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If you thought that this was going to be some kind of heartwarming tale about how the efforts of a relatively normal guy somehow inspired a talented individual into becoming the titular Hero, you'll probably be disappointed. The male protagonist, Wynn Byrd, is painted to be some kind of ideal male. He's made to be an orphan raised by an abusive foster parent who grew up to be this humble, stoic, borderline povert guy who has no magical talent, yet STARTS the story off pretty much a super soldier. Like his inability to perform magic is mitigated by the fact that he's physically stronger and faster than magically enhanced veteran soldiers, despite the fact that he's 16 years old that "trained" starting at the age of 5. Every male, except his only friend aside from the titular Hero, only exist to put this guy on the pedestal. They're rich, politically influential, super jealous of the protagonist, looks down on commoners, conniving, etc, all stereotypical villain traits. The character himself has pretty much no personality traits other than being totally oblivious and wanting to be a Knight. So he s*aves away most of his life working/living at a inn, saving money to enter Knight school, but for what? He didn't seem to hate the ab*se foster-parent-figure, aimed to move up in life, or do something exciting or whatever. The story made it sound like Knights came marching through town one day and he merely thought they were cool. What do the Knights do? Dunno. The story doesn't even paint the Knights in a good light, outright telling the readers that most of the Knights merely bribed their way to success.
The heroine of the story, Leticia von Mavis, is a 14 year old entitled brat who thinks that she's acting like a normal girl with normal girl needs. Whenever she demands something, she pretty much always gets her way, unless of course it's Wynn. Given the fact that she's hailed as a national hero with the same standing as the king and possesses the strength of an endgame true-form final boss, people understandably won't stand up to her. Even her party members, who helped defeat the demon king or whatever, weren't able to help much throughout the journey and she ended up doing most of the work. Ironically, she angsts about how everyone treats her like the monstrous existence she is and how she only feels accepted by Wynn Byrd, who seems to be the only character thus far able to keep up with her overly high stats, and this is prior to the reunion. Despite all this and not contacting Wynn for years, she launches a surprise attack at Wynn while he's mid-training. After this, he's suddenly self conscious of hanging out with her, despite not caring that he's a poor commoner attending a school mostly populated by the wealthy for the X amount of years he attended this school. Rather than coming off as endearing, I ended up hating this character with a passion.
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