Kouki Amanogawa

**Kouki Amanogawa** (天あま, *Amanogawa Kōki*) is the chosen hero of the goddess, Aularodde Lea Refeatand and is the strongest knight in Synclea Kingdom. He is engaged to both the goddess and the princess, Moana de Shelt Synclea, serving as her personal bodyguard, Owing to her for taking him in, he served the princess with unwavering loyalty.

Kouki is the founder and captain of the Divine Knights of Justice, and is currently enroll as a student at Academia City alongside both his fiancés. He is also a former adventure who only attained the rank of C Class due to non-stop recklessness that drove away adventurers from teaming up with him.

## Profile

### Appearance

As Tifa describes him, Kouki is a typical generic *ikemen* (good-looking man), with good looks, athletics, smarts, and a good personality. He has silky brown hair and gentle eyes. His body is toned and slender at about 180 centimeters.

### Personality

Kouki known for his kind, fair, and overflowing with sense of justice. However, since he never thinks he's wrong, he has a bad habit of misinterpreting adverse situations to his own convenience. This stems from his childhood. During his childhood he greatly admired his grandfather that would teach him his ideals of righteousness and justice. After his grandfathers death, Kouki held to his grandfathers teaching of ideal righteousness. Even so, the righteousness that his grandfather taught didn’t recognize good and evil at all. To further say it, Kouki came to think that what the majority of people thought as right was the absolute right.

As he grew, he was capable of overcoming many problems while holding to his ideal. As a result, without realizing it, Kouki came to not doubt his own righteousness. Despite being cautioned by several people close to him, especially by his parents, Shizuku, and Tifa, he ignores them and simply believes in his righteousness, making him quite arrogant, foolish and delusional about himself. This only worsens after receiving the Hero's Mark, where the people of nibelheim labeled Koukias their Hero who was sent by their God to save them from the demons, something he took absolute pride in believing.

Because of his self-righteousness and egotism, Kouki can't accept it when things don't go the way he wants, making him act like a spoiled child. This was seen when Tifa broke up with him and decide to befriend and hang out with Atreus of her own free will. He couldn't accept it as he always believed that they should be together forever and would rather believe that Atreus is the one who took her away.

After their reunion He further mistakes that all the girls who were following Atreus were being forced by him and tried to get them to come with him instead by saying he will treat them better than Atreus, which only greatly disturbed them because of how far off the mark he was. This only upset him further, causing Kouki to challenge Atreus to a duel for them, which was no different from him trying to take them by force. Atreus noted the reason why he didn't bother telling him and the rest of their classmates about Ehit's true nature as an evil god was because Kouki wouldn't want to believe that he was never a chosen hero and all his heroism efforts were completely pointless and would just get mad at him instead, something Kouki couldn't deny.

Due to always being successful in everything he did back on Earth and being summoned to Tortus as a Hero, Kouki has developed immense narcissistic pride in himself and his abilities as he believes that due to him being the Hero, others should follow his lead and that he is the person who will save everyone. This is displayed when Hajime killed the demon Cattleya over Kouki's protests despite her previous attempt to kill the Hero Party and the Kingdom knights, as to him, killing a person was wrong and thus condemned Hajime for not following his commands. His arrogance even deluded him into believing that he is stronger than Hajime due to being blessed as Ehit's chosen Hero, even self-righteously challenged Hajime to claim his harem for himself. However, when Kouki nearly died in Eri's death trap during Fried's invasion and also witnessed Hajime's real power as he not only destroyed a zombified Meld and the other Heligh Kingdom Knights, even effortlessly killed Hiyama, one of the strongest of his fellow Heroes with his bare hands, Kouki's pride in himself was badly damaged, which worsened when Aiko exposed Ehit's true nature as an Evil God and his schemes in using him and his classmates as pawns in a mad game of death in which all the hero worship Kouki had received from the Holy Church was nothing more than a fabricated lie.

Unable to accept his own failures and the truth about Ehit, Kouki even attempted to vent his frustration on Hajime, by blaming him for Ehit's schemes in helping Eri and Hiyama's betrayal that led to the Heligh Kingdom's invasion by Fried. Even when Hajime point out it was Kouki's own personality flaws and naivety that lead to Eri and Hiyama's betrayal. Kouki still refused to acknowledge it, preferring to blame Hajime for the problems that he himself had caused it due to his pride and arrogance in himself. Kouki was the only one who condemned Hajime for murdering Hiyama despite the latter being a despicable traitor who killed Meld and the Heligh Kingdom Knights and also temporarily murdered Kaori Shirasaki and attempted to make her his undead sex slave. Kouki seeks to enforce his morals and ideals onto others as he believes that he knows what is best as he often clashes with Hajime over what actions to take as Hajime outright refused to follow Kouki's ideals due to his pragmatic and realistic mindset. He gets irritated and annoyed when he learns that Hajime saved more people despite Hajime's ignoring the plight of Tortus and Kouki's own desire to save everyone. Despite Kouki insisting that Hajime take them along with him, Kouki doesn't wish to accept what he believes as charity from Hajime as he strives to prove that he is right and stronger then Hajime. This is shown in the fact that Kouki is reluctant to use the upgrades to the Holy Sword that Hajime added. This desire to prove himself stronger to Hajime got worse after Kouki failed to clear the Haltina Labyrinth, as that failure made him more irritated and increased his animosity towards Hajime.

