That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Main Character Index
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The Kingdom of Blumund
General
A small kingdom located to the northwest of the Forest of Jura, that becomes the first human country to acknowledge Tempest as a nation.
- The Good Kingdom: Despite being one of the weaker countries in the world, its citizens are shown to be good people as Blumund was the first human country to accept Tempest and some adventurers and knights from Blumund offered to fight alongside Tempest when Famulth invaded the latter.
- Micro Monarchy: Blumund is considered one of the smaller countries among the Western Nations, as they do not possess the wealth, influence or military might of larger countries such as Famulth or Ingracia.
- Pragmatic Hero: While they do develop a friendly and amicable relationship with Tempest, it was originally predicated on the fact that Tempest could easily destroy a country as small as Blumund and to take advantage of being allied with Tempest such as their military capabilities.
- The Spymaster: Blumund is too small a nation to support a notable military or vast economic exports. Instead, they rely on being some of the foremost intelligence gatherers in the Western Nations.
Fuze
A regional Guildmaster for the kingdom, he's a local administrator of the powerful Adventurers' Guild, and a childhood friend of the nation's Prime Minister Baron Velyard, making him quite an influential person in the region. Befriends Rimuru rather fast, and is his frequent guest and co-conspirator.
- Author Avatar: Being named the same as the author's pen name, has raised a whole lot of suspicions.
- The Cavalry Arrives Late: When Falmuth launched the declaration of war on Tempest, Fuze gathered together as many soldiers from Blumund as he could and raced towards Tempest, already planning out a gureilla campaign and taking a roundabout, more difficult route to avoid running headfirst into the Falmuth military. He's a bit put out to learn that Tempest (or rather mostly Rimuru) already defeated the Falmuth army and the major crisis is over, though he still stays as the fallout from this needs to be discussed among Tempest's allies.
- The Chessmaster: Is heads-deep in the politics between his kingdom, the Guild and the whole host of plots around Tempest's meteoric rise.
- Childhood Friends: With Velyard, which helps them both due to their high positions.
- Da Chief: As Guild is often relied on to provide policing in urban areas, with some adventurers in effect becoming a career police officers, he's that as well.
- Faint in Shock: Fuze faints after learning that Veldora is resurrected from Rimuru.
- Lazy Bum: Defied, Fuse was relaxing in the hot tub not long after promising to arrange rumors of Yohm defeating the Orc Lord, making Rimuru wonder when he was going get around to it. He had already done it before he took his (likely well deserved) break.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He was the one who made all the arrangements needed for both Rimaru's treaty with Blumund and spreading the rumors of Yohm being the one who slew the Orc Lord. He also helped set up the civil war of Falmuth by arranging for Yohm and Diablo to work with Marquis Muller and gather public support, ensuring the nation toppled and was rebuit as Farmenus.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Despite technically being just the Blumund Guildmaster, his close connections with the Prime Minister and the king means he's got a lot more pull than one might expect. Although, he occasionally finds it more trouble than it's worth because they have a habit of relying on him for jobs ostenisbly above his paygrade, including being Blumund's unofficial (and at times official) ambassador to Tempest and dealing with Rimuru's game-changing actions.
Bulud von Blumund
The King of the nation of Blumund.
- The Good King: He immediately agreed to an alliance with Tempest, and responded to Falmuth's sham of a Pretext for War by sending Fuse with an entire cavalry brigade.
- I Gave My Word: He agreed to an alliance with Tempest to help when needed, and he didn't hesitate to send in the Cavalry (even if it ultimately was unneeded).
- Karmic Jackpot: Bulud was just looking out for what was best for his people, expecting only the might of the monsters and some protection. He had no idea that allying with Tempest would grant him and his nation access to such a massive trade network and such rare goods like full potions and Magisteel at a fraction of their usual prices.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: On the surface, he pretends to be a well meaning but naive king, but as Rimuru noted, he is actually a rather ambitious and decisive man.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: His first interest is the well-being of his people, and then his allies. He was the one who decided to join Rimuru's cause before the slime even arrived, over the advice of his advisors, citing that the nation would not survive them as an enemy, and that the church would not consider them worth protecting.
Baron Velyard
Blumund's Prime Minister and a close friend of Fuze.
- Blue Blood: He's a baron, but that's actually far less impressive than it sounds because Blumund is so small the "nobility" are basically just feudal lords of villages. Velyard himself is actually a landless baron who lives in the capital, which is the only large city in the country.
- The Chessmaster: Is heads-deep in the politics between his kingdom, the Guild and the whole host of plots around Tempest's meteoric rise. He was the one who worked out the mutual agreements between Blumund and Tempest, and negotiated so that Blumund had the most benefits to its side of the deal. Rimuru wasn't angry since he got duped into it, but used this as a lesson for future negotiations.
- Childhood Friends: With Fuze, which helps them both due to their high positions.
- Sleazy Politician: Averted. He's scheming and willing to do underhanded things, but he's loyal to his country and those actions are in service of ensuring Blumund comes out on top, especially since Blumund can't afford to fight things out in wars either military or economical.
Cabal's Party
General
- Big Eater: They have a habit of excessively indulging in food, especially the delicious cuisine of Tempest.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Fuze nicknamed them the "Three Fools of Blumund" due to the fact that they ignore his orders to bring Rimuru directly to him and nearly revealed Rimuru's identity to the other members of the Blumund Adventures Guild.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: Cabal is the fighter, Ellen is the mage and Gido is the thief.
- Power Limiter: Cabala and Gido both wear an accessory that camouflages their true power and restrict them to around the same power-level as an average adventurer. The charms are so effective that it could fool Rimuru's [Great Sage] skill at the time he first analyze them.
- Praetorian Guard: Cabal and Gido are in reality members of Magus, an elite group of warriors typically assigned to guard Emperor Elmesia herself. Due to Erald's, Ellen's father, connections to Emperor Elmesia, he was able to convince the two of them to secretly watch over his daughter during her adventures.
- Small Role, Big Impact: They have several.
- If it wasn't for them opening the doors, Rimuru would still have been stuck in the cave.
- It was because they were sent on a scouting mission that Rimuru's developing village was able to start a good relationship with a neighboring human city, along with bringing Shizu to Rimuru.
- It was because of them that Rimuru discovered he had a chance to revive his slaughtered citizens by becoming a Demon Lord. This also results in the Sorceror's Dynasty Sarion dispatching Elalude to Tempest to judge the situation since they, as elves, would be indirectly responsible for the birth of a new Demon Lord.
Cabal
An adventurer with the classification of "Fighter" under Fuze's command, he leads a small party of adventurers on journeys that more than not end up crossing paths with Rimuru.
- Deflector Shields: Can cast a barrier spell to protect himself and others. It comes in handy when it lessens the explosion of a Salamander from "fatal" to "badly wounding."
- Heroes Prefer Swords: Carries a broadsword on his back and he is the leader of the party. He is also secretly an elite warrior trusted by a highly ranked elf nobleman to guard his daughter.
- Leeroy Jenkins: He seems to have a habit of causing the party trouble, such as when he aggravates a Giant Ants' nest.
Gido
An adventurer with the classification of "Thief" under Fuze's command, he serves as an exasperated voice of reason to his two companions.
- Invisibility: He knows a cloaking spell that can hide himself and his comrades.
- Only Sane Man: Often finds himself exasperated by Cabal and Ellen's antics.
Ellen/Elyune
Voiced by: Akane Kumada (Japanese), Natalie Hoover (English) Foreign VAs
An adventurer with the classification of "Mage" under Fuze's command, she serves as the moral center of sorts for her trio of comrades. She's actually an elf princess from Sarion, who became an adventurer to escape her stifling royal heritage.
- Call to Adventure: Why she became an adventurer. She wanted freedom away from being a noble.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: What her father thinks she is doing with Rimuru. This ends after she hits some sense into him.
- Hide Your Otherness: She uses magic to hide her elf ears.
- An Ice Person: Can cast the spell Icicle Lance. Rimuru copies and improves it to make Icicle Shotgun.
- Magic Staff: A wooden staff tipped with a giant blue crystal ball, through which she casts her magic.
- Morality Chain: By telling Rimuru exactly what he needs to hear (how to resurrect his fallen comrades) while he's going through his Darkest Hour, Ellen prevents him from crossing the Despair Event Horizon.
- Really Royalty Reveal: She's actually Elyune, a noble from the Sorcerer's Dynasty Sarion and cousin to Empress Elumeshia Elure Sarion.
Ingracia
Royal Family and Associates
Prince Elrick
The first prince of Ingracia.
- Brainless Beauty: Male example. He's described as quite good-looking, but his brains aren't nearly as impressive given the half-baked scheme he was prodded into using.
- Smug Snake: So smug in fact he makes King Edmalis before his Break the Haughty look humble. He thinks that with the bribed officials of the Council of the West behind him he can browbeat Rimuru into submission, and even if that doesn't work that General Reiner plus Gaiye, the Sons of Veldt, and a looted Orb of Domination can overpower Rimuru, Benimaru, Shuna, and Hinata if she should step in. He's so out of depth Rimuru is astounded by his lack of reading the room, and Mariabell viewed him as an Unwitting Pawn meant to enhance Rimuru's trust in Five Elder member Johann Rostia and who was actually intended to be publically and suddenly assassinated by Glenda once he failed so that the possible blowback on Rimuru would drive him further into Rostia's trust.
- Underestimating Badassery: Fully convinced that General Reiner could defeat Hinata and brainwash Rimuru with the Orb of Domination if push came to shove. Hinata destroys Reiner with her bare hands.
- Unwitting Pawn: In the end, he's just another of Mariabell's pawns in her Xanatos Gambit to bring Rimuru to heel under the Five Elders' (and more importantly her) heel. Her plan all but called for his assassination under the very-likely scenario his plan to brute-force coerce Rimuru down would fail.
Reiner
Leader of Ingracia's royal knight corps and its strongest warrior.
- Bring My Brown Pants: Soils himself in fear after Hinata beats his ass.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Hinata destroys him with her bare hands when they "fight" in the Council chambers.
- Dumb Muscle: He's strong enough to be considered an over A-Rank fighter, but his actions don't paint him as an especially smart man. Even Raphael straight up calls him a fool.
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Over A-Rank isn't something to sneeze at and he legitimately is the strongest man in Ingracia. The problem is the fact that Ingracia's stability and lack of monster attacks means he's rarely had to be in a fight for his life and so he's a much poorer fighter than you might expect for someone of that rank. Compare that to Hinata, a legitimate S-Rank fighter who reached that point through harsh training and repeated life-or-death battles.
- Underestimating Badassery: He completely looks down on both Rimuru and especially Hinata, outright saying that Hinata probably "wet her pants" against that "wispy weakling of a demon lord" and that she likely slept her way to get that title by doing favors for Cardinal Nikolaus. Rimuru is outright shocked at Reiner's lack of survival instincts, and Hinata shows him how dead-wrong he is.
Free Guild
Kagurazaka Yuuki (Major Unmarked Spoilers)
Let's bring destruction to this world.
The head of the Adventurers' Guild and yet another Japanese person transferred into this world. He has some connection to Shizue and thus to Rimuru, and later becomes a major antagonist.
- Adaptational Personality Change: Yuuki's major role is effectively the same in all versions of the story, but it's his personality and motivations that receive the biggest shifts, to the point that his original web novel version is much different from subsequent adaptations. Most specifically, in the web novel he's an Omnicidal Maniac out to destroy the world out of boredom, while in the light novel and beyond he wants to Take Over the World because he truly believes he can establish a better world order.
- Anti-Magic: His Anti-Skill is an attribute that once activated will shut down all skills and magics on his targeted opponent once he makes physical contact. This includes any Healing Factor or even magical defenses, even if they come from Ultimate Skills. Combine this with his physical abilities and weapon skills, and Yuuki suddenly becomes a deadly Mage Killer. It was how he prevented Kazaream from successfully possessing him after he was summoned. However, it won't work on weapons, and the effect will wear off on its own with time if he doesn't renew the effect.
- Big Bad: In the Web Novel from the very start, having spent years scheming and making alliances (or just straight up mind-controlling pawns) to gather the necessary power to achieve his end goal to sadistically destroy or subjugate the world under himself.
- The Big Bad Shuffle: In the Light Novel and subsequent adaptations, Yuuki while still being The Man Behind the Man for many forces finds himself butting heads with other powers (Mariabell and Granbell Rosso, Rudra/Michael and Feldway) in order to achieve his dream of world domination, and ironically starts to slip into Big Bad Wannabe status as he finds himself being Out-Gambitted and mind-controlled himself by the latter pair.
- The Chessmaster: Yuuki was a genius from his kid years and excels in scheming and manipulations.
- Dual Wielding: He uses the more practical version of this by wielding a sword in one hand and a knife in the other, but he turns the conventions around in that he prefers using the sword to parry while going for a killing blow with the knife, which carries a powerful poison that attacks the nervous system.
- Foil: To Rimuru. Both are charismatic leaders who want to lead the world to a golden age where everyone can be happy. They're also both Otherworlders that won the Superpower Lottery and have Ultimate Skills that embody similar sins, Gluttony and Greed. The main difference between them is that Yuuki is a manipulator that would cross lines that Rimuru would not cross.
- Going to Give It More Energy: When Velgrynd interrupts his attempt to use Lifestealer on Emperor Rudra, the overload of draining magicules from a True Dragon causes him to vomit blood. If he didn't twist away in that instant, the overload would have torn his body apart. Yuuki is left incredulous that not only did that amount of magicules count as an instant overload (when at this point he could drain dozens of high-level elementals without issue), but Velgrynd herself isn't even winded from the drain.
- Greed: The embodiment of it thanks to his Ultimate Skill Greedy King Mammon. Specifically, it allows him to "steal" a person's mind (which renders them loyal to him and his cause), their life (which can be used for Energy Absorption or even soul stealing), or their Skills (though it only works if the victim is both weak in power and will, both of which he can achieve with the previous two effects). In fact, his "greed"/"desire" is so strong he resisted the brainwashing effects of the original owner of the Unique Skill [Greed] because he overpowered her own desires, and ultimately took the Unique Skill for himself to evolve into his Ultimate Skill.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: He claims that he didn't get any Skills during his arrival to the world and that aside from the increased physical and magical potential he's otherwise "normal" by Otherworlder standards. That's a two-fold lie, because not only did he get a very versatile Skill, he was born with supernatural psychic powers.
- It Amused Me: From his earliest days he was bored to death with an ordinary life, and anything he does is entirely for his own amusement. In the web novel, he's the type of person who would have destroyed the world if it were within his power just because.
- Let's You and Him Fight: After meeting Rimuru, Yuuki manipulates Hinata Sakaguchi into fighting him to avenge Shizu.
- Older Than They Look: He's in his late twenties, but for some reason, his physical appearance has locked on his teenage form.
- Otaku: And a pretty hardcore at that. Rimuru was able to get on his good graces just by providing the latest issues of some popular manga series that he missed in this world.
- Pop-Cultured Badass: On account of having been a hardcore nerd in his past life, Yuuki is well-versed in numerous video-games and manga. He's also an extremely powerful Hero capable of wiping the floor with people who upset him.
- The Power of Creation: His Unique Skill [Creator] allows him to manipulate a strange form of energy that can change form into whatever he needs for his current situation. It's what initially allowed him to create his Anti-Skill, can analyze and copy Unique Skills used in his presence, which he used to ultimately steal the Unique Skill [Greed] from Maribell Rosso after he killed her, and even forcibly evolved his own body permanently into a Saint. It's later revealed [Creator] is in fact the degraded version of Veldanava's Ultimate Skill [Creation King Ahura Mazda], which allows the user to make anything as long as they have sufficient knowledge and power to do so.
- Pride: Mentioned multiple times to be Yuuki's Fatal Flaw. No matter how hopelessly outclassed he is or how awry his plans go, he always underestimates his opponents and acts cocky, assured of his inevitable victory or at least that he can make a getaway to try again or talk/scheme his way out. In fairness, he manages that much fairly consistently, but when he's wrong... This also extends to his subordinate, Kagali, who scoffs at the idea of Tempest repelling the Empire's army despite being a nation of superhumans led by an awakened Demon Lord.
- Running Both Sides: He's the leader of the Free Guild and the crime syndicate Cerberus, and he has at multiple points set up certain operations of the latter to get busted by the former when he no longer needs them.
