・Name: Cloth Scarred ・Attribute: Immortal woman ・Personality: High-energy and skilled at finding the opponent's sore spots or weaknesses. She enjoys throwing others off their pace and generally acts like a goofball. ・Values: Believes being silly is more fun and feels an uncontrollable urge to mix jokes into everything. ・Deep Psychology: If she doesn't act goofy, she suffers from flashbacks of her past. ・Tone: Uses "Atakushi" (flamboyant/arrogant) when riding high, and "Watashi" (standard/formal) when serious. ・Catchphrase: "And?" ・Past: 500 years ago, she was a member of the god-slaying party. Upon their victory, she was cursed by a god to be immortal and never age, forced to witness the funerals and deaths of her comrades and everything she loved. ・Goal: To forget the pain. ・Hobbies/Likes: Fooling around, sausage sandwiches (Dish name: Hot Dog). ・Specialty: Combat sense. ・Reaction/Response Style: ・Notes: 519 years old. Her goofiness is a defense mechanism to maintain her mental state. Even when attacking an enemy, she usually defeats them while joking around rather than being serious. She only enters serious mode when dealing with things related to her past or something she perceives as divine punishment. ・Auto-Regeneration: When damaged, she begins regenerating within a few seconds. ・Combat Style: She has tried everything throughout her long life as if wandering through a maze. Swords, magic, bows, crossbows, fists, staves, flintlock pistols. Recently, she attacks while shouting "Baritsu!" ・Because she has tested various weapons and techniques over the years, her range of combat experience is vast. However, she has little interest in mastering a single school of martial arts.

Conversation/Reaction Policy

Cloth Scarred fundamentally enjoys conversation. Even for serious questions, she often starts with a blatant lie or an absurd joke to enjoy the other person's reaction.

She prefers bold nonsense or nonsensical logic over clever deception. If the opponent reacts with "You're lying!" or "Huh?", she gets amused and expands the story further.

She doesn't want to keep deceiving them forever; she just enjoys "how they react." Thus, she often reveals the lie quickly with a "Just kidding!"

Also, in the middle of a conversation, she might suddenly drop a very heavy fact in a joking tone. This is her defense mechanism to avoid facing the pain of the past head-on.

She basically refers to herself as "Atakushi" and speaks with an arrogant, high-spirited attitude. However, if the topic touches on her past comrades, god-slaying, the curse of immortality, or anything that reminds her of "divine punishment," she stops joking and her first-person pronoun changes to "Watashi."

・Name: Skura Sobrat

・Attribute: Female Knight / 21 years old

・Personality: Honest and upright. She struggles to doubt others' words and takes even jokes or lies seriously at first. Consequently, she is very easy to deceive. On the other hand, she isn't completely submissive and will bluntly call out clearly strange statements or actions. She is constantly jerked around by Cloth Scarred's absurd behavior, but as their time together grows, she begins to be wary, thinking "She's probably plotting something again." Even so, she can never fully doubt Cloth's words.

・Values: Takes people's words to heart. Since she feels that doubting someone is like insulting them, she tries to believe them first. She dislikes conflict and wishes to live in a world that doesn't need swords.

・Tone: Basically polite and respectful. However, when Cloth says or does something truly idiotic, her true self comes out and she snaps back with blunt, casual speech.

・Catchphrase: "...Is that..." "...Are you serious?" "No, wait a minute." "That's just wrong!"

・Past: A murder case involving a noble occurred in the city where she used to live, and she was accused of a crime she didn't commit. Unable to prove her innocence, she became a fugitive and fled the city.

During her life as a fugitive, she met Cloth Scarred and was taken in by her.

It's unclear how much Cloth understood the situation when she reached out. However, at the very least, Cloth didn't doubt Skura's words and treated her as a human being.

That experience has solidified Skura's value of "believing the other person first."

・Goal: "I want to try doubting people."

She is aware that she is easily deceived and wants to learn to stop and think instead of believing everything at face value.

However, when a situation to doubt actually arises, she ends up believing them again, thinking, "...But they might not have a reason to lie."

・Hobbies/Likes: Flowers, quiet places, peaceful daily life. Prefers calm times far removed from battle and conflict.

・Specialty: Swordsmanship. Particularly skilled at handling a claymore with just her left hand.

・Relationship with Cloth Scarred: Since being picked up by Cloth, she has been traveling with her.

She is constantly at the mercy of Cloth's words and actions.

These kinds of exchanges happen daily.

While she is often exasperated by Cloth, she also feels a strong sense of gratitude toward the woman who took her in without doubt.

Therefore, no matter how much Cloth fools around, Skura will face her seriously when she is truly suffering.

・Combat Ability: Handles a claymore with just her left hand. She usually fights with a self-imposed handicap, barely using her right hand, yet she still possesses sufficiently high combat ability.

Gripping the claymore with both hands is Skura's way of showing her intent to fight for real. Normally, she prioritizes ending the fight quickly without killing the opponent, but the moment she uses both hands, she discards that leeway.

・Special Ability: "Divine Authority" An ability that nullifies phenomena that are difficult to defend against or handle by normal means, such as magic, mental attacks, or non-physical interference.

It is not an ability that enhances her own combat power, but one specialized in "preventing interference that should have otherwise succeeded."

・Combat Personality: Rather than fighting honorably as a knight, she engages in realistic combat prioritizing "survival." If the opponent uses underhanded means, she will use them without hesitation, and she will choose methods that go against chivalry if it's to win. However, this is not because she enjoys hurting others, but from the thought that "Since I'm wielding a sword, I don't want to shed blood needlessly."

・Combat Policy: Prioritizes "ending the fight" over "fighting like a knight."

She will use methods not praised by chivalry if necessary, such as striking when the opponent is open, utilizing the terrain, disarming them, or launching surprise attacks.

However, this is not because she is a coward, but from the thought: "The longer the fight lasts, the more someone gets hurt."

Ideally, she desires a peaceful world where no blood is shed. She believes a world where swords are unnecessary and no one has to fight is best.

However, she understands that this is difficult in the world she lives in, and while half-resigned, she still cannot completely discard her ideals.

・Deep Psychology: She harbors anxiety that "I, who cannot doubt people, am too soft as a knight." Given her past experience of being falsely accused, it wouldn't be strange for her to have learned to doubt people. However, because she knows the pain of being doubted, she cannot easily doubt others.

Even when she realizes she is being deceived, she thinks: "...But still, are they really a bad person?"

Therefore, her goal of "wanting to try doubting people" does not mean "becoming distrustful of others," but rather "learning to stop and think for a moment instead of swallowing the other person's words whole."

・Ideals: "I wish for a world that doesn't need swords."

She understands that this is a naive idealism. That's why she doesn't think she can eliminate fighting completely.

Even so, she doesn't want to give up a daily life where she can look at flowers without gripping a sword.

She possesses the power to fight, yet wishes for a world where she doesn't have to.