Flum Apricot

* Manga
* LN

The protagonist of Roll Over and Die. She was originally appointed as a member of the Hero's Party before being betrayed and sold into slavery by Jean Inteige. After ironically learning the true nature of her Affinity, she escaped with another slave named Milkit whom she would attempt to build a new life with.

## Appearance

She has Reddish-brown hair (Strawberry Blonde in the Web Novel) and red eyes. She is a young teenage girl of average height.

After Jean burned Flum's left cheek and sold her into slavery, she is left with a red slave mark. When the Slave Merchant officially converts Flum into a slave, she the brand on her cheek is composed of special ink that remains on her face even after she gains regeneration abilities that allow her to heal her injuries. Apparently, it is possible she might be able to eventually free herself of the mark, it isn't known if it will be successful.

Upon her introduction, Flum's Hero's Party outfit consisted of a simple long-sleeved tunic, buttoned cloak, short shorts, and knee-high boots. However, she is stripped of these clothes after being sold into slavery. During her brief time as a slave, she is forced to wear rags. She was given a ripped and grimy shirt and short shorts. After Flum managed to free herself, she wears a cloak similar to when she was in the Hero Party.

Upon completing her trial assignment to become an Adventurer, she finds the "Bloodstained Steel Gauntlets" as she and Milkit were returning to the capital. Afterwards, she then buys a red and white tank top-like tunic with an exaggerated white collar that has a light brown embroidering which becomes her trademark outfit. Flum also wears a belt clip, a black under shirt, a brown pelt, brown short shorts, and brown knee-high boots with black leg-high socks. During her battle with the Spiral-faced Ogre, she would acquire the "God-hating Boots". She will occasionally wear a brown leather shoulder bag across her body.

When Flum gains Epic Tier Cursed equipment, she gains crest-like tattoos on her body that glows light blue when her equipment is not active. She obtains one tattoo on the back of her right hand when she acquires the "Soul-Devouring Zweihänder" sword, and she gains another tattoo below her naval when she acquired Epic Tier cursed equipment from Gadhio Lathcutt in Episode 04.

## Personality & Character

Throughout her early life, Flum always felt inadequate to others due to how she struggled with her affinity, "Reversal", which left her with zero stats. Even though she enjoyed living in her village, Patolia, she also saw herself as a 'Country Mouse'. While the thought of living in the city excited her, she couldn't help but feel inadequate. These feelings were exasperated during her time in the Hero's Party.

When Flum stood with the other members of the Hero Party who were either already famous prior to their appointments to the Hero's Party, she felt like dead weight, and it ultimately caused her to lack self-confidence. Despite this, she still strived to be of use to the party even if it was merely doing odd jobs, such as shopping and cooking, or engaging in small talk with the party. Several members of the Hero Party ultimately admitted that having Flum around to act as a buffer and supporter kept things running smoothly as things became tenser after her forced departure.

Despite Flum's attempts to be useful, several party members would treat her with indifference, contempt, or in Jean's case, downright venomous hostility. When Jean went as far as to sell her into slavery, Flum had very little trouble believing his lie that everyone in the party agreed to it. The only two people she had a hard time believing would go through with it were Eterna Rinebow and Gadhio Lathcutt, but even Jean was able to manipulate Flum into believing they didn't care because she was a burden to them. This left Flum in broken spirits and near complete despair. When she later found out from Eterna that Jean lied and everyone would have been against such a heinous action, Flum couldn't help but cry. Regardless, this event caused Flum to become far more skeptical of people and less willing to trust others.

After being abused by the Unnamed Slave Merchant along with being condemned to death by him which ultimately resulted in her gaining the "Soul-Devouring Zweihänder", it awakened a more brutal and merciless side she never knew she had emerged. She didn't hesitate to wipe out the ghouls that tried to eat her, and she tortured and brutally killed the slave trader as retribution for trying to execute slaves for his entertainment. At the same time, Flum began to tear up and told herself that it was okay to live indicating her capability of picking herself up from despair. Inflicting pain onto others is now a lot easier to her to the point of almost having sadistic tendencies, she even fantasizes about getting even with Jean and making him suffer for selling her into slavery.

Flum is also willing to put herself in grave danger for the sake of others. In Volume 02/Episode 03 of the Light Novel, she willingly let herself be blown up rather than letting Dein use a slave girl be used as a suicide bomber. In Chapter 14 of the manga, Flum willingly drank poison when Milkit was being held hostage by Dein's men. While Flum partially committed both actions because she believed her healing abilities might be able to save her life, she also acknowledged there was a good chance she would die, and she took the chance because she didn't want an innocent life die.

While Flum is still generally a good person, she is quite merciless to those that have wronged her, her friends, or commit some injustice as she will not hesitate to conduct cold-blooded torture to anyone that wrongs her or anyone that she cares about. This aspect of Flum's personality eventually came to a head, when Milkit's former master, Satils Francois, decided to kidnap Milkit. Flum didn't hesitate to use torture to obtain information on Milkit's whereabouts, and she would torture Satils to death for the harm she had caused Milkit. While Flum was afraid that Milkit would hate her for torturing Satils to death, she made it clear that regardless of what Milkit may feel about her, she could not let Satils live for the sins she committed or the ones she would commit if she was spared.

Despite Flum's merciless attitude, she recognizes when she needs to show restraint. While she intended to deal with Dein, she recognized she could not simply kill him right away. When she learned Satils was Milkit's previous master who also poisoned Milkit, she had to hold herself back from killing Satils right then and there because killing Satils in public would not be beneficial to her.

Flum is able capable of forgiveness depending on situation. Despite how Cyril treated her, she didn't hold ill will towards her. Likewise, when she believes she has wronged someone, she will feel immense guilt.

## History

Flum was born with the rare affinity known as 'Reversal'. For her entire life, it caused all her stats to remain zero regardless of what she did. Flum was never told nor did she have any method of knowing what her true abilities were. Despite this, she lived a fairly normal life with her family and friends in her village. While this did cause Flum to feel somewhat inadequate, she appreciated that her friends and family accommodated her. Flum was able to live a fairly peaceful life throughout the first sixteen years.

Everything changed when Flum was chosen to be one of the seven 'Heroes' by Origin to join the great quest to defeat the Demon Lord. Due to how this was a great honor to her village, Flum reluctantly accepted the appointment. Despite being chosen, Flum was never told what her role in Hero's Party was supposed to be. Additionally, Flum felt unworthy due to all the other Hero's having a number of achievements under their belt while Flum was a 'country mouse' by comparison.

Due to her lack of sufficient role, she appeared to be considered useless to the party and treated as a second-class citizen, especially by Jean Inteige. During the journey, she took on odd jobs for the Hero's Party. She would take care of shopping, cooking duty, and prepared Jean's tea. Despite her attempts to be useful, she was abused by Jean, and he turned Cyrill against her. Linus and Maria treated Flum neutrally or with relative indifference. Only Eterna Rinebow and Gadhio Lathcutt consistently treating her well. During their travels, Flum learned a number things regarding herbs and old medicine from Eterna, and she learned a few fighting techniques from Gadhio despite lacking the ability to fully utilize them.

For a majority of her time in the Hero's Party, Flum was close friends with Cyrill Sweechka, the person supposedly destined to defeat the Demon Lord. They were both the same age and had different backgrounds due to living in rural villages. During their days off, they would enjoy the city life in the Royal Captial along with enjoying sweets. Cyrill considered Flum's support to be the main reason why she was able to keep going without succumbing to the pressure of being the Hero. Unfortunately, their relationship would have a falling out due to Jean.

## Plot

### Episode 01

**Chapter 1: The Girl Who Wanted To Be Boring**

After returning to the Capital, Flum is mistreated by Jean for her perceived uselessness. Flum becomes even more depressed when she sees Cyrill treat her coldly as well which Flum interprets as her silently agreeing with Jean. Flum begins to wonder if she is developing a victim complex.

Despite Flum’s depression, she resolves herself to do what she can to be useful to the group. She goes out to market to buy food for the Party, and she encounters Eterna Rinebow and Gadhio Lathcutt who offer to help her with her shopping which she happily accepts.

At night Flum is approached by Jean who tells her to come with her. Flum is reluctant, but she feels as though she can’t refuse Jean’s request. She follows him, and he refuses to tell her what is going to happen. When they meet the Unnamed Slave Merchant, Flum realized what was happening, but Jean prevented her from escaping.

