Anyway the MC and his friends live a peaceful life in a peaceful village away from such troubles and just kidding within 10 minutes Chad wrecks the place up and forcefully conscripts them into the party.
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The once prosperous kingdom of Avon now lies in tatters with nothing left in its coffers and a pitiful four citizens to its name. Yet even in its darkest hour, Princess Ariadne is determined to restore it to its former glory. Will her perseverance carry her through?
Having cornered the evil organization Trizon, our hero Kouta and his partner Asuka move to the remote island of Okigashima with their trusted super robot RaiOhGar to prepare for a fierce battle against Trizon. However, all is not quite as it seems...
After the rise of a new Demon Lord, it falls on the chosen hero from an ancient bloodline to stop them. However, due to a curse cast upon him, he must pass the task to his sister, Shera. Now she must gather the Three Treasures, and defeat the Demon Lord.
Jean Inteige Why does Cyrill care so much about that trash! She should be attracted to ME! MMMMMMMEEEEEEE!!!!The first member of the Hero party introduced to the audience.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: He's a noble and is a sociopathic asshat who sees himself as the "always right" best man alive, starting the story dragging a kicking and screaming Flum to sell her into slavery.
- Badass Bookworm: For all his faults, he did earn his position by dedicating himself to studying and practicing magic. It probably helps that he doesn't care about other people and wouldn't be very inclined to "waste time" hanging out with someone.
- Berserk Button: While anything not going his way, in the slightest, drives him into an explosive rage, he's especially quick to blow his stack at the mere thought of Flum's existence.
- Came Back Wrong: Well, came back different. At the epilogue, Flum learns that Jean was cloned into a doppelganger that actually has empathy for others, in exchange for losing a bit of his vaulted "genius" because the same self-loving pride that drove him to succeed is what gave him his narcissistic superiority complex.
- Didn't Think This Through: Because Flum had a worthless Affinity and was thus useless trash, it was only natural to get rid of her, and surely everyone would agree with that sentiment, and they should perform better without her holding the Hero's party back, and best of all, no one can stand between Jean and Cyrill. That was how the scenario played out in his head. In reality, getting rid of Flum was an impulsive decision, and it was quickly shown that without Flum functioning as The Heart of the party, some party members begin to bicker in the midst of a battle, others eventually leave the party, and Cyrill breaks down under the pressure of the chosen hero without her Living Emotional Crutch to lend moral support. This really bites him in the ass when Cyrill learns the Awful Truth and her mental state worsens as a result of believing it was her fault that Jean sold Flum into slavery.
- Enemy Mine: Episode 7 ends with Flum, Jean, Neigass, and the ghost of Ritus, the former demon lord, working together to try and stop Origin, with both Flum and Ritus wanting to straight up murder Jean the moment Origin's threat is over, only keeping him alive because they need all the help they can get to deal with Origin and his top lieutenants.
- Entitled to Have You: To Cyrill. Since he is the most brilliant sage around, and she is the strongest heroine around, logically, they must get together to produce the best offspring possible. The mere idea Cyrill isn't thinking the exact same thing pisses him off.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He can't understand why Cyrill is depressed at Flum going back to her hometown. He presumed the instant Flum was gone from the party, Cyrill would happily jump into his arms.
- Evil Virtues: Diligence. He is indeed studious and hard-working, earning the sage title honestly, but his accomplishments have gone to his head, deluding him into thinking he's infallible.
- Evil Versus Evil: Jean vs. Origin.
- Expy: He's basically Ares from Banished from the Hero's Party with the vileness cranked up even further, being an incredibly entitled and deluded bespectacled mage who wants to claim the hero for himself and makes an attempt to dispose of the one other member of the party he views as an impediment. Like Ares, he also fractures the party through his actions and refuses to own up to anything.
- Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: As he's beating up on Flum, just before selling her into slavery, he rants that simply breathing the same air that she does makes him physically ill.
- Foil: To Flum. She's a Nice Girl who treats her friends with genuine respect and care. This is especially the case for her Love Interest Milkit, for who she does everything she can to protect and make happy. She doesn't care for fame or glory and is content with a quiet life as an adventurer. Jean exists as an Evil Counterpart to Flum. He's an arrogant dirtbag of a noble who treats everyone around him with contempt. His plan to get together with Cyrill isn't born of genuine love, but a desire to sire a strong heir based on their skills and statuses alone. Due to his massive ego, he isn't satisfied with his position as Sage and aims even higher.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and is a sociopath who only thinks of his own well-being.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Flum becoming a close friend to Cyrill is one of the many reasons he hated her.
- Hated by All: Pretty much anyone who gets to know him will dislike him for what a prick he is. When people find out he sold Flum into slavery, that takes it even further.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He's disgustingly easy to piss off.
