Kaori Shirasaki

"Hajime-kun, can I also join your party...? Rather, I'm coming no matter what you say. Thanks for having me."

- Kaori resolute to follow Hajime

Kaori Shirasaki is one of the major character from the "Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō" series.

She is one of the students from Japan who got involved in the Summoning Incident, and ended up in Tortus along with her other classmates. She is the childhood friend of Shizuku Yaegashi, Ryutarou Sakagami & Kouki Amanogawa; and was part of Kouki's party during the training in Orcus Dungeon.

She had a long crush on Hajime Nagumo since she once saw him while she was in Middle School. Since her meeting, she admires Hajime for being strong willed. Realizing her love for Hajime after he fell into the abyss, she further pushed her resolve to become stronger in order to prevent it from ever happening again.

Appearance
Kaori is your typical bishoujo (beautiful girl) with a black hair that has bangs reaching the height of her waist with brown eyes. Later on in the story, she uses the body of Noint, which gains her features of silver hair and blue eyes.

Personality
Kaori is your typical caring bishoujo whom takes cares for all of her friends. She also has a strong will to want to overcome any obstacles. She is often told by the other girls in Hajime's party that she is a closet pervert for when she spoon fed Hajime with her spoon, she blushed and quickly ate all the food with the used spoon, another time of this was when they were in the Haltina's Sea of Tree's she was dreaming of being pushed down by Hajime (in a sexual way) inside the amber like case.

Her desire to know more about Hajime's interests caused her to become an otaku after listening to his advice on what anime and manga she should check out.

Background
Kaori is your typical school idol which everyone admires and she met Shizuku in elementary school by being the only person that would talk to her, which gradually led to the two of them becoming best friends.

She admired Hajime as he is strong willed after witnessing an incident in middle school where he stand up to a group of delinquents that were harassing a child and his grandmother. She wanted to get to know him after the incident and would spend the next year waiting outside the school Hajime attending in the hopes that he would be able to meet him. Unfortunately, Hajime was always gone by the time Kaori arrived at his school.

During her first year of high school, Kaori discovered that Hajime would be in her class after she sees him sleeping during their orientation. She would constantly talk with him in order to get to know him better. During one occasion, in her attempts to better understand Hajime's interests, when she was exploring Akihabara with Shizuku, she asked a store clerk to buy an a certain adult game because the regular version was sold out. In an attempt to obtain, Kaori claimed that she was planning to buy it for her father (much to the shock over everyone in the store).

She didn't realize she was in love with Hajime until Hajime fell into the abyss.

After that incident, she believed that Hajime is still alive and trained herself to be stronger.

Along her journey in the labyrinth, they were cornered by a woman of the demon race Cattleya. She and the others were saved by Hajime, but as a completely changed person. After the battle, Yue noticed Kaori's stare and closes then told her: "Is that the extent of your feelings?". Later after some time during their talk she then saw Hajime get mad at some rogue mercenaries when they disrespected Shea by calling her a sex slave, which lead to Hajime beating them up. She then realized that he was still the same person she love, Hajime, so she confessed to him and told him that she wanted to follow him and declaring at the same time that she wont yield to Yue.

She died from the attacks of the demon race by Hiyama's hands later on, but she was resurrected and insisted to be transferred into a strong body by Hajime; then she was transferred to Noint's body through Hajime suggestion.

When using Noint's body her body will be stored in Hajime's Treasure Trove being while frozen by Yue's magic to preserve it. Thanks to Yue, she later gains the ability to switch between her normal form and an apostle form where she gains silver hair and wings.

