Lance
ランセ
A traveling bishop of the Barsburg Church who oversees the Bishop’s Apprentice Exam; he works with Frau, Castor and Labrador.
Lance is very flamboyant and often behaves in a dramatic way. He often expresses his emotions through dance, speaks loudly, and makes exaggerated arm movements as he talks. He has a tendency to not think things through.
Lance has an interest in astrology and reads horoscopes. He has a very poor sense of orientation: he once got so lost, he had to travel through 6 districts instead of only 2, which led the other bishops to believe he was dead.
Lance is very confident and rather vain. He has a very sharp art sense and has a great appreciation of art and beauty.
He doesn’t get along well with Frau; seen when Lance referred to him as his rival, and Frau tried to chop his neck off upon seeing his arrival to the church. His relationship with Castor isn’t the best either; when Lance first came back to the church he didn’t even remember Castor’s name, and he still mostly refers to him as “glasses” or “otaku”. However they do care about each other, and Castor even gave up his possible position as Assistant Archbishop and recommended Lance instead, as he figured Lance would like the position better. Lance is shown to be friends with Labrador and looks up to him, and calls him “Master Lab”.
He is a member of the noble Oak family. When he was a child, he discovered a Warsfeil named Buran, employed by Wakaba Oak, turned real humans into “kokujyuseki”, a monopolized black jewel sold by the Oak Family. He threatened Buran that he would expose the truth and that Buran would “get punished by the holy cross”. Upon this, Buran used black magic to turn Lance into a dark jewel statue, resulting in Lance’s death.
After his physical death, Lance reincarnated as one of the Seven Ghosts, Relikt, and gained the ability to see into one’s past.
When he visited the memory cuvere with Castor and Labrador, they found out Ea and Landkarte had left the church leaving behind a message saying they were going to investigate the military. Upon this, Lance sneaked into the military to find the two Ghosts, as they’d been missing for 10 years. He got contacted by Ea, and got teleported to the Book of Hades. Just after he looked into the past of the other Ghost, Teito cleansed the sins of Relikt’s God House, and Lance teleported there to give Teito the Cursed Ticket. However right after he gave it, Lance got devoured by Ayanami, Verloren’s reincarnation.
In the last chapter of the manga, he managed to escape from Ayanami’s stomach, and later on, lost his Ghost powers and started living as a regular human.