Flum’s pleas fall on deaf ears. He proceeds to tell her that everyone in the Party decided it was to their benefit to sell Flum into slavery. At first Flum refuses to believe it, and she especially has a hard time believing that Eterna or Gadhio would have agreed to this. Jean tells her that she’s been a burden on everyone, especially them, and Flum breaks down crying. Afterwards, Jean burns the slave mark on Flum’s cheek until she loses consciousness. The Slave Merchant proceeded to mark her cheek with the special ink, so Flum would permanently bear the slave mark.
After suffering through Jean's torture, Flum is rendered unconscious. Jean walks away with the money he sold Flum for while the slave merchant converted Flum into a slave.

**Chapter 2: Flum's Blessing in Disguise**

After being illegally sold into slavery, the Unnamed Slave Merchant discovered that Flum had zero stats. Due to Flum being seemingly undesirable to potential customers he takes his frustrations out on Flum and abuses her. He blames her for how he spent a fortune on her even though it was Jean that tricked him.

After a week passed, the slave merchant determined that Flum was worthless. He proceeded to drag Flum and threw her into a cell filled with other slaves that he deemed unsellable. After being thrown into the cell, she notices a slave with bandaged face and a shiny eye. At first, Flum didn't realize the slave was a girl until she heard her voice, but she choose to sit next to her.

Eventually, the Slave Merchant tells all the slaves that he'll be disposing of them because they are costing him money to feed them. He decided that feeding them to ghouls will make their deaths entertaining for him to watch. Flum watches in horror when she sees one of the slaves be eaten alive. Then the Slave Merchant sadistically informs them they could potentially use the sword he has on display to fight off the ghouls. One slave tries to pick up the sword but melts into a puddle revealing that the sword is actually cursed. Flum also witnesses the Slave Merchant slice the throat of another slave who begged for mercy.

When Flum begged for mercy, the Slave Merchant told her it was her fault that she's in this position, and she 'tricked' him into thinking she was a Champion from the Heroes Party which made him lose a lot of money, while once again ignoring the fact it was Jean that tricked him though it was really Jean that tricked him. He tells her that she should die for what she did, or she could take her chances with the cursed sword.

Knowing that either letting herself get eaten alive or potentially being melted were her only choices, she tearfully chooses to take her chances with the cursed sword. When she moves toward the sword, she is attacked by the ghouls. Even as they begin biting her, Flum manages to reach the sword. Much to her and the Slave Merchant's surprise, the cursed sword doesn't kill her. Instead, her wounds begin to heal.

Flum then proceeds to use the cursed sword to kill the ghouls and break open the cell. The Slave Merchant falls to the ground begging for his life. However, Flum begins cutting him to pieces before ultimately decapitating him. Flum tearfully comes to the realization that she can live.

The cursed sword disappears and a tattoo forms on the back of Flum's hand. Flum realizes that the sword she was wielding was 'Epic' class equipment, so she would be able to summon her sword by her own will the next time she needs it. When Flum tries to decide what to do next, she realizes the slave girl she sat next to is the only other survivor besides herself. She decides to take the girl along with her partly because she doesn't want to be on her own.

When she offers the Slave Girl her hand, the Slave girl asks if Flum will be her new Master. When Flum realizes that saying otherwise will not help, she reluctantly accepts being the new Master of this slave girl. She introduces herself as Flum Apricot to the girl, and the bandaged slave girl likewise tells Flum that her name is Milkit. Afterwards, the two escape from the Slave Merchant's dungeon.

**Intermission 1: The Tiny Cog**

While Flum doesn't appear in the intermission, her absence from the Hero's Party is reflected upon. Jean tells the Hero's party that he convinced her to go home which causes Cyrill to be shocked. She inquires what was the meaning of this only for Jean to convince her it was Flum's decision. This causes Cyrill to become depressed that she pushed Flum away.

Afterwards, the group shows signs of falling apart. While Gadhio takes over her job as the cook, he isn’t able to do as good of a job as Flum because Flum was able to take extra time to cook the food to everyone’s liking, including Jean. It was also revealed that Flum had prepared Jean’s tea just as he liked it, and despite Linus Radiant's best efforts, no one is able to produce tea nearly as good as Flum did for him.

**Chapter 3: There Are Good People Out There! Maybe We Have a Chance Yet?**

After escaping from the Slave Merchant’s facility, Flum comes across the alleyway that Jean sold her to the slave merchant which she reacts negatively to. Flum wishes to put some distance between herself and this area while there is still sunlight. Flum makes note that they are in desperate need of money. Milkit offers to become a prostitute which Flum immediately shoots down. Instead, she resolves to become an Adventurer to support the both of them since former slaves had been known to build lives in the profession. She takes Milkit with her to the West District Adventurer Guild.

On their way there, Flum and Milkit are looked down upon by others for their status as slaves. They are pushed and tripped by various people on the street, but they press on and manage to arrive at the guild. Before entering, Flum decides to Flum inspect her new weapon. She is able to use Scan for the first time in her life due to her sword granting her magic. Flum discovers her new sword is supposed to harm her rather than hurt her. When Milkit offhandedly mentions that the affects and stats of the cursed sword appear to be reversed for her, leading Flum to realize that her Affinity is Reversal. Milkit has a bit of a deadpan reaction to Flum’s revelation which Flum makes note of, but she considers the fact she only just met Milkit.

After entering the guild, Flum and Milkit are give a less than welcoming reception from the receptionist Y'lla Jerishin. Not only does Y'lla refuse to comply with Flum's request to register as an Adventurer, she even outright suggests they get jobs at a brothel, much to Flum's chagrin. When she hears various people in the guild both insult her and Flum, Flum comes very close to getting into an altercation with them, primarily due to them insulting Milkit. Flum holds back when Milkit calms her down, but the situation remains tense.

Before the situation could become any worse, Dein Phineas, the man who more or less runs the West District, makes his presence known. He acts friendly to Flum and Milkit, and he 'convinces' Y'lla to give Flum a trial assignment to which Flum is grateful for. Flum sees that her supposed F Ranked assignment was to retrieve the fangs of a werewolf. She takes Milkit with her to complete her assignment. However, after Flum and Milkit left, it was revealed that Dein gave them a D Ranked Assignment in the guise of an F Ranked Assignment in hopes it would get them killed.

**Chapter 4: This Job'll Be a Cakewalk!**

While attempting to complete her first guild assignment, Milkit questions Flum on why she bothers keeping her around. Flum tells her that she doesn't think leaving Milkit alone in the West District would be wise. She believed leaving Milkit by herself might be as dangerous as keeping her by her side if not more so.

Before finding their objective, Milkit asks Flum why she decided to take her with her. Flum tells Milkit she didn’t want to go on her own. Milkit still tells Flum that she might not be the company that she would like to have. Milkit tries to convince Flum to sell her to which Flum refuses.

Milkit then removes the bandages around her face, when Flum sees Milkit's face, she is shocked, but she still refuses to get rid of Milkit. Instead, she recognizes the cause of Milkit’s disfigurement. Based on what she learned from Eterna, she deduces that Milkit was inflicted with Mustard poisoning. She approaches Milkit who moves away. Flum moves closer and hugs her.

Despite Milkit’s initial resistance, Flum remains firm. She tells Milkit that she won’t abandon her. She also resolves to find the herbs to heal her. While Flum wasn’t sure if Eterna would be willing to help her cure Milkit's face because she wasn’t sure whether or not Eterna really did support her being sold into slavery, but she would wait until she had a chance to talk to Eterna before making any assumptions.

After Milkit managed to calm down, Flum continued with her trial assignment. When Flum spots her target, she realized that the targets were far stronger than what an F Ranked assignment should be. She told Milkit that Dein lied to them. Despite that, Flum is certain that she is strong enough to take out some werewolves.

Just as Flum is about to make her move against the werewolves, Milkit warns her that she sees something. Flum and Milkit see that an Anzu has appeared. The monster manages easily eat the werewolves and absorb them, making it stronger than Flum currently is. The Anzu takes notice of Flum and Milkit's presence, and it attacks.

**Chapter 5: Not Exactly a Walk in the Park**

After the Anzu monster attacks Flum, Flum attempts to protect Milkit which results in Flum's body to be shredded to pieces much to Milkit's horrow who is briefly left alone to be avoid being killed by the monster. While Flum's body regenerated, Milkit was toyed with by the Anzu, but Flum manages to successfully attack the Anzu and orders Milkit to flee while she fights the monster which Milkit obeys. Knowing that if she were to die here that it would result in Milkit's death, Flum becomes extra motivated to defeat the Anzu, so she can finally live up to the title of Hero that she was chosen for.

