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Shinji Nakano (
After the demons invaded the Heiligh Kingdom, Nakano and the rest of the students stayed behind to protect it while Hajime and his companions traveled with the so-called "hero" Kouki Amanogawa and his friends.
After returning to Earth, he and Yoshiki eventually start a private security company after returning to Earth, and became bodyguards of Liliana S. B. Heiligh.
Appearance
Shinji is a young man with an overweight build and short spiky black hair.
Personality
At first, Shinji acts like a typical bully. He enjoys picking on other weaker than him (particularly Hajime), but will meakly back down when confronted by those he considers stronger than him. After being transported to Tortus with his class and being granted magic, his bullying rose to a greater extent where he started using violence and justified it as a way to train. He had also grown more arrogant in his abilities, and believes that he and his friends are practically unbeatable.
Following the deaths of Reichi and Daisuke during the demons' invasion of the kingdom, as well as having witnessed Hajime's immense strength and ruthlessness, Shinji's courage has completely left him, and has become much more cowardly and reclusive.
After returning to Earth, he and Shinji have greatly reformed and completely ceased acting like bullies.
Chronology
One Monday morning during his second year of high school, Shinji and his three friends Daisuke, Reichi and Yoshiki were verbally harassing Hajime Nagumo after he barely arrived in time before class began.
When it became lunchtime, Reichi and his class were suddenly engulfed in a large glowing circle that transported. Once it was over, everyone saw that they were suddenly inside a large cathedral. Soon after, they were approach by Pope Ishtar Langbard of the Holy Church, and explained to them that they had been summoned the alternate world of Tortus by humanity's god Ehit, in order to aid in their war against the demons. When Ishtar revealed that Ehit was the only one with the power to send them home, the students agreed to fight alongside the humans of Tortus, against the protests of their teacher Aiko Hatayama. The next morning, Daisuke and the rest of his classmates gathered at the palace courtyard to begin their training. They were greeted by the kingdom's Knight Commander Meld Loggins, and were each given a Status Plate artifact before he explained how it worked to everyone. As the students began to activate their plates, Shinji and his friends were making fun of Hajime after it was revealed that he had the common Job of "Synergist", as well as possessing average Stats. Over the next two weeks, the students trained in the kingdom in order to prepare for the war against the demons. During that time, Shinji and his friends continuously harassed Hajime by attacking him with their magic, but would stop whenever they were confronted by their classmates Kaori, Shizuku, Kouki and Ryutarou.
Once the students' initial training complete, they traveled to the town of Horaud in order to explore Great Orcus Labyrinth, and battle the monsters that resided there as a way to gain combat experience. During the their exploration into the Labyrinth, Daisuke accidentally set off a trap that transported everyone transported to the 65th floor. They soon found themselves at a stone bridge and was trapped between a behemoth and and army of skeletal traum soldiers. Hajime managed to hold the Behemoth back his transmutation magic while the others managed to create an escape path through the skeletons. Most of them were able to escape, but Hajime had been presumed dead after being hit by a fireball while making his was back to his classmates, and fell over the bridge with the Behemoth.
Shinji was among the students that resumed their training in the Great Orcus Labyrinth, in spite of the dangers they knew it contained. As they managed to become stronger and advance deep into the Labyrinth, Shinji and his friends grew more arrogant and expressed their belief that they were invincible (though they remained humble while in the presence of Kouki and his friends). As they reached the 65th floor once more, they once again encountered the Behemoth and traum soldiers. Despite the lingering trauma from their previous encounter, as well as the fact that there were less people of fight it than before, the students managed to defeat the Behemoth and continued their journey down the Labyrinth.
Shinji and the other students continued their training in the Labyrinth until they eventually reached the 90th floor. However, they soon realized that they were not being attacked by any monsters. It was soon discovered that they had all been wiped out by other monsters that were under the command of a demon named Cattleya. She approached the students and offered them to join the demons in the war against the humans, but Kouki immediately refused on their behalf and a battle ensued. When it became clear that they were at an overwhelming disadvantage, the students retreated to the 89th floor.
Once everyone managed to take shelter in a hidden area and had been healed, Shinji and his classmates began to turn on each other due to the stress they were feeling g from their defeat, but they soon ceased their hostilities in order to avoid detection from the monsters. However Cattleya discovered their location and blasted away the entrance to their hideout. As Cattleya's monsters once more battle the students, Shinji and his friends were attacked by multiple tentacles. Though they managed to avoid any fatal wounds, they still took a considerable amount of damage, with one of the tentacles grazing Shinji’s shoulder. Reichi and Dasiuke managed to free Yoshiki before leading him and and Shinji to Suzu in order to keep them safe with her barrier magic.
