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| “ | Fufu, I’m so glad we all came to this world. Getting rid of all of you would have been difficult back in Japan. Which is why, of course, I can’t let you guys win this war and go back home. Because Kouki-kun’s going to spend the rest of his days here, with me. Forever. | „ |
| ~ Eri's true nature. |
Eri Nakamura is one of the secondary antagonists of the Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest franchise.
She is the sworn enemy of her former classmate Hajime Nagumo, the archenemy of her former (false) best friend Suzu Taniguchi and the self proclaimed arch-nemesis and "love rival" of Shizuku Yaegashi and Kaori Shirasaki, who are both childhood friends of her crush Kouki Amanogawa (despite the fact they are actually Hajime's lovers).
She is also the one who manipulated Daisuke Hiyama into doing her dirty work due to his failure of attempting to murder Hajime Nagumo. Until Hajime arrived and ruined her plans however, she betrayed Hiyama and left him to die at Nagumo’s hand without a second thought in order to escape from Hajime's wrath.
She was portrayed by Asuka Nishi in the original Japanese Sub and Megan Shipman in the English Dub.
Overview[]
A deluded, evil, selfish, sadistic, misanthropic, traitorous, and remorseless psychopath who was driven into her insanity due to her suffering both physically and mentally in her childhood life, when she was raised by both an abusive mother and a rapist, pedophilic stepfather after her biological, selfless father died from a car accident. Eri was originally presented as one of Hajime's classmates. She was summoned from Japan alongside many of her school "friends", in order to protect the nation of Tortus from the demonic forces.
In Volume 6 however, Eri was revealed to be one of the primary instigators of the Demon Invasion/War on the Heiligh Kingdom (alongside Freid Bagwa). Since then, Eri has openly pledged her support to the Demons, as well as the series overarching antagonist Ehit, eventually becoming one of his apostles.
She was also revealed to be the one who manipulated Daisuke Hiyama between Volumes 1 - 5, blackmailing him and forcing him to do all her dirty work until Volume 6 when Hajime arrived and foiled all of her evil schemes, she betrayed Hiyama for being weak and useless as well as leaving him to die at the hands of Nagumo in order for her to escape from Hajime and retreated to Garland.
Appearance[]
Eri after her mutation
Eri is a rather petite girl, with short black hair kept in a tiny bob. She has brown eyes and is usually seen wearing glasses. Overall, she generates a rather shy aura. Like the rest of her classmates, she was originally summoned to Tortus in her school uniform. This was traded for a black dress and boots, with a blue two piece blazer, with gold trimming. As a magic wielder, her main weapon is a wooden staff, which like her attire was most likely provided from the kingdom’s treasury.
Once she revealed her true personality, however, Eri discarded and broke her glasses. revealing that she didn't actually need them. Her soft, kind expression was replaced with a sinister, evil smirk. After obtaining the power of an apostle, Eri's hair turned silvery grey (similar to Noint's) and she grew a set of black fallen angelic wings. After receiving her enhanced powers, she traded her staff for a set of greatswords.
Personality[]
Fake Personality[]
In the beginning, Eri was portrayed as a calm and quiet girl that loves reading books. She was shown to kind and compassionate to make friends with her classmates especially her "best friend", Suzu Taniguchi.
True Personality[]
While acting as a "shy girl", Eri was actually highly evil and proved that she was never concerned about any of her classmates when she revealed that she was only pretending to be friends with them as her classmates were nothing but pawns to her, due to her hatred towards them especially Kouki's childhood friends, Kaori Shirasaki and Shizuku Yaegashi much more than her classmates (despite the fact that they became Hajime's lovers, not Kouki's). She attempted to kill her classmates to make them her zombie slaves which failed due to Hajime's arrival but she did manage to kill one of them, Reichi Kondou (one of Daisuke Hiyama's “friends” who he betrayed).
Her facade for her classmates had really disgusted her for a long time. She had no remorse for her actions when she betrayed them after revealing her true nature as well as being Garland's spy. After her retreat to Garland thanks to Hajime's interference, she was more than happy that she no longer had to be in a "play house" with her classmates for a long time, due to her plotting to kill her classmates. She also didn’t mind killing the Heiligh Kingdom's king and nobles. Eri lacked kindness and compassion due to her suffering by the hands of both her mother (who abused her physically and mentally) and her stepfather (who sexually tormented and raped her) as well as the fact that she lacked any type of parental love.
Due to her suffering from the anguish and agony she endured and her miserable life after she lost her birth father from a car accident and later her mother started abusing her both physically and mentally, which almost led to her dying at the hands of her mother as well as her stepfather who was arrested after sexually harassing and assaulting her (just to satisfy his lust for young girls), Nakamura was driven by her insanity when she revealed to her classmates her true nature as a ruthless, selfish, uncaring, cruel, arrogant, sadistic, hypocritical, misanthropic, prideful, delusional and twisted psychopath. Due to the tragedy of her suffering by both her abusive mother and rapist stepfather, She became an evil girl who held an undying lust for Kouki and desiring to make him her boyfriend and wanting to kill all the other girls which included Kouki's childhood friends who became Hajime's lovers, Kaori and Shizuku and the rest of her classmates as she killed Reichi Kondou (Daisuke Hiyama's former gang member who he betrayed) but failed due to Hajime's arrival. Upon successfully "obtaining" Kouki, Eri was also shown to be clingy and delusional but still has no remorse for her psychological abuse on Kouki's fragile psyche in order to keep him for herself.
Due to her immense cruelty and sadism, Eri is an extremely psychotic torturer who enjoys enslaving her zombie slaves and torturing the souls of the dead to force them to do her bidding. More than Hajime, she is a very violent sadist who didn’t even flinch from her victims' suffering as she enjoys tormenting and inflicting pain on her classmates, making them suffer in despair and agony as well as making them scream in pain, much to her amusement and joy. She had no qualms for killing innocent people who stood in her way as shown when she also caused a massacre against the citizens of the Heiligh Kingdom (besides Hajime murdering both the humans and demons worshipers of Ehit).
Eri is also intolerant of her pawns. She decided to dispose of her pawns when she was done using them for being useless and weak as it was shown when she betrayed Daisuke Hiyama for being extremely weak while fighting Hajime and left him to die at the hands of Nagumo, going as far as breaking her deal with Hiyama to turn Kaori into a sex slave. She never even cared about Hiyama at all after seeing that her pawn had failed her.
