Characters for The Hero Who Seeks Revenge Shall Exterminate With Darkness.
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Main Character
Raul Evans
Raul Evans
The Former Hero
The Protagonist and the strongest Hero who defeated the Demon King before being betrayed by the very Kingdom that he fought for.
- Anti-Villain: While he is a vengeful, sadistic psychopath that brutally, mercilessly and ruthlessly murders his victims, he still retains some of his morals as he despises depravity and is willing to help those who have suffered as he has and desire revenge. He helped Ada Taylor and the innocent demon children, who were tortured and - in the case of the demon girls - raped at Allingham's hands to kill the morally depraved noble himself in their desire for revenge. He also avenged his deceased comrades by tracking down those who were involved, indirectly or not, with their deaths.
- Berserk Button: Hypocrisy and cowardice really sets him off as he tore into Sandra, who embodies both these traits, as well as Victoria who try to pin him as evil when that's exactly what she is.
- Death Is Cheap: After his resurrection, he will not die unless he chooses to. He can also prevent others from dying against their wishes.
- Defiant Captive: Swears bloody vengeance during the hell Victoria puts him through. His resolve briefly wavers after Wendell reveals he was never Raul's friend, and gloats that all of Raul's loved ones are dead or never cared for him.
- Driven to Villainy: The tragedy he suffered and endured broke him and he vowed vengeance upon his false comrades before his death. After getting resurrected by the Goddess of Love, he almost completely lost all of his kindness and makes his only motivation to give his false comrades the most agonizing and humiliating deaths imaginable.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Despite acknowledging that he has become hopelessly insane and absorbed by the desire for vengeance, he has not completely abandoned his sense of morality and will not harm anyone unrelated to his torment and suffering, especially children.
- Evil Laugh: Gives one to Victoria and a couple of his enemies to show them what it feels like to be on the receiving end.
- Fallen Hero: He was a naive yet kind-hearted young man. Having been once loyal to the kingdom and willingly put life & limb on the line to protect those he cared about. Until after he defeated the demon lord, he faced abject misery whence upon he was betrayed, tortured and executed by the machinations plotted by the corrupted Princess Victoria. But after his death, he became a vengeful, sadistic, ruthless and powerful serial killer.
- Faux Affably Evil: He often speaks in a playful and polite manner towards his adversaries, mostly in mockery.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: After he defeated the Demon King, Raul was framed by Victoria for crimes he didn't commit and was executed. When he came back though, he managed to clear his name and get revenge on Victoria who lost her supporters after her crimes were exposed giving Raul his good publicity once again, except now his has an extremely dark and sadistic personality.
- Humiliation Conga: His favorite method of revenge. He puts his enemies through as much physiological and psychological torture as possible, in front of a crowd, no less. It makes sense, as this was how he was betrayed and executed.
- It's Personal: His entire reason for his revenge as he was betrayed, tortured, and executed by everyone he thought were his friends, he does get his revenge and is satisfied with it.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: He is a brutal and sadistic villain obsessed with his revenge, but his targets are so vile that he seems like a genuine hero by comparison.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: He puts his vile victims through the same torture they did to him.
- People Puppets: One of the dark magic powers Raul gains upon coming back to life.
- Rage Against the Heavens: He isn't just going after the vile humans who wronged him. He wants revenge on the gods of the world for making him "The Hero", which is the primary reason his home village was torched by General Brown and he was put through hell by the psychotic Evil Princess Victoria and her underlings.
- Reasoning with God: In the first chapter of the manga, he convinces the goddess of love to bring him back to life because if he doesn't bring an end to the despicable people who framed him, they're just going to make more and more victims.
- Sadist: Loves to see his enemies suffer for all the pain and indignation that they have caused him, though it is justified as his enemies, especially Victoria, are incredibly despicable.
- Serial Killer: He has murdered multiple people in a brutal and ruthless fashion.
- Slasher Smile: Has an entire series of them.
- A Taste of Their Own Medicine: His life's (and afterlife's) goal is to put those who wronged him through the exact same experience they put him and his companions through.
- Tragic Villain: His friends and allies ends up betraying him, everyone in his village gets massacred, got framed and blamed for crimes he didn't do, he lost his mom, cousins when he was younger, and lost his older sister and unborn nephew when he was the hero, gets locked up and tortured physically, psychologically and sexually by Victoria.
- Unwitting Pawn: As a small child, he came back from gathering herbs with his sister to find his home village on fire, his mother gruesomely murdered, and the empire's top general bemoaning arriving too late, blaming the Demon King for the atrocity. It's only after he's betrayed by Victoria that he knows the truth, that the general is a depraved cannibal, and ultimately responsible for the carnage, including eating his mother's womb, and that the demons were innocents.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Raul was once a kindhearted and naive kid and an All-Loving Hero until he was betrayed, tortured, and executed till he came back to life by the Goddess of love and now has an extremely dark personality and uses his new ways to kill all those who wronged him.
