Sain

Sain is one of the two main antagonists of *A Warrior Exiled by the Hero and His Lover*. He is the falsely hero, who together with his falsely lover (Lisa) exiled the warrior Toru Eiban, from the Hero Party. As a result of this, the duo are considered Toru's arch-enemies.

A former adventurer and self-proclaimed hero candidate, Sain was the original leader of the S-Rank adventuring party, White Fang, a group comprised of himself and his four childhood friends. Despite being a relatively high level adventurer, the greedy Sain always wanted more. His fortunes began a downward spiral following Toru's expulsion however, until finally, far from becoming a self-proclaimed and delusional hero, Sain proved to be little more than a puppet in the Demon Queen Lisa's schemes. In the end, after countless failures, he went on to betray all of his former comrades (save Lisa), joined the Demon Army and ultimately, turned upon the very people he was supposed to protect until he was easily defeated and captured by Toru (who killed Lisa) and handing Sain to the authority to disqualify Sain as a hero and announce his execution. After Lisa's death, he was executed to written him off as a self-deluded traitor, but was resurrected to seek revenge on Toru and humanity persistently.

## Personality

Although he thinks very highly of himself, Sain is far from the chivalrous, virtuous and noble figure he believes himself to be. In reality, he is just an upstart, self-entitled and delusional idiot who only cares about himself. Sain believes that his position as a Hero Candidate entitles him to anything and anybody that he wants. Sain has repeatedly shown that he will do whatever he deems necessary to achieve his ambition and will react violently when things do not go his way.

Due to the Demonic Eye of Seduction, Sain is a despicable pervert and a sociopathic rapist when he use the Demonic Eye to brainwash the girls into loving him as far raping them. He is foolish enough to try to brainwash any women who is higher than himself, but only his skill to be easily backfired due to him being weak against those higher level girls as shown his Demon Eye has no effect on Marianne.

He is a coward. As shown he runs away from local soldiers after he strangle Lisa when the dungeon is gone. He even run away from monsters when he is still weak against them despite his seemingly higher level. He shown fear of Marianne (the daughter of the Count) when she took out her sword pointed at his throat after the Demonic Eye of Seduction has no effect on her due to Sain's level being too weak against Marianne's higher level. He is more than willing to abandoned his party members to save his own pathetic skin when he deserted both Nei and later Soara. After Lisa's death at Toru's hands, Sain begs his falsely friend forgiveness when he tries to justify his actions by saying they were best friends, but only revealed by Toru that Sain is spineless when he wants to save his own pathetic skin where Toru refused to forgive him for his betrayal towards him by brainwashing Nei and Soara into loving Sain. He tries to beg the women nearby to save him from his execution but no avails due to their hatreds towards his filthy nature after he completely lost the Demonic Eye of Seduction.

It is questionable as to where Sain ever understood the concepts of friendship, comradeship or love. Despite having known Toru, Lisa, Nei and Soara since childhood, Sain did not hesitate to exploit or hurt them. He relished in the suffering his actions originally caused Toru and used his abilities on the girls for his own selfish benefit and carnal pleasure. Toru, Nei and Soara were eventually discarded like trash and Sain showed no concern for the emotional trauma that his actions put them through.

After his revival from his execution, Sain has became an even more hypocritical and delusional sociopath than he was before. He is completely irredeemable when shown whatever ounce of humanity he still had are entirely gone. He shown hatred towards humanity for not only written him as self-deluded villain but also everyone now recognized Toru as the true Hero. He hates Toru for allegedly stolen all of his glory as a Hero shown Sain is even more deluded when the holy swords and equipments deems Sain unworthy and considered him unworthy of calling himself a hero.