- Hard Work Fallacy: He is so conceited that he honestly believes he's the hardest working man alive, and that the only reason Flum started her "hero" career with all her stats at 0 was that she was being lazy. When Linus punches him in the face, telling him the truth, that he's a wealthy, entitled asshat who has had other people cleaning up his messes for him, otherwise his douchebaggery would have got him killed long ago, and he has the gall to get angry and insist he's never relied on anyone, for anything, even though he can barely make a cup of tea for himself.
- Hate Sink: There is nothing redeemable about this man. He is a violent, temperamental, and self-centered sociopath, who sold Flum off to slavery in an attempt to get rid of someone he simply perceived to be an eyesore, and she got in the way of his plan to get together with Cyrill, for the sole purpose of producing a powerful heir, as he thinks he and Cyrill are compatible based solely on their status and skills alone. Caring for no one but himself, Jean will do anything, however immoral, to get what he wants.
- Heel Realization: When Cyrill overhears him shouting and bragging about how selling Flum into slavery is the "righteous" thing to do, she responds by shrieking "It's all my fault Flum is a slave! I'm a horrible person!" as she runs away. Linus can only shrug his shoulders and sigh as he realizes any further words are pointless, and Jean goes "can it be, I've done something wrong?" then locks himself in his study, refusing to come out.
- Ignored Epiphany: A few days after the little tiff that caused the party to collapse, where even he went "did I do something wrong?", he goes right back to thinking dragging Flum out of the party and into slavery was the "righteous" thing to do and is completely unapologetic, even though he does provide Linus tools to help deal with all the current Origin craziness going on, then goes and dives back into his research.
- Insufferable Genius: He is as good at magical research as he believes himself to be. He even managed to make fake Origin cores. In exchange, he is so smug, self-important, egotistical, and arrogant that he instinctively alienates just about anyone who has to deal with him and completely deludes himself into believing that he's actually charming.
- It's All About Me: As far as he is concerned, everybody he meets is an accessory to his tale. Does Flum have no combat abilities? She is holding Jean back! Flum has befriended Cyrill? She is getting in the way of Jean's inevitable relationship with Cyrill! Eterna and Gadhio aren't satisfied with the current state of the party and decided to leave? They should have been satisfied with journeying together with the brilliant Jean and sharing the glory with him!
- Jerkass: And that's when he is trying to be sociable. At his worst, he is such an uncaring monster that this label isn't enough to properly describe him.
- Kick the Dog: Selling Flum into slavery is already bad enough, but he also uses hot iron to sear the Slave Brand in her face. The law only requires slaves to be marked in a visible place, there is no need for the mark to be branded on their skin. Jean even acknowledges how unnecessary it is, right before doing it anyway just to make things even more painful for Flum. Additionally, when he is selling Flum into slavery, he tells her that her parents are better off without her, and he lies by telling her everyone in the Hero's Party agreed to sell her into slavery when that was not even remotely true.
- Lack of Empathy: He is completely unable to grasp the feelings of others or how his actions affect them.
- Narcissist: He is completely in love with himself and his self-proclaimed "genius," thinking that he can do no wrong because his idea of righteousness is the world's idea of righteousness, and he doesn't understand why this pisses people off.
- Never My Fault: Whenever things go wrong, it can't be something he's done. The blame must lie elsewhere.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Had he not sold Flum into slavery, she wouldn't have met Milkit and started her own genuinely heroic journey. Flum believes that if she remained in the Hero's Party, she never would have discovered the truth of the Church's corruption, and she would have been an Unwitting Pawn to Origin's horrific agenda.
- After he accepted, and used, the Origin core Maria gave him, he had the demon generals cornered, desperate for some kind of aid to find a way to keep the "hero" party from advancing any further towards Origin's seal, without killing them, as the death of the Heroes would just feed into Church propaganda and ignite a third demon-human war. Bragging to Linus that selling Flum into slavery was something that should be celebrated, not punished, when he was expecting Cyrill to come along, causes the party to collapse completely, solving that particular problem nicely.
- Nominal Hero: The only thing that makes him even remotely "heroic" is that his insufferable smugness has him struggle diligently to overcome whatever primary antagonist he's sent up against, whether that's the Demons or Origin. In every other respect, he's the loathsome "trash" that needs to be disposed of but refuses to let himself see it.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: In Episode 7, he sides with Maria and Dhiza, disfiguring Cyrill with an Origin core, to break open the seal to Origin to try and kill the Mad God, resulting in so many casualties that nobody can count them all, just so he can put his name in the history books as the "great sage Jean who saved the world" and because he believed that Cyrill spurning him means she deserves to be disfigured.
