Badigadi

Badigadi belongs to the immortal demon race and rules (at least nominally) over the Biegoya region of the Demon Continent.

He is a pure-blooded immortal demon, the same lineage as his elder sister Atofe Rato Fe Ryback.

Among demon kings he is considered a moderate, more interested in drinking, feasting, and making friends than in conquest or glory.

Because of his absurd regeneration and nearly invulnerable body, he is widely called the “Immortal Demon King.”

He is also nicknamed the “Demon King of Wisdom” because, by the standards of immortal demons, he is actually capable of rational conversation.

However, he insists this only makes him “the Demon King of Idiots,” claiming he is just a little less stupid than the others.

In the story he first appears in the northwestern edge town of Kurasuma on the Demon Continent, alongside his fiancée, the Demon Empress Kishirika Kishirisu.

Later, he travels to Ranoa Magic University to seek out Rudeus Greyrat after hearing intriguing rumors about him.

Badigadi is a gigantic, heavily muscled man with long purple hair and skin as black and glossy as obsidian.

He has six arms growing from his torso, arranged as three pairs on each side.

He can retract his arms to reduce their number and adjust their thickness at will.

When parts of his body are severed or blown off, his overall size scales down in proportion to how much mass he has lost.

Badigadi is almost always laughing and cheerful, easily brushing off most problems with a booming laugh.

He loves alcohol, parties, and noisy gatherings, and he enjoys being the center of a lively scene.

He is fundamentally broad-minded and easygoing; in a positive light he is generous, and in a negative light he is sloppy and careless about details.

He has very little attachment to status, fame, or “being the strongest,” and does not behave like a typical ambitious demon king.

Despite being called the “Demon King of Wisdom,” his intelligence is only high relative to the generally dim immortal demons.

He is self-aware enough to call himself “the Demon King of Idiots,” and even his own people say he only pretends to be smart.

Like many immortal demons, his sense of life and death is very alien to ordinary people.

He can casually attempt to kill someone while laughing, even if they are a friend, because he does not view death with the same gravity.

As a long-lived race, his sense of time is heavily skewed compared to humans.

He often wanders instead of staying in the Biegoya region he supposedly “rules,” and he does not maintain a serious system of governance or military control.

Because he admired Kishirika’s preferences, he consciously reshaped himself into a “brawny, openhearted man.”

He used to be more of a frail, overthinking type, but he dedicated himself to training his body and cultivating a bold persona.

Immortal Demon Physique

As a pure-blooded immortal demon, Badigadi possesses extreme regenerative abilities.

Even if most of his body is destroyed or blown apart, given time his flesh will gather and reconstruct, allowing him to revive.

His black skin is so tough that it cannot be easily injured by attacks below Sword King class.

Thanks to this, and his regeneration, he can ignore his own injuries and fight in a reckless, all-out manner.

His preferred fighting style is brutally straightforward: he charges in and hits the enemy with his six arms, unconcerned with damage to himself.

While simplistic, the combination of raw power, durability, and multiple arms makes him overwhelmingly dangerous to mid-tier opponents.

Overall, his personal combat power roughly equals that of a Sword Emperor.

However, he relies almost entirely on his body and has very little in the way of refined technique.

Against opponents with sufficiently high attack power or superior skill, he is quickly outclassed.

He admits that his martial arts are just self-taught “so he can behave outrageously,” not formal training.

At some point he drank a special elixir called the “Mystic Eye Killer.”

Because of this, he cannot be seen by mystic eyes, effectively making him invisible to those abilities.

War God Armor

Badigadi’s power changes dramatically when he equips the War God Armor.

This cursed armor once fully possessed him and is recognized as the source of the “War God,” ranked third among the Seven Great Powers.

When worn properly, the armor emits a golden radiance that nearly nullifies magic.

Its defensive strength is so high that even Imperial-level swordsmanship struggles to damage it, and it also has an auto-repair function that makes it effectively indestructible.

Combined with Badigadi’s immortal demon regeneration and bottomless stamina, the War God Armor makes him almost impossible to harm.

Fully possessed, the armor can forge weapons and unleash any of a thousand registered secret techniques, automatically choosing the optimal move for the situation.

