Characters / Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest

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Hajime's Party

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The "Hero" Party

Hajime's former classmates so-called due to the de-facto leader's, Amanogawa Kouki, having the status of Hero whose purpose is to save mankind from the threat of the Demons. Following Hajime's fall to the Abyss, the class ended up splintered into multiple groups, with Kouki leading a 3 party expedition team through the Great Orcus Labyrinth to train for the upcoming war while Sonobe founded the Ai-chan Defense Force in order to protect their teacher and find a purpose for the lives that Hajime saved.

In General

• Anti-Hero Team: Outside of bullying Hajime, they are relatively decent people and want to help the people of Tortus, though mainly to get back home.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Loggins notes that they have a problem of going for the flashiest attack immediately, with no concern for their environment and conserving stamina.
• Can't Catch Up: After Hajime returned from the abyss, they quickly fall behind him and his party.
• Child Soldiers: All of them are only in high school, yet they get magically drafted by a psychotic god to fight a losing battle for the human denizens of Tortus due to being granted cheat-level powers and skills. This goes as well as expected.
• Dramatic Irony: After Hajime's "death" a contingent of students led by Kouki attempts to conquer the Orcus Labyrinth, reaching the 90th floor after four months of slowly making their way through the Magic Beasts within. (a) The first 100 floors are more or less a training ground for the true Labyrinth below & (b) Hajime in that time had already claimed the second Labyrinth along with the Orcus one, emptying them of anything valuable or useful. Needless to say, it can both funny and a little sad to watch them struggle through battles and celebrate their victories while Hajime's party levels half a city and takes out 60,000 monsters by themselves.
• Everyone Has Standards: The classmates are fine with ganging up on Hajime for his otaku status and his relationship with Kaori, but even they draw the line when they learn about Hiyama leaving Hajime for dead as well as the former's subsequent murder of Kaori.
• Foil: To Hajime's Party - The "Hero" party made up of Hajime's former classmates are made of over twenty people and has the backing of the Church of Ehit; their goal being to save humanity and the world from the threat of the Demons. Hajime and his girls are all that make up their group (around 5 or so) and are only out for themselves, usually helping others for their own reasons, benefit, or simply a side-effect of their real goals.
• It's All About Me: Some classmates show shades of this, as even after bullying Hajime and not investigating the true cause of his "death", they still expected him to help them when they met him again after he became much stronger than them. Some of the boys even tried to get him to spill on how to make girls of Tortus fall in love with them after seeing the girls in Hajime's harem.
• Jerkass to One: Deconstructed. While their bullying of Hajime only got worse once they were transported to the new world, even they never counted on Hiyama trying to kill him the way he did. But by then, the damage had already been done, Hajime was now a completely changed man. He no longer cared about any of his old classmates as people (except Kaori initially due to his debt to her and him remembering how she promised to protect him), because as far as he knew, and thanks to all of their prior treatment of him for so long, they were all in on it. And he was perfectly willing to let them all be killed by a powerful enemy in the labyrinth, had Myu and his party not talked him into it. But even then, he still makes it clear to them that he will not hesitate to kill any of them if they get in his way of going back home.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Back in Japan, they all ganged up on Hajime for being an otaku and "worthless" due to drawing the attention of the School Idol. It only got worse when they were brought to Tortus and everyone, but Hajime, got impressive skills, magics, and stats. After Orcus, Hajime is stronger than all of them combined and only grows stronger as he conquers more Labyrinths; the true karma is that they're now so beneath him in terms of power, Hajime's former class isn't even worth the effort to think about revenge against them.
• Not Worth Killing: The only thing stopping Hajime from immediately putting a bullet in all of them (besides his party) the next time he sees them is because he thinks it's far more fitting to leave them all trapped to fend for themselves in this new world, while he finds his way back home.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: In comparison to the native inhabitants of Tortus, the Hero Party is very powerful as they managed to reach further than anyone else from Tortus in the Orcus Labyrinth, as their party is filled with people with rare and powerful jobs. However, they greatly fall short of Hajime and his party, who not only cleared the Orcus Labyrinth, but several others as well as managing to stop the demon invasion of the Heiligh Kingdom by themselves.
• Selective Obliviousness: Due to the trauma they endured after nearly dying the first time they went into the Orcus Labyrinth and Hajime's own "death" in the labyrinth after he was blasted into the abyss, they deliberately ignored how it was a fire magic attack that caused Hajime to fall, instead convincing themselves that Hajime fell due to his own carelessness.
• Stunned Silence: They are utterly slack-jawed after witnessing Hajime wipe out the demon army with Hyperion.
• Teens Are Monsters: Played straight at first, but ultimately deconstructed. They were only able to get away with treating Hajime the way they did for so long for two reasons: Japan's society letting them get away with it, and their status as "Heroes" in the new world. But after they believed Hajime was killed, that's when they all have an immediate wakeup-call as to just what kind of world they're now living in, and how it won't be nearly as tolerant of their vices as their old one was. This is hammered home later when the team eventually faces a powerful enemy in the labyrinth that would've killed all of them had Hajime not returned.
• Unwitting Pawn: The class believes that they were chosen by the gods in order to save humanity from the threat of the demons and will be able to return home if successful. In reality, Tortus' Pantheon uses all life as pieces on their game board and couldn't care less about sending them home.

Kouki's Party

The backbone of the Hero Party expedition led by the Hero Kouki Amanogawa himself. Kaori Shirasaki and Eri Nakamura used to be members of this party until they left in favor of joining Hajime and the Demon race respectively. They, later on, join Hajime's adventure to clear the remaining 2 Labyrinths following the demon attack on Heileigh and Eri's betrayal.

Kouki Amanogawa

Voiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara (Japanese), Ricco Fajardo (English)^note Other languages: José Ángel Torres (Latin American Spanish)

^{Click here to see him in the light novel}

The "perfect man" of the class.

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• The Ace: On Earth, at least. He was known for being the best in academics and athletics. In the world of Tortus, this went straight to his head. After joining Hajime's team it doesn't take long for him to turn into a Broken Ace.
• Allegorical Character: In a Deliberate Values Dissonance way. Kouki's views of "justice" (in a Good Feels Good way), The Needs of the Many (i.e. thinking of the group besides one's own individuality), bullying and the use of Blaming the Victim aren't all that different from what most of Japanese society thinks and functions as, and showing the ugly sides of it.
• The Atoner: He decides to return to Tortus to redeem himself for his actions during the story, then he gets summoned to another world as the hero.
• Attention Whore: Deep down, he desperately craves attention and is pissed if he isn't the center of it or gets the proper amount that he thinks he deserves.
• Awesome, but Impractical: As early as the Tortus dungeon, he would use the most powerful attacks right away, but Meld would chastise him for not thinking of what would happen if such an attack caused a cave-in. He apologizes, but the look in his eyes shows he's only saying it to stay out of trouble.
• Barrier Warrior: He knows many defensive spells like Holy Shield and Sacred Shields.
• Believing Their Own Lies: Deconstructed, Played for Drama, Horror, and in words of Ocelot: "It’s easier to live a convenient lie than a painful truth." As things no longer go his way while the one person he personally dislikes gets better treatment, being exposed to the ugly sides of Tortus, and being forced to make morally-ambiguous choices causes Kouki to delve into his delusions of justice until things hit a boiling point during the Frost Caverns of Schnee. In fact, breaking himself out of this mindset is a major trial for him during the After Story.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: A Double Subversion. His kind and righteous behavior are genuine, just really misguided due to his naïve outlook. But as things no longer go his way in Tortus along with Hajime being the center of attention, his selfish and spoiled side starts to reveal itself.
• Black-and-White Insanity: To Kouki, there's only right (his view) and wrong (others). Anybody who doesn't follow his view is wrong. Since he is literally the Hero, he believes the class comes with Omniscient Morality License, meaning he would be the good guy no matter the situation, which often leads to him engaging in Insane Troll Logic level mental gymnastics to justify why he is still right and his opponents are wrong.
• Blaming the Victim: Deconstructed. His go-to solution to solving conflicts between two hypothetical parties is to always come down on the ones who are the victims (regardless if their situations are out of their control), and not the offending ones (regardless of their flimsy or non-existent reasons). While it's common in Japanese society due to Deliberate Values Dissonance, it does not do so well when it comes to the Grey-and-Gray Morality world of Tortus.
• Blow You Away: He has access to several wind spells, like Wind Bomb and Air Hammer.
• Book Smart: Deconstructed. He's great in a purely academic setting, but in a practical environment (where he actually has to think and adapt), he's completely helpless if left to his own devices. He also tends to make things worse when faced with an unfamiliar situation unless someone nearby can do the thinking for him.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Eri mind controls him at the climax to keep him as her lover and use him against his friends. Becomes a case of More than Mind Control when, even after Shizuku broke the main control, he kept fighting since a part of him truly believed that Hajime had brainwashed all around him and couldn't accept not being the center of all attention.
• Broken Pedestal: As his flaws became more apparent as the story goes on, he loses the respect and admiration of those around him. By the time of the After Story, the only ones who still respect him are Shizuku, Ryuutaro, and Suzu.
• Bullying a Dragon: Despite even Kouki himself acknowledging that Hajime is much stronger than him or the rest of the Hero Party, he keeps on deliberately trying to pick fights with Hajime in various instances due to both disagreeing with his philosophies and Kouki's own jealously towards him. This is despite the fact that Hajime blatantly stated that he wouldn't hesitate to kill of his own classmates if they got in his way. If not for the fact that Hajime was able to regain some of his former kind self due to the influence of his party, as well as Kaori and Shizuku friendship with Kouki, Hajime would have finished him off after Kouki succumbed to his doppelgänger's taunting influence and attacked Hajime.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Back on Earth, stopping Eri's attempted suicide was just him doing a nice thing for a classmate, and he barely remembers it. For her, it was the first nice thing anyone had ever done for her, and was the start of her obsessive Villainous Crush on him.
• Butt-Monkey: By the time Hajime comes back stronger than ever after the events of the Orcus Labyrinth, it didn't take long for Kouki to, ironically, become the butt of the jokes along with his so-called "sense of justice" proving ineffective.
• Chick Magnet:
  • On Earth (and also on Tortus) many girls have confessed to him, and on Tortus he has a fan club formed by several girls infatuated with him.
  • In the After Story he managed to get two girls (one is a former queen and the other is a former goddess) from another world pining for him. Unfortunately for him, they constantly fight each other over him. It comes to a head when Myu presented him with a pair of engagement rings as his Christmas gift, causing these two rival girls to pressure him for the ring.
• Childhood Friend Romance: Subverted and Deconstructed. He honestly believes that Kaori would naturally be with him since childhood, never figuring out that she had eyes for Hajime until she decided to join him. That was when his antagonism towards him became worse.
• The Chosen One:
  • Ehitorujue intended to summon only him due to his hero class to counter Freid's influence on the status quo, the other classmates were summoned simply because the calling spell couldn't be precise enough. Also intended to snatch his body after he powered up long enough.
  • In After Story, Kouki is summoned by other gods to be a chosen one again. Fortunately, he got better at being a hero when he was summoned this time around.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: Shizuku and Kaori, having known him since childhood, are well aware that he has absolutely no clue how his "cliché lines" and winning smile affect women. In fact, they often address him as "the typical dense harem lead." Deconstructed in regards to Eri, who became a Yandere just because of how dense he is.
• Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Constantly. When even a musclehead like Ryuutaro can bite his tongue...
• Condescending Compassion: This is how he normally addresses Hajime, and his friend Shirasaki, always sarcastically calling her "kind" because she actually treats Hajime like a human being. If anything, this is the first sign for the readers to know that Kouki isn't as kind and altruistic as he believes himself to be.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Any fight between him and Post-Orcus Hajime will end in his defeat.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype:
  • He's a walking example of the stereotypical light novel hero that's so prevalent in the genre but played in a more negative light.
  • Also to classical fairy tale heroes who, upon closer examinations, are rife with Double Standards, Protagonist-Centered Morality, and Original Position Fallacies throughout their stories. Since the light novels don't run on that narrative and seeing "the hero" from another person's perspective, shows how utterly myopic and delusional that person would be.
• Determinator: By the end of his Last Stand against the shadow beings in After Story, he wasn't even conscious, but he still slashed at anything that came near him. It was shown even earlier when he is still immersed in his delusion.
• Dumbass Has a Point: Subverted. He yells at Hajime that all of Eri's victims might have been saved if the class had been warned, to which Hajime retorts that not only would Kouki disbelieve the warning, but would be enraged at Hajime accusing or insulting a classmate, and Kouki has to grudgingly admit Hajime's right.
• Empathic Weapon: His Holy Sword started exhibiting a certain degree of sentience after exploring Haltina's Labyrinth. It was revealed in After Story that the sword contained Ua Alto's soul, the former goddess of the Great Tree who had been overthrown by Ehitorujue. Aularodde can also turn into a matching sword with a black finish.
• Entertainingly Wrong: To the point of a Running Gag, but is seriously Played for Drama. Since he's always twisting the situation and what he observes to fit his own preconceived worldview, he very often makes careless statements that, while correct on paper, are wholly inappropriate or just plain wrong, and remains blissfully clueless as to why people don't appreciate his "sage wisdom".
• Entitled to Have You: Demonstrated in a way that makes even the rest of the class cringe in Volume 4: he outright tells Kaori that since she's his childhood friend, she should stay by his side forever, and clearly feels the same about Shizuku. It's not clear, even to him, whether this is out of romantic feelings towards them or a more self-centered "I'm the star and you're my supporting cast" attitude, but neither Kaori nor Shizuku is impressed by it.
• Expy: The author, Ryo Shirakome, states that Kouki is based on the male Saber from Fate/Prototype.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: He sincerely believes that just by being the hero he's entitled to save the world no matter what and everyone summoned with him is supposed to follow his lead. His defeat against Gahard was only the start of a severe chain of defeat after defeat and when he joined Hajime's party, far from being one of the strongest members in the party, he was quickly identified as The Load.
• Fatal Flaw: He has four major weaknesses.
  • His often-misplaced "sense of justice" is noted by many characters, particularly Shizuku, as being his greatest flaw. While his intention to uphold his sense of justice was genuine, he was so obsessed to force his naive sense of justice to the point of coming off as Black-and-White Insanity.
  • He tends to frame everything to fit his own worldview, making him oblivious to anything that ran counter to his worldview.
  • Kouki is shown to have a lot of Pride in being in the right, to the point he has no concern if he could ever be wrong. When he's no longer having his pride validated through his beliefs, it won't take long for Kouki to get incredibly frustrated and further delve into delusion to make sense of what he perceives as the world around him.
  • He is prone to hesitating at critical moments when he encounters a situation that he is ill-prepared for or when faced with a more complex moral dilemma. His hesitation during the Behemoth attack in the Orcus Labyrinth nearly got his classmates killed if not for Hajime's quick thinking and intervention. While Cattleya's monster army initially cornered him, he was able to gain the advantage after unlocking Overload, only to hesitate when he realized that she had a family and wasn't a mindless monster, which gave her the opening to defeat him.
• Foil: To Hajime, both are heroes in the story, but while Hajime behaves like an Anti-Hero unconcerned about using lethal means and only cares about those he considers important to him, Kouki behaves like a Knight in Shining Armor who considers chivalry as important and will always pick to save the many, even if he needs to sacrifice the few.
• The Fool: Get past all his ramblings and preaching, and it's not hard to see him for what he really is.
• For Great Justice: This is deconstructed as his idea of "justice" depends on what he believes it to be, which unfortunately for him, tends to cause him to become easily manipulated into Ishtar's propaganda.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: In a Victim-Blaming kind of way. In the light novel, Hajime specifically mentions that Kouki simply can not comprehend the concept of For the Evulz. As such, if he sees someone being bullied, he immediately believes that the victim must have clearly done something to provoke it. When he sees Hajime physically dragged off the training grounds by Hiyama and his three flunkies so the four of them can use Hajime as a punching bag, Kouki honestly believes it's Hajime's fault "for not taking the training seriously" and falling behind, despite the fact, that from the beginning, the training program was clearly not working for Hajime, period, regardless of how much effort Hajime put into it.
• Good Feels Good: Something that he's actually guilty of. He's more interested in validating his own "sense of justice" (read: self-righteous pride) than in actually taking the time to dig deeper than the surface.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He is jealous of Hajime's ability and how it has improved (and his harem). As the story continues his envy increases, and (after knowing that Kaori and Shizuku fell in love with Hajime), he deludes himself into thinking that Hajime is a manipulator that uses brainwashing to achieve his goals.
• Hate Sink: A rare non-villainous example. In the web novel version, and very quickly in the manga, his Victim-Blaming, Selective Obliviousness, and fervent insistence that he's always right and righteous have seriously drawn the ire of the fanbase. It is at the point that comments wish he'd get a "wake-up call" in the "got eaten by a monster and laughed at by Hajime for it while he's begging Hajime for help" kind of way.
• Healing Hands: One of his favorite magics is healing magic.
• Here We Go Again!: A year after the end of the main story he gets summoned to yet another world to be a hero again.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: His main weapon is the Holy Sword Uralt.
• Heroic RRoD: Or rather a villainous one during that part of the story, due to being brainwashed. He continues to abuse his remaining (life)power after Shizuku cut him from Ehit's power sources.
• Heroic Wannabe: He genuinely wants to live up to his title of a hero, but due to his turning a blind eye to Hajime's suffering and self-righteous nature, he is anything but.
• Horrible Judge of Character:
  • Because he lives in his own little world, he is very poor at reading people. He sees Hiyama as a friend, and can't see that he's using him to avoid punishment.
  • He takes Ishtar at his world, even though he uses Exact Words when talking about getting the summoned heroes home.
• Hot-Blooded: He's seldom seen considering the long-term consequences of his actions, makes snap judgments, and frequently gets in over his head because he acts first, thinks second, later, maybe.
• Hypocrite: Something that even he's oblivious to being, especially when things don't go his way.
  • In his Establishing Character Moment, he tells Hajime to do something about Kaori's "misplaced" kindness. This is coming from a guy who is so Oblivious to Love (besides Kaori and Shizuku, but even that's ambiguous), that he never thought of how much of Chick Magnet he is to other girls, which also has real consequences with Eri.
  • For all of his talk of With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, he rarely takes (if any) responsibility when things go wrong and often pins the blame onto others (mostly Hajime).
  • He tends to use Blaming the Victim whenever a conflict happens between two hypothetical parties, especially seen in Hajime's case, yet whenever Kouki's on the losing side of a personal conflict, he'll never factor himself to blame.
  • One of the things he hates about Hajime is him being an Otaku, but Kouki's blind adherence to his idealistic principles and lack of social awareness ironically makes him more delusional than Hajime ever could be.
  • As his animosity and envy for Hajime grows, he starts to believe that the latter is brainwashing others to agree with him. This comes from a guy who constantly expects, and as shown in the trials of the Frost Caverns of Schnee, even fantasizes, for others to agree with him with no regard for their own opinions or feelings, since he's the one whose righteous.
  • A good portion of his beef against Hajime is his jealousy of how Kaori and Shizuku would prefer the latter's company over him, even believing that Hajime is either brainwashing them or using some method of force. Yet, whenever he's put in a The Needs of the Many situation, Kouki will have no problems sacrificing or endangering them for The Needs of the Many.
• Idiot Hero: To the point where he makes his best friend look like a genius in comparison. While he may be Book Smart, he's got his head so wrapped up in his "ideals", (read: up his own ass) that he comes across as a complete bumbling oaf, and in what little bit of truth Emperor Gerard could tell him, the Mercenary Emperor actually said as much. Of course, it flew over Kouki's head.
• Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance:
  • Lack of self-reflection is a huge flaw in his beliefs, not that he ever once stops to think about the consequences or long-term effects of his methods.
  • He also doesn't understand how naive he is about the world around him, as he truly believes everything will work out in his favor.
• I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: In the After Story, he openly refuses to be called "hero" during his personal arc, he's shown to be visibly uncomfortable when called that. Considering how he ended up becoming a Fallen Hero in Tortus, it's quite understandable.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: A deconstructed example. While Kouki doesn't have malicious intentions, his willingness to ignore anything that goes against his beliefs and blind idealism would've gotten him and everyone else killed or suffer a Fate Worse than Death many times throughout Tortus if it wasn't for Hajime's constant interventions. The fact that he keeps denying his growing resentment for Hajime and his own flaws has only made things worse till he finally gets corrupted by his magical doppelganger.
• Innocently Insensitive: The phrase "the path to hell is paved with good intentions" clearly applies to this guy. Not in the "I know what I did was wrong, but expect things to turn out okay because I meant well" kind of way, but as in, "I don't care how my actions affect others because I meant no ill intentions", kind of way. As such, while he isn't actively kicking puppies, he does constantly trip over them, especially where Hajime is concerned. Then he simply goes on his merry way, completely oblivious to the damage he's done, leading to his friends and Ishtar constantly apologizing for him because as "The Hero", he obviously can do no wrong.
• Insane Troll Logic: He really doubles down into this trope after letting the title of "Hero" get to his head, as any time when something doesn't filter correctly through his For Great Justice Black-and-White Morality. When he gets possessed by his magical doppelganger in the Frost Caverns of Schnee, he straights up hurls numerous speeches of everything he hated about Hajime before and now, even for things that don't even involve him.
• Irrational Hatred: Regardless of how many mental gymnastics he pulls just to justify why he hates Hajime so much, there is ultimately no logical basis for it.
• It's All About Me: Once you get further into the story, it starts to become very clear that Kouki's For Great Justice attitude is more self-serving than altruistic, especially with things no longer going his way, and his constant Selective Obliviousness before the events of Tortus. As shown when he gets possessed by his magical doppelgänger in the final trials of Frost Caverns of Schnee, Kouki says he's right and everyone else around him is wrong, and he's The Hero of the story who's destined to save the day with all the rewards that comes with it.
• Jack of All Stats: His stats have always been equal to each other, with him not specializing in any particular stat.
• Kidnapped by the Call: Ehitorujue only intended to summon only him as a vessel to perform a Grand Theft Me on. In the After Story, this happened to him three more times one year after he returned from Tortus. He was even explicitly labeled as a "summon magnet" in Shizuku's Wish.
• Knight in Shining Armor: He wears gold and white armour and certainly tries to live up to the fictional example, though with very mixed results.
• Knight Templar: He honestly cannot, for the life of him, comprehend how his mindset can ever be incorrect, about anything.
• Lack of Empathy: For a guy who's so obsessed with "justice", he surprisingly lacks the ability to empathize with others or their situations, thinking of only resolving things in his own way.
• Lack of Imagination: One of his major problems is that when faced with an unfamiliar situation, he is very poor at adapting. While fitting for someone who only believes in extreme absolutes and doesn't seem to believe in personal growth, it's also justified in that Tortus is actually the first time he's ever actually encountered situations that didn't go his way, so he's never had to change or adapt before.
• Large Ham: Once in Tortus, and he learns what his special class is, he acts in loud and wildly exaggerated ways.
• A Lesson Learned Too Well: His grandfather taught him to believe in the best in humanity. Unfortunately, it has got to the point where he can't accept humans are capable of evil. That being said, his grandfather planned to tell him about the moral greyness of the world when Kouki was older, but passed away before he could.
• Light 'em Up: Kouki prefers using spells from the light element due to his status as The Hero, even though he possesses an affinity for all.
• Manchild: Downplayed as he's only 17 at the start of the series, but his constant adherence to his "sense of justice" and refusal to admit to mistakes place him firmly in this trope.
• Moral Myopia: To sum it up, anything he does and preach is right because he's The Hero.
• My Way or the Highway: This is what his "sense of justice" boils down to; anything he says or does is right by default, no matter how irrational, suicidal, or even hypocritical, and must be followed accordingly while the opinions of others are wrong, no matter how rational, pragmatic, or even beneficial it can be.
• The Needs of the Many: A firm believer of this, when forced to pick a Sadistic Choice between saving his love interest, or saving much more people in the final battle against the shadow beings, he chose the many. He got lucky Hajime and the others appeared to lend him a hand.
• Never Hurt an Innocent: Deconstructed as his idea of an innocent person is someone capable of having some good in their heart. No matter how much Grey-and-Gray Morality tells him and everyone else that the "Innocent person" needs to be stopped before they kill him and his entire class. Over and over again.
• Nice Guy: Inverted. He's kind and polite to anyone he meets, but, due to his black-and-white "sense of justice", tends to come off as an unsympathetic Jerkass to those with more self-awareness.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Thanks to his Hero class, he is strong when compared to most of his classmates. For post-Orcus Hajime and his wives, however, he is barely a blip on their radar.
• No Social Skills: While he's capable of interacting with others, it's mostly due to common agreement and his own natural charisma at work. Once those two things don't work out for him, as well as gets into disagreements that go against his beliefs, he proves himself to be hilariously, socially inept and can barely give a compelling argument that doesn't just boil down to, "I'm right and you're wrong".
• Oblivious to Love: As the narration puts it, he treats Eri like yet another Girl of the Week.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Kouki Amanogawa is one of Tortus' strongest fighters and The Hero with all the cheat-level powers to show for it; too bad for him that he is always playing second fiddle to Post-Orcus Hajime and his party members.
• Ping Pong Naïveté: He's both Book Smart and charismatic, but is surprisingly impulsive and dramatically blind to social cues.
• Prince Charming Wannabe: After seeing Hajime with his harem, he is convinced that they were forced by Hajime to follow him, as he offered them a chance to join the Hero Party in order to save the human race together. Needless to say, his offer was greeted with a severe lack of enthusiasm from all of the girls.
• Secretly Selfish: Not only is he completely oblivious to his own Entitled to Have You attitude to Shizuku and Kaori, but he had also constantly denied his own jealousy and selfishness. This eventually blew up in his face when he faces his own Evil Doppelgänger as his own denial kept feeding it with more power, eventually leading to him failing the trial and undergoing a Demonic Possession.
• Selective Obliviousness: As lampshaded in the narration by Kaori and Shizuku, he's very, very talented at completely missing or ignoring anything and everything that doesn't align with or outright defies his preconceived world-view, and only hears what agrees with him.
  • Shizuku explicitly makes this clear to him in volume 4:
  Shizuku: “This is a bad habit of yours, you know that? How many times have I told you not to make baseless assumptions?”
  Kouki: “I don’t make baseless assumptions...”
  Shizuku: “Yes, you do. Kouki, you don’t even know the first thing about Nagumo-kun. Not about what he was like in Japan, or what he’s like now. All of those girls looked happy to be with him, you know that? You’re the one ignoring reality and interpreting things however you want... Even though all you really want is to convince yourself that Nagumo-kun’s some kind of demon who doesn’t deserve Kaori. If that’s not making baseless assumptions, I don’t know what is.”
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: He gets hit quite a bit by this, his point of view of what is a hero includes sparing any and all humanoid enemies, including the genocidal and Always Chaotic Evil devil folk, and he cannot quite understand why is it preferable to threaten the Imperial Family to abolish slavery, instead of fighting some guards to free one slave.
• Skilled, but Naive: He's the top when it comes to combat-related skills, and he's not too shabby when in command of a party, but he honestly believes that humans are incapable of intentionally ill intent, even when he sees it with his own eyes. As such, he's quick to forgive genuinely evil people at the slightest show of repentance, no matter how fake, and comes down on the victims with extreme prejudice for the crime of being victims.
• Stock Light-Novel Hero: A dark deconstruction. The "hero" job he gets on coming to Tortus goes straight to his head and makes him go full-tilt Tautological Templar, thinking that his way, and only his way, is the epitome of righteousness, no matter how reckless, stupid, or suicidal his actions. It often takes violence to make him see how wrong he is, or keep him from endangering himself and others, and even then, he doesn't always get it.
• Stupid Good: At his best. It can honestly be said that he's almost completely free of malicious intent (his resentment towards Hajime aside).
• Taking You with Me: A comedic example at the end of his personal arc: when he was summoned to the fourth world, he didn't hesitate in using limit break just to grab Hajime to get dragged together.
• Tautological Templar: Since his job class is "hero", he believes he's always noble and just regardless of his actions or the situation. The fact that Holy Church enabled this attitude doesn't help matters.
• That Came Out Wrong: Subverted. Because of his naive outlook and impulsive behavior, Kouki will often say things that really would've only sounded better in his head and failed to see how inappropriate they can be interpreted. This is best seen in volume 4 where he tries to prevent Kaori from going with Hajime, much to everyone, including the ones who admired him, cringing at his words:
  Kouki: It’s better if you stay with us. No, I’ll make sure you stay with us. Even if you hate me for it, it’s for your own good. I won’t let you go, no matter what!”
• Theory Tunnel Vision: He's notorious for this, in that every argument he makes against Hajime is based on his personal ideas of morality. This is best exemplified after Hajime killed Cattleya, he objected to it "like anyone else would," despite the fact that others are giving him gratitude for saving their life.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: He is very frightened of the mere idea of slaying an intelligent opponent, it takes him being part of a Guilt-Free Extermination War against the shadow beings for him to finally be able to use lethal force.
• Underestimating Badassery: Over and over, he never quite understands how immense the power gap between him and Hajime is, and every time he gets just a little stronger, he quickly assumes he's about to reach Hajime.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Despite how many times Hajime saves him, he antagonizes Hajime to no end.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Due to possessing the very rare "Hero" job, all of Kouki's stats are far beyond the average Tortus inhabitants and greatly surpass even the likes of Meld, who is acknowledged as the strongest knight in the Heiligh Kingdom. However, it is shown that despite his great power, he lacks the experience and battle skill of other skilled fighters such as Meld and Emperor Gahard.
  • This is also why Hajime doesn't take his fight with a doppelgänger-fused Kouki seriously, as despite the fact that his stats increased to the same level as Noint, his lack of experience as well as his crazed rushes were easily countered by Hajime's calm and tactical fighting style.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: In the After Story, he eventually admits to hating Hajime, to the latter admitting thinking the same, in-universe this moment is treated as a heartwarming moment since both stepped up from dismissing each other.
• What the Hell, Hero?: He never approves of Hajime's actions and he's quite vocal about those that include mercilessly killing foes. Or helping the Haulia butcher the Imperial Family to threaten Gahard into abolishing slavery. Of course, he also disapproves of those times Hajime doesn't take action, even if it is because there is no need to move, or he has a better plan ready to get the best results available.
• Yandere: This is yet another Fatal Flaw of his, as it makes him become so easily manipulated. He claims that he wants to "save" Kaori and Shizuku from Hajime's "machinations", it's rather unclear if he really does loves them, him believing that he does nothing wrong, he hates Hajime all that much, just that him being possessive, or the twisted combination of them all.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: One of his few Pet the Dog moments. He was incensed when the Nobles started mocking Hajime's death in Orcus dungeon and wrongly giving Kouki the full credit for getting his class out alive when everyone on the scene knows that the lion's share of the credit for that should go to Hajime. Needless to say, that while the open scorn gets squashed as a result, the nobles only take this as a further "proof" that Hajime's "only an incompetent who brings trouble to others" and Kouki is a "soft-hearted man who cares even for the incompetent", which isn't entirely incorrect. This line of thinking gives Hajime a great deal of grief for the rest of the story.

