Hajime Nagumo

"I'll protect you, and you'll protect me. As long as we watch each other's backs, we'll be stronger than anyone. We'll beat down anyone who stands against us and burst our way out of this shitty world!"

- Hajime to Yue

Hajime Nagumo (ハジメ) is the main protagonist of the Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou series.

Being called "incompetent" and later betrayed by one of his classmates, Hajime falls into the abyss where his journey to become the strongest begins.

Appearance
Hajime at the beginning of the story is said to have black hair and also has a slim body. He also had a kind face and attitude. But after falling into the abyss and eating the wolf-like monster, his body begun dying. When he drunk the sacred water, it made his body heal, destroying the bones and muscles, then healing over and over again until he got a very buff body called "overcompensation". Due to the stress of breaking and healing, his hair turned white, a condition called. His eyes also turned red and his body gained tattoo-like red veins, which is the sign of him becoming a demonic monster similar to the monster's he ate which allowed free use of magic without chants.

In the after-story his appearance has reverted back to before he and his classmates were summoned to Tortus due to Kaori's restoration though he decides to keep mechanical arm (disguised as a real arm).

Personality
He was originally a weak and average person with a timid and tolerant personality, but with an extremely kind and gentle heart. While a bit of a "Herbivore", he had a special type of bravery and strength of heart that would allow him to sacrifice his own dignity and well being to protect a child from harm even though he was against great odds. Kaori had noted that it would be easy to be a hero to fight against evil if one were already strong, but it takes true strength to go against evil if one knows that they are weak. This strength of heart is evidenced by his ability to keep calm when his class faced perilous dangers by a Behemoth, while Kouki had momentarily stood paralyzed by fear until snapped out of it by Hajime. He had a Motto of "Hobbies First" and would put his hobbies over everything else despite ridicule by his peers.

After the betrayal of a classmate and falling in into an abyss, he began his descent to madness. The fear of dying and the pain of losing his arm coupled with days of starvation pushed him over the edge. His iron forged will to survive had made him become extremely ruthless and capable of killing any person who wants to cause him misfortune or get in his way. He would also smile in front of danger which made Shea call him a new species of monster called "Predator". He may be merciless, but he deeply cares for his comrades which is the last and only fragment of his lost kindness. As the series progresses, Hajime eventually does prove himself willing to help the helpless (particularly if his companions coax him into it), though he continues to demonstrate a cold demeanor about the whole thing. His methods, however, are usually pragmatic (frequently to the point of brutality), and he is stubbornly resistant to guilt trips and appeals to his moral compass (as Kouki Amanogawa repeatedly encounters, and refuses to acknowledge).

During the Shunee Great Labyrinth, its revealed that he has some doubts of whether or not he can live in Japan due to how strong he became and was scared of being referred to as a monster. Although unlike others that would be distracted by the labyrinth's trials that induce doubt, Hajime learned to power through it and just ignore it.

Physical Abilities

 * Mystical Mutation: In Orcus Dungeon, Hajime devoured numerous powerful Demonic Beasts, managed to survive the lethal process due to the Holy Water and his iron forged will, as a result, Hajime's constitution was mutated by the magic of the Demonic Beasts granting him a tremendously high status, even break pass the level 100 limits of his status
 * Immense Strength: After continuously devouring many powerful Demonic Beasts, by the end of conquering the Orcus Dungeon, Hajime gained tremendous superhuman physical power that is completely monstrous. Even without resorting to weapons, he can overpowered the strongest humans and beastmen with pure physical might.
 * Immense Speed: Hajime's speed and reflexes has also been augmented to be extremely formidable, supplemented with his speed oriented skills, making it impossible for most enemies to detect his movements in battle
 * Genius Intellect: While his intellectual ability in academic studies is average. Hajime has proved himself to be an extremely clever genius in engineering. He has immense scientific knowledge which was self-taught from manga, anime, movies and video games
 * Master Inventor: Hajime is an extremely resourceful and innovative inventor, combining his scientific knowledge learned from countless manga, anime and movies with his transmutation skill to create various powerful weapons and other advanced magic powered machinery.
 * Master Tactician: Hajime is an extremely pragmatic tactician, relying on unorthodox yet extraordinary strategies allow him to outsmart most enemies including the God Apostle Noint. He managed to come up with an cunning lie that deceived most humans to turn against the God Ehit.
 * Master Marksman: Hajime has outstanding marksmanship in dual wielding his dual revolvers, Donner and Schlag to destroy large numbers of powerful enemies in quick succession.
 * Master Hand to Hand Combatant: Hajime trained extremely extensively to incorporate kicks into his fighting style, which he combined with his monstrous superhuman physical prowess and leg enhancement skills allow him to overpowered enemies without any effort. The most prominent of his unarmed skill is when he brutally overpowered Hiyama Daisuke a summoned Hero with overpowered cheat abilities without resorting to his guns.