Weapons & Equipment

 * Twin Greatswords - given to her when she gained Noint's body. They are two big hard swords that she can summon.
 * Demon Sword of Circle Calamity - Anima Ernte - a powerful black demon sword artifact that has the ability to drain magic from the opponents. The holy sword exclusively assist Kaori in her use of ‘Divine Binding of Layered Usurpation’.
 * Holy Sword of Gospel - Bel Rexion - a powerful white holy sword artifact that has the ability to convert the plundered magic power into healing magic. The holy sword exclusively assist Kaori in her use of ’Mighty Breath of Heaven Turning’.
 * Anima Erunte - a demon sword which plunders the power of her opponents and turn it into his power.
 * God Crystal Bracelet - A bracelet made by Hajime to give a battery like magic container to help Kaori fight efficiently. It also has various ores that has the effect such as telepathy.
 * Healing Artifact - an artifact given to her by the Kingdom. It improves healing effects done by her.
 * Shutzengel - Kaori’s exclusive use large scale protection barrier stone, this artifact assisted the barrier magic of Kaori who wasn’t a barrier master to deploy a large-scale barrier. It also has the effect of transferring the magic power of others to Kaori, in that way is possible send their magic power to help.
 * Mini-Treasure Trove - A smaller version of Treasure Trove used to store items created by Hajime using spatial magic. It has the size around a house’s storage.
 * Gate Key - a key imbued with spatial magic that opens a portal between Kaori's and Hajime's houses.
 * Smartphone - a hybrid smartphone that combines modern technology with crustal display made in another world. It can contact other worlds, fire lasers of concentrated super small sunlight with the thickness of a needle, and it also continuously takes the vital data of the owner, and in the case the owner’s vital entered critical stage because of some abnormality, the smartphone automatically opens a small gate, firing the light of the satellite type resurrection magic radiator artifact operating outside the earth’s atmosphere, Bel Agarta.

Skills

 * Recovery Magic Affinity - it allows the user to use healing magic at a capable rate.
 * Improved Proficiency - it can use healing magic more effectively.
 * Increased Casting Speed - it increase the speed of the healing magic.
 * Image Supplementation - it can use healing magic with her imagination.
 * Piercing Spells - it can detect the healing magic spreading out.
 * AoE Proficiency - it makes healing magic into an AoE.
 * Remote Healing - can perfectly use healing magic even from afar.
 * Improved Status Effect Recovery - it can heal effectively status effects.
 * Reduced Mana Consumption - it decreases the rate of magic being run out.
 * Improved Mana Efficiency - it can use healing magic efficiently.
 * Chain Casting - it can activate healing magic for a long time.
 * Multicasting - it can use healing magic at any person from near or afar.
 * Spell Retention - it can delay the effects of healing magic.
 * Effect Multiplication - it can activate healing magic for multiple times.
 * Light Magic Affinity - it allows the user to use light magic at a capable rate.
 * Speed Casting - it can cast light magic at a fast rate.
 * Improved Proficiency - it increases the effects of light magic being cast.
 * Increased Spell Duration - it increases the effective time of light magic.
 * Chain Casting - it can use light magic for long periods of time.
 * Multicasting - it can use light magic at any person from near or afar.
 * Spell Retention - it can activate light magic for multiple times.
 * High Speed Mana Recovery - an ability that quickly regenerates the magic used.
 * Meditation - it can control the rate of magic recovery.
 * Restoration 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. It's 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 any 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 about existing things'. 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 it's used to remake a 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, but it's 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 gets created during the process is just a byproduct of the process.
 * Language Comprehension - a base skill granted to all those who got summoned. It gives the user the ability to understand any language and be proficient in it.
 * Twin Greatswords Proficiency (Apostle Skill) - an ability that increase the proficiency of wielding two swords.
 * Disintegration (Apostle Skill) - magic that melts can melt everything except someone or something with a defense similar to Hajime's Vajra with the use of Noint's body.
 * All Elemental Affinity (Apostle Skill) - an ability to use all kinds of Magic.
 * Spell Mending (Apostle Skill) - an ability to fuse any kind of Magic.
 * Mana Manipulation (Apostle Skill) - an ability to directly manipulate Mana and use spells without the need of a Magic Circle or an Incantation.