Shizuku Yaegashi

Voiced by: Yumiri Hanamori (Japanese), Kate Bristol (English)^note Other languages: Desireé González (Latin American Spanish)

Kaori Shirasaki's best friend, and a kendo champion. She's both the only girl and the only one marginally nice to Hajime.

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• All Amazons Want Hercules: She's part of Hajime's harem, falling for him mostly for his strength and dependability after adventuring with him for a while. Though it takes until the end of volume 9 for her to even admit it to herself.
• Allergic to Love: In a harem where most members aggressively strive to get into Hajime's bed, Shizuku can faint from a mere kiss.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She has an air of "quiet dignity" that gives others the impression of being the ideal Samurai. The fact that she's a kendo champion only serves to accentuate this appeal.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Kaori is Shizuku's most beloved best friend, due to Kaori being the first girl to show her kindness and compassion during her childhood.
• Blackmail: A comedic version. To convince Hajime to accept Kaori into his party, she threatens to expose Hajime's embarrassing nicknames and spread them among the general population.
• Child Prodigy: She's a talented prodigy in Kenjutsu since a tender age of four.
• Childhood Friends: She has been best friends with Kaori since elementary school.
• Cleavage Window: Her swordsman outfit has a window exposing her cleavage.
• Cool Big Sis: Hajime considers her as this towards her other childhood friends, her main role was restraining Kouki when he got out of hand.
• Cuteness Proximity: She really loves cute things.
• Elemental Weapon: The katana Hajime made her has wind, electricity, and gravity powers.
• Even the Girls Want Her: On both earth and Tortus, she has many female admirers. They even formed a secret branch to watch her called the Soul Sisters.
• Expy: The author, Ryo Shirakome, states she's based on Kaori Kanzaki from A Certain Magical Index. It's made quite obvious as her character design and fighting style are nearly identical to Kaori's. She's even best friends with a girl named Kaori.
• Fragile Speedster: Shizuku can cut down her opponents in the blink of an eye, but one good hit is enough to take her out of battle.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She's shown to have a large collection of stuffed animals and plush toys in her room.
• It's Probably Nothing: In the anime adaptation, she overhears Hiyama muttering to himself how things "went perfectly." When she sees him get all twitchy after she calls out to him, she flashbacks to all the times Hiyama bullied Hajime and came to realize Hiyama's Yandere nature but then shrugs it off as "overthinking things."
• Katanas Are Just Better: After her original knight's sword is destroyed, Shizuku switches to a black katana made by Hajime. It's justified since her fighting style is based on the katana, so using other types of swords make fighting more difficult. On top of that, the katana Hajime made was only marginally worse than the Purposely Overpowered holy sword. When he upgrades it again later, Shizuku's katana is the best sword in the world, bar none.
• Lady of War: Graceful, elegant, wields a blade with great speed and skills in battle.
• Love Epiphany: She gets more than one during her adventures in the great dungeons, it takes her a while to finally admit loving Hajime.
• Master Swordswoman: Trained since childhood in the Yaegashi Style, Shizuku is a peerless swordswoman who never lost a single Kendo tournament. After being granted several sword enhancement skills and superhuman physical abilities as a summoned hero and further extensive training, Shizuku becomes a formidable master swordswoman and one of the strongest members of the Hero's party.
• Matchmaker Crush: She supports Kaori's feelings for Hajime, but later on, she falls in love with Hajime as well.
• Only Sane Woman:
  • Compared to the rest of the "cool kids," Shizuku has her head together the most. This is usually to her detriment since that means that she's relegated into cleaning up after her quirky friends.
  • Like Kaori, Shizuku was one of the only people in Hajime's class who treated him with any genuine kindness back in Japan. Unlike Kaori, Shizuku recognized how the attention Kaori gave him was contributing to his bullying problems. Also unlike Kaori, she seemed aware of how Kouki and Ryoutarou could be rather cruel to Hajime as well. While not without her own quirks, Shizuku is easily the most mature of the group and tries to rein the others in when they get out of line.
• Rescue Romance: Later on, she falls for Hajime after he came to her help time and time again.
• Running Gag: Kaori and Yue periodically muse about Shizuku possibly being the "final boss" in the battle for Hajime's affections, due to her ability to overpower Hajime verbally (see Blackmail above). This only increases after Shizuku confesses her feelings and joins their group.
• Samurai Ponytail: Her hair is usually tied up in a ponytail and she's specialized in a style of samurai martial arts that has been developed by her family's dojo for generations.
• The Smurfette Principle: She's the only girl in the "cool kids" group after Kaori joins Hajime's party.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Hajime initially describes her as cold, rigid and aloof on one side, sweet and sensitive on the other.
• Team Mom: For the front line training in the Orcus Dungeon, though it's often more like team Kindergarten Teacher. She is quite sure the stress is giving her wrinkles and making her go bald.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Shizuku never did like Hiyama for bullying Hajime and lusting after Kaori^note In fact, she was the only one who doubted his sincerity when Hiyama begged for forgiveness for springing the booby trap on them, only putting it aside for the sake of looking out for her closest friends, but she finally runs out of patience with him the moment she discovers his betrayal of the class and holds nothing but contempt for him when he stabs Kaori. Because of this, she has absolutely No Sympathy for him when Hajime kills him, nor does she have any qualms with Hajime doing so.
• Token Good Teammate: She's one of the few members of Hajime's class who's unambiguously a good person from start to finish. She wasn't just Kaori's genuine friend back in Japan, but also the only other person in the class besides her who treated Hajime kindly. She remains a kind and heroic person after arriving in Tortus and does her best to keep the rest of the Hero Party in line.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Kaori's Girly Girl. In Japan, she was the kendo champion to Kaori's Class Princess and in Tortus, she's the samurai swordswoman to Kaori's White Magician Girl.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: She's a tomboyish swordswoman with a long ponytail.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She's a kendo champion and the only female melee fighter in the series other than Shea. While she's less girly than Kaori at a first glance, she's quite feminine and sensible, as shown by her love for cute things.

Ryoutarou Sakagami

Voiced by: Ryuichi Kijima (Japanese), Aaron Campbell (English)^note Other languages: Eduardo Curiel (Latin American Spanish)

Of the top trio of the "cool kids", he doesn't bother to hide his distaste for Hajime and does his best to drive Hajime out of Shirasaki's life.

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• Bare-Fisted Monk: Ryutarou fights primarily using his fists as befitting of someone with the monk class.
• The Big Guy: Effectively serves as the primary muscle in Kouki's group, being the beefiest and stoutest member.
• Dumb Muscle: Hajime describes him in the light novel as "even his brain seems made out of muscles".
• Hidden Depths: While he's every bit a Dumb Muscle as both narration and characters mention, he's also one of the most sensible classmates, able to support Kouki without a doubt, carrying a flame for Yue, while understanding it will never work.
• Has a Type: Both of the girls that he has fell in love with have the same child-like stature, once he confesses this fact to Suzu, she calls him out for being a Lolicon.
• Human Popsicle: Almost gets turned into one due to trying to reach an easy way out inside a great dungeon.
• Innocently Insensitive: Compared to Hajime's other bullies, he just wants to influence Hajime into becoming a contributing member of society. Unfortunately, the way he goes about it just makes him come across as another jerk that bullies Hajime for being an Otaku.
• Jerkass Has a Point: His initial hostility to Hajime on Earth is noted to not be due to genuine malice, but by a belief of always being productive, and that Hajime's prioritizing his hobbies over school means that he's not being productive.
• Love at First Sight: With Yue, he understands how hopeless that is and is content with just watching her from the sidelines.
• Pair the Spares: He and Suzu become a couple after the story, and decide to go back to Tortus together.
• Undying Loyalty: He sincerely believes in Kouki and never gives up on him, even if that means fighting against him.
• Voluntary Shapeshifter: He cannot use metamorphosis magic on the magical beast, so he uses it on himself.
• Younger Than He Looks: Sakagami is 17, but is described with a very muscular body and is 190 cm (6'2'') tall.

Suzu Taniguchi

Voiced by: Ayasa Itō (Japanese), Dani Chambers (English)^note Other languages: Alicia Vélez (Latin American Spanish)

A girl with inexhaustible energy and spunk.

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• Barrier Warrior: She has the "Barrier Master" class which allows her to summon barrier magic even able to hold off a Behemoth, though she got this only after months of very hard training, long after Hajime "fell" in the dungeon.
• Break the Cutie: Suzu is devastated by Eri's betrayal and attempt to kill her and the rest of their classmates. The usually cheerful Suzu becomes depressed as she realizes Eri was never her best friend to begin with due to Eri's obsession with Kouki.
• Combat Hand Fan: She sports two iron-ribbed fans after Hajime accidentally broke her bracers while upgrading them.
• Genki Girl: She's got so much energy that she's constantly bouncing off walls.
• Girlish Pigtails: To highlight her extremely childish personality, she wears her hair like this.
• Mascot: In-universe. She's officially the class mascot.
• My Greatest Failure: She considers the death and destruction caused by Eri (even her own suicide) to be her fault since she wasn't the one to stop her earlier attempt before Kouki, whose flawed personality made him unable (or willing) to help her recover her sanity.
• The Nicknamer: She has a habit of giving people nicknames such as "Hajihaji" for Hajime, "Kaorin" for Kaori, "Shizushizu" for Shizuku, "Sheashea" for Shea, "Ryu-kun" for Ryutarou and "Eririn" for Eri.
• Not Good with Rejection: She fears being rejected.
• Older Than She Looks: She's 17 years old, but looks no older than 12 years old.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Every time she's sad it's a clear sign of how dire things are.
• Pair the Spares: She and Ryuutaro become a couple after the story, and decide to go back to Tortus together.
• Personality Powers: Barrier Warrior but it also reflects her "mask".
• Stepford Smiler: Suzu crafted her cheerful and upbeat persona in order to cope with loneliness.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She's afraid of bugs, and becomes especially distraught when she is only able to tame insect-like monsters before the battle against Ehit.

Bastard 4

A group of bullies torments Hajime back in Japan and form a separate party that works in tandem with Kouki's "Hero" party.

Daisuke Hiyama

Voiced by: Minoru Shiraishi (Japanese), Orion Pitts (English)^note Other languages: Brandon Santini, Tommy Rojas [ep. 1] (Latin American Spanish)

One of the "cool kids." While not in the top three who harass Hajime, he is the most dangerous, due to his own sense of entitlement to Shirasaki and his own stupidity. He is also the one Hajime rightly hates the most.

