AN: First, I don't own ROTSH. Second, my writing skills kinda whacks. And finally, don't judge me.


[Around 2 Weeks Later, Pritze]

It's been around 2 weeks since we got Lyn's clothes. We decided to embark further than Castle Town. And that decision is the right thing to do. Due to that, I've got a new weapon, and both of us gain experience at a fast rate. I'm currently level 48 and Lyn is level 38.

Two more levels before she gets her class up. That's a problem because I don't have any access to the dragon hourglass. The next best thing to do is use the Growth Reversion method when she reaches level 40.

I'm at Pritze, the town of mercenaries aka town of information. The reason I'm here is that I need some information about the 3 other heroes. I just found out that the Shield Hero is accused of being a rapist. But I don't find him to be anything close to a rapist. My hero tingles say that it involves the redhair bitch.

Anyway, the first information I got is that the simp party goes to a dungeon next to the Leruno Village, which is low on food, to acquire the seed that was sealed inside the dungeon, which he called the "Miracle Seed". From what I see, he thinks that this is one of his game quests. There must be a reason why the seed is sealed. And if he fucked up, that's not good for his public image.

The next information I got is that the Sword Hero party has already defeated the evil dragon on a mountain next to Mirso Village. Usually, the dragon emperor stays in the mountains and isolated themselves from humans. This is weird because it lives near a human territory. Anyway, the villagers must have requested the Sword Hero to defeat the dragon for its treasure. It's not a rare thing to see, considering I see something similar back in my world.

The last and least convincing information I got is that the Bow Hero party is all over the place. Some say he goes training at the mountain, and some say he goes to a dungeon on a quest for treasure. And there's even a rumor of him joining another country's resistance. If the last information I got is true, then it's right for me to call him Robin Hood.

And as for how I got this information, it's thanks to Lyn. Because she's a rare dragon, all the mercenaries there wanted to know where I acquired her. In exchange for information, I told them I got her at the yes sir places. And even if they don't care about Lyn, I have my last resort weapon.

Elixir, my world version of potions. In this world, you use Healing Pill or Healing Salve to restore HP. There's no potion version of it. If there's a recipe about the potion that can restore HP, then the potion economic will be fucked, I think. So, in exchange for the recipe, I got information and a few golds in the process. Even if they got the recipe, the Elixir mass production will be hard because only someone proficient enough at magic can make it.

Due to this, I got a nickname called "The Azure Dragon Tamer" among the mercenaries here. Seems like the plan for me to stay low profile is not going to work. No pain no gain, I guess.

"Are you the rumoured Azure Dragon Tamer?"

Right now, I'm at the inn, having breakfast when suddenly someone called me by that name.

"Even if I say yes, what would that have anything to do with you?"

The person here is wearing a face mask and a cloak hooded to the point I can't even see the eyes. This person's voice is also raspy. He has a spear on his back.

"Can you come with me for a moment?"

Ugh… How many times is it this week?

"Lyn, after you finished eating, can you return back to our room? I will meet you there."

"Mkay!" She spent so much time with me to the point that she picked up my speaking habit.

[Few Minutes Later]

I followed him to the back alley of this town. He doesn't say anything.

"So, what do you want?"

"…"

He pulled the spear on his back and started dashing towards me. When he did that, I pulled my sword on my back and blocked his spear thrust.

"Seems like that's the answer."

I pushed him to the front and intended to finish this quickly. But he dodged it. Seems like this over here has skills.

"I have to say, you're the first one I didn't finish in one strike."

"…"

"Not a talkative type, aren't you? Not that matters."

Seems like I need to finish this with magic. Maybe use a little weaker spell so I don't kill him.

" Lightning Burst III!"

Thinking that would end it, he pulled out a surprise.

" Mudwall VII!"

He stabbed the tip of his spear to the ground and a wall made of mud suddenly appeared in front of him, to defend him from my magic attack.

Mudwall… Isn't that the magic that combines the Water and Earth element? I knew about it because I use it as well. Even though my affinity is Lightning and Water, I can learn any spell as long as it falls under the category of my affinity.

And the "VII"… Is he one of this world's vassal heroes? That can't be. Because he's holding a spear. This world holy weapon is a singular type weapon, not like my world holy heroes where we can take any form of weapons as long as it falls under the weapon jurisdiction. The chance that the vassal weapons share the same type of weapons with the holy weapons is low.

And that Mudwall is definitely a spell from my world. Which means he's a resident of my world. And that spear… That is definitely the Pointed Weapon. I believe that bastard is taller than me. The one over here is like 1 inch shorter than me. And the original Pointed Hero doesn't believe in the method. Who is he?

That doesn't matter. I just need to beat him up to get some answers. I changed my Thunderbird sword into the Magma Shark one.

