Rising of the Shield Demon - Part 1

by The Dark Dragen

AU Story: A young man named Naofumi is unwillingly summoned to another world to become one of the four Cardinal Heroes, the problem was the hero he became was hated by the kingdom that summoned him and was considered weak. Read as he overcomes this and the events surrounding this, where he slowly become a darker version of himself. This is a slow and dark story, not for children.

4. Chapter 3

Author's Note: In the last chapter, I got a review from daniel2610994, that got me thinking: he said that whilst he liked the idea of the Shadow slave idea, he didn't think that an OC would be a good idea when I could use characters from anime or manga or even games. He suggested that I use Taki from Soul Caliber, as he believed that she would be perfect as his sexy and faithful. So I thought I would ask you this, anime/manga/game character do you think I should use to be the slave who would become Shadow? I would like a character that has a dark or/and sad past, I would also like it if they were Demi-Humans, so please let me know which race you want them as.

There's a lemon in this chapter, so if you don't like it or you're offended by it, when you see ( . Y . ) ( . Y . ) then you should skip it until you see them again. If you go on and read it, I don't hold any blame if it offends you or you get pissed with it. I warned you ahead of time and you decide to read it anyway.

Chapter Three…

Renka!

Kingdom of Melromarc, Castle Town, Castle, 5th of January 740, Late Evening:

It has only been about two hours since our four heroes parted ways to sleep, however, the young Renka (Ren) Amaki was unable to sleep. She had a lot on her mind that she found it hard to sleep. So she had one of the servants who were looking after the four heroes that night to run her a bath and not to disturb her. She was glad to see that she was right, the castle had old fashioned Roman hot baths. With her sword on the side of the bath.

As she sat in the bath relaxing, she was thankful to get rid of the bandage that was binding her breasts, as whilst she was able to deal with the pain now, it's still a bother to keep them bound all the time. It felt great when she was able to free them after a long day. It's because she kept them bound that she believed that she didn't have bigger breasts.

Either way, as she relaxed, she began to think about the past day.

The first thing that came to mind was her sword, whilst she was able to put down her sword and place it on something like a table, unlike something Naofumi is unable to do, she couldn't go far away from it. She learned this as she was going to the bath, as she left her sword on her bed so she could wash without it getting in the way. But as she got a few floors down from the sword, it suddenly appeared in her hand. It would seem that whilst she was able to put her weapon down, she couldn't go far away from it before reappear in her hand. Whilst useful to know, it would also be a pain.

Next thing her mind was that instead of dying as she expected to happen, she was transported to another world where she was expected to save it. She didn't know if she was brought back to life to save this world, or she was summoned right before she died and healed somehow. Her first thought was her family and friends, were they okay, she hoped that they would be okay in time. She hoped that now that she was alive, she could, hopefully, one day return to her family and friends and tell them how she felt about them.

But as she thought about it she started to rethink a few of her thoughts about her world, mostly thinking why would she want to return to her world. A world where she would most likely be arrested and where her family was most likely punished for her pretending to be a boy. As she wasn't sure how this summoning worked, for all she knew, this body was just a copy of her original. If there was a body in her world, people would find the truth about her and her family would be arrested for hiding the fact that she was a girl and helped her to be a boy. Should they find out anyone else helped them, they too would be arrested.

So she started to wonder if she really wanted to return to her old world. Depending on what this world's opinion on females are, she might try to find a way to reconnect to her world but instead of going back home maybe bringing people here pacific people the ones she cares about from her world.

She also had to wonder why, out of all the people in all the worlds out there, why was she picked as a hero of this world? The only thing that she could think of, was that she was a gamer, someone one who used swords when playing. And because one of the legendary weapons was a sword, she was picked as its user for whatever reason.

The other thoughts that she had were about the other hero who was summoned to this world, Naofumi Iwatani, the Shield Hero. She was shocked to find that she was falling for him, it was something that she believed would never happen. Because of the way she was treated in her world and the fear of what would happen if a female found out about her secret and told the police, she swore that she would never fall in love with a man ever and was nervous to fall in love with a female not knowing even if she swung that way. But the moment she set sight on Naofumi, she began to feel feelings she never thought she would ever have, it confused her. She had to wonder if this was what they called love at first sight.

She didn't know what it was, but the moment she saw him she felt something awaken within her. Like some kind of fire was lit up and it was burning with passion. At first, she wasn't too sure about him, as he didn't seem to know what was going on, but over time he impressed her. Like when the king forgot to ask his name, Naofumi firm but politely reminded the king that he was there and told off that womanizing man who trying to belittle him for being the Shielder. Sure she didn't say anything, but that's because, in her opinion, she too believed that it was a weak and useless class. But that's only because she mostly plays by herself and it was too difficult of a class to play that way, otherwise, it takes a very determined and interesting person to fight against something that everyone seems to belittle.

Now that she took time to think about it, she realized that something wasn't right about how people were treating Naofumi. She didn't know what was going on, but the king and the nobles seemed to look down at him. Was it because he was a Shielder? If that was the case, why did they summon him in the first place if they had problems with a Shield Hero? Renka knew that she had to keep an ear out and see if she could find out what was going on there because she didn't want to bring her friends and family here to this world if there was a chance that this world could be possibly worse than hers.

Sure she had her own issues about Naofumi, but for those who summoned them there, they should show at least some respect. It wasn't like that they asked to be there in the first place, although for her, Motoyasu and Itsuki were somewhat happy that they were summoned, as they were now alive instead of dead.

Although it was unlikely, she had to wonder if Naofumi could become strong here, even if he is the Shielder. As he pointed out to them, their weapons were meant to be Legendary so the possibilities are endless. Whilst very unlikely, it was possible that he might be able to give him strength beyond anything they thought possible for a Shielder. Not only that, but he made her realize that whilst some of the weaker skills were useless, there could be a few weaker skills like the light skill that if levelled up enough to become strong, she might be able to blind an enemy. Because of this, she would look over all the skills that she gets and see if they had any other ways to be used if so, she would work on them otherwise she would go on to the other useful skills.

While she might not team up with Naofumi, preferably teaming up with Motoyasu and Itsuki who were stronger, she wouldn't mind spending some time with the Shield Hero and get to know him better. If he was to be treated, she might let him know about her secret and see where things go. And if he ever becomes strong enough to defend himself fully without relying on her and the other two heroes, she might be willing to work as a team with him. Okay, maybe not team up with him, given that their weapons would make that difficult, but at least work with him and hear him out he seems to be quite insightful.

Although she knew she had to change her attitude around him though, at the moment, Naofumi might see her a stuck up bastard with the way she showed herself to others. But that's the way she was brought up, show others that she was above the rest. Not to show any weakness at all. She had to be a strong male figure, confident and willing to do whatever it took to get what she wants. Even if it meant that she came off as some sort of asshole towards others, she hated playing that kind of role, however, it was necessary to keep her secret. She barely let any of her friends know the truth about her, she had to keep everyone at arm's length until they prove themselves trustworthy.

She wasn't sure if she could change, only time would tell.

As she was thinking about the past day and about Naofumi, she heard the bathroom door open and to her shock and horror, Naofumi entered. "Hey Ren, the servants told me you'd be-" began Naofumi but stopped halfway and his glanced down towards the waterline, where he saw that he was now looking at naked female instead of Ren. So out of respect and embarrassment, he turned around and said in shock, "I'm, I'm sorry! I was told that the Sword Hero, Ren Amaki, was in here." He felt somewhat stupid that he didn't knock first, as it was possible that Ren could have left already.

'Crap, crap…' Renka thought in a panic as she grabbed her sword and quickly put it in the water with her, hoping that Naofumi didn't see it. She wasn't expecting another hero to be awake at this time of night apart for her, as she covered herself up, she thought to herself, 'What should I do here?'

Now she could do what she always does, play dumb and use her feminine voice and tell whoever was looking for Ren had just left or some other excuse. This always worked and so far no one suspected a thing. But the problem was that the servant outside the bathroom, she had no idea if they left for a short while or not. As if they hadn't left and Naofumi asked questions about Ren leaving or not, her secret could be revealed before she wanted it to.