Despite the students efforts, Cattleya managed to defeat them after having incapacitated Kouki. She offered the students another chance to join the demons, but Kouki once more rejected her offer and managed to free himself, but was rendered incapacitated once more by the monsters. As Cattelya's forces resumed attacking the students and were on the verge of victory, they were stopped by the sudden arrival of a mysterious boy that had accompanied Kousuke Endou (who managed to escape the Labyrinth after Cattleya's first attack in order to find help for his classmates). In the end, Hajime easily managed to eliminate all the monsters and kill Cattleya and escorted his classmates out of the Labyrinth. When Kaori decided to accompany Hajime on his journey after everyone returned to Horaud, Shinji and his friends protested at Hajime, but Daisuke told his friends to back down. At first, they were surprised by Daisuke’s uncharacteristic obedience, but his serious tone brooked no argument, so they too gave up on persuading Hajime. As Kaori was getting her thing from Horaud's inn before setting off, Shinji and his friends offered to go with her, but Hajime prevented them from going.
Sometime after the ordeal in the Labyrinth, Shinji and the other students heard a strange noise one night and quickly geared up for battle. When they all gathered together to access the situation, they learned from one of the palace maids, Nia, that they demons were invading the capital, and the noise the heard before was them destroying the capitals outer magic barrier. After some debate, the students decided to meet up with the kingdom's knights in the courtyard in order to coordinate a counterattack with them. Soon after they reached to courtyard, all of the students were suddenly ambushed by the knights. They had been repeatedly stabbed and restrained with mana-sealing shackles. They soon learned that the knights were under the control of their classmate Eri, and the she had used her necromancy magic to control them after she killed. She then expressed herr desire to do the same with the rest of her classmates, and began making her way towards Reichi, due to him being the closest one to her. Eri mercilessly rammed a sword though his heart, thus killing him. Shinji and Yoshiki yelled at Eri over killing their friend, but the knights pinning them dug their swords in deeper, cutting off their remarks. Soon after, Eri succeeded in turning Reichi into another of her undead minions. The rest students managed to free themselves soon after thanks to the timely intervention of Kaori, but she had been mortally wounded by Daisuke, who was revealed to be Eri's accomplice. Hajime arrived soon after and killed Daisuke before single-handedly repelling the approaching demon army, but Eri managed to escape with demon General Freid Bagwa.
Shinji had been utterly traumatized by the deaths of Daisuke and Reichi, and secluded himself within his room in the royal palace. Sometime later, he and the rest of his classmates were abducted by one of Ehit's apostles and imprisoned in Garland's demon Lord castle. When Hajime and his companions arrived at the castle, a fight soon broke out between him and his classmates against Ehit's Apostles and his retainer Alva. Shinji was too traumatized from the deaths of his friends to fight back, and let his classmates fend for themselves. In the end, Hajime managed to kill Alva and the Apostles, but had nearly been killed from the battle, as well has having his lover Yue being possessed by Ehit. Once Hajime recovered, he and the other classmates began planning their next attack after learning from Ehit that he planned to wipe out all life on Tortus, before traveling to Earth to rule over it. During the meeting, Shinji and the others students learned that Hajime created an artifact that could take them back to Earth and had hoped that he would use it, but Hajime revealed that it had been destroyed by Ehit and that he couldn't make it again with Yue's help. Shinji, however, accused Hajime of only being concerned with saving Yue (which was true), but soon realized that they had to fight Ehit in order to save Earth. Eventually, they all devised a plan to fight the mad god.
The night before the battle against Ehit, Shinji and Yoshiki watched with the other students as Hajime's allies that had agreed to fight Ehit, approached him to express their gratitude (many of them were pretty girls). The two boys were discussing how being associated with Hajime could help each of them get a girlfriend.
During the battle against Ehit, Shinji was among the students that fought along the church's Templar knights atop the command center for Tortus' allied forces, to protect the priests that were casting debuff magic against Ehit's army of apostles. He used his fire magic to keep several apostles at bay. However, the overwhelming fear, rage and tension that he'd been feeling for the past few days had left him in a crazed state that caused him to use his fire magic recklessly. When an apostle unleashed a barrage of feather at him Shinji spun his staff in circles to deflect the feathers, then let his sturdy robe take the ones he missed. His reckless attitude was bad enough that Yuka Sonobe told Taeko Sugawara to knock some sense into him by whipping him. After a hard fought battle, Ehit's army was defeated due to Hajime having killed the mad god.
In the month following the battle against Ehit, which would come to be known as "Ragnarok," Shinji and his classmates were recuperating in the beastman nation Verbergen. They also aided in the reconstruction of the kingdom, which had been destroyed during the battle, as well as supply Hajime with a portion of their mana each day, in order to help him create a Divinity Stone that he would then forge into the artifacts needed to send them all back to Japan. When the Divinity Stone was complete, Yoshiki and his classmates witnessed Hajime and Yue successfully create the artifacts that could take them home. Afterwords, he and his classmates celebrated, with him and Yoshiki clasping each other's arms and dancing wildly.
Relationships
Daisuke Hiyama, Reichi Kondou & Yoshiki Saitou
Shinji's three closest friends and former partners in crime. Alongside them, he bullied Hajime Nagumo as much as possible mostly because they liked Kaori as well in the past. but now they are terrified of Hajime's inhuman strength and ruthlessness after he murdered Cattleya. After Daisuke betrayed them by aligning himself with Eri and causing Kondou's death, he and Saitou were mentally cornered and shut themselves in their rooms due to their friend's betrayal. Yoshiki is the the only person capable of stopping Shinji from going overboard in his attempts to get a girlfriend. After returning to Japan, he's been busy stopping his friend's antics.
