Keyaru

### Likes

Taunting his enemies, the color garnet, having control over his own destiny, manipulating others (Formerly), ribs, dark magic, politics, getting what he wants (Formerly), winning, red wine, torturing his enemies (formerly), trusting others, freedom, revenge (Formerly), adventures

### Dislikes

Faliure, misandry, not getting what he wants (Formerly), disrespect, his past mistakes, Flare and Norn's crimes, betrayal, defeat, forced marriages, racism, trusting others (Formerly), Flare

## Professional Status

### Occupation

Hero of Healing
Slave (Formerly)
Peasant (Formerly)

### Powers and abilities

High intelligence
Master deceiver
Master manipulator
Master fighter
Swordsmanship
Tactical experience
**Healing:**
Cell regeneration
Experience absorption
Cell destruction
Organic transmutation
Shapeshifting
Cell deterioration

## Voice Actors

### Japanese

Yūya Hozumi
Yōko Hikasa (Keara)

### English

Dallas Reid
Brianna Knickerbocker (Keara)

**Keyaru** (ケヤル, *Keyaru*), also known as **Keyaruga** (ケヤルガ, *Keyaruga*), is the hero of healing.

After years of torture at the hands of his "allies", he manages to break free and get the Philosopher's Stone. He then uses the item to go back four years time to exact revenge against the people who tortured him. After killing the former king, Keyaru became the new king of the Jioral Kingdom, to transform it into a genuinely peaceful kingdom.

He is the deuteragonist of the *Christmas Dreams* arc.

## Description

### Appearance

Keyaru is a teenage boy of medium height with brown hair and red eyes. Initially, he is dressed in simple clothes he used in the village, then after the start of his revenge he uses a set of armor he stole from the Captain of the Guards. When he uses his Heal skill, his eyes turn green. His new appearance as Keyaruga is just an older version of himself.

In his "Keara" disguise, he gives off a more feminine appearance - a buxom maiden with waist-long brown hair with a red ribbon on the back of the head, except leaving the male genital intact.

### Personality

Initially, Keyaru was a very kind and gentle boy with dreams. When he discovered that he was one of the Heroes who would save the world, he was very excited but he was afraid to use his power when he found out that by healing people, he absorbed their memories and pain.

After being betrayed, imprisoned, drugged, tortured, beaten and raped by several people who wanted to break their level limits for a long period of time, Keyaru's kind personality changed completely to that of a man vindictive, cruel, brutal, unstable, sociopathic, relentless, bloody and sadistic. Because his naive personality was what allowed him to be exploited, Keyaru replaced his old personality with that of a manipulative and cunning misanthrope.

He completely discarded almost all of his old, kind and generous personality in order to become a sadistic, violent and cold-blooded killer so that he could have his revenge.

Revenge is Keyaru's primary concern, although at least once he has mentioned the possibility of "living happily" once he has taken vengeance on his abusers. When Setsuna asked him why he seeks revenge so much, Keyaru explains that the idea that those who tortured him can just live their lives without suffering the consequences makes you want to vomit. Another example of his sadistic personality is when Keyaru thoroughly takes pleasure upon taking vengeance, as seen by his happy laughter after having raped Flare and erasing her memories. The only exception shown so far is the Knight Captain, where even after turning him into a woman and having him raped by his soldiers to death for having destroyed his home village, raped and then made Keyaru's first love, Anna committed suicide, he displays not happiness nor satisfaction during it and afterwards, presumably because the Knight Captain's actions resulted in the death of many of Keyaru's loved ones. When his first love, Anna and all the villagers in her village were killed by Renard, Keyaru becomes completely cold and suffers extreme levels of despair and anguish after losing his last sheds of humanity by becoming the sole survivor of his now deserted village.

Keyaru also explains to Setsuna that just seeing the suffering of those who made him suffer, Keyaru feels a stimulating feeling and fills his heart with pleasure and satisfaction. Keyaru also laughed madly in glee, delight and satisfaction after having Blade raped and eaten alive by three angry thugs under the influence of an aphrodisiac.

One of Keyaru's redeeming factors is that he has no desire to harm those who have done him no harm, and in fact makes it a personal rule not to drag them into his revenge; this applies even to people who are otherwise cruel like Princess Norn (until he discovers that she had a hand in executing the captured members of his village). Keyaru also has some sympathy for people who strive for justified revenge the same way he does, and will do his best to help grant them their desire with the condition that they also help him with his. Furthermore, Keyaru wanted to verify if Flare was still as evil as she was after his do-over, to ensure that the revenge he was about to enact was well deserved.

It is quite difficult to interpret how he really feels about the girls in his party, as he refers to them only as his ´toys´ in his inner thoughts, this implies that he does not really love them and only sees them as simple tools.

However, apart from that and some relatively minor things, like making Freia carry his luggage as a form of revenge for having used him as a pack mule, he treats them only with kindness, in total contrast to his own treatment at the hands of the Flare's party.

Keyaru has also shown himself to be genuinely enraged whenever any of them are injured, this could be seen when Kureha knocked out Freia. Before that, when two bandits tried to kidnap Freia, Keyaru ordered them not to touch her, being even willing to kill them. But it is not clear that it means that he is more protective of them than he can realize himself, or if he is just simply possessive.

Keyaru has also confessed once that during his travels with his party, even if only sometimes, his thirst for revenge vanishes, but he disregards this when he remembers that she still has people to get revenge on. However, this may be an unconscious way for him to refuse to acknowledge that he is starting to care about other people, out of fear of losing them too.

He has an extremely warped concept of right and wrong, and solely base people on his own stringent criteria. Although he hates those who wronged him in the past, he unconsciously picked up many of their insidious natures. He can be a sadist with an unquenchable thirst for vengeance and is also willing to trick something akin to an offspring of his into sexual intercourse because of her looks, taking advantage of her young naivety.

After Ken's help, he soon reverts back to his old kind, gentle and shy personality. But is still shown to have a temper, as seen when Bullet returns.

## Etymology

* His real name Keyaru (ケヤル), fake name Keyaruga (ケヤルガ), and his feminine name he used while disguising as a girl Keara (ケアーラ), are all similar to healing magics from the *Final Fantasy* video game series (Cure, Curaga and Cura, respectively), as opposed to Flare's name associating with an offensive magic.

## Trivia

* Before going back in time, Keyaru was 18 years old, but when he returned, he turned back to 14.
* He has used his 'Heal' skill to prevent all his girls from being pregnant.
* We don't know whether Keyaru intended to have children with all of his mistresses (considering his previous relationship with Freia and Ellen). However, he thought about coming back home and living a happy, peaceful life with his girls after taking revenge on all "those people".