So she had two options, do what she always did and lie and hope that the servant outside the bathroom wasn't always there, or she could tell the truth and hope for the best. So with only a few moments to think about it, she went with what she thought was for the best, "Well…"

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Short while before:

Naofumi Iwatani awoke after a couple of hours of sleep, he awoke in a cold sweat. He had a strange dream about demonic purple flames with red eyes. As Naofumi lay there, slowly waking up fully, the more he fought to remember what happened in the dream. But the little he could remember was that the flames spoke to him in a deep in commending voice almost as if it were a roaring dragon claiming its power to the world! The strangest thing was that he felt no fear towards the flames, yes he felt the power, anger and a lot of darkness but he felt no fear towards it. The strange thing was that he felt like the flames were familiar somehow.

He tried his best to remember the words that the purple flame spoke to him, but it was hard for him to remember. It welcomed him to the world, it also mentioned that like many other Naofumi's within the multiverse, he had arrived at his destiny in one of the multiverse worlds of Azeroth.

It warned him like many other hims, he would soon be lead down a difficult path, a path where his actions would have dire consequences depending on which path he took. Depending on the path he takes, would make him the saviour of the people or the saviour of the world! But it would be up to him to decide which path to take. But before the flames could say which path would lead to what, he awoke in a sweat.

He had no idea what the flames were or where it came from, so he awakened in a cold sweat. So he seats up sweating, Naofumi had to wonder what the hell happened, but before he did anything else he immediately grabbed his bag and started to sketch out the flame and write down the words it spoke as he did with all his other dreams. He had to wonder where did this dream come from and more importantly, what was in his future, he did not know but he had a strong feeling that what he's been dreaming for a long while is about to come true, he could easily tell that there is going to be a lot of dark times and very little happy times ahead of him but he wonders what path would he pick?

But as he was drawing, he saw his past drawings, namely the heroes with the sword, bow and spear. And for the first time since he drew them, he could tell what the faces he wanted to draw for them. The faces were none other than the three heroes that he meets early that day. He even had the face for the Trash King, the same king that he meet that day. But for the others? For some reason, he was still unable to see their faces, they were blank to them.

This development led to a few questions, like why did he have dreams of these people for the last few months. He had to wonder why he wasn't able to see the other faces that he drew from his dreams? Was it he had to see them first before he could draw them? More importantly, why the hell did he draw Ren's face on a female's body? Ren was a male and not a female. Was it because of what was said about her on the drawing, that she wasn't what she seems? No, why would a female pretend to be a male and vice versa? He would have to think about this when he was fully awake in the morning, the only thought he could come up with was that he believed he was a woman trapped in a man's body.

Either way though, seeing how he was sweaty, Naofumi knew he couldn't get to sleep right away, so he decided to see if the servants were awake and ask them to run a bath for him. He knew it was late and more than likely they would be asleep, but he needed to clean up if he wanted to get some sleep. As he suspected that the next day would be very busy given that it'll be the beginning of his journey, as he looked over and stared at the three pictures and felt a strong connection to him, the raccoon-dog girl, the angel girl and now a purple flame with piercing red eyes.

Thankfully though, there was a servant who was awake. He was shocked to learn that Ren too wanted a bath, so they had run one for him too. And although Ren didn't want to be disturbed by the servants, Naofumi was a Hero and so it should be fine. So they lead the Shield Hero to the bath that was run for Ren.

"Hey Ren, the servants told me you'd be-" began Naofumi as he entered the bathroom but stopped halfway and his glanced down towards the waterline, where he saw that he was now looking at naked female instead of Ren. Naofumi had to guess that she had either a b-cup or c-cup breasts. It took him a few seconds to realize what he was seeing, so out of respect and embarrassment, he turned around and said in shock, "I'm, I'm sorry! I was told that the Sword Hero, Ren Amaki, was in here." He felt somewhat stupid that he didn't knock first, as it was possible that Ren could have left already.

Truth was, he was only embarrassed because he didn't know the girl, nor was he expecting to see a naked girl when he entered the bathroom. He was used to seeing a woman naked, as long as ready for it. The reason that he was used to seeing a naked woman was thanks to his friends from his world. In the last two years, they set him up on blind dates as they didn't want him being single or be a shut-in as they feared he would be with college and the things he was into.

Because of this, some of his dates wanted sex with him. At first, he wasn't interested in sex, as he thought that it meant that it was for couples who wanted a serious relationship. But it wasn't until one date that his date informed him that sex didn't mean that you had to be in a serious relationship. That nowadays, women had sex to blow off steam and to relax and fun, not wanting a serious relationship. This date gave Naofumi his first blow job, which lead to sex.

After that night, Naofumi realized that his date was right, it was relaxing and helped him with stress in his life. So from there on, whenever he had a stressful week or months, he would go on a date with the women he knew who only wanted to have fun. But they were women who he knew and knew him, and knew he wasn't in it for a relationship so they made sure to use protection for no accidental bundles of joy would be causing then any stress at their ages. At the time, he wasn't looking to settle down or have children.

After a few moments, the young lady said shyly, "Well you see Naofumi, I am in fact Renka Amaki."

"What!?" Naofumi asked in shock, unable to believe this as she turned around to see that she covered herself up with a towel. Was his picture about her right, that there was more to her than meets the eyes, "How is this possible? Thought you were a man. Although I have to admit, I thought that if you crossdressed you could fool people thinking that you were a woman."

"That's what I wanted everyone to think." explained Ranka.

"Why?" asked Naofumi. He couldn't understand why a woman would want to make people think that she was a male.

"Well you see…" and from here, Ranka began to tell her story about her world. Where women were nothing more than second class citizens, that they had no say in most things and as long as they weren't killed or hurt too badly, men could treat them more or less any way they wanted.

She explained some of the harsh conditions of her world, where girls and boys normally went to two different schools and learn different things even going as far as, 'shivering.' Although, she did went to one of the rare few schools where boys and girls were allowed in the same school, but there were only a handful of girls who went to the school.

She also explained that any man or boy could enter any of the female school and walk into any classroom and pick up a student and take them out of school to have their way with the student, even going as far as not using any protection causing the female student to become impregnated and then dumping the child on the female. If it's a boy, he'll be taken away from her and raised somewhere better but if it's a girl, then the child is responsible for taking care of the kid. Naofumi could sense the anger in Ranka's voice as she explained this.

More so when she asked him if he knew how hard it is for a young girl who has barely got out of puberty to take care of a child and still go to school or even take care of herself?

So because this, her parents didn't want her to be treated like other women, they had her pretend to be a boy where only a handful of people knew the truth about her. In her old life, she became a loner, so that no one could learn the truth about her.

Naofumi couldn't believe it, Ranka's world was like the history of his past world where women had little to no rights at all. It wasn't until a group of women decided to say no more and fought back that things changed for them. Sure there were still some problems, but they had so much more rights than they used to have and the problems that they still had, it was slowly being dealt with. Naofumi had no idea what Renka life really was like, or how she felt or had to do to keep her secret.

But as he thought about it, Naofumi believed that in this world, she might have a better life than in her world. So with a thoughtful look, he asked her, "Have you thought about revealing yourself in this world? You could have a much better life than you did in your old world."

"I have in fact," admitted Renka, "once I have seen how women are treated here, as long as they are treated well enough, I was thinking about revealing myself."

"Why not right off the bat?" asked Naofumi as he thought about what he had seen so far from that day, "There were a few noblewomen at the meeting with the king earlier."

"I don't know," Renka wearily told Naofumi, "all we know is that they were wives of the husbands there."

"I doubt it," Naofumi informed the young teen, "if women were treated as bad here as they were in your world, I doubt they would be at the meeting. Not with how important this meeting was today. And if I am wrong, you're a Hero or in this case, a Heroine of the Sword, do you really think they would treat you so badly? They'll do whatever they could to keep you happy seeing that we're here to save their world."

Renka had to admit that she hadn't thought about it like that, Naofumi was right, she was the Hero, no the Heroine of the Sword. She was summoned her to save their world, so it would be very unlikely that they would treat her badly, they would do whatever they could to stay in her good books. She could have a very good life seeing how she was going to be a Heroine of this world, she could have nearly anything she wanted as long as saved the world and didn't die.

She realized that if it wasn't for Naofumi if he didn't give her more information to think about, she might have been stuck as pretending to be a male so much longer than she would have liked. The only thing that made her hesitate, was her thoughts about Motoyasu, who seemed to exactly represent the men of her world. Although she couldn't help but realize that Naofumi could be the man she could spend the rest of her life with, he was kind, caring, thoughtful and smart - with him by her side, Motoyasu might not be a problem. Not only that, but he didn't care that she was a woman and wasn't treating her like other men would from her world, he was actually treating her the exact opposite way what made her smile at him and got out of the water and gave him a hug.

