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[[File:Silver_Diamond_cast_9541.jpg|frame|The main cast (from left: Touji, Narushige, Rakan, Chigusa)]]

 

'''Chigusa''': "But it's also a gun." }}

 

As he comes home from school one day, a strange man appears in his backyard, just as he and his mother did 15 years ago. When Rakan and the man, Chigusa, witness Chigusa's wooden gun grow into a full-grown tree after Rakan touches it, Chigusa sticks himself to the boy like a leech, insisting on protecting him because he's a Sanome, which is a person that can grow plants just by touching them and is extremely rare in his world, where just about everything is desert.

 

 

 

* [[A Boy and His X]]: The story starts right off with Rakan gaining his own self-proclaimed bodyguard, Chigusa.

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Kinrei and the Prince fit this trope, {{spoiler|as does Shigeyuki.}} Although the prince is more a religious figure than an aristocrat as such.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: One of Chigusa's trademarks. No matter how many clothes he ruins, he always manages to find another long coat.

* [[Bad Boss]]: The Prince is an Ayame that feeds off everything, from the plants to the people, without hardly any of them knowing. Then, you have him and Kinrei just getting rid of anyone they have no use for. {{spoiler|What's worse is that those whom know that the Prince is an Ayame and are still willing to serve him are STILL tossed to the side as soon as they outlive their usefulness.}}

* [[Bishonen]]: How most of the main cast is described by both characters and readers.

* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Chigusa again [[Up to Eleven|takes it up to eleven]].

* [[Cool Pet]]: Kou is talking snake that can change into a sword at will. {{spoiler|Kuro is an over-sized wolf that eats stones, both normal and monstrous.}}

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Even after he's realized that {{spoiler|he and his mother are from the other world}}, it doesn't even occur to Rakan for several chapters that he might have a father in the other world.

* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Just don't [[Berserk Button|say it to Narushige's face]].

* [[Easily Forgiven]]: Touji is sent to kill Chigusa, Narushige, and Rakan and also manages to put some holes in Chigusa while attempting to do just that. Doesn't stop Rakan from saving him from getting shot by Chigusa, giving him dinner, and telling the others to be nicer to him - all in the span of a day. [[Defeat Means Friendship|Then he gets added to the team.]]

* [[Homoerotic Subtext]]: Have we mentioned that Chigusa really ''liiikes'' hugging Rakan? Also carrying Rakan, holding Rakan, getting Rakan to sleep on his chest, looking at Rakan, smiling at Rakan... It's not clear whether Rakan has noticed his attentions, but everybody else has.

* [[Green Thumb]]: Rakan is a pretty good gardener in the normal world, but once he gets to the other world he realizes he can make seeds sprout in barren sand and solid rock. Even brushing against a plant will make it grow out of control. He also seems to be the catalyst for the resurgence of the "water snakes" and their conversion into rivers. Due to his efforts, the group leaves a trail of green behind them as they cross the desert.

* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Narushige.

* [[The Messiah]]: Rakan is really, really nice. And sweet, kind, helpful and forgiving. And everybody loves him because of it (except the villains). Even the animals.

* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Just before the start of the series, Chigusa was sentenced to death for attacking the Ayame prince, and duly crucified and shot full of arrows. Eyewitnesses swore he was dead. He wasn't, obviously.

* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: Chigusa to Rakan. See [[Homoerotic Subtext]].

* [[No Social Skills]]: Chigusa, due to his childhood circumstances.

* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Rakan, at the start of the story.

* [[Red Right Hand]]: The Ayame prince (who is otherwise quite [[Bishonen]]) keeps his hands hidden when in public. That's because they're {{spoiler|black, scaly and taloned.}}

* [[Team Mom]] [[Team Dad|and Team Dad]]: Naruhige acts as both [[Team Mom]] AND [[Team Dad]] to the core [[Five-Man Band]] - though Rakan often shares the [[Team Mom]] role.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|The Ayame prince has a brief one of these when Kinrei traps him in the claws of a rock monster which drains the prince's blood. And since he's been spoiled rotten and never done anything for himself for the last 15 years the prince promptly freaks out because he doesn't know what he should do. Although he snaps out of it after a few chapters and escapes due to the forced character development.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Villainous Friendship]]}}: Somewhere between Type II and Type III. {{spoiler|After attempting to pull [[The Starscream|a Starscream]] and trapping the Ayame Prince with a stone monster that drains the Prince's blood, the Prince uses Kinrei's own animation spell on a T-rex fossil to free himself, destroy Kinrei's stone monsters, and severely wounding Kinrei. The prince then uses his claws to slice his own neck. Kinrei rethinks his plans and his opinion of the Prince, so Kinrei saves the prince, and once the Prince recovers, they make a mutual agreement to use each other to achieve their individual goals - but with the promise to kill each other if either betrays the other.}}

* [[Waif Prophet]]: The Ayame prince walked in off the desert as a beautiful, strange, glowing child and started making prophecies. He was immediately raised to near-godlike status by the desperate population. Now he's a beautiful, strange, glowing young man (and [[Evil Orphan|completely evil]]).

* [[Walking Wasteland]]: The Ayame prince lives by extracting life energy from the planet; it's implied that he's the cause of the desertification.