Ruri and Sayo

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   Keys: Karasuki Kingdom

   The Karasuki Kingdom is a large nation located in the western area of the Yagumo Region. This country resembles Japan in the Feudal era. A thousand years before the Holy Era began, Ryuo the Hero relinquished his throne. Ryuo entrusted the kingdom to his subordinate; the first Karasuki king and the dynasty of Karasuki began Year 980 of the Holy Era: The Karasuki Kingdom was at war with The Rokuren Kingdom The Rokuren Kingdom requested a ceasefire with The Karasuki Kingdom with the Prince of Rokuren as the ambassador That night a treaty was signed, the peace treaty was broken. The attendant of the Rokuren Prince was found dead. Karasuki demanded an answer for the attempted abduction of Karasuki Ayame. Rokuren's side insisted that Karasuki had betrayed their trust and accused Zen for the murder The Rokuren Prince demanded additional conditions for the broken truce. They demanded the marriage between the Rokuren Prince and Princess Ayame, and the execution of Zen. Zen had taken Princess Ayame and fled. The incident sparked the Rokuren Kingdom declaring war. War between the Karasuki Kingdom and Rokuren Kingdom had begun. Saga Gouki led a small force and launched a surprise attack on the amassed Rokuren army troops from the rear. They succeeded in decapitating the heads of the enemy generals, as well as capturing the Rokuren prince. Karasuki's army had secured several important bases in succession. The Rokuren Kingdom had surrendered. The Karasuki Kingdom then set advantageous conditions against the surrendered kingdom and prospered. Zen and Princess Ayame were officially treated as felons for willingly running away together and causing the start of the war. Karasuki Homura sent out a wanted list to neighboring kingdoms with Zen and Ayame's names on it.

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   Keys: Yagumo Region

   The Yagumo region is the eastern region of the Euphelia continent. A thousand years before the year 998 of the Holy Era. Evil beings ran rampant all over the Yagumo Region, threatening the livelihood of the people. They devastated the land, leaving a huge trail of death and despair in their wake. That was when the hero, who the people would later call Ryuo, appeared. Ryuo had located the place where the evil beings and had destroyed the origins of the evil beings were spawning from.

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   Keys: Euphelia

   he Continent Euphelia is the land where the Story takes place. It’s divided in three regions Strahl in the west, the Wildland in the center and Yagumo in the east. Each of this regions is original governed by one group of the Transcendental beings, Strahl by the Seven Wise Gods, the Wildland by the Six Great Spirits and Yagumo by the King of Dragons.

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   Keys: Strahl Region

   The Strahl region is the western region of the Euphelia continent. A thousand years before the Holy Era began, it was the Divine-Demon War period. There were Seven gods that appeared in the Strahl region during the the Divine-Demon War. The Divine-Demon War was a conflict that had spread between the humans, who were led by the Six Wise Gods, and the demons, who were led by the Demon King. Whereas the seventh god was exiled by the other six gods. In the year 1000 of the Holy Era, six Heroes were summoned through the sacred stones. Six pillars of lights appeared throughout the Strahl region. The people of the Strahl Region worship the Six Wise Gods. Strahl humans have completely erased the seventh god from their history. They credited these gods for contributing to the history and development of the region. The Seven Wise Gods were deeply involved in bestowing Magic upon the Strahl humans. They invented Spell formulae. Since magic is easier to acquire, it is emphasized as the foundation for Strahl humans to learn. Spirit Arts are much more difficult to learn than magic. The introduction of magic is the main reason why spirit arts has declined over the years.

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   Keys: Ruri

   She is Zen's older brother's eldest daughter, when she was a child her mother and little brother died from starvation after an epidemic and a bad harvest, at that time her father was already dead too but it was never specified the cause, the most likely in a war somewhere, since then she was raised alone by Yuba, she's equally close to everyone in the village with the exception of Sayo and Shin as they were the ones who spent more time with her in her childhood when they were learning spirit arts together from Yuba and that as fellow orphans they hung out a lot too. Since seeing Yuba's reaction when Rio said to her his parents' names and later Rio was allowed to stay with them in their house she suspected that he may be related to Yuba somehow too, but she did the tactful thing and decided to not ask about that until they decide to talk themselves, when Rio finally told her that they were cousins she was more surprised about Ayame being a princess than about being related to Rio, she was happy about it nonetheless. By Yuba's petition she helped proactively in helping Rio to adapt to the village and to form a favorable relationship with their neighbors, when all the village's girls began to address Rio as Rio-sama she was the only one that kept treating him normally what made Rio to consider her as his only important conversation partner, when all the boys got jealous of all the time that Rio and her spent together she never paid it any mind and defended Rio from them. Personality A cheerful, bright and sociable girl that treats everyone equally.

