Eris/History

## Early Life

   Eris is the immortal Goddess of Luck and Fortune who presides over the world in which the series takes place. As such Eris is the main deity worshiped by the Eris Order, the predominant religion in the Parallel World, and even has the currency named after her. Whenever anyone dies in that world, it is Eris' job to guide them into their next life, whether it be going to Heaven or reincarnating. Yet despite being the most worshiped Goddess in the Parallel World, Eris was still the underling of Aqua whose more fanatical followers give her more power, and would frequently have to take up the work in her senior's place.

Eris often went down to the living world she presides over, both for fun and to seal or retrieve Divine Items gifted to those reincarnated from Japan. But one day, one of her worshipers by the name of Darkness prayed to her, asking for friends to adventure with. Taking pity on Darkness, Eris granted the request personally by descending to the world as the Thief Chris on her follower's return from the church. She and Darkness thereafter occasionally went on adventures, though Chris didn't reveal her true identity to anyone.

## Irregular of Axel Arc

After failing to recruit additional members into their party, Chris followed Darkness in searching the forest near Axel for a powerful Demon that the Guild reported sightings of. However, it wasn't until the day following the defeat of the Guild's hunting squadron were they able to encounter Host, during which Chris wounded him while he was distracted by Darkness, before the two of them had to retreat.

## Beginner Adventurer Arc

Upon hearing of Darkness wishing to join a party led by somebody supposedly to be her ideal pervert despite getting initially rejected, Chris on the next day accompanied her friend to the Guild for a meeting with Kazuma, and offered to teach him some Thief Skills in exchange for bubbly. They later went to an alleyway outside, where Chris demonstrated Lurk for hiding from Darkness whom she threw a stone at, only to have her Enemy Detection inform her of the irritated Crusader heading straight towards the obvious barrel she was hiding in. Chris next showed Kazuma Steal by taking his purse, then after Kazuma learned the three skills challenged him to Steal something off her. Yet despite Chris preparing a handful of stones to reduce the chances of him taking something valuable, she instead got her panties Stolen from her, and to her utmost embarrassment had to buy it back from Kazuma with his purse as well as her own money. The Thief afterwards enacted some payback when she publicised an exaggerated account of what Kazuma did to her for ruining his reputation, before citing a request to help another party of adventurers as an excuse to take her leave.

       Chris later returned to Axel, where she helped a young noble trail Dust through taking paparazzi pictures and making a note of the delinquent adventurer's everyday activities, then told Mitsurugi as he was asking around about Kazuma how the scum went around stealing panties. Yet subsequent to her stealing a purse swindled by a thuggish adventurer so that it could be returned to the beginner adventurer who was the rightful owner, Chris got jumped on by Aqua. Saved by Kazuma who pointed out Aqua's intent of using the theft as an excuse to confiscate the money for herself, the disguised Eris was reminded of a senior goddess of hers who looked and acted the same as the Archpriest. Chris next discovered in a shop a piece of Devil's King's Blood which was ordered by some noble for cursing an enemy, so upon being told by the shopkeeper to mind her own business, she swiped the cursed gem away, only to be cornered outside by Megumin for shoplifting. Kazuma again showed up to stop the Crimson Demon from using the theft as an excuse for coveting the "cool gem", but this time Chris had to flee alongside him when Megumin thwarted their attempts at retrieving t he gem by yelling about being robbed. Grumbling about her uncharacteristically bad luck that day, Chris along with Kazuma hid in an alley using their Lurk, before she feigned Neroid calls to lead the pursuing policemen off, though Kazuma accordingly compared her Stealing his purse upon their first meeting similar to the acts of the thuggish adventurer from earlier. Chris afterwards treated Kazuma to drinks at the Guild, and was telling him of how she usually worked diligently, when Aqua stumbled in hollering about reporting Chris' theft until the Thief treated her too. In the ensuing conversation when the two made up, Chris talked about her unruly senior whom Aqua looked akin to.