"Listen Renka I'm not going to force you to do anything that you're not willing to do." Naofumi said with a warm smile, as he softly pushed the young woman off him, as he did so, he saw the towel that was covering her dropped. So out of respect and embarrassment, he turned around.

He went on to say, "You should do what you think is best for you. But I should warn you though if you decided to wait to reveal yourself, it might cause you more problems when you do. As you might lose any trust that you might have with them, as they might believe that if you can lie about who you really are, even if you have good reasons to do so, what else could you be lying about. They might stop helping you and create problems for you. I don't know about in your world, but in my world, it is believed that you're a hero as long as the people want you to be one. Upset them or do something bad and they could make you out as a Demon Lord that the hero meant to defeat."

Renka could see the sense in Naofumi's words, even in her world, in comics, they would call people a hero or villain depending on their actions. So if she decides to wait before telling people the truth, then there could be a few problems. She knew that she had to think about this really carefully. But she would do that later.

Now she thought about it, she began to wonder something and so asked, "Naofumi, what are you doing here anyway? I thought you were sleeping when I left our room."

"I was, but I woke up in a cold sweat," explained Naofumi, "so I thought I would take a bath before going back to bed and try to sleep again. I asked the servants to run me a bath, but they informed me that they had already have done one for you and so lead me here." Then a thought occurred to him and so asked the female Sword Heroine, "Why did you tell the truth about who you really are?"

"To be honest, I only told you so that you wouldn't ask questions to the servants." Renka explained, "I didn't know if they were still out there waiting for me to ask them for something or not, or if they have left. Not only that but if you started to ask about a strange woman who was in the bath where the male Sword Hero was, they would arrest me and asked questions that I don't want to answer. I hoped that if you knew, you would be willing to keep this information to yourself."

"It's not my secret to tell," the Shield Hero informs her, "I'm not the type of guy to tell another person's secrets. The only time I would even think about doing so is if that secret was going to put another person in danger somehow.

Renka bit her bottom lip for a few seconds as she heard this before she smiled and nodded to herself. She was grateful, she was happy that he wouldn't tell others about her secret, and seeing that it wasn't going to put others into danger, there was no reason for him to tell others.

She suddenly realized that she was totally naked, she was about to cover herself up again, but then she realized that Naofumi came here for the same reason as her - for a bath. She realized that if the Shield Hero came out of the bathroom so soon, it would raise a few questions, "Well since you're sweaty and you wanted a bath why don't you join me?" Renka asked shyly, she was nervous and had a blush on her face but a confident smile. "It'll be strange if you leave before having a bath, it would raise questions, questions that I don't want until I decided what to do."

Naofumi swallowed and pulled at the neck of his collar, he was a man and when a woman asked a man to join her in a bath, only a fool would turn that down. Although, if you were taken that was another matter altogether. So he turned around slowly to face Renka, making sure to get a good eye fall.

Renka blushed even more, whilst a bit angry at him doing so, she knew that he was a male and like it or not, males often do such things. If she was in her world, she knew that most men would do more than stare at her, they would take her somewhere private and have fun with her. So this was nothing really, in fact, part of her, strangely enough, liked him looking at her like this.

As she was thinking about this, she heard the Shield Hero say, "I have no problems at all with sharing a bath with you."

Whilst he has done so many times before, he got undressed in front of the young female. But the thing was before he did so with people he knew or at the very least went on a date with beforehand. Renka though was a total stranger, neither did he knew her beforehand, they didn't even go on a date. So he was a bit embarrassed at undressing in front of her, but the room didn't have a changing room, so he got undressed and put his clothes on a shelf that was in the room.

As he undressed though, Renka was taking a good view of his body, whilst his body wasn't all that musically, the Shield Hero seemed to have a good size cock. Most of the cocks that she saw in her world were way so smaller, only a handful from her school was bigger. So to see a cock which was slightly bigger than she used to see, she couldn't help but gain a deep blush.

Once Naofumi was undressed, the two entered the bath together, where for a few minutes neither of them spoke about anything. Both were blushing, Renka more than Naofumi, who was used to this.

"Listen, I'm not the type to normally apologize to people, but I would like to say sorry about early with the others." Renka apologized to Naofumi, after a few minutes as she thought about how she treated him earlier, "I'm in a new world and where I come from, I have to do things that benefit me and it looked like a good idea to side with the other two heroes over you. And whilst I agree that Shielders are normally useless in games, that's only if they are solo players. If they are in a party and got the right abilities, they can be the most important player in the party, as they would be able to defend the rest of the party whilst the others attacked."

Naofumi was glad to hear that at least one person wasn't fully against him being a Shielder, but he had to wonder something though. "Why did you side with the other two, why not with me?"

"Because you are a Shielder." Renka informed Naofumi, shocking him. Didn't she just say that being a Shielder might not be a bad thing as long as they had the right skills? "I'm a loner plain and simple, but when I do have to work in a group, I often go with the strongest and as much as you might hate to admit it, that's just not you. Unless by some miracle happens, that might not ever be you. And in this world, which is much like a game, you'll often be facing against strong monsters and demons, so you'll need to side with strongest and those with weapons that can fight, because of this, I've decided to side with them."

"So you don't think I'll be strong enough? Even with the tips, I was given early?" Naofumi asked saddened, he had hoped that he had an ally with the Sword Hero.

"Honestly?" ask Renka, "I don't know. We have a limited amount of time and we have no idea how to level up our weapon, or how powerful they can become. Right now? With what I know about Shielder from my world? I believe that whilst you might be able to defend us in small weak attacks when we face against huge and powerful groups that we more than likely are facing later on. You'll be more of a liability than an asset, as you would have no real attack power. That's what I hate about the Shield Class, it's low attack power, whoever becomes one can put their party at risk if they ever face huge and powerful groups of monsters. As the attackers would have to keep an eye on the Shielder just in case he gets overwhelmed. So when facing small groups of monsters, I'm more than happy to have you at my side, but in when facing the other kind of fights we'll be facing, I prefer siding with the other two. Even if one of them is a womanising asshole."

As much as he hated to admit it, he could see Renka's point here, he wasn't the strongest of the four heroes and unless he could find a weapon or good companions to fight alongside him, he would be in trouble.

"I have to admit that you are right that the shield isn't strong on its own and I probably will need my teammates to protect me," admitted Naofumi with a sigh, "but as I said earlier, this is real life, not a game and these are meant to be Legendary Weapons, not some rare item drops. I might have been out of gaming for a long time, but that doesn't mean I still don't remember a lot about them and I remember a lot about anime too. I might not be on the front lines, but I still have a job here, like protecting the innocent from the minions whilst you fight the boss and its supporters. So if I can't raise my offence, I'll have to find ways to raise my defence instead."

"Hahaha! Now that's funny," Renka laughed, thinking Naofumi was making a joke, "I don't know about you, but in what game would defence be needed more than a long-range bow a mid-range spear or a close-range sword?"

"Well think about it for a minute, we're in a different world and by the way, it was explained to us, these Waves of Disaster can happen anywhere. So there's a high chance that it could happen near a town or even the capital of this land." Naofumi explained to the young woman, "Think about it, what if a whole bunch of monsters just suddenly popped next to your home and only four people could fight them. You would expect the three people who have weapons to start killing off the monsters well the one who can't fight to make sure the civilians got out safely..." here Naofumi started to frown as he realized something, "Oh my gosh, I think I've gained the most hated roll in video game nature in my world, other than a long grind to level up, I think the next hated thing was escort missions." As he made a playful shiver of disgust what Renka saw and after that sentenced she burst out laughing bending over what gave Naofumi a good look at her jiggling breasts what started to have a small real action on him due to the heat of the bath and being next to a cute girl.

Ranka had to admit Naofumi was right, in the games that she played, the minions were the weakest of the lot, whilst the boss and its supporters were the strongest. So Naofumi could be protecting the villages and the innocent whilst she and the other two heroes were dealing with the boss.

For the next few minutes, neither of them said anything, just sitting there, enjoying the hot bath and thinking about what was said. It would seem that there was some sort of magic to keep the bath from getting cold like the baths in their world would. But after a few minutes though, Ranka asked in interest, "Have you checked your stats yet?"

