Krai Andrey

* Light Novel
* Manga
* Manga Mask ver
* LN Fox ver

**Code Fortress Rank:**Class 6 (Current)
Class 3 (Former)
Class 1 (Former)

**Krai Andrey**  is the main protagonist of the 'Let This Grieving Soul Retire! Woe is the Weakling Who Leads the Strongest Party'.

He's the 'absolute leader' of Grieving Souls, the first 'elected' clan master of First Steps, the King of Underman Tribe, and  the 'founding' boss of Ten-Tails of Aburaage.

He is the central figure, figurehead, and the brainiac of their generation. He's also the leader of the Royal Guard (近衛) Order of Princess Alisha.

 He has a strong counterpart named Krahi Andrey.

## Appearance

He has short black hair, a thin body and a pale appearance. He is often seen wearing a black jacket and white pants.

He looks like a regular citizen so without knowing his real identity, people would normally see him as just a regular person.

He has Relics all over his body that are used to protect himself. He has an ear-piercing type Relic on his left ear, a Relic called Dog Chain on his waist, and a Chain-type Relic. He possesses Ring-type Relics on all of his fingers.

## Personality

In the eyes of his friends and acquaintances, he's a trustworthy treasure hunter who possessed various talents: incredible knowledge, immeasurable strength, and unexplained -mysterious- powers. He's also marked in their top list as a person who shouldn't be messed with. To them, he's a mysterious being, invincible beasts or a God in a flesh above everyone else. Every word that comes out of his mouth - even a minor joke- has an ambiguous and hidden meaning. That should be taken for granted seriously.

Although he tries his best to tell them the truth and that everything they encounters are just a coincidence, nobody really believes him.

For his enemies, he's a dangerous existence that should be avoided at all cost. His existence is clouded with mysteries. He's so feared by his enemies that all of them try to escape upon realizing his identity. They also think he's a cunning, incredible strategist, undefeatable tactician, and villaineous opponent who holds many trump cards.

But in truth, he's a weak, indecisive, sloppy, and unmotivated 'regular' human being. He hates getting into trouble and is weak-willed, so even if he gets motivated about something, he quickly gets tired of it and changes his mind. He's always on the verge to puke whenever something troublesome happens. He tries his best to show a brave face in front of his subordinates but he's actually afraid of all of them because to him, hunters are all people with volatile personalities. He's both lucky and unlucky, though he isn't always aware of it. Generally, Krai always brings disasters along with him, much to the woe of the many.

He's also pretty looked carefree outside, causing everyone to underestimate him. Tino typically thinks that he's faking it.

He's pretty childish when it is related of buying various type of Relics. He doesn't mind to be buried in debt to acquire the treasures that he wants.

Nonetheless, his serious side is visible when he needs to. He will bravely stand alone against the high-leveled hunters, cursed-like and Godlike creatures to save his friends, people, and disciples even though he's weaker than them.

## Background

Back in the day, Krai Andrey dreamed of becoming the kind of treasure hunter who could swoop into mortal peril and save whoever was in distress. However, he was kind of tired of doing it.

He knows the name of Exceed Zequence, a famous hunter in their hometown. Hearing his tale of heroism and adventure what is first sent him in the dark path.

He enlists himself as treasure hunter - aiming to reach the highest level, the level 10. He is one of the young generations who wanted to become a hero in his era.

At first he tried to study under all the mentors his childhood friends train under, but he was quickly kicked out due to his lack of talents.

He was not a protégé unlike them.

Therefore, he decided to cheer his childhood friends who worked very hard in the sidelines. It was at that time that they all fell for him and one of the reason why they wanted him to be their party leader.

He becomes a fan of collecting various type of relics afterward. It is his one of the career saving moment -beside his friend's encouragement- to continue his hunter life, learn new things and discover a whole new world. According to his analysis, everything he does with the relics could be replicate by anyone, but the users or collectors like him won't do it because it is either useless, won't make sense, no manual how to use it or didn't know it is possible.

When he left his hometown, his parents told Lucia to be in charge of Krai and take care of him because he is sloven, sluggish, and sloppy child. So Lucia is always on the lookout for her 'dear step brother' Krai.

After he finally acknowledged that he's just a deadweight for his party, he sets a meeting in his room at the night after they clear their first level 1 treasure vault. He openly shares his concerns and finally confesses he is quitting his treasure hunter's life, but instead of understanding it, his friend sincerely asks him to become their leader.

Nonetheless, Krai has never given up his goal to retire at the early age. In order to succeed it, he sets his second long term plan secretly. One of his greatest plan is, he builds a simple clan which is consisted of different parties, but out of his calculation, it rises up to become a powerful, universally feared and influential clan.

