Kikuchi Renji

Kikuchi Renji (菊池 蓮司, Renji Kikuchi) is the 5th hero introduced in the story, he's summoned near Rubia kingdom though not exactly affiliated with them.

Appearance
Renji is a short boy, shorter than Japanese men on average height in his age range, he has a long dark bluish hair in a "cool boy" style.

Personality
He is described as arrogant, rude, a bit chuuni, and a short tempered fool with a complex about his height under the Japanese average.

The Summoning
Kikuchi Renji is a Japanese high school student, from a Japanese rural area summoned to another world as a hero his first day at high school while he was asked to go the convenient store to buy something.

Renji appeared suddenly inside a crater in the middle of the forest from of a small kingdom next to the Rubia kingdom, he was very confused at the beginning why he was in such a place, he heard voices coming in his direction and hid himself in some nearby bushes, what he saw was a group of villagers wondering what the pillar of light from moments ago was and why the sacred lake had gone dry, hearing that the crater he appeared in was a lake further surprised Renji and then he run away from the place.

Following a forest path, he arrived at the village when he saw there was surveillance at the village entrance, he decided to try to sneak into the village through the fields instead where he would meet a lone village girl called Rea.

Renji would try to convince Rea of letting him inside the village without anyone knowing, but Rea after seeing Renji's clothes and how he didn't have anything on him despite calling himself a traveler refused while thinking of Renji as someone suspicious, then she convinced Renji of properly asking the village chief for permission for staying in the village until some peddler who could give him a ride somewhere else would come to the village, Renji reluctantly accepts and it's decided that he would live in Rea's house because she lives alone.

When they begin to live together, he offers to help her with the chores as thanks for letting him stay with a self-important tone as if he's making her the biggest favor in the world, but Rea doesn't care about his arrogance and just says to him that it doesn't matter. After the typical conversation about an unmarried girl not mustering to share a house with an unmarried man while during dinner, after finishing they went to sleep.

That night Renji had a dream where a voice explained to him about being a hero and the way to use his powers and divine weapon, after the dream Renji wakes up and he gets out of the house where he tests his halberd and his magic.

The next morning Rea tried to introduce Renji to her friends, but Renji didn't hesitate in abusing his power for winning the fight that he picked with them after being said that he was short, on the next day Renji came out of Rea's house to help her in the fields and just talked to her despite her attempts to convince Renji to make up with the other boys.

Six days after the summoning a fat nobleman accompanied by ten knights asked everyone if they knew something about the pillar of light and why the sacred lake that was a pilgrimage spot near the village had dried, all the villagers except Rea signaled Renji as the number one suspect, when the nobleman and the knights tried to interrogate Renji he just gave them rude and impolite answers becoming less majestic in every possible way, when he messed up on one of his answers making him look even more suspicious than before the nobleman ordered his knights to capture Renji for his rudeness and suspicion of destroying the sacred lake. Renji started panicking after seeing the knights about to attack him and ended up killing all of them, after that he ran away to the Rubia kingdom.

Reiss Trap
After arriving in the Rubia kingdom from the neighboring country Renji became an adventurer. Thanks to his hero powers he gained fame fast as a promising rookie that progressed quickly through the ranks and between the adventurers he began to be called the ice emperor, Silvie heard of him and tried to scout him, Renji refused, Silvie and her little sister for some reason found his arrogance and impertinence refreshing and fun and became friends, when they were meeting each other in a inn within Rubia's capital, Renji tells Silvie that it's been some time since their last conversation, Silvie explained that she had to go to the Galarc kingdom to assist an evening party, and that there she met the other heroes too, Renji tries to asks about them but Silvie just says that they were boys and girls around Renji's age, Renji says that lately he hasn't seen Esther either, Silvie says Esther can't see him because she has become ill, in the middle of their conversation Reiss arrives and introduces himself with a false name and says to Silvie that if she wants to see Esther now is the moment, Silvie leaves the room with Reiss. Before leaving Reiss shows Renji a smile purposefully suspicious trying to make him follow them secretly, Renji looks through the window at how Silvie and her bodyguard Elena enter a carriage with Reiss and decides to follow them secretly as Reiss wanted.

After following Silvie secretly, he saw from a distance how Lucius' subordinates have Esther captive and decided to try to rescuing her, deciding to not care about Silvie's warnings of his actions being able to give the Proxia empire an excuse for destroying the Rubia kingdom if something goes wrong, Renji begins to sprout all the arrogant, selfish, childish, chuunish, and stupid things he's capable of while exchanging provocations with Lucius, things like why is she doubting, does she really think that he will lose against the people here... bla, bla, bla ... at the beginning it was just about rescuing Esther, after a little provocation from Lucius' subordinates and Renji's reason to fight changed entirely to not being able to forgive being made fun of as an adventurer, after a little more of provocation his only reason to fight was being called short by Lucius, then Reiss proposes a bet, Renji and Lucius will fight, if Renji wins Reiss will give back Esther without any conditions and Renji can have Lucius as his slave ( making Lucius his slave was Renji's idea), if Renji loses he will obey Reis' orders once (accepting to participate in the fight against Rio), they agreed to forbid killing in the fight and that the duel will begin after a stone thrown in the air touches the ground.

