Sakata Hiroaki

Summary
Hiroaki graduated from his high school while being someone acknowledge for his good school grades, he failed the exams for entering the university and after that he became a hikkikomori, the year after failing his exams he expended it full reading novels, playing RPGs and VNs, one day while he was lying in his bed playing to some game on his tablet he was summoned to another world as a hero.

The first thing that Hiroaki saw after being summoned was Flora that approached to him asking if he was a hero, after he received an explanation from Flora and Hugenot of his new situation, because his situation was similar to some of the novels that he read, he has lived convinced that from now on what awaits for him is the otaku dream of another world summoning with cheat powers and having each every cute girl that comes his way falling for him for no reason, just because he was the protagonist and the cute girl was a cute girl, and what cute girls do is to fall for the protagonist.

By inflating his ego enough Hugenot deceived him into accepting to be the Hugenot's faction hero and to help them to retake the Bertram kingdom from the Arbor faction, since he joined restoration he spent his time basically hanging out with Flora and Roana and trying to pick up any other girl around, he was made part of Hugenot's entourage while he visited different influencial people from the neighbour Galarc kingdom in the search for support to his faction like Liselotte and the king François, he was never shown apporting nothing to this reunions.

Even though Hugenot and others tried to convince him of receiving combat training he never accepted, he agreed esporadically to spar with some knights fro showing off in front of some girl defeating him, outside for that it's known of him having any other kind of daily routine or training, he doesn't believe them necessary either, he sees himself as some kind of map-bomb, that if he ever needs to fight with launching some mass of water to whatever will be enough, in the future Rio would prove him wrong.

Appearance
The book described him as average in every aspect, face, height and built, his hair is short and spiky, his facial feature are kinda rough and wild, he has a sharp menacing gaze just like he's always pissed off at something.

Personality
He's always putting on airs due to being a hero, talking big of himself with an arrogant tone, but he's someone with low selfsteem, since as a neet he fits in his concept of loser, Hiroaki won't be able of avoiding to feeling inferior and hating those who fit in his concept of winner or those who he considers to be above him in any aspect, he doesn't like to spend time with other japanese because when talking to them it's impossible to hide how average he's compared to them and because when asked about his life before the summoning thay will know inmediately what kind of loser he used to be.

If he hears of something other than himself as good or the best he will be pissed off and will begin to question the greatness of that anything/anyone else, he wants everyone around him to just pay attention to him, if anyone calls more the attention than him he would look bad at that person, he always wants to be the center and the topic of the conversation and everyone to just obendiently listen to his stories, if he listens to people telling their own piece of mind about something he will tell his just after, if he sees people talking among themselves in group of several people with him included, even if he was talking on his own with someone else he will want to be a part of the other conversation too, he always misunderstands on purpose that the reason why everyone pays so much attention to him is for him himself and not because he's a hero, when he's interested in a girl he will always believe to be treated specially by her even if she really doesn't, if that girl doesn't show at any given moment all the interest on him or in spending time together that he would like he would make up in his head a reason for that so he won't have to face the fact of not being really special to her.

Template Summoning
While the Hugenot's faction was marching towards Rodania the day of the hero summoning, the summoning stone inside Flora's luggage began to float in the air while shining, after putting distance between itself and the people a great pillar of light shot out from it, after the pillar disappeared Hiroaki was there with his back against the ground, Flora approached him and asked him if he was the hero, Hiroaki asked her several questions for trying to understand his new situation, when he realized that he has just been summoned, he then began to admonish Flora with a sarcastic voice for summoning him without having a way of sending him back and to accuse her of kidnapping him when he wasn't even bothered for being summoned to another world, he just said all of that for acting self important.

Later, when Hugenot tried to convince him of joining them as hero, at the beginning he refused that if he was a hero summoned for fighting against the demon king the troubles between humans weren't his problem, that he didn't trust Hugenot because in the stories nobles like him were just unscrupolous people, but Hugenot managed easily enough to convince him with some praised and making some whore to raise his confidence in the bed.