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   Keys: Yuba

   Zen's mother and Rio's and Ruri's Grandmother, at the same the village chief and pharmacist, famous in the surrounding villages as the person with the biggest number of connections in that zone, the only one of Zen's relatives that was told the truth about Zen's and Ayame's elopement. With the exception of Ruri all of her other relatives have already passed away and for more or less the last ten years she lived alone with just Ruri raising her instead of her deceased parents, the only one in the village with the ability of using spirit arts, during their childhoods she taught spirit arts to Ruri, Sayo and Shin, the only other ones born with the capacity of using spirit arts in the village after her. When Rio arrived at her village, she offered him a place to stay in her house until she's able of getting the permission for telling him about Zen's and Ayame's past. After Rio's arrival she left Ruri and Sayo in charge of helping Rio to get acquainted with his new neighbours and to mediate between them in case they have some trouble with Rio, she asked Shin too to introduce Rio to Dora, the village main hunter for him to begin to work as hunter too during his stay in the village, later she would allow Rio to improve the village using the knowledge about agriculture that he acquired in the spirit folk's village and during his life as Haruto.

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   Keys: Zen

   Zen is Rio's father, he passed away shortly after Rio's birth. He was an adventurer and a former royal guard of Karasuki Kingdom. Yuba described Zen as kind, serious, hardworking and taciturn, something that sometimes caused misunderstanding around him that always got resolved quickly due to his honesty, something that made the people surrounding him to look up at him. Five or six years before Rio's birth, the Karasuki kingdom had already been at war with the Rokuren kingdom for a long time, something that was making the life in Zen's village and the other villages through the kingdom really hard, Zen then decided to leave his village in order to reduce the number of mouths to feed in his house. After leaving his village Zen joined the kingdom's army, once there thanks to the talent for the spirit arts and military arts that Gouki said that he had, Zen distinguished himself quickly, it didn't take long for him to be known as a hero of war in the whole kingdom and the king decided to give Zen the samurai title. The tradition says that those named as samurai must have a duel after the ceremony with one of their senior, the chosen in Zen's case was Gouki, that at that time was already famous as the strongest inside the Karasuki kingdom, in the end Zen lost against Gouki by a thin margin, but Gouki impressed with Zen's skills began to strongly recommend him as a royal guard, then he would begin to work as Ayame's bodyguards with Gouki and Kayoko. Ayame would feel attracted to Zen quickly because for her he was the embodiment of everything she always wished for, the world outside the castle, she would teach to Zen with Gouki and Kayoko the manners and etiquette necessary for a royal guard, later by Ayame's insistence and without paying mind to Zen's reluctance they would visit in secret Zen's village several times. Months later the Rokuren kingdom would propose a ceasefire to the Karasuki kingdom and would send its prince as an ambassador, the night that everyone was celebrating the stopping of the war, that prince would order Ayame's kidnapping, Zen would detain the kidnapper but this would suicide just after, the prince from the Rokuren kingdom would make his vassal's death as a personal attack against him and would add Zen's execution and a marriage with Ayame as conditions for the ceasefire. The king would pretend to agree to it but at the same time would order Zen to run away from the country with Ayame, while the king earned then time would make preparations for winning the war and would succeed, but at the cost of Zen and Ayame losing their place in the Yagumo region with a bounty in their heads for desertion and kidnapping of a royalty. After arriving to the Strahl region Zen and Ayame would begin to work as adventurers while living traveling from place to place, after Ayame got pregnant of Rio they settled in Bertram's capital where they bought a cheap house in a district relatively good outside the castle walls, while they were adapting to the city Lucius would approach them pretending to be a good friend and when Rio was still a newborn he would kill Zen while making it look as he messing in the job, Zen earned enough money for Ayame to not need to work for paying for hers and Rio's living after his death, but five years later Lucius would finally reveal his true colors and after raping and killing Ayame on front of Rio he would steal everything from them and abandon Rio in the slums.