Renji was completely defeated by Lucius and taken to the royal castle by Silvie for recovering from his wounds.

The Apology
Renji awoke several days later in a bed, he started panicking right away before being calmed down by Silve, he wondered how all his severed limbs were back in place, Silve told him his power as a Hero did it, Renji then asked what happened with Lucius and Reiss, Silve told him that both of them are not here, Renji then tried to leave the castle, Silve then asked him about the bet he had with Reiss, Renji haughtily said there's no point on paying that debt, this infuriates Silve, she started mentioning how Renji used to challenge many adventurers and asked them to wager their most precious item, and how Renji wouldn't let them back down until after losing to him, yet now that he lost he was readily trying to run away, that she mistakenly thought he was an interesting guy and gutsy for not being afraid to go against royalty and nobility, but actually he's just a coward and a childish cocky brat that only had the guts against people weaker than him, Renji was triggered at being called a brat, and called Silve herself a coward, that if only she supported him when he attacked, they would've definitely won, Silve admitted that she's a coward, but it's because she had her country to protect, that Reiss and Lucius are backed by the strong Proxia Empire and she can't deal with them without a plan and precautions or else it will be an international problem, Silve asked Renji if he had the guts to pick a fight with an entire empire, Renji made an excuse that he "didn't know", Silve objected his excuse right away, mentioning that she already warned him that he shouldn't meddle in something that he doesn't understand, yet he doesn't listen and just wreaks havoc whenever he wants.

Silvy told Renji that because his action, her country are now in danger, and she also lose her sister, all because of Renji reckless action, Renji can't even return anything at this point, in the end, Silvy totally lose it and force Renji to leave her country, that he will become her country greatest enemy, that if later she meet him, she will slash him down herself, but Renji refuse to leave the bed, Silvy ask why, Renji said he don't want to be her enemy, Silvy said she don't care, Renji then tell her that she will need his hero power, Silvy said it's not even his power, that he got it by chance and he is nothing without it, and it' precisely because he can't understand that that he is childish and naive, Then renji make excuse that if paying his debt to reiss will proof he is an adult then he'll do it, that his pride won't allow him to not payback what Lucius did, This once again infuriates Silvy, stating that his damn ego are His own fuc**in problem and had nothing to do with her and her country, in the end, Renji apologize to Silvy while nearly crying about his recklessness, and from that time on he will follow Silvy direction to make up for that and help her.

The Ambush
Several days later Reiss come back and ask Renji to fulfill his debt, he asks Renji, and Silvia to attack a certain Knight from Galarc kingdom and want Silvy to use her kingdom soldiers to do it.

In the Ambush, Renji attacks the knight together with 3 of Reiss mercenary and Rubia soldier in the entire fortress, Renji launch a sneak attack from behind the Knight, but his attack easily repelled, the Knight also easily dealt with the 3 mercenary and other soldier attack while effortlessly protect the 2 girls that come with him, 1 of the Mercenary order Renji to attack the girl to create some chance, although he's hesitate a bit, he's still went for the attack seriously at a girls that can barely defend herself, but his attack easily get blocked again by the Knight and the counter attack he got easily sent him flying despite his hero power, Renji wondered what kind of monster they are fighting, then 1 of the mercenary told him that the knight are the one that killed Lucius, hearing that sent chill down Renji spine.

Silvy then come with a corps of Griffin rider, and start bombarding the Knight with magic, yet the knight still appeared unperturbed, Renji tried to attack again, but the Knight attack first, sending Renji, the Mercenary, and all soldiers flying back to the fortress in 1 big attack, he then proceeds to shot down all Griffins except Silvy's before running away with his companions.

Abilities

 * The same that the rest of the heroes and summoned people he has great quantity of magic power.
 * Divine weapon, he has a halberd that controls the ice that he named Cocytus.

Etymology

 * Kikuchi means "chrysanthemum" (菊) (kiku) and "pool, pond" (池) (chi).
 * Renji means "lotus, water lily" (蓮) (ren) and "officer, boss" (司) (ji).

Trivia

 * Renji is the only hero that is trying to cut ties with the royalty that welcome him and not cooping up in the palace.
 * Renji is the only hero that joined the adventurer guild and actively fights monsters.