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• Arch-Enemy: As his primary bully and the one who threw him into the Orcus Labyrinth, Hajime has a lot of animosity for him.
• Barbaric Bully: He's always shown as The Bully to Hajime thanks to the latter's relationship with Kaori. After being transported to Tortus, his cruel side is revealed when he and his gang attack Hajime from all sides in their "training" and would've severely injured him further had Shirasaki didn't intervene.
• Beta Test Baddie: He's introduced, by Hajime's description, as spending every day looking for new and interesting ways to harass Hajime, as if it's his assigned homework, which is Serious Business in Japan. In Tortus, he's overcome with murderous fury because he sees that Hajime and Kaori can hook up just fine, but he will never be good enough for her and he knows it.
• Blow You Away: Hiyama's true specialty in magic, is what he used to manipulate one of the fireballs to strike Hajime in the back to ensure that he falls into the Abyss.
• The Corrupter: Him plunging Hajime into the pit is what led him to be a Villain Protagonist in the first place and the trauma of said event caused Shimizu to retreat further into his delusions that led to him betraying humanity in the first place.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Invoked as Hajime kills Hiyama in a similar manner to how the latter tries to kill him in the first place. Getting knocked down into a pit filled with demonic beasts, and being Left for Dead while having his left arm eaten off first. Unlike with Hajime, Hiyama had no chance of surviving and his half-eaten corpse was later buried unceremoniously with everyone hating him for his treachery.
• Defiant to the End: You got to admit that despite his cowardly tendencies, he doesn't beg nor grovel after Hajime brutally beats him to the point where all of his limbs are broken and internal organs nearly ruptured, and still have the will to even declares that he'll kill him one day and still take Kaori as his girlfriend when Hajime holds him by the throat. This is deconstructed and subverted since he's only invoking this trope out of a combination of prideful delusion, hatred, and adrenaline from the extreme pain he's suffering from his injuries, which only serves to enrage Hajime to the point where he lost all patience and mercy for his former bully. Leading to Hajime kicking him off the courtyard with monsters roaming around with the intent to not only give Hiyama a painful death, but for him to feel despair since he had no chance of surviving due to his crippling injuries. The anime even has him completely lose the bravado as he dies begging for someone to save him.
• Dirty Coward: He's perfectly fine attacking weaker people, like pre-Orcus Hajime, four on one, and attacking monsters when there's a large party covering for him, but when he's at a tactical disadvantage, he either sucks up, kowtows, or runs away. Even his death is described as this (since he has no chance of surviving with the crippling injuries beforehand), only trying to flee from the oncoming horde of monsters.
• Eaten Alive: Hajime throws him off the courtyard into the jaws of the demonic beasts roaming around.
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: In the After Story, his family tried to avenge his death by going after Hajime, only to be broken down mentally by the latter through unknown means.
• Evil Is Petty: Hiyama's biggest reason for hating Hajime and bullying him is because he's the object of Kaori's affections instead of him. This leads to his murder attempt so he can have a chance to get Kaori for himself, but when Hajime reveals that he survived and Kaori chooses to go with him, Hiyama starts to take a turn for the worst.
• Evil Redhead: Although he's a brunette, Hiyama's hair tends to have a shade of red, and he's definitely not a friend nor an ally.
• False Friend: Kouki sees him as a friend. He's just sucking up to Kouki for his own protection. Kouki just can't bring himself to see it.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He knows he's clearly not worthy of Kaori's affections, but chancing upon her going into Hajime's room late into the night, wearing only a flimsy negligee, and selfishly thinking Hajime's even less worthy, due to his own selfish Might Makes Right philosophy, drives him into a murderous rage which is what ultimately inspires him to back-stab Hajime in the Great Orcus Labyrinth.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: By the time his corpse is found, it's described to be halfway eaten from the side.
• Hated by All: Everyone hates Hiyama, especially Hajime, thanks to his treachery nearly getting them killed.
• Hero Killer: He murders Kaori so that Eri could turn her into a mindless sex doll that would love only him. This proves to be the final straw for Hajime.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His every action only helps in bringing his end faster. Particularly his initial betrayal of Hajime, which leads into the latter kicking him into the horde of beasts outside of the courtyard.
• Hopeless Suitor: As Hajime points out, despite his feelings for Kaori, she would never return them due to the fact he couldn't stand the fact she was kind to him (Hajime), so when he bullied Hajime, Daisuke proved to Kaori what a disgusting person he is and thus turn off any romance. At some point he realized this himself, but didn't want to admit it.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: After years of getting away with bullying Hajime and turning on his fellow classmates at every turn, Hiyama finally gets what's coming to him at the end of volume 6 when Hajime kicks him out of the courtyard into the horde of beasts.
• Last Disrespects: After his final betrayal results in his death, what's left of his body is later found, and the others think what happens next is kind: They dig a shoddy hole and dump him there and choose to only remember him as a horrible human being.
• Lean and Mean: He has a slim build, and is definitely not a nice person.
• Left for Dead: Hajime beats him to within an inch of his life for mortally wounding Kaori, then throws him to the monster army. With the injuries he suffered beforehand by Hajime, Hiyama doesn't survive at all.
• Loving a Shadow: No matter how genuine his feelings for Kaori are, the latter's superficial beauty is the really only thing he likes about her regardless of her other traits. The fact that he went as so far as to kill her in order for Eri to resurrect her as a puppet who'll love only him says a lot.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: The night before the Orcus Labyrinth excursion, Hiyama realizes that Kaori will never become his as long as Hajime exists. With that knowledge in mind, Hiyama deliberately sets up an "accident" to happen to Hajime which results in his fall to the Abyss. This did not end well for Hiyama, especially since Hajime survived and become even stronger and more ruthless than the bully, preventing a second attempt from even happening.
• Narcissist: Hiyama only cares about himself and his own desires which is a huge trait that makes him disliked by all the students and what gets him killed in the end.
• Never My Fault: After he blasts Hajime down into the abyss, and everyone else miraculously gets out of the dungeon alive, he goes into a dark corner, curls up into a fetal position, and, while pretending to be distraught about Hajime's supposed death, starts giggling, happily blaming Hajime, and calling it "divine retribution" that Hajime was blasted back into the Behemoth by his own fireball. He continues to do this after his plan to betray his classmates failed, where he continues to blame Hajime for ruining everything.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His betrayal of Hajime in the Orcus dungeon, dumping the poor boy into the Abyss, allowed Hajime to rescue Yue and take numerous levels in badass that would have never happened otherwise. And then there's his killing of Kaori, which ends up giving her an opportunity to match Hajime's insane power.
  • On a grander scale, Hiyama's jealousy and betraying Hajiime is what lead to Ehit's downfall.
• Not Worth Killing: Initially, once Hajime met up with his class again, Hajime made it clear to Hiyama that he knew he was the one who tried to kill him. And that he doesn't even consider him worth killing. This was rescinded when he mortally wounded Kaori.
• Oh, Crap!: When he sees first hand that Hajime is alive, knows he backstabbed him, and shows how much more powerful and remorseless he is, he enters a massive panic.
• Playing with Fire: His only offensive spell is the basic Fireball.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: He betrayed everybody that he knew, tried to murder Hajime, killed Kaori with the intention of having her turned into his zombie sex slave and left the rest of his classmates to die at the hands of Eri's zombies and Freid's monsters. His reward was to have his body broken by Hajime, who then feeds him to Freid's monsters alive. Needless to say, Hajime showed him no mercy. Later, his classmates buried him in an unmarked grave far from the capital without ceremony or honors. Needless to say, apart from his family, nobody mourned Daisuke's death.
• Schmuck Bait: He falls victim to some in chapter 3 of the manga. Despite being told, repeatedly, by the rest of the class, and the knight that was training them, not to go after the shiny gem in the ceiling, he continues to do so, calling everyone else "cowards." This triggers a trap that teleports everyone into a chamber where they come face to face with a Behemoth, and the only exit is blocked by an endless wave of skeletons, composed of prior adventurers that fell on the 58th floor, a place far, far above their current level. It was only Hajime's genuine courage that gave anyone the chance to escape.
• Seven Deadly Sins: Daisuke proves on various occasions to suffer from all the Seven Deadly Sins.
  • Lust: Daisuke is an extremely lustful and perverted individual, obsessed with Kaori Shirasaki, the class' most beautiful and popular girl. However, he actually never really loved her, only seeing her as his property no matter how much he deludes himself otherwise, and was more than ready to do anything to have her only for himself — and when he realizes he won't be able to do so, he has no problem in killing her.
  • Wrath: He is short-tempered and easy to enrage, with Hajime (who is ironically equally wrathful after he fell into the Orcus Labyrinth) being his main target, as he hates him for getting Kaori's attentions and believes he is more deserving of them. However, while Hajime has a lot of self-control and doesn't allow his anger to blind him, Daisuke always fails in controlling his wrath, which makes him act recklessly and, ultimately, results in his death at Hajime's hands.
  • Pride: Incredibly arrogant and overconfident. Even though he knows he is weaker than Kouki, he believes that he can bring down any enemy he fights with his dirty sneak attacks. He is proven wrong when his attempt to attack Hajime from behind is easily deflected, showing that he is much weaker — and even then he believes himself better than Hajime since he still believes the latter is still the weak kid he betrayed months before, so he attacked him again while he was healing Shirasaki and promptly got brutally beaten down by Hajime and left to die.
  • Sloth: Daisuke is lazy and indolent, never coming down to battle and leaving the dirty work to others and barely putting the work to improve himself.
  • Envy: The main reason for Daisuke's hatred of Hajime is that Kaori gave the latter all of her attention - and his envy was such that he actually attempted to get Hajime killed. Multiple times. Not only does this fail in achieving the expected result, it actually leads to his own downfall.
  • Greed: Selfish, greedy, and egotistical, Daisuke believes that everything he wants must belong to him, so he'll never have to share those things with anyone — and he uses this "logic" even towards people, particularly Kaori Shirasaki, the girl he lusts after.
  • Gluttony: He's never shown eating, but he's a glutton for power, as he keeps wanting to prove himself stronger than Hajime at all costs in order to kill him.
• Smug Snake: He's an arrogant douche that likes to lord his power over others, specifically Hajime.
• Something Only They Would Say: When Hajime first returns, he refuses to believe he's the kid he killed, insisting it was probably a forged identity. Then Yue asks him a question:
  Yue: You're not planning on getting in his way again, are you?
• Spanner in the Works: By causing Hajime to fall into the Abyss and find Yue, he threw the biggest spanner onto god's chessboard. He just doesn't live long enough to see his success.
• Teens Are Monsters: Hiyama is in his late teens and has a villainous personality.
• Token Evil Teammate: Fans generally consider Daisuke to be the only one of the three villainous students that was truly evil. Unlike Shimizu and Eri, who have tragic backstories, Daisuke has no such excuse. As Hajime later pointed out, Hiyama was fully aware that what he was doing was wrong, but still chose, of his own accord, to do all these evil things because he was a sociopath.
• Too Dumb to Live: In chapter 3 of the manga, he threatens a complete collapse of the dungeon the entire class is in by going after a gem, embedded in the ceiling, that's obviously too big to carry just because Shirasaki said it's beautiful.
• Ungrateful Bastard:
  • His response to Hajime saving his life at terrible risk and effort? Have the fireball that's supposed to be cover-fire for Hajime's own escape actually turn and hit him In the Back, so he falls down into the Abyss, to be Left for Dead.
  • He did it again during Eri's betrayal, this time disregarding Hajime's mercy to his previous betrayal. This time he paid the price.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While he intentionally tried to kill Hajime, he probably never thought that his "death" would bring too much despair on a student that they're Driven to Villainy (e.g Shimizu), until it was too late.
• Villainous Breakdown: Hiyama eventually loses his cool after Hajime continues to interfere in his plans.
• Villains Want Mercy: Combined with Ain't Too Proud to Beg and Easily Forgiven. Once everyone had calmed down, long after fleeing the dungeon, due to Hiyama springing the trap that nearly got everybody killed and regained their composure, they rightly turned on him for putting them in that predicament in the first place. His response was to run to Kouki, kneel on the ground, and shed Crocodile Tears, thus earning Kouki's forgiveness and getting the criticism to stop. He even winds up on Kouki's party close to his Lust Object, Kaori.
• Yandere: He "murders" Hajime in the first volume for his obsession with Kaori. It gets to point where he was willing to kill her and have Eri resurrect Kaori into a living doll to only love him.

Yoshiki Saito, Reiichi Kondo, and Shinji Nakano

Saito is voiced by: Shun'ichi Maki (Japanese)

Kondo is voiced by: Takeo Ōtsuka (Japanese)

Nakano is voiced by: Katsuyuki Miura (Japanese)

Yoshiki Saito

Reiichi Kondo

Shinji Nakano

The trio of worst offenders. Together with Daisuke Hiyama, they strive to make Hajime's life hell back on Earth and do their damnedest in Tortus as well.

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• Asshole Victim: Kondo is killed by Eri. Since he was one of Hajime's bullies, there's little reason to feel bad for him.
• Blow You Away: Saito's job class Aerothurge gives him an affinity for Wind Magic.
• The Bully: Much like Hiyama, the three relentlessly harass and beat up Hajime back in Japan for having Kaori's love and affection.
• Heel–Face Turn: Shinji and Yoshiki eventually start a private security company after returning to Earth and became bodyguards of Liliana S. B. Heiligh.
• Hikikomori: After Kondo's death during Eri's betrayal Saito and Nakano turn into shut-ins due to shock, they're never mentioned again.
• Hopeless Suitor: Like Hiyama, Kondo has a crush on Kaori. He gave up after Hajime returned, out of fear of being killed.
• Irony: Their Establishing Character Moment is harassing Hajime for being an Otaku, and later on, became shut-ins after the death of Kondo.
• Playing with Fire: Nakano's job class Pyromancer gives him an affinity for Fire Magic.
• Reforged into a Minion: Eri kills Reiichi and brings him back as an undead puppet, to demonstrate her necromancy powers to her former allies.
• The Resenter: They resent Shirasaki being friendly with Hajime and bully him relentlessly behind her back as a result.
• Smug Snake: They are in no way as smart, clever, or popular as they think they are, but they love to rub their supposed superiority in Hajime's face at every opportunity.
• Those Two Guys: They are rarely if ever, seen apart.

Ai-chan Defense Force

A group of demoralized students who decide to form their own party focused on using their talents and game-breaking skills to defend their childlike teacher Aiko Hatayama rather than risking their lives contributing to humanity's war against the demons.

Aiko Hatayama

Voiced by: Ai Kakuma (Japanese), Emily Fajardo (English)^note Other languages: Angélica Villa (Latin American Spanish)

The social studies teacher who was handling the class at the time everyone was summoned to another world.

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• Affectionate Nickname: The class is fond of calling her "Ai-chan" to her chagrin, due to her childish body.
• Age-Gap Romance: After she falls for Hajime, Aiko gets worried about the 8-year age gap between them, especially considering he's her student and a minor. However, Hajime later points out both of her concerns are meaningless, as he will no longer be her student after he graduates and their age difference is no big deal since two other members of his harem are Really 700 Years Old.
• All-Loving Hero: Played with. She very much cares about the people of Tortus as a whole, but mess with her students and she will retaliate. As Ishtar found out.
• The Alleged Boss: Aiko is the class' teacher, and the only adult who was teleported to Tortus along with them. Unfortunately, while most of her students like her, few of them truly respect her as an authority figure. She understandably protests her students being drafted into a war against demons, but it only takes one Rousing Speech from Kouki to get most of the class to ignore her pleas and get onboard with the idea.
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: When Hajime rescued her from the Church, she clearly thought he was attempting something else with her only complaint is they shouldn't do it there.
• Big Good: Her official role in the final battle.
• Boring, but Practical: Her ability to aid crop growth is so important it is compared to a divine blessing.
• Caring Gardener: In Tortus, she's assigned the job of Farmer. Aiko mainly uses her Fertility Magic to significantly improve the soil fertility of large farm lands for producing food.
• The Comically Serious: In-universe. The harder she tries to do her job as a school teacher, the more "childish" she comes across to the students.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Downplayed as it wasn't anything tragic, but when she was young, she was framed for stealing a bicycle by one of her classmates, who was the son of one of the town's wealthy and influential families. The only person who stood by her side, other than her family and friends, was her teacher that all the students despised for his strict attitude. He managed to clear Aiko's name through his efforts but was forced to retire due to angering the boy's family. This event is what inspires her to become the Cool Teacher she is in the present time.
• Fantastic Nuke: From a methane explosion. On accident.
• Farm Girl: In her backstory, she came from a family of farmers on her mother's side. It is implied to have contributed to her getting the farmer job.
• A God Am I: She's declared the "Goddess of fertility" after the battle of Ui thanks to Hajime's propaganda. Of course, she got no say in it. This becomes important during the final battle.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Having each been granted a Story-Breaker Power or two, several of her students take full advantage of their situation to do everything that they always wanted to do back in Japan but couldn't either because of peer pressure, lack of strength or the inability to get away with it. She is utterly incapable of accepting that they are just bad people deep down and fails to understand how they are capable of committing such heinous crimes without remorse simply because they can. As a result of which, she repeatedly falls for their lies, gets put in danger because of them and blames herself for failing them when their motivations have nothing to do with her teaching at all.
• Head Desk: Her thoughts where it concerns Hajime. Regarding how he saved her.
• The Heart: After the demon attack on the Heiligh Kingdom's capital, as well as the revelation of Eri and Hiyama's betrayal, the class became mistrustful of each other, and that general mistrust undermined the class' cohesion. Aiko was the only person that everyone still had faith in, which helped her as she worked on trying to repair the broken trust between the classmates.
• Honey Trap: An inverted example. The Holy Church of Ehit keeps sending "hotties" (handsome male knights) to seduce her to join their ranks so that they can monopolize her "Farmer" class. She winds up mesmerizing the Knights instead, though she's totally clueless about it.
• Innocently Insensitive: Aiko initially tried to stop Hiyama's bullying regarding Hajime's very lack-luster class and stats by revealing her own. While she did mean well, she actually went and made Hajime feel worse. Though her stats were indeed lower than his, Hajime immediately realized that her myriad farming-related skills were highly valuable in a medieval setting like Tortus (as opposed to his own extremely common Synergist skills).
• Lethal Harmless Powers: One wouldn't think farming would be a dangerous weapon...until the Church of Ehit started aiding the "angel" that kidnapped her, tortured her, put her in a cage, and straight-up tried to murder her. Boom goes Pope Ishtar and his flunkies in a Fantastic Nuke methane explosion.
• Morality Chain: By the time volume 6 rolls around, she becomes one of the very few people Hajime still listens to, as she honestly does her best to help him, and all the other students for that matter, retain enough of their personalities that they can adapt back to a peaceful life should they all ever make it back to Japan.
• My God, What Have I Done?: The methane explosion that took down the Holy Church's cathedral went far beyond her intention of taking down the cathedral's barrier and killed everyone within it in an instant. This caused her to become so wracked in guilt that Hajime had to console her.
• Oblivious to Love: Aiko seems unaware of the feelings of the templar knights for her.
• Older Than She Looks: She looks like a middle-schooler but she's 25 years old.
• Personality Powers: Her powerset of her "Farmer" job given to her fitting well to her "nurturing" aspects, being a teacher and all.
• Sensei-chan: Due to her short height and youthful appearance, she's considered the class pet, rather than an authority figure most of the time.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Of the story's 18 volumes, she appears a bit at the beginning, then in volumes 6 and 10, and then in the final battle; she's still the person responsible for managing to turn Hajime from a very selfish anti-hero into someone willing to help others to avoid living "a lonely life", her heartfelt words immediately saving thousands of lives including her own, and both worlds in the long run.
• Squishy Wizard: Her stats are very low, even moreso than Hajime's initial numbers. However, her farming-related magic is both extremely powerful and extremely useful.
• Teacher/Student Romance: She develops feelings for her former student, Nagumo Hajime, after he saves her life from poisoning by feeding her a potion via mouth-to-mouth and consoling her after her fermentation skill resulted in a Fantastic Nuke that killed everyone in the Holy Church's cathedral.
• Token Adult: She's the only adult member of Hajime's class that was transported to Tortus alongside them.
• Utility Magic: While her magic supplied by her "Farmer" Job offers little in the way of combat ability, her cultivation skillset allows her to directly manipulate Methane: a highly-flammable element.
• Villain Killer: She's the one who does in Ishtar and his men. She... isn't proud of it.

Yuka Sonobe

Voiced by: Miyu Tomita (Japanese), Mallorie Rodak (English)^note Other languages: Itzel Mendoza (Latin American Spanish)

The girl Pre-orcus Hajime saved, first- hand, before his "fall" into the Abyss.

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• Blade Enthusiast: Sonobe specializes in utilizing the 12 knife artifact set that the church gave her. As long as Yuka had one knife, she can have the rest return to her regardless of how far they are.
• Dude Magnet: According to Liliana, Yuka is popular among the knights and people in the Heiligh Kingdom.
• Expy: Ryo Shirakome based Yuka off of Himeko Tachibana from K-On!.
• Heroic Resolve: Even after learning that Tortus isn't a fantasy game, and is actually a very, very dangerous place, she still overcomes her Heroic BSoD and chooses to go with Aiko-sensei into danger to help others.
• I Owe You My Life: Towards Hajime. She wouldn't be alive if he didn't intercept the Skeleton Knights' sword swing at her.
• Passing the Torch: On the receiving end. She inherits the kindness, idealism, and childish wonder Hajime was forced to throw away to survive the Orcus dungeon.
• Ship Tease: To Hajime, to the point that their classmates and even her own parents worry that she might end up as a mistress if "she's not active enough".
• Take Up My Sword: After Kouki begins his travels with Hajime, she stands up as leader of the party.
• Took a Level in Idealism: Hajime's Heroic Sacrifice leads her to become a better person, despite her own fears and insecurities.

Yukitoshi Shimizu

Voiced by: Akira Ishida (Japanese), Derick Snow (English)^note Other languages: Rolando de la Fuente (Latin American Spanish)

Introduced in Volume 2, but named in Volume 3, he showcases what could go wrong if an Otaku who fantasizes about being whisked away to another world actually is.

