History Recap / TheRisingOfTheShieldHeroS1E19TheFourCardinalHeroes

** Motoyasu is willing to team up with Naofumi. When Naofumi is hesitant, Motoyasu plays the victim and goes on about how they are being unfairly persecuted, not even apologizing for doing just that to him only a few minutes ago.

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The Pope holds in his hands the ultimate weapon, which possesses the properties of all four cardinal weapons. Faced with its attack skill, "Judgment," and its powerful defensive force field, Naofumi, and the gang are rendered helpless. As the crisis worsens, Motoyasu, who is now in line to be punished as a "fake" hero, makes a surprising decision.

* GoodWeaponEvilWeapon: The Pope's replica weapon is meant to evoke the idea of a holy artifact, being shining gold, and since the Church thinks [[EvilWeapon the shield is the weapon of the Devil]], he prefers to waste mana on a barrier spell rather than use its shield-form.

** When Naofumi points out how they are the reason why they are in the situation to begin with, Motoyasu agrees with him, thinking he was only talking about Ren and Itsuki and deflecting when one of them tries to ring him in on it.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Motoyasu is willing to team up with Naofumi. When Naofumi is hesitant, Motoyasu plays the victim and goes on about how they are being unfairly persecuted, not even apologizing for doing just that to him only a few minutes ago.

** When Naofumi refuses to work with the Three Heroes, Motoyasu accuses him of doing a "lone wolf act", ignoring the fact that ''they'' pushed him away and have done nothing to earn his trust. Not only that, but they have been proven to be incompetent and make a poor team overall, so of course he would prefer working with his own party.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Naofumi tears into Motoyasu, Ren, and Itsuki for all their recklessness and stupidity; like how they have been acting selfishly while calling themselves heroes, have stupidly done whatever they wanted in the world under the idea it was a video game and leaving him to clean their messes, they refuse to work together on anything, and they constantly blame ''him'' for everything and try to take everything from him. He also manages to sneak in one for Motoyasu by saying how she was blind to the church's scheme too due to being too busy with her own conspiracies and manipulations of Motoyasu.

* NeverMyFault: Itsuki confirms to Naofumi that he did in-fact ''not'' steal his reward money, something that he was the one accusing him of.

** When Naofumi points out how they are the reason why they are in the situation to begin with, Motoyasu agrees with him, think he was only talking about Ren and Itsuki and deflecting when one of them tries to ring him in on it.

** When Naofumi points out how they are the reason why they are in the situation to begin with, Motoyasu agrees with him, think he was only talking about Ren and Itsuki.

** When Naofumi refuses to work with the Three Heroes, Motoyasu accuses him of doing a "lone wofl act", ignoring the fact that ''they'' pushed him away and have done nothing to earn his trust. Not only that, but they have been proven to be incompetent and make a poor team overall, so of course he would prefer working with his own party.

* HolyHandGrenade: The Pope wields [[a replica of the four cardinal weapons]]. It is shown to be incredibly powerful, allowing the Pope to effortlessly block everything thrown at him and can use the same techniques as the heroes themselves. However, it is flawed, [[AwesomeButImpractical as each use of it take massive reserves of mana, draining swaths of his followers exponentially]].