Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside[c] is a Japanese light novel series written by Zappon and illustrated by Yasumo.
It began serialization online in October 2017 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō.
An anime television series adaptation produced by Wolfsbane and Studio Flad aired from October to December 2021.
Hoping to live an easy life on the frontier, Gideon moves to a borderland town and opens an apothecary, changing his name to Red.
However, keeping his former status a secret may not be as simple as he thinks, especially when Rit, a beautiful young adventurer and his previous crush, shows up and asks to move in with him!
[42] A spin-off manga illustrated by Mutsuki Higashioji and centering around Rit, titled Rejected by the Hero's Party, a Princess Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside (真の仲間になれなかったお姫様は、辺境でスローライフすることにしました, Shin no Nakama ni Narenakatta Ohime-sama wa, Henkyou de Slow Life Suru Koto ni Shimashita), was serialized on Kadokawa Shoten's Shōnen Ace Plus website from October 20, 2021 to Janaury 24, 2024.
She fled to Zoltan to escape a power struggle within her family and intends to live with Red, which he reluctantly accepts, though he still harbors feelings for her.
As Rit settles in with Red, his former Hero Party acquire a new recruit named Tisse Garland, gifted with the Divine Blessing of The Assassin.
Meanwhile, Danan becomes sick of Ares, as their mission to locate the Demon Lord's weapon, with help from the Desert People, has failed.
Red and Rit visit Zeff's sauna and notice a lack of customers due to a competing bath-house built by nobles that includes a restaurant and massage parlor.
Rit remembers before the Hero Party vanquished the Demon Lord's Army: she and the Party wanted to ask the Duchy of Sunland for help, but had to cross the Bewitching Woods, a dangerous magical area, with the help of Red's friend Yarandrala, a High Elf immune to the magical effects of the woods.
While on a medicine delivery to Dr. Newman's clinic, Red saves Jackson, a victim of poisoning, which the doctor diagnoses as a narcotic drug overdose caused by the recently approved painkiller.
Red remembers how, as a kid, he would invent reasons to hold Ruti's hand and promised to become a knight so he could adventure with her.
Moen apologizes for Tanta's treatment, but vehemently refuses to consider that his son might have become a potential murderer due to the urges of his Blessing, and commissions Rit to find the source of the drug.
As Red and Rit later go into town to find Al a weapon suitable for his Blessing, protests against the townguard are heating up, likely staged by Bighawk himself.
As she returns to the inn, Ruti experiences a sudden spell of sickness, compelling her to look for a set of elven ruins rumored to be in the area to serve as a secret laboratory for making the Demon's Blessing.
While taking a bath together, Ruti explains to Rit and Tisse how much of an emotional support her brother is for her, especially since her Blessing as a Hero has made her inured to feeling any joy.
Red travels to the elven ruins (actually an abandoned base of a more advanced, long-gone civilization), where he meets Ruti and Godwin and encourages his sister to live her life as she wants, not as her Blessing dictates.