Kouki is easily swayed by his emotions, making him increasingly reckless as he tends to act without thinking about the present situation. Even through this has been pointed out by Shizuku several times and has even almost got him killed, he rarely reflects on this issue. This has proven to be his greatest weakness, as he will hesitate when he learns new information about his enemy and always ending up giving them an opening to defeat him. During his second battle against Cattleya, Kouki stopped his blade when he was about to kill the demon due to the realization that he was about to kill another sentient being, something Cattleya berated him for, as she also later revealed that Kouki most likely only ever considered and saw those of the demon race as "animals" or "monsters" and viewed the war against the Demon race as simply "hunting" and was completely oblivious to the implications of a genuine war. Eri also made uses of this weakness by making the undead Meld appear as if he could be saved, causing Kouki to stop his blade once again before he could finish his opponent, getting defeated as a result.

He has a large amount of charisma, but always charges straight forward without thinking of the consequences. He also has a naive, childish outlook on the topic of love and the topic of killing. Kouki is often too optimistic for his own good, usually failing to consider the possible dangers surrounding him at times. Even when the situation in the palace was becoming suspicious, he still failed to consider the possibility that he and his classmates were being surrounded by the enemy. This ends up also affecting most of his classmates as they all look up to him; so when he says there's nothing wrong, they believe it without considering whether it's true or not.

Another noticeable trait about Kouki is his denseness. Despite being very popular with many different girls on both Earth and Tortus, he failed to notice this. Similar, he completely failed to notice that his childhood friend Kaori already had feelings for Hajime back on Earth, and instead believed she only talked to Hajime out of sympathy. Even when she confessed to Hajime right in front of him, he still couldn't believe it. It's because of his denseness that neither Shizuku or Kaori ever found themselves attracted to him, despite knowing him for so long.

As revealed by Hajime and acknowledged by his close friend Shizuku, despite these numerous negative traits, Kouki himself is completely and utterly oblivious to them and due to things having always work out for him in the end back on Earth in whatever he did, Kouki himself developed the unconscious habit of automatically misdirecting and misidentifying his feelings in order to validate and mask his negative feelings and insecurities through his empty ideals of justice in order to cope with them in order to "be in the right" instead of properly acknowledging them.

While traveling through the Frost Cravens of Schnee, Kouki showed signs of growing increasingly unstable. Despite repeatedly saying he would save and protect everybody, he continually failed at every turn, including failing to clear the Haltina Labyrinth. Worse for him, Kouki's own teammates were doing a better job than him and were getting praised from Hajime and his party for it. While facing his copy during the final part of the trail, Kouki continued to deny everything his copy said, which only made it stronger as he wasn't accepting his own flaws. Once he saw Shizuku sleeping peacefully on Hajime back, he completely snapped, choosing to believe Hajime was brainwashing everyone and everything would be return to being "right" if he killed him. His logic likewise grew increasingly erratic/crazed and delusional to the point that almost every assumption made by Kouki bared little to no relation or connection to the very situation, leading his closest friends to wonder how he had even come up with these conclusions. Despite this however, he still believed in whatever he made up due to refusing to accept his errors. However, he became doubtful after he almost broke his relationships with Kaori and Shizuku due to his stubborn adherence to misguided righteousness after his effortlessly defeat by his former classmate, Hajime.

However, despite this and seeing how much Hajime suffered to get where he is, he still desperately wanted to believe he was right all along. This made it easy for Eri to brainwash him and make him her puppet, all while ironically thinking his friends were the ones being brainwashed. Interestingly, this was exactly what the Haltina Labyrinth and Frost Cravens of Schnee tried to prepare those who planned on challenging the gods for; the gods would turn them against their friends and manipulate their inner weaknesses. This proved once again why Kouki failed to clear both Labyrinths.

In the After Story, due to his past failures and mistakes, he has lost his childishness and naivete along with most of his confidence and has become far more insecure and guilty due to not trusting his own judgement. This is reflected on the fact that he is initially more reluctant to be enlisted to help others. After meeting Moana and the people Synclea Kingdom, Kouki was able to find his answer and not hesitate anymore, killing several thousands "Dark Beings" to save Arquette. Kouki's growth and his desire to save Moana impressed Hajime enough that Hajime lend his power to save Synclea Kingdom, so Kouki could save the woman he fell for. Due to this, Kouki was able to make peace to Hajime as both acknowledged each other by hating the other, in contrast to Hajime's previous dismissal of him and Kouki affirming that despite his dislike of Hajime, he admires his resolve and his ability to push forward no matter what.

## Trivia

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