Mald

Mald is the former comrade of the Bow hero and a nobility of Melromarc by birth,

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 any one.

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 Nafoumi 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 too like L'Arc 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.

Equipment
Mald is commonly called Armour by Naofumi due to wearing a heavy suit of armour 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.

Summary
Mald is one Itsuki, the Hero of the Bow's, party members, and the de-facto leader among them. He is commonly called Armour 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 Three Heroes' Church. Though he is not a staunch believer of the three heroes church, he sided with him 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 larvishly spent all the money earned by Itsuki.

Relationships
Heroes 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 other three heroes, at-least according to Itsuki's party, whether it his their true feeling or just praise is debatable.
 * The Bow Hero (former)

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. 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 Nafoumi and became the first victim of curse burn.
 * Naofumi :

Mald considers Naofumi to be a criminal and the Demon Lord of the Shield, despite the latter's name being cleared and the Three Heroes' Church being outlawed by the time the two of them actually met. Nafoumi suspect Mald's condescending attitude towards him, may be due to constant bad mouthing of Itsuki or may be due to the centuries of preaching of church of three heroes of shield being a villain.

In light novel, Ren too finds his personality disgusting and was more irritated, when mald claims Ren and Nafoumi to be inferior to Itsuki.
 * Ren :

Companion 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 Other
 * Rishia (former):
 * Welst: He share the same opinion of Mald and accompanied him.
 * Rojeel
 * Malty Melromarc: She joined mald in insulting Raphtalia for her being demi human, during the first heroes conference. She again joined with him..