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• Bad Powers, Bad People: He specializes in Dark Magic, strong in causing all sorts of debuffs, including brainwashing, and uses it to amass a monster army to annihilate the city of Ur, soldier and civilian alike, to kill his teacher, Aiko and the rest of his class purely to be a "hero" in his own eyes.
• The Beastmaster: He has the ability control monsters. It is implied that the main reason the monster forces recruited him was to keep him from using this ability against them. Since he is shown to be powerful enough to control a Dragonmen, it's probably true. This makes it a Story-Breaker Power in its own right.
• Bullied into Depression: Played With. Seeing Hajime get bullied made him withdraw into himself in class and avoid others. Upon coming to Tortus, he continues to sulk and sneak off alone.
• Coup de Grâce: He's mortally wounded when Reiss attacks Aiko after Hajime defeats the monster army and captures him. Not wanting Aiko to blame herself for Yukitoshi's death, Hajime Mercy Kills him with gunshots to the head and heart and tells her it was "because he was my enemy."
• Dark Is Evil: He's gifted with "dark magic" when he comes to Tortus, and he's a completely depraved person.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Like Hajime, he's an Ascended Fanboy Gone Horribly Wrong. He shows that being a fan of "other world" harem anime to the point of immersion is not the best strategy to prepare for such an event actually happening. In fact, if you can't hack it in the real world, where life is relatively easy, you're not likely to do well if you suddenly find yourself in a setting like those common to "other world" anime, harem or otherwise, because you're not going to be strong enough, physically, mentally, or morally to deal with a life and death situation.
• Driven by Envy: He admits that his betrayal of the class was due to his envy and hatred of Kouki and his status as the hero.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: He has pale skin and black hair, and is overall not a stable person.
• Eyes Never Lie: Implied in the anime to be the reason why Hajime kills him. After Shimizu begs for his life and swears loyalty to him, Hajime notices Shimizu's eyes turning away, which likely meant he was lying. Alternatively, he might've been looking towards Aiko, showing that he'd target her again. In the LN and Manga, Hajime sees that Shimizu was Beyond Redemption and completely insane, with no chance of recovery.
• Foil: To Hajime. They're both otakus, and both dreamed of going to another world where they'd be appreciated. Once in the other world, however, Yukitoshi got "cheat-level" stats and over-specialized on them, and became jealous of his even more broken classmates. In contrast, Hajime got a non-combat class and comparatively poor stats and did his damnedest to turn them to his advantage through a combination of Not the Intended Use and sheer ornery cussedness, and didn't act on his resentment toward the others.
• General Failure: Unlike Hajime, who attended and studied Meld's tactics and strategies sessions, and learned from them, he only focused on the aspects of his "Dark Magic" that served him, particularly the brainwashing. As such, when he found himself in charge of the large army of monsters he spent weeks building up, his "plans" were a complete disaster, not even preparing an exit strategy or an orderly retreat (although granted, he couldn't have expected Hajime to turn up with machine guns, rocket launchers, and two level 70+ spellcasters). By the time he realizes he's in over his head and tries to run, it's already too late for him.
• Gonk: When compared to the rest of his male classmates, Yukitoshi's face is notably gangly along with his skin being deathly white with blank eyes.
• Harem Seeker: And a complete failure at it. He does not have even one character or personality trait that would be attractive to the opposite sex but refuses to believe it. The only reason he hasn't tried to make a brainwashed harem of sex-slaves is that it's too difficult, too unstable, and too time-consuming to use on actual people.
• Heroic Wannabe: He will do anything and everything to be a "hero", no matter who he has to side with or kill.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Deconstructed. His desire to be special is what made him vulnerable to the manipulations of the Demon Army in the first place.
• Loners Are Freaks: Even his parents and family were rightly concerned that he devoted so much of his life to his "other world" fantasies that he had no social contact.
• Never My Fault: To Insane Troll Logic levels. Despite the fact that he withdrew from the class, and rebuffed anyone who tried to approach him, he insists his loneliness is their fault for ignoring him.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He calls his class "retards" for not worshiping him.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: He's fatally shot by the very demon that convinced him to betray humanity in the first place.
• Saying Too Much: Even Hajime was sympathetic to his plight after the Demons fired through him to try to get at Aiko until he promises to provide Hajime with a harem of brainwashed sex-slaves. This makes Hajime realize he's too far gone into his delusions to be rescued and gives him a Mercy Kill.
• Shadow Archetype: To Hajime. He's far, far more chuuni than Hajime will ever be, and when he finds reality doesn't match his imaginations, he retreats even further into his fantasies.
• Stock Light-Novel Hero: Oh, he would very much like to be one, but he's so fixated on the benefits that he completely ignores the perils, and completely falls apart, retreating even further into his fantasies, the moment even the tiniest little thing goes wrong.
• Super Loser: He does actually put in the effort to learn and master every aspect of his gifted "Dark Magic" ability, and through carefully applied brainwashing, manages to amass an army of tens if not hundreds of thousands of monsters, but his ego is so fragile that he completely falls apart if even the tiniest thing doesn't go his way.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Deconstructed. He hones his "Dark Magic" ability into a force to be reckoned with, even managing to subdue Tio when he catches her napping. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a clue as to what he's doing so his battle debut becomes a complete disaster.
• You Are What You Hate: He hates "chuuni bastards" with a passion, but he's the most "chuuni" character in the whole setting and is completely oblivious to it.
• Zerg Rush: Deconstructed. He never bothers to learn the strengths and weaknesses of any of the species of monsters he manages to subdue. He just sends them at his target all at once. When this encounters the battle-hardened Hajime's party, it utterly fails him.

Atsushi Tamai

Voiced by: Makoto Kaneko (Japanese), Garret Storms (English)^note Other languages: Emmanuel Bernal (Latin American Spanish)

A hot-tempered guy who speaks without thinking at times.

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• Blow You Away: His swords unleash wind when swung.
• Dual Wielding: In battle, he wields a pair of curved swords.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Justified, since his job is Cutlasser.
• Hot-Blooded: He is noted to be hot-headed and reckless.
• Razor Wind: He launches these when he swings his blade.

Noboru Aikawa

Voiced by: Masaya Wada (Japanese)

A boy who loves bikes.

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• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: Noboru's primary weapon is an axe capable of unleashing powerful blows.
• Those Two Guys: He's often seen with Akito and Atsushi.

Taeko Sugawara

Voiced by: Mayu Mineda (Japanese), Brittany Lauda (English)^note Other languages: Valentina Souza (Latin American Spanish)

A student who turns into a sadist after being assigned the job of a Whip Master.

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• Expy: Ryo Shirakome based Taeko off of Akane Sato from K-On!.
• Girlish Pigtails: She's a young girl with her hair styled into low pigtails.
• Dominatrix: She is noted to have started acting like one after becoming a Whip Master.
• Super-Speed: She is able to fling her whip faster than sound.
• Whip of Dominance: Played for Laughs. She used to be an Ordinary High-School Student but after she took the job of "Whip Master", she notably began to develop Sadist and Dominatrix tendencies the better she got with the whip. It's unknown if this is a side effect or if handling a whip just awoke that hidden side of her personality.

Nana Miyazaki

Voiced by: Risa Tsumugi (Japanese), Macy Anne Johnson (English)^note Other languages: Analiz Sánchez (Latin American Spanish)

A high-spirited girl with a tendency to get carried away.

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• Expy: Ryo Shirakome based Nana off of Eri Taki from K-On!.
• An Ice Person: Her speciality is ice magic.
• Icy Blue Eyes: She's an ice mage with blue eyes.

Other Notable Students

Eri Nakamura (Unmarked Spoilers)

Voiced by: Asuka Nishi (Japanese), Megan Shipman (English)^note Other languages: Karla Tovar (Latin American Spanish)

A bespectacled classmate and a close friend of Suzu. Her class is Necromancer.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: To Kouki. He's very freaked out to find out Eri is an insane Yandere who attempts to turn the entire class into zombies just to keep him as her mindless slave.
• Abusive Parents: Her mother blames her for her father's death and her stepfather repeatedly abuse her physically until his detainment from an Attempted Rape. Unsurprisingly, her mother blames Eri further for seducing her second husband, leading to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown and shattering any hope of reconciliation. Needless to say, it led to the point where she wanted to die if it wasn't for Kouki passing by on a jog.
• Ax-Crazy: She's completely deranged, feels nothing of killing people (and her body count is quite impressive) and the moment she stops caring about appearances, even her speech becomes slurred.
• Bad Powers, Good People: She's a shy cute girl with necromancer power. Until it turns out to be a cade of Bad Powers, Bad People instead.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Deconstructed. Kouki was the first person to be kind to her in a long time. However, this moment was a minute moment to him. Therefore, she was desperately dedicated to him, craving the affection again. Upon coming to the new world, she became a Yandere for him.
• Bespectacled Cutie: She's a bespectacled beauty, giving off the air of the stereotypical Cute Bookworm. Then it turns out to be an Invoked Trope on her part to hide her true Yandere personality. When she takes off the glasses, it's revealed she isn't anywhere as sweet or innocent as she appears.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She's not anywhere near as nice as she pretends to be, but she's got the entire class fooled.
• Blackmail: She blackmails Hiyama into being her slave by promising to keep quiet regarding the fact that she knows he's directly responsible for intentionally blasting Hajime into the Abyss with a fireball.
• "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: While actively blackmailing Hiyama, she specifically lampshades the trope. Acting incredulous that he would even imply the thought of her blackmailing him.
• Blaming the Victim: Her stepdad repeatedly abused her until he attempted to rape her, leading to his arrest and her mother beating her for "seducing" him.
• Complexity Addiction: Her plans for Kouki have to be among the most convoluted method to achieve her goals. She could have simply taken advantage of his Leeroy Jenkins tendencies and let him die as a result of his own devices and then "resurrected" him as her puppet, but instead, she blackmails Hiyama, contracts with the Demons, sabotages the defenses of the human city, and uses a Zombie Apocalypse to critically injure all of her classmates so she could try turning them to her puppets one at a time while forcing the rest to watch. Not only does this ultimately fail, but she completely enrages and alienates Hajime, who is only stopped from giving her a Fate Worse than Death by Freid's armed invasion.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Her father died saving her from an accident, resulting in her mother demanding of her to die in his place and beginning to keep abusing her, and as soon as her mother remarried, this stepfather tried to rape her​, he gets arrested for his crime, resulting in her mother abusing her for the crime of "robbing her husband from her", again. Finally fed up with the abuse, she threw a Hannibal Lecture to her mother and escaped; all while her mother was later arrested for assault and abuse. With nowhere to go, she decided​ to simply put an end to her own misery, until Kouki​ talked her out of it​, which got her infatuated to him that much. Her life improved since, but her mind was still not in good shape by that point.
• Dark Is Evil: She wears all black and is not a good or stable person.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: She dies by detonating herself after being defeated.
• Dirty Coward: She doesn't hesitate to abandon Hiyama the moment Hajime has him at his mercy. Even after Ehit transforms her into a Human-Apostle hybrid, Eri still prefers to avoid fighting Hajime out of fear.
• Driven to Suicide: After being defeated by Suzu, Eri uses a self-destruction spell to explode herself.
• Evil Laugh: She does a wicked laugh after backstabbing Shizuku.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: She seems like a harmless Bespectacled Cutie, but her true self is a deranged and manipulative psychopath obsessed with Kouki.
• False Friend: To Suzu. Eri just pretended to be best friends with Suzu since she only sees Suzu as a tool to get close to Kouki and tries to kill her along the rest of their classmates once she has captured Kouki.
• Forceful Kiss: Inflicts this on Kouki while she had him captive.
• Foreshadowing: When the Hero's Party are cornered by Cattleya and her monsters in the Orcus Labyrinth, Eri is the first one to suggest surrendering and joining the demon army in order to avoid being killed, an early sign she's not as virtuous as her classmates.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Played With. While she's the only relevant classmate to wear glasses and a major villain, she reveals her true Yandere nature after taking off her glasses.
• Freudian Excuse: If not for the abuse she suffered from her mother and stepdad, she probably wouldn't be as screwed up as she is.
• The Glasses Come Off: She takes off her glasses after betraying her classmates, fully signifying her Face–Heel Turn.
• Hopeless Suitor: Eri became obsessed with Kouki, whose dense personality made him oblivious to her darker personality until it was too late.
• Hot Librarian: She was on the library committee before being brought to the world of Tortus and is quite beautiful.
• Hypocrite Has a Point: While Eri herself isn't any better regarding her own feelings towards Kouki, she isn't exactly wrong to call out her classmates on their selfish belief that only the popular kids like Kouki, Shizuka, and Kaori have the right to be around each other, and that everyone else should just stay away. Seeing as how this would eventually lead Hiyama to do everything he did once they got to the new world, her words hit home more than they might seem.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: When she has Kouki at her mercy, she puts a Slave Collar on him and poisons him through a kiss to slowly turn him into her slave.
• Interrupted Suicide: Her suicide attempt was stopped by Kouki. This does not bold well for him, as she had become insanely possessive of him afterward.
• In the Blood: She is just as mentally unstable as her abusive mother, along with a warped sense of love.
• The Kingslayer: In Volume 6, she has King Eric killed as part of the demon invasion of the Heiligh Kingdom.
• Love Makes You Evil: Kouki's neglectful behavior to her feelings is what drives her off the deep end.
• Necromancer: She officially has the Necromancer class and invented an inferior form of "Age of God's" spirit magic that allows her to directly control the souls of the dead and reanimate them. She's capable of perfectly controlling an entire army of undead with their memories, personalities and skills intact.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: She offers to have Hiyama serve as her slave so he can have Kaori as his "girlfriend", or else she will expose him as an attempted murderer.
• Personality Powers: She is dead from within and hides it well, fitting, considering how she uses her powers. And from how Kouki interrupted her from suicide but never really cared about her sanity, she's Came Back Wrong, as her power symbolized it all.
• Power Incontinence: Can barely control her Necromancer power. This is a complete lie, she's quite talented with Necromantic magic and personally wipes out the Heiligh government.
• Purely Aesthetic Glasses: She doesn't actually need glasses to see well and just wears them as part of her Bespectacled Cutie facade.
• Redemption Rejection: Despite Suzu's attempt to appeal to their friendship and reassuring her that her classmates will forgive her for her betrayal, Eri instead chooses to kill herself with a self-destruct spell in a last-ditch effort to kill Suzu, despite admitting things might have been different if she had met Suzu before Kouki.
• Rescue Romance: Pre-Tortus, she was about to commit suicide before Kouki talked her out of it. She developed a crush on him that turned into a dangerous obsession.
• Shrinking Violet: She is very meek and shy, in public. In private, she's utterly psychotic.
• Villainous Breakdown: She loses her cool when Hajime foils her plans towards the end of the series.
• Villains Want Mercy: The moment Hajime arrives and easily obliterates her undead soldiers and prepares to attack her, she shamelessly begs for her life by offering to reanimate Kaori as his undead slave, which only serves to enrage Hajime further.
• Walking Spoiler: Without knowing her true Yandere nature, the audience won't know anything about her major role as the series goes on.
• Yandere: Eri is obsessed with Kouki, who she sees as her beloved savior even though he obviously doesn't think anything special about her. She's willing to kill her entire classmates (including Kouki's childhood friends, Kaori and Shizuku) to claim him for herself.

Kousuke Endou

Voiced by: Jun'ya Enoki (Japanese), Justin Briner (English)^note Other languages: Ángel Rodríguez (Latin American Spanish)

A member of Nagayama's party with a very weak presence and can't be noticed by labyrinth monsters or automatic doors.

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• Butt-Monkey: His natural lack of presence causes Endou to become quite misfortunate at times. Let's see: Automatic Doors do not open for him, Endou gets sent flying from Kaori who accidentally mistook him for a ghost, ends up missing dinner one time since no one woke him up and is forced to eat rotten leftovers forcing the assassin to find a functioning toilet in the castle.
• Chick Magnet: Following in his boss Hajime's footsteps, he too gained a harem of his own in his spinoff.
• Chuunibyou: After returning to Japan, Endou has picked up some chuuni habits of his own, largely thanks to his skill "Abyss Lord". Whenever it triggers, he behaves like a full blown chuuni, slicking his hair back and putting on a pair of Magical Eye themed sunglasses, though he gets depressed and embarrassed about it when it wears off. This actually ends up endearing him to Hajime, not only making Endou into Hajime's Number Two, but making the two close friends.
• Eyes Out of Sight: His hair covers his eyes all the time. When he enters his "Abyssgate" persona, he slicks his hair back... But he still covers his eyes with a pair of sunglasses.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: After spending a long time being The Nondescript, Endou manages to acquire the skill "Abyss Lord" and the Age of Gods gravity magic, allowing him to become the strongest out of his class aside from Hajime.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: His hair tends to cover the upper half of his face, representing his status as The Nondescript and one of the several introverted loners in the class.
• I Am the Noun: One of his Character Tics while using his "Abyss Lord" skill is saying things along the line of "I am the Abyss".
• Invisible Introvert: He has a low presence - to the point where he sometimes isn't noticed by automatic doors. He ends up with the Assassin class in the other world, allowing him to sneak past monsters in the labyrinth.
• The Nondescript: Not even Magical Beasts nor the automatic door caught his presence, it even comes to handy for the former case as he goes sending the distress call of the entire class to Hajime.
• Number Two: To Hajime in the Afterstory.
• Red Baron: He's later called "Abyssgate" by both his friends and enemies.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: His specialty. Even before being isekai'd to Tortus, Endou would just suddenly appear and disappear from everyone's sights if he didn't make his presence known. Getting the Assassin job only amplifies this talent.

Jugo Nagayama

Voiced by: Shouta Yamamoto (Japanese)

An old friend and classmate of Kousuke Endou and Kentarou Nomura. He leads his own party.

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• The Big Guy: One of the physically strongest members of the class.
• Heroic Build: He is the tallest member of the class after Ryutarou.
• Mighty Glacier: As the heavy knight of the group, he serves this role.
• Super-Empowering: Many of his spells revolve around increasing his strength and defense.

Kentarou Nomura

Voiced by: Shinei Ueki (Japanese)

An old friend and classmate of Kousuke Endou and Jugo Nagayama. He secretly holds feelings for Ayako Tsuji.

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• Childhood Friend: He is one of Jugo and Kousuke's oldest friends.
• Dishing Out Dirt: As a geomancer, he often fights using rocks. He is able to make the rocks take on different forms, like walls and spears.
• Genius Bruiser: For a guy that could easily be Dumb Muscle, he is pretty quick on the uptake. LN 04 he won the gamble he made regarding the Earth magic spell "Dark Gaol". Cattleya cast it and the monsters dodged. He realized that and when they ran for it he threw the spell at the monsters. When they dodged it broke the pursuit and gave the Hero party room to escape.
• Heroic Build: He is noted to have bulked up since arriving at Tortus.
• Twice Shy: With Tsuji. The two of them have feelings for each other, but they are both too shy to openly acknowledge them.

Church of Ehit

The religion of Mankind who worships the god Ehitorujue and responsible for introducing Hajime's class to the Tortus, not to mention some of the more wide-scale issues.

Ishtar Langbard

Voiced by: Shouto Kashii (Japanese), Kent Williams (English)^note Other languages: Carlos Segundo, Rubén Moya [ep. 2] (Latin American Spanish)

The Pope of Eht (Ehit), and the one who explains the reason why Hajime's class was summoned to Tortus.

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• Asshole Victim: He gets blown up by Aiko, but he was such an evil asshole that you're expected to cheer for it.
• Gender-Blender Name: Ishtar is the name of a female deity.
• Light Is Not Good: Aside from being Obviously Evil, he is dressed in white and gold and is the pope of holy faith.
• Meaningful Name: The goddess he gets his name from is not the most pleasant fellow, the god he worshipped is not the sanest fellow, either.
• Mr. Exposition: He spends the vast majority of his screen-time explaining the world of Tortus to the audience and Hajime's class.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: He's totally obedient to Ehit, no matter what the latter does.
• Obviously Evil: This guy practically has "corrupt bishop" written all over him.
• Summon Magic: He performed the summoning ritual that brought Hajime's class to Tortus.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He's expecting everyone summoned from Hajime's class to be a Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond and save Tortus from the demon threat. They're all normal humans without special powers and have to undergo serious training to get, learn, and effectively use abilities and talents. Most of them don't even use their heads in a fight and just go for the biggest and flashiest moves and spells they can on any opponent, regardless of the situation. Then again this is what his patron god wanted: disposable pawns.

Simon L.G. Levellair

An exiled bishop of Ehit introduced in the epilogue of volume 7, along with his granddaughter.

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• King Incognito: He walks in the capital city of Heleigh hiding his identity as a bishop of Ehit to learn what's really going on, instead of taking the propaganda at face value.
• Manchild: He's introduced sucking his thumb for no reason.
• Obfuscating Insanity: He escaped execution for "heresy" by pretending to be a little nuts. Even in the present, he still acts a bit odd to get people to lower their guard.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Before the story began, he was exiled to a remote backwater village in the desert for the "heresy" of saying beastmen and demihumans should not be abused, and then only because he recanted, or he would have been executed. He's brought back to the capital by princess Lilliana's official summon.
• Secret-Keeper: He's been holding on to a "legend" passed down along his family...
• Spot the Thread: He figured out that the cover-story for what happened to the Holy Church of Ehit was a fabrication by someone with a grudge on Ehit.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: He's introduced as the wacky parent to Sybil's serious child.

Sybil L.G. Levallair

Simon's granddaughter.

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• Alliterative Family: Simon L.G. Levellair, Sybil L.G. Levellair.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: She's introduced as the serious child to Simon's wacky parent.

