Mirellia Q Melromarc

Mirelia, mostly referred to as the Queen, holds the true power behind the crown and is generally a just ruler. She works on diplomatic relations while her husband runs internal affairs. She is as just as manipulative as her oldest daughter Malty, but puts her skills to more benevolent use. She loves to hear the legends of the original four heroes, however is saddened that the current generation isn’t living up to their name. She specializes in both Fire and Water magic.

Personality
As compared to her husband, Aultcray Melromarc XXXII, Mirelia appears to be more of a proficient ruler. While a mother, she is very realistic when it comes to dealing with her children where she was willing to use Melty as an effective piece for her plan, in making the Three Heroes Church fall into a trap, along with how she didn't hesitate to punish Malty to the point where she was fine when sending Malty off to be slowly killed by Faubley’s King. Despite this, Mirelia is both a very loving ruler, for her people, and parent for her youngest daughter.

She admit in how there was a time when Trash had won her heart in the past and she fell in love with him like a woman. However, because of the large mess Trash made, while she was away for diplomatic issues, she became easily enraged with how her formally wise husband abused power while being easily manipulated by the Three Heroes Church. Thus, she shows a sadistic side later as she gave Trash a long line of humiliating punishments. Mirelia became very reasonable with him later since, as Trash had met his niece for the first time, she stopped punishing Trash as the Queen understood that her husband was starting to behave.

Background
Before the waves started the queen was involved in diplomacy, Melromarc's domestic affairs were also excellent, and she left the country to the one she trusted as her right-hand man. But, he died during the wave. Damages from the wave were reported all over the world, there was a world conference and every country was represented by their king or queen. Of course there were countries that on bad terms with each other, Melromarc and Silt Welt for example. There was a prophecy that stated the world was facing its end, so their hostilities were put on hold, until the conference was complete. During the conference, it was decided the Melromarc was fourth in line to perform the summoning.

It seems the Three Heroes Church took advantage of the queen's absence, to summon the Four Holy Heroes. That lead to a lot of criticism from other countries, it was the problem the queen was taking care of that lead to her delayed absence. She permanently deprived Trash and Bitch of the authority of the imperial family, as punishment for their evil deeds.

Heroes
Iwatani Naofumi: The Queen understands the fact that Naofumi is innocent of the crimes her husband and oldest daughter have framed him for, and subtly acts to help him before her actual appearance in the story. She orchestrated his purchessing of a slave, though likely did not expect him to buy Raphtalia specifically, and concealed his less savoury, but necessary given his situation, actions from her husband. She finally came to his defence and even saved his life when the Three Heroes Church made their move. Placing her youngest daughter Melty under his care was also a part of her plans to protect her, although the Shadows would've stepped in if Naofumi himself proved a threat to Melty. She has signed a contract with Naofumi preventing her from betraying him(with the fatal implications of a full strength Slave contract), to show her sincerity to the distrusting hero. She is not fully tolerant of him however, as she subtly threatened him when he wanted to have her husband and oldest daughter executed, although he himself later concluded that, given his worth to her, she'd have been forced to comply if he truly pushed that demand, making this an empty threat. She values him as she shield hero for political reasons, as he's the best means to keep the Demi-Human countries from attacking them, and is even biding for her youngest daughter Melty to marry him, or at least become pregnant from him, both in simple bids to placate the Demi-Humans who worship him. During the Spirit Turtle incident Neofumi became the only hero she could actually rely on, as the Seven Star Heroes were miles away and the other three Legendary Heroes caused the incident in the first place and wound up MIA. During this time Naofumi proved capable of shocking even her with his ability to act out a heroic speech, motivating the men of their alliance, and was ultimately promoted to Count for his actions by her, as well as given the land he requested to help train his forces for the next wave. She and Naofumi have something of an understanding it seems as she provides him with what he needs to combat the wave and he does not take advantage of this position or abuse it in any visible way. The two have a fair grasp of each other's personalities, and she basically treats him as an equal ally, as well as constantly pressuring him to either become her son in law or at the very least the father of her grandchild.

Amaki Ren, Kitamura Motoyasu, and Kawasumi Itsuki: As compared to Naofumi, who has caused some minor amount of trouble, Mirelia shows evident stress with how the other three of the Four Sage Heroes were initially shown to be very unreliable because of the trouble they keep creating; the most notable one was how they freed the Spirit Turtle, where Mirelia deeply questioned on why the three would "take such idiotic actions" that later caused heavy amount of casualties. After the three heroes became MIA, and with how Naofumi became the only hero that succeeded in slaying the Spirit Turtle, people had then began the belief that the heroes, other than the Shield, were false heroes. Thus, most of the countries, besides Melromarc, had decided to place restrictions on the movements of the heroes where Mirelia still continued to give support, for the three, by making Melromarc the only one that would accept them while also making the attempt to have rumors die down. Though gossip did not stop which became evident as a role reversal began where Motoyasu, Ren, and Itsuki had began to experience similar conditions that Naofumi had went through, initially because of Bitch, while Naofumi himself was greatly praised as a great hero. Mirelia then depended on Naofumi to monitor the three heroes so that they can make amends for their mistakes.