- Villain Protagonist: His only motivation is to seek vengeance upon all those who betrayed and used him by killing and torturing his enemies. Despite his villainous actions, they actually help the weak as Raul gets rid of all the horrible people who carelessly destroyed so many lives.
- Would Not Hurt A Child: He finds going after children rather gauche, and the vast, vast majority of the time, he'll show them as much mercy and the benefit of the doubt as he can. The only on-screen exceptions are those two little monsters spawned by General Brown, who wanted to grow up to be just as heinous in cannibalism, and all other forms of atrocity, as their dear-old-dad, and since General Brown ate Raul's cousins while they were children, just to stick it to Raul's family, General Brown was force-fed his own kids to see how he likes it.
Antagonists
Princess Victoria
Sandra! Your apologies and your life are worth less than a single hair from my head! You should have hacked your own legs off so I could escape that ingrate Raul who dared to spurn my "affections!"
The Princess of the Kingdom of Kurtz and the main antagonist.
- 0% Approval Rating: Used to be a Villain with Good Publicity to the public till Raul exposed her. On top of that, when it comes to the royal guards and staff, no one likes her, except for Sandra, and even the king hates his own daughter and disowned her and allowed her to die at Raul's hands.
- Bad Boss: In addition to her treatment of Raul, the royal guards and servants hate Victoria for her nasty and entitled attitude towards them, so much so that when she begs for help after Raul exposes her, no one comes to help her (except Sandra) for her repulsive attitude towards them.
- Big Bad: The initial main antagonist. Even after her death, though, her actions still affect a lot of the plot as Raul continues on with his vengeance.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Manipulates the public into believing that she is a kind-hearted and caring individual, whereas in reality, she's a ruthless and sadistic monster who sees everyone as pawns to further her own selfish needs.
- Break the Haughty: Before she is allowed to die, she is humiliated, stripped of all her authority, abandoned by everyone who had blindly adored her, and stabbed by the one person who was actually loyal to her.
- Devoured by the Horde: Victoria becomes the first display in Raul's sick "museum" and lets loose a bunch of wild animals; wolves, insects, birds, rats, you name it, and lets them all devour her over, and over, and over again, and even then still doesn't let her die.
- Dirty Coward: Has Raul's family and village slaughtered, then puts Raul through hell before having him executed, but the very second she's in danger, she begs for help when she's about to get retribution.
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: She may have a lovely look, but behind it all is a cruel, petty, and narcissistic monster.
- Fratricide: She tries to ensure she's the only heir by murdering all her siblings. She even gloats about it.
- For the Evulz: She betrayed Raul and had his family murdered just because she enjoyed doing it.
- It's All About Me: Victoria only loves herself.
- Hate Sink: Not even her family likes her.
- Head-Turning Beauty: When she had still had her looks, the people were in awe of her beauty and were willing to overlook her abuse of others, at least her excesses that weren't too depraved.
- Hypocrite: Attempts to call Raul evil for getting retribution on her when she commits unspeakable atrocities for her own sick amusement and believes that she can do no wrong and doesn't deserve the punishment she gets from Raul. She was the one who caused Raul to seek revenge in the first place.
- Lack of Empathy: Victoria massacres Raul's family and town for fun and rapes her subordinates, even Sandra for petty reasons and feels no remorse for any of her crimes.
- Manipulative Bitch: There's nothing she likes more than to make herself look innocent while others suffer or die around her.
- Narcissist: Believes she's unstoppable and thinks she can do whatever she wants just because she's the princess, and if someone rants at her for the atrocities she committed, she wouldn't give a damn, as long as she's fine then that's all that matters to her.
- No Kill like Overkill: Raul revived Victoria so that she can suffer a more painful death as he had her tied up and eaten alive by many animals in an extremely gross fashion.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Rape is pretty much a normal punishment in Victoria's twisted head as she has done this towards her failed subordinates and even her most loyal follower Sandra.
- Royal Brat: She thinks that being the daughter of the king gives her the right to do whatever she wants without consequences.
- Sadist: Raul sees this firsthand as Victoria had his family murdered, betrayed, tortured, and executed just for the fun of it.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: She was proclaimed "The kingdom's treasure" for her physical beauty, and because she was so beautiful, she believed she could get away with anything. The instant said beauty was taken away, the townsfolk publicly decried her title, and she learned that she's not as adored as she thought.
