Kousuke Endou

"I, am the shadow! The right-hand man of the godslaying demon king that was born from the bottom of the abyss! I came from the deep abyss, from the darkness that is deeper than even darkness! Now, engrave into your soul, this taboo name!"

- Monologue

Kousuke Endou is a main character from the "Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō" series.

He is one of the students from Japan who got involved in the Summoning Incident, and ended up in Tortus along with his other classmates. He is friends with Jugo Nagayama & Kentarou Nomura, and was part of Nagayama's party during the training in Orcus Dungeon. He also has a very weak presence and can't be noticed by labyrinth monsters or automatic doors.

A year after coming back to earth, is revealed that he started dating Lana Haulia, of the Haulia Tribe, and is studying medicine for the tribe since they have no one with that talent. He also started calling Hajime Boss and was given the name Kousuke E Abyssgate after being accepted into the tribe.

Personality
Kousuke has a normal personality, although he always complains about his very weak presence that makes it unable for the others to usually notice him. When his skill Abyss Lord is active, his personality becomes that of a chuuni.

Weapons and Equipments

 * Demon Sword of Destroyer Calamity Crawling the Earth -

Powers & Abilities
Kousuke Job as Assassin give him an ability that allow him hide his presence and move quick. Later, after obtaining Age of the God's Magic Gravity and awaken skill Abyss Lord, he become the strongest among his peer (excluding Hajime and his harem).

Skill
There is a demerit to the "Abyss Lord" skill. While it was activated, the user’s speech and conduct would be forcefully be made into a flawless Chūni. Furthermore, while the activation of the skill was essentially possible by the user’s discretionary, but its possible for the skill to get activated on its own without the user’s discretion.
 * Assassination Technique
 * Dagger Art
 * Concealment
 * Tracking
 * Throwing Art
 * Hidden Weapon Art
 * Transmission Wave - its an ability to strain one’s ear to pick up vibrations in the air, or in the wall, to listen to conversations from someplace a good distance away.
 * Escape Art - its a skill that gives aptitude correction to magic if it was used for escape.
 * Abyss Lord - A skill that had the effect of a gradual Limit Break. It didn’t raise his stats explosively like Limit Break, but rather strengthens all his specs little by little while the skill was activated. Furthermore, while being different from Limit Break, this skill doesn’t have the normal side effect of strong lethargy after use. The skill is divided into five depth levels from 'Depth I' to 'Depth V', with each depth mean certain level of stats boosts. In order reach a certain depth level the skill must be activated for a proportional amount of time. Once the user reach a desired depth, that depth can activated anytime.
 * Presence Manipulation - the user can manipulate the presence of oneself by making their presence disappear.
 * Presence Isolation - different from Hajime's "Hide Presence", this skill allows user the to completely erased presence.
 * Phantom Step - its a skill leaves behind a presence with an afterimage piled up on oneself to blur one’s own figure.
 * Dream Illusion III - its a skill that produced up to three illusionary clones of oneself.
 * Clarity Phantom - its a skill that gave substance to the clone.
 * Minimum Mind - its an invisibility assistance skill, while the user is invisible this skill would make the user’s breathing, heartbeat, presence, and even the fluctuation of the mind, and so on, to be in a flat state.
 * Shadow Dance - its a skill that allows the user to run on walls. It couldn’t let the user stand still on a wall, but as long as the user has momentum, they could continue to run on walls.
 * Water Dance - its a skill that let the user walk over the water.
 * Leave Dance - its a skill that let the user use things like leaves that were falling in the air as instant footholds for jumping.
 * Gravity Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", it gives the user control over gravity.
 * Language Comprehension - Ability to understand any language.

Stats
Kousuke's stats as per "Web Novel - Chapter 199 (After Story)"

Note :-
 * The base stats given above aren't Kousuke's current stats, as the last time the author provided stats for him in the Web Novel was during the 'Berserk Incident' in the "After Story".
 * Kousuke's base stats gets increased based on his usage of Derivative-Skill "Abyss Lord", which has an effect similar to 'Limit Break', but rather than explosively increasing the user stat, it gradually increased them depending on how long the skill is active.

Relationships
Hajime Nagumo: Kousuke have a close relationship with Hajime. Both consider each other as bosom friend. This stem from the fact both of them being treated as a chuuni along with having Hauria member as their girlfriend.

Lana Haulia : Kousuke's girlfriend. He fell in love with her during The Great War. At first, he is rejected successively, after seeing his determination, she present him with a condition that if he can at least put a scratch on Hajime, she will go out with him ,which he eventually succeeds in doing. As Kousuke will eventually become head of Hauria, she wanted him to have a harem like Hajime.

Emily Grant: Fell in love with Kousuke after going through much trouble. Entered Endo's harem by Lana despite the fact he didn't want her to.

Vanessa Paradis: Agent from certain organisation responsible for Emily's safety. Entered Endo's harem by Lana.

Trivia

 * His weak presence is something he has had as far back as a child.
 * Kousuke face haven't been properly revealed yet in either the "Light Novel" or the "Nichijou" 4-koma series. Whenever he is focused, his face is always shown to be hidden because of some reason. This has become a recurring joke in the series.