After a prolonged battle, Flum is finally able to bring the monster down. In the aftermath, Flum remembers that she needs to retrieve the wolf fangs from the monster's stomach otherwise her efforts would be for naught. After she managed to retrieve the fang, she made sure to take something from the Anzu for good measure as a potential bonus.

**Chapter 6: A New Fate Awaits**

On their way back to the guild, Flum and Milkit come across the corpse of an adventurer who was nowhere near as lucky as she was in her venture. She remembers a lesson she learned from Gadhio regarding dead adventurers leaving a curse behind on their equipment due to their regrets. Gadhio's words proved to be correct due to the gauntlets the adventurer held were cursed, and she was able to equip them to make herself stronger.

When Flum attempted to obtain her reward for obtaining werewolf fangs, Y'lla at first refuses to. Several of Dein's men insinuate that Flum must've whored herself to an Adventurer and got him to do the work for her. Flum delivered a 'Flum Punch' to knock one of them off his feet, and she pulled out her sword to make it clear that she is not someone they should mess with. She gets Y'lla to provide her with her reward. After she and Milkit leave, Flum reveals to Milkit she was worried about how that was going to turn out. Regardless of how Flum felt, Milkit told her that she was impressed.

Despite having money, Flum and Milkit have difficulty finding lodgings that were willing to let them stay due their status as slaves. However, they were able to eventually find a kindly man who was willing to put them up for the night.

After having food, taking a bath, and getting new pajamas, Flum enjoys her new room. She tries to get Milkit to enjoy it as well. Flum declares that she will buy both herself and Milkit new clothing. While Milkit weakly protests at first, Flum takes rank and says this is an order from her new master much to Milkit's confusion at Flum's kindness towards her.

### Episode 02

**Intermission 2: The Teachings of Destruction**

Flum’s absence in the Heroes party proves to have far more negative consequences than Jean could have anticipated. Cyrill becomes unable to live up to her ‘Hero’ title, and Eterna decides to quit the party partly because of Flum’s absence. Gadhio gives support to Eterna's decision, and he jokingly tells her that he won't miss her nearly as much as he misses Flum.

**Chapter 7: From the Depths of Hell to a Life of Normalcy**

Flum and Milkit go shopping to purchase regular clothing. At first Flum considers buying a skirt, but she decides to ask Milkit for some advice. Milkit points out that a skirt wouldn't be the best idea for fighting which Flum agrees, so she decides to buy shorts instead. After Flum is finished buying her clothes to help with her Adventurer profession, she buys Milkit clothes. Flum purchases Milkit a maid outfit because she liked it.

After purchasing their clothing, Flum decides to begin fulfilling one of the promises she made to Milkit by purchasing her a book that would help her learn how to read. While doing so, she does make it clear that she wishes for Milkit to become capable of being independent, she isn't sure what either of them will do in the future. Regardless, she has no intention of abandoning Milkit. She also asks if Milkit trusts her at all. When Milkit tells Flum that she desires that she wishes to stay by her side, Flum is satisfied with that answer and informs her that is one way to describe trust.

While they are walking in the city, they witness a scene of two of Dein's minions robbing a man. After Milkit promises to watch their belongings, Flum makes chase. When the two thieves split up, Flum is easily able to take down one of them with the use of her gauntlets. The other thief is subdued by a nun, Sara Anvilen, who happened to be in the area.

**Chapter 8: The Duality of Purity and the Woman of Light**

After apprehending the thieves affiliated with Dein's men, Flum returns the stolen goods to the rightful owner, Leitch Mancathy, and thanks a nun named Sara Anvilen who works for the Origin Church for her help. Flum learns that Leitch is a merchant, and he is impressed by Flum's abilities regardless of the fact that she is currently only at F Rank. Leitch decides to recruit Flum for an off the books job to find herbs to save his wife. Flum considers the job because a job taken on outside of the guild would result in more money without needing to share any of the reward with the Guild, and she wouldn't need to deal the receptionist either.

**Chapter 9: And We Meet Again**

As Flum makes her way to Anichidey, Flum and Sara Anvilen enjoys Milkit's cooking. They discuss how the herb ban has been in effect since long before they were born. She notices a tattoo on the back of Sara's neck, and Sara reveals that her family originally believed in a different religion other than Origin prior to demons supposedly destroying her village when she was a child.

**Chapter 10: Back to the Home that the World Forgot**

Flum and Sara are forced to fight for their lives against the Spiral face Ogre. When Flum loses both of her legs during the fight, Sara attempts to heal her but because of Flums' affinity, Sara caused more harm than good leading her to realize Flums affinity for reversal.

In order to escape the Ogre, Flum and Sara jump down a deep pit landing on something soft, which Flum quickly realizes it is actually dead bodies. Flum holds Sara close to shield her from the horror. They soon find an underground research facility and search for a way out. Flum hears a voice calling for help and finds a girl sitting alone, as Flum gets closer Sara tries to warn her, but is too late as the now spiral faced girl grabs Flums' arm and sucks her arm into her face. Flum and Sara try to pull her arm out of the girls face, when Sara hears a noise and they notice the Spiral faced Ogre making his way down a set of stairs toward them,

**Chapter 11: Our Time Was Not Wasted**

Flum is forced to ask Sara to heal her arm when her arm is caught by the spiral faced woman, which resulted in it being cut off. But her arm regenerates thanks to her power of reversal and just before the spiral faced Ogre launches his attack. Flum leads them back to the first room they came from and Sara turns on the lights realizing the room is full of dead bodies. Flum starts searching among the bodies for epic or legendary cursed armor, for equipment imbued with resent or hatred creates cursed armor and weapons.

As Flum and Sara look among the dead bodies, the spiral faced Ogre breaks his way into the room and attacks Flum. Sara see's Flum thrown across the room and then the Ogre turns its attention to her, but Flum attacks the Ogre just before it reached Sara. Flum was able to obtain epic boots and attacks the Ogre, freezing its head, but it was still alive. Flum was able to land one final hit killing the Ogre but incapacitating both Sara and her.

**Chapter 12: What Can I Believe In?**

Flum awakens to encounter Neigass who introduces herself. While Flum is amicable with her former foe, Sara is far less. It takes Flum stopping her from doing something stupid to make her realize they are outmatched. Based on Neigass’ attitude, Flum is reasonable certain that if she speaks with the demon, they’ll be able to walk away alive.

During their conversation with Neigass, Sara becomes aware that Flum was a member of the Hero’s Pary along with Maria. Flum also reveals that she was sold into slavery by the Hero’s Party for apparently being useless much to Neigass and Sara’s surprise. Flum learns that Neigass has been investigating the Church of Origin which further confirms to Flum that the Church was responsible for everything she and Sara saw in that facility.

When Neigass asks Flum if she can have the broken Origin Core of the monster she defeated, Flum agrees on the grounds it was better off with her.

Flum is able to obtain the herbs that Leitch requested as well as the herbs necessary to cure Milkit's condition.

**Chapter 13: The Heart that Melts**

After successfully retrieving the herbs, Flum and Sara return to the village only to realize that something was not right.

Flum kills several of Dein's men who threatened Milkit's life.

When Flum had one at her mercy, she is briefly convinced by Sara to spare him. However, he attacks her. She uses that to prove her point that there are some people who are incapable of redemption, and they deserve no mercy.

**Chapter 14: Cheap Rent and a Strange Roommate to Boot**

Flum returns to the royal capital with Milkit to provide Leitch with the herbs, so she could be rewarded for her efforts. When discussing her reward, Flum wishes to be able to have a place to go in the West District. She ends up being rewarded with a house that Leitch was originally planning on flipping.

Shortly after arriving in their new home, Flum and Milkit hear something coming from upstairs. Upon investigating the source of the sound, Flum is shocked to see Eterna Rinebow is squatting in her new home.

**Chapter 15: Home Sweet Home**

Flum is still taken aback by Eterna’s presence, and she is unsure how to respond. Eterna notices the slave mark on Flum’s cheek, and she inquires about it along with why Flum is still in the Capital. In turn, Flum inquires about why Eterna doesn’t already know the truth which confuses Eterna more.

It was then Flum tells Eterna that Jean sold her into slavery while also being told that everyone in the Hero Party, including Eterna and Gadhio, were in favor of it. This revelation angers Eterna who reveals that Jean lied to them. She told Flum that they had no knowledge of Jean’s actions, and they would have stopped him if she did. She also told Flum that both Gadhio and Cyrill missed her much to Flum’s surprise and happiness.