- Seven Deadly Sins: Victoria embodies all the Seven Deadly Sins.
- Pride: Victoria's ego is through the roof as she thinks she's above everyone else and can get away with whatever she does just because she has power above others.
- Greed: Thinks everything belongs to her and that she should be the next ruler of her country just because she wanted more, and if she doesn't get it, her short temper unleashes until she gets what she wants.
- Lust: She had an unhealthy obsession with Raul till he rejected her and had his reputation destroyed and executed just because of this petty reason; he came back though to repay this lust.
- Wrath: Easily falls into a rage if nothing goes her way and will immediately abandon her kind façade just to rant and even have her guards kill whoever she sees fit.
- Gluttony: She's a spoiled brat who craves everything she wants and will not stop till that possession or power is hers.
- Envy: Victoria becomes envious whenever someone gets something that she wants, such as Raul's power, and wanted him dead not only because he rejected her but because she couldn't have what he did.
- Sloth: Other than manipulating others, she makes others do the dirty work for her. Even her duties as a princess are neglected as she would rather torture others than anything else.
- Too Dumb to Live: Knows that Raul is immortal but still tries to kill him regardless, even when it's not possible. Not just that, but she is also ranting that her guards should just obey her like puppets in front of everyone, which makes her lose any other supporter she had (except Sandra).
- Villainous Breakdown: After a Humiliation Conga in which she was stripped of her royal status and lost the respect of everyone around her except Sandra, the idea that she was completely at Raul's mercy finally sunk into Victoria's mind. In her final moments, Victoria sobbed uncontrollably while begging for Raul to spare her life.
- Villainous Princess: Has Raul slay the Demon King and then betrays and kills Raul for her own sadistic amusement and continues to torture and even rape some of her agents, especially Sandra, if they "fail" her.
- Yandere: Her biggest desire before executing Raul on false charges was to chain him down like a dog and impregnate herself by sexually exploiting and humiliating him. She even rapes him in prison to show her "love", not understanding why he utterly hates her for framing him. When rape and torture fail to break him, she targets his pregnant elder sister, whom she sends over to the church to have her unborn child ripped out and sentences her to be gang raped and murdered. After his death, she still fantasizes about having her way with him and refuses to understand why he'd turn her down. It's only when she's facing her own demise that she realizes she was wrong, but it's too late for that.
Sandra Divas
Why is it wrong for Her Highness to murder all the citizens of a village?! Why do you insist on spurning her?!
Princess Victoria's Bodyguard
- Engineered Public Confession: As she's gushing over how Victoria is so above everybody that there's nothing wrong in framing Raul by murdering everyone in the village he comes from, Raul uses a magic spell to make her voice heard by everyone.
- Hypocrite: She claims that Raul is a dishonorable coward, but she kidnaps Raul in a dishonorable way. Raul calls her out on this.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: She is so loyal to Victoria that she thinks Victoria absolutely, positively, can never be wrong. When Raul calls her out on her hypocrisy, capturing him by framing him for the murder of his second home village, she cries out "What's wrong with Victoria slaughtering an entire village?!" Which is magically amplified and broadcast for all the people nearby to hear.
- People Puppets: The way she framed Raul was extremely heinous and cowardly. He came back from the front lines to find his home village in shambles, corpses everywhere, the only survivors being a couple of children attacking each other. Sandra shows up and demands his surrender, blaming him for the carnage. He surrenders and drops his sword, at which point Sandra shoves the sword into the little boy's hands, manipulating his body to murder the other child while Raul stares on in horror, bound by many knights, and then the boy, eyes wide open in horror, is magically compelled to stab himself with the sword, putting the villager's blood on the blade.
- Taking You with Me: Trying to throw her under the bus to save herself was the worst mistake Victoria ever made. Sandra was content to suffer anything and everything for Victoria, even believing she deserved to be tortured and raped for every failure and inconvenience Victoria suffered, as long as she was by Victoria's side. The instant she was abandoned, and Raul called off the crowd of rightly angered townsfolk, she ran up to the podium where Victoria is and went for a murder-suicide. It only failed because Raul didn't give Victoria permission to die.
- Undying Loyalty: To Princess Victoria, even though Victoria violated her and viciously tortured her with a whip and had multiple men violate her for "failing" her. Her loyalty to Victoria was extremely misguided and even committed suicide after stabbing Victoria just to be with her in death.
- You Said You Would Let Them Go: She promised to spare the remaining two village children if Raul surrendered and dropped his sword. When he did, she magically compelled one of the two children to pick up the sword, stab the other child, and then himself.
