Reign of the Seven Spellblades Character Index
The Sword Roses | Kimberly Students (Upperclassmen) | Kimberly Faculty | Spoiler Characters
The Sword Roses | Kimberly Students (Upperclassmen) | Kimberly Faculty | Spoiler Characters
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Chronology Key
This key is based on the main protagonists' grade year progression through Kimberly Magic Academy. Grade years cited in characters' descriptions are based on their grade year at time of introduction.- Year 1 (1532 of the Great Calendar): Light Novel Volumes 1-3 | Manga Chapters 1-46 | Anime Season 1
- Year 2 (1533 GC): LN Volumes 4-6
- Year 3 (1534 GC): LN Volumes 7-10
- Year 4 (1535 GC): LN Volumes 11-13
- Year 5 (1536 GC): LN Volumes 14-TBD
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Classmates of the Sword Roses
Or: characters of the same grade year as the main protagonists. Annie Mackley
Voiced by: Kana Ichinose (Japanese), Kayla Parker (English)
“I—I never intended for that to happen. I just wanted to scare you a bit…!”
First Appearance: LN Volume 1 | Anime 1x1 "Ceremony"
A female student who takes an instant dislike to Katie Aalto and bespells her at the entrance ceremony.
- Adapted Out: She's never depicted in the manga: her spell is cast in a words-only panel, and the Sword Roses confront her offscreen.
- The Bus Came Back: She completely disappears from the story after the Sword Roses interrogate her in chapter 2 and doesn't reappear until volume 12.
- Last-Name Basis: Her given name isn't stated in volume 1 and she's only credited in the anime as "Mackley". Her given name isn't established until her reappearance in volume 12.
- Taught to Hate: Her reasoning for pranking Katie over her pro-demihuman rights views boils down to "My parents said you're a Category Traitor."
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She turns out to be the one who bespelled Katie at the entrance ceremony, but it was just a spur-of-the-moment prank meant to embarrass her over her Zombie Advocacy: Marco choosing that moment to make a break for the exit and nearly trampling Katie was a Contrived Coincidence she had nothing to do with.
Richard Andrews
Voiced by: Shoya Chiba (Japanese), Gerard Caster (English)
“Call it whatever you want, Mr. Horn. Stand before me. I’ll return the humiliation you gave me ten times over!”
First Appearance: LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 3 | Anime 1x1 "Ceremony"
The heir to the Andrews house. He and Chela grew up together due to the closeness of their families.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: In the light novel and the anime, he has very prominent and pointed sideburns that stick out from his head almost like horns. These are removed in his manga design (shown).
- Adaptational Early Appearance: He briefly appears in the pilot episode of the anime, but has no lines and isn't introduced or named until episode 2.
- Always Someone Better: His bravado hides an inferiority complex stemming from having grown up with Chela, who is more naturally talented in most areas than him. His early enmity with Oliver comes from Richard getting the impression Oliver considers him beneath him, when Oliver actually hadn't meant to antagonize him but stuck his foot in his mouth.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Downplayed. Aside from his unenlightened opinion of demihumans, he's not really evil so much as a jerkass with a chip on his shoulder, and he grows out of that to some extent.
- Blow You Away: He has an affinity for wind magic, which he first displays in the battle with the garuda. To show off the levels in badass he's taken since his last appearance, in volume 7 he first knocks an opposing student unconscious with a wind blast without even turning around, then uses the wind to surf on the arena's lake while fighting Katie, Guy and Pete and Teresa's team.
- Blue Blood: He's another mage aristocrat, and grew up with Chela.
- The Bus Came Back: He mostly disappears from the story for several books after declining to join the first-years' battle royale in volume 2. He comes back in volume 7 as part of a Rivals Team Up scenario with Joseph Albright and Tullio Rossi, hoping for a rematch with the Sword Roses.
- Defeat Means Friendship: The final round of the combat leagues offers Oliver and Richard a chance to face each other on equal terms for the first time in almost three years. Oliver wins, and they agree to become real friends finally.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Downplayed. He initially doesn't really become friends with the Sword Roses, but fighting the garuda with Oliver and Nanao settled their feud and won his respect.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: His team initially supports the old council during the Mêlée à Trois with Rivermoore in volume 8, but after Team Godfrey wins their first round of the combat leagues despite Alvin Godfrey's injury, and Lesedi Ingwe defeats Khiirgi Albschuch in a battle in Rivermoore's necropolis, he withdraws from the field while telling off the old council's seniors for trying to interfere and tip the scales instead of facing Godfrey's faction fairly.
- Stock Shōnen Rival: In the first volume, Richard develops a dislike for Oliver after the latter correctly guesses he ran for cover when the troll went berserk at the entrance ceremony (in context, he volunteered to spar with Nanao only for Oliver to step in), which gets tangled up with the feud between the pro- and anti-demihuman civil rights factions. He challenges Oliver and Nanao to a kobold-killing contest to settle the dispute, only for a garuda to attack and force the three of them to team up. Afterwards, while he and Oliver still can't exactly be called friends, their direct rivalry subsides: Andrews subsequently appears to view Oliver as a motivation to improve himself.
- Took a Level in Badass: After declining to join the first-years' dueling tournament in volume 2, he disappears from the story for several books. In volume 7, he reappears for the combat leagues, teaming up with Joseph Albright and Tullio Rossi, and demonstrates his new skills by spotting an opposing team hiding in cover and knocking a member out with an Offhand Backhand wind spell. Ultimately their team defeats the others, including a team of Guy, Pete, and Katie and one containing the secretly hypercompetent Teresa Carste, in their preliminary match with no casualties or even simulated wounds, something even Oliver, Nanao, and Yuri didn't manage.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Following the confrontation with the garuda, while still acting somewhat abrasive, he stops treating the main characters like they're inferior to him, even giving Oliver a genuinely well-meaning warning about Professor Grenville at one point (though it turns out Oliver didn't exactly need the warning in question, given what he already knows about, and has planned to do with, Grenville). And it doesn't stop there, either.
