Rita

Rita is Karl's first personal guidance professor and the Golden Divine Academy instructor who turns his unprecedented Beast Master awakening into a workable combat education. Initially an Ascendant-ranked sergeant, she combines blunt physical training with careful testing, field doctrine, and an insistence on institutional responsibility. She later advances through Lieutenant to Major and Royal rank, remaining an Academy leader as a new generation of awakened students forces the school to change.

Biography

An unprecedented student makes Rita both instructor and investigator

Rita meets Karl when the Academy decides that his unusual class cannot be served by the standard warrior timetable. She identifies herself as his combat skills professor and personal guidance professor, promises martial arts and essential Elite training, and immediately asks for a complete account of his powers so she can build a plan rather than force an unknown class into an existing syllabus. Her frank warning that combat constructs are more desirable than an exposed warrior startles Karl, but also convinces him that she is assessing his prospects honestly. When Hawk appears, she moves from skepticism to investigation and proposes finding a sturdier second beast, accepting that Karl's future depends on making an unfamiliar bond tactically viable. (Chapter 11)

Her first spar gives that plan a practical foundation. Rita uses paired daggers, withstands Karl and Hawk's attacks, and recognizes that Hawk's accuracy is already dangerous while Karl remains the obvious target whenever his beast attacks from range. Instead of teaching a glamorous finishing technique, she prescribes physical conditioning, evasion, and the baseline physique needed to survive until a defender or team can take pressure away from him. The punishing agility routine that follows is therefore not arbitrary cruelty: Rita deliberately builds strength without so much bulk that Karl loses mobility, adapting ordinary warrior training to the resistance imposed by his shared skill. (Chapters 12–13)

Rita also treats the Beast Master awakening as a problem that requires evidence. She tests Karl with psychic stones and a Dragon-blessed coin, discovers his response to dragon energy, and brings monster blood to see whether a cultivation resource can help Hawk. Her broader explanation of Academy policy is equally pragmatic: golems, summons, and barriers are cultivated because keeping human Elites behind expendable or durable protectors reduces casualties. She is willing to experiment, but does so through observed affinity, controlled resources, and repeated measurement rather than assuming every beast-related object will work. (Chapters 13–14 and 17)

As Karl's team grows, Rita's work shifts from identifying the class to managing its consequences. She tests Rae and the other beasts, helps define specialized training goals, consults other professors where their expertise is better, and reminds Karl that commanding beasts does not excuse neglecting his own physique and reflexes. She also protects other students from unsuitable practice: when a proposed matchup would make them targets for Rae's bleed-effect optimization, Rita refuses and redirects the spider toward controlled training while preparing Karl for deployment. Her choices make the Academy a testing ground for the whole team without treating classmates as disposable resources. (Chapters 138–140, 148, and 153)

Field deployment turns Rita's lessons into operational doctrine

When Karl is sent to the Seminary Academy and then into another active deployment, Rita joins him rather than ending the mentorship at the classroom door. She explains convoy arrangements, keeps the group's Golden Divine Academy identity and equipment in order, and uses her military insignia to move them through a staging area. At the destination she deliberately has the students enter inconspicuously behind the soldiers and inspects their equipment before the operation, showing that her concern is not merely whether Karl can win a duel but whether an inexperienced mixed unit can enter a military structure without creating avoidable risk. (Chapters 181, 187–189)

Rita functions as both teacher and field-capable Elite. During patrol planning she recognizes language taken directly from the operator's handbook, then deploys behind Karl and Thor with Alice and the Church Guard while flankers move into position. Elsewhere, the patrol explicitly needs an Ascended-rank Elite and Rita fills that requirement, keeping pace with the military group while the younger members use the beasts for mobility. She does not monopolize command once Karl is capable of taking point; instead, she supplies the procedural knowledge and experienced presence that let him begin doing it responsibly. (Chapters 203 and 205)

The most durable result of the deployment is what Karl remembers after Rita is no longer present. Her estimate that only about six students in a graduating year reach Commander rank helps him understand that he has outgrown the Academy's normal team-building progression. Much later, in unfamiliar territory, he still relies on the crash course she made him memorize about tactics and the conventions and customs of war. Rita's mentorship therefore does not culminate in keeping him dependent on her. It gives him a framework for recognizing when standard structures no longer fit and for interpreting threats in regions whose customs he has never personally learned. (Chapters 323 and 473)

Lieutenant Rita scales personal mentorship into cooperative training

By Karl's later return to the Golden Dragon Nation, Rita has become a lieutenant and converted her small-team experience into Academy-wide organization. She controls scheduling for the nearby dungeon, including pickup groups for students not selected through class teams, and her cooperative-combat classes are student favorites. The role answers a new institutional pressure: awakenings have become far more common, so the Academy needs methods that teach strangers and mixed specialties to function together rather than relying only on carefully assembled permanent teams. (Chapter 1021)