Apostles

In General

• The Ageless: Apostles are biologically immortal and can only be killed if their head or heart is destroyed.
• Artificial Human: They're an artificial race of beings that were created by Ehit to oversee and manipulate the events of his "gameboard" in Tortus.
• Bad Habits: They often disguise themselves as nuns in order to spy on anyone who doesn't fit Ehit's vision.
• Battle Ballgown: Their combat outfit consist of a white sleeveless dress which has metal plates covering both sides of the waist as well as a winged helmet on the head, gauntlets on the arms and graves over the legs.
• BFS: Apostles' primary weapons are two pairs of longswords.
• Cleavage Window: Because of the chest plate and the Navel-Deep Neckline of the dress underneath, an Apostle's outfit has a gap in the chest area that gives an ample view of the cleavage.
• Clone Army: All Apostles look identical and were created by Ehit to be his personal soldiers.
• Creepy Monotone: They speak with a very monotonic voice.
• Disintegrator Ray: One of their most powerful abilities is to disintegrate other things, whether it be matter or magic.
• The Dragon: They're Ehit's most obedient and powerful minions.
• Dual Wielding: Apostles dual-wield two swords in combat.
• Emotionless Girl: Apostles have no emotions as their only purpose is to follow Ehit's orders.
• Feather Flechettes: They can use their wings as ranged projectiles to attack enemies with.
• Gold and White Are Divine: Apostles' attire consists of a silvery white battle outfit with golden highlights.
• Golem: Several Apostles transfer their consciousness into Hajime's Arachnae golems after he kills Ehit.
• The Heavy: Being a god, Ehit only observes Tortus from outside his "gameboard". However, he directly orders the Apostles to manipulate or eliminate "pieces" according to his whims.
• Henchmen Race: Ehit created the Apostles for them to help him move the world in the direction he desires for the purpose of his game. This includes eliminating those that become too powerful and/or unpredictable, like Hajime.
• Icy Blue Eyes: They have cold icy blue eyes, that are stated to convey mechanical, emotionless frigidity.
• Instant Runes: Unlike other magic casters, who need to draw a magic circle on a external object to cast spells, Apostles can simply use their feathers to create a magic circle to instantly cast magic.
• Light Is Not Good: They're dressed all in white and resemble angels. However, they're the servants of a Jerkass God.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Their purpose is remove anyone that doesn't fit in Ehit's gameboard, and nothing else.
• Mystical White Hair: They have silver hair which adds to the otherworldly allure in their beautiful appearance.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Under their Battle Ballgown, they wear a white dress that's open to well below the navel.
• Numerical Theme Naming: All of the Apostles' names are based on German ordinal numbers.
• Occult Blue Eyes: Their blue eyes signify their otherwordly nature.
• One-Gender Race: All Apostles are female.
• Our Angels Are Different: Apostles are artificial beings created by the Jerkass God Ehit. Their function is to monitor their creator's "gameboard" and ensure that all of the "pieces" behave according Ehit's wishes.
• Rei Ayanami Expy: Apostles appear as young women with silver hair, blue eyes and an emotionless expression. Lacking a will of their own, they just act to follow their Jerkass God creator's orders.
• Showgirl Skirt: The Apostles' Battle Ballgown has a long skirt that splits at the front to reveal the legs.
• The Soulless: Apostles don't have souls, being nothing but Ehit's armed puppets.
• Valkyries: Hajime lampshades that the Apostles' appearance strongly resembles that of Valykries from Norse Mythology. The Apostles' job of manipulating the people of Tortus to serve Ehit's wishes is similar to that of the Norns as well.
• White Hair, Black Heart: They have silver hair and are the Jerkass God Ehit's most dangerous servants.
• Winged Humanoid: They have retractible silver-feathered wings.

Noint

Voiced by: Rina Sato (Japanese), Katelyn Barr (English)^note Other languages: Fernanda Ornelas (Latin American Spanish)

The first Apostle that Hajime faces.

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• Arc Villain: Along with Eri, Noint is one of the villains in Volume 6, due to Noint being ordered to help in Eri's betrayal because Ehit found it amusing.
• Doppelgänger Attack: Noint demonstrated the power to make a clone of herself using the feathers on her wings, as a way to deceive enemies mid-battle.
• Grand Theft Me: Her body is used to revive Kaori.
• Hero Killer: She kills Meld.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: She is killed after Hajime uses his railgun-enhanced Pile Bunker to pierce through her mana crystal.
• Underestimating Badassery: Played With. While Noint acknowledges that Hajime has become too powerful to be a pawn of Ehit, she still underestimates his power as she thinks that she can dispose of him without too much difficulty. Of course, Hajime kills her, though after an admittedly tough fight against her.
• Wing Shield: Noint can use her wings as a shield, as she demonstrated when she used them to guard against Tio's fire breath attack.
• Wrecked Weapon: Her twin longswords are destroyed during her battle with Hajime, as he noticed that her swords were chipped during their battle, so he deliberately aimed at the weakened part, in order to give himself the edge in their fight by disarming her, given that their stats were around equal.

Hearst

The first Apostle that was created by Ehit.

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• Super-Toughness: Oscar and Naiz threw a meteor made of lava at her and it still wasn't enough to kill her.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: She attacks Oscar, Miledi and Naiz at the end of Zero's first volume, making them realize Ehit has puppets way more powerful than they could imagine.

Ahat

An Apostle who appears as a villain in the prequel Arifureta Zero.

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• Kill and Replace: Ahat killed Ace, one of the top subordinates of Baharl Devault, and disguised herself as him to infiltrate his organization.

Kingdom of Heleigh

Knight Commander Meld Loggins

Voiced by: Yasuhiro Mamiya (Japanese), Patrick Seitz (English)^note Other languages: Andrés García (Latin American Spanish)

The knight in charge of training Hajime's class to be the "heroes" who save the world of Tortus.

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• Did Not See That Coming: In a good way. He figured Hajime's Synergist class was useless in a fight, until he saw Hajime use "Transmute" to hold a monster captive before finishing it off. This impresses him beyond measure.
• Heroic Build: He fits the stereotypical image of a Knight.
• Hold the Line: Subverted. In the manga, he is illustrated trying to hold the Behemoth at bay so the students can escape, but Kouki trying to come to his aid, and Hajime actually restraining Behemoth with "Transmute" allows everyone else to escape.
• Ignored Expert: He was tasked by both Ishtar and the king to mentor and train the students in Aiko's class to be effective soldiers in the war with the demons, but his experience and wisdom is ignored in favor of political expediency in the matter of the "accidental" fireball that caused Hajime to be driven down to the depths of the Abyss. He knew that if left unattended, it would only get worse, not better, over time. If it was actually an accident, without proper counseling, the guilt would build until those that felt responsible cracked under the pressure and turned on humanity, feeling themselves completely beyond redemption which actually happens as early as Volume 2 when one of the too-traumatized students listens to a demon promising to make him a "hero" if he killed Aiko-sensei. If it was deliberate, as it clearly was, then the one responsible needs to be found, and quickly, to be brought to justice and to prevent further sabotage. Because Kouki kicked up a fuss, Meld was forced to stop the investigation, and leave the students to their own devices.
• Knight in Shining Armor: He embodies everything an ideal knight strives for.
• Mentor Archetype: He's tasked with teaching the students how to fight, and win, battles with the Magical beasts that compose the majority of the demonic threat.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: He's killed by Noint while battling a legion of undead created by Eri.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Though it is his job to make Hajime's class effective child soldiers, he doesn't want them to die. Thus he does his best to balance the difficulty of their tasks so they're challenging but not too life-threatening. Hiyama completely screws that plan over.
• Sacrificial Lion: One of few genuinely heroic characters from Tortus who gets killed to show how twisted Ehit really is.

Princess Liliana S. B. Heiligh

Voiced by: Noriko Shibasaki (Japanese), Brianna Knickerbocker (English)^note Other languages: Adriana Núñez (Latin American Spanish)

Daughter of King Eric and Queen Luaria and big sister of Randell, she shows quite the insight for her age and is proactive about her kingdom's needs.

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• Action Girl: Thanks to Shea's training, she's pretty good at martial arts.
• Altar Diplomacy: She agreed to be engaged to Baius, the crowned prince of the Hoelscher Empire, due to the circumstances of her kingdom desperately needing the assistance of the Hoelscher Empire.
• Attempted Rape: She got lucky Hajime was surveying the Imperial Palace when her fiancé tried to force himself on her.
• Awful Wedded Life: Prince Baius is such a misogynistic Jerkass that Liliana knows marrying him will make her miserable, but she's willing to make the sacrifice for the sake of her kingdom. Fortunately, the Haulia behead Baius before Liliana marries him.
• Barrier Warrior: Her specialty is barrier magic.
• Butt-Monkey: The moment she gains focus in the story, things stop going her way, at all.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: She's quite hurt about Hajime's completely nonchalant attitude towards her rank.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's a pretty and benevolent princess with blonde hair.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: She can easily defend herself in a one-on-one fight while wearing her pretty princess dress.
• Princess Classic: She's very much a good and pure-hearted princess stereotype. She expects some advantages out of this, but sadly, she lives in a world that cares little about her privileges.
• Princesses Prefer Pink: She wears a pink and white dress, as it's typical of pretty and feminine princesses.
• Rescue Romance: She's saved by Hajime three times: first from bandits, second from the Demon Invasion in the capital and last her fiancé Prince Baius. Because of this, she starts to develop feelings for Hajime.
• Sequential Artist: After marrying Hajime and coming to Earth, Liliana becomes her mother-in-law's manga assistant. She even goes on to create her own manga that is basically her Self-Insert Fic in which she inserted herself in Yue's position as the main heroine as she recounted Hajime's adventures. Her manga was so successful that it won Manga Rookie of the Year Award.
• When She Smiles: On those rare occasions where she smiles genuinely, as opposed to forced, formal "courtesy" smiles, she lights up the room. As highlighted when dancing with Hajime in the Hoeschle Imperial Ball.
• Workaholic: A trait shown during in After Story, she can get depressed if things aren't stressful enough, and when Hajime told her to get a part-time job she ended up getting more than half a dozen, including managing a chain of restaurants.
• You Are in Command Now: Since she's a princess in a Heir Club for Men, the throne will be for Randell, but her father's death forces her to take charge of what remains of the Heiligh kingdom.

King Eliheid S. B. Heiligh, Queen Luluaria, Prince Randell

King Eliheid is voiced by: Masafumi Kimura (Japanese), Bradley Campbell (English)^note Other languages: Raúl Solo (Latin American Spanish)

The royalty introduced in the opening of the light novel, greeting Hajime's class as the coming "heroes."

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• Adapted Out: They don't appear in the manga, at all.
• Hopeless Suitor: Prince Randell has a Precocious Crush on Kaori, but Kaori treated him as a rambunctious little brother.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: They appear so rarely on-screen, that they might as well not exist. Eventually, King Eric is slain by Eri's brutal massacre of the entire Heiligh's government.

Hoeschle Empire

Emperor Gahard Hoeschle

The ruler of the Hoeschle mercenary empire. He has serious doubts about Kouki's effectiveness as "Hero."

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• Commander Contrarian: He really does not want to put the hopes of humanity on the "Hero" Kouki and if it wasn't for Ishtar's influence through the church, he wouldn't.
• Defensive Feint Trap: After asking for a duel to test Kouki's talents and abilities, he takes up a "defenseless" stance to lure Kouki into attacking carelessly. Kouki falls for it, hook, line and sinker.
• Entitled to Have You: To Shizuku. He insists she's "his," no matter how much she rebuffs him, and has the gall to get jealous if she shows affection to anyone else.
• Harem Seeker: He already has a wife, several concubines, and he's still looking for others, especially Shizuku. She is clearly not pleased with the attention.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He has not faith in Kouki as the "Hero", and despite how downright stubborn he can get with his doubting, Kouki does indeed prove to be nothing more than a deluded Heroic Wannabe.
• King Incognito: He disguises himself as the bodyguard of one of his country's ambassadors, and the disguise was very effective on everyone, except Pope Ishtar.
• Know When to Fold 'Em:
  • Subverted, while the Haulia coup went perfectly, he still tried to play it tough, just to cause his son's death, he still resisted, only to give in when the threats went up to bombing civilian centers.
  • When it comes to Hajime he's much quicker to warn all his followers not to challenge him, unless they wish a quick death.
• Might Makes Right: The prevailing opinion of the Empire, which he runs.
• The Unapologetic: While he does technically apologize, the apologies are so insincere as to be nothing more than lip-service.
• Virtue Is Weakness: What he hates more than anything else about Kouki is his "idealism."

Prince Baius Hoeschle

The first born of Emperor Gahard Hoeschle.

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• Altar Diplomacy: To secure the Empire's alliance to Lilliana's kingdom, he and Lilliana are to be married.
• Arranged Marriage: To Princess Lilliana. She is clearly not pleased with the arrangement.
• Asshole Victim: Even his father doesn't mourn him.
• Attempted Rape: Of princess Lilliana. Fortunately Hajime had ways to stop him, unnoticed.
• The Bully: As he lampshades himself. What he loves most is to torment and break those who defy him.
• Harem Seeker: He already has even more concubines than the Emperor, but he seeks to make Lilliana his Top Wife, purely so he could legally rape her.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: He never got a chance to finish insulting the Haulia and identifying himself before his empty head went flying.
• The Loins Sleep Tonight: Inflicted on him by Hajime as a Poison and Cure Gambit to keep him in line and serve Hajime's plans by having Baius injected with a serum that makes him impotent. Considering the fact that Baius is a Serial Rapist that gets off on abusing and violating women, this is a Fate Worse than Death.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: Exactly like Hiyama and his flunkies, he beats up knights under the pretense of "sparring" or "training."
• Off with His Head!: He gets beheaded by the Haulia Tribe.
• Poison and Cure Gambit: To get the Prince in line while protecting Princess Lilliana, Hajime has Baius injected with a serum that makes him impotent. He claims he'll give the Prince the cure if he does what Hajime wants.
• Prince Charmless: He's a total boor, at his best.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: As the crown prince, he constantly abuses his position to outright ignore Imperial Decree, especially rulings against violence.
• Violence is the Only Option: He defaults to violence in everything.

The Imperial Soldiers, and "Boss"

A company of soldiers encountered by Hajime and the remnants of the Haulia tribe after emerging from Reisen Gorge.

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• Aggressive Negotiations: Thinking they had an overwhelming tactical and strategic advantage over Hajime, they began making all sorts of demands and threats. Seeing Hajime unfazed only served to make their "offers" more and more despicable and depraved, rather than make them realize that maybe, just maybe, there's something seriously, dangerously wrong about the situation they're in.
• Did Not Think This Through: They see Hajime, unscathed, walking out of Reisen Gorge, a place so dangerous it's commonly used as an execution ground, and which they are too scared to enter, yet they go out of their way to provoke him. There are thousands of reasons why this is suicidal in tactical and strategic terms.
• A Hero to His Hometown: They were given a hero's funeral in Hoeschle empire, despite their actions being anything but heroic.
• Mauve Shirt: While not important enough to warrant naming recognition, they were recognizable to the point of being evangelized in their home country. Not to that it helps them to the point of surviving their own idiocy.
• Mugging the Monster: Sure, they're an army company, and Hajime's burdened with the then defenseless Haulia tribe, while Yue only looks like a child, but before provoking Hajime, they should have considered that maybe there's a damn good reason he emerged from Reisen Gorge. UNSCATHED.
• No Name Given: None of them is ever named.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: The moment they saw Hajime emerge from Reisen Gorge, the Haulia in tow, they immediately proclaimed their intent to rape all the female Haulia, but while "negotiating" with Hajime, their slovenly commander openly proclaimed his desire to violate Yue as well, while forcing Hajime to watch "as a free lesson to a brat who doesn't know how the world works." To the last man, they did not live long enough to regret this incredibly poor decision.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: They see Hajime walk out of Reisen Gorge, and immediately presume they've already won the fight with Hajime. They never paused to consider why he's emerging unscathed and is completely unfazed by their threats.
• Too Dumb to Live: Really, provoking a guy who confidently walks out of an execution ground, unscathed?
• Villains Want Mercy: After the utter elimination of the rest of the company, the last man, who had dropped his weapon in a panic, begged, pleaded, and offered his complete surrender to Hajime if he'd be spared. Hajime only spared him long enough to get critical information regarding the rest of the tribe, who are all either killed or long gone into Imperial Slavery by that point, before killing him too.
• Would Hurt a Child: They see Yue cling to Hajime's arm, and immediately threaten to rape her, after cutting off Hajime's arms and legs so he's Forced to Watch.
• Wrong Assumption: They see Hajime with the Haulia and presume he's a simple slave-trader that they can bully around. They completely neglect the fact that they've seen him come out of Reisen Gorge, unharmed.

Grid Half

The Imperial Soldier who led the slaver soldiers who captured, raped, and killed many Haulia before Shea could find Hajime.

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• Moral Myopia: He leads a group of "soldiers" who are little more than mindless raping, murdering thugs, responsible for genocide upon the Haulia, but upon seeing Shea, alive, in Hoeshcle castle, as Hajime's escort, while his soldiers listed under Imperial Solders and "Boss" are dead, drives him to a near apoplectic rage.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: He's very loyal to the Hoeschle empire, and Garhard himself, regardless of their many, many sins.
• Stupid Evil: He gathered together an army to lead a genocide against the Haulia, just so he could capture and enslave Shea for his own exclusive use. This come back to bite his ass hard when Shea repaid his cruelty by single-handedly slaughtering his troops while he was Forced to Watch as he was pinned into a wall.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: He sees Shea, alone, throw his men around like ragdolls, and he still believes she's nothing more than "a weak rabbitman" who his troops can beat with ease.
• This Cannot Be!: When he sees Shea, a rabbit man, punch one of his subordinates, fully equipped in platemail, across a courtyard with a single blow of her fist, he cannot believe his eyes.
• Villains Want Mercy: When Shea's wiped out the rest of his men, leaving him barely alive, he begs for her to spare his life, making all sorts of promises, including leading Shea to her missing family. She complies by literally sending him flying to the moon, without a rocket.

Beastmen/Demi-humans

Cam

Voiced by: Nobuaki Kanemitsu (Japanese), Randy Pearlman (English)

Shea's father and leader of the Haulia clan, what's left of it.

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• Actual Pacifist: Prior to meeting Hajime, he, and his whole tribe, were so pacifistic that they would jump out of the way of flowers and bugs. Needless to say Hajime didn't respond well to that, at all.
• Category Traitor: He and his people are seen as "criminals" and "traitors" because they defied the demi-human's rather foolish "everyone with inherent Mana Manipulation ability is a monster and must be executed" law and chose to raise Shea in hiding instead.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He makes Shea look normal by comparison, and that's not easy.
• Evil Gloating: Hajime's training is just a bit too effective at training the Haulia to become killing machines, and he starts to sadistically gloat over Rejin of the Bear clan, after utterly annhiliating Rejin's squad, before preparing to sadistically slaughter what remains of the bear clan, in direct retaliation for untold years of abuse at their hands. Shea and Hajime both put a stop to it, not because of any mercy towards the Bear clan, but because neither Hajime nor Shea wanted the Haulia to become as depraved as Imperial Slavers. The fact that Hajime had a bit of Cruel Mercy to deliver unto Rejin is also a factor.
• Killer Rabbit: By the time Hajime finishes training them, the Haulia clan is a force to be reckoned with, and he is no exception, and the Haulia are all rabbit-people.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Because he and his clan had the unmitigated gall to raise Shea kindly instead of letting her be executed as a baby, due to the fact that she was born with the inherent "mana manipulation" skill, his entire clan was labeled as criminals, chased out of the Sea of Trees and hunted down by Imperial Slavers "because they gave sanctuary to a 'monster' like her."
• Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Which he lampshades telepathically to Hajime in Volume 7. However, when Emperor Hoechle complains aloud, Cam reminds him of his country's and his own treatment of Beastmen, and how the Hoeschle Empire is being judged by its own standards of war.

Jin

Former leader of the Bear-clan. He does not take the arrival of Hajime and the Haulia tribe well. In fact, he is one of those who utterly brutalize the Haulia while Hajime is trying to negotiate a visit to the Great Tree. Big Mistake.

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• Adapted Out: The anime skips the entire Verbergen storyline.
• Bears Are Bad News: Subverted. While he is a bear, and is quite hostile, by the time he appears in the story, Hajime is way, way past him. He realizes this far, far too late.
• Game-Breaking Injury: Hajime retaliates to Jin trying to rip his head off with claws, by breaking Jin's arm and rupturing several internal organs and bones. While Jin survives the experience, he loses the ability to ever raise his paws in combat again as a direct result. This is Hajime being "nice."
• A Hero To His Home Town: He is beloved by the people of the Bear clan as their strongest and "most noble" warrior. Due to the fact that he treats the Bear clan, and only them, kindly.
• Mugging the Monster: He attacks Hajime, intending to brutalize "the human intruder." He gets so curbstomped, he can never fight again.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: Despite the fact that Hajime showed clear and irrefutable proof that he cleared the Orcus dungeon and is someone the people of the Sea of Trees don't want to antagonize, he thought he could "remove" Hajime easily. He would live to regret it.

Regin

Jin's successor. He stages an ambush at the "Great Tree" to avenge Jin's defeat. He would live to regret it. His men don't.