- Virtuous Character Copy: Where Oliver reminds of Harry Potter, Richard fills much the role of Draco Malfoy: a haughty aristocratic racist who becomes The Rival to the protagonist. Unlike with Draco and Harry, however, their dispute is based on a misunderstanding and is mostly settled after they fight the garuda together; Richard subsequently views Oliver as a competitor but not an enemy, and stops acting like a jerkass to the Sword Roses.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: He challenges Oliver and Nanao to a contest to settle their feud. They go in expecting to duel him, only for him to reveal they'll be competing to kill kobolds in the arena: highest kill count wins. Nanao balks, indignant at being asked to take part in a canned hunt
, and makes to leave... which is when the garuda that Miligan smuggled in with the kobolds breaks free and starts rampaging through the arena.
Tullio Rossi
Voiced by: Daichi Kanbara (Japanese), Nick Marchetti (English)
“We ’ave been at Kimberly for six months, no? I think we should follow our seniors’ example and decide among ourselves who is the strongest first-year.”
First Appearance: LN Volume 2 | Manga Chapter 16 | Anime 1x7 "Reversi"
A lone wolf who taught himself the sword by ignoring the fundamentals, who organizes a dueling tournament in volume 2. Lost to Oliver in a duel.
- Accent Adaptation: He speaks in Kansai dialect in the original Japanese. Yen Press's translator renders this in English as an Italian Funetik Aksent to match his Fantasy Counterpart Culture. The anime subtitles go with New Yawk, commonly used for Kansai-ben speakers; however, the dub follows Yen Press's example and gives him an Italian accent.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: In the novels and manga he's introduced in the conversation where he proposes the dueling tournament. In the anime he briefly appears slightly before this in The Stinger of episode 7, monologuing to himself about how much the Sword Roses annoy him without being formally introduced. Then in episode 8 he's used to replace an extra named Hughes as Pete's opponent in a sparring match (which took place later in volume 2).
- Attention Whore: He starts the dueling tournament and then challenges Oliver basically because he's jealous that Oliver and his friends are in the spotlight after the events of the first volume and he isn't. Losing to Oliver and then Albright back-to-back takes him down several pegs and forces him to realize he isn't nearly as good as he thinks he is.
- Attractiveness Discrimination: Played for laughs when he says that he's targeting Oliver and not Nanao, equally Famed In-Story, because Nanao is cute.Oliver Horn: I'd sensed you were after me ever since you suggested [an all-first-years' battle royale] in the cafeteria. Did I do something to earn your ire?
Tullio Rossi: Nah, nah. I have nothing against you or your family.
Oliver: Then why are you after me?
Rossi: I do not like that you get all the attention and I get none. Is that not enough of a reason?
Oliver: You're entitled to your opinions, but I doubt I get more attention than Nanao.
Rossi: Nanao is cute, so she is exempt. I cannot 'ate her. - Excellent Judge of Character:
- He realizes from crossing swords with Oliver in volume 2 that his chosen rival is much more than he appears. Rossi's self-taught fighting style is designed to counter orthodox sword arts, but Oliver trounces him with pure, perfect Lanoff Style—perfect enough that Rossi reasons Oliver must have spent an ungodly amount of time practicing under a very good teacher. He'd better have done, given he came to Kimberly to kill six teachers and the headmistress...
- He notices the first time he meets Yuri Leik that there's something off about him. Leik is in fact an Artificial Human Manchurian Agent created by Professor Demetrio Aristides to spy on the student body after Enrico Forghieri's murder."'is eyes, they are unsettling. Like a child peering into an ant'ill. ... I 'ave a feeling I could punch 'im in the mouth and 'is smile would not waver. And I find that honestly unnerving."
- Fashionable Asymmetry: He tends to wear his school uniform coat with only the left arm through the sleeve and the rest of the jacket hanging off him.
- Funetik Aksent: He has a noticeable accent rendered in the text—mainly an inability to pronunce the letter 'h' (which is silent in Italian).
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He organizes the unofficial dueling tourney in volume 2, aspiring to be declared the strongest first-year, only to be knocked out of it by two losses to Oliver and Joseph Albright in quick succession.
- Latin Lover: He's Ytallian (i.e. fantasy Italian), and makes more than one pass at Nanao (though without success since she only has eyes for Oliver).
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Union mages customarily wear a metal plate on the back of the glove on their off-hand. Rossi's self-taught fighting style uses it like an improvised buckler.
- Spanner in the Works: He unknowingly saves Oliver's life completely by accident in volumes 9 and 10. Rossi's Breaking Speech to Yuri Leik breaks Demitrio's programming of his spun-off Soul Fragment. Had Rossi not done this, Yuri's personality could not have helped Oliver escape from Demitrio's Lotus-Eater Machine and Demitrio would have killed Oliver and wiped out his comrades.
- Technician Versus Performer: Even after adopting the Koutz Style to improve his swordsmanship, Rossi continues to be a showy, acrobatic swashbuckler, where Oliver's swordplay is still mostly by-the-book Lanoff and lacks any personal flair. Though after his duel with Andrews, Oliver admits that a bit of Rossi has probably rubbed off on him from sparring with him so often.
- Took a Level in Badass: After losing to Oliver and Joseph Albright in back-to-back duels, he follows Oliver's advice to learn the Koutz Style from the fundamentals. By volume 7, his efforts have borne fruit: together with Albright and Richard Andrews, they emerge the winner of their opening bout in the combat leagues with no losses.