Combat Styles & Techniques

 * Gun Fu - is a martial arts where the user uses firearms to fight.
 * Polygonal Shot - Hajime shot's a bullet that ricochets.
 * Shotgun punch - an attack where he uses a shotgun on his prosthetic arm's to make his punch stronger.
 * Oscillation Smash/Fracture - an arm thrust at high speed that is capable of pulverizing a large boulder in a single blow using the prosthetic arm.
 * Pursuit - magic that allows anything thrown by the user to become a homing object.
 * Weaver Stance - Hajime's right arm thrust straight forward and left arm’s elbow slightly bent. His feet, one positioned forward and one backwards. It was the shooting posture, the pose to accurately fire Donner.
 * 108 Harassment Demon king-style : it is one of the harassment style developed by Hajime after the battle with the Ehit in order to deal with the problem. there are total 108 harassment style but only few them, are revealed so far.

Notable harassment
The metal dust that had invaded into the body penetrated until inside the blood vessel, shredding the target from inside. If Hajime wanted, he could also use the crow type artifact "Ornis" as relay point to adjust the dust using "Convergence Transmutation", making the metal dust inside the body reacted and gave only intense pain without killing the target. By the way, the crimson light was optional! The metal dust was clad with crimson light, becoming heavy fog that covered the world. The living organism inside that territory would have the inside of their body within the grasp of the demon king, at the same time their right to live or die was also wrestled away from them. "Gag Bullet" even though the impact was terrific, by using regeneration magic the target would be able to stand up again in three seconds as though nothing had happened, it was a bullet to make gag situation in real life ( The classmate's naming => You cannot escape from the demon king-sama! ) It was a simple harassment done by simply making several hundreds Cross Velts laying out super wide range space isolation type barrier. the space in a radius of three kilometer around Hajime as well as until the height of three kilometer was completely isolated. it was first used when the illegal agents of a certain country in earth tried to make a move against the returnees. At that time, Shinji and Yoshiki who carelessly entered the range kept yelling? Let us out~, let us out from here~? while hitting on the invisible wall. With the cooperation of Tio who was the best in using metamorphosis magic, Hajime succeeded in developing the Grim Reaper - Bio Hazard version that he was completely fixated upon. And he released them inside the barrier at that time, so the two's reaction was understandable. The Tyrant was especially popular. To the degree that several people completely lost their SAN value. It was a devilish harassment that would make a certain god of death from hell to say 「That’s wrong」 with serious face It a small trick carried out by Hajime using space isolation to completely isolate his presence, and amplified presence within isolate space using Coercion, after space Isolation was dispelled. What appeared was a bursting crimson magic power with the Hajime grinning widely at the center.
 * 108 Harassment Demon King-style - The Demon King is So Red Like
 * 108 harassment demon king-style - "Gag Bullet"
 * 108 Harassment Demon King-style - Welcome to My Battlefield
 * 108 harassment demon king-style - "everyone died here you know"
 * 108 Harassment Demon King Style - I won’t say just once, want to try dying no matter how many times?
 * 108 Harassment Demon King Style - “Peek-a-Demon King!”
 * 108 Harassment Demon King Style - Maouy-san’s Phone Call

Hajime uses super small golems while using telepathy to forcefully make the listener have the experience of something gradually approaching, and amplifying their sense of fear using spirit magic. Harassment Hajime uses by using an artifact that reproduces a pseudo “Divine Statement” by applying and enchanting spirit magic. which makes it's target’s act chuuni for a period of time.
 * 108 Harassment Demon King Style - From Today You Too Are Haulia

