Vanir

Template:Character Infobox Template:Nihongo is a supporting character in the KonoSuba series. He is an ex-general of the Demon King's army and one of the Dukes of Hell. He is a demon who, after being defeated by the protagonists in volume 3, ended up in charge of Wiz's shop.

Vanir has his own spin-off light novel, which tells the shared story of Vanir and Wiz from their perspective.

Appearance

Vanir appears as a gentleman with slicked back hair and a black and white mask with a small star design placed under each eye hole. He later has a symbol "II" at his mask's forehead, as a symbol that he has lost his life once, which makes him use his 2nd mask and say that he is Vanir "MK-2". He wears a black suit with white gloves which is the attire typical of the Dukes of hell. In reality, his human body is little more than an add-on, his true form being the mask itself.

It is revealed in his spin-off that underneath the mask lies a stunning handsome face enough to make the Adventurer's guild receptionist Luna to madly go crazy all over him once Vanir showed his face on her.

Personality

Vanir is shown to be rather egotistic and self-driven, having little to no problem using his mind reading capabilities to blurt out the secrets of others. He has a tendency to shamelessly boast about himself. Despite this, he is shown to be rather business savvy and kind-hearted. He manages Wiz's shop with greater success than she can and makes deals with Kazuma to market inventions from his world on multiple occasions. He is also rather witty in his dialogue, but has a similar manners like the nobles.

Background

He is one of the Dukes of Hell, known as the Devil of Clairvoyance and declares that he is the one that sits on the strongest throne of the 7 arch devils in Hell. It is said that he might be stronger than the Demon king himself, that he is the enemy of gods while Demon king is only fighting with humanity. Vanir himself said that he was only asked to maintain the barrier, even though he wants to resign from his post of the Demon king army. He then uses his defeat to resign.

Not only a very strong devil that has various one hit kill skills such as "Vanir-style Death Ray", he also has a powerful force behind him to call upon all the demons from his domain to aid him. He doesn't do it because humans are a devil's source of food and he absolutely adores humanity.

He currently works as a part-timer in Wiz shop so that the money earned would be used as a foundation to create his own dungeon to fulfill his dream of trolling the poor adventurers that wasted their efforts to slay him only to find that the treasure behind him is empty.

Relationship

Kazuma Satou

Vanir and Kazuma are business partners on good terms. Vanir is incredibly interested in Kazuma's knowledge from Japan. He bought Kazuma's intellectual property and saved him from the dire situation he faced in volume 7. He occasionally reveals what's going on in Kazuma's mind (mostly concerning romantic interest), causing him and his party to feel embarrassed and uneasy from time to time.

Aqua

Vanir knew Aqua's true identity even before meeting her. They see in each other an enemy. Vanir usually gets mad when Aqua disrupts his business either by performing on the street to attract would-be customers or purifying the potions in his shop. Aqua seems displeased as well when Kazuma seeks help from Vanir, a demon, instead of her.

He also referers to Kazuma as "the guardian of this useless' goddess", incurring her wrath, but, surprisingly, after some cooling off, he is able to leave her unarmed when Aqua had fallen asleep at Wiz's shop.

Wiz

After Vanir was defeated by Kazuma's party, he begins working under Wiz at her magic item shop, though it usually doesn't seem that way. Vanir usually treats Wiz meanly due to her tendency to waste money on buying useless products. Nonetheless, they seem to be good friends. Wiz was genuinely happy when Vanir asked Kazuma to take her to the hot spring, thinking that Vanir cared deeply about her. Her innocent smile made it hard for Kazuma to tell her about Vanir's real intention to keep her from wasting money again.

In his spin-off novel it is revealed that Vanir was the one who taught Wiz a skill for becoming a Lich.

Darkness

Vanir once controlled Darkness' body during his fight with Kazuma's party, but apparently they get along very well. After Vanir becomes a staff in Wiz's shop, they occasionally interact. This led to Darkness helping Vanir with legal connections when he decided to buy Kazuma's intellectual rights and mass-produce convenient contemporary tools from Japan. Later Vanir would use his clairvoyance to reveal Darkness' mind and actions in the presence of Kazuma, causing her embarrassment.

Yunyun

In his spin-off Vanir is revealed to frequently keep Yunyun company, refering to her as the "loner girl". He also pledge as the high devil that he will be her friend and didn't charge her consultation fee as his first costumer, with the provision that she has to introduce his service to the other adventures that she knows even that he thinks he make a wron first costumer due Yunyun always do the solo adventuring and rarely has friends.

Iris

Princess hired Vanir to be her tour guide for a day while her party was wandering around Axel. While Iris did not know she was dealing with a devil, she wondered if he was an aristocratic figure from the faraway land due to his noble manners and unique style.

Luna

Vanir takes interest in Luna as her negative emotions of frustration is truly a delicacy to come by. He like them as far as to create an opportunity for the two to be together, to be able enjoy her rants whenever he wants. Severely misunderstood by the others, this results in a huge temporary bounty on Vanir's head as a compensation for the cruelty done to Luna's feelings. Nonetheless, after the incident is resolved, Luna seems to enjoy Vanir's company and he covers her shifts in the Adventurer's Guild sometimes.

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Vanir Quotes

Many of Vanir quotes involve lengthy setups, and have him delivers the final punchline at the end, but below are some of the shorter quotes that still highlighted Vanir's witty prankster personality: (Warning: As fun as it may be, it is NOT recommended to use any of the Vanir Quotes in real life.)

"Hmm, super refused." - Alice (Iris), who is clueless about money, just hired Vanir as 1-day tour guide with a huge bag of coins. So Rain secretly pleaded with him, see if he can charge the standard fee instead. (Masked Devil Spin-off, Ch 3)

"That would be one million Eris! Thank thee for thy patronage." Followed by "Oh, this is nothing, Customer. After all, Customer is going to be a very wealthy man soon!" - How to close the sale of the useful but super expensive "Undead Repellent."  (LN 5, Ch 1)

“Hahahaha! Too bad, it is moi!” — Vanir, successfully playing one of his tricks

Trivia

• According to Vanir his real body is always in Hell, and when he wants to appear in the physical world, he uses some method to create a host, and then take possession of it with his spirit. Thus, he is not considered a living organism by the rules of world Konosuba takes place in.
• Vanir has several "lives" in stash, and by his own words, opponents need to use explosion magic if they hope to deplete even one. He's depicted losing one life to Kazuma's party in Light Novel Volume 3.
• Vanir is strong enough to hold off against Aqua's Sacred-level exorcism magic while protecting a group of lesser devils even when he has suffered some damage.
• Not only he can turn his body into sand, freely tear parts off it, reform and regenerate it at will, Vanir can also create duplicate shells of himself and dominate the will and control the body of the ones wearing his mask.
• Vanir has gifted a mask of his own design to Kazuma. The mask has no powers though wearing it under the moonlight makes the user's skin softer and shiny.
• He is possibly to be the strongest among all the Demon king generals.