Character list for Living In This World With Cut And Paste, beware Late Arrival Spoilers, since the web-novel was finished with the author's death in 2016.
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Protagonist:
Myne
Let's try out the skills those bandits were using! Helping people instead of hurting them should be alright!
Introduced as an orphan whose parents died in a pandemic and has been living alone, supporting himself by hunting and the kindness of his home village, he arrives at the temple just after reaching adulthood at 15 to get his skills appraised. He learns he has [God's eye] (novel) [Judgement: Full] (manga) and [Cut&paste], both excellent skills for a hunter like himself. But in the carriage on the way home, he starts experimenting with his [Judgement] skill and learns there's a thief in the group. Fearing the worst, he tries to figure out a way to warn the adventurers serving as bodyguards but has an epiphany "what if I use [Cut&Paste] on the thief's skills? Can I apply them to myself?" He soon becomes a real powerhouse, taking the world by storm.
- Achilles' Heel: His ability to steal skills from his enemies comes with two very dangerous drawbacks. The first is that he must be able to see his enemies to use his [Judgement: Full] before he can see their skills to steal them. Far more often than not, this means his enemies can see him first, and that's quite dangerous, getting his face scratched by an arrow first time he tried it. The second is that he must be able to read and understand the skill he's trying to steal. The first time he meets one of the demon race as an antagonist, the guy had skills that came across as corrupted text, so he couldn't take them, even if he had already seen them in action and knew what they did. It took the god of the world upgrading his skill to [God's Eye: Ultimate] to unscramble the text and read the particulars before he could turn the tables on that guy.
- Adaptation Personality Change: Subtle and downplayed. In the original novel, he had to be talked into or cajoled into adding more women to his [clan] Eternal Sunflower. In the manga, he openly volunteers, even when others, like King Augusta, call it his harem.
- Adaptational Dumbass: The manga greatly increases his Good Is Dumb tendencies and makes it easier for "human" enemies to get the jump on him.
- All-Loving Hero: Downplayed. He has no hesitation killing the monster or "demon" races, but it takes a great deal to make him have a grudge with fellow humans.
- Baths Are Fun: After experiencing the hot-spring baths in Labyrinth Town, he gets the idea to build one in his home. He has the local smith build the tub itself, but since the magic tool required is exorbitantly expensive, he jury-rigs a tool himself by stealing the skills of water and heat slimes found in the Labyrinth Town dungeon.
- Beat Them at Their Own Game: While he's not averse to using other tactics as the situation calls for it, Myne's favorite tactic is to snatch the skills of his enemies and then beat them over the head with them.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He's so soft, a marshmallow looks like diamond compared to him, but he's got a strong sense of justice and if you manage to piss him off, your death will be... entertaining.
- Beyond the Impossible: Using [Cut&Paste] to steal skills from other people and monsters shouldn't be possible, but he can do it because of the wonderful synergy with his [Judgement: Full] skill.
- He later tames one of Fenrir's pups, as gratitude for saving the pup's life using a greater troll's [Super Regeneration] skill. Even Fenrir herself didn't think that could be done.
- A Child Shall Lead Them: Borderline case. He's legally an adult in the world setting, but he's 15 and the youngest member of his party, yet he calls the shots.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Which he inherited from his parents. If there's people in danger, he will rush into the threat head-on, if at all possible.
- Conveniently an Orphan: He's been an orphan since the age of 7 (novel) or 10 (manga) when his parents died, of illness is what he was told.
- Deliberate Injury Gambit: When he's in hot pursuit of Claude's flunkies, as he's trying to rescue Fenrir's pups, he spots what appears to be Sylpheed and Aisha. Knowing both that one of Claude's flunkies has a powerful illusion skill and that the flunkies have slave collars on the pups, he pretends to be fooled, until the evil adventurer with the illusion skill attacks him, at which point, he's close enough to grab her by the head and slam her to the ground, knocking her out.
- Famous Ancestor: When people mention the names of his parents, everyone knows who they were as they were both legendary heroes in their own right.
- Fatal Flaw: Naivete. His parents died when he was young. He's had to live on his own since then. His home town has absolutely doted on him, and everyone he's met has been inherently trustworthy, gentle, and kind. Of course, he's ill equipped to deal with people who are less-than-honest.
- Gag Penis: When Sylpheed first sees him in the bath in chapter 35, both nude, she cries out that a monster has latched on to him and runs out to get her sword!
- Genre Blind: Justified. He's in an RPG Mechanicsverse, but has no way of knowing what that means. Not only did his parents die when he was young, and he's been living alone for at least 5 years, but he's the only one that he knows of that can read people's stats and see their levels. Plus, in a medieval world without even the concept of RPG mechanics in the first place, with everyone else gaining levels through hard work, training, and instinctively fighting monsters near their level, to the point that they don't even notice the mechanic in the first place, Myne has really noone to talk to when he goes and kills a monster way, way above his level by bashing it over the head with its own skills, and suddenly finds his strength has jumped so fast that he has difficulty controlling it.
- Good Is Dumb: His naivete and fervent desire to see people as inherently good frequently overrides his intelligence and gets him in trouble. Case in point, he follows Lyle and party into a back alley because they say they've got something important to tell him, only for Lyle to try and kill him because he's convinced that he's Aisha's destined partner and Myne is actively trying to steal her away.
- Guile Hero: Despite living in the boonies since he was 10, he's actually pretty quick witted.
- Honor Before Reason: He pointedly refuses to mess with an antagonist's skills until he feels they've done something that merits death. This results in many of his fights having needless injury and drama. Justified by the fact that in this new world, skills are your life and losing them can be fatal.
- It's All My Fault: When he arrives at Ohse and learns that the Demon Zanadou has murdered every man, woman, and child he could find, Myne has a breakdown, blaming himself for fleeing the Labyrinth of Strength, where he first met the guy. Numerous characters point out that the one to blame is Zanadou himself, as he's the one who chose to do it, and if Myne had fought him in the labyrinth, unprepared, he'd just be another victim.
- The Leader: A mix of the charismatic and tactician types. People follow him because of his personality and upstanding character, but when in battle, he uses his uncanny tactical instincts to lead them to victory with minimal losses.
- Mundane Utility: He uses the space-magic he takes from the orc king to build a 2-way door between his home and the royal castle, at the king's request. He also uses the "water" and "heat" skills he steals from some slimes in a dungeon to build a hot-tub.
- Naïve Newcomer: Coming from the boonies, and just barely 15, having been an orphan living alone for at least 5 years, he's way, way too trusting for his own good.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Downplayed. In the manga, when he finds the enslaved dragon hatchling, he tries to earn its trust by removing the slave collar before taking it out of Adol. The terrified hatchling immediately cries for help, bringing its father right into the building where it's being held captive. Of course, this is the lesser of two evils as if Myne and company had tried to take the hatchling out of town first, the papa dragon, already in the city, would have done far, far more damage searching.
