History Characters / AFormerChildSoldierWhoUsesAMagicSword

* PrinciplesZealot: The reason Sato's fighting style repulses him is that he sees "war" and "murder" as interchangeable terms, so he is convinced that "justice" mandates using the absolute minimum amount of force possible, always sparing enemies when he can, and trying to avoid casualties on both sides. It's not until his party's monk Mc Lean is dead as a result of attacking a troop of goblins head-on, only using lethal force at the last moment when Hydra is taken out with a blow to the head that he begins to think differently, but by that point, it's only himself and Angelica in the party and she convinces him to use lethal force on civilians, merchants, that they intended to rob, to LeaveNoWitnesses. He has a complete and total meltdown when his own principles come back to haunt him after he kills Angelica by pushing her off a cliff to her death.

* TheCorrupter: It's slow and subtle, but she's the reason Reid begins the slow slide to evil. She destroys his self-confidence by mocking his idiotic decision to boot out Sato. She mocks Mc Lean's death. When Hydra rightly wonders what a trained warrior who spent his whole life on the battle-field like Sato might have to say about their prospects, Angelica feeds Reid's principle zealotry that war and murder are interchangeable then proclaims that Hydra is a burden and needs to redeem herself by bringing Sato back to the party, or else. When it's just the two of them Angelica convinces Reid that stealing supplies from merchants is their only option, and of course, they have to leave no witnesses, which officially makes them bandits. When Reid sees Angelica steal jewelry and other valuables, rather than the supplies they need, the two get into a fight and she winds up dead, completing his descent to villainy, with no way back.

** The very evening after booting Sato out, nobody stood watch, because Sato was the one forced to stand watch, sometimes all night long. This results in the party being taken by surprise by a large swarm of monsters, forcing them to flee, and leaving behind the bulk of their supplies. When he has to stand watch himself, all night, because the rest of the party refuses to even take shifts, he cries out "why is this happening?! I've done nothing wrong!"

* TheConscience: Reid's conscience takes on [=McLean=]'s form in an attempt to make him realize his mistakes. Sadly Reid has already gone off into a deep end and is unwilling to admit any of his wrongdoings.

* HostageSituation: Subverted. When she and Sato are enjoying their lunch of sushi in a sushi restaurant, a gang of thugs barges in, demands immediate service, and picks a fight with Sato when he clearly doesn't like their leader trying to pressure Satis into a "date" with him and his men, the answer "no" clearly not allowed. One of the thugs puts a knife to her throat when Sato starts winning. Said knife is rendered harmless by Sato's magic and the thug finds himself being slammed to the ground. Too late, the rest try to run only to literally crash into Osiris, the town lord, who sees that same restaurant as his favorite dining place. Oops.

* SanityStrengthening: In her cell, she was eventually able to recover from her maddened state thanks and looks back at her actions with shame and regret. This along with the teachings from the villagers especially Gendar allowed her to mature with her last self-imposed test being the forbidden trial of the Wendigo.

* SecurityCling: Whenever he sees Satis being troubled, he takes to holding and squeezing her hand to calm her down. She squeezes back, tenderly, to show that she appreciates it.
** In return, whenever he's troubled, or in trouble through no fault of his own, Satis has the tendency to grab him in a tight hug, not caring that their height difference puts his face right into her chest.

* NothingPersonal: He holds no grudges on the battlefield since he considers it just a waste of time since all he needs to do is cut down the enemy in front of him.

* NoSympathy: He does not sympathize with Sato's circumstances as a ChildSoldier forced to kill to survive and only labels the boy as a violent killer.