Eri Nakamura before her betrayal.
Due to Kaori and Shizuku being Kouki's childhood friends (despite the fact that they are Hajime's lovers), Eri held a murderous jealousy towards them and eternally hated them even more than the rest of her classmates as she wanted to kill them with the rest of their classmates so that she could have Kouki for herself and always considered both Kaori and Shizuku as her mortal enemies. When she learned that Kaori had been revived by Hajime, Eri's hatred towards her and Shizuku had grown even worse. She never considered Suzu as her best friend but a nuisance who stood in her way to make Kouki her boyfriend. Although she was terrified of Hajime murderous tendencies and monstrous strength, Eri also hated him for repeatedly ruining her plans despite how she personally felt about him months ago, but in reality, she was willing kill him as well.
| “ | Wait, hold on. Let's talk things through, Nagumo. Look at all these soldiers. They look like they're practically alive, don't they? It's unfortunate Kaori died, but I can at least make her like them. Besides, this way you'll be able to do whatever you want with her. So if you don't want her to rot away, you'll need to keep me ali- | „ |
| ~ Eri bargaining with Hajime for what she and Hiyama did to Kaori. |
Like Daisuke Hiyama, Eri also displayed fear of Hajime, as she was terrified of the power he gained in the Abyss and his newfound ruthlessness after he murdered Cattleya. She viewed Hajime as a monster and for his murdering and killing all those who got in his way even when he ruined all of Eri's plans including preventing her from turning Kaori Shirasaki into Hiyama's zombie sex slave. When the rage-fueled Hajime marched toward Eri after learning what she and Hiyama did to Shirasaki (who is his middle school lover and one of the few people that actually showed him kindness and love for him), Nakamura tried to justify her actions towards the monstrous sadist by begging him to spare her life so that she would bring Kaori back to life as his slave but her offering was nothing but a dirty bargain that only angered Nagumo, despite the fact that she had betrayed Hiyama. She clearly underestimated Nagumo when she thought she could use Reichi Kondou (who was one of Hajime's former bullies that Nakamura killed when Hiyama betrayed Kondou and his other gangmates Saitou and Nakano) to stab Hajime from behind while his guard was down, but she did not realize that Hajime could easily block Kondou's spear with a small barrier from behind due to his enhanced senses. When she failed to kill him after witnessing his wrath after he destroying her zombie slaves and murdering Daisuke Hiyama, she was shown to be even more terrified when Hajime prepared to execute Eri for attempting to turn Kaori into an undead sex slave for Hiyama when she was unable to stab Hajime with her daggers until she escaped to Garland with the help of Freid Bagwa. Despite her gaining more power as a hybrid apostle, she still wanted to runaway with Kouki instead of fighting Hajime due to her remaining fear for Nagumo.
| “ | Ahaha, give it up! She's already dead. I never thought you guys would show up here... Well, I should have expected it since Kaori was here and all... Looks like Hiyama's outlived his usefulness, so how about I give Kaori to you instead? If you promise not to fight me, I'll use my magic to bring her back. She won't really come back to life, but at least she'll still look pretty. It's better than letting her rot, I imagine. What do you say? | „ |
| ~ Eri's betrayal to Hiyama and attempt to convince Hajime |
Due to her intelligence and charisma, Eri is highly manipulative, twisted and traitorous even more than Daisuke Hiyama. Due to her sweet tongue, She easily manipulated her classmates into being friends with her including Suzu and the emotionally intelligent and her mortal enemy, Shizuku Yaegashi. She was aware that Daisuke Hiyama had tried and failed to kill Hajime as he returned into an indestructible and murderous monster. She used this knowledge to blackmail Hiyama into doing all her dirty work to ensure that they would end up with the ones they desired, but they failed due to Hajime's arrival. When she betrayed her classmates, Eri had no further use for her weak pawns such as Hiyama as she also betrayed him after he outlived his usefulness and admittedly revealed that she never saw Hiyama as a comrade or a collaborator, but rather just as a pawn when she attempted to convince Hajime to make Kaori his slave since she realized how weak and worthless Hiyama truly was including that the fact that he was easily defeated by Hajime. When Hiyama was facing his death, Eri did not care as she has no intention of going back to help her now-useless pawn who had failed her and she simply abandoned him and quickly got over his death due to Hiyama being pathetically weak and useless for her future plans. Following her defection, Eri had little to no remorse for her actions and did not care that she was branded a traitor.
After her transformation by Ehit she was no longer a human, Eri is fiercely loyal to the false god as she will do anything for Ehit to ensure letting her get Kouki for herself. And without any trace of humanity left inside of her heart, she was far too evil than before as she has no intention of rejoining her classmates including her ex-best friend, Suzu even if they ended up forgiving her due to her wanting to slaughter all of her classmates to have Kouki for herself. She also showcased a disturbing lack of care for any form of Life, including her own, showing by how she used suicide-bombing as a way to be ride of her enemies. Even her defeat by Suzu, Eri still never found her resolve as she decided that she would rather die instead of betraying Ehit despite Suzu ensuring her that their classmates would forgive her and her treacherous actions as she attempted to kill Suzu by committing suicide using a self-destruct spell but she only ended up killing herself in the process.
During the time of her death (despite her evil and psychotic personality and the fact that she ended up abandoning her humanity), Eri did have a shred of honor and remorse when she wondered if she had met Suzu first before Kouki, then if things would have turned out differently and if they would’ve had a close friendship.
Biography[]
Past[]
In the beginning, Eri once had a normal life with her parents. Unfortunately at age 6, she had a very tragic and miserable life. After her father died by a car accident, her mother abused Eri physically and mentally by blaming her for her father's death for 5 years. At age 11 after her mother's remarriage to another man, her new stepfather (who was revealed to be a pervert and a rapist who loved molesting little girls) has abused her physically and sexually as well raping her which led her neighbors to call the police to arrest him. After her stepfather was sent to prison, her mother abused her to the point that she nearly died which once again allowed her neighbors to call the police to arrest her mother as well. She left her home and headed to the bridge near the river. When Eri attempted to commit suicide by jumping off the bridge, she met Kouki Amanogawa and desired to make him as her boyfriend, until she became a psychopath and acted friendly out of her desire to kill Kouki's childhood friends, Kaori Shirasaki and Shizuku Yaegashi and the rest of her classmates including Hajime Nagumo himself (despite the fact that he was harmless) who stood in her way to make Kouki her boyfriend but she was powerless to make it happen knowing she would discriminate and would get arrested by the police just as her mother and stepfather did. She decided to continue her evil assassination plot on her classmates, once they were summoned as the so-called "Heroes".
