Characters for Ie Ga Moete Jinsei Dou Demo Yoku Natta Kara. Spoilers may be unmarked.
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Main Characters:
Harold Smith
Why, just why was my house burnt down? Was there an arsonist?! If they wanted to burn stuff down, I wish they had gone somewhere else!
The protagonist. He starts the story heading to his brand new dream-home he spent over 10 years of hard work earning, only to see it engulfed in flames, no idea why. In a depression, he withdraws all his savings and starts wandering around town, until a slave-trader calls out to him and badgers him to attend the auction, if for no other purpose than to fill all the seats. That's where he meets and buys Atie, the dark elf, who would become his slave, most valuable companion, and bed-partner.- All for Nothing: He works hard for over 10 years to get his dream home, only to find it engulfed in flames the moment it's paid off!
- Battle Couple: He and Atie become this over time.
- The Blacksmith: Was this before the start of the series. His skills in the trade still show up more than once, such as when he forged Atie her ring.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Downplayed. Due to his own past as an orphan, because his mother died of illness and then his father went dungeon diving and never returned, he can't just sit back and ignore a situation where a child might suffer a similar fate if he can help it, but when he sees an arrogant noble's son make a public sex-show of the elf slave he paid 633 million to buy, he takes Atie's hand and walks away, knowing the law would be on the lout's side if he tried something, and the fact that there was a rather large crowd he'd have to go through certainly doesn't help matters.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: [Blazing Continent Piercing Spear] is a powerful technique capable of delivering a One-Hit Kill to a dragon, but it renders him unconscious, bleeding from every pore, and melts his spear when it's used. So far, he's only used it once in manga chapter 5.2.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: He fights close and personal with a spear while Atie fights from a distance with a Sniper Rifle.
- Heroic BSoD: First, he's in a depression because his house is burned down, until he buys Atie, and then when all his efforts to rescue a 10-year-old boy from a criminal syndicate fail, he goes into a funk for 7 days before Atie offers Sex for Solace.
- Innocently Insensitive: He's never had a girlfriend before (despite being supernaturally talented in the bedroom) so he doesn't know how to handle Atie's irrational jealousy towards Cecil in chapter 13. All he can do is flatter her, butter her up, avoid Cecil, and give Atie lots of sex, that he knows she enjoys, but Atie's still troubled.
- I Thought Everyone Could Do That: Inverted. When he picked up Echidna, he had no idea the critter was a "demon" but Cecil, Atie, and Varen all knew it on sight. He's pretty embarrassed when he finds out.
- Meaningful Name: Smith, which fits for an experienced blacksmith.
- Naïve Newcomer: He spent most of his life being a smith's apprentice, so he's all but clueless when it comes to being a wandering adventurer.
- Oblivious to Love: Downplayed and subverted. He was reluctant to consider that Atie was sending him signals that she was sexually interested in him due to discomfort at the fact she's his slave and can't say no, but still loved to hug, kiss, sniff, and cuddle her when they have to share a bed. Once she hands him an engraved invite to have sex, he's all too eager to act on it, or let her act on him.
- Parental Abandonment:His mother passed away from illness while he was little, and his father passed away during a dungeon trek when he was 10, leaving him on his own.
- Seven Heavenly Virtues: He's got the full set.
- Charity: Even when he had little more than the clothes on his back, he spent all his money to buy up Atie out of sympathy, and rarely neglects to put the fate of others above himself, given a choice.
- Chastity: He would have been content if Atie would let him just have hugs and kisses, and when Atie begs him not to peruse brothels, openly proclaims he doesn't need them, as sex with Atie is very satisfying, which literally tickles her pink.
- Diligence: Not to toot his own horn, but he's got a strong work ethic and isn't afraid of a little hard work.
- Honesty: He can't tell a lie without developing a Guilt Complex. He spends 7 days in a guilt-induced depression because he listed a 10-year-old boy as missing, fate unknown, because the boy's mother had her husband die while the boy's rescue attempt was underway, and he figured the woman couldn't withstand a 1-2 punch of husband and son dying within the same day.
- Humility: He doesn't see himself as anything special and doesn't realize just how talented he is with the spear, because his father, the legendary spear-wielder, called him "untalented" comparing him to himself.