"To be honest not yet," admitted Naofumi, "with everything that went on today, I didn't think about it. Seeing that I have time now, I could see what my stats are and look at the rest tomorrow when I have more time." Here Ranka nodded in agreement, she too didn't fully look at her stats yet, so now was the best time as any.

When Naofumi looked over to Renka to see her stats, he realized for the first time that she was staring into thin air. It would seem that only the individual can see their status, which as he thought about it made a lot of sense. As if others could see it, someone could spy on you and possibly learn how to fight against you.

Once Naofumi opened his stats, the first thing he saw was this:

Basic Stats(?)

Seeing the question mark, Naofumi pushed it and saw the help bar pop-up.

HELP!

To see full stats, go to profile.

'Hmm, interesting.' Naofumi thought thoughtfully if he had more time he would check his profile, but seeing how the servants could come in at any time to see if he and Ren were alright, he decided would check on his stats later, or now he would see what these basic stats were.

Name: Naofumi Iwatani. Race: Human Class: Legendary Shield Hero. Guild: None.

Level: 1 EXP: 0/60 Skill Points: 0 Attribute Points: 0

Status: Adventure.

Special Abilities: four.

Perfect Balance.

Drunkenness Null.

Animal Charisma.

Clairvoyance.

Health Points: 150 Mana Points: 40 Spirit Points: 40

Physical Attack: 1 Magic Attack: 15

Physical Defence: 40 Magic Defence: 20

Stamina: 100 Carry Weight: 175 lbs

Elemental status

Fire Attack: 0, Resistance: 0. Electricity Attack: 0, Resistance: 0.

Water Attack: 0, Resistance: 0. Light Attack: 0, Resistance: 0.

Wind Attack: 0, Resistance: 0. Ice Attack: 0, Resistance: 0.

Earth Attack: 0, Resistance: 0. Darkness Attack: 0, Resistance: 0.

"I'm more fucked than I first thought." Naofumi said with a deep sigh, as he saw his stats so far. Whilst most of them were good for someone who was level one in games, his attack was lower than he expected. He knew it would be low, but a single attack point wasn't what he was expecting.

"What's wrong Naofumi?" asked Renka.

"I know you and the other said that a Shielder was weak, but I had no idea they were this weak." Naofumi told the Sword Hero.

"What do you mean?" asked the female Sword Hero.

"My attack point has only one point into it." the Shielder told her, "I expected it to be low, but not this low."

"I'm somewhat shocked too," admitted Renka, "I was expecting your attack points to be low, but not as low as that. For level one, I was expecting your attack points to be at least three maybe five points into an attack, not just one."

"So what's your stats like?" asked Naofumi.

Renka seemed to think about this, Naofumi thought that she didn't want to hurt his feelings more, before she said, "How about I show you?"

"How?" asked the Shield Hero.

Instead of answering right away, a card appeared out of the back of her hand, "It seems that we can make what they call Status Card appear whenever we want. From the help bar, it says it's some sort of identity card. You should be able to find it in your status bar, it looks like a card symbol, activate it and the card should appear."

"Hmm?" Naofumi hummed thoughtfully, he was somewhat confused as he looked at the status screen, "Strange, I don't remember seeing that there before." But the second he touched his scream it rippled for a second as a help menu showed up telling him about the status card, "Oh here it is? I just must have missed it?"

HELP!

A form of identity card for Shop Keeps, Guild and the like.

'Now that's interesting.' Naofumi thought to himself, having these sort of card would be handy, it would be an easy way to identify the person and the level they were. He knew that in games knowing one's level was important, as there were items and missions that you cannot do until you were a certain level. Either because the items had a level cap, or the missions were dangerous that low-level players would be in danger if they went on a high-level mission. So to make sure that items and missions were given to the right people, they had these cards.

So summoning his own Status Card, he give it to Renka to look at as he read hers:

Name: Ranka Amaki. Race: Human Class: Legendary Sword Hero. Guild: None.

Level: 1 EXP: 0/60 Skill Points: 0 Attribute Points: 0

Status: Adventure.

Special Abilities: None.

Health Points: 120 Mana Points: 30 Spirit Points: 50

Physical Attack: 40 Magic Attack: 25

Physical Defence: 10 Magic Defence: 5

Stamina: 120 Carry Weight: 150 lbs

Elemental status

Fire Attack: 0, Resistance: 0. Electricity Attack: 0, Resistance: 0.

Water Attack: 0, Resistance: 0. Light Attack: 0, Resistance: 0.

Wind Attack: 0, Resistance: 0. Ice Attack: 0, Resistance: 0.

Earth Attack: 0, Resistance: 0. Darkness Attack: 0, Resistance: 0.

Naofumi and Ranka both winced at the same time when they look at each other's cards.

"Well, at least you have a good defence for being the Shield Hero." Ranka tries to say in the nicest tone she could.

"For a Shielder, they are some good stats, although your attack stats aren't too bad," admitted Naofumi, but slumped into the water before saying, "I do feel that I got totally got ripped off with the attack power though."

Renka felt sorry for the young man in front of her, it would seem as if luck wasn't on his side, so moving next to him, she put her arm around him and said trying to cheer him up, "At least your defence makes up for it. It would be very unlikely that a low enemy would be able to harm you, unlike me. And those abilities seems to be interesting."

"You might be right." Naofumi said with a sigh, unsure what he thought about it all. But before he could say or think about it much, he realized how close Renka was to him and how her breast was touching him. He was red-faced at this, don't get him wrong, he liked it, but he didn't really know Renka and so unsure about her to be this close to her. So pulling away from her, he said, "I think we should get changed before the servants come in to see if we're okay."

"You're right." admitted Renka, unhappy a bit that Naofumi pulled away. This was the first time that she was this close to a man in her true form, and she was enjoying it. She really didn't want it to end. But she could understand why Naofumi did though, it is highly likely that if they took more time, the servants could come in to see if everything was alright. And if they did right now, they could find out about her and she didn't think she was ready for that.

So realizing that neither could stay in there for any longer, the two of them got out of the bath and dried and dress before having the servants take them back to their rooms.

o0OoO0o

As the two arrived at the common room, they were going to part ways, when Renka decided that it was time to do something she always tried to fight against, go with her feelings. Not once did she do this, so she was afraid in doing so, but knew that if she didn't she would always be running from them. So as Naofumi got to his room he was staying at for the night, Renka went up to him and said, "I would like to thank you for tonight, you give me much to think about."

"No worries, I was happy to talk to you." Naofumi informed the young female teen with a smile, "If you ever need to talk about anything, I would be more than happy to talk to you."

"Thanks." thanked Renka, as she pulled all the courageous that she had and kissed the young man in front of her.

( . Y . ) ( . Y . )

Naofumi was shocked at this, he wasn't expecting her to kiss him from what she told him about herself. But here she was, kissing him passionately, leading them into his room. Once there, she shocked Naofumi by pushing him down onto the edge of his bed, making him set down. Here she knelt down between his legs and pulled his trousers and pants down, revealing his cock.

Sure she saw it in the bathroom, but not this close, nor was it so hard as it is now. She studied his cock and balls, she couldn't help but whisper to herself, "Their lovey."

It shocked her more than Naofumi, she never once thought she would be in this situation, wanting to suck a man's cock. In fact, until now she feared to do so, but now, she couldn't wait to try it. She had watched movies and such, so she knew what to do, but she never did it before, so she was nervous.

"Thanks, Renka. I'm pleased you think so, but you know you don't have to do this." Naofumi told her seeing how nervous she was, "I'm guessing this is your first time, so it should be someone that you love and care for, not some one night stand."

"I know that, but this is what I want." Renka admitted to the young man as she studied his cock from every angle, gently lifting it so she could see underneath, savouring the wonder of this young man's cock. She thought it was beautiful, this was the most perfect part of him. Her fingertips moved from the base up to the tip, studying, enjoying its softness. Gently, she explored his testes, her pussy was tingling as she moved her hand around Naofumi's cock. She stroked his large balls with care, conscious of the pain she could cause if she was too rough.

Naofumi gasped as Renka's lips fluttered over his head, teasing him, exciting him with the lightest of touches. Slowly, she pushed out her tongue and licked him, spreading her tongue over his velvet glans. She felt movement, so she did it again, knowing she could make him happy. The Shield Hero was breathing heavily as she continued to tongue him. As her tongue and lips continued their tender assault on his mushroom tip, Renka began to slowly wank him off. With a tight grip on his shaft, close to the base, she wanked him, heaving his heavy balls up with each tug.