" Volcanic Strike!"

Volcanic Strike is the accessory power up of the Vorpal Strike. It's a skill that releases a powerful thrust to the point that the sword blade squirts out lava. The target is the Mudwall spell. The wall crumbled into pieces. The hooded guy changed its spear into a red rapier.

"!"

That rapier… I know about that rapier more than anyone else. The more reason I don't have to hold back.

" Comet Blade X (Volcanic)!"

" Comet Splash X (Volcanic)!"

Our Comet skills clashed into each other, causing a huge shockwave to the point that the hood that covered "his" face lifted off. Revealing long yellow hair with a tinge of orange, tied into a ponytail.

"Damn, to think that you're still alive. Don't you know how happy I am."

"I could say the same for myself." The "guy" in front me says while removing her face mask. "It's nice to see you again, Tomori."

"Sure thing, Lena."

There's no mistake here. The girl in front of me is the Captain of the Bladia Royal Knights and the vassal wielder of the Vassal Rapier, Leona Cadell. I thought everyone in my world had perished, including her.

"I had something to tell you." She said.

"Yeah, but… I think we need to get out of here."

The back alley area has filled with lava due to our Comet skills crashing into each other.

[Few Minutes Later, Inn]

"Ah! There you are, Tomo-chan! You're so late!"

"Sorry, I had to do some business here and there."

"Oh, okay! Who is the Banana Lady there?" She pointed her fingers to Lena.

"Ba-Banana Lady?! What is this child talking about?!"

"I think she's talking about you. Better give her your name or she's gonna call you that for the rest of her life."

"Right…" She knelt down in front of Lyn and started speaking. "My name is Leona Cadell. Can I ask for your name, little miss?"

"My name is Lyn. Nice to meetcha, Banana Lady."

"Tomori! She still calls me Banana Lady!"

"Sorry Lena, it seems like she's only seeing you as a Banana Lady. Once she made up her mind, there's nothing stopping her."

"Noooooo!" Heh, classic Lena. Always being over dramatic.

"Lyn, you see that she doesn't like being called Banana Lady. Can you please call her anything other than that name?"

"Hm… I'm gonna call her Lena-chan then."

"Is that okay with you, Lena?"

"Yes…" Seems like she isn't getting over it after being called a Banana Lady by a child.

"Anyway, what is it that you wanted to tell me?"

"Oh, let me explain from the start."

[Few Hours Later]

"Okay, you suddenly get transport to another world after "that" thing happened. Then, you become the new wielder of the Holy Pointed Weapon while still holding the Vassal Rapier?"

"Yes. Almost all the skills from the Vassal Rapier are converted into the Holy Pointed Weapon skill."

I never knew that the world resident of the holy weapons can become its wielder.

"You say that it's been 1 and half years since that happened… Which means you are 19 right now?"

"Yes."

"Damn, I'm 16 right now. You used to be 1 year older than me. Now it has changed into 2 years…"

"Being older than you isn't my proudest achievement. At least a little bit taller than me." She said with a smirk.

"Yeah, yeah. And I guess you have unlocked a lot of weapon forms before coming to this world around 2 weeks ago."

"Yes, and some new skills too."

"Have you learned this country's language?"

"No…"

Oh yeah. I forgot studying isn't a Lena thing to do.

"You need to at least learn it a bit. It will help you avoid getting scammed here."

That almost happened to me. But thanks to me having learned basic characters and stuff, I am able to avoid getting scammed.

"Okay, I will learn it later. But more importantly…" She's looking at Lyn who's sleeping in the bed. She was listening half way then fell asleep. "Who is that child? From what I sense from her Ki, she isn't a normal human."

"Oh, she's actually a Thunder Demon Dragon."

"Oh, Thunder Demon Dragon… Wha-" Before she could shout, I covered her mouth with my hands.

"Can you slow down a bit? She's sleeping there."

I slowly remove my hands from her mouth. "Yeah, it's like what I said. She's a Thunder Demon Dragon."

"… Does she ever assault you at night?"

"No. At least not now." That's the first thing I'm worried about. That she's gonna assault me at some point. But it's been 2 weeks since she was born. Nothing has happened. I can't even imagine that she's gonna assault me at all. "Anyway, all of the four holy heroes are here in this country."

"What?! What do you mean by that?"

"It's like what I said. Four of them are here. Have you seen any Vassal Heroes when you come through the rift in that country's waves?"

"No. There's only villagers and some adventurers who stayed at the inn fighting the waves. If I hadn't been there, the village would be destroyed."

"What is this world thinking? Summoning all four of them in the same place. And from what I heard, they didn't even know that there's another hourglass besides this country."

"Maybe we should tell one of them about that?"

"Yeah, but I don't think that would be easy. I only met two of them. One of them seems dependable and the other one is a simp."

