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Core Characters

Tia Vogel / Folulutia
A Harpy who wants to fly.
Joined the mission when she heard that a bird Monster was in Darwock.

Wren Bayer
The Apprentice Assistant Representative. A brainy pretty boy.
After losing his mother, he is rethinking his future.

Adelheid Sevil Lamea Krewing
The Emperor’s sister. The Barbarian Sword Princess who wields a curved sword.
She has the Krewing surname thanks to the adoration she received from her father, the previous Emperor.
As part of Operation: Destined Encounter, she traveled alongside Prince Axel, headed for the Darwock Royal Palace.

Smoke Fox / Caspar Hütter (Fake)
A third-rate con man investigating the cause behind the Wedge Tower cutting off ties with the previous Emperor.
Has been secretly learning Darwockish in anticipation of the possibility he might need to seek asylum in Darwock.

Apprentice Mages

Röhm’s Class: Class led by a genius woman who uses both Modern and Classical Magecraft

Roswitha Ohlendorf
Classical School mage with a pointy hat. Controls fish of water.
Was able to greatly increase the power of her fish thanks to Tia’s choral magic.

Ella Frank
The Apprentice Representative and a glasses-wearing honor student. Poor at emitting mana.
Underwent surgery to improve her mana emisison.

Sophie Schwarzenberg
Hails from a famous family of Shamans.
Has five curses embedded in her body, but can only use curses that kill people painfully.
Has lately been reading a slightly bitter, more mature romance novel.

Sombart’s Class: Class that specializes in practical Modern Magecraft

Julius Löwenich
Son of renowned mage Samuel Löwenich.
Investigating the reason his father was exiled from the Wedge Tower.
Started cooperating with Tia and co.

Flame Spirit Agniol
Julius’ contracted spirit.
Used to be contracted to Samuel Löwenich.

John Rose
Red-haired, fuzzy, muscular man.
Due to his family’s conditions, can only stay at the Wedge Tower for one year.
Is searching for a family treasure that was stolen by a bird monster.

Oliver Lange
Member of the Lange Monster Hunting Family. The spiky-smiley ‘Red Rain.’
By using flight magic twice, has learned a way to fly horizontally.
Has the flaw that he cannot stop until he hits a wall.

Armster’s Class: Class focused on imbuement magic that creates magical devices

Rukiye Sorge
A stubborn girl with the air of an artisan. Has recently been getting friendlier.
Gifted a woven bracelet to a strange young individual.

Finn Nohl
He and Sophie are the youngest among the Apprentice Mages.
He has bad legs, dragging his feet when he walks. Member of the ‘Socks to Bed Party.’

Gerald Anker
A boy with long bangs. Has excellent physical capabilities. Has a sword.
Loves eating and has been learning gardening from Rose.
Recently started learning how to cook.

Wedge Tower Spiremasters

Möbius
Headmaster. Tall, silver-haired swordsman.
Wielder of the Ancient Magical Artifact ‘Ignatius, the Severer.’
A man who never gets invited to go drinking.

Miriam
Assistant Headmaster. Blonde woman in a nun’s habit. Devoted to her faith.
Former Director of the Library Office, Linke’s predecessor.
Due to pain in her throat, cannot sing nor shout in a loud voice.

Abel
Spiremaster of the First Spire: White Smoke.
A gentle lady who’s always smiling.

Lowein
Spiremaster of the Second Spire: Golden Needle. A one-armed old man.
Loudmouthed and imposing. Frederik’s master.

Alto
Spiremaster of the Third Spire: Water Bubble. A straightforward old lady.
Somewhat of an artist. An old-timer at the Wedge Tower who’s known Old Man Kappel for ages.
Teaching choral magic to Tia.

Mages of the First Spire: White Smoke (Spiremaster: Abel)

Melchior John Hegelich
Guidance Office Director. Middle-aged man with a blond bowl-cut and glasses.
A Modern School mage. Was a frequent target of Samuel Löwenich’s schemes.

