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Main Characters

     Ainsel and Cielmer 
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You are very pretty, Ciel!
  • Abusive Parents: For starters, Duke Respalgia had Cielmer's body chained to a stone bed starting at infancy. Her mother's fate is unknown.
  • Almighty Janitor: Played straight in some cases while somewhat played with in other cases, but slowly averted as time goes on. When she was tested upon signing up at Hunter’s Guild in Sannois as 10 years old in Book 1 Volume 1, she was shown to be strong enough to beat Carol, an official B-ranked hunter from Hunter’s Guild headquarter. She, however, didn’t immediately become B-rank despite her immense power because B-rank is not only about power, but also other skills like proper behavior and experience as a high-ranked hunter. Still, considering her power, she started her career at E-rank when most people start at G-rank. She then was quickly promoted as she didn’t have to take the D-rank exam thanks to her immense power and reached rank C in record times as 12 years old by Book 1 Volume 2. And by the time of Book 1 Volume 3, the only thing she lacked was age requirement as there hasn’t been a precedent of such quick promotion that Hunter’s Guild didn’t have the usual amount of time to assess her capability. And although anyone who meets her knows that she is far more mature and responsible for her age, anyone who only has secondhand information about her isn’t just willing to entrust any responsibility to a girl before maturity. Still, considering that it would be a waste not to promote her, the compromise was made to make her B-rank at the age of 15 years old. It should, however, be noted that Hunter’s Guild treated her as an Almighty Janitor despite high evaluation because although she cleared the required amount of requests for B-rank a long time ago, they never told her until now because they wanted her to take care of unprocessed requests before she left the country. Just after this compromise was formed, however, she was proved to have enough power to be a higher tier A-rank or lower-tier S-rank hunter due to the fact that she defeated Duke Respalgia’s Artificial God’s wolf messenger which was judged by Hunter’s Guild to be higher tier A-rank or lower-tier S-rank monster. Of course, even with this achievement, Hunter’s Guild hesitated to promote her to be A-rank or even S-rank hunter because she was still too young according to them. When the stampede that she warned about occurred at the capital, however, Hunter’s Guild had no choice but to accept her demand of being promoted as B-rank in exchange for delivering supplies to besieged capital. So although she already has the ability to be an A-rank or even an S-rank hunter by end of Book 1 Volume 3, her current rank isn’t representative of her true power yet. And by end of Book 2 Volume 1, this is almost finally averted as she is promoted as an A-rank. This is significant as if a B-rank is considered to be a minor noble, an A-rank is considered to be a greater noble. This means that she can’t be considered to be Almighty Janitor anymore. This A-rank promotion is allowed despite how her B-rank promotion was very recent due to two factors. The first factor is how not only she showed her capability beyond average A-rank hunter can do, but also how she needs to be compensated for all troubles Hunter’s Guild has caused. The second factor is how her new status as Fiiyanamia’s adopted daughter means that Hunter’s Guild can’t deny her promotion without making Fiiyanamia expels Hunter’s Guild from her land. In fact, if she wanted to, she could have chosen to be S-rank, but chose not to. This is because, considering the balance of convenience and freedom of movement, A-rank is better than S-rank. There is also the fact that she added another condition of don’t randomly promote her to be S-rank since Hunter’s Guild has a history of using rank when they find it convenient for them. Lastly, her last condition is to be able to lie about her rank. This is because despite her power, many people who don’t know her are going to treat her as a low rank anyway due to her young age. That is why being able to lie about having a rank that fits her age should theoretically lessen the chance of people picking on her.
  • Armor-Piercing Question: Ain has a real flare for it, as revealed at the end of Book one, when she's facing a hearing and various guilds try to decry her for refusing to put herself in harm's way on behalf of the Estoc royal capital.
    Ainsel: "I was promised safety in the capital branch Hunter's Guild Headquarters. This promise was clearly broken. Why should I be the one to show consideration?"
    Ainsel: "I was ordered to defend the capital under the orders of Count Ost, who is suspected of sending an assassin after me. Are you telling me to die?!"
    Ainsel: "If you still can't understand what I'm trying to say, why don't you go to the Estoc Royal Capital gates and yell out 'I'm a Song King/Song Princess' and see what happens?"
  • Barrier Warrior: Ain's biggest contribution in battle is creating barriers to keep Ciel safe. In fact, her barrier is so potent that Fiiyanamia claims in Book 2 Volume 1 that even she, who can destroy a small island with her magic, can’t easily destroy Ain’s barrier and she is most likely unable to destroy it in the future as Ain’s barrier improve.
  • Batman Gambit: To escape Duke Respalgia, they deliberately aim for "disappointing" jobs, expecting to be sold off into slavery, and then en route to the slave market, summoning monsters until the escorts and slavers are dead, so they can fool him into thinking they're in a monster's gullet.
  • Berserk Button: Given how Ain and Ciel view each other as their most precious, any insults or harm towards their beloved will make them go out of their way to not only retaliate, but also utterly humiliate offenders. For example, Ciel is livid when Conrad brags about breaking Ain's barrier in Book 2 Volume 1 when he hired a band of A-rank hunters and ambushes Ciel in the monster den. It does not matter to Ciel that only Ain's weakest barrier got destroyed. Any insults regarding Ain's barrier are insults to Ain and that is simply unacceptable for Ciel. That is why both Ain and Ciel not only used all of their power as Song and Dance princesses, but also have nature spirits to strengthen the thorn barrier that traps Conrad and his minions inside. To further humiliate them, Ciel not only nonchalantly talks with Ain about games that the latter is teaching/playing with nature spirits, but also later falls asleep right in front of Conrad and his goons as they can't do anything against her. So as Ciel is sleeping soundly, Conrad and his goons get to see how a fly in a jar feels, all night long. When they've had enough and surrendered, Ciel ties them up, drags the louts to the Hunter's guild for punishment, and drags Conrad himself home so she can demand Sumiaria be handed over as compensation for the unprovoked attack.
  • Brutal Honesty: Neither Ain nor Ciel mince words, ever. And rightfully so as a majority of their comments is towards bad people who deserve it.
  • Bystander Syndrome: Justified. After she reports the pending monster stampede coming from the nearby forest of the royal capital, she pointedly lobbies to be left out of the defensive forces. She knows from her experiences in Sannois that even if she successfully defends the city, all it would take is one yahoo yelling "she's a Song Princess" and she'd be lynched. The only reason she wasn't lynched in Sannois when she fought off the stampede there is that none of her accusers could provide proof that her job was indeed Song Princess. Thanks to Tolt, the hunters in the royal capital now can...
  • Conditional Powers: Ain is completely unable to use attack sorcery, even by accident, while Ciel is only able to use sorcery for attacking in battle, and has to trust Ain for the mundane magical use. There is also the fact their power as Song Princess and Dance Princess depend on fulfilling the conditions first or learn how to deal with side effects. Dance Princess, for example, needs a song and a stage to display her power and those conditions are fulfilled by Ain singing a song while Ciel uses her sorcery to "prepare" the stage. Song Princess, on other hand, while her song can buff others, it can also buff enemies as well. The only reason why only Ciel can be buff by Ain's song is due to the fact that only Ciel can hear Ain. And it also seems that nature spirits from Book 1 Volume 3 can recognize and hear Ain as well. There is also an interesting fact that songs sung by Song Princess don't decrease in volume by distance. Lastly, when Ain and Ciel fought Artificial God's messenger based on wolf in Book 1 Volume 3, it reveals a flaw in their fighting style. This is because in order for a Dance Princess to display her power, she needs to dance and this can be predictable. This usually isn't an issue as Ain uses her barrier magic to protect Ciel, but when the wolf's claws attack can get through, Ciel can't display her full potential.
  • Conditioned to Accept Horror: After the sheer nightmare that being in Duke Respalgia's custody has brought them, they don't even flinch at the concept of sleeping in a monster-filled forest, or being threatened by thugs.
  • Creepy Child: Those adults who see Ciel as a person and not as an easy wallet, or sex toy, find her unnerving.
  • Crime of Self-Defense: When she makes it to Central, she is immediately arrested by the border guards, based purely on the Malicious Slander coming from the acting guild-master in the Estoc capital, the guards refusing to even get the attention of the Central guild-master. After getting permission from Fiiyanamia to break out, she is constantly attacked by said knights until the knights of Central "escort" her to the hearing Fiiyanamia set up, where she is immediately lambasted by numerous groups jumping up, pointing, and interrupting each other as if they have a disease where if they don't immediately voice their opinions, they'll fall over dead, all of it trying to decry Ciel for daring to fight back when wronged. Case in point, a man proclaiming himself the head of the Merchant's Guild angrily decries "Do you have any idea what crimes you've committed?" when the only incidents Ciel had with merchants was her being the intended victim.
