Return of the Shield Hero
Naofumi and his Party Raphtalia and Filo are at the end of the Waves alongside the parties of the other heroes. The road leading to this was treacherous but the end of the journey is soon to come.
Chaos ensued as the final boss stood weakened. All the heroes are spent and exhausted but was finally able to do a decisive blow against it, Raphtalia and Filo with the spear, sword, and bow heroes who were all supported by the shield hero finally eliminated the boss. Queen Mirella Melromarc and Melty who were participating in the defense with the Army of Melromarc watched the heroes killed the monster. The Giant Demon Monster boss (or whatever you imagined it to be.) was finally starting to fade to ashes in background dying slowly.
Filo who was in tears slumped to the ground cheered "We did it Raphtalia-chan!"
"Y-Yea…it's finally over…"
Everyone who participated in the wave all cheered for the heroes and celebrated their victory against the final wave.
Naofumi crouched in the ground nearby getting a moment's rest from the recent events while thinking ahead of the conflicting decision of remaining in this world or returning back home. "*sigh….. I have been in this new world for so long, perhaps it's time to go back, or perhaps leaving is a bad idea. Oh well, perhaps I'll have plenty of time later to decide."
"Naofumi-sama!"
His party called to him in unison.
Naofumi looked up to see the girls who are in front of him, Raphtalia, Filo and Melty, the Queen not far behind them.
All of them had glowing expressions and are filled with joy, smiling at the shield hero. Naofumi returned the smile with an awkward one.
But all of the cheerful expressions were disrupted as the Demon Monster in the background finally faded into nothing, the heroes' HUD displayed messages of Accomplishment, beams of light struck down on the four heroes and immediately started to pull them to the sky, jolting everyone. The four heroes are gonna be sent back home. It was all very sudden, the group is puzzled.
"Wai….." Naofumi cried out but then the beam rapidly sucked him up to the sky.
After a strike of realization on what is happening, everyone immediately rushed and used what ounce of strength they have left to stop this unacceptable departure and keep Naofumi from leaving.
"Water Purison!"
"Noo! Naofumi-sama!"
"Hyaaah."
Melty used her water magic while Filo transformed and boosted Raphtalia up using her Filolial queen form to reach Naofumi….
Their fingers barely touched as Raphtalia desperately reached out to reach Naofumi's hand, her tears were already leaking all over.
Leaving Their farewells premature and Naofumi is sent away.
"What the hell! This wasn't in the instructions"
At this point everything was white and faded into a room, now Naofumi is back to the Library just like that, where it all began.
I was holding the book with my right hand and locket with the shield hero shield on it on the other.
"I guess it's over." Doing his best to hold back his tears he wholeheartedly accepted the reality as he had many times before in his adventures. Accepting the cold and harsh truth was becoming of him as a specialty which made him strong.
*Few weeks later
"It's been 6 weeks since I was forcibly returned to my world, I keep having trouble sleeping and its 2am in the morning." Naofumi pondered in his thoughts of the past world while he was in his bed staring deeply into the ceiling. "It seems I only made up my mind now that I am back here."
Trying to recall his friends, their faces flashed in his mind. "I wonder what happened to them… I miss those guys."
Looking at the locket which was the only thing he got back from his journey, the gem at middle of the shield started to glow, at first glance Naofumi thought it was some hallucination or a dream but then the glow intensified and enveloped his sight.
"Is this it?!"
Naofumi tensed up, bracing for what's to come.
His vision turned white and faded to a blurry dim room setting, the place was familiar. He is standing on a glowing platform with a large door nearby, its edges illuminated by the bright light behind it. He was in the same room where he was first summoned as the shield hero along with 3 others, in the kingdom of Melromarc.
"Where are the others?... Am I the only one?" he curiously thought scratching his head after scanning the room.
Behind the door he heard chatters of people, which is odd because he heard them ordering people accordingly.
"Faster, Hurry, he has arrived."
Was the exact words he heard and sounded like it came from a woman, seems like she wanted to keep her voice down enough that she could be heard but not by me, it was then followed by rushing footsteps outside and the clattering of armor.
"Hhmmm….This is really sketchy."
He thought to himself and took a glance to see if the shield hero HUD was still there and confirmed it seeing all his previous stats have returned.
He then proceeded towards the door prepared and confident for the next scene, which was not what he really expected but wasn't shocked nonetheless. Behind the door revealed guards rushing to line up on both sides and raising their weapons making a path for him after having finished assembling.
"A surprise huh?"
he muttered to himself as he casually followed where this leads.
The path leads to what appears to be 3 Women standing and waiting for him, while they were at it, they were in a hurry fixing their clothes, straightening up their gowns, last fixes to their hairs and a few last adjustments clearly trying to look their best on the spot, and as they saw me coming they snapped straight into position. It was clearly visible that they were a bit nervous from his arrival.
Finally standing in front of the three he recognized them. "it's the Queen, and Malty, and Melty. They look a bit different specially Melty whoa, she looks grown up." Naofumi thought.
They all bowed(Curtsy) in front of Naofumi as a sign respect. The Queen then gestured for Melty to speak and welcome the shield hero herself but she was more nervous to speak which made the Queen gave her a light push forward to force her.
Melty looked hesitant but is able to muster her courage.
"W-Welcome back shield hero Na-Naofumi-sama, I-It's nice to have you back after leaving for a bit long." She was blushing all over and looks like she was gonna cry.
Naofumi observing Melty was a bit surprised he thought. "Wow Melty is taller now and her hair is a bit longer and she now has BOOBS!."
"Wai-t how lo-…"
"Before anything shield hero-sama let's celebrate this wonderous day for your return."
The queen interrupted his question and led the group outside to a large balcony where a large crowd has been gathering below. It should be obvious that they were here to celebrate the shield hero's return but to Naofumi who is still puzzled to the current state of affairs is still left confused.
"hehe… there's a lot of people down there."
All Naofumi could do was wave, not letting the nervousness get to him. He'd look over to Melty who stares at him from time to time but would look away as soon as their eyes would meet. "Is she embarrassed or something?" He thought to himself.
Treading down the halls are the three (Naofumi, Melty, Queen Mirellia).
"Your arrival actually caught us off guard Naofumi-sama"
"Me neither, I was suddenly returned back."
"An Oracle actually told us that the shield hero will return but he didn't know where or when exactly, and after hearing this good news the kingdoms have been anticipating for years for when you return. It's safe to say that they have grown tired of waiting and gave up just days ago."
"So how long was I gone?"
"IT'S BEEN OVER 9 YEARS!"
Melty's sudden reaction to Naofumi gave the two a bit of a surprise when she finally decided to speak up, Her face looks flustered and red all over.
"Do you know what Filo-chan and Raphtalia-chan endured?!... Hmmpf."
At the end of her statement she turned around and left swiftly walking away.
"ehe.. she had become more rebellious now that shes grown to that stage. She just probably missed you, and she's actually happy that you're back"
"It's ok, I understand."
"Word has just got out that you have returned, they will eventually reach Raphtalia-chan and Filo-chan, I have prepared a ball tomorrow to commemorate your return."
"speaking of which, how are they?, my party"
"Raphtalia has become one of the strongest swordmaster and the ruler of the demihuman country Siltvet, Melty has been crowned Queen of Melromarc and I'm just the queen regent, while Filo has become the Queen of all the Filolials also."
"Wha?!
This has been revised just a bit. You wouldn't know which was revised anyway.
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