Gunther

Gunther (ギュンター Gyuntaa) is the father of Myne, Tuuli and Kamil. He worked as a captain for the city gate, but has been promoted to gate commander shortly after the birth of his son.

Gunther has blue hair and light brown eyes and is often times seen wearing his work uniform consisting of a blue tunic.

Gunther is a doting father and loves to talk about his family, especially about his daughters to anyone who will listen. He is quite aggressive if his family is threatened and will put himself at risk to defend them. This is shown among other times when defending Myne against the High Bishop twice even though he knows that attacking a noble would cost him his life. Gunther is described as being like a child, that can't tell reality and dream apart. He charges head-on without considering his surroundings or consequences, and feels frustrated if he doesn't reach his goal.

He easily gets jealour or pouty when his daughters praise other men in his presence without also praising him, but is easily put back into a good mood once they acknowledge his "greatness".

Gunther is the son of a woodworker and dreamed of becoming a knight after listening to minstrel tales of knights. He didn't gave up his dream and became a soldier who protected his city. He applied for apprenticeship at the gate asking the commander, who was also Effa's father, and was accepted.

When he first met Effa he fell in love with her at first sight and would visit her every single day at her home and ask her father for her hand in marriage. Thanks to Gunther's passion his marriage proposal was consented if Effa wanted to marry him. Eventually he won Effa over by proposing like a knight would; he knelt in front of Effa and offered a feystone he acquired after slaying a feybeast. He said: "I became a soldier because I genuinely want to protect this city and my family. You didn't laugh at that, Effa, and I love you for it. I want you by my side."

During his work he became well aquainted with the traveling merchant Otto. When Otto out of the blue bought his citizenship in Ehrenfest and needed a job to propose to his crush Corinna, Gunther introduced him to the gate commander and Otto was hired as a soldier, so they had someone competent to do all the paperwork.

By the time Myne reached her fifth year, his dedicated service has earned him the position of Captain, the second in command at his local post.

The teams guarding each gate get relocated in regular intervalls. At the start of the story Gunther is guarding the southern gate and thus often sees and interacts with the children going out to forage in the forst.

Gunther forgets something for work and Myne has to bring it over there.

Gunther decides Myne can head to the forest only after building up her stamina by demonstrating she can reach the south gate with other children. During the time Myne is gaining strength to make it all the way by herself, Myne meets Otto and he teaches her how to read and write.

At her baptism Myne stumbles upon a bookroom in the temple and without thinking further tries to apply for a priest apprenticeship on the spot. After a talk with her family and learning how poorly the priests in the temple that are not nobles are treated, she tries to talk her way out of it, but upon learning of her devouring, the temple won't let her go.

The High Bishop summons her parents and upon learning they are not just commoners, but poor as well starts to treat the family very harshly. When Gunther and Effa refuse to just turn over Myne without some assurances, due to their well grounded fears that Myne would not survive the work expected of a grey shrine maiden for long, the High Bishop loses his temper and sends his attendents to take Myne by force. Gunther - fully knowing that resisting a noble like this is punishable by death - uses his soldiers training to fight off the priests, who never learned how to fight and were taught that violence is wrong, with relative ease, knocking them out.

This makes the High Bishop even more furious and he screams that he will have Myne's entire family executed for defying him, which makes Myne's mana rage out of control and crushes him. In her rage Myne almost kills the Bishop, but High Priest stepps between them and eventually manages to calm her down. With the High Bishop unconscious, the High Priest takes over the negotiations and agrees to the demands by Myne's family that she be treated as a blue shrine maiden and be allowed to commute home, rather than having to live at the temple.

During Myne's time as a shrine maiden apprentice, Effa gives birth to the newest member of the family, a body they name Kamil. Despite the fears and worries that Effa's two misscarriages, the death of their firstborn son and Myne's poor health caused in Gunther, the boy is brought into this world healthy and grows up fine. It is also in this time that Gunther's guard team is rotated to the east gate, putting him in a better position to assure his daughter's savety, since the east gate is where most foreigners arrive from.

While the Archduke is absent from the city due to attending the archduke's conference shortly after spring prayer, Damuel, a layknight assigned to guard Myne following an incident when the blue shrine maiden acompanied the Knight's Order on a Trombe extermination, warns Gunther that people may be out to harm her and to keep an eye on which nobles go through the gates, especially those from other duchies. He takes this very seriously and is quick to call all the gate commanders together to inform them of this and that the information and order come directly from a noble knight.

