Yukitoshi Shimizu (
Appearance
Yukitoshi was a young man with a pale complexion and freckles, black hair in an unkept fashion, black eyes with diluted pupils and black bags underneath them.
Personality
Yukitoshi was an isolated person who didn't have any friends. He was always reading books in his seat while never talking to others in anything louder than a mutter. This is in part due to the fact that he was bullied in junior high and did not want to experience that again. Due to his hobbies and anti-social personality, he became a habitual truant and would constantly have dark thoughts floating around in his mind about his family and classmates.
Yukitoshi had always wanted to be special. However, he also wanted to be the only one who was special among his surroundings. When he thought he got his wish after being transported to Tortus, he learned he wasn't the only one who was special and wasn't even the 'hero' he wanted to be, which didn't sit well with him. Even when he thought he could prove that he was better than everyone else, things didn't go the way he wanted and became depressed. These desires grew into insanity when the demons offered to treat him as their "hero" if he killed Aiko.
Despite wanting to be a hero, Yukitoshi he was not a brave or altruistic person, because he never cared about anyone but himself. Yukitoshi also never had the courage to actually fight and always left the fighting to his allies while he remained hidden safely and away from confrontation. He was also unable to recognize and learn from his mistakes, preferring to blame others when things didn't go his way. His cowardly and selfish nature was further exemplified when he begged Hajime to save him from death, despite having tried to kill him moments before.
Background
Yukitoshi was a closet otaku who was bullied throughout his junior high school life. With special interest in other-world fantasy adventures he numb his real-world pains with fantasizing himself as a world saving hero character winning ladies left and right. When he entered high school, he hid his interests to avoid the kind of harsh treatment that would come from it, having seen how his classmate Hajime Nagumo was constantly bullied for it. His anti-social behavior got to a point where even his family was concerned about him.
Chronology
One day during his second year of high school, Yukitoshi and his entire class was summoned to Tortus by its god Ehit in order to help humanity's war against the demons. He and his classmates trained in the Heiligh Kingdom for two weeks, under the supervision of Knight Commander Meld Loggins, before they traveled to the Great Orcus Labyrinth, in order to fight the monsters that dwelled inside it until they were strong enough to fight the demons. At first, Yukitoshi was excited that his long-time dream finally be realized, only to have his spirit crushed when he found out he was no more than a side character due to the limitations of his dark magic.
During their first trip the the Labyrinth, they were all transported to the 65th floor due to a trap that was accidentally set off by Daisuke Hiyama. It was there that they were all surrounded by an army of skeletal Traum Soldiers on one side, and a Behemoth on the other. After a fierce battle, almost everyone managed to escape, but Yukitoshi's classmate Hajime Nagumo was believed to have been killed when he fell off the bridge the Behemoth stood on, after he helped keep it at bay in order for the rest of his class to escape. The supposed death of Hajime hit him hard, he withdrew himself and buried himself in books related to dark magic. It later dawned on him that his affinity with dark magic could allow him to control an. army of monsters. At first, he'd sneak outside the palace walls at night to trial out his magic. on low-tier monsters, since such magic was difficult to affect on beings of higher sapience, such as humans. He took up the opportunity to travel as one of his teacher Aiko's entourage, in order to further experiment with his dark subjugation magic on higher tier monsters that were typically found in the mountainous region.
While Yukitoshi and the rest of Aiko's entourage were at the lakeside town of Ur, he was approached alone by a demon named Reiss and an attachment of monsters. Reiss made a deal with Yukitoshi: He would destroy the town and kill Aiko, and Yukitoshi would be invited into demon's ranks as their hero. Gifted with a small cadre of powerful monsters, he then sneaked out of town and to the Northern Mountain Range to gather more monsters for his army. While there, he encountered the dragonman Tio Klarus who was sleeping in her dragon form. He managed to control her after a day of using his magic and tasked her to kill all approaching adventurers in the area so that no one could warn the town of his plans.
