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Klaus
Bonfire
Voiced by: Yuichiro Umehara
"...How much longer should I keep playing along with your game?"
The world's greatest spy, the boss and teacher of the spy organization Lamplight. Code Name - Bonfire.
- The Ace: Doesn't regard himself as the greatest spy in the world for no reason. In fact, that's part of the problem with his training up Lamplight - he's so naturally good that he doesn't know how to pass his skills on.
- Assassin Outclassin': Trains his pupils by daring them to kill or capture him, and thrashes them regularly.
- Badass Teacher: Lamplight‘s teacher in spycraft, and always gives them a sound defeat no matter what tricks they managed to pull off, combat included.
- Can't Catch Up: Was never able to defeat his mentor Guido in a spar because Guido's reflexes were just naturally a tenth of a second faster. Until the girls managed to give him a wound that slowed the now rogue Guido down by a tenth of a second.
- Celibate Hero: Klaus doesn’t experience romantic attraction, and as such isn't tempted by pursuits of romantic or sexual desires. In fact, he is often oblivious to them entirely, seen in volume one when Thea came to Klaus’s room for a ‘good time’ and he interpreted that as ‘a good time playing chess’.
- Chick Magnet: Klaus has made a few of his students to fall for him. Unfortunately for them, he’s a Celibate Hero.
- Defeat by Modesty: Inverted. When the girls attempted to make him surrender while he’s in the shower, he still defeats them without a single change in expression and then goes onto explain why a well-trained spy thinks little of being naked instead of putting on a towel.
- The Illegible: He has what is described in volume 2 chapter 2 as ‘god awful handwriting’.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: His hair is shoulder-length, and he himself is handsome in an androgynous way.
- Marriage of Convenience: Has been married twice, both times being a paper only relationship because having a wife was useful for supporting a cover. The first time was to a now deceased member of Inferno. The second time was to Sybilla.
- The One Guy: He’s pretty much the only male character who is featured prominently with major plot significance among the cast.
- Sole Survivor: Klaus is the only surviving member of Inferno, and the only reason he didn't die with the others was because he was sent on a separate solo operation when the rest went on the mission where they were killed.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: While Klaus is The Stoic and keeps a blank face, he isn't by any means uncaring; in fact, despite his unconventional teaching methods, he demonstrates a great level of care and empathy to his students. He believes each member of Lamplight is an individual of boundless potential, and he seeks to bring out the best in each of their abilities.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Has dark hair, is a Long-Haired Pretty Boy, and quite tall, too.
Lily
Flower Garden
Voiced by: Sora Amamiya
"I'd go to the ends of the earth if it meant I could bloom into a worthy leader for our team."
The cheerful and positive team leader of Lamplight, her specialty is poison. Code Name - Flower Garden.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Surprisingly, Lily is this thanks to Klaus teaching her so that she can be an effective spy. The other members of Lamplight are not happy with this.
- Flowers of Femininity: She’s strongly associated with flower, from her real name and codename to the fact that she’s wearing a lily flower on her hair.
- The Immune: She was the sole survivor of her village due to her body being naturally resistant to the poison-based weapons that was used.
- The Leader: Klaus placed her in charge of the team.
- Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Light to Thea's Dark, being a beautiful, well-endowed, light-haired girl who's rather innocent about love and sex. Thea actually encourages her to make more use of her "assets."
- Master Poisoner: Lily has a knack on concocting poisons that can either paralyze or kill her targets.
- Nice Girl: Lily is a kind, bubbly and good natured girl at heart, putting in her all as Lamplight's team leader. While she is by no means against indulging in the luxuries of being a spy, her true motivation comes from a desire and duty to help others as a certain spy has done for her.
- The Pollyanna: Despite the suffering she underwent, she still has a strangely positive attitude that can best be summarized with the philosophy ‘anything goes’.
- Sole Survivor: The Galgado Empire released a lethal poison gas onto the village Lily resided in for testing, killing hundreds, but she survived.
