Raphtalia/Chronology

Volume 1
Raphtalia was first introduced in the slave trader tent, she was sold into slavery and later brought by Naofumi. Raphtalia was afraid of her new master but slowly opened up after seeing how well Naofumi treated compared to her previous masters. Unlike her previous masters, Raphtalia was able to express her happiness around Naofumi.

Raphtalia was able to overcome many of fears while travelling with Naofumi. Raphtalia learned how to use a knife and how to kill monsters while overcoming her fear of blood and eventually overcoming her trauma of the Cerberus that killed her parents after killing the two-headed dog.

As she trained and levelled up, Raphtalia body grew rapidly due to her demi-human biology. She quickly matured to be around her early 20's although her emotional maturity was slower to develop.

After defeating the second wave, Naofumi was challenged to a duel by Motoyasu over Raphtalia. Despite Raphtalia's denials, Motoyasu believed that she was being held against her will. Malty and Motoyasu won the duel by cheating and released Raphtalia from her slave crest. However, even with the crest removed, Raphtalia defended and comforted Naofumi. For the first time, Naofumi realized that Raphtalia was no longer the little slave girl he bought in the slave tent, but a grown-up woman. With someone supporting him for the first time, Naofumi realized that he could finally taste his food again.

Volume 10
After returning to her world, she was taken to the castle where Naofumi briefed the queen about their adventure in the other world. The queen was sorry for not being able to reward Naofumi for all his deed since all of the resources are being diverted to the Spirit tortoise rampaged region for rehabilitation. Inspired by Kizuna's world and also his previous idea of rewarding Raphtalia, Naofumi ask for an alternative reward which is a land grant. When asked for the reason, he pointed out how the other world heroes had raised an army to fend of the ways and need a region for implementing it. When asked which region, he was interested, he pointed out Raphtalia's old village much to the surprise of both Raphtalia and the queen.

The queen sees through Naofumi and used this opportunity to elevate him to the nobility of Melromarc, in a way claiming the shield hero to be Melromarc's. Naofumi begins to take charge from Eclairs and repopulate with slaves, mostly the original residents of the village. While searching for the slaves, he went to Zeltoble, where the price of her villagers were skyrocketing because of Raphtalia's deeds during the spirit tortoise incident.

When teleported back to his village, Naofumi sees that his village is being attacked by the slave hunters taking advantage of Naofumi's absence. Soon, Raphtalia identifies some of the slave hunters as the former Melromarc soldier who previously captured and sold all the villagers. Raphtalia and other slaves fend off the slave hunters and celebrated their success. The slave hunters were shocked by the slaves' strength which Naofumi attributes to his slave crest. Realizing that the soldiers may not be punished for the political reasons, Naofumi sold them off as slaves to Siltvelt, which is known for the cruel treatment of humans.

Naofumi used that money to buy back the original slaves of the village. Many of his allies were taken back by his action. But, Naofumi reasoned that they deserved it and also it was meant to scare of the other slave hunters from attacking his village.

Volume 13
It was revealed by Sadeena, that Raphatalia was an equivalent of the royals at her parents native land before they sneaked into Melromarc. She is from a subspecies of Tanuki like and not an exact raccoon type, with a unique lineage that comes from a certain hidden village within a secluded country in the east.