Matrona

Name: Matrona

Gender: Female

Race: Giant

Alias: Fang of the Land

Role/Occupation: Chief of the warriors of the giant village Megadoza

Age: 820 years old

Height: 955 cm

Weight: Unknown

Blood Type: A

Birthday: December 21

Hometown: Megadoza

Power Level: 7600

Magic Power: 2200

Strength: 4400

Spirit: 1000

Magic Ability: Creation

First Appearance Context: Mentor and guardian figure to Diane

Voice Actress: Rina Satou

Matrona is a towering, heavily muscled giant woman known for her overwhelming physical strength and iron discipline.

She embodies a strict warrior ethos, believing that strength and combat skill are essential for survival.

She was once so stubborn that her personality could be described as “stubbornness made flesh.”

Because of this, she trained Diane with harsh methods, constantly pushing her to become stronger.

Despite her severity, Matrona’s actions are rooted in a deep sense of responsibility and care.

After gaining a family later in life, she softens considerably, showing a warmer, more openly protective side.

Matrona comes from the giant village Megadoza, where she served as chief of the warriors.

In this role, she led her people in battle and set the standard for what it meant to be a warrior among giants.

Diane’s parents entrusted their daughter to Matrona, asking her to raise Diane strong enough to survive on her own.

Matrona agreed, but because she only knew how to live as a fighter, she could teach only combat and discipline, not gentleness or ordinary everyday life.

Sixteen years before the main storyline, Matrona was hired along with her giants by Holy Knight Ganon of the kingdom of Liones.

Ganon lured her into a trap, coating arrows with deadly poison and turning the mission into a slaughter.

During this ambush, Matrona protected Diane by taking a poisoned arrow for her.

She was reported dead afterward, and Diane lived for years believing her mentor had died that day.

In reality, Matrona was saved by a human mercenary she had once fought against.

During an earlier battle, Diane had spared this man’s life, and he repaid that mercy by rescuing Matrona.

The poison destroyed Matrona’s right leg, forcing it to be amputated.

She survived, but now lives with a prosthetic right leg, which she uses with remarkable skill and strength despite the injury.

Matrona went on to become the second wife of the mercenary who had saved her.

She lived peacefully with him and his two children from his previous marriage, Zola and Dela, forming a quiet, makeshift family far from the battlefield.

This family life softened Matrona’s once-rigid personality.

While she never lost her warrior nature, she became more flexible, affectionate, and openly caring, especially toward children.

Magic: Creation

Matrona possesses the magic ability known as Creation, the same type of earth-manipulating power used by Diane.

This magic allows her to control and reshape earth and rock, using the terrain itself as a weapon and shield.

Her combat style combines overwhelming physical strength with precise control over stone and soil.

She can both crush enemies directly and manipulate the battlefield to trap, bury, or shred opponents.

Gokuaku (Infernal Grip)

Matrona uses Creation to gather rocks and boulders into a concentrated mass around her target.

This technique traps and imprisons the enemy, pinning or crushing them with overwhelming pressure from all sides.

Saiha (Stone Breaker)

With Saiha, Matrona manipulates nearby rocks to launch a relentless barrage of projectiles at her opponent.

This move is similar to Diane’s technique Rush Rock, bombarding the target with high-speed stones.

Ryugekisho (Flowing Strike Palm)

In this technique, Matrona pulverizes stone into fine particles, turning solid rock into sand.

The move is very similar to Diane’s Sand Whirl, allowing her to erode terrain, disarm stone-based defenses, or create shifting ground that hampers enemy movement.

Physical and Combat Ability

Matrona’s physical power is immense even by giant standards.

Her power level emphasizes raw strength, making her a terrifying close-combat fighter.

As chief warrior of Megadoza, she is a veteran battlefield commander with extensive combat experience.

Her fighting style blends disciplined martial arts, brute force, and tactical use of earth magic.

Even with a prosthetic leg, Matrona remains agile and deadly.

Her experience and discipline let her adapt to her injury without losing combat effectiveness.

