Rutart

Rutart (ルトアート) was originally thought to be the son of Zola and Balcus, but he is actually the result of one of Zola's affairs.

Appearance
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Personality
He is shown to be cowardly, hiding behind his mother when Balcus tried to recruit him for the war. Rutart also acts like a bully towards Leon, as he often treats Leon as if he is commonplace trash. Rutart started to become more arrogant, selfish and mean as time went on. This is due to him being of noble rank, as Rutart's pride took over his head and he came to regard those of lower ranks as inferior to him. Similarly to is mother, Rutart is also highly self-righteous and believed that at the time due to him being the heir of the Bartfort family, his half siblings such as Leon should work under him without question and provide him and his mother with financial support despite not doing anything to contribute to the family.

His pride is still taken even after he has been disbanded from Barfort's family, when he takes Jenna and Finley as his hostages, he has no qualm on declaring that the one who must have the glory is him, not Leon.

Volume 1
Rutart appears with Zola and Merce on the day Leon regains his memory.

Rutart returns with Zola and Merce exactly the same day when Leon was returning home with Angelica and Olivia with him. But they returned to the Royal Capital the very next day.

Volume 3
Balcus tries to recruit Rutart for the war between the kingdom and the principality. He hides behind Zola hearing this and she refuses to allow him to participate, but when Balcus pushes her, Zola snaps, telling Balcus he has no control over Rutart as Balcus isn't his real father, accidentally revealing the boy's true parentage. After hearing this Balcus leaves.

After the war, he had his knight title stripped due to desertion during war and becomes a commoner.

Volume 9
Rutart lives alongside Zola and Merce in the Forest of Ladies and had been ordered to take any young lady to become a member of Zola's new organization, but he keeps to failing at his task. During the war between Gabino and Forest of Ladies, towards the Holfort Kingdom, Rutart is tasked to kidnap one of Leon's fiancés to become a hostage in order to threaten Leon. He fails to do so as none of Leon's fiancés are weak enough to be taken by him and he kidnaps Jenna and Finley as a desperate measure instead.

While being called a failure on his task as Zola and Merce can't believe for Leon to rescue his sisters, Rutart's desperate attempt prove his worth to them. However, Zola, Merce, and Rutart can't outdo Leon and Rutart is beaten by Leon. For their escape attempt, Rutart is turned into a monster by his own mother Zola in order for him to go on rampage and distract Leon and Oscar, but Rutart eats both Zola and Merce during his loss of awareness instead. Leon ends Rutart's fate afterward with his shotgun.

Relationships
As shown in their relationship, despite being her own son, Rutart is not loved by his mother Zola and she largely treat him as a servant or means to an end. It is unknown if Rutart himself has any hatred or resentment towards Zola for this treatment, but he has shown to be desperate to show his worth to his mother despite his mistreatment by her.
 * Zola (Mother)

Similarly to their mother, Merce has been shown to not treat Rutart any better than their mother and similarly only sees him as a servant or a means to an end and had no problem using him and throwing him away for her own benefit.
 * Merce (Older Sister)

Rutart has no love towards the Barfort family even before his heritage is revealed to not be from Bartfort's. He doesn't mind to harm any of the family back and hold a great hatred towards Leon for his achievements, blindly claiming that the achievements are supposed to be his.
 * Bartfort family

Trivia

 * Zola reveals that Rutart isn't Balcus' son.