Wendell Blackham
The Archmage and Raul's childhood friend
- Did Not See That Coming: He smugly presumed that since he never personally did anything to Raul, that Raul would never come for him or harm him in any way. To his horror and unjustified rage, Raul took that as a challenge and came at him indirectly, just like he came at Raul indirectly, and Raul did nothing but sit back and mock him as his own darkest pleasures came for him, including being subjected to an All The Way Through by a spiked mace, delivered by the same sadistic rapist priests that Victoria sent after Raul's elder sister.
- False Friend: He pretended to be Raul's friend and companion for their crusade against the Demon King's armies, always disgusted with Raul's idealism. The instant Raul was arrested on false charges, he sided with Victoria to engage in a life of luxury, at Raul's expense, and then kicked the dog for the last time by visiting Raul in jail and gloating about how since Raul refused to let torture break him, Victoria went after his sister.
- For the Evulz: He has absolutely no reason to betray or harm Raul, aside from his own sick amusement.
- The Many Deaths of You: The multi-layered illusion Raul placed him in had him die thousands of times, and each was more brutal and graphic than the last. By the end, he doesn't even feel it when Ada has her turn and stabs him repeatedly in the chest. Raul then takes his corpse to the king to prove the task of being sent to execute him was complete.
- Pure Is Not Good: He is obsessed with keeping himself "pure" by physical cleanliness and won't touch a woman unless he's the one who laid claim to her virginity, but he's a loathsome and sadistic fiend who murders every woman he impregnates and taunted Raul from the other side of prison bars, just for laughs.
- Serial Killer: He is well known as a ladies' man with multiple lovers. What is not so well known is that he murders every woman he impregnates at the very first opportunity.
- Smug Snake: He loves to prance around as if he's superior to everyone. In reality, he's only able to get by on riding Raul's coattails, Princess Victoria's authority, and the dark desires of those he signs up for evil plots with. On his own merits, he's a total chump, and easily deceived.
- The Sociopath: His entire friendship with Raul was nothing more than part of an elaborate plan to ride the Hero's coattails to fame and fortune, betray him to remove any possible rivals, and then take over the country. He concocted this plan as a child. Despite years of being treated like family by both Raul and his sister, he never felt anything other than contempt for them.
- Ungrateful Bastard: In his own flashbacks, brought into being by Raul's heuristic illusions, there was a time when both he and Raul were students in the kingdom's magic academy. At the time, Wendel was a Bully Magnet and Raul always stepped in to help him and even lent a hand to help him up. How does he respond to this? Undying loathing for Raul, always itching to see the guy utterly humiliated for laughs. Reliving this experience in the illusion is what finally breaks his mind and leaves him completely catatonic, drooling uncontrollably, which is brought to an end by an enraged Ada stabbing him repeatedly in the chest.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Thanks to becoming a war hero by riding Raul's coattails, men sing his praises, children admire him, and women all swoon for him, seeing nothing wrong with him having multiple lovers. When word got out that he kills the women he impregnates, this all came to a screeching halt, and the very same women who called him "dreamy" angrily demanded his castration.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: When it's his turn to be on the receiving end of Raul's vengeance, Raul never lays a finger on him, just like he never laid a finger on Raul, content to taunt him from the other side of prison bars. Raul puts him in a multi-layer illusion where his own memories of the depraved actions he loved to watch target him instead. It's brutal, graphic and leaves him a drooling, catatonic vegetable completely unresponsive to external stimuli.
Allingham
Wendell's slave merchant accomplice. He loves to wear excessive makeup, rape little girls and castrate little boys. Ada, disguised as Raul, was trying to get close to him and murder him in revenge for the death of her parents at Wendel's command, seeing with her own eyes how he abused the demon-tribe children he illegally enslaved.
- The Dandy: He wears gaudy and over-priced clothing, wears too much makeup, and prances around like the most camp stylist stereotype from the 90's one can imagine.
- Gonk: His face is ugly and has heavy makeup, his limbs are lanky, and he has a pot belly.
- Karmic Death: Raul, using Ada as an intermediary, shreds off his overpriced clothes, make-up, and the skin under them, with razor-blades, and castrates him with an onna-hole filled with metal spikes, before letting the demon children he'd enslaved and abused go at him and literally tear him apart.
- Pædo Hunt: He is, just barely off-screen, shown raping little girls until they break and castrating little boys, for his own amusement.
- Sadist: He loves to make children cry just so he can lick the tears off.
- Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Not only is he a slaver, but he is so depraved that he takes advantage of the slavery magic to abuse helpless children.
General Ernst Brown
Raul, you are just a brat. You have always been just a brat! I am a warrior, and I have the right to do with those I beat in battle what I wish!
Princess Victoria's general.