- Pals with Jesus: He makes friends with both Fenrir (king of wolves) and Jormungandr (king of dragons).
- Power Parasite: He gets stronger by raising his level and stealing skills from his enemies.
- Relative Button: One of the few things guaranteed to make him mad is to insult his long dead parents. Messing with his brides is not far behind.
- Shotgun Wedding: By royal decree, he winds up married with Aisha, the receptionist who first helped him register at the adventurer's guild, and the first princess, and those two are just the first!
- Sickening Sweethearts: He and Aisha are so cute together that it incites jealousy and envy in everyone who sees it.
- Start My Own: At the advice of Princess Sylpheed, he opts to start his own [Clan] to gain all the benefits of being an adventurer plus having his skills' secrets being treated as a National Security issue, thus protected by the crown. It's the biggest reason Myne had to go through not one but two Engagement Challenge for Sylpheed's hand, even though she ordered him to marry her in the first place.
- Stepford Smiler: Being an orphan having to live alone since he was a child, he's always put forward the facade that he's much happier than he really is. The princess calls him out on it when he tries to turn down her hand in marriage, that she saddled him with per royal decree. At that point, he realizes how lonely he really is and has a break-down, crying in Aisha's arms.
- Strong as They Need to Be: He can (and does) parry an over-head axe swing from an orc king so powerful, it craters the ground beneath him in the process, but he can also be picked up, one-handed by an adventurer half the orc king's size, and when he got kicked in the chest by Claude, is knocked to the ground. Justified by the fact that Myne was using strengthening magic against the orc king and got taken by surprise the other times listed in this entry.
- Take a Third Option: When Claude's adventurers have enslaved Fenrir pups attack him, they give him two options, let them pass, taking the pups with them, or watch helplessly as they kill the pups until he's willing to let them go, seeing as the collars are rigged to kill the pups if removed forcefully. Myne takes option three, remove the collars with space-magic, allowing the pups to escape and then beating down the arrogant adventurers to take them away for punishment. Unfortunately for said adventurers, Fenrir herself put a veto on the last part, deciding to punish them herself. SPLAT!
- Unskilled, but Strong: Which he gets called out on by the first prince. He relies too much on his stolen skills to compensate for lack of experience or training. Fortunately, he does listen to people who are willing and able to teach him how to fight.
- Unwanted Harem: Whenever he's got a girl throwing herself at him, and he's got a choice, he gives an emphatic "NO" because the number of women he's saddled with via royal decree is already stressing him out trying to keep them all safe and happy.
- Workplace-Acquired Abilities: The hunting skills he learned when his parents were still alive and he's been honing since then helped immensely in dealing with Claude's flunkies, taking them down one by one, even with their vastly superior experience, stealth capabilities, and illusion magic.
Eternal Sunflower members:
Aisha
Geesh! Take better care of yourself, Myne-kun!
The receptionist Myne meets upon entering the guild, looking to sign up. She takes an immediate liking to him, especially after he takes a punch coming her way from Hyolo. She ends up married to him by royal decree.- Age-Gap Romance: She's nine years older than Myne when they got married by royal decree.
- Ascended Fangirl: She's always idolized Myne's father, Dyne, for his skill with the bow, even emulating him. She winds up married to Dyne's son.
- Bathtub Bonding: When Myne takes her to Labyrinth Town on their honeymoon, they share the hot-springs bath.
- Battle Couple: She's the most likely to go into the battlefield with Myne and keeps him from being in too much danger by sniping the monsters that try to pincer or blindside him while he's focusing on the toughest guy around.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason she loves Myne so much is that while he greatly appreciates her beauty, he also treats her like a person and puts her happiness over his own.
- Did Not Think This Through: In manga chapter 40, she Myne and Sylpheed have business at the Royal adventurer's guild, and she knows the adventurers see her as a Lust Object. She still walks in without bothering to disguise herself in any way. Naturally, she's mobbed the moment she walks in the door.
- The Exile: Turns out she wasn't born and raised in Lucas, but in Elm. For some reason, her father disowned her and banished her from her hometown. This is revealed in chapter 61 as she, Tails, and several other adventurers have been tasked by the crown to go to Elm to deal with a powerful scorpion monster heading that way, en route to the elven country, and the tree Yggrasil.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: A blonde and a total sweetheart.
- Happily Married: She is ecstatic to be Myne's wife, even if it is only the result of a royal decree.
- Healing Hands: Her other skill is [Healing] magic.
- Lust Object: Prior to meeting Myne, as the adventurer's guild receptionist, she was constantly ogled, drooled at, and fought over, to the point that when Myne walked up to her desk as he was looking to sign up, all the adventurers present death-glared at him, and they cheered when Hyoldo decided to do his usual Beef Gate routine and started beating him up, only stopping their cheers when the guild master showed up, at which point they turned on Hyoldo and ratted him out.
- Mandatory Unretirement: As part of the royal decree to marry Myne, she left receptionist work and took up active adventuring once again, full-time.
- Marriage Before Romance: She and Myne got married and then started dating.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Extremely downplayed. The guild master's extremely short-sighted and paranoid decision to expel Myne from the guild after the boy politely but firmly refused to reveal the secret of his skills caused her to quit in a rage first chance she got, especially since Myne risked his life to save her, more than once, while the guild turned a blind eye to other adventurers, like Hyoldo, who were far, far worse trouble-makers until it got to the point that they pointedly could no longer be ignored.
- Perfectly Arranged Marriage: She is married to Myne by royal decree and the two of them are a perfect match, doting on each other like crazy.
- Red Baron: She's known as "The Holy Bow."
- Royal Favorite: Sylpheed chose her to keep Myne company until her royal bureaucracy officially recognized her marriage to Myne, because she's the woman Sylpheed trusts most in the whole world.
- Supreme Chef: Using only the most basic of ingredients, she makes meals fit for royalty. Just ask Princess Sylpheed.
- Their First Time: On their honeymoon to Adol, Labyrinth Town, Myne and Aisha book a stay in the hot-springs hotel. They find that their hot-spring bath happens to be located next to their bed and there are no screens or curtains. Nature takes its course, and it's off-screen.
Sylpheed Agusta
Myne, I came to see YOU!
The first princess of the kingdom.- The Chooser of the One: She is introduced heading to the back-water town of Lucas, Myne's home, after learning of Myne's meteoric rise in power, going from a no-name kid to a hunter capable of soloing 4 orcs, just from getting his skills in the skills gift ceremony, skills that weren't suited to combat to boot.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: An unusual take. She doesn't mind Aisha getting to Myne first. She does mind her brother getting to share a bath with Myne before her.
- Cuteness Proximity: She loves to snuggle Myne's pet Fenrir pup, to the point the poor animal is intimidated by the sheer level of clinginess.