## Deep Winter Arc

    Following Kazuma's decapitation by the Winter Shogun, Eris who processed his soul impressed him by how she acted like a true goddess. Yet when she was about to reincarnate Kazuma's soul to start a new life as a baby in Japan, Aqua who had against the rules Resurrected Kazuma's body interrupted them. With the secret of her chests actually being padded used as blackmail, Eris was forced to let Kazuma's soul back into the world of the living. Having to pick up after this breach of protocol, she was unable to provide Kazuma's party assistance as Chris when they headed into Keele's Dungeon.

    Chris later on managed to make it back to the Guild, where (in the audio drama) she witnessed a Darkness weakened by the Powerful Messenger, and participated in the meeting against the Destroyer.

## Late Winter Arc

Chris was summoned by Sena as a witness when Kazuma was tried for treason, where she gave a testimony about him Stealing her panties before being dismissed (and in the anime she again had her panties Stolen by Kazuma following his return from Keele's Dungeon, while Eris had to process Kazuma's soul once more when he got killed by Aqua and other girls following the choker incident).

She subsequently adventured with Darkness as Chris for a while, and (in the audio drama) they investigated the surrounding wilderness of Axel when Megumin was accused by the police for rampant explosions around the area, where they discovered the culprit to be Mine Mushrooms detonated by the magical powers of the daily Explosions. They also took a simple quest against Goblins, which got complicated because Darkness jumped into the way of Chris' Bind and let the Goblins ravage her, forcing Chris to defeat all the Goblins by herself as well as listen to Darkness' perverted ravings afterwards.

## Early Spring Arc

Eris met Kazuma again following his death from a quest against Lizard Runners, though this time he got sick of his troublesome companions and wished to start anew as a baby. During their ensuing conversation, Eris let slip about her sometimes sneaking into the living world, before Kazuma was coerced into returning to his body.
(In the anime, she also had to process Kazuma after he died from having all his flesh melted off his bones by Hans in Arcanletia)

## Cursed Ring Arc

Hearing about a cursed ring stuck onto Kazuma's hand, Chris made her way to his party's mansion, where she was shocked when told by his companions as well as Wiz and Yunyun that it made him Steal panties, though the Thief was eventually persuaded to help Kazuma earn the fee charged by Vanir for getting the ring off.

After Kazuma still stole a panty despite all the girls staying somewhere else for the night, Chris was persuaded by Darkness to comply with Kazuma's idea of earning Vanir's curse removal fee through working at his maid café dressed up as a maid server, where nervous customers were calmed by her soothing manners, though circumstances soon forced it to close.

When the Guild held a Sports Festival that offers a stupendous prize enough to pay the fee, Chris accepted the invitation from Kazuma's party to be part of their team. She consequently joined the team's swimming training at the riverhead lake, though in the process her swimsuit mysteriously came off. On the day of the Sports Festival, Chris during the race across the grasslands stopped a jealous Dust from kicking Kazuma, though the subsequent discovery of Brutal Alligator hatchlings in the lake snapping at the competitors' swimsuits ended up getting the festival cancelled.

Following a discussion during breakfast among the girls over what to do about Kazuma after he Stole panties again, Chris at him suggesting selling light novels proposed writing about a female thief's exploits in the shadows of society before he ended up scrapping the project. With Kazuma settling for making money through starting a singer idol unit, Chris following idol training was assigned to be the curt member of the unit named "Shiny Blue", though it was soon forced to close due to circumstances.

After Kazuma took a quest to seek stolen antiques in a cave used by thieves as a hideout, Chris along with Yunyun instead reluctantly accompanied him because his party members declined to follow. Following a picnic by the lake, the girls ran into moments of distress when they got caught in a hunting net trap while trekking through the forest, and also inside the cave where they had to crawl through a narrow passageway, which turned out to have a trapdoor that dropped them into a deeper part of the cave system. Successfully defeating a horde of attacking monsters, Chris realised how there was another way out of the cave, only to be shocked when the trio later found a Skull Dragon sleeping close to the exit. Subsequent to them running into Aqua who trailed Kazuma alongside Megumin, Darkness, and Wiz, Chris joined the others as they tried to sneak past the Skull Dragon, and despite it being woken by the ring managed to make it out.