Although his original ulterior motive is to become a regular member before he left, out of the question he is always won the Clan master position unanimously. Its one of his bright plan that's betrayed him.

No matter how much efforts he does, he cannot escape for a lot of reasons.

Krai's actions have already influenced many people that will hinder his grieving soul to retire at all cost, for example Eva who will not accept the Clan Master position, the clan members who relied on his frightening existence and leadership, Gark who can't let go of his position as branch manager because of him, Ark who looks up for him as his equal, Tino who is always at his side and already corrupted as his devoted follower with a quote of "Master is God!". In addition to that, the Grievers will retire too because he is the center of the circle: for Liz, it influenced her to pursue speed, for Sitri, it influenced her to not be picky of the means to arrive at the end, for Luke, it influenced him to pursue the way of the sword, for Ansem, it influenced his size and class. And for Lucia, who encourage her to become a mage (witch).

Krai has a bad foresight and farsight, despite the other party believes he possesses it.

All of his displeasures, grumbles and tantrums are always been misinterpreted, and his actions are often misunderstood as a 'training''. The reason is, he inadvertently drags the people around him into terrible position and terrifying - horrifying, gruesome and unreasonable- situations, making them think that Krai is imposing some sort of trial for them. They dub it as the "Thousand trial", and his unreadable -devious schemes- successful plans are one of the origin of his nickname as "Thousand Tricks".

In Volume 11, Krai Andrey is voted as the party leader for Code vault expedition -Level 9 Certification exam- by two level 8 treasure hunters: Saya and Kaizer.

Krai Andrey is hired by a maid named Olivia (level 5), and he is assigned as the 28th personal attendant (Konoe). Later on, Krai becomes the leader of the Royal Guards of the youngest princess of the Code Royalty, Princess Alishia. After a few weeks, he blitz his way up from Class 1 to Class 6.

## Ability

**Knowledge:** Krai knows the basics of close combat and he grasps the fundamental of advanced training and survival. He has keen eyes for the ancient treasures which is undeniably higher than his members.

**Strength:** He is physically weak, and he's not in par of the power of Tino. However, since he has a slow mana growth absorption, it is considered to be one of his best traits against high leveled treasure vaults.

*Dozega* is one of his most powerful orthodox techniques, and once he thinks of using it, everything goes to his favor. He has a strong tolerance from mana sickness, and he is blessed with a body that has the strongest immunity against the fear of death ever since he got used of facing life-threatening predicaments*.*

**Diplomacy:** He has a high level of provocation, with or without meaning to hurt his enemies or friends' pride or tease them whatsoever. At the very least, he knows when to negotiate by reading the mood and how to win it on his favor.

**Agility:** His speed is in par of injured Tino.

**Democracy**: In his party, his vote count for 5.

**Special Skill (**given by author**) :** Escapism and Prostating Himself.

**Powers:** Most of his skills are relying to the buffs of his relics.  If Krai Andrey is heavily equipped and prepared properly, he stated: he could fight a high-leveled hunter, an elite parties or even Ark Rodin and his crew in equal ground, as long as his relics won't run out of mana. Therefore, the heavily geared Krai Andrey could be at par with the strongest hero.

According to rumors, there are also some trump cards he is carrying inside his pocket clandestinely. Here's the list as of follows:

### Miracles/Misunderstandings

Here's the list of the Miracles/Misunderstandings as of follows:

1. He invites his clan members to join him to look after the 'spring flower'for the purpose of clan retreat. He asks them to bring their weapons since it is outside, and he doesn't need an escort because they are present. However, as they enters the place, the ley lines shifts and shakes the earth. Everyone is terrified, petrified, and astonished at the same time when they personally experienced and witnessed the birth of the Prism Garden. At that moment, every members of the clan engraves it into their heart that they should've always read the meaning of his words.
2. All of the Red party who tried to kill them were defeated and found dead because of his unexpected and lucky guesses. Not to mention, he inadvertently drags his party members in difficult situation whenever he accepts the punishment games from Gark. This only increases the conclusions of everyone that he's an incredible man that helps his friends transform into monsters.
3. All of his comments are coincidentally linked to the explorer's investigations,  he's seemingly random comments always ended up to be ridiculously accurate,  and he predicts the outcome of the event before it could happen.
4. Surprisingly, he's not affected by the side effects of every Ancient Items because of low aptitude and status, e.g the time when Countess Gladys possessed by the organic mask.
5. There are some words that is wrongly assumed and marked as a danger into the mindset of his clan members. The *picnic/sightseeing/viewing/retreat* is misinterpreted as a vault expedition and treasure hunting instead of just a regular clan and party retreat,  the *normal quest* is considered as a thousand trial because all of it are not equally based in their rank level and has an abnormal difficulty,  and the *vacation* word is interpreted as a difficult quest that involves of killing or capturing living humans instead of an ordinary vacation in normal standards.
6. There were a lot of weird hunters out there, but Krai Andrey was the weirdest. In spite of the harshness of the occupation, Krai hadn't changed a bit from the day he'd signed up. From his soft, almost-feminine features to his frivolous attitude, and even his underhanded methods, nothing about him had changed as he'd progressed along the path to glory. Gark supposed that was the one extraordinary thing about Krai.
7. From Chloe's perspective, Krai is a cruel person, ignoring the rules and acting as he pleased as if he were playing. When in fact he just wanted to run away and hide from harm.
8. From Éclair Gladys perspective, the Thousand Trials are an entertainment game for [Thousand Tricks] where when you enter it you can't get out easily even if you are a high-level Hunter: the victims are Ark and Arnold.
9. For Sitri: Defeating the Barrel Bandits, the Underman parade and the Onsen Dragon are considered as a holiday festival for the Grievers, even though all of that are an unfortunate coincidences that they encountered alongside with Krai Andrey.
10. According to the Grievers, Krai has never ever relied on his relics. He relies on his pure strength, great knowledge and wits. They look up to him as the strongest among the group. He is so powerful that he only uses his collections to give them a 'handicap', to assist or enhance their magic, physical and sword training, and to teach them a valuable lessons of 'to know how'. But little do they know, it is the opposite.
11. Thousand trick is a unique hunter who, from the perspective of others, always believes that all of his actions is calculated.

## Trivia

* His first name Krai (クライ, *Kurai*) means 'war cry', 'chaos', 'plague' and 'crisis'.
* His family name Andrey (アンドリヒ, *Andorihi*) means 'manly', 'warrior' and 'strong man'.
* He is the youngest hunter  who has a potential to become the 13th hunter to get promoted to Level 9 once he passes his exam. Plus, he is the first treasure hunter who achieved it before he turns 21 years old.
* He likes sweet such as cake, candies and ice cream. But Tino believes he is faking it for her sake. It is also mistaken by Sitri that he only eats it because sweets is the weakness he hasn't overcome yet.
* He is born and raise in a backwoods town.
* He is one of the three level 8 hunter that achieved it at a young age (20 years old).
* He has 17 Safe Rings Relics.   But later, it reduces to one after he deliberately gives a ring on Eva, putting it on her 'right' ring finger.
* Krai has never lost any single battle because he never fought . But in Volume 3, he battles with Fallen Mist (1 vs 8) alone and won the battle decisively.
* He has never been hurt during a hunt and the only person who had ever hurt him without activating his safe relics is Eva.
* Krai Andrey had a cat that he had raised together with Lucia Rogier back at his parent's house. He stated his pet was a well-known 'smart cat' that was taking care properly by his step sister.
* Among his party members, he is the most feared person and the only person who smells 'clean' amongst his party members that smelled blood.
* Krai is the only person who defeats his enemy without his knowledge.
* His debt is over a ten digits, majority is noted from Sitri's account.
* According to the organic mask,  all of his stats is graded of E: Muscle E-, Agility E-, Physical Strength E-, Magic E-, Growth E-, motivation zero, overall rating, seven points. 『Over Greed (Evolving Devil Mask)』. Because he doesn't meet the requirements, it fails to release his full potential.
* Due to his popularity, every sweet shops he visits becomes popular and incredibly earns a lot of profit. He is surprised to learn from the vendor that one of the origins of his second name 'Thousand' comes from that moment when he orders a lot -numbering more than a 'thousand'-of sweets in the menu.
* His childhood book that he created for fun during his childhood years is used as a guidance by his sister, Lucia.  It is stated later that Luke also possesses a book he created that contains his knowledge in swordsmanship.
* According to the author his affiliation is "Chaotic Good".
* When he plays old maid, he always pulls out the old maid and keeps it promptly (Sitri sometimes cheats and pulls out the card for him secretly).
* Krai and Lucia keep a tail of the 13th Tailed Mother Fox which is collected from the Lost Inn.
* Krai is the only human that the [Lost Inn] Sister Fox considered as their nemesis. The only human they wishes to defeat, and she wishes him to comb her tail as a punishment.
* Krai is the only human that is blacklisted by [Lost Inn].
* When Krai carelessly encounters a fortune teller, the fortune teller told him that his existence will always bring disasters everywhere and anywhere he goes, and that not only he will bring misfortune for himself and his friends, but also to his enemies. What is more, the fortune teller mentions that every species he meets up will love him (e.g Spirit People), and he calls him as the God of Plague which Krai feign ignorance and laugh it off.
* Krai has huge bounty in the underworld due to his involvement of revealing the existence of the fox organization in the entire world. His bounty is higher than Ark Rodin's, and it is almost reached the same level with his outstanding debt.
* Krai has 30 biggest traumatic events that he couldn't forgot, and one of them is the battle between the First Step and Hidden Curse.
* Krai has over 500 relics.
* Before Krai dealt with the Tower of Akasha, he has destroyed a large organization called Snake and Scorpion.
* Krai is the only person who received Rosemary's attack without any injuries.
* During his childhood years, Krai wanted to become a dancer and singer, however he surrenders to practice after he lost interest
* Krai is always attracted by lightning strikes beside with his friend Ansem Smart.
* In his party, even though he was surrounded by high leveled hunters with second name, he was still the most prominent among them .
* According to Code Immigration Scanner, Krai Andrey's overall power rating is '4'. It is lower than an average citizen. He's also the first treasure hunter with a high rank, the first human outside of the Code, the first lower class citizen, who eventually blitz his class ranking up in the Code Fortress from Class 1 to Class 6 within a month.

