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Eichirou's Party
The main protagonists. They are searching for an alternate way home. In General
- Adaptational Badass: Thanks to Eichirou's natural aptitude for magic, along with inventing new methods of casting it thanks to his deep knowledge of academic subjects, everyone in the group is much more capable than they were in the canon web novel.
- Anti-Hero Team: Of the pragmatic variety. In a sense, they may be on the side of good but don't fit in the conventional heroism. Yamamoto's main motivation is to find the magic to send himself, his classmates, and their teacher back to Japan, and the rest follow him out of a combination of gratitude for his teachings of improvement, being good friends, and for his apparent leadership skills.
- Ascended Extra: Some of the members, such as Nagayama Jugo, Nomura Kentarou, Tsuji Ayako, and Yoshino Mao get more characterization than in the canon web novel.
- Combat Pragmatist: Fittingly, while at least three members of the party fight in this sense (e.g. Eichirou, Hajime, and Kousuke); all of them will resort to this throughout the journey to explore the Great Orcus Labyrinth.
- A prominent example is during the battle against the Dire Wolves, they weakened the horde first by using make-shift mortars, a large mud field trap, a stone wall of spikes, disintegrate by freezing, and a large barrier to incapacitate them all in place of the previous traps before having everyone charge in to kill them.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: While they'll help the Hero Party out when they can, their main interest is to find a way back to Earth.
- The Power of Friendship: Downplayed. While each member is capable of handling themselves individually, they can still be a force to be reckoned with when working together in Chapter 10.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: When you have a group comprised of a jobless Wicked Cultured Badass Bookworm, an Otaku synergist, a nondescript assassin, and a few other classmates, then they fit this like a glove.
- True Companions: Becomes this by the time of Chapter 10.
- Two Girls to a Team: The party has two girls Mao and Ayako.
Yamamoto Eichirou
Job: N/A
The main character, a recently transferred student who attends the same class as Nagumo Hajime after spending most of his life abroad from Japan.
- The Ace: In contrast to Kouki who was The Chosen One but was Badass on Paper at best, Eichirou had no designated class but more than makes up for it with prodigiously high magic stats and sheer savviness of being in a war situation.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: This is Yamamoto's main schtick. Just in the first chapter alone shows that he already figure out Nagumo's predicament in their homeroom class. Granted, it was less than a month, but still impressive of Yamamoto himself. Just after Ishtar explains why the entire class was transported to Tortus and Amanogawa rallied the class to fight in the war against the demons, Yamamoto can already tell from the beginning that the pope was leaving a few details out in his explanation, and was able to make him admit that it's not guaranteed if they're able to return to Japan.
- Badass Bookworm: He is able to use his book smarts to use 5 spells at once, with some Loophole Abuse, of course.
- Big Brother Mentor: He is basically this to Hajime after coming to Tortus, helping him find ways to to use his transmuter class to its fullest potential.
- Birds of a Feather: Part of the reason he and Nagumo get along is that they like manga and anime.
- Brutal Honesty: He is not one to fill people with falsehoods, mostly, and makes it clear he doesn't like Kouki and how others treat his friends.
- Chick Magnet: Though he was not a natural born ladykiller like Amanogawa, he did manage to win Princess Liliana and Iselda's affection. Scoring the former was intentional to gain her support. The latter was unintentional due to his Nice to the Waiter personality, though he isn't above suspecting her as a Church's spy for a time.
- Combat Pragmatist: He isn't above using dirty tactics to win a fight and teaches Nagumo to fight the same way.
- Cool Big Bro: If anything, Yamamoto loves his younger brother and sister dearly, and sometimes worried about their image of him being viewed in a negative light or being influenced in unsavory environments. The same can also be said with Princess Liliana, as he sees their relationship as Like Brother and Sister and is repulsed by the idea of it becoming anything more than that regardless of the Tortus age of consent.
- Deadpan Snarker: While usually a courteous guy, when dealing with someone he doesn't like, like Kouki and Daisuke, he can be quite snarky.
- Encyclopaedic Knowledge: Expect Yamamoto to demonstrate a large understanding of other countries thanks to his time abroad, along with references to other academic subjects. Princess Liliana describes him as a gold mine of Earth's knowledge, along with others making note of this. Another skill he possesses besides "Appraisal", is being a "Living Encyclopedia of Another World".
