Mirellia Q Melromarc (Web Novel)

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

Appearance
Information to be added later on.

Personality
As compared to her husband, Aultcray Melromarc XXXII, Mirellia 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 part of her plan to bring down the Three Heroes Church, and 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, Mirellia is both a very loving ruler, for her people, and a parent for her youngest daughter.

She admits there was a time when Trash won her heart and she fell in love with him. However, because of the large mess he made while she was away for diplomatic issues, she was enraged that 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. Mirellia became very reasonable with him later after he met his niece for the first time, understanding that her husband was starting to behave.

Background
Her country was in war with Siltvelt for centuries. She fell in love and married a person who rose to fame from being a common soldier to a cane hero. Later, he was revealed to be a legitimate third heir of Faubley. 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. Because of which she ascends those who favor Demi-human to nobility and created a demi-human protected village for Demi-Humans. This halted the centuries of war and presented a decade of peace with the rival nation of Siltvelt (which is the exact opposite of Melromarc), where Demi-human dominant and humans are treated badly. Silt welt also followed her example and set up a human protected village. It was revealed that all her action stems from her hobbies of the legend of four heroes and the inspiration of Faubley, where both Human and Demi-human coexist in peace, while her nation has useless squabbles.

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 were 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 Church of the Three Heroes took advantage of the queen's absence, and summoned the four heroes. That led to a lot of criticism from other countries, and it was taking care of that led to her delayed absence. After returning, she permanently deprived her husband and daughter their royal authority as punishment for their evil deeds. She wanted to take special care of the Shield Hero, as he could be the key to lasting peace between Melromarc and Siltvelt. She even planned to marry one of her daughter to the Shield Hero to attain the goodwill of Demi-humans and Siltvelt. This plan was ruined by Malty and her husband, though. This is noted by her scolding to Malty when she admitted that she might have even given let her firstborn replace Melty as her heir if she had remained in Naofumi's party and seduced him rather than betraying him. Now she hopes the idea can work through Melty instead.

Summary
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 and doesn't share the view of her nation's religion. However, she is saddened that the current generation isn't living up to their name. She specializes in both Fire and Water magic.

During the appearance of waves, she attended the world conference in regards to fighting the waves and summoning the Heroes. It was accepted that her nation would be fourth in order for summoning, and it was agreed upon that each nation summons only one hero. But to the shock of everyone including herself, parties back in Melromarc summoned all the four heroes without her knowledge. She deduces that her husband and the Church of Three Heroes were involved, and pretends it was her idea, claiming the others would have tried to monopolize the heroes and her nation was just trying to save itself first. She then warned them it was unwise to attack the nation possessing all four holy warriors. Mirellia proposed an idea of sharing the heroes with other nations by sending envoys to meet and give them an offer so they may move to their nation.

But what happened next was a surprise for herself and her second daughter, Melty who was accompanying her in diplomacy. All the heroes refused to meet the envoys, including the shield hero whose treatment was more worrisome. While Melty was puzzled by this development, Mirellia guessed what was going on. Again, every nation blamed her for breaching the agreement, as they were preparing for a hero to welcome to their nation and left with disappointment. The Demi-human nation Siltvelt, which worshiped the shield hero, was the most furious. Mirellia explained that all the heroes found scum in her nation and were currently removing filth there. She also brought to the attention of how the last shield hero died in Siltvelt and told them to not point fingers at her.

Knowing that there was no turning back, she wrote numerous letters to her husband emphasizing the need to treat all heroes equally and to take special care of the Shield Hero. She gained the support of Fulbert, by certain promises and hopes to find a way around it.

At first, she was more concerned with the ruckus caused by the Shield Hero, such as attacking others with balloon monsters, the trouble stirred at the dining center, and also his way of avoiding anyone getting close to him, including the Demi-humans and others who favors him. By the information given to her by the shadows, she summarized the reason for his distrust. She concluded that her husband is not going to comply with her words and decided to take action on her own. She managed to secure a slave as Naofumi's comrade with great difficulty. She kept on sending soldiers with letters repeating her advise, but it was in vain. Mirellia also learned about her husband and Malty misusing their power and lavish spending of countries treasuries to their own gain. They also started shunning all nobles favoring demi-humans.