Mentor to Diane

Matrona is central to Diane’s upbringing and development.

Diane’s parents entrusted Diane to her, hoping Matrona would make their daughter strong enough to survive the harsh world.

Under Matrona’s training, Diane grew up in a strict, often harsh environment.

Matrona pushed her relentlessly, focusing on combat skills and survival rather than comfort or emotional reassurance.

Because of this severity, Diane once believed that Matrona cared only about strength and duty.

However, Matrona’s willingness to die protecting Diane reveals the depth of her hidden affection.

In Baizel’s fighting festival, a shrunken Diane later uses Matrona’s name as her ring name.

This reflects Diane’s lingering respect and emotional connection to her former master, even while believing Matrona to be dead.

The Incident with Ganon

Sixteen years before the main events, Matrona and her warriors accepted a job from Holy Knight Ganon of Liones.

The mission was a trap: Ganon plotted to eliminate the giants using poisoned arrows and deceit.

During the ambush, Matrona shielded Diane, taking a lethal poisoned arrow in Diane’s place.

Everyone who witnessed the scene or heard the report believed that Matrona had died from the wound.

This apparent death devastated Diane and shaped her past, leaving her with the belief that she had lost her mentor forever.

In truth, this moment marked a turning point leading Matrona toward a new life outside of constant warfare.

Survival and New Family

Contrary to reports of her death, Matrona survived because of the intervention of a human mercenary.

He was a man Matrona had once fought when the giants were hired as enemies against his side.

During that earlier clash, Diane’s kindness changed the outcome: she spared the man instead of killing him.

This act of mercy became the reason Matrona was saved, showing how Diane’s compassion influenced fate beyond her knowledge.

The mercenary rescued Matrona and tended to her despite the severe poison.

Although her right leg could not be saved and had to be amputated, her life was preserved.

Matrona eventually became his second wife and settled down with him and his two children, Zola and Dela.

She shifted from being only a war leader to also being a mother figure, helping raise the children as part of their family.

Living as a wife and maternal figure changed Matrona’s worldview.

She learned to value ordinary happiness and emotional bonds, not just strength and battle.

Return During the Baizel Great Fighting Festival

Later in the story, Demon Clan members Galland and Monspeet attack Diane.

During this crisis, Matrona reappears, rescuing Diane from their assault.

At the same time, the children she lives with are threatened by demons summoned by Melascula.

To protect Zola and Dela, Matrona participates in the Baizel Great Fighting Festival.

There, she fights not only to safeguard Diane, her former disciple, but also to defend her new family.

Her actions at Baizel highlight the balance she has found between her roles as warrior, mentor, and mother.

Diane

Diane is Matrona’s former disciple and the person Matrona was entrusted to raise.

Their relationship begins as strictly teacher and student, governed by discipline and demanding training.

Matrona’s training shapes Diane’s combat style and her mastery of Creation magic.

Even though Diane often felt Matrona was harsh or unkind, Matrona’s protection and sacrifice prove her deep care.

Diane’s choice to spare a human mercenary indirectly saves Matrona’s life years later.

This creates a powerful, if initially unknown, link between their past kindness and Matrona’s survival.

Matrona’s Husband and Children

Matrona’s unnamed mercenary husband is the man who saved her from death after the poisoned arrow incident.

He offers her a second life away from the battlefield and welcomes her into his family.

Zola and Dela are his two children from his first marriage, whom Matrona treats as her own.

They draw out her gentle side and give her a reason to fight that is not just about honor or duty, but about family and love.

Protecting these children becomes one of Matrona’s highest priorities.

Her participation in the Baizel Great Fighting Festival is driven largely by the need to save them from the demons attacking under Melascula’s influence.

Other Connections

Matrona is indirectly tied to Liones through the betrayal by Holy Knight Ganon.

This betrayal contributes to the tragic separation between her and Diane and exemplifies how giants were exploited by humans.

Through Diane, she is also connected to The Seven Deadly Sins and the broader conflicts of the world.

While not a member of the group, her influence on Diane helps shape one of its core members into the warrior she becomes.