- Patience: He was willing to work for over 10 years for his dream-home.
- Temperance: He likes to live simply. As long as he's got food, shelter, and his basic needs met, he's more than satisfied.
- Sex God: He is supernaturally talented in the bedroom. Atie is awestruck by his talent and stamina.
- Sexual Karma: He both receives and gives it out. Because he puts Atie on a pedestal and demonstrates that she's very desirable while still respecting her boundaries and waits until she gives him an engraved invitation before going all the way, he gets that invitation, and then goes on spending near the entirety of chapter 11 demonstrating how good he is in bed to her, which she greatly appreciates. Yes, the manga is still R-15 in spite of that all being on-screen.
- Unluckily Lucky: His house, out of all the others in town, is the one that got torched, but as he's moping around in despair, a slave merchant calls out to him to attend an auction, where he finds, and buys, a very rare and exotic dark-elf beauty who would normally sell for 1.6 billion for a measly 150k.
- Weapon Specialization: His weapon of choice is a spear. A few characters claim it may impractical in the tight corners of the labyrinth, but he proves to be plenty deadly with it.
Atie
I fell in love with you, Harold-sama, Because You Were Nice to Me
The female lead and titular dark elf slave. Harold Smith buys her at an auction for 150k, when she would normally sell for 1.6 billion because the slave trafficking company greatly misjudged the local stigma against dark elves in the Eastern Empire. She is quite relieved that Harold is the one to buy her as he puts her on a pedestal, loving her up one side and down the other.- Adaptational Dye-Job: For her skin tone. The manga covers, based on the light-novel illustrations, have her with light skin. The manga proper has her with very dark skin.
- Age-Gap Romance: She's 15 while Harold is 25.
- All Women Are Lustful: Harold would have been content with Atie if she just let him have daily hugs and kisses and let him coddle her while she sleeps. She is the one who pushes for the relationship to become sexual.
- Battle Couple: Quickly falls in love with Harold who she fights alongside with in with.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: The "suspension bridge effect" hits her hard and she falls in love with Harold Smith because he treats her like a precious work of art and respects her boundaries, despite making it clear that she's very, very desirable.
- Big Damn Heroes: When the artificial arachne who had Harold cornered was about to move in for the kill, she takes the monster down with her sniper rifle, using a bullet enhanced with thunder magic, which hurls a lightning bolt down on the criminal gang leader. Justified by the fact that her slave-bracelet came with tracking magic and she was tracking Harold down, seeing as he and Cecil were in hot pursuit and had no way of notifying her first.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She used to be a member of a female-only labyrinth raiding party. Her party leader became romantically obsessed with some random guy to the point that he would demand the vast majority of the party's spoils and the party leader would just give them to him, but there reached a point where this was not enough. The party leader drugged Atie's meal, and she woke up in the slave market. The only reason Atie doesn't have a grudge is that Harold is the one who bought her, and she loves him.
- Friendly Sniper: She wields a sniper rifle very effectively, and she's a total sweetheart.
- Gun Nut: When Harold buys her the sniper rifle she asks for, she visibly beams with joy.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Takes out enemies from afar with her rifle while Harold goes in close with a spear.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: There's precious little she's not talented at. She can cook, she can shoot birds out of the sky by throwing rocks at them, though she's better with a gun, she's talented in labyrinths and the bedroom, you name it...
- Made a Slave: She was drugged and sold into slavery while unconscious.
- Mage Marksman: She asks Harold to buy her a sniper rifle, with scope as her weapon, and she's very proficient in it. She can also cast many support-type magics not fit for combat, the only exception being placing enchantments on her ammunition.
- Property of Love: After she demonstrates that she wants sex with Harold by pinning him down and having her way with him, he offers to remove her Slave Collar. She refuses. Fans point out that this is a very pragmatic choice on her part, as without the collar, she could get snatched up and sold off again, and she might not be so lucky next time.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She's got pink hair and is a very nice girl who dotes on Harold.
- Secret Test of Character: She lets Harold know, after they become sexually romantic, that if he had tried to sex her up right away, she would have resisted, even knowing that it would be fatal. Because he respected her boundaries and waited until she gave him the green-light, she's more than happy to sex him up as much as he likes, and then some.