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   Keys: Rio

   Rio is Main Protagonist the orphaned child of Zen and Ayame, living in the slums of the Beltrum Kingdom capital. He swore revenge on the person who murdered his mother but soon underwent a serious change when he regained memories of his previous life as Amakawa Haruto, who died in an unfortunate bus accident in Japan. As such, their memories and personalities melded into one, thus becoming a combination of Rio and Haruto. However, Rio's sense of self did not change. While he has memories of Haruto, he still views himself as Rio. Afterward, a sudden turn of events dragged him into a kidnapping incident where he rescued the Second Princess, Flora Beltrum. As a reward, Rio was allowed to enroll in the Beltrum Kingdom Royal Institute, but got himself involved in their political disputes; a false accusation caused him to become a fugitive before graduating, and was forced to escape from the country. He soon travels far east to his parents' motherland, Karasuki Kingdom, where he tries to find his roots and settle his inner turmoil. Later on, Rio returned to the West with a new identity by using his previous life's name Haruto Amakawa. After the events that occurred during the invasion of Greille by the summoned hero, Sakuraba Erika, Rio is recognized once again as a transcendent being by the World. This outcome can be viewed as the culmination of a 1000-year-old plan put in place by his original life's companion Lina beginning to take shape. He is slowly re-learning about his original life as the Dragon King as well as how to live within the confines of the divine-rules that now restrict his interactions with the world's residents. Appearance As Rio, his most striking feature is his black hair, an extremely rare trait outside the Far East, and caramel eyes. His androgynous appearance, makes him most distinguishable amongst the other orphans. Growing up, Rio grew into a handsome young man, developing a slender yet firm build. He has a bunch of old scars from the time he lived in the slums. As his second persona Haruto, he has grey asymmetrical hair that's longer on the right side of his face. He has a sharp face with strong and serious eyes. He oozes a calm and collected air around him, this makes him give off a dangerous, yet warm and secure feeling. Due to the effects of spirit assimilation with Aishia at the end of volume 20, his appearance mostly stays the same as his persona Haruto. The main differences are his eyes changing from caramel to crimson, his hair changing to white, and all his old scars completely healing. Personality At the age of 7, Rio gains the memories of Haruto, whose life concluded in a tragic traffic accident on earth. More than just memories of his past life, Rio gains all the abilities Amakawa Haruto holds. He has the appearance of a 7-year-old kid, but mentally he comes off as very mature, having already had 20 years of prior experience and knowledge. Rio is calm, rational, and quite the scheming person. He always wears a poker face and acts extremely humble (sometimes too humble according to a certain person). But it's an act to not stand out too much and incur jealousy (inefficient against people such as Hiroaki). Rio is a diligent guy; he learns to adapt to any situation he finds himself in. After saving Flora from a kidnapping, he didn't hesitate to take up the king's offer to enter the royal academy and enroll despite being a commoner from the slums. Once he reached Seirei no Tami, he demanded instruction in spirit arts. He saves Liselotte to inquire more about the Galarc summoned hero, etc... Rio is a kind character who prioritizes his friends over his interests most of the time, but he is also very insecure about relationships with others; he believes that his desire for vengeance makes him unworthy of happiness (particularly with Miharu). On the other hand, Rio becomes angry when someone hurts his friends and can be quite merciless. Later through the story Volume 16, it is implied that he starts to change his perspective of his relationships towards the girls due to the influence of his close friends whom he considers as family, and he doesn't want to lose the bonds that he has made with them. Background Rio was born to two immigrant parents who migrated to the Beltrum kingdom from the Far East in the Yagumo region. His father, Zen, was an adventurer who died due to a betrayal by his adventuring companion Lucious around the time of Rio's birth. Rio was then raised alone by his mother Ayame, and though their black hair often gave them trouble, his mother's positivity, gentleness, and love enabled him to grow up peacefully until his mother was murdered by Lucius right in front of him. Rio, at the time, had just reached the age of five and was thrown into the slums, losing everything he had. He swore to take revenge on the man that took it all from him. He managed to survive and endure life in the slums as a gang's group's slave until 2 years later. During one fateful morning, Rio got his previous life's memories back, coincidentally on the same day of the big event that would end his life in the slums. Power & Abilities Magical Abilities Due to his original life as the Dragon King, Rio has limitless odo or magic essence. During his stay at the spirit folk village early in his travels, Dryas checks on Rio's status and feels immediately that he has a huge amount of odo. Later, Aishia tells Celia that Rio's essence is bottomless. Spirit Arts: At first, unnamed, Rio could mimic magic principles since he never succeeded in the contract ceremony. Despite not knowing about it, he mastered it to a good extent, learning things such as healing, strengthening, and hypnosis surprising Ursula. Rio can use all elements and spirit arts. Spirit Contract : He has a spiritual contract with Aishia, a high-ranked