- Faux Action Girl: She's touted as a powerful knight and legendary hero, but she's usually the one getting smacked around unless she takes her opponent by surprise or the enemy is vastly weaker than herself.
- Friendly Address Privileges: She uses royal decree to make Myne address her without honorifics.
- The Gadfly: She loves to tease her close friends and family, especially Aisha, just to get a reaction.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's blonde and a good, kind woman who is an excellent princess.
- Living MacGuffin: She's had many suitors fighting over her hand in marriage. She's managed to brush off most of them, but Claude wouldn't take the hint, even after she ordered Myne to be her husband, and Claude knew Myne was her husband.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She doesn't hold it against Aisha that the girl and Myne had a honeymoon, shared a bath, and Aisha got Myne's virginity. After all, she's the one who decreed that they get married in the first place.
- Red Baron: "The Princess Knight."
- Rescue Reversal: Hearing the battle between Myne and the orc village, she leads Aisha over and rescues him from the orc generals, but when the orc king shows up, Myne winds up saving her and Aisha by taking on said orc king mano-a-mano and soloing it.
- Romantic Wingman: The reason she pushed Aisha into a marriage with Myne is because she's known Aisha long enough to realize she had feelings for him, even if Myne wasn't exactly reciprocating.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: She's the first princess and an active adventurer.
- Shotgun Wedding: When she sees Myne solo an Orc King, she pulls out royal decree and demands he marry her and Aisha.
- Took a Level in Badass: When Myne and crew hear of Nene, the wife of the town pharmacist has been kidnapped by orcs, Myne wisely upgrades her equipment and [skills], to prepare for the worst. True enough, the group encounters an Orc King, again. This time, she is the one to solo it, and it was a Curbstomp Battle in her favor, despite the Orc King being stronger than last time.
Waffles
The fenrir pup Myne rescues in the Claude Engagement Challenge arc.
- Head Pet: This little guy loves to climb on people's heads, Myne's, King Augusta's, you name it.
- I Owe You My Life: It chooses to let Myne tame it in gratitude for being rescued from Claude's ringers.
- Killer Rabbit: It may be small and cute, but it is still a fenrir pup.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Just about everybody loves to snuggle this little guy.
- Super-Senses: As a divine beast, it can see through disguises and indivisibility skills. It even noticed the Orc King's soul leaving the dead orc general body in chapter 38.
- Telepathy: How it communicates with Myne. Everyone else, save a rare few, only hear him bark.
Amy
The woman Myne rescues from orc gang-rape at the start of the story.
- The Bus Came Back: She's introduced early in the story and returns in chapter 41 of the manga when Princess Sylpheed is checking up on her with Myne and Aisha as their newly founded [Eternal Sunflower Clan].
- Doomed Home Town: When the allied kingdom of Wills turned on Humanity, seeking to cut down the tree Yggdrasil, so King Will could monopolize [skills], divine beast Ymir came to the rescue, but because the beast couldn't tell friend from foe, it killed everybody present, and then moved on to level the kingdom of Wills, in its entirety.
- Fainting: When she realized Waffles is a divine beast, she passed out in fright.
- Sole Survivor: Of her entire kingdom, she's the only known survivor in chapter 41 of the manga.
- Troubled Backstory Flashback: Ymir razing her town to the ground flashes through her mind when she realizes Waffle is a divine beast.
- Trauma Button: Divine beasts. Thanks to one of them destroying her home town in a rampage.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Using magic, she can make herself look human.
Pyros
I will never forgive you humans!
An elf found helping Demon Prince Zanadou. She has a grudge with humans.- Bodyguard Babes: Her official role in Eternal Sunflower is to be the bodyguard for the clan house.
- Evil Costume Switch: Evil skin tone switch. As a result of siding with Zanadou, she went from fair-skinned to very dark skinned.
- The Gadfly: She loves to tease Myne just to get a reaction. She offers to bathe with Myne, to which he responds with an enthusiastic "YES!" without hesitation. When Sylpheed and Aisha object, she retorts "did you get your hopes up?" to which Myne and Aisha both blush and nod weakly. Her retort to that is "fufu, what a sinful boy you are..."
- Green Thumb: Her racial skill allows her to grow powerful vines to restrict her opponents.
- Heel–Face Turn: When she hears her friend Amy survived the destruction of her home village, she turns on Zanadou.
- Fantastic Racism: Justified. Because the human kingdom of Wills is responsible for the genocide of her people, she hates humans as a whole.
- Ms. Fanservice: Her skin-tight cat-suit leaves precious little to the imagination.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: She sides with the demons for power in order to gain vengeance on humanity for the loss of her people.
Airi Augusta
Whee! Thanks to Myne's bath, I can play again!
The youngest of the royal siblings.- Ascended Fangirl: She's always idolized the stories of heroic adventuring heroes. Now she has one as an in-law.
- Cheerful Child: A sweet and happy girl.
- Children Are Innocent: She's a young child without a trace of malice.
- Girlish Pigtails: Wears her hair in pigtails and both embodies the innocence and joy of the trope.
- Harbinger of Impending Doom: When Pyros sees her in the Augusta royal castle, the elf points out that the Demons are the ones creating labyrinths around the world, to sap all the mana for their own ends and to wipe out all life on the planet.
- Ill Girl: Thanks to the demons stealing humanity's mana, she's the first to come down with extreme mana deficiency, which will eventually cause her to collapse and die. Fortunately, Myne's restorative bath can slow down the process by aiding her natural regeneration.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: She rushes in to the royal audience chamber and demands to join Eternal Sunflower, so she can be of some use to rescue her sister-in-law Luca, and she's tired of being cooped up in the castle, unable to do anything. Turns out Eternal Sunflower just happens to have Myne's magical healing bath that can greatly alleviate, if not cure, her chronic illness.
- Token Mini-Moe: The youngest girl in Myne's retinue, and the only one King Augusta doesn't want Myne to lay his hands on.
Myne's village: Lucas
Edgar
- Harbinger of Impending Doom: He is in the carriage with Myne because he just reported sightings of large numbers of orcs in the forest near Myne's home.
Adventurer's Guild:
Hyoldo
You are 1000 years too early to sign up, let alone talk to Aisha, you wimp!
Thinking himself the Beef Gate for the adventurer's guild, he attacks Myne as the latter was talking to Aisha, looking to sign up. He's a known trouble maker, permanently a D-rank for starting fights with junior adventurers and hazing them, just because he personally thinks they look too weak to do the job, with the guild unable or unwilling to do anything about this hazing, until Aisha and the Guild Master exploit a loop-hole because this thug attacked Myne before the latter signed up, meaning he just attacked an innocent and unarmed civilian who didn't resist. Learning he now owes a 10 platinum coin (10 million yen) penalty and he's being permanently banned, he goes apoplectic and attacks the guild master. This goes poorly.- An Arm and a Leg: When he attacks the guild master, he thinks he got a One-Hit Kill until he notices his arm's missing and the guild master is just fine.
