Aultcray Melromarc XXXII (Web Novel)

Aultcray Melromarc XXXII (オルトクレイ＝メルロマルク３２) is a supporting character in The Rising of the Shield Hero Web Novel.

Formerly named Lüge Lansarz Faubrey before marrying into the royal family, becoming King of Melromarc and inheriting the name of Mirellia's father Aultcray Melromarc XXXI. His name was later once changed again under the authority of the Queen of Melromarc to Trash Melromarc after mistreating the Shield Hero.

Appearance
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Personality
Aultcray is the formerly lived up-to his name given as the wise king of Melromarc. Despite being a Staff hero, he was known for his formidable intelligence. He was known and respected by his allies and his enemies alike. By all accounts he was extremely active and heroic in his earlier days, earning a grand reputation among the kingdoms of the world. All this indicate that for all his hatred and recklessness he was at one point a cunning and intelligent person with a heroes' renown.

However, in recent years, he has become something like a shell of his former self and his rationality has decreased with years. The queen stated that his wisdom earned him a great amount of respect that even now if he was sent to the border, it will cause a turmoil among enemies just by seeing him. Even the slave trader claims that the nation Melromarc might have been nothing in the name or in stand among the nations if it isn't for Aultcracy. Many citizens and nobles still have their faith in him.

Though he was from Faubley, 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 a war against Siltvelt, the demi-human country. He hates the Shield Hero because he fought a war with Siltvelt, a country that worships him.

However, the current generation and the heroes doubt him to be such a person as others claim him to be. Rishia wonders if his current behavior might be a strategic act, as his behavior and parents word doesn't add up. Even his own second daughter is disgusted with him fawning over her sister and doubt her mother stories of him. In a time of Spirit tortoise rampage, he refused to fight to cause a ruckus. This made Naofumi discards any of his past deeds and felt them to be exaggerated ones. Naofumi believes that Trash might have been a military strategist who was only good at aggravating things, but the queen claims him to be much more wiser than that. Queen who has seen him most of her life feels disgusted of how far he is sunk from being remarkable to complete idiot. The queen also points his idiocy might be due to decades of peace and also because of his spoiling of his first daughter, Malty.

After his family and country are in danger. He awakened to his senses by Naofumi and acted completely different of how Naofumi had seen him from the time of summoning; He proved himself to be the true Wise king of Melromarc and crumbled the enemies might and weapons with his intellect. He also willing took the name Trash for his past misdeeds. But Naofumi suspects him to be a masochist and the queen to be a sadist. Finally, his hatred for Demi-human, especially for Hakkuko and Naofumi were gone without a trace and he tried to make up for it.

Background
He was the third legitimate heir to the throne of Faubley, the strongest country in this world. At first, but then an incident came that robbed him of that privilege. That incident involved the killing of his parents and many others close to him by the Hakuko.

Luckily, Luge and his younger sister Lucia were not there at the time, but the country of Faubley did nothing in retaliation against Silt Welt for political reasons. Because of that, Luge began to despise both Faubley and Siltvelt. He moved to Melromarc, which discriminated against Demi-Humans, and changed his name.

Luge hid the fact that he was of Royal Blood, and rushed onto the frontlines of the wars Melromarc waged. Along the way, the previous Hero of the Cane fought to the death with Trash for the right to wield it, and he began to spread his name as a Hero. At that time, due to his resourcefulness and strength, he won the heart of Mirellia Q Melromarc.

But, while Luge ventured off, he had left behind his sightless sister. Soon, he received word that she had disappeared with nothing left behind but a pool of blood, and the Hakukos had killed her. Luge's desire for revenge strengthened. This has culminated in making him a man who deeply hates demi-humans and, by association, the Hero of the Shield who they worship. After many years of war, he challenged and defeated the Hakuko king of Silt Welt, Tai Ran Ga Feon.

Roughly twenty-some years ago, When Silt Welt plotted for global domination, It was Luge that faced them head-on, saving Melromarc and other countries as well. Thanks to him that many countries exist peacefully. Rishia family still firmly believes that Melromarc would remain peaceful and secure as long as Luge was there. Mirellia also claims no matter how much hatred he bears towards anyone, he will aid them, if it brings him some benefit or debt own to him, in contrast to how he treated Naofumi.

