New chapter again!.

How am i updating so fast?, because i write when i have nothing to do.

I'm trying to fix my grammar errors, but i promise nothing.

Also no, i didn't know that there was a hero with a gauntlet in the story, i'm just in the chapter 12 of the manga!.

Enough of that, let's get on with it.

CHAPTER 4 START.

This people are not okay they are scared, crying or both that makes sense considering how some of them lost their families and homes.

I have never seen something like this and seeing for the first time has me very depressed.

Well we did what we could... even if i wanted to do more.

"will you be okay", asked raphtalia to what i'm guessing is the boss or lord of the village.

"probably, the reconstruccion will cost a lot, but i'm sure that we will pull out somehow", this guy is a very positive person.

Naofumi sighs, "let's go raphtalia we did what we could", not a lie i doubt the little money we have will help here anyway.

We were about to leave the coal mine, but we meet that guard with the short blonde hair again, "we thank you for your efforts shield hero, you should go to the castle to celebrate" that is a horrible idea.

Naofumi just nods, he really doesn't want to go but he doesn't want to give this kingdom more reasons to kick him in the balls.

We were making our way to the kingdom on foot, good thing we are close to it, "so naofumi, you got a new shield?" we did deeat a powerfull demon.

He gives me a glance then he raises his right arm the one with the shield, the changes it to the orangguerra head, like literally the shield is just a little flatter head of the demon.

"it's called the guerra shield, can do something called 'sonic roar' must be those proyectiles it was throwing at us", with his new shields he is going to fucking destroy motoyasu if the duel happens.

He then asks me after lowering his shield and changing it back to his base form, "Did you get a new bringer?".

Oh yeah i did.

[Primal bringer] 100 atk, 25 spd.

[Bonus] raises atk by 30%.

[Skill] brute force: increment atk by another 20% for a temporal amount of time.

It looked like a primates hand covered in brown fur, this one disregarded defence and gave a LOT of power, like bullshit amounts of it, this is basically my glass cannon.

"Yeah this one gives tons of damage but loses all defense", i said then changed it again to the normal devil bringer.

I turn to my left and se raphtalia pouting... must.not.pet.

"why do you two alway get the good things...", this moe...! it too much!.

I starte pating her on the head she looked at me confused and flustered, "st-stop!, nuhh!!" NEED TO PAT MORE!.

Then i heard a laugh, me and raphatalia stoped and we looked at naofumi, he laughed... yes!, he is getting better!.

"come on you two, we don't have time to waste.

We both nod and start walking, along with him.

In the castle.

"let us celebrate the victory of our heroes!", that was the king fuck a lot, i want to punch him.

Everyone is celebrating like dumbasses almost like there wasn't a village in need of money and help, fucking assholes.

Me and naofumi just stayed back naofumi was checking something in his menu, while i keep an eye on raphtalia who was eating everything she came in sight with.

"what are you doing boss?", i asked naofumi who was scowling at the air, again.

"just a thing that would have been great for the wave but the other 3 heroes are too dumb to look at it", i really need to find him clases of anger management.

Raphtalia came to us holding out a fancy looking sandwich, "ummmm... lord naofumi, are you not going to eat?" she asked her master.

He grimaced for a moment then answered her, "not really hungry" the we hear his stomach, "still not hungry" now that is sticking to you guns.

"come on lord naofumi, just eat a little it will also save us some money", while she said this she went to the closest table and brought with her two plates of fancy food, "you should eat too flint".

I roll my eyes then grab the plate, "whatever mom" i say sarcatically i use the spoon in the plate to eat the food, it's pretty good.

I saw naofumi doing the same, but he stops for a moment then starts eating again, "not bad..." okay what?, i though it didn't have taste for him? did i actually made much of a diference?.

We were eating in pleasant silence ignoring everyone but eachother, "there you are naofumi!, don't you dare move from that spot!", then this asshole shows up.

He grabs raphtalia by the shoulde and put her behind him, looking at naofumi straight in the eye, "i heard raphtalia is your slave!, is this true!".

Before naofumi can answer i chip in, "it's not illegal to have slaves as long as they are not human, so kindly get the fuck out of here" i tell him while i put my plate in the table.

"that doens't make it right!", screams motoyasu.

Naofumi snors in amussement, "that what you think, and i don't care about what you think".

