# Fukushū o Koinegau Saikyō Yūsha wa

Fukushū o Koinegau Saikyō Yūsha wa, Yami no Chikara de Senmetsu Musō Suru (復讐を希う最強勇者は、闇の力で殲滅無双する) is a Japanese light novel series written by Manimani Ononata and illustrated by Kōya.
The novel was first published online by Ononata on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in October 2018, but was taken down shortly after due to the depiction of heavy violence. Japanese publisher Shūeisha acquired the rights and began publishing the series in print in February 2019 and has four volumes released as of March 2024. A manga adaptation by Akira Sakamoto started in February 2019, with thirteen volumes published as of October 2024.
The story follows the hero Raoul Evans who defeated the demon lord but was sentenced to death for being falsely accused of a crime he did not commit. In his last moments, he swore to take revenge on everyone who did him wrong.

## Premise

The hero Raoul Evans and his group were able to defeat the demon lord. But instead of being praised as a hero, Raoul was imprisoned for a heinous crime. He was accused of destroying his hometown village and slaughtering the people who lived there. Victoria, the princess of kingdom Kurtz offered to spare his life if he is willing to marry her. When he refuses this offer, Raoul was sentenced to death by being burned alive. Short before his execution, Wendel Blackwood who fought alongside Raoul revealed to him, that he slaughtered Raouls hometown and pretended to be his friend to gain profit for his own. Wendel also revealed to the former hero that Cristiana, the holy priest who was part of his group was also involved in the plan getting rid of him. In his last moments, Raoul swore that he will come back and take revenge on everyone who did him wrong before dying on pyre.
The goddess of love who took a liking on Raoul grants his wish to be reincarnated on earth. But being reincarned comes with a price as reviving a dead person is against the law of the gods. So she has to sacrifice parts of her body in order to revive Raoul on earth. She also unleashes Raoul's dark powers.
One year after the incidents which led to Raoul's death, princess Victoria is going to be married to a prince of a neighboring country against her will. During the wedding ceremony Raoul who has disguised himself as a priest appeared and began slaughtering people around him. In the process, Victoria has been wounded. Sandra, the royal knight reveals that she and her knights were ordered to kill the people of Raoul's hometown. Instead of killing Victoria, Raoul announces to come back to the castle once her wounds have healed.
Meanwhile, Raoul starts his revenge against Victoria's underlings. He kills general Brown, who had killed and eaten other people, alongside his wife and children, on professor Beneke and her research team who tests drugs on humans as well as on his former comrades Wendel and Cristiana. The latter has been declared a witch and was burned to death. Once Cristiana was killed, Raoul takes her cross and places it next to Victorias. While doing so, he was hit by a magical arrow and killed by Theodorá, the younger sister of the demon lord. Theodorá and Raoul worked together in the past to take revenge on Wendel and a slave trader who was torturing people from the demon kin.
Once he arrived in the realm of goddess of love he asks her to bring him in front of the doors of hell. The goddess who had sacrificed one arm when reviving Raoul grants his wish. He meets up with Cristiana who is in belief to ascent to heaven for her duties done on earth. Raoul can unwit her and take her to hell to show her that the people she had "saved" have not ascended to heaven. At the beginning, she was able to withstand his words but it changed when she witnessed her parents who committed suicide in front of her when she told them to do so, suffering in front of her. Thinking of them being a delusion she realizes that the undead people are her real parents who have developed hatred towards her daughter. Cristiana loses her temper and tries to attack Raoul with her magic only for her to realize that she can't use her powers in hell. When Raoul shows Cristiana the real goddess of love who had lost her arm and one eye, she denies her being the god she prayed to which causes her to lose her divine protection.
As Raoul is unable to escape from hell, he decides to fight the god of hell as he plans to kill the gods as well due to them having forsaken him. He orders the goddess of love to steal a magical weapon that can kill a god from the realm she hails from. Raoul withstands the trials from the petty god and forces him to negotiate. The former hero then reveals to the god of hell that he will kill him to take his power as his own, per the clause in their signed contract, as well as because he was the first one to push for abandoning Raoul as the hero due to losing a bet.
Raul would gather all of the Fallen Angels about himself, alongside the sinners he saved from erasure, before the downed and defeated deity. The now-fallen god sat livid when the former hero initiated a bet, inquiring whom the jailers of hell thought would win the final bout between Raul and their disgraced lord. After the former forced the latter to admit his defeat demoralizingly.
With the odds rousingly stacked in his favor, Raul nonchalantly beheaded his worst detractor among the divine with a single stroke of his new signature weapon. He was somewhat dismayed at the fact that gods are not everlasting as they die, the now-dead hell deity's remains disintegrating after having been killed by him since Raul wanted to collect the one-eyed monstrosities' remains to place in his museum of felled tormentors. He would soon turn his holy arm on the very same Goddess who forfeited her very well-being for the sake of his escapade against creation. Raul soon details his reasons as to why she was the real mark he was after all along, with the trashy God of Hell being a mere stepping stone on his way towards it. Remembering back to when Cristiana first ensorcelled then Princess Victoria, the former hero recounts how he could always sense a malignant presence akin to that of the goddess whenever her deranged highness would sexually violate him in prison. Raul deduced that the goddess had been behind his downfall so that she could have yet another handsome boy toy to her harem of beautiful men she could play with until she tossed them aside out of boredom. The goddess denied such claims even as the former saintess interjected on the matter, asking how it was that despite doing everything that was compelled of her to, she still ended up condemned like everyone present.