Even so, Badigadi notes that without an immortal body, even the War God Armor would not survive against the very top of the Seven Great Powers.

During his battle with the Demon Dragon King Laplace, he reflects that if he had not been an immortal demon wearing the armor, he would have lost in a single hit.

If the armor does not fully take him over, his fighting style remains basically the same: charge in and hit things.

In that state his attack power and speed are lower than top-tier fighters—slower even than the already slightly inferior speed of North God Alexander—and he is roughly on par with the lower ranks of the Seven Great Powers.

However, when his regeneration is taken into account, Ruijerd Superdia judges him to be a “real” member of the Seven Great Powers.

At that time he is comparable to the lower-ranked Seven Great Powers from the Laplace Campaign era.

Encounter with Rudeus Greyrat

Badigadi first learns about Rudeus Greyrat through Kishirika Kishirisu.

She tells him that Rudeus possesses magic power surpassing even Laplace, which immediately catches Badigadi’s interest.

Curious, he travels all the way to Ranoa Magic University to meet Rudeus in person.

He challenges Rudeus to a duel under a special rule: victory goes to whoever can inflict actual damage on the other using magic.

During the duel, Rudeus uses his Rock Bullet spell in a powerful, concentrated form.

The attack blows Badigadi’s body apart, scattering his flesh and forcing him to accept defeat.

Impressed and satisfied, Badigadi cheerfully admits his loss.

Afterward, he enrolls at Ranoa Magic University as a special student.

While staying at the university, he participates enthusiastically in various gatherings, feasts, and campus events.

Whenever something is happening, he is usually loudly drinking, laughing, and energizing the atmosphere.

He is fond of dramatic self-introductions and once declares with gusto, “And I go bam-ba-bam too!” as part of his comic, over-the-top persona.

War in the Kingdom of Biheiril

Later, during the battle in the Kingdom of Biheiril, Badigadi suddenly appears before Rudeus and his allies.

This time, he is clad in the War God Armor and declares himself as the “War God,” the third-ranked of the Seven Great Powers, and an enemy.

He introduces himself with a grand statement: “My name is the War God Badigadi! Ally of Hitogami and the one who has inherited the name of the War God!”

Under the armor’s influence he acts as an antagonist, though his core self is not entirely erased.

In this battle, Badigadi has not been fully taken over by the War God Armor, so many of its most terrifying functions are not available.

He cannot use the thousand secret techniques or automatic weapon creation, but his physical abilities and defense are still greatly enhanced.

Even without full possession, the combination of the armor’s defense, his boosted physical strength, and immortal regeneration makes him a monster on the battlefield.

He easily defeats a group that includes North God Alex, Immortal Demon King Atofe Rato Fe, the Oni God Malta, and Rudeus in full Magic Armor, all of whom are roughly lower-ranked Seven Great Powers level.

Rudeus eventually dons the Magic Armor Type Zero to counter him.

Using a rock-bullet shotgun strategy, Rudeus blasts off Badigadi’s arms and uses barrier magic to seal the severed limbs, preventing them from regenerating.

Rudeus manages to seal five of his six arms this way, pushing Badigadi toward the brink of defeat.

Nevertheless, Badigadi still hammers the Magic Armor Type Zero until it almost completely shuts down, nearly killing Rudeus.

At the crucial moment, Eris Boreas Greyrat intervenes.

She delivers a desperate strike that severs Badigadi’s last remaining arm, disabling his ability to fight effectively.

Finally, Rudeus and Eris pour all of their remaining magic power into the Dragon King Sword Kajatkt.

With one final blow, they defeat Badigadi and seal him away in the Valley of Earth Dragons.

During the Second Human-Demon War, Badigadi served as a strategist on the demon side.

Although he was intelligent by demon standards, he lacked enough authority to guide the whole war effort.

He grew frustrated with the demons’ relaxed attitude, as they believed that simply winning eventually was good enough.

Feeling the need to improve their chances, he began following the advice of Hitogami.

Without realizing it, Badigadi became one of Hitogami’s apostles.

Because of this, he ended up at odds with the Demon Dragon King Laplace, who had discovered Hitogami’s manipulations.

Laplace then launched a devastating counterattack on the demon side, overwhelming them with his immense power.

