Horn

Name: Horn

Former Name: Syr (her original mortal name, later given to Freya)

Alias/Nickname: Nameless Goddess’ Servant, Nameless (because she has no family name or second title)

Gender: Female

Age: 18

Race: Human

Occupation: Attendant and chief lady-in-waiting to Freya; adventurer

Affiliation: Freya Familia (formerly a major faction; later disbanded)

Level: 2 (upper-class adventurer)

Residence/Workplace (later): The Hostess of Fertility (tavern)

Voice Actor (anime): Haruka Shiraishi

Possessions: 14,006,000 valis (at the time stated)

Horn is a member of the Freya Familia and serves as Freya’s head attendant, responsible for managing the goddess’ daily life and often dealing with the chaos of her faction’s powerful but problematic elites.

She is infamous inside the story as the “Nameless Goddess’ Servant,” a level 2 adventurer without a second name because Freya refused to grant one, declaring “this child can never become anyone else.”

Although she appears late in the main story (around volume 16), Horn is in fact deeply tied to one of the series’ biggest twists: she is originally the girl named Syr, who gave that true name to Freya.

Through a magical pact, she becomes the goddess’ double, shares Freya’s body and emotions, and ultimately develops an intense, twisted love–hate for Bell Cranel.

Horn is cold, distant, and cutting toward anyone who is not Freya.

Her sense of self is almost entirely built around worship of Freya, to a degree that even other fanatics of Freya Familia call her a “mad goddess-worshiper.”

Her devotion is obsessive and absolutist: she believes she alone truly understands “the heart of the goddess,” even more than Freya herself.

Because of this, she reacts violently to anything that “corrupts” Freya’s divinity—especially Bell, who draws out Freya’s human side.

On the surface, she is sharp-tongued, merciless in her insults, and quick to threaten violence, especially toward Bell.

She calls him vulgar, disgusting, a beast in human guise, a walking sin against womankind, an unintentional criminal, and even a “failure of the gods” for being born.

Yet she is not incapable of kindness or empathy.

She quietly helps Ais Wallenstein during harsh training with Ottar by preparing clean clothes and water, showing that she can be considerate even toward people outside her faction.

Horn is a classic “cool-type” yet extreme tsundere-yandere mix.

She hurls endless abuse at Bell while secretly worrying about him, clinging to him, blushing when he compliments her in a waitress uniform, and genuinely placing her life on the line for both Bell and Freya’s salvation.

She is also a chronic sufferer of bad luck and burdens: she cleans up after Freya’s whims, manages quarrelsome executives, and even serves as the taste-tester (and poison-tester) for food cooked by “Syr Flover” at the Hostess of Fertility.

Around her long-time companion Haze Velvet, her speech becomes rougher and more casual, showing a more human, unguarded side.

Horn is a beautiful young woman with long gray hair that covers the right half of her face, hiding a dull-silver right eye that is rarely seen.

Her height is roughly the same as Bell Cranel’s, placing her in an average range for a human girl.

She dresses in modest, witch-like clothing: a long, mostly black dress with minimal exposure that resembles the outfit of a mage’s apprentice or a dark priest’s attendant.

Her appearance gives off an air of secrecy and distance, fitting her role as Freya’s hidden right hand and shadow double.

Later, when working at the Hostess of Fertility in her true face, she wears the tavern’s waitress uniform.

Bell tells her that the uniform suits her, which embarrasses her badly despite all her insults toward him.

Before she became Horn, she was a starving orphan girl living in the slums.

There, she encountered the radiant goddess Freya, whose beauty and warmth overwhelmed her.

Freya, recognizing the beauty of the girl’s soul, asked what she desired if she were to be saved.

The girl answered with a simple but staggering wish: she wanted to become Freya.

She pleaded: she wanted to stop being herself entirely, and instead become beautiful and warm like Freya, abandoning the miserable “Syr” she had been.