Then motoyasu tries to get in naofumi's face but i held out my right arm to stop him then i push him back roughly this time he doesn't fall to the ground.

He growls at us like a fucking animal the screams again, "the i challege you to a duel!, if i win you'll free raphtalia!".

Right at this moment i see a guard getting closer to raphtalia fro behind, i also start walkomg to raphtalia.

I hear naophumi behind me say, "why would i do that?, i get nothing from this".

I see the guard about to put the cloth in raphtalia's mouth but he notices me and walks away, yeah bitch fucking run.

I see raphtalia run and put herself between them, "mister hero, i did not ask for your help", i see motoyasu give her a confussed look.

"i get it now..., you must be controlling her!, stop hiding behind her and face me you coward!", i saw naofumi give him the glare that actually scared me too.

Raptalia was getying annoyed at motoyasu's constant bitching, "i already told you that i don't need your help!".

I tap him in the back to get his attention, "listen to the lady and beat it".

"i heard enough, how disgusting of the shield hero to have a slave and he even got himself an acomplice", and now the king is here too, just what we fucking need it.

I saw mein... or was it malty?, smirking from behind tye king, that goddamn cunt...

"you know what?, i accept" say fucking what now!?, is naofumi crazy!?, because me and raphtalia fucking think so!.

I look at him for a moment, gauging is reaction i see anger and hate but also confidence he thinks he can win, "you better win naofumi..." i told him.

"flint!, we should talk him out of it not encourage it!", oh raphtalia we cannot do that.

I shake my head, "look at him, he is gonna do it anyway, we can atleast trust that he will win".

"if he wins..." fuck you motoyasu,

"the battle will be held in the gardens!" announced the king and i saw how most people were going to said gardens, probably to get some nice sit to view the duel.

I walk up to naofumi and put my left hand on his shoulder, "fucking kick his ass, even hit him bellow the belt if you have to", i saw a ferocious smile in his face and i do the same while i let go of his shoulder.

Yeah a hit to the balls is very low... but fuck motoyasu.

Raphtalia came to naofumi and gave him a hug, such an esceen warms my heart, "good luck, lord naofumi".

Naofumi has this troubled expression on his face then returns the hug, "i won't need it", he simply said and they finished their hug.

To the gardens we go, joy.

The place of the duel.

The squared arena iluminated by torches is where i'll see motoyasu get his shit kicked in.

Me and raphtalia were in the balcony looking from above, not far from us like 15-feet apart, we could see the two other heroes to our left and motoyasu's party to the right including that bitch malty.

Raphtalia seemed on edge, "calmdown raphtalia, he is going to win this easy".

She looked at me all worried for her master, "how can you be so sure?".

I shrug my shoulders, "call it a felling, also i trust him to do it".

She accepted my words and turned at the 'arena' again.

I could also try to stop melty from attacking naofumi from behind just need to do it without her noticing me doing it.

"let the duel beggin!", screamed the king, i saw how both naofumi started to banter for no fucking reason, until motoyasu charged at naofumi going for a stab just for naofumi to effortlesly block the atack and push him back... Right he is stronger than he was in the original timeline because of the 2 bosses we defeated, motoyasu is very fucked right now.

And i love it, he changed to his new shield, the guerra shield the head-shield opens it's mouth and shots a sonic proyectiles hitting motoyasu and throwing him to the ground the he used his pipe shield to cast shield prison on motoyasu who was still recovering from the last attack.

Then he changed to the twinbellows shield charging a dual-fireball while motoyasu was looked in the shield prison, jesus this is a fucking curbstomp i decide to glance at motoyasu's group and all of them seem shocked at the fact of motoyasu getting his ass handed to him.

Then i saw melty raising her left hand aiming at naofumi and knew that i had to stop her, and i already know how.

"holy shit look at the size of that spider!!!", i screamed at the ground close to motoyasu's party and saw how some of them jumped and melty flinched she fired the wind spell anyway.

I quickly turned at the battle again and saw the blast of air missed him , ufffff... that almost hitted him, i was hearing commotion on my right something about a spider, geez didn't think they were that stupid.

Naofumi looked at his left, right were the spell missed him, that moment of distraction cost him dearly, since motoyasu broke the prison shield and charged at naofumi hiting him and throwing him on the groud his speard right bessides his head, shit not like this!.

