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[-Foreground: [[DarkActionGirl Elisabeth Le Fanu]]. Background: [[GuileHero Kaito Sena]] and [[NinjaMaid Hina]].-]]]
->''"O Sinless Soul, stricken down in a manner most foul. From this day forth, you shall be my loyal servant. I am the Torture Princess, Elisabeth Le Fanu. I am the proud wolf and the lowly sow."''
The seventeen years and three months of Kaito Sena's life have not been pleasant. [[MissingMom Abandoned by his mother]], [[AbusiveDad savagely beaten by his criminal father]], it finally ends with his father choking the life out of him in a drugged rage.
Moments later, he awakens in a new body, his soul [[TrappedInAnotherWorld summoned to another world]] by a strange young woman in a {{Stripperiffic}} black outfit, proclaiming herself Elisabeth Le Fanu, the Torture Princess. She has crafted him a golem body for a vessel out of clay and her own blood, to be her manservant. An infamous noblewoman who gained great magical power by torturing to death every human being in her family's demesne, Elisabeth was finally captured and bound by the Church. [[BoxedCrook She is tasked with slaying fourteen demon princes and their mortal contractors.]]
Once this mission is complete, she, too, will [[BurnTheWitch burn at the stake]], forsaken by all of creation.
''Torture Princess: Fremd Torturchen'' (''異世界拷問姫 Isekai Goumon Hime'', "Torture Princess of Another World") is a {{Gothic|Horror}} SplatterHorror LightNovel series written by Creator/KeishiAyasato and illustrated by Creator/SakiUkai (''LightNovel/BlackBullet''), and very much not for the faint of heart. It was published in Japan by Creator/MFBunkoJ from May 2016 to February 2020, and translated to English by [[Creator/YenPress Yen On]] beginning in May 2019. The first volume was adapted into a 15-chapter manga by Creator/HinaYamato in 2017, which was published in English as a single omnibus volume.
Not to be confused with ''Manga/TisTimeForTorturePrincess''.
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!!Tropes in ''Torture Princess'':
* AlmightyJanitor: The Butcher. He is able to supply anything, "so long as it is meat", and easily evades attacks. [[spoiler:He was the Suffering Saint's acolyte, and supplied the demon flesh that was used to both summon the fourteen ranked demons and to create the Torture Princesses.]]
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered Drawing and quartering]] ''was'' a fairly well-known historical means of CruelAndUnusualDeath, but it wasn't done the way depicted in volume one. Drawing and quartering consisted of partial strangulation by hanging, followed by disembowelment and castration, followed by beheading and dismemberment ("quartering"). What Elisabeth refers to as "drawing and quartering" when she inflicts it on the Knight, is actually a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismemberment#By_four_horses dismemberment by four "horses"]].
* {{BFS}}: While she mainly fights with summoned chains, spikes, and torture and execution implements, Elisabeth can also summon the Executioner's Sword of Frankenthal, a blunt-tipped zweihander with the words of her {{geas}} emblazoned on it.
* BladeOnAStick: Hina's WeaponOfChoice is a gigantic halberd that she's strong enough to swing around like a toothpick.
* BloodMagic: Demon magic is essentially algemancy, generating power by inflicting pain. The Torture Princesses tortured innocents until they essentially became part-demon themselves and developed the ability to generate their own mana. For his part, Kaito figures out in volume 3 that he can generate mana to cast spells by torturing ''demons''.
* BluntNo: The protagonists responding "Hard pass" to other characters' demands becomes a bit of a RunningGag by book five.
** This is Kaito's initial response to Elisabeth's command to serve her.
** Kaito ''and'' Elisabeth respond this way in unison to Jeanne de Rais's demand to become her subordinates.
* BoxedCrook: Elisabeth was taken prisoner by the Church [[spoiler:after fighting her uncle Vlad and the Kaiser]], and is under a {{geas}} to slay the other thirteen ranked demons and their contractors. Once that task is complete, she'll be executed.