"You mean that 'simp'?"

"Yeah."

"That would be hard indeed."

If a hero is a simp, then it would be hard to convince them to do anything without a woman commanding them.

"I wanted to meet the other two. But one of them has already left this country and the other one is out of radar."

"So, what should we do now?"

"We have to help them as much as we can do without exposing to them that we are heroes from another world. The thing that they're lacking is information about their weapons"

"So this is just like back then? Is there any chance that they're gonna listen to us?"

"I don't know. If they still think that this is a game from their world, convincing them to believe in the power-up method would be hard."

"To think that you're the only holy hero that we can depend on…"

"Well, I wasn't summoned with knowledge about that world. So I just believe anything that the Bladia Scholar teaches me. Oh, I almost forgot!"

I went to my inventory to search for a book that has the magic writing of the artifact that the past holy heroes of our world left. That book also contains the weapon function and all 24 power-up methods. I materialise it onto my hands. I give the book to Lena.

"I believe you didn't bring this book with you. I'm gonna teach you how to learn the holy hero magic later."

"Oh, thank you."

"Okay. Lena, I wanted to ask. What is the probability of two of us surviving in this world?"

"I would say that it was low. Why do you ask?"

"What I'm saying is that we lacked manpower. Even though we are heroes and there's Thunder Demon Dragon fighting alongside us, there's only three of us. Nothing more."

"Are you suggesting that we should recruit adventurers?"

"No, not adventurers. Maybe slaves or monsters."

"Slaves?! There's slaves in this world?!"

"Yes. I know we have dealt with slavery before. But it's different from last time. This country legalized slavery."

"Le-Legalized?! What kind of savages legalized slavery?!"

"Long story short, it's discrimination. There's no human slave in this country except criminals. There's only beastmen here. I think there's another country that legalized slavery. There's only human slave there. I know it isn't right, but we have no right to meddle into it. We don't have that kind of authority anymore."

"… You are right."

"Don't worry, I don't planning to buy slave sooner or later. There's one monster that I'm interested in right now."

"What is it?"

"Do you know those ostriches that always pull carts and carriages?"

"You mean the monster called Filolial? Yes. I knew about them quite a bit. But what of it?"

"I heard from a merchant here that the Filolial owned by the Saint of the Heavenly Fowl can talk."

"You mean those monsters can talk as they grow?"

"No, you know what happens when a pure blood dragon is raised by heroes, right?"

"Yes, they will be able to talk and transform into a human with some of their dragon traits… Wait, are you saying that they have that capability as well? And by the Saint of the Heavenly Fowl, you mean that…"

"Yeah, he is a hero. The Shield Hero to be exact. And I think I know where he got that Filolial."

"Really? Where is it?"

"I just wanted to tell you one thing. You wouldn't like it. Are you prepared to accept that?"

"… Yes. The world isn't built for people with weak will."

"Okay then, we're moving now. Lyn, wake up."

"Hm… What?"

"We're going somewhere, but I need you to come with me. You can sleep after we finish."

"Mkay."

"Where are we going?" Asked Lena.

"To the place where I hoped that I never knew existed. Gate X!"

[Castle Town, Monster Tent]

After we went through the gate marked near the Tailor's Shop, we went through the back alley to the yes sir guy tent.

"Tomori… I felt a lot of faint Ki inside that tent. Don't tell me that's…"

"I told you that you weren't gonna like it."

"Tomo-chan, what is that?" Lyn pointed to the tent.

"That's the place where I bought you."

"Really?"

"Yes… As much as I hate to admit it."

We went inside the tent. I could see that Lena isn't comfortable with this. While Lyn is looking around curiously. We walked through until I saw the yes sir guy. But there's something different about it.

"Ah, sir hero. It's been awhile since we last saw each other."

"Well, I hope that I never meet up with you again in my entire life."

"Hehehe. There must be something you wanted from me even though you didn't want to meet with me. Isn't that right, yes sir?"

Yeah, he seems more "bling-bling" than usual.

"From what I see, it seems like business has been booming."

"Yes sir! It's all thanks to your advice."

"You mean when I tell you to sell one of the eggs to a hero?"

"That's only a part of it. Thanks to you, both nobles and mercenaries have come to contact me about how to acquire the dragon of yours."

"Oh. Speaking of dragons, Lyn!"

"Okay~"

She transforms into her dragon form. The yes sir guy widened his eyes in amazement.

"I promised you that I will show you how the dragon will end up. And here it is."

"Ah, it's a dragon emperor, yes sir! To think that the Knight Dragon could become something like this. It appears I had underestimated you a little about your capability of raising such fine monsters. I took my hat off for you, sir hero."

"Spare me your sweet words."

"So, what business do you want to have here?"