* PsychoticManchild: He is essentially an adult man with the sense of justice a young child who is incapable of growing up and would rather avoid problems and issues he can't deal with rather than adapt to them. Perfectly summed up by "[=McLean=]":

* RemovingTheCrucialTeammate: Giving Sato the boot in the middle of the wilderness was the worst idea this self-righteous clod could have ever had. Not only was the party ''entirely'' reliant on Sato's unflinching loyalty, which was beaten into him since he was five years old, but Sato is the only one in the party who knew how to hunt and forage for food, and nobody else in the party was even remotely willing to stand watch during the night. Not to mention Sato's not only their best fighter, but also the only one with experience. Naturally, things unravel in a hurry when the Demon King's armies start coming for them. They even have the misfortune of clashing with Sebek at one point, and the guy doesn't even have to fight them seriously to stomp them, yawning and wandering off, bored, letting them live because it's not worth his time, breaking their fragile egos even more.

* DrivenToMadness: She is sent on the ImpossibleTask to bring Sato back to the party, with no idea of where he is, what he's up to, or any authority on the party's behalf to negotiate his return, just "get him back or you're next to be expelled, sent home in disgrace." By the time she finds him through sheer dumb luck, she's totally bonkers and tries to beat him into submission or kill him when he refused to go back. When she sees Satis, she deludes herself that Sato's brainwashed and then eats a pill to temporarily boost her strength. She is stopped when she's arrested by Kilim and thrown into the village stockade as a "peace-hating lunatic."

* MultimeleeMaster: She's skilled in either her bare hands or a huge array of melee weapons including daggers, fans, and swords.

* LaserGuidedKarma: We quickly learn from Sato that this self-righteous, self-proclaimed Hero treated Sato like absolute shit. Because the "hero" found Sato unpleasant, he would force the kid to stay up all night standing watch, starve him, forcing him to ration his meals ''and'' eat out of sight of the rest of the party, never sharing the good food, but only allowing him the preserved, and badly tasting emergency rations, if that, and sent him out to fight when he was barely able to stand. So the very night after thus lout kicks Sato out of the party with nowhere to go and no options, he loses most of their supplies to a monster attack, is forced to eat terrible rations, loses team-mates left and right, and at the end of his rope, turns to banditry and then winds up fighting what remains of his party to the death. Only at that point does he even have the tiniest inkling of what Sato's life was like.

* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: As the reality that humanity is in a war of annihilation with the demon king, and his own naivete has grievously harmed his party's prospects, as well as his own, dawns on him, he starts making compromises with his moral compass. He abandons his party's monk to die after fleeing an ambush, sends his martial artist to find Sato, knowing it's an impossible task, and finally, when it's just himself and Angelica, turns to banditry to make up for their lack of supplies and completes his descent into villainy when Angelica starts to flaunt stolen jewelry and they get into a fight over it, with Angelica falling off a cliff to her death.

The mage of the party.

* MirrorCharacter: Towards Reid since they are both persons with an immature sense of justice that went through SanitySlippage. However, while Reid is unable to admit his wrongdoings and crossed the point of no return being reduced to an insane murdering bandit, Hydra manages to admit her mistakes, allowing her to regain her sanity and truly grow as a person. This is especially emphasized in chapters 59-62 with the chapters on Reid focussing on his descent into madness in contrast to Hydra's chapters focussing on her mental recovery.

* AuthorityInNameOnly: What he eventually becomes after booting Satis since all demons don't even want to interact with him or become deserters, which just leaves him alone in his castle ranting about Satis' "deception".

* BeyondRedemption: The moment his own conscience disappears is when he killed a mayor's innocent daughter by accident. However, instead of owning up to his mistake, he tries to hide it and flee the village before he is caught, all under the continued delusion that he is the hero.