* BurnTheWitch: One of Elizabeth's execution devices is a conjured burning stake, which she uses against Vlad. She herself is also sentenced to die this way, [[spoiler:but Kaito interrupts her execution at the end of volume 3]].
* Catch22Dilemma[=/=]UnstableEquilibrium: In volume 2, the Grand King sets a trap for Elisabeth that [[PowerLimiter caps her ability to use magic]]. She could break it if she destroyed the Grand King, but the curse prevents her from generating enough mana to do so. [[spoiler:Kaito breaks it after forming a contract with the Kaiser, the only demon more powerful than the Grand King.]]
* ChickenAndEggParadox: Demons must be summoned into the world using a ritual that involves demon flesh. It takes a while for anybody to notice the contradiction this raises: how did the ''first'' demon get summoned? [[spoiler:This is answered in volumes 4 through 6: the Butcher delivered the demon meat to summon the "first" demon from the hands of the Suffering Saint, who had created the world via a contract with "God" after destroying the last one with "Diablo"--respectively the natural forces of creation and destruction, the latter of which demons are fragments of.]]
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: [[spoiler:Elisabeth herself. An IllGirl, her uncle Vlad Le Fanu, the Kaiser's contractor, fed her the heart of a demon. This healed her body, but caused her to be wracked with pain unless she tortured innocents to death. Eventually she came to accept it, and killed so many she became able to generate her own mana without it.]]
* CrystalDragonJesus: The Church is ''very'' Catholic, built upon a mythology of a female Suffering Saint that took on all of mankind's sins; her statue in the capital's central square weeps tears of blood. The Church is more powerful than the secular king and maintains a holy order of paladins, and even has a Pope--with the absurd name of Godot Deus--who was responsible for placing the {{geas}} on Elisabeth (the eponymous Torture Princess). The Church is overall theoretically a force for good in this series, but is riven with corruption [[spoiler:that gets worse after Godot Deus is killed in the demon attack on the capital]].
* DeathSeeker: In public, Elizabeth openly and proudly welcomes her death sentence, [[spoiler:even telling a priest praying for her at her execution pyre to can it]], feeling it is the right of the people of the world to demand vengeance for all the innocents she slew. In private, [[spoiler:she just wants her hellish life to finally end]].
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: There are fourteen "ranked demons" in the world: the Knight, Governor, Grand Governor, Earl, Grand Earl, Duke, Grand Duke, Marquis, Grand Marquis, Monarch, Grand Monarch, King, Grand King, and the Kaiser. At the start of the story the Kaiser has been captured by the Church [[spoiler:via his contractor Vlad Le Fanu, whom Elisabeth fought to a standstill]]. Elisabeth has to slay the other thirteen.
* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: Of a sort. God is initially described as the force that creates the world, and Diablo the force that destroys it. [[spoiler:Volume 4 reveals that this is the ''only'' thing either of them is: they're literally just natural forces that the Church's mythology has incorrectly personified, and neither one is actually good ''or'' evil. They simply ''exist''.]]
* {{Golem}}: Elisabeth crafted Kaito's vessel from clay and her own mana-rich blood.
* GratuitousGerman: The subtitle inexplicably means "foreign torture".
* LastMinuteReprieve: After the last demon contractors are slain in volume 3, Elisabeth commands Kaito to take Hina and go into hiding, while she goes to her execution: few know he's [[spoiler:the Kaiser's contractor]] and the Church likely won't pursue him because he's killed no innocents. [[spoiler:Out of loyalty to Elisabeth, Kaito instead interrupts the execution, publicly revealing himself as the Kaiser's contractor and declaring himself the enemy of mankind, [[BatmanGambit knowing the Church will be forced to stay her sentence in order to have her kill him, too]].]]
* NakedFirstImpression: Hina is chained up nude when Kaito finds her in Elisabeth's treasure room.