"Are, are you sure you never have done this before?" Naofumi asked in pleasure, unable to believe that this was her first time.

"I'm sure, I'm just doing what I have seen done on VR sex videos." the female Sword Hero admitted with a blush, as she continued with her treatment to the young man in front of her.

"Oh, Renka," he hushed as he felt her tongue on the underside of his head.

As she was doing this, Naofumi's hand went behind her back, where he pulled her shirt over her head, to reveal her nice firm breasts. Naofumi smirked as he took advantage of her nakedness and petted her succulent boobs.

Renka returned her attention to Naofumi's cock while his finger and thumb's grip on her nipples sent a thrill down to her pussy. 'He might be young, but he sure knew how to pleasure a woman.' Renka thought to herself in pleasure, as Naofumi played with her breasts. She knew that with the attention he was giving her breast, they were soon firm and large like pencil rubbers. She had to wonder, was this just natural for him to do this, or did he train to become this good, if trained, how many other women has he been with. She felt somewhat jealous that she wasn't his first. She knew she was being foolish, but she couldn't help how she felt though. But she would make this his best time though, or at least she hoped.

Her head bobbed up and down on this amazing monster while her firm grip jerked the skin up and down his hard shaft. Renka lovingly caressed his cock with her lips and tongue, her mind satiated with lust. She adored every silky inch of hard muscle that filled her mouth. It was bliss! She kept up the wonderful rhythm, syphoning more and more pre-cum from his ancient cock.

Naofumi groaned over and over as the young girl pleasured him, his fingers pulling on her nipples, stretching them like elastic.

It reached a point when Renka could sense he was about to cum. There was a change in his breathing, an increase in passion, plus a swell in his already rock hard cock. Naofumi's hand abruptly abandoned her nipples and held the sides of her head. She released her handhold on his shaft as he began to jerk his hips upwards. She loved it! He was taking control and fucking her mouth. It drove her crazy, took her over the edge and was enough to make her orgasm.

She didn't even need to touch herself, the thrill of what this twenty-year-old was doing to her, sent her body into the most incredible orgasm she'd ever had. Naofumi also lost control and his cock exploded in her mouth, jetting his cum, filling it with his seed. Renka swallowed, but it was as though the like a dam burst. Torrents of delicious cum splashed into her eager mouth, but she couldn't take all of the deluges. Part spasmed down her throat and the remainder escaped from her mouth, running down his shaft. Her mouth left his cock and Renka sighed with pleasure as she lapped up his spilt cum like a kitten would its milk.

Renka crawled up and sat on his lap with her arms around him.

"Hum… it tasted sweeter than I expected." Renka admitted thoughtfully, "I thought that cum was supposed to taste salty,"

"Haha, not the first time I've heard that," the young man admitted, "I don't know if it's true in your world, but the truth of it all is that it all depends on what you eat. It is said that if you eat enough fruit, sweet food or candy and… well, you get where I'm coming from." Naofumi left it with a chuckle. "I have to admit I never got any complaints."

Renka had to admit that she had heard rumours about this among the men and women in her world, but seeing she was a loner and not into these things, she put no stock into it. But now, she wasn't too sure if it tasted this good. But hearing that he had no complaints got her thinking, she knew it was a foolish thing and had no reason to be jealous, but she was. Maybe he was the first decent man that she met other than her father and a few of his friends, but she somewhat wanted him all for herself with no one in his past that he wanted to go back to.

Whilst she may not like it, she knew that there was no chance of her returning home and if so, it may not be the same time as she left it. But if she wasn't able to her world for one reason or another, she wanted to be happy in this world and hoped that Naofumi would be willing to stay with her. But she knew that if Naofumi had someone back in his world, he might not be willing to stay with her.

To find out one way or another and to see if she had any work in front of her, she asked in a shy and embarrassed tone, not wanting to show that she was trying to pry into his life a bit, "So how many people have you been with? And is there anyone special waiting for you back in your world, anyone who would be upset if you never came back to your world?"

.

"Hum... That's kind of a hard question to answer, I never really kept count of how many partners I've had." Naofumi admitted honestly, in fact, he never thought about it. Sure, he kept names just in case, but he never kept a count. He didn't feel right in doing so. "And to be honest, none of them were serious, as I don't want a serious relationship right now, and to answer your second question I have my mom and dad and my little brother, of course I'm kind of the black sheep of the family so I don't think they'll miss me too much and it's kind of hard to say about my brother but if he knew I was here." as Naofumi smiled he knew that there was going to be tough times ahead for him, "I'm positive my brother would tell me to not waste an opportunity like this then he would slug me in the face and said why the hell did you not tell me you were going to another world and invite me." he said with a chuckle.

"Don't you think that you should wait until you were in a serious relationship before having sex?" asked Renka, sure it wasn't like that in her world, but that's how she would have liked it though.

"I did at first yes," admitted the young man as he pulled down her trousers, as his fingers were at her entrance and their gentle exploration of her. His fingers seemed to be everywhere, stroking her lips, squeezing them, making love to them.

She relaxed and allowed this man to do whatever he wanted, but Naofumi instead went on to say, "I believed that you should be in a serious relationship before having sex. That was until one of my friends convince me that sex was a good stress reliever, and since then I had sex with like-minded women, who just wanted sex for fun and relaxation, nothing serious."

Well as Renka thought about it if men in her world didn't forcibly take sex from women whenever they wanted, and it was equal than yeah it could be a great stress reliever. In fact, what Naofumi was doing to her felt great, sure she played with herself in the past, but it never felt anything like this before. It was so much better. She heard Naofumi ask, "So do you want to carry on, to have some stress relief sex or do you want to go to bed before anyone finds out about us?" Naofumi continued to finger her. Every part was caressed so softly, so tenderly, but he knew to ignore her clit. They knew as soon as he touched it, she would orgasm. Nothing could prevent it.

Renka found herself wetter than ever and couldn't help thinking, 'What do you expect with someone who knows how to pleasure a woman?' She couldn't think sight with Naofumi's naughty fingers poised at her entrance.

Renka had no idea how many of his fingers entered her willing hole, but she felt so wonderfully stretched, so full of his firmness. She gasped as she took him in, filling her, fucking her so beautifully. With a superb languid thrust, Naofumi took possession of her body, pushed deep inside her, taking her breath away. She felt him pushing hard inside, fulfilling every lustful need. He pulled out and she whimpered as he thrust back inside her cunt. She continued to whimper out of control as his fingers slowly fucked her.

Gradually, the pleasure built inside her. But she was in no rush, she was enjoying the feeling so much that she didn't want it to end, so she simply let it take its time. Naofumi's fingers were on her breast, cupping it, his thumb exciting her firm nipple without mercy.

She bathed in his attention to her needs and as her passion began to peak, his thumb was on her clit. He caressed it and she lost it! Her orgasm took over her body, the intense release he gave her spread through her being until she had to muffle her screams of the most delightful fulfilment she'd ever experienced.

She lay in his arms in blissful contentment while she gradually came back to earth or wherever the hell they are.

"Mmm," Renka whispered in delight. "Thank you, you're amazing, Naofumi."

She turned her head so he could kiss her.

When they broke the kiss, Naofumi hushed, "It was nothing, I'm just glad you enjoyed yourself. So do you want to see how it fully feels being a real woman, or do you want to give it a rest and you head off to your bed?"

Renka wasn't thinking clearly, all she knew was that she wanted this feeling to continue, "Please don't stop, I want more. Please make me a real woman, at least for tonight."

Naofumi just smiled at this, normally he was a shy type of person, but when he started to have sex he was another person altogether. A sexual beast, someone who was confident in what he was doing, willing to take what was offered to him without a second thought. So when he removed the rest of his and Ranka's clothing, he made it so that the Sword Hero was on her hands and knees and began to fuck her.

He made sure to go slow at first due to the fact that it was her first time, as he placed his member at her needy pussy and slowly pushed it into her filling her walls clamp around his dick and pleasure has she gassed out and excitement and pleasure until he reached her hymen. immediately moved his hands one over her breasts rubbing and squeezing a pinching get while the other one went right to her nob and massaging it stimulating her making her moan out in pleasure and upon the second she moaned out he pushed right into her taking her virginity and making her bite down on her pillow to not cry out in ecstasy due to the mixture of pain and pleasure she was feeling.