Discussing with Yunyun the idea of infiltrating Kazuma's mansion for retrieving the panties he had Stolen that month until the man in question walked in on them, Chris agreed to help earn the fee through working odd jobs. Several days later when the Skull Dragon was seen making its way towards Axel and had a bounty put onto it, Kazuma having heard from Vanir of its origins assigned Chris to scout out the Skull Dragon's actions in support of the other adventurers intercepting it outside the city. Subsequent to the ensuing deal made with the mage's soul in the Skull Dragon by offering up the Stolen panties and its purification by Aqua, the consequently enraged Chris took part in the beating that killed Kazuma, forcing her to process his soul as Eris before Aqua Resurrected him again.

Following the series of possible rewards and penalties for Kazuma depending on his performance in the "Panty Judgments", Chris while drinking at the Guild might receive an offer to do something for her from an apologetic Kazuma, so she jokingly requested him to pay her 1 million eris before deciding to have him owe her a favour. Chris upon discovering Kazuma tailing her after she headed out, proceeded to lead him in circles throughout town and outside. Yet the next day while visiting Wiz's Shop, a frantic Kazuma burst in telling her of somebody posting a quest in his name promising to pay 1 million eris for her capture. After Wiz tried to serve them drugged tea, Chris was dragged from the shop by Kazuma as Keith and other adventurers discovered them. Sneaking through tight alleyways in awkward positions, the pair made it to Kazuma's mansion, where the awaiting Megumin listened to their explanation and bought time for them to flee from the adventurers barging in. They soon found themselves cornered on the streets, which cumulated in Chris' panties being Stolen by Kazuma and thrown out as a distraction for them to slip away, but Chris became so angry that she pondered letting herself be caught until Kazuma managed to convince her into taking refuge within a church of Eris. As pursuers closed in, however, they were forced to creep through the rooms and onto the roof, during which Chris nearly had her pants ripped off by a slipping Kazuma. Eventually the pair were surrounded outside the church, though subsequent to Chris being infuriated by Kazuma declaring how he would publicly strip her without realising his true intent of letting her flee by herself, they were saved when the time limit of the quest ran out, and accordingly discovered that it was Aqua who posted the quest due to a misunderstanding. Later on, Chris either told Kazuma as he apologised again how he was obliged to help her in future, or while going shopping had him buy her crêpes.

At some point during that period, Eris expressed vexation at Kazuma, who had ran off a cliff in a quest gone wrong, for repeatedly dying, only to have him appearing before her a mere couple of days later due to a monster attack.

## Magical Stones Arc

Returning to the Guild at Axel following a trip from the Royal Capital, Chris ran into Kazuma's party while they were discussing about a magical stone that they had recently found, which she identified as a Devil-Sealing Magical Stone. Upon the party's members having different ideas of what to do with it, she pacified their disagreement by citing how the records at the Royal Capital talked of multiple magical stones existing and sent them into anticipatory celebrations.

Chris afterwards headed off to the Royal Capital again for researching the records, and found out that there were actually seven of these magical stones in existence, so she accordingly decided to join Kazuma's party in their search following their return from Keele's Dungeon. Subsequent to the magical stone buried in the snowfield forest being blown out of the ground along with a hot spring, Chris also went to take a dip.

When Kazuma's party were preparing to head into the Mystery Tower, she was also present at the Guild hoping to hear from Dust about the rumour of the magical stones being able to grant any wish when all seven are gathered, then upon their return talked of the saying that those magical stones had come from a land called Japan. And when all the stones were gathered following the party's expedition into Shangri-La, Chris informed them how according to the records, those Devil-Sealing Magical Stones need to be brought to an altar on the Island in the Sky for them to grant wishes.

