Alto Goldfield

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**Alto Goldfield** (アルト・ゴールドフィルド, *Aruto Gōrudofirudo*?) is the male protagonist of the Kinsou no Vermeil series. He is the one who summoned perhaps the most powerful devil of all time, Vermeil. After Obsidian's betrayal, he later became a member of the student council after being forced to reveal Vermeil's identity to them (although Chris was aware).

## Appearance

Alto has silver-white hair and gold eyes. He wears a blue button-up top with gold trim over a white dress shirt and green tie, navy pants, and black dress shoes. According to Vermeil he's more fit and "built" out of his clothes than he appears in them.

## Personality

Alto is a quite responsible and mature boy for his age who is naturally polite and studious. He is easily flustered by raw sex appeal, especially from Vermeil, but has great willpower to resist seduction to a certain extent. He is a hardworking boy with aspiring dreams of becoming a Platinum Square magician. While he does have great willpower, he tends to give into Vermeil's seductions when they are alone together, especially as he develops feelings for her and begins even initiating intimacy with her (though its unclear just how far beyond kissing and petting they have gone). He's generally happy and also confident enough to stand up for himself and others, but is indicated to have a bit of a complex over his short height (getting rather defensive when Vermeil questions why he has a measuring device in his room).

After Obsidian's betrayal and the battle which led to Vermeil's identity being revealed to the student council, Alto is willing to take any punishment from the student council even getting himself expelled until he is told they have no intentions of expelling him as they are only going to recruit him as a member of the student council instead to keep an eye on them and use Vermeil's power to benefit the school. With the council now distrustful of the school faculty staff members, they decide to keep Vermeil's identity as a a devil secret from them. Alto agrees to join the council, with Vermeil mindful that the Council President was not likely going to allow him to refuse anyway.

## Background

Alto is a brilliant student at Royal Ortigia Magic Academy who has scored perfect points in everything except summoning magic, a magic that is required to enter the second year of his schooling at Ortigia. After getting a warning of expulsion, he began searching at the library only for an old book with a summoning circle to fall from a high shelf onto his head, seemingly by chance. Out of other options, he chose to activate the summon despite not knowing what would be called out. He summons Vermeil, a devil, who was said to be humanity's enemy. Vermeil was surprised by his mana potency which made him able to make her his familiar (and also prevented him from attracting normal familiars, his mana being so potent it is like poison to them), and is extremely flirtatious with him much to his embarrassment. Thus he entered his second year of schooling. He then gets into a duel with Lilia Kudelfeyt, his childhood friend, who finds Vermeil very suspicious. They won the duel with ease thanks to Vermeil's overwhelming strength. Later, in his room, Vermeil takes up a "reward" by kissing him to recoup mana she used up in the duel.

## Chronology

Alto is a brilliant student at Royal Ortigia Magic Academy who has scored perfect points in everything except summoning magic and is about to enter his second year at the school. He must summon and form a contract with a familiar or else be held back a grade. He had failed the summoning spell many times before, but he finds an old book and performs the spell within, summoning a naked demon girl named Vermeil. She kisses him to drain his mana and says she will form a pact with him as a Familiar out of gratitude for his summoning breaking her out of imprisonment. She attempts to seduce him, but he refuses to go further than kissing and makes her wear his sister's dress and shoes. When he presents her to the class as his familiar, she conceals her horns and tail and other demonic features to pass for a human. Alto's childhood friend Lilia becomes jealous and challenges them to a duel; if she wins, Vermeil will stay away from Alto except when necessary, and if he wins, she will obey one command from him. Lilia's familiar, Sylpheed, unleashes a powerful wind attack, but Vermeil effortlessly blocks it, then uses magic to make Lilia become so aroused that she forfeits. Alto orders Lilia to be friends with Vermeil. Later, Vermeil tells Alto that Lilia is in love with him, but he doesn't believe her. She kisses and drains him again and says she needs to or else she won't be able to maintain her form. She says sex would allow her to drain him more efficiently and seductively asks if he wants to try it, but he panics and says kissing will be fine.

Next day, Vermeil shocks everyone by knocking a rampaging dragon to the horizon with a finger flick. Alto scolds her for drawing attention to herself. The dragon's owner and his big brother, Rex, threatens them with Rex's dinosaur familiar, but Vermeil supercharges Alto's mana, allowing him to defeat them with his crystal magic. Alto says his dream is to be a splendid mage and Vermeil approves, proceeding to offer her "help" by kissing him for hours to drain and give back enhanced mana to empower him. The next day, they and Lilia meet their friends Marcus and Sharol, then the headmaster calls them and says whoever can retrieve a fairy flower from the forest will be the class representative. As they race, Marcus is knocked out by a man-eating plant, forcing Sharol to tend to him. The others find the flower guarded by a Cerberus with a cold, so Lilia drinks an invisibility potion. However, her clothes are not affected, forcing her to discard them. One of the Cerberus's heads was well allowing it to detect her, so Alto and Vermeil knock it out. Lilia gets the flower, but the invisibility wears off. In her embarrassment, she drops the flower and it blows away into Sharol's hands. She wins the position and Alto and others congratulate her.

