Aultcray Melromarc XXXII

Aultcray is the former wise king of Melromarc however his rationality has decreased with years. He hates the Shield Hero because he fought a war with Siltwelt, a country that worships him. As punishment for his discrimination against Naofumi, his name was changed to Trash by the Queen. He is the Hero of the cane, and was quite active in his younger years however during recent years, he has become something like a shell of his former self.

Personality
By all accounts he was extremely active and heroic in his earlier days, earning a grand reputation amonst the kingdoms of the world. He hated demi-humans for killing his parents, and has a specific kind of hate for the White Tiger(Hokuko) variant of them. This hatred caused him to rush to Melromarc, where he could be as openly hostile to them as possible and aid the kingdom in war against Silt Welt, the demi-human country. Eventually, likely due to his absence or recent activity in fact, his sister Lucia was taken or killed by the Hokuko demi-humans he hated so much. This has culminated in making him a man who deeply hates demi-humans and, by ascociation, the Hero of the Shield who they worship.

Eventually he became known and respected by his allies and his enemies as a wise king and the Hero of the Staff, indicating that for all his hatred and recklessness he was at one point a cunning and intelligent person with a heroes' renown.

After he and his wife had their first daughter, Malty, he spoilt her rotten and became incredibly stupid. Malty owes much of her arrogant and cruel tenancies to her father because no matter what she did she was always the apple of his eye and he was more likely to punish those who she victimised if they took any form of action about it. His wife, seeing this, took their second daughter under her wing to prevent this same kind of failed upbringing. The situation gets so bad that by the time when the waves start he decides, on his own and without any backing from the queen or the other countries, to summon the four heroes. He then acts out his petty hatred for the Hero of the Shield by helping his daughter Malty frame the newly summoned and naive Naofumi of raping the latter. He later tries to take Naofumi's only psychological support, his slave Raphtalia, away from him in a rigged duel, in spite of the fact his country permits slavery and is dependant upon it. The culmination of all this overwhelming stupidity leaves the kingdom in a political minefield with their neighbours and even causes a level of internal strife. He did almost exactly what the Three Heroes Church wanted, without doubting their conspiracy even a little, according to the queen. Finally, when his wife strips him of power and undoes all of this damage, he's totally unrepentant and still believes it's Naofumi's fault, despite being the one who himself framed the Shield Hero to begin with. He's at least less petty than his daughter Malty though, as while she tried to poison Naofumi he instead just planned to give him laxetives. When his wife tried to send him back to the battlefield, he kicked screamed and cried out in fear of not going, and Naofumi believes that for whatever god foresaken reason he simply doesn't want to be a hero anymore.

He is genuinely in love with his wife, so much so that he puts up with her harsh treatment of him after the above ordeals. Though Naofumi just suspects the queen might be a sadist and they were always this way. The only thing he claimed he wouldn't let her get away with is defending a Hokuko.

He begins to reform slowly under his wife's care, or more appropriately under her control. When he sees Atla, a Hokuko slave under Naofumi's control who happens to look exactly like his lost sister, he also begins to question his grudge towards them and their race to some extent. Much later, during Malty's rebellion, he is shown to be, finally, questioning his daughter's actions, as she has now outright betrayed her own country and is trying to kill them. Despite this he faints from shock and horror when the queen sends the defeated Malty off to the King of Faulbley, where she will inevitably die a horrible death, all as a bargaining chip to make the King forgive the issues that Malty and Aultclay themselves started with the summoning of the four heroes, so it's likely he feels some responsibility for this. He thus approaches Atla and Fohl, and tells the latter to protect his sister at all costs because, speaking from his own life experiences, he will regret it if he loses her.

much later in the story, he and the queen are shown to be happy again, and he resolves his issues with the Hokuko and the Shield Hero, although it's unlikely Naofumi will ever truly forgive and forget. He is also shown to have joined his wife in encouraging a relationship between Naofumi and Melty.

Background
Aultcray’s former name was Luge Lances Faubley. He was the third legitimate heir to the throne of Faubley, the strongest country in the world. However, an incident involving the killing of his parents and many others close to him by the Hakuko robbed him of the throne. Because Faubley did nothing in retaliation, Luge began to despise both Faubley and Silt Welt. He moved to Melromarc which discriminated against Demi-Humans and changed his own name. Luge hid the fact that he was of Royal Blood, and rushed onto the front lines of the wars Melromarc waged. Along the way, he was selected to be the master of the Seven Star Cane, and he began to spread his name as a Hero. While Luge was away from home, he had left behind his blind younger sister, Lucia, and he soon received word that she had disappeared with nothing left behind but a pool of blood and that the Hakukos had killed her. Luge’s desire for revenge strengthened. After many years of war, he challenged and defeated the Hakuko king of Silt Welt.

Seven Star Cane Skills

 * Instant Blast (エアスト・ブラスト)
 * Blast Prison (ブラストプリズン)
 * Ragnarok Blaster (ラグナロクブラスター)
 * Energy Blaster (エネルギーブラスター)

Heroes

 * Iwatani Naofumi
 * Kawasumi Itsuki
 * Kitamura Motoyasu
 * Amaki Ren

Other
Fouru: Aultcray's nephew, a half-human half-Hakuko, and the son of his long lost sister who was taken by the Hakuko. He and Fouru are extremely similar in some ways, especially in regards to Aultcray's younger days. He tells the boy to protect his sister, as he knows all too well the grief he will suffer upon losing her, which eventually came to pass. Fouru reveals that his father was a peaceful Hakuko noble and his mother was a human woman named Alucia.

Atlas: Aulcray's niece, a half-human half-Hakuko, and the daughter of his long lost sister who was taken by the Hakuko. She bears a striking resemblence to her mother, which sparks the start of Aultcray's redeption when he sees her. She also suffered the same illness her mother had. After his daughter is punished by essentially being put to death, he tries to seek comfort by warming up to Altas, but is stopped by her brother. He warns the boy to protect her, as he knows what it would mean for him to lose her, which he later does.