- Break the Haughty: He prides himself on his strength and martial might. So the start of Raul's vengeance involved beating him down so hard, he can't deny he lost "to a brat."
- Desecrating the Dead: Raul makes a puppet out of his corpse on his way to see Doctor Rinne.
- Eyepatch of Power: He's got an eyepatch over one eye and is a powerful warrior and magician.
- The Family That Slays Together: Despite being a depraved cannibal, he loved his wife and children, and they loved him back, all too happy to join him in his depravity.
- I Am a Humanitarian: He's a cannibal and proud of it, eating anyone he can capture and kill.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: A royal messenger sent to him by Princess Victoria to deliver a call for aid to deal with Raul comes to his territory and is nearly eaten by a goblin general. General Brown kills the goblin and saves him, only to kill him and eat him instead.
- Master Swordsman: Renowned as the kingdom's greatest swordsman and one of its five strongest fighters. Doesn't help him against Raul.
- Mean Boss: His waitstaff are all known to walk on eggshells around him, as while he does treasure their service, he won't hesitate to send them to the kitchen to be the entrée if they displease him.
- Might Makes Right: He honestly believes he's entitled to kill and eat people because he can beat them in a fight. So Raul beats him in a fight and then force-feeds his family and servants to him before killing him and walking him around like a sick marionette.
- Villainous Lineage: Which Raul put an end to. Raul forces the family servants to dig up the remains of each and every one of the victims General Brown killed and ate before killing them and serving them up for the general to be force-fed since the general lost his hands fighting Raul. The general's wife tried to shoot Raul in the back only for him to Catch and Return the poisoned arrow into heart, and his own two cannibal wannabe children were force-fed the "meat" they always begged for until they died and were then fed to the general too...
- Villains Want Mercy: Not for himself, but he begs for mercy for at least one of his children, the elder and heir. Upon doing it, Raul turns and scowls, reminding him of how he treated his mother when she did the exact same thing.
Doctor Rinne Beneke
The head scientist in the kingdom's Military R&D department. She's a target of Raul's vengeance for feeding his men Super Serum that winds up killing them, painfully, and graphicly, but despite knowing the antidote is common water, and that death is the ultimate result if the troops aren't given water quickly, she kept this knowledge quiet, purely to further her research, and to maximize the troop's super-strength combat ability.
- For Science!: All she cares about is furthering her research, at all costs.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: She wears glasses and cares about nothing except her own research and her own well-being. Everyone else is always expendable.
- Karmic Death: She murdered countless people in her labs, through unethical experiments, For Science!. Raul keeps feeding her her own poisons, forcing her to make antidotes on the fly, until she succumbs, ignoring her pleas for forgiveness, as she ignored the pleas of her victims, and states "sorry, but no matter how loudly you apologize, the dead can not hear you."
- Hypocrite: She was absolutely disgusted at the mass grave underneath her laboratory. The mass grave that was the result of HER experiments.
- Underestimating Badassery: She knew, from the start, that the imperial inspector that came to her lab to assist in the fight against Raul's vengeance was Raul himself using illusion magic to disguise himself. She played along thinking she had him fooled and could destroy him. Problem is, he knew she knew, and was playing along himself, letting her think she was way superior to him so he can smash her pride and ego from its zenith to the ground, painfully.
- Villains Want Mercy: She spends her last moments screaming for mercy and begging for forgiveness from her victims. Raul points out that they're all dead and can't hear her, no matter how loudly she screams. Then he writes down in a ledger how long it took her to die with clinical detachment, of the like she was so fond of doing during her experiments.
Christiana Alcott
The Saintess
Priestess and The Chosen One of the Goddess of Love, known as "The Saintess".
- Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Until her visit to hell, she was firmly convinced that brainwashing people into acting out their own worst fantasies, among all her other crimes, was "granting salvation" and doing the work of the goddess of love. In exchange, she honestly believed Raul doing his best to bring as many of his soldiers home alive and defeat the kingdom's enemies, especially the demon king, was sacrilege "because he's trying to usurp the gods."
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: During her tour of Hell, she sees the victims of her "salvation", but she can't remember any of them, since she's only ever done it with them once and there were so many.
- Clothing Damage: In Hell, her clothes gradually burn away from the heat in direct proportion to her eroding faith in the Goddess of Love. Christiana becomes completely naked when she fully turns away from her faith, symbolically exposing the pathetic, evil woman she truly was.
- The Corrupter: She used her charm, magic and sexual intercourse to bring out the darkest, innermost desires of her targets, usually their lust. It was later revealed that Christiana was directly responsible for enchanting Ernst Brown, Victoria, and Wendell, to act on their most selfish desires even before they all betrayed Raul, making Christiana indirectly responsible for their monstrous crimes and more directly responsible for Raul's downfall.