Raul says how greedy, arrogant, and blightedly selfish the gods of her pantheon genuinely are. Going so far as to not only project an image display of how the Goddess would host Victoria whenever she was alone with the hero and use her divine powers to stimulate his arousal for her depraved pleasures. But display other bits of her memory where she'd seduced and manipulated countless men who were of similar caliber to him to their ruin again and again.
Having had enough of the hypocritical fallacies of the manipulative divinity, Raul would pair the bitch of a deity with a disgusting, smelly troll in a dimensional pocket resembling his old prison as a final punishment to her for manipulating him all his life.
Raul, erstwhile, would begin his next trek of judging and sentencing every worthless or worthwhile mortal soul back on the living world before exacting revenge upon the gods. Consuming the still-beating heart of his former benefactor and secret enemy to assume the powers of divinity, he would bid a fond farewell to his new enclave of loyal followers while giving spiteful goodbyes to the wretched people he condemned to burn eternally for their crimes in life. When they protested this, however, Raul flatly stated he only helped those slime-rinds he only saved their wasteful souls so the former God of Hell wouldn't give them abstinence from their deserved punishments. Going so far as to offer the Fallen Angels a chance to promote new ideas for their torturous lifestyles while they stay in pandemonium. The hell angels are so overjoyed by this that they cite how dreadful it was working for their former boss before Raul disposed of him, constantly losing his temper and treating his aids no better than the damned of hell. Raul further wins them over by electing one of their number to oversee affairs in his stead. At the same time, when he's gone, he even takes his newly appointed viceroy's suggestions on punishing Cristiana to heart.
Meanwhile, back in the living world, the Kurtz Capitol begins falling into ruin as the pedestrians have enacted a civil war in the hero's absence. Many amongst the peasantry feared his retribution due to having thrown stones and insults at Raul when he was executed; they would have a shortlived sense of elation after he'd disappeared from the public eye for a time after hearing that Mr. Evans had mysteriously died in a short while. Only to fall back into fear and anxiety when natural disasters that wrecked the city and the country started occurring while he was gone.
The most craven among the lot began a cult movement called the 'Raul Faith' and began persecuting those amongst their neighbors most heavily stricken by plague, famine, and drought, which hit due to what they believed to be the curse of the Former Hero—going around and browbeating the sickly and vulnerable into praying for his forgiveness.
On the flip side, citizens not affiliated with the cultists grew incensed at the actions of these zealots, who they knew were only kissing up to a guy whom they all ridiculed to curry favor with their tormentor as an attempt at saving their rotten hides. In response, said home dwellers opt to form their own counter organization loyal to the Monarch of Kurtz, calling themselves the 'King's Faction,' to which they immediately began assailing their shared enemies' would-be followers in bloody fashion. The head of this movement was once an intended betrothed to the deplorable Princess of Kurtz, Emil Auclair, and his mother Dolores, who they pressured into leading them after having heard the former met with the now revenge-crazed paragon and lived to tell the tale. Erstwhile, the king would enlist his domain's most valued resource in an attempt at doing away with the enemy of the state in question: The National Mages, sorcerers of remarkable skill and talent granted special privileges under their lieges purview to act in accordance to the kingdom rulers behalf. Some would go around town slaughtering both sides of the conflict for barring their attendance towards His Majesty's beckons. In contrast, others would visit the central city of the nation's various residents to procure their service to conduct a ritual based around dealing with Raul, something which essentially ends in their massacring them whenever said waysiders refuse these State Sorc's demands. In that light, the faraway kingdom of the demons was now in a state of tranquility thanks to the return of their missing princess. But Theodorá didn't return to them in the brightest, most state of mind; her watchmen, Damien and Cyril, are dismayed at how hollow their princess had become due to the trauma suffered in hindsight.
She came back to them relatively intact, but her heart and soul had withered away considerably after finally exacting her vengeance against Raul in the name of her sister. Spending her days in a luxurious room whilst gazing out the window as little else than a withered husk, her very core having long since been crushed by the weight of everything that happened to her. But she and her servants would soon find a means of perking up, as Raul used his arcanum to send her a message via carrier pigeon detailing his recent revival.
As the battle in the capital rages on. The National Mages soon visit one resident who resents (supposedly) Raul: Bernard Ross, the husband of Raul's late sister, Claire Evans. Who would make his living by mooching off the false sympathies of the townspeople who made up the 'King's Faction' while secretly bemoaning them as a pack of idiots.
Two of the State Mages approach Bernard with the same ultimatum: dispatch their enemy in the hero for fame, status, and recognition in the eyes of the nation. When they went over how others rejected their offer (in no small part due to the caveat of forfeiting their lives in exchange for this achievement), even the malignantly self-centered Bernard was flabbergasted at how they attempted their recruitment. Although not caring either way about the Dark Hero nor for the state of the kingdom he lived in, he was more than happy to stay out of the thick of things with his wounded Gazzeele scam. The enticement of living in better conditions than what he's currently enraptured with struck a chord with the scheming grifter. Ross was recently asked to take leadership of the King's royalist sect not long ago and opted to offer up their lives in exchange for his own to acclimate an accord with these debauched mystics. The two gladly accepted such a proposal and decided to keep in touch with their new contact on the sacrificial subject.