- Sex for Solace: Reconstructed. After 7 days have passed and Harold was still suffering from Survivor's Guilt concerning the criminal syndicate and that 10-year-old boy, she offers him sex to get his mind back on track. He goes from "My God, why did I let that kid die?" to "My God, I took sexual advantage of Atie, and I may do it again!" Atie's response to that is to tackle him, pin him to the bed and go "Let me show you that I want sex with you, and with all due respect, Master, please let me be on top this time!" before she proceeds to screw him silly. Afterward, he's finally cool with the idea of having her sex him up.
- Sweet Tooth: She likes sweets even more than guns, and that's saying a lot.
- With This Ring: After she gives Harold her virginity, he forges her a very ornate silver ring, and puts it on her ring finger. She realizes the implications and appreciates the gesture.
- Wingding Eyes: Whenever she's genuinely happy, she literally has stars in her eyes.
- Wrong Assumption: Played for laughs. When she and Harold have to spend a night in a hotel room where There Is Only One Bed, and he gets close to openly sniff her, she thinks she's in for some sexy-fun-times with him, screws up her courage and greets him in some elegant nightwear, but for him it's still too early for that, deciding to cuddle her from behind instead, leaving her sexually frustrated and him blissfully and willfully ignorant.
Echidna
Gyuu!
An unknown creature Harold and Cecil discover while raiding a bandit stronghold in the attempt to rescue a 10-year-old boy.- All Animals Are Dogs: It loves to play "fetch" with both Harold and Atie.
- Ambiguous Innocence: When it first hatched, it dove down Cecil's shirt, forcing Harold to stick his hand down there and try to pull it back out. Later, when Atie is busy having her way with Harold, it turns and slithers away...
- Expy: It looks a lot like a baby Onyx from Pokémon.
- Our Demons Are Different: Chapter 13 reveals that this little guy is a "demon" when Cecil's grandfather spots it riding Atie's cleavage.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Just about everybody loves to coo at this guy.
- Super-Intelligence: Almost immediately after hatching, it understands human speech perfectly.
- Team Mascot: It's Harold's and Atie's pet, by choice.
Eastern Continent:
The slave trader
Come on! Somebody must want this rare and exotic dark elf beauty?!
- Call to Adventure: Because he called out to Harold and badgered him to attend the slave auction, Harold would set out to take Atie to the South-East continent, at her request.
- Enlightened Self-Interest: He's an Honest Corporate Executive because if his reputation takes too many hits, he would have a very hard time doing business.
- Expy: He looks like the guy from the Monopoly table-top game.
- Graceful Loser: He's quite amiable to Harold despite selling a normally 1.6 billion dark-elf to him for only 150k, because Harold was the only bidder and it was the merchant's own fault in not doing proper research on the market before attempting the auction.
- Honest Corporate Executive: The fact that he's a slave-trader aside, he runs his business honestly and is true to his word.
- No Name Given: His name is never mentioned.
- One-Shot Character: To date, he's only seen selling Atie to Harold at an auction and never again.
En route to West Continent:
Cecil Meyers
When Oji-san became interested in you, I just had to test your skills! You can trust me!
The grand-daughter of a grand-father, grand-daughter pair Harold and Atie meet en route to the docks, and find that the two are also headed to Western Continent. The four of them wind up on the same ship, the Ballestia.- Heroic Lineage: Her grandfather, father, and herself are all heroic and legendary swordsmen.
- Hypocrite: She smacks her grandfather upside the head for being too interested in Harold, calling him rude, but shortly afterward launches a sneak attack with a sword to "test him" because she's interested in someone her grandfather is interested in.
- "Just Joking" Justification: She justifies launching a sneak-attack at Harold by calling it a surprise test and sheathing her sword. Harold is less than thrilled at her attitude.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Her "plan" to raid the crime syndicate base was to just kick the front door open and go in sword swinging, no plan, preparation, or backup, presuming she and Harold alone were more than strong enough. Harold rightly points out that the syndicate members' numbers, strength, weapons, and tactics are unknown.
- Reluctant Fanservice Girl: When Echidna jumps down her shirt, Harold as to stick his hand down there to fish it out, and cup his other hand over her mouth because they're all hiding from bandits at the time. She clearly did not enjoy the experience.