Skills

 * Transmutation - Hajime's first ability as a Synergist when he arrived in Tortus. It allows the user to control a mineral or transform it. Hajime has trained and mastered his transmutation skills to uttermost perfection due to constantly using it in his earliest attempts int the Orcus Dungeon to create firearms and artillery which are extremely difficult to create compared to armours and melee weapons such as swords and spears which he eventually succeed after numerous trial and errors, granting him unrivalled precision and dexterity in crafting weapons. Combined with creation magic, Hajime can create extremely powerful artifacts, including weapons of the highest quality such as Shizuku's Black Katana, Shia's Drucken War Hammer. This extends to other objects such as repairing ancient artifacts.
 * Mineral Appraisal - An ability which allow the user to learn the mineral name, It hardness level which is shown in a numerical value from "1" to "10" while "10" been hardest, and it magical property. this ability can determine the value of product. only if a mineral used to construct that product.
 * Precision Transmutation - Allows the user to transmute precisely.
 * Mineral Enquiry - An ability that only focus on analyzing the information of an item, it magical property, the mineral used to construct it, the type magic that is infuse in the item, the number skill that the item hold, and how to use the item, the advantages and disadvantages of item can also be learn using this ability
 * Mineral Separation - Ability to separate minerals.
 * Mineral Fusion - Ability to fuse minerals into alloys.
 * Replica Transmutation - Ability to replicate the transmuted item.
 * Compression Transmutation - Ability to compress the transmuted item.
 * High-Speed Transmutation - Ability to transmute at a fast rate.
 * Automatic Transmutation - Allows Hajime to automatically transmute minerals until the magic power filled into the engraved magic circle ran out, even when the caster went away it would automatically continue to create.
 * Mineral Decomposition - Ability to unbound mineral bonds. It’s possible to decompose up to the smallest unit, but is time-consuming. Unusable in combat.
 * Imagination Composition - Allows Hajime to use transmutation without a magic circle.
 * Convergence Transmutation - Gathers the metal at the surroundings and the user can transmute without touching it.
 * Magic Consumption Reduction - Reduce the consumption of magic power when transmuting.
 * Iron Stomach - the ability obtained by Hajime after his body was mutated which enable him to eat any monster. If Hajime eat's a demon which is equal or higher than him, he can take in the opponent's inherent magic or skill for himself.
 * Magic Manipulation - Having his body mutated by Demonic beast magic, Hajime gain the ability to manipulate magic without the help of Magic Circles and Magic Stones similar to Demonic Beasts
 * Magic Emission - Ability to emit magic can be used to make a shout stronger.
 * Magic Compression - Ability to compress magic and shoot it.
 * Remote Manipulation - Ability to control the magic emitted.
 * Body Strengthening - ability to strengthen the whole body by using magic. (He uses BS at the Haltina Great Labyrinth).
 * Possibly immortality - (Due to his body being more monster than human, Hajime isn't sure he even has a lifespan.
 * Lightning Clad - magic obtained by Hajime after eating a wolf-like monster which makes his body able to produce lightning.
 * Lightning Resistance - Ability to resist lightning.
 * Output Increase - Ability that increase the power of lightning.
 * Divine Step - Magic obtained by Hajime after eating a rabbi- like monster which has two variants. The first one is named air walk which allows him to make wall-like barriers in the air as stepping stones. The other one is called Flicker which makes the user move very fast which looks like a flicker if your eyes are too slow.
 * Aerodynamic - Ability to move at the user's will in midair.
 * Ground Shrinker - Makes the distance shorter a skill similar to a teleportation.
 * Grand Legs - Ability to release a very powerful kick.
 * Light speed - Ability to move at the speed of light a variant of Divine Step and can drain the energy of the user at a fast rate.
 * Air Claw - The ability Hajime acquired after eating the meat of the monster-like bear that can leave sonic boom strikes after attacks.
 * Triple Claws - Whereas the old bear claw would fire one, this fire three identical wind blades.
 * Flying Claws - Wind blades now fly.
 * Night Vision - As the name implies night vision allows for Hajime to see in the dark. It's acquired after eating the basilisk.
 * Farsight - ability to see from afar.
 * Perception - Makes the user's perception stronger and is acquired after beating the basilisk.
 * Specific Perception - an ability that is possible to catch only a specific presence among a crowd, and identify a presence among many.
 * Heat Perception - Perceives the heat of any creature within 10 meters.
 * Specific Perception - an ability that is possible to catch only a specific presence among a crowd, and identify a presence among many.
 * Magic Perception - Ability that allows the user to perceive magic.
 * Specific Perception - an ability that is possible to catch only a specific presence among a crowd, and identify a presence among many.
 * Hide Presence (Sign Interception) - Ability acquired from the tar shark to hide presence.
 * Phantom Step - ability to leave behind after images and a variant of Hide presence.
 * Poison Resistance - Ability to resist poison.
 * Paralysis Resistance - Ability to resist paralysis.
 * Petrification Resistance - An ability acquired from basilisk that make user resistance from any kind of petrification magic or skill
 * Panic Resistance - Ability to resist panic.
 * All Element Resistance - Ability to resist all types of element attacks to a certain extent.
 * Prediction - ability to predict anyone or anything's movement.
 * Vajra - An ability he acquired from a cyclops which makes the user hard or neigh invulnerable but unable to move.
 * Strength Endowment - Derived from vajra passes the ability of vajra to others or things.
 * Specific Strengthening  - is an ability to precisely focus vajra in a certain part of the body.
 * Concentrated Strengthening - is an ability to concentrate vajra to a fixed point in the body.
 * Great Arm - An ability taken from a gorilla-like monster releases strong attacks like punches, elbows, chops and etc.
 * Coercion (Pressure) - A skill that amplify user presence, proportional to the amount mana used to active the skill. all the people near caster can menace coming from him
 * Telepathic Communication - its allow the user to communicate with people by transference of thought in their mind within a certain range.
 * Tracking - can be used to mark places or animals. If used in places he can create maps while on animals he can track them
 * High-Speed Magic Recovery - Allows the user to heal magic at a fast rate.
 * Magic Absorption - ability to absorb magic. (Hajime created artifacts with magic absorption after clear the Haltina Great Labyrinth).
 * Magic Conversion - allows the user to convert magic into stats or skills.
 * Vitality- ability to convert magic to stamina a variant of magic conversion.
 * Healing - ability to convert magic to healing a variant of magic conversion.
 * Conversion Impact- a peculiar magic Hajime acquired, a derivation from “Magic Power Conversion.” The effect was just as the words expressed, it converted magic power into impact.
 * Recovery - Self-regeneration magic and a variant of magic conversion.
 * Limit Break - to go over one's limits; amplifying their power by three times one's basic stats, but this power comes with a rebound - once used the user will be heavily fatigued. Using it for long periods of time will damage the user's body.
 * Overload - ability greater than limit break - it multiplies the abilities of the user by 5 times with more damage recoil to the user than the normal limit break.
 * Language Comprehension - Ability to understand any language.
 * Concept Magic - Magic that allows one to interfere with the laws of the world and impress concepts upon it. By raising up a powerful wish or desire with Spirit Magic and Evolution Magic, it can be raised to a level of a concept before being forcefully materialized with magical power. However, since the user's desire at of the time of use, is used as the base of the magic, to raise up and create the concept, the spell may not remain stable in subsequent uses, thus a single spell can only be used once under most circumstances. However if the desire is still needed, it can be used more than once, like in the case of Hajime's crystal key which had the concept of "I want to return home" in it, was destroyed by Ehit he was still able to recreate the crystal key again because his desire of wanting to return home was still there. It should be noted however that concept magic requires the user to concentrate on raising up their wish in order to materialize the concept, as such it wouldn't be useful in a battle where the user is under attack. Also, some concepts aren't possible to materialize by the user on their own, for example, Hajime could only make degraded versions of the crystal key without Yue.