Freya responded with a bargain: “Then I will give you a name. In exchange, give me yours.”

The girl gladly agreed.

She received a new divine-related name, “Horn,” while giving her original true name “Syr” to Freya as a price.

From that point on, the girl who had been Syr became Horn, a follower of Freya, while Freya herself could use the name Syr as one of her divine aliases.

This name exchange also triggered an unprecedented magic: Horn’s transformation spell “Vana Seidr.”

Through this magic, Horn gained the ability to transform into Freya, mimicking everything about the goddess except her divine power (Arcanum).

A side effect allowed her to also assume the face of a “daughter” form Freya had once used in heaven, known as Syr, and the exchanged true names meant that Freya too could transform into “Syr” without using divine power.

Freya took advantage of this: she decided to live a double life, working at the Hostess of Fertility as “Syr Flover,” while Horn, transformed into Freya, acted as her stand-in goddess.

Horn, thrilled to become Freya’s shadow and substitute, served as the “goddess in the tower” while Freya played the role of mortal “daughter” in the city.

Everything changed when Freya encountered Bell Cranel.

Because Horn’s transformation magic also relays Freya’s sensations and emotions directly to her, Horn was forced to feel first-hand how Freya’s heart wavered, fell in love, and began to “descend” into something less remote and more human.

To Horn, who idolized Freya as an untouchable queen, Bell became the corrupter of her goddess.

This planted the seeds of murderous hatred—and, paradoxically, of her own love for Bell, born from sharing Freya’s heart.

Early Actions and the “Goddess Festival”

Before the Goddess Festival arc, Horn visits the Hestia Familia’s home and coldly delivers a “love letter” from Syr to Bell.

Though it should have been their first meeting, she directs an intense hostility at Bell that he does not understand.

Later, during the second day of the Goddess Festival, Horn uses Vana Seidr to take Syr’s form and suddenly attacks Bell with a blade.

Behind this attempt lies her core belief: Bell has caused Freya to fall from her exalted ideal, so he must die.

During this period, Horn’s inner monologue is consumed by repetition: she cannot forgive him, cannot forgive what he has done to her goddess, cannot forgive the “corruption” of Freya’s divinity.

She rages that if only she had met Freya first, if only she had known this future, she would have killed Bell before he ever met her goddess.

However, she and Freya had made a prior pact regarding Bell.

If Bell saw through any deception, Horn would admit defeat, do nothing to him, and never appear before him again.

Bell does indeed sense something off about the fake Syr and exposes the lie.

Bound by her promise, Horn pulls back, gives Bell a hint about where the real Syr (Freya) is, and watches him leave—only to be attacked immediately afterward by enraged Freya Familia executives like Allen Fromel.

Despite being severely wounded and loudly proclaiming her distorted doctrine about Freya, Horn is denounced by Allen as not the goddess’ attendant but merely a “mad goddess-worshiper,” embodying the fanaticism the rest of the Familia refuses to become.

Memory Rewrite and the Second Betrayal

Freya then charms the entire city of Orario, rewriting memories so that everyone believes Bell has always been her follower and forcibly drafting him into Freya Familia.

Horn expects severe punishment for her attempted assassination of Bell, but Freya instead declares that “not punishing her is the punishment,” leaving Horn in her role as lady-in-waiting.

Though she avoids appearing in front of Bell in person, she still watches him secretly, even staring at him through a window while he receives his “baptism” into the Familia.

Haze Velvet calls this behavior simply scary.

Freya orders Horn (in Freya’s corporeal form) to stand at Orario’s gate and charm incoming travelers, stabilizing the altered reality.

However, the night Freya captures Ryuu Lion and Bell calls Freya “Syr” to her face, Freya’s heart trembles violently in sorrow and confusion.

Because Horn shares Freya’s senses through Vana Seidr, she directly feels Freya’s internal suffering and tears.