Frightened by Laplace’s strength, Badigadi followed Hitogami’s suggestion and stole the War God Armor.

He equipped the armor to protect his beloved Kishirika Kishirisu and chose to face Laplace directly.

However, once he donned the armor, it took over his body and mind.

The battle between the possessed Badigadi and Laplace ultimately ended in mutual annihilation.

Tragically, during this rampage, Badigadi killed Kishirika with his own hands.

Later, the truth about Hitogami’s schemes was revealed.

Badigadi learned he had been deceived, and that he was merely a slightly less foolish immortal demon who had overestimated his own wits.

Kishirika eventually revived, as immortal demons can.

Badigadi, understanding his own limitations, decided to stop pretending to be clever and instead live as the bold, openhearted demon king Kishirika preferred.

He chose not to dwell on the past, reasoning that clinging to regret did not fit the image of a generous, hearty demon king.

Although he had once bitterly resented Hitogami, he gradually let go of that hatred over the centuries.

When Hitogami later begged him for help, Badigadi agreed after Geese Nukadia risked his life to persuade him and Hitogami offered an apology.

Badigadi accepted on the condition that he would cooperate only once, and it was for this single favor that he again wore the War God Armor in the Biheiril conflict.

After that cooperation ends, Badigadi considers matters with Hitogami finished.

He leaves the future to Dragon God Orsted, even cheering him on in spirit rather than involving himself further.

Kishirika Kishirisu

Kishirika is Badigadi’s fiancée and someone he has loved for thousands of years.

Her words were the catalyst that pushed him to change from a frail, brainy type into a muscular, boisterous, and bold demon king.

He deeply respects her opinions and reshaped both his body and personality to match her tastes.

Their long and tangled history, including his accidental killing of her under the War God Armor, defines much of his emotional past.

Atofe Rato Fe Ryback

Atofe is Badigadi’s elder sister and a fellow immortal demon king.

Badigadi once stayed with her for a while and trained his body under her, getting beaten up every day as part of his regimen.

Their relationship is rough but familial, built on blows, shouting, and a kind of immortal demon sibling affection.

Laplace

The Demon Dragon King Laplace is one of Badigadi’s greatest sources of trauma and a key figure in his past.

During the Second Human-Demon War, Badigadi, guided by Hitogami, ended up on the opposite side of Laplace.

Their titanic battle, with Badigadi using the War God Armor, ended in a mutual kill.

Later, during Laplace’s era of demon continent unification as the Demon God, Badigadi again nearly lost his life to him.

Geese Nukadia

Geese Nukadia is another of Hitogami’s associates and plays a crucial role in bringing Badigadi into the Biheiril conflict.

Geese uses his own life as leverage to convince Badigadi to listen and then accept Hitogami’s plea.

Moved by Geese’s sincerity and Hitogami’s rare apology, Badigadi agrees to fight just once more under Hitogami’s banner.

Without Geese, Badigadi likely would have ignored Hitogami’s request.

War God Armor

The War God Armor is a cursed item that fully possessed Badigadi in the past.

When it completely takes over its wearer, the armor manifests the true “War God” power, placing the user at third rank among the Seven Great Powers.

Badigadi views the armor as a source of both power and tragedy.

It gave him the strength to battle Laplace but also used his body to kill Kishirika.

Even so, he eventually chooses to wear it again for that single promised cooperation with Hitogami.

He does so fully aware of the risks, relying on his immortal body and sheer stubbornness to resist full possession.

Hitogami

Hitogami calls himself Badigadi’s ally, but their relationship is complicated and heavily tainted by past betrayal.

In the Second Human-Demon War, Hitogami manipulated Badigadi, turning him into an unwitting apostle and pushing him into conflict with Laplace.

When Badigadi learned the truth, he saw Hitogami’s ugly real nature and resented him deeply.

However, with time, Kishirika’s revival, and his chosen persona as a carefree demon king, he stopped fixating on that grudge.

Later, when Hitogami comes to him in desperation, apologizing and asking for help, Badigadi agrees only once, and strictly on his own terms.

After fulfilling that promise, he declares that Hitogami’s affairs are no longer his concern and symbolically passes the torch to Orsted, wishing the Dragon God success from the sidelines.