## Characters
### Raoul Evans (ラウル・エヴァンス)

    The former hero who defeated the demon lord. Instead of being praised, he was imprisoned after being falsely accused of a crime he did not commit. He was tortured, raped, and drugged during imprisonment.
    When Princess Victoria offered to spare his life if he was willing to serve under her, he refused and was sentenced to death by being crucified while eaten alive. In his last moments, Raul swears to avenge all who did him wrong. Now returned to life with greater power than ever before possessed, The Former Hero takes his sweet time traveling the countryside, confronting and barbarizing every one of his false companions and supporters with murderous glee.

### Kurtz Kingdom Citizens

    A moralistically diverse lot with varying degrees of personality, the very people who Raul fought so hard to save ended up betraying his faith after they were lied to about sudden atrocities committed after he'd slain the Demon King.
    Upon his initial return. Raul would see firsthand just how reviled and self-centered those of the capital were when they ran for the hills after he'd spoiled Princess Victoria's marital inauguration with a blood bath. Every last man, woman, and child cruelly began trampling one another at the sight of such horror to save themselves.
    They're also shown to be somewhat disloyal as they originally hailed their leader's beauty as a national treasure. Only reveal how fickle their tastes are after Raul reveals to them how unsightly said princess well & truly is.
    Something which is taken to even further extremes after the revelation dawns that they are focus's of Raul's vengeance, as was everyone involved in his mock trial. Half of the kingdom denizens founded a cultist movement set against the current monarchy to curry favor with their soon-to-be executioner, and the other half made a loyalist faction to the ruling king in hopes he would abate the Heroes rampage and save them all.