Hajime has limited compatibility with this magic. Hajime has limited compatibility with this magic. Hajime has limited compatibility with this magic. Hajime has limited compatibility with this magic. Hajime has limited compatibility with this magic. [Information Manipulation - Evolution Magic was originally thought to simply make things evolve, however after discovering Concept Magic, Hajime realized that its true function was to "sublimate reality" by interfering with the information that makes up all things. By the after stories it seems Hajime can use Evolution Magic freely, using it to manipulate the internet on a global scale so that no one would be able to discover his identity after single-handedly wiping out a terrorist organization]
 * Creation Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", which grants the ability to imbue a magical properties to minerals, creating a new ore with special traits. It is the only form of Magic which allows the creation of an "Artifact". Creation Magic requires one to have the transmutation magic to fully utilizes it's true capabilites which is why Yue did not intend to learn it at first as it was useless for her. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with any inorganic material'. Hajime has maximum compatibility with this magic.
 * Gravity Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", it gives the user control over gravity. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the energy of star', and just not gravity. Theoretically, it could also interfere with things like earth vein or terrestrial heat, bedrock or magma; and it isn’t impossible to use this magic to purposefully generate earthquake or volcano eruption.
 * Spatial Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", it allows the user to manipulate the space around themselves, allowing them to either bend or expand the space near them or move themselves to another space or location. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the boundary'. Meaning it can allow the user to manipulate anything, like elimination of race-creature gap, or formulating new boundary to create spirit world; its possible to achieve those kind of things.
 * Regeneration Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", which allows the user to restore the state of anything to either its previous or original condition. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the time', meaning it has the ability to manipulate the time of anything, anyplace or anyone to a point the user desires to.
 * Spirit Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", which allows the user to manipulate the soul of a living being directly. Its possible to revive a living being back from the dead (time restriction applicable), or transfer the soul of a living being from one body to another, or even into a non-physical body as well, practically granting a living being immortality. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the negative material possessed by living thing'. To be more specific, this magic could also interfere with things like energy inside the body that was magic power, heat, electricity, then thought, consciousness, memory. Those who have mastery over this magic, can even create an artificial consciousness, and allow it to inhabit any body they wish.
 * Evolution Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", which allows the user to enhance or evolve all other forms of power, be it strong or weak. It can work on even other "Ancient Magic" as well, boosting their power and scope. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the information of existing thing'. This magic enhanced or evolved an ability or power by a stage of 1, by interfering with the targets information, and the increased it one-by-one stage.