- Start X to Stop X: His plans to purge organized crime in the world involve putting himself at the head of said organized crime via control of the crime syndicate Cerberus that replaced the previous one Enchidna so he can use those resources to both fund and informationally-support his less-than-legal endeavors while keeping track of the petty criminals so he can eventually set them up for arrest.
- Super Power Lottery:
- Information King Akashic Records allows him to use almost every ability in the series.
- Primitive Magic reflects the user's will and produces the phenomena they want.
- Take Over the World: His main goal in all adaptations post the web novel, which reflects nicely in his Ultimate Skill.
- Teen Genius: Outwardly. He's really in his late twenties.
- Terrorists Without a Cause: In the web novel, there's basically no reason for Yuuki adopting his outlook except some very vague Freudian Excuse and sheer boredom.
- Too Clever by Half: His biggest weakness. Yuuki is The Chessmaster and master of the Xanatos Gambit capable of spinning even bad events to his favor and bouncing back from horrible setbacks, but when he overplays his hand due to overconfidence, he and his friends pay big time for it.
- His final scheme with Granbell is this in a nutshell. While Yuuki is rightfully suspicous of Granbell's motives and wary of a double-cross, the prospect of getting his hands on the ark containing Chronoa, the True Hero that defeated Veldora, and possibly bringing her under his control is just too good to pass up for his goal to Take Over the World. In the end, he played right into Granbell's hands by releasing Chronoa from the ark (something not even Granbell could have done in a timely manner), which allowed her to go on a rampage and confirmed Yuuki's villainy to the public when before he had managed to pin it all on Granbell's granddaughter Maribel and her apparent mind control. In fairness, Granbell pulled the wool on everyone's eyes for his final scheme.
- His attempted coup against Rudra was doomed from the start since one of the closest of his inner circle, Damrada, was in fact an undercover Imperial Knight (No. 2 in the ranks, actually). Yuuki recgonizes Damrada's potential treachery, but is able to rationalize it by noting that Damrada has always been loyal to him and that Damrada explicitly states he does what he believes is necessary for the Empire (a coup at this stage of the war would actually result in much less bloodshed) and that he truly considers Yuuki a friend and vice-versa. Damrada does in fact fit all these things, but is able to rationalize his betrayal all thanks to his Domination. The end result of giving Damrada the benefit of the doubt results in the coup failing, Kagali, Tear, and Footman being Dominated by Kondo, and Yuuki himself taking on Rudra and being Dominated directly.
- During the angel's assault on El Dorado to capture Leon, he reveals he's managed to break his Domination and was just doing Pretend to Be Brainwashed during the five-month Time Skip between the Empire War and now, waiting for a crucial moment to act so he and the Moderate Clown Troupe could make their escape. He rescues Laplace from certain death and frees Kagali (and by extension Tear and Footman) from direct Domination...but unfortunately for him, he realizes he played his card too early as Feldway reveals his backup plan and has a possessed Footman (hosting the spirit of Kagali's father) stab him right through the chest In the Back, which he only survives thanks to his Saint physiology.
- Villainous Underdog: Rimuru actually surpasses Yuuki in power several times over the course of the story, forcing Yuuki to rely on planning, deception, and a bit of luck in order to stay in the game and gather the power to match him.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Early on, he went to great lengths to concoct a kind and reasonable persona doing a lot of good deeds to increase his influence. In actual fact, however, Yuuki's a twisted psychopath reveling in the destruction he brings in the web novel. Even in subsequent adaptations where he's more genuine, it doesn't change his manipulations.
- Visionary Villain: In the light novel, manga, and anime, Yuuki wants to Take Over the World because he intends to bring about a golden age where everyone can be happy and avoid the problems Inherent in the System of the modern world. To that end, he's willing to use very morally dubious means and ends to get the job done.
- Walking Spoiler: It's practically impossible to have any serious discussion about the man without giving away his status as the original Big Bad of the plot.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: In the light novel and subsequent adaptations, Yuuki wants to Take Over the World because he believes he can create a more fair and just society by purging the corrupt. His foundation of the Adventure Guild was built in part to try and achieve that, and his various manipulations are his idea of Dirty Business to make it happen.
Kagali (Major Unmarked Spoilers)
Kagali/Kazaream
Curse Lord
Kagali voiced by: Yui Ishikawa (Japanese), Margaret McDonald (English) Foreign VAs
Kazaream voiced by: Volcano Ota (Japanese) Foreign VAs
Kazaream voiced by: Volcano Ota (Japanese) Foreign VAs
Yuuki's elf secretary. In reality, she's the former Demon Lord Kazaream, the Deathman president of the Moderate Clown Troupe who brought Yuuki to this world in an attempt to save her soul from vanishing due to consequences of an ancient battle and was put inside an elf homunculus to preserve her life.
- Adventure Archaeologist: Her official role in the Free Guild is as an Adventurer with a focus on archaeology, making her a literal example. She explored and mapped out the ancient elven ruins of Soma, which was easy for her since she lived in Soma back when it was a bustling nation. Rimuru is impressed enough by her to ask for her help in mapping out the dark elf ruins in Clayman's domain, again not knowing that those ruins are the very fortress city she herself built.
- The Archmage: Kagali has incredible knowledge and skill with magic due to being a veteran of the elves' golden age. She has extensive knowledge of curses to the point they became the source of her Red Baron as a Demon Lord, created and understood the function of the entire magical defense system of Amrita (including the construction of its golem guardians), knows the Summoning ritual to bring forth Otherworlders, taught Clayman everything he knows about Mind Manipulation magic, and most significantly can create "Deathmen" from corpses, a spell almost no other being alive knows how to do. The angels Dominated her in part because they wanted to use her to make Deathmen vessels for their Seraphim to inhabit.
- Artificial Human: "Kagali" is in fact the homunculus body of a female elf, occupied by Kazaream's spirit.
- Benevolent Boss: In contrast to Clayman, Kazaream had a much lighter and joking relationship with his closest subordinates in the Monster Clown Troupe, and as Kagali she still maintains it. She even got pissed off at Rimuru when she learned of Clayman's death at his hands.
- The Chessmaster: Kazaream's calling as a Demon Lord, and something his subordinate Clayman sought to emulate with his own rise to power. Her Unique Skill Planner is even built around it.
- Curse: These were Kazaream's specialities, which were used to bind powerful beings to his will such as Adalman.
- Fatal Flaw: Wrath. Kazaream could be cocky, but he generally knew how to keep it under wraps. When pissed off, however, Kazaream could fly into a tunnel-vision rage be damned to the consequences. It's what got him blown up by Leon and left a bodiless spirit, and as Kagali she didn't learn her lesson because Kondo goads her into charging him in a rage after revealing he was responsible for Dominating Clayman and partially behind his death, which leaves her open to getting Dominated herself.
- Founder of the Kingdom: It was Kazaream who established the Puppet Nation Jistav for his fellow dark elves, and his greatest accomplishment was the fortress city and capital of Amrita, which he built using all his memories of elven magic and technology to recreate a fraction of their glory days. Unfortunately, Amrita fell to ruin due to his battle with and defeat by Leon, and the ruins were built over by Clayman's castle in order to prevent thieves from looting any valuables, though Amrita's leftover automatic defenses would serve their purpose if necessary.
- Gender Bender: Turns out Kazaream was originally an elf princess turned deformed male by her sadistic father, with her current life as Kagali having a replicated body as close to her original true form as she could recall.
- Greater-Scope Villain: As Kazaream, he was responsible for sponsoring Clayman and Carrion's ascensions to Demon Lord status, bound Adalman to serve him and by extension Clayman, and was the reason through his defeat Leon achieved his place at the table. As Kagali, she's responsible for Yuuki's entire arrival to the world, aided him in establishing his power base among the human nations, and is the major reason he was able to get the loyalty of the Moderate Clown Troupe.
- In the Hood: Flashbacks show Kazaream wearing a full-bodied cloak with a hood in addition to his mask, which were meant to hide his twisted physical form.
- Invading Refugees: Kazaream was a survivor of the elven kingdom in what is now known as Soma that foolishly killed Milim's pet dragon to try and control her only to be wiped out and used to fuel her Demon Lord ascension, and then was further ravaged by the revived Chaos Dragon. When the elven survivors scattered to the four winds, Kazaream led the dark elves to what would become the Puppet Nation Jistav and built the fortified city of Amrita, intent on preserving what elven technology that he could. Unfortunately, his dream never came to pass, as he would run afoul of Leon Cromwell and Amrita would ultimately be brought to ruin.
- Malevolent Masked Man: Kazaream always wore a mask because he was ashamed of his hideous features especially since they were a cruel reminder of the feminine beauty he once had. The Moderate Clown Troupe wore masks in part to maintain solidarity with their master.
- No One Could Survive That!: Leon didn't just destroy Kazaream's body during their battle, which as a Deathman he could bounce back from, but hit him with attacks capable of killing the spirit too, which is why the other Demon Lords more or less wrote him off as finished. Despite this, not only did Kazaream survive, but endured for 190 years of his soul weakening before he finally resorted to summoning Yuuki as a last-ditch survival attempt. Guy Crimson admits at Walpurgis, after Clayman bites it and the possibility that Kazaream has revived and is now in part behind the plots against Tempest arises, that if Kazaream has indeed survived his respect for the former Demon Lord is higher than before.
- Reincarnated as the Opposite Sex: Kazaream was originally male before his old body was destroyed and he spent over a century as a spirit desperate to get a body back (to the point he was willing to summon and steal a compatible Otherworlder's body such as Yuuki's) before he settled on a homunculus body that happened to be female. While grateful to actually have flesh and blood again, she does seem rather embarrassed enough by the circumstances that led to this point, while Laplace finds the contrast between forms hilarious. Although, it turns out Kazaream was born female, but turned male by her father. Kagali is what Kazaream looked like before the sex change.
- The Reveal: She's actually Kazaream, a former Demon Lord who is the true master of the Moderate Clown Troupe, Clayman's benefactor, and was seemingly slain by Leon Cromwell 200 years before the present-day. He spent over a century as a bodiless spirit before summoning and attempting to possess Yuuki Kagurazaka and failing, ultimately deciding to serve the Otherworlder and taking over the homunculus body of a female elf to start an identity as "Kagali".
- Sharing a Body: Before Yuuki obtained the homunculus body, Kazaream spent most of the decade since Yuuki arrived in the world in the human's head.
- Squishy Wizard: The Archmage Kagali might be, but even as Kazaream she was much less impressive in a physical tussle and relied on her magic for most of her destructive power. That's where the Clown Troupe comes into play.
- Third Law of Gender-Bending: As Kagali, the formerly male Demon Lord ended up adopting many feminine mannerisms, habits, quirks and speaking patterns, which did have the advantage of selling the deception but also left Kagali rather mortified after the fact especially once Laplace brought it up. Later turns out this was subverted, as technically speaking she was always female, it's just that her "male" body resulted from her sadistic father forcibly turning her into a deformed male, so both before and after her rebirth she always had a female mindset, just hidden behind a masculine facade as a male.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: What ultimately led to his death by Leon's hands. When Leon declared himself a Demon Lord, Kazaream originally went to him to try and gain him as an ally. However, the sight of Leon's beauty reminded Kazaream of the beauty he himself once possessed as elven royalty and he attacked Leon in a fit of jealous rage.
- Walking Spoiler: It's really hard to talk about Kagali without going into her history and relationships with several important characters, most notably that of Yuuki and Clayman.
Moderate Clown Troupe
In General
The three clowns who act as enforcers for Clayman following their old master Kazaream dying.
- Beware the Silly Ones: They act like a bunch of jokesters, but each one is much stronger than Clayman himself, who did earn his Demon Lord seat if only as one of the weakest. Footman fights Geld post Rimuru's Harvest Festival evenly with little sign of fatigue, Tear runs circles around Phobio and would have killed him were it not for his Healing Factor, and Laplace straight-up kills Roy Valentine, a decoy Demon Lord as strong as Kazaream and stronger than Clayman, brutally and swiftly once he stops holding back.
- Bumbling Henchmen Duo: Tear and Footman tend to fulfill this role, as they're almost always sent together on missions and provide comical exposition compared to Laplace often being trusted with being on his own with the "serious" missions. This has less to do with their fighting ability (as both are extremely dangerous) than the fact that individually they're a bit less smart and competent than Laplace, which is why they need a partner to watch out for them.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: All of them are remorseless criminal monsters, but all of them greatly care for and cherish one another, and will consider slights against one of them or their former master to be slights against all of them. Laplace in particular is enraged by Roy Valentine mocking Clayman's death, and brutally kills him for insulting his friend.
- Kung-Fu Wizard: When it comes to fighting, all three have been seen mostly using a Bare-Fisted Monk style involving punches, kicks, acrobatic dodging, and all other forms of directly throwing their weight around without any weapons, but they also compliment their physical attacks with decently strong spells.
- Monster Clown: All of them wears masks and outfits with a strong jester aesthetic, along with exhibiting goofy and joking personas, and all of them are unrepentant bastards who instigate plenty of death and destruction for their goals.
- Resurrective Immortality: Every member of the troupe is a person that was revived through a special magic to become beings called "deathmen", where no matter how badly damaged their bodies get, or even if they're destroyed, their souls will not dissipate like normally, allowing them to either possess another person's body or slip into an artifical body without worry of truly dying. That said, when up against someone capable of Soul Eating or a Soul-Cutting Blade, they are just as vulnerable as most people to being rendered Deader than Dead.
- Undying Loyalty: No matter what situation might arise that would put them in a position to bail on each other, they will never do so, and are willing to be tortured or killed, even rendered Deader than Dead, rather than even betray one of their number. Their loyalty is especially strong to their initially dead master, continuing to work towards fulfilling Kazaream's goals along with trying to revive him.
Laplace
Wonder Pierrot
A Majin who is the vice-president of the Moderate Clown Troupe and affiliated with Clayman.
- Affably Evil: He's up to no good, but he has a strong sense of jokingness, camaraderie, and loyalty that's completely geniune.
- Beware the Silly Ones: He's a complete jokester who prefers being laidback, but he's the strongest member of the Troupe after their leader as in, only beneath Kazaream (and even that might not be true given what he does to Roy) and higher than Clayman. He proves it by fighting and killing Roy Valentine, Luminous' decoy Demon Lord who would be in a similar power tier to Kazaream himself. He's willingly to claim to his boss and fellows that he needed the best possible conditions to pull it off, but the narration notes he's deliberately downplaying his own full skill-set.
- Combat Clairvoyance: His second and secret Unique Skill, Future Vision, allows him to see several seconds into the future, and thus let him plan his actions accordingly by testing whether or not his plan of attack or even his Deceiver skill will work on a foe. Combined with his refined combat skills, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say he really is more dangerous than his Demon Lord superior.
- Delayed Reaction: It takes him a moment to register Clayman's assertion that Myulan was killed by Rimuru (she actually wasn't), leading him to cutting off his original thought and dropping the ball he was toying with in shock.
- Dragon-in-Chief: As the "vice-president" of the Troupe, Laplace has a large amount of influence and though he acts subordinate to Kazaream, Clayman, and Yuuki, he's actually stronger than all but the last of his bosses, and consequently thanks to that and his competence he gets the most important missions.
- Everyone Has Standards: He finds Clayman's intention to slaughter Yuurazania's evacuated non-combatant citizens to be going a bit extreme, not simply for moral reasons but because he's moving faster and more recklessly than he usually would.
- Know When to Fold 'Em:
- He opts to run away with Gelmud when they are found and attacked by Treyni instead of fighting her because they would've been captured should Treyni call for backup.
- He quickly realizes there is no way that Yuuki and the Clowns would be able to beat Guy, Misery, and Rain all together when confronted by the demons, and he was fully willing to sacrifice himself by faking a betrayal to get Guy's attention long enough for Yuuki to run with Tear and Footman.
- Laughing Mad: After he kills Roy, he makes his escape slaughtering the Church knights drawn to the commotion and laughing all the while, which is his way of getting through his grief at Clayman's death.
- Malevolent Masked Man: He wears a smiling clown mask and, while Affably Evil, is still willing to do very evil things to achieve his goals and that of his masters.
- Master of Illusion: His Unique Skill Deceiver combines equal sub-skills such as Deception, Infiltration, and Concealment, which he can use to deceive his opponents' senses. Not only does this work wonders for spying and recon, he can use it in the middle of combat to do things like Faking the Dead, create an illusion his foes attack while the real him sets up an attack or runs away, or even change his opponents' perception of what weapon he's currently using (like thinking he's using a knife when it's actually a lance or bomb, or even hiding a knife when it looks like he's bare-handed).