humanoid with a universal attribute spirit, who resides inside his soul. Spirit Pact : A secret technique much stronger than the usual Spirit Contract, causing Rio and Aishia to be able to assimilate into a single being. Aside from letting her remake his body to resemble a Spirit's, it lets him use Spirit Arms—a materialization of the bond partner’s soul as a weapon. Divine Authority: Rio, as the reincarnation of the Dragon King, possesses an inherent transcendent power called Annihilation, given to him by the world's true god. This transcendent power is carved into Rio's soul. Its purpose allowed his original self as the Dragon King to fulfill the role given to him by god, to protect the world. This ability allows Rio to erase or nullify anything he can perceive fully. Rio first used this ability in volume 20 against the Great Spirit of Earth, another transcendent existence, and completely erased the mass of earth that he created then and there before it could cause any damage. Martial Arts From Haruto's memories, Rio inherited his knowledge in «Ancient Martial Arts», which had allowed him to defeat an assassin, while strengthening himself using Spirit Arts. Later on, he further trains himself at Beltrum Kingdom Royal Academy, developing his style, excelling in swordsmanship giving his instructors a hard time and he's capable of besting the Royal Guard, Charles Arbor, something his fellow competing classmates couldn't do. At 16, Rio became a master swordsman, and multiple people were impressed by his sword skills. In addition to this, he is skilled in unarmed combat and can stop Takahisa's sword with his bare hands in a duel shocking Satsuki. Equipment Rio possesses different magical equipment, most of which was created for him by the Dwarves of Seirei no Tami after defeating the Black Wyvern near their village. Thanks to the spirit folks' knowledge, Rio can also create magical objects such as his necklace, which changes his hair color. Most of Rio's equipment is considered inestimable artifacts or national treasures. Liselotte has to restrain herself from asking Haruto for a space-time cache. Unnamed Armor: An armor set crafted using the Black Wyvern's leather by the Dwarves, consisting of mithril fiber cloth armor, black dragon leather armor, gauntlets, boots, and a long coat. He also earned himself the moniker of the Black Knight in the Galarc Kingdom. The black armor took serious damage in his second fight with Lucius in volume 14. The armor was repaired in volume 17 during his visit to the spirit folk village. The armor was severely damaged during his fight with Erica in volume 20. The armor was made shorter and the damaged part was remade into a scarf in volume 21, which is its current state. Mithril Sword: In addition to his black armor, Rio gained an ancient artifact-class silver mithril sword that has a gem in its guard. It received an enchantment that enforces his Spirit Arts and is durable enough to endure the Heroes' Divine Arms. Most of the time, he uses his sword with Wind Spirit and Strengthening Arts. Liselotte has stated the mythril sword belongs to the ancient artifact class. The Great Spirit of Earth destroyed the sword in Volume 20 Space-Time Cache: Rio is given a space-time cache to put his belongings in by the Village Elders. It uses Space-Time magic which is very complicated to make and thus rare. He stores his rock house inside of the Cache when not using it. The time is stopped in the cache, allowing the preservation of food. Color Changing Artifact: In the anime, the object is presented to Rio by the spirit folk, in the light novel and manga it was created by Rio. It allows to change the hair color of who wears the artifact. Rio uses it to change his color to gray (originally black) because he is a wanted criminal in Beltram kingdom. Later Rio uses several of the items to ease Christina's escape from Cleia on the condition no one asks questions about the fabrication of those artifacts. Rock House: After his return from the Yagumo region, Rio presents the idea of a portable house to Dominic who finds it interesting and builds it. Its name comes from the outside appearance which takes the sharp of a rock with a door. The house is very comfortable allowing many people to live in it: several rooms to sleep in, a living room, a kitchen, and a giant bathroom (an onsen made of stone) all in Japanese style. The entire building is protected by a magical barrier making it invisible. The food supplies are kept in a fridge artifact and preserved through the space cache. Intelligence In his previous life, Haruto was already a university student before he died. Combined with Rio's knowledge of the new world, Rio is considered multilingual, being able to properly speak Japanese from his past life as Haruto and 3 different languages from the new world: the Strahl tongue, Yagumo, and Spirit language. Although initially illiterate at first, Rio quickly learned and surpassed his peers in the academy. Rio considered himself to know many things but is a specialist in none despite his friend's protest. Often relying on anyone, Rio likes learning by himself about all kinds of things. With the tutelage of the elders from the spirit village, Rio can make medicine and magic potions which are quite valuable according to Christina. During his stay in the Yagumo region, Rio shared his knowledge in Yuba's village, drastically increasing the general wealth: he built a bath with soap, and a water wheel allowing better irrigation (better harvests mean less death due to famine: several members of Ruri's family died because of the lack of food). The king and queen of Karasuki kingdom (Rio's grandparents) took a great interest in these innovations and promised to expand them to the entire kingdom. At the time of his departure, the village is in a better shape and all the residents are very grateful.

