Gauche Adlai

A former convict recruited by Yami, Gauche is antisocial, sharp-tongued and utterly consumed by love for his younger sister Marie, whom he will defend with alarming intensity. He initially resents his squadmates and works alone, but repeated battles alongside the Black Bulls wear down his hostility until he quietly counts them as family. His mirror magic makes him one of the squad's most adaptable attackers.

Gauche is a tall, wiry young man with unruly dark blue-black hair that falls over his forehead and frames a gaunt face. His pale violet eyes are ringed with heavy shadows that give him a permanently unhinged look, sharpened by a small mark beneath one eye. He wears the Black Bulls' tattered black robe over dark, close-fitting clothes, and he carries mirrors constantly, from hand mirrors tucked away for emergencies to fragments worn on his person. In battle, mirrored panels and reflected light surround him, and his expression swings between bored disdain and gleeful mania.

Gauche is abrasive, antisocial and openly hostile to nearly everyone, insisting he has no interest in comrades and only stays in the squad because it suits him. All of that collapses the moment his little sister Marie is mentioned: he becomes a rhapsodic, doting fanatic whose entire value system revolves around her happiness, to a degree the rest of the Black Bulls find alarming. He is violent, holds grudges, and reacts to insults with immediate force. Yet he is not actually heartless; exposure to Asta's stubborn decency gradually pulls him into caring about the squad, and he will put himself in mortal danger for people he claims to despise. His loyalty, once given, is absolute.

Gauche grew up poor with his younger sister Marie and no family to protect them, an upbringing that left him with a fierce, obsessive devotion to her wellbeing and little regard for laws or other people. His crimes landed him in prison, where he expected to rot until Yami Sukehiro, the captain of the Black Bulls, recruited him directly from his cell. The Black Bulls accept outcasts no other squad wants, which made it the only place that would take a convicted criminal with a violent temper. Marie was placed in the care of a church in the town of Nairn, and Gauche's life since has revolved around earning money and status for her sake while keeping his distance from everyone else.

1. Introduction and the attack on Nairn

   Gauche returns to the Black Bulls hideout and immediately clashes with Asta, dismissing the newcomer with contempt. When criminals connected to the Eye of the Midnight Sun raid the church where Marie lives, Asta fights to protect her without hesitation, and Gauche's opinion of him permanently changes.

2. Underwater Temple

   He joins the mission into the Seabed Temple and ends up facing one of the Third Eye's strongest members. Massively outmatched, he uses his reflective magic to buy time and absorb punishment for his comrades, and the battle leaves him gravely wounded but marks his real acceptance of the squad.

3. Royal Knights Selection Exam

   Gauche takes part in the tournament to select an elite unit, fighting with his usual flamboyant mirror techniques and refusal to cooperate with anyone he does not like. The exam showcases how much sharper his combat instincts have become since joining the Black Bulls.

4. Elf Reincarnation

   An elf spirit seizes his body, and worse, Marie is possessed by that elf's own sister, forcing the pair into battle against his comrades. The fight is personal on every level, and it takes Asta's anti-magic to sever the possession and return both siblings to themselves.

5. Spade Kingdom preparations

   With devils and the Dark Triad threatening the kingdom, Gauche trains alongside the rest of the Black Bulls to refine his magic and unify his mana. He develops new reflective applications and takes his place in the squad's assault force, no longer pretending he is fighting only for himself.

Marie Adlai

Younger sister

The center of Gauche's entire existence. He showers her with obsessive affection and will attack anyone who threatens her, while Marie herself finds his intensity exhausting and wishes he would care about other people too.

Asta

Squadmate

Gauche despises him on sight but is won over when Asta risks his life for Marie. Their relationship remains prickly, with Gauche insulting him constantly while quietly treating him as someone worth fighting beside.

Yami Sukehiro

Squad captain

Yami pulled him out of prison and gave him a place among other outcasts, earning a loyalty Gauche rarely admits to. He obeys Yami's orders even when he refuses to cooperate with anyone else.

Grey

Squadmate

The timid transformation mage harbors clear feelings for Gauche, which he is entirely oblivious to given his fixation on Marie. Their dynamic supplies much of the Black Bulls' comic byplay.

• He is recruited into the Black Bulls straight from a prison cell by Yami Sukehiro.
• His hostility toward Asta breaks down after Asta protects Marie during the attack on the church at Nairn.
• He takes devastating punishment shielding his comrades during the Underwater Temple battle.
• He and Marie are possessed by a pair of elf siblings and forced to fight the Black Bulls.
• He trains with the squad to sharpen his mirror magic ahead of the confrontation with the Dark Triad.

• He keeps mirrors hidden all over his person so he is never without a spell medium.
• His extreme sister complex is one of the series' longest-running running gags.
• He is one of several Black Bulls recruited because no other squad would accept them.
• His magic can serve reconnaissance and communication roles as well as combat.

• AAsta
• YYuno
• NNoelle Silva
• Yami Sukehiro
• Julius Novachrono
• MMagna Swing

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