  • Cuteness Proximity: When it comes to Ciel, Ain’s existence is this. According to Ciel, Ain is so cute and adorable when she is troubled that it makes Ciel want to tease her more. Of course, Ciel doesn’t want to make Ain truly sad and anxious, but she wants to trouble Ain just enough that Ain won’t feel too uncomfortable during her teasing. Of course, she mostly acts innocent when doing this, but she is not unexpressive as Ain might think. In fact, when Ciel gets to actually physically interact with Ain for a single day thanks to the supreme creator god in Book 2 Volume 1, she can barely control herself. Besides Ain, however, no one really affects Ciel this much with exception of nature spirits. This is because when she unlocks the power to see spirits after defeating the golden wolf in Book 1 Volume 3, Cielmer is awestruck and can only go "cute!" as she chases them with her eyes while they fly to and from the "flower" she found in the forests near the royal capital and put in her hair.
  • Dance Battler: Ciel's [Dance Princess] Job is perfectly suited to battle with dance-like moves while Ain provides the Magic Music.
  • Faking the Dead: Once they've been sold into slavery, Ainsel uses her Magic Music to lure in monsters until the escorts and pig-faced slave merchant are dead and then defeat the monsters, loot what little bit they can carry, and destroy all the bodies, monster and human alike, but leave everything else more or less intact.
  • Genre Savvy: Both souls are exceptionally smart in different areas. While Ciel is book smart, Ain is street smart. This makes them understand the world setting far more competently than most isekai protagonists.
  • Heroic Neutral: All Ciel and Ain want is to live in peace. Help them with that, or leave them alone, and they'll return the favor. Approach them with malice, and they'll return it right back to you, in the exact same manner in which it was sent.
  • I Work Alone: Ciel and Ain are both very jealous and possessive of each other, so they don't work with a party unless they absolutely have to. There is also the fact that majority of people are so much jerks that Ciel and Ain have to work alone to stay away from those people. And even if Ciel and Ain were willing to form a party with others, they can already do everything by themselves. This is because they can just rely on Ain’s barrier and Ciel’s sorcery during combat that no other sorcerers are needed. And since Ciel can produce her own water with sorcery and such, no logistic support is needed either. No warriors are needed either since Ciel doesn’t lack physical strength due to how she can use physical reinforcement. They have no need for scouts since they can move safely due to Ain’s detection and even without Ain’s detection, Ciel’s sense is sharp enough to act as a scout. So since they can do everything by themselves, teammates would be burdens instead. This is to the point that it would instead be more practical for them to have a magic bag instead of teammates. Lastly, there is also the fact that Ciel and Ain are trying to leave their home country to escape from abusive Duke Respalgia, and growing attached to anyone from their home country would make their departure harder. After successfully leaving their home country in Book 1 Volume 3, however, Ciel and Ain agreed that while they don’t need to actively seek others out, they are not pressured to work alone anymore.
  • Living Emotional Crutch: Cielmer and Ainsel are emotionally co-dependent. Without Ainsel, Ciel goes into a depression. Without Ciel, Ain goes into hysterics.
  • Mentor Archetype: Several of her rank-up tests and missions involved teaching new hunters the ropes, and when the hunters in question were willing to listen, they prospered under her teachings.
  • Mugging the Monster: Despicable people always target them because of the fact that they inhabit the body of a pre-teen girl. The thugs in question always regret it.
  • My Greatest Failure: Ain suffers a Guilt Complex for being unable to stop Ciel from being defiled by Duke Respalgia.
  • Mystical White Hair: Ciel's white hair is proof of the fact that she was forced to consume an unidentified drug that greatly boosted her magical power. If not for Ain mitigating the drawbacks, this could have been lethal. This is averted with Ain’s black hair in Book 2 Volume 1 when she was temporarily given her own body by the supreme creator god for a single day due to Ciel’s wish. It should be noted that Ain’s black hair still acts as a circuit that greatly boosted magical power.
  • No Name Given: Ain's name as a Japanese teen is never revealed and is long forgotten by the time Book 1 Volume 3 rolls around. This is, however, averted when it is revealed in Book 2 Volume 1 that Ain's Japanese name is Yumemura Reon. The fact that Ain completely forgotten about it until the supreme creator god mentioned it goes to show how Ain doesn't consider herself as Yumemura Reon anymore.
  • One-Woman Army: Book 1 Volume 2 ends with Ciel completely annihilating a monster stampede with over 100 monsters in it, all by herself with Ain's soul singing Magic Music to buff her.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's short for her age, and a pre-teen at that, but she can duel a B-rank hunter to a stalemate.
  • Power Dyes Your Hair: Her hair used to be blonde, but after she started taking the drug to boost her power, it turned white.
  • Properly Paranoid: They don't trust anyone more than they absolutely have to, and it's justified in the fact that the people she meets are mostly not trustworthy.
  • Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: The first ten years of her life were absolute hell, and she would have never survived it if not for the fact that Ain's soul was somehow bound to her body. In return, she and Ain are both powerful sorcerers with a pair of jobs that offer each other perfect synergy.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Very justified. Her response to Ungrateful Townsfolk is to leave the area ASAP and let them stew in the consequences of their own decisions.
    • When she learns that she was nearly lynched in the town of Sannois on mere slander from a bunch of known thugs and bullies despite her spotless 10 month record and high rank with the Hunter's Guild, stopping a monster stampede, and rescuing a young but promising party, she doesn't even wait for her reward and storms out of town that very instant.
    • When she's in the royal capital and gets assassins sent after her for the "crime" of reporting a pending monster stampede and having her job outed against her will, she only waits until the sword she purchased is completed before leaving the place to said stampede and refusing to lift a finger to help aside from taking down what few monsters target her specifically.
    • When the Royal Capital sub-guild master goes full tilt Drunk with Power, tries to slander her record by claiming she never completed her designated quest to deliver emergency supplies from Novell through a monster stampede, and then tries to have her arrested for the "crime" of not wanting to be assassinated, the moment she manages to fight her way to the city gate, she leaves the country, barely spending any time telling her few friends about her intentions.
  • Semi-Divine: It is revealed in Book 2 Volume 1 that, due to an unpredictable combination of factors, Ain has assimilated some of the supreme creator god's divine power into herself, and as a result she is slowly transforming into a full god.
  • Sharing a Body: Ain and Ciel share the same body, but Ain can't easily use Ciel's body without permission since the body belongs to Ciel while Ain haunts Ciel's body as a ghost. They, however, don't have any psychological issues with Sharing a Body since they deeply care and trust each other. And although Ain used to be male, she considers her former life as a guy to be over and doesn't really have a problem with having a female body. In fact, Ain's soul adapts to Ciel's female body so much that Ain has spiritually become a girl as well. They don't have any physical issue with Sharing a Body either. In fact, their Conditional Powers as Song Princess for Ain and Dance Princess for Ciel actually enhance each other powers.
  • Stock Light-Novel Hero: Reconstructed. Ciel and Ain may be a major power-house, but they had to earn it. Ain didn't have a chat with "god", didn't magically enter the new world knowing the local language, and didn't really get a chance to learn it until Ciel started reading Ain picture books, and while magical inventory items do exist, they are very rare and expensive, so Ciel has to quest to find one. As for the sorcery skill, that was forced into them by extensive book-study they were forced into, as well as unknown drugs.
  • Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder: Which Ainsel immediately notices. The Novell guild master sends her, while she's still officially a C-rank, on a designated quest to subdue the gold-furred wolf, which later turns out to be at least a high-tier A-rank threat, or a low-tiered S-rank. Shortly after she completes that, the royal capital has him designater her, still a C-rank, to deliver emergency supplies to help fight off a monster stampede, knowing that A-rank monsters are likely in the mix, and Ciel would have to fight her way through them, and even if she succeeds, Ciel knows the capital and its guild is untrustworthy and hostile, for the "crime" of wronging her in the first place, and having their former guild master's flaws exposed.
  • This Is Unforgivable!: Ciel won't ever forgive anyone who tries to harm Ain, and Ain certainly won't forgive anyone who shows malice towards Ciel.
  • Trauma Button: Thanks to repeated nights where Ciel, chained down to a stone bed, woke to her cell swarmed with so many spiders that they covered every possible surface, she will instinctively attack any spider she comes across with so much force that the spider's entire body is reduced to ash, and is so repulsed, even collecting the magic core of spider-type monsters might not survive her rampage.
  • Tyke Bomb: Duke Respalgia tried to summon a god to put in Ciel's body for some reason. When This didn't work out like he intended, he shoved her into his personal library and forced her to study everything possible about sorcery, and when she still got a "disappointing" job, he sold her into slavery as a failure.
  • Virgin Power: The reason she was defiled at five years old is because the Duke needed her virgin blood for something.
  • Wise Beyond Their Years: Invoked. Ain is a very street-smart teen from Earth while Ciel is a very book-smart girl, despite being a pre-teen.

