YMMV / Knights

• Complete Monster: The Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Exclude is responsible for the witch hunts that killed millions of people over the last few decades. Encouraging said brutality to empower the Relics—artifacts holding the vengeful souls of saints—with the deaths of "heretics", the Prince authorizes all sorts of torture, rape and mass executions. Betraying his allies after they stop being useful for him, the Prince attacks Sir Willheim and the Hammer of Justice, killing most of the group and using the Relics to bind their strongest members to his will. When his soldiers capture Nina, a girl in love with heroic squire Mistletien "Mist", the Prince orders her to be tortured and puts her feet inside burning iron boots. Once Nina mutilates her own tongue to avoid betraying Mist, the Prince orders her to be publicly executed. When Mist and his friends appear to save Nina, the Prince forces the Hammer of Justice to fight to the death against their friends. Offering knighthood to Mist, the Prince confesses that empowering the Relics was the means to accomplish his real goal of having a powerful army to start expansionist wars because "Being King can get pretty boring".