Ren Amaki

"My companions died trying to bring peace to this world. I want to fight to make sure they didn't die in vain."

- Ren

Ren Amaki (天木錬) is the Sword Hero (剣の勇者), one of the four holy heroes summoned in Melromarc.

Appearance
Ren has a black hair with a pretty handsome face and was described by Naofumi to be really suited to be a protagonist of dimensional-cross stories from manga or anime bishounen. He always dresses in black or some other dark color.

Personality
Ren is a person who acts cool and tries very hard to portray a loner's image. He runs his party like a guild, only working with the other members when the prey he seeks to kill is too strong for him to hunt alone. His attitude towards his comrades is that weaker members should work to individually increase their powers to catch up to the stronger ones.

Like the other heroes, Naofumi excluded, he is initially under the impression that the world they've come into is a game, and he stubbornly refuses to think otherwise. Unlike Motoyasu and Itsuki, Ren seems to actually recognize to some extent the consequences of his actions, as he understood it was his fault the Zombie Dragon caused a plague. He is also more reasonable than Itsuki or Motoyasu, as he believed in the possibility that Naofumi was telling the truth when he claimed that Princess Melty was under his protection and not his hostage, and tried to propose an idea that would help the situation resolve peacefully. He, alongside Itsuki, also stood up for Naofumi after Malty and Motoyasu tried to take Raphtalia from him via cheating, and called Motoyasu out for believing Raphtalia was brainwashed even when they saw her comforting an obviously deeply upset Naofumi.

Background
Ren comes from an Alternative Japan. In the world he lives in everything is much more advanced and futuristic. In his world, every game in the modern era is run on VRMMO.

One day while on the way home from school, Ren was caught up in a murder case. The murder case was pretty well known around the town he lived in. Ren mentioned how he remembers saving his best friend and how the criminal arrested. Ren didn't go into too much detail after that but started rubbing his side when talking, it was suspected that Ren was probably stabbed on the side of his body during the struggle then later died from blood loss. Before he knew it he woke up he found himself summoned to another world. The world reminded him a lot of the VRMMO he played in the previous world, Brave Star Online.

Trivia

 * The four legendary heroes Naofumi, Ren, Motoyasu and Itsuki are all inspired by the protagonist of series the author has read before in the past.
 * Ren's character is based off the Isekai, loner and sword wielder trope. Ren is an obvious parody of Kirito from Sword Art Online. Coincidently they shared the same Japanese voice actor.
 * Ren comes from an Alternative Japan where VRMMO exist. He believes that the world he was summoned to his based off the game Brave Star Online is played in the previous world.
 * He treats his party members as NPC and uses them to grind in an appropriate leveling ground in accordance with their levels and will join hands only when needed.