Post-Summoned[]
In Tortus, It made Eri's plot for her assassination on her classmates easier than she imagined and continued her act of being a shy but nice person. Out of all of her classmates who were manipulated by Hiyama's lie that Hajime was presumably dead, Eri decided to use the knowledge to her advantage. While they returned to the Orcus Labyrinth (which had already been cleared by Hajime), she was terrified of Hajime as he had not only survived but had become an immensely powerful and murderous monster. After Kaori left the "heroes" to join Hajime, Eri used Cattleya's body to inform Garland's troops led by Freid Bagwa of the Orcus Labyrinth being cleared and that Cattleya had been killed by Hajime Nagumo. She had offered to betray her classmates to join them as Garland's spy when the war in Heiligh Kingdom took place.
Betrayal and Defection[]
After Hiyama completely broke down after his plan had backfired by Hajime’s return, Eri confronted Hiyama and offered to form an alliance, one he could not afford to refuse due to her manipulating him about his failed attempt at killing Hajime (which caused him to become a monster) and would expose this knowledge to their classmates. She was confronted by a strange nun whose master found her amusing and offered to help her continue her plans within a few months as the so-called "god" provided his apostles to support her plans.
During the war in the Heiligh Kingdom, Eri and Hiyama betrayed the kingdom and their classmates. She killed Reichi Kondou (one of Hiyama's gang members). After Noint's death and the brainwashing was undone, Eri had one of her zombie slaves kill the king and the nobles of the kingdom. While Kouki submitted himself, Eri secretly poisoned Kouki with her kiss. When she was about to both turn Kaori into Hiyama's sex slave and kill Shizuku, Hajime arrived and ruined their plans as well, consumed by rage as he unleashed his true power. Eri then deserted Hiyama as he outlived his usefulness and offered to make Kaori his slave. When Hajime marched towards Eri, she begged her murderous classmate to spare her and offered to make Kaori his slave but that only caused his anger to worsen. She sent her slaves to kill Hajime only for the him to destroy them easily. Eri then attempted to use her daggers to kill Hajime only to be easily overpowered by him. While terrified that Hajime was going to kill her, Hiyama (Eri's former ally who she abandoned) interfered by firing a fireball at Hajime. Following her slaves' and Hiyama's death, Hajime resumed trying to kill Eri until Freid and his troops arrived and attempted to use the civilians and classmates as hostages only for Hajime to vaporize his army of 100,000 monsters. Having no other options, Eri and Freid retreated to Garland.
Transformation[]
While she met Ehit, Eri underwent a transformation to become a hybrid Apostle. After she captured Yue and gave her body to Ehit, she was granted the opportunity to capture Kouki as a "prize" for her loyalty and work.
Death[]
Eri's final goodbye to Suzu
When the final war between humanity and Ehit's followers broke out, Eri remained loyal to her master. During the battle, she confronted Suzu, who was shocked and horrified to see what the evil God had done to her former companion. Shortly afterwards, the two women engaged in a ferocious climactic battle, utilizing every skill and asset at their disposal in order to defeat the other. In the end, however, Hajime's training and the blessings of the labyrinth prevailed over Ehit's darkness. Eri was defeated and left at the mercy of the young woman she had manipulated and deserted.
Despite Eri's treachery and the seriousness of their situation, however, Suzu had no intention of killing the girl she still considered Eri her best friend. Having learned some serious lessons following Eri's betrayal, Suzu resolved to face all of her problems head on. Ignoring Eri's harsh words and past actions, the barrier master begged the new apostle to come back and re-join the heroes.
Declaring that their friendship was NOT a lie to her at least, Suzu urged Eri to surrender before it was too late. Realizing that Eri needed both help and a confidant, Suzu declared that she would never leave her again. The young brunette did not sugar coat her words, acknowledging that there would be consequences for the fallen necromancer and that the path ahead of her would be arduous. However, Suzu was also convinced that there was still some good to be found inside Eri and that with time and hard work, the others would see that as well. Promising to stand by her throughout all of this, Suzu offered Eri a chance at redemption.
These words stirred something within Eri's heart and for a brief moment, the fallen human did genuinely consider taking up Suzu's offer. Unfortunately for the barrier master, this moment was short-lived. Blinded by her psychosis and Ehit's programming, Eri quickly concluded that she had done too much harm to ever earn redemption or forgiveness in the eyes of humanity. Believing that there was no other recourse open to her, Eri used the one remaining skill that she had left: a self-destruction skill, which destroyed her body, leaving behind no trace of her existence.
Eri fully intended to take Suzu along with her. However, the barrier master instinctively threw up a shield in time, saving her life. Unfortunately for Suzu, there was nothing she could do to save Eri. As the dust cleared, however, a small miracle occurred. In the world of Tortus, a persons spirit lingered behind for a few moments following their physical deaths, allowing them to say goodbye to their loved ones. Looking up, Suzu was confronted by Eri's spirit, which had regained her original human form.
Freed from both the troubles of her past, Ehit's reprogramming and her own mental instability, Eri, finally at peace, sincerely thanked Suzu for having faith in her. Expressing remorse for her actions, Eri acknowledged that she had also been foolish to ever love or believe in Kouki; a hopeless idiot and worthless individual, who was too blind and stupid to ever recognize her feelings. Looking at the one who had never lost faith in her, Eri lamented that it should have been Suzu who saved her on that day. Had she known her earlier, maybe, things would have turned out differently.
Realizing what was about to happen, a horrified Suzu rushed forwards her friend’s extended hand, but it was too late. Still smiling happily, Eri Nakamura vanished, her soul departing for the afterlife, finally at peace.
