@kipi nah the problem is aqua if he went alone he would be doing fine in the manga it even showed a chapter of someone and him swapping parties and kazama did great
i read it on syosetu
and to the people complaing about the prince announcing that the demon lord is going to revive he didn't really have much of a choice when alicia started accusing the mc of being the demon lord he was just stopping the problems it would bring
generally for villainesses they aren't actual villians just people that oppose the heroine and personally i think getting in the way isn't doing anything wrong tho the way it is done is bad since they are usually the fiancee of the love interest