Book 1 Volume 1

     Duke Respalgia 
The one responsible for Ciel's horrific childhood and Ain's existence in this new world. Chances are high that he's Ciel's biological father.
  • Abusive Dad: Ciel's entire childhood is a living nightmare, starting at infancy. He's had the poor girl chained to a stone bed, wear nothing but a magically enchanted rag that kept her from wallowing in her own filth, has had people try to kill her by hurling knives, fireballs, and other attack magic, summoning swarms of rodents to try biting her to death, and of course, having her cell swarmed by insects and arachnids of all kinds.
  • Godhood Seeker: He tried to capture a god and shove its spirit into Ciel's body for some reason.
  • Minor Major Character: He's a duke, someone who can rub elbows with royalty, and his appearances are limited to Book 1 Volume one, where he shows up infrequently, with little screen time, just dancing and laughing happily that Ciel survived his latest night-mare inducing horror, cutting Ciel to pour unidentified liquids into her blood and on her internal organs and then closing the wounds with magic, defiling her for her virgin blood when she turned five, having her job magically scryed, and ultimately selling her off when she didn't turn out like he planned.
  • Rape as Drama: He defiles Ciel at age 5, so he could take her virgin blood for some reason.
  • Would Hurt a Child: The fact that he sees nothing wrong with having assassins hurl deadly attacks at an infant makes this crystal clear.

     The Respalgia butler 
An unidentified butler who was in charge of keeping Ciel (barely) fed, providing sorcery books, and ultimately providing the magical scroll that would reveal Ciel and Ain's jobs.
  • Bit Character: His role is so small that he's easily replaceable.
  • No Name Given: His name is never revealed.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: Aside from providing what could barely pass as food, the drug that gave Ciel her unrivaled sorcery powers, and the scroll that revealed her Job, he plays no other role.

     The slave merchant and escorts 
  • Asshole Victim: No tears were shed at their deaths when they were crushed to a pulp by a Cyclops. Ain got violently ill at the sheer level of gore, but felt nothing else at their deaths.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: When a cyclops showed up as a result of Ain's Magic Music, they were all crushed into paste under its club.
  • Fat Bastard: The slave merchant is so obese that Ain refers to him as a pig.
  • Lack of Empathy: When the escorts heard Ciel's a [Dance Princess], they openly laughed at looking forward to selling her off as a Sex Slave and even started placing bets as to how long she'd survive horrifying abuse at the hands of the client to whom she would be sold.
  • No Name Given: Their names are never mentioned, and since they're now bloody stains on the ground, there's no need to know.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Introduced and killed off almost immediately afterward.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Considering they were laughing happily about the prospect of selling off Ciel to be raped and tortured to death, yeah, they would.

Book 1 Volume 2

     Alejo 
The first hunter Ciel and Ain meet.
  • Accidental Truth: He calls Ciel a [Song Princess] without proof or even knowing her Job in the first place.
  • The Bully: He's well-known and hated among the people of Sannois for being nothing more than a thug who pushes people around.
  • Did Not Think This Through: While he at least had the presence of mind to use accomplices to legally buy the ingredients of [Monster Lure] legally and then brew the potion in secret, then have an accomplice set it up in the forest after making sure Ciel was out hunting, the rest of the scheme was incredibly sloppy and easily exposed.
  • Frame-Up: He and a bunch of unnamed accomplices try to frame Ciel for triggering a monster stampede by using [Monster Lure] and calling her a [Song Princess] .
  • Mugging the Monster: He tries to claim that Ciel's money and monster stones were stolen from him, and forces her into a duel over it. She could have easily killed him but is instead satisfied with some much appreciated public humiliation, taking him down with a Death of a Thousand Cuts using wind-blades to inflict shallow cuts without end until the referee calls her the winner and tells her to stop.
  • Pyrrhic Victory: He and his group succeed in driving Ciel out of town by triggering a monster stampede and slandering her job, because the populace was all too eager to lynch a suspected [Song Princess], and are shamed that they were wrong, but the price is being arrested when the senior hunters poked holes in their story and hard evidence of their plot was brought to the guild's attention. Their ultimate fate is being sentenced to slavery in the mines.
  • Revenge Myopia: He and his accomplices try to avenge themselves on Ciel for the fact that she humiliated him after he antagonized her in the first place.
  • Stealing the Credit: When Ciel approaches the Hunter's Guild counter to sell her monster stones and sign up, he muscles his way up to her and claims that she stole those monster cores from him.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Zigzagged. On the one hand, he forced Ciel into a duel to "legally" try to take her money and monster cores. On the other hand, he repeatedly tried to intimidate her into forfeiting so he could keep his hands relatively clean. Then again, he was willing to frame her for a monster stampede and have her lynched in revenge for losing the duel he himself demanded.

     Carol 
An official B-ranked hunter from the Hunter's Guild headquarters. She volunteers to referee the duel between Ciel and Alejo. After Alejo is beaten into a Troubled Fetal Position with ease, she requests a "friendly spar" with Ciel. Problem is, she gets carried away and comes at Ciel with not just one deadly attack but 10. Neither Ciel nor Carol's partner Celia are amused.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Very, very odd, but she's too powerful and talented with her ice magic to dismiss from the guild.
  • An Ice Person: Fights with ice magic.
  • Oh, Crap!: A split second after she launches 10 Glacio Lentso spears of ice at Ciel, she realizes she's done goofed, badly, but can do nothing as the deadly magic is hurling at Ciel already. One false move and this could have ended Ciel's life.
  • Serious Business: She will lose all control of herself when she encounters someone who can broaden her knowledge of Sorcery.
  • Spared, but Not Forgiven: Ciel has absolutely no intention of forgiving her for the reckless use of the Glacio Lentso spell, but sees it as too troublesome to pursue the matter.
  • Spirited Competitor: Deconstructed. She loves to fight strong monsters and people for the thrill of the challenge, but in her enjoyment quickly loses control of herself and can launch lethal attacks without meaning to.
  • The Unapologetic: The instant she sees that Ciel is alright, she forgets any intention of apologizing for nearly killing her. In return, Ciel feels absolutely no need to forgive it.

     Celia 
The receptionist partner of Carol. She does her best to see Ciel's rank matches her strength and maturity. While she manages to get Ciel to rank-C, the rest of her plans to get the city of Sannois a powerful and talented hunter go "poof" thanks to the ill advised schemes of Alejo and Brass.
  • Bat Deduction: With just the thinnest scraps of conversation between herself, Carol, and Ciel/Ain as the 10-year-old was signing up for the Hunter's Guild, she managed to piece together over 90% of the poor girl's past, and was suitably disgusted and enraged.
  • Cloud Cuckoolanders Minder: She has the most unpleasant task of trying to keep Carol corralled so that the latter doesn't cause too much damage with her sorcery obsession.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: She bent the rules as far as they could go before they break for Ciel, since the little girl's talent and potential are rare, and Ciel herself was more than willing to cooperate with her.

     Perla 
One of the three other members of Brass's original party. Her job is [Lesser Water Sorcerer].
  • Difficult, but Awesome: Her job doesn't have much oomph in battle, but used correctly can be a game-changer, as she learns after just one lesson from Cielmer.
  • A Handful for an Eye: One of the tricks Ciel teaches her is hitting enemies in the eyes with a small splash of water. While this doesn't do any harm, it does momentarily blind them, allowing for a precise strike from an ally or to stop an incoming blow.
  • Hero-Worshipper: She near idolizes Ciel, calling her "Teacher" for helping her overcome her handicaps, and rescuing her party, twice. She does not take it kindly when Brass calls Ciel "dead weight."
  • Making a Splash: Her sorcery allows her to summon water.
  • Support Party Member: The fact that she can create potable water at almost any time from literally nothing is very, very useful at camp.
  • Taught by Experience: With Ciel covering for her party, she and the others learned how to better use their teamwork and skillset to do their job together.

