The man in black robes was a mysterious man who orchestrated the whole ordeal with the Black Slab that tormented Kazuma and his party for many months.[1]
Appearance[]
Nothing much is known about his appearance because he always wears a loose hooded black robe that covers his whole body and only leaves his nose and mouth visible, though in some instances it can be seen that underneath the robes, he has a lean body and wears a dark tunic as well as trousers.
Personality[]
The man in black robes is both highly intelligent and persistently determined at completing his goals no matter the means. While he possesses an unwavering love to his fiancé and a legitimate reason for vengeance, the convoluted scheme he had devised, which involves framing and exploiting the innocent Kazuma's party for many months with the possibly of destroying them in the end, has brought him to the point of ruthlessness.
History[]
Originally engaged to the woman who owned the Black Slab as her family heirloom, he was separated from her when a nobleman who was obsessed with clothes forcibly took her and the slab with clothing generating powers into his possession. Following his fiancé's execution because she refused to divulge the way of using the slab for generating clothing, the man furiously plotted vengeance against the nobleman.
Despite not knowing how to activate the slab for clothing generation himself, the man still knew that it magically transforms ingredients into clothes. Through figuring out its logic, he successfully concocted a series of recipes for generating the School Invidia, Idol Superbia, Sexy Luxuria, and Armour of Wrath, which are clothing containing their own will that manifest the sinful emotions of people, and planned to use them as ingredients for a set of clothes combining all the emotions, so that once he wears it he will be powerful enough to go kill the nobleman. But in addition to him lacking the knowledge to generate the clothes as well as the funds for ingredient acquisition, he was also too weak to subdue the Armour of Wrath for it to become an ingredient.
A few years later, he learned of how tough Darkness is as well as the power of Megumin's Explosion, and proceeded to exploit Kazuma's party for his goals. First he requested the Succubus Cafe to make the nobleman dream of doing things to girls dressed in clothes expressing envy, pride, lust, and wrath, fully knowing that Succubi dreams requested by somebody else will accumulate instead of relieve the dreamer's desires. Then he broke into the nobleman's mansion for stealing the slab as well as a gem, and upon learning of the magic barrier around the mansion repelling the deployed Succubus, on the following night he paid a drunk Aqua with bubbly to break the barrier so the Succubus can enter.
The man on the next day dropped the slab and the gem along the return path Kazuma's party took after questing, and once they picked up the items, he secretly notified the nobleman about them being the thieves, though the nobleman had forgotten all about the unusable slab and only reported the party for stealing the gem. Just as he expected, the nobleman offered the party clemency if they would generate the clothes the Succubus made him dream about, at which he dropped off the recipes for the requested clothing at Wiz's Shop so the party will know what ingredients to gather. And whenever the party generated the requested clothes after months of toiling for the ingredients, the man would steal it from the nobleman's mansion while requesting to have the nobleman dream of the next set of clothes, so that the nobleman would find excuses to force the party into generating the needed clothes, the recipes for which the man would deliver to Wiz's Shop.
With the nobleman becoming wary after the School Invidia was stolen, the man approached Aqua again the day the Idol Superbia was handed to the nobleman, asking her to cast Force Fire so the mercenaries the nobleman hired from elsewhere for boosting security would be delayed by the attracted monsters, giving him an opening to break in and steal the clothes as well as the extra rare bubbly used for paying Aqua. The man also took steps to cover his tracks, and as such sent a decoy doll possessed by undead to deliver recipes when the party was laying in ambush at Wiz's Shop, then stopped appearing at the Succubus Cafe to check on the nobleman's dreams once he realised Dust and Keith were looking out for him.
Although the man managed to steal the first three sets of clothes the nobleman had requested, at Kazuma's advice the security at the nobleman's mansion became so impenetrable, that he instead broke into Kazuma's mansion to steal the ingredients the party had gathered, where he ended up captured in a trap and restrained by Sena. The party though proceeded to use the ingredients for fulfilling the nobleman's latest request to them, little knowing that the recipe the man gave them this time wasn't for generating the requested Berserk Ira but the Armour of Wrath.
Just as the man envisioned, the Armour began rampaging before Darkness who was able to withstand the pain of resistance put it on and walked it outside the city, where Megumin blasted it into submission. The man escaped custody during the upheaval, grabbing the slab with him, and reclaimed the Armour of Wrath which he utilised as ingredients along with the three sets of stolen clothes. However, when using the slab for generating the clothing consisting of all four emotions while he declared his desire to kill the nobleman, he let slip that he only learned how to use the slab through observing the party. As a result, Kazuma simply let him activate the slab for clothing generation before Stealing it out of his hands, and afterwards the slab's curse which the man knew nothing about made him desire protecting the nobleman instead. The man later testified to Sena about Kazuma and his party's innocence, in addition to asking Kazuma to return the slab to his fiancé's family.
Abilities[]
- Magic: Despite not being an adventurer, the man in black robes appears to have some basic magic capabilities, as he was able to pour magic powers into the Black Slab for clothing generation and summon an undead to possess a doll.
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