Grete
Dearest Daughter
Voiced by: Miku Itō
"…I have to live on if I want the boss to hold me in his arms."
The Master of Disguise who was born into a political family. She has a crush on Klaus. Code Name - Dearest Daughter.
- Abusive Parents: Her father inflicted verbal abuse on her for her appearance and manners, and abandoned her by sending her to the spy academy when she was only 13.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: She falls in love with Klaus because he was the only to think her beautiful even after having seen her true face.
- Black Sheep: She was hated on in her family for her outer appearance, and even effectively abandoned by her father into a spy academy.
- Blemished Beauty: Despite her scar, she’s still quite a pretty girl.
- Does Not Like Men: Due to her experience with her father and brothers, she fears and dislikes men to the point where talking to men other than Klaus makes her stomach hurt.
- The Grotesque: She even weaponizes her scars by showing them to her opponent, dealing an unforgettable mental blow.
- Master of Disguise: Grete's specialty. She can even disguise herself as a man and no one would notice.
- Proper Lady: Grete has a calm, ladylike personality and proper demeanor, as expected from someone born into a political family.
- Scars Are Ugly: While she's not horribly ugly, she feels very insecure about her looks to the point of androphobia and always wearing a mask. They are also the cause of her childhood trauma.
- Voice Changeling: Grete can replicate voices perfectly from pitch to tone.
Sibylla
Pandemonium
Voiced by: Nao Tōyama
Code Name - Pandemonium.
- Boyish Short Hair: She has short hair, which signifies her tomboyishness.
- Close-Range Combatant: Her specialty is close quarters combat.
- Friend to All Children: Sibylla has a huge soft spot for children. The reason she became a spy is so that no child would ever become orphan like she and her siblings went through.
- Hates Wearing Dresses: Sybilla hates wearing dresses as she’s not into feminine clothing and she thinks she looks ridiculous.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Sybillia is neither intuitive nor particularly observant, she goes with what her gut tells her, which leads her to act without thinking her actions through.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: She turned her father in to the police after he abused and forced his children into helping him in gang activities.
Monika
Glint
Voiced by: Aoi Yūki
A prideful jack-of-all-trades with mysterious identity and past. Code Name - Glint.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: While Monika is the most ‘skilled’ of the Lamplight Students, her skills come paired with an arrogant streak.
- Master of None: Monika seems to have a high degree of knowledge and skill than the rest of the Lamplight members to an extent, but while the other girls greatly excel at their one talent, Monika believes she isn’t good at one thing in particular.
- Mysterious Past: Her profile is a blank [No data] while even Annette, who is amnesiac, has a detailed one.
Thea
Dreamspeaker
Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka
Daughter of a newspaper company president who became a spy to follow the footsteps of the people she admires. The Femme Fatale Spy and second-in-command of Lamplight. Code Name - Dreamspeaker.
- Cleavage Window: Her attire always allows people to view her assets.
- Femme Fatale Spy: She knows she's hot and would use that to her advantage in accomplishing her missions.
- Heroic Seductress: She's a member of Lamplight and an expert seductress. Played for Laughs, as her attempts at convincing Klaus to accompany her to bed always fail, though (with Klaus being asexual), which tend to greatly shake her self-confidence in her good looks.
- Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Dark to Lily's Light. Like Lily, she's also very buxom, but with dark hair and clothing, and the resident Ms. Fanservice.
- Mentor Archetype: Give tips to Grete to help her seduce Klaus.
- Mind Reading: Her power in a nutshell. When staring into someone eyes for three seconds uninterrupted, she can see their deepest desire. This ties into her natural talent for seduction, as she can then tailor her approach to align with said desires.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's beautiful and has a very curvy body. All the clothes she wears are meant to emphasize her sexiness.
- Parental Substitute: Annette sees Thea more as a mother than her previous one which is part of the reason Annette kills Matilda who had manipulated Thea's goodwill.
- Rape as Backstory: Had been kidnapped and raped by enemy agents as a child as a way of threatening her family. She was eventually rescued by Inferno, and the experience is what made her decide to be a spy herself.