Spells
Light Magic
 * Divine Shackles - it sends out a light magic chains to restrain enemies.
 * Ten Thousand Heavens - it's a mid-ranked healing magic of the light element capable of curing abnormal statuses.
 * Heaven Interruption - it creates 5 shields of light.
 * Infiltrate - an ability to send magic inside a persons body.
 * Examine - magic that can see through the status of a person.
 * Focus - an ability to focus a magic on a person.
 * Holy Ground - high rank light magic which send a persons magic power to another.
 * Blessing - beginner rank healing magic.
 * Light Severance  - a beginner rank defense magic of light attribute.
 * Holy Blessing - an intermediate rank healing spell.
 * Plenary Blessing - a single-target intermediate rank recovery spell that is more potent than "Holy Blessing".
 * Divine Veil - an intermediate rank healing spell. The amount of healing it provided was minimal, but so long as the spell is active, it continues to passively regenerate the target’s health while enveloping them in the caster’s mana
 * Sacred Shields - an advanced version of the basic light spell, "Holy Shield", that allows the caster to deploy multiple Holy Shields at once. As she was not as proficient with barrier magic, Kaori uses this spell to deflect in coming attacking by positioning the shields at the right angle.
 * Radiant Prison. - it seals the target in a cage of light.
 * Binding Blades of Light - it retrains the target by summoning multiple cross-shaped swords of light.
 * Heaven Crusher - a spell that restrains an enemy by force.
 * Scripture/Sacred Text - the highest-ranked healing magic of light attribute. A super wide-ranged healing magic with effect of healing everyone inside its area. The range itself was depended on the amount of user’s magic power and proficiency, but at its worst, its effective range was 500 meters in radius. Moreover, if the user gave out the “sign” beforehand, it would be able to heal specific object. And normally this magic was used with tens of magician, and took a lot of time to chant along with its stupidly gigantic magic array. To be able to activate it in only one, two minutes alone was impossible unless one was a cheat-like character.
 * Reversal - a recovery magic for multiple targets, its effects are already above the advanced level. Most wounds are healed in no time. After getting Noint’s body, Kaori was inspired to create new healing magic. It was possible to heal with restoration magic, however the magic consumption from the age of gods magic is larger than normal magic.

Ancient Magic Spells
 * Transient Infinity - restoration magic that can, regardless of the substance of the object, regenerate everything to the state one second ago every one second it is used.
 * Tetragrammaton - restoration magic variant, a magic which restores all destruction regardless of whether it was organic or inorganic matter.
 * Godspeed - a variation of restoration magic that interferes with time. The user is capable to moves or unleashes attacks in extremely high speed by shortening the time, affecting every single event, to reach the distance, making it closely resemble teleportation.
 * Temple Rend - a magic to stretch the length of time. The essence of regeneration magic was in the point that it was a magic that could interfere with time. However, from the viewpoint of the throughput and magic power amount, the extent human could handle this magic was only regeneration to return the state of the target into the healthy state where they didn't bore any wound, because such way of using it essentially only stopped at an act of projecting a moment of the past, it was named as 'regeneration' magic.

Composite Magic Spells
 * Holy Crest of the Fallen - metamorphosis and regeneration composite magic ‘Holy Crest of the Fallen’ by carving a cross that shouldered the role of a magic circle on a part of the body, this magic would activate regeneration magic in a prescribed time. This magic could even be called as a powerful version of auto-regen. Furthermore, by using metamorphosis magic the holy crest that was like a tattoo could be erased.
 * Mighty Breath of Heaven Turning - spirit and regeneration composite magic ‘Mighty Breath of Heaven Turning this magic picked out which were the allies using soul magic and carried out convergence-xing-attachment of the souls that were in the process of dispersing, moreover it performed healing using regeneration magic. As expected, in the case where the corpse didn’t maintain their original shape like being bisected until the body become in pieces or the head was gone, or the time of death had gone past ten minutes, the effect of this magic wouldn’t work on the corpse that was in those states, but other than those cases all the allies inside the radius of four kilometers with the black silver drop as the center would have revival and healing performed on them.
 * Divine Binding of Layered Usurpation - spirit and light element composite magic ‘Divine Binding of Layered Usurpation’ this composite magic designated its target using soul magic, and then it used sublimation magic to light element magic ‘Divine Transfer’ in order to transfer magic power to other people. It plundered the magic power of the seized opponent forcefully to recover one’s own magic power, and then that magic could also be reused for things like ally’s strengthening and so on.

