Johaim Leo Armadel is an imperial swordsman known as the current First Seat of the Apostles and widely feared as the “Knight of the Instant,” recognized as the strongest Apostle in the Empire.
Johaim Leo Armadel is a male warrior who serves as the First Seat among the Apostles, the Empire’s top elite combatants.
He bears the epithet “Knight of the Instant” for his overwhelming speed and decisive strikes.
He is regarded as the Empire’s strongest Apostle, combining lethal swordsmanship with supernatural mobility.
By status, he is meant to remain at the side of Emperor Yunmelngen at all times as the emperor’s ultimate safeguard.
Despite this duty, Johaim joins the operation to capture the Queen of the Nebulis Sovereignty at the request of the Eight Great Apostles.
He expresses a personal desire to participate, declaring that he himself will be the one to hunt the Queen.
Johaim is a red-haired swordsman with a slim, refined build.
He carries a slender longsword, favoring quick, precise slashes over brute-force swinging.
His battle attire is a specialized combat uniform that seamlessly fuses armor and coat into a single integrated outfit.
This design allows him to maintain both strong protection and unrestricted movement, enhancing his already fearsome speed.
Johaim is generally taciturn and reserved, rarely wasting words.
He conveys his intentions more through action than speech, and when he does speak, his comments are sharp and unadorned.
He views illusions and comforting lies with open contempt.
This attitude is especially visible in his confrontation with Millavair Lou Nebulis VIII, whose ideals he dismisses as a hollow dream.
Johaim is famed for an extraordinary martial technique that balances speed and power at an almost inhuman level.
His movements are so fast and controlled that he seems to vanish and reappear, living up to his title as the “Knight of the Instant.”
He can silently neutralize highly skilled opponents, such as the Queen’s Spirit-user bodyguard, without making a sound.
His mobility and power are so refined that he even breaks through Millavair’s wind barrier, a feat that underscores his status as a top-class threat.
Johaim is also a Spirit-user himself, originally trained under the Celestial Palace, yet he fights within the Empire’s ranks.
He uses his background as a Spirit-user to exploit the blind spots of enemy Spirit arts, especially those keyed to exclude Spirit-users from their targeting.
During the Queen capture mission, Johaim is chosen as one of the main members by the Eight Great Apostles.
He does not simply accept the role; he actively embraces it, insisting he will personally bring down the Queen.
In the Queen’s Chamber, he confronts Millavair Lou Nebulis VIII, who dreams of turning the Celestial Palace into a paradise for all Spirit-users.
Drawing from his own experience, Johaim denounces her vision as a deceptive illusion and declares that the world will be reborn through destruction and change.
When Millavair unleashes Spirit arts with commands such as “eliminate all enemies except Spirit-users,” Johaim exploits his own nature as a Spirit-user.
Because he fits the exclusion condition, he can bypass her spells, slip directly into close range, and strike from within her defenses.
In this critical moment, Johaim closes in on the Queen, where Elletear Lou Nebulis IX steps in to protect her.
Johaim cuts down Elletear as she shields the Queen and abducts the Queen, achieving a key objective of the Empire’s plan.
Johaim’s true origin lies not with the Empire but with the Celestial Palace, the stronghold of Spirit-users.
He is, in fact, a Spirit-user raised by that very institution which now brands him a traitor.
Despite being a Spirit-user, Johaim defected to the Empire.
His betrayal mirrors that of Elletear Lou Nebulis IX: both turned against their homeland in order to remake the Celestial Palace itself.
He confronts Millavair with bitter clarity, telling her that he had known her for a long time, while she only ever saw him as just another enemy.
He hurls these words at her with a mixture of scorn and pity, convinced that her ideals are blind to people like him.
Both Johaim and Elletear share a radical vow: they aim not only to overturn the Spirit-supremacist Celestial Palace, but also to destroy the Empire that discriminates against Spirit-users.
In their eyes, both systems are rotten, and both must be broken to create a new world.
Johaim’s bond with Elletear Lou Nebulis IX is one of the deepest and most tragic aspects of his character.
Long before their apparent enmity, they were bound as master and knight, a unique and irreplaceable pair.
Back in the Celestial Palace, Johaim was too weak in Spirit power to qualify for the Spirit Corps and failed the selection.
In that moment of failure and isolation, Elletear reached out to him and acknowledged him when no one else did.
Moved by her recognition, Johaim swore absolute loyalty to Elletear as his one and only sovereign.
Elletear, in turn, trusted him wholeheartedly as her one and only knight, relying on his dedication and steel resolve.
Together, they looked beyond the narrow, Spirit-supremacist ideology that dominated the Celestial Palace.
They swore an oath to one another to destroy not only the Celestial Palace’s discriminatory system but also the Empire that oppressed Spirit-users.
This shared dream placed them on a path of betrayal against both nations, turning them into enemies of the world for the sake of a new one.
The cruel irony is that, during the Queen capture operation, Johaim ends up cutting down the very master he cherishes, in order to move their plan forward from a different angle.
Johaim despises structures that divide people based on Spirit power or lack thereof.
Having suffered under Spirit supremacism and then witnessed the Empire’s discrimination against Spirit-users, he sees both sides as corrupted.
He believes that any paradise built on exclusion and lies is fundamentally false.
For him, Millavair’s dream of a haven for Spirit-users within the Celestial Palace is simply another form of illusion.
Instead of reform from within a flawed system, Johaim advocates total transformation, even if it means chaos and bloodshed.
His declaration that “the world will be reborn” reveals his commitment to revolutionary change over gradual compromise.
At his core, Johaim is driven by a fierce, almost ruthless sense of justice shaped by personal rejection and the bond he shares with Elletear.
He acts as a blade aimed at both Empire and Celestial Palace, willing to be the villain if that is what it takes to carve a new world into existence.
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