Hajime Nagumo

"I will protect you, Yue, and you will protect me. We are the strongest. We will mow all down, and we will cross worlds."

- Hajime to Yue

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

Being called "incompetent" and later betrayed by 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.

Personality
He was originally an 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 sacrifice his own dignity and well being to protect 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 will to survive had made him become cruel and capable killing any person who wants to cause him misfortune or get in his way. He would also smile in front of danger which made Shia call him a new species of monster called "Predator". He may be cruel, but he cares for his comrades.

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.

Background
His father was a game creator and his mother was a shoujo mangaka. His original plans while in high school was to eventually get a part time job at his father’s company or mother’s workplace.

And all his Otaku hobbies were perfect for practicing his skills for his future plans and occupation.

In Middle School, Hajime had witnessed a scared mother and child apologizing to a punk for accidentally spilling something on the punk's clothes. An ordinary passerby would not have gotten involved, but he moved his body unconsciously when he saw the punk start to lay his hands on the child. Knowing that he was no match for the bully but still wanting to protect the child, he knelt down to beg forgiveness for the child even at the sacrifice of his own dignity. Kaori once witnessed this bravery and the strength of his heart that allowed him to stand against evil while a weak person and began approaching him everyday once she found him in high school.

Plot
At the beginning of the story, Hajime was a complete otaku in his class who always and always comes to class with a sleepy expression. He was always bullied and was glared by both of his male and female classmates for being close to their idol-like classmate, Kaori.

After wishing for his annoying classmates to be summoned to another world, the next thing he saw was that they were on top of a pillar-like structure in another world. Then, they become saviors called by the "GOD" on Tortus, Ehito, thus becoming one of the heroes.

However, he had the job "Synergist" which was not a cheat-like job with all his stats starting with 10. All of his classmates had cheat-like jobs and stats reaching the hundreds just by being level one. He was thus also bullied for being weak. After that, Kaori visited his room, telling him not to go to Orcus Dungeon, because she had a dream that someone is gonna take him away and Kaori can't just sleep with that thought. But Hajime comforted her that even if he will go with them, he will not be in any danger because Kaori is there to protect him which made Kaori happily nod in agreement.

After that day, they went to Orcus Dungeon to level up. They were fine until they reached the 20th floor when Hiyama touched a huge shiny ore in an attempt to obtain it for Kaori. It was a trap and everybody present was teleported to a lower floor in the dungeon. There, they saw a lizard-like monster called "Behemoth" which was the monster that was not defeated even with the legendary adventurer who reached the 65th floor. Hajime helped a girl surrounded by monsters and told them to keep calm or they are gonna die. Then, he got mad at Kouki who was full of justice and wouldn't leave behind Meld, saying someone should lead the panicking classmates. Hajime told Meld to help him after his classmates where it is safe while he was preventing the Behemoth from moving. After that, their party was casting magic to kill the Behemoth, but one classmate betrayed Hajime and hit him with a "Fireball" which caused him to fall off the cliff. After that, his legend began.

