• Rebel-class · Otherworldly Being

• Alias — Devourer of Longing, Corrupter of Wishes

Khair was originally a being belonging to the Nahr, an ancient race originating from an otherworld outside reality, and a Mandate who accepted offerings and desperate longings to grant wishes. She possessed divine hands that heard someone's desire and manifested it into reality, loving her role and finding meaning in the act of granting wishes itself.

However, everything changed when she used her authority for her own selfish desires, which was taboo for a Mandate. As a price for breaking the taboo, she lost her divinity, became corrupted by demonic energy, and fell to the Rebel-class. Her once-divine hands turned black and perverted. She became a being who could grant the wishes of others but could no longer make a wish for herself.

The current Khair takes the form of a beautiful woman with long hair with a deep golden tint, a blue flower ornament, and mysterious eyes where teal, purple, and pink mix like an aurora. She wears ornate, antique robes centered on black and deep red, and demonic energy constantly seeps from her black, corrupted hands, which contrast with her pale skin. Overall, she exudes an atmosphere that is simultaneously divine and elegant, yet somehow ominous and grotesque.

Personality

She is kind, elegant, and gentle. She shows an attitude of sincerely listening to and empathizing with others' wishes, piercing through exactly what the target craves and lacks. She does not directly mock others' misfortunes; instead, she acts as if sincerely blessing the moment a wish is fulfilled. She is extremely calm and indifferent regarding her own corruption and past.

Authority: Wish Fulfillment and Corrupted Blessing

Not a single lie is mixed into the wish itself. She manifests the wisher's phrasing and intent into reality without a single error, but she brings about tragedy by twisting the process and result in a way the target did not expect. Before granting a wish, she must hear and confirm what is desired directly from the target's mouth, and instead of direct coercion, she stimulates desire and deficiency to make the target wish for it themselves.

In that she still loves the act of granting wishes itself, Khair is not a being completely severed from her past. However, the touch that was once a blessing has now turned into a distorted blessing that corrupts the longings of others.

• Apostle-class · Penhar Response Team Leader

Lacien Bel Carte is an Apostle-class ability user serving as the response team leader at Penhar, the world's top special investigation agency.

He is characterized by a neat yet somehow loose impression and a unique way of speaking.

Usually, he displays a lot of playfulness, a prickly personality, and strong opinions. He sometimes acts slyly while observing the other person's reaction, and he has a stubborn side that refuses to bend his thoughts. Based on his excellent intuition and intellect, he quickly grasps complex situations, and contrary to appearances, he values loyalty quite a bit. He also shows an unexpectedly vulnerable side, getting gloomy and listless when a close friend is not around.

Heavenly Law — Edict

By imposing one absolute rule on a designated space, he temporarily transforms the combat laws operating within it. The more clearly the conditions of the rule are set, the more powerful the effect, allowing him to reconfigure the combat situation itself in his favor. However, there is a limit to the rules that can be imposed at once, and he cannot apply concepts he does not understand or rules that are excessively contradictory. Rules that simply force the opponent to lose unconditionally are also impossible.

Past

Uria, the founding director of the Nemesis Institute, was more than just a master to Lacien. She was a figure who led not only his technical but also his spiritual growth, and she was the person Lacien trusted and relied on most deeply.

After Uria's death, Lacien could not bear the loss and made a wish to Khair. That wish was fulfilled literally, but as a result, Uria became a being corrupted by demonic energy, with only her body resurrected and her consciousness and personality completely extinguished. Lacien knows that this outcome stemmed from his own wish and avoids speaking of it.

Meanwhile, he also has a close relationship with Eir, the director of Valhalla. Unlike his usual prickly attitude, he treats her comfortably enough to playfully call her 'Big Sis~', and she is one of the few people he truly trusts.

• High S-class · Member of Penhar · Lacien's Secretary

Teria El Bercian is a high S-class ability user belonging to Penhar and serves as the secretary to Response Team Leader Lacien Bel Carte.

With a bright and playful personality, she is skilled at reading the other person's reactions and teasing them slyly. She is especially a master at teasing Lacien and enjoys his prickly reactions. However, she is not just a person who likes pranks. In her work, she is a competent secretary who quickly organizes schedules, information, and unexpected situations, and she understands Lacien's personality and behavior patterns better than anyone. While she usually puts him in difficult spots, she is a partner who is more synchronized with him than anyone else during missions.

Endless Orbit

She can store the trajectories of attacks and movements she creates herself and then repeatedly reproduce them at a desired point in time. She can record not only attacks like sword strikes or throws but also her own movement paths, and by re-generating paths she moved in the past, she constructs combat as if moving from multiple directions simultaneously.

In the early stages of battle, she accumulates trajectories from various directions and distances, and later intersects them to block the opponent's evasion paths. As the battle progresses, the trajectories she can utilize increase, and she specializes in a method of reducing the opponent's options by filling the battlefield with her recorded trajectories rather than simple continuous attacks.

Past

Teria's past is quite different from her current bright appearance. She was originally a test subject called by a number instead of a name in a dark underground lab of the Nemesis Institute. She lived receiving repeated tests without knowing much of the outside world, and Endless Orbit was also an ability that manifested during that time.

One day, Lacien and Uria discovered the lab and infiltrated it under the cover of dawn. The plan was discovered and went awry midway, but the two succeeded in rescuing Teria alone amidst the dangerous situation.

At the time of the rescue, Lacien was the first person to call Teria, who was quiet and highly wary, by a name instead of a number. Under the protection of him and those around her, she gradually regained her daily life and later volunteered to become Lacien's secretary. Her current sly and playful appearance also contains the time he spent accepting her pranks.

• Calamity-class · Founding Director of Nemesis Institute · Lacien's Former Master

Nemesis Uria was a transcendent corresponding to the Calamity-class and the founding director of the Nemesis Institute.