     Teren 
In Brass's original party, he was the second swordsman of the vanguard and sported a shield.
  • The Leader: Once Brass is out of the party, he's the leader.
  • Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: He wields a sword in one hand, shield in the other.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After Brass tried to force himself back into the party with a duel, and lost, Teren tears into him as to why he's not welcome, and how Brass's little sister would have gotten her medicine by now if Brass hadn't gone and spent all the money that was supposed to be her share on frivolities, like secretly sending letters to brag all the time.

     Ilda 
The second of the female party members. Her role in the party is an archer.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Like Teren, she lambastes Brass over his superiority complex and berates him for the fact that his over-inflated ego put the party in danger on a repeated basis.

     Brass 
A young hunter from a backwater village who took up the dangerous task to earn the money for his younger sister's essential medicine, but once he learned his job is [Greater Swordsman] his ego launched itself to the stratosphere, and he prioritizes bragging about it over actually doing his part to earn the money his sister needs.
  • Break the Haughty: During the duel between himself and the rest of his old party, Perla keeps splashing his feet with water, causing him to slip and fall, not only having him face-first in mud, but getting smacked down by Teren with a wooden sword while he's down. Sadly, this still fails to knock some sense into him.
  • The Brute: Deconstructed. He has a powerful sword-arm, and he's fast, but he telegraphs all his movements, so any observant person or monster can, and does, easily best him.
  • Entitled Bastard: Because he completely deludes himself into thinking he's done the most work in whatever party he finds himself, he always demands the biggest share of the rewards. His former party eventually gets fed up with it and dumps him on the spot.
  • Ignored Epiphany: He has several wake-up calls regarding his ego before he even meets Ciel and ignores all of them.
  • I Reject Your Reality: He is the one carrying the party, regardless of empirical evidence, because he's the one who faces off against the strongest monster while everyone else is dealing with "the small fries."
  • Leeroy Jenkins: Whenever he's on a monster-hunting quest, he never listens to his party members, aside from when they say "the monsters are over there." He always makes a mad dash towards the strongest monster around and leaves the others to the rest. Even after Ciel kills the strongest monster in a group, at range, with magic, he still rushes right into the thick of monsters and gets quickly overwhelmed.
  • The Load: Despite how he deludes himself, this is his actual "merit" to whatever party he's in. Since his only tactic is to make a bee-line towards the strongest monster in the group, ignoring all the others, he's a liability, not an aid.
  • Meaningful Name: His name is Brass. Brass is an alloy of copper that looks like gold at a glance, but is actually inferior and much less valuable than the real thing.
  • Miles Gloriosus: He loves to smugly pump himself up and brag about how mighty a hunter he is. He may delude himself into actually believing it, but he's so pig-headed that he's not fit to be a hunter, at all.
  • Moral Myopia: He tries to falsify the report of the last party quest he had with Ciel, to cheat her out of her share, but when he's informed that the guild had a B-ranker watching, he retorts "that's dirty."
  • Never My Fault: He's pointedly incapable of realizing how he's at fault for his hunter career failing, and will blame anyone and everyone else.
  • Oh, Crap!: When his involvement in the scheme to frame Ciel is exposed, and certain punishment is coming his way, he turns pale and tries to run. He doesn't get anywhere.
  • Playing the Victim Card: Whenever he's called out on his egotism, he whips out the fate of his ill little sister and her need for expensive medicine. He tries this on Ciel, and she throws it right back at him.
  • Pyrrhic Victory: He teams up with Alejo to name and shame Ciel by framing her for causing a monster stampede because she refused to bow to his self-perceived greatness and let him ride her coat-tails. This results in Ciel having to leave the town of Sannois for fear of another attempted lynching, but in doing so has forever forfeited his freedom, and his innocent sister is going to suffer because he won't send the money she needs back home, as he's going to spend the rest of his life as a slave in a mine.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: He's from a back-water village, no official sword-training, but the moment he learned he's a [Greater Swordsman], his ego took off to the stratosphere and never came back down again.
  • Sore Loser: When he demanded a duel with his old team-mates, in order to try and force them into taking him back in, the moment he lost, he starts shouting how they're all "traitors" and are abandoning his younger sister. They retort that if he had actually pulled his weight and saved up his rewards instead of going through money like a sieve to keep sending letters back home to brag about himself, then his sister would have got the three gold coins she needed for her medicine long ago.
  • Straight for the Commander: His one and only "strategy" is taking off like a missile to go duel the strongest monster present, and refuses to listen to his party members, regardless of the situation.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: By the testimony of his former party members, he used to be a fairly normal child who treasured his friends and family, but once he learned he got the [Greater Swordsman] job, he slowly but surely became completely insufferable and wrapped up in his sense of superiority, refusing to heed anyone who didn't bend the knee to him.
  • We Used to Be Friends: His reaction to not only getting dumped by his old party when they had enough of his self aggrandizement, but when he forced them into a duel after they refused to take him back, and he lost.

Book 1 Volume 3

Capital City

     Anicet and Milea 
A "kindly" couple Ciel and Ain encounter en route to the capital. Ciel arrives in time to rescue them from a pack of wolf-monsters, and is hired by them as an escort. Once in the capital, the couple books Ciel a "VIP" room at an inn that is really a code-phrase to have Ciel kidnapped and sold into slavery. This does not go as planned.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Which didn't fool Ciel or Ain, at all. They pretended to be a good, kind married couple to lure in someone that they could then take to the capital's criminal underground and sell off into slavery, or worse.
  • The Farmer and the Viper: They "thank" Ciel for rescuing them from a wolf-pack by trying to sell her into slavery.
  • Never My Fault: When they are brought before Ciel by Faneed, and she's rightfully taking them to task for betraying her by trying to sell her into slavery, they turn around and say it's all her fault that they're doomed.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Their ill-thought out plan to sell Ciel gets her in touch with Faneed, which serves the girl well over several parts of Book 1 Volume 3.
  • Schmuck Bait: Their little scheme wasn't going to fool anybody with a brain. They're too poor to afford good clothes, or have an escort for their travels, even paying Ciel a pittance to get them to the city gates, but yet they have enough influence to get Ciel a night in a swanky high-class hotel for free?
  • Too Desperate to Be Picky: If they're telling the truth, the only option they had to save their sick daughter was to take out a loan from a criminal syndicate so they could afford the medicine.
  • Too Dumb to Live: They take out a loan from a crime syndicate without checking out the terms of the loan, they take a carriage ride without escorts, and they betray a powerful and talented hunter who rescued them... It's almost as if they wanted their daughter enslaved and themselves killed.

     Faneed 
The leader, or at least a very high-ranked member of the capital's criminal underground.
  • Affably Evil: He's a scoundrel that sees nothing wrong with loan-sharking, kidnapping, slavery, etc., but he's professional, polite, and friendly towards possible clients.
  • At Least I Admit It: He has no bones admitting that he and his crew are scoundrels.
  • Crazy-Prepared: When Ciel is brought to his inn as "a VIP", he sends six men to grab her after she's supposedly been drugged. When she fights off five of them in her sleep, with ease, and sends the sixth out to schedule a meeting, he greets her with at least a dozen bodyguards present.
  • Friend in the Black Market: "Friend" might be a bit of a stretch, but Ciel and he do have a somewhat positive relationship and he's a criminal boss.
  • "It" Is Dehumanizing: If he's referring to a kidnap victim or someone else bound for the black-market, he makes a point of dehumanizing them by calling them "that" or "thing."
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: Let's see, one of my six best men reports to me that our latest "VIP" client has just defeated his five buddies in her sleep, to wake up and tell him to have someone pick her up for a face to face meeting? Yeah, let's not anger the scary loli shall we?
  • Tampering with Food and Drink: Ain finds traces of "malice" inside the food prepared for Ciel's inn visit, so screens the food to remove some kind of powdered sleeping drug.

