Ozem

Ozem is a thirteen-year-old adventurer studying alchemy who secretly takes an interest in human behavior. The alchemist founded the adventurer group 'The Adventurers of Salvation' purely for experimental purposes to discover if his hypothesis about the usefulness of dark and sexual impulses to drive young people to undertake critical and suicidal missions holds any validity. Ozem has purple hair due to accidental poisoning with substances he was testing during his early alchemical studies, and his eyes are black, like tar, due to the voluntary ingestion of a substance meant to wither and corrupt his soul, considering empathy as something that hinders progress, he decided to obliterate it. Ozem wears brown shorts with a purple hem and a light brown short-sleeved shirt with purple trim to match his hair color. Ozem always carries a backpack with alchemist equipment and camping gear. Ozem has no weapons but in case of emergency can use explosive potions or potions that create corrosive acid mists in the air. Ozem also hides in his pouch a powerful odorless potion capable of killing anyone who breathes it, a weapon ready to use when he decides to get rid of his experimental project.

Ozem always has a smile on his face and is very charismatic, a born leader, and is capable of emulating sincere affection. Occasionally he slips up and shows the wrong reaction, like laughing at the death of a companion as if a joke had been made.

Ozem's hypothesis is that all people who want to be adventurers do so for motivations related to sex: fascination with death, murder, physical attraction to other adventurers. Young people are driven by sex, so if they want to be adventurers it is to satisfy their sexual needs. Ozem believes that even the role a person has within the group is a manifestation of their morbid fetishes. Ozem wants to push them to the limit, drive the adventurers to frenzy, and see how far they can go when the distinction between sex and death is lost.

Ozem is the founder, leader, and alchemist of the adventurer group called 'The Adventurers of Salvation'; a group composed of seven youngsters who have recently left their homes to live a fleeting, adventurous life, independent and free from control: Abinadab (Water Mage), Eliab (Berserker), Shimea (Assassin), Ozem (Alchemist and Leader), Raddai (Cleric), Nethaneel (Archer), and Davide (Warrior).

To satisfy Shimea's request to make her as strong as a boy even during puberty, Ozem has her drink experimental potions every day. Not only has Ozem made her muscles stronger and stopped the growth of her feminine traits, but he has also willfully destroyed and fragmented Shimea's psyche. Due to Ozem's potions, Shimea has developed homicidal voices in her head that convince her to undertake violent behaviors and dangerous missions. For fun, Ozem lets Shimea decide where the group should go and what creatures to face.

With his rhetoric, Ozem has convinced Abinadab and Nethaneel to indulge in their fetishes; he has persuaded Abinadab to display his sadism with his water magic and Nethaneel to nourish his masochistic desire by being raped almost to death by the rest of the group every night.

Ozem has an almost equal relationship with Raddai; he did not have to convince him to follow his own impulses as the lascivious cleric was already intent on exploiting his role to sexually abuse the young boys of the group, and Raddai does not ask Ozem about his purposes. The two are in symbiosis, and neither intends to ruin this situation.

Ozem is interested in Eliab; his apathy and the way he is driven by his impulses is an excellent example for Ozem of the adventurer he wants to create, and the ferocity and complete disregard for his own safety make Eliab a terrifying weapon. Eliab was the first member Ozem acquired and spent the first month teaching him how to behave with other people. For some strange reason, Eliab listens only to Ozem, as if drawn to something.