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Laplace can detect magic being used in his presence, which not only allows him to sense offensive attacks, but can also be used to detect teleporation spells.
- Neck Lift: Pulls one of these on Vega when the man gets too big for his britches about how he doesn't need to follow Yuuki anymore since Rudra has proven himself stronger. Particularly impressive since Vega is easily twice Laplace's size and far more muscled.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: He jokes around and prefers running over fighting unnecessarily enough that it's easy both for people in-universe and out to underestimate him before he finally goes on the war path. He actually could have beaten Treyni during her confrontation with him and Gelmud, but retreated because she would have easily gotten more dryads to come in for backup. He ran from Roy Valentine during their first fight and nearly did so for their second fight, new moon weakening Roy be damned, since Laplace had just finished running from a no-win scenario with Hinata, up until Roy revealed and made fun of Clayman's death. At which point Laplace proceeds to beat him with his fists, snatch out his core/heart, and crush it to pieces right in front of Roy's shocked and fearful eyes.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In LN Volume 13, Laplace spends most of the story trying to get into Tempest to deliever a warning from Yuuki about Empire spies right under Tempest's nose, but spends it fighting Treyni who doesn't trust anything he has to say. What pushes this into "awesome" is that "most of the story" means he spent ten days fighting a high-level dryad on her home turf and held his own. He only "lost" because he wasn't trying to kill anyone and Treyni got backup from Souei near the end, and he still delivered the message in the end when they brought him in for questioning (although literally minutes late for his info to actually be useful since the spies had just launched their attempt on Rimuru's life and were defeated).
- Properly Paranoid: Warns Clayman to be careful with Milim because he doubts she is as under his control as he believes. Milim was faking the entire time, with Clayman realizing how right Laplace was about everything.
- Really Royalty Reveal: Volume 18 of the light novel reveals he's actually the undead and amnesiac Sarion Griswald, former Emperor of the Sorcerous Dynasty of Sarion, brother of Elalude Grimwald, uncle of Ellen, and father of Elumeshia Elure Sarion. Kazaream raised him from his fatal injuries but his memories became clouded and lost as a result of the resurrection and conversion into a walking dead.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: His preferred method of dealing with conflict is to hightail it, but justified by the fact that most of the fights we see him run from are either fights he legitimately can't win, would cost him more in the long-run even if he was victorious, or simply where he didn't have to win to achieve his goal anyways. When Roy makes the mistake of mocking Clayman's death during Round 2, Laplace stops running and shows why he's a Not-So-Harmless Villain.
- Unexplained Recovery: Lampshaded by his own boss when Laplace recounts his encounter with Roy and how he was apparently blown apart by the vampire's Blood Ray, but is now standing there right as rain. It's because Roy killed an illusion rather than the real Laplace, allowing him to flee.
Tear
Teardrop Pierrot
A Majin who is a member of the Moderate Clown Troupe.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Despite her childishness, she's no slouch in a fight. She held her own against the Beastketeer Phobio and would have killed him were it not for his Ultraspeed Regeneration. Laplace does claim her personality keeps her from tapping into her full potential, however.
- Cute and Psycho: She acts like an excitable child most of the time, complete with calling Phobio a "dumb black cat" during their fight, but that doesn't detract from the fact she's not adverse to murder and manipulation if that's what she has to do.
- Dance Battler: She takes the acrobatic movment of the Troupe the furthest, constantly moving around and dodging attacks in a dance-like way, since her Fragile Speedster build means she needs to be agile enough to avoid getting hit.
- Fragile Speedster: She moves very fast, but she's not much for taking a hit. Still, she ran circles around Phobio, who prided himself on his speed, during their fight, and is skilled enough to leverage her weaker strength to hurt Phobio despite him being tougher than her.
- Ironic Name: Despite being called "Tear", she's actually quite energetic and go-lucky.
- Pink Is Feminine: She wears pink clothing alongside her magenta hair.
Footman
Angry Pierrot
A Majin who is a member of the Moderate Clown Troupe.
- Acrofatic: He can move very fast for someone of his bulk, with his style including lots of spinning and jumping around.
- An Arm and a Leg: Kondo's Single-Stroke Battle slices off all of Footman's limbs and nearly takes his head off. And Kondo makes it clear that he's was holding back to incapacitate, not kill.
- Barehanded Blade Block: He pulls this off to catch Geld's cleaver during the orc's sneak attack and holds it in place even as Geld pushes on it, which is the first real sign he's not just a bumbling fool.
- Beware the Silly Ones: He might not look so threatening at first, but he's very powerful. He could fight evenly with Geld and destroy his shield and armor while heavily injuring him, despite Geld at this point being even stronger than when he thrashed Shougo thanks to Rimuru's Harvest Festival.
- Charged Attack: Footman's Unique Skill [Amplifier] allows him to amplify movement whether it takes wave form or exists as mass. By simply bouncing his body off something he can speed himself up, and combined with the ability to amplify his own weight, he can quickly charge himself up into a wrecking ball of violence.
- Death from Above: He can fire a magic blast down from the sky strong enough to punch through Geld's armor and wound the Orc Lord himself despite his incredible defensive power.
- Dumb Muscle: Self-admitted at that, preferring to use his brawn rather than brains and would rather leave the thinking to the others while he goes along with his orders. That said, he's still smarter than Vega in that he can actually be trusted to listen to and follow the orders.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: True to his alias, while he can put up a joking manner he's rather quick to anger and lashing out even against his friends.
- Rolling Attack: His Acrofatic skills are good enough that, with just a few seconds warmup, he can turn himself into a rapidly spinning ball to smash into, and potentially through, enemies at incredible speeds.
- Stout Strength: He's got the strength to match his bulk, being capable of going toe-to-toe with fellow Stout Strength Geld.
- The Worf Effect: After spending much of the story either overpowering badasses like Geld or holding his own with powerhouses like Gunther, Footman gets taken down in a near-instant almost casually by Misery to remind the audiences of the powerhouses on Guy's side. Later still, he's on the losing end of a Single-Stroke Battle at the hands of Tatsuya Kondo after his Finishing Move fails to even intimidate the Imperial Guardian, losing his arms and legs.
The Kingdom of Falmuth
In General
One of the largest and most prosperous of the Western Nations. Located to the west of the Armed Nation of Dwargon and considered the gateway to the west, the kingdom enjoyed great times of good fortune until, threatened economically by the rise of the fledging monster nation of Tempest, they become the first nation to declare war on them.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: And very easily manipulated to boot. Most of the nobles were greedy assholes, which Rimuru and Diablo used to engineeer a civil war in Falmuth. The heroes knew the nobles would not willingly pay reparation to Tempest, thus causing internal strife and ultimately leading to the collapse of the nation. If not for the meddling of the Seven Luminaries, this may have taken years, but a motivated and enraged Diablo is a very efficient worker.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Because they've been the major trading partner with the industrial Dwargon and the most advantageous route to said kingdom for centuries, Falmuth's local industry is quite low, not helped by their lack of mineral resources. Because they're so reliant on trade and tourism for their income, they also lack any local specialities and their local agriculture is only sufficient to keep the 30 million population well-fed, not to actually support the national spending via tax. Thus, once Tempest busts onto the scene as the new, superior trade center, the Falmuth government can see the writing on the wall that unless something is done, Falmuth's prosperity is in jeopardy. Unfortunately, they choose not to take the more difficult path to diversify, but take the easy route...
- Green-Eyed Monster: The major motive beside Greed for the war against Tempest. Falmuth for centuries had enjoyed a favorable position due to the fact they were the major trading partner to Dwargon and their location was the safest passage of travel to the dwarf kingdom since the Jura Forest was both monster-infested and undeveloped. As a result, a great deal of profit was earned from selling imported goods at extortionate prices, as well as goods and service consumptions by merchants and adventurers who were travelling to Dwargon. With Tempest's rise, however, suddenly a major economic rival just popped up with an even cheaper and safer passage to Dwargon through the Jura Forest, with the number of adventurers and merchants going through Falmuth drying up and taking with them the profits. Thus, they conspired to take out Tempest and obtain those advantages for themselves.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: They stood as one of the most powerful Western Nations, but their fear, greed, and jealousy led them to antagonize a monster nation that would have been fully willing to trade with them equally while vastly overestimating their chances. The end result is that the cream of the crop of their army is slaughtered, their king is forced to abdicate, a short-lived and engineered civil war where the nobility tries to wipe out the pro-Tempest side including said former king, and ultimately they get restructured into a vassal-state-in-all-but-name to Tempest.
- The Rival: Against the Kingdom of Ingracia as one of the few western nations capable of rivaling them.
- Unwitting Pawn: At the end of the day, Falmuth's war with Tempest was manipulated and used by other powers, most notably Yuuki, who intended to use the Falmuth army to take out Tempest while also being sufficiently slaughtered themselves that their souls could be snatched up to let Clayman achieve his True Demon Lord Awakening.
King Edmalis
Voiced by: Hiroshi Yanaka (Japanese), Bill Flynn (English) Foreign VAs
The first human king to foolishly and one-sidedly wage war on Tempest.
- Abdicate the Throne: He is forced to do this by Rimuru and Diablo's decree in order to eventually install Youm as the new king. Edmalis, wracked with guilt over the destruction and suffering he's caused his nation with his greed and pride, doesn't fight this demand.
- Adaptational Intelligence: Played with. While Edmalis in the anime still makes every short-sighted, greedy, stupid mistake of his light novel and manga counterparts, he is at least not so suicidal as to openly demand a being that has single-handedly wiped out his entire army bow down to him. Still wasn't a smart move to try and demand war compensation for Falmuth's losses during the offer for negotiations, especially given he's both the aggressor and loser in the equation.
- An Arm and a Leg: In the light novel and manga, Rimuru slices off his arm when he foolishly points at the very same guy who wiped out 20,000 of his troops single-handed and says "On your knees, monster! You are in the presence of King Edmalis of Falmuth!" Rimuru goes a bit further in the light novel by also slicing off one of his legs when the king annoys him even more with his arrogance. In the anime, Rimuru lops off his arm in response to Edmalis talking down to him and running his mouth. It doesn't stay that way though, as one Diablo uses an altered full potion meant to restore his body to full, he gets it back.
- Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Tempest was a prospering trade hub that happily shares its prosperity with its neighbors. King Edmalis's cowardly sneak attack using a flimsy Pretext for War makes the entire country and its king Rimuru permanently hostile to him, and alienates several other great powers, like the dwarf nation of Dwargon and the kingdom of Blumund, that have mutual defense pacts in place.
- Beard of Evil: Full beard, greedy, cowardly, and wicked sot who attacked Tempest expecting an easy victory, riches, and land to exploit.
- Blatant Lies: When Rimuru demands to hear the King's side of the story, King Falmuth tries to say the entire army are his personal body-guards, he was seeking peaceful relations, and the attack on Tempest was a "misunderstanding," with the criminals in his employ having duped him as well. Rimuru listens to the very end before stating that he has no shred of credibility and taking him as a P.O.W. so that his country pays ransom for his aggression.
- Break the Haughty: Makes tent at one of the four magic barrier crystals debuffing the "monsters" in Tempest expecting an easy victory and gloating how he's going to rake in the spoils. When his invading army is wiped out and all the barrier crystal stations are totally annihilated, he begins panicking and trying to sneak out the back of the tent, until everything goes quiet. He briefly recovers when Rimuru shows up, and he thinks he can browbeat the leader of Tempest due to the "Nice Guy" reputation Rimuru's built up, only to break down completely at losing an arm and Rimuru stating "if you think I'm a nice guy, you are sorely mistaken."
- Death Glare: He gives one to his brother for trying to stoke his pride, and his excuse is actually enough to get his brother to shut up, even if it is false.In front of the Storm Dragon, my pride is just a mere pile of ashes!
- Didn't Think This Through: His attack on Tempest not only made Rimuru break his Thou Shall Not Kill rule involving humans, but that it made him very angry to the point that in order to resurrect his fallen citizens, he has to kill 10,000 humans to do it. Rimuru kills 20,000 men under his employ, including Folgen, which is beyond the necessary requirements, including those who fell into Despair Event Horizon and were begging for their lives. And he doesn't say anything or raise his voice doing it. He also tried to talk him down despite what Rimuru just did seconds before, and he loses his left arm for his trouble. Really, had he decided to make actual peaceful solutions with Rimuru from the start instead of pissing him off, then the latter wouldn't even have to kill 20,000 of his soldiers to become a Demon Lord, and take him as a prisoner of war. He really had no idea how much he screwed the pooch by making Rimuru angry.
- Dirty Coward: Tries to flee the instant he realizes he's on the losing end of the fight with Tempest, leaving all his allies behind. He doesn't get anywhere.
- Fatal Flaw: Greed and Pride. Edmalis is proud not simply as befitting his status of nobility, but also because he's the king of one of the strongest Western nations in both military and economic might. As Gazel notes to Rimuru, however, he's far too greedy for his own good and with Tempest as a rising powerhouse threatening Falmuth's monopoly on the market, he's easily swayed by besmirched pride and his desire to add to his wealth to launch the ill-fated war against Tempest. These actions ultimately lead to the dissolvement of Falmuth as an independent political entity and securing Tempest's place as the new economic powerhouse of the west.
- Hope Spot: Repeatedly. In the dungeons under Tempest, as he's surrounded by the Body Horror that was his advisers who recommended the ill-advised attack on Tempest, he repeatedly shouts that he's the king of Falmuth and begs for aid. Two of Tempest's citizens visit him while his remaining arm is chained to the wall.
- He is first met by Shion. She greets him politely, tells him he's not going to be killed, tells him she forgives him for her death at the hands of his troops, and tells him that Rimuru likes humans, of which he is one. Then she reveals that she will never forgive that his attack forced Rimuru to kill humans by the legion, and beats the ever loving shit out of him, stating that even if she had permission to kill him, shredding him to pieces 10,000 times would not be enough to end her rampage.
- He is later visited by Rimuru, not wearing his mask. King Edmalis mistakes the androgynous Rimuru for a servant girl and tries to bribe his way out. Rimuru asks him if he's forgotten his voice and slaps the mask on, then advises the king that freedom is not forthcoming, and that the burden for the attack on Tempest will be something he'll have to live with the rest of his life, leaving King Edmalis to wallow in his despair and terror. And then Shion works her ability on him.
- Implausible Deniability: Tries to claim he knew nothing about the aggression of his troops and cowardly sneak attack of his Black Ops team. Rimuru didn't buy a word of it.
- My God, What Have I Done?: After the disasterous Falmuth campaign, being imprisoned in Tempest and suffering for his actions and pride, and witnessing Tempest's prosperity and peace first-hand, Edmalis is so wracked with guilt that he willingly goes with Diablo's plans to turn Falmuth into a vassal state for Tempest while abdicating his throne, admitting truthfully to his advisors he was a fool and that all he can do now is try and prevent Falmuth from suffering further.
- Pretext for War: Which was a total farce, and he knows it. When Tempest's prosperity as a growing trade hub began threatening his monopoly, he, his corrupt nobles, and Bishop Rayhiem scheme to make it look like Tempest's citizens are attacking humans unprovoked, so he can ally with the Imperial Holy Church and not only eliminate the competition, but rake in all sorts of spoils. He comes to regret it when he finds himself in Tempest's dungeon, his advisors all wind up dead or worse, and his nation winds up being ruled by Youm and Myulan as a vassal state to Tempest.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: After the nation was rebuilt as Farmenus, the former king Edmaris serves as Yohm's advisor, and he proves to be quite talented in this regard. The irony hits that without his greed and pride, he is a much better leader figure than most others.
- Stunned Silence: After Rimuru chops his arm off in annoyance, he spends several beat panels wordlessly staring at the stump before he collapses to the ground in agony.
- Too Dumb to Live: Due to his Wrong Assumption, he commands a very pissed off Rimuru to kneel before him, even adding to not mess with him. The very same Rimuru who's just slain over 20,000 of his soldiers in front of him. He ends up losing his arm for his effort. While this is toned down in the anime, Edmalis still has the stones to be disrespectful to Rimuru when he refuses to indulge in the king's lies, as well as attempting to negotiate anything less than complete and unconditional surrender while demanding war compensation (never mind that he was both the aggressor and the losing party in this whole affair). Rimuru even notes to himself that Edmaris must be some special kind of idiot, before blasting his arm off.