"I want a Filolial. I think you may know the result if I raised one. The egg lottery has them, right? How about this, 500 silver if you move every egg from the crate that isn't a Filolial egg. Do we have a deal?"

"Yes sir! Right away." He goes to the back of the tent.

"Lyn, you can change back."

"Okay~"

She turned back into her human form.

"Tomori… Can I please ask you to refrain from doing any shady business? Even though we're in another world, can't you stop engaging in this sort of activity?"

"Is there anything wrong with it? Remember the last time I did this sort of stuff? The black market economy boomed through the roof!"

"Engaging in that sort of business can damage the name of the Bladed Hero!"

"Um, if you have forgotten, I'm the Bladed Hero here. There's only a few records of the past Bladed Hero. Besides, we're in another world now. I can have my fun with shady businesses."

Oh man, can't wait for this world black market activity to boom through the roof. Hehehe.

"And it seems like you're thinking of something outrageous, isn't it?"

"Even though we haven't met for a while, you still have those psychic abilities to read my mind."

"We have gone through a lot of thick and thin situations, haven't we?"

"Yeah, I guess that's true."

We did go through a lot together. But it doesn't make sense as to why I couldn't read her mind. Maybe she did have psychic abilities.

"Now then, here is a lottery with only Filolial eggs, yes sir."

The yes sir guy and his henchmen bring the crates with a bunch of holes in it. Seems like those are the Filolial eggs.

"Okay, Lena. Choose what you like."

"Wait, why me?"

"Because you need 'experience' about this."

"But I don't know how to raise a monster…"

"You are the Captain of the Royal Knights. How can you command hundreds of knights but can't command a single monster?"

"Commanding the knights and monsters are two different things!"

"It's not like I will leave you alone when you're raising it. Shut yer mouth and choose one of these eggs."

"… Okay."

She slowly went to the crates and started touching the eggs one by one.

"… This one." She picked the egg.

"Now then, let's begin the registration, yes sir."

Lena bleed out her thumb using the pen-knife and let the blood drop to the egg.

"The registration has been completed." He put the egg onto the incubator and gave it to Lena.

"Okay, now that's out of the way. Here's your money." I gave him 500 silver. " Make sure the conversation between me and her never leaked out, if you know what i mean. If it's leaked out, I will order my comrades to literally boomed this tent out of existence."

"You're sending shivers to my body. I took my hats off once again for you, sir hero!"

"Yeah whatever. Let's leave this place."

"Okay~"

"Y-Yes!"

[Pritze Inn]

All three of us left the tent and gate back to the inn at Pritze. I sit down on a chair. Lyn just heads to bed. Lena put the incubator at the table and sat down on the chair next to me. It's time to make some progress. I pulled out the compounding equipment and some of the materials that I can use to make elixir and potion.

"Hey, aren't you sleepy?" I ask Lena.

"Yes, I am. But how about you?"

"I'll sleep when I'm finished compounding all of this into elixir and potion."

"You still worked hard as before, didn't you?"

"The world isn't going to be saved by itself. These things will help us save the world and all."

"… You still haven't recovered from the curse, have you?"

"Figures that I didn't need to tell you about. Yes, I still haven't recovered. But it doesn't affect me that much. I still feel lazy from time to time and will get angry if someone disturb my sleep. But doing something in the middle of the night helps me counter that curse."

"Is that so…"

"If you want to keep me accompanied, can you make me an accessory for my weapons?"

"Sure. Got the materials?"

"Wait a sec…"

I went through my inventory and pulled out all the bronze, lead, iron, ores and gems out of my weapon.

"What accessory power-up do you want?"

"An accessory that will add the Vorpal Strike with poison effect would be good. Can you do that?"

"You have a lot of material I can use here. Yeah, I can."

"Mkay."

She got up from the chair and pulled out a small anvil and hammer out from her spear. Then she sits down on the floor cross legged and starts hammering the materials. Fearing that it would disturb the people in the inn, i casted Sound Barrier V around her so that the noise would be repelled. It's a spell that combines Lightning and Wind elements.

I guess I should start with the Magic Power Water, then Soul Healing Water, and lastly the Life Elixir. The book said that Magic Power Water required the user to imbue magic into the mixture to activate it. Not a big deal for me.

I remember I used to do this kind of thing every night after the Guardian Beasts fight to take my mind off the curse's side effects. And it worked to my surprise. Back then, every time Lena asked me when I would sleep, I just asked her to make some new accessories to keep her distracted.

Before I became a full fledged hero, I used to ask myself when do I get to return to my home? I didn't get the answer for almost 3 years. Maybe it's because of the weapon spirit. I did question the weapon spirit as to why I'm chosen as a hero, but it never replied. Well, that question is irrelevant now as I'm ready to fight off these waves in order to survive the next day.