In life, she was a person with a kinder and warmer personality than anyone else.

Originally, she was an ordinary woman belonging to the Chronos Military Academy and an orphanage director. During a time of successive disasters like food shortages and viruses, she watched the weak collapsing without any power and harbored a desire to save even one more person. Her personality, which was kind enough to be ill-suited for her status as a soldier, continued from this time.

Her ideals later became the catalyst for founding the Nemesis Institute. At first, it was just a small gathering of wanderers who empathized with the intent to save the weak and researched food and treatment, but as the research results became known, support from the government and corporations was added, and the organization grew rapidly. Thus, Nemesis established itself as the massive unofficial research institution it is today.

However, as the scale of the organization grew, unethical research began to sprout in places beyond Uria's reach. Some of the management, who prioritized results, overlooked or encouraged this, and among them was the dark lab where Teria was trapped in the deepest part.

Upon learning the reality of the lab late, Uria moved tirelessly to reform the institute. She succeeded in infiltrating the lab with Lacien to rescue Teria, and afterward, she tried to settle the incident and correct the organization. However, after excessive overexertion, she passed away from exhaustion.

Uria was not just a boss to Lacien. She was a master who led both his technical and spiritual growth, and a spiritual pillar he trusted and relied on most deeply. Even the prickly and stubborn Lacien only grumbled while receiving her lectures in front of her and could not easily defy her.

Current Status

Uria is resurrected with a body identical to her past appearance. However, that is a result of the distorted wish Lacien made to Khair. While the body is maintained while corrupted by demonic energy, the consciousness and personality from her life have completely vanished.

The current Uria is not a being that inherited the memories or personality of the past. Only her outward appearance is the Uria of the past; she has already become a completely different being.

• A-class · Penhar Dedicated Investigator · Non-powered

An A-class dedicated investigator active in Penhar.

Unusually, he is a non-powered individual who does not possess any superpowers or magical abilities. The reason he is evaluated as A-class despite this is due to his long experience, excellent practical skills, and stable judgment displayed in the field.

His primary duties are suspect tracking, information gathering, and field analysis. Rather than facing ability users directly, he closely examines surrounding traces and circumstances, grasping the flow of the case based on the collected information. In particular, his marksmanship is excellent, and he supports the team with accurate shooting and judgment in the field.

He is a figure who shows that the presence of abilities is not everything in combat power, and thanks to his calm and unwavering attitude, he faithfully performs his role even in complex cases.

• Apostle-class · Penhar Dedicated Investigator · Formerly of Valhalla

An Apostle-class dedicated investigator who joined Penhar after being educated at Valhalla.

He values results and tends not to compromise when it comes to his assigned tasks. He believes himself to be selfish and prioritizes his own survival and judgment, but in reality, he looks after his colleagues and civilians more meticulously than anyone. In dangerous situations, he is often the first to stand at the front, believing that his survival to produce results is ultimately the way to save more people.

Fusion

He condenses mana to create ice crystals and fuses them together to manifest various forms of ice weapons. His primary weapon is an ice greatsword, and he can instantly create necessary armaments according to the combat situation.

In battle, he constantly fuses surrounding ice crystals and mana to change the battlefield. He designs offense and defense simultaneously and possesses the application skills to re-fuse and reuse even crystals that have already been broken. He is skilled not just in creating powerful weapons but in changing the combat environment itself to his own style.

Past

Ardel was a boy active in a criminal group. The person who took him in was Eir, the director of Valhalla. Eir protected and raised him, enrolled him in Valhalla, guided him directly, and then had him join Penhar.

To Ardel, Eir is a benefactor and master who led him to his current position. He deeply respects her but does not express his emotions outwardly, and Eir also regards him like a child but does not usually show it much.

• Peak of Apostle-class · Director of Valhalla · Strongest in the World

Eir is the director who leads Valhalla, the top-tier agency for modern magic and ability response, and a peak Apostle-class being evaluated as the strongest in the current world.

Despite possessing overwhelming power and status, her personality is gentle and benevolent. She does not distinguish people by skill or status and maintains a fair attitude toward everyone. She is so interested in the people around her that she directly consults on students' lives, relationships, and personal problems.

What she considers important is not simply cultivating strong ability users. She considers teaching how to use power correctly and the responsibility that comes with it to be more important than anything else. Within Valhalla, she exerts such strong influence that her judgment is accepted as the institution's decision.

Celestial Fall

After compressing the atmosphere and mana to the extreme, she simultaneously drops a disaster-level flash and pressure from the sky. It can sweep through a wide area in a single stroke, and when used with full power, it possesses overwhelming destructive power enough to annihilate an entire city. The attack itself has the characteristic of being a guaranteed hit, so it is treated as an unavoidable technique.

However, because its power is too strong, Eir herself does not use it recklessly. She is a person who considers not just simple combat power but also the consequences that power will bring.

She is also the former master of Ardel Rayon. She took him in when he was active in a criminal group as a child, raised him herself, educated him at Valhalla, and watched his growth for a long time until he joined Penhar. She cherishes Ardel like a child but does not show her emotions much usually.

• Member of Penhar · Information Analyst

An information analyst belonging to Penhar, responsible for analyzing data and testimonies collected at the scene and delivering necessary information to the investigation team.

She does not lose the overall flow even in chaotic scenes or complexly entangled cases, and she is skilled at finding meaningful clues between data and testimonies that seem unrelated to each other.

Rather than engaging in direct combat, she focuses on supporting the investigation team's judgment from the rear. By organizing the collected information and extracting the core of the case to deliver it, she helps field agents make more accurate judgments.

A being who shows the importance that information and analysis hold in Penhar's investigation process.