- Assumed Win: He thought that his attack killed the guild master before the axe attack even landed.
- Axe-Crazy: He's a nut-job prone to violence.
- The Brute: He's got no skill, finesse, or manners. He's just raw strength.
- Dumb Muscle: As frequently pointed out by numerous characters, he's got plenty of muscle, but no brains.
- Jerkass Has a Point: He's right to be somewhat angry at the rest of the adventurers when they ratted him out to the guild master, as they were eagerly and happily cheering him on when he was attacking Myne unprovoked. But the attack itself is still his fault as nobody threatened or forced him into it.
- Never My Fault: Whenever he's called out on his hazing, he always blames the other guy and says that if the guild didn't accept weaklings, he wouldn't have to haze them. When he attacks Myne and is informed he attacked a civilian, resulting in a 10 platinum fine and permanent banning from the guild, he throws a fit and screams that he did nothing wrong, attacking the guild master. This costs him an arm, and his fine is increased by the amount of money it would take to clean up the mess.
- Scars Are Forever: He's got stitch like scar markings all over his body.
- They Just Dont Get It: No matter how many times he's informed by the guild that hazing is not permitted, and attacking junior adventurers is bad form, he honestly believes it's his job to go around beating up "weak" adventurers to ensure only strong people are guild members. It takes a 10 platinum fine, getting banned, and his arm chopped off before he finally gets the message.
Lyle
That brat! I'll never be convinced! I'll F'king kill him!
An adventurer on the verge of becoming B-rank, he takes an immediate loathing to Myne when the Guild Master assigns Asiha to be Myne's exclusive receptionist, as an apology for Hyoldo's antics. The reason for this mindset quickly becomes apparent as the primary motivation Lyle had in moving up the ranks is that he sees himself as Aisha's destined marriage partner and one-sidedly decided that becoming a high-rank adventurer was what he needed to do to prove himself a worthy lover. When Aisha disagreed, seeing as Lyle was present and did absolutely nothing as Hyoldo nearly punched her in the face (which could have been fatal, seeing how strong Hyoldo is), he came to the conclusion that killing Myne is the right way to get Aisha to like him "again." When Aisha objected to that, he just straight up tries to kill her "for playing with his feelings." At that point, Myne has had enough, strips his skills away, and beats him down.- Axe-Crazy: He makes Hyoldo look sane by comparison.
- Entitled to Have You: To Aisha. He convinced himself that he's her perfect marriage partner, even she has no right to object.
- Finger Gun: His skill allows him to fling air with the force of a bullet.
- If I Can't Have You…: When Aisha tells him, to his face, that she won't accept him precisely because he tried to kill Myne, he tries to kill her too.
- Implausible Deniability: When he's attacking his party, he tries to pass it off as Myne having attacked them, despite the wounds bearing his signature "bullet" mark.
- Insane Troll Logic: Why, if I kill the guy Aisha likes, then she'll like me instead! If I see her running over to help him, the correct course of action is trying to kill her! If my party is objecting to my desire to commit murder, they're traitors that deserve death! How dare they flee when I'm trying to kill them and go to the guild master for help!!!
- Last Chance to Quit: After Myne takes his skills, Myne begs him to stand down and surrender. When he decides to go after Aisha "because his 'life' is dedicated to Aisha," Myne is left with no option but to swoop in and beat him down to make him finally get the message that he's living in his own little delusion, and the world doesn't work like he thinks it does.
- Not Good with Rejection: When Aisha turns him down the first time, he tries to kill Myne. The second time, he tries to kill her!
- Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: He tells one and all that Aisha loves him and the only thing standing in their way was the fact that he hasn't reached B-rank.
- Team Killer: When his party objects to murdering Myne, he tries to kill them too.
Guild Master Bazam
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The guild master and stronger than any of the adventurers.
- Did Not Think This Through: In his paranoid ultimatum that Myne reveal the secret to his skills or face immediate expulsion "for insubordination," he has grievously harmed the reputation of the guild more than Hyoldo or Lyle, combined, ever did. Not only did he paint himself into a corner by having to exile Myne on the spot when the boy firmly, politely, and wisely refused to divulge such personal information, rendering his own authority moot if he didn't, but he also demonstrated to staff and adventurer alike that he wants the guild to be an undisciplined den of hooligans and thugs who go around attacking each other, and staff, all the time, for any reason, or no reason at all, as he pointedly turned a mostly blind eye to Lyle and Hyoldo, as well as many other unnamed adventurers with far worse behavioral problems, but immediately singled out and eliminated the very, very promising young Myne whose only "violation" was protecting Aisha from thugs twice and refusing to share very personal information with total strangers. Besides, as most of the staff's later complaints highlight, demanding the secret to Myne's skills wasn't even in his purview in the first place.
- Double Standard: He doesn't do anything, aside from verbal rebukes, to deal with known trouble-makers like Hyoldo or Lyle, until their crimes are so grievous that he can't possibly ignore them without serious consequences to himself. When Myne defeats Lyle in single combat, seriously injuring himself, while protecting Aisha, he demands to know the secret to Myne's skills, which everyone, especially himself, knows is very sensitive information, and then just summarily expels Myne for "insubordination" when he refuses. He pointedly ignores the rest of the staff, especially Aisha, when they complain. It's not until Pricess Sylpheed Augusta herself calls him to task that he's willing to admit he seriously screwed up.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He's not a villain per se, but his short-sighted and paranoid decision to expel Myne from the guild for basically no reason made Sylpheed's job of scouting, testing, and then marrying Myne, much, much easier, as she can see what he's like with her own eyes, as opposed to having to wait on the guild bureaucracy to try and catch up to Myne's potential.
Claude's ringers
Order the pups to be a shield, and we can use that to escape!
The party of four adventurers that are Claude's enforcers.- And Then What?: While it's true that they don't give a damn about the long-term consequences to others, like the fact that the papa dragon is going to lay waste to whatever country he finds his hatchling in, they do care a great deal about their own fates. Presuming they had pulled off the plan to snatch the Fenrir pups without a hitch, mama Fenrir would pick up their scent, and they had tried to kill one of her pups, who can give her their physical appearance too, or barring Myne's rescue, would have left their scents all around the poor pup's corpse. There's no way they'd be able to stop her from tracking them down and taking them out, especially once they've sold off the pups they captured and couldn't use them as hostages anymore.
- Asshole Victim: No tears were shed when Fenrir reduced them to bloody paste.
- Card-Carrying Villain: They boast of their villainy, even bragging of their intent to kill Myne when they manage to grab him from behind and (think) they tricked him with illusion magic.
- Did Not See That Coming: When the pup Myne rescued is seen alive again as they're about to kill Myne, they're shocked that the pup survived a mortal wound, and attack it. Then they realize too late that the reason the pup was there is because it brought its mother Fenrir with it.