Companions
Shadows: She uses the Shadows as her personal assassins, enforcers and messengers, and has a particular fondness of the one who speaks with "Degozeru" at the end of each of her sentences due to her daughter, Melty finding that one's manner of speech funny, so she uses him/her(Shadows aren't supposed to be able to be told apart, so they have no individual names and wear uniforms which conceal their individual genders) as a body double.

Family
Trash: Mirelia is very much in love with her husband Aultclay, and has known him since his hero days. She is very much ashamed of what he's become, stating he was amazing before they had a daughter, Malty, whom he spoilt rotten. He was called the Wise King by many, herself included, in the past, but in the present his actions are so petty, tyranical and reckless, in short plain stupid, that she actually had to give authority of her country to someone beneath him during her absense. That person unfortunately died in the first Wave incident, which turned the power back to Aultclay, who was quickly manipulated by the Three Heroes Church and immediately summoned the Four Legendary Heroes, after which his daughter, Malty, framed the Shield Hero, Naofumi, for her rape with his help in a petty bid for revenge against the Demi-humans whom he hates. This series of almost immediate and unbelievably stupid actions put their kingdom into a political minefield which she had to spend the next two or so months cleaning up after. Once she finally had the chance to return home she desposed of the Three Heroes Church, cleared Naofumi's name and stripped her husband and daughter of their royal status and power. After convincing Naofumi to spare her husband and daughter in exchange for any other punishment but death, she willingly has their names changed to Trash and Bitch respectively. It would seem she still loves her husband however, but is somewhat of a sadist about it, as every time Naofumi comes back to the castle following this event, Trash is in some other rediculous situation likely for his refusal to correct his behavior, such as parading the castle town half naked or wearing a collar around his neck which renders him utterly silent. The latest one was how Trash was forced to wear a bunny suit; this stream of punishments came to a stop when Trash first met Atlas, the daughter of his lost sister who she heavily resembles, where the former King apparently started to learn to behave, ceased his usual hubris against Naofumi, and was no longer seen in humiliating situations.

Malty Melromarc: Her relationship with her oldest daughter is, to say the least, hostile. She once sent Malty to a high class school hoping to reform her bad behavior, but all that accomplished was Malty being promoted from a virgin. Malty is much like her mother in the worst possible way, she has all of her mother's cunning talents but chooses to use them to manipulate and have her own way. She frames Naofumi for rape, seemingly for no other reason than to mess with him, staining his reputation and nearly inciting war with the kingdoms who worship the Shield hero. She amassed a huge debt by taking money from the kingdom's treasury for her own personal use, and she is utterly unrepentant for the lot of it. She also seems to blame malty for turning her husband into an idiot, as she notes that Aultclay was "Magnificent, before we had a child", and noting that Aultclay spoilt her rotten. Malty also crossed a personal line by trying to get her younger sister Melty, who the queen does like, killed, which appears to have been the final straw. After she returns and clears Naofumi's name she stripped her daughter of her right to the throne completely. She did show some compassion by preventing Naofumi from demanding to have Malty executed, and instead placated his justified anger by having Malty and Aultclay renamed to Bitch and Trash respectively. After this Mirelia made her daughter a slave to their kingdom to pay off the frankly tremendous financial debt she owes it(all of which was spent on her personal luxuries), and tells her, in what is a very clear final warning, that her only hope is to to fight the Waves together with the heroes. Despite this Malty still refused to learn her lesson and betrayed all four of the heroes one by one, eventually eliminating this option and leaving Mirelia with only one recourse. Then Malty started a full scale revolution against her, however the princess is pitifully subdued by Raphtalia soon after and arrested. Mirelia then reveals the only remaining use, and punishment, she has for her daughter by marrying her off to the King of Faulbley in a political bid to placate him; due to the recent mess that Malty and Trash themselves caused. She herself notes that this is essentially the same as a death sentence, as the man in question sees women as toys to be played with until broken(literaly), and she herself once feared winding up this way. She offers her daughter one final chance at salvation: if any one of the Legendary Heroes proves willing to take her under their wing, effectively allowing her to fight the Waves again and reviving their former arrangement, then she'd let her live. However she does this knowing that none of those heroes would risk taking her in and essentially just does this to allow Malty to realise the fact that she alone is the one who has cornered herself like this. Malty, as expected, dies two weeks later from the king's abusive treatment.

Melty Melromarc: The Queen is much more caring towards her youngest daughter Melty when compared to her oldest daughter Malty, though she's not above manipulating her as a political tool; such as using her as a lure to bring out the Three Heroes Church and entrusting her to Naofumi, the Shield Hero, bringing quite a bit of danger her way(although Shadows were always closely guarding her), and later even constantly encouraging Naofumi to marry and/or impregnate Melty. Melty spent a larger amount of time with her mother than her father, and as such doesn't appear to have become rotten like Malty, who was spoilt by their father, but she still cares for her father, at least until she hears what he and Malty did to Naofumi. Her encouraging Naofumi to marry her daughter also seems partly done out of a desire to help her daughter, who is visibly attracted to Naofumi, but is at the same time completely unable to stand his cynical outlook and the fact he constantly treats her like a child.