During another day in the academy, Vermeil makes a scene by following Alto into the boy's locker room to watch him change. When Alto learns Chris Westland beat up Rex and expelled him from the Dragonriders both for losing to Alto and because his familiar is a dinosaur and not a dragon, he angrily challenges Chris to a duel. She accepts and calls on her dragon. Vermeil supercharges Alto's mana, but Chris' fire spells are powerful enough to shatter Alto's crystal constructs and damage Vermeil when she blocks them. Chris rises into the sky on her dragon's back and boasts that dragons are the ultimate beings and all other creatures, including dinosaurs, are inferior. Determined to prove her wrong, Vermeil supercharges Alto again and he makes a huge crystal construct, using it to carry him and Vermeil up to where Chris is. Leaping down, Alto forces Chris to surrender with a sharp crystal drawn at her neck. Chris relents and is humbled, though Alto knows that she was not fighting seriously and would likely have won if she was.

## Abilities

* **Immense Magic Power**: Alto has displayed a very high magic power capacity. According to Vermeil, his magic power is so strong and dense that other familiars would be poisoned by it and so whenever Alto tries to summon something, it ends up in a failure until he summons Vermeil who can handle his mana just fine and in fact loves to consume it. During his Bronze Exams, he managed to break the crystal used to measure mana and did so by supplying the mana from the most difficult/resistant side, something the proctor notes would have likely been difficult even for a Platinum mage to do.
* **Prodigious Talent:** While he certainly works hard, Alto is also simply much more skilled than most mages his age, despite his parents being normal people with no potential for magic.
* **Golden Mana**: First seen when Alto gets powered up through Vermeil's kiss. Its color is regarded as unusual. It is later revealed the color is that of a demon, and that when using this color it means Alto is drawing on Vermeil's mana.
* **Silver Mana**: Alto's own mana is colored silver when he uses a great deal of it. While it's color has been repeatedly pointed out, the significance of the color has not yet been revealed.
* **Demon's Heart**: Vermeil used her own magic to save Alto, causing Alto to gain a Demon Heart. As a result if either Alto or Vermeil dies, the other will also die. Alto must also periodically receive mana from Vermeil via her kiss in order for his heart to keep functioning properly. He can give Vermeil the demon mana in his heart to her via a kiss as well to give her a power boost, but this puts his own life on a timer and leaves him greatly weakened.

## Relationships

### Vermeil

The demon woman who got unsealed from a mysterious grimoire by Alto who made her his familiar in order to get into the second year of his magic academy. Initially Alto is reluctant and quite embarrassed to "feed" Vermeil by making out with her, but they gradually grow more affectionate and passionate with each other. When Alto is accidentally killed by Vermeil when he stops her from killing Obsidian in a rage, she breaks out from her rampage and gives Alto a part of her heart to make sure he stays alive. Although Alto knows of her dark past, he still put his trust in her and vows to stay by her side no matter what happens in the future, thus taking their relationship further more than just master and familiar. They declare a mutual love for each other and a true romance blossoms between them.

### Lilia Kudelfeyt

His childhood friend, she is in love with Alto, but Alto remains oblivious to her feelings. She always have some crazy thoughts when being alone together with him and has concocted some strange plots but is ultimately a kind and supportive friend.

### Chris Westland

His senior and newly fellow member of the student council. After she treated Lex Freud horribly, Alto challenged Chris to a duel. He defeated her. When Chris was attacked by a demon-dosed Lex, Alto came to Chris' aid before Elena arrived. After saving her life, Chris helps Alto and Vermeil to prevent the treacherous Obsidian from escaping. Though she learned that Vermeil is devil, Chris decided to keep her identity as a secret. Like Elena and unlike Jessica, Chris also has her maturity when she quickly forgiven him for his accidental intrusion while she was changing. Before the bronze exams, Chris threatened Alto to pass the exams or else until the exams were interrupted by the Platinum Squared mages. After the Invasion, Chris decided to train Alto through physical combat for potential conflict against either the military or the Platinum Mages.

### Elena Kimberlight

The student council president who recruited him into the student council after Alto revealed to her and the other members of the student council Vermeil's identity as a devil after Obsidian's betrayal. While she gives a number of reasons, the true reason why she wants Alto to join the student council is unclear (implied that Elena desired him). Elena shown her maturity when she forgiven Alto so quickly after accidental intrusion while she was changing. After the Platinum Mages' interrupt the Bronze Square exam, Elena and the other members begin to help Alto in his training for potential conflict against either the military or the Platinum Mages.

### Iolite

Iolite is Alto's archnemesis. During his Bronze Exam, he confronted the Platinum Square Magician in battle but was defeated (though Iolite didn't actually lost because he let Alto have the win). Before leaving, Iolite warns Alto that he will be back to kill him and his friends.

## Trivia

* It is implied that Alto finding the summoning book and freeing Vermeil is more like destiny or fate, rather than by chance (or possibly orchestrated by Vermeil's friend Fatima).
* When joining the Student Council, Alto is the youngest among them, and the youngest person ever on the council.