He slammed his member into the deepest depths of her pussy, where Renka felt like she was on the receiving end of nirvana, all thanks to the Shield Hero's six-inch cock. Naofumi had to admit that Renka's pussy was so tight and warm, each movement causing her to clamp down on him, creating an even tighter fleshy pocket for him to ram himself into.

After he was sure that she could no longer feel any of the pain from him taking her virginity he moves slow at first then started picking the pace up until he was slamming his member into the deepest depths of her pussy, where Renka felt like she was on the receiving end of nirvana, all thanks to the Shield Hero's six-inch cock. Naofumi had to admit that Renka's pussy was so tight and warm, each movement causing her to clamp down on him, creating an even tighter fleshy pocket for him to ram himself into.

With his hands on her ass, he was thrusted himself in her quite hard what kept on moving the small metal shield around until he thrusted into her let's send some of their fluids filling out what landed on the shield's gem. As a result, the green gem took in the substance, Naofumi's skill tree suddenly appearing to reveal something new.

Tantric Shield Unlocked.

Of course, he dismissed the screen before he even had a chance to look it over to see what it was, he was too caught up in the pleasure the act that he barely even noticed it. He didn't even notice that his own cock had gotten slightly bigger. As for the next hour, Renka and Naofumi fucked each other, until they become tired and Renka returned to her room.

( . Y . ) ( . Y . )

o0OoO0o

Kingdom of Melromarc, Castle Town, Castle, 6th of January 740, Morning:

It has been a few hours since Renka had sex with Naofumi and went to sleep in her room, now she was rudely awakened by someone knocking on her door. "God damn it, who is waking me up this early in the morning?" she muttered to herself as she saw that the sun out in the window didn't seem to have been up for that long, at least two or three hours. Knowing that she can't be rude back, she put up her 'Ren' voice and called out, "Who is it?"

'It better be important, or I might just kick whoever's ass it is for waking me up this goddamn early.' Renka thought to herself.

"Sorry to wake you so early Lord Ren, but his Majesty has asked me to wake all the Cardinal Heroes," explained the person who woke her up, "his Majesty has gathered the adventurers who'll be your companions."

"Give me a minute to get change." Renka called out, getting out of her bed, she felt sore from Naofumi fucking her a few hours ago.

Now that she was thinking clearly, she couldn't believe that she allowed herself to be fucked like that. She swore that she would never have sex with a man unless she truly trust them, but here she was allowing the first man that piques her interest to fuck her. Was this one of the side effects of being summoned showing within her, low inhibition? Making her do things that whilst she might think about, she would never do in her right frame of mind. She would be lying if she said she didn't enjoy it, but in the right frame of mind, she wouldn't have done it so easily.

As she looked at herself in the mirror and looking down at her clothes, she thought about the talk she had with Naofumi. Something she was shocked about, as once again, in her right frame of mind, she wouldn't have told a stranger so much. But what he told her was still going through her mind now, why should she hide who she really was in this world, not when she was summoned here as a hero or in her case heroine.

She could make a name for herself as a female and gain many favours, and if by some chance she was able to bring her family here, if they were still alive, they could have a great life. She would no longer need to hide who she was, about being used as some sex toy, nothing like that. She and her family could have much better lives than the one in her world. Whilst she was considering that she wasn't in her right mind about most of last night, it did help her to make a choice, one that without those things happening she might not do.

She would throw her old identity away and become the person she was meant to be, a strong heroine. Someone who would not allow a man to walk all over her, someone who would show that women were just as strong as men. Although, she would have to think about what she would do about her and Naofumi, was it a side effect of being summoned here or did she really mean to do those things last night. That would be something she would have to deal with overtime. She just hoped that she didn't end up pregnant from the unprotected sex, as that could really cause problems, especially when she was one of four people who meant to save this world.

That was something she would deal with should it happen, for now, she had to become the person she wanted to be. To start off with, throw her old clothes away and show the world who she really was. So calling out to the servant, she said, still in her 'Ren's' voice, "Are you still out there messenger?"

"I am Lord Ren." called back the servant.

"Is it possible if you could bring me some clothes before I face the king?" asked Renka.

"It is." the messenger informed the Sword Heroine.

"In that case, could you bring these clothes to me please…" and which case, Renka told the servant what sort of clothes she wanted. Shocking the servant, wondering why the Sword Hero would want such clothes when he was meant to be a male.

o0OoO0o

With Naofumi:

Whilst Renka was deciding that it was finally time to become who she really was, Naofumi was getting dressed after being rudely awakened too. He wasn't too happy to be called so early, and by his watch, it was about half seven in the damn morning. 'Who in the right damn minds wake up this early?' thought Naofumi as he finished getting dressed. Don't get him wrong, he understands the need to get strong as soon as possible to fight these waves, but to wake up this early? They must be out of their minds.

Now as he was dressed, he thought about the night before and the sex he had with Ren no Renka. That was a bit of a shock, he whilst he did think that Ren could get away as a woman if he dressed up as one, he never thought that Ren was really was one.

When he learned about her world and what it really was like, he couldn't believe that such a world existed. He wondered if the women didn't fight back as hard as they did in his world, would it be the same there. A world where women were nothing more than playthings for men to use whenever they want, where the only jobs that they could get were so-called women work?

He just hoped that this world wasn't as bad, sure he was trying to convince her to be herself, that's because he believed that people should be who they really were and not some fake person. It would be heart acre for the person and those around them, pretending to be someone you won't. But he could understand why Renka and her parents would do so, he was glad that not everyone in her would be mindless sheep thinking that the status quo was best. But he expected that men in Renka's world didn't want to give up their power.

After hearing the story of her world, it was no wonder that Renka was unsure about revealing who she really was. But Naofumi hoped that she would think about it, as he would like to continue what they started the night before, without needing to hide it.

Although he hoped that they would continue it, he wasn't sure that when Renka woke up this morning that she would want the same. He wasn't sure why she did what she did, although he wasn't going to complain, now that she slept on it, she might decide it was a bad thing that happened and wanting to forget about it all. He didn't see it as a mistake, but for someone who had to hide who she was and confused about what happened, he could see why someone would have second thoughts. He just hoped that it wasn't the case with Renka.

Thinking about the night before, he remembered seeing a message that appeared whilst he was fucking Renka. Wondering what it was, he opened his Shield Window to see that he had attained a new shield: Tantric Shield. When he equipped it, he saw that the new shield was round and had a picture of two people, gold and silver, intertwined with each other in a sexual way. The gold person was male, whilst the female was silver.

Then our hero looked at the stats that he just gained:

Tantric Shield

Equipment Bonus:

Sexual Stamina Up, Body Modification (small)

Special Effect(s):

Pheromones

It looked like that he didn't gain anything truly useful in this shield though, for battle, he wasn't sure what Body Modification did to him though. Although the Sexual Stamina Up sound like he would be able to last longer whilst having sex, something he was okay with. Although, he was confused about the pheromones, what use would that be for him? He preferred getting the women with his charm, not using some sort of drugs. Maybe he could use it for something else, he would have to try that out later on and see what happens.

Naofumi had to admit as he turned his shield back to his starter shield, his first shield was more or less useless for him. Whilst it might help him in bed, in battle it did nothing for him other than give him three in physical defence and two in magical defence. He just hoped that whatever his next shield was, it was better than this one.

Whatever the case, for now, he had to see the king and listen to whatever bullshit he has to say. The only good thing about this was that he would get some companions today to help him get stronger. So leaving his room, he followed one of the messengers there to see the king.

o0OoO0o

As he arrived at the throne room, he saw that only Itsuki and Motoyasu there, waiting to see the king. Standing there, he whispered to the other two heroes, "Do you know where Ren is? I thought that s, he would be here." Naofumi almost had to hit himself for almost revealing Renka's secret. He was glad that he caught himself before he did.

"No," whispered Motoyasu, "all we know was that Ren asked one of the servants to get him some new clothes for some reason."

This was strange, Naofumi had to wonder why would Renka would want to get some new clothes for, he hoped everything was alright. Naofumi then tried to stifle a yawn by pretending to be messing with his shield, before he looked around the room. He saw that there was a handful of nobles and kings advisors and minister. WIth other people standing to the side. Naofumi suspected that these people were the companions that the king was going to offer them.

"Morning noble heroes, I hope you had a most wonderful rest." the king greeted the three heroes, upon seeing that Ren wasn't there, he asked, "Where is Lord Ren?"