- Villains Want Mercy: Begged for his life the moment a pissed off Rimuru gives him the chance to speak.
- Wrong Assumption: He presumed Rimuru, who had just slain over 20,000 of his soldiers, right in his face, would be a "soft, easy mark, lousy at diplomacy" based on out-dated intelligence reports. So he commands Rimuru to kneel, stating that he's someone Rimuru should not mess with. He loses an arm to Rimuru's wrath, just to show him how wrong he is.
King Edward
Voiced by: Shouto Kashii (Japanese)
The younger brother of King Edmalis and (very briefly) his successor as King of Falmuth after the "war" against Tempest.
- Short-Lived Leadership: Edward barely has weeks to enjoy his new position as the King of Falmuth before his short-sighted attempts to oust Tempest's influence upon the nation lead him to abdicating to Youm. Originally, the plan would have called for him holding it for months if not even a few years, but the Seven Luminaries getting involved and Diablo forcibly course-correcting speeds up the timetable significantly.
- Too Dumb to Live: Seeing his older brother utterly humbled, knowing that the cream of the crop of Falmuth's army is gone, and learning first-hand that not only does Rimuru have the backing of the Storm Dragon, he's now a Demon Lord who earned that title by killing Clayman doesn't halt his ambitions to somehow turn the situation around on Tempest. Only the fact that he's an Unwitting Pawn for Tempest itself in their plan to prevent Falmuth from ever being a threat to them again doesn't make the whole charade come down around him even faster.
- Unwitting Pawn: His power-mongering was completely planned for by Rimuru and his allies in their plan to bring Falmuth to heel, knowing full well he would try to buck the war reparations and try to rally the nation to his cause to resist the Demon Lord and pin all the blame on Edmalis. The only thing unexpected was the Seven Luminaries getting involved to help him, without his knowledge and for their own reasons of course, but Tempest and Diablo specifically course-correct things so well the plan actually progresses even faster than expected.
Bishop Rayhiem
Voiced by: Hayato Fujii (Japanese), Ben Phillips (English) Foreign VAs
The cleric of the human supremacist church who spurred on Edmalis's war campaign.
- Asshole Victim: Given just how much of a complete scumbag he was, not a single hint of concern or care is given to him being transformed into a horrifying mass of flesh by Shion. The story doesn't even bother lingering on it, only leaving it as a passing footnote. Even his rather pathetic and even pitiable death at the hands of the Seven Luminaries once they finish using him to set up Hinata v. Rimuru Round 2 after a round of torture and interrogation isn't treated with much real concern by anyone aside from ironically Diablo (who was more concerned by how a useful pawn had been killed and more importantly was being used to try and scrapegoat him).
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Shamelessly begged for his life to a pissed off Rimuru. He lost what little respect Rimuru had for him as a result.
- Bald of Evil: Not a single hair on his head, and a coward who spurred the kingdom of Falmuth into a genocidal attack on Tempest.
- Barrier Warrior: He's the one who initiates the activation of the Holy Field meant to weaken monsters on Tempest and brought the Church knights who would maintain the barrier.
- Body Horror: While he survives a bit longer than Razen, he's eventually forced through the same experience of being turned into a horrifying mass of still-living flesh, bones, and organs thanks to Shion. Diablo only restores him to use him as part of the plan to peacefully transfer power in Falmuth to Youm.
- Dirty Coward: The moment Tempest retaliated, he and King Edmalis cowered in the king's tent, planning to flee, abandoning their troops and allies.
- It's All About Me: The only life he cares about is his own, even willing to offer up King Edmalis to spare himself.
- Small Role, Big Impact:
- He has no real part in the overall conflict between Falmuth and Tempest beyond arranging for Hinata and the rest of the Imperial Holy Church to get involved (and even then he needed the approval of Cardinal Nikolaus in order even give Edmalis that much), and he also has the smallest number of story scenes, but the very fact that he used the words of the Church to convince Edmalis into initiating the war using flimsy pretexts is what set everything in motion to enrage Rimuru into decimating the Falmuth kingdom and evolving into a True Demon Lord.
- The Seven Luminaries using him as a disposable pawn to both set up Hinata's death and destabilize Diablo's efforts to successfully take control of Falmuth via manipulating Edmalis and installing Youm also ends up backfiring since Hinata is suspicious enough to not rush in blindly for Round 2 with Rimuru, while Diablo is enraged enough at the death of his pawn and attempt to pin it on himself (which puts his own position with Rimuru in jeopardy) to scheme even harder to get to the bottom of it all. This ends in the Seven Luminaries' revealing their manipulations and their deaths by the hands of Diablo, Luminous, and Cardinal Nikolaus, not to mention Diablo's plans for turning Falmuth into a vassal state reaching a conclusion much faster, Luminous meeting with Rimuru to discuss negotiations with the Holy Empire, and Hinata and Rimuru burying the hatchet.
- Villains Want Mercy: Facing off against a pissed Rimuru, and he doesn't hesitate to drop to his knees, bowing his head to the ground, begging for his life. When Diablo restores him to normal from his Body Horror state, he's all but seconds away from licking Diablo's boots while proclaiming his loyalty.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Seven Luminaries kill him after intercepting him before he can reach Hinata with Rimuru's message and performing Manipulative Editing on the message so they can send her and Rimuru on another collision course, and then torturing him before death so they can scrapegoat Diablo and unite the reeling Falmuth kingdom against the pro-Tempest side (Edmalis and Youm). Unfortunately for the Seven Luminaries, Diablo disagreed with their viewpoints.
High Wizard Razen
Old Body Voiced by: Eiji Hanawa (Japanese), R. Bruce Elliott (English) Foreign VAs
New Body Voiced by: Chiaki Kobayashi (Japanese), Matt Shipman (English) Foreign VAs
New Body Voiced by: Chiaki Kobayashi (Japanese), Matt Shipman (English) Foreign VAs
The court wizard and strongest magic-user within the Falmuth Kingdom.
- Accidental Misnaming: He gets it the worst of Shion's name butchering, as she wrote it down as "Ramen", which got Rimuru to nostagically muse that he hasn't enjoyed that dish in a long time. Even Diablo got in on it when first addressing him by name.
- The Arch Mage: He has mastered many powerful and varied spells and types of magic, including summons. It's noted by several people in the know that Razen is effectively at the pinnacle of what a human mage can achieve, to the point even the Beastketeers admit they always wanted to test their strength against his magic. The fact that Diablo can treat him like a complete joke not even worth mentioning as "strong" thus shows just how high Diablo's standards are.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: In the anime, after taking over Shougo's mind, he claims to be the most powerful majin in the entire history of Falmuth. He even goes as far as claiming that he could likely defeat a Demon Lord.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed in that he still murders Shougo for his body, but in the anime he at least has the decency to pretend he's helping him and makes the act too swift and painless for the man to fully comprehend before it's over. In the light novel and manga, he makes sure Shougo understands exactly what's happening and taunts him for it before finishing up.
- Asshole Victim: No tears were shed when the Demon later named "Diablo" beats the tar out of him as he foolishly resists being taken into custody. Even less of a damn was given for what happened to him at Shion's hands.
- At Least I Admit It: When he's lecturing Shougo Taguchi at the guy's last moments, he admits that the kingdom of Falmuth, and the summoners who summoned and enslaved him, as well as Razen himself, are not good people, but Shougo is no good person either."Needless to say, we are not good people, but neither are you."
- Big "SHUT UP!": He delivers this to an uppity noble, along with freezing that noble in a block of ice, for running his mouth against Yohm for being a commoner and believing that Yohm should serve them. It was actually to calm down Diablo who was looking more and more pissed as the noble kept running his mouth in ignorance, and thankfully, it worked.
- Body Horror: When he shows up again following his capture by Rimuru, Shion has subjected him to Cold-Blooded Torture using her "Chef" skill, turning him into a writhing mass of flesh, bones and organs that is almost impossible to tell ever used to be a human being. He's also still alive in this form, unable to utter a sound while his body twitches in agony. Diablo only restores him to use him as part of the plan to peacefully transfer power in Falmuth to Youm.
- Boom, Headshot!: How Rimuru tries to dispatch him. Razen survives thanks to Shougo's body's Healing Factor, which prompts Rimuru to summon Diablo to hunt him down.
- Break the Haughty: He was introduced as a powerful wizard who saves Shougo, only to betray him and destroy his soul so that he can possess his body while boasting he can take even a Demon Lord. He also has a Dead Man Switch in the event he gets killed to kill any enemies near him. However, his very first encounter with Rimuru nearly went fatal while the latter was in the process of becoming a Demon Lord himself if Shogo's [Survivor] skill didn't save him, though this point Rimuru is technically already Demon Lord material and taking steps to become a True Demon Lord. But where he gets broken is his encounter with Diablo, and realizes who he is up against when the latter effortlessly blows away his nuclear magic spell, defeats his Spirit Golem, and makes Razen shit his pants when he fully realized who Rimuru summoned and passes out on the spot. For a man who claims he could defeat a Demon Lord, Diablo, who at this point is at best an Elite Mook to Rimuru and not even near a True Demon Lord's level, shatters his pride just by existing. By the time Diablo restores him from Shion's Body Horror, the prideful man he was is all but gone as humbly swears himself to Diablo's service to save Falmuth from further destruction.
- Cavalry Betrayal: He rescues Shougo from certain death at the end of Geld's blade, and the moment they're in relative safety, turns on him.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He suffers from this when he faces off against Diablo. The primal demon trivializes all his attacks so casually he didn't even need to land a single hit on Razen to defeat him. Razen simply faints from the overwhelming fear of realizing who Diablo is and how out-matched he actually is.
- Dead Man's Switch: Hakurou reveals that Razen's prepped a "nuclear strike" spell with his own death as the trigger, meant to be a deterrent against people killing him without getting killed themselves. That said, the magic in place only applies to when he dies. So something like his fate at the hands of Shion makes it where he's incapacitated in a way that, technically, doesn't kill him.
- Faking the Dead: He pretends that Rimuru's attack kills him, healing it and waiting for an opportunity to try and escape. This prompts Rimuru to summon demons to hunt him down.
- Famed In-Story: He's known in the western nations as Falmuth's centuries-old champion, The Archmage that's near the pinnacle of what a human can achieve. Gazel, Elalude, and even the Three Beastketeers acknowledge his power. The fact that Diablo can treat him like a joke who had "some" skill in magic for a human is yet another clue to Rimuru that Diablo is far more than he appears.
- Fatal Flaw: Arrogance. He presumes he's always better than everyone else in the room. When he tries to fight off a "Demon of the Primal Colors," he realizes his mistake a bit too late, and suffers for it.
- Grand Theft Me: He steals Shougo's body, after killing Shougo's soul, on-screen for a power-up of his own. This is not the first time he has done this over the centuries of his life and is the reason why he's an Old Retainer.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: He dodged this, barely, when he was scrying the underworld for secrets. He learned of the seven colored primordial demons and escaped with his mind intact. Unfortuanately for him, he never intended to actually fight one of them, and his knowledge utlimately ended with him passing out in fear when he realized that Diablo was one of them.
- Hazy-Feel Turn: Once Diablo restores him back from Shion's [Chef] skill, he vows to work under Diablo and Rimuru. He's still completely loyal to Falmuth and his king, but after seeing Rimuru destroy the Falmuth army and getting curb-stomped by Diablo, he'd rather act as a willing supporter of somebody that both is strong enough to earn the service of a Primordial and is kind enough to allow Falmuth to continue surviving and thriving in some way despite their actions against him.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: He's usually well-versed as to when he's outmatched in combat, and when this happens, he always prioritizes his escape, but never, ever surrenders. The last part does eventually catch up to him when he tries to sneak away, fails, and then attempts to resist being taken into custody.
- Kung-Fu Wizard: Quite literally after he steals Shougo's body, combining his knowledge and mastery of magic with Shougo's physical strength, durability, and Healing Factor.
- Oh, Crap!: Once he comes to blows with Diablo, he shits his pants in terror over who he was dealing with, and passes out on the spot. Truth is that Diablo does this a lot to him, as in the light novel the mere fact that he has the name Diablo hinted Razen that the demon was now a Demon Peer and made him envious of the nobles' ignorance to that.
- Old Retainer: He has served Falmuth and its royal family for a long time at over centuries, something he prides himself over.
- Signature Laugh: He has a loud and grating "ka-ka-ka" Evil Laugh that he lets out when acting smugly confident about his strength. The laugh itself does not survive his encounter with Diablo.
- Silence, You Fool!: When the noble Carlos won't stop insulting Youm and by extension Rimuru, Razen resorts to shouting at him to shut up and freezing him in a hunk of ice because each ignorant word out of his mouth only brings Diablo closer to unleashing his hidden displeasure and anger on Falmuth.
- So Long, Suckers!: If he has to withdraw publicly, he makes a show of it. This is justified by the fact that anyone foolish or naive enough to attempt pursuit is usually going to run face-first into a booby-trap.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Invokes one by summoning a superior Earth Spirit to fight against Diablo. Diablo acknowledges the brilliance of this actionnote , then proceeds to instantly defeat the summoned Spirit by hitting its core. Diablo then berates Razen for summoning such a young inexperienced Spirit and states that a creature that only relies on brute strength is no match for him.
- Undying Loyalty: To his king and to Falmuth. Even after losing to Rimuru once and seeing his power firsthand, Razen still intended to save Edmalis from Rimuru's custody before Diablo came along to nip that in the bud. He swears his loyalty to Diablo in part because he knows otherwise Falmuth would be destroyed. He also stands up to his old master Gadra, even when he knew he was hopelessly outmatched.
- Villainous Friendship: With Folgen, due to the knight's loyalty to Farmus in spite of being a Summoned Otherworlder. Unlike the other three Otherworlders, he didn't magically enslave Folgen and saw him as a companion.
- Voices Are Not Mental: After taking Shougo's body, he sounds just like the young man, albeit more refined in his speech. Folgen notes this and admits it's weird hearing him speak in such a way with that voice.
Folgen
Voiced by: Shunichi Maki (Japanese), Adam Rowe (English) Foreign VAs
The captain of the guards for Falmuth and a loyal Otherworlder.
- Asshole Victim: In all his appearances, he shows himself to be such a massive scumbag, bringing about death and destruction purely because of what he can gain from it, that his sudden death by getting caught in Rimuru's Falmuth massacre can be considered too lenient and merciful a punishment for his monstrosity. In fact, just before his death he intended to gather together any surviving Falmuth knights and use them as Human Shields to protect the king and the rest of the high circle (himself included) with his [Spearhead] skill as they fled, not intending to let any of them have a choice in the matter.
- Bling of War: Wears shiny metal armor.
- Boom Head Shot: On the wrong end when Rimuru is laying waste to the armies of Falmuth. One of Rimuru's beams of light pierces his brain, killing him instantly.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Doesn't bother to hide how despicable he is. He even laments the deaths of Kyouya and Kirara, because they died in a way that kept him from stealing their skills.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Rirumu kills him before he can do anything. In the anime, he dies seconds after leaving the king's tent.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He did at the very least look down on several of his men's open lust and desires for the various beautiful female monsters in Tempest and told them to get back to their duty.
- Although it's not exactly clear if he disapproves of the action itself, or if he just finds the thought of lusting after monsters, specifically, repulsive. The outright pleasure he derived from mercilessly slaughtering even monster children during the pillaging of Tempest, and the hate-filled speech he gave in tandem, at least indicate that he certainly doesn't view any monster as worthy of compassion.
- Informed Ability: According to Ifirit and Veldora's observations, Folgen is strong enough to be comparable to the former, meaning he's at least Special A Rank. The audience wouldn't know from how quickly he dies to Rimuru's attack.
- Jumped at the Call: When he was summoned by the magicians of Falmuth, he was overjoyed, and didn't need to be magically enslaved.
- More than Mind Control: One of his Unique skills is [Spearhead], which allows him to perform Mind Manipulation on anybody who willingly serves under him, enhancing their fervor into doing literally anything for him, even giving their lives acting as Human Shields. Not that he gets a chance to use it before Rimuru kills him.
- No Body Left Behind: Rimuru uses his corpse along with the rest of the slain Falmuth knights to summon Diablo and his two demon subordinates, which resulted in them all being devoured and used to contsruct the demons' physical vessels.