After he and his wife had their first daughter, Malty, he spoils 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 victimized 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. This peaceful time finally clouded his way of seeing things and was easily manipulated.

The Rising of the Shield Hero
During the time, when Mirellia had left the country, for diplomacy reasons, she had left her right-hand man in charge; however, he was later killed by the Three Heroes Church. Because all the political power was transferred to the king, Luge did not bother investigating the incident as he, and his daughter Malty, began to abuse their new founded political power during Mirellia's absence. 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 went out of his way to make more sufferings for Naofumi along with the church of three 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 and let her steal all his possession, to point of leaving Naofumi in his underwear for a week in the open street. 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 dependent upon it. He has forbidden the guild to give any job to Naofumi while other heroes got ample of request for huge sum of money, when questioned by Raphtalia for this, he mockingly told her what a shield can do much to sneer of all in the courtroom, along with this he continues to give Naofumi more unnecessary hardships. He also revoked his funds on the pretext of removing Raphtalia's slave crest and hints of not going to give any more funds in the future.

He abused his authority to prevent having Naofumi's party from getting a Class Up. Aultcury ordered crystal balls for the four heroes to learn magic but only given them to the other three heroes. The culmination of all this overwhelming stupidity leaves the kingdom in a political minefield with their neighboring nations and even causes a level of internal strife. Some faction of commoners supported Naofumi While the nobles and church of three heroes tried to take the power of authority for them-self.

He did almost exactly what the Three Heroes Church wanted, without doubting their conspiracy even a little. 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 being responsible for all. As punishment for his discrimination against Naofumi, his name was changed to Trash by the Queen. Naofumi at this point realize the real threat of the wave (after witnessing Glass's strength), decided not to make any more new enemies and agreed for just renaming Aultcray to Trash.

He is least petty than his daughter Malty though, as while she tried to poison Naofumi he instead just planned to give him laxatives. 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 godforsaken 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 Hakuko. He challenged and killed the head Hakuko of siltwelt.

His hatred for Hakuko still continued after ages, until he saw the half-blooded demihuman, Hakuko, Atla who happens to be the daughter of his long lost daughter and at the same time they were the grandchild of his nemesis head Hakuko of Siltvelt, whom he killed. This puts an awkward situation for him to reach his nephew and niece, not to mention them being under the care of Shield hero, who he gave much hardship and viewed with intense hatred.

He begins to reform slowly under his wife's care, or more appropriately under her control. 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 Faubley, 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.

When Tact kills his wife and Atla, on his daughter's encouragement, Aultcray finally becomes emotionally cornered and loses all hope, his wife's final words act as yet another blow, as they finally hammer in the fact that Naofumi was never the bad guy and that she wants the two of them to bury the grudge and work together to save her country. When Naofumi comes to the Queen's funeral Aultcray ultimately tells him to save Melromarc and notes that he simply can't, Naofumi is utterly enraged by this, as the queen wanted them to work together on it, and he forces Aultcray to stand by openly acting like a villain, claiming to want to conquer the world and turn Melty into a sex-slave, Aultcray is finally revived by these words and lashes out, declaring he will not let Naofumi have Melromarc, and Naofumi, to his surprise, returns to his normal demeanor and compliments Aultcray for this.

After this Naofumi forces him to accept his responsibility and Aultcray, finally reflecting on everything he's done, reclaims his staff, stands up as the wise king of Melromarc, and leads the army against Tact. He develops a strong devotion to Naofumi and acknowledges his past misgivings as irredeemable and unforgivable, he even willingly accepts the name "Trash" because he deems it fitting for "the fool who couldn't defend anything he loved". He entrusts Naofumi with his staff, and in so doing the responsibility to avenging his wife and niece, and perfectly leads the army against both Tact's invasion and the wave that occurred at the same time.

Finally, when Tact was executed, Aultcray saw his daughter, Malty, who encouraged all of the Tact's actions, praising her mother, whom she encouraged the murder of, and claiming to be Tact's victim, despite obviously being the one pulling the strings behind him. Aultcray was infuriated and ordered her immediate execution, despite his once-doting personality towards her, she clearly crossed a line he would never forgive her for.