Weapons and Equipment

 * Donner - A specialized revolver made from various ores, with 10 times the power of a normal rifle, which can be used in combo with lightning clad to be a rail gun with the power of 100 times a normal rifle.
 * Schlag - A revolver in tandem with Donner (same specs).
 * Devil eye/Magic Eye - An artificial eye and an artifact made by Hajime to see through things that can't be seen with the naked eye, for example, illusions using magic.
 * Two-wheel drive (Steiff)- A motorcycle made by Hajime to move by magic
 * Four wheel drive ( Brise)-  Resembling a hummer the military uses, not only does it have weapons installed, it also has a thick armor plating. The entire vehicle is painted matte black
 * Schlagen - An anti-material rifle with a 3m long barrel 20 times stronger than Donner.
 * Oscar's ring/Treasure Box - A ring which can contain objects in a different dimension.
 * Prosthetic arm - A very strong metallic arm attached to the left arm of Hajime which contains various weapon and can be enhanced by pouring certain amounts of magic. It also has magical nerve's that connects it to the brain which can even make the user feel the sensation's a normal arm can feel.
 * 4-wheel drive - A car made by Hajime to move by magic. It can fire 4 rockets at the same time. It also has a schlagen attached to it.
 * Metzelei - A Gatling gun with six barrels made by Hajime which can fire 12,000 rounds per minute and can fire for 5 continuous minutes.
 * Orkan - a rocket and missile launcher made by Hajime with a 12 rotary magazine.
 * Incendiary Grenades - grenades made by Hajime using transmutation. It is made by using ores which have certain effects like flash bangs, explosives, burning bombs, napalms, smoke screens, etc.
 * Pile Bunker - A device that can be attached to the Prosthetic arm which has 6 arms and a stake that can drill through anything it is made by using azanthium ore, the hardest material which weighs 4 tons. The material is compressed by compression transmutation. It also has anchors to attach against hard enemies. It was later given gravity magic to help increase the power of the stake.
 * Mechanic Shield - A shield with a coffin-like appearance that can be attached to the Prosthetic arm with a shape of a cross, it has a stake that you can bury to the ground so that the user will be unmovable when attacked.
 * Unmanned Reconnaissance Planes - Mechanical birds that have a magic ore which can connect to Hajime's Vision allowing him to have shared vision.
 * Cross Bits - It has the shape of a little metallic cross which has a middle part just like a round shield with a length of 60 cm and width of 40 cm. It moves by the same principle as the Unmanned Reconnaissance Planes and their type specialized in attacking. Inside were loaded with gun and rifle bullet, they were operated using the bracelet where seven induction stones were installed. Moreover, the surface was covered with minerals which endowed with “Vajra” using Creation magic, so they could become strong shields as they reacted on the magic power from induction stone. When becoming a shield it becomes a huge flower-like cross. It can also self destruct when the enemy is distracted by its shooting power and acts like a surprise attack. When four points were united a boxed-type barrier would be formed. It’s not just a simple barrier though, it’s the type that shuts out space itself through Spatial Magic.
 * Custom made torpedoes  - Made by Hajime which would be used in Elisen, «Meljeenae’s Seabed Ruin» (One of the seven great dungeons and is also located underwater).Hajime thoroughly painted them so they looked like smiling mischievous sharks.
 * Slug - Bullets that scattered when shot and the power depends on which gun has been used like Donner or Schlagen.
 * Magic powered Submarine - A submarine created by Hajime because he thought it was necessary for the «Meljeene, Bottom of the Sea Ruin». It was used in Guryuu-en Great Volcano and it can also survive being directly bathed in Magma. It can also fire Custom made torpedoes.
 * Magic powered Flamethrower - A flamethrower made by Hajime that looks like a rifle. It also has Flame ore in tar form inside it and can spray flames of 3,000 °C.
 * Oxygen Cylinder's - A cylinder with a length of 15 cm and diameter of 3 cm and in the middle is a mouthpiece part of a snorkel tube.It was created using the ore imbued with Spatial magic using Creation magic. Thus, the space inside where the oxygen was put into, can expand just like Treasure Box, these small oxygen cylinders can only hold out for around 30 minutes.
 * Engetsu/Getsurin - Moon-like rings that look like a cross between shuriken and a chakram which can be added with air claws and sign interception. It can be controlled like the cross bits and has spatial magic in the hole in its middle part. Hajime can shot through space with gunshots or grenades like the tar that can burn till 3.000℃. It has a remote control with an induction stone.
 * Magic powered Bola - It looks like two balls attached by a string to catch opponents. It also makes the opponent float at the air in a fixed space.
 * Hyperion - The weapon Hajime used to fire the "Light of Condemnation". It can be described as a laser beam satellite powered by Magic and is a sunlight convergence laser. It is an enormous air-frame lens which converged sunlight, it can also charge itself while inside of the “Treasure Warehouse” which had heat capacity installed in it. Enormous heat which critically overflowed from the “Treasure Warehouse” would be discharged through the launching entrance where gravity magic was added in to make it discharge towards the ground. Its biggest feature was the fact that it could still converge the sunlight even while it was nighttime. Its secret was due to Oscar Orcus’s false sun which lit up his rooms. That thing’s sunlight was created through Reproduction magic along with Space magic. It has a remote control with an induction stone.
 * Ferner - An airship built by Hajime, mainly made out of gravity stones and induction stones, along with other various functions built in. Ferner is 120 meters in length and in the shape of a devilfish, inside of it contained halls that led to the bridge towards the front and living quarters at the center, furthermore, there was also a kitchen and room to take baths.
 * Gate Key - A key made by Hajime to activate the gate hall.
 * Gate Hall - A lock made by Hajime. When thrusting out the gate key into space this process was “Opening the Lock”, the gate then connects the space to the place in the gate hall that is set up beforehand in order to be transferred to it. Of course, it was created with a combination of space magic and creation magic.
 * Spider-type Golem Scout - A metal-spider made by Hajime powered by magic it can make hole's in a hole and can cover it up. It can be used for assassinations. can go anywhere through remote control with “Transmuting” and “Thread”, the images are sent to the “Crystal Display” through the “Distance Transmitting Stone”, and it can sense magic traps just like the magic eye. It also has paralysis and sleeping poison on its feet, even poison which makes it so that the little sonny doesn’t get up.The principle was this. Ore’s with the property of “High-Speed Magic Recovery” was created through Creation Magic and added into the magical power tanks which caused them to auto regen, it always added fuel back into it as “Magic Radiation” was being emitted.nd the magic formation needed to activate it was a kind of sliding switch which was placed on it to allow it to smoothly activate on and off. Furthermore, there was a function which responded to the blood and status plate, meaning only the blood of the user would be accepted.
 * Holy Water - It is what Hajime called the potion dropping from the God's Crystal. It can recover any wounds and status effects in fast a succession rate.It is also limited because of the fact that the God's Crystal stopped dropping "Potion".
 * God Crystal - A very rare item found by Hajime when he fell from the abyss while being chased by the demon bear. It drops Holy Water.