Yukitoshi managed to assemble an army of 60,000 monsters and headed for Ur, but was stopped by Hajime and his companions (now including Tio, who was freed from Yukitoshi's control thanks to Hajime). He was later dragged by Hajime back to Aiko, as per her request, in the hope that she could rehabilitate him. Unfortunately, after spilled his plans, the non-restrained Yukitoshi managed to grab Aiko and threatened to kill her with a poison needle from one of his monster minions and demanded Hajime to give him his power artifacts. He was about to kill Aiko, but was stopped by the intervention of Hajime's companion Shea. It was then that Yukitoshi was mortally wounded by Reiss, who hid away in the distance and attempted to kill Aiko using the water spell "Rupture." After Reiss fled, Hajime approached the dying Yukitoshi and told him that he could heal him, but he first needed to know if Yukitoshi is his enemy. Yukitoshi replied by promising Hajime that he would serve him and use his powers to grant him whatever he wanted, be that an army of enthralled monsters or brainwashed women. Hearing this only confirmed Hajime's belief that Yukitoshi was beyond redemption, and proceeded to kill him by shooting him in the heart and the head.
Sometime after Yukitoshi's classmates returned to Earth, Aiko and Hajime visited his family and told them about his death.[2]
Powers & Abilities
Magical Abilities
- Immense Mana - As one of Ehit's summoned heroes, Yukitoshi had more mana when compared to other people of Tortus.
- Magic Master - Yukitoshi had an incredible aptitude for dark magic and was able to influence the target’s thoughts and perception with it. In combat, his main purpose was to debuff enemies. Yukitoshi quickly grew proficient at creating illusions to disorient foes, interfering with their ability to cast magic, and even making them hurt themselves in confusion. His talents in the art grew to a point that he could control the minds of monsters, even thousands of them. Despite his aptitude for it, however, he couldn't control the mind of any intelligent beings unless he cast magic on them for a day and without any resistance. When he could, he was able to take control of a powerful dragonmen that is Tio Klarus. Hajime acknowledged Yukitoshi as a cheat-level genius for this feat.
Skills
- Dark Magic Affinity (闇属性適性, Yami Zokusei Tekisei?) - It allows the user to use dark magic at a capable rate.
- Improved Proficiency (回復効果上昇, Kaifuku Kōka Jōshō?) - It can use dark 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 dark magic.
- Improved Mana Efficiency (魔力効率上昇, Maryoku Kōritsu Jōshō?) - It can use dark magic efficiently.
- Increased Spell Duration (持続時間上昇, Jizoku Jikan Jōshō?) - Duration in using dark magic raised.
- 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.
Weapons & Equipment
- Staff - An artifact given to him by the Heiligh Kingdom in order to help him better channel his dark magic. It was destroyed after Hajime shot it with his handgun while capturing Yukitoshi.
Quotes
- (To Aiko): "Why? You can’t even tell why? That’s why you’re all a bunch of incompetent losers. You all always look down on me... and go on about hero this, hero that. Even though I’m way better than that prick Kouki... none of you ever noticed. You always just pretended like I wasn’t even there... You’re all a bunch of retards! That’s why I wanted to prove my worth to all of you..."[3]
- (His last words to Hajime): "I-I’m not... I-I don’t know what came over me. I promise... I won’t do it again. If you save me, I-I’ll do anything you ask. I’ll make you... an army... I’ll even brainwash any girl you want... I-I swear... I’ll be loyal to you forever. Please... I’m begging you... save me..."[3]
Etymology
- The name "Yukitoshi" means "good luck" (幸利).
- Yukitoshi's surname "Shimizu" means "clear, pure" (清, shi?) and "water" (水, mizu?).
Trivia
- Yukitoshi was the first member of his class to be killed and first to be killed by another classmate (Hajime).
- Yukitoshi's wound from Reiss' snipe It was so serious, he would have died even if Hajime hadn't shot him. The reason Hajime killed him was for Aiko to not blame herself for Yukitoshi's death.
- Hajime has speculated that the reason why the demons first recruited Yukitoshi was because they actually viewed him as the greatest threat within the Hero Party, since he had the power to control monsters and could potentially steal their own monster army if he remained loyal to the humans.[4]
- This also ironically proves that Shimizu is indeed special, as his unique job class and skills could have had a major effect on the outcome of the Human-Demon War depending on which side he had chosen to side with.
References
- ↑ Episode 9
- ↑ Light Novel Volume 13
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Light Novel Volume 03
- ↑ Web Novel - Chapter 361