The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance of Vengence A Second Time, Vol. 1 (light novel): The Traitorous Princess (The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time (Manga))

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Depower: When the goddess of Earth reset the timeline, Kaito also lost all of his Character Levels. Nevertheless, he remains fairly powerful due to retaining all of his techniques and the massive stat boosts he earned via the Achievement System. Racial Transformation: Starts the story as a half human/half elf, is later transformed into a pure blooded elf, specifically, a dark elf unlike her mother.

Forced to Watch: A Hero Antagonist, Leone, tries to convince Kaito to stop putting Revenge Before Reason and ends up getting in the way of Minnalis's revenge. While he opts not to kill her, he does spend a week torturing her until finally making her watch Minnalis slaughter her former village. After breaking her arms, he makes a speech about his revenge scheme before healing her so she can talk again. Enraged at what he has done to her, she calls him both a monster and a lunatic. Even Evil Has Standards: He may have had all the good and righteousness beaten and crushed out of him, but there are still some lines he will not cross. Living MacGuffin: She, along with all the other survivors of the Kaito summon event, are hunted by an isekai wannabe cult that honestly believes anyone who kills, captures, steals from, or otherwise violates the survivors of the mass disappearance known as the Kaito Summoning Event will somehow be summoned to another world upon their own deaths. These fanatics will not be deterred in any way, shape, or form, not even by killing them, until Mai and Yuuto manage to corner and trap them, and then when they are the ones suffering a Cruel and Unusual Death, suddenly they stop believing that isekai nonsense, and start pleading for their lives. Such pleas only make Mai and Yuuto even more vicious.

Defiant Captive: No matter how she was mistreated by the slave merchant or her fellow slaves, she never quit fighting for her dignity. In the manga, she even bites Kaito's hand when she thinks he's buying her to be a Sex Slave. Ukei Kaito, the protagonist who desperately saved the world after being summoned into another world as a hero to defeat the Demon King. Anti-Hero: While they do have some low morals, they mostly target people who are depraved and vile.

The Lost Lenore: His girlfriend, Shiori, was turned into particles of light and killed when Kaito was summoned. Since There Are No Therapists, he never got over it.The companions that he had trusted throughout his journey turned on him and blamed him for their own disgusting crimes against humanity, and hunted him down for a year before finally ending his life with a knife through his chest. Although the horrific betrayal and exploitation he suffered from his so-called companions in the original timeline crushed just about every virtue he had underfoot, he still feels guilty towards all the innocents who were caught up in their villainy. As such, in the current timeline, he does his best to make sure such evil does not go after them again, though this does have limits. But for Me, It Was Tuesday: She had to be reminded about slaughtering Shiura's entire village. When an army of undead started coming out of the town research lab that she runs, she honestly had the temerity to ask where all those undead came from.

Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Originally, Kaito just wanted revenge on them for them selling him out in the original timeline. In the current timeline, it isn't very long before the three of them start plotting to Netorare Kaito by raping Minaris while he's pinned to the ground and Forced to Watch, then killing the both of them after she becomes a broken mess. Nominal Hero: In the current timeline, the targets of his vengeance are so utterly despicable, that hunting them down (while giving them a Cruel and Unusual Death) makes the world a much better place, and he has the "Hero" title purely by virtue of his previous attitude in a timeline that no longer exists. Madness Mantra: They will often descend into rants, repeatedly verbalizing how much they want their enemies to suffer and die. Royal Brat: She's the crown princess, and her parents, the King and Queen, never tell her "no" to whatever she asks, no matter how heinous it is.Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Originally, she was golden-haired blonde, and a wonderful child adored by her mother and home village. Yumis put an end to both. When the story begins, the moment she welcomes Kaito, he punches her in the gut due to horrible memories of his previous life where she had him hunted down and killed for crimes he didn’t commit. There Is Only One Bed: Defied. Even though they frequently share the same room at whatever inn they patronize, they sleep in separate beds.

Curse: The Saint placed Kaito under one to prevent him from using the Sword of Mortal Sin. If he tries it anyways, her magical power causes him pain, and it gives away his location to her. Even after the timeline gets reset, the curse remains active. Human Sacrifice: In addition to requiring a cosmic buttload of mana to activate the summoning ritual, 200 sentient beings must die in the world that does the summoning alone... The Farmer and the Viper: How is she rewarded by Lucia, her best friend, for saving her life? Said friend outs her as a beast-man and then tells anyone and everyone that she was bullied into previously keeping quiet about it, with a smug smirk on her face. Children are NOT innocent when they sell their own friends out for the evulz as Lucia did to Millanis.Love Martyr: In stereotypical Japanese protagonist fashion, when he likes a girl, romantically, he rarely sees anything wrong in letting her beat the shit out of him when she gets mad, even when he's way, way more powerful than she is, both in the original and current timelines. Of course, if he finds out that said girl is merely stringing him along, doesn't reciprocate his feelings, or has actively betrayed him, it's vengeance time! Ungrateful Bitch: After Minaris revealed her demi-human nature to save her life, Lucia repays Minaris by outing her as a demi-human and telling everyone that she was evil out of spite. Thankfully 10 years later, she got what she deserved. Doomed Hometown: While she was trapped in a Gilded Cage for three years, her home village was utterly destroyed. Pet the Dog: At a local fair, she helps a sweet, innocent little girl win a rigged carnival game so that said girl can get the high-grade healing potion her mother needs to live.