As the war with the waves progresses he becomes one of Naofumi's greatest confidants and allies, though Naofumi flatly admits he has no mind to forgive the man's trespasses against him, he is willing to overlook them so long as Aultcray remains a good man and comrade. Aultcray ultimately takes to encouraging the marriage between Melty and Naofumi, if not he tries forcing a marriage between Fohl and Melty to keep his nephew close, and he succeeds in getting them engaged when Melty names Naofumi Arch-Duke.

When Medea descends he continues fighting the ultimately fruitless fight against her forces, which are led by his resurrected and controlled wife, despite his grief at the whole ordeal and the apparent deaths of Naofumi, Ren, Raphtalia, and Motoyasu. When Naofumi returned, he gave Aultcray hope and encouraged him to rest, something he hadn't done for the entirety of the war with Medea, and prepare 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. When Medea confronts him over wanting to kill her, despite her being, technically, his daughter Malty, he completely brushes it off and tells her that she is no daughter of his, he means this literally because Medea merely incarnated herself into his bloodline with her powers, and is thus not really a child of his, and never was.

At the end of the story, he and the queen are shown to be happy again, and he resolves his issues with the Hakuko 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. Ironically, his most hated race and hero, Hakuko and Shield hero becomes his most trusted confidant. As the former been revealed as his lost sister's children and later helped him in war.

The Reprise of the Spear Hero
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Legacy
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Abilities
Besides the fact that he is the Hero of Cane, he described as a genius tactician which being feared by other countries in the past. He could be planning all of the war tactics just by collecting a little information at Tact's World Aggression in short time. Even during the time of peace, he retained his militaristic sense, When playing the strategic game, Chess with his wife, He would yawn and win while his wife who is a tactician scratches her head and lose. He would only hold back and let his older daughter, Malty win.

Seven Star Cane Skills

 * Instant Blast
 * Blast Prison
 * Ragnarok Blaster
 * Energy Blaster

Relationships

 * -|Legendary Heroes=
 * Naofumi Iwatani: Luge's unreasonable hatred towards Naofumi may have likely stemmed from how Silt Welt worships the Hero of the Shield, which made the king gave his support to the Three Heroes Church in constantly demonizing the Shield Hero. In contrast to how Mirellia had instructed husband not to discriminate against Naofumi, Luge had done so anyway by going out of his way to make him suffer. Luge backed by the church of three heroes had rebuked and chastised Nafoumi. He was even going out of his way to discriminate and was doing everything to oppress him. Number of things done by him against Nafoui was uncountable. He always calls other Heroes with respect while calling Nafoumi as a shield or criminal Hero. Their relationship worsens after the third wave where Naofumi had emerged as victorious as compared to the other three heroes that were defeated; refusing to believe this, the King had accused of Naofumi of foul play and demanded the Shield Hero to confess. Naofumi had denied Luge's false claim, as well as refusing to show any respect towards Luge, asking him to crawl and kneel before him for any more request, Nafoumi leaves after insulting and threatened to kill him, if Altrucy ever gets in his way, as Nafoumi is more stronger than other heroes, though most of it was a bluff to make Aultcracy scared. After Mirellia's return both Luge and Malty's crime and nafoumi's innocence were revealed and were punished as they lost their political power and were also given punishment under Naofumi's choice. While Naofumi wanted to give an execution, because people valued Luge's skills and as he also took consideration for the Queen's familial love towards the two and also to avoid making new enemies, he later decided to simply change both the King and princess's names, where Luge was renamed as Trash, as a fitting manner of humiliation. After seeing Atlas under Nafoumi's care, who resembled his late sister. Aultcracy begins to slowly reforms. After the dead of his wife and Atlas, his relationship with Naofumi takes a new leaf. He's more paying attention on every word which Naofumi said and gives a much more deserved respect. He is well aware of his past actions won't be forgiven but still apologizes to him. He also seems supporting Melty's relationship with Naofumi, like his wife did.
 * Motoyasu Kitamura: Following his daughter's choice of choosing Motoyasu, Aultcracy gave more preferential treatment to him, such as giving him more reward funds than other heroes. Promoting him to be the lord of a village. In the web novel, he went as far as to set up Cal Mira Island to steal strengthening method from other heroes to favor Motoyasu. Motoyasu also stands up for Aultcracy, when the queen started to punish for all his wrongdoing, but other heroes see this as a justified action. However, in the time loop series, Motoyasu sees him as a villain.
 * Itsuki Kawasumi: Aultcracy gives much respect and somewhat reasonable treatment to Itsuki.
 * Ren Amaki: Ren also gained the respect of Aultcracy and received somewhat reasonable treatment of a Hero. Ren too sided with Itsuki in demeaning after Alturacy's crimes was exposed. When Aultcracy redeemed and regained his sense, Ren was shocked to see and accepts him to be a Virtuous King of Wisdom


