1% Lifesteal, Volume 4 characters

Appears from the start

The returning owner of Repentawa, Freddy assumes responsibility for a city destabilized by the fall of its former ruling interests. He works with Sophia and Valhalla to restore essential services while confronting the personal strain left by prolonged isolation.

Appears from the start

Freddy's life-affinity companion and healer, Sophia finds him outside Repentawa and urges him back into the city's emergency. She can track his unusually conspicuous life force and is willing to support the recovery effort.

Appears from the start

The son of one of the captured traitors.

First appears in chapter 2

Lucas Black's mother and one of the remaining people accused of betraying Repentawa. She has been found and faces an imminent public execution with the other alleged traitors.

First appears in chapter 2

A three-star leader of Valhalla who occupies Thor's former office, Travis directs Repentawa's stabilization while Freddy is absent. He confronts Freddy over that absence and manages urgent problems involving riots, property, supplies, and the city's administration.

First appears in chapter 3

An imperial official who deals pragmatically with Freddy, the adjudicator buys batches of his regenerated organs through a commercial alias. He recognizes the possible connection behind that identity but continues the transaction and becomes an important official contact.

First appears in chapter 6

A transformed former interim patriarch whose condition is driving an ether virus and a gathering monster horde. Identified as a three-star threat, Nahar is connected to the clan that previously imprisoned and tortured Freddy and now endangers the entire Northern Belt.

First appears in chapter 6

The public identity Freddy Stern uses in dealings with the imperial adjudicator. The connection becomes explicit when the official summons Freddy Cliff to help confront the ether-virus crisis, allowing Freddy to cooperate with imperial authorities without abandoning the established cover.

First appears in chapter 7

Freddy's blood-linked combat companion, Bloodshed appears in a shawled form during an experimental tempering attempt. It supplies the lifesteal needed to sustain Freddy while Sophia tries to keep the dangerous procedure from killing him.

First appears in chapter 7

Lucas's loyal companion, Janice remains beside him while he is openly hostile toward Freddy. Her apologetic response during an encounter with Freddy's group suggests that she does not share the full force of Lucas's anger, but she follows him away.

First appears in chapter 8

The organ-supply identity that the imperial adjudicator connects to Freddy after investigating the operation and finding no laboratory. The discovery exposes Freddy's hidden commercial activity to an important imperial official.

First appears in chapter 11

A three-star visitor who served as the assistant to Freddy's former powerful employer. On joining the elite visitors gathered for Repentawa's defense, he sees through Freddy Cliff's public identity and knows him as Freddy Stern.

First appears in chapter 12

A reserved fire specialist in the assembled elite defense team. This caster uses soul-fire to turn proxy kills into power for linked effects, can summon elementals, carries protective gear and a bladed staff, and gains physical strength while remaining in place.

First appears in chapter 13

A nature-oriented elite assigned to Repentawa's highest-level defense group. Reginald cultivates combat insects within a personal biosphere and carries a coordinated set of living equipment that supports his plant and nature abilities.

First appears in chapter 13

An elite fighter whose unusual regeneration reverses injuries but has clear limits against poison, self-inflicted strain, and complete loss of tissue. Georgie also commands lightning, metal, and water affinities as part of Repentawa's defense team.

First appears in chapter 13

An elite shadow specialist from the genuine Umbra Clan, Emily joins the defenders gathering around Repentawa. She discloses the Shadow Queen talent, darkness vision, weaponized shadow hair, and equipment that makes her shadow casting more efficient.

First appears in chapter 14

A figure from Freddy's life before his kidnapping, the former trainer arrives in Repentawa alongside a serpentine-looking companion. He initially fails to recognize Freddy beneath the Freddy Cliff identity, leaving Freddy to confront an unexpected connection to his past.

First appears in chapter 15

A shadow-using servant acting on Madame's orders. The retainer tells Freddy that his former trainer sold him to the Kraven clan, describes a rescue attempt ruined by Basilisk's betrayal, and says Madame instructed him to protect Freddy.