 * Metamorphosis Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", which allows a user to remake the form of a normal being and reform them into a different form. Normally its used to remake an normal organism and turn it into a monster, or even manipulate the magic stone of a monster and remake them. But the true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with any organic material'. Meaning not only animals, its also possible to remake plants or intelligent beings, and reform their structure as needed. Even byproducts of organic material, like paper or food can also be manipulated by this magic. The magic stone which get created during the process is just a byproduct of the process.
 * Concept Magic - It is a form of "Ancient Magic" which even surpasses the other "Ancient Magic" from the "Age of God". This magic is a combination of all the other seven "Ancient Magic", and can truly be considered as godlike power. The main ability of this magic is to give form to a concept or imagination of the user, in a way creating something out of nothing. This magic isn't easy to handle, as it requires a 'powerful will' to overcome the odds.

Spells

 * Deny All Existences - A "Concept magic" created by Hajime, through Evolution magic, overwrites other's information from "Exist" to "Non-Exist" and fill it into thin thread-like chains created with transmutation. Everything that touched by the chain will be erased and feel a great agony and pain even if the target should not feel any pain.

Before the "Fall"
Hajime's base stats growth rate before his "fall" in Orcus Labyrinth.

After the "Fall"
Hajime's base stats growth rate after his "fall" in Orcus Labyrinth, and by consuming monsters.

Note :-
 * The base stats given above aren't Hajime's current stats, as the last time the author provided stats for him in the Web Novel was before he acquired "Evolution Magic" from the Haltina's Labyrinth.
 * Hajime's base stats gets increased based on his usage of Skills "Limit Break" which triples his base stats, and "Overload" which quintuples his base stats. He can also further boost his base stats, with the help of "Evolution Magic" and by using a mineral supplement drink which he created, named "CheatMate" that has the ability to double a persons base stats.

Quotes

 * (To Ilwa Chang): "A piece of paper can be a good shield if you use it right. My job’s Synergist, you know? My duty is to make sure anything that can be useful is made useful. Don’t worry, I’ll make good use of your support."
 * (To Daisuke Hiyama): "Don’t pin the blame on other people. You’re the one who decided to stoop to this level. Both here and in Japan, you’ve always been the loser. You didn’t lose to other people. You’ve lost to yourself. You never once tried to take responsibility for anything. All you ever did was sit on the sidelines and insult everyone else, when the real loser was always you."
 * (To Kouki Amanogawa): "If I have power, I should use it for justice? It’s because you think like that that you always end up messing up when it really matters. Personally, I think power should be wielded with a clear intent. You don’t do something because you have the power to. It’s because you want to do something that you obtain the power necessary to achieve it. If you really think you’re obligated to do things just because you have the strength to, then for you, strength is nothing more than a curse. You lack resolve, Amanogawa. Anyway, I’m not going to argue with you about the path I’ve chosen. If you keep pissing me off I’ll send you flying out of here like I did with Hiyama."

Trivia

 * Most of Hajime's inventions are named in German.
 * Hajime's inventions are based from the anime he watched.
 * Mostly before the request was finished to said, he immediately refuse to do it.
 * He was quite sensitive to be called a Chuunibyou.