- Foil: He serves as one to Kouki. Both were gifted students back on earth and were regarded as The Ace, but whereas Yamamoto kept this status after getting transported to another world, Kouki failed and became an Idiot Hero. One major difference between them can be seen when the pope said that defeating the demons might get them sent back home. Kouki immediately went along with Ishtar's promise, while Yamamoto pressed the pope into admitting that defeating the demons might not allow them to return home. Yamamoto is classless while Kouki was gifted with the hero class. Whereas Kouki would go for the biggest and flashiest attacks immediately, regardless of practicality, Yamamoto would rather strategize and think his way out of a situation. They are also Foils to each other in how they treat Nagumo. Kouki treats him with Condescending Compassion, whereas Yamamoto comes across as genuinely wanting to aid Nagumo, who appreciates him.
- A Friend in Need: A major difference between him and Kouki is that when he sees someone in trouble, instead of Blaming the Victim like he would, Yamamoto would help them out no matter what.
- Geek: Yamamoto is a Wicked Cultured Bookworm with vast knowledge in many academic subjects (i.e. History, Culture, Geography, Political Science, Religion, etc.). He's also interested in cartoons, anime, manga, and videogames, but not to the extent of Nagumo and spends time with his siblings watching it. Chapter 8 reveals that Yamamoto has a talent for reenacting the personalities of various anime characters (females as well) and is a fan of the shoujo series that Nagumo Sumire creates, which further bridges their friendship in Tortus.
- Genius Bruiser:
- Genre Savvy: Even moreso than Hajime, and how.
- The Gift: Although he has no assigned class, he has the unique skill "Living Encyclopedia from Another World", reflecting his extensive experience from his overseas journey.
- Glass Cannon: While Yamamoto surpasses his classmates in having high stats in Resistance/Magic, his Strength/Vitality/Agility stats are on Nagumo's level, making it possible for him to be taken down or killed in one hit if another's Strength trumps his Resistance.
- Gone Horribly Right: Yamamoto sought to gain favor with the princess. It worked so well, that the princess fell for him and people though they were a couple.
- Guile Hero: An expert at political matters and strategy, he knows how to manipulate his enemies to his advantage.
- Had to Be Sharp: Because of his poor defense and low attack power, he just can't afford to be reckless like the others can.
- Instant Expert: He is noted to be an insanely fast learner. After just a day in Tortus, he learned how to use light magic. He got used to a spear rather quickly.
- Inner Thoughts, Outsider Puzzlement: There is a Running Gag, where he will go off into thought about his siblings teasing him, much to the confusion of others.
- Karmic Jackpot: He is the first character to be completely nice to Hajime and helps him whenever he can. He is eventually made the Royal Favorite of the class and becomes a celebrity in Tortus due to his Loophole Abuse in preforming Magic.
- The Leader: He serves as the leader of his party.
- Lethal Harmless Powers:
- Yamamoto sees his "Appraisal" skill like this. Unlike with "Ore Appraisal" or "Plant Appraisal", the skill that Yamamoto possesses doesn't specify an exclusive type of material to determine its "value" (e.g. monetary, quality, hardness, magical affinity, etc.), meaning it can analyze anything. A gradual example would be (1) serving soup from a secret recipe to someone with the "Appraisal" skill and having a better version of it to be served later on; (2) scamming people out of their hard work by lying about the quality of their items when hired to check it, buy the items off for a cheap price, and reselling it at a higher price by the mere mention of the skill; and finally, (3) destroying an entire economy just by abusing it.
- Casting an otherwise harmless water spell going at the default speed of 110 kilometers per hour. When Yamamoto uses the ball version, it explodes like a grenade upon impact. Through a highly pressurized, thinner stream, it basically skewers the intended target into mincemeat.
- Loophole Abuse: Yamamoto often takes advantage of this trope. For example, when the pope says that it is impossible for a non-god to travel between worlds, he states that since they were chosen by god, they might be able to learn how to do so himself.
- Meaningful Name: A very meaningful one.
- Yamamoto (山本) means "base of the mountain". It is also the surname of the Marshall Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the start of the second World War, matching up with Hajime's surname which is shared with the commander of the aircraft carrier fleet at the time.
