Rachins Hoffman

Rachins Hoffman (ラチンス・ホフマン), commonly known as Chin (チン), is one of the three thugs that attacked Subaru at the very start of Arc 1. He later joined the Felt Camp when Felt employed him after Royal Selection began.

Appearance
Rachins has a unusual white complexion with black eyes. He wears a prison suit and has chains around his wrists and throat. He has long grayish blue hair with pink at the end.

Personality
As a thug, Rachins cares only little about the people around him, except for those who he keeps dear. In addition to the former, Rachins is shown to be somewhat reckless, as when he underestimated Subaru's physical strength, though he did quickly put him down.

History
Rachins Hoffman was born as a noble from the Royal Capital of Lugunica, to Rickert Hoffman and an unnamed woman. However, after unknown events, he left his family and began living in the slums. According to Gaston, he found Rachins in a back alley. Thinking he was like a ragged piece of cloth at the time, Gaston chose to extend Rachins a hand after being convinced to do so by Camberly.

Roughly 3 to 4 months before Subaru's arrival, Rachins, Gaston and Camberley met an Imperial traitor, who payed the trio and fifteen other thugs a fair amount of gold coins in order to tail a Divine General who was after his head. The thugs disobeyed the orders and lured the swordsman into a dark alley, wanting to attack, beat and rob the man. However, as they were dealing with Cecilus Segmunt–the strongest person from the Sacred Vollachia Empire and one of the three men who are about as skilled as Reinhard in terms of martial arts–they were defeated within a second, and left beaten half to death. Following their arrest by the Knight guards who rushed the scene soon after, the three thugs were then approached by Julius Juukulius, Ferris and Chisha Gold, who wanted to know about Cecilus' location. Upon being promised freedom, they spilled the beans and were subsequently freed, with the money they have gotten from Gramdart.

After the Royal Selection Ceremony, Felt recruited Chin, Ton and Kan to join the Felt Camp. They accepted her offer, thus became participants in the Royal Selection. Since then, Reinhard van Astrea started to train all three of them so they would grow stronger with the help of his Divine Protection of Training Mastery.

Between the fourth arc and the fifth arc, the Felt Camp went to visit the Black Silver Coin organization. There, they met Doltero Amule, who appeared to be an old friend of Rom. It resulted in the Felt Camp receiving a gift from Doltero, which ended up being one of Echidna's Meteors.

Later, when the Felt Camp visited Flanders, where a prostitute under the command of Toto was stabbed in the lung by a thin dagger. A young mage named Ezzo Cadner tried to save her with his magic, which ended up in not working. Meanwhile, Helaine Gatness tried to gather information through Chin about something related to the Royal Family of Lugunica. In addition to this, she also tried to send a message to Rickert Hoffman for some reason. Eventually, Felt and Reinhard decided to recruit Ezzo for the Felt Camp.

Abilities
Magic User (魔法使い Maho Tsukai): Rachins is able to use Fire Magic.
 * Goa (ゴーア): Rachins manifests a blaze of fire which incinerates a foe, though the flame was noted to be rather underwhelming. He primarily uses this attack as a signal for help–upon casting it, Reinhard appears in under a minute.

Equipment: Rachins carries a knife with him that he uses to threaten people. However, he hasn't actually killed anyone before, causing him to be shocked when he stabbed and killed Subaru in one of the failed loops of Arc 1.

Training: After being employed by Felt, he started to get trained by Reinhard and has developed considerable power.

Trivia

 * The nicknames of Ton, Chin, and Kan are a play on the Japanese word tonchinkan, which means irrelevant or inconsistent.
 * According to the author, Ton, Chin, and Kan don't play an active role after Arc 1 until Arc 8.
 * As the original plan for Arc 7 changed and it was split into two separate arcs, it can be assumed that this statement about Arc 8 now applies to Arc 9.