## Reference

1. ↑ In webnovel, it is translated as Infinite Variety 千変万化 , *Senpen Banka*
2. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 6 Side Story: Bad Luck and Good Luck
3. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 11
4. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 1 to 10
5. ↑ In webnovel, it is translated as  Strange Grief(Lamenting Ghost)
6. ↑ In webnovel, it is translated as 'Cry Andrich'.
7. ↑ Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 3 Prologue: The Brainiac
8. ↑ Let this Grieving Soul Retire Light Novel Volume 2 Chapter 1: The Stifled Shadow Returns
9. ↑ Let this Grieving Soul Retire Manga Volume 2, Side Story: Krai Andrey's Soliloquy
10. ↑ Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 1 Prologue: Dreams and its conclusion
11. ↑ Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 1 Chapter 4: Thousand Tricks
12. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 1 Afterword
13. ↑  Let this Grieving Soul Retire Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 4 Obsidian Cross and First Steps.
14. ↑ In webnovel, it is translated to Cherry Blossom.
15. ↑ Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 2 Chapter 4: Black Iron Cross and Footprint of the Beginning
16. ↑ Let This Grieving Soul Retire Volume 4 Chapter 4: Fun vacation
17. ↑ Let this Grieving Souls Retire Light Novel Volume 1 Chapter 1: Punishment Game and how to deal with it
18. ↑ Let this Grieving Souls Retire Light Novel Volume 2 Chapter 1: The Stifled Shadow Returns
19. ↑ Let this Grieving Souls Retire Light Novel Volume 2 Prologue: Lost things
20. ↑ Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 3 Chapter 6: The real victory
21. ↑ Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 2 Chapter 4: Black Iron Cross and Footprint of the Beginning
22. ↑ Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 1 Chapter 3: White Wolves Den
23. ↑ Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 4 Prologue: A Master that you can count on
24. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 1 Chapter 1 : Coping With Community Service
25. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 4 Epilogue : Let this Grieving Souls Retire Wants Retire 4
26. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 7 Prologue : New Honor
27. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 5 Epilogue : Let this Grieving Souls Retire Wants Retire 5
28. ↑ Let's this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 5 Chapter 2 : Formidable Foreign Enemies
29. ↑ WN: Barrier Ring Relics
30. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 1 Prologue : A Short-Lived Dream
31. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 3 Chapter 2 : Challenger and transcendent being
32. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 6 Chapter 1 : Gathering of White Sword
33. ↑ Let This Grieving Soul Retire Light Novel Volume 3 Prologue: The Braniac
34. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 5 Chapter 1 : Hot Spring Rhapsody
35. ↑ Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 3 Prologue: A sharp person
36. ↑ Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 4 Chapter 4: Fun vacation
37. ↑ Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 5 Epilogue: Let this Grieving Souls Retire wants to retire ⑤
38. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 6 Side Story : Bad Luck And Good Luck
39. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 8 Prologue : The Cursed Man
40. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 4 Chapter 1 :Responsibilities of a Level 8
41. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 3 Chapter 1 : The strong and the powerful
42. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 5 Chapter 2 : Formidable foreign enemy
43. ↑  Let this Grieving Souls Retire Volume 6 Chapter 1 : Gathering of White Sword
44. ↑  Let This Grieving Soul Retire Volume 10 Chapter 3 :The Battle of the Gods
45. ↑  Let This Grieving Soul Retire Volume 10 Epilogues : Let This Grieving Soul Retire ⑩