* HateSink: There is absolutely nothing likable or redeemable about this character. He condemns a 12-year-old boy to near-certain death for the "crime" of being a brutal ChildSoldier, despite knowing full well (or should have known) that his own country made him that way. He mocks [=McLean=]'s death as a weakling who was destined to fall by the wayside or be booted out eventually. He flips his lid and literally jumps on his biggest fan, Hydra, the instant he thinks she has second thoughts about his self-proclaimed vaulted leadership skills, siding with Angelica in threatening her to go hunt down Sato and drag him back, without any leads, expecting her to fail. He then goes with Angelica's plot to raid merchant caravans for supplies, getting into a fight with her when he sees her looting jewelry and other valuables, rather than the supplies they need, resulting in a fight to the death. Despite all his acts of villainy and ''eagerness'' to boot people from his party, knowing full well they'd be seen as traitors to humanity for it, he still twists himself into pretzels to make himself believe he can do no wrong and is the story's paragon of virtue.
* HeroicWannabe: Upon completely losing his mind, he continues to delude that he is the hero despite not having saved a single life and only committing several atrocities.
* HolierThanThou: His FatalFlaw. He boots Sato from the party, telling himself and anyone who will listen to him that Sato is just a rampaging brute whose fighting style "lacks justice" and is not a power to save mankind, completely overlooking the fact that humanity is in a war ''of survival'' against the Demon King's armies of monsters. Even after kicking Sato out, he firmly insists that as the "hero" he is more noble, righteous, and morally upright than everyone else. When it's just him and Angelica left, she gets fed up with it and tries to kill him for it.

* ThePoorlyChosenOne: It's never mentioned why the king has given him 100% authority to champion humanity's interests, to the point when he boots a party member out, it's treated as if the expelled member is a full-blown traitor, but he has to be among, if not the, worst possible choice for such a level of authority. He has to see himself as the noblest and virtuous person around, bar none, can't handle criticism, refuses to ever admit when he's wrong, or learn from his mistakes, and holds aloft as "justice" entirely unfeasibly strict rules of engagement that nobody can possibly survive if their enemies do not hold the same insane standards and are even marginally competent. He gets his party's monk (cleric) and top healer needlessly killed by holding back on the lethal force when outnumbered and outgunned by a sizable group of goblins until the martial artist was laid low by a blow to the head and retreat was impossible. He ships Hydra off on an impossible quest just for the mere suggestion that they're in over their heads. And to top it all off, allows himself to be led into banditry, killing an entire caravan full of merchants, only to wind up in a fight to the death with the last member of his party, making him a clear villain with nobody left to blame but himself.

* SnobsVersusSlobs: She's the haughty and arrogant snob to everyone else's slob. She sees other people as "plebeians" that aren't worth her time, unless she can make immediate use of them. When she manages to convince and coerce Reid into banditry, she does not give even a single thought to her innocent victims, just the loot she gets her hands on. When she gets tired of Reid trying to deny reality and convince himself that he's still a good person, if he can do enough "good deeds" to make up for what he's done, she comes to the conclusion that he's outlived his usefulness and is nothing more than a piece of refuse that needs to be disposed of and replaced.

* LeftForDead: When the party is hit with a particularly nasty ambush and he's mortally wounded, all the rest, Hydra, Angelica, and Reid, flee with the latter two mocking his corpse as a weakling they didn't need in the party.
* TeamDad: Whenever fights broke out between the members after Sato's banishment, he steps in to stop it from escalating further. The moment he died their next argument causes Angelica and Reid to give Hydra the ImpossibleTask of finding Sato due to Reid not being able to handle her slight criticism.

* EasilyForgiven: The folks of Benjamin Village have no problem letting her out of jail despite having attacked Sato and Satis since they see her as another "eccentric" like them.
* HeroWorship: Deconstructed. She idolized Reid. All it got her was an incompetent commander who booted their best fighter out for foolish and petty reasons, undue humiliation on a repeated basis, and getting herself sent on an ImpossibleTask to bring back a guy who is way, way stronger and more skilled than herself and who has good reason to not want to return, if he can even be found.
* MirrorCharacter: Towards Reid since they are both persons with an immature sense of justice that went through SanitySlippage. However while Reid is unable to admit his wrongdoings and crossed the point of no return being reduced to an insane murdering bandit, Hydra managed to admit her mistakes, allowing her to regain her sanity and truly grow as a person. This is especially emphasized in chapters 59-62 with the chapters on Reid focussing on his descent into madness in contrast to Hydra's chapters focussing on her mental recovery.