First appears in chapter 15

A fallen former four-star lord reduced to three stars, Basilisk arrives beside Freddy's former trainer and offers investment and future cooperation. His hostility soon becomes explicit, and Travis identifies him as the person responsible for Thor's death.

First appears in chapter 18

A masked man who can blend into shadows. He abducts Janice and Lucas Black, mutilates Lucas, and forces Janice to deliver him to Freddy with a provocative message. His identity remains unknown.

First appears in chapter 23

A member of the top-ranked three-star mercenary party hired by Freddy Stern for Repentawa's defense. This support specialist alternates between holy and unholy abilities while serving in Freddy Stern's contracted active party.

First appears in chapter 23

The porter in the top-ranked three-star mercenary party hired for Repentawa's defense. This party member provides extensive extradimensional storage as part of the contracted group.

First appears in chapter 23

The light-affinity scout in Freddy Stern's contracted three-star mercenary party. This party member can observe distant areas through light-based abilities and create illusions.

First appears in chapter 24

Lucas Black's new public identity after Sophia constructs him a replacement body. Now exceptionally tall and heavily built, Drake chooses a halberd and prepares to enter the monster defense while his former appearance and legal identity remain concealed.

First appears in chapter 24

Janice's new public identity after she freely accepts a replacement body made through Sophia's life manipulation. Lily chooses a greatsword and joins the defense beside Drake, leaving her former appearance and legal identity behind.

First appears in chapter 26

Sophia's concealed undead organic construct, assembled from assimilated monster tissue. At its introduction it remains unfinished, with a disconnected hidden brain that Sophia has not activated because she is uncertain what raising it would do.

First appears in chapter 28

A nameless square-pupiled servant of the Lord of Despair who draws monsters into service. Accepted recruits destroy monsters that resist, and the recruiter deceives three pursuers into following a false trail involving Nahar Kraven.

First appears in chapter 30

The advanced three-star owner of a real-estate company buying property from frightened Repentawa residents and offering to move them toward less defensible Ottawa. The owner relies on powerful stone defenses and claims the operation is lawful.

First appears in chapter 31

An elite soul-fire combatant who fights beside Freddy during the worsening invasion. Perry can turn enemies killed through her tethered effects into fire elementals, using them to feed a larger fire dragon and extend her battlefield strength.

First appears in chapter 40

A defender whose climbing talent allows him to place remotely triggered explosives in difficult terrain. The charges produce carefully timed avalanches that help Repentawa withstand the monster invasion.

First appears in chapter 40

Basilisk's associate during their compulsory assignment to defend a remote village. Mark is troubled by recurring nightmares involving square-eyed figures and leaves the village's usual patrol range in search of a more dangerous battle.

First appears in chapter 41

An unidentified two-star spear fighter seen beside Nahar Kraven during the attack within Repentawa. She has square eyes and carries a spear, but her name and nature are not yet known.

First appears in chapter 42

A square-eyed two-star spear fighter accompanying Nahar during the assault inside Repentawa. Firita identifies herself as a body snatcher, attacks with copies of a cursed spear, and nearly kills Freddy.

First appears in chapter 42

A three-star mercenary support retained for the city's last defense. Sting can apply both holy and unholy blessings, and Freddy calls on that combination when Repentawa's remaining civilians are retreating and Nahar is only minutes away.

First appears in chapter 43

A rose-like construct in the Blood Domain associated with slaughter and bloodshed. It offers an uncertain cure when Freddy Stern's damaged soul is breaking apart, but does not disclose the terms of its remedy.

First appears in chapter 44

The overwhelmingly powerful ascended being that originated the Aether Virus and regards Nahar Kraven as its apostle. It offers Freddy Stern a cure if he repairs the damage done to its cause, then threatens him when he refuses.

First appears in chapter 44

An unnamed Overlord who forces his way into the Northern Belt. He is pursuing the man who eloped with his daughter and intends to kill him.