- Obliviously Evil: He is so self-aggrandizing that he honestly can't understand how his heinous actions breed grudges against him. Jean: "I don't recall doing anything that deserves a grudge." Flum: "And that is why you are hated!"
- Psychological Projection: Since he's a complete sociopath who is only concerned about his own agency, he presumes Cyrill thinks similarly and would see him as the best for producing children, purely for the sake of pedigree. The fact that Cyrill is driven into depression out of guilt for Flum leaving the party drives him nuts.
- Released to Elsewhere: After selling Flum into slavery, he comes back to the party and lies, saying that she left for her hometown of her own volition. This sets up a terrible precedent that causes the party to splinter once Cyrill falls into a depression.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: He forbids healing magic being used on Flum because he's an asshat and didn't want "to waste resources." Nobody knew it at the time, but using healing magic would have harmed Flum, thanks to her Reversal Affinity.
- Smug Snake: He thinks he's the best mage ever and is so arrogant he thinks he knows better than Origin, a god. Even though the rest of the party had misgivings about the oracle that states Flum must be a member of the party to deal with the Demon Lord, they didn't dare voice those concerns too loudly, for fear of the consequences. He, on the other hand, openly spits on said oracle by dragging Flum off, selling her to slavery, and then lying by stating that he convinced her to leave the party willingly. To say things didn't work out the way he thought they would is a massive understatement.
- The Sociopath: He ticks off the entire checklist. He's obsessed with himself and his own advancement, explodes with rage when things don't go his way, or he's called out on a mistake, and can only see others as tools for his agency or as trash that he must dispose of.
- Someone Else's Problem: The entirety of Episode 5 involved a major battle in the royal capital, right outside his study's window. At best, he found it a distraction and a nuisance and didn't give a flip about any of it, not even the People Farms.
- Spanner in the Works: To Origin. By selling Flum to slavery and thus, ruining the unity of the party, he put an end to Origin's plan to bring the Reversal affinity that can destroy him and his creations to his side. Instead the chain of events Jean unleashed made Flum one of Origin's greatest enemies.
- Spared, but Not Forgiven: Flum never gets the chance to beat him to death for his crimes spurred by his narcissism, and his clone is a completely different person.
- Spiteful Suicide: Knowing that either Origin or Flum would ultimately kill him for what he's done, even though he truly believes he's done nothing wrong, he destroys himself to weaken Cyrill and strengthen Flum enough for Flum to beat her.
- Start X to Stop X: In Episode 7, he aids Maria and Dhiza to unseal Origin so he'd have a chance to Kill the God. As a result, thousands of people died, the royal capital is destroyed, [Chimera] roam the land unopposed, and a significant portion of the Hero party is dead, captured, or converted, with him and Flum on the run. TO make matters worse, there's now a two-week countdown before Origin is at 100% power and destroys all life on the planet. He, of course, shifts the blame to Flum for "ruining his perfect plan."
- Superpower Lottery: His "nature" affinity allows him to use all four classical elements: water, fire, air and earth. Most people in this setting can only use one.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Jean considers anyone who won't agree with everything he says or is unable to follow his instructions to be an imbecile. Unfortunately for him (but fortunately for the rest of the world), that includes all other members of the party.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: As hard as it is to fathom, this guy gets worse every time he appears. By the end of Episode 7, it's hard to tell who is worse between him and Origin. Origin, at least, has complete and total insanity as an excuse.
- The Unapologetic: Since he believes that he never did anything wrong, then he believes he has no reason to apologize, so he doesn't, spending his last words once again insisting that it was right of him to sell Flum into slavery to die.
- Ungrateful Bastard: While Flum might not have been useful in battles, she was able to cook the food that allowed him not to have to deal with smells he disliked, and she prepared his tea in a way that was acceptable to him. He still sold her off to slavery despite her attempts to be useful off the field. He is also fine with insulting other people who try to help him as well.
- Unwitting Pawn: Every member of the party is already one to Origin, but he gets a double dose when Maria approaches him with an Origin core saying "you want power?". He happily takes it without any investigation.
- Villains Never Lie: Subverted. When he states that all members of the party agreed to sell Flum into slavery, Flum believes him, but it's revealed (to the reader) that was a lie not long after.
- Virgin-Shaming: Combined with Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking. When she finds out that Jean sold Flum to slavery, Eterna lets out a scathing list of insults directed at him and finishes by calling him a virgin. Linus does the same thing later during his "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
- Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: As he's selling Flum into slavery, he boasts that he should be praised for his "benevolence" that he didn't dispose of her much, much earlier.
- We Have Reserves: The deaths of every man, woman, and child in the royal capital, and a rising death toll in the nearby villages as [Chimera] rampage? Acceptable losses on the path to the death of Origin.
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