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• Adapted Out: The anime skips the entire Verbergen storyline.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: In volume 7, he goes and grovels before the Haulia tribe, seeking aid for Verbergen against the Demons. Cam and the Haulia find it an eyesore, but help fight off the Demons anyway.
• Avenging the Villain: Though Jin is A Hero To His Home Town, he's a villain to just about everyone else. As such, Regin didn't take Jin being crippled by Hajime well and went after the Haulia tribe instead, for a bit of Revenge by Proxy. That particular plan backfired, spectacularly.
• The Bully: The narration shows that he loved to throw his weight around in The Sea of Trees, prancing around like he owned the place. His utterly humiliating defeat at the hands of the Haulia, not to mention Hajime's Cruel Mercy that spared his life, all brought an end to that, permanently.
• Mugging the Monster: He and his "merry band" attacked the Haulia, expecting them to be pushovers, due to their long, long pacifistic tradition. Little did he realize Hajime had been training them to defend themselves, and he just volunteered himself and his men to be part of a live-fire exercise, showcasing what they've learned.
• Pointy Ears: He has long pointy ears that are common for elves.
• Revenge by Proxy: Since he's well aware that he's no match for anyone who can take Jin down in a single blow, he decides to "make Hajime despair" by going after Hajime's Haulia "guides" believing them to be the same ultra-pacifistic pushovers that have been the demi-human's whipping boys for years if not generations. Boy, did he ever wind up regretting that.
• Villains Want Mercy: After he got utterly trashed by the Haulia, he surrendered and begged for his life. The Haulia were planning to slowly and sadistically kill him anyway until Shea and Hajime showed up, and made a living example of the bear clan instead.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He fully expected the Haulia to be so utterly pacifistic that they jumped out of the way of bugs and flowers when he set upon them, and that Hajime would never see the Bear Clan coming, until it was too late. He was dead wrong on both counts.

Gin

The first demi-human encountered by Hajime upon entering the Sea of Trees.

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• Abomination Accusation Attack: Upon spotting Hajime and the Haulia, he immediately accuses them of being an invader and traitors, respectively. He wisely backs down in a hurry when Hajime demonstrates just how strong he is.
• Adapted Out: The anime skips the entire Verbergen storyline.
• Intimidation Demonstration: On the receiving end. Before he can even finish saying the word "charge," Hajime shoots a bullet that grazes his cheek and obliterates the tree behind him and then aims at Zam, one of the men hiding in ambush, waiting for the order to attack. The tiger beastman wisely backs down.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: After seeing how easily Hajime could have wiped him and his entire patrol out, he backs down and negotiates in good faith with Hajime.
  • In After Story, he decided to overlook Shea's murderous intent on Altina after she tried to pass herself off as Shea's stepmother.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: He is very loyal to his home country of Verbegen, and though he knows he doesn't stand a chance against Hajime, he is still willing to die, if need be, to keep his people safe. Hajime is impressed by this beyond measure.
• No Name Given: He wasn't named in main story, It wasn't until late in Tortus Travel Journal that his name was revealed.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Once he learns that all Hajime wants in the Sea of Trees is to visit the sacred tree, Uralt, and the reason why (to visit the "true labyrinth"), he happily would have let Hajime and the Haulia go there, and get out of his hair, but being a mere Captain didn't have that authority, so he asks to call for one of the Verbegen elders. Hajime agrees, and is greatly impressed that the Tiger beastman offered up such a rational solution.
• This Cannot Be!: He is openly shocked upon seeing the ring Hajime brought with him bearing Orcus' crest.

Ulfric Heipyst

An elf, and the first elder to meet with Hajime in the Sea of Trees forest.

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• Adapted Out: The anime skips the entire Verbergen storyline.
• Master Archer: His skills in archery was noted to be legendary. In After Story, he made good use of it to pin Altina (who was no slouch in archery herself) down to the ground.
• Mr. Exposition: He provides Hajime, and the audience, a great deal of information regarding the Great tree and the unique "fog" conditions to gain access, as well as a great deal of trivia regarding the rules and traditions of Verbegen.
• Our Elves Are Different: Unlike the haughty and proud elves of most fantasy stories, Ulfric is pleasant, kind, and highly reasonable, greeting Hajime warmly despite having every reason to consider him a threat and an enemy.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: The most reasonable by far in Verbegen. He honestly strived with all his might to avoid needlessly antagonizing Hajime or the Haulia who were under Hajime's protection, even once proposing spreading the word that the Haulia were Hajime's slaves so they'd be considered "dead" rather than "traitors" by the population of Verbegen and thus be left alone. He did this because of Shea's "death penalty" sentence as a direct result of her inherent Mana Manipulation ability and the Haulia covering for her. By the time Hajime's team visited Verbegen the second time, his granddaughter had developed masochistic tendencies while the rest of the elders had turned into Kaori's worshippers, leaving him alone as the Only Sane Man.
• Take Me Instead: He goes to the Demons and promises to guide them to the "True Labyrinth" if they spare the civilians of Verbegen. The Demons foolishly gloat their desire to raze the city anyway. Then the Haulia show up...

Altina Heipyst

Grandaughter of Ulfric Heipyst, effectively the princess of elves.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Becomes this to Cam Haulia, as she acted like his second wife in After Story.
• Casual Kink: She learned to become a masochist from Tio, which just grew as Shea beaten her viciously to keep her from seducing Hajime followed by Cam doing the same for his newfound sadism.
• Proper Lady: She appears to be this at first, but due to Tio and Shea's influence, she had become as much a masochist as Tio.
• Rescue Introduction: Though she was rescued by the Haulia tribe, Hajime was the one who released her from her shackles. Unfortunately, her unrequited feelings for Hajime was crushed in the most brutal way possible.

Zal

The leader of the Tiger Clan.

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• Adapted Out: The anime skips the entire Verbergen storyline.
• That Wasn't a Request: He foolishly informs Hajime that the Haulia, including Shea, especially Shea, were all marked for execution irrevocably, for the "crime" of raising her kindly instead of turning her over upon birth because of her ability to directly manipulate Mana. This was done with the explicit intention of strong-arming Hajime to do things Verbergen's way. Needless to say, Hajime doesn't take that well.
• This Means War!: On the receiving end. Hajime doesn't take Verbegen's threat on the Haulia, at that point under his protection, well as a result of Zal's foolish declaration. Fortunately, the rest of the council of elders were more reasonable.

Myu

Voiced by: Yui Ogura (Japanese), Lara Woodhull (English)^note Other languages: Gaby Servín (Latin American Spanish)

A young Dagon girl from Erisen who got kidnapped to be sold as a slave, but was saved by Hajime and Shea while they came across her in Fuhren.

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• The Cutie: She's a little girl with a sweet and innocent personality. Her main role is giving Cuteness Overload to both the characters and the audience, as Yue points out that Myu is just too cute.
• Ear Fins: As with all members of the Dagon race, Myu's ears are fan-like fins.
• Head Pet: In the Crossover with Arifureta ZERO, she befriends a white whale that can turn small and place itself on top of her head.
• Identical Granddaughter: She's implied to be the descendant of Meiru Melusine's sister, explaining their resemblance to each other.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: One of Myu's side stories revealed that she possessed a prodigious talent in marksmanship, to the point that she even noticed her own shot was off by five millimeters at sniping range of 100 meters.
• Innocently Insensitive: She badmouths Oscar, Miledi and Meiru by repeating the rude statements Hajime said about them. Myu doesn't seem to even realize she's being rude.
• Like Parent, Like Child: When Myu gets older, she developed some of the traits her adopted father has.
• Morality Pet: It's clear that Hajime has tone down his Jerkass tendencies out of care for Myu. At least when she's around. She can also convince him of doing things he's not keen to do, such as helping Ankiji when they are suffering from a poisoned oasis.
• Our Mermaids Are Different: She belongs to a species called Dagon, possessing fin-like ears and webbed hands.
• Precocious Crush: She wants to marry Hajime when she gets older.
• Tareme Eyes: Her big, round eyes only make her even more adorable.
• Third-Person Person: She refers to herself in third person, as small children in Japan normally do.
• Token Mini-Moe: By far the youngest member of Hajime's party, and by far the most adorable character of the series.
• Translator Buddy: In the Crossover with Arifureta ZERO, Myu is the only one who can understand the magical white whale that summoned the main characters of both series.
• Troubled Backstory Flashback: In one of Arifureta's spinoff manga, Myu narrated her own kidnapping experience. To Tio's horror, it turned out that the carriage she was locked in was cramped with kidnapped children, and several of them had died and was jettisoned in their journey to Fuhren.
• Verbal Tic: She almost always ends her sentences with "-nano".

Remia

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)^note Other languages: Analiz Sánchez (Latin American Spanish)

Myu's mother.

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• Affectionate Nickname: She addresses Hajime as "Darling" whenever she gets her chance.
• Agony of the Feet: Her leg was badly injured by Myu's kidnappers in her attempt to retrieve Myu. Luckily Kaori was able to heal it during their stay at Erisen.
• Character Catchphrase: She is fond of saying "Ara Ara".
• Dude Magnet: She is this among the Dagons, as she have enough fans to form a protection committee.
• Ear Fins: Like the rest of her race, her ears are fan-like fins.
• Even the Girls Want Her: One of the women in her village wants to marry her as Myu's Pappa.
• Plucky Girl: Though she's nowhere as capable as Hajime and his team, she certainly shows her strong willpower whenever Myu is involved.
• Signature Laugh: When she laughs, she goes "Ufufu".
• The Tease: She gave Hajime an offer to settle in her household as Myu's father right in front of his harem, and shrugged off their glare with a smile.

Demons

The race with whom Humanity is at war. They recently upset the war's balance with the capacity to acquire unknown and very powerful monsters.

Freid Baghur

Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese), Brandon Potter (English)

The Demon encountered by Hajime in the volcanic dungeon.

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• Alpha Strike: Pulls one on Hajime in the Grand Gruen Volcano, nearly killing him instantly with the help of his dragons.
• Barrier Warrior: One of his beasts, a turtle magical beast, has the ability to manifest a powerful protective barrier.
• The Beastmaster: He controls and summons Magic Beasts.
• Fantastic Racism: He is fully convinced that Demons are inherently superior to humans in all respects.
• Glass Cannon: He is able to unleash powerful attacks that can even trump Hajime, but he is completely incapable of taking a hit. In fact, he panics when Hajime and his allies start wearing away his turtle-monsters' summoned barriers, and he starts summoning more and more turtles to compensate.
• Humans Are Insects: He sees humans as pests to be exterminated.
• Knight Templar: He constantly refers to himself as Alv's "Apostle". Hajime had even compared him to Ishtar, who was similarly fanatical to his cause.
• Load-Bearing Boss: Invoked. He deliberately destroys the volcano dungeon's protective artifact when it looks like Hajime actually has a chance to beat him.
• Miles Gloriosus: He's constantly boasting of being the most powerful and talented being that is or ever was. In truth, he hides behind the abilities of his summoned magic beasts, and when it looks like someone can get through or around them, he puts all his efforts into fleeing and exterminating his opponent indirectly like blowing up the volcano they're fighting in.
• Monster Progenitor: He gained Metamorphosis Magic, necessary to create magic beasts from the glacier's dungeon.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: For all of his Knight Templar and Fantastic Racism personality, he was skilled enough to conquer two Labyrinths, and is very handsome too boot. Unfortunately for him, Yue was leagues above him and has a Single-Target Sexuality to Hajime.
• Spanner in the Works: The reason the plot starts at all is due to him acquiring Age of the Gods magic from one of the Dungeons, and just with Metamorphosis Magic he was able to completely upset the world's balance and forced Ehitorujue to summon Kouki and his classmates.
• Worthy Opponent: Sees Hajime as one, which is decidedly not good for Hajime, as it makes the demon more desperate, despicable, and cowardly.

Cattleya

Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame (Japanese), Amber Lee Connors (English)^note Other languages: Ileana Escalante (Latin American Spanish)

The demon tasked by Freid to clear the Orcus Labyrinth, she also intended to recruit Kouki's party.

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• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She's engaged to Mikhail and carries a locket with his portrait. Kouki, on the verge of killing her, freezes up when he sees it and hears her would-be last words about Mikhail, evidently on the realization he's about to kill an actual person rather than another mindless monster. She quickly takes advantage of the unexpected opening to regain the upper hand. Unfortunately for her, Hajime has no such qualms.
• Get It Over With: Once Hajime has her at his mercy and deduces her intentions, she outright demands him to just kill her already and not bother trying to capture her. Hajime obliges, despite Kouki's protests.
• Oh, Crap!: She has one when Kouki does a Limit Break attack, and almost successfully kills her. She then has another when Hajime shows up.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She did try to flee the battle against Hajime, only a bit too late.
• Shoot the Medic First: On the receiving end of this. Her bird-like familiar, which was capable of healing herself and her forces, gets taken out in the fight against Hajime.

Mikhail

Voiced by: Makoto Ishii (Japanese), Chris Cason (English)^note Other languages: Arturo Cataño (Latin American Spanish)

Cattleya's lover.

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• Go Out with a Smile: While he regrets not being able to avenge his lover, he does die, satisfied that he put forth his best effort.
• Motive Rant: He goes on to proclaim Cattleya's supposed virtues when fighting Shea, and finding himself on the losing end. Shea calls him out on it in that if the situation was reversed, he wouldn't want her ranting at him if he had harmed her loved ones and she came at him for revenge.
• Revenge by Proxy: Since Freed was fighting Hajime at the time, he went after Hajime's companions, starting with Shea, just to spite Hajime. Turns out Shea was stronger than he is.
• Revenge Myopia: Which Shea calls him out on. He is hell-bent on avenging Cattleya. The fact that Cattleya tried to murder Hajime's class, and Hajime himself, refusing to back down when given the chance, is completely irrelevant.
• You Monster!: He calls Shea this as she kills him. Shea takes it as an acknowledgment of how strong she's become.

Davros

The demon tasked with conquering Verbegen's "true labyrinth".

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• Fantastic Racism: Looks down on all non-Demon races, especially beastmen.
• General Failure: He's nowhere near as good a commander as he sees himself. The only reason he had any initial success in his raid on Verbergen is because Fried equipped him with overpowered monsters. The moment he faces an actual challenge, he completely falls apart.
• Glory Seeker: He doesn't care a whit about anybody's wellbeing. All he wants is his own name being glorified in the Demon race's history books.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: The moment even the slightest thing goes wrong, he completely flips his shit.
• Hypocrite: He "fights" using every dirty trick in the book. Yet when he runs into the Haulia tribe and they use guerrilla warfare on him, he completely flies off the handle at their "dishonorable" fighting style. This goes double when he demands a one-on-one duel with Cam. When Cam hits him with his own tactics, he completely breaks down, calling the Haulia clan as a whole "cowards" for crippling him.

The Seven Liberators

The people who designed the great Labyrinth dungeons. They are the protagonists of the Arifureta ZERO prequel novels.

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In General

Left to right: Vandre Schnee, Lyutilis Haltina, Naiz Gruen Caliente, Oscar Orcus, Miledi Reisen, Meiru Melusine, Laus Barn

• The Archmage: Each of the Seven Liberators possessed an Ancient Magic on their own, which are leagues above even the special magic possessed by average Atavists. And they've made a good use of it to build the Labyrinths, though even with their combined abilities they could only create three Concept Magics.
• Badass Crew: They were a group of Ancient Magic users who were already powerhouses on their own and when fighting together, only Ehit's Apostles had the chance to defeat them.
• Beware the Silly Ones: They certainly have their shares of quirks, but make no mistake, piss them off and you will regret it.
• Doomed by Canon: The main series establishes that their own attempt to defeat the gods was unsuccessful, leaving them with little choice but to build the Great Labyrinths to pass on their knowledge to anyone capable of overcoming each of the labyrinth's trials for potential future liberators.
• Faustian Rebellion: They were descendants of the gods who each possessed one of the seven ancient magics from the Age of Gods. They rebelled against the gods' complete lack of respect for life and attempted to free mortals from their abusive control.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Most of them didn't want to join the Liberators at first, but ended up becoming good friends as they made an alliance to fight powerful enemies like the Holy Church and the Demon Lord.
• Fling a Light into the Future: The main purpose of their great labyrinth is not only to preserve the Ancient Magics, but also to test the challengers to ensure they could withstand the various methods the gods had used to lay the Liberators low.
• Ghost Reunion Ending: At the end of the main story, Miledi's soul finally passes on and the last thing she sees before dying is her fellow Liberators greeting her in the afterlife.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: The legend is that they rebelled against the gods to try and destroy the world of Tortus. The truth is they were acting to free the people of Tortus from the Jerkass Gods, but said gods have a very effective propaganda machine in place.
• La Résistance: The main goal of their organization was to free people from the tyranny of Ehit and his Holy Church.
• Rage Against the Heavens: At the prime of their power, the Holy Church have a policy to bring the Atavists into their custody, especially those who are able to use Ancient Magic. The Church's machination had provoked every single one of them to stand against the gods in Arifureta Zero.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: Much as they want Tortus free of the gods, their labyrinths are designed so that only the truly worthy are capable of overcoming them to the end (and gaining the god-level magic ensconced within). This is especially true for the Labyrinths made by the female Liberators, as they're very prone of throwing a number of absolutely trollish challenges.
• Take Up My Sword: The true intention of the dungeons. They were built to test the mettle of men so that hopefully someone would arrive who had the skill, the power, and the moral character to which they could bequeath their power.

Oscar Orcus

Voiced by: Takuma Terashima (Japanese), Seth Magill (English)^note Other languages: Alberto Bernal (Latin American Spanish)

The creator of the Orcus dungeon. Original Wielder of Creation Ancient Magic.

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• Accidental Pervert: Miledi once broke the wall of the shower stall Oscar made for her, exposing her naked body in front of him.
• Accidental Proposal: His pleading to Meiru to heal his adoptive siblings in Velnica was misinterpreted as a marriage proposal by her pirate crew.
• Affectionate Nickname: Miledi Reisen's ghost still calls him "O-kun" millennia later.
• Alliterative Name: Oscar Orcus.
• Awful Truth: His recording reveals the real reason for the fight. The gods are, without an exception, each and every one of them, a Mad God.
• Badass Longcoat: Oscar's signature black trenchcoat was enhanced to be sturdy and offer up a degree of protection from physical attacks and spells. It was later enchanted with gravity magic in order for Oscar to freely manipulate it as though it were alive.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Miledi. Oscar had little patience for Miledi's obnoxious personality and it caused them to argue often. They couldn't hide they were attracted to each other, though.
• Big Brother Instinct: He's highly protective of his adopted siblings.
• Brainy Brunette: He's a genius Synergist with black hair.
• The Call Knows Where You Live: Oscar tried to stay away from the rebellion at first, but he joined the Liberators because the local bishop kidnapped his adopted siblings.
• Chain Pain: One of his artifacts is the Metamorph Chains, which allow him to channel his mana through them and restrain his targets. These chains later got enchanted with Gravity Magic and Spatial Magic.
• Chick Magnet: Being handsome on top of being the resident gentlemanly craftsmen within the Orcus Workshop makes him incredibly popular among the ladies.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: He's actually the protagonist of the prequel, but he fits otherwise. Orcus is a prodigious and gentlemanly Synergist who is popular with the ladies. Hajime, on the other hand, started out as a poor schmuck of a Synergist with only the School Idol's affection to his name and was considered useless until he fell into the Abyss.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Invoked. He was such a Child Prodigy at crafting that Karg decided to make him inherit the Orcus title, but refused to make any weapons for his clients and willing to accept tons of insults over it. This ultimately gets deconstructed due to Ping Warress ended up helping the local bishops to kidnap his siblings.
• Elemental Weapon: His umbrella artifact is equipped with multiple elemental spells, including wind, fire, water, ice, earth and lightning.
• Expy: The author, Ryo Shirakome, states he based Oscar off of Harry Hart from the Kingsman film series, in particular the way he fights with his umbrella.
• Family Man: He cares greatly about his family and will go to great lengths in order to protect them.
• Giver of Lame Names: While his craftsmanship is impeccable, the townspeople of Velnika unanimously agreed that he was terrible at naming his goods.
  Miledi: O-kun, you've got a terrible naming sense.
• House Husband: Due to his orphanage and craftsman upbringing, he was highly skilled at housekeeping.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Oscar always knew there was something abnormally powerful about his Transmutation magic and tried to conceal it as much as he could because drawing attention to himself would mean the Holy Church and other big powers coming after him and potentially endangering his family. He was going to keep a low profile and live a quiet life until Miledi changed his life.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has long black hair tied back into a ponytail.
• Master of Threads: His Sable Gloves released superfine threads of Spirit Stone enchanted with gravity magic to control them.
• Meteor-Summoning Attack: Oscar created an artificial meteor made of lava and with Naiz's help, teleported it to crush the Apostle Hearst with it. To his disbelief, that wasn't enough to kill an Apostle.
• The Nondescript: In the prequel, a Running Gag is characters claiming that Oscar's glasses are his only distinctive feature. At one point, people even fail to recognize him if he isn't wearing glasses.
• Parasol of Pain: His main weapon is an umbrella crafted by himself out of Azantium with wide variety of imbued spells.
• Refusal of the Call: At the start of the prequel, Oscar refuses to join Miledi's quest to defy the Holy Church and create a world where everyone is equal, since he considers it's too dangerous for himself and his family to go against the order of the world.
• Ring of Power: His Treasure Trove is a ring with a ruby which is actually an artificially created Hyperspace Arsenal where things could be stored just by putting some mana in it Orcus could retrieve the stored item, the withdraw item could appear anywhere within a 1 meter radius of him.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: He's the calm and levelheaded guy to the obnoxiously energetic and cheerful Miledi.
• Science Hero: Oscar has scientific talents and knowledge that are at least several millennia ahead of his time, having used his Creation Magic to create Artifacts with designs that incorporates advanced applications of scientific knowledge.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: In the prequel, he has to repeatedly correct people who mistake Miledi for his girlfriend.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Oscar is the most intelligent of all Liberators as well as the only one in the group who wears glasses.
• Specs of Awesome: His Obsidian Spectacles are enchanted with many spells.
• Sprint Shoes: His Onyx Boots increase his leg strength exponentially, and are enchanted with the wind magic "Updraft" to aid with their leaps. They're also enchanted with mini-barrier magic "Holy Shield" at the soles, to which create temporary platforms to help leap in mid-air.
• The Strategist: Oscar is a highly capable strategist, whether it is coming up with a well-thought-out plan before entering a fight, or having to immediately improvise a new fighting strategy.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: He had this dynamic with Miledi. Oscar was a supergenius Synergist with very powerful handmade artifacts under his belt and Miledi was a Gravity Master who could crush almost anything in her path.
• Transmutation: Being a Synergist, Oscar can control and transform any kind of ores, minerals or materials in any way or shape he desires.
• Ultimate Blacksmith: His mentor has a very good reason to unilaterally pass on the title of Orcus to him. Though he never got the inspiration to build any of Hajime's overpowered firearms and modern vehicles, he was able to create a God's Crystal on top of his ridiculously versatile armaments and traps. His orphanage was so well-defended that it was even more secure than a royal palace, culminating in his labyrinth being a veritable Brutal Bonus Level, complete with Ragnarök Proofing.
• Undying Loyalty: He would follow Miledi anywhere, even if she were to to go the depths of Hell itself.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Vandre Schnee, as both of them have diametrically opposite Ancient magic and architectural preferences. He even crafted a BFS called Dragon Slayer specifically against him.

