Ariel

The Origin Taratect and current Demon Lord. She is a Divine Beast, and the Ruler of Gluttony.

Appearance
Ariel appears no different than regular human albeit her childlike stature for her age. She wears a tube-top and hot-pants outfit, adorned with straps around her waste and legs. Her hair is mostly black with a single white streak in her bangs. Along her back is a stripped cape with a high-fur collar. This cape has eight strips to represent her spider-like nature, and she can control them at will using the her thread skills.

Plot
Ariel's first appearance is from the perspective of Balto. She is rather nonchalant and disrespectful of the Demon Army Commanders, and forces her work onto Balto, who guides the meeting. When two of the commanders begin to fight, she displays a bit of her power, literally forcing them to sit down with a unique skill application: Marionette Threads.

Her next appearance is after the conclusion of the Human-Demon Great War, where she picks up the Hero's scarf and shows it to Shiro before enchanting it with magic and leaving it for the humans to find.

Both of these events occur before her chronological appearance in the story, where she first meets and engages Kumoko after Mother calls for Ariel's aid. Mother's soul is being devoured by Kumoko's Parallel Wills, so Ariel comes to stop Kumoko. Kumoko, being unable to understand Ariel due to language differences, is obliterated by Ariel's strength, or so she thought. To Ariel's surprise, the attack on the Queen Taratect's soul does not subside, and she eventually realizes that the spider she thought dead is very much alive. She spreads out her Puppet Taratects to find and engage Kumoko, who is using Teleportation to keep Ariel and her forces at a disadvantage. The Zana Horowa achieves victory over the puppets through underhanded tactics like drowning or burying them under tons of earth, forcing Ariel to tighten their formation around her so she does not lose any more. Ariel is unable to find and destroy the spider before the Queen's soul is almost entirely consumed, and finally killed by Kumoko.

Skill Applications

 * Marionette Threads: Through the usage of multiple high-level thread skills, such as Divine Thread Weaving, Thread Genius, and Thread Control, Ariel can control the bodies of people like puppets.

Trivia

 * Ariel is still a member of the adventurer guild only because the perks that it provides.