Legacy[]
Suzu brought news of Eri's death back to the Hero’s Party. To her dismay, however, Eri's former associates, unaware that she'd demonstrated sincere remorse during her final moments, declared that Nakamura, like Daisuke Hiyama before her got exactly what she deserved. Not long afterwards, Hajime managed to defeat Ehit, putting an end to the Dark Gods machinations forever. As Tortus began the slow process of healing, Eri's former colleagues returned to Earth, although some of them, including Suzu frequently returned to the parallel dimension to aid in its restoration and defense. The deeds of Tortus' last generation of heroes became the stuff of legend and would be passed down through the subsequent generations. Eri, along with Daisuke was remembered as a nameless, faceless traitor who sided with the enemy and nearly brought the world to ruin.
Although Eri's reputation had been irreparably tarnished, Suzu, who knew the truth was determined to remember her. Upon returning to Earth she tried to reach out to Eri's mother, wanting to not only tell the woman that her daughter had died redeemed but to have somebody to mourn alongside her. To Suzu's initial shock, however, she was informed that Mrs Nakamura had left the area shortly after her daughter disappearance. Even more strangely, she left no contact information or a forwarding address.
Confused, Suzu enlisted Hajime's help, whereupon the truth was finally revealed. Realizing that her long held suspicions had been true, Suzu was disgusted by the knowledge of what Mrs Nakamura and her second husband had done to their daughter. Declaring that the couple were responsible for Eri's demise and downfall, Suzu decided not to bother searching for them or exacting vengeance. Instead, she decided that she would mourn the real victim by herself and in her own way.
Following this, Suzu had a conversation with her parents, who bought a gravestone for Eri, which was erected on the Taniguichi plot at the local cemetery. For the rest of her life, Suzu visited this grave at least once a year. Although she spent much of her time in Tortus, on Eri's birthday or whenever something good happened to her, Suzu came back to Earth and would for several hours sitting at Eri's graveside, told her spirit about all the great things that had happened since her last visit. During these meetings, Suzu assured Eri that she still missed her and that, following her cruel lot in life, her former friend had finally found the peace she deserved.
Thus, despite her downfall, Eri Nakamura remained mourned and loved after all!
Weapons[]
- Long Staff: As a necromancer, Eri's main weapon is a long staff. However it was revealed later on that she never really needed it and discarded it after revealing her true personality.
- Daggers: Eri also wielded daggers in her attempt to kill Hajime but lost them after Hajime easily overpowered her.
- Twin Great swords: After her transformation by Ehit, Eri wielded two great swords.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Encreased Strength: Due to her undergoing a transformation by Ehit, she became a hybrid apostle, Eri possessed advanced strength, superior to that of blessed humans. However, her strength was still inferior against both Hajime Nagumo and Kaori Shirasaki (who resides in Noint's body)
- Encreased Speed: Due to her transformation, Eri had advanced speed faster than the normal speed of regular humans meaning while she surpassed Shizuku Yaegashi's speed, she still paled in comparison to Hajime and Kaori (who resides in Noint's body).
- Encreased Durability: While as a human, Eri had the slightest durability to withstand her enemies' attacks such as when Hajime brutally overpowered her while in his enraged state from Kaori's death. Due to her transformation, Eri now has enhanced durability to withstand her enemies' attacks surpassing Ryutarou Sakagami's durability but still paled in comparison to Hajime and Kaori (who resides in Noint's body).
- Dark Magic: As a necromancer, Eri possessed dark magic capable of reviving the dead as zombies and controlled them as puppets by torturing the souls of the dead to force them to do her bidding. She can negate magic such as Yue's and cause enemies to fall unconscious as she did to Yue. After her defeat by Suzu, Eri was revealed to have an explosive type magic that caused her to self-destruct and to kill anyone who was in close proximity to her but she died in the process when she attempted to kill Suzu.
- Tactical Expertise: Due to her intelligence, Eri is highly manipulative, twisted and treacherous, even more so than Daisuke Hiyama when she used her sweet tongue to easily deceive her classmates into becoming friends with her especially her so-called "best friend", Suzu and her mortal enemy, Shizuku Yaegashi (despite her emotional intelligence) by acting harmless and innocent. She also had the knowledge of Hiyama's failed attempt to murder Hajime only to become a demonic monster as she would use this knowledge to form an alliance or would expose him if Hiyama refused. She also decided to use one of Hajime's lovers, Remia and his adoptive daughter, Myu thinking they would be good hostages against Hajime. In her attempt to manipulate Hajime by offering him to make Kaori as his slave for her own safety, she admittedly revealed that Hiyama was just a pawn and betrayed him for being weak and useless after she declared Hiyama had outlived his usefulness. However. her tactics and intelligence paled in comparison to that of Hajime when she underestimated Nagumo as her wickedness and manipulations didn’t work against him.
- Swordsmanship: Eri learned from Meld's training after Hajime had left the so-called "heroes" while Kaori traveled with him. She was shown using daggers when she attempted to kill Hajime only to be overpowered by him. After her transformation, Eri would shown with a tremendous talent for swordsmanship. Despite her swords' weight, she was able to deflect attacks with her bare eyes.
Weaknesses[]
- Arrogance/Overconfidence/Delusional: Eri's main weaknesses is her overconfidence and arrogance due to her delusional beliefs. She would celebrate when she was about to kill her classmates and turn them into her zombie slaves, but it failed due to Hajime's interference as she didn't expect him to arrive. While believing her magic would "revive" the dead, she completely underestimated Nagumo as he had gained the "Spirit Magic" that could revive the dead. When she used Kondou to stab Nagumo from behind, while believing Hajime had dropped his guard, Eri was arrogant and delusional that she didn't realize that Hajime did not drop his guard as he used a small barrier to easily block Kondou's spear before blowing his head off with his shotgun (revolver in the anime). When she became a hybrid, her arrogance grew immensely as she was more than happy to kill her classmates and obtain Kouki for herself. However, her arrogance became her downfall when she was defeated by Suzu Taniguchi (Eri's former fake best friend).
- Disadvantages: Eri's secondary main weakness is that her plans had disadvantages. Her plans were foiled due to Hajime's unexpected interference. Her second attempt to use Remia, Myu, Aiko-Sensei, and her classmates against Hajime was even more futile when she, Freid and the demons of Garland were easily tricked by Nagumo when he feigned surrendering to Eri, Freid and the false demon god, Alva died in their final battle against Nagumo.