### Sandra Divas (サンドラ・デイヴァーズ)

    A devout, sycophantic knight captain who once headed the Order of Chivalry, serving under Princess Victoria. She fell into disgrace after failing to prevent the vengeful Dark Hero Raul from mutilating her on her wedding day and exposing her crimes to all in the Kurtz Kingdom. Dame Sandra will do anything to please her despicable mistress, serving her faithfully while justifying any horrific atrocities committed in the name of her unrequited love and overlooked loyalty towards the would-be queen. Months after Raul defeated the Demon Lord, the knight captain awaited him in a village to falsely accuse him of crimes against humanity at the behest of her Highness, making Dame Sandra a primary target for the hero's revenge upon revival.
    Ms. Divas's former adversary and misperceived love rival would visit this nauseating bootlicker of a paladin after she'd been stripped of her honors and wound up bound and incarcerated by her hateful liege. Raul heals the half-crazed Sandra after her serial rapes and tortures due to Victoria discarding the latter. He sets her loose about the castle, murdering the king, Victoria's father's retainers, due to Raul's trickery, which is her beloved queen-to-be's decree. Only to be met with harsh rebuttal and sentencing to be stoned on the cross as a scapegoat to divert blame for recent travesties.
    Ms. Divas and the princess meet their end via one final goading from Raul, who pushes Sandra's madness to its limit. Compelling her to fatally stab the fallen royal brat before decapitating herself to await her in the afterlife.

### Wendel Blackwood

    Wendel is a mage and a former Raoul's hero party member. Raoul and Wendel grew up together in the same academy for future elites. In truth, Blackwood deeply hated the former and only befriended Raoul once he learned of him being the chosen hero. The reality is that Wendel only wanted to take profit from Raoul and eventually betray him.
    Once Raoul was imprisoned under false claims, he revealed that his acts of friendship were all made up and that he was a willing aid in massacring his hated scapegoat's newfound home.
    Whence upon revival, Raoul entraps Wendel in an arena dual where he reveals just how far the depraved sex offender's treachery stretched to a captive audience. He takes his revenge via mind-breaking through fabricated public disgrace before sticking him in a perpetual death cycle with illusions of Wendel being repeatedly repulsively killed off.

### Cristiana Alcott (クリスティアナ・オルコット)

    The holy saintess and another contemporary turned betrayer of Raoul's trust. She uses her power to manipulate people into acting on the most heinous acts and impulses imaginable as a warped means of "salvation" to ascend their souls to heaven.
    She was the primary cause of either why people around Raoul began to change so drastically or how they had become so thoroughly corrupt beforehand. Cristiana being at the heart of why General Brown developed an impulse to eat human flesh or Victoria betraying the hero and violating the remains of his loved ones.
    For misusing her powers, she was declared a witch and sentenced to death. After which, Raul pursues her wretched soul in the afterlife to add salt to the wounds so he can shatter her delusions of righteousness by explaining why she's condemned like those she corrupted.

### Lucas Ekart

    An adept assassin who makes a sizable fortune working for the greedy and decadent hierarchy of Kurtz on the side.
    A target of Raul's vengeance due to having had a hand in killing off the former hero's companions who aided him in storming the Demon Lord's territory before his betrayal for profit.
    He is stalked to his own home and then brutally killed via force-feeding of blood money he'd accumulated before bursting like a balloon right before the eyes of his equally reviled sister.
    Raul would assume his guise via Illusion Magic to hunt down and terminate yet another revenge target afterward. Lucas himself winds up in hell for his prior crimes in life and is manifested before his murderer by the God of Hell when the former hero confronts him.

### Victoria (ビクトリア)

    Victoria is the selfish, morally bankrupt princess of the kingdom of Kurtz. She tries to mindbreak Raoul into serving under her. Unknowingly being a sick pawn to demented higher powers at the time. Once her plan fails, Victoria sentences Raoul to death. After the Dark Hero came back to life, he took revenge on her by running her plans of regal ascent into the ground by marring her internally before showing the fiefs citizenship her true nature, which caused her to be stripped of her title as princess of the region and heir apparent to the throne before being left at the mercy of her self-made enemy.
    After which, Raoul then crucifies her alive and repays his suffering at her hands by letting her body be eaten from the inside out by various animals while still retaining her consciousness.

### the Goddess of Love

    The original benefactor of Saintess Cristiana and obsessive co-conspirator to Raul's pursuit of vengeance. A hideously demented passion addict who stands at the heart & soul of the tragedies Raul faced in his young life.
    While acting as the sole ally in his pocket, revitalizing him after horrifically dying due to false accusation, unlocking his hidden darkness powers that'd been initially sealed. It is later revealed she is yet another mark on Raul's hit list due to having masterminded his fall into pandemonium to begin with.
    Regularly abusing and working her to the bone, even when aiding him so many times, had (supposedly) cost the goddess her divinity. Raul finally severed ties with her by revealing her crimes to every sinner in hell before having said sleaze violated in the same manner he was, burying her alive in a recreation of the dungeon he rotted in before the execution.