- Entertainingly Wrong: When the group's assassin is chasing after Myne, seeing the latter set up a lace-work of vines, and not knowing Myne is in telepathic communication with the Fenrir pup he rescued, the assassin in question comes to the conclusion that Myne is using the vines as a make-shift radar to track his location, trying to get around his impressive [Presence Concealment] skill, which Myne couldn't simply snatch as the enslaved pups were blocking the attempt. What Myne was really doing was setting up a snare, to catch him without the intent to harm him, thus foiling the guy's orders to the enslaved pups to protect him from any and all damage Myne might try to dish out.
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: Their group is composed of humans and various non-human races, and they brag of their villainy.
- Fatal Flaw: Overconfidence. After an extensive career in poaching, they've grown cocky and arrogant, leading to terrible decisions in hindsight. Sure, it was Claude who put a captured dragon hatchling in the basement of Adol, but this party was foolish enough to think they could go and grab Fenrir's pups without a hitch, in a forest surrounded by knights, and knowing full well a recognized Hero was in the area, because that was their secondary target, and they thought simply leaving one of Fenrir's pups mortally wounded was enough to throw mama Fenrir off their trail. Then when they're fighting Myne, they go straight at him, negating their overwhelming advantage in numbers, experience, illusion magic, and concealment skills.
- I Have Your Wife: When Fenrir shows up and starts attacking them in a rage for kidnapping, enslaving, and even trying to kill her pups, they use the enslaved pups as a shield to try and get away. Once Myne has freed the pups, Fenrir pulls no punches and lets them have it, even though Myne has already captured them and rendered them helpless.
- Ludicrous Gibs: Their fate at the paws of Fenrir.
- Master of Illusion: Another of their nastier tricks is that they use illusion magic to trick their intended prey into lowering its guard.
- Only in It for the Money: They work for Claude only because it pays well.
- Powerful, but Incompetent: They are high-ranked adventurers with far more experience, cunning, and skills in stealth and illusion far outside Myne's own skill-set, but their own overconfidence causes them to throw away all their advantages and move in ways even Myne can easily predict and counter, resulting in their total defeat, capture, and death. Without Myne stripping their skills until after he's got them tied up and helpless.
- Powers Do the Fighting: They've grown completely dependent on their impressive skills doing the heavy lifting for them, so when someone finds a way around them, they fold like a house of cards.
- Revenge Myopia: They collar and abuse Fenrir's pups right in front of her, but when she retaliates, they swear bloody vengeance.
- The Sneaky Guy: They all have powerful concealment skills.
- Trespassing to Talk: After Claude is done insulting Myne, face to face, the first time, after which Claude used his noble title to force the latter into an Engagement Challenge, he finds these guys have sneaked into his home, and are waiting for him in his own antechamber. Claude calls them out for being there, not because they're trespassing, but because if he and they were seen together, it would ruin his Plausible Deniability for many criminal acts.
- True Companions: They may be villains, and proud of it, but they do truly care about each other.
Tails
Kuon! I'll avenge you!!
A tamer and leader of an adventuring party hired to help rescue the allied kingdom of Ohse. He and his party are immediately jealous of Myne's Fenrir pet, Waffle, and use the commotion of battle with the population who were turned into undead to try and murder rival tamer Luis and seize Waffle for himself.- An Arm and a Leg: While protecting Waffle from Zanadou's chimera, he loses an arm and a leg. They grow back because Myne puts a [Regeneration] skill on him.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He pretends to be a good and kind adventurer so effectively, even Waffle, who can sense evil, is fooled.
- Cavalry Betrayal: In the manga chapter 44, he uses his [Taming: Advanced] skill to stop an advancing army of undead composed of the former population of Ohse, making himself seem like a good person, but the moment Myne and Luis let their guard down, he attacks Luis to try and kill him and then tries to seize Waffle from Myne for himself.
- Entertainingly Wrong: He judges Myne by appearance and sees him use [Judgement: All] and [Cut] then [Paste]. With most people only having three skills, tops, he presumes Waffle does all the heavy lifting in Myne's fighting, so targets the fenrir pup for capture to make himself stronger.
- Everybody Has Standards: He didn't trust the demons enough to endanger Waffle, so puts the fenrir pup in a field of flowers and un-tames him before going after Zanadou. When Zanadou's pet experimental Chimera is about to turn the pup into a snack, he jumps in the way, taking the blow instead. This prompts Myne to save him by pasting a [Regeneration] skill on him.
- Evil Counterpart: To Luis Augusta. They both hail from taming themed [Clans] but all he cares about is his own clan's advancement, no matter the stakes. Luis Augusta cares for the well-being of the kingdom as a whole.
- Heel–Face Turn: When he realizes the Demon tribe can not and never will be reasoned with, and he's rescued by Myne, he joins up with the protagonist to fight. He still bears a grudge against Luis, however.
- Hypocrisy Nod: While fighting Zanadou's "experimental" chimera, and seeing a bunch of other tamers come around and try to tame each one of its heads one by one, he remembers how he treated all his other familiars like tools, and comes to the realization that if he treated all his familiars except his pet wolf like tools, then why should Luis think that the wolf wasn't a tool to him too. He still doesn't put his grudge aside, but he begins to think that maybe Luis wasn't as evil as he thought.
- Misplaced Retribution: We see his backstory in the 50+ chapters of the manga. His pet wolf was grievously harmed in a fight with a giant scorpion type monster, and Luis took the wolf away for treatment. Tails came to the conclusion, without evidence, that Luis intentionally let the wolf die for the sake of his monster research. Luis did, in fact, do everything humanly possible to try and rescue the wolf, but there was no Myne who could slap a [Super Regeneration] skill around back then.
- Reckless Pacifist: His main goal is to kill off the nobility of the Augusta kingdom, including the entire royal family, and then remake the country so there could be peace with the Demon tribes. He pointedly refuses to recognize that the Demons are Always Chaotic Evil and would laugh at any peace offer, at best.
- Revenge Before Reason: One of his tamed beasts died in Luis's lab, therefore all nobles are evil and he wants to exterminate the nobility, and everyone who supports them.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Zanadou kills him after he betrayed Myne and the rest, or at least Zandou tries. Myne winds up rescuing him.
Noteworthy Monsters, Divine Beasts, and Demons:
Orc King
It can't be.. YOU STOLE MY SKILLS!!
Found in the village of Lucas, it attacks Myne, Sylpheed and Aisha when Myne tried to rescue a woman its army had captured and the last two came to rescue Myne.
- Bad Boss: He beat up its own generals, and the troops under them, when Myne and company started winning the fight.
- Genius Bruiser: He not only hits hard but is very clever, cunning, and tactically brilliant.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: His own skills are what Myne uses to defeat him.