- Unknown Rival: Rossi fancies himself a competitor to Oliver both in swordwork and for Nanao's affections. In reality, Oliver is so far out of his league on both counts that Rossi doesn't register as much more than a minor annoyance. Oliver later even starts tutoring him in the sword.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Deconstructed. Rossi eschews the three formal sword styles taught at Kimberly, preferring his own self-taught no-holds-barred fighting style: it includes punches, kicks, and using the metal plates all mages wear on the back of their their off-hand as an improvised buckler. Oliver soundly beats him because, as it turns out, learning the fundamentals of swordplay actually is rather important: he has no idea, for example, that there really is a good reason the major sword schools have few unarmed techniques, namely that trying to attack with both sword and fists makes you vulnerable to grappling. He has, to date, only beaten Oliver once when Worf Had the Flu.
Stacy Cornwallis
Voiced by: Kaori Maeda (Japanese), Morgan Lea (English)
“Do you see now that you are outclassed? ‘I’ve read them all.’ Ha! Don’t get so full of yourself over one measly compliment!”
First Appearance: LN Volume 2 | Manga Chapter 17 | Anime 1x7 "Reversi"
A girl born into a McFarlane branch family. Chela's younger half-sister.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: In the novels and manga she and Fay aren't introduced until Tullio Rossi proposes the first-years' dueling tournament. The anime introduces them an episode earlier when they walk past the Sword Roses before class, with Chela trying to greet them only to be mostly ignored.
- Battle Couple: Stacy and Fay start out as "master and knight" (which lends its name to episode 10 of the anime) but by the year 3 books they've had a Relationship Upgrade to a sort of Courtly Love, and ultimately get to be the Beta Couple courtesy of Theodore McFarlane giving his blessing to their relationship.
- Blue Blood: She's Chela's half-sister, which makes her part of the mage aristocracy as well.
- Defeat Means Friendship: She and Chela are able to bury the hatchet after Stacy loses to her in the dueling tournament and then has to team up with her to beat Joseph Albright when he decides to be a Sore Loser. They become allies to the Sword Roses in later volumes, and Chela joins their team in the year 3 combat leagues.
- Disowned Sibling: Downplayed: Chela was forced by her powerful father not to acknowledge that Stacy Cornwallis is her illegitimate half-sister: they're officially cousins. According to a tradition common in the mage aristocracy, Stacy was raised in her mother's family to be a de facto Hidden Backup Princess should something happen to Chela, and shunned by her stepfather as a consequence without even being told the reason until she was ten years old. However, Chela still loves her even though they aren't allowed to acknowledge their real relationship, and deeply regrets the rift between them.
- Half-Sibling Angst: Stacy Cornwallis was conceived by Theodore McFarlane with a woman from a McFarlane branch family to be the backup in case his legal daughter, main cast member Michela, didn't work out or died. She grew up ostracized by her stepfather and half-siblings because she was a more naturally talented mage than his children by blood, and got it into her head to overtake Chela and force her biological father to recognize her.
- Heroic Bastard: She's set up to look like a Bastard Bastard, but her enmity with Chela is completely Theodore's fault and they're able to bury the hatchet after fighting in volume 2. She becomes an ally of the Sword Roses afterwards, and risks her own life to rescue Fay from Ophelia.
- Hidden Backup Princess: Played for Drama. She was conceived by Theodore McFarlane as the Spare to the Throne in case something happened to Chela, raised by her mother's family in the Cornwallis household, a cadet branch of the McFarlane clan. In accordance with this tradition, nobody involved is allowed to acknowledge her real parentage, but the Parental Neglect she got from her stepfather led to her developing the ambition to overtake Chela and force Theodore to recognize her as his daughter.
- Ojou Ringlets: Like her half-sister and her biological father, she has the McFarlanes' Hereditary Hairstyle of curly blond pigtails, though hers are much poofier.
- Parental Abandonment: She wasn't even told who her real father was until she was ten, and her stepfather neglects her because he resents that she's more talented than his children by blood. When she ends up in McFarlane's class along with the Sword Roses when he's acting as substitute alchemy teacher, he showers Chela with praise but barely acknowledges Stacy beyond approving of her results (Nanao gets more attention, despite not even being related to him).
- Parental Neglect: She was conceived purely so Theodore McFarlane could have a "spare" in case something untoward happened to Chela and left her with her mother's family. Her stepfather is said to view all her achievements as a reminder of the fact she isn't his (her maternal half-siblings are significantly less talented as mages), though it's unclear if he's actively abusive towards her or just neglectful.
- Relationship Upgrade: By volume 9, her master-servant relationship with Fay has evolved into a sort of Courtly Love: they've made Love Confessions to one another, but Stacy is likely to be pushed into an Arranged Marriage to advance the family bloodline, and Fay, being an orphaned commoner, is unlikely to be allowed to remain her consort unless he can master his Voluntary Shapeshifting and make a good showing in the combat leagues.
- Remember the New Guy?: She and Fay were apparently present for the garuda incident but—as he reminds her—spent the whole time hiding in terror, hence why we didn't see them at all in volume 1.
- Sibling Rivalry: She was raised by her mother as the "spare" to Chela, and despised by her stepfather. As a consequence of which, her relationship with Chela is quite poor, much to the latter's regret: Stacy's ambition for most of her childhood was to replace Chela as House McFarlane's heir, but Chela just wanted a sister.
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: She keeps hoping for her biological father to acknowledge her (and hopefully displace Chela as heir of the house), but he basically ignores her.
Fay Willock
Voiced by: Tatsumaru Tachibana (Japanese), Davon Oliver (English)
“Don’t hesitate. Just give me orders. As your guard dog, I’ll tear out your enemies’ throats!”
