Martial Artist

## Martial Aritist

* Light Novel
* Manga

**Martial Artist** (銀髪の少女武闘家, *Ginpatsu no Shōjo Budōka*) is a supporting character introduced in Year One Volume 2.

## Appearance

Martial Artist is a tall young woman with long silver hair tied into a ponytail. Young Warrior notes that she bears a similar resemblance to Half-Elf Ranger. Her long legs and toned muscles indicate her identity as a martial artist.

## Personality

She is cheery and friendly. Unlike some newbie Adventurers, she is not particularly arrogant and takes heed of the dangers of lowly monsters rather than rushing in or having grandiose beliefs of slaying dragons.

## Chronology

At some point five years before the start of the series, Martial Artist journeyed to the Frontier in order to make money in Adventuring and send money back to her family. Eventually she formed a Adventurer Party with Elf Acolyte and Dwarf Scout under the leadership of seasoned wizard and scholar Professor.

### Year One Volume 2

Martial Artist and her party prepared to map out a mine, assuming there would be no risk involved, but were warned by Young Warrior to exercise caution. She went up to him and thanked him for the advice, before going with him and her party into an abandoned mine.

The group discovered that Goblins were inhabiting it, and when a horde of Goblins followed by a hobgoblin charged after them, Martial Artist went to confront the hobgoblin. To her distress, the Hobgoblin's thick layers of fat rendered her punches ineffective and the hobgoblin caught her leg when she tried to kick it. However, one of her companions disarmed it, allowing Martial Artist to kill the Hobgoblin with a kick to the face. After all the goblins were killed, Martial Artist was still reeling from her near-death experience; she was then comforted by Young Warrior, who told her she'd get another chance to do better as long as she was alive.

*The following events are exclusive to the manga.*
A Warlock confronts the party and creates several copies of himself, so Martial Artist is directed to find the real warlock. Martial Artist kicks who she assumes to be the Warlock, but discovers it was another decoy and is slashed from behind; a prompt from Young Warrior allows her to escape with only a graze. After the party decides to flee the area, she and the party flees the mine, she and her party are shocked to learn that Young Warrior only planned to accompany them once, and plead him to stay with them.

*Manga-exclusive events end here.*
She was later seen with her party and Young Warrior on the road connecting the farm and the frontier town.

### Year One Volume 3

Later, Martial Artist joined Young Warrior in asking Professor to teach her to read and write, but was not exactly advancing as quickly as the rest of her teammates as academics were not her strong point. When Heavy Warrior collapsed due to exhaustion and over-working himself, Martial Artist volunteered to take over his quest to help him out in order to pay him back for helping Young Warrior earlier with the Rock Eater.

*Note: Events in this point occur only in the manga*.
Journeying into a cave and falling into a *massive* underground city, Martial Artist is able to score a perfect landing unlike the rest of her Party, but learns the hard way that slamming her bare fist into rock *hurts*, comically rolling on the floor in pain. As she and her Party investigate, they are joined by Gold-Ranked Adventurer Barbarian who aids the Party against the surprise attack of Chaos worshipping Dark Elves riding atop large spiders.

Marital Artist and her Party were able to fend off the Dark Elves with Barbarian's help and learn about the Dark Elves' plans to revive an old powerful king and his undead army for their plans. This goes horribly wrong though as the Undead King slays the Dark Elves and attacks everyone around him, causing a massive collapse of the cave. Marital Artist is able to kill the Undead King and her Party just make it out in the nick of time, ending the Dark Elves' plot and stopping the earthquakes.

*Note: End of Manga only events*.
## Abilities

* **Trained Combatant**: Skilled in melee combat, Martial Artist is able to kill regular goblins and even a hobgoblin with a single kick.

## Trivia

* Martial Artist's encounter with the Hobgoblin is meant to mirror Fighter, both have their kicks grabbed by the Hobgoblin, but whereas Fighter had no support and sacrificed herself to save Priestess, Martial Artist had a team that worked with her which allowed her a moment to counter and save herself.

## References

1. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Side Story: Year One* Light Novel - Volume 2, Interlude: Of How Everything Starts with a First Step
2. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Side Story: Year One* Light Novel - Volume 2, Chapter 6: After Session, Scenario Hook: The Reward and the Next Adventure
3. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Side Story: Year One* Light Novel - Volume 2, Interlude: Of How They're Unable to Come Home Because the Map Is Unfinished