Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers

Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers (Lv2 kara Cheat datta Moto Yuusha Kouho no Mattari Isekai Life) is a fantasy Light Novel series written by Miya Kinojo and illustrated by Katagiri. It started as a Web Serial Novel that was released on Shousetsuka ni Narou from 2016 to 2019 before being published as a light novel series in 2016. The novels are licensed in English by J-Novel Club.

There is a manga adaptation illustrated by Akine Itomachi that began serialization in 2019, which is licensed in English by Seven Seas Entertainment. An anime adaptation by J.C. Staff aired from April to June 2024.

The story begins with Banaza being summoned to another world in hopes that he could help the kingdom that summoned him. However, after his disappointing stats are discovered, he is dismissed from consideration in favour of someone with far better stats while Banaza ends up stranded because the portal to send him back closed. The King of Klyrode, wanting to avoid the embarrassment of a rejected hero-candidate staying around, pays Banaza to keep quiet about the situation and sends him away to Delaveza Forest to live out his life.

Or at least, that's what he told Banaza. The truth is that he sent Banaza to die in a demon-occupied forest and to expedite the process, the magic bag containing the gifts in exchange for his silence is enchanted to attract monsters and the weapons provided are near-worthless. Banaza manages to kill the first monster to attack him and levels up, upon which his stats becomes infinite. With his new power, Banaza abandons his previous name, renames himself Flio, and tries to adapt to his new world.

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Contains examples of:

• All-Powerful Bystander: While Flio's abilities are literally infinite, up to and including being able to perform skills and magic that would normally be impossible for humans, he's a Martial Pacifist who holds no personal stakes in the world's conflicts and is too nice to use his power selfishly. By the time Elizabeth becomes Queen of Klyrode, both sides of the Human-Demon conflict grow content with Flio's neutrality since if he were to pick a side, the other would be irrevocably screwed.
• Attempted Rape: In episode 11, Hiya attempts to force herself on Damalynas much like she did in the original light novels. However, she ends up getting kicked out of her own psyche world before she could take it any further.
• Black Comedy Rape: In a messed up Black Comedy scene, Hiya, a female djinn, grows an enormous penis through magic and rapes the witch Damalynas.
• Both Sides Have a Point: The humans (which includes demihumans) do have a legitimate issue with the demon races who produce malicium which are dangerous to them even if they don't mean to, with only the more powerful demons able to suppress malicium leakage. On the flipside, the demon races have a legitimate issue with the human races whose solution to the malicium problem was to oppress them.
• The Cake Is a Lie: Wanting to avoid the embarrassment of a rejected hero candidate staying around, the king of Klyrode gives Banaza money and gear in exchange for his silence and going away to a remote location. Banaza accepts this as a more or less fair trade, until he discovers the bag holding everything is enchanted to attract monsters, the provided gear is subpar, and the bag is also enchanted to return to the king after Banaza dies, proving the gifts are insincere and that the king arranged for him to die all along.
• Conscription: According to Byleri, she was forcibly recruited into the kingdom's army when they shoved a bow into her hands.
• Cooldown Hug: Fenrys gives Flio a hug to stop him from further beating up Hiya on her behalf.
• Cornered Rattlesnake: A previous Demon King pushed humans very far and they developed a powerful spell that seals the malicium circulation system in demons. The knowledge is largely lost in the present but Gholl cites this as why demon kings should be more careful in wars.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Time Magic is very dangerous. Hiya explains to Flio that misuse can cause bad time discrepancies which are dangerous if left unchecked, and usage can draw the wrong sort of attention from the deities. For these reasons, she wants him to never use Time Magic again. The next time he uses Time Magic, this time to save Gholl's life, the celestial beings directly intervene and command him to stop. They are shocked when he manages to resist their power and do it anyway.
• Didn't See That Coming:
  • The Infernal Four consent to Yuigarde challenging his brother Gholl not because they thought he was better, but to get Gholl to recommit to the desire of the demons to subjugate the human races. They didn't expect Gholl to simply concede his Demon King title to his brother due to him understandably, but wrongly, thinking his people have lost all faith in him.
  • The Celestial Plane attempt to intervene to prevent Flio from using Time Magic to save Gholl. They are shocked that he, a mortal, is able to resist their power and do it anyway.
• "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Fenrys' voice actress, Rie Kugimiya, sings the opening song for the anime.
• Encounter Bait: Flio's Bottomless Bag that was gifted to him by the King of Klyrode is enchanted with Monster-Luring Magic as part of the king's attempt to have him killed. Flio manages to dispel it.
• Entertainingly Wrong:
  • Balirossa's Party immediately notice something is wrong when Flio offers to help escort a little girl to the woods to reunite with her family. What they get wrong are their suspicions of Flio, who's claim that he can use teleportation magic, a very high-level skill, despite being a fresh-faced adventurer. The ones they should have been suspicious of was the girl for wanting to go to a forest on the edge of demon-territory and drowning malicium, since it's revealed that she's a demon trying to lead humans into her trap.
  • Gholl misinterprets a lot of Balirossa's actions as being more impressive than what it actually is in reality. When they first met, he considered her brave for standing up to him when she genuinely did not know he is the Demon King. In a later meeting, he is impressed by her ability to remain calm despite his presence, but it turns out she was so nervous she fainted while somehow keeping her back straight and her eyes open. There are more incidents after that, and the people around them realize that Gholl is way off in his assessments.
  • Flio's party thinks the pure malicium being attacking the hot springs is due to the demon officers present bringing a magical device to do it, which is a reasonable conclusion. However, the truth is that the device is there because the Golden-Haired Hero brought it with him without knowing what it is.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • In the world Flio came from, baseline humans treat demihumans as second-class citizens at best. Treating them as slaves is more typical.
  • In the world Flio arrives in, there is a lot of mutual prejudice between the human races and the demonic races, enflamed by centuries of unending military conflicts.
• Fictional Traditions: Fenrys explains that among lupines, if two of them do decide to become mates, the tribe's custom is for them to hunt together and swallow a bone each from their shared quarry.
• Forensic Accounting: The First Princess' adviser reviewed the accounting records for the period where her father and grandfather reigned, and realizes almost a fifth of the kingdom's expenditures are unaccounted for, leading to the discovery they had embezzled funds.