- Deader than Dead: In hell, she is yanked out of her suffering by the god of hell, who hates humans, and paraded before Raul as a taunt, along several others who have already faced Raul's retribution. To everyone's shock, the god then grabs her head and destroys her soul, "freeing her from her torment." The god is the only one amused, all the others; General Brown, Doctor Rinne, Sandra, are horrified and Raul... goes into Tranquil Fury. Averted, because the God of Hell restored her soul.
- Evil Me Scares Me: During her Heel Realization in Hell, Christiana watched Raul transform into herself and act as the deluded, lustful sociopath she was in life. For the first time ever, Christiana was horrified and disgusted with herself.
- Heel Realization: When confronted with the true consequences of her "salvation" in Hell and faced with the prospect of eternal punishment there, she rejected her own faith, exposing herself as the selfish, lustful monster she truly was on the inside. As a result, Christiana loses her ability to use holy magic, having become a heretic herself.
- Hiding Behind Religion: She used her faith to justify and beautify her own lust while declaring her victims as beneficiaries of her "salvation".
- I Just Want to Be Special: The idea of being an ordinary, powerless woman utterly terrifies her.
- Idiot Ball: Consumed by her own lust and so certain that she'll be rewarded after death for bringing salvation to the world, Christiana barely bothers to hide her atrocities and tests the patience of those who have to cover for her, including the King himself.
- Laser-Guided Karma: That is true for all of it Raoul's targets, but Christiana is a cut above as her motivations to set Raoul up for suffering were to bring him down to earth so he wouldn't, in her eyes, usurp the gods. Having become the new God of Hell with newfound divine power after eating the Goddess of Love's heart, he has absolute power over Christiana's soul to subject her to as much suffering as he desires in her eternal torment.
- Light Is Not Good: She has used her holy magic to charm countless people to ruin or to their deaths to satisfy her lust under the guise of "salvation".
- Moral Sociopathy: She truly believed that she was bringing salvation by indulging her lust and charming/encouraging others to indulge their darkest passions. Christiana used Insane Troll Logic to beautify her actions and was convinced that anyone who opposed her was ignorant at best or a heretic at worst. Even when proven and exposed as a Serial Killer in a law court, she continued to believe that she held the high moral ground until she was burned at the stake as a witch. This trope is subverted when Christiana has a Heel Realization in Hell as a result of Raul's scheme.
- Self-Made Orphan: As a child, she charmed her own parents into murdering "enemies of the faith" and finally charmed them into killing themselves, convincing them that they'll be rewarded with eternal peace in the Realm of the Gods.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: As stated under Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad, she thought Raoul's honest efforts as a hero were sacrilegious and an attempt to usurp the gods and as a result she set in motions the events that led to his death...and with Raoul reborn as the revenger of the present...he eventually has his sights set on the same gods Christiana was defending. At present, in the manga, Raoul has usurped the God of Hell and target the Goddess of Love next for her own part in orchestrating his suffering, so Christiana ultimately doomed the gods in her actions to protect their standing.
- Serial Killer: The Hedonistic type. The lives of others mean nothing to her so long as her endless lust is satisfied. The Saintess has murdered countless victims by charming them into killing themselves while believing her crimes to be personal expressions of her faith in the Goddess of Love.
- Villainous Breakdown: Exaggerated. After she was burned at the stake, Christiana's soul is taken by Raul on a tour of Hell, allowing her to see the countless victims of her "salvation" suffering there. The tour culminates with Christiana seeing her parents' eternal punishment and them screaming with rage and hatred at her for tricking them. Confronted with this Awful Truth, Christiana believes everything to be a trick by Raul, but her faith in the Goddess of Love gradually erodes. In the end, Christiana realizes the true consequences of her actions and desperately admits that she didn't care about her faith or anyone else anymore, only her own salvation. As a result, Christiana damns herself and commences her own eternal punishment in Hell, having finally acknowledged her guilt.
- White Mage: As a high-ranking priestess of the Goddess of Love, Christiana has access to a variety of powerful holy magic, including healing spells and spells that destroy demons. Theoretically, she would be a Man of Kryptonite to Raul, who has delved deeply into dark magic in preparation for his vengeance. Were she not consumed by lust, Christiana would be far more dangerous.
- Wingding Eyes: The pupils of her eyes become heart-shaped whenever she experiences ecstasy.
The Village of Nor
A border village between the human and demon kingdoms. They are known for being "peaceful." In reality, they are no better than a gang of well-organized bandits. Raul comes at them for revenge due to them denying the water his friends, followers, and soldiers who were inspired to become soldiers by Raul himself, when said soldiers were fed a dangerous drug, even knowing the water would have saved them. And just to demonstrate that their villainy wasn't a one-time thing, they open their gates for two small girls who were lost in the forest looking to sell their village's trade, murdering them in the night for loot. Even the children are depraved beyond redemption when Raul pays them a visit.