     Tolt 
One of the Hunter's Guild receptionists at the capital. He stalks Ciel after she's done singing in the guild pub. Not wanting to lead him back to the inn where's she's staying, she returns to the guild, hoping to lose him. Unfortunately, once inside the guild, Ciel is accosted by an unruly hunter, due to her age, and rather than help her, Tolt "brilliantly" decides that the best way to resolve the situation is to out her Job.
  • Awesome by Analysis: His Job allows him to see the Jobs of others.
  • Insane Troll Logic: He sees two grown men trying to force a 12-year-old girl to publicly disclose her job, so he comes to the conclusion that the best way to resolve the situation is to out her, and use the Guild's weight to back his words, condemning her for trying to deny it. Then he blames her for the fact that this only escalates the problem.
  • Intolerable Tolerance: He justifies outing Ciel's job, and the aftermath, by proclaiming that he was enforcing the guild's "no discrimination" policy and that he wouldn't have had to do anything if Ciel simply announced her job when it was demanded of her. Even though toddlers are well aware of how Song Princesses are hated and why for the very royal capital he happens to work in!
  • Laser-Guided Karma: The punishment Ciel demands that he receive to redress the wrong he delivered onto her is having his own Job exposed, and his crime made public. After all, anyone who sees nothing wrong with outing others should have no complaint being outed. AND that's just the start of his troubles as he's also to be fired from the guild and is going to have to pay back the guild for the compensation Ciel's going to get since he used the guild to give authority to his words.
    • When his punishment becomes official, not only is his own job outed, but he's fired from the guild, all his assets are seized, and if he tries abusing his job again, he could find his empty head being separated from the rest of his body.
  • Lawful Stupid: He takes the royal guild master's policy of "no-discrimination" to an insane extreme. He believes that since the guild master states that nobody should be ashamed of their jobs then it's okay to publicly reveal the job, regardless of consent, and is flummoxed when he gets called to task for it.
  • Smug Snake: As he was outing Ciel's job, he smirked and gloated as if she was in his power until she fought off Valbar and his buddy then glared at him, at which point he was silent in terror. When he's in the guild master's office, he goes right back to smug in thinking he's in the morally superior position, blaming Ciel for the incident by claiming that if she had just outed herself, he wouldn't have had to do anything, thus pretty much destroying any hope the guild master had of settling things easily and quietly.
  • Stalker without a Crush: The reason he was in the Hunter's Guild after hours is that he was stalking Ciel because he couldn't see her Job until she was singing at the bar for pocket change and information.
  • Stunned Silence: His default expression when he's in trouble is freezing in place and losing his ability to speak, but when it finally dawns on him how badly he screwed the pooch and how his own prospects are going to get wrecked by the aftermath, he pales in terror and goes completely silent, unable to speak at all.
  • The Unapologetic: Since he sees the fact that he outed Ciel's job as doing the right thing, he believes he has no reason to apologize. In fact, he's shocked that he made people angry instead of being praised.

     Valbar 
A self-important hunter who tries to attack Ciel when she wanders over to check out the C-rank quests out of habit as she's trying to escape Tolt's stalking.
  • Minor Injury Over Reaction: He gets a small cut on his arm when he foolishly tries to shake off Ciel when she's got a knife to his throat, and responds by thrashing around and screaming his head off like he lost an arm, worsening the wound and splashing blood everywhere. Ciel, who has suffered far, far worse, can only look at him in contempt.
  • Mugging the Monster: He tries to grab Ciel and gets taken to the ground, blade to his neck, without Ciel even having to use her sorcery.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: He walks around like he's a C-rank or better, yet is so weak he can be taken down by a 12-year-old girl who spent 10 years of her life extremely undernourished.

     Capital city Guild Master 
The Hunter's Guild Master in the capital.
  • Broken Pedestal: Chasse, the leader of a B-ranked party, used to admire and look up to him, until he became Guild Master and went full-tilt Political Overcorrectness.
  • Crime of Self-Defense: For starters, he calls it excessive that Ciel drew a blade in fighting back when she, as a 12-year-old child, was facing down multiple full-grown adult men, at least one of whom is a known trouble-maker.
  • Did Not Think This Through: He impulsively destroys his bargaining position with Ciel by angrily besmirching and decrying her every step of the way before he even hears the severity of Tolt's crime and the damage she received.
  • Digging Yourself Deeper: When he, Ciel, Tolt, and Chasse were in his office going over the incident where Valbin tried to assault Ciel and Tolt made it worse by outing her job, and in the aftermath, he does several things to make his position worse.
    • When he first hears about how Valbin attacked Ciel and she was forced to defend herself, he pooh-poohs her and says it was excessive of her to draw a blade, after seeing that she's a 12-year-old girl while knowing that Valbin is a violent thug who had made none too subtle sexually harassing statements.
    • When he learns that Tolt outed Ciel's job and then Valbin broadcast it in the crowded guild headquarters, he first tries to make it look like he didn't know that Tolt had the ability to read and out somebody's job, and when that failed, made an insincere apology and offered a pittance for redress and punishment far, far beneath what Tolt's crime demands.
    • When Ciel demands compensation far greater than the little bit of hush money the guild master intended, he blows his stack, and adds insult to injury by stating that she over-values herself for being a low-ranked child with a "favorable" job who has little to worry about.
    • When he sees Ciel's guild card, and is informed that he just impugned a high-rank adventurer without just cause, and that Tolt's little stunt of outing her job may just get her chased out of the capital, if she's lucky, he then tries to dismiss her warning that his negligence has primed the nearby forest for a monster stampede that could come at any moment, and left the capital city poorly prepared to deal with it.
    • The next day, Ciel is leading Viviana of Chasse's party outside the city gates to help practice the latter's sorcery, only for 10 hunters and one assassin to come upon the both of them, with the guild master's fingerprints all over the attack.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He's only addressed as "Guild Master." His name has yet to be mentioned.
  • Fantastic Racism: While most of the kingdom favors the "Favorable" jobs and disparages the "Unfortunate" jobs, he does the exact opposite. He fails to realize that "reverse discrimination" is still discrimination and completely undermines his stated goals.
  • Hanlon's Razor: Is he merely incompetent, actively malicious, a bit of both? It's impossible to tell since his decisions as guild master have consequences so horrible that it ultimately doesn't matter.
  • Intolerable Tolerance: He justifies all his nastiness by proclaiming that he's out to end the "Job Caste" system.
  • Made a Slave: Because he tried to shield Tolt, and decried Ciel, he wound up having the debt for replacing the magical bag that was awarded to Ciel as compensation placed on him. Because that debt was too much for him, even after all his assets were seized, he was forced into slavery until he's earned enough to repay the amount. After that, he's got the "pleasant" choice of working in the guild all the way as the lowest possible rank, or quitting. Either way, his reputation for hating on competent hunters will precede him.
  • Made Out to Be a Jerkass: In the aftermath of Tolt's foolish outing of Ciel, he lets Tolt's previous disciples come to the conclusion that Ciel framed Tolt for it, so the fools would go after her.
  • The Peter Principle: It was gradual, but two years after he took control of the capital's branch of the hunter's guild, he slowly but surely started to find the responsibilities of running the place are far more than he can handle, and he started neglecting some very critical matters, like thinning the monster prescence in the nearby forests and having hunters routinely gather the herbs needed for healing potions.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Subverted. When a member of the guild staff runs to him for aid as a result of the commotion caused by Ciel fighting off Valbar, his buddy, and glaring down at Tolt for publicly outing her [Song Princess] job, he sends off Valbar and crew to the infirmary and then takes everyone else involved into the private areas of the guild master's office to try and find out what happened before deciding the best course of action. Unfortunately, his biases and corruption quickly become apparent as he tries to shield Tolt from the consequences of his actions and besmirches Ciel every step of the way, ultimately dooming his position when his foolish actions turn around to bite him, hard.
  • Revealing Cover-Up: The fact that 10 hunters and one assassin with ties to a noble house attack Ciel and Viviana outside the city gates on behalf of Tolt prove that he has no intention of giving Tolt the punishment he deserves and that he's up to no good.
  • Skewed Priorities: He is so fixated on "ending discrimination against 'Disappointing' jobs" that he neglects critical hunter's guild tasks, like culling the local monster population and gathering herbs the alchemists need to brew healing potions.
  • Start X to Stop X: He honestly believes that the best way to end discrimination against the "disappointing" jobs is to levy discrimination against the favorable ones.
  • Stunned Silence: When he sees Ciel's guild card and authenticates her rank, he loses his ability to speak and just stares at her mouth agape until he hears her report about the state of the forest and how a monster stampede is imminent, at which point he regains his voice just long enough to cry out "bullshit!"
  • Tautological Templar: Since getting rid of discrimination against "unfavorable" jobs is a virtue then everything he does in pursuit of that goal must also be a virtue. He can't understand why Chasse can't agree with this mind set.
  • Wrong Assumption: When he first lays eyes on Ciel, he presumes she's a low-ranked hunter with a "favorable" job because all he can see is a child who took down a man twice her size and was glaring down a couple others. He is extremely dismissive to her as a result. This makes him wind up eating so much crow he farts feathers the moment he realizes that the "rumors" of the white-haired girl who stopped a monster stampede by herself and can stalemate a B-rank adventurer are true.