Before anyone could reply, the doors to the hall opened, where a female came in. Whilst the other didn't know who she was, Naofumi did, it would seem that Ren had decided to take his advice and become who she really meant to be, Renka Amaki not Ren Amaki. He just hoped that things didn't go pair shape for the Sword Hero for doing so.

"I'm sorry for being late your Majesty, but I had to get some clothes that fit me." Renka informed the king and everyone else. Unlike yesterday, she was now wearing a white tight tank top like top that showed off her breasts, with loose black trousers and white boots with gold and red markings.

"Who might you be young lady?" asked the king, "You are interrupting an important meeting."

"It is me Ren Amaki," Renka told the king shocking everyone there, "or should I say my real name is Renka Amaki."

Naofumi just smiled as the rest of the room seemed shocked, although Motoyasu looked like he wanted to ask her out at the next moment he could. "Why would you have to hide who you really are?"

"Because of my past life in my old world…" explained Renka as she went on to explain the basics of her world, not revealing as much as she did the night before, just how men treated women as lower class and couldn't do as much as men could and such. She only decided to reveal who she really was after Naofumi finding out about her the night before, where they talked about her past. It was after some talking about it, she decided to reveal who she really was.

"I see," King Aultcray said with a sad sigh, "that is a great shame that you had to be treated like that, if you were born here in Melromarc, you would be treated in high regard. As we treat women very well here. I hope your stay here in our world be better than the one in your world, Lady Renka."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Renka said with a smile as she stood next to Naofumi, who she gave a nod and a smile."

"Now back to business, as I told you last night, today you will embark on your journey to defeat the waves and as promised, we have gathered the greatest warriors that our country has to offer, they'll follow you on your journey and help you wherever they can: Swordsmen, archers, mages, healers, and many more options are available to you. They are all eager to make your acquaintance." At the king's prompt, the doors opened and twenty adventures poured in and presented themselves. Mages, scouts, warriors and the like. It was certainly a different bunch. It would seem that the people Naofumi saw earlier won't their companions, these people were.

Naofumi scanned the large group of over twenty adventurers. All of them appeared to be seasoned fighters, or at the very least had skill in fighting, and stood with confidence. Their equipment appeared to be decent, but without any other examples for comparison, he could only assume whether they were exceptional or not.

The swordsmen and swordswomen stood straight up. Some had their arms crossed and others had a hand on their hip. No matter how you looked at it, they all seemed to be ready to draw their swords at a moment's notice.

The archers and stealthy types stood lazily about, almost not paying attention to anything going on. But if you looked closely, all of them were searching the room for possible avenues of attack.

The mages were varied, with some mouthing chants to themselves silently and others simply standing there.

One woman, in particular, stood out to him due to her deep shoulder-length red hair. It didn't hurt that she was beyond beautiful, she could be the second-best after Renka. She and Naofumi locked eyes and she winked at him, causing him to blush. Whilst he might have experience with the fairer sex, when a beautiful girl winks at you, you too would blush or be smitten. He could see that Renka was giving the female a dirty look, one of jealousy.

But whilst this woman seemed to be beautiful, there was an old saying in his world, 'that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.' Not only that, but he had a gut feeling that he shouldn't trust this woman either. He wasn't sure why, but the feeling was there, so he would be careful around this woman should he ever face her.

Refocusing his attention on the remainder of the companions, the King continued his speech.

Naofumi remembered how this was perfect. There were just enough people here for each of them, to get three companions, with nobody left over.

"Now, I know you might be expecting that you would be picking your companions, but here, the future heroes of this country will decide who they want to serve." The king's minister told Hero's before turning to the adventurers, and saying, "Choose the one you wish to serve."

At first, Naofumi thought this was strange, that the adventurers got to choose, who they were going to follow themselves. But as Naofumi thought about it though, whilst it was surprising, it made some sense. Obviously they would favour their own citizens over a bunch of strangers.

One by one, the adventurers briskly crossed the room and gathered into groups in front of each of them. And after ten or so minutes, all of them had taken place in a line behind their Hero of choice. Motoyasu's group consistently entirely of pretty women apart for one male, Renka had a good variety of followers, and Itsuki had multiple for himself.

Naofumi sighed, knowing that none of them had chosen to stand by him. He turned around regardless just to affirm his suspicions and he was disappointed in the fact that he was correct.

Nobody wanted to help him. Not a single person.

This made no sense, why didn't anyone want to be with him? So he had to speak out and ask, "Wait a minute, Your Majesty!"

What the hell!? This was just too cruel! He wasn't in this world for more than twenty-four hours and he was already an outcast for some reason. 'Is this because I'm the Shield Hero. Are these adventurers looking for someone who will make their lives easy.' the Shield Hero thought to himself forlornly.

The king didn't seem quite sure how to respond.

"Did something happen?" Motoyasu delicately tried to break the tension, but it was too late. It felt like Naofumi was back in elementary school being excluded by the other kids during gym class all over again. This wasn't the kind of thing that's supposed to happen when you come to another world! Or that's what Naofumi believed anyway.

"Apparently, a rumour has been circulating around the castle that out of all the Heroes, the Shield Hero is the least acquainted with the ways of our world." the king informed them all.

"What!?" Naofumi asked in shock, how the hell did they know what he said the night before, did someone spy on them when the four were alone? And if they did spy on them, why wasn't there any rumours about Renka before now. If they knew that he lacked information about their world, why didn't know they know about his talk with Renka or worse knew that they had sex with each other. Was it possible that they did know, but they didn't want to reveal it for some reason? He would have to think more about this later on.

"In legend, it is written that the Heroes are the ones with a deep understanding of the inner workings of this world. If I am not mistaken, that does not apply to you?" the king asked Naofumi.

Motoyasu nudged Naofumi with his elbow. "Guess they were eavesdropping on our conversation last night, huh?"

Wait. Was he talking about the fact that he had never played a game like this before? That was the reason nobody wanted to join him? No, more importantly, what was with that bogus legend in the first place? Even if he wasn't as well informed like the others, Naofumi was still a Hero, wasn't he!? Who cared if shields sucked in a few shitty games? This wasn't a game, it was a reality!

Or that's Naofumi believed. Naofumi wasn't sure about the others, from what he could tell from their talks last night, the other heroes believed that they were sucked into a game. If each of them came from a different Japan, why not be sucked into a different world.

"In that case, I'll have to look for some companions by myself." Naofumi said with a sigh, not looking forward to this.

"It would seem so," admitted the king, as the other heroes just looked at him with pity and amusement.

Not wanting them to get away with this and not wanting to be alone on his quest to save this world, he asked. "Renka, can't you let me have one of your companions? You've got eight followers, can't you spare one or two?"

Renka's followers (men included) shrank back behind her like frightened children, while Renka herself simply sighed and scratched her head.

"Well, as I told you last night, I'm a loner and so I'm not really a fan of company." Renka reminder Naofumi, "So if any of them are willing to join you, I wouldn't have any problems with them joining you. In fact, I'll leave behind anybody that doesn't think they can keep up with me."

However, even in the face of such cold words from their lady, none of Renka's followers so much as moved a muscle. Renka give the Shield Hero an apologetic look at this, she did hope that someone from her group would join him to help, but it wasn't a case. She knew that she couldn't force them to help them, but she thought her words might change at least one of their minds.

"What about you, Motoyasu? Don't you think this is too cruel!?"

"Well…" well began the Spear Hero, as he looked at his group, which apart for one man, was full of women. It seemed he was genetically predisposed to having women flock to him no matter where he was.

Incidentally, Naofumi didn't realize until then that the ratio of men and women in the adventurers gathered for them was heavily weighted toward women. It was quite a mystery.

Naofumi had to admit, he was a bit jealous. Whilst he wasn't a lady's man as Motoyasu seemed to be, he did have some experience with the fairer sex back in his world, so he was hoping to get at least one cute girl to be his companions, in hopes to gain a love interest. Although with Renka on the scene, things might be different. But still, he had hoped that he could have at least one cute girl to join him.

It wasn't like anything was keeping him in his own world. Sure he had his brother, but he had his own life to lead. So whilst he and his friends would miss him, they would get over his disappearance over time. His parents hand wouldn't mind, in fact, they would be glad if he didn't return. They saw him a black sheep of the family, so they wouldn't miss him that much. So if he found someone he could connect with here, he was more than happy to stay here for good.

"It's… not my decision to make."

Itsuki informed Naofumi when he looked at him for help, it would seem he genuinely troubled by Naofumi's situation, but didn't want to reject the companions that had chosen him, either. Which in part he could understand.

