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     Kim Gongja 

The Hero of the story. A down-on-his-luck wannabe hunter who finds himself with an amazingly awful skill: the abiltiy to copy one skill from another person... but only if they kill him first. But his fortunes begin to change when he's murdered by the current Rank 1 hunter and winds up copying his Resurrective Immortality.


  • Berserk Button: Any time the Flame Emperor is mentioned by somebody in a good light, you can be sure Kim Gongja will be quick to correct them and go on a rant about how much of a bastard he truly was.
  • Blessed with Suck: His most powerful skills have terrible hidden drawbacks.
    • [I Just Want To Be You (S+)] copies a random skill from the target. How does it choose a target? By being killed by that person. Without synergy from a revival skill, it's a useless joke.
    • [Returner's Clockwork Watch (EX)] automatically resurrects him, 24 hours prior to his death with his memories intact, but there's the additional penalty of reliving the trauma of the one that killed him, with the higher his rank, the worse the penalty. It's not too bad at first, but eventually starts posing a real risk of losing himself in the memories or being unable to escape them. Furthermore, after he marries Raviel, the Tower synergizes their Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory, which has the effect of allowing them to bond over their mutual regression powers and forcing Kim Gongja to explain himself to her every time he uses it, meaning he cannot treat his suicides lightly anymore.
    • [Sword Constellation (A+)] has him meet the ghost of a Master Swordsman who reached tower level 99 in his homeworld before dying, giving Kim Gongja a highly skilled mentor that can also give him context about the Tower. The drawback? This ghost is extremely loud, obnoxious, and opinionated, and there's no way to get rid of him other than replacing the skill. What's worse is that only the person with this skill can see or hear him, so the poor victim always looks like a psycho who's talking to himself.
    • [Heavenly Demonic Arts (A+)] isn't the complete game breaker of the above skills, and it's drawback is likewise nowhere near as severe, but it still qualifies. It is an extremely powerful branch of Supernatural Martial Arts that allows you to defy the world. It is powered by hating the world, experiencing the worst it has to offer. As Bae Hu-ryeong says, it makes you burn brightly, but it also burns you out emotionally. It also has a risk of the practitioner losing their ego to an Unstoppable Rage.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: His first death, at the hands of Yoo Soohan, involved being slowly and deliberately burned alive with unquenchable flames. Over the course of his adventures, he's beaten eaten alive by zombies, frozen to death, died of desiccation, crushed into a blood smear, among many, many other gruesome fates.
  • Cursed with Awesome: As Gongja becomes stronger, he's forced to relive the worst traumas of his murderers in increasingly vivid detail, to the point that he risks losing his sense of self. But these visions also give Gongja context for his murderer's actions and their past histories, giving him extremely valuable information to clear the floor with.
  • Death is Cheap: His Returner's Clockwork Watch skill ensures that he will never, ever die permanently so long as no one goes back in time and kills him before he gets that skill, as he'll simply wake up 24 hours prior to his death again. He abuses this to travel 11 years back in time to murder Yoo Soohan before he garnered the power to be called the "Flame Emperor".
  • Defensive Feint Trap: He lures Yoo Soohan to his death by pretending to be critically wounded and asking for help. Yoo Soohan walks over, demands money for aid, and then prepares to kill him anyway after being paid. SURPRISE! He got to say hello to a Groin Attack and then getting stabbed in the throat repeatedly and to finally wind up being trampled in a pool of his own blood.
  • The Determinator: In order to go back in time enough to deal with Yoo Soohan, and have him Killed Off for Real, he had to stab himself to death 4050 times! He went with 4090 just to give himself a bit of breathing room to complete his research into Yoo Soohan's habits and personalty to plan the perfect murder.
  • Driven by Envy: He starts the story admiring Yoo Soohan's many successes and being extremely envious of them. The tower reacts to this and throws the skill [I Just Want to Be You] at him.
  • Dub Name Change: His given name is Confucius (the meaning of his Korean name) in the Tapas localization.
  • Good Feels Good: Nothing makes Gongja happier than achieving a Golden Ending to the ordeals put before him. He'll die over and over and over again in horrific ways if it means securing a future in which things turn out for the best. After forcing the Demon Lord to retreat for the 12th floor, he doubles over laughing while shouting about how he changed the history of the world in the Tower and saved all these people who will never recognize or remember his actions.
  • Guile Hero: Although his ability to redo any combat scenario over and over again certainly makes him appear to be an ultimate Action Hero to those around him, Gongja primarily works off exploiting his ability to understand the situations and emotions of his opponents via the secondary effects of his skill. This allows him to craft multiple scenarios to either weaken his opponents prior to the final engagement or outright sidestepping their defeat in exchange for other methods.
  • Happily Married: To Raviel.
  • Heroes Prefer Swords: He initially uses a simple single-edged blade as his primary weapon, but later upgrades to "Shiny" on the 11th floor as part of his gambit to lead the Aegim Empire into battle.
  • He Who Fights Monsters: Discussed. Gongja is He pointedly does not want to wind up a psycho like "Flame Emperor" Yoo Soohan, but is tempted at numerous points to resort to dastardly tactics to clear a floor of the tower. Ultimately, his conscience wins out, but the fact that he considers it at all scares him.
  • Loophole Abuse:
    • Kim Gongja cannot see the backs of the skill cards since they move when he moves and thus has to pick skills at random. Bae Hu-ryeong, however, is not under the same limitations and can see the backs of the skill cards, letting Kim Gongja know what skills are currently offered to him.
    • He has also found other ways to exploit weaknesses in the Tower's rules, forcing the Tower to adapt and in one case causing a glitch so serious that the Pillars had to make a decision.
  • Necromancer: The skill he copied from the Demon King of Autumn Rain allows him to manifest everyone he has ever killed as weak monsters. He later upgrades the skill to make it possible to restore their original appearance and personality, though not their abilities. However, since a good chunk of his army are instances of himself that were created from his suicides, and a few were even created from reset timelines with a living version of themselves still around since their death was reset, they are probably technically copies created by the skill rather than the original souls.
  • Not What It Looks Like: The Sword Saint has a skill that allows him to see how many times somebody has taken the life of another. At first, Kim Gongja believed his number was just one murder until the Sword Saint revealed he had killed over 4000 people. Kim Gongja has a realization, that his 4000 suicides counted as murder, and now needs to somehow convince the Sword Saint he didn’t kill that many people.
  • Oblivious to His Own Description: He notices his negative traits when reflected by others, but doesn't always acknowledge it as his own fault.
  • Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Raviel, much to the dismay of Bae Hu-ryeong.
  • The Many Deaths of You: He begins the story by being burnt alive by the Flame Emperor. Gongja then commits suicide 4,090 times to go back in time to before Yoo Soohan gained his powers and murder him before he can hurt anyone else. He dies many, many more times after that due to his own mistakes or to help him clear a particular challenge.
  • Unscrupulous Hero: Zigzagged. Gongja gleefully abuses his ability to go back in time and redo things in order to manipulate others with his knowledge of those past loops. However, he's inherently a decent person who'd much rather Take a Third Option and create as close to a perfect happy ending as he can even if it'd be simpler for him to brute force his way through things. But he's willing to mash Trauma Buttons and resort to cold-blooded murder if necessary. Given that the only source of law and order in the Tower is the Vigilantes Guild, it's hard not to root for his murder of Yoo Soohan, who absolutely deserved it.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: One of the easiest ways to get on Gongja's good side is to recognize his accomplishments and speak kindly to him. He laps up every bit of recognition from accomplished people like the other top-ranking hunters because of how he was a worthless nobody prior to his first death. This is also discussed by Hu-ryeong, who tells the Heavenly Demon that it's far too early for Gongja to take her teachings to embrace suffering and harness power from it. After all, Gongja barely knows what it means to be happy. If he embraces nothing but suffering now, he'll become a shell of a man.