- Power Parasite: He steals the special skills of any subordinate who dies before him, but there's a limit to how many skills he can steal this way.
- Villainous Friendship: With Razen, as despite being summoned by the mage he chose to willingly serve rather than need any magical enslavement, and ultimately they became friends.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He's fond of killing his underlings when they're no longer useful, so he can steal their skills.
Falmuth's Otherworlders
A trio of souls summoned from another world like Rimuru, explicitly used as military assets for the kingdom. In General
- Asshole Victim: Despite their Freudian Excuse, their actions are so vile, nobody sheds a tear at their deaths, not even each other, aside from moments where the death of one inconveniences the others. Not even Falmuth cared about their deaths in particular aside from the lost chance to transfer their Unique Skills to Folgen and Razen.
- Entitled Bastard: While they are understandably peeved that they were Kidnapped by the Call, they are otherwise treated like royalty and are given every luxury this entails when they aren't off killing on Falmuth's behalf, something they themselves admit to enjoy doing. Despite all of this, they believe that by virtue of their Chosen One status and their unique skills entitles them to do whatever they want and that everyone else are theirs to use, kill and take from.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: Shougo is the Fighter, being the brutal in-your-face physical combatant; Mizutani is the Mage, relying on her Compelling Voice to do the fighting with no physical abilities; and Kyouya is the Thief, being the most skilled weapon-master who uses finesse and dirty tricks via combat-based magic.
- Freudian Excuse: They are summoned without warning, or consent, enslaved by a magical curse, and forced to fight in an alien war with their lives on the line. This would grind on the sanity of anyone, but it's implied that they weren't good people to begin with.
- Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: They believe they are the strongest beings in the world despite never leaving Falmuth. While they are strong and a threat, they are nowhere near as powerful as they think they are.
- It's All About Me: These three act like how you would realistically expect a group of teenagers to behave in a classic isekai scenario. They expect to receive every luxury imaginable and when it’s not to their liking, they bitch about it endlessly.
- Jerkass: All of them are rather unpleasant people with inflated senses of self-importance. When they first see Tempest with their own eyes, they are insulted that a bunch of monsters are living more comfortable lives than them.
- Kidnapped by the Call: They were summoned against their will and without warning to the world of the story. Both Shougo and Kirihara express hatred for being summoned to a "backwater" world without modern conveniences, while Kyouya tries to look on the bright side.
- Knight of Cerebus: Their appearance is the turning point for the series to get darker.
- Lack of Empathy: They don't care about anyone else, not even each other, unless it suits their needs.
- One-Man Army: To their credit, they are legitimately powerful with their skills. Shougo and Mizutani killed the entire individual teams of mages that summoned them (Shougo with his bare hands and Mizutani with her Compelling Voice), while Tachinbana quickly became renowned as one of if not the best swordsmen in Falmuth. However, they vastly overestimate their abilities and it leads to their undoing.
- Sadist: They love seeing others suffer. If they're the ones suffering, on the other hand...
- Small Name, Big Ego: While they got some decently powerful Skills and physical boosts as expected of Summoned Otherworlders, they'd rate average at best by said Otherworlder standards, and they lacked the disposition to properly train and hone their abilities to their maximum. Despite this, they lord their powers over their opposition never considering they could lose.
- Smug Snake: They love to flout their self-perceived superiority over others, but when they're on the losing end, they're quick to have a breakdown.
- The Starscream: None of them like being subservient to Falmuth for obvious reasons. Kirihara outright admits she'd kill Razen if given the chance, Shougo doesn't disagree, and Kyouya while chiding the other two for being so open about it admits to himself that he wouldn't mind using the Tempest crisis as a a chance to kill their handlers so they can run off. Unfortunately for them, they all die before they even try to get those ambitions off the ground.
- Trapped in Another World: Like all the "wanderers," they can't go home.
- Unskilled, but Strong: All three of them have very powerful skills, the only problem is they rely entirely on said skills with perhaps only the barest amount of actual "training". Two of them are thrashed when they go up against opponents that have actually trained.
- Unwitting Pawn: When they were summoned, and enslaved, they were told that the kingdom of Falmuth was in desperate need of defenders from evil monsters. It's not until much, much later that they learn different, but being enslaved by Falmuth, they have no other choice but to go along.
- Would Hurt a Child: Even children are not spared from their depravity.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: What their ultimate fates would have been, being killed so their skills could be taken by Folgen and/or Razen. Shougo's just the only one who lived long to actually suffer this.
Kyouya Tachibana
Shut up, old man!
Voiced by: Sho Nogami (Japanese), Kyle Phillips (English) Foreign VAs
The swordsman of the three summoned black ops team.
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: His skill [Severer] produces invisible blades capable of cutting through just about anything thanks to being composed of the Space-element.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Thanks to his natural talent and his skills making him a Master Swordsman, he quickly grew conceited and believed that he was superior to everyone else in the world and surpassed the likes of Hinata Sakaguchi. As a result, he doesn't take losing to Hakurou well at all. Razen also calls out his arrogance after his death, stating that while Kyouya's Skills were indeed impressive, they were wasted on someone with little geniune skill or talent to use them to their fullest.
- Break the Haughty: When he's fighting Hakurou outside the magical debuff and anti-magic barriers placed on Tempest, he keeps getting smacked down by the sheer difference in power and skill between the two of them. He can't bring himself to believe that the only reason he had a shot previously is that he was being helped by the two barriers over Tempest, until his head is sent flying, and he slowly, oh-so-very-slowly, starts to die. And just to add a post-mortem insult to injury, Hakurou's next big fight is against the undead knight Albert, who at this point is a half-decayed swordsman who lacks any Unique Skill, unique equipment, or special advantage outside of pure skill and the immortality granted by his condition (which he didn't use as a crutch), in the very next arc, and Hakurou puts far more effort in just holding a draw than he ever did against Kyouya.
- Cruel Mercy: Self-inflicted. After being beheaded, his head takes three full minutes to die, but that's not the worst part. His own skill, [Hyper acceleration] is still active during this time, making him see and process information at 300 times normal. That means, from his perspective, he's experiencing the world as a severed head, for a minimum of 37 hours! If Kyouya had both of his mind accelerating skills active at their maximum output at the time of his beheading, he might have been experiencing his own death for 37,500 hours, which is 1562 days or over 4 years!
- Eyes Always Shut: When he's goofing around and admiring his own sense of superiority, his eyes look shut, as seen in the page image. When he has to get serious, he opens them all the way and starts going full-tilt Villainous Breakdown.
- Karmic Death: He's an arrogant Master Swordsman who beat Hakurou (while he was weakened by two anti-magic barriers) and injured several civilians (including children) so that they'd die slow and painful deaths. During their rematch, Hakurou proves that he more than outclasses him under normal circumstances, and then beheads him while he was using a skill that accelerates his thought processes, forcing him to die slowly and painfully as a severed head.
- Mask of Sanity: He comes off as the calmer and smarter one of the trio, but once he starts fighting he's the most deranged and small-minded among all of them.
- Master Swordsman: Even before he was summoned to this world he practiced fencing, and his skills were tailored to making him an even more dangerous swordsman to the point it was acknowledged he was the best in all of Falmuth. However, in spite of his growing ego, he's not the World's Best Warrior, as Hakurou demonstrates first-hand. Razen also mocks him post-death, claiming that Kyouya legitimately had powerful Skills and some talent, but they were wasted on a person who squandered his skill and talent to rely on said Skills like a crutch.
- Oblivious to His Own Description: After beating Hakurou, he claims to Shougo that there's nothing more satisfying than cutting down someone filled with self-confidence. He finds himself on the receiving end of that during his rematch with Hakurou.
- Off with His Head!: How he dies, oh-so-slowly.
- Shut Up, Kirk!: As he's getting bested by the Kijin's best swordsman, and lectured on how he's in a clearly inferior position, he yells "shut up, old man" and then activates his [Hyper Acceleration] skill, hoping for a decisive blow in his favor. Unfortunately, there is a decisive blow alright, against him.
- Suicidal Overconfidence: Despite Hakurou showing just how outclassed he really is under normal conditions, Kyouya refuses to accept that he's already lost and only grows more desperate to try and gain a nonexistent advantage to the point of ranting angrily as he keeps attacking. Even fellow Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy Shougo was at least smart enough to realize when he was outmatched to try and run or beg for mercy.
- Super-Reflexes: [Hyper Acceleration] allows him to perceive and react at over 300x normal speeds, such that to him most enemies seem to be standing still as he strikes them down while they're helpless. In a pinch, he can up the speed to 1000x normal. This ends up turning against him when Hakurou reveals he can move so fast [Hyper Acceleration] needs time to catch up with his movements, meaning that Kyouya can only stare in shock and horror as his head is severed from his shoulders and he can't do a thing about it but suffer.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Just Super-Senses that speed up your perception of time is not enough to face an opponent who is overwhelmingly superior to you physically. When Hakurou goes all-out against him, he can see the attack coming, but his body won't move, lacking the Super-Speed necessary to actually counter. In fact, Hakurou's comments imply that even Kyouya's senses were outpaced by the sheer speed of the strike, as he states that Kyouya's eyes should be "catching up" by now. In short, he was unable to make full use of his Super-Reflexes because, in his arrogance, he never trained his body to function at the same speed as his mind, leaving him open to an opponent who had. To add insult to injury, those same senses that failed to save him make him perceive his death as lasting several agonizing minutes instead of a few seconds.
- Throwing Your Sword Always Works: He can fire his blade out of the sword hilt at a target and use the spatial element to duplicate it into a Storm of Blades. Hakurou easily countering all of them without trouble is the first break in his otherwise confident face.
- Unknown Rival: He goes off spouting about how his power is superior to Hinata. Not once does Hinata herself ever mention him, implying that she doesn't even know who he is.
- Would Hit a Girl: He's quite eager to cut up Shuna during the attack on Tempest and expressed his desire to do the same to Hinata.
- Wound That Will Not Heal: By using the Spatial element, he can imbue the wounds he causes with it so that they won't heal naturally or with magic. Rimuru has to analyze and remove the magic affecting Hakurou's wounds from his first battle first before they can start healing them.
Kirihara Mizutani
Oh, what took you so long. I was getting bored, yanno?!
- Alas, Poor Villain: In the anime, her last words were gasping out "Mom" just before Shougo gives her a Neck Snap. The light novel precedes this with a brief explanation of why she acted as she did. She is still an Asshole Victim, to be sure, but it does a little to paint her as a slightly tragic figure.
- Berserk Button: She's rather obsessed with maintaining her appearance, and views herself as a very alluring woman. As a consequence, anybody that insults her looks, such as Gobta calling her a "little girl" leagues below Shion in beauty, infuriates her immensely, to the point she dropped her Fake Cutie act and tried to simply command everybody in Tempest to "die".
- Compelling Voice: With her Unique skill [Bewilder], she can use the power of her voice to buff allies or debuff enemies with certain orders. This includes ordering people to kill themselves.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Unlike Kyouya and Shougo, who have actual combat prowess to back up their Unique skills, all she has going for her is [Bewilder], with her otherwise being physically the same as any other teenaged human girl. Anybody that can outright ignore her Compelling Voice will find her quite defenseless if caught alone.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: She's completely remorseless about all the deaths she has caused with her ability, but in the anime her last words before dying to Shougo shows that she still loved her mother enough to cry out for her.
- The Fake Cutie: This is her attempted method for inciting a "justified" war between Tempest and Falmuth, invoking a Wounded Gazelle Gambit by pretending to be an innocent human girl assaulted by Gobzo, making everybody else believe her lie with [Bewilder], and trying to incite Gobzo into attacking her. Her plan fails due to Gobta coming by and clearing things up, and him innocently insulting her looks makes her drop the act.
- I Want My Mommy!: Her final words in the anime as Shougo kills her.
- Logical Weakness: Her voice has to be heard to have an effect, so if there's a loud commotion going on, she's useless.
- Neck Snap: Her demise comes about through Shougo performing a Neck Lift on her and squeezing harder and harder, strangling her until her neck gives out and makes a loud snap.
- Power Limiter: Due to how dangerous her Compelling Voice is along with her open hatred for the people that summoned her, Razen put a magic limiter on her than prevents her from using it normally, only lifting it for her mission to Tempest.
- Too Dumb to Live: While there's a battle going on just outside her tent, she completely lowers her guard and starts painting her fingernails, rather than preparing to run or hide. It gets her killed.
- Wrong Assumption: She presumed that since Shougo was coming into her tent, he'd won his fight. The real reason he was there was trying to run and hide. She winds up being killed by him to boost his own strength and recover from injuries he got from fighting Geld.
Shougo Taguchi
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy:
- Very, very arrogant. He presumes he can beat anyone in close-quarters combat, and those wearing armor or shields are cowards. He goes so far as to claim he's an equal of Hinata Sakaguchi, one of and leader of the Ten Great Saints of the Western Saints Church.
- In the anime he boasts himself to be invincible after gaining the [Survivor] skill. Geld proves him wrong the very second they resume fighting.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: His main fighting style, which he was already versed in even before summoning and helped along by his skill [Berserker] giving him boosted physical strength and defense. His bare fists can even punch through the solid metal of Geld's thick shield.
- Battle Strip: In the light novel, when he decides to get serious against Geld, he throws off his jacket. This proves a fundamentally bad idea.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Attempts to goad Geld into dropping his battle gear to (fakely) invoke Let's Fight Like Gentlemen with their fists. Geld after reaching the limits of his patience does indeed drop his weapon and decide to fight with his fists, so that he can give Shougo a drawn-out and painful No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- Came Back Strong: After barely surviving his fight with Geld (and killing Mizutani to recover), he gains a new skill [Survivor], which gives him an enhanced Healing Factor. It's heavily implied it was influenced by his sheer terror at dying. Not that it does him much good against a pissed off Geld, who holds back considerably less.
- Death of Personality: His soul is destroyed by Razen who then takes his body for himself.
- Dirty Coward: He loves to lord it over others when he thinks he's in the superior position, but when he's in the inferior position, he's shameless in running, hiding, begging, or doing whatever he can to prolong his own life. Even his new skill, [Survivor], came from the fact that, once he realized his opponents had an advantage over him, he was terrified to die.
- Gathering Steam: One of the abilities [Berserker] gives him is that he gets stronger the more people that die around him, whether by his own hands or of others.
- Healing Factor: [Survivor] gives him both Elemental Resistances and Rapid Regeneration, with him boasting that he could get his head cut off and he would come back. Geld decides to give it a work out and starts beating him with his bare fists along with rotting him with the [Corrosion] skill, resulting in Shougo's boasting quickly turning to frantic begging to stop since, while he did receive Cancel Pain as part of the package, his newly-gained skill could do nothing for his spirit — and it only took ten minutes (which felt like hours) for his heart and soul to break under the pressure. Nor does it save him from soul damage, as proven when Razen destroys his soul.
- Hypocrite: In the manga, he calls Geld summoning a second shield "a dirty trick" when he attacked helpless demi-humans, including women and children, inside Tempest, as they were weakened by not one, but two barriers; a monster-weakening barrier, and an anti-magic barrier.
- I'm a Humanitarian: It's completely omitted from both the manga and anime, but the light novel notes that the way he managed to acquire [Survivor] after killing Kirihara was through consuming her flesh in order to absorb her Otherworlder essence, showing just how far he's willing to sink morally for power. It's also why Geld got especially angry at him for his power-up, since it reminded him of his people's own desperation to survive that brought them to become ravenous savages under [Starved] who were willing to eat even their own friends and family.
- "Just Joking" Justification: As Geld pauses briefly to catch his breath, Shougo pleads and begs that all his earlier insults, bluster, and despicable acts were just "a joke," empty bravado, and "he didn't mean it." This does absolutely nothing to sway Geld into sparing him.
- Lack of Empathy: Has no remorse any of his evil actions and takes sadistic pleasure in making Rimuru's people suffer just for the fun of it and held no regards for what he did.
- Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: He calls out Geld for being in full battle gear when they square off, to which Geld retorts that his logic doesn't make sense. Of course, Shougo doesn't really want to fight fair, and just wants to see if Geld can drop his gear.
- Karmic Death: He murdered Kirihara for a quick power-up. Razen murdered his soul to steal his body.
