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.

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.

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.

Legendary Sword Skills

 * Hundred Swords: Hundreds of sword appear in thin air and fly at their target
 * Thunder Sword
 * Shooting Star Sword
 * Crimson Sword
 * Transport Sword: Allows the user and party members to teleport to a place they have visited and registered before.
 * Flashing Sword: The sword creates a bright light, blinding targets in a certain distance.
 * Dragon Buster: Flames burst out of his sword and take shape of a dragon. This skill is more effective against dragons.

Curse Series

 * Hide Sword
 * Assassinating Sword
 * Maneater Shooting Star Sword
 * Guillotine: Chains wrap around the target's body and turn into barbed wire piercing into the target's skin. A Guillotine is summoned out of thin air and the blade drops onto the target.
 * Gold Rebellion: Summons a sculpture made out of gold.

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.

Volume 1
Ren is the Sword Hero one of the Four Legendary Heroes summoned from another world. He was summoned along with the three other Legendary Heroes in Melromarc. Like two of the other heroes, Ren also pretends that he doesn't care about being summoned to another world and thinks that he is better than the rest of the Heroes.

When Naofumi was falsely accused of a crime he never committed. Like the rest of the heroes, he believed that Naofumi was guilty and even used the situation to make himself look better in the eyes of others.

Later Ren, Motoyasu, and Itsuki fought the second Wave's boss the Chimera and took one of its heads for his weapon. Later when Naofumi lost the duel against Motoyasu, Ren, and Itsuki were the ones to call out Malty for her illegal interference in the duel and announced that Motoyasu was the loser.

Volume 2
Ren and his party was hired to kill a Dragon living in the mountain next to the East Village and then left the corpse as a tourist attraction and source of economy for the village that hired him.

Volume 3
Though he wasn't aware of it at first Ren later learned that the dragon's rotting corpse mutated a hoard of monsters into poison types, created a plague that afflicted the village that hired him, and eventually turning into a Zombie Dragon that severely injured Raphtalia in the process of putting it down. A guilty Ren runs off to the village to confirm Naofumi's story.

During the Third Wave, Ren jumped onto the Ghost ship and, still following his game knowledge, fought the Skull captain trying to make it spawn the Soul Eater. Fighting the undead for three hours straight Naofumi arrives on the ship and uses Raphtalia's magic to force the Soul Eater out of hiding. Ren soon discovers that his attacks are too weak to hurt the Soul Eater and can only watch as Naofumi defeats the boss using the Iron Maiden.

Following the Soul Eater's defeat, the group is almost attacked by another of the monsters, only for it to be one hit killed by Glass who similarly takes Ren down. The only reason Ren survives the encounter is that Glass was only interested in killing 'actual heroes' and not someone who was clearly too weak to call themselves one.

Later on, after he has recovered Ren is informed by The Church of the Three Heroes that Naofumi has kidnapped Melty Q Melromarc and killed her escorts and naturally goes off to confront Naofumi. Although at first reasonable with Naofumi and the rest of his associates Malty walks in with the claim that Naofumi's recent surge in popularity is due to unlocking a brainwashing shield, with a fearful Melty refusing to return with them seeming to confirm her claims.

With negotiations having broken down Ren attempts to incapacitate Naofumi, though the use of his Iron Maiden buys enough time to escape with his party.

Volume 4
Ren's party, along with Itsuki's party, are nearly killed by the Church of the Three Heroes for their incompetence but are saved by the Shadows. They join with Naofumi's and Motoyasu's parties as they come under attack by the High Priest and The Church of the Three Heroes, Naofumi defending the entire group with Wrath Shield, Shield Prison, and several Air Strike Shields and bought time until the Queen arrived with the army.

Volume 5
Ren initially made the mistake of thinking that the world he was summoned to was exactly like the VRMMO game from his world "Brave Star Online" where Level matters more than Status Boosts which made his strengthening method extremely inefficient this also led to the collapse of his party.

Volume 6
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Volume 7
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Volume 11
While possessed by greed, Ren becomes a bandit chief and organizes them to amass wealth, he also defeats people on the road and steals their stuff, but fortunately doesn't kill them. He becomes obsessed with increasing his power. After succumbing to Gluttony this gets much worse, and he is willing to kill people to absorb EXP from them and grow stronger. His obsession with power is however either hollow or just an attempt to escape from reality, as when asked the reason for it he can only express the purpose given to him by others: saving the world. When he is finally defeated, he reverts to a broken, but otherwise normal, Ren.

After being freed from his curses, Ren decides to learn under Eclair and try to save the world his late comrades loved so much.

Volume 12
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Volume 13
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Relationships
Legendary Heroes
 * Naofumi Iwatani
 * Motoyasu Kitamura
 * Itsuki Kawasumi

Vassal Wielders
 * Raphtalia
 * Glass
 * Aultcray Melromarc XXXII

Companions
 * Welt, Bakta, Tersia, and Farrie (deceased):
 * Filo
 * Eclair Seaetto
 * Wyndia
 * Gaelion

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 (who share the same 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.