- Bait the Dog: They welcome two lost girls to their home and let them stay the night, only to kill them in their sleep.
- Enfante Terrible: Even the children not only participated in the murder of the little girls, they become a murderous mob when Raul is finished sending the adults to their well-deserved demise. In a rare act of mercy, Raul doesn't give them graphic deaths but instead magically compels them to the nearest guard garrison and has them beg to become soldiers, since they like killing so much. He lets the garrison's Basic Training take over from there.
- Framing the Guilty Party: How Raul gets them stoned. He yells out threats from the back of the group about what they will do if the other village doesn't give into their demands, listing off everything they did to travelers, and using magic to make them attack the gate.
- Gonk: The village kids have a much uglier design than most other characters in the series, possibly from inbreeding.
- Ironic Echo: Raul throws the following lines back at them, in response to how they blew off the mutated soldiers begging for water.
- "Do you want [water]? Then you can have it. But how much can you pay for it? If there's something you want, you have to pay first! How shameless of you!"
- "Just a cup, that's all I need!"
- Karmic Death: Raul marches them over to the home-town of the little girls they murdered and exposes them as the culprits by using his magic to transport an iconic headband that one of the women stole from their corpses. When the woman tried to claim it was bought in a store, the girls' father revealed it was unique, stitched by his own late wife. The townspeople of that other village stoned all the scoundrels Raul brought with him to death.
- Laser-Guided Karma: They denied Raul's soldiers water when it would have saved them from an excruciating death. Raul uses his magic to force march the adults, making them experience borderline heat-stroke and denying them water, so they can see how it feels.
- Town with a Dark Secret: They rob and kill any unlucky outsiders that happen upon their village.
- Villain Has a Point: Subverted. In the first flashback, as Raul is in Doctor Rinne's lab, they turned Raul's soldiers away from the village gate, because they'd been turned into monsters by drugs. It could have been argued that the villagers were merely protecting themselves from monstrosities and had no other viable options. The second flashback, when Raul paid them a visit personally, shows that they knew full well that the soldiers were human, turned them away in spite of this knowledge, and openly taunted them with the water they needed, demanding payment that the monstrified soldiers could not provide.
- Would Hurt a Child: Considering they robbed and murdered two little girls whose only crime was selling perfume for their sick father, and getting lost in a forest near their village, oh yes they would.
Other Characters
The King
The ruler of the Kingdom of Kurtz and Victoria's father. After Victoria's death, the King quietly aids Raul by keeping royal intervention to a minimum, since Raul's targets have become problematic to the kingdom as well.
- Crazy-Prepared: After learning that Victoria murdered his other sons and daughters in an effort to become the sole heir to the throne, the King gave birth to more children through his concubines and arranged for them to live quietly and in secret to protect them from Victoria and others.
- Dark Lord on Life Support: He is permanently attached to complex magical devices that allow him to stay alive despite his advanced age.
- Enemy Mine: He allows Raul to go after his targets only because said targets have become unacceptable problems for the kingdom. The King knows full well that Raul intends to target him eventually.
- Evil Old Folks: He has lived far longer than any human is supposed to and has no love for anyone. The King's children are merely tools to keep his legacy going and he'll disown them if they become serious hindrances. He also enjoys listening to Raul's detailed accounts about the infliction of fates worse than death.
- Fantastic Racism: He considers demons, even children, to be little more than vicious monsters in need of culling.
- I Have No Daughter!: He officially stripped Victoria of her royal status after becoming tired of putting up with her extreme narcissism and knowing that she tried to murder her own siblings to become the sole heir, allowing Raul to murder her as a way to appease his desire for vengeance.
- Not So Stoic: The devices keeping him alive drain a lot of magical energy, so the King stays calm as much as possible to keep the drain to a minimum. When Raul casually mentions Victoria, the King furiously silences him, causing him to age briefly.
- Older Than They Look: Thanks to his magical life support, the King looks fairly robust for his age and is apparently healthy enough to have children.
- Outliving One's Offspring: As a result of living far beyond the lifespan of a human, the King has outlived nearly all of his children, helped in part by Victoria murdering most of them. The King isn't too bothered by this as long as enough remain alive to continue his lineage.
- Pragmatic Villainy: He is wicked and ruthless, but he has little tolerance for Stupid Evil. When Victoria, Wendell and Christiana start indulging in their vices too much and hurt the kingdom's (and his own) reputation, the King quietly gives Raul his approval to slay them.