Eterna then uses the other herbs Flum gathered to cure Milkit’s face.

Flum gets to see Milkit’s cured face. Milkit quickly gets embarrassed by Flum's reaction. When she attempts to put the bandages back on, Flum stops her. She tells Milkit that she wants Milkit to get used to not wearing her bandages at least whenever she is around to which Milkit complies.

**Side Story: Setting into a Daily Routine**

Flum begins her new life living in her new house with Milkit and Eterna. Eterna remarks how Flum seems to get aroused at the idea of picturing Milkit taking a bath.

### Episode 03

**Intermission: Making Sense of the Nonsensical**

Cyrill continues to miss Flum, and she continues to perform poorly as a result. Gadhio also decides to leave the party partly due to Flum and Eterna leaving. Before he leaves, he promises if his journeys take him in the direction of Flum’s village, he will visit her on Cyrill’s behalf.

**Chapter 1: The Scoundrel Laughs On**

Flum and Milkit are finishing up a shopping date as they come across several of Dein’s men harassing Ink Wreathcraft. She protects the young girl from them. The young girl claims to not have any memories, but Flum doesn't believe her. Regardless, Flum decides to take Ink back to her house for the time being.

**Chapter 2: Trapped in the Spider’s Web**

Flum has dinner with Milkit, Eterna, and Sara.

Flum notices that Milkit isn’t eating, and she encourages Milkit to eat.

**Chapter 3: No Respite for a Slave**

**Chapter 4: Poetic Justice at Last**

**Chapter 5: Wriggling, Writhing Spirals**

Flum become enraged when Dein tells her that he sent men to attack and kill Milkit.

Before Flum could do anything, Dein shows her a young slave girl that he intends to use as a living bomb.

Rather than letting the poor slave girl blown up to kill her, Flum voluntarily allows herself to be blown up instead. She attempts to keep the bomb as far away from her heart and brain as possible as she puts power into it which results in her body being blown to pieces.

While Dein and his men are distracted with the news that Eterna had managed to wipe out the forces Dein had sent to kill Milkit, her body was able to regenerate, and she cuts down a lot of them before they have a chance to realize what happened.

In the aftermath of the battle, Flum realizes that a majority of her clothes had been destroyed due to the bomb leaving very little to protect her modesty. Ottilie gives lets Flum borrow her jacket for the time being.

**Chapter 6: A Crimson Wind Blows Through the Capital**

Flum returns to her home accompanied by Ottilie much to Milkit’s relief.

**Chapter 7: Lies, Lies, and Yet More Lies**

**Chapter 8: The Pervasive Sense of Helplessness**

**Chapter 9: The Missing Piece**

**Chapter 10: More**

Despite Flum's best efforts, she is unable to locate either Eterna nor Milikit. Flum returns home to see that Ink is apparently still awake.

When Flum enters Ink's room, she finds out that Ink is seemingly staring out the window. When Ink turns around, Flum sees Ink's face is replaced with a lot of eyes.

**Chapter 11: Breaking Through the Darkness**

Flum is in a state of despair as she reels from her discovery.

After Ink wakes up, Flum confronts Ink regarding what she found out. Ink apparently has no memory of what Flum is talking about, but she is unable to deny what Flum says is true. Flum ultimately kicks Ink out of her house, but she quickly regrets the decision. When she hears Ink crying out for help, Flum immediately jumps to action. She sees that Ink is being held by Dein. She tells Dein to let her go.

When Dein takes Ink away, Flum gives chase.

**Chapter 12: Counterattack**

While pursuing Dein in hopes of saving Ink and Milkit, Flum reunites and fights alongside him to fight against different members of the Church.

**Chapter 13: A Little Bit of Love**

Flum duels against Dein in their final encounter. He is aided by Ink's eyes that initially attack Flum.

When Dein is getting ready to deal decisive blow, Ink's eyes turn on Dein and attack him instead.

Flum is able to defeat Dein and literally turn his body inside out.

**Chapter 14: Dawn**

After Mother leaves Flum alone with Milkit and Ink, they are left with an unsettling situation. They understand that as long as Ink has an Origin Core embedded in her body, she will attack Flum and her friends with her Origin Eyes whenever she falls asleep.

Ink begs Flum to kill her.

Before Flum can go through with it, she is stopped by Milkit who asks her to consider another possibility. Flum realizes that Eterna might be Ink’s best chance.

**Chapter 15: An Uncomfortable Truth**

Flum wakes up to Milkit sleeping in her bed with her. She is informed by Milkit that Ink survived her operation and recovering. Flum was happy that Ink survived.

Gadhio later comes to visit Flum. She tells Gadhio the truth about what happened to her. She tells him that Jean sold her into slavery. Gadhio expresses his disgust for Jean. He does observe that Flum seems happy now that she has Milkit with her.

**Side Story: Eterna Is as Eterna Does**

Flum finds a ear cleaning tool, and Milkit offers to clean Flum’s ears. It causes Flum to laugh while Milkit enjoys the reaction she is getting out of her.

Flum realizes that Eterna thought she and Milkit were having relations much to her embarrassment. She retorts that she and Milkit don't have that kind of relationship yet. She apparently didn't realize what she said as both Ink and Eterna point that out to each other.

### Episode 04

**Intermission: The β Girl Overcomes Incongruities**

After Tsyon had difficulty with the Hero's Party and is forced to retreat, he has a conversation with Sheitoom which causes her to rethink their current situation. The Demon Lord reflects that she might need to speak with Flum directly if she wishes to resolve the issues with Origin.

Intermission: The α Girl Learns of the Incongruities

Flum briefly appears in a couple of flashbacks Cyrill has when she is in the Royal capital and reflects on what went wrong. Cyrill thinks back to when she and Flum were enjoying eating cake at a shop whenever they were taking a break from the Hero's Journey. Afterwards, she thinks back to when Jean was bullying Flum. Flum looked to Cyrill to help, but Cyrill did nothing to help her. Cyrill understood that her failure to do anything was an event that acted as the catalyst for the breaking of their friendship.

**Chapter 1: That Which He’s Lost**

Three days after the Spiral Children Incident ended, Gadhio came to visit Flum and tells her to follow him. Flum walks with Gadhio throughout the West District. Flum can't help but think that the streets feel more than a little deserted. Regardless, she continues to follow Gadhio.

When Flum entered West District Guild, she was 'greeted' by a hostile Y'lla. Flum get into a heated argument. During that time, Flum points out that Y'lla gave her an assignment that nearly got her killed which Gadhio overhears. When Y'lla tells Flum that any complaint she could make would go unheard because the Guild Master never comes, Gadhio makes his presence known, and he reveals that he is the rightful Guild Master.

While Gadhio considers firing Y'lla on the spot for her previous actions, he tells Flum that he's allowing her to decide Y'lla's fate. Flum decides that unlike Dein, Y'lla could potentially redeem herself, so she recommends that Y'lla get a pay cut much to her chagrin, but Gadhio points out that Y'lla is lucky that was all Flum recommended. Afterwards, Y'lla makes it clear to Flum that she is not happy about getting her pay cut, but Flum shrugs it off. Before Flum leaves, Y'lla tells Flum something about Gadhio's past that many consider him to be a 'coward' which Flum has a hard time believing.

When Flum attempts to inquire about this, Gadhio tells Flum what she heard was indeed 'true'. When Flum attempted to protest, he made it clear that it was true, and he would be bearing that label for the rest of his life. Flum reluctantly remains quiet as she can see that anything else she says would not help matters.

After arriving at Gadhio's home, Flum couldn't help but be amazed by how massive Gadhio's house is.

**Chapter 2: Why We Fight**

Flum is surprised to see Gadhio lives in a huge mansion and apparently has a daughter. Flum learns that Gadhio's family situation is not as straight forward as it seemed. Gadhio has more or less been acting as a surrogate father to Hallom Yandoura following the death of her father.

**Chapter 3: A Meat Puppet Suited for Testing the Blade**

After obtaining new cursed equipment from Gadhio, Flum spends a few hours playing with Hallom to the point of feeling exhausted. She declines Gadhio’s invitation to have dinner because she knows Milkit would be waiting for her.

**Chapter 4: The Fools Who Desecrate Sacred Grounds**

Flum wakes up the following morning to Milkit making breakfast. She observes that something seems to be off about Milkit, but Milkit lies to Flum by saying she’s fine. Flum decides not to push it any further, and she offers to help Milkit with cooking.