* MultimeleeMaster: She's skilled in either her bare hands or a huge array of melee weapons including daggers, fans and swords.

* SelfDisposingVillain: He caused his own downfall by ordering Satis' execution since now without their strategist and leader. His army is left unorganized and ripe for humanity to defeat even without the help of the hero. This causes him to lose his title as Demon King and be DrivenToMadness.

* TooDumbToLive: He's very foolish even by the standards of light/web novel antagonists who [[RemovingTheCrucialTeammate remove crucial party members]]. While most of these antagonists do so because the party member appears to be weak on the surface while having more esoteric or support-focused abilities, Reid exiles Sato for being ''too good'' at being a frontline fighter, which is suicidal considering how strong some of the enemy aces like Sebek can be. As a result, the party can no longer handle large groups of regular foes due to the increased burden on the frontlines.

* BadBoss: As the leader of the party, he gave Sato very little to eat and always made him stand the majority of the watch.

* WorthyOpponent: He considers Sato one and lets him live under the hope that he can become stronger.

* PsychologicalProjection: He presumes that since he's a powerful fighter who enjoys battles to the death, other strong fighters are the same. He even offers Sato the chance to fight by his side so they can seek the thrill of dangerous battles together.

A man Seto is sent to speak with after falling into an ancient ruin and seeing a cave painting of Ahas Patel, which Satis did not see even though she was there with him. He speaks of the ancient creation myths of the Yeller tribe.

* ProphecyTwist: He warns Seto to beware an unexpected visitor, an awfully exhausted woman with eyes full of madness who is roaming the land alone like a ghost. Along comes Hydra, looking for Seto, and she's indeed weary to the bone and mad as a hatter.

* SpiritedCompetitor: He loves to fight purely for the thrill of the challenge, win or lose. He decrees that a man's true character can only be gleaned from seeing them in battle. He naturally challenges Sato to a "friendly match" when the two meet and is a GracefulLoser when Seto comes out on top.

* SpiritedCompetitor: He loves to fight purely for the thrill of the challenge, win or lose. He decrees that a man's true character can only be gleaned from seeing them in battle. He naturally challenges Sato to a "friendly match" when the two meet.

[[folder: Angelica]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Who will stand guard? Thanks to a certain '''someone''', the plebian is gone, remember?]]
The mage of the party.

[[folder: Reid]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Having you in the party was a mistake. Your "evil" power can't possibly of use to Humanity. Sato, you are expelled from the party!]]
The "Hero" of the party.