Realizing that Freya is sacrificing her own heart and identity to keep Bell, Horn decides to betray her goddess one more time—not to sabotage, but to save Freya from herself.

She helps Ryuu escape as a diversion and goes to meet Bell, breaking the earlier vow not to face him again.

There, she questions what he has realized and then explodes into a torrent of insults and accusations.

She calls him a beast masquerading as harmless, an unconscious criminal, a universal enemy of women, human filth, and a monster who mistakes dullness for sincerity.

She curses him for making Freya suffer under the weight of a love she cannot handle.

During the confrontation, she brandishes a knife, screaming that she should have killed him back then.

But when she closes in, she throws away the weapon, straddles Bell, and tries to choke him with her bare hands.

Her hands stop before they can squeeze his throat.

Her rage breaks, revealing the truth: she does not only hate him, she loves him to the point of madness.

She laments that if she had met him first, if she had known this future, she would not have murdered him—she would have hugged him.

Tears stream from her now–uncovered right eye as she finally acknowledges the love interwoven with her hatred.

When she begs Bell to notice, the images of Syr, Horn, and Freya overlap in Bell’s mind.

He finally realizes that all three are the same person—different faces of one intertwined existence.

Horn then gives Bell the Hestia Knife and attempts to end her life by stabbing herself as repentance for betraying Freya.

Bell tries to help her, but she stops him, transforms into Syr one last time with Vana Seidr, and delivers a message: deep inside, Freya is crying and begging for release from her own self-destructive obsession.

She speaks words Freya herself cannot say: “Help me, Bell.”

Bell, hearing this plea in Syr’s voice, resolves to save them all—Freya, Syr, and Horn together.

Because of the side effects of her magic, Horn’s wounds close and she survives, though she falls into a comatose state in Syr’s form.

Haze Velvet speculates that Horn is actively refusing to awaken and that Freya herself is clinging to the discarded identity of “Syr,” making it impossible to treat further.

Even in this state, Horn mutters apologies and pleas for help to the staff of the Hostess of Fertility as if in delirium.

These whispers reach Mia and the others once Loki arranges for them to be brought in, spurring the tavern’s women to participate in the upcoming fraction war to save “Syr.”

The Fraction War and Aftermath

Horn awakens after the “Faction War,” by which Freya Familia is defeated and ordered disbanded, with Freya exiled from Orario.

Most of the Familia collapses in tears at this decree, but Horn remains silent, head bowed, as if she has no right to weep for the goddess she twice betrayed and twice saved.

As Freya prepares to leave Orario, Bell and the women of the Hostess of Fertility confront her.

Even knowing that Syr and Freya are one and the same, Ryuu and the others still want to stay with her, not as worshipers but as family and friends.

Bell promises to remain by Freya’s side as her “knight,” to keep her from repeating her mistakes.

Overwhelmed, Freya finally cries out her true desire: she wants to stop being a goddess and live as Syr, together with everyone she loves.

Witnessing this, Horn shows a rare, transparent smile through her tears and thanks Bell for saving “us”—all of her, including the discarded Syr and the goddess Freya.

In the end, Mia forcibly takes in Horn and many other former Freya Familia members, making them staff at the Hostess of Fertility.

Horn now shares a room once used by Ryuu, often paired with Haze.

Her feelings for Bell do not calm down; when she hears Bell is with Eina Tulle, she delivers a chilling note that reads “A temptress’ shadow at the white rabbit’s side… make haste,” and promptly charges into the kitchen to arm herself with knives until Welf Crozzo physically knocks her out.

In one side story, Horn is seen in the Hostess of Fertility glaring fearfully at Finn Deimne, Riveria Ljos Alf, and Gareth Landrock after Loki has left, clearly distrustful of the Loki Familia leaders waiting for Syr.

When Ais Wallenstein nervously visits the restaurant before going to meet Bell at the Hestia Familia home, the Freya-aligned staff are wary, but Ais exchanges a small nod with Horn before Mia orders Horn back into the kitchen.