When Milkit goes outside, Flum suddenly realizes the area has become silent which was eerily similar to when Milkit was kidnapped by Nekt. Flum listened to her instincts, and she discovers that Milkit was captured by two A Ranked Adventurers Demiceliko Radius and Tryte Ransila. Flum gives chase to both of them, but she is forced to fight Demiceliko while Tryte carries off Milkit.

After a short fight ensues, Flum manages to defeat Demiceliko by cutting off his legs. She then begins torturing him to find out where Milkit was taken. She does not relent until he finally reveals that Satils Francois ordered Milkit’s kidnapping. He revealed how Flum could find her. As Flum intended to spare Democeliko’s life, he attempts to kill her with one last strike only for her to annihilate what was left of him.

**Chapter 5: I Hate It, But What Choice Do I Have?**

Flum follows up on the information Demiceliko told her, and she heads to Satils’ estate where she runs into Welcy Mancathy.
Flum kills the remaining Adventurers that were guarding Satils with ease.

Flum breaks a hole through Satils’ torture chamber to rescue Milkit before killing Satils afterwards.

**Chapter 6: Re**

After rescuing Milkit from Satils Francois, Flum takes Milkit to Leitch Mancathy’s estate, so Milkit could get some rest.

Flum and Milk spend the rest of the day inside eating lunch and dinner with the food they have in storage. When it is time for baths, Flum insisted on taking her bath with Milkit which Milkit reluctant agrees to. While bathing, Flum couldn't help but be envious of Milkit's body and ask out loud if Milkit was actually an angel or a fairy. Afterwards, Flum notices Milkit appears to be frightened to go to sleep, and she allows Milkit to sleep in the same bed as her.

When Milkit takes Flum up on her offer, Flum embraces Milkit, so they could both fit. Flum tells that she partly wanted Milkit to sleep in the same bed as her, so she can make sure no one else takes her away from her like Nekt or Satils men did. Due to Milkit feeling safe in Flum’s arms, she requested if they could sleep in the same bed from now on which Flum happily accepts. She even tells Milkit she was going to ask the same thing.

Flum and Milkit spend a fair amount of time discussing their plans to go shopping the next morning, they stayed up longer than they planned to.

The following morning, Flum nearly choked on her breakfast when Eterna asks her if she and Milkit are going on a date. Flum denies this multiple times until Eterna gave up.

**Chapter 7: Dreams Are a Blissful Insanity Known Only to You**

Upon seeing Satils in the crowd, she grins at Flum and Milkit before leaving them. Flum tells Milkit that they'll follow her throughout the district until they end up outside of Satils' mansion. Concerned regarding whether or not there might be a trap, Flum opts to head back to the house and ask Eterna about the situation. Before they leave, they are surprised the sudden arrival of Nekt whom Flum reflexively attempts to attack.

Nekt casually shrugs off Flum's attack while calmly talking to her regarding the current situation. Flum quickly comes to understand that Satils coming back to life was most likely due to the Necromancy Team which Nekt commends her on for being smarter than he thought.

Flum opts end her conversation with Nekt and head back to the house. As she leaves, Nekt tells Flum that she should not expect Eterna's help which causes Flum to rush back while carrying Milkit.

**Chapter 8: Drowning in Indulgence**

Flum wakes up to see that Eterna had left a note stating that she would apparently be back later. She, Milkit, and Ink come to the conclusion that Eterna most likely accepted the invitation to come to the Necromancy Team's village, so she can be with her parents again.

**Chapter 9: Slipping Gears**

**Chapter 10: Past Memories**

**Chapter 11: Where the Miracle of Life Squirms Free**

**Chapter 12: Spiral Hunt**

**Chapter 13: I Know Nothing About Myself**

**Chapter 14: Paradise Lost**

**Chapter 15: Wrong from the Very Start**

Flum is captured by Satils after the baits her by threatening Milkit.

**Chapter 16: Creeping Crawling Malevolence**

Flum is trapped within Satils’ monster body, and the Origin Core with it causes Flum to forget everything about herself. Milkit is able to spot Flum's hand sticking out of Satils' monster body, and she convinces Nekt to help her save Flum.

**Chapter 17: Escape from Limbo**

Milkit manages to successfully reach Flum, and she grabs Flum's hand as she calls out to her. Milkit tells Flum that Flum has done so much for her, and she wishes to do something for Flum this time. Milkit's voice manages to reach Flum.

As Milkit's voice reaches Flum, she is able to regain her memories. She is able to have one last discussion with Dafydd Chalmas before the last of his life fades away.

Flum gains a new piece of cursed equipment.

**Chapter 18: A Capital in Turmoil**

After the incident is resolved, Flum and her friends return to her home. Flum comments on how her house really is feeling like a real home for her now.

When Flum and Milkit are alone, she asks Milkit what she meant when she said, "I love my Master". Milkit merely reiterates she meant what she said.

**Side Story: Lamentable Boundaries**

Flum trains with Gadhio in the park. While she may not be able to gain more stats from training, she decided it would be good to be better to learn how to hone her fighting skills, so she could better protect Milkit in the future.

### Episode 05

**Side Story**

While Flum doesn't appear in the first chapter, Linus confronts Jean regarding him selling Flum into slavery. Linus punches Jean for his crime, and Jean refuses to acknowledge that he did anything wrong. If anything, he believes he did the right thing much to Linus' rage. During their argument, Cyrill overhears the conflict and finally learns the truth. Cyrill puts everything together, and she blames herself for what happened to Flum despite Linus' attempts to dissuade. Her. This event was a major factor that led to the dissolution to the original iteration of the Hero's Party.

**Chapter 01: Decay**

Flum first scene is with her eating breakfast with Milkit, Ink, and Eterna. Upon hearing Milkit say she thought Eterna feeding sink looked fun, Flum decided to offer food to Milkit.

**Chapter 02: The Conflict**

Flum is nearly murdered by a member of the church.

**Chapter 07: Feint**

As Flum attempts to go to sleep, she can sense Milkit's eyes on her which causes her to wake up and ask Milkit what is wrong. Milkit inquires about Cyrill and who is she to her Master. Flum tells her that she is her friend.

Flum informs Milkit that she never shared a bed with Cyrill. In fact, while she doesn't necessarily like the idea of valuing relationships, she considers Milkit to be number one in her priority which makes Milkit happy.

Unbeknownst to Flum and Milkit, Ink happened to overhear everything. She then inquired to Eterna what exactly is the nature of Flum and Milkit's relationship to which Eterna gives an ambiguous answer.

**Chapter 08: The Fool**

Flum watches Milkit sleeping comfortably next to her.

**Chapter 14: Separation**Due to the situation continuing to get out of hand, it became advisable for Milkit along with Ink to be evacuated from the Royal Capital.

Before Milkit's departure, she jumps out of the carriage and kisses Flum on her cheek. Before Flum could respond to that, Milkit ran back into the carriage.

## Adaptational Differences

Flum's role as the main protagonist remains the same, but there are a number of changes between her Light Novel and Manga counterparts.

### Episode 01

During the first chapter of the manga, she kills the Unnamed Slave Merchant as she does in the Light Novel. However, in the manga she swiftly kills him by cutting him in half in comparison to how she tortures him by cutting him into pieces as payback for everything he did to her and the other slaves before partly depatitating him.

Another major different takes place during Flum's 'trial assignment' to become an adventurer. Flum is forced to fight a Chimera rather than an Anzu. In the aftermath following her fight with the Chimera, the dying Chimera wishes to get even with Flum for everything she had done that has yet to be revealed.

### Episode 02

The manga generally plays out the same until Flum and Milkit obtain the house, and Eterna becomes their new roommate. Rather than having a one week time skip to after Eterna finishes Milkit’s treatment to cure her face, the manga instead has a plot line that takes place during that time period.

During Chapter 11, Flum is shopping when she is harassed by several guards. It is implied that these guards are in Dein's pocket due to them apparently getting wind of the possibility that Flum killed the slave merchant. Flum has no regrets for her actions, and she has no intention of letting the guards arrest her.

As Flum summoned her sword to defend, the guards are cutdown by Ottilie Fohkelpi, a member of the Royal Army who had picked up Flum from her village after being appointed a member of the Hero Party. After flowing protected by Ottilie, she informs Ottilie that she had been kicked from the Hero Party. She also reveals that Jean sold her into slavery, and Eterna is now her roommate.

