Sophia

Sophia Keren (ソフィア・ケレン), formerly known as Negishi Shouko (根岸彰子), was reincarnated as the vampire progenitor. She was born into the Keren family, a noble human family that governed Keren County, a town in Sariella.

Her parents are normal humans, so she attempts to hide the fact that she is a vampire before her appraisal ceremony when she comes of age; while she is a toddler, disaster strikes her new hometown and she is rescued by Kumoko and Ariel.

Appearance
As Negishi Shouko, she was often described as having a creepy appearance. She was extremely thin, with a pale and permanently dour face, making her comparable to a ghost. She had sunken eyes, crooked teeth, messy hair, and poor posture that contributed to a poor appearance and reputation.

As Sophia, she is a peerless beauty, with extremely pale-white skin and blood-red eyes.

Personality
Sophia is pretty dense in certain situations but has no qualms about using her power to muscle through them if she can. Her nature as a Vampire causes her to lust for battle that can challenge her, but she is denied that by intense training that has made her overwhelmingly more powerful than almost everything within the System. This causes her to lapse into depravity or depression when she focuses too much on it.

Her previous identity of Negishi Shouko was a target of ridicule; due to this she has an intense dislike for anyone who insists on using her original name. This is also the root of her jealousy towards Shiraori, whom she believes is Wakaba Hiiro, the beauty queen of the class in their previous life. This jealousy makes it easy for her to obtain the title Ruler of Envy and the skill Envy.

Introduction
During the coup d'état of the Analeit Kingdom by Hugo, Sophia appears during the moments after King Analeit is slain to support Hugo and Cylis and halt Schlain's resistance. Much to Shun's surprise, his appraisal is blocked, and even worse, Oka, who has come to stop Cylis and Hugo's plan, is shocked and horrified by her appearance. Oka forces Shun to make a run for it, terrified of Sophia. Sophia appears before Shun, Oka, Leston, and Hyrince again as they try to escape, presenting the decapitated head of Potimas, the Elven Matriach and Oka's father. Her absolute presence is intimidating, with her power unmatched as the wind magic Oka casts on her is dissipated. Feirune's sudden appearance as a newly-evolved Light Wyrm gives the group an opportunity to escape, which Sophia allows. She has a conversation with the mysterious ninja who was helping her afterwards about reporting the incident of attacking Oka and Shun to their master.

Reincarnation
Sophia was reincarnated as the only daughter of John Keren, lord of Keren County in the country of Sariella. Sophia is aware that her status as a noble will cause her to be appraised during her coming-of-age ceremony, so she attempts to learn how to block Appraisal by visiting her father's study each night from an extremely young age.Web Novel only

As a baby, she was being transported by carriage with her mother when they were attacked by bandits. Kumoko saves them and heals their escorts, including Merazophis. Lady Seras leaves the carriage in order to thank her, taking Sophia. Kumoko is shocked by the number of skill points that she has. Kumoko is also extremely flustered by Lady Seras's behavior, and decides to flee into the forest.

Relationships

 * Ariel
 * As one of her saviors during the conflict at her hometown when she was still a toddler, Sophia is extremely grateful for Ariel, without her intervention during the conflict, she might not have even survived. Sophia view Ariel as both as a friend and a mentor, getting advice on survival, understanding the harsh reality of the new world. Ariel's mentorship is one of the main reason on how Sophia was able repair the one-sided anger she felt towards Kumoko. Ariel was also her benefactor during their long journey together, providing her with well cooked meals and lodging in human territories.


 * Merazophis
 * Her servant. Merazophis was originally the head butler of the Keren family, but was turned into a vampire by Sophia when she was a toddler in order to save his life. He was extremely to loyal to Sophia's parents, in turned to Sophia. He has remained her father-figure, guide, and servant her entire life. Because of this, Sophia continue to remain very protective and attached to him, even during her teenager years.


 * Kumoko/Shiraori
 * Acquaintance. In the beginning, Sophia felt complicated and uncomfortable with her relationship with Kumoko. Often swing from a mixture of detest and jealousy due to Kumoko's appearance in her life which was a painful reminder about her own bad school life experiences and her combat strength as Sophia felt she was too weak to protect her love ones, to gratitude for saving her and Merazophis. She sees Kumoko as sore reminder of what she was in the past, as it reminded her of poor treatment from her classmates due to her unattractive appearance before she was reincarnated. She occasionally feels happy that Kumoko turned into frightful and a monstrous being instead of a human.  As they journey together and a lecture from Ariel, she began to move on from her past insecurities and open up more to Kumoko. As seen by the time of Kumoko's evolution and becoming Shiraori, Sophia has more or less lost her original petty jealousy for her and now considers her a dear friend of hers. This is seen where Sophia herself was somewhat elated upon learning of Shiraori's helplessness after evolving and was delighted at the prospect that for once, she could protect and help Shiraori instead of the other way around due to wanting to pay her back for helping her so much since their first meeting in the new world, showing that Sophia herself was grateful for all the help she gave her despite her original disdainful attitude to her and wanted to pay her back.


