Lutz (Anime)

Lutz (ルッツ, Ruttsu) is Myne's neighbor and close childhood friend. He promised to help make all Myne's ideas a reality.

He is currently an apprentice merchant at the Gilberta Company, where he trains under Benno.

Lutz has short blond hair and emerald eyes. Growing up in the lower city, he has a scruffy appearance and wears patched secondhand clothing. However, he begins to dress in nicer clothing after joining the Gilberta Company as an apprentice.

Due partly to growing up as the youngest of four, Lutz has a patient and calm personality. He isn't put off by Myne's outlandish ideas; instead, he takes a practical approach and plans how to make them a reality.

Despite his easygoing nature, Lutz can be exceedingly stubborn and tenacious. He works tirelessly to achieve his dreams of becoming a merchant. Lutz is also a loyal friend to Myne. He pays close attention to her health, gives her advice, fights on her behalf, and comforts her when she's feeling down.

Lutz was born to a very poor family in the south of the city of Ehrenfest. His father Deid was a carpenter, and his mother Karla was a textile worker. His three older brothers, Zasha, Sieg, and Ralph often took away his food and belongings, and Lutz didn’t always get enough to eat.

Before Urano’s memories awoke in Myne, Lutz didn’t see her very often due to her illness. Like most commoner children, he spent the years before his baptism helping around the house and foraging for food in the woods with his brothers.

When Tuuli and Myne go to visit their father at the city gate, they encounter Lutz, his older brother Ralph, and their cousin Fey who are going out to forage in the woods. Seeing how frail Myne is, Lutz offers to carry her. However, Ralph says that Lutz is too small to carry her and offers to do it instead.

On the way to the gate, Ralph comments on how nice Tuuli's hair smells, and Lutz also praises Myne's. He says she looks much nicer with her hair out of her face, a compliment which flusters her greatly.

Lutz and his brother Ralph go to visit Myne's family home to purchase some of their parue pulp to use as birdfeed. He admits that with four boys in his house, there's not always enough food to go around. Myne uses the the parue pulp to make paruecakes for them. After happily eating his fill, Lutz tells her that he'll lend her a hand whenever she needs help in the future.

He sought her help when he heard about Otto, a former traveling merchant from her to introduce him.

In order to become a traveling merchant, he is willing to help Myne as much as she needs, though he accepts the compromise Myne staged to become a merchant instead during his meeting with Otto and Benno. Benno soon becomes impressed with his capacity to accompany Myne and her recklessness. Then, Benno assigned Lutz to be Myne's health manager.

Lutz starts to get suspicious of Myne's abnormal behavior and vast knowledge but he decides to wait until they complete Benno's test. After they finished making the paper prototypes, Lutz confronts her to tell the truth and Myne reveals her secret. At first, he thought she killed the real Myne but realisles after Myne's explanation, that no one would be willingly trapped in a body of a sickly girl, so he accepts her, as she is the Myne he knows and befriended.

After passing Benno's test he is registered in the Merchant's Guild alongside with Myne with Benno is their guardian. He will sign a lehange contract after his baptism.

Benno begins to think about making Lutz his successor, as Lutz is an honest, capable and diligent worker. Therefore he wants to take Lutz to another city where he plans to build a new paper workshop. Lutz's family didn't allow him to travel to another city with Benno which is why Lutz runs away from home. Myne meddles and even involves the High Priest Ferdinand into this matter. Followed by an invitation to his parents and the Gilberta Company, Ferdinand holds a meeting with before-mentioned parties and Myne to solve Lutz's problem. It turns out, that there was miscommunication and misunderstandings between Lutz and his family. They made up and resolved Lutz's problem. The Gilberta Company offers him a leherl contract which Lutz accepts.


 * Lutz was the first person to find out the truth about Myne's past life as Urano. (The second was the High Priest.) He was also the only one to accept her story on faith, with no external proof.