to the ground and tries to have sex with him. Unfortunately for her, the transformation wears off before Tetsuya can actually do anything, and the skill that allowed that to happen has an insanely long cooldown.
- The Blind Leading the Blind: Tetsuya is from another world, so has good reason to have no knowledge of how things work. Mek's been trapped in the Valley of Death as a teddy-bear for 60 years, so she barely knows more than he does, and she's the most knowledgeable of the party.
- Curse: She suffers from a curse that makes her look like a teddy-bear.
- Famed In-Story: She's well known among the locals as an elegant, powerful, and wise elf elder, but also known for her impulsiveness and short fuse.
- Fantastic Racism: Justified. She has a very poor opinion of humans in general and is quick to level accusations at them. We later learn that the humans deserve it as Humans Are the Real Monsters is in play.
- Fatal Flaw: Impatience and irritability. She's very hot-blooded and easily offended. This caused her to accept a very, very dangerous mercenary request without waiting to hear the particulars. This leads to Tetsuya's party fighting a bull-type Kaiju they should have had no chance in hell of beating.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Downplayed. She states she doesn't mind sharing Tetsuya, especially with her sister, but she has to be the one to get his virginity.
- Genius Ditz: She's very, very competent on the battle-field, in every possible way, from deciding tactics and strategies, training new and upcoming fighters, or even going to battle herself. In everything else, she's a total clutz that makes it hard to believe she's actually an elf queen. Her impatience and irritability don't help.
- Gone Horribly Right: After Tetsuya beats the bull kaiju with clever use of the Meteor spell he got from the Earth Dragon, she posits dragging the corpse back to the guild to sell the parts. Tetsuya does this, but because the bull creature was leaving behind a trail of blood, this led to swarms of monsters bearing down on the guild, forcing the staff to issue emergency requests for other adventurers to deal with them, saddling Tetsuya's party with a massive debt, and causing them to lose their autonomy, having the receptionist dictate what quests they will take and when, to try and keep them from getting into even worse trouble.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's blonde and a good woman who treasures both Lenya and Tetsuya like family.
- Honor Before Reason: Even though she knows Tetsuya needs to get stronger, fast, she insists that as long as he's her apprentice, he must only absorb the bodies of monsters, or people, he or his party members kill, as grave-robbing is abhorrent. The absorption of the Earth Dragon being the only exception, since that happened before they met. Lenya frequently calls her out on it.
- The Mentor: She gives combat and magic training to both Lenya and Tetsuya.
- Moment Killer: As she's got Tetsuya pinned in the bathtub, and he begins to react to her demands for sex, she changes back into her teddy-bear form just before she gives him a kiss. Oof.
- Ms. Exposition: She's Tetsuya's primary source of exposition in the story.
- Mundane Utility: She uses her "teddy-bear" body to help bathe Lenya. It Makes Sense in Context.
- One Degree of Separation: Her younger sister is the current elf queen.
- Pimped-Out Dress: She's normally dressed in a fancy, yet practical, dress and some elegant jewelry.
- Pointed Ears: As an elf, her ears are naturally pointy.
- Princess in Rags: She was the queen of the elves until she was cursed, and the world believes her to be dead. For 60 years, she's been trying to escape the Valley of Death, break the curse, and return to her kingdom.
- Standard Hero Reward: She promised to marry Tetsuya if he could break them out of the Valley of Death. Tetsuya didn't take it seriously at the time, since she was a teddy-bear, but after seeing her true elf body and hearing her demand for sex, he begins to seriously consider going through with it, especially since she refuses to let him decline.
The "heroes":
Four delinquents who were the actual targets of the summoning ritual. Common to All
Oi! Ya bastard. Whadda ya mean we have ta fight fer ya?! EH!?
- Attempted Rape: They are introduced cornering a girl and making their intent to have sex with her crystal clear, her consent be damned.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the standard RPG hero. The web novel version shows that they were taken to dungeons to give them practical combat experience and raise their levels, then treated to lavish meals, wealth, and women, and when they were ready, sent out to conquer "enemies," promised lavish rewards for their success. Except, there's nothing heroic about these guys, at all. At the absolute best, they're just over-glorified and overpaid mercenaries and bounty-hunters.
- Designated Hero: In universe. When the king of Arbus summons them, he immediately designates them as "heroes" and lets not one word of criticism reach their ears, proclaiming that they can do no wrong.
- The Hedonist: All they care about is their own immediate gratification. Wine, wealth, women, etc., they want it, and they want it NOW!
- Japanese Delinquents: They are introduced wearing what looks like school uniforms and beat up on an office worker for daring to try and rescue a girl they were presumably intending to rape.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Because they all have max levels over 90, each and every one of them could easily destroy a country all by himself.
Hiromu Oshima
I'm looking forward to owning this castle. Let's kill off all these beast-kin quickly!
The first of the "heroes" shown to the audience while on the battle-field in the manga.- Bald of Evil: He's got a very shaved head and is a thug who sees nothing wrong with mass-slaughter for pay.
- Good Powers, Bad People: He's got the power-set and build one would expect from a paladin, and he's nothing more than an over glorified thug.
- Light Is Not Good: He wields powerful light attacks and before he transmigrated, he was a petty thug looking forward to raping a teenage girl. After being designated a "hero," he sees nothing wrong with mass slaughter for profit.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: He carries around a shield bigger than he is.
- The Paladin: What he looks like. He's got shining armor, a shield with cross imagery and projects shield shaped attacks of light, capable of taking down a city wall with ease.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: He's distraught when Takei just casually beheads his Sex Slave, not because killing her was wrong, but because she was "his favorite."
Takei Yun
How dare you suggest I'm weak?! I'll kill you!
The weakest of the four "heroes," but he is still insanely strong by the world standard. He pointedly does not like it.- Achilles' Heel: As powerful as he is with his high level and overpowered skills, he needs to have MP to use them. So when he runs out of MP, he's actually as weak as an unarmed civilian.
- Axe-Crazy: He walks around in a perpetual rage and kills people at the drop of a hat, for any reason, or no reason at all.
- Awesome, but Impractical: His "Legendary Mode" skill. It only activates when he's near death, stays on regardless of his wishes, and drains his MP in a hurry. In exchange, it boosts his stats and abilities to ridiculous levels. Of course, anyone or anything that can beat him to near-death in the first place is not a good opponent to use an uncontrollable skill against.
- Berserk Button: Though he flips his shit for any reason, or no reason at all, even the slightest suggestion that he's weak, even relative to his fellow "heroes," will make him completely flip out and respond with violence.
- And that's nothing compared to actually hurting him, especially in the face.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When he and Tetsuya reunite in chapter 17 of the manga, he doesn't even remember the guy being in the summoning chamber with him.
- General Failure: He's the only one of the four to fail in grabbing himself a territory, and lost all his men in the process, even though all four "heroes" were given roughly equal circumstances to face. He has the gall to feel "insulted" when his "friend" Kaito calls him out on it.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: Tetsuya manages to grab his head and activate the acid spray attack he got from the poison lizard. He survives it because his regeneration ability kicked in.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He walks around in a perpetual rage and is quick to demonstrate it, over any slight, real or imagined.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: When his "Legendary Mode" runs out, due to lacking MP, Tetsuya slices him in half at the waist with a two-handed sword.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: He feels inferior to his fellow "heroes" so seeks to make himself look superior by outperforming them in levels of kill-count.
- Insane Troll Logic: For some unexplained reason, he believes that killing anyone and everyone in is path would send him home. Tetsuya is sympathetic, but that doesn't deter him from doing what needs to be done.
- Madness Mantra: When Tetsuya manages to actually wound him, he goes completely apoplectic and just starts shouting "Unforgivable!" over and over again.
- Omnicidal Maniac: He just wants to kill people, period and would slaughter his three "friends," aka "fellow heroes," if he thought he would survive the process.