- Narcissist: Believes that he's above everyone and that only he should decide who lives and dies. He also has no loyalty towards anyone as he even killed Kirihara just to gain more power and save himself.
- Psychological Projection: Since he's a complete coward, he angrily accuses Geld of being a coward for wearing armor and having a shield.
- Required Secondary Powers: Contrary to appearances, Shougo did get [Pain Nullification] as part of his [Survivor] skill, as well as near-instantaneous regeneration, after murdering Mizutani. Why then, was he screaming and totally helpless as Geld repeatedly pounded him into the ground? Because Geld's [Rot] ability was also harming Shougo's spiritual body, plus getting his face smashed in was still very traumatizing for a Dirty Coward like him.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: He was right to be distrustful of Falmuth, knowing that he and the others were only pawns to be used. Unfortunately for him, he didn't realize Falmuth intended to ultimately dispose of them in order to harvest their Skills.
- Sadist: Loves to torture and kill just for kicks and even suggested taking Shuna as his slave and torture her for his own sick amusement.
- Shut Up, Kirk!: While fighting Geld, he repeatedly yells "Shut up, Pig" as the latter was pointing out that this is a war, not a sporting event, and there's nothing "dirty" or "cowardly" about bringing your full might to bear on the enemy, or coming from an advantageous position against an enemy combatant.
- Villains Want Mercy: As Geld is pounding his face into mush, he repeatedly begs Geld to stop. Geld decides to grant mercy, alright, in the form of a Mercy Kill. Shougo runs away screaming in terror at the prospect.
- Unknown Rival: Like Kyouya, he gloats how much stronger he is than Hinata. Again, Hinata never mentions him and is very clearly far stronger than he will ever hope to be.
- Would Hit a Girl: Not only does he have no qualms attacking and even killing women, as shown with both Shion and Kirihara, he actually gets some notable sadistic glee out of targeting females specifically.
- Wrong Assumption: When he starts pounding on Geld, with the latter doing nothing to retaliate, he presumes Geld's too overwhelmed by his sheer awesomeness to fight back. What's really going on is that Geld's using a [Corrosion] ability. He winds up looking at his limbs and realized he was basically punching a bag of formic acid.
Kingdom of Seltrozzo
Granville Rozzo
Granville Rozzo
Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (Japanese)
One of the most powerful men in all the Western Nations, Granville Rozzo in his youth was a True Hero who fought many battles to defeat monsters and protect humanity. In his old age, he has hung up his sword and now prefers to act through the shadows and various identities, such as Gren of the Holy Empire of Ruberios' Seven Luminaries or as the leader of the Five Elders, a group of humans who work in the shadows to dominate the Western Nations through the economy and politics. He sees the rise of Tempest as a serious challenger to the world order and peace he desires: a world for humanity.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He geniunely loves his deceased wife Maria, holds his friendship with his monster comrade Razul to the highest level (which is reciprocated), and treasures his granddaughter Mariabell despite knowing she doesn't return the sentiment deep down.
- Ideal Hero: In his youth, Gran was the classic hero who fought monsters, saved people, and had a band of True Companions who shared his dream of a better world. He soured a bit as centuries of effort and personal tragedies/betrayals began to wear on him.
- Inconsistent Spelling: His name is also translated as "Granbell Rosso" by Yen Press.
- Lonely at the Top: This is Rimuru's opinion of him in the end: A legendary man who achieved strength and renown while dedicating himself to high-minded ideals for the sake of others...but ultimately ended up isolated from the very people he wanted to help and only got worse as his True Companions died around him.
- Love Makes You Evil: After Granville's death, Luminous explaining things reveals it was his wife Maria's death that was the breaking point to turning Granville into the hardened Well-Intentioned Extremist willing to stoop to any low to see his dreams through. Ironically, it was the death of his granddaughter Mariabell, which seemed to push him over the edge completely, that helped him get his head back on straight and take the measures to try and fix things with his own death.
- Master of All: During his long life, Granville mastered by his own admittance every type of weapon that existed in the world at the time. As the Sun Priest Gren, he exclusively uses hand-to-hand combat, but his original and preferred weapon is the sword.
- Old Soldier: He's over a thousand years old, which for reference is nigh-on unheard of for a human in this setting. Even if he technically had help from Luminous, most of the other humans in this setting even approaching this age need to rely on stealing other bodies or Born-Again Immortality. He's also one of the strongest humans in the story period, capable of holding his own with Hinata easily and, once his youth is restored, overpowering her before fighting evenly with Luminous herself.
- Retired Badass: Granville was a legitimate True Hero in his prime, but being over 1000 years old means he prefers to work through others rather than step in personally himself. When he comes out of retirement for his final plan, he surprises everyone save for Luminous herself with how dangerous he truly is.
- Sink or Swim Mentor: Granville doesn't hold hands when it comes to his "tests". Rimuru speculates that the Luminaries' Uriah Gambit on Adalmann was allowed by Gran because he truly wanted to see if Adalmann had what it took to stop the Zombie Dragon and its army, and he spends much of the fight with Hinata lecturing her on both her style and hidden demons like he truly wants her to get stronger.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: For as much as his morality and ethics have decayed from his youth, Gran at his core has never stopped desiring his better world for humans. He just has no problem manipulating, hurting, or killing as many as he needs to in order to see it done. Even his final plan, which initially seems like a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum, ultimately turns out to be a Thanatos Gambit meant to release humanity's strongest True Hero to return to the fight while revealing the deceptions of Yuuki to all of the Western Nations.
Mariabell Rozzo
Mariabell Rozzo
Voiced by: Inori Minase (Japanese)
The granddaughter of Granville Rozzo who is set to inherit the Rozzo family's dream of a united world for humanity. She's also a Reincarnated Otherworlder, and unlike her grandfather her investment in this scheme is far more selfish.
- Enfant Terrible: She looks like a cute child. Though in truth, as a reincarnation, she still possesses the memories and maturity of her old life. She's also a scheming sociopath.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She apparently believes that Rimuru's successes are part of his plan to assume control over the world. Rimuru has no interest in acquiring more power, and he only does so out of need to protect his nation and friends, but for someone like Mariabell that of course would sound ludicrious.
- Greed: Her Unique Skill of the same name, which allows her to take control over others through their desires. She can also strengthen someone by burning out their souls or even invert one's desire to live into a desire to die.
- Hime Cut: She is the princess of Kingdom of Siltrosso, sporting blunt bangs, bra strap length sidelocks, and waist length straight hair.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: To her fellow conspirators among the Five Elders she espouses the same dream of her grandfather for a united world with the Rozzos holding the power behind the scenes, all for the betterment of humanity. In reality, Mariabell is in it more to satisfy her desire to Take Over the World for her betterment first, humanity second.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She has the physical build of a child, yet her Unique Skill is so powerful that she's explicitly stated to be strong enough to defeat a Demon Lord Seed like Frey or Carrion.
- Psychological Projection: She tells her grandfather that Rimuru is attempting to take over the world through economy and take the place of the Rozzo family, which is exactly what she intends to do (albeit inheriting the Rozzo family peacefully). She apparently can't fathom the idea that someone can have power and be content with said power rather than seeking to increase it.
- Smug Snake: She believes that her unique skill Greed makes her unbeatable. While she is exceptionally strong by human standards, she judges an Awakened Demon Lord like Rimuru to only be as strong as a Demon Lord Seed, and didn't even bother to learn Rimuru was in possession of multiple Ultimate Skills, which make him automatically immune to her Unique Skill. When they actually come to physical blows, Mariabell is left flat-footed by how Rimuru casually incinerates one of her A-Rank Adventurer minions further enhanced by her Unique Skill, and grows increasingly desperate as her own assault fails to make him flinch. Only an intervention from Yuuki saves her...only for to end up dying later in that same battle at Yuuki's hands, who reveals he was just faking being controlled by her Unique Skill for his own benefit and she never once questioned if her "Greed" could be subverted so.
- The Sociopath: All she cares about is seeking power and taking control over the world. Even though her grandfather cares greatly for her, in truth, Mariabell only sees him as an useful pawn.
Holy Empire of Ruberios
Hinata Sakaguchi
Another Otherworlder from Japan, Shizue's first and most loyal disciple, leader of the Ten Great Saints, and supreme commander of both the Holy Empire's military and the Imperial Holy Church's paladins. Thanks to someone painting Rimuru in the worst possible light, she comes at the slime protagonist, seeking to kill him and destroy Tempest in revenge for Shizue's death. She refuses to let him speak, and pointedly does not listen to his explanation regarding the incident.
- Adaptational Personality Change: She undergoes quite the change in personality between web novel and subsequent adaptations. In the web novel, she was something of a sociopath with a self-righteous mindset plus being under Mind Control that only mellowed out after more interactions with Rimuru and Tempest. In the light novel, while still capable of self-righteousness she's much more mellowed out and heroic and not under any mind manipulation even before her proper Heel–Face Turn. Notably, in the web novel she went straight to the Holy Empire's Seven Luminaries to request a weapon and the forces necessary to destroy Rimuru after learning he survived and became a True Demon Lord and was being mind-controlled in part by Yuuki's influence. In the light novel she reflected on her actions after the fact, realized she had been duped by false information and let her emotions get the better of her, and was willing to give Rimuru the benefit of the doubt before being given another source of false info courtesy of the Seven Luminaries (who were manipulating her to get her and Rimuru killed) that made it seem like he wanted a one-on-one duel. Even then, she was amazed enough at witnessing Tempest's prosperity that she truly wanted to apologize and try for peace before fighting.
- Anti-Magic: Her body naturally dispels and purifies Magicules, meaning she has innate resistance to most magic aside from Holy, which doesn't rely on Magicules but rather faith, or certain Ultimate Skill effects, as long as they don't come from herself. This also includes healing based magic or magic potions, meaning Rimuru can't heal her with his potions when she takes a fatal blow for him and is forced to outright create a replacement heart for her to extend her life long enough to get proper treatment from Luminous' Holy Magic.
- Armor-Piercing Attack: Her "Dead End Rainbow" sword is completely unblockable and tears through armor to strike directly at the soul. Notably, this is one of the few techniques legitimately and reliably capable of killing Rimuru.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: She became the leader the Ten Great Saints via not only becoming the strongest member of the Templars sub-division, but by defeating Saare of the Pope's Three Sage Warriors sub-division, gaining complete control of the group.
- Awesome by Analysis: Her [Mathematician] Unique Skill allows her speed up her thought processes, analyze the battlefield, and even predict attacks, to the point she can keep up with Great Sage and even Raphael. Rimuru needs to outright develop a Combat Clairvoyance skill of his own to keep up.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Downplayed. According to Fuze and backed up by Gazel and Elalude, Hinata is always ready to lend a hand to those who come to her for help, but she won't waste her time with people who ignore her advice. As a result, she's seen as the model knight and true protector of law and order to the human nations.
- Big Eater: She is shown to eat and enjoy certain food while on her way to Tempest and as a guest, and many of the food she's eaten were modern food from Japan Rimuru made. It's even Serious Business with her when Fritz tried to get the last gyoza dumpling, and Rimuru notices how she enjoys it and complains about it. She even asks what was on the dinner menu, and is impressed when Rimuru states they'd have sukiyaki.
- David Versus Goliath: Her Unique Skill [Usurper] encourages these kinds of matchups with her on the weaker end by letting her steal skills from those who are stronger than her. It has a chance of failure, but she can use it as many times as she wishes until she succeeds. However, it flat-out won't work against foes with or are about to develop Ultimate Skills due to their inherent immunity to lower tier skills as she learned first-hand when she used it on True Demon Lord Luminous, and its failure against Rimuru in their second bout is all the proof she needs to know he's definitely in Luminous' tier now.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Continuing the trend of how Rimuru makes friends and allies, Hinata joins his circle after her defeat. She even ends up falling in love with him after inadvertedly ending up on a 2000 year long time travel trip as a soul inside of Chloe's body and listening to the love-struck girl talk about him during that time.
- Dissonant Serenity: As she's attacking Rimuru, she never once falters or changes her demeanor, regardless of what's going on, even when Rimuru uses "Gluttony" to eat her sword, go One-Winged Angel, and still attack her even though (she believes) his soul is dead.
- The Dragonslayer: In the light novel, she is given the "Dragon Buster" sword to fight Rimuru and Veldora by the Seven Luminaries, with them claiming it's been enchanted to be particularly effective against dragons. She finds the name a little on the nose, and flat-out drops the sword in the light novel with no intent of using it when she prepares for her fight with Rimuru, though in the manga she gives it a few experimental swings against him before throwing it aside on deciding to go-all out. It was actually a booby-trapped weapon meant to explode at a critical moment during the fight between her and Rimuru to kill either of them.
- Fantastic Racism: She utterly refuses to see "monsters" as anything other than targets to exterminate, with her even viewing Luminous Valentine (for all her loyalty) as a Necessarily Evil that she would exterminate if she ever deviated from her selfish benevolence towards humans. Justified by the fact that ever since she arrived in this world she was leading the charge in protecting humans from rampaging monsters and went so far as to reorganize the Church's military so they could better deal with attacks. She had never fought a monster that wasn't a threat trying to hurt someone. She drops this behavior after seeing Tempest's glory with her own eyes and burying the hatchet with Rimuru.
- Fatal Flaw: Stubbornness. If vindictive enough, she will focus on her objective and refuse to listen to anything otherwise. This is proven when she first tries to kill Rimuru and ignores anything he has to say. She later realizes that her brashness may have costed her a good ally when Luminous tells her that his intentions are pure and fears that Rimuru may hold a grudge against her because of this. To her relief, that was not the case, although manipulations put them into conflict again.
- Heel–Face Turn: After Rimuru defeats her in their second encounter, she calms down and listens to his side of the story, apologizing to him and his people and finally burying the hatchet.
- Holy Hand Grenade: Her spell "Disintegration" is a massive light attack that destroys souls and can level a mountain if she didn't specifically contain it to a special barrier. She can focus it into a single sword slash called "Melt Slash" as her ultimate attack.
- Holy Is Not Safe: She wields plenty of holy magic spells and they're all insanely dangerous, with huge area of effect attacks, and can't differentiate friend from foe.
- I've Come Too Far: She briefly undergoes this after her first fight with Rimuru and realizes upon returning to the Holy Empire that the merchants who gave her info had lied and manipulated her, but she decides that she's burned any bridges she could have forged with him and thus doesn't hesitate in their second fight when it comes down to it despite her growing doubts. Then it becomes subverted when she realizes just how far the conspiracy goes and goes the Taking the Bullet route, and Rimuru shows he could in fact forgive her.
- Knight Templar: She is extremely judgemental and self-righteous, self-admitted at that. Justified as she was raised that way.
- Light Is Good: In the light novel and subsequent adaptations, she wields holy and light based magic, wears paladin gear, and is considered a foremost champion and hero of humanity who desires to safeguard them. She originally comes into conflict with Tempest and Rimuru thanks to misinformation and her own grudge, but proves in time to be a stalwart ally as well.
- Light Is Not Good: She wields holy and light based magic, wears white paladin gear, but in the web novel she's so self-righteous and judgemental that she's a menace.
- Locked Out of the Loop: She was purposefully given the sparsity of details to make it certain that Rimuru would be seen as a cruel monster in her eyes. When Rimuru tries to fill in the holes, she refuses to listen. She realizes after the fact that she was likely manipulated and lied to and Rimuru really was trying to tell her the truth, but considers it a case of I've Come Too Far. She then tries to go Tempest to properly apologize, but the conspiracy of the Seven Luminaries ends up playing Hinata and Rimuru against each other again. Later when everything comes out, she willingly listens and is quite horrified to discover she was played like a fiddle.
- Magic Knight: She is equally skilled with the sword and holy attack magic.
- Master Swordsman: She is so skilled with the blade that it makes Rimuru think he's fighting "Great Sage." During their second fight, Rimuru notes in a straight sword fight the only one who could match her would be Hakurou, and he would still lose in the end.
- Mercy Kill: She does this to an undead messenger Rimuru sends in the web novel.
- A Mother to Her Men: Played with. She does indeed care about the Knights under her command, but it's not out of true concern for their well-being. It's because they've been entrusted to her by Luminous and thus should be cared for like one would care for a set of good weapons or tools.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When Luminous tells her about Rimuru just wanting to live in his nation in peace, she realized that she horribly misjudged him and the things he was trying to tell her during the first battle were very likely true. Also learning the severity of what Falmuth has done to Tempest as she was fighting him left a bad taste in her mouth.
