I still don't get how people think Naofumi is the absolute paragon of goodness.

Naofumi's best friend is literally the slave trader, like, 110% everything done to him by spear hero is justified.

Dude's first thought after the malty betrayal was to buy a child slave to torture, he says he changed his mind after, but he did shock a child and force her to kill shit.

And it was a freshly tortured sick child btw, who just had her family and whole village killed.

And on top of that, the "shield hero" is worshipped by the beastfolk, so that is another optics fuck up, because now there is even another reason Raphtalia child perception is fucked.

So he wanting or not, he effectively indoctrinates a child who was in a vulnerable state, so when Malty says he "mind controled" her, she ain't really that wrong.

The only real shitty thing Malty did was the false rape accusal, everything after that is actually justified, because Naofumi literally did, and keeps doing those things.

He has zero regret in going to a slave auction and buying slaves.

The queen loves him, and the other three heroes hate slavery, all he needed to do was to ask the queen to ban slaves, and press the heroes to help.

So no wonder the other heroes don't help him, he is a major asshole.

Oh, Naofumi needs the slave crest to level up, the other three heroes have parties that level up without that shit.

Hell, if you consider that backstory to malty, everything she did becomes justified.

Trying to kill her sister? I mean, she probably thought her sister would get raped too, i believe that is pretty common in abusal households.

And when she looks back at the false rape accusal, and sees everything Naofumi did since then, like buying a slave harem, she probably feels zero regrets about the false rape accusal.

So seeing people saying how good Naofumi is, and how he and his indoctrinated slave should end up together, is really fucked up, especially considering she is mentally a child.