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Hero And Fighter Chapter 15
Lute Village
6/1/0000: 1700
Third Person: Omni
"Honestly, I was thinking that I would only have to fight zombies… that is why I brought only Reimu." Everyone besides Naofumi was confused as the person spoke. The language was completely different from what they knew, though Naofumi's party could get a rather basic grasp of the language he is speaking.
"How is it going Naofumi?" Naofumi looked over at the young woman who looked 16, her black hair and inside a strange shrine maiden's attire. A gohei in hand she looked over at the young man. She had a distinctly uninterested expression on her face.
"Hi Reimu, I have been saving the world like usual," Naofumi said with a nonchalant expression, everyone could actively understand what he said.
"Yeah, Desmond decided to quickly take me over here, I just got dragged over… thankfully it is not another incident that I have to deal with," Reimu states while glancing behind the knights, showing a slightly disgusted expression from the rotting corpses that were animate.
"Honestly, when I said I was getting Naofumi, Reimu was one of the first to get involved." The other person that came from Naofumi's home dimension stated. Chuckling as Reimu decided to hit him with her gohei, an embarrassed expression on her face. His jacket glowing in the darkening surroundings, making an ominous blue surround him.
"By the way, can you have your companions speak some words? Eve, needs to figure out what language they are using." Des said with a grin, tapping the glasses on his head. Naofumi nodded.
"Who are they Naofumi-sama?" Raphitila asked with a clueless expression, just when the tension became high, these two appeared.
"My old friends, Desmond Howard and Reimu Hakurei." Naofumi said, Desmond gave a thumbs up, showing a thumbs up at getting the translator up to speed.
"Sorry about that, I get the feeling Naofumi introduced my name. But let me introduce myself. I am Desmond Howard, a simple shop owner." Desmond bowed to them with a grin, miming a tip of a tophat. His glowing gloves giving off a futuristic impression.
"Shrine Maiden of the Hakurei Shrine, Reimu Hakurei," Reimu's expression returned to one of indifference. But the hand going into her sleeves to grab something betrayed her alertness. Everyone went through various greetings as the head knight just grew angrier.
"Who are you!" The knight shouted.
"Well, we are Naofumi's temporary back up for your wave problem," Desmond responded with a sarcastic grin.
"And besides, you have to pay more attention to your surroundings, otherwise you might just get an honorable death." Desmond gestured behind them, right at the things that Reimu was looking at. The knight looked back behind their squad to see a wall of zombies and bees standing behind them, waiting patiently for the number to be done.
"You know, they are very patient zombies," Desmond remarked with a smirk as the horror settled onto the knight's face. The largest zombie in the front decided to swing his ax at the knight.
"Honestly, waiting for your death? Raphitalia!" Naofumi spoke while blocking the attack, his new defense doing quite well in the matter. Raphitalia jumped onto the giant and ran across the arm, slashing it all the while.
"Now then, get into formation," Naofumi said while Melina and Senka dispatched some more zombies. Desmond looked a bit surprised at Melina's appearance.
"Is that…?" Desmond asked while placing a hand to a small box clipped to his jacket. It said "Transport" before a gun appeared in his hand.
"That is Melina," Naofumi said while blocking another attack, the knights all looked to their leaders… looking for their next commands.
"Get going, we need to head for the three heroes." The head knight said with several under his command coming with him. His second in command gritted his teeth while thinking.
"Get into phalanx formation, support the Shield Hero." The second in command yelled out, a majority of the knights nodded with relieved expressions as they got ready to fight.
"Charge!" He said while leading them into battle alongside the Hero's party. Swiftly cutting into the zombie's mass. Naofumi immediately noticed the help and nodded. He got the feeling that the battle would end soon so he nodded to Melina and pointed to a large mass of zombies. She nodded in confirmation.
"Quasar Explosion" She shouted out while transforming into her Teana form. Her spear held in her hands as a chaser formed using her own power. Quickly motioning it forward, the ball of energy flew into the center f the crowd and detonated. The group was reduced to mince.
"Whew, that was exhausting." She said while transforming back into her regular form. She then immediately stabbed and killed a zombie that was trying to sneak up on her.
"They should be finishing up soon," Senka stated while quickly dispatching another couple of bees that were about to split the knight's formation. Naofumi noted his new levels, with how high they are now, it is possible to equip Shield Of Blessings II.
"Right then, it should be cleared out enough to not worry too much," Desmond stated while walking to a resting Naofumi. Tapping the clipped device, a pair of duffle bags fall into his hands. He swiftly hands them to Naofumi.
"Well besides the phones and a tablet in one of the duffles, the other is filled with basic camping supplies," Desmond stated before Naofumi could even ask, it was as if he was in a rush while doing so.
"Why so quickly?" Naofumi asked with surprise, Desmond would usually like to drag things out if he was able to.