• Forever War: The conflict between the human races and the demon races has endured for five centuries before Flio arrived. It is roughly even as while the demon races are more powerful on average, the human races have access to the purification spell that is anathema to them and the ability to summon heroes from other worlds who come with major bonuses to tilt the odds in their favour. The tides of battle also turns depending on the competency of the various commanders on each side.
• The Gloves Come Off: When Fenrys blocks a killing blow from Hiya meant for him, Flio drops his usual civility and gives the jinn a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. Even when he manages to fix her using Time Magic, he's too overcome with Tranquil Fury to stop himself. It's so unlike him, it spooks even Fenrys and she begs him to stop.
• Godzilla Threshold: When Hiya learns Flio can use Time Magic, she begs him not to use it, as while using it for small things (like rewinding Fenrys' fatal wound) won't cause too much harm, using it too often or on too big of a target can cause Cosmic Flaws. It's not even something humans shouldn't be able to use, Flio being the exception thanks to possessing infinite stats.
• Guilt-Tripping: In order to get Balirossa to agree to let Gholl and Uliminas stay with them after they left the Dark Army, Fenrys pretends to cry while asking if she has no heart and wants to turn her friends out into the cold. Flio lampshades this and says Fenrys might as well not even ask while Fenrys gives Balirossa a nonchalant look while the latter is going through a guilt-trip.
• Hero's Slave Harem: Defied. Banaza is briefly shown in his original Standard Japanese Fantasy Setting disliking the practice of slavery, then after getting accidentally summoned to a different SJFS and adopting the identity of Flio, he defeats the wolf demon Fenrys and is told by his Annoying Video Game Helper to use his power to magically enslave her. He flatly refuses and shows mercy instead, and because she's an All Amazons Want Hercules type, they end up getting married. The rest of his girls are just female friends who start living with him and Fenrys.
• Internal Reveal:
  • Uliminas encountering Flio's party results in different revelations for different parties that the reader already knows:
    • Uliminas finds out what Fenrys has been up to while she was considered missing by the demon forces.
    • Uliminas also finds out Flio is the one who wiped out the demon forces occupying Delaveza Forest. Flio likewise finds out about his feat.
    • Balirossa and her squad find out Fenrys is the same demon that almost killed them and they faint from shock.
  • Princess Elizabeth's adviser realizes that Flio was the summoned hero candidate formerly named Banaza sometime after the events of Houghtow and informs her of such.
• Irredentism: Voices in the Kingdom of Klyrode advocate reconquering territories that the humans lost to the demons. However, they ignore that such things go both ways and that a lot of human territories used to be the ancestral homelands of different demon races before the human races kicked them out.
• The Little Detecto: After the discovery that someone is using powerful concealment magic to disguise shoddy products as quality products, Flio creates special devices meant specifically to detect the use of concealment magic.
• Marry Them All: Soon after Gholl learns Uliminas loves him and desires to marry him despite his own infatuation with Balirossa, he decides to marry them both. Generations of the Demon King have taken multiple brides after all and he sees this as the simple solution to the love triangle. Balirossa and Uliminas are initially reluctant to agreeing to the polygamy, but they eventually give in.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Discussed. The First Princess discovers Flio was Banaza, the rejected hero candidate whom her father sent to die. Combined with the knowledge that the Golden-Haired Hero tried to press-gang him into service and he has some unspecified connection to the demons, she fears that Flio might outright join the demons and the humans would only have themselves to blame.
• Morality Kitchen Sink: Broadly, the opposing factions are the human races and the demonic races, defined by whether they produce malicium or not. Both sides have people of all sorts where there are bad rulers and tyrants like King Klyrode for the humans and Yuigarde for the demons, far better rulers like the First Princess for the humans and Gholl for the demons, their subordinates who are good, evil, and everywhere in-between, ranging from only fighting each other out of duty to wanting to continue the fight out of sheer hatred for the opposing side.
• New Life in Another World Bonus: Justified. There's a reason each world in the setting rely on summoned heroes. The deities cannot just grant blessings to people on a world. Their only opportunity to properly grant their blessings is during the travel period between worlds. There is no other way for them to grant their blessings.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: The Golden-Haired Hero's attempt to press-gang Flio into serving under him has severe consequences for him and the Kingdom of Klyrode. Not only does Flio refuse and use a powerful teleport magic to escape, a squad of knights also desert and join Flio in protest of the Golden-Haired Hero's actions. Gholl the Dark One shows up to visit, witnesses all this and naturally is furious at what the Golden-Haired Hero did to his friends. He marshals his army to attack the Kingdom of Klyrode that very instant. The only reason they are held at bay is because the human mages manage to raise a purification barrier in time, but that is at the cost of said mages being out of commission for months, longer than how long the barrier will last, meaning the kingdom is screwed unless something changes. It was so bad that the First Princess stripped the Golden-Haired Hero's status as Hero after the fact, having had enough of him causing more problems than he solves.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Yuigarde, Gholl's younger brother, manages to make things better for their enemy Klyrode. By challenging Gholl for the Demon King title and forcing the Infernal Four into silence, Yuigarde makes Gholl think his people have lost faith in him and he simply concedes the title. As the new Demon King, Yuigarde's ability to lead an army leaves a lot to be desired, which gives Klyrode some much needed breathing room for them to recover from the damage the Golden-Haired Hero and the former King of Klyrode inflicted on them.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: In their first encounter, Flio becomes so enraged when Hiya almost kills Fenrys that he brutally beats her up, and it is only Fenrys giving him a Cooldown Hug that he manages to calm down.
