It's been 4 seasons and I still can't stand that piece of trash of Aultcray, only by seeing him on screen. I just wished that Naofumi would have punched that racist royal scumbag in the face already.
I'm not gonna lie. I really wished that Naofumi would have punched this royal scumbag, piece of trash (pun intended) of Aultcray numerous times, or at least one time, but with an extremely strong hit over his hateful and disgusting face, right after he cleared his name and took away from "Trash" all of his power, status, reputation, respect, influences, royal position and privileges, and even his previous official name for good. After all the insults, disrespect, and dirty, underhanded and cowardly tricks to threaten him and conspire against him to get rid of him.
I just really cannot stand this delusional, insufferable and hypocritical racist old timer, even after he became a powerless slave/peasant looking man between S3 and S4, and a laughingstock of his previous self. Being only allowed to walk around the most hidden and unpleasant parts of his own castle, hiding from the public eye who no longer respects him nor fears him anymore. Although "Trash" wasn't an actual sadistic psychopath who only cares for himself like Malty, with him actually caring for his family at least, even in a very twisted way, and at least he also showed some signs of being redeemable from his reckless and radical way of thinking (unlike Malty/"B1tch"), he is still a massive sociopathic parasite. Because he was the one responsible to spoil that b1tch of Malty so much to begin with, turning her into the pathologic liar and manipulator that we know. Creating a "demon" much worse than the one who thought he was the real threat to lose his family, meaning Naofumi. Turning himself also into this delusional and racist royal scumbag who discriminated and disrespected Naofumi unfairly every time he could, while using every single excuse and conspiracy to make Naofumi's journey the most miserable and insufferable as possible, while giving him less to nothing of rewards, attempting to take away the few people that were on his side and to get rid of him at some point.
I also can't believe that Naofumi never told Fohl and Atla in S3 who Aultcray really was and all the awful things that he and his knights did to him, Raphtalia and the demi-humans in Melromarc. Because it was so annoying and irritating how oblivious Fohl and Atla were when they were talking with the man who used to be one of the worst and tyrannical royal human scumbags who treated their own species like dirt and as a sub-human race, who also intensified the persecution and slavery against demi-humans by supporting that fascist cult of the "3 Heroes Church". If Fohl and Atla would have known that, they would have NEVER acted so friendly towards that piece of garbage, nor seeing him as their uncle or related to them in any other way, even if they were genuinely related by blood; they would have never been so gentle with him, like when they gave him a homemade style food to that despicable monster later in S4, and Fohl would have definitely punched that sh1t-face after everything that he and his sister had to suffer as slaves.
I also discovered very recently that in the novels, after Mirellia caught Aultcray "red-handed" trying to conspire against Naofumi one more time almost at the end of S1, even after he just lost his entire royal position and resources to make another complot against Naofumi successful, Mirellia actually forced "Trash" to run through the castle in his underwear, making him wear a collar that hurt him if he spoke, if he was only going to badmouth the Shield Hero, so he can keep his mouth shut every time that he sees him, along with other stuff to make "Trash" suffer for not learning his lesson. I actually made a LARGER post explaining why I cannot forgive Aultcray as a character in the series for all of his crimes against the demi-humans, especially if I was in Naofumi or Raphtalia's shoes. I also mentioned that I wished that Aultcray would have turned into an actual prisoner or even a slave, instead of the Staff Hero or being involved in anything related to the Melromarc kingdom, or the waves, or the 4 main heroes, doing some forced labor that it can actually benefit the reconstruction of Ludorona, as its medieval fantasy version of "community service", while suffering poor treatment and working in terrible conditions constantly, but not enough to kill that bastard, so he will feel what it's like to be treated like garbage ironically, with everyone being extremely hostile to him unfairly, like he did to Naofumi. But that information about Aultcray being treated in that awful way by Mirellia, it actually makes me feel more relieved and satisfied to know that "Trash" actually suffered some physical torment, like an actual prisoner and even almost as a slave too, specially after everything that he did to Naofumi, Raphtalia and the demi-humans. Such a shame that we never saw that in the anime, because I thought that Mirellia just left Aultcray to move freely around the most hidden and unpleasant parts of the castle only, while making him wear a peasant/slave looking outfit just as her way to "punish" him after she caught him "red-handed" comploting against Naofumi again.
But even if their reasons to hide the truth to Fohl and Atla about Aultcray's true identity was to make him redeem himself to make him finally open his eyes about how heavily wrong he was towards Naofumi as the Shield Hero and the demi-humans, he is still a massive parasite and a racist scumbag who refused to take any kind of responsibility for all of his atrocities, and those white tigers are too good for a despicable monster like "Trash".