- Eichirou (英一郎) is "heroic/outstanding", and could also be spelled as (叡一郎) which means "wise first-born son" alluding to his intelligence and analytical outlook.
- As one reviewer points out, his full name means "heroic base of the mountain", reflecting his overall actions that served as a heroic counterbalance against the Church's influence.
- Mentor Archetype: He takes this role with Nagumo, helping him learn to be more capable than his canon-self was at the time.
- Motor Mouth: He will go on a long rant about whatever he has just read if you let him.
- No-Sell: He is probably the only creature (living or otherwise), Endou's ability to fade into the background won't work on.
- Nice Guy: He is a nice guy to most people, particularly Hajime.
- Oh, Crap!: His reaction when he realizes the princess has a crush on him.
- Older Than He Looks: Downplayed as Yamamoto is only a year older than his classmates, and his appearance isn't that different from most of the male students in the class.
- Only Sane Man: The other member of the class with any real common sense.
- Original Character: He was created for this fic.
- Positive Friend Influence: Yamamoto is shown to be the kind of person to be great at bring out the best in people. He turned three of Hajime's former bullies into True Companions and heroes and gives Hajime the confidence and strength to fight back against his bullies.
- Purple Is Powerful: He has violet eyes and is a powerful mage.
- Royal Favorite: After befriending the princess, he gains favor with the royal family. Having tea with them becomes a fairly regular occurrence for them.
- Renaissance Man: From being well-versed in academic and cultural subjects to etiquette mannerisms, first aid, and music, it's not a manner of what Yamamoto can do, but what he can't do.
- Science Hero: He often uses his smarts to his advantage, whether learning new spells or setting traps.
- Self-Made Man: Compared to Kouki, who was simply gifted with the Hero class, all Yamamoto's success is due to hard work and his own effort.
- Smart People Wear Glasses:
- The Social Expert: Yamamoto excels as this, and it becomes more prominent after being transported to Tortus.
- Start My Own: During his attempts to find an alternate way home, he ended up forming his own party.
- Squishy Wizard: As noted above, Yamamoto is a powerful wizard, but stinks at taking damage.
- Wicked Cultured: Thanks to traveling the world, he has experience with several different cultures.
Nagumo Hajime
Job: Synergist
A stereotypical nice guy, who's an otaku and bully-victim, his story begins with a slew of bad luck: taken along with his class to a different world by some gods, given a crappy job and crappy stats.
- Adaptational Badass: Thanks to Yamamoto's collaborative research on magic and being a sparring partner, Pre-Orcus Nagumo is much more capable than he was in canon.
- When the guests become poisoned from drinking the poorly-prepared pleap juice, Nagumo's job class is the only one out of his classmates to be precise enough in the process of healing the victims.
- In Chapter 8, he fought against Hiyama and his posse on his own and won.
- In Chapter 9, he further uses his "Transmute" skill to create a makeshift printing press to lessen the time it usually takes for handwritten copies of rune magic.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Due to his status as an otaku and his relationship with Kaori, he is the frequent target of Daisuke Hiyama's bullying and is considered an outsider by everyone else, with Yamamoto and his team as the main exception.
- Alternate Self: Hajime retains his pre-fall appearance in this story since his fall into the depths of the Orcus Labyrinth, his transition to hybrid, and the loss of his left arm and right eye never happened.
- Awesome by Analysis: Besides Yamamoto, he also figures out Ishtar's speech being a bit off due to the pope's wording. After collaborating with Yamamoto in extensive magic research and engaging in combat training with him and a few other of their newly made friends, the former is capable of analyzing his fight against Hiyama and his posse to turn his unfavorable position against them.
- Badass Bookworm: Like Yamamoto, he knows how to use what he has read to his advantage.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Aside from Shirasaki's constant attempts to make sure that Nagumo is alright (which only makes his predicament worse in regards to his social stigma as an Otaku and her being the popular school idol), Yamamoto is the only one who really interacts with him enough to know he's a good guy despite rumors circulating around the average boy and doesn't belittle or look-down at his hobbies. After being transported to Tortus, Yamamoto also didn't see Nagumo's "Synergist" job class as "useless" like nearly everyone else and offered to help him developed his skills and magic further by having him as a partner in researching magic. In Nagumo's monologue, Yamamoto is the first person to truly acknowledge who he was beside his parents and would repay the debt tenfold.
