Fran

hailing from the Black Cat Tribe, a historically oppressed sub-race of beastmen cursed by the gods to be unable to evolve. Orphaned at a young age after her parents died trying to find a way to break this evolutionary lock, Fran was captured and spent years enduring brutal, abusive treatment as a slave until a monster attack on her slave caravan led her to find and unearth Teacher, a sentient, reincarnated sword. By pulling him from the ground, she formed a deep soul-bond with him, gaining access to his vast pool of shared skills, magic, and statistics while granting him a wielder to channel his power. Despite her tragic upbringing, Fran possesses an incredibly stoic, blunt, and fiercely independent personality, frequently taking things literally, maintaining a deadpan demeanor in battle, and harboring a massive, comedic obsession with eating curry. Driven by her parents' legacy, her primary ambition is to become the first Black Cat beastman to achieve evolution, a feat long deemed impossible. She actively avoids relying solely on Teacher's borrowed strength, training relentlessly to hone her independent martial skills, combat instincts, and magical control. Throughout her journeys as a registered adventurer, she commands a shadow-wolf familiar named Urushi and steadily shatters her tribe's limitations. She ultimately achieves the legendary Black Sky Tiger (or Heavenly Tiger) evolution, unlocking devastating black lightning manipulation and earning the feared, revered moniker of the Black Lightning Princess. Her growth culminates in the even higher Divine Heavenly Tiger Kin evolution, which allows her to channel true divine energy through her signature technique, Divine Manifestation: God of Sword, delivering unmitigated, absolute destruction that bypasses all conventional elemental defenses and firmly solidifies her status as one of the world's most elite and unstoppable warriors.