Roland Rapha Holfort

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**Roland Rapha Holfort** (ローランド・ラファ・ホルファート, *Rōrando Rafa Horufāto*) is the current King of the Holfort Kingdom. He is the husband of Queen Mylene and the father of Julius, Jake and Erica.

## Appearance

He has a light blue majestic hair and handsome face.

### As the Masked Knight

The Masked Knight when operating as a foot soldier wears a set of custom made armour with radiant white colour scheme and a blue hooded cloak, wielding a long sword. As an armed unit pilot, he wears a skin tight pilot suit, the mask (key part of the transformation set), and the blue cloak; Masked Knight's armed unit is an armour painted in radiant white livery (co-incidentally Prince Julius' colour theme) and a big ultramarine cape.

## Personality

While presenting himself as a charismatic and competent ruler to the public, Roland is known among his court and ministers for being lazy and irresponsible. He has a detestable personality and is often described by people who know him, including his wife, as trash or scum. For example, he joyfully and brazenly said how good he felt by lazing around while others worked hard.

Although he is an able man, Roland hates to have work and responsibilities. He is also honest about his distaste for being a king, which he expresses by pushing all jobs to Mylene and others. Roland's dislike of working as such, he purportedly consumed poison to avoid his kingly duties after sensing an impending riot in the Capital.

Roland is very self-centered, a trait that is inherited by his son. He is primarily concerned only with his enjoyment and does not care much about how people think of him. Additionally, Roland displays characteristics of a narcissist who craves fame and adulation. When the Kingdom was in Crisis, he was unusually motivated and gave a long and dramatic speech during the gathering. Furthermore, He planned to secretly join the frontline in his costume, the Masked Knight.

Aside from his vanity and laziness, Roland is also a notorious womanizer. He has several mistresses and continues adding more to his harem. Moreover, Roland habitually sneaks out of the palace to fool around with different women. Minister Bernard even stated that Roland occasionally visited the frontiers to find pretty women.

## Story Overview

**Original Game story: Otome Game**

In the game during the final war with the Principality and the Kingdom, he was known as "The Masked Knight" who helped the protagonist during the war.

### Volume 3

He first made contact with Leon, when Julius and his friends were trying to help Leon to escape. After that, he, with Leon, the queen, Vince and Bernard went to the palace's war room, to discuss the current situation of the kingdom. When Leon told that he did not know if he could win, Vince declared that they had to use the Royal Ship, a lost item of the royal family, if Leon couldn't defeat the Principality. But Roland declared that without the qualified personnel they could not operate it.

In the audience hall for preparation of war, Roland declared Leon as the supreme commander of the army to the knights and nobles present there, but Marquis Frampton objected to this decision. Leon then showed evidence of him colluding with the Principality and Frampton was imprisoned.

After the incident, Roland with Mylene, Leon, Angelica, Olivia, Marie, Julius and his friends went to the underground hanger in the palace, to see if they would be able to operate the royal ship. Roland and Mylene were not able to do it and even Marie with each of The Prince's Entourage member weren't able to do it. But Olivia and Angelica were able to operate the ship. During the war with the Principality Roland went to his secret room to get his transformation set and his custom-made armor but he could not find it. Just then Mylene came to ask if he knew where Julius is. At first he was surprised, but when Mylene said that she knew about this room long ago as Julius was the one who reported about it to her, he instantly knew that Julius had taken his transformation set and armor to fight in the war.

After the war, Leon asked for demotion as his reward for winning the war. But Roland, being angry as Leon had stolen all the spotlight, decided not only to not demote him, but also allowed him advancement of rank from Viscount to Count and court rank of lower third during the award ceremony. Not even the officials or the Mylene knew about his promotion. Roland did it knowing that Leon wouldn't like it. After the award ceremony, he tried to flirt Olivia but Leon came to intervene before Roland could do anything. Just when he was complaining to Leon for upstaging him during the war and he would give him a death sentence if he tries to intervene any further, Mylene came with her maids and dragged Roland away. During the engagement ceremony between Leon with Angelica and Olivia, he had sent a message to Leon through Gilbert saying that when he heard how Leon was running around to escape from marriage, he decided to give his full support for Leon to marry both of them and he should be grateful to the king. Leon crushed the note after reading it. When The Prince's Entourage had used up their yearly allowance for building a statue for Marie, Roland and Mylene decided to send them along with Marie, Kyle and Carla to Alzer Republic as exchange students with Leon and he sent a letter through Marie telling him to take care of the troublesome matter which Leon crushed immediately after reading it.