First Appearance: LN Volume 2 | Manga Chapter 17 | Anime 1x7 "Reversi"
Stacy's attendant and a half-werewolf.- Adaptational Early Appearance: In the novels and manga he and Stacy aren't introduced until Tullio Rossi proposes the first-years' dueling tournament. The anime introduces them an episode earlier when they walk past the Sword Roses before class, with Chela trying to greet them only to be mostly ignored.
- Battle Couple: Stacy and Fay start out as "master and knight" (which lends its name to episode 10 of the anime) but by the year 3 books they've had a Relationship Upgrade to a sort of Courtly Love, and ultimately get to be the Beta Couple courtesy of Theodore McFarlane giving his blessing to their relationship.
- Half-Human Hybrid: He's half-human, half-werewolf, and as a consequence is A Little Bit Beastly and can transform into more bestial form which Stacy can ride.
- I Owe You My Life: He was adopted as a servant by Stacy when they were both small children. He was homeless and sleeping on the edge of the Cornwallis estate, and her stepfather thought to put him out of his misery, but Stace insisted on keeping him. He's considered himself her loyal guard dog ever since.
- Painful Transformation: Fay is a half-werewolf, so taking his wolf form puts him in constant severe pain. He's eventually able to fight through it and master Voluntary Shapeshifting out of sheer determination to stay with his now-lover Stacy.
- The Power of Love: He's the first half-werewolf ever to master Voluntary Shapeshifting, which was only possible because of the unwavering trust he puts in Stacy and the fact they probably would have faced a Parental Marriage Veto if they hadn't succeeded. Anyone less determined to be with their beloved forever wouldn't have been able to fight through the pain the way he did.
- Relationship Upgrade: By volume 9, his and Stacy's relationship has evolved into a sort of Courtly Love: they've made Love Confessions to one another, but Stacy is likely to be pushed into an Arranged Marriage to advance the family bloodline, and Fay, being an orphaned commoner, is unlikely to be allowed to remain her consort unless he can master his Voluntary Shapeshifting and make a good showing in the combat leagues.
- Remember the New Guy?: He and Stacy were apparently present for the garuda incident but—as he reminds her—spent the whole time hiding in terror, hence why we didn't see them at all in volume 1.Fay: Seriously? You want in? You were quaking in your boots like the rest of us when that garuda attacked.
Stacy: F-Fay! You're mistaken! I was just watching really intently! - Voluntary Shapeshifting: In volume 2, he doesn't have direct control over his werewolf transformations, but Stacy can make his body do it with a spell that simulates the light of the full moon. She only does this with his permission (though he never says no) since he's in constant severe pain while transformed. By volume 9, however, he's figured out how to trick himself into transforming by visualizing the image of the moon, and can flexibly transform only portions of his body.
Evelynn Odets
Voiced by: Rina Honnizumi (Japanese), Corinne Sudberg (English)
“If you're going to give me a nickname, I'd prefer 'Galewind Evelynn' or 'Cold-Blooded Evelynn'.”
First Appearance: LN Volume 2 | Anime 1x8 "Rivals"
A haughty female student who overconfidently challenges Nanao to a duel at the start of the Tournament Arc in volume 2.
- Adapted Out: Nanao's duel at the start of the Tournament Arc is Adapted Out of the manga, and consequently so is the no-name student she duels with.
- Informed Ability: She's supposed to be faster than average at speaking incantations, but this is unproven given that Nanao beats her in under ten seconds: she only gets off a single Impetus before Nanao disarms her.
- Named by the Adaptation: She was unnamed and undescribed in the original novel. The anime gives her a name, Nom de Guerre, and description.
- Red Baron: Parodied. She wants to be called "Galewind Evelynn" or "Cold-Blooded Evelynn", but is stuck with the considerably less-threatening moniker "Speed-Talker", apparently for being unusually fast at speaking incantations.
- Small Name, Big Ego: She's convinced she's a much better mage than she really is: a background student mentions her having terrible aim and lousy visualization, and excelling only at her speed at casting. Nanao demonstrates that she's also not much good at picking her battles.
- Underestimating Badassery: She repeats Oliver's mistake from volume 1 of thinking that Nanao's inexperience with magic makes her a weak opponent, this time trying to defeat her with a spell from beyond the one step, one spell distance. Nanao blocks it with a Two-Handed Flow Cut (her first use of the ability in public) and disarms her in seconds.
Joseph Albright
Voiced by: Makoto Furukawa (Japanese, present day), Mariko Higashuichi (Japanese, young), William Ofoegbu (English, present day), Tristan Bonner (English, young)
“I don’t make a habit of remembering every nobody’s name.”
First Appearance: LN Volume 2 | Manga Chapter 21 | Anime 1x8 "Rivals"
An arrogant boy born to the militaristic Albright family. He lost to Oliver in a duel.
- Abusive Parents: His father tortured him with pain spells for most of a day just for losing a chess game to a serving girl.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He's a gifted fighter from a prominent family, and an arrogant jerkass. Losing to Oliver and then getting abducted by Ophelia Salvadori and having to be saved by Pete takes him down a peg.
- Break the Haughty: When introduced, he arrogantly believes himself to be the strongest of the first-years and therefore they're all "nobodies" beneath his notice. He first gets beaten in a fair duel by Oliver, then knocked down for the count by Nanao when he tries to play Sore Loser by unleashing stinger bees on them. Then he gets kidnapped and raped by Ophelia Salvadori in her madness and has to be rescued by Pete, a Muggle Born of Mages and therefore the weakest of the Sword Roses at the time. You almost feel sorry for him by the end of volume 3, and he's much less of a Jerkass in subsequent appearances.
