Keel (Web Novel)

Keel was the resident of the Raphtalia's home village and her friend. He became Nafoumi's slave in hopes of rebuilding the village.

Appearance
He is described as a young man around the age of 10 with dog-like features. But later found to be, biologically, a girl. His tomboyish appearance fooled everyone, When Tact asked his harem not to hurt woman, except for Keel every other woman in the Holy hero side remained unharmed.

Human
He is initially described as a young man around the age of 10 with dog-like features, however as he levels and his appearance ages, as well as him being verified to be biologically female, he is made out to be more of a tomboy who could easily pass as a pretty boy by the other characters.

Dog Form
He looks exactly like a puppy. As for breed, he looks like a Siberian Husky. He is a loincloth-clad puppy walking on two legs.

Keelberus
This form is of a dog with three heads. That of Cerberus, the guardian of hell. His form isn't particularly large. Since the base is Keel, it still looks like a wolf cub-like Cerberus. Looking from afar, his outer appearance is still relatively cute. He turned into what he feared to obtain strength, the Cerberus demon that destroyed his village during the wave. He thought something like strength = evoking fear. He's really fast. His weaknesses are being unable to look away from sweets, and being weak to lullabies.

Personality
Keel can be bratty and whining, when wanting food from Naofumi. Despite how he acts, he helps bring together the slaves, and acts as a sort of leader. Though he was growing to be a gluttonous battle maniac, but he was able to cook as well. He shows a very little girly aspect. Keel has been shown to be a charismatic person by nature. His actions are shown to be too erratic.

Background
Throughout his life Keel was raised as a boy, his father treated Keel like his son, and told him that gender was a state of mind.

Two months before the first wave, Keel was looking for a pretty shell to give "Father" for his birthday so he dived into the ocean and almost drowned but was saved by Sadina as well as the time he accidentally ate a poison mushroom he found in the field, messed up his stomach, and hid to avoid being scolded so when she, Raphtalia, found him she was told to keep it a secret including that he had even wet his pants Keel was looking for a pretty shell to give Rafatalia's father for his birthday so he dived into the ocean.

Summary
When Naofumi tells Raphtalia to choose anyone she recognizes from her village and Keel is the first.

Keel was first introduced in chapter 131 of the web novel as a slave owned by the Slave Merchant in Melromarc's Castle Town. At first Keel doesn't recognize Raphtalia because of her grown up appearance, but when all was said, he immediately acknowledged who she was. Kiel was purchased by Naofumi. c131. After having an unconvincing conversation with Raphtalia, Keel agrees to become Naofumi's slave with the hope of returning to the village.

On a trip to the beach, Naofumi and the others saw that Keel's chest was covered in a loincloth, and discover he was in fact biologically female. c137Although he identifies as male, in chapter 137 it is revealed that he is biologically female. He rebuts with "father said that a man is a man if he thinks he is a man no matter what" but the revelation still throws him into moderate confusion.

Gives Naofumi shit about him sounding all rapey when explaining the difference between men and women. c138

Begins pedaling with Naofumi and Raphtalia and he receives a set of masculine armor for possible future battles as well as a cute one piece to help boost sells. c139

He, Taniko, and the mass of other slaves are found to be hoarding monster eggs they found while training. He and Taniko beg Naofumi to allow the village to keep them and he agrees. c143

While training with fellow slaves Kiel acts a bit too reckless and gets hit by an attack from behind. Luckily, Raphtalia realized and was able to save them, but from that experience, Kiel and many of the other slaves became more cautions when fighting and started formulating battle formations and strategies. They also began to respect Naofumi more for protecting them like he usually does. When he is able to class up he chooses to follow the same path as Raphtalia and Firo, using Firo's ahoge to gain superior stats in almost every field when compared to other class up choices, because he wants to become as strong as he can possibly be even if it forfeits his choice in the direction of his class up. c144

When he classed up, a smoke screen came out and covered the area and Kiel's stats rose significantly although they were slightly lower than Raphtalia and Firo's from when they classed up. c145

As punishment for assisting the cursed Noafumi, Kiel was ordered to take the form of an ordinary girl from then on, loincloths were prohibited, he had to wear the clothes that Imia provided, go peddling like that. In addition, he was assigned to gather as many fans as Firo, and he was to remain as a girl until he did. c290

He is presumed to be the "Guardian of Divine (crepe) Tree" in the Christmas Special.

Legacy
As the Hero of the Scythe, he saved the world. He is the progenitor of the race that continues to protect Rock Valley’s God Tree to this very day. Because of him, the God Tree continues to be praised as a symbol of world peace. Later, it was said he married the Hero of the Gauntlet, but the truth is uncertain.

Abilities
Just based on stats, he falls short of Raphtalia, but that doesn't mean he isn't strong. Due to his race, Kiel can make quicker movements.

Kiel has the talent, for transformation, so he was taught by Sadina. He says that while transforming using magic, his senses are sharper and his body is lighter and easier to move in.

Kiel's level is on the higher side. But he hasn't achieved overwhelming strength like Raphtalia. He learned the basics of Chi later than the rest, so you could say he's a step behind.

Sickle Skills

 * Soul Ripper (ソウルリッパー)

Relationships
Heroes
 * Naofumi Iwatani: Kiel showed hostility from the start, but he became attached to Noafumi seeing him as a big brother figure. In the beginning, he somehow destroyed the ruins of the home he originally lived in.

Companions They became good friends, been through same harsh harship of being slaves. Keel helped her to hide the monster egg and Dunes which they raised behind Nafoumi, fearing that Nafoumi might either kill or sell those monsters and egg. But was proven otherwise. Nafoumi encouraged them to develop a bond which did seems to happen, as Fohl seems to blush, when Atlas gave her blessings for him and Keel as an item, but Keel remained oblivious while considering Fohl to be cool and placed him third in hierarchy, preceding him are the creep tree and Nafoumi
 * Raphtalia:They are the best friends of the village.
 * Firo
 * Melty Melromarc
 * Rishia:
 * Taniko:
 * Rat
 * Sadina
 * Fouru:
 * Atlas
 * Imia:Though Imyia was not one of the former villagers, they get along fine. Keel seems to notice Imia's crush on Nafoumi and encouraged her.
 * Raph-chan

Trivia

 * Keel wasn't meant to be an important character, however the personality the author gave him overlapped with another male character he planned to make down the road, so he decided to give ‘him’ a little… quirk. (Sex change)