Mirellia Q Melromarc

Mirellia Q Melromarc (ミレリア＝Ｑ＝メルロマルク), commonly referred to as the Queen, is the previous Queen of Melromarc who holds the true power behind the throne. She is generally a just ruler who is known for her diplomatic and negotiating skills.

After her death, her second daughter, Melty Q Melromarc, the crown princess, succeeded the throne and became the new Queen of Melromarc.

Appearance
Mirellia is a beautiful, fair-skinned woman with purple hair tied in a bob with collarbone-length bangs, purple eyes, and pale purple lipstick.

She is normally in her intricately-decorated royal gown, with what appears to be a bronze breastplate. She has a regal presence that commands the attention of everyone around her.

Personality
Compared to her husband, Aultcray Melromarc XXXII, Mirellia is a more benevolent and proficient ruler who puts her duty as queen above all. She is realistic, strategic, cunning, and political, using whatever means available to control a situation. She is manipulative but puts her skills to more benevolent use, which she puts to use in maintaining foreign relations.

Mirellia's character can best be seen in how she treats her daughters, Malty and Melty. Through Malty, we see the queen's pragmatism. She is willing to use even her children to further her goals, examples being using Malty as part of her plan to entrap The Church of the Three Heroes, then stripping her of royal status and branding her a slave. She also shows a sadistic side when she gave Malty - whose name was changed to Bitch - a long list of humiliating punishments. Like Melty, though, she is wise, compassionate, and will not hesitate to help when needed. Mirellia acts more as a queen to her family than a wife and mother, but that isn't to say she doesn't care for them: she treasures her family deep in her heart, even the unbearably wicked Malty. Unlike most of her people, she didn't discriminate against demi-humans and tried to improve their status in Melromarc. As noted by Naofumi Iwatani, she is the only person in the castle to treat Demi-Humans properly.

She loves the legends of the original four heroes and doesn't share the view of her nation's religion. She was disappointed in the current generation heroes for not living up to the name.

Mirellia also has a love of Filolials, something that she would pass on to Melty. She is especially fond of the Filolial Queen Fitoria, to the point where her professionalism vanishes at the mention of her.

Background
Mirellia's country was at war with Siltvelt, a nation with opposite views on Demi-Humans, for centuries. She fell in love and married a man who rose from being a common soldier to the Cane Hero. Later, he was revealed to be a legitimate third heir of Faubrey.

For political or moral reasons, she tries to improve the condition of the Demi-Humans in her country and tried to make peace with the Demi-Human nation, Siltvelt. To that end, she ascended those who share her views to nobility and created a protected village for Demi-Humans. This halted the centuries of war and presented a decade of peace with Siltvelt, to the point where the rival nation follwed Melromarc's example and set up a protected village for humans.

It was revealed that all her action stems from her hobbies learning the legend of four heroes and the inspiration of Faubley, where both Humans and Demi-Humans coexist in peace, while her nation has useless squabbles.

Before the Waves, the queen was involved in diplomacy. Melromarc's domestic affairs were excellent, so she left the country to the one she trusted as her right-hand man, only for him to die in the first wave. Damages from the wave were reported all over the world, so a global conference with every country represented was held. Of course, there were countries that were on bad terms with each other, Melromarc and Siltvelt for example. Seeing the prophecy stating the end of the world coming to pass, international hostilities were put on hold until the wave were dealt with. During the conference, it was decided that the four legendary heroes would be summoned, one by each major power, with Melromarc performing the summoning last. However, thanks to the machinations of her daughter and husband, Melromarc summoned all four heroes to their nation. Mirellia learned this, but could do nothing about it, as she now had to placate the other nations who were angered at the violation of their pact. Unable to return home and reassert herself, she relied on her younger child, Melty and her spies to influence the domestic situation.

Trivia

 * In the Reprise of the Spear Hero, it is revealed by Melty that Mirellia had a second child: a son born between Malty and Melty. 10 years prior to the beginning of the story, Mirellia and her son decided that he should marry a member of Siltvelt nobility to create an alliance and bring peace between the two countries. This fell apart when Malty poisoned her brother, which led him to die in front of their father, mentally and emotionally breaking the man. Mirellia was furious when she found out, but her husband's despair made him easy for Malty to control, so she could not punish her daughter without political repercussions. Unable to break Malty's grip, her relationship with her husband deteriorated to the state it was in at the beginning of the story, and Mirellia had to watch her beloved husband be reduced to a fool by the one who killed her own sibling.