• Official Couple: Flio and Fenrys are established as the main couple from the first volume.
• Off the Table: Klyrode's one opportunity to ask Flio to be on their side is soon after they summoned him. After they rejected him for seemingly being unsuitable and the King of Klyrode sends him to die in exile, they ruined that one chance, especially after Flio befriends and married the demon Fenrys. Elizabeth recognizes this, and unlike her father and the Golden-Haired Hero who tried to force Flio to serve in their army, she settles for making sure Flio doesn't outright join the Demon Army after how badly he was mistreated and alienated.
• Painting the Medium: After Gholl explains and Flio thinks about the division between humans and demons, the manga adaptation neatly illustrates this by having Flio and Fenrys in one panel, but each on one page and the gutter between separating them.
• The Poorly Chosen One: The Golden-Haired Hero is first confused for the actual Hero, but time shows him to be a Dirty Coward with Crutch Character stats and poor judgement.
• Press-Ganged: Against the advice of the First Princess, the Golden-Haired Hero suggests, and King Klyrode approves, using military force to make Flio work in the kingdom's army. Not only does it not work, it badly backfires. Flio just uses his potent magic to teleport out of there, with a squad of knights deserting the army in protest of his treatment and joining him. Gholl the Dark One is also enraged by how his human friends were treated and retaliates with military force in turn, forcing the kingdom to marshal every available mage to cast a powerful purification spell that knocks them out for months.
• Removing the Crucial Teammate: When the Kingdom of Klyrode sees that Flio's stats are average at best, he is dismissed from consideration as a hero-candidate in favour of a different hero-candidate with far better starting stats. King Klyrode then sends him to die in a distant forest and Flio finds out about the Uriah Gambit when he discovers the enchantments on the bag given to him. Big mistake. Flio turns out to be a case of Magikarp Power, and upon levelling up to Level 2, his stats reach infinite while the seemingly better hero-candidate never manages to improve his stats and turns out to be a coward lacking any proper ability to lead troops in battle, meaning Flio turns out to be the better candidate all along. The First Princess later discovers this after removing her father and his appointed hero from power when an oracle referred to him as the true hero candidate, and knowing her kingdom alienated Flio, tries to make amends. Even then, she realizes that Flio will never want fight for humanity against demons after how her father alienated him, and settles for making sure he doesn't outright join the demon side since if he does, the human races won't stand a chance.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Hiya the Djinn of the Wellspring of Light and Dark and Damalynas, Grand Magus of Midnight are both powerful and dangerous beings from the annals of history, and when they were sealed away, they were used to seal each other. The Golden-Haired hero freeing one results in the other being freed.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: The brothers Gholl and Yuigarde are quite different. The former is a thoughtful leader while the latter is brash. The former cares about the lives of his soldiers to the point of willing to avoid taking victory if he thinks the cost in demon lives isn't worth it while the latter thinks nothing about sending them to their deaths to achieve victory at any cost even when it's clear it isn't working.
• Supporting Harem: When Balirossa and her all female squad of knights asks Flio to train them, the story looks like it will have them become romantically involved with Flio, especially when it shows that two out of the four of them do have crushes on him. However, Fenrys, his wife, makes sure to put the kibosh on that every time it looks like they are even considering acting on it or getting Flio to do something that can be interpreted as a romantic gesture, and just generally acts very territorial in trying to keep her man for herself.
• Their First Time: Flio and Fenrys consummate their marriage in the middle of Volume 1.
• This Means War!: When the Golden-Haired Hero drives off Flio's party with his heavy-handed recruitment attempt, threatening death if he doesn't comply, Gholl the Dark One becomes furious on behalf of his human friends and marshals his forces to attack Klyrode.
• Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born: Rys eventually gives birth to her and Flio's children, a girl named Elinàsze and a boy named Garyl.
• Uriah Gambit: King Klyrode sends Flio to die in a forest he knew was occupied by demon forces and gave him a bag enchanted to attract monsters and stored only with flimsy weapons.
• Wham Line: In-universe and out, people are shocked when Gholl declares he will simply relinquish the throne and title of Demon King to his brother when his brother challenges him for it.
• Wutai: The main setting appears to be a western fantasy, with names and a general aesthetic to match, but the Kunosaki Hot Spring Resort is modelled after Japanese hot spring resorts. In-Universe, it is inspired by "a mysterious island nation across far seas".

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