     Bae Hu-ryeong 
The ghost of a sword master who died on the 99th floor of the Tower that came with the copy of [Sword Constellation].
  • At Least I Admit It: He knows his personality is rotten but unlike others in the tower, he makes little attempts to hide it.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: He chastises the Heavenly Demon for teaching Kim Gongja the horrors of the world before he even knew the beauty of it, like finding his first love. By the next arc, Kim Gongja finds his first love… and Bae Hu-ryeong immediately regrets it as he’s forced to watch them be lovey dovey with each other.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: He acts like an arrogant oaf, but even setting aside that we haven't really seen any mortal characters as powerful as he was, he is not a stupid man. He also has a very serious attitude when it comes to teaching Kim Gong-ja.
  • Chuunibyou: To the annoyance of his hosts, he speaks and acts like the stereotypical isekai reincarnator.
  • The Dreaded: Long after his fully confirmed death, there are people terrified of the possibility of him somehow returning anyways. He is also one of three people Constellation Killer fears.
  • Everybody Has Standards:
    • He's a royal jerk, to put it mildly, but even he was sickened and horrified when he was forced to watch the backstory of the 10th level floor boss monster, knowing there's nothing he or Gongja could do to redress the trauma involved nor punish the perpetrators.
    • He also starts feeling guilty when Kim Gongja uses the same Training from Hell teaching style he used on him on a poor innocent goblin.
    • He shows little respect for Gong-ja, but personally objects to the way the Heavenly Demon teaches him: Gong-ja is fundamentally too innocent to truly contextualize anything she can tell him. Without knowing how beautiful life can be, having the entirety of the demonic cult's philosophy dumped on him out of nowhere is more than he can really bear or even properly understand.
  • I Did What I Had to Do: Implied on the first boss floor. All the apparently evil dolls on the floor are nothing but the ghosts of innocent abused children burned to death by a psychopath long ago. Nevertheless, the floor cannot be beaten until they are all eliminated and the 'main' one found. So despite his sympathy, he simply destroyed them all and continued. But the key word is innocent: They don't particularly want to hurt anyone, so Gong-ja is basically able to enact a purification rite to let them pass on in peace. So he didn't actually have to do it and implicitly respects Gong-ja for finding a different answer.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Bae Hu-ryeong may troll Kim Gongja and intentionally put him into situations where he dies, but he does care about his student and his wellbeing. In fact, he morally objects to the way the Heavenly Demon teaches Gong-ja because it is too harsh for someone that lacks the foundation of knowing basic happiness. As he puts it, the Heavenly Demon is basically dumping all the hatred of the world on a boy who doesn't even know what love is yet.
  • Our Ghosts Are Different: While this world does have concepts like The Undead and Reincarnation, and he can invisibly scout a limited distance away from his host, he isn't quite a conventional ghost. He's technically a skill, making him part of the person owning the skill and even making it possible to duplicate him, resulting in separate instances of him guiding Marcus Calenberry and Kim Gongja. What sort of connection he has to the original him is vague.
  • Poor Communication Kills: Invoked. He deliberately hides dangerous or deadly drawbacks to Gongjas training regiment until the boy is at death's door, because hey, he will revive again anyway, so it's no issue, right?
  • Sink or Swim Mentor: Due to Gongja's ability to endlessly return from the dead, Ryu-hyeong constantly throws Gongja into deadly situations to force him to improve quickly, since otherwise lethal mistakes are inconsequential to Gongja. Ryu-hyeong laughs at Gonja's misery and initially tries to trick Gongja into making bad choices for his own amusement.
  • So Proud of You: Admits he's proud of Kim when Kim nearly kills himself just to show himself worthy to be trained by the Heavenly Demon.
  • Trickster Mentor: Taking his training regiment at face value can literally be suicidal, as Gongja learns first hand, because he withholds certain facts until they literally put you in a life-threatening state.
  • Troll: He sees it as an "honor" if he chooses to torment you.
  • Unfinished Business: The main reason he is a pseudo-ghost as opposed to accepting the cycle of Reincarnation is because he fell into the Tower's trap and died just before reaching the top, and he's determined to make it there yet through someone else if need be.
  • World's Best Warrior: He was the greatest hunter of his world when he was alive, having reached the 99th floor of the tower alone without any outside assistance. Due to hailing from a Murim-style world, he's also an unparalleled swordsman and martial artist whose teachings turned Marcus into the Rank 1 Sword Saint.
  • You Didn't Ask: Which he lampshades by name. He knows the tower's dirty little secret regarding the floor bosses, but didn't say anything to Gongja about it, until Gongja saw it with his own eyes after his skill's "penalty" kicked in.