Ada
Theodora
- Dead Person Impersonation: She took on the face of the girl who saved her life, after the poor kid was murdered by Wendel, and bid her time to avenge herself on the Evil Hero, even slapping a disguise of Raul on top of that to try and get close to Wendel so she can catch him unaware. Raul makes good use of this for his own revenge...
- Enemy Mine: She temporarily joins forces with Raul to get even with Wendel and his psychotic backers, as well as rescue her people that were illegally enslaved and abused by them.
- Fantastic Racism: Subverted. After her brother's death and her kingdom being conquered by humans, she swore to Kill All Humans, until a sweet and sensitive little girl found her dying, came to the rescue, hid her from her pursuers, and treated her wounds, saving her life and genuinely befriending her, awestruck and fascinated with her non-human heritage. Unfortunately, that sweet girl fell victim to Wendel's Villain with Good Publicity schtick, getting raped and murdered.
- Nothing but Skin and Bones: Following her killing Raul and realizing how empty this victory turned out to be, she has locked herself in her room and refused to eat, to the point when she's shown on-screen, she is shown to have become emacinated.
- Our Demons Are Different: Instead of leathery bat wings, she has feathery bird wings.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: She wanted revenge on Raul for killing her elder brother, the demon king, in war, and unintentionally dooming her people, making her own life hell. When she gets her vengeance, she winds up feeling worse.
- Winged Humanoid: Her true form sports wings due to her "demon" heritage.
True Ada
The girl who rescued the demon sister of the slain Demon King. She seeks help from Wendel to protect the girl, and her own father who was being harassed by Allingham, only to learn, too late, that Wendel and Allingham are partners.- Death by Origin Story: She is raped and murdered in Theodora's backstory.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She rescues Theodora, tends her life-threatening wounds, provides her food and shelter, despite the latter's mistrust, and even earns her friendship. What does she get for such legendary feats of kindness? Raped and murdered by a couple of sickos passing themselves off as "heroes."
- Too Desperate to Be Picky: The only reason she went to Wendel is because he was the only one nearby who had the clout and authority to help her family deal with Allingham, and maybe put in a good word for Theodora. If anyone could, it's a high-ranking member of the Hero Party under Raul. Unfortunately for her, not only was Wendel in cahoots with Allingham, he's also a sadistic, gloating voyeur who loves to watch others get violated in every possible way for his sick jollies and is very fond of the Post-Rape Taunt.
Goddess of Love
- Love Martyr: Because she's madly, extreme emphasis on madly, in love with Raul, she lets herself be mutilated. An arm to resurrect him, an eye to send him to hell to avenge himself on Christiana, and her heart ripped out to try to get back out of hell and continue his vengeance, but the god of hell vetoed it.
- Mad God: Her "love" for Raul makes her absolutely insane.
- Mad Love: She loves Raul, but it manifests in sheer insanity.
- The Man Behind the Man: In an extremely twisted and roundabout way given how much she loves Raul. She is the same goddess that Christiana worships, the one who gave her the blessing that drove her insane pursuit of "salvation", so everything wicked that Christiana did can be laid at her feet as well.
God of Hell
The god tasked with delivering eternal punishment unto sinners and rules over hell. He takes an immediate and complete dislike to Raul "for trespassing" by delivering Christiana to hell himself, rather than letting the karmic system do its thing, even though Christiana revealed herself as deserving of her torment.
- Bad Boss: How bad? He not only punishes his minions with total annihilation for failing a task, he intentionally tells them the wrong task so they're guaranteed to fail, or even wipes them out for taking too long to get to him, after making them go through a particularly long hallway.
- Dirty Coward: At first he presents himself as an all powerful and stoic warrior, until he met Raul Evans. The moment he's on death's door, he pathetically sheds his godly persona and begged Raul to spare him.
- Eldritch Abomination: He's got Horns curving back from his forehead, a single eye, no mouth on his face, but two mouths, one on each breast, gigantic bat wings, and cloven hooves for feet.
- Evil Is Petty: He voted against saving Raul because he lost a wager against the God of War.
- For the Evulz: He cares not a whit about justice or even prudence. He does things the way he does purely because they bring him the most benefit. He has no reason to stop Raul from leaving hell after dropping off Christiana to her well-deserved torment, he just doesn't think it's amusing to let the guy go on with his vengeance.
- God of Evil: He rules over hell and delights in suffering. He can't be anything else.
- Oh, Crap!: Once he realizes he's next on Raul's chopping block.
- Sore Loser: He sets up incredibly unfair competitions for Raul when confronted, and grows increasingly angry and unstable as Raul kept beating them.