Miledi Reisen

Voiced by: Yukana (Japanese), Sarah Wiedenheft (English)^note Other languages: Noriko Takaya (Latin American Spanish)

The creator of the Great Reisen Labyrinth. Original wielder of Gravity Ancient Magic.

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• A-Cup Angst: Mocking Miledi's small breast size is a Running Gag in the prequel.
• The Alleged Boss: Officially, Miledi was the leader of the Liberators, having taken the position after Belle/Belta's death, but none of her companions took her seriously because of her silly personality. Oscar was the one the Liberators actually listened to.
• The Aloner: After the Liberators' defeat, Miledi spent thousands of years confined in her dungeon without any contact to the outside world.
• Attack Its Weak Point: Her giant golem had a small core, and destroying it is the only way to beat her. However, said core was protected with layers of layers of Azantium.
• The Baby of the Bunch: She was the youngest of the Seven Liberators. Her companions treated her as their annoying but endearing little sister who they all wanted to protect.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Oscar. They rarely stopped arguing, but their mutual attraction was obvious.
• Black Magician Girl: She's a headstrong and brutal gravity magic master with a fearsome destructive power.
• Blush Sticker: Her golem body has permanent blush marks.
• Cleavage Window: Her dress has a diamond-shaped cleavage cutout.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Just as Oscar is to Hajime, the prequel has Miledi as a contrast to Yue in the role of female lead. Both are blonde, flat-chested Black Magician Girls of noble birth, but Yue is The Stoic and very sexually aggressive while Miledi is a Genki Girl and doesn't dare to make a pass on Oscar that goes beyond teasing.
• Crazy-Prepared: Her traps are designed to be sprung without fail, even if the hapless dungeon explorer manages to avoid tripping the switch, they go off anyway. Hell, in a "cliché" boulder-staircase trap, destroying the boulder causes a second boulder to come forth that also sprays acid as it rolls.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She was The Executioner of the Reisen family, indoctrinated by the Corrupt Church. As such, she would perform executions on behalf of the church, surrounded by the grief, vengeance and misery of her victims, which she tried to ignore with a constant Thousand-Yard Stare until Belle came along.
• Defector from Decadence: Her family executed the criminals sentenced to death by the Holy Church. Miledi never questioned her father's or the church's orders until her tutor/Cool Big Sis Belle was exposed as a defector from the church and thrown into the Reisen Gorge. Thanks to Belle revealing Ehit is an evil god, Miledi realized a world controlled by the Holy Church is wrong and rebelled against her father to join the organization that sought to free people from Ehit and his Corrupt Church.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: In her childhood, Miledi was a cold-hearted Emotionless Girl who was raised to be a merciless killing machine. Meeting and bonding with her Cool Big Sis Belle taught her emotions and after Belle was executed for treason against the church, Miledi became a Genki Girl by taking on Belle's personality.
• Empty Eyes: In her childhood, her eyes were dark and lifeless because she had to give up her free will and emotions to execute the Holy Church's criminals. Her eyes gained shine thanks to Belle teaching her how to feel emotions.
• The Executioner: She was a descendant of the Reisen family, a family of executioners who threw the Holy Church's criminals into the Reige Gorge. Miledi herself started executing criminals when she was only eight years old until her father executed her Cool Big Sis and she rebelled.
• Final Boss: She's the boss monster of the Great Reisen Labyrinth.
• Genki Girl: She's obnoxiously full of energy.
• Golem: After the Liberators were defeated, Miledi had her soul transferred into the body of a small mechanical golem.
• Gravity Master: She's the inheritor of Gravity Magic.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Leaving aside her obnoxious behavior and past as an executioner, the blonde Miledi is a good-hearted person whose goal is to create a world where everyone is free and happy.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She ensures Hajime and Yue can escape Ehitorujue's realm, at the cost of her life.
• His Quirk Lives On: She took on a lot of Belle's personality after her death, such as her cheerfulness and habit of annoying people. She also started wearing a ponytail to copy Belle's hairstyle.
• Hope Bringer: To the Liberators, Miledi was a living ray of hope that inspired them to fight for freedom and equality.
• Icy Blue Eyes: In her childhood, Miledi had cold and distant blue eyes because her family raised her to be an emotionless killing machine. Then she subverted it when she changed her personality to be more cheerful like Belle's.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Most people think Miledi is the most annoying person in the world, and rightfully so, considering how much she loves to troll the hell out of others. Her heart is still in the right place, as her greatest wish is for people of her world to live freely. The prequel also shows she deeply cared about her fellow Liberators and her sister figure Belle.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: Miledi is a massive Troll who never gets tired of pissing off people for the hell of it. Whenever her obnoxiousness is repaid with physical abuse, usually from Hajime or Oscar, she has every bit of it coming.
• Kick Chick: One of her few physical attacks was the "Miledi Kick", which enhanced by her gravity magic, could send her enemy flying and break all the bones in their body.
• Kid Hero: In Zero, Miledi is the only one of the main heroes who is under 18 years old, being only 14-15 years old.
• Kiddie Kid: She's 14 years old for most of Zero, but acts very silly and childish for her age due to Belle's Womanchild personality rubbing off on her.
• Lonely Rich Kid: Miledi was the daughter of a noble family, but throughout her childhood, she wasn't close to anyone but her personal attendant Belle.
• Magnetic Hero: Zero is about Miledi's journey to gather a group of Ancient Magic users that would fight alongside her against the Holy Church. Most of her comrades refused to join her at first, but Miledi's strong will and idealism ended up winning them over and they swore loyalty to her.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: In the Arifureta Zero novels, Oscar was planning to live a quiet life while hiding his true potential until the quirky and free-spirited Miledi suddenly forces her way into his life and drags him into her adventure to change the world.
• Marionette Master: She remote-controls an army of golems, reconstructs and repairs them when they get damaged.
• Minidress of Power: Her main outfit is a white and black minidress with frills.
• The Nicknamer: She picked Belta's habit of nicknaming others.
• No Social Skills: A lot of her Trolling is motivated by lack of social skills since her only reference for positive social interaction was her Cool Big Sis Belle who almost never stopped joking around and teasing her in an annoying way.
• Ojou Ringlets: Miledi has two ringlets in front of her ears and shoulders. She's a daughter of the legendary Reisen family in the Grandort Empire.
• Perpetual Smiler: As a golem, she has a permanent smiley face. Even as a human, she would rarely stop smiling.
• Playful Cat Smile: Zero's manga often has Miledi drawn with a catlike smile when she's in her Troll mode.
• The Prankster: The dungeon is full of traps, with signs just afterwards, that showed they were meant as pranks, deadly pranks, mind, but pranks nonetheless.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: All her dungeon's signage is written in an overly cutesy, energetic tone and linked to traps that would have been deadly if Yue and Hajime weren't already grossly overpowered thanks to their experiences in the Orcus dungeon.
• Rebel Leader: After Belle/Belta died, Miledi succeeded her as leader of the Liberators.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: She's the obnoxiously energetic and cheerful girl to the calm and levelheaded Oscar.
• Self-Made Orphan: She destroyed the Reisen family in retaliation for their execution of Belta Lievre.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Oscar and Naiz were stunned when they saw Miledi elegantly dressed up for an evening at the casino. They immediately snapped out of it when Miledi started teasing them like usual.
• "Silly Me" Gesture: Both as a human and a golem, she likes doing the gesture with the wink and the tongue sticking out.
• Slippery Swimsuit: When roughhousing with Meiru while both were wearing swimsuits, Miledi lost her bikini top and fell on top of Oscar. He hugged her so her naked breasts wouldn't be exposed to Meiru's whole crew.
• Sole Survivor: Miledi is the only one of the Seven Liberators who is technically still alive during the main story, having transferred her soul into a golem to avoid passing on for millennia.
• Squishy Wizard: She's quite powerless when she's unable to use her magic.
• Stalker without a Crush: When she tried to recruit Oscar for her fight against the Holy Church, Miledi refused to take no for an answer and followed him around for an entire week until he finally gave in.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: She was the magically powerful, if squishy, Gravity Master while Oscar was her supergenius Synergist partner.
• Third-Person Person: She tends to talk in the third person, calling herself "Miledi-chan" to sound cutesy.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: As a child, she always had an empty stare because of the executions she had to do every day. She could grow out of it thanks to Belle.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: When she was a child, Miledi was an Emotionless Girl. As a teenager, her personality drastically changed to become quite similar to that of the cheerful and carefree Belle/Belta.
• Took a Level in Idealism: Early in her life, Miledi was utterly convinced the Holy Church's laws were "absolute" and it was natural for heretics to be executed for defying the way their world works. Belle's influence caused Miledi's worldview to do a 180, which motivated her to fight against the church for the sake of people's freedom and happiness.
• Troll: The signage in her dungeon is clearly intended to irritate, annoy, and seriously piss off anyone who comes across it. This is a reflection of her entire personality.
• Tsundere: As a child, she was a Harsh type to Belle as she deeply loved her as her Cool Big Sis, but her cold upbringing made her have a hard time expressing emotions and often used Gravity Magic on Belle whenever the latter annoyed her. As a teenager, she was a Sweet type to Oscar because Miledi had changed into a friendly and cheerful Genki Girl, but still got easily annoyed at Oscar especially when he turned on the charm to not let her tease him all the time.
• Tyke-Bomb: The Reisen family raised Miledi to kill the criminals sentenced to death by the Holy Church. She changed thanks to Belle's influence and rebelled against her own family to join the Liberators.
• Victory Pose: Whenever she pulled a Big Damn Heroes, she made a cutesy pose by standing on one leg and making a V-Sign with her fingers, plus a "Silly Me" Gesture.
• Young and in Charge: She was already leader of the Liberators at only 14 years old.

Naiz Gruen Caliente

Voiced by: Satoshi Hino (Japanese)

The creator of Grand Gruen Labyrinth. Original wielder of Spatial Ancient Magic.

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• Afraid of Their Own Strength: He refused to use his Spatial Ancient Magic for fighting because he was terrified of the destruction it could cause if he let himself lose control over it again.
• Age-Gap Romance: He ended up married to Yunfa who was twenty years younger than him. Miledi lampshades it in Zero's epilogue when she calls out Naiz on being a man in his mid-thirties with a super young wife.
• Angst Nuke: The villagers of Gruen Village killed Naiz's mother and brother because his liege branded them as heretics. Losing himself to anger and despair, Naiz let his Spatial Ancient Magic run amok and when he came to his senses, the village and all the people in it were gone.
• The Atoner: The destruction of his hometown had weighed heavily on him, causing him to swear off using his magic to fight until he met Oscar and Miledi. He then decided to atone by using his powers to save people from the evil church.
• Attack Reflector: He could use Spatial Magic to redirect his enemies' attack straight back to them.
• Dark and Troubled Past: His ability as an Ancient Magic wielder was exposed to his jealous friend, leading to his regional lord to kill his family in an attempt to forcibly adopt him. This eventually caused him to destroy his own hometown by sheer rage.
• Die or Fly: When Naiz was 15, Solda took him and Yogun to hunt down a pack of monsters that was plaguing the village as a training exercise. Unfortunately, there were more monsters than they anticipated and were about to be eaten by one of them. This forced Naiz to awaken his Spatial Magic at the last moment and managed to kill the monster just in time to save everyone.
• Doomed Hometown: His village was destroyed by his own powers, no less, after the local villagers had disowned and killed his family after they were branded as heretics.
• A God I Am Not: Him using his Ancient Magic to help people at the desert makes the locals revere him as a guardian deity, but he wanted no such praise when he was only doing good to atone for destroying his own hometown.
• Loner-Turned-Friend: Before he joined the Liberators, Naiz helped people in need, but avoided socializing with them more than he needed to and tried to isolate himself for the most part. He finally found trustworthy friends in Oscar and Miledi, leading him to join their journey.
• Mistaken for Pedophile: Two preteen girls were deadset on marrying Naiz, which caused a lot of awkwardness for him. He did eventually marry one of them, but at least waited until she came of age.
• Only Sane Man: He's fairly normal and levelheaded, in comparison to his companions. Lampshaded by Hajime by way of Myu:
  Myu: "Such a decent person, compared to the other three. He must be having a hard time."
• Red Baron: He was called "Fairy of the Desert", a moniker was given by Susha to cover up his existence. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to keep the church from hearing about the "Guardian Deity of the Desert".
• Refusal of the Call: Much like Oscar, Naiz refused when Miledi first asked him to join the Liberators since he didn't want to use his powers to hurt people.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Naiz wouldn't flinch as he faced an Apostle or a Leviathan, but just walking through a big crowd made him like he was about to pass out.
• Space Master: His Ancient Magic specialty makes him capable to manipulate the space around himself, allowing him to either bend or expand the space near him or move himself to another space or location. And he's good enough with it to keep the Red Dragon Volcano from erupting.
• The Stoic: His primary defining trait is rarely letting his emotions show.
• Strong Family Resemblance: The manga shows Naiz's father looked like a middle-aged version of him.
• Teleportation Rescue: He became well-known in the desert for using Spatial Ancient Magic to teleport people away from monsters. This is also how he met Oscar and Miledi.
• Volcano Lair: Before he met Oscar and Miledi, Naiz lived at a hideout he built inside a volcano. He eventually set up an entire Labyrinth there.

Meiru Melusine

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese), Kristen McGuire (English)

The creator of Sunken Ruin of Melusine. Original wielder of Restoration Ancient Magic.

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• Alliterative Name: Meiru Melusine.
• Big Sister Instinct: Her motive for trying to take over Andika was to free her younger half-sister Diene from her father's imprisonment. She also joined the Liberators because she thought of Miledi as a little sister and wanted to protect her.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She has a voluptuous figure that is emphasized by her Cleavage Window. Her flat-chested sister Diene is also shown to be envious of her due to it.
• Cleavage Window: Her top has a huge diamond-shaped cutout that reveals a lot of her cleavage.
• Coat Cape: As a pirate, she wore a white jacket like a cape.
• Combat Medic: Besides being a pirate captain with proficient swordsmanship skills and water magic, she could heal any wounds with Restoration Magic.
• Cool Big Sis: Miledi quickly came to see Meiru as a cool older sister figure, especially since Meiru reminded her of Belle so much.
• Ear Fins: Due to her dagon heritage, she has fin-shaped ears.
• Elemental Hair Colors: She's a water magic user with aquamarine hair.
• Elemental Weapon: She wielded a sword that could transform into a long water whip extending from the guard.
• A Father to His Men: Meiru considered everyone in her pirate crew to be her family and they would follow her to the ends of the world.
• Groin Attack: One of her sadistic attacks was crushing a man's balls with her bare hand.
• Heroic Bastard: She's one of the main heroes of the prequel and it's revealed she's an illegitimate daughter of a vampire king.
• I'm Taking Her Home with Me!: Meiru decides to adopt Myu as her little sister when she meets her.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As Miledi describes her, Meiru is a sadistic woman who likes to bully others, but is also a kind and protective Cool Big Sis.
• Lethal Chef: Her pirate crewmates dreaded her cooking, as her sadistic cooking method often results in dangerously lethal food.
• Magic Knight: She's both a powerful water mage and a swordswoman.
• Making a Splash: She's a very powerful user of water magic.
• Mark of the Supernatural: Her red eyes are proof of her being half-vampire.
• Men Can't Keep House: Inverted. She was so sloppy to the point of being incapable of doing even the most basic housework.
• Minidress of Power: Her standard outfit has a miniskirt.
• Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: Meiru is the daughter of a dagon woman and a vampire.
• Pirate Girl: She was a pirate captain of her own crew.
• Psychometry: One of the uses of her Restoration Magic is seeing the memories of any place she's in.
• Red Baron: She became known as the "Saint of the Western Ocean" as she used her Ancient Magic to heal injured people she found at the sea.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: She's a sadistic half-vampire with red eyes.
• Royal Bastard: Her father was the king of the vampire nation of Dastia. Before Meiru was born, her mother left her father in order to protect both him and their child from any consequences of their relationship due to his high-ranking position as royalty.
• Sadist: She is prone to exhibiting sadism. However, even she has trouble dealing with Lyutilis, as she was Too Kinky to Torture.
• Self-Made Woman: She grew up in a slum and her mother was taken away from her by the ruler of Andika, leaving Meiru to fend for herself. She fought to survive and eventually became the captain of her own pirate crew.
• Shaping Your Attacks: One of her spells makes water take the shape of a multi-headed snake.
• Stripperiffic: She fights in a skimpy outfit that exposes her cleavage, midriff and legs.
• Time Master: Her Restoration Magic has the power to turn back the time of anyone and anything, allowing her to either seal or reopen wounds and grow back missing limbs as well as undo or redo the damage done to inanimate objects.
• The Trickster: She have the tendency of leaving her allies in a Die or Fly situation.
• Water Is Womanly: Subverted. Meiru was a beautiful merwoman who used water magic and Restoration Magic with amazing healing capacities. Personality-wise, however, she was a Pirate Girl with a big sadistic streak and knew nothing about housework.
• Whip Sword: Oscar made her the Limitless Whip Blade, which could elongate its size to restrain enemies as well as unleash a powerful electric shock.

Vandre Schnee

Half-dragonman/demon hybrid and the creator of the Schnee Ice Caverns Labyrinth. Original wielder of Metamorphosis Ancient Magic.

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• Braids of Action: His hair was braided on one side and he was a Liberator with Ancient Magic.
• Child by Rape: He was born as a result of his mother being raped by the demon lord of the Igdol Empire.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He was a bastard child born from a dragonwoman who got picked up for his Metamorphosis Magic, and when the monsters he made had been annihilated in the war, the demon lord raped his mother again. When Vandre find out, he went berserk with his dragonification and heavily injured the demon lord, and her mother used the last of her strength to transform to protect him, leaving him too traumatized to use his dragonification until he met Miledi's team.
• Half-Breed Discrimination: Being a hybrid, Vandre was treated with contempt due to the demon's supremacist doctrine.
• Hates Their Parent: Vandre hates his father for all of the suffering he put him and his mother through in order to obtain power. In return, his father saw Vandre as nothing but a tool due to his Metamorphosis Magic.
• An Ice Person: He had an affinity for ice magic.
• Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: He's a demon-dragonman hybrid, though with a much darker origin than Meiru, as he was a Child by Rape.
• Pointy Ears: Due to having demon and dragonman blood, Vandre has pointed ears.
• Power Perversion Potential: In the side stories, Yue had noted that Metamorphis Magic can be used to expand her breast size after they cleared his Labyrinth.
• Rescue Introduction: In Zero, he meets the other Liberators when he asks them to rescue him from the Demon Lord's dungeon. Although, he uses a slime to create a Remote Body to help them with his own rescue.
• Scarf of Asskicking: He wears a white scarf and is one of the most powerful mages of his time.
• The Transmogrifier: His Metamorphosis Magic has the power to remake the form of living beings and inanimate objects. Normally, it's used to turn a normal organism into a monster, or even manipulate the magic stone of a monster and remake them.
• Verbal Tic: For some reason, whenever Vandre spoke through his slime Batlam's mouse form, he ended his sentences with "ya".
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Oscar Orcus, as both of them have diametrically opposite Ancient magic and architectual preferences.
• Weredragon: He inherited his mother's Dragonification ability.