"Same reason why we couldn't contact you. The world's multiversal barrier is too strong unless you are right under a wave. I have this time in my vision that I do not want to know what happens when it zeros out." Reimu nodded in agreement, her instincts telling her not to spend much time here.
"So we can only get contact during a wave?" Naofumi asked.
"Only one or two people from our world are allowed, it is actively enforced by this world for some reason. So yeah, call for backup whenever possible will ya? On another note, the phones can contact each other when inside the same universal dimension." Desmond opened his own phone to show off those functions.
"Our time is almost up, what else do I have to say…? Oh yeah, I can't select Melina whenever I log into your account, all DFO says is that she is away at the moment. Whenever I try Ellen it says she is synchronizing…" Naofumi immediately made the connection to them being away from Arad.
"Right, thank you both for helping out," Naofumi said with a relieved expression, if he hadn't gotten any help, it might have turned out worse. Senka was talking to some knights while writing in a notepad.
"Well see ya, stay safe and all," Desmond said while waving, Reimu walked beside him as a portal opened up in front of them. The eyes inside of it made it disturbing to look at.
"See ya later Naofumi," Reimu said while also disappearing through the gap.
"Naofumi-sama, the sky!" Raptalia said while pointing at the sky that was a shade of maroon, it quickly changed back into the sky blue that was familiar.
"Alright everyone, this is the last push. We are to be getting the village into a more stable condition." Naofumi quickly said while scanning the area for any injured. His companions nodded while Senka started to check if there were any monsters still within the village as they started their relief efforts.
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Forest Clearing
6/1/0000: 1730
"Where is Naofumi?" Motoyasu asked while resting his spear on his shoulder. Myne looked annoyed that she couldn't even try fawning over him due to that damned Shield Demon.
"Helping the village." Itsuki looked annoyed despite the need to kill the boss quickly. She would have liked to help the village. She noted the smoke earlier but had to grit her teeth and keep on supporting the other heroes in order to make sure that the other two's companions were safe.
"The village, didn't the knights already handle it?" Motoyasu said something that made the archer pair want to facepalm, it goes to show just how much of a game he thought it was.
"He went over there first considering the Knights wouldn't make it time." She was starting to get really angry at the spearman, though it was not like Ren who is staying silent was much better.
"Oh, so he got a mission for it…" It took so much control for Ituski not to slam her head into a tree. Naofumi did it of his own volition. It seemed that they never thought of the consequences. Alina also looked frustrated at the lack of concern about other's livelihood.
"No, he did not, he cared about saving people more than the honor of killing the boss…" Itsuki was just about to give up on reasoning with them, despite this wave being easy, she got the feeling the next one would be far more troublesome, enough to warrant their help in the future.
'Heroes!" A sudden voice of a knight interrupted the rest of the conversation.
"Kinda late huh," Itsuki was so close to strangling the spear idiot, did he not realize the nights would be dispatched to the villages first? In fact, the knight should be interacting with relief efforts. Besides, it should be Naofumi coming over and not the knights.
"Now now, don't say that. His highness has a reward for each of you." The knight had a fawning grin on his face, it disgusted Itsuki to see it. It was the same face that bullies had infront of her teachers. The other heroes smiled at a job well done.
"You guys go on ahead, I will be going to check on the village," Itsuki stated while walking past the knight, not even bothering to give the ones who shrugged off their duties even a passing glance.
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Lute Village
6/1/0000: 1800
"Naofumi, we are here to help," Itsuki said to the shield hero when she spotted him, he was directing villagers to rubble to see if there were any unlucky enough to be inside of them.
"Thanks, where are the other parties?" Naofumi asked while seeing only the pair of them walking into the square. Itsuki just shrugged, they were too entranced at the thought of rewards.
"It really drives home the point huh…" Itsuki mumbled while looking at the various states of the villagers, able-bodied men hollered out while looking for another that might have survived. Newly created orphans sitting in prayer over some flowers. Women cooking a meal with Naofumi to give everyone a good dinner.
"That it is not a game? Yeah… if only they were here to see this and finally understand." Naofumi remarked while stirring a pot of stew. Or maybe they wouldn't come to that conclusion. Nofumi noticed the knights were about to leave, he nodded at the captain who made the quick decision and noted for Senka to write a letter to the queen later.
"Shield Hero-sama!" A group of villages spoke up now that the meal being prepared was reducing down. Naofumi turned to the group, his companions at his sides. Itsuki just watched the entire thing, not even surprised that the villagers did not greet her… she didn't help them in their time of need.
"Thank you very much." The chief of the village bowed to him, his body parallel to the ground.
"We couldn't have made it through without you." He stood straight once more. Naofumi closed his eyes for a second.
"Thank your lucky stars, not me," Naofumi said it was all about luck in that regard.