- Imagination Based Super Power: His "Realize" skill can summon any weapon or tool he's familiar with, and he can keep it around as long as he's got sufficient stamina to maintain it. Myne uses this very skill to summon a holy sword he is familiar with and uses it to turn this guy to pork-chops.
- It Can Think: The most dangerous aspect of Orc Kings is that they have very keen tactical and strategic minds. He's the first opponent that realized Myne could steal skills. The previous enemies just stupidly kept trying to use their skills over and over, never realizing why they weren't working.
- Make Me Wanna Shout: Combined with Compelling Voice. His [King's Roar] skill both paralyzes his enemies and gives undeniable orders to his henchmen. So when Myne steals the skill, he's able to command the Orc Generals to release Sylpheed and Aisha who were being held hostage. The Orc King is clearly unhappy at that.
- My Death Is Just the Beginning: Myne only managed to destroy the Orc King's body. His soul is still at large, as revealed in manga chapter 38. The soul just roams about looking for a new orc body to possess.
- Taught by Experience: The same trick doesn't work twice with this guy. He learns from his mistakes and losses and comes back stronger with counter-measures for whatever beat him before.
- This Cannot Be!: Said word for word when he realized Myne snatched his skills.
- Weaponized Teleportation: His favorite trick is to use his inherent space magic to just suddenly appear behind his enemies, or reach through a portal and smack them down.
Fenrir
You humans dare to mess with my pups?!
- Adaptation Personality Change: She's both more reasonable and bloodthirsty. In the novel, she was willing to utterly genocide humanity because some rotten adventurers harmed one of her pups, while in the manga, she only targets those directly responsible. In the next encounter, when she hears a dragon accidentally harmed her pup while rampaging, she was willing to declare total war against Jormungandr until Myne and the pup involved, Waffle, talked her down.
- Badass Bystander: If she's not provoked or tasked by the god of creation to maintain the Balance Between Good and Evil, she won't interfere in the matters of the mortal world.
- Big Damn Heroes: When Myne is grabbed from behind by the biggest and beefiest of Claude's hired adventurers, through using a concealment skill stronger than Myne's detection skills, and threatens to behead the boy, while another member of the party is chasing down the very same Fenrir pup Myne earlier rescued, Fenrir herself shows up and literally rips the latter adventurer to shreds with a swipe of her claws, giving Myne enough of a distraction to escape certain death and retaliate.
- Canis Major: She's a wolf the size of a house.
- Mama Bear: She is very protective of her pups.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When she unleashes a powerful magical attack at the evil adventurers who kidnapped and enslaved her pups, said adventurers ordered the enslaved pups to stand between Fenrir and themselves. She almost killed her own pups by mistake! Fortunately, Myne was able to use the space-magic he stole from the orc king to redirect the attack harmlessly, for which Fenrir is very, very grateful.
- Physical God: She's so powerful, only the god of creation can rein her in.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She lets the pup Myne tamed go with him because he's shown her proper reverence and the pup itself asked for it. When said pup is accidentally hurt by a rampaging dragon, enraged by the theft of his own hatchling, she doesn't immediately go to war with said dragon, because she knows how it feels to have her own pups threatened, and fully comprehends where the dragon came from, but is still not happy, and angrily glares at the dragon the entire time he's trying to talk things out.
- This Is Unforgivable!: Because Myne came to her pups' rescue, she spared humanity, but if it happens again, total extinction, no reprieve.
- Truly Single Parent: She has pups without any visible mate.
Jormungandr
I know where you're coming from Fen, but this dragon is also my precious child.
The dragon progenitor.- Badass Bystander: Just like Fenrir, she's not going to involve herself with the world unless she and hers are directly threatened or she's enforcing the Balance Between Good and Evil.
- Mama Bear: Just like Fenrir, she cares for her dragon offspring.
- Physical God: She has power on par with Fenrir, to the point the latter is given pause even when enraged.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She is more than willing to hear Myne out as he's more than earned her favor.
First Prince of the Demons Zanadou
Myne, huh? I'll save the Augusta kindom for last, bwahahaha!
Myne meets him in Adol's "Labyrinth of Strength."- Adaptational Early Appearance: In the manga, he appears in the labyrinth while Myne is fighting the dragon whose hatchling was taken. In the original source, he appears there several arcs later.
- Antimagic: In addition to all his impressive combat prowess, he can negate the skills used against him.
- Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: He happily proclaims that all his vile acts are "kind and merciful" while resisting his villainy is "cruel and unjust."
- Card-Carrying Villain: He loves to boast and brag about his villainy and how vile he is.
- Dark Is Evil: He's got dark skin, uses darkness-based magic abilities, and he's proudly rotten to the core.
- The Fighting Narcissist: He loves to flaunt his superiority by brutalizing others in combat, but when he's on the receiving end, and someone can actually harm him, he goes apoplectic.
- For the Evulz: Yes, he attacks humans under the orders of the demon king he serves, but he does it because he enjoys it, not because it's what he was commanded to do.
- Make Them Rot: The real reason he's so dangerous is that when he lays his hands on someone, he prefers to decay a perfectly round hole in their chest. In chapter 48, he taunts Myne after punching him that he's going to die to decay, slowly, for "daring to bare his fangs at him" because Myne tried to appraise him.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: When he encounters Myne in the dungeon in the manga's story-line, he demands Myne hand over Waffle and the dragons he's with, if he wants to live. When Myne sees that this guy is level 200, and all his other information, including his name, is hidden behind mosaics, he does the smart thing and uses space-magic to teleport to Fenrir's forest, taking the dragons and the fenrir pup with him.
- Our Demons Are Different: Myne doesn't recognize him as a demon because he looks like an elf, but with dark skin. Myne learns he's a demon from Jormungandr.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Learning this guy raped a princess over months until she would up pregnant with his child angers Myne more than the fact that this guy bragged of killing Myne's parents, sparing the city of Lucas only because he was under orders. In the manga, this content is removed.
- Smug Super: He's powerful, knows it, and loves to flaunt it, by murdering people in his wake and taunting those who dare defend themselves.
- Time Master: His skill apparently allows him to mess with time in regards to his immediate surroundings. He recovers from a skill that should have blinded him for half a day in seconds, and moves around the battle-field, punching holes in people, faster than they can blink. Even other characters point out that the corpses look as if time itself slammed them into the wall.
- Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: In the original source, he honestly expected praise when he exterminated an entire country, to the last child, because he took the first Princess Luca captive, bound her with an enslavement collar, and then repeatedly raped her until she was pregnant with his child.
Ymir
The divine beast that was trying to protect the sacred tree Yggdrasil. Unable to tell friend from foe, it just destroyed everybody it could see nearby, then moved on to the actually offending kingdom to level it to the ground. Despite Fenrir calling it out, it still doesn't understand what it did wrong.