- Bookworm: He starts life in Tortus studying every book of lore he can get his hands on. He becomes a Badass Bookworm with Yamamoto's help.
- Classical Anti-Hero: At first, he had all the signs, including horrifically poor self-esteem. The bullying and insults he received for his "incompetence" didn't help. Yamamoto's kindness helps mellow him out.
- Combat Pragmatist: Due to his weaker stats, Yamamoto tutors Nagumo to fight like this in order to play up his strengths against others. In his 1-to-4 fight against Hiyama and his posse, Nagumo knows he wouldn't be able to take them on directly, and resorts to creating traps, a smokescreen for stealth, and using his "Transmute" skill for a One-Hit KO.
- Deuteragonist: Since Yamamoto has taken the role of protagonist, this is his role in the fic.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Thanks to Yamamoto, he learns how to make giant stone pillars.
- Extreme Doormat: He was this before Yamamoto encouraged him to stand up for himself.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Downplayed for Nagumo. Aside from Shirasaki, Yaegashi, Hatayama, Endou, and Yamamoto, nobody else in the class particularly likes him for his "disgusting" Otaku hobbies and being constantly the center of attention of one of the school's idols. After being transferred to Tortus, he became more unliked for his seemingly "useless" job class, save for Meld and a few others. It starts to become subverted after Nagumo proved important in the healing of the poisoned guests, along with showing the more innovated ways as a "Synergist" in magic casting and technological advancements. It becomes more subverted once Yamamoto helps clear up the misunderstanding of Nagumo's predicament to some of their classmates, allowing him to form a circle of friends (i.e. Nomura, Nagayama, Tsuji, and Yoshino) other than the bespectacled teen, and after a much-needed offscreen conversation with Shirasaki and Yaegashi (which Shirasaki's compliments are no longer interpreted as "charity" and Yaegashi no longer apologizing for her friend(s) actions and actively socializing) it's safe to say that the trope is almost averted for the average boy.
- Genius Bruiser:
- Genre Savvy: Being an otaku, he's well aware of the Trapped in Another World trope and its implications. He is second only to Yamamoto in this regard.
- Glass Cannon: When it comes down to Nagumo's fight against Hiyama and his posse. Having weaker stats than his classmates, Nagumo can't endure against their physical or magic attacks, but with the clever use of his "Transmute" skill, he can create stone pillars to knock them out in one hit.
- Grew a Spine: He was encouraged to do this by Yamamoto Eichirou, along with just enough helping hand to defeat Hiyama's gang and even protected Kaori afterwards.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power:
- Nagumo's "Synergist" job class and "Transmute" skill is seen as merely manipulating ore/minerals/materials of the earth. Think it's lame and useless just because it's stated to be non-combatant oriented through metalworking and architecture only?
- How about it as the only skill to be able to assist in healing others in a critical state without harming them further due to its greater inherent precision? Or manipulating ore material itself through only picturing an image in your mind and calling out the skill activation compare to the speed of casting an earth spell? Or even jumpstart a potential industrial age of innovation?
- Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: As a Synergist, effectively a glorified blacksmith, he gets no respect from the flashy magicians or "mighty warriors" whose weapons he may well need to craft.
- The Lancer: He is the second-in-command of the team.
- Nice Guy: A genuinely good dude, with Nice to the Waiter habits.
- Number Two: With Eichiro taking the role as leader, he is his second-in-command.
- Otaku: With a game developer and a manga artist for parents, he couldn't have come out any other way.
- Science Hero:
- Transmutation: Hajime starts out with a low level skill in transmutation.
- Weak, but Skilled: Nagumo's starting base stats gives him a meager 10 in all categories, making him "weak" in comparison to his classmates. After getting much-needed tutelage from Yamamoto however, Nagumo is able to hold his own in battle through the precise use of his "Transmute" skill, Geometric Magic, magic potions to refuel his mana supply and engaging in full-on strategic pragmatism.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Like canon, Hiyama and crew mock him for his synergist job being non-combat oriented. Yamamoto knows different however.
- When All You Have Is a Hammer…: At the start, the only skill he had was "Transmute," and his starting stats were horrible compared to the rest of the class; the official training didn't help very much. However, he was able to put it into good use by applying it on ground and walls to entrap enemies, which allowed him to entrap enemies that were far above his stats. Yamamoto helps him take it further, using his knowledge of magic to their advantage.