- Catchphrase Insult: Routinely calls people he thinks he's better than "nobody", particularly people without a well-known family. This unexpectedly pushes Oliver's Relative Button since he's been hiding the identity of his very well-known late mother the whole time he's been at Kimberly, motivating him to teach Albright a lesson in humility. After Oliver beats him, he uses it in an Insult of Endearment by telling him that he forgets people's names easily, so Oliver had better keep improving. He does something similar with Pete in volume 5, telling him "I'm not letting anyone whose name I've learned stay a nobody forever."
- Fire-Forged Friends: After having worked together with Pete to escape Ophelia's lair, he's shown tutoring him in some of the finer points of sword arts in volume 5, which he justifies with the line, "I'm not letting anyone whose name I've learned stay a nobody forever."
- Freudian Excuse: He is not allowed to lose to anyone. When he lost a chess match to his family's servants' daughter, his Abusive Parents cast pain curses on him, and executed her entire family.
- An Ice Person: While it isn't directly called attention to, he seems to have a preference for ice magic: he casts Frigus far more often than other elemental spells.
- Inconsistent Spelling: The Japanese color insert in volume 9 misspells his surname "Orbright".
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: After suffering through a nasty case of Break the Haughty, he matures a bit from his original Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy image. He's still a grouchy hardass, but he's shifted from dismissing weaker classmates as "nobodies" to using his skills to help teach them so they can stop being "nobodies".
- Nothing Personal: He backs the conservative faction in the Student Council President election, opposing the Sword Roses, but it's just out of familial obligation: that is, he'd never hear the end of it from his own family if he didn't at least make a token show of support. He himself doesn't particularly care who wins: his sole ambition is to be the strongest fighter in his year.
- Out-Gambitted: His preferred Finishing Move is to blast an opponent with a spell at point-blank range, a difficult trick to master. Oliver baits him into doing it in order to use the opportunity to grapple him, reducing their duel to a shoving match that Oliver wins by being more patient and allowing Albright's frustration to create an opening for him.
- Pest Controller: He has an affinity for bees, which is first demonstrated with the swarm of stinger bees he summons in volume 2 during his Sore Loser routine against the Sword Roses. In volume 7, he's shown using normal-sized bees as familiars to scout for him during his team's elimination round match against Teams Aalto, Carste, and Bowles.
- Rape as Drama: On the receiving end from Ophelia Salvadori: he's kidnapped by her, along with Pete and several other male students, after she's consumed by the spell, and is partially drained by her to birth new chimeras.
- Recurrer: He's a relatively important supporting character in volumes 2 and 3, then pops up again in volume 5 when he volunteers to help Pete with sword arts. He returns for the Tournament Arc in volume 7 to team up with Richard Andrews and Tullio Rossi.
- Sore Loser: Justified: as previously mentioned, his family doesn't allow him to lose to anyone, no matter the circumstances. After losing to Oliver in a duel, he summons a swarm of stinger bees to threaten them into letting him wipe the memories so he can say he won. The Sword Roses are having none of that and defeat enough of the bees for Nanao to finish him off in single combat.
- Treasure Chest Cavity: He keeps blast, smoke, and beacon orbs hidden in his abdomen in case of capture.
Yuri Leik
“I dunno about anyone else, but if there’s places I haven’t been yet, I gotta check ’em out!”
First Appearance: Volume 6
A mysterious New Transfer Student who joins the Sword Roses' second year class in volume 6.
- Amateur Sleuth: He fancies himself a detective investigating mysteries at the school, even calling his investigations into events "cases", such as "The Case of the Missing Teachers" and "The Case of the Stolen Bones".
- Artificial Human: He was created by Professor Demetrio Aristides using a fragment of his own soul to be The Mole in the student body.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: In volume 8, he realizes ahead of even the upperclassmen of the Watch that Cyrus Rivermoore has managed to acquire enough bones by bushwhacking various students to construct a complete human skeleton. Lesedi Ingwe is so impressed she invites him to join the Watch once all's said and done.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: Fights back to back with Oliver when they're attacked by a group of monkeys on the second layer of the labyrinth.
- Dying as Yourself: Inverted. He overpowers Demitrio's real personality in his creator's last moments, allowing him to bid Oliver farewell.
- Fighting from the Inside: Despite being reabsorbed by Demitrio Aristides, he manages to reassert his independent existence at a critical moment in Oliver's Assassination Attempt, costing Demitrio the ability to use primal magic, then finally allowing Oliver to defeat Demitrio's Fifth Spellblade with the Fourth by marking for him which thread of fate will lead to victory.
- Grew Beyond Their Programming: A thrashing and "Reason You Suck" Speech from Rossi during the combat league finals cracks something in him: he realizes he has more fun with the process of investigating mysteries than with being handed the answers by his inner voice. This causes him to overcome the compulsion to merely observe that Aristides implanted in him—which unfortunately leads Aristides to begin planning to dispose of him.
- Inconsistent Spelling: The Japanese version's color inserts spell the Romanized version of his name as "Yurie Lake".
- Manchurian Agent: Unbeknownst even to himself, he's an Artificial Human created with a fragment of Professor Demetrio Aristides's own soul to spy on the student body after Professor Forghieri's assassination. His compulsion to explore the labyrinth provides a cover justification for Aristides to periodically download his memories.
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling: He has an instinctive sense of the world around him, which he interprets as his surroundings telling him things he should know, like the presence of concealed enemies. This is a product of him being a Soul Fragment of Professor Aristides: he's unconsciously tapping into the Akashic Records.
- Naïve Newcomer: He purportedly transferred from a non-magic school and has an adventurous, happy-go-lucky attitude to pretty much everything about Kimberly. Even his athame is innocently crude: Oliver describes it as "a rod with an edge".
- New Transfer Student: He arrives at Kimberly late in the Sword Roses' second year, having purportedly transferred in from a non-magic school.