"I do think it would be best if we each had five followers, but… forcing them into it against their will would be terrible for morale."

Everybody in the room nodded at Itsuki's reasonable words, even Naofumi had to admit he was right. So with a deep sigh, Naofumi said, "So I have to set off on my journey alone after all!?"

But all he had was a shield! How was Naofumi supposed to get any stronger without companions!?

"Actually, your Majesty, I would like to aid the Shield Hero!" A cheery voice rang throughout the throne room.

One of Motoyasu's subordinates raised her hand and volunteered to join his party.

"Oh? Are you sure?" asked Motoyasu, unhappy that one of his girls were going to follow another man that wasn't him.

"Yes." the red head said as she stood next to the Shield Hero. It was the same red head as before. Naofumi could admit that with her close up, he could admit she was just as pretty if not more so, but he still had the uneasy feeling that there was something up with her. He just wished he knew what it was. His gut was telling him to run as far away as he could from her, that she was trouble.

But the problem was that unless he was able to gain more companions here, he was stuck with her until he was able to find people he could trust. As he found out last night, he had shit attack points and without someone to help him fight, the only way he was able to fight was if he was able to find equipment with attack points. Even then, at a low level, the equipment would only have a few attack points, so he was stuck with the woman for a while.

"Are there any others willing to go to Naofumi's side?" asked the king.

…

Naofumi could almost see the tumbleweeds rolling. Not a single other person showed even the slightest inclination of volunteering. Naofumi had to wonder, was it so bad that he didn't know how the world worked? He was willing to learn, to do what was needed to learn and become strong so that he could help and save this world.

The king breathed a sigh of regret.

"Very well. Naofumi, from this point on you are to scout suitable companions on your own and bolster your ranks." the king informed the young Shield Hero, before he went on to say, "Because of these decidedly unique circumstances, I will make a special exception just this once and increase your aid for the month over that of the other Heroes."

"Y-Yes, Your Majesty!" Naofumi bowed, he was grateful for this, any help he could get was most welcomed. But there was something deep in his gut that something was amiss, that something didn't add up here. Sure it was a sound judgment. If nobody here wanted anything to do with him, then he just had to go out and find some people that did. But he had a strange feeling that it wouldn't be as easy as he would have liked.

"Then, I shall distribute the funds."

At the king's signal, we were presented with four heavy, jangling moneybags. As promised, mine was slightly larger than the others.

"I hereby bequeath nine hundred silver coins to Naofumi, and six hundred silver coins to the other Heroes. Use it to equip yourselves, or in Naofumi's hire more companions, and then begin your journey!"

"Yes your Majesty!" the three heroes and heroine said together as they bowed to the king.

And so, their audience with the king ended. Everybody filed out into the hall, and began their self-introductions. Renka even came up to him and informed the Shield Hero that she would like to meet up with him and talk in a few days, she wanted to leave up and think about a few things. Naofumi was happy more than happy to see her, so he said he would meet her again outside of the castle in a few days.

"I'm sure you already know, but I'm Naofumi Iwatani" Napfumi greeted the young lady once he talked to Renka, "It's great to be working with you." He reached out his hand for a handshake. He was unsure if that was the custom in this world as well, but he decided to go for it. He might not fully trust her, but that didn't mean he couldn't mean he could be rude. He hoped that over time he could learn to trust her, but if he was rude to her, it would be hard to do so.

She quickly grasped his hand in her own and shook it rather gently. 'She has soft hands for an adventurer.' Naofumi thought offhandedly. He found it strange, he expected a swordswoman's hands to be rougher than this, but it could be that she was new to adventuring and so have had much experience yet. So he put the thought at the back of his mind.

"My name is Myne Sophia. I hope we get along Shield Hero!" she said cheerfully, releasing his hand and standing behind him.

"So do I!" Naofumi told her in return, whilst he might not trust her, he was glad that he wasn't alone, that he would have someone to help him get stronger. He was happy that Myne was willing to help.

With the interdictions over with, Naofumi and Myne entered the two to allow the Shield Hero to explore. Although Naofumi had caught a glimpse of it through the window yesterday, seeing it up close really drilled in the fact that he had come to another world. Wooden sign boards hung over stone streets and storefronts, strange animals that he never seen pulling charts, people using magic in different ways, and delicious new smells wafted through the air. It really made quite an impression.

"Wow, this world is really amazing, I never thought that I would ever see anything of this. It's like I'm in some kind of dream, a dream I do not want to wake from." Naofumi said with an impressed tone before he looks at his companion Myne, "Hay Myne if you don't mind, could you show me some of the shops and inns around here? I want to get the feel of things, like how much a night at an inn will cost me, and where to get the cheapest items from."

Whilst he might not have played as much games as the others seemed to have done, he did remember the basics of the games he did play. In the games he remembered playing, it was quite common for new timers in a new world to go and pick up basic survival equipment and gear. But for Naofumi though, he knew that the money that he had was to get more companions. Seeing how he didn't know how much companions were going to set him back, he knew that he had to search for the cheapest of things for now.

"You see, before heading out to level up, I'm hoping to find a place with weapons and armour, then head over to a place where we can maybe get some medicine and some basic supplies, then head off to a few inns ." explained the Shielder, "As until I know how much companions are going to cost me, I want to get the cheapest as I can."

"Well I know of a store that sells weapons and armour, but the problem is that he is expensive." Myne explained thoughtfully, as she thought about the store she wanted to go to, "I know that you might want cheap weapons and armour, but when it comes down to these sort of things, cheap isn't always the best - as those types of weapons and armour can break easily. This person that I've heard of, whilst expensive, is the best person to buy from and offers discounts from time to time. So it's possible that we might meet him on a good day and he could give us a discount."

Naofumi had heard this before, but until now, he didn't put much stock into it. He thought that it was something that people say so that you would pay more for, but if someone who lives in a world where such things were important, it was best to take their word for it. So with a sigh, he thought to himself, 'This might put a dent in my money, but seeing that I only have a shield, I need to see if I can get myself a real weapon - and fast. As if I can't, I'll need to find shields and things to absorb into the shield in hopes to get stronger.'

"Well in that case lead me to this shop." Naofumi said with a sigh, "We have a few things we need to do before we can level up, and I would like to start it before the sun sets."

"Of course Lord Shield Hero," Myne said with a smile, "we're partners, aren't we? It's my place to help you to get stronger."

Naofumi nodded, knowing that she was right, so allowing her to guide him through the streets with a skip in her step, to the shop she knew of. As they went through the streets though, Naofumi had no idea what Myna really had planned for him, nor knew what darkness was awaiting him in his future. All he knew was this was meant to be the start of a brilliant adventure, one where Naofumi would find love and fun.

To be Continued!

Author's Note: Now here ends the next chapter of Shield Demon, I hope that you enjoyed the chapter and the first lemon of the story - if you enjoyed the chapter, please leave some feedback and let me know what you thought of it. This took longer than expected because of two reasons, first, this was the first ograinal chapter of the story and I hadn't written it before, the second reason, is because I couldn't find the words that I want to use and the mood kept going to write. I hope you like the first OC Shield of the story, yes a sex shield, and if possible I would like ideas for other sex shields and PLEASE NO joke shields or making them look like cocks or such.

As I said in the Prologue, these are shields I like to appear in the story, but I don't have name ideas for them nor the Requirements (although I do have one or two ideas, but I still welcome ideas,) Equipment Bonus, or Special Effect. I hope that you lot could help me out here, as these shields, other than a few others who can be used to counter and fight, will be some of the main ones that he'll use.

Alchemy

Blacksmithing

Cooking Upgrading Idea - Absorbing food to gain recipes

Jewelcrafting

Skinning/Dismantling

Enchanting

Leatherworking

Tailoring

Fishing

These last two I'm not too sure about, as I don't know how to work them into the story… so I would like your thoughts about this, I hope you can help.

Archaeology

Inscription

Now before you go, I would like to ask for your help, I'm planning to add more slaves and shields and I would like to ask for ideas.

For slaves I would like this information:

Name:

Age:

Birthday:

Race:

Birthplace:

Gender:

Height:

Skin Colour:

Eye Colour:

Hair Colour:

Hair Style:

Body Type:

Scars:

Piercing:

Now for the new shields, need this information:

Name:

How to get the new shields:

What the shields look like:

Stats Gained:

Equip Bonus:

Special Abilities: