Obviously the first negative against him is the fact that it seems he was a womanizer who abandoned almost all his children. Several of his children never even knew him. The other point is that the Hero's Church was not being upkept, shown by how it was the saintess' child who actually took care of it and the children living there. Also there is the weird death game he placed his children in, and while I get maybe saying "if you aren't going ro play nice, you won't get anything," it makes less sense to kill them. Someone mentioned it could possibly be a ritual, and I am not going to deny the fact that it does sound like it is because how did the hero not predict that siblings who have never met each other would not fight each other for a larger inheritance. It doesn't look better with the fact that apparently he didn't directly address his children, and that his companion was the one finding them based on the siblings having the hero's blood (thus why the demon guy was invited despite his unorthodox birth).
However, on the other hand he did actually interact or spend time with some of his children. He even gave precious gifts to them, showing he might care for them. And he may not have even known about the church at all. He appears to have been a wanderer, never settled down for long, and to have no deep attachments. And he was severely injured by the demon king during their battle, which means he may not have had a choice of where he was buried and may have never even seen the hero's church in person while alive. Ultimately, we don't actually know the hero's true personality. Maybe he is a naive man who actually believed that his children wouldn't fight because they are siblings. Maybe he gave instructions to his companion that where misunderstood, perhaps he didn't mean to kill them but to just banish them or maybe (like someone else mentioned) they may actually be brought to life at the end of the assigned period. Did the hero actually set up the death battle? What if his companion did it on his own? We have not seen the companion before with the hero, did they even know each other? Could it be a plot to get rid of the children of the hero instead?
Was the hero really such a dick or what?
Obviously the first negative against him is the fact that it seems he was a womanizer who abandoned almost all his children. Several of his children never even knew him. The other point is that the Hero's Church was not being upkept, shown by how it was the saintess' child who actually took care of it and the children living there. Also there is the weird death game he placed his children in, and while I get maybe saying "if you aren't going ro play nice, you won't get anything," it makes less sense to kill them. Someone mentioned it could possibly be a ritual, and I am not going to deny the fact that it does sound like it is because how did the hero not predict that siblings who have never met each other would not fight each other for a larger inheritance. It doesn't look better with the fact that apparently he didn't directly address his children, and that his companion was the one finding them based on the siblings having the hero's blood (thus why the demon guy was invited despite his unorthodox birth).
However, on the other hand he did actually interact or spend time with some of his children. He even gave precious gifts to them, showing he might care for them. And he may not have even known about the church at all. He appears to have been a wanderer, never settled down for long, and to have no deep attachments. And he was severely injured by the demon king during their battle, which means he may not have had a choice of where he was buried and may have never even seen the hero's church in person while alive. Ultimately, we don't actually know the hero's true personality. Maybe he is a naive man who actually believed that his children wouldn't fight because they are siblings. Maybe he gave instructions to his companion that where misunderstood, perhaps he didn't mean to kill them but to just banish them or maybe (like someone else mentioned) they may actually be brought to life at the end of the assigned period. Did the hero actually set up the death battle? What if his companion did it on his own? We have not seen the companion before with the hero, did they even know each other? Could it be a plot to get rid of the children of the hero instead?
There are too many questions.