 * Wrath
 * A fellow reincarnate. The first time they crossed paths in this world he attacked her, due to him being under the control of the Wrath Skill at the time, and handely overpowered both her and Merazophis, causing her to develop a one-sided rivalry with him. Unfortunately, their rematch was spoiled by Shiraori beating him for her. Even after Wrath was freed from the effects of his skill, Sophia continued harbouring a grudge. Over the years, though, she seems to have mellowed out and the two now have a working relationship.


 * Wald
 * Classmate in the new world and follower. After Sophia released the brainwashing on all the boys in her academy, Wald was the only one who remained by her side, and even asked to become a vampire. They rarely get to spend time together due to Shiraori constantly keeping Sophia busy with tasks.


 * Schlain "Shun" Zagan Analeit
 * Former classmate and potential rival. As an experienced fighter and partly due to her nature as a vampire, Sophia often looks for strong opponents to challenge her supernatural battle strength. She sees Shun as a potential way to release her strength and a source of amusement. As seen in their battles due to Hugo's many plots to kill Shun, Sophia herself primarily toyed with him and made a point of flaunting her superior power to Shun during their duels and his helplessness in beating her. Sophie herself made a point by taunting Shun for his naivety regarding how things works in the new world and his inability to be cold-blooded in a fight where it was necessary to fight someone with the full intention to kill.


 * Felmina
 * Mutual dislike and allies. Sophia teases her by pointing out that she would lose to Shun in a fight. Sophia has a somewhat passive aggressive relationship with Felmina, as she stole her fiancé during their academy days.


 * Hugo Baint von Renxandt
 * Acquaintance and temporarily ally. Sophia was assigned to aid him by Shiraori. To this end, she lend her assistance whenever he was being cornered and pretty much carried him to victory during The Fall of Analeit. While Sophia appeared unbothered by Hugo's demeaning attitude, it is revealed during the Elf Village Battle that, despite being fellow Reincarnates, she never cared about him and discarded him once his usefulness had run out.

Abilities
As a vampire, Sophia display high physical strength and additional boost to her status, this allows her to wield a great sword into combat. Additionally, she was trained under Kumoko for a few years and regularly get sent for missions, this makes her a very competent and experienced warrior, allowing her to easily overwhelmed Shun who holds the Hero title. Sophia was also born with the Undying Body skill which she evolved into Undying King.


 * Undying Body (不死体): Increases resistance to all attributes except for Fire, Light, and Rot. Additionally, once per day, the holder can survive any attack with 1 HP.
 * Undying King (不死王): Raises nearby corpses. The zombies have no souls, so don't stop unless the body is completely destroyed, and don't give any experience.

By combining various skills, Sophia is capable of several composite magical abilities:


 * Shining Blood Mist: Sophia firstly casts the [Shining Mist] spell of the Ice Prison Magic, which is a beautiful mist that shines white, but is actually capable of freezing and shattering everything it touches into flakes. And then mixing it with her Blood Mist vampire ability, granting her the ability to maneuver the deadly mist.
 * Vermilion Sea: A red fluid which moves completely under the control of Sophia's will, it dissolves everything it touches without limit. It is created by mixing the Blood Mist from Higher Vampire LV3, Strong Acid Attack, and Water Magic.

Character File
The only daughter of the noble Keren family in Sariella. A reincarnation who retains her memories of being Shouko Negishi, a high school student in Japan. She is actually a vampire progenitor, a being who should no longer exist in this world. Displaying unbelievable power, she often stands in the way of Shun and the others. She serves a being she calls Master. Born to a human family, she initially lived without any contact with Demon and the like, but after encountering the Nightmare of the Labyrinth as a baby, her life quickly became very turbulent.

Status
In Volume 4, the skill Undying Body was translated as Immortality. Due to this skill being inherently different from the Immortality skill that Kumoko has, this skill's translation was changed to Undying Body in Volume 6. On the wiki, the Appraisal block for Volume 4 - Final Chapter has been updated to Undying Body for consistency in System translations. Please see Patch Notes for other translation changes.

Trivia

 * Sophia's name in Greek means wisdom or skill. While her last name Keren is a name that derrived from Katherine which is associated with the Greek adjective Katharos meaning pure, Katherine is also theorized to come from Hecate the goddess of magics including necromancy.
 * Most of Sophia's starting skills come from the effects of her Vampire and Progenitor titles.
 * Sophia's synergistic attributes are ice, water and dark. Her conflicting ones are light, fire and lightning.
 * According to D, Sophia has the largest chest size amongst the Reincarnations, with Karnatia and Shiraori being second and third respectively.