Mirellia was happy at the news of the subjugating of the wave by the heroes and the shield heroes effort in protecting a village, despite his poor treatment. She learned of Naofumi's reputation begin to rise. However, her happiness short-lived, as she was infuriated at her husband for arranging a rigged duel between the spear hero and shield hero to take away the slave of the shield hero. Aultcracy also treated heroes in a biased manner with Spear hero of most favor and shield hero being the least or none. This became a new reason for conflict with the neighboring nations and She worked to her bones with her diplomatic skill to release the tension. She also burned the portraits of her husband and first daughter to release her own stress. Her letters remained unanswered by her husband and his action towards shield hero got worsened. He also ignored the messengers sent by her. By this time her husband named the spear hero as a lord of the wave affected village, where Malty levy heavy taxes under the pretense of rebuilding. The queen sends her shadows warning her to back down. Not wanting to give up, Malty challenged the shield hero to race with the Spear Hero for the lordship of the village. Despite the cheating by the Spear Hero side, Shield Hero emerged victorious earning him goodwill among the people.

Mirellia also hears about the consequence of other heroes' poorly thought actions, While the shield hero clearing all their messes, earning the trust of her peoples. She finally fell sick, due to overwork.

She became more furious, after her husband sent an irrelevant letter, wishing to see Melty. Reaching her limit, she begins to make her own plan with shadows against The Church of the Three Heroes, as she already knew of their evil plot. Knowing Melty's own desire, She sent Melty to her father. Melty knew of the circumstance and wanted to get her father and the Shield Hero to make amends. But Mirellia was just using Melty, as a pawn to lure the Church of Three Heroes. She also assigned two of her Shadows as Melty's hidden bodyguards.

In the light novel, Melty was lost on the way and was helped by Naofumi to return to her home with neither knowing who the other was. After learning their identity, she tried to negotiate with the Shield Hero but was shunned for being a royal. After the third wave, Naofumi emerged victorious. This led to a serious incident starting with the rift between Naofumi and Aultcray widening, the church of three heroes becoming more desperate, and the world diplomats worrying about the heroes not cooperating with each other. Melty, in hopes of mending the relation between Naofumi and his father, begins to chase after Naofumi whose was on his way to Siltvelt.

As Mirellia hoped, the church along with Malty tried to execute Melty and pin it on Naofumi so the church can save face in public for their teaching and Malty can get the throne. As Mirellia planned, Naofumi was forced to take Melty under his protection. Mirellia also orders the shadows protecting the Melty to arrest Naofumi if he became a threat to her child. Mirellia was constantly informed about the situation and was surprised of knowing Melty getting close to Naofumi and was acting to her age. Finally, the Church of Three Heroes showed their true color and tried to execute all four heroes, their companions, and Melty. Both Ren and Itsuki were saved by the queen's shadows in nick of time and informed the church of the subjugation force coming to aid them. Finally, the four Heroes lined up to fight the pope, and Naofumi with the aid of the queen gave the finishing blow and saves the day.

Mirellia begs for Naofumi's forgiveness and asks for his help in saving the world, by staying in Melromarc. She tries to persuade him in every way, as his choice may lead to war. She was able to gain the trust of the hero with the condition of it being the only time and magic contract of her being a slave if she were to betray him. She promised better and preferential treatment for his cooperation, then cleared all of the fake charges against him, overlooked those crimes committed due to circumstance, and punished her husband and daughter for all their crimes.

Naofumi accepts her to be a better administrator and realizes that things might have been different if she were to run the things from the start of his arrival. He also realized that she could have handled the heroes more efficiently. He can also guess that she would have pushed her daughter into a political marriage with him without him even knowing it, as this might end the centuries old rivalry with Siltvelt. Naofumi followed to her instructions and continuously emerged victorious while the other heroes followed their own path, as their inflated ego got hurt which eventually led to their downfall. Her plans were perfect until her death. On her death bed, she left the strategizing to her husband, who she admitted was better at it than her, in order to save her country and world.

