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Hibiki Otonashi (
Appearance []
Hibiki is a young woman with long black hair and black eyes.
When Hibiki was in her own world she typically wore her school uniform as she was student when she summoned to the other world as a hero by the goddess.
During her first few battles, she wore armor that was given to her by the kingdom she was summoned to. It consisted of a breastplate armor with shoulder pads, gauntlets, and boots.
Personality[]
Hibiki is said to be highly calculative and socially flexible in a way that best suits her for political positions. As a Hero and adventurer she excels at fast, close range combat and works to improve her weaknesses in long-range techniques and strategies to become a more well rounded fighter and combat leader. She tends to be biased towards positions she is born into and has difficulty acting outside of those. For example, she arrives on the Hyuman side of the Hyuman-Demon conflict and under the influence of the Goddess, thus views positions counter to these as incorrect or less just positions. As such, she sees the Demon race as simply an anti-Goddess rebellion group and believes there's no other way but to sacrifice the freedom of one side into order to achieve the greater good.
Hibiki's motivation for coming into the Goddess's world was to challenge herself. In her previous world, she was born into a successful family and was talented in ways to where she never had difficulty meeting the goals and expectations of the people and positions around her. She would have lived a life where she could attain anything, and she was bored. In the Goddess's world: war, magic, other intelligent races and otherworlders -- in addition to the different social and political landscape -- challenged her. It was finally possible for her fail, even after giving it her best for the first times in her life.
Hibiki is noted to be sociable, calculative, charismatic and possesses a challenger-mindset.
In both worlds, she took up the most influence position she could ever attained within her means to shape things into her ideals:
- President of student council in High School on Earth
- Hero/Advisor in Limia Kingdom.
She is capable of analyse and understand the current affair, formulating the best solution, counter-plans against failures, leading the conversation to extract information she desired to acquire and convincing people. For instance, she managed to coax some of younger nobles to share her ideals in creating a meritocracy country even if it means that the young nobles have to forsake their privileges.
As a sentiment of her strong belief in potential of people, she uphold the ideal that "if one tries enough, they may to change things". This constituted to her strong mind that beckon for challenges, which is part of her charismatic nature. However, this mindset does have its flaw. As someone who always stand on top of others (the one who deprives), she is incapable of recognizing the concept that there are people who will be the weaklings perpetually. She had placed everything of different standings on the same plane in her head, and argue for the sake of it.
This stemmed from her idea that Demons are intellectual being like Hyumans; they should be aware that they had no other option other than being the oppressed because they have the option of "trying" to work hard to "enter" the Hyuman society like some of the Demi-Human. Since Demons chose not to put in effort to change things peacefully from the inside, despite being aware how "useless" a war is, they are just terrorists.
During in her conversation with Makoto Misumi about the war, she suggested that Makoto is aiding the elongation of the war by not siding with the hyumans despite being a human himself, and his medicine dealings. She think he should join the hyuman, who is the majority, to end the war. She failed to understand Makoto's reason of diving into Medicine (to cure people from illness and curse), why Makoto thinks that the Majins are being cornered way too much to resort to war.
Due to her challenger-mindset, she is sometime prideful and quick in assuming things. When Mio advised her that Makoto is way stronger than her, she refuse to accept that Mio's words that she will never reach Makoto's level initially. When she accept Makoto is the ownership of a much higher ability than her, she reached the conclusion that Makoto is dangerous since he does not care about damages he will cause by his actions, and because she cannot "control" or prevent such actions through senpai-kouhai relationship before the face-to-face conversation. With that strain of thought, she relentlessly refute Makoto's point of view about the war and how she should be considerate towards the Majins. Even after Makoto pointed out her obsession of "winning" the war, she postponed thinking about his words by accepting her desire to kill Io. She also *correctly* realized that she desired to continue the war to take revenge, not merely throwing off his words and thinking nothing of it.