* NeckSnap: In the prologue, Kaito's neck mercifully breaks before he can strangle to death.
* NippleAndDimed: In the manga, Elisabeth is always drawn with pokies through the straps over her breasts. Hina's nipples are on full display throughout the chapter where she's introduced.
* NobleDemon: Elisabeth in the present day. She knows full well she's beyond any hope of redemption either in the world's eyes or God's, and firmly believes that the world has the right to demand vengeance by killing her once her task is complete.
* {{Nuckelavee}}: The first demon that Elisabeth slays on-page is an underling of the weakest of the fourteen ranked demons: a being that takes the form of a skinless horse and rider and charges through the wall of Elisabeth's castle to attack her. She effortlessly slays it with her IronMaiden.
* {{Robosexual}}: Kaito's primary love interest is Hina, a NinjaMaid automaton that Vlad built for Elisabeth in her childhood. [[spoiler:Elisabeth reveals in volume 3 that she's even fertile.]]
* SinisterMinister: Clueless Ray Faund coolly informs Kaito that when Elisabeth goes to her death, Kaito, too, will probably be tortured and vivisected by the Inquisition--he shows off a torture chamber beneath the church to convince him--and offers to kill him painlessly if he poisons her. [[spoiler:He's actually the contractor of a demon.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: In the English translation, the first couple of books spell the Pope's name "Godd Deus". In volume 3 it changes to "Godot Deus" without explanation. Then it becomes "Godd Deos" in volume 5. Make up your minds!
* SpottingTheThread: In volume 1, the Knight's contractor comes to Elisabeth disguised as a Church paladin [[spoiler:because the human actually ''was'' one, the brother of Grandmaster Izabella]]. He offers to take Kaito to safety after he kills Elisabeth, but Kaito wants to ask him one question beforehand:
-->"Why are you looking at me ''like I'm your next meal?''"
** For her part, Elisabeth doesn't fall for it either: [[spoiler:the knight claims to be a survivor of a unit Elisabeth destroyed at the Plain of Skewers, and Elisabeth is certain she didn't ''leave'' any survivors.]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Elisabeth's customary garb is a black dress reminiscent of a domme that leaves her bust unclad save for strategically placed straps.
* SummonMagic: Elisabeth mainly fights by summoning fanciful torture and execution implements out of {{Hammerspace}} (it's not explained exactly how she produces them).
* TeleportersVisualizationClause: Elisabeth uses a teleportation circle drawn in her own blood that can get her to anywhere she's either familiar with or that has a matching circle on the far side. [[spoiler:Since his body was made with her blood, Kaito is able to have Elisabeth carve a teleportation circle ''into his stomach'' to summon her into locations she's never been: first to get her into Clueless Ray Faund's torture dungeon beneath the central cathedral, then, after recreating the circle from memory, into Vlad's castle.]]
* TheirFirstTime: Kaito loses his virginity with Hina in volume 4 while they're staying in the beastmen realm.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Elisabeth has a taste for organ meat, and is appalled at Kaito's LethalChef-level inability to prepare it. In Kaito's defense, he'd never cooked anything more advanced than a custard pudding before his death, and it proves the only thing he can make that she actually enjoys. Thankfully, Hina the automaton proves a very capable chef.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: {{Enforced}}. Kaito's soul is summoned by Elisabeth into her GothicHorror {{Uberwald}} world from modern-day Japan. Per the afterword to volume 1, the ''isekai'' element was an excuse the editor came up with for why anybody would willingly follow Elisabeth, and has little further effect on the story: Kaito has no desire whatsoever to return to [[DarkAndTroubledPast the horrible life he lived on Earth]].
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: In {{flashback}}s, Elisabeth certainly took a level in cruelty after eating demon flesh, but she's mentioned to have killed cats and shredded dolls before that.
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->''Throughout Elisabeth Le Fanu's bloody life, she was accompanied by a single foolish servant.''