Karl's return also changes the balance between former teacher and student. Rita jokes that other institutions should imprison him until he produces more skill books, then cautiously accepts [Hemotoxic Strikes] from him. The transferred skill prevents wounds from physical strikes from healing naturally and sends her into a new class-selection process. Karl chooses it because Rita has developed as an agility-type warrior and rejects brute-force paths as unsuitable for her; the scene preserves her established emphasis on speed and precise physical attacks while showing that the former student can now open advancement paths for the teacher. The corpus does not reveal which new class Rita selects. (Chapter 1208)

Rita remains the person who translates Karl's extraordinary growth into terms other people can use. She suggests the disused mage training grounds for his new trial structure and quietly explains to his mother that his restrained aura hides power, wealth, and skills beyond anything their continent normally sees. Her reaction is neither worship nor resentment. She understands the distance he has travelled, remembers the boy she trained, and helps the Academy benefit from his return without pretending that its old curriculum produced every part of what he became. (Chapter 1209)

Major Rita rebuilds the Academy for a changed generation

When an attack destroys the Academy's surface, Rita is already a Royal-ranked major. She keeps students protected in a damaged bunker, confirms that its mages have repaired the structure, and maintains the drill-instructor facade until she is sure the immediate emergency is controlled. Only then does she smile, ask Karl about married life, and direct him toward the next warped door. The reunion shows both sides of her authority: she can preserve routine under catastrophic pressure, yet her investment in former students is personal rather than merely administrative. (Chapter 1323)

Reconstruction places Rita between Karl and Rae's immense creative power and the needs of an institution that must live with the result. She immediately recognizes Karl's expression as the prelude to either a war crime or a practical joke, questions whether he can truly rebuild the campus, and resists simply replacing the old layout with whatever the beasts find entertaining. Once she sees Karl's Tiny World and understands the scale of his construction abilities, she brings his proposal toward formal approval rather than rejecting it. Her caution forces visionary power into a process with maps, administrators, safety requirements, and accountable decisions. (Chapters 1327 and 1329)

Rita ultimately accepts changes when they solve real failures. She supports moving bunker exits into open areas after seeing how many were buried beneath ruined buildings, and she asks where reconstruction should begin instead of continuing to defend the old plan for its own sake. After the new campus opens, she explains that the Academy is planning a second location because Remi's potion and newer awakening methods have radically increased enrollment. She also considers stricter graduation standards so that possessing a class does not automatically confer Elite status. By her latest appearance, Rita has developed from one anomalous student's tutor into a Royal-ranked administrator confronting how mass awakening changes the meaning of the institution she serves. (Chapters 1330 and 1337)

Appearance and personality

Rita is introduced as a sharp-featured female soldier with short black hair that she sometimes flips out of her eyes. Her teaching clothes emphasize function: a black tank top, green cargo pants, and clean boots for physical training. On deployment she wears a military uniform with insignia that grants access to staging areas, while her sparring equipment includes paired daggers. The corpus gives no later detailed redesign of her appearance after she becomes Major, so the confirmed visual progression is primarily one of uniform, rank, and professional setting rather than a stated bodily transformation. (Chapters 11–13, 17, and 188)

Her manner is severe, observant, and dryly humorous. Karl initially reads her as the opposite of kind and gentle, and she willingly drives him through exhausting routines, but her severity is consistently tied to a concrete responsibility: finding weaknesses, preventing casualties, preparing reports, and keeping students from being used in reckless tests. She can be startled, annoyed, or openly suspicious—especially around Alice, Rae, and Karl's more improvisational ideas—yet she changes her view when evidence supports it. The later Major still teases Karl and asks about his marriage, showing that the drill-instructor persona conceals enduring affection rather than replacing it. (Chapters 11, 25, 53, 73, 1323, and 1327–1330)

Abilities and class

Rita is a Royal-ranked agility-type warrior and professional combat instructor. She begins the corpus at Ascendant rank, is later addressed as Lieutenant, and is explicitly a Royal-ranked Major by Chapter 1323. The story does not supply the formal name of her original warrior class or the class she selects after receiving [Hemotoxic Strikes], so her profile can establish her combat type, rank, and demonstrated techniques without assigning an unsupported class title. (Chapters 11, 1021, 1208, and 1323)