Background[]
Hibiki comes from a successful family and is talented in a manner where everything comes easy, making her feel unsatisfied. She was class president with top grades and many accolades. It's noted that she would have lived an easy life had she continued living on Earth. When she first met the goddess, her intuition warned her about the goddess feeling "two-faced" and not trusting every word from her. Later in the series, she happens to find out that her gut instinct was right all along and was absolutely horrified to be objectified as a living "Japanese Doll" by her.
Chronology[]
Unlike Makoto Misumi, who was summoned by the Goddess and quickly discarded, Hibiki was summoned to the Limia Kingdom as a hero under the Goddess's blessing. After the summoning, she begins to train in sword fighting. She became a top soldier thanks to her unique sword technique.
With her sword skills, which reach that of a kingdom knight, she becomes a high hero under the blessing of the Goddess, whose mission is fight against the Demon Army. Without war experience, however, she is a newbie whose inexperience leads to the death of Navarre in a battle against the demon general, Io. She is depressed, but a strong mind makes her stand again with hatred and revenge. On her way to Tsige she meets Mio, who saves her on some occasions and in exchange Hibiki teaches her how to cook. She also meets the Alpine Party during their training in the Wasteland.
By the time the Demons executed their attack strategy, involving blockade, distraction, and chaos against the Rotsgard Academy, the Gritonia Empire, and the Limia Kingdom, Hibiki and her group are attacked by Io again. Despite her new equipment, Hibiki soon finds herself outmatched in combat once again. However, as Io was about to defeat Hibiki, it was unexpectedly interrupted by Makoto, who was disguised at the time, and his lich servant that come by the name of Larva.
Hibiki is returned to the Limia Kingdom under an agreement between Makoto and the Goddess that her life be spared once more. However, she sometimes feels like a loser because of how Kuzunoha rescued her.
After understanding that Makoto has a great power and skill above her, she is sometimes emotional with Makoto because she can't do anything like convincing him to help the kingdom. In truth, she closed her fear under her word that he was against the Goddess. Predicting that Makoto is like the Goddess, she realizes she is losing before starting the war. Then, she knows that the reason for war is personal and there is no truth or solution. Makoto nods to help Limia in the battle against the demons.
After the war, of which there are many victims on both sides, most of the survivors slowly migrate to Asora.
Abilities[]
Hibiki is a skilled combatant and capable of fighting top tier opponents after a few weeks of training. The Goddess enhanced her physical strength and gave her strong magic power, on top of that she gave her the charisma to attract other people.
She has a long range technique using a sword and is skilled in several styles of swordsmanship. She uses the speed gained from the fusion with her summoned beast (Horn) to attack her enemy with her sword.
Magic skills[]
- Affinity to all magic elements.
- A spell to coat her weapon in magic power, a barrier that has a short Aria and is easy to use, and a self-healing spell.
- Able to channel the emotions of her followers into herself and become stronger, physically and magically. Granted to Hibiki by an unknown god.
Non-combat skills[]
- Talented
- Charisma
Weaknesses[]
- She can't hold the power of strength from Demon who get many advantage from psychic attack and body that healed automatically.
- Her movement is fast but no use for high power for Makoto Misumi because he can detect and resist it, and don't have magic as advantage as swordman who is given herself in battle. Only, magic neutralizer that she has for battle but it is not use if strength and physic attack and execution in the middle of battle. So, Her strength and movement is in the middle to below than Makoto that hold many strength and movement to kill without sound.
Equipment[]
She received several items from the Goddess and a sword made for her by the Kuzunoha Company.
Horn, the silver wolf, is summoned by Hibiki using a silver sash that was gifted to her by the Goddess. The silver sash also enhance her mana.
After some time, Hibiki learned how to don Horn as a makeshift armor that enhance her defense and combat ability, however it was extremely revealing. Her new and current armor resembles a bikini with large amounts of fur on almost all the armor.
Swords[]
- First sword bastard sword.