- Abuse and Torment: This is Eri's greatest weakness. During her childhood at age 6 after her father died, Eri was abused by her mother (physically and mentally). At age 11, she was sexually harassed and raped by her new stepfather (who revealed to a pervert and rapist who is obsessed with younger girls). After her stepfather was arrested for raping her, her mother once again abused her and nearly killed her. This resulted in Eri being driven into insanity and becoming completely remorseless. She was tormented by Hajime Nagumo (her former classmate who became a coldblooded monster) for what she and Hiyama did to his beloved Kaori causing Eri to be fearful of Nagumo after he brutally killed her pawn Hiyama.
Gallery[]
Relationships[]
Family[]
Mr. Nakamura - Deceased Father[]
Mr. Nakamura was Eri's beloved late father.
The extent of their relationship is not known, however it appears that Eri had a genuinely strong bond with her father. Ultimately at age 6, Mr. Nakamura sacrificed his own life in order to save Eri from a car accident, but unfortunately he paid the ultimate price for his selflessness. Eri was genuinely devastated by his death and did not appear to have forgiven herself for this event. In Tortus however, Eri didn’t seem to show any love or respect for her now late father in the present.
Mrs. Nakamura - Abusive Mother[]
Mrs. Nakmura is Eri's abusive mother.
It is unknown if they had a good relationship while her father was alive. However after Mr. Nakamura died from a car accident, Mrs. Nakamura held a hatred towards her daughter as she blamed Eri for her husband's death by abusing her daughter physically and mentally for 5 years from when she was 6 years old. At age 11, Eri's mother dated another man and brought him to their house just so she could start over as family again and would apologize to Eri for her actions. However, her mother made a terrible mistake when she went out for work, her new husband revealed himself to be a perverted rapist who enjoyed molesting younger girls as he sexually abused and raped Eri. After her second husband was arrested by the police (due to him physically and sexually abusing as well raping Eri), Eri's mother once again blamed her daughter and abused her even further as she nearly killed Eri instead of forgiving her daughter as she was the one who brought a rapist man, only for Eri's neighbor to call the police again to arrest her mother as well. Her abused ended up turning Eri into an evil, selfish, remorseless psychopath. Eri eventually hated her abusive mother and broken her bonds with her leaving Eri to live her entire life as an orphan. Eri inherited her mother's lustful behavior when she attempted to get Kouki Amanogawa to become her boyfriend especially attempting to kill her entire classmates. It is revealed that she manipulated her mother as she was the one responsible for bringing that scumbag into their life and causing Eri’s change in personality.
After everyone returned to back to earth, Suzu attempted to find her as she wanted to inform her mother of her daughter’s fate. Instead, she learned the shocking truth about what Eri had gone through all because of her mother, as a result Suzu decided to forget about Ms. Nakamura as she was the root cause of Eri’s downfall and demise.
Unnamed Man - Abusive and Rapist Stepfather[]
The unnamed man is Eri's abusive, rapist and perverted stepfather.
At age 11 after losing her father 5 years ago, Ms. Nakamura brought this man to Eri's house just so that they could restart their family. Despite her mother remarrying another man into her family, Eri had a very bad relationship with her new stepfather (who was revealed to be a pervert and a rapist who enjoyed molesting younger girls) as he enjoyed abusing Eri both physically and sexually as well raping her when Eri's mother went out for work. She tried her best to stop her stepfather by cutting off her long hair and keeping it short. But this man was still obsessed with her as he continued to sexually tormenting her which caused Eri to scream in pain so loudly, that her neighbors heard her yelling and witnessed the harassment, which resulted in Nakamura's neighbors calling the police to arrest her stepfather for sexual assaulting and raping Eri.
It is unknown what his current status is, but it can be presumed that he is still imprisoned. When Suzu learned what he did to Eri, she decided not to even bother looking for him.
Love Interest[]
Kouki Amanogawa - Her Savior and Enemy[]
Kouki once saved Eri's life by preventing her from committing suicide after she was abused by both her mother and stepfather who were later imprisoned. Eri was attracted to Kouki as she attempted to have him for herself, even going as far as to try and kill her entire classmates including Kouki's childhood friends, Kaori Shirasaki and Shizuku Yaegashi (who eventually became Hajime's lovers), to claim him for herself. After he foolishly submitted, Eri poisoned Kouki through their kiss to slowly make him her slave. Kouki showed displeasure when Eri attempted to make Kaori into an undead slave for Hiyama until it was foiled when Hajime arrived. In his hopeless fight against Hajime, Kouki foolishly believed that Hajime had "brainwashed" Eri, which is impossible as Hajime never had interacted with Eri. Upon their reunion after her transformation, Eri asked Kouki about her new appearance only for Kouki to question what Ehit had done to her. In the conflict, she asked Kouki if she was a good wife to him but only for him to remain silent about her question. After capturing him again, Eri showed Amanogawa how immensely clingy and delusional she was, as well as having little to no remorse for psychologically abusing his fragile psyche in order to "keep" him for herself.
Allies[]
Freid Bagwa - Ally[]
Following her defection, Eri and Freid became comrades. Despite their allegiances, Freid didn’t completely trust Eri due to his hatred for humans but was willing to cooperate as his "god" found her amusing. Following their defeat after their failure during the demon invasion, Eri and her partner in crime, Freid retreated and swore revenge against Hajime Nagumo. However, their vengeance was nothing more than an empty threat as they both died during the final war against Hajime and his allies.
Garland - True Allegiance[]
Eri revealed to her classmates that she was a spy for Garland. She chose to join them in their cause to destroy the Heiligh Kingdom and Eri's plot to kill all of her classmates excluding Kouki until their plans were foiled by Hajime as she retreated with them. Following their defeat, Eri suggested to Garland that they capture both Remia and Myu to use them as hostages against Hajime.
Noint - Ally[]
Noint originally intended to kill Eri. But when her master found her plot amusing, Noint decided to assist Eri's plans. However, Eri's plans were foiled by Hajime, causing Eri, Freid and the remnants of their army to retreat from the Heiligh Kingdom without any further options due to their complete disadvantage against Hajime despite their large numbers, after their ally, Noint died at Nagumo’s hands since Nakamura completely underestimated his abilities.