Following many adventures and battles alongside Kazuma, as well as rescuing the party back to Axel in the form of Eris should a party wipe occur, Chris joined him in defending Axel from the attack of the Imitation Dragon, where she in the final stages unleashed Bind under Kazuma's instructions to hold the rampaging monster in place for the killing blows to be made. Later with Kazuma being depressed because the whole ordeal ended up rewarding them with no gain, Chris proceeded to cheer him up, before joining the other adventurers in celebrating their victory at the Guild.

## Black Slab Arc

Having heard about Kazuma's party being accused by Sena for theft from a nobleman and facing execution unless they make a set of requested clothes, Chris became bewildered at seeing Darkness turned into a sadist who she had witnessed shopping for whips, before she heard from the other members of the party about how Darkness was cursed by a Black Slab that reversed her personality. Many months later, Eris had to handle Kazuma again when he was killed by the clothes that the man in black robes had generated.

After everything was eventually settled with Chris having tested out enough numbers of various clothes, she was commissioned by the Guild to catch an underwear thief. Since Kazuma and Dust were both the prime suspects, Chris exploiting Kazuma's guilt at having repeatedly Stolen her panties lured him into accompanying her tailing of Dust, so that she could keep an eye on both of them at once. Subsequent to some embarrassing moments between them as they followed Dust, at the end of the day when no traces of his involvement in the crime was observed, Chris got permission from Kazuma to stay at his mansion for the night, and snuck into his room to search for any criminal evidence though to no avail. Hearing from Luna the next morning about her underwear being stolen, Chris due to Dust having gone questing focused on observing Kazuma, therefore she spent the whole day with him as well as visited his room that night, yet the Guild's request made her so tired she fell asleep on his bed. Chris woke up the following day in horror before Darkness reassured her that Kazuma didn't do anything while she slept, so she took Kazuma to the Guild for cancelling this tiring job, only to be told of the underwear thief being caught already. Receiving pay for investigating the two suspects anyways, the true scope of her job was then revealed to Kazuma when Dust came up and blurted it all out, causing Kazuma who had misunderstood Chris' actions to be her affection for him Steal her panties out of upset disappointment. In order to make up with Kazuma, Chris agreed to go on a date with him a few days later, wearing the short dress he had generated with the Black Slab.

## Mid Spring Arc

In the anime, Eris had to process the gory remains of Kazuma after he was blown up alongside Sylvia, at which she threw up on sight.

## Cursed Relic Arc

When following Kazuma's party as well as Yunyun and Mitsurugi on a request by Lundberg to investigate an ancient relic discovered at the research facility beneath his mansion, Chris got caught in its defence response in the form of Level Drain, which reduced them all to Level 1 rookies with no Skills. She managed to escape being buried alive as a result of Megumin's Explosion, and after Kazuma got charged with treason by Sena which forced him to help repair the damaged relic, Chris tagged along to the meeting with Lundberg for discussing the terms of pardon. Later as they listened to Rav explain how he needed some replacement parts only found in dungeons in order to repair the relic, she volunteered to go scout out Arcanletia, where the researcher speculated a dungeon containing one of the parts was located.

Initially puzzled because nobody in the city of water remembered a dungeon nearby despite ancient records indicating its existence, Chris found her answer when witnessing a follower of the Axis Order who called on the "power of Aqua" make daily performances of splitting apart the city's lake, which revealed an underwater temple submerged at its bottom. Rendezvousing with Kazuma's party upon their exit from a product shop in the city, she showed them how the parting of the lake's waters allowed them to approach the temple, before disabling a magical barrier around it so that they could enter. During their search in the west wing, Chris noticed a short sword at the bottom of a pool which she dived in to retrieve, and later noticed how it was actually used for opening up a hidden passageway into the inner sanctum. When the party reached a flooded hall, she and the other girls wearing swimsuits provided by Aqua dived in to search. Chris was accordingly captured alongside Darkness by a surfacing Kraken, and much to her dismay the perverted Crusader took pleasure in it. Subsequent to being freed, she proceeded to help defeat the Kraken after the water was emptied from the hall to leave it weakened, allowing the party to retrieve the Magical Stone of Water they were tasked to find. Then during a dinner back at the Guild for celebrating the discovery of another replacement part, Chris theorised how it was the power of the magical stone that split the lake's waters.

