Kumoko

"Nai Wa"

- Kumoko's catchphase

"Kumoko" is the nameless main protagonist of Kumo Desu Ga, Nani Ka? She is reincarnated in another world in the body of a Small Lesser Taratect, the weakest monster, in the largest, most dangerous dungeon known to man: the Great Elroe Labyrinth. Her life in the labyrinth is fraught with danger, forcing her to constantly fight and become stronger in order to survive. She fights, eats, levels up, and evolves constantly over a two year period until she becomes an Arachne and meets Ariel. Although enemies at first, they are forced into a cease-fire when both realize that neither one of them can kill the other. Afterwards, Kumoko journeys with Ariel, Sophia, and Merazophis to the Demon Territory, picking up Wrath along the way. She is given the name White by Ariel.

Appearance
As an individual of the spider-type monster Small Lesser Taratect species, she has a white body with black splotches on her cephalothorax and abdomen, with eight red spider eyes. Additionally, her two forefeet have sharp claws. When she evolves into the Zoa Ele, she has a pitch black body and her two front claws turn into thin scythes. When she evolves into the unique monster Zana Horowa she becomes snow white while maintaining her scythe claws.

Her final form is the Arachne evolution. Her main body is that of a young girl with bleach-white skin, white hair, and red eyes from the bottom of the waist up. From the waste down, the body is connected to a large spider by the head.

The spider body is entirely white like the Zana Horowa. The original mouth and eyes are also maintained on the spider, hinting that the entire form actually has two brains. She can keep functioning as long as one of the heads is intact She also maintains her scythe-like front claws, and even uses one of those claws to make a scythe weapon for herself, which she uses to channel Rot Attack.

Personality
Kumoko is usually a cheerful, happy-go-lucky type. She prefers to do as little work as possible. She is shown to be overconfident at times, and tends to get extremely frustrated and angry when she is manipulated or humiliated. While she does tend to be overconfident, she is contrarily extremely cautious due to her experiences in battle. She often fights when odds are against her, only fighting when she knows she at least has a chance of winning. If she knows that there is no hope of victory, she does everything in her power to escape and survive. Survival is the core of her personality.

Her overconfidence causes her to be proud of her own work, which allowed the easy acquisition of the skill Pride and the title Ruler of Pride. She also likes to laze about and eat in her idle time, which made it easier to gain the skill Sloth and the title Ruler of Sloth.

Due to not being able to eat palatable foods while living in the depths of the Great Elroe Labyrinth, she has become really fond of good foods and she would do nearly anything to protect any that she comes across.

Abilities & Equipment

 * Morning Spider (KuMorning Star): Kumoko uses her thread as a makeshift flail weapon.
 * Multiple Evil Eyes: Due to having 8 eyes Kumoko is capable of using multiple Evil Eyes at the same time, or amplifying the power of a single Evil Eye skill by using it in multiple eyes at once.
 * Multitasking: By giving specific tasks to her parallel minds, Kumoko is capable of conducting magic, doing complex movements, and coming up with strategies all at the same time without any drawbacks.
 * Respawn: by utilizing the Immortality skill and Kin Control, upon dying Kumoko moves her soul and main body into an egg of her own spawn made by using the Egg Laying skill.
 * White's Scythe: A weapon built from one of Kumoko's forward limbs when she turned into an Arachne, this weapon has been modified by D with automatic growth properties and within the confines of the System it is indestructible. It has the ability to cut through anti-magic and constructs, and emits an eerie aura of darkness. A piece of Kumoko's soul is inside it.

Appraisals
Correction: in 4-5: Evolution, Thought Super-Acceleration was incorrectly translated as Thought Acceleration. This has been updated to reflect the correct skill.

When the Parallel Minds return to the main body after consuming most of the Queen Taratect's soul, the power is directly added to Kumoko's soul; this is why there is such a large jump in power from 4-5: Evolution and 4-11: Matricide.

Trivia

 * Her catchphrase isn't really a catchphrase. The majority of speech from Kumoko is actually internal monologue, including this phrase. This is just one of Kumoko's more common thoughts. It is not used in the English translation of the Light Novels.
 * The English version has translated this to "Unreal" or "No way."
 * Kumoko doesn't have a name. The term "Kumo" means Spider and the suffix "-ko" feminizes a word. To have a name to easily refer to, the general public refers to the protagonist as "Kumoko."
 * This is the only unofficial name on this wiki.
 * This name has been adopted by Okina Baba and has been used by the protagonist during some instances of self-introduction in the Web Novel and Light Novels.
 * Kumoko's original color seems to differ in the different media she's in:
 * In the original Web Novel she is blackish in color and no different to her siblings.
 * In the Light Novel and Anime she is white with pink spots and accents.
 * In the Manga she is pink.
 * The Skill [Skanda] is the origin of the nickname for the video-game character Baldie that Shun and co. talk about before their untimely deaths.