Lyutilis Haltina

The creator of the Haltina Labyrinth and the Sea of Trees forest where the demihumans and beastmen live. Original Wielder of Evolution Ancient Magic.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Being a hardcore masochist, Lyutilis would beg Meiru to insult and torture her whenever they were together. However, even a Sadist like Meiru was greatly disturbed by Lyutilis' masochism and did everything she could to get away from her or physically restrain her, which only made Lyutilis want to be abused even more.
• Benevolent Precursors: The demi-humans and beast-men would have been either wiped out or enslaved long ago if she hadn't set up the Sea of Trees for them, and built Verbegen as their capital city, a wonder the beast-men are all quite proud of.
• Casual Kink: Much like Altina, she's also a masochist, but she one-upped it with her blatant affection for Meiru, who happened to be a sadistic Dagon lady.
• Druid: It is strongly implied that she built the Sea of Trees as a refuge for the demi-humans and beast-men to live in harmony with nature.
• Elemental Hair Colors: Her magic and dungeon are deeply associated with nature, especially forests. Fittingly, Lyutilis had long green hair.
• Flowers of Nature: She wears a crown made of flowers, befitting her position as the creator of the large forest that is the home of the demihumans and beastmen.
• Friend to Bugs: She loves insects due to them being her only real friends since her childhood.
• The High Queen: She was the queen of the Haltina Republic back in the day.
• In Love with Your Carnage: She was turned on by Meiru's sadistic personality after witnessing the latter's duel against the commander of the republic's commando unit Valf Rugal.
• Pointy Ears: Being an elf, she has long pointed ears.
• Sheltered Aristocrat: Her sheltered life made her naïve about the world.
• Wasted Beauty: On the outside, she looked like a wise elf queen with a beauty comparable to the God's Apostles (which says a lot, considering that they're an Inhumanly Beautiful Race), with the regal disposition to match. But those who gets to know her up close would be shocked to learn who she really was in person.
  So she's an airhead, a masochist, a loner whose only friends are bugs, and has the cringiest naming sense of all time. Isn't this a bit much, even for an ancient magic user?

Laus Barn

The creator of the Divine Mountain Labyrinth and the former commander of the Holy Templar Knights. Original Wielder of Spiritual Ancient Magic.

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• Bald Head of Toughness: He went bald in his early thirties and was the strongest of the Holy Church's knights.
• Baldness Angst: He was pretty sensitive about going bald in his thirties.
• Defector from Decadence: Plays this much straighter than all the other Liberators, as he had been part of the Holy Church until his defection.
• Papa Wolf: What had tipped him off the edge, as Hearst forced him to brainwash his own son and Laus decided to have none of it.
• Necromancer: He could bring people back from the dead (with a time restriction) by keeping their soul from leaving their body or transferring their soul from one body to another.
• Soul Power: As a master of Spiritual Magic, Laus was able to manipulate the soul of any living being. The true power of this magic is the ability to interfere with things like energy inside the body, such mans, heat, electricity, thought, consciousness and memory.
• World's Best Warrior: He was regarded as the strongest Knight within the Holy Church.
• Younger Than They Look: He's 27 when the events of Arifureta Zero took place, but had aged prematurely due to stress from Ehit's machinations.

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Ruth Orcus

One of Oscar's adopted siblings who was raised at the same orphanage as him.

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• Big Brother Worship: He believes his big brother Oscar is the coolest and strongest in the world.
• Rebuilt Pedestal: Ruth had lost his respect for Oscar because he knew his brother was holding back his true potential and letting his co-workers look down on him. He regained his admiration for Oscar after his brother rescued him, their siblings and other children who were kidnapped by the church.

Belle / Belta Lievre

Miledi's personal attendant. She was actually a former Divine Priestess who was betrayed by the god Ehit and founded the Liberators to oppose his tyranny. After her true identity was exposed, Miledi's father executed her and Miledi inherited her will to free Tortus from Ehit's control.

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• Beneath the Mask: Belle acted prim and proper in front of the Reisen family. She revealed her true carefree and goofy personality when no one but Miledi was looking at her.
• Big-Breast Pride: She's confident about her buxom figure and enjoys taunting Miledi about it to trigger her A-Cup Angst.
• Big Sister Bully: A playful example. Belle never got tired of teasing and annoying Miledi by making fun of her flat chest and stealing her desserts. Miledi often attacked Belle with Gravity Magic in retaliation.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She had very big breasts that made Miledi annoyed whenever they bounced in front of her as Belle mocked her flat chest.
• Cool Big Sis: She was a playful and goofy, but very loving older sister figure to Miledi.
• Defector from Decadence: She was originally a Divine Priestess at the direct service of Ehit. However, she discovered her god's true wicked nature when he tried to kill her for learning the true nature of his Apostles. After that, she founded La Résistance to fight Ehit's church.
• The Defroster: It's thanks to her that Miledi changed from an Emotionless Girl who mercilessly executed people at the church's orders to a Genki Girl who values life and freedom.
• Defusing the Tyke-Bomb: Miledi believed the orders of Ehit's Holy Church were absolute until Belle taught her about the value of life, love and freedom. Thanks to Belle, Miledi stopped thinking of herself as a tool to kill heretics and became leader of the Liberators to carry on Belle's will.
• De-power: After Ehit fatally wounded her and Laus Barn revived her, she lost her divination magic and most of her regular magic skills.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: After being thrown to the Reige Gorge, a tearful Miledi held Belle's hand as she died.
• Dying Declaration of Love: As she was dying at the depths of the Reige Gorge, Belle confessed to Miledi that she loved her like a little sister and Miledi returned the sentiment.
• Evil Stole My Faith: She was a devout Divine Priestess of Ehit until she discovered his Apostles are inhuman monsters and Ehit had her killed, claiming that he can do whatever he wants with his "playthings".
• He Knows Too Much: Her divination magic made her discover Ehit's Apostles' inhuman nature and Ehit had her killed for "having seen too much." She was saved thanks to Laus Barn.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: In the manga, her hair covers the right side of her face to highlight her dual personality while she was working as a spy disguised as a maid.
• Hired Help as Family: The Reisen family hired her to be Miledi's personal maid. Belle did act like a servant in public, but in private, she was Miledi's Cool Big Sis who was closer to her than anyone in her family.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Ehit impaled a sword through her chest after she saw his Apostles had no future she could foresee.
• Manchild: Zig-Zagged. She was in her twenties, but acted like a cheeky and goofy teenager who loved to annoy Miledi when they were alone together. Still, she could act like a mature and wise older sister figure when she wanted to.
• No Badass to His Valet: Belle was the only one who always treated Miledi like a normal girl even though Miledi was the user of Ancient Gravity Magic and the heiress of an infamous noble family of executioners. Miledi was surprised Belle really wasn't scared of her even though she knew she could crush her with her Gravity Magic if she wanted to.
• Parental Substitute: While Miledi sees Belle as her big sister figure, she was also the closest thing Miledi had to a mother and she learned of familial love through her.
• Posthumous Character: She was executed a few years before Miledi met Oscar at the start of Zero. Everything known about her comes from Miledi's flashbacks.
• Seers: She once possessed divination magic, which allowed her to predict a person's future. She lost the magic after she was killed by Ehit and revived by Laus Barn.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: In a short story, she tells Miledi that she wants a man who has a handsome smile and a good sense of humor, is kind, honest, strong, brave, and a good housekeeper.
• Small Role, Big Impact: She only appears in Miledi's flashback in the prequel, but she shaped Miledi's ideals and entire personality (for better or worse) which led her to gather the Seven Liberators and create the path that eventually leads Hajime to fight Ehit.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: She died twice. First, Ehit himself had her killed and later, Miledi's father executed her after she was exposed as a traitor of the Holy Church. Seeing such a kindhearted and benevolent woman die like that made Miledi and Laus realize Tortus was a Crapsack World ruled by Jerkass Gods, driving them to try and change it.

Susha and Yunfa

A pair of young sisters who meet Naiz, Oscar and Miledi in the Crimson Desert. They join the Liberators after they stand up to defend their rescuer Naiz from the Holy Church.

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• Babies Ever After: Zero's epilogue mentions Yunfa is pregnant with Naiz's child.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Susha stares at Miledi with Dull Eyes of Unhappiness when Yunfa makes her get the idea that Miledi is a potential love rival.
• Girlish Pigtails: Yunfa, the younger of the sisters, wears her hair in pigtails.
• Magic Music: Yunfa could bolster an ally's physical prowess by playing a violin.
• Precocious Crush: In Zero, Susha is twelve and Yunfa is eight. Both have a big crush on Naiz who in his late twenties, much to his embarrassment.
• Promotion to Parent: Their parents were killed by monsters when they were very young, leaving Susha to take care of Yunfa on her own.
• Rescue Romance: Naiz saved Susha and Yunfa when they almost died at the desert. Both of them had Precocious Crush on him since. After Susha died, Naiz eventually married Yunfa when she came of age.
• Teen Pregnancy: Yunfa was around 16 years old when she married Naiz and became pregnant with his child.

Kiara Wanda

A rabbitman girl from Andika. She joined the Liberators and became an intelligence agent after Andika sunk into the sea.

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• Bubbly Waitress: She originally was a waitress at her family's inn and quickly became friends with the Liberators while they were staying there.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Her father was human and her mother was a rabbitwoman.
• Hide Your Otherness: Miledi gave her a necklace that made her rabbit ears invisible to help her blend into human society.
• Little Bit Beastly: Due to being half-rabbitman, she had white rabbit ears and a tail.

Diene Devault

Meiru's younger half-sister.

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• Alliterative Name: Diene Devault.
• Ear Fins: Being half-dagon, she has fin-shaped ears.
• Half-Human Hybrid: She has a human father and a dagon mother.
• Healing Hands: She had special magic that could heal wounds and restore mana, but it wasn't as powerful as Meiru's Ancient Restoration Magic.
• Idiot Hair: She had a lock of hair sticking up to emphasize her childishness.
• Lonely Rich Kid: Her father was the richest and most influential man in Andika, but because he knew the Holy Church would take Diene away if they found out about her restorative magic, he confided her in an underground cell and didn't allow her to have any contact with the outside world.
• MacGuffin Super-Person: The Holy Church sought to capture Diene because of the high-level healing properties of her special magic.
• Navel Window: Her dress had a small slit that showed her navel.
• Practically Different Generations: She was about nine years younger than her older half-sister.
• Sexy Slit Dress: She wore a dress with a slit on both sides to show off her legs.
• Strong Family Resemblance: She looked nearly identical to her older half-sister and mother.

Baharl Devault

The head of the Devault family which ruled over Andika and Diene's father.

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• Abduction Is Love: After Reej caught his attention, he kidnapped her and forcibly confined her to his home. She refused all of his gifts, but eventually accepted him and had a child with him.
• Abusive Parents: He forced his daughter to live in an underground cell, forbid her from leaving the house and beat her when she used her special magic without permission. He did it to protect her from the Holy Church, but his actions made Diene and Meiru see him in a bad light for a long time.
• I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Reej refused to submit to him even after he tried to buy her love with expensive gifts. Baharl became enamoured with her unbreakable spirit.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: A disguised Apostle punched a hole through his chest. He survived thanks to Meiru's Restoration Magic.
• Interspecies Romance: He fell in love with a dagon woman and had a child with her.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He acted cruel and bad-tempered because of his harsh life as an outlaw, but he ultimately did love his daughter and would do anything to protect her. He also apologized to Meiru for kidnapping her mother since he didn't know Reej already had Meiru when he took her.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Since Reej never told him she already had a daughter before meeting him, he didn't know about Meiru until he met her.
• Papa Wolf: He took on an Apostle in disguise, who already had pierced a hole through his chest, to protect his daughter.
• Parents as People: He does care about Diene in his own way, but doesn't know how to express it because he had never known familial love. In the end, he risked his life to protect her and decided to improve himself after Meiru saved his life.
• Redemption Earns Life: After an Apostle mortally injured him, Meiru would have left him to die if he haven't gotten the wound while protecting Diene and apologized to Meiru for taking Reej away from her. Although she didn't exactly forgive him, Meiru saved him with Restoration Magic because she recognized he deserved a second chance to live for Diene's sake.
• Rugged Scar: He was a criminal boss with a large scar that ran diagonally across his face.
• Self-Made Man: He started as yet another criminal in the slums of Andika, but gradually obtained power and built an organization that came to rule over the entire island.
• Spared, but Not Forgiven: After realizing Baharl did care about Diene, Meiru used Restoration Magic to save him from a fatal wound. She still would never forgive him for taking her mother from her, but decided to let him live since his death would make Diene sad.

The Gods

Ehit

Ehitorujue

The God of mankind and the one behind the abduction of Hajime's class.

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• Achilles' Heel: Monsters, and those who have been tainted by their essence^{for example} Weredragons like Tio, or Hajime himself , are inherently poisonous to him.
• Arch-Enemy: He's the greatest enemy of several characters.
  • To Uralt, as he's the one who overthrew her and trapped her in a sword in the first place.
  • To Kouki. He abducted Kouki to be his vessel and used him from day one. He decides to discard Kouki for being to weak.
  • To Hajime. Ehit taking his class from earth is what led to him almost dying in the Orcus dungeon and Kaori being killed by Noint.
• Big Bad: Everything bad that happens in the story is his fault.
• Civilization Destroyer: He completely annihilated the Vampires and pushed the Dragonborn to the brink of extinction. Then decided to destroy all of Tortus out of spite.
• Compelling Voice: Divine Statement allows Ehit to control anyone that hears his voice.
• Complexity Addiction: Justified. He's an insane, sadistic "god" who gains entertainment from watching "pawns on the game board" struggle and suffer, so he deliberately ignores and disregards the simple and effective solution for any "problem" or "anomaly" and goes for the most bizarre, convoluted, illogical, inefficient, and immoral method he can, just so he can sit back and see what happens, and to generate the most collateral damage possible.
• Create Your Own Hero: It was his purpose to bring Kouki to Tortus to acquire a vessel capable to leaving his realm and be able to travel to other worlds. Hajime wasn't something under his calculations.
• Deity of Human Origin: At first, he was a normal human in a world where magic was really advanced, but after acquiring Concept Magic and modifying himself over and over, it wouldn't be a stretch to consider him a real god.
• Demiurge Archetype: Ehit belonged to a race from another world. When that world was destroyed, Ehit was among a group of survivors that escaped to Tortus. In order to escape death, Ehit transcended into a god and developed a religion called the Holy Church. Eventually, Ehit's personality became extremely cruel, leading him to be responsible for mass religious wars, disasters, and famine. In order to ensure a series of perpetual warfare in Tortus, Ehit created several servile gods that each race would worship individually, and would be willing to fight on their behalf.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride. While he is every bit as powerful as he claims, that doesn't stop him from gloating all the time, giving the heroes a chance to strike back.
• Foil: To Hajime. He's considered as what would've happened to Hajime if he hadn't met Yue and regained his humanity.
• For the Evulz: This is what his attitude towards Hajime could be surmised as: he wishes for Hajime's despair, and while he could've easily killed him multiple times, Hajime is the perfect toy to torture for all eternity.
• A God Am I: He likes to call himself a god, and when Hajime observes his soul it shines silver, differentiating him from other souls.
• God Is Evil: Thousands of years after becoming the last survivor of his world, after the others simply gave up and passed on peacefully, he came to consider that the mortals are only there for his amusement, and their suffering is the finest entertainment.
• Grand Theft Me: He has a habit of doing this to the strongest Atavists of the era. Which is why the beastmen tribes persecuted against the Atavists (with Shea as the latest victim) and Yue's uncle locking her away in the depths of the Orcus Labyrinth. That said, he cannot possess vessels of monstrous origin such as Tio, or those who have been modified monstrously like Hajime, which is why he didn't straight up possess Hajime to kill off his harem.
• Immortals Fear Death: While his fellow gods just end their immortal life, put the simple end to their boredom, he instead instigates the war and torments every life on Tortus just for his sick pleasure.
• I Shall Taunt You: He doesn't stop taunting Hajime after acquiring Yue's body.
• Jerkass God: Hajime knew that this asshat had a few screws loose.
• Light Is Not Good: He has the appearance of a holy angel, but that is not telling of his evil nature.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: After spending several millenia subjecting Tortus to his twisted whims, Hajime decided that Ehit's warranty is now expired.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Due to considering the suffering of mortals as his only source of entertainment, his final goal is to exterminate Tortus before abandoning the world and starting anew in other worlds, starting with Earth.
• One-Winged Angel: After Hajime expels him from Yue's body and puts a bullet in him, he absorbs his creations (angels and monsters alike), he becomes a monster that consists of a big lump of meat.
• The Sociopath: He is the one who instigated the war between humans and demons, and when they're forming the truce, he sends his angel to ruin it, For the Evulz.
• Villain Ball:
  • He grips it with a death grip, he could've come out victorious at any point with zero effort of his part by simply either teleporting Yue to the devil's castle or teleporting Hajime back home before he acquired conceptual magic. Then he only sends one apostle after Hajime when he finally detects him, instead of, say, a hundred of them, when he had thousands available.
  • Even after he acquires Yue's body and defeats Hajime with zero effort, instead of killing him right there and be done with it, he announces when he will come back to destroy the world and gives Hajime the chance to recover and strike back, to be fair, Yue was Fighting from the Inside to some degree to stop him.
  • Above all else, he could have whisked Hajime away back to Earth, where Hajime wanted to go and got him out of the way, perhaps permanently, but instead antagonizes him at every moment, just for his own sick pleasure.
    Hajime: I've had the knowledge of all seven of the liberators that fought against your god shoved into my brain. Did you never think for a second that they would have at least been aware of your god's abilities? They spent a millennia preparing various tests to prepare someone strong enough to fight god, but you never consider that they didn't spend a second thinking about the challenges of that fight? Are you stupid or something?
• Villainous Breakdown: He goes berserk after Hajime outplays him in the final battle and Yue regains control of her body.
  Ehitorujue: Kill... kill... kill... I'll kill you, irregular!

Alv

Alv

The deity that the Demon Kingdom worships and wishes for the destruction/enslavement of the Human Race.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When he got caught in Hajime's Concept Magic, he doesn't hesitate to start begging Hajime to spare his life. Unfortunately, Hajime had no intent of sparing him after everything he did.
• Dead Person Impersonation: During Hajime's audience with the Demon Lord, Alv took on the form of Yue's uncle Dianleed in order to persuade her into becoming Ehit's vessel.
• The Dragon: Served as Ehit's, having controlled the Demon Race to oppose the humans in the cosmic chess game.
• Karmic Death: He was brutally killed by Hajime's existence-denying chains, right after he gloated at Hajime in his Darkest Hour. The narration also noted that Alva had toyed with others the same way as Hajime did when he begged for mercy.
• Smug Snake: Like Ehit, he has a massive god complex and felt entitled to being treated as such.

Uralt

Uralt

The original goddess of Tortus who was tasked in protecting the World Tree prior to Ehit's takeover.

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• Empathic Weapon: Her soul resides in the Holy Sword that Kouki wields, which began showing sentience within the Haltina Labyrinth.
• God of Good: Was the noble god of Tortus before Ehit usurped her.
• Morph Weapon: In After Story, The Holy Sword is revealed to be able to transform into multiple forms.
• Sealed Good in a Can: Following Uralt and her champion's defeat by Ehit's hands, she sealed her soul inside the Holy Sword she created to oppose him.
• Undying Loyalty: To Kouki, even more so than anyone else, as the Holy Sword had stood by his side even when he was brainwashed. In After Story, the sword insisted to tag along in his journey for redemption.

Aularodde Lea Refeat

Aularodde Lea Refeat

The goddess of Heaven's Tree.

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• Because You Were Nice to Me: Kouki had won her over simply by giving her a can of Monster Energy, with the spent can becoming her #1 Dime. It's quite a Justified Trope considering that she hadn't had anyone being as nice as he was in the last 5000 years.
• Complete Immortality: She literally cannot die or even faint as long as the Heaven's Tree is intact. It also doubles as And I Must Scream in the battlefield, as she had gotten used to surviving through various traumatic injuries.
• Establishing Character Moment: At first she appears to be a dignified goddess who attempted to beckon Kouki to fight her cause. When her summoning call was rejected, she quickly breaks down to reveal the haggard, overworked goddess who was one foot away from death by exhaustion.
• Foil: She is this to several characters.
  • To Yue. Both of them were effectively immortal and borderline Madwoman in the Attic, and their meeting with their lovers had similar premise, but the girls was won over in contrasting manner.
  • To Liliana. While Liliana is a voluntary workaholic who experience withdrawal symptoms when she isn't working, Aula was thrusted into her goddess role and worked like a corporate slave in a black company.
  • To Ehit. Both of them were deities who had effectively gone mad from their isolation. While Ehit is a Mad God who plunges the inhabitants into a Forever War out of sheer boredom, Aula is a kind but workaholic goddess who worked endlessly in a Crapsack World to the point of being completely enslaved by her job.
  • To Uralt. Both of them are rival goddesses who had pledged their Undying Loyalty to Kouki. Uralt is a lost goddess whose soul resided in his Holy Sword and insisted in tagging along with him in After Story, while Aula is an immortal goddess who can transform into a black wooden sword of similar caliber. And both of them are trying to one up the other.
• Mayfly–December Romance: To Kouki. It's also a case of Earn Your Happy Ending for Aula, since her life until then had been a lifetime of endless work in managing her world.
• Really 700 Years Old: Aula is easily one of the oldest character in existence, holding onto her job for a whooping 5000 years.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: After 5000 years, she finally managed to find her dream husband. Unfortunately for her, she had to contend with Uralt and Moana as her love rivals.
• Sleep Deprivation: So much so that she looks like she was about to die from overwork, complete with Exhausted Eye Bags.
• Workaholic: She had been the Eternal Employee in her world management for a whopping 5000 years. As someone puts it, she has been completely dyed with the color of a corporate slave, as her solution to everything is to throw even more workhours into her job and apologize profusely for her incompetence.
• World Tree: Her world's tree was noted for its enormous size, named as Heaven's Tree for it is literally tall enough to pierce the heavens.
• Yandere: She fell head over heels for Kouki with ridiculous ease, desperately clings on him like no tomorrow and too delusional to hear his rejections.

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