Evil-like Duke Household

The unimportant setting that isn’t included in the story 1 (there’s a picture in it)

In this chapter, the main character and stage setting is exposed-or so what I planned to.

It’s not something that you have to read if you want want to understand the story.

Again, this is roughly written and doesn’t contain the description that will come out in the main story. I will feel grateful if you enjoy reading it to killing time.

Grid Ractos (43)

グリード＝ラクトス (43)

One of the main characters of this story.

The head of the duke household whom is the administrator that manages the financial affairs of the Azolias kingdom.

His face is really scary.

Though he doesn’t have any magical trait, his magic aptitude is unexpectedly among the top.

The reason he doesn’t use any magic is because his head is specialized in arithmetic to the level of absurdness.

As for the usage of magic spells, it is important to control the magical energy to match with the spell. But with his speed at arithmetic, he already found the answer to the spell before he have the time to control the magic. Thus, he isn’t able to use magic since the process is insufficient.

Furthermore, the fact that he is able to solve arithmetic in an absurd speed doesn’t have any particular connection with any magic.

In other words, he's the most absurd cheat character.

By the way, he slightly minds the fact that he is the only one in his family that doesn’t have a second name.

Liliana Ractos (37)

One of the main characters.

Grid Ractos's wife and someone who possesses the beauty that made one never think that she is near 40 years old.

Has a second name as the [Arachne Duchess]

Her hobby is cooking.

Her hometown is the Veil Count territory at the Azolias kingdom.

Her house governs over an area that has magical beings as its specialty and is called as the Land of Magic.

Lead by her connection to her father who is famous as the Magic King, she meet Grid.

Her big spider friend who is called as Mery-chan is one of the magical beings mentioned above.

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She doesn’t have any magical trait. Her magic aptitude is normal.

Though her friends are extremely scarce, she is actually the close friend of the queen.

Jake Ractos (20)

One of the main characters and the son of Grid and Lilian.

Fitting to be the son of Grid, his face is scary. Or rather, no matter how people see him, he can only be seen as an abominable person.

Always adds ketchup at everything.

Holds the same shadow magical trait as his grandfather, his magic aptitude is also among the high ones.

A genius to the level that he will be called as a war hero if times were better. However, since it's not during the war and that he must become the next successor of the duke household, he didn't practice about offensive magic too much. It was his weak point.

At the present time, he has a position at the magic guild and belongs to the department that creates new kinds of spells.

He mainly researches about the development of magic to strengthen the way the brain works - the thinking speed.

If he didn't strengthen his thinking speed, controlling the financial affairs at the level of Grid is quite impossible.

Maybe even he strengthens it, it still impossible.

Do your best Jake-kun

Erza Ractos (16)

One of the main characters and the daughter of Grid and Lilian, as well as Jake's little sister.

Though she always covers her whole body with an ominous black armour, her appearance is beautiful. As expected to a daughter of Liliane.

However, her expression is stiff. It rarely moves.

Even though her actual mind has a lot of emotion and slightly *that* kind of a kid.

When she was young, she was watching an exhibition that opened during the National Foundation Day (the contest to decide the strongest among the knight order, excluding the commander). She ended up harboring admiration toward a female knight after saw her wear a heavy black armor while she swung her sword with both of her hands.

After that, she became a no good.... became a weird young lady.

To imitate the one she admires, she wears a massive black armor and also carries a huge double handed sword to the extent that it looks ominous.

Her tone is also stiff.

By the way, the knight she admires is already retired and currently doesn’t live at the imperial capital.

Furthermore, the armour that that knight wore during those days is an armour with thin black iron plating. Her double handed sword also only looks like black iron but it's actually a different kind of metal.

The fact that Erza have absurd superhuman strength is classificated as sort of a phenomenon of a magical trait. However, since the work of the magical energy of her phenomenon is too unique, even the trait is still not discovered. Thus, it is considered as an unknown magical trait.

Of course Erza, herself, doesn’t realize this.

Or rather, maybe she doesn’t have the self-awareness of her own superhuman power.