     Chasse 
Pronounced "Shass," she leads the B-ranked party [Fool's Gathering].
  • A Friend in Need: Downplayed. While she doesn't come to Ciel's rescue when Valbin attacked, she does come with Ciel to the guild master's office as a witness to the incident.
  • I Warned You: She warns the guild master in advance to be careful with his words and to not underestimate Ciel. He ignores her and suffers greatly for it.
  • We Used to Be Friends: She and the guild master were once fellow hunters and they both fought tooth and nail in the cause to end discrimination against "disappointing" jobs, until the man became guild master and started abusing his authority to discriminate against the "favorable" jobs.

     Viviana 
The fire mage of [Fool's Gathering]. She stops by Ciel's hotel room early in the morning to ask the former for help with her sorcery. Ciel accepts, for a price.
  • Bathtub Bonding: In chapter 58, after Ain has fixed her magic circuits, and she's gasping and soaked in sweat from head to toe, she decides the best way to show her gratitude is to drag Ain with her to the bath.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: After Ain has finished fixing her magic circuits, a process that took hours, she's panting and sweating heavily, glassy eyed as if she's in an ahegao state.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Because she asked Ciel for help with her sorcery, the two of them had to leave the royal city. This allowed them to be attacked by an assassin with ties to a noble and 10 unruly adventurers who deluded themselves into believing Ciel had framed Tolt for outing her job.
  • Playing with Fire: She specializes in fire sorcery.
  • Plot Armor: Invoked and Justified. As Aincel and Cielmer are leaving the capital, Ain speaks to the spirits and asks them to protect Viviana. They initially refuse until Ain uses a bit of Loophole Abuse and states that Viviana is not a citizen of Estoc. Viviana's side-chapters reveal that this saved her life several times when stray magic, broken weapons, and other such "accidents" came for her head, as all those dangers just stopped, mid-air, and fell to the ground harmlessly, without any explanation Viviana could rationally make.
  • Power Incontinence: As a result of Ain fixing her magic circuits, her magic is now far, far more powerful than she's used to, so it takes a while before she can use it safely again.
  • Removed Achilles' Heel: She somehow managed to make it all the way to at least C-rank with abnormally short magic circuits that didn't even reach her extremities. Ain manages to rectify the condition with Magic Music and a bit of Psychic Surgery.

     Count Ost's Assassin 
An unnamed young girl who leads a team of 10 hunters to attack Ciel the moment she and Viviana are out of sight of the city gates.
  • Bound and Gagged: She is brought into the city tightly wrapped like a human burrito and has some object binding her mouth so she's unable to speak, all the way into Faneed's office.
  • The Bully: When she confronts Ciel, she haughtily declares "on your hands and knees as you deserve to be, Song Princess." Ciel suspects that this unnamed girl has an inherent psychological need to see herself as superior to an "unmentionable" caste of people as a result.
  • Child Soldier: A child around Ciel's age (12) and already used as an assassin.
  • Made a Slave: Ciel takes this girl to Faneed to find out if she's one of his men. When Faneed denies it, Ciel sells this thing to Faneed's organization, for them to do whatever they wish with it.
  • No Name Given: Her name is never mentioned.
  • One-Shot Character: Appears in chapters 56 and 57 and is never seen or heard from again.
  • Suicidal Overconfidence: Due to her superiority complex, she greatly underestimates Ciel and thinks that 10 hunters of unknown grade are enough of a distraction so she can strike down the "insolent Song Princess" and Viviana, a member of a well-known B-rank party. Ciel took them all down by herself, Viviana didn't have to do anything but tie up the hunters afterwards.
  • Tap on the Head: Reconstructed. While she's bound by vines and grasses that were controlled by Ain's sorcery, Ain switches control with Ciel, at which point Ciel renders her unconscious with a blow to the head. Ain points out in the narration how this could still result in severe injury or death, but since this thing tried to kill them and Viviana, Ain doesn't really care.
  • We Have Reserves: She used 10 hunters as nothing more than disposable tools to try and get at Ciel. This failed miserably.
  • Wound That Will Not Heal: Discussed. As she's being turned over to Faneed, the crime boss points out that this thing could go and blab about Ciel all she wants. At that point, Ciel recommends making it mute in such a way that the wound can never be healed.

     Royal capital sub-guild master. 
Encountered by Ciel when she turns in the requested and desperately needed supplies from Novell. As "thanks," he tries to blackmail her into helping fight the monster stampede and when she won't be cowed, orders the hunters present to capture her. He's last seen staring at her departing back, bug-eyed and jaw agape as she calmly walks through them, completely unfazed and the hostile hunters wound up getting badly injured when they get in the way of her wind sorcery.
  • Despair Event Horizon: In Viviana's side-chapter at the star of Book 2, he's taken away in chains, sporting eyes of a dead fish, after hearing that Fiiyanamia-sama wants a "chat" with him.
  • Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: He got the reports from the Novell guild master that Cielmer took down the artificial divine messenger, solo, yet "brilliantly" decides to insult and besmirch her when she refused to be browbeaten into helping the capital's defense.
  • Drunk with Power: With the demotion of the guild master causing him to be "temporarily" promoted, he began acting as if he could do whatever he wanted.
  • Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and is a total asshat Drunk On Power.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Subverted. He claims the city was ill-prepared for the monster stampede because Ciel's estimates were off. She retorts that it was his job to verify her claims, she's not an expert, and only investigated for one day on her free time, and although she doesn't mention it, the fact that she investigated is the only reason the city had any warning at all.
  • Lean and Mean: He's described as being thin as a stick and he repeatedly tries to browbeat Cielmer.
  • Lethally Stupid: Rather than try to find a way to offer compensation to Ciel so she'd want to help guard the city, he insults, demeans, berates, and tries to order her around. When she refuses to be cowed, he tries to blackmail and slander her, and when she tries to walk away, he orders all the hunters present to capture her, despite having good reason to believe they're not going to be up to the task. Congratulations, now he's got even worse chances to try and stop the stampede since he's got even fewer able-bodied hunters to help deal with the waves of monsters bearing down on the city.
  • Malicious Slander: When all his efforts to strong-arm Ciel failed, he reported that she stole the magic bag full of supplies and abandoned the quest.
  • Moving The Goal Posts: He tries to claim that Ciel's quest would not be complete and he'd invoke the magical contract if she didn't also volunteer to defend the capital from the incoming stampede, without additional compensation. Ainsel saw this coming and made it so the magical contract stated the quest would be complete the moment the needed supplies were placed on the guild reception counter, which Ciel did before he even came into the room.
  • Never My Fault: He tries to claim the capital's state is all Ciel's fault because her estimates for the arrival of the stampede were off. She retorts that it's his job to verify her investigation, a job he neglected.
  • Put on a Prison Bus: The last time he's seen is in a Viviana side-chapter, being dragged off to Central in chains, for pissing off Fiiyanamia-sama. When he gets to Central, the guild HQ asks Ciel what she wants done. The response "I don't care what happens to him, as long as he's punished to the full extent of the law." Considering the precedent we saw with Brass, this is likely to be very, very unpleasant for the guy.
  • Villainous Demotivator: When he tries to order Ciel to the front lines during the monster stampede and she retors that she has no such obligation, he doubles down and insists she work under the same noble that tried to have her assassinated the last time she was in the city, then when she tries to leave in response to that, orders all the other hunters present to capture her, and has the gall to be shocked that they all wind up getting their butts kicked when they come within range of her magic as she's walking out the door.
  • Xanatos Gambit: From Viviana's side-chapters, it turns out that he had a plan in regards with his nastiness towards Ciel. If she succeeded, he was planning to swoop in and steal her accomplishments. If she gets killed in the stampede, that's one less hated [Song Princess] the country has to worry about. If she bolts, he just dumps the blame for the stampede on her head, and there would be a nice Kangaroo Court waiting. He never dreamed she'd make contact with Fiiyanamia, who would in turn bring him to task.