- Unwilling Suspension: After Harold carried her home, in the wake of the yahoo with a fire fetish, her grandfather strings her up on the ship's mast with many ropes and she awakens, in the air, to a fierce lecture about her immaturity.
Varen Meyers
You, you seem familiar, young man. Who are you? You remind me of that guy, that legendary spear wielder, what was his name?!
A kindly old man Atie and Harold meet en route to port, and the guy immediately takes interest in Harold.- It Runs in the Family: He and his descendants are always interested in strong fighters and want to challenge them. His family also has a strong talent for the sword.
- Master Swordsman: He is known as the sword-sage and his son and granddaughter are sword sages in their own right.
- Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: He looks like a harmless old man, but he is so fast and talented with the sword that Harold can barely keep up.
Matsudo
Shut up, Mom! If we have money, we can get dad fixed up and even take care of your debts!
A spunky 10-year-old boy who tried to steal all of Harold's money, and run, but when that failed, thanks to Atie firing a warning shot at his feet, causing him to fall on his face, he decided to try to steal an elixir from a criminal syndicate. The latter part seals his fate.- Antivillain: He may have tried to steal every rube Harold had, but all his villainy is motivated purely by the attempt to cure his father's illness and keep the family out of debt-slavery.
- The Artful Dodger: Attempted but foiled. He shoved his way between Harold and Atie to startle them and take the pouch with Harold's money. He wound up nearly getting shot for his troubles.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: He winds up dead from a poison inflicted by an artificial arachne's act of vore. Let's just say that he got to learn what happens to a spider's prey, helplessly and painfully having his flesh and organs reduced to soup while he's still alive.
- Driven to Villainy: Deconstructed. With his father deathly ill and his mother in terrible, unstated debt, he turned to crime to try and resolve the issue. He doesn't live long enough to regret it.
- For Want Of A Nail: If he hadn't been too proud to ask for help, (Harold even asked him why he needed money), Harold would have been more than happy to hunt the syndicate down for the elixir. Maybe Harold would have gotten it in time, maybe not, but at least this kid would have been alive to see it.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: All he wanted was to get his hands on medicine that would cure his father's illness. His attempt gets him kidnapped by a crime syndicate, put through an act of vore, which has him mortally poisoned, and when he's rescued, Cecil tries the medicine on him to try and treat the poison, because she has no other options, only to see that the medicine has no effect, resulting in the kid's death, and then when Cecily, Harold, and Atie meet his mother, they find out that the medicine wouldn't have helped because this kid's father died from his illness begging for his son, while the rescue attempt was underway. GEESH!
- They Just Dont Get It: He tries to steal from Harold nearly getting himself shot, and lectured by both Atie and his mother. He then tries to steal from a criminal syndicate that is far, far less forgiving.
- Too Desperate to Be Picky: With his father mortally ill, and his mother facing extreme debt, he really didn't have that many viable options.
The crime boss
Oh how long it's been since I tasted a young boy! This little rat had the nerve to steal from me, now he has to pay, and he's the payment!
The artificial arachne that runs the syndicate. Harold finds her both literally and figuratively eating Matsudo, who he's trying to rescue, as a result of the boy trying to steal elixir to treat his terminally ill father.- Black Eyes of Evil: Her sclera are almost solid black and she's literally a monster.
- Combat Pragmatist: She prefers to fight by using human wave tactics and then moving in for the kill when her prey's exhausted.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Even though the elixir Matsudo tried to steal is 50 million rubes, eating the kid alive as punishment for a failed theft is a bit much...
- Driven to Villainy: Implied. Varen indicates to Harold that the empire from which they both hail has been experimenting in fusing humans to labyrinth monsters in order to boost their war potential, and she's apparently one of the test subjects that managed to escape, having no option but to turn to crime.
- Everybody Calls Him "Barkeep": Her name is never mentioned. Everybody in her syndicate just calls her "Boss."
- Extra Eyes: She's got a second pair of eyes just below the hairline.