Then i saw naofumi use his left hand to hit the side of motoyasu left foot, throwing him off balance then he used his shield to hit him... ouch.

Naofumi got up and motoyasu fell to the ground caresin his balls from the pain of the attack, thank god for twinbellows shield having an attack ratting.

Also i'm laughing really hard at this, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!", this is just to funny!.

My laughter was the only thing that was heard since everyone else was silent.

I finally stoped laughing, "uffff..., okay raphtalia, let's go congratulate the ballbuster", raphtalia gigled at my joke then i carried her bridal style then jumped of the balchony, once we landed i let her on her feet then she started running at naofumi giving him a big hug i was just walking at them taking my time.

"the... winner is the sh-shield hero!" i could feel the pain in the kings words, how do you like that bitch?.

I finally reached naofumi who was staring at raphtalia who was still hugging him, "you did well naofumi, even went for a nutcracker at the end, kinda funny", i told him in a joking tone.

He stared at us for a moment, "thanks...", Naofumi muttered.

Okay that's not confussing at all, "okay?..." i told him.

Raphtalia didn't know what he was talking about either, "thanks for what lord naofumi?".

He sighed then looked away, "for believing in me...", oh it's about that.

I get close to him and give him a couple pats on the back, "anytime naofumi".

Raphtalia finally broke her hug then we looked at the groaning form of motoyasu in the ground.

"well... he can't tell the girls how badly damaged his spear is, doubt that he can keep being a playboy with a damed weapon", i joked earning a few laughs from my team.

We heard steps behind us, we turned around to see the fisically pained face of the king some guards and malty who was gritting her teeths so hard i could hear the grinding from here.

poor king didn't want to be here right now, "you... won... shield hero... you can keep... your slave", i love this i wish i had a camara the hurt in his voice is something of art.

"thanks your majesty", i could hear the very well hiden sarcasam of naofumi's voice he obviously was enjoying this as much as me, "now my party an i will leave, we are very tired and would like some sleep", come on naofumi brag a little on his face you deserve that much.

We followed naofumi outside of the castle on our way to an inn to sleep in.

In our walki decided to tell them something, "naofumi, the red-haired chick threw an spell on you to help motoyasu, any reason for that?".

He glanced at me for a moment, "i'll tell you in the inn", fair enough.

Raphtalia looked at me, "it was lucky of you to have spoted that spider to make her miss the attack", oh raphtalia you poor innocent child.

"spider?, what spider?", i said with a grin on my face, i saw raphtalia face change from surprissed to happy then she giggled.

In the inn.

Naofumi payed our stay on the inn room with tree beds, time for the truth of naofumi problems.

I took a seat at the edge of my bed looking directly at naofumi who was seating in his bed that was right besides mine, with raphtalia seating besides him.

"you don't have to tell us if you don't want to..." started raphtalia but naofumi shook his head.

"no, better get this out of my chest now", he took a deep breath then kept going, "I was here sommuned along with the other tree heroes, don't know why they had so much animosity agains me, a lot of stuff happened at me geting no party members, ignored and looked down upon yeah i know they didn't try to hide their hate for me but then mein showed up..." He said her name with a growl.

"the red-haired girl?, what did she do?, she is still not aware of what people say or what?.

"i have a pretty good guess of what she did..." i muttered varely loud enouh for them to hear me.

Naofumi released a deep sigh, "she joined up with me, i was dumb enough to not see how convinient it was, she took all the money i had that the king gave all heroes then framed me of rape, and to top it all of i'm sure the king knew but he just hated me enough to ignore it", he said angered and dejected after that raphtalia put a hand on his shoulder

"well... that's one heck of a story, but i think i know how mein got away with that", i said gaining the inmidiate attention of naofumi who was probably internally screaming for the answer.

"you see that kind of stuff can be tricky to get around, for how you say it the king accepted whatever she said, just because he hated you right?" i ask for confirmation he nodded at me.

I sigh then continue, "you see if it went like that, then the king probably knew what was happening wich means that either a) he was the one who set you up, b) mein is his daughter wich makes her a princess or c) both of them", i say my piece it was a little hard looking at his changing his expression from shock to acceptence the hate.