Endou Kousuke
Job: Assassin
A nondescript boy would hardly be noticed at all. Has a complex about his passive talent.- Accidental Proposal: After one noble attempts to marry him to her daughter and he suggests he will be too busy fighting monsters, they decided they'll get married after the demons are defeated.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Yamamoto notes that this applies to Endou ever since he became an assassin.
- Blessed with Suck: His ability to blend into the background might make him a great assassin, but it has gotten to the point his own parents barely notice him.
- Butt-Monkey: Yamamoto accidentally glued him to a box once.
- Chick Magnet: After Yamamoto talked him into pulling his hair back, he becomes very popular with women.
- Combat Pragmatist: Having the "Assassin" job class, Endou's entire fighting style is this.
- Eyes Out of Sight: His hair tends to cover the upper half of his face, which only adds to his status as The Nondescript.
- Invisible Introvert: One of the several introverted loners in the class, 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: Though Endou already fits this to a T in canon, his Presence Concealment Skill was even more prevalent since he cannot turn it off at all, causing him to loathe his skill so much despite finding uses for it on many occasion. He is ecstatic when Yamamoto notices him and remembers his full name.
- Perception Filter: So much that even the horse he rides forgets he's there. Yamamoto is the only person it doesn't work on.
- 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 and getting the assassin job only amplifies this talent. Only Yamamoto notices when he leaves.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: After a life of being ignored by everyone and everything thanks to his Perception Filter, he meets Yamamoto, who it doesn't work on.
Nomura Kentarou
Job: Geomancer
An old friend and classmate of Endou Kousuke and Nagayama Jugo. He secretly holds feelings for Tsuji Ayako.- Adaptational Badass: Thanks to Yamamoto, he learns to make spears out of rock and barriers of stone.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Tsuji. He is too nervous to admit it.
- Childhood Friend: Of Jugo and Kousuke.
- 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.
- Heroic Build: He is noted to have bulked up since arriving at Tortus.
Nagayama Jugo
Job: Heavy Knight
An old friend and classmate of Endou Kousuke and Nomura Kentarou. Looks far too old for his age (Is approx. 17 but looks like he's 30.) Cooks as a hobby and is pretty good at it.- The Big Guy: He is the tallest and serves as the muscle of the group.
- Childhood Friend: With Nomura and Kousuke.
- 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.
- Real Men Cook:
- Number Two: He takes the role of leader during training with Yoshino and Mao and is third-in-command of the party.
- Younger Than He Looks: He is a teenager that looks like he's 30.
Tsuji Ayako
Job: Priest
One of the two girls in the group. Best friend to Yoshino Mao. Secretly has feelings for Nomura Kentarou.- Adaptational Badass: With Yamamoto's help, she is able to use her light magic to make the magic equivalent of an X-ray.
- Afraid of Blood:
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Kentarou.
- Healing Hands: She has healing magic as part of her job.
- Light Is Good: She has light and healing magic and is on the side of the heroes.
- Tsundere: She likes to tease Kentarou about his lack of finesse in a flirty kind of way.
- White Mage: She has an affinity for Light Magic and healing and her job is Priest.
Yoshino Mao
Job: Invoker
The other girl in the group. Best friend to Tsuji Ayako. She hardly seems to take anything seriously.- Adaptational Job Change: She is an Invoker here, instead of a Rejuvenist.
- Elemental Powers:
- Jack of All Trades:
- The Pollyanna: She doesn't take matters as seriously as she should.
- Support Party Member: As an Invoker, her role is to empower her teammates.
- The Tease: Loves to tease Tsuji about her crush on Kentarou.
The "Hero" Party
Hajime's 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. In General
- 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.
- Foil: To Yamaoto'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. Yamamoto's group is a bunch of misfits (around 6) and are (mostly) only out for themselves, but help out every now and then.
- 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 returned home if successful. In reality, the pantheon of Tortus' gods use 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. Kouki Anamogawa
Job: Hero
The "perfect man" in class.- 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.
- 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 Victim-Blaming aren't all that different from what most of Japanese society thinks and functions as, and showing the ugly sides of it.
- Attention Whore: He desperately craves attention and is pissed if he isn't the center of attention.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Double Subverted. 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 Yamamoto being the center of attention and being the Royal Favorite, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Condescending Compassion: How he normally addresses Hajime, and even to 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.
- Creative Sterility: 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.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: He's basically a walking example of the stereotypical light novel hero that's so prevalent in the genre, but played in a more negative light. 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.
- Didn't Think This Through: All. The. Time. He rarely thinks of long-term consequences, makes incredibly snap judgments about others and how to deal with certain situations, and is overall helpless in the cynical medieval world of Tortus.
- 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.
- Hypocrite: 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).
- Idiot Hero: Kouki's foolishness was even more apparent in this fanfiction. While his idiocy mostly boils down to his envy to Hajime in canon, here it was much more apparent when Yamamoto exposed his naivete from the very first day he was teleported into Tortus.
- Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: This lack of self-reflection is a huge flaw in his beliefs, not that he ever once stop to think about the consequences or long-term effects of his methods.
- Knight Templar: He honestly can not, for the life of him, comprehend how his mindset can ever be incorrect, about anything.
- 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. Yamamoto often speaks to Kouki like the ignorant child he is.
- Mistaken for Gay: When he becomes interested in Yamamoto, Shizuku thinks it's because he has a crush on him.
- My Way or the Highway: This is what his "sense of justice" boils down to; anything he says or does is right and must be followed accordingly while the opinions of others are wrong.
- No Social Skills: While he's capable of interacting with others, it's mostly due to agreement and his own natural charisma at work. Once those two things don't work out for him, as well as getting into disagreements that go against his beliefs, he can barely give a compelling argument that doesn't just boil down to things that should go his way.
- Oblivious to Love: Like canon, Kouki is very bad at noticing when someone has a crush on him. When Eri gets a Crush Blush after he said her first name, he completely missed it and brushed it off as her worries being relieved.
- Ping Pong Naïveté: He's both Book Smart and charismatic, but is surprisingly impulsive and dramatically blind to social cues.
- Selective Obliviousness: Yamamoto accuses him of this in regards to how Kaori treats Hajime and the class's abuse of him.
- 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 and Yamamoto aside).
- 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.
- 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.
Shizuku Yaegashi
The team's mom.
Job: Swordmaster
Shirasaki's best friend, and a kendo champion. She's both the only girl and the only one marginally nice to Hajime.- Accomplice by Inaction: Yamaoto tells her that apologizing for Kouki, Kaori and Ryutaro, without trying to correct their behavior, just enables them to get away with again in the future.
- 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.
- Token Good Teammate: She was one of the only member of Hajime's class that never bullied him.
Sakagami Ryutarou
Job: Monk
- Barefisted 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 most beefy and stout member.
- Dumb Muscle: As Yamamoto puts it, he is basically "A bear given human form" along with having "brawns for brains". Even Yaegashi thinks of him as an idiot despite his hardworking personality.
- Undying Loyalty: To his best friend Kouki.
Suzu Taniguchi
Job: Barrier Master
A chibi with inexhaustible energy and spunk.- Barrier Warrior: She has the "Barrier Master" class which allows her to summon barrier magic.
- Genki Girl: She's got so much energy, 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.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Every time she's sad it's a clear sign of how dire things are.
- Personality Powers: Barrier Warrior but it also reflects her "mask"
- Stepford Smiler: Her way to cope with loneliness, she also fears being rejected.
Bastard 4
The four people who bullied Nagumo back on earth. In General
- The Bully: They repeatedly abused and bullied Hajime back on earth and do so as well on Tortus.
- Dumb Muscle: Nagumo describes Hiyama and his posse as this in their 4-to-1 fight. Despite receiving training from the knights and the court mages in combat and magic, they initially attack with more "raw strength" than techniques at first under the belief that Nagumo is still weak due to his low stats. Once Nagumo creates an area-wide smokescreen and knocks out Saitou, it didn't take long for the average boy to defeat Hiyama and his remaining two friends as they couldn't think outside the box.
- Hypocrite: As noted by Yamamoto, Daisuke and crew calling Nagumo disgusting for liking manga is hypocritical since they read porn.
Daisuke Hiyama
Job: Light Warrior
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 and Yamamoto rightly hate the most.- Adaptational Karma: Thanks to Yamamoto, Daisuke pays for his actions far sooner than in canon.
- Barbaric Bully: He's always shown as The Bully to Hajime, and 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 if not for Yamamoto's help).
- 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.
- 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.
- Hate Sink: Out of all the students who bullied Hajime, he is by far the most despicable.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He attempted to attack Yamamoto with fire magic. Yamamoto set him on fire.
- Lean and Mean: He has a slim build, and is definitely not a nice person.
- Playing with Fire: His only offensive spell is the basic Fireball.
Yoshiki Saito, Reiichi Kondo, and Shinji Nakano
The trio of worst offenders. Together with Hiyama Daisuke, they strive to make Hajime's life hell back on Earth and do their damnedest in Tortus as well.
- Adaptational Karma: Thanks to Yamamoto, they pay for their actions far sooner than in canon.
- Adaptation Expansion: The Author plans to take them out of their role as Satellite Characters to Hiyama.
- Blow You Away: Saito's job class Aerothurge gives him an affinity for Wind Magic.
- The Bully: Much like Hiyama, the 3 relentlessly harass and beat up Hajime back in Japan for having Kaori's love and affection.
- Playing with Fire: Nakano's job class Pyromancer gives him an affinity for Fire Magic.
- Pyromaniac: After being defeated by Nagumo, Shinji makes it clear he will burn him alive.
- 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 chibi-sized teacher Aiko Hatayama rather than risking their lives contributing to humanity's war against the demons. Aiko Hatayama
Job: Farmer
The social studies teacher who was handling the class at the time everyone was summoned to another world.- Affectionate Nickname: The class is fond of calling her "Ai-chan" to her chagrin, due to her childish body.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- Improbable Age: She's a twenty-five year old teaching a class of high-schoolers.
- 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.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: While she did mean well in trying to stop Hiyama's bullying and taunts regarding Hajime's initial very lack-luster class and stats, she actually goes and makes him feel worse because even though her stats are worse than his, her profession and talents are both numerous and highly valuable, while he's average.
- 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.
- 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.
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. In General
- Religion is Magic: Lampshaded. Due to Ehitorujue's backing to the Church of Saints (which was simply called the Holy Church in canon), they wielded a disproportionate amount of political clout among the nations, Yamamoto even described it as Medieval-era Church with magical steroids.
Ishtar Langbard
The Pope of Eht (Ehit), and the one who explains the reason why Hajime's class was summoned to Tortus.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He's confused and somewhat insulted that Hajime's class panicked at the thought of being forcefully summoned to Tortus and upon learning that they can't go back, as if it's somehow an insult to Ehit-sama itself. When Kouki's Rousing Speech gets the class on board with being in a Child Soldier army, he's smugly satisfied. When Yamamoto decides to find a way back, he's pissed.
- 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 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.
- Sinister Minister: Ishtar Langbard already counted as one in canon, but one of the chapters especially drives his fanatical devotion to home when he denounced Yamamoto's Anima religion.
- Summon Everyman Hero: The reason for his summoning ritual. Except that Ehit had summoned the whole class as his new pawns for his sick game.
- 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.
Kingdom of Heleigh
Knight Commander Meld Loggins
The knight in charge of training Hajime's class to be the "heroes" who save the world of Tortus.
- 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.
- He was one of the many shocked by Yamamoto preforming five different spells at once.
- Heroic Build: He fits the stereotypical image of a Knight.
- 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 he is ignored by the more aggressive students like Hiyama.
- 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.
- 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.
King Eric S. B. Heiligh, Queen Luaria, Prince Randell
The royalty introduced in the opening of the light novel, greeting Hajime's class as the coming "heroes."
- Ascended Extra: They are slightly more prominent here.
Princess Liliana S. B. Heiligh
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.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: She appears as early as chapter 3.
- Princess Classic: Downplayed as, though she thinks she's this and expects some advantages out of this, she's a hard worker that has been tasked to care for and supply the Hero's Companions' needs.
- Princesses Prefer Pink: She wears a pink and white dress, as it's typical of pretty and feminine princesses.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She develops this for Yamamoto, seeing him as a kind and humble apostle with a noble goal and a loving older brother to his siblings.
- When She Smiles: On those rare occasions where she smiles genuinely, as opposed to forced, formal "courtesy" smiles, she lights up the room.