- Fandisservice: Yes, her human half is very attractive and she walks around topless, but her legs and the spider half's pedipalps are in the exact same place, putting her groin right above the spider half's mouth. She's also introduced literally eating a pre-teen and speaking as if she's getting sexually aroused doing it. It's only when the poor kid is rescued by Cecil yanking him away that it's clear that the boy was being sucked into the spider half's mouth...
- Femme Fatalons: As a result of being part spider, her arms from armpit to finger-tip is covered with a hard carapace, giving her extremely sharp fingers.
- Godiva Hair: She hides her breasts by letting her long, flowing locks roll down her chest.
- Panacea: Her gang's primary product is an elixir advertised to cure any disease, no matter how serious, for the price of 50 million rubes.
- Pædo Hunt: She favors prepubescent boys, and consent is a formality, at best.
- Poison Is Corrosive: Truth in Television. Her spider half is apparently a species of spitting spider, and those use venom to pre-digest their prey. So when she accidentally splashes one of her henchmen while aiming at Harold, the poor mook starts melting alive.
- Spider People: She's part human, part spider-type monster.
The third born son of some unnamed count
I can't stay in one place. I hear a voice like a divine revelation, telling me to burn it all!
- Aristocrats Are Evil: He's the son of an imperial count, by his own admission, and he burns things down just for his own amusement.
- Backstab Backfire: He comes at Harold with a sword, from behind, as the latter is walking away in Chapter 14, with Harold thinking that revenge on this nutbar is not worth the trouble. When Harold is forced to defend himself, this loon winds up face first against the blunt end of the pole that is Harold's spear, with the elf slave cheering Harold on, and both this lout and the elf tied up to a pier across from the burning shed.
- Blaming the Victim: He blames Cecil for setting a gambling parlor on fire because Cecil dared to beat him at a game of chance.
- When he happily admits burning Harold's newly constructed house down, he blames the house for it, saying that since it smelled brand new, "it was begging to be burned." Harold is not amused.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Averted. He remembers every house he burned down, in detail, but he never fathoms that those homes have owners who might want to take the arsonist to task for it.
- For the Evulz: He has absolutely no reason for setting things on fire, aside from the fact that it amuses him to do it.
- Hearing Voices: He sets things on fire for his own amusement and because some disembodied voice, that only he can hear, tells him to.
- Miles Gloriosus: He loves to brag about his supposed combat prowess, but Chapter 14 ends with him taken down, with ease, by Harold, in single combat, with Harold not even trying.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If he hadn't set Harold's house on fire back in chapter 1, the latter might never have met Atie. Harold is still not amused when he figures it out though.
- No Name Given: His name has yet to be mentioned.
- Pyromaniac: He gets off by setting things on fire, regardless of time or place. He knows it's a crime, calling it "against the morals of human society" so tries not to get caught, never staying in one place for long, but he otherwise doesn't care.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Even after attacking Harold from behind with a sword to "silence" him, and realizing that he's going to have to go and murder every last witness that saw him at the gambling den, Harold was willing to try and walk away. It's when he makes clear his intent to slice off all of Celia's limbs and repeatedly rape her pregnant for his amusement that Harold goes "enough is enough" and beats him down, after making sure there are no witnesses to see him raise a blade to a (supposed) noble.
- The Reveal: He reveals, as he's admiring a shack he just set on fire, that he's the one who burned down Harold's house, for a laugh.
- Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: He made the elf he won in the auction way back at the start a public sex-toy, for starters.
- The Sociopath: He has no empathy for others, considering he burns down people's home without a care, and is addicted to the excitement of setting things on fire, even though he knows it's a crime. He is also rather sadistic to his elf slave.
Shobanni
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He first approaches Attie and Harold offering his services as guide for a measly 3000 coin, when Harold refuses, he grabs the guy's pants leg and begins begging and crying with a sob story. Harold relents if he'll let Attie rub his belly.
- Excellent Judge of Character: He's so good at reading people that the reclusive mermaids trust his judgement in bringing people to their hidden enclave.
- Talking Animal: One of many as the island is inhabited by a species of sapient cats who walk on two legs and speak the human language.
Annanella
- Call to Adventure: After she gets to know Harold and Attie, she brags about finding a hidden underwater castle that's talked about in the local legends, legends that explain many missing person cases.
- Seashell Bra: She wears a couple of sea-shells on her generous bust to hide her nipples.