* BadBoss: As the leader of the party, he gave Sato very little to eat and always made him stand the majority of the watch.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: He booted out Sato because he saw himself as the epitome of human virtue, out to stop all evil. By turning to banditry, he's become the very evil he was questing to defeat. The realization causes him to have a complete and total meltdown, grasping his head and trying to convince himself he's the good guy.
* BeyondRedemption: The moment his own conscience disappears is when he killed a mayor's innocent daughter by accident. However, instead of owning up to his mistake, he tries to hide it and flee the village before he is caught, all under the continued delusion that he is the hero.
* CantTakeCriticism: Due to his belief that the hero must be perfect, he is unable to take even the slightest hint of criticism with him going ballistic on Hydra for simply wondering what Sato would do in their situation.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Which Angelica calls him out on. He decides, in the middle of the wilderness, to boot out Sato from the party just because he finds the kid's fighting style barbaric, when he and his party are right up against Demon King HQ and they're all expecting a hard fight with swarms upon swarms of monsters?
* FallenHero: After booting out Sato, it's just one setback after another until the only two members of the party, himself and Angelica, are so desperate for supplies that they turn to banditry. When he whines about how Angelica pressured him into it, he winds up killing her in the struggle with her, completing his fall from heroism to villainy.
* GoodIsDumb: Before his party started dropping like flies, he had a very rigid and foolish ideal of "justice" that mandated applying the absolute minimum amount of force and saw Sato being a whirlwind of death as utterly abhorrent. He completely failed to comprehend that humanity and the demon king's forces are in a state of war, of annihilation, his own country broke its laws to field child soldiers and an enemy spared is a threat ignored, and showing mercy carelessly only serves to prolong the conflict and increase the casualties. As it begins to slap him in the face, he slowly slips into evil, eventually leaving him with nobody to blame for his descent into villainy but himself.
* HateSink: There is absolutely nothing likable or redeemable about this character. He condemns a 12-year-old boy to near-certain death for the "crime" of being a brutal ChildSoldier, despite knowing full well (or should have known) that his own country made him that way. He mocks [=McLean=]'s death as a weakling who was destined to fall by the wayside or be booted out eventually. He flips his lid and literally jumps on his biggest fan, Hydra, the instant he thinks she has second thoughts about his self-proclaimed vaulted leadership skills, siding with Angelica in threatening her to go hunt down Sato and drag him back, without any leads, expecting her to fail. He then goes with Angelica's plot to raid merchant caravans for supplies, getting into a fight with her when he sees her looting jewelry and other valuables, rather than the supplies they need, resulting in a fight to the death. Despite all his acts of villainy and ''eagerness'' to boot people from his party, knowing full well they'd be seen as traitors to humanity for it, he still twists himself into pretzels to make himself believe he can do no wrong and is the story's paragon of virtue.
* HeroicWannabe: Upon completely losing his mind, he continues to delude that he is the hero despite not having saved a single life and only committing several attrocities.
* HolierThanThou: His FatalFlaw. He boots Sato from the party, telling himself and anyone who will listen to him that Sato is just a rampaging brute whose fighting style "lacks justice" and is not a power to save mankind, completely overlooking the fact that humanity is in a war ''of survival'' against the Demon King's armies of monsters. Even after kicking Sato out, he firmly insists that as the "hero" he is more noble, righteous, and morally upright than everyone else. When it's just him and Angelica left, she gets fed up with it and tries to kill him for it.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He gives a rather oxymoronic statement bordering on InsaneTrollLogic when expelling Sato from the party. He kicks the boy out due to not liking his merciless fighting style and lack of hesitation when killing enemies yet after expelling him he also tells him that he won't hesitate to cut him down if he were to turn to banditry. So essentially he tells Sato he is banished for his lack of mercy to enemies and then tells the boy he will show no mercy to him if he were to become his enemy.
