Cry Andrich

Cry Andrich is the main protagonist of Strange Grief Wants to Retire.

He's the founder and party leader of the Strange Grief, and the absolute Clan master of the First Step.

Appearance
He has a short black hair, thin body and a pale appearance. He is often seen wearing a black jacket and a white pants.

His appeareance looks just like a regular citizen, so if people see him without knowing him, they would think that he is just a regular citizen.

He has all over his body Relic that can protect him. He has an ear piercing type Relic on his left ear. He has on his waist a Relic called Dog Chain, a Chain-type Relic. He possess Ring-type Relic on all of his fingers.

Personality
In the eyes of his friends and acquaintances, he's a trustworthy man with incredible knowledge and mysterious power. A respectable guy who shouldn't be mess with. He is like their God who is ahead of the others. Every words he says has an ambiguous and hidden meaning. That everything is already planned ahead of time and nothing is coincidence despite the fact he adamantly tells them it is a coincidence.

For his enemies, he's a dangerous existence that shouldn't be fought with. That whatever you do, you should escape when you have a chance. He's also a cunning, incredible strategist, tactician and mysterious existence who is hiding his trump cards on his pocket.

But to himself, he's a timid and weak person. He hate trouble and is weak in will, so even if he gets motivated for a moment, he quickly get tired of it and change mind. He's in verge to puke whenever something happened out of the blue. He is showing a strong-willed leader face when it comes to his subordinates, but deep inside, he's afraid of them. He is very unlucky and he is aware of it. Generally, what Cry does leads to poor result, so if the surroundings don't work hark, it will be the end.

His face releases a carefree aura that sometimes, Tino mistakenly believes he is faking it.

Sometimes, he is showing some childish act like his addiction to ancient items. He doesn't mind to increase his debt when it comes to it.

Background
In the past he was aiming to be badass and even now he is sometimes talking and acting like one, but he seems to be half-tired of doing it.

He become a Hunter because of his ambition to explore the world with his friends. However, he discovers that he doesn't possess any type of talent like his childhood friends. At first he tried to study under all the teacher his childhood friends train under, but was quickly kicked out due to the lack of talent. During that time, he went around cheering his childhood friends who worked very hard. It was at that time that they all fell for him and one of the reason why they want him to be the leader.

His love for Relics was because of his lack of talent, it was the only way for him to learn and discover a whole new world. Everything he does with Relics can be replicate by anyone, but people won't do it because it is either useless, won't make sense or didn't know it was possible.

When he left his hometown, his parents told Lucia to be in charge of Cry and take care of him because he is sloven and sloppy. So Lucia is always on the lookout for Cry's words and deeds.

When realize that he's just a deadweight for his party. He change his mind to retire at a early age, but before he does, he creates a powerful and influencial clan. But even before that Cry's actions has influenced many people, for example Gark who can't let go of his position as branch manager because of him, Ark's popularity, Tino who is always saying "Master! Master!". But also within Strange Grief, for Liz it influenced her to pursue speed, for Sytry it influenced her to not be picky of the means to arrive at the end, for Luke it influenced him to pursue the way of the sword, for Anthem it influenced his size and class.

All of his displeasure and tantrum has been misinterpreted and his actions has often misunderstand as a training. The reason is because he inadvertently drags the people around him into terrible situation, making them think that Cry is imposing some sort of trial for them. They dubbed it "Infinite Trial" and its one of the origin of his nickname as "Infinite Variety".

Ability
Knowledge: Cry knows the basics of close combat and he grasps the fundamental of advanced training and survival. He has keen eyes for the ancient item which is undeniably higher than his members.

Strength: He is not weak, but he's not in par of the power of Tino. Also, he has a slow mana growth absorption.

Diplomacy: He has a high level of provocation, with or without meaning to hurt his enemies or friends whatsoever.

Agility: His speed is in par of injured Tino.

Powers: Most of his skills are relying to the buffs of his relics.

Democracy: In his party, his vote count for 5.

Miracles/Misunderstandings

 * 1) He invites his clan members to join him to look after the cherry blossom for the purpose of picnic or sightseeing or viewing. He asks them to bring their weapons without telling the reason. Everyone is surprised when a Shrine appears behind him right on the spot after he spread his arm. That time, every members of the clan are scared to his overwhelming ability.
 * 2) All of the Red party who tried to kill them were defeated and found dead because of his unexpected and lucky guesses. Not to mention, he inadvertently drags his party members in difficult situation whenever he accepts the punishment games from Gark. This only increases the conclusions of everyone that he's an incredible man that helps his friends transform into monsters.
 * 3) All of his comments are coincidentally linked to the explorer's investigations, he's spouting nonsense that somehow connected to the case, and he predicts the outcome of the event before it could happen.
 * 4) Surprisingly, he's not affected by the side effects of every Ancient Items because of low aptitude and status, e.g the time when Countess Gladys possessed by the organic mask.
 * 5) There are some words that is wrongly assumed and marked as a danger into the mindset of his clan members. The picnic/sightseeing/viewing is misinterpreted as a Shrine expedition and hunting instead of just a picnic, the normal quest is considered as a trial because all of it are not equally based in their rank level and has an abnormal difficulty, and the vacation word is interpreted as a quest that involves of killing humans instead of an ordinary vacation in normal standards.

Trivia

 * He likes sweet such as cake, candies and ice cream. But Tino believes he is faking it for her sake.
 * He is from Yushan.
 * He is one of the three level 8 hunter that achieved it at a young age.
 * He has 17 Barrier Rings Relics.
 * Cry has never lost any single battle because he ain't even experience one.
 * He has never been hurt during a hunt and the only person who had ever hurt him was Eva.
 * Cry is the only person who defeats his enemy without his knowledge.
 * His debt is over a ten digits, majority is noted from Sytry's account.
 * According to the organic mask, all of his stats is graded of E: Muscle E-, Agility E-, Physical Strength E-, Magic E-, Growth E-, motivation zero, overall rating, seven points. 『Over Greed (Evolving Devil Mask). Because he doesn't meet the requirements, it fails to release his full potential.


 * Due to his popularity, every sweet shops he visits becomes popular and incredibly earns a lot of profit. He is surprised to hear the news from a vendor that one of the origins of his nickname comes from this moment when he orders all variety of sweets in the menu.


 * His childhood book that he created for fun during his childhood years is used as a guidance by his sister, Lucia.
 * According to the author his affiliation is Chaotic Good.
 * When he plays old maid, he always pull the old maid and keep it (Sytry sometimes cheats and pull the card for him).
 * Cry and Lucia keeps a tail of the 13th Tailed Mother Fox which is collected from the Lost Inn.