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    Keys: Sayo

    A girl living in Yuba's village with her parents and her older brother Shin, when she was still a child her parents would die after an epidemic and She and Shin would become orphans and would be raised with a little of help of all of their neighbours, due to them being born with capacity of using spirit arts the same as Ruri they would begin to learn them together with her from Yuba that would treat her almost as siblings and that way she would become Ruri's childhood friend. When Rio arrived to the village she would welcome and guide him towards Yuba's house along Ruri, at that moment she would fall for Rio at first sight and would become to adress him as Rio-sama because of Rio's polite speech and in her opinion how he had the same unreachable aura that the noble's have. The next morning by Yuba's petition she and Ruri would be in charge of introducing Rio to the rest of the villagers and mediating between them if necessary, when Shin and the rest of young boy's of the village try to pick a fight with Rio because of their feelings of inferiority towards him, their jealously at how much time Rio and Ruri spent together and Shin's sister complex, she and Ruri would defend him from them, that night Sayo would even ask to be allowed to sleep in Ruri's room for not seeing Shin at that time. When Gon arrived to the village Shin asked for her to be allowed to sleep with Ruri due to closeness of their home to the hub leant to Gon's group, the next day she would stay again in Yuba's house for helping with giving suitable hospitality to Hayate's group, some days later she would to the capital with the group in charge of selling the harvest's surplus, the second day of her stay in the capital the rest of the villagers would pair her with Rio and put them in charge of buying several things in their instead, while walking with Rio she would fall for a saleswoman sales talk and Rio would end having to buy her a hairpin that she would treasure from then on as her most important thing, just after that they would see a robed man running away with an unconscious Komomo under his arm, Rio would rescue Komomo and give her back to her bodyguard and leave the place hurriedly with her. Some weeks later Gouki's group would come to the village the day of the harvest festival and would take Rio to the capital again, Rio would come back two weeks later and since them due to the villagers using to spent the majority of the winter shut in their houses until the good weather comes back she wasn't able of spending a lot of time with Rio and Ruri, at the same time Rio stopped using polite speech with Ruri alone, something that made the rest of the village girls to suspect of their relationship. A month and a half later Rio went again to the capital for giving his new year greetings to his grandparents, Rio would come back a month later accompanied by Komomo and since then, little by little her place next to Rio and Ruri was taken by Komomo, three months later Rio would talk to her of his intentions of leaving the village after the next harvest festival, after knowing that she would begin to cry more and more after going back to her house, when Shin sees her in that state he would go to Yuba's house and ask Rio to stay in the village making dogeza, Sayo would try desperately to stop him and then they would say to Rio to leave that in nothing. The next day Yuba would say to Sayo that the chance of Rio staying is zero, that he's leaving with a goal in mind and that stopping him is impossible, from then on she would begin to train her spirit arts for being able of following Rio without pulling his leg, she would spend so much time training that for the next six months she wouldn't talk to Rio anymore, the day of the harvest festival she would confess to Rio and be rejected by him, after that while Shin tries to cheer her up Gouki would appear where they're and would offer to them follow secretly after Rio with him, or so it was hinted, because Gouki's group hasn't appeared yet again in the novel it's still unconfirmed if they really followed after Rio or not.

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