All the gate commanders except for the one of the east gate take Gunther's message seriously and immediately spring into action. His own superior though procrastinated and this delay enables a foreign noble to enter the city with several of his soldiers with a forged permit, provided to him by the High Bishop.

These soldiers turned out to be devouring soldiers, equipped with magic tools and taught to use magic. A small group of them attacks Myne in the streets of the commoner's quarter also wrapping up her sister Tuuli who was with her at the time, but this ambush is foiled by Gunther, Damuel and Otto. After the enemies are defeated, Gunther tells Otto to bring Tuuli to the Gilberta Company's store for shelter, while he acompanies Myne and Damuel to the temple to get help from the High Priest. On the way Myne stamps her blood on a talisman that the enigmatic Blue Priest Brother Sylvester had given to her should she ever be in trouble, but beyond a spot on the neckless beginning to glow, it does not seem to have any immediate effect.

When this first kidnapping attempt fails, the foreign noble - Count Bindewald of Ahrensbach - intercepts and attacks Myne personally along with the High Bishop and his remaining devouring soldiers before Myne and her protectors can reach the High Priest's chamber. In the ensuing fight Gunther, Damuel, Myne and even Myne's attendant Fran fight fiercely and manage to take out all the devouring soldiers, but stand no chance against the overwhelming magical prowess of an archnoble. The three men are all knocked out, with Damuel and Gunther receiving serious injuries and Myne is pinned on the floor by one of the High Bishops attendents. Thankfully their determined resistence bought enough time for the High Priest to arrive in time to prevent Bindewald from getting any of Myne's blood on the submission contract he had prepared for her. The High Priest initially moves to restrain Myne for attacking a noble, since regardless of who started the right, a commoner attacking or trying to fend off a noble is a crimil act. But upon seeing the activated talisman goes to restrain the High Bishop and personally defeat Bindewald in a mana duel.

Spoiler for the end of Part 2 Volume 4 and beyond Once the dust settles Sylvester also steps out of the High Priest's room and reveals himself to be non other than the Archduke of Ehrenfest and that by stamping her blood on the talisman, Myne signed an adoption contract, making her the daughter of the Archduke. This meant she was already no longer a commoner when Bindewald attacked her and thus had every right to defend herself. Furthermore attacking her - a member of the archucal family - was a grave crime, regardless of whether the attackers were aware of her status or not.

Sylvester then sends the stunned and injured Gunther to gather his family and bring them to the temple. Once he returns with them, they are informed that Myne's name has been changed to Rozemyne and that the official story is that the commoner Myne died just now and her body has been stolen by a foreign noble. They are forced into signing a magic contract that will prevent them from telling the truth, forbids them and Myne from treating each other as family and forces them to treat Rozemyne like they would any other noble.

In a heartfelt and tearful good-bye the newly recrismed Rozemyne pours her heart into a final blessing by beseeching all the seven gods at once. The resulting magic completely heals the injuries of Gunther, Fran and Damuel, and makes Effa fully recover from the weakness following her recent giving birth to Kamil.

As part of the cover-up the family holds a funeral for Myne, writing "To our beloved daughter" on her gave-marker, marking her grave somewhat special since the vast majority of poor commoners can't read or write and thus most gravemarkers in that part of the graveyard don't have any writing on them.

Not long ater the incident is over, Gunther is promoted to be the new commander of his team. It is not explicitly stated what happened to the previous commander, but considering that he disobeyed an order by Damuel - a noble - and how even the High Bishop was sentenced to death, it is very likely he was executed.

He is still supportive of his daughter, now Rozemyne with his family, when they are able to, often checking on her at the various ceremonies from the door of the temple. He later gets to interact with her when she requests city guards to accompany her to Hasse. Rozemyne always requests him to lead the attachment of soldiers and talks to him and his soldiers during the meal, if the situation allows it. Due to the presence of the other soldiers and Rozemyne's guard knights and the effects of the magic contract, they have to be careful of their words and actions, but even so these small interactions help to ease both their hearts.


 * When Justus is seeking information about Myne from the soldiers at the gate where Gunther works, he was warned off by the soldiers not to bring up Gunther's daughters with Gunther as he will talk your ear off about them to you.
 * Effa thinks Gunther is at fault for how Myne behaves.
 * Gunther loves the refreshing feeling when drinking behelle after work.
 * His name was most likely inspired by the common German first names of Günther or Gunter. The use of ギュ (gyu) rather than グ (gu) makes the former the liklier candidate for the origin.