    Goddess of Protection/"Shiny" 
Formerly the guardian deity of her world, she was Constellation Killer's benefactor, up until he betrayed her and shattered her into several swords scattered across the Multiverse. Kim Gongja now uses her current form as his weapon.
  • Butt-Monkey: Kim Gongja gives her the degrading nickname of "Shiny" and treats her with little respect. She has little choice but to put up with it since he's her best chance of restoring her to her true form.
  • Deadpan Snarker: She is able to communicate with Bae Hu-ryeong and often gives him sarcastic replies.
  • Depower: Constellation Killer didn't want to kill her after all she had done for him, but he didn't want to tolerate the existence of a constellation either, so he shattered her, making her divinity incomplete.
  • Enemy Without: A few of her separated personality fragments have gotten a little crazy over the centuries.
  • Legendary Weapon: In her current state, she is basically a holy sword, and one respected by the empire Constellation Killer left behind. Her separated personality fragments have also been sealed into separate swords that Constellation Killer has scattered throughout the Multiverse.
  • Literal Split Personality: Constellation Killer broke her into the attributes she praised and had power over.
  • Power at a Price: One of her aspects is "Sacrifice", meaning accepting a loss for the greater good. She can produce power in return for a sacrifice, such as losing your name or being tortured. Her core personality considers it a last resort, but Constellation Killer got a little too obsessed with it. Some time after Constellation Killer shattered her, the personality fragment representing Sacrifice managed to reascend into a constellation in her own right and created an entire society Powered by a Forsaken Child.
  • Sealed Good in a Can: A former goddess, she was shattered and sealed into multiple holy swords.

