Kagali

Kagali (カガリ) is a former Demon Lord, and president of the Moderate Harlequin Alliance, who was once known as "Curse Lord" Kazalim (カザリーム) in the past. Seemingly killed by Leon Cromwell 200 years ago, Kagali managed to survive by escaping as just an Astral Body and now occupies a Homunculus.

She began serving under Yuuki Kagurazaka as a secretary while still influencing the world with the help of her subordinates from the Moderate Harlequin Alliance.

Appearance
Kazalim - A scarred male elf usually covered in a cloak and wearing a mask.

Kagali - A beautiful female elf with violet eyes and blonde hair, usually wearing formal attire.

Personality
Kagali, during her time as one of the Demon Lords, was infamously known to be a cruel and power-hungry individual. She garnered a lot of infamy due to her having utilized unique curse abilities to forcibly make several high-class beings into servants in order to further consolidate power. She was also known to be highly destructive and ill-tempered once set off, having antagonized Roy Valentin and causing mass destruction during the subsequent battle against him.

Kagali was also known to be a highly cunning and intelligent Demon Lord, having initially gained a reputation from her uncanny ability to gather information and create complex and ingenious schemes. She was known to control things behind the scenes rather than reveal her hand. This is seen during numerous schemes to recruit several Demon Lord potentials as allies by advocating their claims to join the Demon Lord Council in order to obtain further political power amongst peers.

However, despite her violent and manipulative tendencies, Kagali was also shown to have a lighter and more friendly side, seen during her interactions with the members of the Moderate Harlequin Alliance, who are all genuinely loyal to each other and view themselves as family.

Kagali is also shown to possess a very vengeful side to her personality, as seen where she was greatly angered by Clayman's death and swore to avenge him, and she still felt immense anger and vengeful hatred for Leon Cromwell due to him having defeated and killing her original body.

Background
Centuries ago, Kagali was once the princess of the Ultra-Sorcery Kingdom of the Elves, which, at the time, was one of the most prosperous kingdoms in the world. Kagali had to suffer a great deal of misfortune due to her father, the King, who disfigured her through his experiments, giving her a masculine body as well as a new name, Kazalim. Ashamed of her once beautiful face gone forever, she began to wear a mask and hid her scarred body by donning robes, and started referring to the name Kazalim. Eventually, her homeland would soon spell its own destruction by the arrogance and stupidity of its king, angering a young girl who would one day become a Demon Lord - Milim Nava, the daughter of Star King Dragon Veldanava, resulting in the nation being completely obliterated and destroyed by her rage.

Kagali was one of the few remaining elves who survived the disaster. Witnessing Milim's wrath firsthand caused the latter to adopt a healthy fear and respect for her power.

As one of the surviving elven royalty, Kagali attempted to rebuild her lost homeland. By using the knowledge and technology she preserved from the original fallen elven nation, now known as the great ruin "Soma," she managed to expand on and recreate many of its lost technologies, resulting in the creation of the capital city, Amarita, of the Puppet Nation Jistav.

Originally, Kagali was one of the Demon Lords that were active prior to the appearance of Demon Lords Carrion, Frey, and Clayman. She quickly built up a fearsome reputation as a cunning schemer due to her uncanny ability to gather information.

After joining the Demon Lord Council, Kagali began actively searching for and recruiting beings of similar potential and power who had the capability to become Demon Lords, to become her subordinates. Kagali would also create such beings personally using magic, as seen where she created and engineered Clayman specifically to become a Demon Lord and also created Tear and Footman, who were shown to have formidable combat prowess that could possibly make them a match against a Demon Lord. She created them using a variation of the original forbidden magic "Birthday"; its original power was to unify the power of tens of thousands of corpses and then give them a form, or board the will of a particular being into the flesh. In order to never forget the humiliation of the past, she fell prey to the forbidden art.

During her time as one of the Demon Lords, Kagali was known to have battled against Roy Valentin, who was noted to have power equivalent to her own. Their battle was destructive enough that all the surrounding territories around them were destroyed, resulting in the passing of a certain custom – which has seen use into the present – whereby all disputes between Demon Lords' are decided via a majority vote. However, despite having fought him, it was shown that Kagali was oblivious to Demon Lord Valentin's true position as a servant to the actual Demon Lord Luminous Valentine, holding his council seat.

Kagali, alongside Milim, would also advocate the claim of Carrion as a Demon Lord and would also back up Frey and Clayman's claims in order to allow them into the Council in order to obtain further political pull amongst fellow Demon lords.

Eventually, Kagali would come across or hear about Leon Cromwell, who had declared himself a Demon Lord. As no one stepped up to support Leon's claim, he was deemed a Self-Proclaimed Demon Lord, causing Kagali to step in to eliminate Leon for daring to call himself a Demon Lord, leading to the two fighting each other. In actuality, however, Kagali wanted to gain more power and decided to recruit Leon, as they did with Carrion and Frey. However, upon reaching Leon's territory and seeing his beautiful face, Kagali was enraged and jealous, reminded of her lost beauty, and attacked him.

Kagali lost the fight and her body was destroyed. However, she had successfully survived their encounter and for over a hundred years, wandered around as a disembodied spirit, with her consciousness and mind slowly dissipating due to lack of a body. It was only until 10 years prior to Rimuru's reincarnation that she successfully possessed and shared the body with an Otherworlder, Yuuki Kagurazaka, and from there she acquired the current female elf Homunculus body. Grateful for Yuuki's help, despite originally having tried to snatch his body, she began working closely together with him to reach their shared goals, and took on the identity of Kagali, Yuuki's secretary.

Trivia

 * It's been stated by Yuuki Kagurazaka and Kagali that her current homunculus body was one of the Sorcerer's Dynasty Sarion's specially made products.
 * Her original body was a female, being the Princess of the Ultra-Sorcery Kingdom of the elves, but was disfigured and forcibly transformed into a male body. After the death of her original body, she possessed the female Homunculus body. As such, it can be said that she had to change her gender twice throughout her lifetime.
 * In Volume 8, she decides to call herself Kagali temporarily, telling Yuuki that she will call herself Kazalim only after taking vengeance on Leon. As of Volume 19, she no longer calls herself Kazalim and prefers being called by her current name, Kagali.
 * She debuts in Volume 2 of the Light Novel, though only mentioned by her title as the "Curse Lord." Her actual debut is in Volume 6, though there is no mention of her current identity as Kagali and she is only called Kazalim. Her debut as Kagali, however, is in Volume 9.

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