Chris started investigating Lundberg as well as the relic when Kazuma became suspicious of the nobleman's intentions, though she could only turn up a clean record for the former and nothing for the latter.

At some point during the period, Chris found out about a large band of thieves active in the area around Axel having hoarded a lot of unusual goods, so she invited Kazuma to help raid their hideout within the Bottomless Labyrinth while they were out thieving. Despite easily making their way in and successfully grabbing some loot, the pair ran into some returning thieves, against whom Chris had to do most of the fighting because Kazuma was encumbered by his large sack. After returning the stolen goods to their owners, Chris showed Kazuma a damaged handheld gaming console she had picked up at the hideout, so they returned there and defeated a thief to retrieve its controller, although Chris then had to have the console sealed subsequent to Aqua confirming the existence of a curse upon it. As consolation for the disappointed Kazuma, Chris brought him back to the hideout following the capture of the thief band, where they spent the day playing with the gaming consoles discovered in a storeroom before the otherworldly items got confiscated by the Guild.

Following many adventures and battles alongside Kazuma, as well as rescuing the party back to Axel in the form of Eris should a party wipe occur, Chris joined him in defending Axel from the attack of a supergiant Wallavy. At first in charge of scouting out its movements, she next identified the location of Wallavy's core that according to Rav had suffered integral damage already, which eventually allowed Kazuma to get it destroyed despite the Slime's final mutation, though Eris might end up meeting his deceased soul once again depending on the method he had used. Several days later, when all the adventurers who had fought in the battle were drinking at the Guild in celebration, Chris enjoyed the delicious warabi mochi Aqua had cut out from Wallavy.

## References

1. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 1
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 1
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 2
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 4, Chapter 1
5. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 8, Chapter 1
6. ↑ Explosion Light Novel Volume 3, Chapter 2
7. ↑ Explosion Light Novel Volume 3, Chapter 4
8. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 2
9. ↑ Limelight Light Novel Volume 1, Interlude
10. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 3
11. ↑ Television Anime Blu-ray Disc Volume 4, Special Short Story Booklet
12. ↑ Sound Drama 1, Track 4
13. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 5
14. ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 3, Chapter 1
15. ↑ Television Anime Season 2, Episode 3
16. ↑ Television Anime Season 1, Original Animation Disc
17. ↑ Sound Drama 1, Track 3
18. ↑ Limelight Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 4
19. ↑ Television Anime Season 2, Episode 10
20. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Prologue
21. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Chapter 1
22. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Chapter 2
23. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Chapter 3
24. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Chapter 4
25. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Chapter 5
26. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Chris Route
27. ↑ Judgment on this Greedy Game!, Audio Drama coming with the Limited Edition
28. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Main Story at the Neighbourhood Ruins
29. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Main Story at Khiel's Dungeon
30. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Main Story at the Snowfield Forest
31. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Main Story at the Mystery Tower
32. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Main Story at Shangri-La
33. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Main Story with the Imitation Dragon
34. ↑ Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers, Epilogue
35. ↑ Love for these Clothes of Desire!, Chapter 1
36. ↑ Love for these Clothes of Desire!, Final Chapter
37. ↑ Love for these Clothes of Desire!, Chris Route
38. ↑ Animated Movie 1
39. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Prologue
40. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Underwater Temple
41. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story at the Underground Ruins beneath the Fort
42. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Friendship Events with Chris
43. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Main Story with Supergiant Wallavy
44. ↑ Cursed Relic and the Perplexed Adventurers, Epilogue