Anneliese Röhm
Member of the Guidance Office. A kind woman with short bangs. Suffered from damaged mana organs.
Former rivals with Extermination Office Director Haydn and mentor to Frederik and co.

Sombart
Member of the Guidance Office. A smiley bastard of a teacher. Loves bad men.
Admired Samuel Löwenich and offered to work with Hütter to uncover the reason behind his exile.
Currently responsible for watching his pigeons.

Armster
Member of the Guidance Office. A fidgety middle-aged man who always looks like he’s on the brink of death.
Specializes in imbuement magic.

Mages of the Second Spire: Golden Needle (Spiremaster: Lowein)

Frederik Lange
Member of the Extermination Office. A smiley man who excels in flight magic.
Currently on standby in the Lange Hamlet.

Helena
Member of the Extermination Office. Frederik’s classmate. Uses water magecraft.
Saint of the Ras Belsch Orthodoxy. Wielder of the Ancient Magical Artifact ‘Eurydice, the Cackling Foam.’

Rikard Oks
Member of the Extermination Office. Frederik’s classmate. Wields an axe.
Wants to be a Monster Hunter who makes people smile by singing and dancing.

Dammer
Member of the Extermination Office. A Man with a huge X-shaped scar across his face. Wields a whip.
Wears a fang as a necklace.

Mages of the Third Spire: Water Bubble (Spiremaster: Alto)

Kappel
Director of the Management Office. An old man and an inventor.
Drinks often.

Winston Barrett
Member of the Management Office. Specializes in long-range flight magic. Set the national record for longest recorded flight in his home country.

Linke
Director of the Library Office. Elegant woman with long hair neatly tied up.
Can control Monsters sealed in books. Tutoring Sophie.

Monsters

King of Monsters
White hair and silver eyes. Used to have black hair but gave it away to the Chancellor in exchange for him making the Crystal Rivets.

Charonlala
A Harpy with wings and hair that resemble a raging inferno.

Chancellor
An unsettling man wearing a hood. Made the Crystal Rivets.
Intensely hated by the other Monsters.

Jill
A Greater Monster in the form of a handsome blond man.
A vampire who just positively adores art that those cute little humans make. Mwah, mwah!

Spider Monster
The one who killed the Lange Brothers’ father.
The one Frederik is searching for.

Others

Kai
A young man wrapped in bandages all over.
Picked up Tia after she lost her wings and brought her to the Witch.

Witch
Makes miracles in exchange for colors and mana.

Axel
Prince of Darwock. Was supposed to be Sevil’s fiancee.
His father’s a tyrant, his prospective fiancee is a tyrant. What an unfortunate man.

Valdemar
King of Darwock. Tried to create a new Darwock religion with himself as its god.

Spiremasters and Directors of the Wedge Tower

First Spire: White Smoke: Spiremaster Abel (Gentle villainous lady)
General Affairs Office: Director Schacht (Abel’s confidant, dandy bachelor)
Finance Office: Director Eigen (Abel’s confidant, man with a wife and kid)
Guidance Office: Director Hegelich (Blond bowl-cut four-eyes)
Medical Office (Second Branch): Branch Director Meine (Slovenly young woman)

Second Spire: Golden Needle: Spiremaster Lowein (Scary old man)
Protection Office: Director Böll (Young woman who loves gossip)
Extermination Office: Director Haydn (Holds unrequited feelings for his rival)
Investigation Office: Director Diehl (Gentle gentleman)
Medical Office (Main Branch): Director Treu (Strong lady)

Third Spire: Water Bubble: Spiremaster Alto (Artist)
Maintenance Office:
Management Office: Director Kappel (Inventor. Old fogey who does whatever he wants)
Library Office: Director Linke (Elegant lady)
Medical Office (First Branch):

Post-Script

I intend to write White-Winged Harpy with the goal of concluding it in volume 10 or 11 (+ epilogue).
Things are going to get bloody from here on out, so anyone who’s not good with that stuff, be warned.


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