- Second one she received made for her by Beren of the Kuzunoha Company. It has the ability to adapt to its owner and is imbued with Wind magic. Its power is activated by channeling one's own thirst for power.
Relationships[]
Companions (charmed by Hibiki's Charisma)[]
- Navarre: A friend and comrade and the reason she has a grudge towards lo in the seats of her unaware discrimination towards the demon race. Her death impacts Hibiki deeply and adds to the emotional and psychological burden Hibiki carries as the chosen hero.
- Bredda: She is aware of his feelings towards her, but she doesn't have that much of an interest having a romantic relationship with him and sees him as a friend and comrade.
- Wudi: He is a very Good Friend and Comrade to her
- Chiya: She's like a little sister.
Others[]
- Tomoki Iwahashi: Hibiki think he's a rude and weird guy, finding discomfort in being around him and a dangerous person after the war with the demon race. To her it seems like all he's doing is playing around with girls and producing offspring left and right. even though she knows he is stronger in attack power she still feels she should be able to handle him.
- Lily Front Gritonia: Hibiki doesn't know much about her plans or how she's manipulating Tomoki and others around her, but she is aware something is off about her
- Toa: Quite impressed with her party and her skilled.
- Joshua: Hibiki is one of the few people who know that the prince is actually a woman, she considers her a friend.
- Makoto Misumi: She used to view him as her kouhai (junior) and nothing more and nothing less. She has a few ideas of how to deal with him but not sure if it would work. but she have to be very cautious since she knows how his powers is in the realm of Greater Dragons and maybe even above them she understands that one wrong decision with him could be dangerous. Now, she view Makoto as the most dangerous human in that world since she cannot control his "power".
- Tomoe "Shen": She had taught her some kendo skills. Initially, she thought that Tomoe is stronger than Makoto.
- Shiki: Amazed by the level power he showed during the attack on the capital even though she see him as a undead skeleton for the first Time later as a hyuman she's unaware which one his real self.
- Mio: Hibiki becomes an admirer of Mio after exchanging Japanese cooking lessons for Mio's fighting lessons starting in chapter 89, while she is retraining herself in Tsige. After Chiya told Hibiki that Mio is the Black Calamity Spider that her group once battled, Hibiki's feelings toward Mio become more complex.
- Lyca: To Hibiki, Lyca is a wise dragon and seen like there’s similarities between them. Both are calculative and manipulative. Should they find someone who they cannot control or deal with, they will think of ways to remove them from their sight. Lyca attempted to remove Makoto providing a dubious method of returning to Earth (knowing that it may not work), while Hibiki attempted to convince Makoto to use the "method" but fails.
- Root:
- Lime Latte: Hibiki first meets Lime in the Lorel Union as he is investigating her under the pretext of looking into trade relations for the Kuzunoha Company. Although unaware of this, she still uses him as an indirect way to test the reaches of Makoto's and the Kuzunoha Company's influence on their employees. Her charisma almost charmed Lime. But once he is forced to contact Tomoe, he remembers his past loyalties and heads back home (WN 198). In the same encounter, she also confesses to Lime and asks him to marry her, but it is uncertain how much of her confession represents her true feelings and how much is part of her attempt to diminish Makoto and the Kuzunoha Company's influence while extracting information from him through seduction which was a wasted effort when he refused her.
- Sairitsu:
Enemies[]
- Io:
Quote[]
- "If there’s no evil in it, then acting is not something bad" [1].
Etymology[]
- The name Hibiki means "sound, echo" (響).
- Hibiki's surname Otonashi means "soundless" (音無).
Trivia[]
- Out of the Three summoned high school students, only Hibiki had a sense of distrust from the "too perfect" Goddess, where Makoto had seen the Goddess' true self, and Tomoki basically lost in the idea of becoming a harem king and believing every word the Goddess spoke.
- The author makes a reference that the Three heroes are separated into three categories.
- The Good : Hibiki
- The Bad : Tomoki and funny enough
- The Ugly : Makoto
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Web Novel Chapter 198