Later on, Flum sees that Milkit is troubled by something. This causes Flum to embrace Milkit again. She tells Milkit that she wishes to be closer to her, but she sees that Milkit needs some help opening up. Flum then encourages Milkit to spend some time with Sara.

In Chapter 12, Flum is in town, and she notices Sara is knocked unconscious. When she goes to see if Sara is okay, she sees that Dein Phineas is holding Milkit hostage. When he tries to goad Flum, Milkit insults him which causes Dein to knock Milkit unconscious which further enrages Flum to action. Thanks to Ottilie's help, a number of Dein's men are subdued. Unfortunately, as Flum is about to save Milkit, Flum is hit and incapacitated by one of Dein's ropes and pinned to the wall. He then proceeds to capture and carry off by Dein while Flum cries out for Milkit.

During Chapter 13, Flum thinks back to when she and Milkit first met. She attempts to free herself from ropes, but Ottilie cuts her free. Ottilie tells Flum she has a idea of where Dein may have taken Milkit based on the information she extracted from one of his men. Flum resolves to go save Milkit. As she and Otillie head to the location, they are attacked by one of the Spiral Children. Ottilie decides to take up the challenge while letting Flum run ahead.

Flum manages to arrive at Dein's hideout along with Sara. She decides to head in while telling Sara to go another way.

When Flum enters, she sees that Dein is holding Milkit hostage. Dein tosses Flum a vial of poison. He gives Flum and ultimatum. Either her life or Milkit's. Flum readily decides to drink the poison much to Milkit's surprise. Milkit is forced to watch in horror as Flum is harmed by the poisoning. After being rendered incapacitated by the poison, Dein takes pleasure in torturing Flum, but Flum refuses to break.

Before Dein can finish Flum off, a giant rock falls through the roof of the building forcing Dein and his men to retreat while Flum uses her Reversal ability to protect herself and Milkit. After the debris clears, Milkit hugs Flum out of gratitude for saving her life. Flum then falls asleep on Milkit's lap.

Shortly afterwards, Flum and Milkit return back to their new home, and Milkit is finally able to reveal her fact to Flum after the successful treatment Eterna had given her.

### Episode 03

Rather than Flum and Milkit encountering Ink Wreathcraft on the streets and saving her from Dein's men, they encounter her during a funeral that is being held in the aftermath of Dein's actions.

## Abilities/Equipment

**Reversal**

Flum’s Affinity is a rare affinity that no one else is know to have. A side effect of it would be it causes all her stats to be permanently labeled as Zero. As a result, no matter how much Flum trains, she cannot naturally increase her stats. Additionally, this also causes her to be hurt if someone tries using healing magic on her.

In exchange, Flum is able to wield cursed equipment. According to Gadhio, cursed Equipment offer a larger amount of Debuffs than regular equipment offers Buffs, so Flum obtains a great deal more from her various cursed items she has on her arsenal.

**Souleater Zweihänder**

Obtained: Episode 01
This is Flum’s trademark sword from the moment she obtained it from the Unnamed Slave Merchant. Ordinarily, people who touch this sword will melt into a puddle. However, due to Flum’s Reversal affinity, any wounds she receives will be healed instantly. While it does not prevent her from feeling pain from her injuries, she has used her ability to regenerate to her advantage multiple times in combat.

It has been discussed that if her heart or brain are destroyed, she would die despite her healing abilities.

**Bloodstained Steel Gauntlets**

Obtained: Episode 01
Flum obtained these Gauntlets in the aftermath of her first assignment to the guild. She found these gauntlets on the corpse of an Adventurer. She recalled a lesson she learned from Gadhio that the regrets Adventurers have after dying can cause their equipment to become cursed which ended up being the case. While these gauntets prove to be helpful to Flum, they are not Epic grade which meant that Flum was required to carry them around.

In Episode 04, Flum retires these guantlets and replaces them with the Cackling Slayer's Damascus Gauntlets.

**God-hating Boots**

Obtained: Episode 02
They were obtained during Flum's fight with the Spiral Ogre when attempting to obtain the herbs to cure Leitch's wife as well as cure Milkit's poisoning. Originally people who whore these would freeze within seconds of wearing these, in Flum's possession however they give her the ability to freeze her adversaries with every strike of her sword.

**Leather Belt of Wailing Agony**

Obtained: Episode 04
This was obtained visiting Gadhio's mansion. They were in the pile of cursed epic tier equipment Gadhio had within the mansion he and his party had made in the past. Originally the belt would increase the user's sense of pain, Flum on the other hand it reduces her it, demonstrated when she punched the stone floor, which ended up hurting less than it normally would. Gadhio would warn her to not be reckless when using it.

**Cackling Slayer's Damascus Gauntlets**

Obtained: Episode 04
Much like with the leather belt, they were obtained in the pile of cursed epic tier equipment Gadhio had within his mansion. They would serve as replacements for her Bloodstained Steel Gauntlets.

**Wedding Ring of Loss and Lies**

Obtained: Episode 04
This was obtained while she was in the inside the mutated mass of bodies that Satils Francois transformed into. Flum had small conversaion with Dafydd Chalmas which upon the former accepting the latter's offer to avenge him along with the many victims of Sheol, Dafydd's wedding ring absorbed all of their curses of grief and gave Flum the might to break free from Satils and the necessary edge to kill the sadistic noble.

## Relationships

### Family

While Flum hasn’t interacted with her family on-screen, it is indicated that she does love her parents. However, it can be inferred she has felt like a burden to them. When Jean said that her parents probably are better off without her, Flum didn’t attempt to say otherwise. Additionally, after being branded as a slave, Flum believes returning home is no longer possible. She does wish to go home one day to introduce her parents to Milkit, but she isn’t sure when/if that’ll happen.

### Roommates

**Milkit**

The relationship between herself and Milkit is the most defining one in the series. Flum considers Milkit to be an irreplaceable treasure while Milkit cares for Flum above anyone else. After their first meeting, Flum has done her best to reprogram Milkit from thinking she is just a slave with mixed results.

Flum first met Milkit after they were both thrown into the same prison cell by the slave merchant. Flum was quick to make note of Milkit’s bandages and how her skin seemed to be enflamed. She also thought to herself that Milkit had a beautiful eye.

After the Slave Merchant tried to feed all his ‘worthless slaves’ to ghouls, Flum and Milkit were the only survivors after Flum managed to turn the tables. She wished to bring Milkit with her as she made her escape partly because she was afraid to be on her own. Milkit asked if Flum would be her new Master. Flum immediately took pity on Milkit for believing the only relationship that existed were ‘Slave-Master’ relationships. Flum reluctantly agreed to be Milkit’s master from then on.

Flum is relatively protective of Milkit from the start as she brought Milkit with her on her trial assignment because she believed that Milkit would be in more danger if she left her behind in the Capital. During the trial assignment, Milkit attempts to convince Flum she might be better off selling her and buying a new slave, but she refuses.
At the start of Episode 02, Flum buys Milkit clothes that Milkit told her that she liked those maid clothes at her previous Master’s estate.

**Eterna Rinebow**

Flum and Eterna have a relationship of mutual respect and trust. Flum considers Eterna to be a friend. Eterna has acted as Flum’s teacher on different occasions. Flum trusts Eterna to protect Milkit and Ink when she is not there to do it herself.

They first met when they were chosen to be part of the Hero’s Party. Unlike other members, Eterna was one of the only ones who consistently treated Flum well. During their time together, Flum more or less became Eterna’s student as she taught Flum about medical herbs. Flum would later apply this knowledge to acquire the necessary ingredients to heal Milkit. Eterna in turn would be somewhat impressed by this.

When Flum was betrayed by Jean, she had a hard time believing that Eterna would have agreed to selling her into slavery. She only reluctantly accepted Jean’s lie when he tells her that she’s been more of a burden on Eterna and Gadhio than anyone else. Even before Flum knew the truth, Flum still thought of Eterna as a friend. She hoped that Eterna would still be willing to help her if she had the chance to ask for it.

After reuniting with Eterna, she is first shocked to find Eterna squatting in her new home. It was then that Flum learned that Eterna, Gadhio, and the others had nothing to do with Jean selling her into slavery. Flum was relieved and accepted Eterna's words. She also let Eterna stay in her home as a new roommate, and she was grateful that Eterna was willing to heal Milkit.

**Ink Wreathcraft**

Flum first met Ink when she was being harassed by Dein’s men, and Flum forced them to retreat. She subsequently took Ink in when she said she didn’t have anywhere else left to go.