More or less a month later he went with Hugenot, Flora and Roana to Liselotte's house for negotiating her in order to get economical support for the Hugenot faction, then he would fall for Liselotte and would mistake her lip servise as his hostress as the truth and her questions about Japan as she interested on him, when in fact, she was just trying to discover if Hiroaki's Japan was the same than the one on Rikka's memories and if he realized about the products pf the Rikka firm having the same names as the things from earth, she was trying to know if Hiroaki discovered her secret, but Hiroaki always called the similitudes between the food she served and the food from earth as a part of the template, Hiroaki left Amande before the monster raid that would happen five days later.

Galwark Ball
Before the beginning of the evening party he went to Liselotte's and her family's waiting room because he wanted to greet her and seeing if she was fine after the monster raid, he praised Liselotte's looks and talked a little to her father then they were called to the venue, Hiroaki entered the venue a little after Liselotte's family and Rio, he was satisfied for receiving everyone's attention when he entered, after him Satsuki and Galarc's royal family entered, while entering the venue he was thinking that he did well in not choosing the adventurer route and forming an harem like that, that he was right in becoming a hero because that way he would be able of meeting better girls, he then was upset because the nobles were more interested on Satsuki than him, Roana flirted a little with him for cheering up and they listened together to Hugenot giving Restoration's foundation speech, after that François asked him and Satsuki to promise their cooperation in front of everyone and he did so why pissed off inside to François not talking to him with a humbler tone.

After seeing Rio and Liselotte dancing together he decided to dance too, he took Flora out for a dancing while asking Roana to ask Liselotte in his place to dance a song with him after Flora, after the end of his dance with Flora he went to where Roana and Liselotte were and asked Liselotte to dance with him the next song, he saw Rio and Satsuki prepared for dancing together, he looked smugly Rio when seeing himself surrounded of Flora, Roana and Liselotte, then he began to advise Liselotte to not hang out with Rio because when she turned her back on him he was already with a different woman, he shoot one last smug look and Rio when entering the dancing space with Liselotte while she was secretly apologizing to Rio for Hiroaki's rudeness.

Next day, Satsuki approached Rio for consulting him about the best way of talking to Takahisa about Miharu, Aki and Masato, when their talk ended, Takahisa and Hiroaki approached them bringing with them their companions, after that while Satsuki was taken her chance while dancing with Takahisa for telling him about Mihaur and his siblings a group of twenty assassins entered, when they began to get near the princesses amd heroes, all the group there got close to each other for making a magic barrier, Hiroaki out of fear run towards the group that was going to cast the barrier while screaming, in his way he bumped into Flora making her fall to the ground, because of that she wasn't able of entering the barrier herself but Rio protected her from the assassins, Hiroaki went to ask her if she was fine and how did she fell because he didn't realize at all that he was the one who bumped into her, then he saw Liselotte who was asking Rio if he was hurt and she could help him in anyway when he offered the knights his help for removing the assassins' corpses, he went to her side and pulled her away by the arm so forcefully that he even hurted her.

The next day when he heard François naming Rio the black knight, he didn't do anything that day.

After Party
The day after the end of the evening party he was to Liselotte's house for having a meal with her, Flora and Roana, while eating he began to complain about how he missed rice, Liselotte gave him a little surprise having risotto brought in, Flora and Roana liked the risotto too and began to talk about inviting Satsuki the next time and having a tea party with her because they heard her to say that she missed rice too, then they began to talk about the duel between Satsuki and Rio, Hiroaki then began to say that Rio was just able of winning against Satsuki because she was easy on him, that if a hero releases his true power anyone i front of him would be reduced to nothing, lastly he refused to go to a tea party with Satsuki because he didn't want to have to get along with a normie now that he's in another world.

Some days later Hugenot convinced him of getting engaged with Flora and Roana, he accepted Roana just for the looks and because he liked her aptitude, he accepted Flora because if you make an harem in the other world it was common sense to have a princess as the legal wife and that if he was going to be polygamic a legal wife like her with a weak character it would be better, he then asked Hugenot from who he received marriage proposals already, he was a little disappointed at not having yet one from Liselotte and thought that for sake he would reserve the second of third seat gladly

Dragon Accident
Hiroaki was attending a tea party held by Lisette Gregory with Flora and Roana, they congratulated their engagement without any feeling into it and began to try to get closer to Hiroaki while he was enjoying the harem-like situation, the tea party ended and he promised to see the grils again three days later.