* IgnoredEpiphany: When his conscience takes the form of [=McLean=] and tries to get him to admit his crimes and atone for them, he completely blows it off and continues to delude himself into believing he is the hero.
* {{Irony}}: He fully expected Sato would wind up turning to banditry because he abandoned the kid in the wilderness with no options and "[Sato] only knows how to kill." Sato winds up meeting Satis and the two of them wind up becoming authentic heroes, beating off Demon King army attacks at several villages, towns, and cities. '''Reid''' goes through his party in a hurry because he's a terrible leader and is the one who turns to banditry along with Angelica, the only one left, and in the middle of going through the loot, fights and kills the last party member, leaving him nobody to blame for his villainy but himself.
* KickTheDog: It wasn't enough for him to boot the clearly emotionally stunted and long, long traumatized ChildSoldier Sato from the party, just because he found the latter's fighting style loathsome, no. He went and threatened the kid with being hunted down like a rabid beast when he turned to banditry, which he himself stated was the most likely outcome of leaving him alone in the wilderness with no options.
* LaserGuidedKarma: We quickly learn from Sato that this self-righteous, self-proclaimed Hero treated Sato like absolute shit. Because the "hero" found Sato unpleasant, he would force the kid to stay up all night standing watch, starve him, forcing him to ration his meals ''and'' eat out of sight of the rest of the party, never sharing the good food, but only allowing him the preserved, and badly tasting emergency rations, if that, and sent him out to fight when he was barely able to stand. So the very night after thus lout kicks Sato out of the party with nowhere to go and no options, he loses most of their supplies to a monster attack, is forced to eat terrible rations, loses team-mates left and right, and at the end of his rope, turns to banditry and then winds up fighting what remains of his party to the death. Only at that point does he even have the tiniest inkling of what Sato's life was like.
* NeverMyFault: He twists himself into pretzels so he can believe he did nothing wrong when the consequences of his actions catch up to him.
** The very evening after booting Sato out, nobody stood watch, because Sato was the one forced to stand watch, sometimes all night long. This results in the party being taken by surprise by a large swarm of monsters, forcing them to flee, and leaving behind the bulk of their supplies. When he has to stand watch himself, all night, because the rest of the party refuses to even take shifts, he cries out "why is this happening?! I've done nothing wrong!"
** When [=McLean=], the monk, falls due to overexertion because Sato wasn't there to scout for them, Reid mocks the guy's corpse, saying he deserved it for being a weakling.
** When the party's pace slows to a crawl, he blames Hydra, the martial artist, and condemns her to either find Sato and bring him back, or return home in disgrace, knowing it's extremely unlikely that she'd even find Sato, let alone succeed at convincing him to return.
** When he turns to banditry, he puts the blame entirely on Angelica for forcing him to do it even though there is nothing to suggest that he could have refused her ultimatum. Angelica doesn't take kindly to that and tries to kill him, which ends with her being thrown off a cliff in the struggle.
** The cumulation of everything is him believing that he is unable to make mistakes or crimes, he continues to believe that he is the hero and that all the crimes he committed are justified regardless of what he did.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Because he's obsessed with deluding himself that he can do no wrong and can't possibly be at fault for the consequences of his thoughtless and cruel actions, he is one of the most evil characters in the story, completely unaware. When he can't deny it, no matter how much he twists himself into pretzels to try and ignore reality, he goes into mental and emotional breakdowns, driving himself insane.