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[-Foreground: [[DarkActionGirl Elisabeth Le Fanu]]. Background: [[GuileHero Kaito Sena]] and [[NinjaMaid Hina]].-]]]
->''"O Sinless Soul, stricken down in a manner most foul. From this day forth, you shall be my loyal servant. I am the Torture Princess, Elisabeth Le Fanu. I am the proud wolf and the lowly sow."''
The seventeen years and three months of Kaito Sena's life have not been pleasant. [[MissingMom Abandoned by his mother]], [[AbusiveDad savagely beaten by his criminal father]], it finally ends with his father choking the life out of him in a drugged rage.
Moments later, he awakens in a new body, his soul [[TrappedInAnotherWorld summoned to another world]] by a strange young woman in a {{Stripperiffic}} black outfit, proclaiming herself Elisabeth Le Fanu, the Torture Princess. She has crafted him a golem body for a vessel out of clay and her own blood, to be her manservant. An infamous noblewoman who gained great magical power by torturing to death every human being in her family's demesne, Elisabeth was finally captured and bound by the Church. [[BoxedCrook She is tasked with slaying fourteen demon princes and their mortal contractors.]]
Once this mission is complete, she, too, will [[BurnTheWitch burn at the stake]], forsaken by all of creation.
''Torture Princess: Fremd Torturchen'' (''異世界拷問姫 Isekai Goumon Hime'', "Torture Princess of Another World") is a {{Gothic|Horror}} SplatterHorror LightNovel series written by Creator/KeishiAyasato and illustrated by Creator/SakiUkai (''LightNovel/BlackBullet''), and very much not for the faint of heart. It was published in Japan by Creator/MFBunkoJ from May 2016 to February 2020, and translated to English by [[Creator/YenPress Yen On]] beginning in May 2019. The first volume was adapted into a 15-chapter manga by Creator/HinaYamato in 2017, which was published in English as a single omnibus volume.
Not to be confused with ''Manga/TisTimeForTorturePrincess''.
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!!Tropes in ''Torture Princess'':
* AlmightyJanitor: The Butcher. He is able to supply anything, "so long as it is meat", and easily evades attacks. [[spoiler:He was the Suffering Saint's acolyte, and supplied the demon flesh that was used to both summon the fourteen ranked demons and to create the Torture Princesses.]]
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered Drawing and quartering]] ''was'' a fairly well-known historical means of CruelAndUnusualDeath, but it wasn't done the way depicted in volume one. Drawing and quartering consisted of partial strangulation by hanging, followed by disembowelment and castration, followed by beheading and dismemberment ("quartering"). What Elisabeth refers to as "drawing and quartering" when she inflicts it on the Knight, is actually a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismemberment#By_four_horses dismemberment by four "horses"]].
* {{BFS}}: While she mainly fights with summoned chains, spikes, and torture and execution implements, Elisabeth can also summon the Executioner's Sword of Frankenthal, a blunt-tipped zweihander with the words of her {{geas}} emblazoned on it.
* BladeOnAStick: Hina's WeaponOfChoice is a gigantic halberd that she's strong enough to swing around like a toothpick.
* BloodMagic: Demon magic is essentially algemancy, generating power by inflicting pain. The Torture Princesses tortured innocents until they essentially became part-demon themselves and developed the ability to generate their own mana. For his part, Kaito figures out in volume 3 that he can generate mana to cast spells by torturing ''demons''.
* BluntNo: The protagonists responding "Hard pass" to other characters' demands becomes a bit of a RunningGag by book five.
** This is Kaito's initial response to Elisabeth's command to serve her.
** Kaito ''and'' Elisabeth respond this way in unison to Jeanne de Rais's demand to become her subordinates.
* BoxedCrook: Elisabeth was taken prisoner by the Church [[spoiler:after fighting her uncle Vlad and the Kaiser]], and is under a {{geas}} to slay the other thirteen ranked demons and their contractors. Once that task is complete, she'll be executed.