After leaving the evening party Flora asked him why did he promised to attend the tea party three days later when they had to go tomorrow to Rodania for meeting Christina, Hiroaki admitted to have forgotten about Christina even though he was told about it several days ago, then he decided to make Flora go alone to Rodania because the tea party was more important for him than Christina, that she would come Galarc's capital soon anyway and he could see her then, after he said that they encountered Satsuki who came back from her daily training, Satsuki recriminated him to not do anything more than meeting with girls and then he said to her that it would be better for her to act more girly because nobody likes strong women.

Duel
While Flora was still missing and the air travelling still forbidden due to the possible presence of the dragon Hiroaki forced the Galarc kingdom to prepare a magic ship for going until Rodania, once there he entered Rodania's audience room shouting to Hugenot and complaining to him for letting Flora go missing, Christina's glare silenced him, he began to analyze on his head the difference between the two sisters, then by Christina's petition he agreed to breaak his engagement with Flora thinking that there wasn't any point in being engaged with someone that is highly likely dead, since then he spend his time as usualy, hangin out with girls when he wanted, even entering Christina's office in the middle of her work or when she just wanted to talk to another people like Celia and Roana and forced himself into her.

Two/three weeks later Rio arrived to Rodania bringing the missing Flora with him, when she saw Flora again he said to her to change the travelling clothes that she was wearing and after putting a dress on to throw them away, Flora refused while clinggin her clothes saying that they were Rio's present, Hiroaki didn't liked that, when the two left the room with Roana he noticed the gaze full of love that Flora turned to Rio and began to be jealous, later that night, while celebrating Flora's return he didn't stand how Rio kept being treated as the center of attention and finally decided to try to make something for making him look bad, while Rio was in the middle of inviting Christina to dance with him by Flora's suggestion Hiroaki appeared and challenged him to the duel.

The next afternoon Hiroaki gathered all of Restoration's noble's on a training field on the city's outskirts, Christina appointed Alfred as the referee and after a little reminder of the rules the fight began, Hiroaki tried to end the duel with just an attack but Rio parried it easily and he fell to the ground, Hiroaki kept charging at Rio and slashing at him but none of his attacks were able of passing his defense, Rio kept provoking Hiroaki making him rise the degree of his body strenghtening, but Hiroaki wasn't able yet of connecting a hit, after saying to Hiroaki that he didn't know anything about swordcraft or martial arts he called him the weakes hero and ended the fight circulating behind him after dodging one of his slashes and hitting his back with his sword, then Alfred declared Rio's victory.

Hiroaki refused to accept it and began to demand to Rio to take back his words of him being the weakest hero, that he just lost because he wasn't allowed to use the power of the sword for controlling the water, Rio listened to Hiroaki's excuses a little more and agreed to give him a rematch allowing him to use his water-controlling abilities in exchange of him granting one of his petitions if he loses again, the second round started and Hiroaki summoned a mass water, he tried to give it the form of Yamate no Orochi but he was just able of creating five heads, he them began to swing the dragon heads at Rio, Rio dodged them while wondering about the lack of dragon heads, after observing Hiroaki for a while he deemed that he was already giving his all and that if he defeated him now he couldn't put excuses again, he passed through the dragon heads, circulated behind Hiroaki's back and put his sword on his neck, the shock of the defeat made Hiroaki to lose control of his powers and two of the dragon heads went flying towards the audience, Rio destroyed the dragon heads and gave Christina the right of using his bet with Hiroaki for punishing him for this, Christina scolded Hiroaki for almost killing the audiences and forbade him to go to the Galarc kingdom again for continue his routine of just having tea parties with girls.

Relationship
Flora Beltram

Roana Fontina

Gustave Huguenot

Liselotte Cretia

Amakawa Haruto

Christina Beltram

Sumeragi Satsuki

Abilities
As a Hero, Hiroaki has an enormous pool of mana, and able to easily create big magical phenomenon even without understanding the know how.

He has Divine weapon in the shape of an tachi, it manipulate water element, Hiroaki named it Yamato no Orochi, following his signature move of manipulating big clumps of water in the shape of 8 headed serpent

Trivia

 * In vol 14, Rio use Hiroaki signature magic, Yamata no Orochi, with a complete different scale, Hiroaki range are around 15 - 25 meter, while Rio easily reach several hundredth meter, swallowing village and hills in it's wake.
 * According Rio, out of all the Heroes he already facing with, Hiroaki are the weakest one.