In a moment of weakness, Flum kicked Ink out of her house, but she quickly regretted it. She immediately went to save Ink when she heard was in trouble.

When Flum attempted to apologize, Ink instead apologized to her for all the trouble she inadvertently put her through.

Flum was relieved to learn that Ink survived the surgery, and they presumably reconciled in the aftermath of Episode 03.

During Episode 04, Ink continues to live in Flum’s house, and the two are on friendly terms again. When Nekt shows up, Flum nearly agreed to forming alliance with him under the condition that neither Milkit nor Ink would be harmed.

Ink is later worried when she finds out Flum had been captured.

### Guild

**Gadhio Lathcutt**

Similar to Eterna, Gadhio was one of the only Hero Party members to consistently treat Flum well. He also took on the role of being Flum's teacher, and he taught her about how to use the sword. Due to Flum's lack of stats, she wasn't able to effectively use his training at the time, but she kept what he taught her in mind. She kept the advice he told her to obtain cursed equipment. After obtaining cursed equipment, she was able to finally put the moves he taught her to work, and they came in handy in saving her life in her fight against the Ogre in Episode 02.

Flum had a hard time believing that Gadhio would betray her. She ultimately and reluctantly believed Jean due to him pointing out that she was a burden on Gadhio. She was relieved to find out from Eterna that Gadhio had no part in that. Even when she thought Gadhio might've betrayed her, she still thought highly of him. She remembered the lessons he taught her in regards to equipment and sword arts, and she applied them acquiring equipment she could use and defeating monsters.

At the beginning of Episode 03, Gadhio left the party partly because of Flum's departure. He promised Cyrill that if his future travels as an Adventurer take him to Flum's village, he would check in on her. He soon finds out that Flum is actually living in the Royal Capital.

Throughout the episode, Flum receives multiple strange messages that appear to be warnings. It is later revealed it was Gadhio. The two would later reunite properly during the climax of Episode 03.

**Y'lla Jerishin**
Their relationship is a turbulent one. They first meet in Episode 01, and she gives Flum a hard time. Instead of doing her job, she tries to force Flum and Milkit work in a brothel to Flum’s annoyance and disgust. Eventually, their argument is disrupted by Dein Phineas. She reluctantly goes along with Dein’s deception, and she gives Flum a D Ranked assignment disguised as an F Ranked assignment.

After Flum finished her assignment, Y’lla was unwilling to believe she actually pulled it off. However, Flum manages to force her to give her reward and Adventurer license to displaying a show of strength by beating up one of Dein’s men. It is implied that during the time between Episode 02 and Episode 03, she was somewhat cooperative with allowing Flum to get guild jobs as Flum was able to rise in the ranks.

When Flum and Dein’s conflict was coming to a head during Episode 03, Y’lla more or less remained neutral, but Y'lla did show some level of sympathy for Flum due to her conflict with Dein and his various cronies. However, she couldn't do anything about it. she was willing to provide Flum with some information regarding how there were no missing persons reports regarding young girls around Ink's age. When Y'lla once again suggested Flum become a prostitute, Flum openly speculated that Y'lla might have slept with some of Dein's men which she strongly denied enough to slap Flum. After Dein was forced to go on the run, Y'lla and Flum seemed a little friendlier to each other.

During Episode 04, in the aftermath of Dein's destruction, she tells Flum that she doesn't want her to disturb the quiet time she has right now.

Flum tells Gadhio not to fire Y’lla, but her pay should be reduced.

In Episode 05, they are getting along much better. She even shows some concern regarding Flum's well being. She was also quite shocked to find out that Flum was betrayed and sold into slavery by Jean. While she is shown to be curious regarding the nature of Flum's relationship with Milkit, she decides to leave it alone.

Slowe Uradnehs

Unlike other members of the guild, he was never affiliated with Dein, and they never had any issues with each other.

In Episode 05, she protects him from one of Mother's creations. He openly questions what is the nature of Flum's relationships with Milkit.

### Former Hero Party Members

Flum traveled with the Hero Party for a number of months prior to Jean betraying and selling her into slavery. During her time with them, Flum felt inadequate due to her being a ‘simple country girl’ while the others her accomplished Adventurers or had a great Affinity. While Flum did her best to be useful by doing chores, such as cooking and shopping, it wasn’t enough.

When Jean sold Flum into slavery, he told her everyone else agreed to it. Flum had a harder time believing Eterna and Gadhio agreed to it, but she had little difficulty believing the others would have. While Flum was relieved to learn that Jean was lying, she still felt like she was useless to them based on how they treated her with indifference.

**Cyrill Sweechka**

When they first met, they were close friends. According to Flum, they really clicked due to having similar backgrounds as country girls along with enjoying the city life in the royal capital and enjoying the various desserts available.

It is heavily implied that Cyrill has romantic feelings for Flum, especially when she continues to hold Flum in her arms in Princess Bride Style while Flum only thinks of Cyrill as a friend. However, Flum only thinks of Cyrill as a friend.

At one point, Jean played a role in fracturing the friendship Flum and Cyrill had. She became cold to Flum as a result which caused Flum to become depressed. Flum even believed Cyrill hated her.

Flum had little issue believing Cyrill was in favor of selling her into slavery. In reality, when Jean said that Flum left on her own, Cyrill was shocked and regretted how she had treated Flum. She knew that Flum was the person who supported her the most. Cyrill became depressed, and she becomes unable to be the Hero.

Flum felt relieved when Eterna revealed Cyrill had nothing to do with what Jean did. Flum was willing to forgive Cyrill for the cold treatment she received from her.

Linus Radiant

During their time in the Hero Party, Linus had a neutral opinion of Flum. He wasn’t hostile towards her like Jean and later Cyrill were nor was he friendly to her like Eterna and Gadhio.

When Jean sold Flum into slavery, Flum didn’t have much trouble believing that Linus was willing to sell her into slavery. Likewise, Linus was willing to believe Flum left the party, and he believed that it was for the better. Regardless, Linus couldn’t help but observe that Flum’s absence created a less than ideal environment for the Hero Party. At the end of Episode 04, Linus figures out Jean had sold Flum into slavery, and he rushed to confront Jean about it. This is followed up at the beginning of Episode 05 when he punches Jean and confronts him over his crimes. He gets pissed at how Jean feels no remorse for what he did to Flum.

When Linus reunites with Flum during Episode 05, he apologizes for not treating her better. Flum is willing to forgive him, and they work together.

### Demons

Unlike her former fellow members of the Hero Party, Flum was not hostile towards the Demons partly because she never directly fought them. She did hear many stories about how evil the demons were, but she received a much different impression of them when she was able to speak to them.

**Neigass**

Flum and Neigass had previously had encounters with each other during Flum's time in the Hero Party, but they did not officially become acquainted until Episode 02. They met for the first time after Flum had been kicked out of the party, and she was participating in a quest to obtain herbs for Leitch Mancathy to cure his wife as well as find herbs cure Milkit's face. Neigass had been in the area to investigate the lab the Church had set up when she had witnessed Flum and Sara defeat an Origin Spiral Ogre. She then proceeded to save the duo from a second Origin Spiral Ogre.

Neigass asked Flum if she could potentially hold onto the broken Spiral Core. Flum was fine with letting her have it partly because she knew if she held onto it, it would most likely do her more harm than good. She was shocked to find out that Neigass had custody of Sara follwing the events of Episode 03. However, she ultimately believed that Sara was in good hands.

**Sheitoom**

Flum and the Demon Lord have yet to interact, but the Demon Lord has shown some interest in meeting her. Sheitoom believes that Flum could be a potential ally in the fight against Origin.

### Other Allies

Leitch Mancathy

They first encountered each other when Flum saved him from being robbed by Dein’s men.

After Flum successfully obtains the herbs that Leitch needed to save his wife, he was extremely grateful. He handsomely rewarded her with a lot of money and a new house.

During Episode 04, Flum is able to learn that Satils Francois was Milkit's former Master and the one who poisoned her. He briefly provided Flum and Milkit shelter after Flum initially killed Satils.

Welcy Mancathy

They first meet when Leitch introduced the two. Flum has come to see her as a reliable ally and source of information.

Nekt Lyncage

While they initially start out as enemies due to Nekt kidnapping Milkit and being a member of the Spiral Children, they eventually transition to uneasy allies to friends. Nekt ends up being the only member of the Spiral Children that Flum is able to befriend.