"No, it is your presence that helped us survive." The one that was knocked out earlier stated with a serious expression.
"We will never forget what you have done for us." The buff individual that stabbed the large zombie with a pitchfork said. They all bowed their head to him.
"Then use that gratitude to recover." Naofumi thought to himself why he was doing these things, only coming onto the answer to protect and help others. The people were almost in tears at the remark. They stood straight once more before resuming their relief efforts.
"Tonight they are going to have a banquet as a celebration for defeating the wave," Itsuki said with a passing remark, quickly going off to help some of the villagers.
"When is the queen going to get rid of this farce…" Naofumi mumbled to himself as Raphitalia stood beside him.
"Naofumi-sama… we did well right?" Raphitalia asked with a quiet voice. Naofumi just patted her head.
"Yes, you protected others from having to go through what you have…" Naofumi said with a warm tone. Raphitalia rushed into his arms and started crying… she is the most innocent of us after all.
"We should get heading back… I have no idea what plot they will have at the feast tonight…" Naofumi remarked. Motioning for Senka to come over to him as he keeps patting Raphitalia's head.
"Okay, did you write what we need for the queen's intelligence force?" Naofumi asked her, receiving a nod in return before she hands him the letter. He silently pats her head, receiving a look of surprise that he did not notice while reading the letter.
"Alright then… let's get going to Castle Town. It looks like they have everything handled here." Naofumi said while looking at the people eating the meal that he made with the women of the village, despite the grim atmosphere, everyone was smiling and talking to one another.
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Castle Town: ?'s Castle
6/1/0000: 1900
"A toast to our heroes who did great work in repelling this wave." The king held out a chalice to the guest below him, his posture straight, he stands atop a platform far from any other guests. There were three thrones situated there. Naofumi almost spoke in anger at the man but held his tongue.
"Our casualties were in the single digits." The head knight bragged about himself to several noble ladies, though Naofumi could tell they did not care about what he said, looking more exasperated as he spoke his tales. But Naofumi only thought to himself, if he could have arrived earlier… could he have saved those lives?
"Naofumi-sama, are you not socializing?" Raphitalia asked, still inside her regular attire, he needed to get some more outfits than that sooner or later. Though Senka commandeered a dress for herself, a simple black cocktail dress, contrasting with the ball gowns various nobles had. A courteous smile on her face as she conversed with men and women.
"I am fine staying here for a bit… the moon is beautiful tonight…" Naofumi said ironically, not even thinking about what the shield would translate it to with similar context, especially when it is considered something romantic in Japanese.
"Here." Raphilaia offered out a fork of cake, Naofumi thought nothing of it and ate. He kept looking at the moon pensively, thinking about his actions in this world.
"Naofumi…" Motoyasu's voice was strangely cold, causing the second oldest hero to look at the oldest of the heroes. A glove was throne onto the ground… something that Naofumi knew from the novels.
"Duel me." The nobles around them all gasped, Senka was already by his side, glaring at him as her expression returned to its usual blank form. Melina also showed up, her eyes glinting in interest at what would have caused Motoyasu to want to fight, Senka already knew with her sharp hearing.
"Is this about something a traitor said?" Naofumi asked with a glance to who was at the Hero's side… for someone who values loyalty, he was listening to someone who betrayed another. Myne looked a bit angered at the reminder that her plan was foiled. Surprised that she even was in the spear user's party.
Note: Hope you all enjoyed the chapter… I have no idea how Operation Siren will affect my writing but who knows.
calderoneric758: So thoughts on touhou characters joining the harem mainly sakuya ultimate maid waifu time lord jojo
Response: Not in Naofumi's harem, no they are in Desmond's harem, a connection to A Retired Officer's Shop In The Eastern Wonderland.
Dcraus: Naofumi party
combo skill
Response: Naofumi's party will have a bunch shifting in and out of the active party. As for combo skills… well there will be more options.
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Robbie2413: So this confused the crap out of me,
" Tsk . The numbers aren't going down, what are the other three doing…?" Itsuki was getting the feeling that the other heroes were having trouble. The wave depended on them to finish the boss monster. Suddenly, flares of fire created a cage around the village.
So I guess the question is, is it Itsuki that says that or Naofumi? The ironic part being that Itsuki is not referenced at all this chapter directly and I know Naofumi said that line so...
Another great chapter hip hip hurray for breaking canon even more. So Des knows about the multiverse and they have a Gap Witch and a Goddess that are apparently very literally real. The Question is will that shitty duel still happen between Motoyasu and Naofumi or will the King just end up dead? Dead because of Senka I would imagine or Des no clue lol.
Response: It was a mistake on my part, that was said by Naofumi.
And as for the people of Naofumi's world… well they are not welcome by this world. Oh the duel will happen… just on Naofumi's terms.