Beloukas (Web Novel)

Beloukas (ベルーカス) was first introduced as a supporting character in The Rising of the Shield Hero Web Novel.

He was also introduced in The Reprise of the Spear Hero Web Novel as a supporting character.

The slave dealer that sells Naofumi Iwatani many slaves. He also conducts slave and monster seal rituals. Despite his appearance and his trade, he is an honest salesman. Upon Naofumi's request, he searches for and collects slaves who were former villagers of Raphtalia's village.

The Rising of the Shield Hero
Information to be added later on.

The Reprise of the Spear Hero
Motoyasu goes to the Slave merchant's shop looking for "Firo-tan," but since she hasn't been hatched yet the Slave Dealer can offer him Phiolorial eggs. The Slave Dealer sells Motoyasu an egg which ends up hatching into Kuro.

Legacy
A Slave Merchant who supports the Hero of the Shield from the shadows. This name is only a conjecture towards his true one. Through the Hero of the Shield’s aid, his name was spread around the underworld, but not out of the range of speculation.

Relationships

 * -|Legendary Heroes=
 * Naofumi Iwatani: Beloukas has an excellent business relationship with Naofumi, to the point where he refers to the Shield Hero as his favorite customer. Beloukas was the second business owner to treat Naofumi with any form of respect following the false rape accusation from Malty Melromarc and impressed upon the young man with his honesty. Likewise when Naofumi needed to build up manpower in anticipation of fighting the Waves of Calamity and Houou the first person he thought of was the Slave Trader who he entrusted with the task of tracking down as many people from Raphtalia's village as well as strong monsters and Demi-Humans that he could train to fight.


 * Kitamura Motoyasu: Beloukas view's the broken Motoyasu as more of an opportunity than a client. Having long since desired to know how to raise a Royal Filolial without the use of a Hero imagine the traders surprise when he finds a broken Hero wander into his store muttering about Filo. After that, it was not long before Motoyasu started making regular visits to clean out the Trader's entire stock of Filolials.


 * -|Seven Star Heroes=
 * Raphtalia: Raphtalia was something of a problem bit of merchandise for the trader. Due to the trauma's she suffered during the First wave she could neither work properly or give a satisfying reaction when tortured so she kept being returned to the trader, thus he was actually quite happy when Naofumi bought her likely viewing it as being rid of spoiled merchandise. Imagine then his surprise when Naofumi brings Raphtalia back as a beautiful young woman explaining that she needed a new slave seal. The moment the ritual had been completed Beloukas offered to buy the Tanuki back for 20 gold, 35 when he found out she was still a virgin. Raphtalia for her part tolerates the Slave trader and his antics so long as they help Naofumi.


 * Filo: Another 'bargain' that came back to bite the trader. When Naofumi whimsically bought an egg from the trader's monster raffle for 100 silvers imagine the trader's surprise when he came back days later with the bird transformed into a Filolial Queen and once again immediately tried to buy the bird. When that failed he instead used her as a means to wring more money out of Naofumi selling him a High-Grade Slave Seal to keep her under control and a set of metal claws normally reserved for dragons. Firo, on the other hand, is terrified of the trader due to the trauma of her second slave seal.


 * -|Other=
 * Rock Valley Slaves: Beloukas has an odd relationship with this bunch. On the one hand, each and every one of the slaves at Rock Valley were sold to Naofumi by the slave trader, as such, they have suffered greatly under his 'Care.' On the other hand, when they decided to adopt the eggs of the monsters they've slaughtered as pets the first person they thought of for Monster seals was Beloukas

Trivia

 * As Naofumi himself references upon meeting him in the WN, the Slave Merchant very closely resembles the Millenium Earl from D.Gray Man.