Abilities
At first, Hajime's ability is average among his peers that gained high status. Despite so, he can use his ability to its fullest evidenced by how he used transmutation to kill Demonic Beasts with higher levels. After eating Demonic Beast meat, he became stronger and gained the ability of the beast that he ate. By the time he completes Orcus Labyrinth, his ability is already beyond the limit to the point that his level status is unknown. He's also a master in transmutation that allows him to make powerful weapons. Having obtained Age of Gods Magic, a status that is beyond limit, and extremely powerful weapons, he became the strongest among his peers.
 * Master Inventor: Hajime is an extremely resourceful and innovative inventor, combining his scientific knowledge with his transmutation skill to create various powerful weapons and other advanced magic powered machinery.
 * 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.

Skills

 * Transmutation - Hajime's first ability when he arrived in Tortus. It allows the user to control a mineral or transform it.
 * Mineral Appraisal - Ability to learn the cost of a product.
 * Precision Transmutation - Allows the user to transmute precisely.
 * Mineral Enquiry - Ability to know the information of items.
 * 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 Manipulation - Allows the user to manipulate magic without the help of Magic Circles and Magic Stones.
 * Magic Emission - Ability to emit magic can be used to make a shout stronger.
 * Magic Compression - Ability to compress magic and shoot it.
 * Remote control - Ability to control the magic emitted.
 * Possibly immortality - (Due to his body being more monster than human, Hajime isn't sure he even has a lifespan)
 * Iron Stomach - the ability obtained by Hajime after he ate a wolf-like monster which made him able 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 for himself.
 * Lightning Clad - magic obtained by Hajime after eating a wolf-like monster which makes his body able to produce 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.
 * Night Vision - As the name implies night vision allows for Hajime to see in the dark. It's acquired after eating the basilisk.
 * Petrification Resistance - An ability as the name implies and is acquired after eating the basilisk.
 * Perception - Makes the user's perception stronger and is acquired after beating the basilisk.
 * Heat Perception - Perceives the heat of any creature within 10 meters.
 * Pressure - Applies pressure to enemies.
 * Limit Break - Allows Hajime to make his stats 3 times stronger for a certain amount of time.
 * Supreme Break -Multiplies his stats by 5 times with greater strain than limit break.
 * 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.
 * Magic perception - Ability that allows the user to perceive magic.
 * Hide Presence - 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.
 * Panic Resistance - Ability to resist panic.
 * All Element Resistance - Ability to resist all types of element attacks to a certain extent.
 * Telepathic Communication - Ability to use telepathy.
 * High-Speed Magic recovery - Allows the user to heal magic at a fast rate.
 * Generation Magic - Allows a person to use ancient Magic.
 * Language Comprehension - Ability to understand any language.
 * 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.
 * Great Arm - An ability taken from a gorilla-like monster releases strong attacks like punches, elbows, chops and etc.
 * Gun Kata - martial arts where the user uses the gun to fight.
 * Polygonal Shot - Hajime shot's a bullet that ricochets.
 * Specific Perception - an ability that is possible to catch only a specific presence among a crowd, and identify a presence among many.
 * Tracking - can be used to mark places or animals. If used in places he can create maps while on animals he can track them.
 * Shotgun punch - an attack where he uses a shotgun on his prosthetic arm's to make his punch stronger.
 * Farsight - ability to see from afar.
 * 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.
 * Prediction - ability to predict anyone or anything's movement.
 * Sign Interception - ability to leave the users presence behind.
 * 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.
 * Age Of God Magics- Magics which allow him to interfere with the principles of all things. The names of the age of god magic that Hajime and others recognized until now were only given by taking into consideration the interference that was possible to be done using the human body.
 * Creation Magic - magic to interfere with inorganic things and can create new artifacts learned from Orcus Great Dungeon. Hajime can use this to its maximum potential.
 * Gravity Magic - magic to control gravity. Hajime can use it to a certain extent.
 * Spatial Magic - Magic to bend space and teleport and the age of the gods magic learned in  Guryuu-en Great Volcano.
 * Reproduction Magic - Age of the God's Magic learned from Meljeene bottom Sea Ruin. It can regenerate anything that has been damaged but not completely when a part is lost and it can also heal status effects.
 * Spirit Magic - a magic that can directly interfere with souls learned in kamimaya's great labyrinth.
 * Sublimation Magic - a magic that allows other magics and status to "evolve".
 * Metamorphosis Magic - a magic that interferes with nature of organic things. Is mostly used to create and strengthen monsters.
 * Concept Magic - allows you to understand the principles of all things and create, manifest a concept.
 * Light of Condemnation - a pillar of light with the length of 50 meters and erases whatever it touches and can be controlled by Hajime by using an induction ore, in short, a laser beam satellite powered by magic and is a sunlight convergence laser.
 * Prediction - Allows the user to predict the next move of any individual to a certain extent.
 * Deny All Existences - Chains filled with concept magic to overwrites other's status from "Exist" to "Non-Exist". 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.