* BurnTheWitch: One of Elizabeth's execution devices is a conjured burning stake, which she uses against Vlad. She herself is also sentenced to die this way, [[spoiler:but Kaito interrupts her execution at the end of volume 3]].
* Catch22Dilemma[=/=]UnstableEquilibrium: In volume 2, the Grand King sets a trap for Elisabeth that [[PowerLimiter caps her ability to use magic]]. She could break it if she destroyed the Grand King, but the curse prevents her from generating enough mana to do so. [[spoiler:Kaito breaks it after forming a contract with the Kaiser, the only demon more powerful than the Grand King.]]
* ChickenAndEggParadox: Demons must be summoned into the world using a ritual that involves demon flesh. It takes a while for anybody to notice the contradiction this raises: how did the ''first'' demon get summoned? [[spoiler:This is answered in volumes 4 through 6: the Butcher delivered the demon meat to summon the "first" demon from the hands of the Suffering Saint, who had created the world via a contract with "God" after destroying the last one with "Diablo"--respectively the natural forces of creation and destruction, the latter of which demons are fragments of.]]
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: [[spoiler:Elisabeth herself. An IllGirl, her uncle Vlad Le Fanu, the Kaiser's contractor, fed her the heart of a demon. This healed her body, but caused her to be wracked with pain unless she tortured innocents to death. Eventually she came to accept it, and killed so many she became able to generate her own mana without it.]]
* CrystalDragonJesus: The Church is ''very'' Catholic, built upon a mythology of a female Suffering Saint that took on all of mankind's sins; her statue in the capital's central square weeps tears of blood. The Church is more powerful than the secular king and maintains a holy order of paladins, and even has a Pope--with the absurd name of Godot Deus--who was responsible for placing the {{geas}} on Elisabeth (the eponymous Torture Princess). The Church is overall theoretically a force for good in this series, but is riven with corruption [[spoiler:that gets worse after Godot Deus is killed in the demon attack on the capital]].
* DeathSeeker: In public, Elizabeth openly and proudly welcomes her death sentence, [[spoiler:even telling a priest praying for her at her execution pyre to can it]], feeling it is the right of the people of the world to demand vengeance for all the innocents she slew. In private, [[spoiler:she just wants her hellish life to finally end]].
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: There are fourteen "ranked demons" in the world: the Knight, Governor, Grand Governor, Earl, Grand Earl, Duke, Grand Duke, Marquis, Grand Marquis, Monarch, Grand Monarch, King, Grand King, and the Kaiser. At the start of the story the Kaiser has been captured by the Church [[spoiler:via his contractor Vlad Le Fanu, whom Elisabeth fought to a standstill]]. Elisabeth has to slay the other thirteen.
* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: Of a sort. God is initially described as the force that creates the world, and Diablo the force that destroys it. [[spoiler:Volume 4 reveals that this is the ''only'' thing either of them is: they're literally just natural forces that the Church's mythology has incorrectly personified, and neither one is actually good ''or'' evil. They simply ''exist''.]]
* {{Golem}}: Elisabeth crafted Kaito's vessel from clay and her own mana-rich blood.
* GratuitousGerman: The subtitle inexplicably means "foreign torture".
* LastMinuteReprieve: After the last demon contractors are slain in volume 3, Elisabeth commands Kaito to take Hina and go into hiding, while she goes to her execution: few know he's [[spoiler:the Kaiser's contractor]] and the Church likely won't pursue him because he's killed no innocents. [[spoiler:Out of loyalty to Elisabeth, Kaito instead interrupts the execution, publicly revealing himself as the Kaiser's contractor and declaring himself the enemy of mankind, [[BatmanGambit knowing the Church will be forced to stay her sentence in order to have her kill him, too]].]]
* NakedFirstImpression: Hina is chained up nude when Kaito finds her in Elisabeth's treasure room.