- Sixth Ranger: He becomes a sort of auxiliary member of the Sword Roses not long after his introduction, even joining Nanao and Oliver's team for the second- and third-years' tier of the combat leagues after Chela declines to participate. Actually he's the Sixth Ranger Traitor on account of being a Manchurian Agent for the faculty.
- Spotting the Thread: A comrade of Oliver's on the school newspaper discovers a series of mystery students with similar personalities to Yuri going back 40 years to Professor Aristides's hiring. Yuri has better backstopping than usual, but it's not enough to stop Oliver's group realizing they may have been made, forcing them to immediately target Aristides.
- Unskilled, but Strong: He turns out to be a hell of an instinctive fighter in volume 7 when he teams up with Oliver and Nanao for the Tournament Arc. Oliver classifies him as a "feral mage". However, his naivete causes him to become so fascinated with Ms. Ames's Signature Move once he figures out the trick that he forgets to dodge it.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Demitrio realizes he's lost control of Yuri partway through volume 9 and reabsorbs him in volume 10. It only partially works: Yuri's personality remains intact inside him and reemerges during his fight with Oliver.
Rosé Mistral
“A real thrill to have you. Please relax—if you can. We are enemies here.”
First Appearance: LN Volume 7
A flamboyant boy who enters the combat leagues with two of his friends.
Mistral is a reader-submitted character (created by ShiZu@yae), one of the two contest winners to the "Kimberly Magic Academy Student Enrollment Campaign" held to celebrate the series getting the top spot in the 2020 Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! guidebook.
- Booby Trap: He can make his splinters explode when attacked.
- Custom Uniform: He turned his student uniform into something resembling a stage magician's outfit: the outer robe is replaced with a short sport coat and diagonal cape, with a purple vest underneath, and his trousers have diamond-shaped patches down the hems. This is mostly for show, though: he joins the Watch's posse in volume 8 dressed in the normal men's uniform, and Oliver doesn't even recognize him at first.
- Disposable Decoy Doppelgänger: His specialty is crafting duplicate "splinters" of himself out of shadows, which all appear identical to himself but have no substance to them. He can additionally place the splinters over his allies, letting him mix real attackers into the decoys.
- Enemy Mine: He forms an alliance with Jasmine Ames and Jürgen Liebert to gang up on the top-ranked Team Horn and eliminate them first, before attacking each other. That plan fails because Oliver, Nanao, and Yuri are simply too good.
- Master of Illusion: He's able to use his splinters to change the appearances of his teammates, making it appear that his tournament team consists entirely of six of himself. While assisting the Campus Watch's posse in volume 8, he uses the same trick to get their allies within striking distance of Khiirgi Albschuch by disguising them as her own third-year allies.
Jasmine Ames
“If the flow goes our way…we might…have a chance.”
First Appearance: LN Volume 7
A shy girl who enters the combat leagues with two of her friends.
Ames is a reader-submitted character (created by Kirigirisu), one of the two contest winners to the "Kimberly Magic Academy Student Enrollment Campaign" held to celebrate the series getting the top spot in the 2020 Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! guidebook.
- Amazon Brigade: She leads a team with two other girls.
- Blue Blood: She's from one of the old mage families, though her line hasn't produced any mages of particular note.
- Enemy Mine: She forms an alliance with Rosé Mistral and Jürgen Liebert to gang up on the top-ranked Team Horn and eliminate them first, before attacking each other. That plan fails because Oliver, Nanao, and Yuri are simply too good.
- Graceful Loser: She's shown cheering Oliver on from the stands during Team Horn's match against Ursule Valois in volume 9.
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her eyes are completely hidden by her long bangs. She's naturally shy due to low self-esteem, but is a surprisingly good fighter.
- Master of Illusion: The "Ames Spellblade" turns out to be fakery: she uses spatial magic to distort an opponent's eyesight so that a following strike is harder to block—but not impossible, meaning it is not a true spellblade. Oliver and Yuri both work out the trick after crossing swords with her, though Yuri is so impressed he forgets to actually dodge it.
- Most Writers Are Writers: According to the blurb about her in the afterword of volume 7, she's a bookworm with a taste for heroic legends and Shōjo manga.
- Slashed Throat: Downplayed: Oliver brings her down with a cut to the throat, but it's just a superficial wound due to the dulling spell, which the magical chokers they're all wearing around their necks turns into a TKO to simulate an incapacitating wound.
- Unblockable Attack: Subverted: she claims to be a spellblade wielder, but the "Ames Spellblade" is actually an illusion cast using spatial magic to mess with the opponent's eyesight. Spatial magic can itself defeat it if used as a sort of sonar, meaning it fails the technical definition of a spellblade (which can only be overcome by another spellblade).
- Worthy Opponent: She's a good sport and has a lot of respect for Oliver, calling it "Magnificent" when he defeats her false spellblade. He in turn says he can be proud of defeating her.
Ursule Valois
“Sooo close! A little deeper, and it would have been all over.”
First Appearance: LN Volume 9
The leader of one of the finalist teams in the school combat leagues, and a Koutz purist.
- Abusive Parents: Hers told her she was underdeveloped in the family's arts and sent her to live with her grandmother, who denied her food for days on end unless she could cross a frictionless floor to get it, and intentionally inducing Stockholm syndrome about the treatment. She also gave her a kitten to raise only to then force her to kill it with her bare hands, to get her to accept the idea of using any creature as a familiar including humans.