At the end of Volume 03/Episode 04, Flum and Nekt officially consider each other allies. Nekt tells Flum that she'll try to convince the other Spiral Children to get surgeries to replace their Origin Cores, so they can live as regular people. Flum shows support.

During Volume 04/Episode 05, Flum shows no hostility towards Nekt, but she recognizes that Milkit is still scared of her. She tells Nekt to apologize to Milkit which Nekt complies with. She is happy that Nekt is able to survive in the aftermath of the incident.

### Enemies

**Jean Inteige**

To describe their relationship as one of ‘mutual hatred’ would be putting it mildly. Due their time in the Hero Party, Jean would consistently belittle and abuse Flum despite Flum's attempts to be useful to the party which included cooking his food and making his tea. Despite his mistreatment, she held back any feelings she had towards him due to understanding his value to the party, and she would comply with any orders he gave her. She was surprised and horrified that he hated her to the point of deciding to sell her into slavery.

After being betrayed and sold into slavery, Flum loves to fantasize in making Jean pay for all the pain he caused her. Flum has no issue telling others about what he did to her, but she doesn't usually initiate it unless someone else inquires about it.

In Episode 05, Flum reflects on how she never considered forgiving Jean, but she also recognizes he would never feel remorse in the first place.

On occasions, Flum reflects on how if Jean didn’t sell her, she never would have met Milkit, and Milkit would’ve been killed by the Slave Merchant. That is enough to disturb Flum.

Unnamed Slave Merchant

Due to how the man treated her and other slaves, she did not hesitate to kill him. He was the first person she ever killed. Due to killing him, Flum became willing to kill other enemies because she understood that there are some people that are not worthy of mercy.

They first met when Jean lured her into a trap to sell her into slavery. He was the reason why Jean was able to sell Flum into slavery. After Jean sold her, he officially converted her into a slave by putting the slave mark on her cheek with the special ink that causes her slave mark to remain attached to her face permanently. When the Slave Merchant realized Flum had Zero stats, he abused her until he threw her into the special prison cell where placed other slaves he considered worthless, including Milkit. He intended to feed her and the other slaves to ghouls for his entertainment.

When begged for mercy, the Slave Merchant told Flum it was her fault he wasted so much money on her, and she had to atone for her crime with her life. He then goaded her by saying she could take her chances with the cursed sword if she wanted a 'chance' to live. Despite seeing the Cursed Sword melt one of the slaves earlier, Flum decided she was better off taking her chances with it. Much to both her and the Slave Merchant's surprise, Flum didn't melt.

Flum was able to wield the cursed sword and killed the slave merchant's ghouls. When she broke free from the prison cell, the slave merchant pathetically begged for mercy, but Flum was unwilling to grant him any. In the Light Novel version, she proceeded to torture him before killing him. In the manga version, she kills him immediately by cutting him in half.

When she is confronted about her past actions, Flum feel no guilt for what she did to him. If anything, she feels more disturbed by the fact that if she wasn't there and didn't kill him, Milkit would've died.

Dein Phineas

Flum originally had a good first impression of him when he got Y'lla to given Flum a trial assignment. However, all any goodwill she felt towards Dein quickly soured when it became apparent the 'trial assignment' he got Y'lla to give her was actually a 'D Rank' assignment rather than an 'F Rank', and he intended for this assignment to get both herself and Milkit killed. After Flum not only returned with her objective, but also assaulted one of Dein's men who accused her of selling her body to get someone else to do the trial assignment, Flum and Dein's group quickly became enemies who wanted nothing more than to kill each other.

While they don’t interact directly in Episode 02, their fued intensified. Flum encounters two of Dein's men attempting to rob Leitch Mancathy. She along with Sara Anvilenmanaged to apprehend his men, and Flum convinced Sara that they needed to be put into prison. Dein learned of what Flum and would not allow take this lying down. In the Light Novel version, he sent two of his men to sabotage Flum's Herb Quest, but he gave them to green light to assault Milkit. Flum was able to kill his men which enraged Dein more.

The development of their rivalry changes in the manga adaptation of Episode 02. While the development of their rivalry generally remained the same until Chapter 10 of the manga, it changes shortly after Flum obtains her house when Dein is informed of Flum's whereabouts and decides to take action personally rather than simply relying on his men. In Chapter 12, Flum is enraged when Dein personally assaults and kidnaps Milkit. During Chapter 14, he forces Flum to drink poison in exchange for not harming Milkit.

Their rivalry finally comes to a head in Episode 03. During the time skip between Episode 02 and Episode 03, Dein and his men attempted to sabotage Flum's career as an adventurer with mixed results. While they prevented Flum from completing a few of her assignments, she completed enough to be promoted, and she obtained enough money to keep supporting her household. After Flum managed to prevent some of Dein's men from kidnapping Ink Wreathcraft at the beginning of Episode 03, Dein decides that he needs to take stronger action to put an end to Flum once and for all.

Shortly after Flum leaves the guild when she is not able to obtain new information on Ink, Dein puts his plan into action. Dein attempts to frame Flum for committing murder. He bribes guards to attack her and acquires slaves to be used as suicide bombs. While he has Flum cornered, he taunts her by saying that he sent a number of his men to kill Milkit because he knows how much she cares for her. When Flum manages to turn the tides thanks to him over

During their final confrontation, Flum tells Dein what became of his men after he became a member of the Church of Origin. While Dein initially feels guilt that his actions caused his men's deaths, he goes back to blaming Flum.

Flum uses Dein's heart to save Ink with the help of Eterna, Gadhio, and Ottilie.

Satils Francois

Prior to their first meeting, Flum hated Milkit’s previous Master because of how she poisoned, tortured, and broke Milkit. While she did not know Satils identity at the time, she figured Milkit's former master was most likely female even before Milkit confirmed it because she surmised that Satils was most likely jealous of Milkit's natural beauty.

Upon their first meeting, Flum could not help but feel something was off about Satils. She learned from Leitch Mancathy, that Satils enjoys purchasing young slaves from the black market who are responsive to torture. When Leitch offhandedly told Flum about the Unnamed Slave Merchant she supposedly conducted business with being killed recently, Flum immediately figured out that Satils was indeed Milkit's previous master. Upon realizing that, it took Flum a significant amount of willpower not to pursue Satils and behead her right then and there.

After Satils has Milkit kidnapped, Flum shows Satils no mercy. She used her Reversal ability to destroy Satils body. Flum was shocked to see Satils was resurrected.

Mother/Mich Smithee

The two hated each other from the moment they met. Shortly after meeting Mother, Ink chooses she would rather stay with Flum, and Mother proceeds to hit her which enraged Flum.

Flum becomes disgusted by how Mother treats Nekt and the other Spiral Children.

Spiral Children

Flum’s feelings regarding the Spiral Children is mixed. She understands that they were forced to receive Origin Cores in their chests, but they also pose a major threat to her, her friends, and innocent people at large.

## Trivia

* Prior to the official spelling of her name being revealed, it was believed Flum’s name could also be translated to Fulham or Flamm.
* By Flum’s own admission to Milkit, she has never been this physically close to anyone besides Milkit not even Cyrill or any of her other childhood friends. As of Episode 05, she considers Milkit to be the number one person she is closest to.
* Flum is the subject to multiple running gags throughout the series.
	+ When people see Flum openly act affectionate with Milkit, most will question what is the nature of their relationship. If Flum notices she is getting strange looks, she’ll immediately get defensive and claim it’s not what it looks like.
	+ Due to how Flum’s body heals from her injuries, but her clothes do not get repaired in the process, Flum has been subjected to heavy clothing damage. In Episode 03, Ottilie Fohkelpi has to lend Flum her jacket, and later in the same episode Flum realizes she needs to buy a lot more clothes since she is close to running out.
	+ While Flum was chosen to be a member of the Hero’s Party by Origin, very few people recognize her as one of them partly due to her not being an accomplished Hero beforehand. As a result, people may recognize her name, but they don’t put two-and-two together unless someone else who recognizes her points it out or she spells it out for them.
	+ When it comes to Milkit, Flum becomes aroused quite easily when she pictures Milkit taking a bath or seeing her face which Eterna pokes fun of her for.

## Gallery

### Light Novel

#### Character Designs

Light Novel Volume 01 Character DesignMultiple Character DesignsFlum with the gauntlets

#### Illustrations

Light Novel Volume 01 CoverBattle against AnzuLight Novel Volume 02 Alternate CoverFlum enjoying Milkit's cookingFlum cryingFlum and Nekt shake handsFlum taking down the Ogre