* NeckSnap: In the prologue, Kaito's neck mercifully breaks before he can strangle to death.
* NippleAndDimed: In the manga, Elisabeth is always drawn with pokies through the straps over her breasts. Hina's nipples are on full display throughout the chapter where she's introduced.
* NobleDemon: Elisabeth in the present day. She knows full well she's beyond any hope of redemption either in the world's eyes or God's, and firmly believes that the world has the right to demand vengeance by killing her once her task is complete.
* {{Nuckelavee}}: The first demon that Elisabeth slays on-page is an underling of the weakest of the fourteen ranked demons: a being that takes the form of a skinless horse and rider and charges through the wall of Elisabeth's castle to attack her. She effortlessly slays it with her IronMaiden.
* {{Robosexual}}: Kaito's primary love interest is Hina, a NinjaMaid automaton that Vlad built for Elisabeth in her childhood. [[spoiler:Elisabeth reveals in volume 3 that she's even fertile.]]
* SinisterMinister: Clueless Ray Faund coolly informs Kaito that when Elisabeth goes to her death, Kaito, too, will probably be tortured and vivisected by the Inquisition--he shows off a torture chamber beneath the church to convince him--and offers to kill him painlessly if he poisons her. [[spoiler:He's actually the contractor of a demon.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: In the English translation, the first couple of books spell the Pope's name "Godd Deus". In volume 3 it changes to "Godot Deus" without explanation. Then it becomes "Godd Deos" in volume 5. Make up your minds!
* SpottingTheThread: In volume 1, the Knight's contractor comes to Elisabeth disguised as a Church paladin [[spoiler:because the human actually ''was'' one, the brother of Grandmaster Izabella]]. He offers to take Kaito to safety after he kills Elisabeth, but Kaito wants to ask him one question beforehand:
-->"Why are you looking at me ''like I'm your next meal?''"
** For her part, Elisabeth doesn't fall for it either: [[spoiler:the knight claims to be a survivor of a unit Elisabeth destroyed at the Plain of Skewers, and Elisabeth is certain she didn't ''leave'' any survivors.]]
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Elisabeth's customary garb is a black dress reminiscent of a domme that leaves her bust unclad save for strategically placed straps.
* SummonMagic: Elisabeth mainly fights by summoning fanciful torture and execution implements out of {{Hammerspace}} (it's not explained exactly how she produces them).
* TeleportersVisualizationClause: Elisabeth uses a teleportation circle drawn in her own blood that can get her to anywhere she's either familiar with or that has a matching circle on the far side. [[spoiler:Since his body was made with her blood, Kaito is able to have Elisabeth carve a teleportation circle ''into his stomach'' to summon her into locations she's never been: first to get her into Clueless Ray Faund's torture dungeon beneath the central cathedral, then, after recreating the circle from memory, into Vlad's castle.]]
* TheirFirstTime: Kaito loses his virginity with Hina in volume 4 while they're staying in the beastmen realm.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Elisabeth has a taste for organ meat, and is appalled at Kaito's LethalChef-level inability to prepare it. In Kaito's defense, he'd never cooked anything more advanced than a custard pudding before his death, and it proves the only thing he can make that she actually enjoys. Thankfully, Hina the automaton proves a very capable chef.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: {{Enforced}}. Kaito's soul is summoned by Elisabeth into her GothicHorror {{Uberwald}} world from modern-day Japan. Per the afterword to volume 1, the ''isekai'' element was an excuse the editor came up with for why anybody would willingly follow Elisabeth, and has little further effect on the story: Kaito has no desire whatsoever to return to [[DarkAndTroubledPast the horrible life he lived on Earth]].
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: In {{flashback}}s, Elisabeth certainly took a level in cruelty after eating demon flesh, but she's mentioned to have killed cats and shredded dolls before that.
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->''Throughout Elisabeth Le Fanu's bloody life, she was accompanied by a single foolish servant.''
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