Helina Ashe

Helina (ヘリーナ) is a character from the "Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyō" series.

She is the personal maid and bodyguard of Princess Liliana. She would eventually become the leader of the Fleur Knights.

Appearance
Helina is a tall woman with moderately sized breasts, and has long dark brown hair with almond eyes.

She wears a Victorian-style maid outfit with a scarf that has a crimson jeweled brooch attached to it.

Personality
Helina is very loyal and supportive to her master and would stand by Liliana, and later Hajime, and would follow their orders without hesitation. She is also seen to be a very opportunistic person, as she tried promote Liliana to Hajime in order to improve the kingdom's influence, and by extension, improve her own well-being.

Main Story
Volume 7, after the Heiligh Kingdom was invaded by demons, Helina accompanied her mistress to the Hoelscher Empire by way of Hajime Nagumo flying Artifact "Fernir", to discuss the engagement between Princess Liliana and the empire's Crowned Prince Baius D. Hoelscher. Upon arriving at imperial captial, Helina, Liliana and the rest of her entourage were shocked to see that it had suffered severe damage as a result of the demons having atacked the empire as well.

The night of Liliana's engagement party, Helina and the other servants were helping Liliana put on her outfiilt. Prince Baius soon barged in and demanded that all the maids leave him and Liliana, to which they reluctantly complied to when Liliana told them to do so.

Volume 8, days after Liliana's engagement was cancelled due to the empire having been attacked by the Haulia Tribe and having killed Prince Baius, Helina noticed how she was lost in thought and suspected that it was due to Hajime. When they were all traveling to the Beastman nation Verbergen, Helina encouraged Lilana to go after him and gave Liliana advice on how to get his attention, but all her efforts proved in vain as Hajime refused to reciprocate Liliana's feelings. After some time in Verbergen, Helina awould later be forcibly sent back to the kingdom with Liliana and he rest of her guards through Hajime's space-warping "Gate Hole" Artifacts.

Volume 11, when the allied forces of Tortuss were preparing for war against its god Ehit, Helina approached Hajime the night before the battle while they were at the command center, and attempted to pursuade him to accept Liliana as his woman in order to improve the kingdom's standing. However, she wa soon interupted by the Holy Church's templar knight's ccommanderDavid Zahler, who asked Hajime to accept Aiko Hatayama a his woman instead.

"After Story"
After the defeat of Ehit, Helina was tasked by Hajime to compile a list of potential candidates to join Fleur Knights. Over the course of the next five years, they had been recruiting each of its members, and had them trained intensively by the Haulia Tribe.

When Liliana was targeted by various foreign government black ops units one Earth due to the rising influence of both her and her newly founded aid network, Helina (now known as "Heliotrope") was tasked to neutralize the enemies that were spying them near her master's mother's workplace and had Salvia assist Sumire and the others. After Heliotrope successfully subdued the enemies, she then ordered her subordinate Primula to escort the people from "Returnee Response Division" to them.

When Koutaro Fukube, the liaison for the Returnees, offered to temporarily relocate the Nagumo family to a government-owned safe house, Heliotrope requested to let the Fleur Knights eliminate the enemies which the Fleur Knights succeeded before abducting their leaders so that her master could discuss the situation with them. Heliotrope would later became Liliana's secretary for her aid network, while using the alias "Sandra Winchester".

Weapons & Equipment

 * Crimson Brooch - A broach with a red jewel embedded in it that is given to her by Hajime. It is imbued with various abilities.

Physical Abilities

 * Expert Combatant - Helina is well trained in combat as part of her duty as Liliana's maid.

Relationships

 * Liliana S. B. Heiligh - Helina has been Liliani's personal maid since childhood. She cares greatly for her and does everything she can to support her (especially with regards to getting Hajime to fall for her).
 * Hajime Nagumo - After becoming a member of the Fleur Knights, Helina has been shown to treat Hajime as more of her master than Liliana.
 * Sumire Nagumo - Helina is a huge fan of Sumire's work and considers it to be a great honor to assist her.

Quotes

 * (To Hajime Nagumo): "Liliana-sama truly loves you. On top of that, if she became the mistress of the man who will save Tortus, Heiligh would gain a tremendous amount of influence. My own position would become more important, and I would receive a massive raise! For all these reasons, and more, I need you two to hook up!"

Trivia

 * Helina does not appear in the main series' Web Novel prior to After Story.
 * The codename Helina uses after becoming the leader of the Fleur Knights, "Heliotrope", is the plural of the word "", which is a genus of plants in the Boraginaceae borage family.