- Break the Haughty: Much like Andrews, Rossi, Albright, and Stacy before her, she's introduced as an arrogant jerk who believes she's God's gift to mages. Oliver, however, intuits that her arrogance is motivated by a need to believe her Dark and Troubled Past was actually worth something: at Oliver's prodding, she completely loses it and rages at the world, and Oliver in particular, for believing that teamwork and friendship are actually worth something, and is ultimately driven into a Villainous BSoD when she loses anyway.Ursule: (prompted by the audience cheering for Oliver) Shut uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup!! You are so gross! Them, you, everyone! Anyone rooting for Team Horn! Clowns who lost to them and have the nerve to be here at all! Every one of you is smearing dirt on the face of Kimberly! You are impure! You are mages, yet you pretend to have friends?! Laughing and crying like humans! Love? Respect? Consideration? That is all clutter, worse than refuse! Do not bring that crap here! …Control and obedience…! If you have that…then you need nothing else! Nothing!
Oliver: Is that actually what you believe? Or is it a cry for help? - Broken Bird: She endured horrific abuse from her own family and has a bad case of Stockholm syndrome about it, convinced that her only purpose is to succeed at the family's arts. While fighting her, Oliver manages to break through her Stockholm syndrome and get her to realize how horrible her family's arts actually are, since they're overriding the free will of both herself and her teammates. After he and his team defeat her and she realizes all the abuse wasn't even worth the effort, she has a Villainous BSoD and withdraws from the tournament.
- Combat Parkour: She's a master of a very rare branch of the Koutz Style that lets her glide effortlessly across any surface, no matter its texture or orientation. She at one point escapes a trap set by Oliver by jumping up on the barrier at the edge of the ring, which doesn't count as a Ring Out.
- Dark Magical Girl: She's a girl who can walk on air, and whose stated ideals run counter to the nature of the Sword Roses (counting Yuri Leik) as a collaborative group of equal friends, insisting that the only purpose for other living things is as a tool for one's own use—which Oliver and Nanao realize is just a thinly veiled attempt to rationalize away the abusive Training from Hell she suffered at the hands of her Gruesome Grandparent. She ultimately is forced to stop rationalizing it and accept that people other than herself have merit, courtesy of all that abuse proving pointless in the face of Team Horn's fluid teamwork.
- Defeat Means Friendship: She withdraws from the combat leagues after losing to Team Horn and having a mental health crisis. She returns in volume 12 having recovered somewhat, joining the list of antagonistic students defeated by Oliver and Nanao who have since become the Sword Roses' friends.
- Frictionless Ice: As a child she was trained by being forced to cross a frictionless floor to receive food. She's now capable of eliminating the friction under her feet and maneuvering herself around a battlefield purely with her own spatial magic.
- Inconsistent Spelling: The Japanese color inserts Romanize her given name as "Yurushur".
- Meat Puppet: Her two teammates turn out to have been broken down by her family to serve as human familiars. When she activates her Mind Control spells, they act as extensions of her body. Unfortunately this also means they move exactly the same as her, so getting used to and beating one of them means that you get used to all three.
- Mind Control: She practices a form of Mind Control on her "teammates" Gui and Lelia Barthé, overriding their identities to reduce them to human familiars and extensions of her own fighting style. They clearly know what's about to happen and beg her not to do it, but she views them as mere tools and ignores their pleas.
- Suave Sabre: Her athame is modeled after a saber, befitting her airs of a confident, graceful upper-class fighter.
- Tongue Trauma: She becomes so enraged fighting Oliver towards the end of their match that she accidentally bites her own tongue off, leaving her The Unintelligible for the remainder of the fight.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Oliver's defeat of her despite her rare fighting style and human-familiar trick deepens Professor Aristides's suspicions that he might be connected to the teacher murders, leading to a confrontation in volume 10.
Underclassmen
Starting in volume 4, when the Sword Roses become second-years, a number of recurring underclassmen are introduced in the class below them. Teresa Carste
Voiced by: Ayumi Mano (Japanese), Nia Celeste (English)
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First Appearance: LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 15 | Anime 1x1 "Ceremony"
A quiet girl who is in the year below Oliver's and a member of his group.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: In the pilot episode of the anime, she introduces herself to Oliver outside the boys' dorm before his encounter with Nanao at the fountain, then has a couple more covert meetings with Oliver in episodes 2 and 5. In the original novel she didn't show up until the epilogue of that volume (corresponding to episode 6, where we get to see her face finally).
- Beware the Quiet Ones: She's a trained spy and killer, and almost never speaks.
- Big Brother Worship: She idolizes Oliver from the beginning, though it starts as devotion of a retainer to her lord and mutates into the devotion of a baby sister to a big brother, and from there into a schoolgirl crush.
- Disposable Decoy Doppelgänger: Teresa can create "splinters" of herself, illusory copies without substance used to divert attention from the real attacker. She suppresses her mana signature to cover up any imperfections in her splinters.
- Hopeless Suitor: She falls hard for Oliver by the midpoint of the series, but, to her frustration, he sees her more like a baby sister rather than a possible love interest. This provokes a confrontation between her and Nanao in volume 10 after she witnessed Nanao forcing herself on him in volume 9.
- Invisible Introvert: She's quiet and socially awkward, and can make herself virtually undetectable to the Supernatural Sensitivity of mages and beasts alike when she so chooses.
- Jealous Romantic Witness: She was shadowing Oliver, as usual, in volume 9, and witnessed Nanao's Forceful Kiss. After trying to elicit a kiss on the mouth from him in volume 10 and failing, she ambushes Nanao in the labyrinth out of jealousy—and then quickly has to run away with her tail between her legs because Nanao is just so much stronger than she could have possibly thought.
- Mysterious Past: It is said that she was born in the labyrinth under Kimberly, but there has been no elaboration on that so far, or how she became an official Kimberly student.
- No Social Skills: She was born in the labyrinth and seems to have been raised in deep isolation. She's emotionally withdrawn, rarely speaks and has trouble relating to other people, though she starts to grow more confident as the series goes on and she's formally admitted to the academy.