Hajime Nagumo
He along with his friends were jealous of the fact that Kaori was interested in Hajime, so they constantly bullied him at school and in Tortus. When he along with his classmates were saved by Hajime, he was shocked and terrified by Hajime's inhuman strength and ruthless attitude. Following the failed attempted to feign an apology for Hajime to make him return in order to get closer to Kaori, Shinji and his friends (except for Daisuke due to his persistence) had given up on their pursuit for Hajime and his chance for Kaori. After Eri and Daisuke's betrayal, followed by Hajime killing Reichu and Daisuke without hesitation, both Shinji and Yoshiki were terrified to cross Hajime. The two of them would often suck up to Hajime after returning to Earth, in the hopes of each of them getting a girlfriend through him, but Hajime still finds him annoying. Shinji especially wants to become Hajime's disciple for that very reason.
Liliana S. B. Heiligh
Liliana considers Shinji and Yoshiki her friends. They act as her bodyguards whenever she appears in public as a pop idol.
Powers & Abilities
Abilities
- Enhanced Physical Abilities - Like most of his classmates, Shinji possesses enhanced physical abilities. Although his is not as physically strong as the frontlines of his party, his strength is still superior to most normal humans.
Magical Abilities
- Immense Mana - As one of Ehit's summoned heroes, Shinji's mana pool is larger than most people in Tortus.
- Magic Master - As a Pyromancer, he has the highest proficiency and mastery with fire magic than the rest of his class.
Skills
- Fire Magic Affinity (火属性適性, Hi Zokusei Tekisei?) - It allows the user to use fire magic at a capable rate.
- Fire Resistance (火耐性, Hi Taisei?) - Increase resistance to fire magic to a certain degree.
- Improved Proficiency (回復効果上昇, Kaifuku Kōka Jōshō?) - It can use magic magic more effectively.
- Reduced Mana Consumption (消費魔力減少, Shōhi Maryoku Genshō?) - It decreases the rate of mana being run out.
- Speed Casting (発動速度上昇, Hatsudō Sokudo Jōshō?) - It increase the speed of the fire magic.
- Improved Mana Efficiency (魔力効率上昇, Maryoku Kōritsu Jōshō?) - It can use fire magic efficiently.
- Language Comprehension (言語理解, Gengo Rikai?) - 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.
Spells/Attacks
- Fireball (火球, Kakyū?) - The most basic fire magic spell. "Incinerate all that stands in my path."
- Flame Fortress (城炎, Jō-e?) - A spell that creates a wall of fire around the caster.
- Azure Blaze (蒼天, Sōten?) - A supreme-rank fire spell, and one of the strongest fire spells in existence. It can summon a sphere of blue-white flames 6 to 7 meters in diameter, that will melt everything in its surrounding.
Weapons & Equipment
- Staff - A mace-shaped weapon made by Hajime for the final battle with Ehit. It boosts his affinity for fire magic.
- CheatMate (チートメイト, Chītomeito?) - A food-type artifact comprised of nutritional minerals, such as calcium and iron, that are enchanted with metamorphosis and evolution magic. They are then turned into powder and transmuted to became a solid food block. Once consumed, it raises a person's base stats and increases their body's sturdiness.
- Last Seele (ラスト・ゼーレ, Rasuto Zēre?) - A necklace artifact with a small crimson red gem orb that Hajime made for everyone who participated in Ragnarok. It bestows its wearer the skill "Limit Break," as well as its derivative skill "Overload."
Quotes
Etymology
Trivia
- In the Anime, Shinji is not among the students that trains in the Great Orcus Labyrinth. Instead, he and a few other students stay behind in the Heiligh Kingdom's capital as a support team.
- Shinji's dream is to have a shotgun wedding with an idol.[2]
- Shinji's English voice actor also voiced Reichi.
- In Chapter 2 of the Manga, two of Daisuke's friends are seen bulling Hajime upon learning of his job as a Synergist. However, it is unknown if either of them is Shinji.
- Shinji has the exact same name as the real-life race car driver.
References
- ↑ Light Novel Volume 1
- ↑ Web Novel - Chapter 228
| Returnees |
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| Aiko Hatayama • Hajime Nagumo • Kaori Shirasaki • Shizuku Yaegashi • Kouki Amanogawa • Ryutarou Sakagami • Suzu Taniguchi • Kousuke Endou • Yuka Sonobe • Mao Yoshino • Nana Miyazaki • Taeko Sugawara • Ayako Tsuji • Atsushi Tamai • Akito Nimura • Noboru Aikawa • Jugo Nagayama • Kentarou Nomura • Shinji Nakano • Yoshiki Saitou • Yuya Suzuki • Nao Arakawa • Shouta Mori • Mei Fujimoto • Sakura Aizawa • Rika Miura • Kana Yokoyama • Shiori Mizushima • Kotone Hoshino |
| Others |
| Yue • Shea Haulia • Tio Klarus • Remia • Myu • Liliana S. B. Heiligh |