### Rene Beneke (リーネ・ベネケ)

    One ruthless pharmaceutical adept and openly depraved mad scientist, Dr. Beneke is a world-renowned medical practitioner who often perfects her work upon helpless citizens who stand about as young as children.
    Not being above hiring contract killers to procure copious amounts of test subjects for her thesis. She ruthlessly eviscerates and probes the destructive limit threshold in which she can push the boundaries of her research at the expense of everyone on whom the deranged physician runs her practice upon. Even her next of kin are fair game in that regard.
    She overestimates her genius when faced with the rage of the fallen hero, now resurrected to exact revenge upon Beneke and her family.
    Seeing through his disguise as the family bodyguard but failing to notice she's beside herself as her father & brother are already dead and under Raul's control till the last minute, after trekking through her bloody laboratory, the hero forces her to undergo trial after trial of berserker chemical ingestion until she dies from stress overload. Raul crucifies her mummified remains and adds them to his collection of defeated revenge marks.

### Princess Theodorá

    The younger sister of the demon lord who Raoul killed. She holds a grudge against the fallen hero. Even though both worked together temporarily to save her kin from a slave trader who was torturing and killing them for fun.
    She killed Raoul once when he placed Cristiana's corpse next to Victoria's.
    Sometime after that, she was found by the enclave of demons from her old home kingdom. By the time they found and nursed her, she was left a skin-and-bone husk who'd lost the will to live. But would immediately perk up after receiving a letter from the now-deified Hero Raul upon his second resurrection.

### Bernard Ross (バーナード・ロス)

    Brother-in-law to Raul via marriage to his sister, Claire Evans. He often goes about town voicing his hatred of the Former Hero while crying his heart out to anyone who will listen, often getting hand-outs of sympathy for it in return. In truth, Ross was a scheming marriage embezzler who repeatedly conned many a waiting bride-to-be out of their valuables to feed himself.
    While not taking a direct part in Raul's downfall, he gladly abandoned his recent mark, while Claire was heavy with child no less, to be violated by the corrupt clergymen of the church while he was shaked-up with another strumpet at the time of her deathly cries. As if a show of further selfishness, he teamed up with the National Mages to kill the revived Dark Hero for more outstanding status accolades by sacrificing the few remaining loyalists in the kingdom for their black magic rituals. People who trusted him to lead their charge against the fanatics of Raul.
    He would meet his end by the hero turned divine, showing him how his pettiness and conniving murdered the only person who truly loved him. Being stuck with an illusion of she whose faith Bernard had betrayed twice over after the revelation of his true self was revealed, Raul would leave him crying over his loss till the day he dies.

### the God of Hell

    A brutal, tyrannical bully who loathes and brushes off human mortals as insects. He lords over the domain in which baleful men and women on Earth find themselves after they die with an iron hand; even his subordinates are not safe from his juvenile rage.
    Baleful and petty. The God of Hell holds an exceptionally shallow reason for hating Raul, which caused the rest of the conclave of gods to abandon him whilst he was betrayed and executed. He made a wager and lost because of the former hero.
    Having brushed off the god's chosen savior of the world for such inclinations. Raul made it a pointed venture to drag the hated hell deity from his throne before ending him with a godly artifact made for killing members of his despicable pantheon. Raul humiliated the evil supremacy before his men, then summarily decapitated him and took his place as its ruler.

## Media
### Light novel

Manimani Ononata published the first chapters of the novel on the online publishing platform Shōsetsuka ni Narō on October 12, 2018, but was taken down shortly after due to the drastic depiction of violence could violate the guidelines of the platform. In October 2018, the work ranked first on the page intern ranking.
In February 2019, Japanese publisher Shueisha released the first volume of the novel under its D Novels imprint. As of March 2024, four volumes have been published. The novels were published in South Korea by publisher S Novel Plus.

### Manga

On February 4, 2019, Ononata started publishing a manga adaptation on Shueisha's Dash X Comic section on the Nico Nico Seiga platform. The illustrations were done by Akira Sakamoto based on the original character designs by Kōya, who illustrated the light novel.
The first volume was published in print by Shueisha on September 19, 2019. As of October 2024, twelve volumes have been published in Japan. French publisher Delcourt announced on March 25, 2022 to publish the manga in French language under the name The Brave Wish Revenging. Somy Media publishes the manga in South Korea starting in September 2022.