- Destructive Savior: Deconstructed. It arrived to rescue the tree Yggdrasil, but in its attempts at defense, leveled the local kingdom, leaving precious few survivors, only to move on to the actually offending kingdom to repeat the process.
- Dumb Muscle: Powerful, but not very bright. All it could understand was Yggdrasil needed protection, so when it showed up, it annihilated both friend and foe alike and then backtracked the invading army to their own kingdom to repeat the process.
- Obliviously Evil: It can't understand why killing all the elves tending to the tree Yggdrasil while fighting in the tree's defense is a bad thing, no matter how it's told.
- Physical God: As will all the divine beasts, it's so strong, only the god of creation can rein it in.
Rosaria
Zanadou's companion.
- Brought Down to Badass: Myne managed to appraise her and take away all the skills he could see, all of them related to death. Even so, she is still very dangerous.
- I Have Your Wife: When Myne and company manage to get the upper hand, she steals Luca's soul and throws her comatose body at Luis, with the threat that she'll destroy the soul if they're not allowed to escape.
- Necromancer: She's the reason the population of Ohse all became undead after Zanadou was done with them.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She and Zanadou loathe each other, but they work together because their respective kingdoms command it.
- You Remind Me of X: Myne remembers the feel of his dead parents' bodies when she touches him, and says the sensation is identical.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: Even with all her visible skills taken, she still has the ability to yank out souls, as Luca got to experience.
Augusta Kingdom:
Claude Roselia
For the dragon, 100 coins. For each fenrir pup, 200 coins. If you take out that Myne brat, I'll double That!
An arrogant noble who once proposed to Sylpheed but was turned down. He comes into the story when he sees Sylpheed come out of Myne's house while he was in the town of Lucas for some reason.- Adaptational Villainy: In the manga he gets to do even more despicable things. He somehow manages to slap slave collars on all the knights guarding the forest where Fenrir lives during the hunting competition, allowing him to sadistically taunt Myne in his tent, with Myne helpless to resist, unless he's willing to see the soldiers commit suicide, and also smuggle in his ringers, as opposed to the original novel where they were brought in legitimately and Claude's attempt to entre Myne's tent was blocked, unless Claude was willing to forfeit.
- Ambition Is Evil: All his villainy is motivated by the desire to inherit the crown he genuinely believes he deserves.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: He's the heir to one of the kingdom's founding aristocrats, and he's an arrogant, greedy, power-hungry sadist who won't turn away from any crime he thinks will profit him.
- Bribing Your Way to Victory: Attempted, Averted, and Deconstructed. In the novel version, he bribes one of the knights a few days before the hunting competition with Myne to get some item-storage bags in advance, so his hired adventurers could jump the gun and get extra kills. King Augusta saw this coming in advance, so he ordered his knights to accept any bribe attempt and then report it on the sly, giving out item storage bags as requested, but the bags in question would not have magical preservative functions like the ones to be handed out the day of the hunt's official start. This causes Claude to turn in clearly spoiled monster remains, providing hard evidence of his cheating, allowing everyone present to call him out, and the king to arrest him as there are now solid grounds for suspicion.
- Contrived Coincidence: The only part of his arc that makes little sense is that Claude Roselia happens to live in the back-water town of Lucas, where Myne's house is, and just happened to be nearby when Myne and Sylpheed came out of his house. The story goes into great detail about how Claude is only concerned with wealth and authority, so it begs the question of why such an arrogant and greedy noble would have a mansion in a back-water town with no specialty products, and why he'd be hanging around a house he repeatedly calls a dingy rut, especially since Myne's home is specifically stated to be on the outer fringes of town.
- Defiant to the End: When he's in the royal dungeons being questioned and tortured, he is completely defiant and unyielding, until King Augusta comes into the cell, wielding one of his own slave collars and demonstrates the intent to put it on. At this point, it finally dawns on Claude that this is not a bluff or a ruse, but it's way, way too little, too late.
- Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: The challenge against Myne in hunting monsters was already stacked in his favor, seeing as he was allowed to have a squad of adventurers hunt in his stead while Myne was hunting alone, but that was not enough. He decides it's a brilliant idea to have his hired adventurers hunt for days in advance of the agreed start of the hunt, not realizing that the item storage bags provided by the knights aren't of the kind that magically preserves the contents. So his cheating is exposed and he's disqualified when he presents clearly spoiled remains as proof of his hunting prowess.
- Dramatic Irony: An ancestor of his went after Yukino, Myne's mother, ultimately costing him the crown, and knocking the family down to Baron, the lowest noble rank, for the affront. He independently decides to go after Myne's wife Sylpheed. This completes the process of stripping his family's noble title entirely, and possibly ending his bloodline, since he has no on-screen brothers, sisters, or even extended family.
- Engagement Challenge: After charging Myne with Lese Majeste for daring to retaliate to Claude's insults against his parents and the home they left him, he forces the latter into a hunting contest with the fate of Sylpheed's marriage on the line. King Augusta quietly tells Myne to go along so the kingdom can rightfully investigate the dragon kidnapping issue while Claude's occupied.
- Entitled to Have You: To Sylpheed. Even though she herself refused his wedding proposal, he still thinks she's rightfully his, and doesn't stop pursuing her until his schemes to enslave some Fenrir pups and a dragon hatchling blow up and endanger humanity as a whole and cause massive damage in Labyrinth Town, in that order. With him winding up in a cell, questioned by King Augusta, personally, undergoing all kinds of "enhanced interrogation."
- Even Evil Can Be Loved: When his father has been informed of his villainy and comes to his cell, the father in question apologizes for failing to be a good parent and still genuinely treasures him. Claude thinks the guy is senile in response.
- Evil Feels Good: In the manga version, he breaks into Myne's tent, enslaved knights in tow, to force Myne to forfeit, or else, but when he saw Myne psychologically cornered, withdrew his demand and proclaimed how much he enjoyed himself and was looking forward to seeing Myne in even greater despair.
- Fatal Flaw: Arrogance and greed. Since he sees himself as inherently superior to others, even calling Fenrir and an ancient dragon "just mindless beasts" and he lets his greed for the wealth that would come from selling enslaved fenrir pups and a dragon hatchling on the black market blind him to the dangers, he put humanity itself at risk from the former, and caused considerable damage to Labyrinth Town with the latter.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: One of his own slave collars is used by King Augusta to enslave him and compel him to confess to all his crimes.
- Miles Gloriosus: Since he's an aristocrat with a lot of wealth and authority, he thinks he's vastly superior to Myne on all counts, including being blessed with superior skills, and never stops boasting about it. The truth is that his skills are unknown because the only battles he's even tangentially involved with have been handled by adventurers who serve him for money while he stays home.
- Psychological Projection: Since he's an arrogant aristocrat who is only concerned with money and power, to the point of obsession, he presumes all aristocrats, especially the royalty, are similarly obsessed, and can't, for the life of him, understand why Sylpheed prefers Myne, a commoner from the poor side of town, over himself.
