Nozomu Bountis

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> The girl I love wants to pursue her dreams, of course, I want to help her.
>
> **Nozomu Bountis** confess to Lisa Hounds

## Nozomu Bountis

* Light Novel
* Manga

### Aliases

Bottom of the Barrel
Bottom-Feeder
 Dragon-slayer (Secretly/Unofficial)

### Affiliation

Solminati Academy
Arcazam Adventure's Guild
Mikagura School of Sword play

### Occupation

Student
Adventure

### Class

3rd year, Class 10(Current)
2rd year, Class 10 (Previous)
1rd year, Class 10 (Previous)

## Skill

### Rank

C (currently)
D (former 2 years)

## Biographical information

### Relationship status

Lisa Hounds (Ex-Lover)
Ken Notis (Ex-Best Friend)
Shino(Master)
Tiamat(bounded to Nozomu's soul)

### Relatives

Unnamed Father
Unnamed Mother
Unnamed Uncle
Unnamed Aunt

## Appearances

### Web Novel Debut

Volume 1 Chapter 1

**Nozomu Bountis** is the main protagonist of the series. He is a 3rd year, class 10 student of Soluminati Academy.

## Appearance

Nozomu has straight brown hair and brown eyes. He has an average appearance as described by multiple characters in the series.On the chest of his white-colored uniform, he wears a black nameplate indicating his lowest grade.

Throughout the story he's mostly seen in the academy uniform.

According to Norn Alteina, school's infirmary doctor, Nozomu's body is well-build and well-trained as a well-proportioned body with no unnecessary flab or fat. However, he have countless scars all over his body due to Shino's training.

## Personality

Nozomu had been portrayed at the start of the story as an insecure boy, constantly self-doubting himself and lamenting the suppression of his abilities*.* His supposedly "betrayal" to his girlfriend Lisa made him extremely unpopular in the academy and he was bullied relentlessly, which both caused him to be more emotionally unstable and less confident. His mind was so shamble that he began to have a distorted reason for getting strong.At the time, he covered it up with various reasons and he had self-harming behaviors.

He completely ignored the problems that he really needed to face, pushing the problems to the edge of his mind and not even trying to pay attention to them.It was a kind of escape from reality which Shino termed as escapism.

Nozomu harbored some envious feelings of others(Lisa, Ken, Iris, his classmates) who were getting stronger and stronger, and he also felt sorry for himself for being left behind. He lamented his ability for his fall.

However, He's still of good nature and is willing to go out of his way to help other people.

Following his encounter with Shino and his new friends, he became more aware of his own issues and tried to resolve them with some success. He was beginning to change even without himself aware of it.

## Background

Nozomu Bountis was born in Oire Village, an ordinary agricultural village surrounded by mountains. He was best friend with Ken Notice and meat Lisa Hounds while he was good at fishing fishing near the river whom later started developing a love relationship with Lisa who recently moved in to the town with her mother.

He confessed to Lisa and decided to follow her to Solminati Academy, to fulfill her dreams of becoming an adventurer. Being the only child in his family, his father was against him leaving and wanted him to take over him in the future. After a week long argument with his father, he was kicked out of the house and was told never to return to the house ever again.

But Nozomu's grades were not so good. He was originally not a studious student, nor did he have any experience with swords. He also didn't have the same talent or experience as Lisa had with her adventure parents. It was a miracle that he was able to enter Solminati Academy, and it was no surprise that his grades were not as high as they should have been. Even so, Nozomu did not give up, and he devoted himself to his lessons every day, and Lisa supported him wholeheartedly. He had friends who helped him, and Nozomu struggled to live up to their expectations. Being Lisa's lover burdened him further. They were called a mismatch couple.

He developed an ability called *Ability Suppression* which gave him a hopeless situation where he was at an even greater disadvantage than before.His already low performance plummeted even further, and he actually fell to the bottom of the class. Naturally, the people around him became more and more critical of him day by day, and some of them even resorted to direct bullying. Lisa was still by his side, which gave a faint hope. They spent more time together and practiced together to reduce the ill will directed at Nozomu.

In the summer of their first year, Nozomu was suddenly told by Lisa that she would be leaving him. He was given an icy glare. Before he knew it, news of their breakup spread throughout the school, and he was blamed for it. Lisa dumped Nozomu because he had betrayed her and was seeing another woman. His reputation dropped dramatically. Every single one of Nozomu's friends left, and some of them joined those who had been ridiculing him before and began cursing him in even worse terms. He went to talk to Lisa, but she was completely rejected him with a cold stare. Nozomu tried many times to convince her of his innocence, but she and others around him rejected him. However, his heart gradually froze due to the repeated rejection by her and others around him.

Even so, he continued to try his hardest. He took his classes seriously at the academy, and he also subjected himself to even more rigorous training. One day he saw Lisa was, smiling next to Ken and heard a rumor that they began dating right after she dumped Nozomu.

Later, Nozomu went to The Forest of Spasim to train and get stronger. He spent days training as if his life depended on it with barely any food or sleep. However, in his weaken state, Nozomu was nearly killed Wild Dogs, low-ranked demonic beasts, until Shino Mikagura save him and decided to train him in the way of katana Mikagura School of Sword play.

The negative rumors continued to circulate, He was completely isolated from the other students, because of his ability many refused to form a party with him, believing him to be a shackle. He didn't get any prospective guild job because of his rank and not being in a party. He received a mediocre jobs like cleaning sewage or carrying luggage with less points.

He was only able to advance to second year due to the results of the written exam, but even so, he had to take two additional exams during the exam for advancement. But before the most crucial exam, the end-of-year exams, Nozomu was injured (Tiamat incident) to the extent that it affected his performance.

## Trivia

* Razward, a spirit sees Nozomu's soul form as a myriad of chains that binds something. They are so strong and solid that one cannot see the object to which they are bound.
* Nozomu always have three slices of black bread with some vegetables and dried meats sandwiched in between. They were the cheapest foods available in the stall and less popular among the customers. Because of his less income from guild job, he chooses this food.
* Nozomu is the first person to be able to "release" the Ability Suppression in history.