- Punched Across the Room: Up to eleven. He's punched across the continent. Tetsuya does send him to orbit with the darkness explosion attack, and he comes crashing back down again, several countries away. At this point, he finally remembers who Tetsuya is...
- Sore Loser: If you beat him in a fight, you had better make sure to kill him, because he will come back, even more enraged and determined to absolutely slaughter you for the "crime" of defeating him, just to prove to himself that he's "better than you."
- Turns Red: As dangerous as this guy normally is, bringing him to the very brink of death triggers his passive "Legend Mode" exclusive skill, which boosts all his stats to ridiculous proportions and makes him look like a being composed of pure energy.
- Undignified Death: He dies whining and screaming that he's got so much more to destroy, so he can go home. Tetsuya holds him down until he breathes his last.
- Villain Respect: When the human soldiers point at Tetsuya and yell out "he's the defective trash summon!," despite seeing him in battle and owning them, he retorts "bullshit! This guy is very troublesome." And is the very, very first guy Takei ever showed respect to, at least on screen, even if it was for just a moment.
- Villains Want Mercy: When he's on the receiving end of certain death, he whines and begs for Tetsuya to let him patch himself together, proclaiming that he just wanted to go home. Tetsuya holds him down until he breathes his last and then absorbs the corpse.
- Wound That Will Not Heal: Despite having a powerful regeneration ability that stopped him from just straight up dying when Tetsuya hits him in the face with a powerful stream of acid, at extreme point blank range, his face is still a grotesque scar.
Sakai Reiji
Dino meat sure is tasty!
The "hero" who decided to not try and claim a territory, but instead strike out on his own.- The Big Guy: Though he's not the highest level (that's Kaito), he is the biggest and buffest of the "heroes."
- Blood Knight: He fights purely for the thrill of battle and doesn't care to fight "weaklings." He was disappointed when he challenged the orc king to a fight and won with disturbing ease.
- Honor Before Reason: He has no grudge with the elves and would happily leave them alone, left to his own devices, but after meeting Shun, is honor bound to help defeat the elf nation if Tetsuya loses the duel.
- I Work Alone: He decided to take off on his own, and as the page image can attest, hunts the biggest game he can find.
- Jousting Lance: His preferred weapon seems to be a lance, and he uses multiples.
- Token Good Teammate: Of the four "heroes," he's the only one to show any semblance of decency. He could have utterly stomped the elf kingdom, still reeling from Shun's attack, but instead he was happy to sit and share a meal with the current elf-queen and deliver a message from Shun to Tetsuya with the former demanding a one on one duel.
Yamashita Kaito
I'm not a demon king trying to destroy the world. I'm a "hero" trying to win back the human's territory. I would like the humans to be in charge. So let's all be friends, right you stupid ogres?!
The last and strongest of the "heroes."- BFS: When in battle, he wields a sword bigger than he is.
- Heroic Build: Though he's anything but heroic, aside from inside his own head, he is definitely built like one, bulging biceps, rock-hard six-pack abs, flowing shoulder-length hair, the works.
- Loveable Sex Maniac: Played with. On the one hand, he is a sex-maniac. On the other, he's clearly not loveable. He's racist, sexist, violent, condescending, and has a clearly abhorrent personality.
- Necromancer: He presumably has a special skill that allows him to animate corpses, though he doesn't like to use it.
- Pragmatic Villainy: He keeps the casualties minimal in the territory he conquers because there's no way he and the troops Aberus gave him can manage the territory on their own.
- Shameless Fanservice Guy: He has no problems having sex with his latest conquest, in full view of the public, even when he's in an important meeting with the rest of his "hero friends."
Kingdom of Aberus:
Meme
How can this be? A maximum level of 1?!
The oracle who summoned Tetsuya, the "heroes" and the girl said "heroes" tried to corner and sexually assault to this new world.- Awesome by Analysis: Her [Analyze] skill allows her to see everyone's maximum levels, but nothing else.