- Not So Stoic: Besides her general awkwardness with social interactions, she puts up a facade of a loyal retainer to her "lord", but Oliver's natural kindness has a way of penetrating her facade: she's so embarrassed the first time Oliver tells her he values her that she runs and hides. She also initially calls Cyrus's priest vestments "dated", but then after sharing a meal with him and Ufa she admits she actually thinks they look kinda cool.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's short and scrawny, but her unusual upbringing made her a tough fighter even by upperclassmen standards: when the Sword Roses go to rescue Pete in volume 3, she scouts ahead of them and kills a number of monsters before the rescue party even becomes aware of their presence.
- Relative Button: In volume 6 she's challenged to a Wizard Duel by a classmate named Dean Travers, and struggles not because she can't beat him, but because she has no idea how to hold back enough to beat him without killing him. Then he mocks her relationship with Oliver and she snaps and punches him in the face. The duel degenerates into a no-holds-barred playground brawl from there: she ends up with a swollen face and him with a broken jaw.
- Stealth Expert: She often shadows Oliver during his trips into the labyrinth. He's the only student who is ever able to detect her, and that only because she uses telepathy to communicate with him.
- Undying Loyalty: She is completely devoted to Oliver and his cause.
Dean Travers
First Appearance: LN Volume 4
A classmate of Teresa's who forms a friend circle with her.
- Book Dumb: He's mostly self-taught and tends to be an intuitive learner rather than a theorist. Rita once tries to help him with a Spellology assignment to harden mud into rocks and asks him how he's visualizing the result (visualization being a key technical component of casting a spell), and he resorts to Buffy Speak onomatopoeia to try to describe it.Rita: Let’s take a deep breath. Teresa’s right; we need to figure out what’s got you stuck. Dean, how are you picturing it?
Dean: Uh…like, all this goopy stuff goes bwaaam and then ka-chunk…
Teresa: That means nothing. Try using your big boy words. - Dark and Troubled Past: He and Peter Cornish were the only two out of nineteen children taken as prey by a wild griffin to survive, in what became known as the Warren Peak tragedy.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Implied. He spends much of volumes 4 and 5 getting into various arguments with the socially awkward Teresa, which comes to a head in volume 6 when he challenges her to a Wizard Duel after getting fed up with her ignoring him, Peter, and Rita. After he mocks her relationship with Oliver, it degenerates into a playground brawl that ends with her breaking his jaw. Next time he shows up, a few months later in volume 7, they've teamed up for the combat leagues.
- Self-Harm: Played for laughs: before fighting, he often punches himself in the face hard enough to bloody his own nose. Apparently the pain helps him focus.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Understandably given his backstory, he gets paralyzed with fear when faced with a griffin in the combat league prelims.
Peter Cornish
First Appearance: LN Volume 4
A classmate of Teresa's and childhood friend of Dean Travers.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He and Dean Travers's hometown was raided by a wild griffin in what became known as the Warren Peak Tragedy. It took nineteen children as prey; he and Dean were the only survivors.
- Non-Action Guy: He begs off joining Rita and Dean's team in the combat leagues because he's a poor fighter, forcing them to persuade Teresa to join instead.
Rita Appleton
“Teresa, don’t you have anyone to impress? This is your chance to show them what you can do.”
First Appearance: LN Volume 4
A female classmate of Teresa's with a longtime crush on Guy Greenwood.
- The Heart: Of the as-yet-unnamed underclassmen group. She often ends up having to referee between the socially stunted Teresa and the fairly bratty Dean, who constantly butt heads, and tries to encourage Teresa to interact with the group more.
- Height Angst: She hit a growth spurt shortly before enrolling at Kimberly, to the point where Teresa initially assumed she was a second-year when they first met. It's a bit of a sore spot for her, but she falls for Guy (likewise tall and lanky) after he compliments her height.
- Shrinking Violet: She's naturally pretty shy.
- The Smart Guy: Of the as-yet-unnamed underclassmen group. When she, Teresa, and Dean enter the junior combat leagues together, she does most of the work figuring out the clues during the scavenger hunt phase.
- Smitten Teenage Girl: She's a normal fifteen-year-old high school freshman and quickly falls for Guy Greenwood after meeting him at her entrance ceremony dinner.
- Unknown Rival: She develops an irrational dislike for Katie, seemingly jealous of the older girl's relationship with her crush, Guy. It's unclear if Katie is even aware of this.
Felicia Echevalria
“Don’t give yourself airs. I am talking to myself alone. However, I am generous to a fault, and if you insist on conversing with me, I might consider engaging.”
First Appearance: LN Volume 8
The younger sister of former student councilman Leoncio Echevalria, and a second-year Kimberly student.
- Alpha Bitch: She's pretty much a stereotypical upper-class anime blonde girl: haughty, surrounded by hangers-on and dismissive of anyone beneath her in social status. She's secretly impressed by Dean's correct prediction that Godfrey would win despite his injury, but never would dare admit it.
- As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Her surname was likely supposed to be the Basque "Echevarría" but the translator seemingly didn't recognize it with her older brother and then was stuck with it when Felicia showed up later.
- Odd Friendship: She attaches herself to Teresa's group of Dean, Peter, and Rita in volume 9 after she and Dean get tapped as commentators on Team Godfrey's elimination round match in the combat leagues, seemingly impressed that he correctly intuited that Godfrey's team would win despite his injury at the time. This is pretty strange in the context of the Intra-Scholastic Rivalry between the Campus Watch and the old council, given that Teresa's group are admirers of the Sword Roses, who support Godfrey against her older brother.
- Ojou: Even moreso than Chela and Stacy, despite lacking Ojou Ringlets: she's a girl from an aristocratic family, and unlike them, acts the part of a Royal Brat. She even has a small cadre of students that act like her servants.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Like her older brother, she's depicted with long golden-blonde hair and red eyes.