In the main story’s twenty-first volume, during the operation to rescue the Loki Familia from deep in the dungeon, Horn stays on the surface rather than descending herself.

She uses her charm-based abilities to keep order in Orario while the Ganesha Familia and many of the city’s protectors are absent, holding the line on city security.

Despite her harsh personality, she is deeply worried about Bell heading toward the 60th floor and awkwardly entrusts his safety to Haze Velvet.

During the final battle against the Corrupted Spirit (who is revealed to be one of the spirits that once aided the ancient hero Sphere of the “Spirit Dynasty”), fragments of Freya’s memories and Horn’s Vana Seidr allow Haze to realize the truth.

Haze goes to the statue of Sphere at Hero’s Bridge and kneels to pray for Bell’s safety, despite already having Freya as her object of worship.

When Bell and the party return alive, Horn runs to him, hugging him so fiercely she almost stabs his stomach with her knife by accident, knocking him to the ground and igniting a round of teasing and jealous arguments from Liliruca, Ryuu, and the others.

In “Astraea Record,” a distant-past side story, Horn appears at age eleven.

She is too young for the front lines and instead remains in her Syr form, working in evacuation shelters, identifying spies and traitors, and performing covert support roles.

In the mobile game “Battle Chronicle,” during the anniversary event “The Jester Who Crosses Time” and its sequel “Irregular Record,” Syr (Freya) travels seven years into the past and falls in love with an earlier Bell (under the name Al) at first sight.

Her feelings, shared with Horn through their connection, lead to a dangerous outcome: an eleven-year-old Syr appears before Bell with both murderous and romantic intent, holding a kitchen knife, while a nine-year-old Ais Wallenstein also appears and demands equal head pats when she notices Bell treats them differently.

In the mobile game “Water and Light Fullland,” Horn accompanies Bell’s group during a strange incident that engulfs Orario.

Players often comment that in this game, Horn functions as Bell’s effective heroine, and her long, text-filled messages fill the screen with some of the most intense yandere monologues in the franchise.

Freya

Freya is Horn’s absolute, all-consuming object of worship and love.

Horn’s entire identity is built around the desire to become Freya, serve Freya, and preserve Freya’s exalted divinity.

Interestingly, Horn wanted to become a “goddess,” while Freya longed to become a “daughter” and live as an ordinary girl.

Through Horn’s transformation magic, both wishes are fulfilled: Horn becomes Freya’s stand-in goddess, and Freya becomes Syr, the daughter-like mortal.

Horn believes she alone understands Freya’s true heart, even beyond Freya’s own self-awareness.

Her fanatical attempts to “protect” Freya from emotional corruption push her into trying to murder Bell, then into betraying Freya twice—for the sake of saving Freya’s soul.

Haze Velvet

Haze Velvet is a fellow follower of Freya and one of the people Horn has known the longest.

They fought together even during the so-called “Dark Age” seven years before the main story.

Horn tends to drop her stiff formal speech around Haze, speaking more roughly and showing irritation or worry more openly.

Haze sees Horn as awkward but a genuine friend, even as Haze herself later shows a level of Freya-worship that makes Bell remark that she and Horn are like mirror images.

Bell Cranel

Bell Cranel is the focus of Horn’s most complicated and intense feelings.

She initially despises him as the one who “corrupted” Freya, stole the goddess’ heart, and pulled her down from her ideal pedestal.

Horn’s hatred is real and violent; she seriously plans to kill Bell and nearly does.

But because she shares Freya’s senses through Vana Seidr and watches Bell through Syr’s eyes, she gradually comes to understand his heart and unconsciously falls in love with him herself.

What results is pure love-hate: she hurls abuse at him, calls him every insult imaginable, and yet throws herself between him and danger, entrusts him with Freya’s salvation, and collapses on him in relief when he returns alive.