- Impractically Fancy Outfit: How, just how, does she even breathe wearing that getup.
- Necromancer: As she's delivering the quest to invade the elven lands, she marches in with a band of undead she gathered from the victims of the earlier human armed invasions the "heroes" led.
- Punny Name: No, she's not an internet meme.
- Stripperific: Her outfit leaves precious little to the imagination.
- Summon Magic: She's responsible for the ritual that brought everyone to this new word.
- This Can Not Be: She was shocked and confused that Tetsuya had a max limit of 1/1 as such a thing is supposed to be impossible.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: If she had a stronger [Analyze] skill, she could have seen Tetsuya's [Corpse Absorption] skill and realize he's a very, very rare type of summoned "hero," since skills coming with summons are extremely are and highly sought after.
Kurt
Not only are you an inferior product, but you work for "livestock" BWAHAHA! WHAT A LOSER! (Gets kicked out a window and down a bottomless cliff)
The captain of the knights who made sport of throwing Tetsuya over a cliff to die at the start of the story.- Disney Villain Death: He and his small group of knights are kicked through a window and fall down a cliff too deep to see the bottom, no convenient ledges in sight, plus they're all tied up, so if they face a situation like Tetsuya's, they're not going to be able to run.
- Fatal Flaw: Arrogance. Even when they're defeated, with ease, and tied up in the face of the very same group that defeated them, they think they're clearly superior. They are literally dead wrong.
- Internal Reveal: When he and a group of knights encounter Tetsuya's party in an occupied elf castle, he points out that Tetsuya was a "defective product" of the summoning ritual. It's not something Tetsuya was hiding, but he didn't volunteer it either. Mek responds to this revelation by stating that if she heard it from Tetsuya rather than this braggart knight, she wouldn't have believed it.
- Karmic Death: He and his knight order made a sport of throwing Tetsuya over a cliff to die at the start of the story, and mocked his survival, as well as willingly working with "livestock" in chapter 17. Mek, Lenya, and Boss retaliate to their insults by kicking them so hard they're literally thrown out of the occupied castle where this is taking place and fall down a cliff with a bottom so deep that it's not visible.
- Kick the Dog: He and his group of knights made a sick game out of executing Tetsuya, by throwing him off a cliff to die.
- Too Dumb to Live: Already tied up and beaten, they insult a guy with a grudge already, while in the presence of the very same group that easily beat them?
Mercenary Guild:
The Receptionist
Your capability is indeed impressive, but the rest is bad. I'll choose what missions you take from now on.
The receptionist put in charge of managing Tetsya and party.- Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Being put in charge of Tetsuya's party has been a headache because Tetsuya has no common sense (being an otherworlder and all), and Mek is The Blind Leading the Blind.
- Brutal Honesty: She does not mince words to Tetsuya's party, ever.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone calls her "Receptionist."
- Modesty Towel: Played for laughs. For some bizarre reason, that goes unexplained, she calls an emergency meeting regarding the fate of the elf kingdom wearing nothing but a towel and sopping wet, allowing a scene where said towel falls off as Mek tries to climb up to read her tablet and learn what's going on in Elven territory. Why she didn't let the rest of the staff call for the meeting and then hastily dress herself while waiting for the elves to arrive is anyone's guess.
- Only the Chosen May Wield: Her tablet is tied to her biometrics. Nobody else can use it, as she explains in chapter 16 when Mek tries demanding to see it to find out what's going on in the elf country.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Played with. On the one hand, she allows Mek, Lenya, and Tetsuya to sign up as provincial mercenaries despite the last being only level 1/1 and Mek herself being a "familiar" teddy bear without any possible combat utility. On the other hand, instead of rewarding the party generously for taking down the bull kaiju the guild's been trying to deal with for ages, and bringing it back, mostly intact, something all the veteran mercenaries thank them for, she slaps them with a bill for over 680,000 of the local currency, and then gives them a back-handed compliment that they are indeed very capable in combat, and lousy at everything else. Then flips back to "reasonable" again when she gives Tetsuya brand new equipment, for free, after noting how badly his current equipment is, and knowing the party has no means of replacing it.
- Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Wearing only a towel, when Mek grabs her, pleading to have Tetsuya's party be given access to the elf country, the towel falls off. The receptionist is not amused.
- Shockingly Expensive Bill: When Mek asks if there's any special bonus for bring the corpse of the bull kaiju the party slew to town, the receptionist brings out a bill for over 680,000 of the local currency and says the bonus was already deducted from the party's tab, wishing them luck on paying off the rest.
- Stat-O-Vision: As shown when Tetsuya, Lenya, and Mek arrive at the mercenary guild, looking to sign up, the receptionist's tablet allows her to scan and analyze would-be applicants, seeing that Mek is actually the "familiar" of a powerful elf and Tetsuya's already impressive stats and abilities, all of which she keeps to herself.
- Token Human: Aside from Tetsuya, she's the only human at the mercenary's guild, at least on-screen.
Boss
That's what I like about you, newbie. You understand how I think!
A minotaur assigned to watch over Tetsuya's party and get them acquainted with being mercs, since the first mission was a disaster, despite being a success on paper, and the second was a failure, due to being interrupted by the party stumbling on a demon summoning.- The Alleged Boss: On paper, he's the leader of the party, but in practice, the rest pretty much boss him around.
- Benevolent Boss: Initially gruff and grumpy, he warms up to Tetsuya quickly and listens to the party's input before making a decision, and doesn't take it well when people insult his subordinates.
- Butt-Monkey: Poor guy means well, but he just can't catch a break. The moment he actually manages to look cool, it's immediately ruined soon after. In chapter 19.2, he does a Dying Moment of Awesome by blocking Takei until Tetsuya's got his trump card ready, but in chapter 20.2, he's on the ground howling in agony as Saku Samfers is stitching him up.
- Dumb Muscle: He's great at going in and smashing things or cutting them with his axe, but he's not really a big thinker.
- Gentle Giant: Close to three meters tall and actually a great guy to be around, once you get to know him.
- Glory Seeker: While still sympathetic, he wants as big of a limelight on himself as possible.
- Miles Gloriosus: He loves to brag and boast of his prowess, but contrary to most instances of this trope, he is actually as strong and talented as he boasts. Furthermore, he is actually very brave and honest.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Everyone calls him "Boss." His name has yet to be revealed.
- Our Minotaurs Are Different: He's a humanoid with a bull head, but aside from being a bit slow-witted, he's almost nothing like a stereotypical minotaur.
- Spotting the Thread: He realized Mek knows more about the elven territory than she should, but puts it aside because there are more pressing matters to deal with at the time.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: He tries to ride Lenya's cat super-mode, in the defense of the elf capital, but being a three-meter minotaur, is too heavy to carry and has to walk.
- Sure, Let's Go with That: In the guild, he's getting reamed by his fellow adventurers because Tetsuya took down the leader of the lizardman thief gang, which slipped past him. Tetsuya stops the harassment by claiming that Boss let the leader slip past as a Secret Test, and if Boss was alone, he could have handled the thief gang all by himself. Boss praises him "for knowing how he thinks."
- Taking the Bullet: In manga chapter 19, he jumps in the way of Takei's sword, giving Tetsuya the much needed seconds he needs to use his new Darkness Blast ability at full power, blasting Takei to orbit, if not atoms.
- Unwitting Pawn: Tetsuya and crew have him in the palm of their hands, not because they're particularly clever, but because he's particularly gullible.
Elven country:
Saku Samafers
Drop your equipment, grab the wounded and fall back to the royal castle!
Mek's sister and the current elf queen.- Beauty Equals Goodness: Drop dead gorgeous and a good queen beloved by her people.
