Characters (page 4)

The owner of a beach front cafe and temporary employer of Lina and Naga as they work off their debt in her restaurant. She wears a rather revealing outfit and apparently has some fighting skill with a harpoon. However, she's no match for the giant squid that regularly attacks and disrupts her business, despite attacking it to show everyone what a "true beach babe is made of!".

A travelling sorceress temporarily seeking refuge in the ruins of Fleedlit Castle. She runs afoul of the Count, Lina, and Naga, and after attacking Galehart is promptly blown up by the duo. She doesn't have any actual given name, but Galehart, on awakening, thinks she's "Margaret", his long lost wife.

Local sorceress of a country town and amateur potion-maker. She and Lina team up to create the perfect "bosom growth potion", but Marsha's imperfect understanding of chemistry means the thing ends up a total dud: it doesn't grow them, they simply swell when pricked with a needle dipped in the solution! An incredible coward, Marsha carries an emergency table to hide under whenever she goes out into the wild.

Merchant and owner of the Brent mansion. A completely oblivious flake, he dresses in rich housecoats, carries a glass of wine and a rose, and halts in his speech in a very old-style aristocratic manner. Has no clue that at least two members of his household are thieves and his daughter is a rampaging lesbian hornball, but IS sleeping with his daughter's tutor Amanda. As Lina puts it: "This whole mansion is... SUSPICIOUS!"

Sole writer and editor of the Dryad City guild's newspaper, "Dryad Inquisitor". He is, as any resident of the city is happy to report, a complete crackpot who'll write any sort of conspiracy theory that leaps into his head, embellishing as he sees fit. He hires Lina and Naga to investigate a "giant fish" story nearby, and instead discovers a rare Nilfa. However, Lina rescues the Nilfa (well, sort of), and Medio's story about mermaids is laughed off as more of his lunacy. As a journalist, he runs on so much adrenaline that he's immune to Sleeping. "Quickie naps are all we need!"

Daughter of a forest witch, Michelle lives alone in a cottage outside a small town. She specializes in herbs, potions, and curses, has a decidedly spooky affected manner, and basically dresses like a Tonberry complete with kitchen knife. The villagers, working solely on the reputation of witches, want to burn her, but she is actually a very cute and adorable young girl. When Lina reveals this to the villagers, they are completely smitten, effectively ending Michelle's hunted isolation and proving that men are complete fools when it comes to a pretty face.

Millie is a beastmaster, someone born with the very rare gift of being able to control animals of all types. The problem is, she KNOWS it's rare, and thus has a bit of a god complex about the whole thing. The problem is her control is less than perfect in some cases, so the reputation's not totally deserved, either. She threatens Lina and Naga into guarding her from mysterious assailants who happen to be local farmers demanding their livestock back from Millie, who took them because she's special and deserves them more. Needless to say, Lina and Naga put a stop to *that*.

A pair of mermaid sisters from the nearly-extinct Nilfa clan. Because eating Nilfa flesh prolongs human life, they were fiercely hunted. Medio accidentally catches one of them, but Lina comes to her rescue... in a way. Taking advantage of Medio's momentary distraction from a failed Sleeping spell, the captured sister promptly knocks him into the stratsophere with a single punch; on land, Nilfa are initially weak but as they adjust are actually much stronger than humans. The Nilfa sisters are then reunited and Medio's story is presumed a hoax.

Tutor #3 of 425 (collect them all) sent by the Magic Guild to "educate" Lina and Naga. He's the "Guidance Counselor of Darkness", but the story ends before anyone sees what happens to him. Which is probably for the best, as Golas and Kasha were buried under a collapsing volcanic crater right before he arrived...

A complete whackjob in a magical girl costume. She describes herself as "a twelve year old who loves flowers and magic", and she is exactly as irritating as that sounds. She challenges Lina to a contest to see who most deserves the title "Beautiful Sorceress"... and the challenge is to see who can make the most people HAPPY via magic. She's a remarkably snide little kid, sniping at people via her bunny puppet Rap. Parm has two unique spells: "Flow Flora", which causes flowers to bloom on trees and other plants (and then cause the plants to animate and attack anyone nearby, incidentally) and "Lora Flora", which causes sunflowers to sprout from peoples' heads. In the end, Lina's total unwillingness to put up with her nonsense puts her off the magical girl kick. Unfortunately, it puts her ON a Naga fangirl kick...

A ninja of the hidden village. He and others are secretly rebelling against Gizan, hoping to bring about a time of war so they can continue to feel useful. Lina hears this and becomes enraged, and noting that war would keep her from travelling and eating local cuisine. Naga arrives and wipes out Razeram and his cronies, putting an end to the rebel faction.

One of Golas Xenomode's students, an immense bodybuilder who looks as if he stepped right out of a Cho Aniki game. He faces off against Lina in the volcano caldera arena in a (written) test of basic magic knowledge, but is soundly defeated.