Mald

Mald (マルド) is the former comrade of the Bow Hero and nobility of Melromarc by birth.

Appearance
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Personality
Mald has always had a stuck up attitude, which most likely came from his status as a noble. He has the trait of being self-righteous and has a dictatorial mindset. He has an intimidating personality which always pressures anyone.

L'Arc Berg believed Mald to be the Shield Hero for the rumor circulating about Shield Hero to be fitting him, such as fiend, extort, fraud, and kill anyone in his way. L'Arc cautioned Naofumi about Mald. As noted by Naofumi, he has a way of deluding himself into believing his justice, which can be simplified as him simply calling people he dislikes and opposes "evil." Filo, like L'Arc, also judges Mald's character poorly.

While he is not poor at planning and strategy, he is certainly prone to underestimating his opponents. Naofumi suspects that Mald's reason for joining Itsuki was to fuel his own superiority sense. He bossed everyone in his party to show his authority.

Abilities
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Equipment
Mald is commonly called Armour by Naofumi due to wearing a heavy suit of Armor over his body at all times. He is a front line fighter, as most of Itsuki's party are to compensate for his reliance upon the bow.

Background
According to Itsuki, Mald is a nobility of Melromarc.

Chronology
Mald is one of Itsuki's, party members and the de-facto leader among them. He is commonly called Armor by Naofumi, who can't be bothered to remember his name and thinks of him as nothing but a pain.

Volume 6
Mald later betrays Itsuki, and then his entire country by starting a separatist faction with Princess Malty, some other members of Itsuki's Party, and the remnants of the Church of the Three Heroes. Though he is not a staunch believer of the three heroes church, he sided with them to regain his lost pride. According to Kyo, Itsuki was tied up by his party members as a sacrifice for their escape.

Volume 13
Itsuki fought in the consortium in Zelbort believing Mald and Malty's word of saving money for to free those opposed. Later, it was exposed that Mald and his group lavishly spent all the money earned by Itsuki.

Relationships

 * Heroes
 * Itsuki Kawasumi (former): Itsuki views Mald positively and believes him. But, Mald continuously fuels Itsuki's desire to praise just to be on his good side. He calls Itsuki to be the Master for his deeds being greater than the other three heroes, at-least according to Itsuki's party, whether it is his true feeling or just praise is debatable. However, he and other members of the Itsuki's party abandoned Itsuki in times of the Spirit Tortoise incident, leading to Itsuki's mental breakdown.
 * Naofumi Iwatani: Both didn't respect each other but didn't show it at face. Naofumi noted of his personality and tried to avoid him. During the incident of Melty's kidnap, Mald was the first one to charge in to attack Naofumi and became the first victim of curse burn. Mald considers Naofumi to be a criminal and the Demon Lord of the Shield, despite the latter's name being cleared and the Church of the Three Heroes being outlawed by the time the two of them actually met. Naofumi suspects Mald's condescending attitude towards him may be due to constant bad mouthing of Itsuki or may be due to the centuries of the preaching of the Church of Three Heroes of the Shield Hero being a villain.
 * Ren Amaki: In the light novel, Ren too finds his personality disgusting and was more irritated, when Mald claims Ren and Naofumi to be inferior to Itsuki.


 * Companion
 * Rishia Ivyred (former): Mald also looked down on Rishia, believing her to be weak, and made her do all the errands from carrying their luggage to making their lunch.
 * Welst: He shares the same opinion of Mald and accompanied him.
 * Rojeel:


 * Other
 * Malty S Melromarc: She joined Mald in insulting Raphtalia for her being a Demi-Human, during the first heroes conference. She again joined with him.

Trivia
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