- Named Weapons: She wields plenty of them, such as "Dead-End Rainbow", "Drago Buster" and "Moonlight".
- Never Be Hurt Again: At her core, Hinata is a person who hates losing what she loves. She obtained her Unique Skill [Usurper] due to the Voice of the World responding her inner desire against her Dark and Troubled Past to stop having things be taken from her and instead be the one doing the taking. She left Shizue despite loving her because she secretly feared that one day Shizu would leave her first and she wasn't sure how she'd react.
- Not So Above It All: Under her serious demeanor, Hinata is fully willing to drop a few jokes or show a sillier, petty side.
- After she and her paladins eat ramen on the way to Tempest, Hinata warns them not to drink the leftover soup or else they'll get fat. When Litus complains that she drank all the soup, Hinata merely replies that she's "naturally skinny", which earns her a glare from Litus that she takes amusement in.
- When she blitzed through the lower levels of the Labyrinth, she demanded payment for being the one to conquer those floors as Rimuru promised. Rimuru wiggled his way out of that one and basically left Mjöllmile to pay her.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: In the web novel, she is completely and totally focused on her mission to destroy Rimuru, trapping him in a barrier that prevents him from using his more powerful skills, equipping herself with a sword-skill that can kill him, and refusing to listen to his reasoning. When she learns that not only did he survive their first duel but has also become a Demon Lord, her response is to arm herself to the bone with holy weapons and lead an army of powerful Templars to Tempest to finish the job. Downplayed in the light novel, where despite being cautious, she wants to find a peaceful method between her and Rimuru.
- One-Man Army: She's one of the most powerful humans in the west, capable of challenging and defeating Demon Lords under the right conditions. In the light novels, Rimuru even outright states that Hinata alone is more dangerous than the entirety of the 20,000-strong army of the Kingdom of Falmuth. She's also the leader and strongest of the Church's paladins, with even an average one said to be worth several hundred to a thousand men on their own.
- Patricide: When her father's company went bankrupt, he turned to gambling and eventually started getting violent with her mother. One day, Hinata had enough of it and killed him via pushing him off a cliff into the ocean. Even she was shocked after the fact, but she tried to comfort herself by noting that now her mom was safe and they could collect the insurance for their money problems. Unfortunately, her mother fell into a deep depression despite never learning the truth and ended up neglecting Hinata as she tried to turn to religion for answers and stability. In the present, Hinata carries deep regret over the whole affair.
- Power Parasite: Her Unique Skill [Usurper] allows her to steal and copy the Skills, Arts, or even Summons of her enemies, albeit only those who are stronger than her, and while it has a chance to fail she can reactivate it with little cost to herself as much as she wants until she succeeds. She can also use [Forced Usurption] to steal the power of those weaker than her, but that costs even more energy to use. Only beings who possess or have all but reached the point they are about to evolve Ultimate Skills are outright immune.
- Power Gives You Wings: In the manga, when she dons her Holy Spirit Armaments to draw out her full power she gains six small wings of light out of her back.
- Revenge Before Reason: When she hears that Rimuru is responsible for Shizue's death, she devotes herself to destroying him and the entire nation of Tempest in revenge, and refuses to hear the specifics, stating "only the end result matters, the particulars are meaningless." When she realizes she was manipulated in the light novel, she does regret her actions but believes she's burned any bridges she could have made with Rimuru, but she comes around.
- Royal Rapier: Her ultimate weapon is Moonlight, a rapier given to her by Luminous. It has the ability to pierce dimensional barriers and ignore defenses, which makes it an ideal weapon for clashing with Rimuru since it can penetrate [Uriel's] spatial defenses.
- Serious Business: Food, and especially food from Japan. When she went to a ramen shop that was opened in Blumund, she orders a bowl and a plate of gyoza while taking in the nostalgia. Then she immediately denies Fritz the last gyoza since she was aiming for it, with a Death Glare to boot. Rimuru even notices this when he sees her eating some of the food Tempest made, and complains while eating scones and potato ledges.
- Sore Loser: Save in rare cases such as her second fight with Rimuru, and she didn't even want to fight him in the first place, Hinata doesn't admit defeat gracefully. After she lost to Veldora in the Labyrinth when she had cut through every previous floor, trap, and boss by herself, she held onto the grudge and had Chloe let her take the lead when they sealed Veldora in the past to avenge herself of said defeat.
- Soul-Cutting Blade: With the Dead-End Rainbow, she can use "rainbow magic" to destroy your soul if she manages to land seven consecutive sword strikes.
- Surpassed the Teacher: She had surpassed the strength of Shizue within a month of her tutelage, as well as the Seven Luminaries of the Church. But then subverted to even her shock when Granbell Rosso, the mightiest of the Seven and a former Chosen Hero himself, reveals both the depths of his millenia of skill and is able to rejuvenate himself to his prime.
- Taking the Bullet:
- In the light novel, when she realizes just how deep the conspiracy goes during her second battle with Rimuru, she ends up willingly shielding him from the exploding Dragon Buster sword given to her by the Seven Luminaries and is fatally injured, though ultimately saved by Luminous' Ultimate Skill.
- Later in the light novel, she takes a fatal Melt Slash from Granbell to protect Chloe, which starts outright destroying her soul. It takes Chloe undergoing a Fusion Dance and Sharing a Body with Hinata's soul into her own body to save her.
- Took a Level in Idealism: Her time in Tempest and witnessing all the technological and societal progress gives her a new perspective on monsters.
- Turn to Religion: Hinata has a complicated relationship with this trope. After she killed her father, her mother despite his past abuse fell into a deep depression upon believing he had abandoned their family and sought religion for stability. As this came at the cost of neglecting Hinata herself, she initially grew resentful of it. After she ended up in the new world, however, Hinata herself would end up turning to Luminism partly for stability to deal with her own personal issues as well as being inspired by watching its paladins fight to protect innocent and helpless people, even admitting that while she could never bring herself to want to know what her mother's religion was about, she'd like to think it has good messages to follow.
- Unknown Rival: She has so many, she doesn't even notice. Because she's considered the World's Best Warrior of the west as far as the public is concerned, every swordsman (such as fellow Otherworlder Kyouya) and wizard aims to surpass her in strength and ability (sometimes both), but she herself views it as an annoyance at best and only worth acknowledging if they're directly coming at her or Luminous. Even the finest warriors of the Eastern Empire acknowledge and dream of fighting her when their invasion begins.
- Unwitting Pawn: Yuuki, the merchants, and even the Seven Luminaries sure knew how to make use of her focus of avenging Shizue.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: Hinata is the first True Demon Lord-tier enemy Rimuru fought, and the first enemy fought in a straight battle where Rimuru could not win. She's far more skilled, can counter everything that Rimuru could throw at her and has an attack that ignores Rimuru's defenses. All Rimuru could do is trick her into defeating a decoy and then hide until she left.
- When She Smiles: Rimuru notices that when she actually legitimately smiles, she's incredibly beautiful.
- World's Best Warrior: Hinata is considered the greatest warrior of the Holy Church and on a comparable power tier to a True Demon Lord as proven by Luminous' faith in her when using her best weapons and armor, having long ago surpassed the strength of the likes of Shizue and being able to kill unawakened Demon Lords like when she mutually fatally injured Roy and Louis Valentine when she discovered their vampire identities before Luminous saved all of them.. Rimuru even admits during their second fight that despite his True Demon Lord ascension, Hinata far surpasses him in sword skill and technical ability and it's only his boosted physical abilities and various skills that compensate to give him the advantage. Short of Chloe once she unlocks her full power, part of which comes from her Fusion Dance with Hinata, and Granbell Rosso (who had to rejuvenate himself to his prime in order to take the decisive edge), she's the strongest human of the western nations and only surpassed by specific individuals of the Eastern Empire.
Ten Great Saints
The ten most powerful holy knights/paladins of the Western Saints Church. In General
- Holy Hand Grenade: All of them can use Holy Magic.
- Interservice Rivalry: The two sub-divisions don't get along much at all. The Three Sage Warriors view the Holy Knights as a bunch of boot-lickers to Hinata and pansies that would never beat a "real" enemy, while the Holy Knights view the Sage Warriors as prideful stuck-ups disrespectful of their commanding officer and in need of a reality check of their place on the pecking order.
- Magic Knight: All of them are both skilled magic users along with masters of their weapons of choice, and they can even combine the two to make them even deadlier.
- Non-Indicative Name:
- Downplayed; only Hinata and Saare have actually reached the level of Saint, but to even qualify for the position you have to at least be an Enlightened/Sage, with the expectation you will hone yourself to the level of Saint and even Hero.
- With Garde's death and the disbandment of the Imperial Guard, the very name is truly defunct.
- The Paladin: They're knights of a holy empire and church who fight to protect humans from the threat of monsters and are blessed by the powers of spirits and wield powerful magic based in their faith with their god. The truth that their "god" is in fact a True Demon Lord does shake many of them, but that doesn't change their desire to do good.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: Hinata is the most powerful overall and thus is the top leader, while Saare is the leader and strongest member of the Imperial Guard subdivision. The Templar/Crusader subdivision plays with this since Leonard is the vice-captain despite Arnaud being the strongest swordsman short of Hinata, since Leonard's leadership skills are far superior and if one factors in Leonard's magical expertise they're actually evenly-matched.
- Took a Level in Badass: The Holy Knights began training within the lower levels of the Labyrinth to hone their abilities, while Glenda joined the Shadow Squad under Souei and Saare and Grigori became disciples of Razen.
Holy Knights/Templars/Crusaders
The six warriors who are directly under the command of Hinata Sakaguchi. In General
- Foil: To Rimuru's squad. They are all-powerful warriors who protect humanity and are naturally opposed to monsters, but they have little to no loyalty to each other. The only reason they cooperate at all is due to Hinata's leadership.
Leonard Jester of Light
Voiced by: Kenji Nojima (Japanese)
Vice-captain of the group.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He has long glowing blonde locks and was chosen by the light spirits for his sense of justice and kindness.
- Hero-Worshipper: Hinata saved his life when he was an apprentice, and he was inspired by her to become a great hero himself.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: To be more like his idol Hinata he chose improve his swordsmanship despite his preference for magic. It worked out for him since he's only behind Arnaud in terms of sword skills among the Crusaders.
- Light 'em Up: As his Red Baron suggests, this is his specialty.
- It's All My Fault: He has this realization when by the time he pierces together the Luminaries have used him as an Unwitting Pawn, he sees that Hinata and Rimuru have already engaged each other and that he ruined the chance of peace talks before conflict begins.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: The man could give Leon a run for his money in both hair length and good looks.
- Magic Knight: While all the Ten Great Saints are this, Leonard stands out both because magic is his actual preference and that he's well-versed in all forms of magic (Elemental, Spiritual, and Holy) alongside his swordsmanship.
- Red Baron: Jester of Light.
- Unwitting Pawn: The Luminaries trick him into thinking that Hinata is actually evil by revealing her connection to the Demon Lord Roy Valentine and insinuating that she's conspiring with Rimuru, which sends him chasing after Hinata to confirm these claims and making Tempest think Hinata is coming for a fight rather than a talk. He only realizes he's been duped when he thinks over the events while battling Shion...and then gets stabbed by the fake Garde when he tries to call out the arriving Luminaries, though he does survive.
Arnaud Bauman of Space
Voiced by: Eiji Takemoto (Japanese)
The strongest knight under only Hinata herself.
- Always Second Best: To Hinata. Arnaud is acknowledged as the strongest knight of the Church...except against Hinata. Everything Arnaud can do in regards to magic, spirits, or swordsmanship? Hinata can do too and do it better, with the only real differences being their equipment (which Hinata's is superior) and their preferred tactics. Noticeably, Arnaud doesn't have a grudge or complex over this, unlike Saare.
- Master of All: Not only does he wield the five major elements (Water, Wind, Fire, Earth, Space), he's also a skilled swordsman and practitioner of Holy magic.
- Nice Guy: Arnaud has trained himself to have control over his emotions in stressful situations so he doesn't lose his cool, and out of battle shows himself to a pleasant guy.
Bacchus of Earth
Voiced by: Hajime Iijima (Japanese)
A stoic man with great strength and an even greater mace.
- Carry a Big Stick: His weapon is a powerful mace that he imbudes with holy magic.
- Dishing Out Dirt: His specialty with spirit magic.
- The Stoic: He's described as a quiet man, but very dependable in battle.
Litus of Water
Voiced by: Haruka Aikawa (Japanese)
A Spirit Summoner who heals and fights in equal measure.
- Combat Medic: She's the main healer of the group, and she's just as deadly in combat as would be expected of someone at her level.
- Making a Splash: Her specialty with spirit magic, and she's contracted with the Greater Water Spirit Undine.
- Summon Magic: She's a Summoner who can call upon spirits to aid her in combat.
- Water Is Womanly: Litus of Water is a calm woman who fights by utilizing water magic and is contracted to the Greater Water Spirit Undine, and she carries herself with poise and dignity.
Garde of Fire
Voiced by: Wataru Komada (Japanese)
A serious paladin who nevertheless looks out for his companions.
- Ear Ache: Shion throws a stone that shears off part of his ear when he won't shut up and let her finish her sentence (and the stone continues onward to smash through a tree/punch into a boulder).
- Elemental Hair Colors: He's a redheaded fire mage.
- Kill and Replace: After the Ten Great Saint meeting, he was killed by the Luminaries and replaced by Ars to facilitate their plans to get rid of Hinata if she didn't die against Rimuru or the rigged Drago Buster sword failed to do it. When Leonard realizes the deception of the Luminaries and calls them out, the fake Garde stabs him.
- Out-of-Character Alert: Garde growing increasingly angry and belligerent while dealing with Shion's taunts shocks Leonard, as while Garde can be passionate he doesn't fly off the handle like so. It's because he's actually Ars.
- Playing with Fire: His specialty with spirit magic is fire spells. As well as the specialty of Ars, the Luminary who replaced him. He can also use the ultimate Fire Spirit Magic Inferno Flame, which is even stronger than the Nuclear Cannon.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He was murdered and replaced by the Luminaries shortly after his introduction, so there's not much time to get a read on his personality.
Fritz of Wind
Voiced by: Taishi Murata (Japanese)
The most informal and carefree knight.
- Blow You Away: His specialty with spirit magic.
- Butt-Monkey: Because of his informality and carefree nature, he tends to attract Hinata's ire the most and suffering for it, not helped by how he has a habit of saying/doing something stupid while she's around.
- Dual Wielding: His preferred style is wielding dual swords in combat.
- Hero-Worshipper: Despite the abuse Hinata will throw at him for his lax nature, there is no other paladin (not even Leonard) who looks up to her as Fritz does.
- Non-Uniform Uniform: He's the only paladin who wears his uniform casually, not even bothering with the chest-plate armor most of the time and wearing the coat around his waist.
Pope's Imperial Guard/Three Sage Warriors
The three warriors who nominally answer only to the Pope Emperor Louis Valentine...but in practice are subordinate to Hinata after she made herself their leader. Saare
Blue Sky
Voiced by: Shoya Chiba (Japanese)
Former Head Knight of the Imperial Guard before Hinata challenged him for the position.
- Awesome by Analysis: His Unique Skill [Omnipotent One] allows him to understand the principle of any Art he sees and replicate it, essentially letting him copy anything he sees once. However, it's still on him to actually practice in order to use the copied abilities effectively. Sadly for him, it does nothing to help him close the gap during his match with Diablo, who's shear age, experience and unpredictable nature allow him to dismantle anything Saare could do before he could set it up.
- Break the Haughty: His crushing defeat at Diablo's hands served as a wake-up call that made him reflect on his grudge over Hinata, leading him to eventually give up on it.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: His "fight" with Diablo could barely be called such, since it basically boiled down to Saare desperately striking away and using every trick at his disposal only for Diablo to counter all of them with ease. Even Saare recognizes the gap between them is too vast and the one area they might be close (experience) is far too little to make a difference. Diablo did compliment him and Glenda for not keeling over in terror in the face of his Killing Intent, however.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Even disregarding his resentment towards Hinata, his personality is actually thorny and prideful even on a good day. That said, he's earnest about doing his duty, deep down acknowledges that Hinata earned her place in the meritocracy, and looks concerned for Hinata when she receives Rimuru's altered message to fight.
- Master Swordsman: He's one of the best swordsmen of the Church.