Relationships
Yue - Yue became Hajime's most important person after he fell into the Abyss. The two quickly grew close due to their similar backgrounds and similar circumstances. Even in public, they tend to go into their own "pink world" and ignore everything in their surroundings. Whenever there is danger Hajime and Yue always prioritize the other's safety. Even though Hajime is surrounded by women who want to be his lovers and Yue herself wants him to be intimate with Shia, he has never wavered. His reasoning being that he is a man who would never cheat on the woman he loves and wants to be monopolized by Yue since, if the situation was reversed, he would never want Yue to be with anyone but him. It is Hajime's wish to bring Yue and the other girls back to his world.

Kaori Shirasaki - Hajime has always seen Kaori as a friend even though her attention brought him nothing but trouble. When Hajime began his travels he had decided to discard his former classmates after his transformation but the moment he heard Kaori was in trouble he went into a dungeon to save her to repay her kindness. In the end, Kaori decided to travel with him despite his drastically different personality.

Shia Hauria - During their first meeting Hajime's impression of Shia was bad due to her excessive clingy attitude. Hajime wouldn't allow Shia to travel with him until she became strong so she trained with Yue so that one day she could stand next to them in battle. As time passed Hajime and Yue began to see Shia as part of their family but to Shia's and shockingly Yue's great disappointment Hajime could not see Shia in a romantic light. However. that began to change when Hajime realized that Shia is just as important and irreplaceable to him as Yue and has begun to show his previously hidden feelings for her. Without realizing it the two have created their own "pink world" while they are alone.

Tio Clarce - After defeating and arguably "tainting" her, Hajime has been followed by the masochistic and incredibly perverted Tio who refers to him as her "master". Hajime constantly finds himself punishing her for her various misdeeds during their travels which makes Tio incredibly happy and disgusts everyone else. During their fight against Freed Baghaur, Tio admitted her true love for Hajime before escaping per his orders. Since then, Hajime has become "slightly" more tolerant of her and sees Tio as a member of their group, even going so far as to trust her with Myuu's safety while he and the others went into a dungeon. Hajime later confesses that he loves her when her father and the rest of the dragon race decide to help him wage war on Ehito.

Myuu - Hajime and Shia saved her from a sewage system after she escaped from slavers. Myuu immediately bonded with them and began called them "Onii-chan" and "Onee-chan". Later on, after Hajime and co. once again saved her from slavery she began calling him "Papa" much to Hajime's chagrin. As they travelled together Hajime began acting more and more like her father, from being incredibly overprotective to scolding and subsequently comforting her when she put herself in danger. After returning Myuu to her mother, Lemia, who started referring to Hajime as her husband, Hajime decided to take them with him once he returns to his world which both mother and daughter happily agreed to.

Amanogawa Kouki - Hajime has a neutral standing about Kouki and ignores the fact that Kouki envies him. He only has a bit of good intent to Kouki because he is a close friend of Kaori.

Yaegashi Shizuku - Hajime cannot handle Shizuku for she knows his secrets such us chuunibyuu stuff. Shizuku later admits to him that she has feelings for him.

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.