### Volume 4

Leon sent a letter to Roland, through Angelica, when he got into a fight with the Feivel Household, one of the Six Noble Families. She passed the letter through Mylene where he told that as Pierre of the Feivel Household has picked a fight with him, so he is going to take upon his challenge and beat him up. But as it will cause some political problems Roland should prepare to deal with it. Roland tore the letter to pieces after reading it. He told Mylene to gather the important officials and send them to the Republic to investigate the matter immediately.

Roland sent Deirdre as an envoy to investigate the situation in the Republic and also sent a letter through her to Leon, cursing at him and as he knows Deirdre, he should get along with her but if he has an affair there, Roland is going to report it to Redgrave Household. Leon expressionlessly tore the letter after reading it.

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### Volume 5

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### Volume 7

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### Volume 9

Roland is seen by Leon when he went to see the ruckus around a murder scene. Leon became angry with the fact that Roland was flirting with escorts, without a care for the kingdom at all and was not a proper king. Roland then took him a nearby alley where no one could hear them and revealed to him that murdered person was a government official who had risen to rank after the war with the principality and was the fifth one to happen. One of Roland's play target is Merce with him using the alias Leon which eventually leads him to his doom. Before Roland encounters Merce for the last time, Mylene has warned him to not get out carelessly, but Roland ignores her warnings and is poisoned by Merce as a result. He asks Mylene to not to tell anyone that he was poisoned and ask her to go to Leon for his help before he falls unconscious.

After the failure of Rachelle Holy Kingdom's attack on the academy, he calls Julius, Leon and Angelica to his bedchamber telling Leon to be in charge of handling the revolts in the capital and Leon believing that Roland was at his deathbed decided to fully utilize Luxion's capabilities to resolve the revolts. But it turns out that Roland recovered soon after Leon purged the revolts and promoted him to Duke due to his accomplishments.

Turns out, flirting with Merce and getting to be poisoned by her was his plan with Fred asking him to never let to do this things again as Fred was the one to provide Merce with the poison. Roland told him not to worry about this as the first step of plan was completed and promising to himself that he would make Leon do more work for him in the future

## Relationships

### Family

* **Mylene Rapha Holfort** (Wife)

While Roland and his wife do care for each other to an extent, their marriage was political and neither really love each other.

* **Julius Rapha Holfort** (Son)

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* **Jake Rapha Holfort** (Son)

***\*Information will be added soon later.\****

* **Erica Rapha Holfort** (Daughter)

***\*Information will be added soon later.\****

* **Lucas Rapha Holfort** (Uncle)

Lucas is the current Headmaster of Holfort Academy and Roland's uncle. Although they are not precisely on bad terms, Roland still somewhat resents his uncle for forcing the throne on him. Nevertheless, he acknowledges Lucas's ability and has entrusted him with many important tasks, including a diplomatic mission to the Alzer Republic.

### Others

* **Leon Fou Bartfort**

He hates Leon for upstaging him during the war and has made it his personal mission to never make Leon happy. He promoted Leon to count solely because he knew Leon would hate it. It'd be wrong to say that he actively wants to hurt Leon. It's more accurate to say that Roland just wants to show him up and make him feel bad. Oddly enough, he doesn't care about Leon's constant flirting with his wife.

It is later revealed while he hates Leon, Roland deems Leon worthy to replace him as a new king. He stages his own dying so he can have an excuse to be replaced and turns Leon into a king, permanently.

* **Merce**

Roland uses Merce as a means to and end to demote himself and turn Leon into the next king. He acts as if he is madly in love with Merce in order to let her to poison him as part of his ploy to fake his death. Merce herself is completely unaware of a fact that Roland manipulated her and was oblivious to him having taken countermeasures to prevent himself from getting killed.

## Trivia

* Roland has several unnamed mistresses and an unknown number of illegitimate children.
	+ He generally uses false identities when engaged in romantic relationships, and most of his children are unaware of their royal blood.
* Roland's womanizing habits humorously bit him hard when the rumor of Leon being his illegitimate son spread around since it rendered his rejection unconvincing.
* The transformation set of the Masked Knight might have the ability to conceal one's identity from other unless they already knew about the existence of the set beforehand; as seen when the Prince's entourage and Angelica (all were close to the former Crown Prince) couldn't realize the Knight was Julius under a mask, although Leon and Marie saw through easily (both played the otome game in their previous life).

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs, Light Novel Volume 3 Chapter 9
2. ↑ The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs, Marie Route the Seventh
3. ↑ The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs, Light Novel Volume 4 Chapter 8
4. ↑ The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs, Light Novel Volume 9 Chapter 9
5. ↑ The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs, Light Novel Volume 3 Chapter 9
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs, Light Novel Volume 11 Chapter 11
7. ↑ The World of Otome Games is Tough For Mobs, Light Novel Volume 12 Chapter 16

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