## Weapons & Equipment

**Weapons**

**Equipment**

**Abilities**

*Demonic Eye of Seduction*: Sain's foremost ability. He can use this skill to brainwash women who are of a lower level than himself into doing his bidding. The victim is implied to be aware of what they doing, but has no control over their body or actions. If Sain tries to use this ability on someone who is of a higher level than himself however, the skill will be useless and Sain will suffer pain as a consequence as shown he failed his attempted to brainwash the daughter of a Count, Marianne. After the Demon Lord Lisa's death, the Demonic Eye of Seduction is completely destroyed and will never work on woman ever again as show during Sain's execution, Sain tries to use it but no avails, meaning no women will suffer his lies and deceptions.

## Relationships

Toru Eiban: Former party member turned arch-enemy.

Sain has known Toru since childhood. They grew up together in the same village. Despite claiming to be best friends, Sain was jealous of Toru's relationship with the rest of White Fangs party members and Toru's ability to get along with people in general. Thus, when the opportunity presented itself, he expelled Toru from White Fang. He claimed that it was because Toru was holding everybody else back, but in reality, he just wanted the rest of the party (i.e. the girls) all for himself. Sain took sadistic pleasure in Toru's despair, but his "victory" proved to be very short-lived.

Following his expulsion, Toru would unlock his full potential and go on a series of adventures, which would unwittingly foil each and every one of Sain's plans to become a hero. Although Sain suspected Toru's involvement he did not originally believe it, having dismissed the boy as weak and worthless. Sain would eventually learn that Toru was responsible for his failures, which annoyed him greatly. When the pair finally battled during Toru's confrontation with the Demon Queen, Sain was easily defeated by Toru. Following Lisa's death at Toru's hands, the cowardly Sain begs his former (falsely) best friend for forgiveness as well tries to justify his actions by claiming they were friends. However, Sain's efforts were in vained as Toru angrily refused to forgive Sain for betraying him and brainwashed Nei and Soara into loving him as well calling Sain as a spineless coward who only wants to save his pathetic skin. After the battle, Toru captured Sain and handed his former supposedly friend over to the authorities, who disqualified Sain from his status as a "Hero" and had him executed for his numerous transgressions. Before the execution starts, Toru watched silently as Sain suffered punishments for his sins, such as fed with insults, hit by rotten fruits and vegetables by the people (that Sain was supposed to protect), marched down virtually naked by the kingdom's guards and finally women mocked Sain as garbage. Toru shown no sympathy for Sain when he is executed. Thanks to some of the equipment that Lisa had previously given him however, Sain was resurrected and now became extremely delusional than before when he wants revenge upon the boy who, from his perspective, allegedly took everything from him (which Tohru didn't do such a thing is because Sain was too unworthy for the Hero's equipments) while Sain is still a deluded hypocrite.

Lisa:

Nei and Soara: Sain's other childhood friends. Like Toru, the two girls once genuinely trusted Sain and considered him their friend. Sain would eventually repay that trust by brainwashing them with his Demon Eye of Seduction skill, whereupon they became his loyal followers and yes men. Over the next few months, Sain kept Nei and Soara under his control, using them to further his plans, as well as to satisfy his selfish desires, ego and carnal pleasures. Eventually however, Sain deserted the two girls leaving them to die at the hands of their enemies.

Both of the girls were independently rescued by Toru and his party, who managed to recognise and remove their brainwashing. After coming to their senses, Nei and Soara were both deeply regretful for everything that had happened and traumatized by what Sain put them through. They explained that throughout the whole ordeal, they knew what they were doing, but thanks to Sain's ability, had no control over their actions or words. Toru was understanding and like a true friend did everything he could to help the pair overcome their ordeal. Sain's death eventually gave Nei and Soara some measure of closure.

Like with Toru, it is highly questionable as to whether or not Sain ever really viewed Nei or Soara as his friends. He appears to have only been drawn to them because of their looks and the realization that they were in love with Toru. Thus, he did what he did so that he could use them as a weapon to hurt his former childhood friend.

## Trivia

* Sain was the first character to speak within the original *web novel*. His debut sentence across all forms of media, was expelling Toru from the Hero Party.