Malty S Melromarc/Relationships

Naofumi Iwatani
Malty is ultimately the cause of Naofumi's dark and cynical personality due to the fact that she betrayed him and falsely framed him for the attempt of raping her for no other visible reason. Mr. Iwatani's originally kind personality snapped violently, he became distrustful of anyone who is not a slave, and for a very long time held contempt for women in general. She continued to make him suffer by every means whenever given an opportunity, like trying to take his sword away from him, interfering in the duel for ownership of his slave, calling him out as a criminal every chance she got and framing any crime possible on him. When the Shield Hero's name was cleared, the queen gave the choice of punishment for Malty to her greatest victim. Malty attempts to use her craftiness and appeal to put on a façade of contrition towards Naofumi, with the intention of nullifying her punishment. But she was seen through and, in an understandable rage, he demanded the death penalty. This was the first and only time for Malty to call the once hated saint by his name. After been talked down, her punishment was having her completely stripped of her royal status and her name changed to "Bitch."

Since then, Malty has grown to hate the Shield more passionately and personally. Failing to repent let alone accept that she got what she deserved. When "Whore", in her adventurer guise, approached Ren and Itsuki after the Spirit Tortoise incident, she tricked them into believing that Naofumi was the real evil and that she was the victim, again referring him as the "Shield Demon." Part of the lies she told them included saying that Naofumi was the one who unsealed the Spirit Tortoise, was working his slaves too hard and keeping all the profits to himself (something Naofumi agreed was true despite everyone on his side pointing it wasn't), and "not using the powers of the Shield to bring back people's loved ones who had died", lying to Itsuki that resurrection was "a special power that only the Legendary Shield had". Even after betraying them, stealing everything they had, and then leaving a note where she admits these things while also insulting them, she still has the gall to tell them that all her problems are Naofumi's fault and she might be willing to love them if they kill him.

Motoyasu Kitamura
Motoyasu is the Hero that Malty joins for most of the story. After betraying Naofumi, taking his stuff, and framing him for an attempt of raping her, she gives Motoyasu the stolen chain mail and convinces him of her being the victim. Motoyasu completely trusts her; due mostly to his extreme gullibility, he ends up being used by her in most cases, such as leading him to nearly take Raphtalia away from Naofumi and levying a heavy tax on the village after Motoyasu became its lord. She seems to have sided with him purely because of his good looks. She easily convinced Motoyasu of falsely claiming Naofumi of having a "brainwashing shield", by which he supposedly brainwashed the people, kidnapping the second princess and killing Ren and Itsuki.

Later, when the charges on Naofumi were absolved by the Queen, Motoyasu refused to accept that Malty was the one who framed Naofumi for the longest time; Motoyasu also seemed to pay little attention to Malty's suspicious behavior such as she giving a hard time for other female party members and kicking them out (even selling the one named Rino as a slave to a noble), her exceptionally wasteful spending which she claims it was for the "for the sake of the world," and also her attempt to kill Melty, which Ren and Itsuki have noticed but he did not (or even deliberately neglected). Motoyasu even agreed to shoulder her debt to some extent. After the Spirit Tortoise incident, she abandons him completely. After that, he saw her badmouthing him to Ren of many false charges, which causes his mind to break to the point where he now literally sees all women (with exception to Filolial Queens and some other women) as pigs, indirectly resulting in the awakening of his Legendary Spear's Curse Series.

In the spin-off story "The Reprise of the Spear Hero", Motoyasu still recognizes Malty, to some extent as he can only see and hear her like a pig, thus he was always wary of her and warn others about her.

Ren Amaki
Ren believes her accusation of Naofumi's attempt to rape her and berates Naofumi without hearing his side of the story. Later, Ren along with Itsuki points her involvement in the foul play of the Sacred Duel between Naofumi and Motoyasu and stands for Naofumi. Ren was the first to notice Malty's attempt to kill Melty and begins to deeply suspect of her as well as the Three Heroes Church and starts his own independent investigation with Itsuki. When all of her crimes are brought to light by the Queen while clearing Naofumi's charges, Ren, along with Itsuki, agrees with the punishment Malty received to be fitting. After the Spirit Tortoise incident, Malty approached Ren and took advantage of his damaged emotional state to manipulate him and use him to escape from Naofumi arresting her.

She later decided he'd be of little use, stole everything of value from him, left him a note belittling him, and joined Mald's revolution, causing Ren's already fragile mental state to fall completely and succumb to the dark influence of his Legendary Sword's Curse Series. Ren, like the other Heroes, now holds the same contempt and hatred for Bitch, however the former princess herself is shown to be largely unaffected by his grudge against her and in her arrogance and self-absorption, still believes that she could still trick him to do her bidding despite her repulsive actions towards the Sword Hero.

Itsuki Kawasumi
He, along with other Heroes, believed Malty's false rape charges on Naofumi and berated him as well. But he and Ren still questioned her involvement in the Sacred Duel between Naofumi and Motoyasu. After Ren's persuasion, Itsuki agrees to investigate the abduction case on Naofumi. He along with Ren calls out on her illegal involvement in the Duel and stands up for Naofumi. After her past actions were brought to light by the Queen, he along with Ren agrees with her punishment was befitting of her actions. During their stay at Cal Mira Island, he said that Malty spoke in good terms to him before the punishment.

Sometime after the Spirit Tortoise incident, Malty approached the Bow Hero and took advantage of his psychological instability like she had done to Ren. She told him all kinds of lies to convince him that she was trying to save people from slavery and that the "Shield Demon" was truly evil. This seemed to have activated the Pride Curse Series and caused him to only believe those who praised him such as her. He also began fighting at the coliseums in order to raise money for her and his former party, believing they were using it for their "noble" cause of saving people, unaware that they were just leeching off him and wasting his earnings on themselves. Like with Ren, she later decided to take all his money while leaving him in debt, leaving him a similar note of her berating everything about him.