Agility fighting and physical instruction

Rita's demonstrated personal style uses speed, positioning, and paired daggers. In her first spar with Karl, she parries projected attacks, dodges Hawk's dive, keeps both opponents within view, and surges forward quickly enough to overwhelm Karl while still holding back. The scene establishes an agile close-range fighter with the durability of a much stronger Elite, not a ranged specialist or heavy defender. Her later identification as an agility-type warrior confirms that this early practice remains consistent with her developed path. (Chapters 12 and 1208)

Her physical teaching is mechanical rather than ceremonial. Rita identifies the resistance Karl's skill places on his body, trains upper-body strength so he can push through it, and limits excess bulk because it would compromise evasion. She then combines conditioning with martial arts, weapons work, reflex practice, and repeated measurements of beast and human output. These methods apply especially well to Karl's exposed-controller weakness, but they are not a supernatural buff Rita can simply grant; students must endure the routines, obtain compatible resources, and practice until the desired physique and timing develop. (Chapters 12–13, 59, 138–139, and 148)

Hemotoxic Strikes

[Hemotoxic Strikes] is transferred to Rita by Karl's Champion ability rather than shown as part of her original class. Its stated mechanic is precise: wounds caused by the user's physical strikes do not heal naturally. That effect complements a fast dagger fighter by making even nonfatal cuts persist and by pressuring opponents who depend on ordinary recovery. The text does not demonstrate Rita using it in battle, does not state that it blocks magical healing, and does not reveal what class choice the skill unlocks; claims about poison damage, duration, stacking, or immunity would therefore go beyond the supplied evidence. (Chapter 1208)

Tactical analysis, command, and teaching

Rita's most thoroughly demonstrated ability is turning incomplete combat information into training and deployment decisions. She tests affinities, evaluates beast damage relative to body rank, finds specialist instructors, teaches operator doctrine and customs of war, and organizes mixed dungeon groups. In the field she understands convoy procedure, reporting, inconspicuous movement, equipment checks, and formation placement. These are learned professional competencies rather than named System skills, but their application persists over hundreds of chapters and shapes Karl even when Rita is absent. (Chapters 13–14, 53, 138–140, 187–189, 205, 323, 473, and 1021)

Her limits are equally clear. Rita cannot initially identify every mechanism of Karl's class, must consult specialists, and sometimes learns what his beasts can do only through testing. By the reconstruction era, Karl and Rae possess spatial, runic, and construction powers far outside her toolkit, so she contributes institutional knowledge and safety judgment rather than matching their magic. Royal rank increases her authority and implied combat capacity, but the corpus does not show a late full-power battle or enumerate a Royal skill set. Her latest mastery is therefore best evidenced in cooperative instruction, crisis leadership, and Academy design, not an invented catalogue of attacks. (Chapters 11, 138–140, 1021, and 1323–1337)

Power progression

Relationships

• Karl: Rita's anomalous student becomes the clearest measure of her success and the greatest challenge to her procedures. She builds his first workable training plan, accompanies him into the field, and later makes the Academy negotiate with the immense power he brings back. Their teacher-student hierarchy evolves into affectionate professional trust. (Chapters 11–14, 181–205, 1208–1209, and 1323–1337)
• Alice: Alice is a fellow instructor and specialist whose rapid involvement annoys Rita, but the two cooperate in testing Karl's class, planning instruction, and deploying behind the front line. Their friction is professional and personal without preventing coordinated work. (Chapters 73, 138–140, 187, and 205)
• Dana: Rita knows Dana as both an Academy student and Karl's closest companion. Dana's unexpected hug surprises her during deployment, and years later Rita immediately asks Karl for details about their married life, reflecting continued concern for both former students. (Chapters 192 and 1323)
• Rae: Rita initially manages Rae as a dangerous training partner, protecting students from inappropriate bleed practice. During reconstruction, Rae becomes an equal source of frustration and innovation whose spiderweb campus design Rita ultimately accepts when its safety advantages are demonstrated. (Chapters 140, 153, and 1327–1330)
• Tank: Tank is a fellow Academy combat instructor whose brute-force Berserker methods contrast with Rita's agility specialization. They share Karl's later gift-giving scene, where the different skills he selects make their divergent combat paths explicit. (Chapters 62 and 1208)
• Sybil: By the reconstruction era, Sybil is Rita's student and a special case whose extraordinary strength and hearing challenge ordinary graduation policy. Rita protects her during the attack, looks for her afterward, and evaluates both the value and daily burden of her senses. (Chapters 1323, 1327–1329, and 1337)

Items

Rita has no standalone notable item in the generated item catalog. Her daggers, uniforms, teaching materials, maps, and communication equipment support her work, but the supplied corpus does not preserve any of them as a named, persistent catalog item.