Ehit - God Wannabe and Master who summoned her and her classmates.[]
Eri has a complete loyalty to Ehit. Despite not having met face to face, Ehit was amused by Eri and considered her to be an interesting "piece". He decided to assist with her assassination plan to kill her classmates to get Kouki for herself. After meeting him, Ehit had Eri undergo a transformation to become a hybrid Apostle to become his servant. He deemed Eri worthy after she brought Yue allowing Ehit to temporarily possess her body. Ehit then manipulated Eri to granted her wish to make Kouki as her "prize" for her service. Eri's loyalty to Ehit is undying as she refused to return to her classmates despite Suzu's assurance that they would forgive her and her actions, but she committed suicide by blowing herself up in an attempt to kill Suzu but died in the process.
Daisuke Hiyama - Fellow Traitor as well her Disposable Pawn[]
Eri's former classmate and fellow traitor. As a sociopath and a psychopath, they didn’t view each other as friends or comrades. Eri blackmailed Hiyama to cooperate with her or she would expose how he tried and failed to kill Hajime (which turned him into a monster). As the others would believe her, Hiyama accepted to do Eri's dirty work if it meant that he could obtain Kaori for himself. However, their alliance was shown to be fragile as Eri and Hiyama only considered each other as pawns for their own schemes. Hiyama also planned to betray and kill Eri later. After stabbing Kaori, Hiyama ordered Eri to reanimate Shirasaki as his sex slave until this attempt was foiled due to the Hajime’s unexpected arrival (who Eri and Hiyama thought was fighting against their ally, Noint only to learn that Nagumo had already killed the Apostle). For her own personal safety after her plans failed due to Hajime's arrival and Hajime saving Shirasaki (before handing her to Tio), Eri willingly betrayed Hiyama and reneged on their deal without a moment's hesitation by offering Nagumo to make Kaori into his slave instead only for enraged Nagumo to immediately declined her dirty bargain. Since she witnessed Daisuke being pathetically weak, she concluded that Hiyama was no longer useful and also admitted that Hiyama was just a pawn to her as Eri doesn't care about her pawn at all. When she was about to be killed by Hajime, Hiyama unintentionally saved her life by firing a fireball at Nagumo (though his fireball was too weak). Despite saving her life, Eri refused to help her pawn, Hiyama against the monstrous Hajime when she used his distraction to put some distance between herself and Nagumo. While Hajime threw Hiyama to his death, Eri was shown to be pitiless as she had no intention of rescuing him, and abandoned her pawn, leaving him for dead, and letting him experience what treachery felt like after she has witnessed how weak and useless Hiyama truly was because Hiyama had failed Eri.
Even as Ehit's servant, Eri like everyone else, would always remember Hiyama as worthless and a waste of time, as she never cared for her failed-yet-deceased pawn.
Enemies[]
Suzu Taniguchi - Falsely Best Friend turned Archenemy[]
| “ | You really are a moron. I hate how you always laugh everything off. Even when people bad-mouth you behind your back, you just blow it off with a smile. Oh, and I hate how perverted you act sometimes. Plus, I hate how you spout cringe lines about wanting to be friends when I’m trying to kill you. There’s a whole bunch of other stuff too, but the thing that pisses me off the most is how childish you act all the time. | „ |
| ~ Eri tormenting Suzu of her disgust towards Taniguchi. |
Under her false persona as a "shy girl", Eri became best friends with Suzu since elementary school. However, in reality, Eri never considered Suzu as her best friend and was willing to kill her and the rest of her classmates due to them being in her way to try and make Kouki Amanogawa her boyfriend as Eri became Suzu's archenemy. After her betrayal, Suzu suffered a tough blow and anguish in her heart when she learned that her friendship with Eri was just a fabricated lie all this time. Despite Eri's betrayal and learning that their friendship was a ruse, Suzu didn’t hold a grudge against Eri for her betrayal as she was still determined to become Eri's friend. To do so, she wanted to get stronger with Hajime’s assistance. During their tense reunion, Eri still considered Suzu nothing more than a pebble on the street and never considered Taniguchi as her best friend after the remorseless psychopath had thrown away her last shed of humanity. Eri called Suzu a moron as she revealed that she had hated and was disgusted of her as well their past friendship as it was still just a ruse to her.
During their fight, Eri showed her disgust for Suzu for being such as an idiot, and telling her just how much she hates her as she always smiled even when people talked bad about her and how she despised Suzu for being childish and perverted.
After the final battle and her defeat at Suzu’s hands, Suzu asked the defeated Eri to seek redemption so that they could start over as true friends in exchange their classmates would forgive her for all of that she did. However, Eri still rejected Suzu's plea and rather than die alone, she chose to commit suicide by blowing herself up in an attempt to kill Suzu but died in the process. During her last moments, Eri asked Suzu if she had met her first before Kouki, if they would had been true friends.
Hajime Nagumo - Former Classmate turned Sworn Enemy[]
| “ | Why'd this monster have to show up and ruined all my plans?! | „ |
| ~ Eri when Hajime arrived and foiled her plans. |
In her fake personality, it is unknown how she feel for Hajime. But in her true nature, Eri was willing to kill him with the rest of her classmates. However, seeing he is alive but obtained monstrous strength, Eri is terrified of Hajime of his strength and mass murdering intents after he killed Cattleya. Due to his mass murdering and genocide intents, Eri viewed Hajime as a monster that would kill anyone who gets in his way (including his classmates). Following his arrival and Kaori was severely wounded by Daisuke Hiyama, Eri begged Hajime to spare her life to make Kaori as his zombie slave only to anger the mass murdering destroyer despite her betrayal towards Hiyama. As Hajime has spirit magic, Nagumo doesn't need any favors from Eri and has no use of her when he rejected her dirty, bargaining offer as he was willing to kill Nakamura for her betrayal. When Nagumo marching towards her, Eri sent out her slaves to kill Hajme only for him to destroy them easily as she has completely underestimated Nagumo. Eri then pulled out her daggers in her attempted to kill Hajime only to be easily overpowered by him (in the anime Hajime only stared the downed Eri in a coldblooded when saying "so?" to her after wiping out her army). Hajime then pull out his gun and pointed at Eri's forehead as well Nagumo tormented Nakamura that the destroyer himself, doesn't care what is her evil motivations or who caused her to become a traitor when he doesn't even care about her at all, as he was prepare to kill her for what she did to his beloved Kaori, until his former pawn Daisuke Hiyama fired a fireball at Hajime (but did no damage) despite of Eri's betrayal towards the lowly lunatic, but only for Hiyama to die at Hajime's hands first. After killing Hiyama, Nagumo intends to proceed to kill Eri until Freid interfered. Following her defection, Eri attempted Aiko, Remia, Myu and his classmates as hostages against Hajime but foiled by Hajime as Eri's plans was so easily to be foiled when Hajime tricked Nakamura with a falsely surrender and unleashed a massacre in Garland. After Eri captured Yue, Hajime swore he will kill her due to Eri has no trace of humanity left in her. Despite acquiring strength, Eri remained as a coward when she only wants to escape with Kouki instead of fighting against Nagumo. Though he wants to kill her, Hajime fortunately didn't need to when she committed suicide to her attempted to kill Suzu but died in the progress in order to avoid of being captured, tortured or even killed by Nagumo. After her death, Hajime completely written Eri Nakamura off as the second self-deluded traitor after Hiyama.