- Weak, but Skilled: Incredibly skilled and intelligent (Klaus even assign her the role of field commander during the mission in Musaiah), but she lacks self-discipline and can be discouraged easily. The fact the she is afflicted with a hero complex and want to save everyone, even enemy spies if possible, doesn't help, as she is aware of how much of a liability it can be in her line of work.
Sara
Meadow
Voiced by: Ayane Sakura
The shy and kindhearted Beastmaster who no one would expect to become a spy. Code Name - Meadow.
- The Beastmaster: She is able to train pet animals to do her bidding by forging a bond of mutual trust. The animals are skilled at delivering packages, creating diversions, tracking people, or anything else she can train them to do.
- Friend to All Living Things: Sara loves her pets and sees not as a means to an end, but like friends who assist each other mutually.
- Shrinking Violet: Sara is a timid girl and self professed coward who gives off the impression of a prey animal, and even described as ‘the kind of girl you instinctively wanted to protect’.
Annette
Forgetter
Voiced by: Tomori Kusunoki
A girl born in the Galgado Empire with an amnesia, she is the group’s engineer. Code Name - Forgetter.
- Abusive Parents: Her mother was an enemy agent who never saw her as anything but a potential asset in missions.
- Amnesiac Hero: She has no memories from her past nor does she have a sense of obligation.
- Cruelty Is the Only Option: The reason she has been selected by Klaus to be part of the team, as he knows it's something the other members lack.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Her New Job Episode reveals that during her time as a waitress, she slipped transmitters on the restaurant's problem customers and was ready to kill them just because they pissed her off. She just got lucky that one of them happened to be the Imperial spy responsible for the drug trade they were investigating.
- Eyepatch of Power: She wears an eyepatch which makes her stand out among the girls, and even though her physical capabilities may not compare to others, she is a terrifying Gadgeteer Genius and referred to by Klaus as Lamplight’s final and greatest weapon.
- Gadgeteer Genius: The resident tech expert, whose inventions caused countless mayhem at her old school but also greatly surpass the level of what The Republic can produce.
- Height Angst: The reason she killed her mother wasn't for being an enemy spy, or for using her, abusing her, or endangering her teammates. It was retaliation for an unintentional crack about her being short.
- The Prankster: She enjoys playing pranks.
- Sherlock Scan: With just one look, she is able to reproduce almost anything with extreme accuracy, down to the smallest details.
- Verbal Tic: In the English version, she has the habit of using "yo" at the end of sentences anytime she is talking. In Japanese, she uses the very pompous "ore-sama" to refer to herself.
The Fool (SPOILER CHARACTER)
Elna
Fool
Voiced by: Inori Minase
Elna is the secret eighth member of Lamplight, who has the ability to sense bad luck and once brought decimating fire to wherever she was taken in. Code Name - Fool.
- Danger Sense: While Elna isn’t sure how her sense works, she can predict misfortune before it occurs, which she claims comes from its distinctive smell. She developed this ability after her parents died. Her psychiatrist diagnosed her with what they called a "pre-disposition for unluckiness", which they believed to come from her desire for punishment and trauma from the mansion fire.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her black spy uniform features a long skirt and frilly capelet, both of which add to the doll-like impression.
- The Jinx: Ever since childhood, Elna has attracted bad luck, namely the loss of her parents in a tragic mansion fire, and from that onwards she has been plagued with misfortune at an alarming rate, to the point she developed a sense for it.
- The Ojou: She was born into an aristocratic family and lived in a mansion. Unfortunately, she lost everything after a fire.
- Rewatch Bonus: She can be seen as glimpses or hints before her reveal in Episode 3.
- Survivor Guilt: According to her psychiatrist, Elna believes that her survival from the mansion fire was unfair, and unconsciously tries to seek out punishment to regulate her own emotions.
- Walking Disaster Area: How her power is described in the novels. She brought decimating fire to all the families she was passed on to.
- Walking Spoiler: Her role is hidden from the viewers till she gets revealed.