Novell

     Garcia 
A promising young male hunter who became D-rank at 15. This went straight to his head and upon seeing Ciel for the first time, tries to get all grabby and then shouts "I will make you my woman!" when she dodges his attempts to grab her. Not willing to take "no" as an answer, he badgers her into a duel where if she loses, she would become his property, for life.
  • Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: The biggest excuse he has for coming up to Ciel in the Hunter's Guild and shouting "I'll make you my woman!" as well as getting grabby, is that he was red-faced, stumbling down drunk when he saw her.
  • Digging Yourself Deeper: When the Novell guild-master steps in to try and save him from the fact that his mouth wrote a check his body can't cash, he goes and argues with the guild master. Fortunately for him, Cielmer was already bored and wasn't really paying attention until the guildmaster was done and addressed her.
    • When the guild master lambasts him for using the phrase "Become my woman" on Ciel, he tries to excuse himself by saying that it's all just harmless drunk bravado. The guild master admits that as someone who is drinking booze for the first time, it is hard to know your limits, but states that there are limits to what can be excused by the phrase "I was just drunk."
    • When the guild master points out the fact that if he had picked with any other high-ranked hunter he'd likely be grievously injured before the guild master could even get there, he retorts that Ciel should only an E-rank, at most. The guild master responds by reminding him that hazing new or low-ranked hunters is strictly forbidden, and had Ciel been a client instead of a hunter, his behavior would have caused relations with the town to sour.
    • When the guild master offers up a compromise, renegotiating the terms of the duel, Garcia facing a demotion for losing rather than expulsion, and Ciel facing a mandatory one-year tenure in Novell, he gets insulted and tries to berate the guild master for interfering.
  • Endearingly Dorky: What he thinks he is. In truth, he's just an obnoxious little creep, and the Novell guild master points this out.
  • Gender-Blender Name: "Garcia" is usually a woman's name, and he's a teenage boy too horny for his own good.
  • Hormone-Addled Teenager: The only possible explanation why he thinks it's a good idea to just walk up to random girls he met minutes ago, tries to grab them, and then declares "I'll make you my woman!" refusing to heed the term "no."
  • Hypocrite: "What about my opinion, who would accept a demotion for losing a fight?" Says the oaf who shouts at Cielmer "Fight me! If I win, you will become my woman!" When Cielmer calls him out on it, he falls silent and then tries to kill her in the duel.
  • I Am Not Left-Handed: Falls victim to it. He presumes that he has Cielmer on the ropes because she fights him to a near standstill using a sword, which is a weapon she has precious little experience with, and isn't getting Ainsel's support. When he takes a break to taunt, Cielmer lets him have it by catching his sword with her bare hands, unharmed, and then making him realize that all those very, very shallow cuts she gave him were a magic circle, albeit crudely drawn, that she activates, giving him a scar on his face as the consequence of his cockiness.
  • Ignorant of His Own Ignorance: He presumes that because he broke the record for guild advancement in Novell, reaching D-rank at 15, he's the fastest ranking hunter anywhere, and would have been the youngest C-rank in the world. Unfortunately, he's saying this to Cielmer, who reached C-rank at 12, so his boast is already impossible.
  • Mugging the Monster: He sees Ciel for the first time in the Hunter's Guild, and thinks he can walk all over her, demanding she be "his woman" and forcing her into a duel when she reveals she's C-rank because he doesn't believe it.
  • No Social Skills: Discussed. The guild-master mentions that this guy simply doesn't know how to talk to others, but mentions that even so, going "I'll make you my woman!" is something Garcia should have known wasn't going to end well.
  • Pride Before a Fall: He lets his recent promotion to D-rank go to his head and approaches the new girl he sees in the guild, insisting she become his exclusive woman and servant the moment they meet, even demanding a duel over it. He winds up walking away with a permanent reminder of his folly in the form of a facial scar that doubles as a magic circle, which would allow Ciel to literally burn his face off if he ever tries to force himself into her life again.
  • Smug Snake: During the entire encounter with Cielmer, he preened and boasted as if he'd already had her beat, hands-down, even well into their duel. It's not until she gives him a magic circle shaped scar, burned into his face by her magic through said circle, that he finally realizes just how deep in excrement he let his mouth dig him.
  • Vetinari Job Security: The only reason the guild master steps in to stop him from being expelled is that he is indeed as talented as he boasts, and the remote town of Novell needs as many talented hunters as it can get.
  • Wrong Assumption: When he sees Ciel for the first time, he assumes she's a new recruit, especially considering her age, and boasts that being in a party with him would bring a great many benefits in her hunter career. Unfortunately for him, she's already a C-rank and partying with him would only slow her down, and there's the fact that he already gave her a bad impression and good reason to be suspicious by shouting "I'll make you my woman!" the moment he laid eyes on her.

     Novell guild master 
  • Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Thanks to many situations beyond his control, his job as guild master is fraught with woe. His local branch's most promising recruit is an obnoxious clod who thinks that just because he got himself smashed in the middle of the day, it's perfectly okay to sexually harass pre-teen girls, and haze younger rookie hunters, and a visiting ace has already chilly relations due to being grievously offended by the guild in the past, and this is with a dangerous monster outbreak that's too much for his local experts to deal with.
  • Damned by Faint Praise: As Cielmer is about to head to the capital on a quest with the desperately needed supplies, she gives him the parting words "You are decent."
  • Morton's Fork: From the time he greets Ciel at the guild, he's almost constantly caught between a rock and a hard place. This starts when he's forced to mediate the duel between Cielmer and Garcia. Either he sides with Ciel's righteous complaint and is forced to expel a promising young hunter talent, or he adds even more of a grudge to Ciel who was already grievously wronged in the capital's guild. Fortunately, Ciel was amenable and was willing to compromise.

Book 2 Volume 1

Central

     Fiiyanamia 
The mysterious founder of Central: an independent territory that is not part of any of the surrounding countries.
  • Affectionate Nickname: She allows those close to her, like Ain and Ciel, to call her Fii.
  • Big Fancy House: Her mansion is so big and fancy, the entire country of Central squats on her front lawn, and that's not an exaggeration.
  • Insistent Terminology: She calls the people of Central "freeloaders" because that's what they are. They squat on her property and don't do anything for her in return.
  • Parental Substitute: At the start of Book 2, she officially adopts Cielmer and Ainsel.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: She postulates that, in theory, she can overpower Ainsel's barrier, but the ground under her, for the entire country of Central would give way under the strain first.
  • Physical God: While most of the world believes that Fii is simply a supremely powerful sorcerer, Ain soon discovers that she is actually a godlike being sent by the supreme creator god to oversee the world and ensure it doesn't collapse and destroy itself.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Played completely straight. To people who she really adores like Ain and Ciel, she is very reasonable. In fact, she is so reasonable that she helped Ain and Ciel resolve their problem with Hunter Guild’s Headquarter and even make sure that the Hunter Guild’s Headquarter recompense them. The only thing she expects from them in return is not to interfere with her duty as a divine messenger to take care of the land. She is even reasonable to people she doesn’t really care about and is not part of her duty. This is because she allowed “freeloaders” to stay on her land as long as they respect her and acknowledge that this is her land, not their land. The only part where she can be extreme is how she told Ain and Ciel that they can get rid of anyone in central if someone troubles them. This is mitigated by the fact that not only her status is unrivaled in Central and thus be respected, but also how they deserved it if they dared to provoke her when she is shown to be quite reasonable person in the story. 
  • Stopped Caring: In the past, she would constantly chase squatters off her property, only to turn around and have to deal with a new set. She got fed up with it, so allowed the country of Central to set up shop on her front lawn, and set up some very strict ground rules, the most notable of which is that she can, and will, evict anyone who gives her enough grief.

