MALIE NOIR:

One of the two No. 9 ranked Crossbones alongside Kreuz, with her specific roles being support, rapid offense, scouting, and some level of spying. A girl from the same world as Kreuz and Akira - the Isekai one with the long title, she was born to a simple commoner family in a simple commoner village, and grew up with a mostly uneventful life until she one day decided to take up research of the arcane arts of magic, becoming a witch girl, which she used to protect her town from danger regularly - though this was at times difficult, as she always had a somewhat morbid personality and a slightly selfish streak to her, but the adoration she got from her village was enough to counterbalance her hesitation and make her an overall pure defender of the common people in her world. In time she was a teenager and peace had returned to her town enough for her to justify leaving to strike out as an adventurer, which she promptly did, joining a party with a few other adventurers to explore the world and destroy demons throughout the world. However, as they were exploring one day they eventually discovered a boy who spoke an alien language and dressed in clothes unlike anything they had ever seen, and they of course though "what the hell, who is this dude" and decided to knock him out and take him to a nearby village. There she and the others learned - after he was given an enchantment that let him speak their language - that he had come from an entire other world, and it became evident he was the prophesied Hero from Beyond that would destroy the Demon King - or at least they hoped he was, and so let him join their party. They fought Kreuz, went on adventures, and all sorts of similar things, and Malie came to see him as a friend even if she enjoyed teasing him - but the more time she spent with him - as he was rapidly growing stronger, the less confident she felt in herself, and she felt a deep lack of direction. Thus, when something evidently heard her prayers and sent her an invitation offering her the direction she sought, she felt it couldn't hurt to try, and accepted. Once in the Calling, she was nearly doomed without her party, and almost died to the alchemist Ermes who had decided to take her as 'raw material' for her experiments, only for Kreuz - the enemy she had fought with so regularly - to come in and help her fight off Ermes in return for Malie journeying with her for the time being. Thus, the morbid and macabre side of Malie's personality soon took root and began growing, now that she was in the company of Kreuz, and while she eventually returned to her party, she felt the emptiness return, having felt more alive during her time with Kreuz - and thus decided to return, and alongside Kreuz, joined a positively hellish troupe together...