The gods watching the situation describe her as a “cool-type yandere beauty,” and her “tsundere from hell” behavior becomes something of a running joke.

Despite her harsh attitude, her warmth and loyalty toward Bell are genuine.

She deeply values the fact that he saved not only Freya and Syr, but also the broken girl who once wished to stop being herself.

Laurier Swarl

Laurier Swarl is an elf who, like Horn, harbors heavy feelings for Bell.

In a short story collection, Horn meets Laurier while Laurier is conducting a survey for an adventurer ranking and they end up talking about Bell.

Horn then spends a very long time pouring out her own tangled love-hate monologue about Bell, which horrifies Laurier.

Seeing Laurier’s own clumsy infatuation and missteps—eerily similar to another airheaded elf—Horn nicknames her “Clumsy Elf 2.”

Horn is a level 2 adventurer, considered upper-class at that level.

Despite her position at “only” level 2, her unique magic and status as Freya’s double make her extremely dangerous and strategically crucial.

Her known parameters at the cited point are:

Level: 2

Strength: H122

Endurance: I94

Dexterity: G227

Agility: H180

Magic: S998

Skills

False God Canon (Der Carta)

Details are not fully explained.

The name suggests a “fake divine law” or pseudo-god doctrine, possibly related to her role imitating a goddess.

Bewitching Ashen Light (Vanadis Sjur)

Again, details are not given.

Likely tied to charm or illusion, reflecting Freya’s domain of beauty and allure.

Development Ability

Artifact (Shinki)

The specifics are unknown.

Given the term, it probably relates to sacred or special equipment and her connection to divine-level roles.

Magic

Vana Seidr (Transformation Magic)

Incantation: “O untraveled stair, forbidden gate, on this day, my body defies the law of heaven. Empty soul, base craving, by the true name we exchanged, descend, daughter of the gods.”

Vana Seidr is Horn’s signature and unprecedented transformation magic, born from her overwhelming desire “to become the goddess.”

It allows her to transform into Freya, perfectly mimicking her appearance and charm-based authority, though she cannot use Arcanum (true divine power).

As Freya, she can wield a form of charm derived from the goddess’ beauty, enabling her to influence others at a large scale.

It is one of the few methods known to open a “forbidden domain,” comparable in rarity and danger to the “Sage” class of magic.

A side effect allows Horn to become Syr, a “daughter” aspect Freya once had in heaven.

Because of the true name exchange, Freya also gains the ability to transform into Syr without using her divine powers, making this magic the key to their shared three-faced existence: Freya, Horn, and Syr.

The magic’s backlash can be severe: extreme use can lead to collapse or coma, as seen when Horn tries to kill herself and ends up in a suspended, half-dead state.

It is also deeply entangled with memory, identity, and emotional sharing, making it as psychologically dangerous as it is powerful.

Rabbit-killing Knife

A black short blade that Horn has been shown to draw in short stories.

It appears to be a personal assassination tool, associated in fan discussions with her attempts to “hunt the white rabbit” (Bell).

Reverse Legs of Rabbit Hunt (Rabbit Curse)

A cursed tool, details unknown.

The name evokes twisted pursuit and suggests a weapon or item designed specifically to hunt or torment Bell, the “white rabbit” of the series.

Horn’s name is likely derived from “Hörn,” one of the many epithets of Freya in Norse mythology.

Freya is also known by the name “Sýr,” which strongly hints at the connection between Freya, Syr, and Horn even before it is revealed in the story.

Symbolically, Horn, Syr, and Freya represent three aspects of the same being: the goddess, the daughter, and the worshiper who wants to become her.

Their true-name exchange and magical link turn that symbolism into literal shared bodies, memories, and feelings.

In spinoff games and events, Horn consistently stands out as one of the franchise’s most dangerously devoted and entertaining yandere characters.

Her long, screen-filling in-game monologues have led many fans to call her “Dungeon’s number one yandere,” a title she more than lives up to.