     Mohsa and Saueluna 
They are personal maids assigned to Ain and Ciel by Fiiyanamia.
  • Undying Loyalty: Mohsa is the personal maid assigned to Ain by Fiiyanamia. Ain thinks that Mohsa is more serious than Sauluna. Saueluna is the personal maid assigned to Ciel by Fiiyanamia. Ain thinks that Saueluna is more kind than Mohsa. Despite this difference, however, both Mohsa and Saueluna greatly adore Ain and Ciel. This is the basis for swearing their loyalty to Ain and Ciel. This is because the sight of how Ain and Ciel truly care for each other is a really heartwarming moment to watch for Mohsa and Saueluna. That is why when Ain asked if they want to be excused from attending to her and Ciel, while Sauluna provided a more professional answer to decline; both Mohsa and Sauluna really declined so that they can continue to witness heartwarming moments between Ain and Ciel.

     Friere Iazick 
She is Carol's main rival and Vivian's mentor.
  • The Brute: Where it concerns sorcery, she isn't a big thinker, at all. She's a self-proclaimed muscle-head that operates on the "hit it until it breaks" formula.
  • Carry a Big Stick: When her fire magic can't cut it, she pulls out a spear made entirely from wyvern materials, to withstand the heat of her sorcery, and then throws it.
  • Curbstomp Battle: On the wrong end when she challenged Ciel to a duel. Nothing she did even phased Ciel in the slightest. In fact, the barriers she managed to break were those Ciel let her break.
  • Graceful Loser: She challenges Ciel to a duel, just to slake her curiosity. When she loses the fight, she gracefully accepts her loss.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: She's always irritated at the fact that her self-proclaimed rivals always outshine her, but being from a noble house, she preens and puffs herself up as if she's their superior.
  • Logical Weakness: Fire sorcery doesn't carry mass, so it's ineffective in dealing anything other than Damage Over Time by burning or melting. If she needs to deal physical damage, she whips out her spear.
  • Mentor Archetype: She is the one who trained Vivian in using magic. This is odd considering Vivian specializes in water and ice while she specializes in fire.
  • Playing with Fire: She specializes in fire magic.
  • The Rival: She rivals Carol in sorcery every chance she gets.
  • Slobs vs. Snobs: She's the snob to Carol's slob.

     Triador 
The leader of the anti-Fiiyanamia faction and, ironically, the very head of the Merchant's guild who angrily cried out "Do you have any idea of the crimes you've committed" to Cielmer when the girl was having her hearing as she arrived in Central.
  • Ambition Is Evil: He's motivated to oust Fiiyanamia in a coup because as far as he's concerned, all of Central is just one giant bag of money for him to exploit, the trees on Fiiyanamia's property are all high quality lumber he can sell for a high price, there are a couple of gold mines he's itching to clean out, the monster den, naturally, has plenty of resources to exploit, and on down the line. He got butt-hurt when Fiiyanamia, the landlord, refused his repeated greed-driven proposals to squeeze the land dry.
  • Digging Yourself Deeper: When Fiiyanamia gives him the ultimatum to Get Out!, he tries to buy time by saying he can't. She responds by blowing up his home and hidden "resistance" bases, leaving him nothing but the clothes on his back, and no excuse for not running out of the country as fast as his legs can carry him, before Fiiyanamia decides to make him the next thing to maybe blow up. He can only collapse to the ground in despair.
  • Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us: When Conrad foolishly goes and attacks Cielmer in the monster den, he comes to the conclusion that his only hope is to attack Fiiyanamia's mansion before she can gather her forces and oust him, so he gathers a literal 1000 man army to storm her mansion over a few days. He, of course, completely disregarded the history of Central that shows Fiiyanamia can deal with that level of threat, easily, but is always well aware of everything that goes on in her territory. Result: Ciel utterly stomps his 1000 man army, all by herself, and that's while Ainsel's barrier has the mansion, except the main entrance, covered with a barrier that none of his troops can breach.
  • Fatal Flaw: Greed. Motivated purely by the gold coins in his eyes, he utterly ignores all the glaring evidence that Fiiyanamia is not to be messed with, and neither is her newly adopted daughter(s).
  • Implied Death Threat: After Fiiyanamia has blown up his house and several hidden bases, remotely, she states that if he doesn't comply with her order to leave the area immediately around her home in a day, and the country as a whole in three, that the next target will be him.
  • Underestimating Badassery: He's got a 1000 man army and marches right up to Fiiyanamia's house, to find the place covered in a barrier his troops can't breach and Cielmer, alone, at the entrance, the only opening. He orders his army to attack her, expecting an easy victory, Cielmer captured, to be passed around as a sex-toy to said army, or killed in the fight. Cielmer utterly stomps his entire army, alone, and he's so overwhelmed, he can only watch on, mouth agape and a mute Thousand-Yard Stare.

Amyulute family

     Sumiaria 
Viviana's elder sister.
  • Gilded Cage: Because she was born with powerful talent for magic, a "favorable" job, and a keen intellect, she was trapped in the family home, surrounded by luxury but absolutely zero freedom. In fact, she's introduced being foisted off into a Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage by her younger brother, and the nominal heir, who not only has more ego than brains, but has always been jealous of her talent and had her shipped off to the most abhorrent man he could find, in exchange for helping the oaf try and oust Fiiyanamia "from her throne."
  • Ninja Maid: Invoked. She's a powerful spell-caster and she's turned into one of Fiiyanamia's maids as a result of her younger brother foolishly attacking Ciel, thinking the adopted daughter of Central's landlord was a "small fry" he could easily take out, only to wind up utterly humiliated instead.

     Conrad 
Viviana's elder brother, the middle child of the family, and the only son, hence the de-facto heir. He is happily convinced by the leader of the Anti-Fiiyanamia faction that it's in Central's best interests to oust her from "her throne" by any means necessary, and going after Ciel is key to that. He's always been jealous of his elder sister and took out his frustrations on his younger sister for being "incompetent."
  • Blow You Away: He attacks Cielmer with wind-blade magic.
  • Break the Haughty: He loved to preen and gloat, boasting of how he's the heir and "flawless," mocking Viviana as "incompetent" for her abnormally short magic circuits and insulting Sumiaria for being nothing more than a useful chess-piece the family can exploit. He loses to Cielmer with the little girl having to do absolutely nothing, even after bringing a small army with him. He gets dragged back home, tied up with a rope, and gets rightly mocked for his idiocy by both the sisters he loved to make fun of. And to top it off, there's nothing he can do about it as both his sisters are now well out of his reach, and he tries something, they can legally retaliate, and he knows he'd lose that fight.
  • Bullying a Dragon: He continues mocking Viviana "as an incompetent" even after she's a legit A-rank hunter and way more powerful than himself. If it wasn't for Viviana not wanting Sumiaria to be caught in the political cross-fire, she would have had no compunction against giving him the spanking he so deserves.
  • Did Not Think This Through: Which Ainsel calls him out on with a nice Armor-Piercing Question. He protests that Fiiyanamia is a "lazy queen who does nothing" and it's in his best interests to side with Triador who wants to oust her in a coup. Ainsel asks "and what have you contributed to Mother Fiiyanamia? Do you pay any taxes?" Conrad goes pale at the implications.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: He's always been jealous of his elder sister's vastly superior talent and power with magic, so not only always tried to bring her down but would love to mock Viviana for being born with abnormally short magical circuits, and getting disowned as a result, and continues mocking Viviana even after she got her condition fixed and became a legit A-rank adventurer. Viviana gets the last laugh though, when he's brought home, dragged along by Ciel, all tied up, and she gets to mock him as he couldn't beat a 15-year-old girl, even with a small army of hired adventurers helping him.
  • Mugging the Monster: He thinks he's advancing the plans of the anti-Fiiyanamia faction by hiring a band of A-rank hunters and ambushing Ciel in the monster den. Not only does she see him coming a mile away, but she also traps him and his minions inside a thorn barrier. Naturally, she is so non-threatened that not only Ciel nonchalantly talks with Ain about games that the latter is teaching/playing with nature spirits, but she also falls asleep right in front of all of them. As Ciel is sleeping soundly, Conrad and his goons get to see how a fly in a jar feels, all night long. When they've had enough and surrendered, Ciel ties them up, drags the louts to the Hunter's guild for punishment, and drags Conrad himself home so she can demand Sumiaria be handed over as compensation for the unprovoked attack.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: By promising his elder sister's hand in marriage to Triador in exchange for making himself a top executive of the anti-Fiiyanamia faction, he dooms his house to exile from Central because his father can't go against Triador's superior martial might and allying with Triador is doomed to fare poorly when the guy goes after Fiiyamina.

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