- Oh, Crap!: When Diablo casually drops the fact that he has evolved into a Demon Peer (the same breed of demon that Guy Crimson is) and puts the connections of the colors Red and White from Diablo's dialogue together, he realizes that he is fighting a named Colored Primordial Demon! This undestantably freaks him out.
- Older Than They Look: Due to his elven blood, despite his youthful looks (which gets him called "Boy" on at least one occasion when he's being an ass) he's actually the oldest of the ten. Of course he has nothing on Diablo.
- The Resenter: Big time for Hinata, who he's always resented for beating him and taking his authority despite the difference in their ages, even if he does acknowledge her strength.
- Servile Snarker: To Hinata, as he always lets his resentment at her manifest in throwing barbs and shade at her during their meetings. That said, he knows when to shut up, follow orders, and fulfill them to the letter, as deep down he does acknowledge that Hinata earned her spot and that she's loyal to the cause. As Hinata notes to herself, Saare is a whiner, but he knows his duty.
- Uneven Hybrid: He has elven blood, which contributes to his youthful appearance and deepens his connection to the spirits.
Grigori
Giant Boulder
Voiced by: Masashi Yamane (Japanese)
Right hand man of Saare known for his impenetrable defense.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Poor Grigori basically got turned into Ranga's chew toy during their battle to the point Gobta and Gabiru felt sorry for him and had to convince Ranga to let up on him. It was so bad Grigori developed a phobia of canines in the aftermath.
- Heroic Build: He's visibly muscled and he only wears a scarf around his neck to cover his upper body to show off.
- Made of Iron: His Unique Skill [Immovable] allows him to harden his entire body at will to the point he becomes tougher than most metals. While activated, Grigori can't lose consciousness and even moving him becomes a monumental task. The drawback is that he's not invincible and he can still feel pain.
Glenda Attley
Raging Sea
Voiced by: Mari Hino (Japanese)
An Otherworlder whose allegiances are much murkier than at first glance.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: After Rimuru frees her from the summoner's curse that holds her life in the Rozzo's hands, a shocked Glenda pledges herself to Tempest in part thanks to this and knowing that a life in Tempest is her best option for a healthy life.
- Dark and Troubled Past: The circumstances that led Glenda to becoming a mercenary weren't good ones, as she came from a war-torn upbringing that makes the new world's doctrine of survival of the fittest and Asskicking Leads to Leadership look like a paradise..
- Devious Daggers: Her go-to melee weapon is a combat knife, and it accurately represents her savage and dirty ideals towards fighting that have little to do with chivalry.
- Femme Fatale: Rimuru called her as having the looks and disposition of such. Then she basically becomes this as a member of Souei's Shadow Squad.
- Hired Guns: She was a mercenary before coming to this world and particularly skilled in assasinations. She even admits her skillset doesn't make her well-suited for the adventurer lifestyle.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Played with, as she doesn't have them in the conventional sense. But by combining Magic Sense (which lets her pinpoint any target within her range of detection) with her Weaponized Teleportation (letting her open a portal barely a foot away from her target), she can make shots that would be impossible for even the best snipers conventionally.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When she and Saare were about to fight Diablo, Glenda's contribution to the fight was making the first strike against him, seeing it did nothing, and then hightailing it the other way to safety when Saare wasn't paying attention and leaving him holding the bag. Diablo "helpfully" pointing this out causes Saare to curse to the high heavens.
- Nothing Personal: Her actions against Tempest have nothing to do with any hatred of monsters. It's just her job and if she sufficiently screws up or go against orders, her life is forfeit at her "employers'" discretion.
- Only in It for the Money: Money has always been Glenda's major driving motivation. She always kinda hated being one of the Ten Great Saints since they don't actually get paid coin but goods (discounting rewards from a grateful public). Then there's the Rosso family having her life in their hands, which doesn't offer much chance for monetary reward. She changes her tune after Rimuru breaks her curse and offers her a place in Tempest with all its amazing culinary choices, with her declaring she lives for merit points, not money now.
- Token Evil Teammate: Of the Ten Great Saints, as she's the only one with no real faith in their god or is truly interested in helping people without a side of profit.
- Weaponized Teleportation: She creates portals that she fires her bullets into, releasing them again barely a foot from her targets and leaving them almost no time to react as they get shredded from multiple angles. She even managed to kill one of Souei's body doubles with this.
Others
Nikolaus Spertus
Cardinal
A cardinal of the Western Saints Church and its second-highest rank member short of the Pope Emperor Louis.
- The Heretic: To even his own amusement, despite being one of the highest ranking members of the Church he doesn't truly believe in the God Luminous. Rather, his faith and worship is all towards Hinata Sakaguchi.
- Holy Hand Grenade: He can cast Disintegration and uses it to obliterate Gran's Body Double.
- Morality Pet: Hinata is his, with it being explicitly stated she's the being he worships, not Luminous. While he's cold and heartless to almost everyone else, for her it all vanishes and he's a loyal man who only wants what's best for her.
- Small Role, Big Impact: It was Nikolaus who gave Reyheim the go-ahead to declare Tempest an Enemy of God and provide Church support to Falmuth's ill-fated assault on the monster nation. This emboldened Edmalis to go ahead with the attack, meaning Nikolaus is the one indirectly responsible for Rimuru's Awakening and becoming a True Demon Lord.
Louis Valentine
Pope Emperor
The Pope Emperor of the Holy Empire of Ruberios who ostensibly leads the nation, he is in fact the figurehead for Demon Lord Luminous Valentine's rule and "twin brother" of her Demon Lord stand-in Roy Valentine.
- Blood Knight: Louis loves a good fight as much as Roy does, the difference being Louis has his bloodlust under much better control. And far better than their original self Valentine did.
- Bloody Murder: Like Roy, his Signature Move is Blood Ray, where he turns his blood into magical particules and fires them as beams at his targets.
- Puppet King: Almost everyone in and out of Ruberios believes he is the leader, when he's actually just the figurehead for Luminous. Also, despite being the one nominally in charge of the Three Sage Warriors who are his imperial guard, he almost never gives them orders that countermand Hinata's own.
- Speak Ill of the Dead: Admits that unlike Luminous, he's "quite unkind" as he indirectly insults his own dead brother Roy by telling Luminous that she shouldn't feel bad at not being there to revive him as Roy failed in her expectations of him by dying against Laplace.
- Split at Birth: Louis and Roy were once a single vampire named Valentine, but his sheer Blood Knight and sadistic attitude lead to his defeat and splitting by Luminous' Unique Skill into two separate individuals. When Roy dies fighting Laplace, that lost power returns to Louis, though thankfully with his calmer temperment still intact.
- Took a Level in Badass: He's roughly as strong as his brother Roy, who is strong enough to be considered equal to an unawakened Demon Lord like Carrion. Absorbing his brother's power after his death by Laplace's hands effectively doubles his power and makes him Luminous' strongest vampire subordinate.
Gunther
Demon Lord Luminous Valentine's vampire butler and one of her strongest servants.
- Battle Butler: He wears the suit and his explicit role is that of Luminous' personal caretaker, but of her vampire servants he's the strongest of all, over even Louis and Roy. Only Hinata and Louis with Roy's power returned to him can claim to be stronger than him. He was winning his fight against Footman when he and Laplace snuck into the secret crypt to steal Chronoa's ark, and Footman is strong enough to be comparable to a Demon Lord Seed.
- Beleaguered Assistant: Rimuru notes there are hints Gunther feels like this at times when dealing with Luminous' more immature moments, and given he's her personal help he gets the end of this more than Roy, Louis, or Hinata.
- Old Retainer: Despite being a vampire, he's visibly elderly and it's implied he's been Luminous' servant for most of her own not-inconsiderably-long life.
Clerics of the Seven Luminaries
The highest consultants of the Western Saints Church and said to be the closest to the God Luminous, the Seven Luminaries hold the duty of training prospective Champions and Heroes for the Empire and Church and are in theory the ultimate authority in matters pertaining to the Church. They are Gran, Dina, Ars, Meris, Salun, Vina, and Zaus.
- Adaptational Species Change: In the web novel they were vampire servants of Luminous, but in the light novel they are instead Long-Lived human Sages granted extended lifespans and authority by Luminous.
- "Day of the Week" Name: Their titles are named for the days of the week.
- Leave No Witnesses: Once it becomes clear that their plans are going awry, six of the seven Luminaries decide to make their move by just flat-out killing everyone and anyone at the two major scenes to prevent the truth from getting out. Unfortunately for them, three of them have the misfortune of going up against Diablo, who simultaneously uses this opportunity to protect the victims while obtaining deals that benefit Tempest in the long run before crushing them, and the other three try this in Rimuru's presence, who No Sells their attempts before Luminous gets involved and deals with them herself.
- No Body Left Behind: The ultimate fate of everyone except Gran: three of them are vaporized by Luminous' Death Blessing, three are sucked into Diablo's World of Temptation, and even Gran himself ends up getting his Body Double vaporized by Cardinal Nikolaus' Disintegration.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: With the exception of Gran, the Luminaries will profess to being loyal subordinates of Luminous who seek to train the generations of Saints and Heroes to safeguard humanity, even if that means putting them through life-threatening missions and trials. In reality, Motive Decay has set in and they're a bunch of old scheming bastards that would rather destroy any exceptional rising stars among the younger generations to prevent themselves from losing favor with Luminous and don't actually care about humanity in so much as they themselves can benefit. Look no further than what they did to Adalman and what they try to do to Hinata.
- Smug Snake:
- Hinata's general opinion of them, a bunch of past-their-prime relics who think they're far more important and powerful than they really are. While they did come up with a geniunely clever plan to kill her and deal with Tempest, most of them still vastly overestimate themselves and end up dead by the end. The sole exception would be Gran, who instead proves to be a Smug Super.
- Ars is explicitly called out as such mixed with Small Name, Big Ego, with him believing that Hinata couldn't steal his Skills with [Usurper] because he was just that amazing and so always acted high and mighty around her. In reality, Hinata never used [Usurper] on him because she viewed him as having nothing to teach and easily completed his "trial" without it, outright stating that his mastery over fire was like "a disposable lighter" compared to Shizu's. In his guise as Garde, he's left spluttering in disbelief and rage during the "fight" with Shion that a mere monster is making such a fool of him.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Three of the Luminaries decide to wipe out Rimuru, Hinata, and all nearby monsters and paladins with Disintegration cast in triplicate. Were it not for Raphael using the data from absorbing Hinata's Melt Slash to perfect Covenant King Uriel's Absolute Defense against Holy attacks, it might have even worked.
- Uriah Gambit: They have a habit of doing this to perceived threats to their power and position. They set up Adalman and his comrades to die fighting a Zombie Apocalypse over a thousand years ago and attempt to goad Hinata and Rimuru into Round 2 in the hopes of getting one (preferably Hinata) or both of them killed.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: With the exception of Gran/Granbell Rosso, all of them are formally introduced and meet their ends within the span of Volume 7 of the light novel without much elaboration on their personalities aside from smugness.
Nasca Narium Ulmeria United Eastern Empire
In General
One of the oldest and mightiest nations in the entire world, the Eastern Empire was founded by the True Hero Rudra, who merged his original small Kingdom of Nasca with the Magical Kingdom of Namrius and the Eastern Federation of Ulmeria to form a juggernaut empire that has lasted for 2,000 years.
- Challenging the Chief: Rapid upward advancement in the military can be earned through rank-based duels within the divisions. Lower-ranked members can challenge their superiors for promotions, but there are regulations to follow to prevent everything from devolving into uncontrolled Klingon Promotion, backstabbing, and bloodbaths: A third party must arbitrate, witnesses must be present for certification, duels are forbidden during military manuevers, and if you challenge someone and lose or kill your opponent, you have to wait a year before challenging again in order to discourage the act of losing valuable human resources (while your higher-ranked defender can kill the challenger with no penalty under the idea of a fatal You Are Not Ready).
- Conservation of Ninjutsu: Secretly, the Empire invokes this principal. The attack on Tempest mobilizes over a million soldiers, and it would have been considered a successful venture if even one of those soldiers had Awakened regardless of causalities. The operation being judged a failure initially didn’t come from the failure to defeat Tempest or the loss of such a massive portion of their forces, but the fact that Rimuru and his allies kept even a single one of the Empire’s soldiers from Awakening and escaping alive.
- The Empire: The empire of this world, to the point that it's one of the only human-ruled nations that could truly challenge and defeat the Demon Lords.
- Join or Die: When the Empire invades a nation, they have only two choices, fight or surrender. The latter means they give up all rights and become vassal states. The former means all dissent gets wiped out to the last, and then they assimilate what's left.
- Magitek: The Empire is one of the largest innovators of combining magic and science (especially the science provided by Otherworlders), using it to bolster their military into something that could easily rival and surpass an actual first-world nation on Earth. Rimuru notes their tank technology alone surpasses even the most modern-day real-world counterparts in terms of functionality and destructive power.
- Puppet King: Inverted; it's the nobility and military who are superflurous to the God-Emperor. The House of Lords have no decision-making rights and are basically the "rubber stamps" of the Emperor and their prestige and interests in the running of the country are all hinged on the Emperor's will. They don't even own the land, rather, the Emperor lends it out for them to manage. The military can be summed up as the Emperor's personal force who only protect the lands and enforce the peace by his personal will.
- The Purge: This is how the Empire maintains order and quells dissent when the usual method of flaunting peace and security within the borders fails. Any voice of rebellion is crushed down to the last, and the sheer display of terror and force quells all treasonous thoughts.
- Repressive, but Efficient: The Empire balances a "carrot and stick" approach: The "carrot" is that vassal states have guaranteed safety as subjects of the empire, protected by one of the mightiest militaries in the world, and as long as loyalty to the God-Emperor is maintained you have at least a decent level of freedom with very little in the way of corruption or crime. The "stick" is that any rebellion will be sniffed out and ruthlessly quashed down to the last by that very same military and they will happily use the terror of that force being utilized to Scare 'Em Straight. And yet, the God-Emperor has maintained relative peace within the empire for 2,000 years with not a single case of a vassal state having left.
- Social Darwinist: The Empire follows the philosophy of Might Makes Right and that bloodlines and influence mean nothing, particularly in the military. The Imperial Guard is made up of 100 warriors who earned their place through power alone, with many of them being Otherworlders. The military divisions run on Rank Scales with Asskicking where it's expected that if you're high-ranked, then you should be capable of beating everyone below you on the totem pole.
Emperor Rudra
Masayuki Rudra Nam Ul Nasca
The Emperor of the Eastern Empire. Emperor Rudra commands the most powerful force amongst all the human nations, having completely unified the eastern half of the continent, and ultimately intending to bring all of humanity under his rule. He has a longstanding feud/rivalry with Guy Crimson, with the two of them using various pawns in schemes against one another. Despite being human, he is easily one of the most powerful characters in the series, and has been around for centuries.
- God-Emperor: The absolute ruler of the Empire. Rudra/Michael’s authority is absolute, thanks to his power of complete domination.
- Grew Beyond Their Programming: Justice Lord: Michael was originally nothing more than Rudra’s Ultimate Skill. However, repeated uses of Born-Again Immortality caused Rudra’s soul to gradually break apart, while Michael gained sentience of its own and ultimately took over.
- The Heavy: Even before he appeared directly in the series, Rudra was already the force behind several major developments, thanks to his use of More than Mind Control, including the machinations of Clayman.
- Loss of Identity: This is the sad truth of his current state of mind. Due to his overuse of Born-Again Immortality, his soul was gradually broken apart, leading to him being overtaken by his own skill [Justice Lord: Michael], which ruthlessly embodied his ambitions of unifying and ruling over humanity.
- More than Mind Control: Rudra’s comes in two forms, courtesy of Justice Lord: Michael. First is [Regalia Dominion], which allows him to exert absolute control over any living creature, so long as he has more power than they do. However, Rudra must continue to expend energy to maintain control over his target. The second is [Ultimate Dominion], which allows him to dominate the holder of any angelic skill.
- Underestimating Badassery: Rudra/Michael gravely underestimates Rimiru, which ends up costing him. He assumed that Rimiru was merely clinging to Veldora’s power, and would fold the instant he no longer had the Storm Dragon to depend on. Instead, dominating Veldora only served to make Rimiru angry, prompting him unleash his full power as a Demon Lord, which led to Rimiru evolving into a True Dragon himself.