* ThePoorlyChosenOne: It's never mentioned why the king has given him 100% authority to champion humanity's interests, to the point when he boots a party member out, it's treated as if the expelled member is a full-blown traitor, but he has to be among, if not the, worst possible choice for such a level of authority. He has to see himself as the noblest and virtuous person around, bar none, can't handle criticism, refuses to ever admit when he's wrong, or learn from his mistakes, and holds aloft as "justice" entirely unfeasibly strict rules of engagement that nobody can possibly survive if their enemies do not hold the same insane standards and are even marginally competent. He gets his party's monk (cleric) and top healer needlessly killed by holding back on the lethal force when outnumbered and outgunned by a sizable group of goblins until the martial artist was laid low by a blow to the head and retreat was impossible. He ships Hydra off on an impossible quest just for the mere suggestion that they're in over their heads. And to top it all off, allows himself to be led into banditry, killing an entire caravan full of merchants, only to wind up in a fight to the death with the last member of his party, making him a clear villain with nobody left to blame but himself.
* PrinciplesZealot: The reason Sato's fighting style repulses him is that he sees "war" and "murder" as interchangeable terms, so he is convinced that "justice" mandates using the absolute minimum amount of force possible, always sparing enemies when he can, and trying to avoid casualties on both sides. It's not until his party's monk Mc Lean is dead as a result of attacking a troop of goblins head-on, only using lethal force at the last moment when Hydra is taken out with a blow to the head that he begins to think differently, but by that point, it's only himself and Angelica in the party and she convinces him to use lethal force on civilians, merchants, that they intended to rob, to LeaveNoWitnesses. He has a complete and total meltdown when his own principles come back to haunt him after he kills Angelica by pushing her off a cliff to her death.
* ProofByExamples: He professes Sato is "rotten to the core" because of the boy's ruthless fighting style. He later meets Sebek, who just happens to be a magic swordsman and unlike Sato, happily works with the Demon King and relishes war. With two magic swordsmen being repulsive to him, Reid unilaterally decrees that all magic swordsmen are rotten to the core. Sebek calls him a "justice idiot" in response and happily proclaims that it's idiots like Reid that keep the war going, and going, and going, far longer than necessary, which is why he likes them so much.
* RemovingTheCrucialTeammate: Giving Sato the boot in the middle of the wilderness was the worst idea this self-righteous clod could have ever had. Not only was the party ''entirely'' reliant on Sato's unflinching loyalty, which was beaten into him since he was five years old, but Sato is the only one in the party who knew how to hunt and forage for food, and nobody else in the party was even remotely willing to stand watch during the night. Not to mention Sato's not only their best fighter, but also the only one with experience. Naturally, things unravel in a hurry when the Demon King's armies start coming for them. They even have the misfortune of clashing with Sebek at one point, and the guy doesn't even have to fight them seriously to stomp them, yawning and wandering off, bored, letting them live because it's not worth his time, breaking their fragile egos even more.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: As the reality that humanity is in a war of annihilation with the demon king, and his own naivete has grievously harmed his party's prospects, as well as his own, dawns on him, he starts making compromises with his moral compass. He abandons his party's monk to die after fleeing an ambush, sends his martial artist to find Sato, knowing it's an impossible task, and finally, when it's just himself and Angelica, turns to banditry to make up for their lack of supplies and completes his descent into villainy when Angelica starts to flaunt stolen jewelry and they get into a fight over it, with Angelica falling off a cliff to her death.
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: After [=McLean=] died, he digs a grave and holds a funeral, but the instant Hydra is sent off to find Sato and tries to drag him back, he and Angelica sneer and mock his death, saying he was a weakling that was due to be booted out from the party next.