As the war with the waves progresses, Her husband followed her will and mended things with Naofumi and fought the waves. When Medea descends, their fight continued with little success, until Medea resurrected and controlled Mirellia to fight off her own family and allies. When Naofumi returned, he gave Aultcray hope and encouraged him for the final battle. Naofumi ultimately leaves Aultcray and Melty to deal with the revived queen, and they are ultimately able to bring her to her senses. At the end of the story, Mirellia was shown to be happy with her family again. She asked her daughter Melty to continue as queen, for she retired from her tiresome work to spend time with her husband.

Legacy
The wife of the Hero of the Cane, and the former Queen of Melromarc. According to legend, she once died and was revived under enemy control, but the Hero of the Cane was able to dispel the brainwashing binding her. But it has also been said that the one who was killed was merely her body double. After that, she left the country to her daughter and aided her alongside the Hero of the Cane.

Abilities
Mirellia served as the strategist for the allied army.

Magic

 * Rain Storm: High-Class Covenant Magic!

Relationships

 * -|Heroes=
 * Naofumi Iwatani: The Queen understands that Naofumi is innocent of the crimes her husband and oldest daughter framed him for, and subtly acts to help him before her actual appearance in the story. She sees the real value of Naofumi and wrote to her husband to take special care to gain his favor, which her husband didn't. She orchestrated his purchasing of a slave, though likely did not expect him to buy Raphtalia specifically, and concealed his less savory crimes, deeming them necessary given his situation. She finally came to his defense 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, although the Shadows would've stepped in if Naofumi himself proved a threat to Melty. Naofumi had a thought of leaving the country for which she begged him to reconsider by bowing to his feet. She 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 for their crimes against him. Naofumi later concluded the threat was hollow, given that his worth to her meant she'd have been forced to comply if he truly pushed that demand. 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, Naofumi 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.


 * Ren Amaki, Motoyasu Kitamura, and Itsuki kawasumi: As compared to Naofumi, who has caused some minor amount of trouble, Mirellia 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 Mirellia deeply questioned on why the three would "take such idiotic actions" that later caused a 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 begun 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 Mirellia 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 begun to experience similar conditions that Naofumi had went through, initially because of Bitch, while Naofumi himself was greatly praised as a great hero. Mirellia 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.


 * Queen's Shadow: Information to be added later.


 * -|Other=
 * Aultcray Melromarc: Mirellia 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, tyrannical, and reckless, in short, plain stupid, that she actually had to give authority of her country to someone beneath him during her absence. 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 disposed 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 ridiculous 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 S 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 Mirellia 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 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 Mirellia 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. Mirellia then reveals the only remaining use, and punishment, she has for her daughter by marrying her off to the King of Faubley 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 their broken (literally), 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 realize 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 Q 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.


 * The former King of Faubley: The Queen’s relationship with her brother in law was somewhat not positive, especially regarding treating women as “toys of pleasure.” In fact, when she was a young girl, she feared her parents would marry her off to the King Faubley, given to the fact he slowly tortures woman to death. Even after she married the King’s Brother, her opinion with her brother in law didn’t improve very much. Unfortunately, her relationship with her brother in law begins to worsen when her husband summoned the four Heroes against the international agreement. Knowing that this action would caused a war with against her nation, especially against Faubley, so she negotiated with their king to ensured the war was prevented from happening. The king agreed with her negotiations, but under one condition; the Queen must send her eldest daughter, Malty to him as a Bride to “play with”. Given that her elder daughter has personally issues, she agreed to his condition, repairing her nation, and Faubley for the time being. Despite this, she have stall for time, by giving King Faubley a doll that looked like Witch, but it didn’t lasted more than 2 days. Eventually, after Malty has betrayed the other heroes and started her failed revolution, the Queen has little choice, but to send her away to King Faubley, much to the her horror.