 * -|Family Members=
 * Mirellia Q Melromarc (wife and queen): In the past, Mirellia had loved her husband because of the valor and wisdom he had shown in the past. However, now the Queen has seen her husband to be now complete a far cry from what he may have once been. Not only did Trash not follow his wife's instructions, in not discriminating against the Shield Hero, he furthered shocked Mirellia, as the Queen used her authority to defend Naofumi from the Imperial Guardsmen, when Luge claimed her to be an imposter, only for him to be proven wrong when she displays her magic. As the King's authority was below the Queen, Merelia was able to freely slap her husband whenever he displayed his stupidity in front of her. Mirellia shows no patience towards her husband's mistake to the point where she had made her subordinates to have both Trash and Malty be, literally, thrown out of the throne room in order to please Naofumi. In her final breath, she asked him to return to his sense of being the wise person he once was and join hands with Nafoumi to save her kingdom which he fulfills, after a tearful sorrow of her death.
 * Malty S Melromarc (daughter): Trash constantly spoils his first daughter in doing whatever he wants. He had also entrusted her to frame Naofumi and doing everything she can to degrade the Shield Hero's reputation. He was shocked when she raised the revolt against the Royals and was more shocked when the queen decided to marry her off to the king of Faubley. Finally, He too couldn't stand her ways and orders to execute her (against his emotions), as she already has gone far beyond returns and begins to question his way of upbringing.
 * Melty Q Melromarc (daughter): Trash seems to show paternal towards her second daughter, Melty too reciprocates his love. She even tried to set up a space for Naofumi and her father to amend things, before her father becomes a victim of her mother's wrath. Later, she sided with Naofumi learning of her father's atrocities towards Naofumi.
 * Fohl: 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. Aultcracy's first meeting of Fouru caused an uproar but learning his connection to his sister calmed his nerves. He also figured out them to be the grandchildren of his nemesis, whom he killed, putting him in an awkward stance. 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.
 * Atla (Niece): The daughter of his long lost sister who was taken by the Hakuko. She bears a striking resemblance to her mother, which sparks the start of Aultcray's redemption when he sees her. She also suffered the same illness her mother had. While meeting him for the first time, Atlas confused Aultcracy for her brother, for he had many similarities, including his aura to Fouru. Even though Atlas realized that Aultcracy killed her grandfather, she completely overlooked it, saying that her current self is loyal to Nafoumi and will not look into the past. After his daughter was 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. He felt remorseful after Atlas death and regret of unable to do anything. He followed Nafoumi and Fouru in placing the flowers on the empty coffin of Atlashe mentions her name and other loved ones after her wife's death for unable to save anyone.
 * The current King of Faubley: Trash's older brother, being thirteen years older than him, who is infamous for being the most suitable executioner for women of noble lineage, where most would commit suicide before being sent to him; Mirellia describes him as to be very inhuman, both figuratively and literally, as his physical appearance easily resembles a pig that sees all women, that marry him, as being "simple toys of pleasure" where even family members, such as Witch, became no exception. After causing a failed revolution, Witch was captured and was sent of to marry the King of Faubley as both a way to calm the people that have suffered because of Witch and for easing the tension between Melromarc and Faubley due to how Trash monopolized the hero summoning. This was mostly the deal made by the queen to stop Faubley from attacking her country and for breaching the international agreement. The fault entirely lies with the trash and Malty for summoning the heroes, so they couldn't argue. The sentence had caused Trash to faint which implies he does not have a positive relationship with his brother, that would allow Witch to receive any mercy from her uncle. Two weeks later, Witch then died and Faubley's king sent his niece back while her corpse was frozen in ice.

Trivia
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