In the "Reprise of the Spear Hero", due to Motoyasu already knowing of her true personality and his own mental instability and seeing her only as "a red pig", she could no longer manipulate him to do her bidding and he actively avoided her, causing her to instead latch on to Itsuki and successfully manipulate him to do what she wants with little trouble and no remorse.

Aultcray Melromarc XXXII
Aultcray, the Hero of the Cane, is her father. He was a doting parent and spoiled her too much. Most of her evil personality stems from this upbringing, or at least that is what it was thought. Even if she causes any trouble, she pins it on someone else and he will punish the victim without any thoughts. She gets away from anything with the help of her father. Trash supported Bitch in framing Naofumi for a false rape crime. As a King, he gave too much preferential treatment and blatant favoring to the Spear Hero with the sole reason of Malty being in his party.

As seen from the King's reaction during their trial, Aultcray himself genuinely believes all of Malty's lies of whatever she tells him to justify her vile actions. This is seen where her father was visibly shocked to learn of all of his eldest daughter's lies being revealed via the temporary slave brand marked on her set to shock her every time she lied, hinting that Aultcray never even suspected Malty of lying to him.

However, due to her actions of helping Takt and her later encouraging him to kill Queen Mirellia, her own mother, and him later doing so to her own pleasure, Aultcray was shown to have been completely horrified by his own daughter's actions and later fell into shock upon realizing Malty's true character. This would later cause the King to fall into a deep depression due to losing his wife and his own favorite daughter being the one responsible, finally seeing first-hand what Malty's true character is.

Later upon recovering thanks to Naofumi, Aultcray orders her execution despite his personal attachment to her for the sake of his country and finally have Malty pay for her crimes. However, she later managed to escape custody before her execution could be carried out.

Raphtalia
Understandably, Raptalia hates Malty for what she did to Naofumi and holds her as a personal enemy. Malty seemed to consider Raphtalia nothing but an annoyance and (as most noble people in Melromarc usually do) a lowly demi-human. Being an adamant racist against demi's, at the banquet held in honor to Naofumi and the other three Heroes. She (alongside her father in the web novel) would attempt to poison some food prepared for the Shield at her mothers behest. In the anime it was a pie she was slated to take to Raphtalia's table during festivities, but was caught in the act by her younger sister Melty and ended up electrocuted by her slave crest when she tried to lie about her malignant intentions. In the manga however she gets into a heated argument with Mald of Itsuki's party after the former cites her as a criminal. But the two are sidetracked when Raphtalia tries to alleviate hostilities, only escalating them when the traitorous ignoble flat out insults Naofumi to her face.

Melty Q Melromarc
Malty has no affection for her younger sister and sees her only as an obstacle between herself and Melromarc's throne. Melty, on the other hand, cares for her sister's well being (even after Malty attempted to murder her) despite knowing full well her rotten character, but also understands that Malty needs to be punished and held accountable for her crimes.

Mirellia Q Melromarc
Similarly to her sister, Malty has no affection for her mother. Likewise, Mirellia knows full well that her firstborn is a mass of deceits. While the Queen loves Malty dearly, her loyalty is to the country of Melromarc. As such she was put in the reluctant position of punishing Malty and using her as a political tool in order to save Melromarc since Malty and her husband Aultcray had nearly caused a world-wide war. During the negotiations, Mirellia arranged Malty to be married with King Faubrey which is seen in noble courts as a horrible punishment. To stave off the marriage, Malty remained with Motoyasu as a companion until she could escape. However, Malty's hatred of her mother festered during this time.

Light Novel Spoilers

Elena Haven/Girl 1 (former)
Though she hates Malty, she pretends to get along with her, so that she doesn't get into any trouble. She also suspects Malty's claims of Naofumi's attempt to rape her but decided to ignore it. She knows all of Malty's wrongdoing in the party and also her involvement in kicking others out, but played along to keep herself in the team. She felt that, in the near future, Malty will abandon Motoyasu and she hopes to claim him for herself. After the Spirit tortoise incident, she abandoned her teammates and left without turning back. She tells Naofumi that Malty is a person who will out lives at the cost of others and believes that she survived the spirit tortoise.

Mald
A blowhard with character akin to sanding paper, not to mention the personality of most higher caste found within Melromarc. The adventurer noble Mald held the former princess in considerable loathing after she was found to be a traitor and criminal. The two of them often traded harsh words whenever they came in contact with one another after Nafumi's name had been cleared. The only thing that could make the haughty aristocrat eke out partly amicable union with Myne when not denouncing the disgraced former princess for her folly. Was an agreement in their shared hollow viewpoint of the Shield Hero. Mald decrying the former as a lesser hero whom partners with monsters and demi's whilst Malty openly citing him as despicable in character and demeanor.

Lucy/Girl 2 (former)
She was a school friend of Myne a.k.a. Whore. She teamed up with the Spear hero after a couple of days of Malty becoming his party member. She was mentioned to be of nobility. Sharing the same mindset of Malty in many ways and was almost similar to her, thus the two demented aristocrats got along well with one another and joined in on all of the evil acts. Notably, despite how she had betrayed Motoyasu, Ren, and Malty. She remained loyal to Malty, until Malty's failed rebellion. Naofumi not knowing her name called her "Woman 2." It is unknown why she was so loyal to Malty since she is of blue blood that was not obligated to serve a former princess, but she was also faced a fate similar to the Witch when after confronting the Shield Hero.