Shizuku Yaegashi - Former Classmate turned Mortal Enemy[]
In her fake personality, Eri and Shizuku were close friends in high school. However, in her true nature, Eri holds a murderously hatred towards Shizuku for being Kouki's childhood friend (although she is Hajime's lover) as she wanted to kill her and the rest of their classmates to claim Kouki for herself. She considered Shizuku as one of her mortal enemies (along with Kaori). Eri was about to kill Shizuku and make her one of her zombie slaves until failed due to Hajime's arrival.
Kaori Shirasaki - Former Classmate turned Mortal Enemy[]
In her fake personality, Eri and Kaori were close friends in high school and chose to support her claims that Hajime is alive which is true. However, in her true nature, Eri hold a murderously hatred towards Kaori and considered her as one of her two mortal enemies (along with Shizuku) due to her being Kouki's childhood friend (although she is Hajime's lover) as she wanted to kill her and the rest of her classmates to claim Kouki for herself. When she was about to turn Kaori into Hiyama's zombie sex slave, Hajime arrived and dispelled Eri's magic. In her chance to survive from Hajime, Eri betrayed Hiyama and begged Hajime to spare her life so she could make Kaori as his zombie slave instead but only angers him despite her betrayal towards Hiyama. After Kaori was revived by Hajime, Eri's hatred towards Kaori grew even worse. Despite knowing of her true evil nature and what she did, Kaori doesn't hold a grudge on Eri.
Ryutarou Sakagami - Former Classmate turned Enemy[]
In her fake personality, Eri was Ryutarou's close friend. However in her true nature, Eri revealed that Ryutarou and the rest of their classmates were nothing but pawns to her. Ryutarou holds hostility when she attempted to turn Kaori in Hiyama's undead sex slave until he was relief when Hajime ruined their plans.
In their reunion in the final battle, Ryutarou shown furious towards Eri when she ignored Suzu and even himself as she is focusing on Kouki.
Myu and Remia - Dagon Mother and Daughter[]
Eri viewed Remia and Myu as suitable hostages against Hajime.
Liliana S. B. Heiligh - Princess of the Heiligh Kingdom[]
In her fake personality, Eri and Liliana were close friends. However, in her true nature, she viewed the princess as a pawn. After killing her father, Liliana holds a hatred toward Eri.
Reichi Kondou - Falsely Ally and Killed Victim[]
During the demon invasion as well both of her and Daisuke Hiyama's betrayals towards their classmates, Eri killed Reichi Kondou under the fully permit of Hiyama (Reichi's treacherous leader who betrayed him). She used her spell to reanimate Reichi as one of her zombie slaves. However, when Hajime arrived and foiled all of her plans, Eri sent the undead Kondou to kill Nagumo only for his corpse to be easily destroyed by his now-formerly victim by blowing Kondou's head off with his gun in order to put him out of Reichi's misery.
Her classmates - Falsely Allies turned Enemies[]
In her fake personality, Eri make friends with her classmates. However, in her true nature, she personally hates her classmates and considered them as pawns. She attempted to kill her classmates and make them her zombie slaves to ensure she claims Kouki for herself. Her pretending to becomes with her classmates has really disgusted her for a long time considering it as "playhouse". After she killed Kondou, her betrayal has deeply impacted her classmates causing them to acknowledge her a traitor, but lesser than Hiyama (due to their hatreds towards his selfishness and arrogance). Her attempted murder for her classmates has failed due to one of her classmates who became a demonic and mass murdering destroyer, Hajime Nagumo. After becoming a Human-Apostle hybrid, Eri is now happily pleasured that she has enough power to kill all of her classmates. Even in her defeat by Suzu, Eri would rather die instead than rejoining her classmates as she attempted to commit suicide in her attempt to kill Suzu despite of Suzu told her their classmates she would forgive her for her actions. After her death, Eri's classmates (like Hajime Nagumo) completely written Nakamura off as a traitor (just like Hiyama).
Aiko Hatayama - Her Teacher and Enemy[]
In her fake personality, Eri and Aiko were close relationship of teacher and student. But in her true nature, she doesn't care about her teacher as she is willing to kill her and the rest of her classmates due to them being her way to make Kouki as her boyfriend.
Hajime's lovers - Enemies[]
Yue, Shea Haulia and Tio Klarus
Eri made enemies with Yue, Shea Haulia and Tio Klarus. When she attempted to escape, they've surrounded her as she is no match for them. After Eri turned into a hybrid, she captured one of them (Yue) for Ehit's temporarily possession.
Trivia[]
- Eri is the ONLY antagonist to be featured on the Light Novel and Manga cover, as well as the only female character who's not Hajime's wives to be featured, specifically on the 6th Volume of the Light Novel.
- Eri is one of three members of her class to turn traitor, the others being Yukitoshi Shimizu and Daisuke Hiyama.
- Despite her tragic backstory of being raised by her abusive mother and a rapist stepfather, fans generally considered Eri to be the most evil of the trio and the series arch-traitor, especially for her manipulation and betrayal towards Daisuke Hiyama.
- Eri is the only female classmate who is a traitor but due to her manipulation and treason (even towards Daisuke Hiyama), she is the worst of all traitors.