! Demon King's Army

[[folder: Demon King]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Where is Satis?!]] The leader of all the demon and monster armies. By sheer coincidence, he goes full-tilt YouHaveFailedMe on Satis at the same time the NominalHero Reid goes full-tilt GoodIsDumb, both parties sentencing their best people to death, more or less. Thanks to his own foolish decision, the demon armies begin to suffer devastating losses, even where the Hero party is not concerned. He unleashes the half-demon Sebek to make up for their lines being stretched too thin thanks to prioritizing the hunt for Satis over any chance at victory.

* BadBoss: He orders Satis stripped of her position, tortured, humiliated, and executed, because she suffered defeat after defeat facing the Hero party, touted as the elites of humanity.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Exiling Satis and sentencing her to death may have been a short-term fix to the demon army's morale, but she was the top strategist and their leader. Without her as the backbone, the armed forces quickly fell apart, and prioritizing finding her to lay the blame at her feet for daring to escape her execution has his forces stretched too thin. Furthermore, now that the sub-commanders know execution is in play for failure, the armies either smash themselves into fortified human positions until none are left standing or retreat from easily winnable fights because they don't want to run the risk of fighting and losing, only to be killed.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Deconstructed. He has Satis stripped of her position, tortured, literally trampled by her former subordinates, and marched off to her execution. She somehow escapes and runs into her former enemy Sato who protects her, killing off the very monsters sent to capture her and take her back. This causes his armies' morale to utterly collapse, the troops to be thrown into disarray, battles that were previously easily winnable are either lost horribly, or not fought at all, and those sub-commanders who are marginally competent just throw themselves and their troops into unwinnable fights until they're utterly annihilated because they'd rather go out in a blaze of glory than torture and abject humiliation. Then, to double down on his idiocy, the Demon King sends Sebek at the fiercely neutral Wendigo tribes that wanted nothing to do with the war to make an example of them, perhaps hoping to pressure them into providing reinforcements. This results in having to fight on multiple fronts as his decision results in them being NeutralNoLonger and now being actively hostile to his cause of monster hegemony.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Despite his army's losses, he does not leave his castle at all and only wallows in his own madness there.
* RemovingTheCrucialTeammate: Satis was the top commander of his armies and his top strategist. Stripping her rank and post left his armies leaderless and disorganized. Battles that could have been easy victories are now either horribly lost or not fought at all.
* SelfDisposingVillain: He caused his own downfall by ordering Satis' execution since now without their strategist and leader. His army is left unorganized and ripe for humanity to defeat even without the help of the hero. This causes him to lose his title as Demon King and be DrivenToMadness.
* VillainousDemotivator: After suffering defeat after defeat at the hands of the Hero party, he has Satis stripped of her position, tortured, publicly humiliated, and literally trampled, on her way to execution. She flees. While this does initially give the armies a momentary boost because they just vented all the rage for their losses on their commander, these armies quickly fall apart when the demon king continues to apply this standard to commanders that lose the fight, regardless of the reason. Commanders soon start fleeing the battle-field, retreating from easily winnable fights, or just summarily throwing themselves at heavily fortified positions without restraint, thinking it would be better to die nobly in a hopeless battle than to come home, defeated, only to face death after being horribly tortured and humiliated first. Naturally, the demon and monster armies start losing the war campaign in a hurry and the demon king has no idea how to recover.
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[[folder: Sebek]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Hello, kid. Oh you're a strong one! You must enjoy fighting and killing, same as me? How about we join forces under the Demon King together, eh?]] Formerly a human, he's been transformed into a majin while working for the Demon King's armies. The only thing he enjoys is killing strong enemies in battles to death.
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* SecurityCling: Whenever he sees Satis being troubled, he takes to holding and squeezing her hand to calm her down. She squeezes back, tenderly, to show that she appreciates it.

* EntertaininglyWrong: When he first meets Satis after both have been exiled by their respective commanders, he reassures her by telling her that trash talking is an effective means to get your enemies off balance to wave off her guilt for insulting him in the past. She actually ''meant'' her insults, it wasn't a tactic. But due to his NothingPersonal stance, he still waves it off.

* AgeGapRomance: He's barely 12 and the woman he loves is in her 20's.

* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn to Satis's brains since all his life he has been ordered to fight, while Satis used to be the strategist of the Demon King's army.

* SevenHeavenlyVirtues: Despite his brutal and unflinching fighting style, he's got them all, and Satis shares them.
** Charity: When he's hunting in the woods, no options for his own survival and sees Satis collapse in front of him, he takes her to an abandoned cabin and tends to her physical and psychological needs until she recovers. She, in turn, shares her money, food, and other necessities with him.
** Chastity: Sato and Satis are completely faithful to one another and keep things mostly innocent until things are safe enough to settle down.
** Diligence: Neither of them is afraid of a little hard work, in fact, both come to the aid of the city of Ulane Donaugh without expecting a reward.
** Humility: Neither he nor Satis care that they're not going to wind up in the history books for their part in the city of Ulane Donaugh. They're just glad the people there are safe and sound.
** Kindness: Off the battlefield, both of them are total sweethearts who wouldn't harm a fly without good reason. Give them reason, though, and the response will be absolutely brutal.
** Patience: They want to live a quiet life and aren't unwilling to wait however long it's going to take for that to come to pass.
** Temperance: Sure, creature comforts are nice, Satis even setting up a magic tool in their home in Benjamin Village so they can have a heated bath every day, but sufficient food, shelter, and clothing is all they really want and need.

* AgeGapRomance: She's in her 20's while Sato is ''just barely'' a teen and of legal age.

* BrainsAndBrawn: The brains to Sato's brawn due to having once been the strategist of the Demon King's army, while Sato lived his whole life as a warrior ordered to fight.