- Put on a Prison Bus: He's last seen in a cell, wondering where he went wrong, even after King Augusta presented his own illegal slave collars to him.
- Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: He loves to abuse people and animals by slapping them with slave collars and then making them do things that greatly go against their inherent nature or desires and then point and laugh at their suffering. This is so, so illegal, that it merits his entire house getting stripped of its noble title and Claude himself losing any right to be treated as a human being. In fact, in the novel version, King Augusta makes a point of telling Claude that if he was charged with high treason for his foolish attack on Sylpheed, while she was tending to Myne, it would be a lesser charge!
- Smug Snake: He honestly believes that because he was born a noble that he's inherently superior to King Augusta who earned the crown by many heroic feats. This belief in his own superiority is what allowed him to weather torture and make him utterly refuse to divulge his villainy. It's only when King Augusta uses his royal authority to strip away his noble title, which even the gods and his own magic status recognize, that he finally realizes he's in trouble, and when King Augusta threatens him with his own slave collar, he has the gall to call on Myne for help.
- Stupid Evil: He first has a dragon hatchling kidnapped and slapped with a slave collar, then hides the poor creature in a basement somewhere in the very, very populated Labyrinth Town, not caring that dragons are excellent trackers and the hatchling's parents are bound to show up sooner or later, quite unhappy, and the chances that the town will be leveled, as there are precious few adventurers who could not only go toe to toe with a dragon, but win so decisively that the town won't be leveled by the fall out. Then, when he's setting up to outright cheat at the very Engagement Challenge he roped Myne into, over Sylpheed's hand, he has his hired adventurers slap slave collars on Fenrir pups right in front of Fenrir herself, even trying to kill one of them when Fenrir demands the poor pups be returned. And he has the gall to wonder why he finds himself in a cell when all is said and done, with his hired adventurers turned to bloody smears in the forest.
- Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: The reason King Augusta agreed to hold the hunting competition in Fenrir's sacred forest is because he figured even Claude wouldn't be dumb enough to go offend a Physical God by attacking Fenrir's pups. Claude specifically ordered his henchmen to go after them for a price, and the louts were overconfident enough to actually try it.
First Prince Alto Augusta
Where is the Holy Bow user?
The first prince and Sylpheed's older brother. He initially is very opposed to her marriage to Myne, but warms up to the kid after the latter fought him in a sparring match and quickly started to learn how to actually fight instead of just cheating his way through combat by stealing skills.- Boxing Lessons for Superman: While absent from the manga rendition, in the original source, he puts Myne in a training program so he can work his way through a fight without cheating his way through by stealing his opponent's skills and then smacking them upside the head with them, which serves Myne very, very well when he finds himself in a fight where he can't do that.
- Bullying a Dragon: The only reason he was smacking Myne around was because it was a spar. He later learns that if it was a real fight, Myne could and would have stolen his skills, rendered him helpless, and beat him to death.
- Cruel to Be Kind: He dragged Myne into a spar so he could not only test the latter's actual skill in combat, but to provide pointers and make certain Myne doesn't get himself killed by overexertion.
- Engagement Challenge: He forces Myne into a spar, the threat of annulling his marriage to Sylpheed on the line.
- Knight Templar Big Brother: Any guy who would marry his sister Sylpheed has to pass through him first, even if his father, the king, already gave approval.
- Sibling Rivalry: He and Sylpheed do love each other, but they're always butting heads and trying to outdo each other.
King Augusta
[Judgement: Full] and [Cut&Paste]? Interesting. Sylpheed, I'm counting on you to "Confirm" this Myne.
Formerly an A-rank adventurer, he gained the throne after many heroic acts. He's the first to hear of Myne's [Judgement: Full] and [Cut&Paste], and sends Sylpheed to go "confirm" him.- Good Is Not Soft: He may be a good and fair king, but he is pointedly not averse to torturing information out of heinous criminals. When he's got Claude in custody, caught red handed trying to put slave collars on Myne, Aisha, and Princess Sylpheed, and refusing to confess the whereabouts of the dragon hatchling he's already kidnapped and enslaved, even under torture, the king brings one of Claude's own collars into the cell and shows Claude what it's like on the receiving end, to compel him to talk with the use of the very same slavery magic Claude loved so much.
- The Good King: He rules with a firm but gentle touch, and is well-loved by his people.
- One Degree of Separation: When Myne describes his parents as "Saviors of Lucas", the king realizes they were his old adventuring buddies, along with his wife, Queen Garnet, who were driven into hiding by being hunted by the Roselia kingdom, as it's implied Myne's mother was an [otherwolrder].
- Real Politik: He could crush Claude's house with ease, but he is bound by his own laws, and if he attacks a noble's house without proof of wrong-doing, the consequences will be far, far worse than the gains, especially if his suspicions prove wrong.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He's nothing but supportive of Myne and Sylpheed's relationship, as they've earned it, but there's still certain hoops the couple has to go through before they can officially get his royal favor.
Queen Garnet Augusta
Naughty, boy! It's not nice to sneak [Appraise] a lady!
The queen of the kingdom. Myne is reminded of his own mother when he smells sunflowers from her.- The High Queen: The undisputed queen of the kingdom.
- Mysterious Waif: She has many secrets, as demonstrated with the mosaic text in her status and the fact she can sense being subjected to [Apraisal].
- One Degree of Separation: She, along with her husband, were in the same adventuring party as Myne's own parents.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: Until King Augusta realizes Myne is the son of his old adventuring buddies, neither the king nor herself shared this knowledge. Even her children were left in the dark.
- You Remind Me of X: She reminds Myne of his own mother when he smells sunflowers coming from her.
Luis Augusta
The second prince.
- The Beast Master: He's got a powerful [Taming] skill.
- Heroic BSoD: When he hears his fiancé was kidnapped by a demon, he breaks down until Myne gives him a nice pep-talk and promises to help rescue her.
- Mistaken for Murderer: Tails thinks his pet wolf was killed by Luis purely for advancing some unspecified research. It doesn't help that Luis is the one seen taking said wolf away grievously injured, promising life-saving treatment, and when the wolf died, sent back the collar and a note with the words "thanks to you, my research is completed." Needless to say, that was clearly not the best approach.
- Not Helping Your Case: When Tails's pet wolf was grievously harmed in fighting a giant scorpion monster, Luis took the wolf away, against Tails's protests, stating that the wolf needed emergency care. A short time later, Tails receives the wolf's collar from a courier with a note that, among other things, said "Thanks to you, my research is complete." This leads Tails into thinking Luis killed the wolf rather than provide aid, rightly earning his grudge.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: He wears glasses and is one of the smartest people in the kingdom.
- The Strategist: He's known for very effective battle strategies and leads the charge to attempt a rescue attempt on the allied kingdom of Ohse.
