Kinzokeshi

**Kinzokeshi** (きんぞけし) AKA "Kinzeshi" or "Kinzo Mortalitas", real name **Akira Kanzaki** (神崎アキラ *Kanzaki Akira*), is the guildmaster of Errat Mortalitas, the 42nd (unofficial) member and ally of Ainz Ooal Gown, and creator of Momonji and Bounty.

In YGGDRASIL, he was famed for his habit of hunting high or max level PKers who would target far weaker players, making him a well-known figure within the playerbase, but also making him a target for the more vengeful players who had their loot and items stolen by him in order to return them to their original owners. Or keep for himself.

## Appearance

Kinzokeshi's avatar was designed around the word "Jester", meant to display his true personality as opposed to the emotionless visage of his avatar's Automaton body, however, not feeling the look of the multicolored and overly-vibrant look that jesters/clowns are usually represented with, he instead decided to go with a monotone black and white look.

To that end, he wears an eerie-looking black mask with an asymmetrical smile decorated with rabbit ears and a big jewel in the middle, that made it look like he was sneering at anyone he showed it to. His face is hidden underneath the mask, but his red hair can be visible. His clothing consists of a pure white robe tied with a long ribbon at the waist, fur on the neck, gloves and pointy boots.

## Personality

Kinzo is an avid, almost fanatical roleplayer, often portraying himself as a happy-go-lucky and care-free, yet highly intelligent and slightly sadistic prankster that revels in the suffering of others in any way shape or form, whether it be mild annoyance as a result of a prank, or genuine agony as a result of having their skull cracked open and brain eaten away by a Brain Eater. He has shown to be quite manipulative, having managed to influence a large portion of YGGDRASIL's playerbase into protecting him and building a safe-space for him in the form of Errat Mortalitas, and even managing to lie his way out of a permanent ban from the game as a result of his "alleged" involvement in the duping of items and exploitation of glitches in the game.

However, in reality Kinzo is a sad, almost depressed person, who found the most solace in the world of video games, YGGDRASIL being his most cherished escape from the reality of being a wage slave, working day after day for a bunch of, as he describes them, "slave drivers". He reveled in every moment he was able to spend in the virtual world, and held the people that made the experience more enjoyable, such as his the members of both Ainz Ooal Gown and Errat Mortalitas, with very high value, often referring to them as "priceless", and expressed deep sorrow at the revelation of the game's shutdown, devolving to a state that barely resembled the character he put on in the game, and more showcasing his actual personality.

Because of his life in the real world, he was almost overjoyed at his arrival to the New World, not putting any form of question into his situation, and wholeheartedly believing that he didn't have any reason to question it, so long as he could stay in the world he loved ever-so dearly. And this jubilation only increasing at the realization that Momonga was also present within the New World.

His nature as an Automaton in the New World has affected his mentality, as he rarely ever finds himself considering emotions or morals when making decisions, often weighing things from a black and white, almost binary, perspective with few grey areas where morality fits into the equation. Jolliness and nonchalance appears to be his primary state of being, rarely ever deviating from a carefree, happy manner of speaking, regardless of his expressionless appearance.

## Chronology

### The Undead King Arc

Two hours prior to the shutdown of YGGDRASIL, Kinzokeshi is first seen conversing with the guildmaster of Errat Mortalitas, Beebeesee within the guild's home base, the Ancient Spire of Heaven. The two had been conversing for a good few minutes prior to the first scene of the series, the other members of the guild having logged off long ago. Shortly after reaching the highest point of the guild base, Beebeesee transferred guildmaster privileges to Kinzokeshi, revealing that the other members of the guild had called one final meet-up before Kinzo had logged on, with a large majority of them deciding that he should be crowned as the guildmaster before the game shut down for good, believing that the guild was always meant to be lead and managed by him, despite his refusal of the role. After transferring the privileges to Kinzo, Beebeesee logged out of the game. And Kinzo, after taking a short look at the area around him, used a teleportation spell to transport himself to the guild base of Ainz Ooal Gown, the Great Tomb of Nazarick.

There, Kinzokeshi finds Herohero and Momonga, two members of Ainz Ooal Gown, conversing with one another. Herohero and Kinzo exchanged some short gestures and greetings, before the slime inevitably bids farewell to the two and logs off for the last time, as he had already quit the game, leaving only Kinzokeshi and Momonga as the last two remaining players within the Great Tomb of Nazarick. The two both express their displeasure at the closing of YGGDRASIL, Kinzo being especially disheartened at the thought of losing everything that he loved in the virtual world YGGDRASIL provided, dreading returning to his monotonous life in the real world.

Realizing that they had never finalized his membership to Ainz Ooal Gown, Momonga, as a final gesture of their friendship, bestowed Kinzokeshi with a Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown, dubbing him as an "honorary member" of the guild, prompting Kinzokeshi to jokingly crown himself as the "Shadow Overlord of Ainz Ooal Gown", drawing a laugh out of Momonga, despite his poor mood, before he took his leave; not from the game, but from the Great Tomb of Nazarick, using the same teleportation spell he used to transport himself to Nazarick to take himself back to the Ancient Spire of Heaven, feeling that he hadn't given the guild base a proper farewell. He would spent a good amount of time touring the base from bottom to top using his newly acquired guildmaster privileges to alter the profiles and backstories of the NPCs within the base to incorporate short stories of each of their creators, as well as instructing them to follow him on his tour, before eventually making it back to the top floor of the Spire. There, he would use the guildmaster privileges to alter the peak's structure, constructing statues of the major members of the guild, along with a grand firework display which was set to go off a few seconds before the game's shutdown, at which point he expected to be kicked out of the server, calling out the names of each of the guild members presented by the statues he built, along with a goodbye.

## Trivia

* The picture used for Kinzokeshi is taken from an illustration of Laplace from That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.
* In the real world, Kinzo worked as a code monkey, often tasked with writing up source code for a large company.

## Quotes

(To Himself) 'Maybe I should start operating under the guild's name, like Momon does? Nah. 'Errat Mortalitas' doesn't have the same ring to it as a name!'