Hunters

     Sword Saint Marcus Calenberry 
He was one of the earliest hunters to enter the tower, and the number one ranked hunter until Flame Emperor took his place. He mysteriously vanished long ago in the previous timeline, but is now one of Kim Gongja's colleagues since resetting time.
  • Berserk Button: Do not mention his grandchildren. If you do, he will completely flip his shit and kill you.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: Even without taking into account that he's harassed by a ghost only he can see and hear, he's quite odd.
  • Famed In-Story: He's quite famous as a swords-man.
  • Fights Like a Normal: Gongja initially assumes that Marcus' overpowered abilities are the result of an OP skill. While Marcus does use Aura to boost his physical abilities like other hunters, the vast majority of his strength can be tied to his intense training and experience under Bae Ru-hyeong's tutelage. Marcus' swordsmanship and impeccable reflexes are all due to his own hard work.
  • Hero of Another Story: He's gained his fame by being among those who climbed the tower the highest.
  • Hero Antagonist: He's morally decent for the most part, he just happens to be antagonistic to Gongja due to conflicting ideals.
  • Not What It Looks Like: People thought he was insane and having conversations with nobody, unable to see the sword master ghost who followed the Sword Saint everywhere.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Warm milk seasoned with rum.
  • Trauma Button: He lost his
  • Uncertain Doom: In Flame Emperor's timeline, he mysteriously vanished one day. No one ever figured out what happened to him.

     Black Dragon Witch 
The head of the top combat guild climbing the Tower and former rank 2.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: She's a war orphan whose father gave his life to buy time for her to escape the ruined streets of Ukraine after the country is leveled by a civil war.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She seems cold, distant, and conniving at a glance, having dispatched one of her own guild members to murder Yoo Soohan with poison (not knowing that he had the ability to come back from the dead). But as Gongja spends time with her throughout his constant time looping, he discovers that she cares deeply for human life as a survivor of a civil war and is overjoyed when she's able to minimize hunter casualties.
  • Love Is a Weakness: While Black Dragon Master has a secret fondness for romance novels, she personally intends to remain single for the rest of her life because she doesn't want the resulting bond to become a liability.
  • Older Than They Look: She isn't powerful enough to truly become The Ageless, but she is wealthy enough to buy potions that keep her young.

     Countess 
Head of the merchant's guild, she has a special skill that makes it possible for the Tower to communicate and trade with back on Earth.

     Heretic Questioner 
The head of Earth's Tower's religious management. He is charged with torturing, interrogating, and killing heretics to ensure that people crazier than he is don't mess up the tower.
  • Cross-Cast Role: During [The Tale of Sormwyn Academy], he gets casted as the Lady of Golden Silk.
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: Even before being cast as the heroine in [The Tale of Sormwyn Academy], he was this.
  • Heroic Comedic Sociopath: He seemingly has good intentions, but lacks an ability to feel regret and shows a ruthless streak. Frequently played for Black Comedy.
  • The Pollyanna: Kim Gongja isn't sure if he's always happy or incapable of happiness but imitating it, but he regardless shows a perpetually cherry attitude. Kim Gongja believes that if confronted with the end of the world, his attitude would be along the lines of "Oh well, we tried our best!".
  • Humanshifting: He has very limited shapeshifting powers, enough to change his age, voice, and hair length.