Human
Kaori's base stats before her death and soul transfer.

Apostle
Kaori's base stats after her soul transfer to an Apostle body.

Note :-
 * The base stats given above aren't Kaori's current stats, as the last time the author provided stats for her in the Web Novel was before she acquired "Evolution Magic" from the Haltina's Labyrinth.

Relationships

 * Shizuku Yaegashi - Shizuku is one of Karoi's closest friends.
 * Kouki Amanogawa - Kouki is one of Kaori's closest friends.
 * Hajime Nagumo - Kaori had developed feelings for him Hajime ever since middle school, but she only realized she had fallen in love after he feel into the abyss and became convinced that he had survived. After she reunited with Hajime when he rescued her and her fellow classmates from a Demon ambush, she was determined to remain by his side no matter the cost.
 * Yue - Kaori and Yue are normally seen arguing and fighting with each other over small things with most of their arguments revolving around Hajime or each of them trying to outdo the other. She's often told that they really close to each other to the point of making Shea and Shizuku, their respective best friend to feel envious toward their relationships. While she is usually shown to antagonistic towards Yue, the two of them can work together effortlessly when the situation requires it.
 * Shea Haulia - Kaori is close with Shea as one of Hajime's companions and they love the same person though Kaori often feel jealous to her being the second person Hajime's accept as "Special" beside Yue. Despite her jealousy, Kaori's rarely quarrel with her unlike with Yue, they always friendly with each other. Kaori considered Shea as a person that gives her hope by proving that Hajime's heart is capable to accept another girl's feelings.

Quotes

 * (Kaori apologizing to Hajime for breaking her promise): "Hajime-kun... Shank you... hic... for staying alive. And I'm... sho sorry I couldn't protect you... Hic..."
 * (Kaori expressing her feelings for Hajime to Prince Lundel): "Huh? Wh-What's this all of a sudden? Jeez, that's so embarrassing. But, fufu, yes, I suppose I would. He's the man I love the most in the world. As for what's good about him, well... everything. Fufu..."

Trivia

 * The name Kaori means "fragrance" (香).
 * It can also mean "flower, blossom" (花) (ka) and "weave" (織) (ori).
 * Kaori's surname Shirasaki means "white" (白) (shira) and "cape, peninsula" (崎) (saki).
 * Part of the name Saki means "blossom" (咲) (sa) and "hope" (希) (ki).
 * Saki can be used a first name and last name.
 * Kaori is the second member of her class to die, but the only one to be restored to life.
 * Kaori is the only member of her class to believe that Hajime Nagumo had survived his fall into the abyss.
 * During her separation from Hajime, Kaori somehow developed an ability to sense when he was involved with another girl which usually caused her Stand to appear much to her classmates horror.
 * Whenever Koari gets into a heated confrontation with Yue, an apparition of a demon wearing a and wielding a sword would appear above her.
 * Ryo Shirakome based Kaori off of Moe Wakaba from .
 * In many ways, Kaori seems like the most level headed member of Hajime's group, but can be just as dangerous as the others especially after she gained the powers of an Aspotle.
 * Kaori gets easily flustered or embarrassed whenever the topic of a conversation or any situation in general (usually involving Hajime) takes on a perverted or sexual nature.