- General Failure: Due to lack of experience, talent, and the fact that her very first battle involved the level 91 Takei power-walking at her like an expy of The Terminator, with her army having nowhere to run, she panics and commands her army to focus all their might on Takei, the human's greatest bulwark in the area, a rookie mistake. Naturally, not only is Takei barely annoyed at their display, the elf army is now vulnerable to human army's counter, leaving the elves suffering heavy casualties.
- Harmful Healing: Just because she's good enough to heal any injury, no matter how grievous, as long as the patient is still alive, it doesn't mean the process is going to be painless, as Boss learns in chapter 20.2.
- Healing Hands: She specializes in healing magic.
- The High Queen: The undisputed queen of the elven lands.
- Hold the Line: In chapter 19, Mek, having her curse temporarily lifted by Tetsuya's [Release] skill, puts up a powerful barrier to slow Takei's advance, buying Tetsuya enough time to charge his Darkness Blast, but it's not enough, the curse rebounds. Suka grabs Mek's staff and takes over until she runs out of magic, Takei breaking through just seconds before Tetsuya is ready.
- No One Gets Left Behind: She focuses on rescuing the wounded elves over her own safety.
- One Degree of Separation: She's Mek's younger sister.
General Rema
The human army has marched through all our traps, troops, and defenses like nothing. Our only option is to focus everything we have in a single strike.
The top general of the elf kingdom.- I Will Only Slow You Down: Grievously wounded by Takei's blade, she begs Queen Saku to leave her behind. The queen refuses.
- Undying Loyalty: Her queen is more precious than her life.
Neutral Territory:
Riko Satomi
The mysterious Saintess of the neutral territory that protects the inhabitants, including low-level humans, from monsters. She is the same girl that was being harassed by the "Heroes" in the prologue who Tetsuya tried to defend.
- Absurdly Low Level Cap: Just like Tetsuya, she has a low level cap. Also like Tetsuya, she gained power from the Abyss that more than makes up for it.
- Idol Singer: She was a famous idol singer in the original world and even becoming a revered Saint in another world has not dampened her love for singing to an audience.
- Loved by All: Pretty much everyone in the town she protects loves her dearly, and she has fans from all over various territories as well.
- Neutral in Name Only: Won't openly oppose the Human nation now, but will side against them when the time comes.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Has managed to gain a great deal of power, but has little knowledge of how to use it effectively or with precision.
Gods
Abyss
So you can finally hear me, Tetsuya!
The ancient entity that "curses" Tetsuya as he's escaping the Valley of Death and has been aiding him ever since.- Arch-Enemy: For the demons. It warns Tetsuya to use his new super-mode very carefully because the demons and demon worshippers would do everything in their power to hunt Tetsuya and everyone he cares for down if they know he's the gestalt's conduit to the world. In fact, the demons would utterly destroy the planet if they have to just to try and get at it. It does not say why that is, if it even knows.
- Awful Truth: It reveals to Tetsuya that all the human "heroes" who are summoned, especially those who are dumped in the Valley of Death as "failures" are yanked out of the cycle of reincarnation and wind up cursed for eternity, and the "Spirit of Death" monster Tetsuya had to flee from is just some of them leaking from the afterlife back into the world. When Tetsuya offers to use his power to consume them, Abyss tells him it would be an exercise in futility as Tetsuya himself will eventually die of old age before then, and it would be All for Nothing.
- The Chooser of the One: In chapter 24, it reveals that Tetsuya finding that Earth Dragon corpse in the Valley of Death was no accident. It takes credit for placing that corpse there where Tetsuya could find it.
- Dark Is Not Evil: It's a gestalt of the vast majority of "failures" brought to the world by the human kingdom's "Hero Summoning" magic," composed of possibly millions of spirits yanked out of the cycle of reincarnation and is mostly good and decent.
- Deity of Human Origin: Before becoming a gestalt, all of its members were ordinary humans.
- Symbiotic Possession: In exchange for controlling Tetsuya's body in times of extreme emergency, it provides aid, succor, and power to him.