NPCs

     Raviel Ivansia 
The villainess of [The Tale of Sormwyn Academy].
  • Blessed with Suck: Her status as a half-constellation was more of a curse than a blessing, due in part to the Ground Hog Day Loop.
  • Deadpan Snarker: She has her moments.
    “Ahh. I couldn’t blame you if you jumped ahead to the 50th floor when you just made it to the 29th floor, picked a fight with the strongest person on the 50th floor, and pulled an aggro move on the entire floor. My love, everything you did was perfectly reasonable. Nothing about it was reckless at all. I understand.”
  • Ground Hog Day Loop: She has watched her world end multiple times.
  • Happily Married: To Kim Gonja.
  • Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Her skill "A Regressor's Love" makes it so that she regresses whenever Kim Gonja does.
  • Semi-Divine: She became a half-constellation completely by accident when she made a wish upon an artifact.
  • Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Kim Gonja, much to the dismay of Bae Hu-ryeong.
  • Villainous Princess: Her story role inside of [The Tale of Sormwyn Academy]. She is a duke's daughter and the rival character for the Prince, her former fiance's love to the heroine.

Constellations

     Corner Librarian 
The keeper of a Magical Library documenting doomed worlds.
  • Depower: Kim Gongja convinces him to quit his job for the Tower, join him for the climb, and permanently add his library to Earth's list of floors. The last of these requests results in the Tower stripping him if his Constellation status as a punishment for breaking the rules.
  • Fanboy: To Kim Gongja and Constellation Killer.
  • Magic Librarian: His job is to manage the books of his library and give Tower climbers their desired floor completion quests based on his books.
  • Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Kim Gongja's regression skill affects all but the most powerful constellations, and the Corner Librarian is not one of them. But his books are immune, and he can sense their contents.

Antagonists

     Flame Emperor Yoo Soohan 
The number one hunter until Kim Gongja erased his accomplishments from history, Kim Gongja considers him his most hated enemy long after his defeat.
  • Arch-Enemy: He's the one that Kim Gongja hates most.
  • Berserk Button: While generally easy to get him pissed off, one question in particular, asking him how he succeeded, seems to anger him more than others. That’s because Yoo Sooha knows his success is simply because he was lucky during one of his hunts and unintentionally won a hidden Tower game played by one of the pillars, who gave him his EX skill as a reward.
  • Bond One-Liner: His final line just before he murders Kim Gongja?
    “My name is Yoo Sooha. Good bye.”
  • Broken Pedestal: He's idolized by society, Kim Gongja is no exception. Then Gongja stumbles upon him murdering his rumored girlfriend [The Saint] and burning her alive. There is still some doubt as Soohan claims she was trying to murder him first. When Gongja revives, he sees Yoo Soohan arson the murder site to cover his tracks and then return, feign innocence, and openly demand a reward before even attempting to douse the fire he started. At this point, Gongja's devotion is completely shattered and he swears murderous vengeance.
  • Butt-Monkey: After his death, his name is constantly dragged through the mud, he's brought back only to be humiliated and Kim Gongja even bases his behavior on the exact opposite of what the Flame Emperor would do. He even ends up as an intelligent undead forced to obey Kim Gongja's every order, meaning that even in death, he cannot find any peace.
  • Draco in Leather Pants: Happens In-Universe. When Kim Gongja tells his goblin followers the tales of his exploits, which are passed down to their descendants, a common modern reinterpretation turns Flame Emperor from an evil Narcissist to a misunderstood hero. While Kim Gongja doesn't mind minor reinterpretations, this one crosses the line.invoked
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Gongja exploits the 24-hour drawback to go back in time before Yoo Soohan gained his immortality skill and kills him.
  • Hope Crusher: His favorite tactic to use on his victims is to make it look like he's going to spare them or give them aid and then attacking them with lethal force the moment he sees relief on their faces. He even gives Gongja some headpats to make him believe he was going to be spared before using his hand to set his skull on fire, slowly and painfully burning him to ash.
  • I Lied: He has no problem breaking promises he doesn't intend to keep.
  • It's All About Me: The only person who is a person in his mind is himself.
  • I Work Alone: He never joined a guild and would kill any guild member who tried to recruit him.
  • Jerkass: How much of a Jerkass is he? Such a Jerkass that just listening to him rant for five minutes without a filter convinced an entire village that Kim was sent by the Goddess herself for slaying such a wretch.
  • Kick Them While They're Down: He has no problems beating up people already at his mercy.
  • Leave No Witnesses: His Modis Opreandi.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Gongja's tower granted skill was completely useless, since he'd have to die to activate it. Killing Gongja gives him a copy of the Resurrective Immortality, making the skill very, very useful.
  • Playing with Fire: One of his many skills was a powerful "Demon Flame" that can't be extinguished by normal means.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Gongja summons his spirit as evidence that he really is a demon slayer sent by the goddess and the man swears so much in five minutes that the entire military expedition is immediately convinced.
  • Story-Breaker Power: His skill allowed him to repeat as many days as he wants so long as he died and this skill alone is why he used to be the number 1 hunter. Even when Kim Gongja copied this skill, he knew it would be impossible to take advantage of it to kill Yoo Sooha, since it would just make him repeat the last day. The only way Kim Gongja had to get rid of Yoo Sooha permanently was to commit suicide 4000 times and go back to a time before Yoo Sooha gained the regression skill.
  • Stupid Evil: Thanks to his narcissism and general sociopathy, Yoo Sooha is a huge bastard who doesn’t give a thought to the consequences of his actions unless said actions leads to his death. In particular, he would take advantage of his position as number one to take the easiest options while climbing the Tower at everyone else's expense. In the long run, it would even be at his own expense since his choices did nothing to expand the Tower's resources and make climbing it easier.
  • Unsportsmanlike Gloating: Most of Yoo Sooha’s interviews was basically the guy going on about how great he is and how everybody else were failures compared to him.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: The fact that he was the number 1 hunter before the Cosmic Retcon allowed him to get away with a lot of nastiness. What's worse is if that he was exposed, all he needed to do was die and he'd wake up a full 24-hours earlier, giving him plenty of time to hunt down his would be accusers and kill them off instead. That being said, his reputation was still fairly questionable given his open contempt for everyone and extreme arrogance. They just didn't know he was an outright sociopath.