- Nakamura was also one of four members of her class to die within the original story line. Chronologically, she was the last of the quartet to perish having met her end in Volume 11. Shimizu died in Volume 3, whilst Kondou and Daisuke died in Volume 6. The deaths of the students in order are: Yukitoshi Shimizu, Reichi Kondou, Daisuke Hiyama and Eri Nakamura.
- Eri was the only one of these villains to die by her own hand, whereas the others were all killed by someone else. Shimizu and the zombified Kondou (who was killed and reanimated by Eri) were both executed by Hajime Nagumo to put them out of their miseries. Daisuke Hiyama meanwhile, was devoured to death by monsters, having already suffered from a savage and humiliating defeat at Hajime's hands.
- Her death is similar to Deidara from Naruto, where they exploded themselves in an attempt to kill their enemies.
- She, Hajime and Shimizu are the only characters within Arifureta to have tragic backstories. Eri's is usually considered to be the worst of the three by fans.
- After her father died when she was 6 years old, Eri was raised by her abusive mother physically and mentally. At age 11, she has been tormented physically and sexually as well being raped by her stepfather. After her stepdad gotten arrested for sexually harassing and raping her, she was abused by her mother even more and nearly killed Eri causing her to become a remorseless psychopath.
- While the other suffered a similar fate, Hajime Nagumo was relentlessly abused and bullied by Daisuke Hiyama and his gang as well left for dead by Hiyama's betrayal out of his hatred towards Nagumo for getting the attention of Kaori Shirasaki. However, he survived, but transformed into an indestructible and mass murdering monster in the world, capable of killing anyone (including Hiyama himself) who gets in his way with ease and absolutely no efforts. Yukitoshi Shimizu was also bullied in his junior high school years causing him to become a villain when he betrayed his classmates of his own delusional goal to become a "hero" but unlike Hajime who became very powerful (even more than Kouki), Shimizu remained weak and later was killed by Hajime.
- Apart from Hajime, Eri is the only other student to have killed one of her former classmates (Reichi Kondou).
- Although Eri didn't kill Kondou herself, but left one of her zombie slaves do to that for her, while Hajime has directly killed Shimizu, destroyed Kondou's zombified corpse and for the majority caused Hiyama's death.
- Hiyama and Shimizu are the only ones who failed to kill their classmates due to them being exceptionally weak.
- Eri is the complete opposite of Kaori Shirasaki:
- Kaori is a kindhearted, loyal, thoughtful, all-loving and generous person, while Eri is a selfish, self-serving, traitorous, manipulative and cunning psychopath.
- Kaori cares for her classmates who are her friends as she is willing to protect them, while Eri cares nothing for her classmates as she is willing to kill them all.
- Kaori has a strong love for Hajime (despite of him being ruthless), while Eri strongly hates Hajime for interfering her schemes.
- Kaori cares about all life, while Eri cares about none of it.
- These two commonly dislike Daisuke Hiyama in their own point of views, Kaori doesn't hold any love/care for Hiyama because of his sociopathic nature as well eternally hatred the dimwitted traitor for what he did to her and Hajime as well the innocent people he sacrificed after Nagumo killed Hiyama, while Eri used Daisuke Hiyama as a disposable pawn to achieve their goals, only for Hajime to foil her scheme causing Eri to betrayed and deserted Hiyama to his death just so Eri could escape because Hiyama shown to be worthless after Eri witnessed just how pathetically weak Hiyama truly was.
- Kaori only viewed Kouki as her friend, not lover (because she is already in love with Hajime since middle school), Eri on the other hand, deludedly viewed Kouki as a "lover of hers" as far she would kill him and make him as her sex slave of sexually harassing him.
- Kaori is a priestess who has healing and light magic, while Eri is a necromancer who has necromancy and dark magic.
- Kaori is willing to protect the innocence, while Eri has no qualms of destroying innocent lives.
- Though they both became Apostles because they were weak humans, Kaori (while in Noint's body) became stronger, while Eri being strong in her mutation, is still weaker than Kaori.
- As the self-proclaimed archenemy of both Kaori Shirasaki and Shizuku Yaegashi, Eri is fitted with the more psychopathic, charismatic, traitorous, delusional, bond-destroying and manipulative villains.
- Eri (like her counterparts) acts as a kindhearted, selfless and harmless person until she revealed her true nature of being selfish, sadistic and remorseless psychopath.
- Eri (like some of those from the category) became psychopathy when they were raised by an abusive parent (such as her mother and a rapist stepfather).
- Eri (just like others) hates both Kaori Shirasaki and Shizuku Yaegashi due to her jealousy towards them of being the childhood friends of her crush Kouki Amanogawa (despite the fact they are actually Hajime's lovers it was due to her delusional beliefs).
- Eri (like the rest) used protagonist's most hated yet weak enemy/self-proclaimed love rival (mainly Daisuke Hiyama) to do her dirty works until she betrayed Hiyama after she is done using him for being weak and worthless.
- Eri (like those female villainesses in the category) is lustful for Kouki Amanogawa and attempted to have him as her "boyfriend" even if it means of killing her classmates.
- Eri (some in the categories) has also a opportunistic side, as seen when she tries to persuade Hajime Nagumo (the series' protagonist) when she offered him to resurrect Kaori as his slave.
- Eri (like the rest) escaped from Hajime when she, Freid Bagwa and the demon army were easily defeated by Hajime, swearing she will come back to kill Hajime, his lovers and their classmates in acquire Kouki for herself.
- Along with Hajime, Kaori and Kouki, Eri can no longer be considered fully human, having been upgraded into an apostle-human hybrid by Ehit.
- In her conversation with Hiyama, her voice became deeper when she revealed her true nature towards him much like Raynare.
- In Japanese, Eri refers to herself as Boku (ぼく), a boyish first-person pronoun, instead of Watashi (私), a gender neutral first-person pronoun that most females use.
- Eri has a necromancer class like Marie Korbel but she is very different from Marie because Marie is not like Eri, especially Marie as a skullgirl, instead she wants to protect the innocent and even protects Peacock to the point of being killed by heroes including killed by her own friends for redeem herself especially Marie is still self-aware compared to Eri about her mistake to her friend even in skullgirl story especially in Marie story, Marie can responbilty by her deed.
External Links[]
- Eri Nakamura on the Arifureta Wiki.
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