"fuck..., fuck!..., FUUUUCCCCKKK!", he screamed while getting up screaming at the skies, when he finished he fell to his knees sobbing, "goddamnit!..., that makes so much sense!..., i didn't deserve any of that!".

I saw raphtalia kneel right besides him and gave him a hug, i did the same but instead of a hug i just wraped my left hand around his shoulders. "don't worry we know you didn't do it, right raphtalia?".

She nodded, "i will always be right besides my lord as her sword no matter what" well said raphtalia, well said.

He stopped for a moment, then wipped his tears before addressing us, "thanks... i needed to hear that".

I pat him on the shoulder, "no need to thank us".

"so... how long are we gonna stay like this?", i asked them.

I see raphtalia giving me a light glare.

Guess we are going to be like this for a while.

The next day.

A new day has come and we are going to see a slave trader, not as bad as it sounds, naofumi said we are going for something special to the confusion of raphtalia and me.

We found the circuss like stand that has a bunch of eggs on a glass cage, we entered to see the fucking pinguin from batman, god this guy is weird.

"slave trader i came to remove her slave mark", say what now?.

the slave trader stared at naofumi for a moment then looked at raphtalia impressed, "well you certanly took good care for her, she may be worth 20 gold coins, more if she were a virgin".

Raphtalia was offended by him, "i'm a virgin!".

The slave trader face lit up, "35 gold coins then".

"35!?" exclaimed naofumi just to stared incredulous at how much money raphtalia is worth.

I stared at him flatly, while raphtalia gave him a teary glare, "not what i mean!, i'm just surprissed how much she is worth!".

I kept staring at him, "that doesn't help your case".

The slave trader speaks up, "well enough about that, you said you wanted her slave mark removed?"

Naofumi looks at the slave trader, "yes".

He rubs his ching with his fingers thinking about it, "that would be 3 silvers".

Before this can continue raphtalia steps in, "there is no need for that".

Naofumi just stares at her surprissed by that, "what?, are you really okay with this?".

She nods, "of course i'm am forever bound to lord naofumi", well shit thats quite the touching moment.

The slave trader coughs to get our attention, "as touching as that was, do you have anything else to do here?".

Naofumi starts looking around for a moment then he saw the eggs in the front, "what are those?".

"oh?, those are the 'legal' bussines i have, monster eggs that can gave birth to various types of monters", he answered naofumi question.

How the fuck does that work?, eggs don't work like that, "how does that work?", i asked the slave trader.

"that's easy, you pay 100 silver coins, take the egg take care of it and wait for a random monser to be born from it", it's a fucking gacha but with eggs, what the shit.

Naofumi shared my thoughs, "so it's like a gacha...".

"are you going to take one lord naofumi?", raphtalia asked the pensive looking naofumi.

"give me one of those, hope that's not a dud", said naofumi.

"I'll never dare give my clients something like that!", i don't know if he is actually offended or not.

He opened the glass box took a random egg, then he put it in a glass container that looked like an egg too, he gave t to naofumi after he payed it, "pleased doing bussines with you" the pinguin looking mother fucker said while we were leaving.

"why did you buy it", i asked naofumi.

He shrugged, "we had more money than normal, so i just buyed it because i have no idea of what to do with the extra money".

Raphtalia pooked the glass container, "what do you think will come out of it?".

"who knows?, it could just be a fake one anyway", he said.

Well from this point onwards i don't know what the fuck is happening right now, is this egg even part of the story?, well not that it matters.

"so were to now boss?" i asked naofumi.

"i made a lot of medicine for the calamity wave, since we barely used any i though we could find a place to sell it" sounds like a plan naofumi.

I wonder what awaits us in the future?.

Staring at the two people besides i couldn't help but smile, who cares about the future? the present looks a lot better in my opinion.

Raphtalia noticed this, "what's with your smile".

"just wondering if whatever comes from that egg will call him 'papa'" i said while pointing at naofumi.

Yeah everything will be fine.

CHAPTER 4 COMPLETED.

DEVIL HUNTER RANK: C

Not a lot of action on this one, also yes naofumi beat the shit out of motoyasu on this story.

Considering that he got a lot of level ups from the bosses he fought and that he was going to win the canon fight if mein/malty hadn't cheated, i'm sure this naofumi will win with ease.

Stay tuned for the next chapter.

I'll see you all next time!.