     Constellation Killer 
A former fellow Korean that went mad long ago and is now obsessed with killing the gods.
  • Actually a Doombot: Constellation Killer isn't quite the strongest in tower, but there's a reason no one's been able to get rid of him in spite of who he has provoked. He has actually died to Sword Emperor and a couple others. But he is able to build puppets to live life in his place while his true self sleeps.
  • Big Bad: The Constellation Killer is shaping up to be this. None of his actions were meant to cause it, but they set up the circumstances for the tragedies of Floors 11-22 and more to happen.
  • Driven to Suicide: He was originally a poor student who happened to get the misfortune of being targeted by a bully. He killed himself, and his soul was isekaid by the Goddess of Protection to provide a chosen hero for her world.
  • Evil Counterpart: Constellation Killer to Kim Gongja. Constellation Killer saw his identity as nothing of value and repeatedly sacrifices it to power his Dangerous Forbidden Technique. For all intents and purposes, he has become a machine that obeys what he wrote in his diary. Kim Gongja believes he would have ended up the same way if he hadn't met people that caused him to value his own life. Even their fighting styles are mirrored inverses, with Constellation Killer using a demonic art that sacrifices his memories for immense temporary power, and Kim Gongja using a demonic art that slowly grows stronger with each memory of despair that he accumulates.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: From a poor, bullied kid Driven to Suicide, to a god killing madman accidentally responsible for destroying countless worlds.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: Many of the shattered worlds Kim Gongja visits were destroyed as a side effect of his actions.
  • Knight Templar: He doesn't care whether a given Constellation is good or evil, as far as he is concerned, they all have to die to set mortals free.
  • Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: He isn't actually trying to destroy the worlds he visits, but this is pretty much the inevitable result of his actions, and he never bothers to revisit the worlds he has messed up to double check the consequences.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Viewing his identity as worthless in comparison to his cause, he sacrificed his original name to power his Dangerous Forbidden Technique.
  • Power at a Price: The Constellation Killer has a skill that allows him to give up his memories for a power boost. A week’s worth of memories is enough for the man to kill a Constellation. He only keeps one week at a time, turning him into a hollow shell of a person.
  • Rage Against the Heavens: It's Nothing Personal, but as far as he is concerned, all of the gods need to die. It's his idea of a Final Solution to enforce the Alien Non-Interference Clause he believes should be in place.
  • Tautological Templar: Killing Constellations must be the right thing to do, after all, he's redefined his entire existence around it. If killing them creates more problems than it solves, then he just needs to solve those new problems.

Alternative Title(s): SSS Suicide Hunter

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