Schizophrenia of the Redneck Sword Hero

by Actual QM

Meet ya boy Jim. He shall bring the word of god and raise some coons.

5. Trail of the Bow Hero

Well, reentry is going to be a bitch.

As I brrok through that weirdass skin that covered the world, I was greeted with the ground coming towards me really fast. The sky was still purple and soon my UI finally came back. Next to the red hourglass that held the number two was 0:00:00. It was a Wave, and I got a gut feeling I'm in goddamn Melromarc.

Lookin' around I could see a bunch of fightin happenin everywhere, and obviously not enough men.

There was a big fight happenin in what looked to be a small town. From here I could see the spells being fired off and the monsters swarming the place. A really fast thing kept going round da place, which was weirdin me out. I little more lookin though and I noticed good ol' Sheild Boi fightin in the thick of things.

Looking the other direction I could see a ship sailing about. It was hard to miss the Spear and Bow fightin' on top of it against what looked like a literal skeletal crew. It seemed good ol' SPear was having a fight with a pirate and 'is crew while the Bow Dumbass was firing at the ship itself.

I dunno what they are doin', but I'm pretty sure it has something to do with da boss.

Now that I think about it, how the fuck was I gonna stick this landin?

"Try to see if you have tarps or somtin maybe you can make a parachute."

"We probably burn the tarps with how fast we're reentering."

"With our history of falling, why not make a splash like a cannon ball and toughen our body to cushion it."

"Land near the village Shield Boi is. Don't wanna squash no one."

"Water, like dem dere space shuttles."

Hmm, yeah I think water would be somethin' nice to crash into. So I started my searchin, seemes the ship has been followin' a cannon with a small stream runnin' through it. So takin into account my geography lessons from highschool it must be leadin to a… Lake!

I forced a little of my weight like how ol' grandpa described from his time in da war. Slowly but surely I was creepin toward the water, so I decided that nows the time to look for that tarp.

As I opened my bag quite a few things went flying, most of it were my rations. I won't be needin them anymore though, and soon I got my hand on a nice size piece of cloth I used as a blanket. With a tightening I felt da wind grip it, so I made the hell sure I had a grip too.

I could already make out da ducks in the water, so now was as good of time as ever!

"[Ability Boost]! [Fortress]!"

With a yank I forced open the cloth, which quite instantly bursted open. To my luck though I felt my descent slow just that little bit, and soon I impacted the water with a bang!

The feeling of water steaming off the armor was strangely nice funny enough. But of course I didn' want to drown, so with a huff of strength I tried to forced my way up the water. Honestly I was pretty lucky there wasn't anything down here ready to kill me since I seemed to have ended up a ways down.

It wasn't working very well though, guess I was just too heavy. As I was sinking into the bottom I noticed somethin' swimming around. Fucking hell why did I— wait thats a fucking bird! With a jolt it tackled me, swinging me around so I was nicely onto its back. Not waiting to look a gift horse in the mouth I grabbed on like hell was on my tail!

Soon it breached the top of the water, givin me a good chance to breath as it talked, "Master, I found what fell into the water!"

"So it was a person, start bringing them… Jim?"

Turning around I could see the Shield boy standin there all stunnded, "Hey Naofumi, thanks for da save." I gave the bird a pettin, "Guessin you got yourself one of them fancy animals like Dolly?"

The kid looked me up and down, "What the hell happened to you! Why the hell did you fall out of the sky!? And why are your eyes red of all things!?"

"Ahahaha!" I checked my stuff, sadly it looks like my backpack was gone, "Well Boi, since your over here the defence has been goin' well?"

"Yeah," The bird started bringing me over to where the Shield was, "Ever since we saw you falling the monsters have gotten weaker all of a sudden. Your Girlfriend and Beast are both fighting in the Village along with Raphtalia."

I stepped onto the sand of the shoreline, "Sounds like everythin's goin' good. I saw the others were fightin' on a ship, but I guess the entire things the boss or somethin'."

"Mmmm, sounds tasty." Said the Bird.

"Filo, you are not eating the ship." The Kid yelled at the bird.

"Ask the boy if he has things here handled? If he has go to boss faster its dead the faster the wave ends."

"Adition inform party of our return."

"Let's go get our party and then go right for that ship."

"So hey Nao, think we can head over an' pick up my people?"

"Yeah thats pretty easy," He came over an got onto his bird with me, "OKay Filo, get us back to the Village."

"Okay~"

And with that we were rushed over to there. Gotta say, this fuckin bird was faster than even Cliff, course I wouldn' trade my good boi for anything else. 'Bout halfway there though the ground started shakin' a little bit and I knew exactly who it was.

"Hey Cliff!" I yelled as out of the tree line came Cliff with Dolly on his back, "I'm back!"

One of the heads came right on over and yoinked me right off the birds back, and while I heard the Bird complain 'bout it stealin her cargo I was payin more attention to Dolly.

"Welcome back, Jim." She said like her monotone self, but I could easily see her smile.

"Aye, it nice to see you again Dolly." I gave the Coon a little headpat as we broke a tree line. Soon I was welcomed to a fight for the village, but it was lookin like their fighters were able to hold back the hordes of minions. The fighters seemed to be a mix between adventurers and guardsman, so atleast it doesn't look like our people abandoned the wave.

Of course fightin on the line was Exe, tearing through the enemy forces with brutal strength. I mean damn she was fighting like a tornado sending monster bits flying everywhere. Of course someone as skilled as her noticed us comin' before I even got a word out.

Soon she was ontop of Cliff laughing her ass off, "So you finally show up when the fighting died down." She gave me a death stare that send shivers down my spine, "You are going to tell me what took you so long after this."

"Understood ma'am!" I yelled like it was on reflex.

"Perfect~" She took glances between me an' da shield, "Things over here are contained, so we should try and take out that boss."

I turned to the boi, noticing his Coon joined them, "Agreed, its taking the bastards too long to kill the Boss at this point."

"The ayes have it," I said turnin' Cliff around, "Lets get to killin a Boss!" And with that we turned around.

"When we get onto the ship let's try hitting it with our big AOE smite and then drink a Mana pot."

The run over to the ship was luckily not very eventful, an we even had a good laugh when we came up the Bow Bastard firing at the ship. Now normally I'd say go for it, since he was destroyin the ship as a whole. Issue was the fucker wasn' doing a scratch.

"What the hell you doin'!"

He turned to me, "I'm attacking the statue. Once we've done enough damage the boss will be come out."

I looked over an' Shield Boi just shrugged. I sighed, "Let's head up and talk to Spear Stud. He's doing somethin else then Bow Kid."

With a leap we both landed onto the ship, watching as Spear Stud fought off a bunch of skeletons. Behind him were a bunch of people, including the very dangerous Bitch, all casting magic to support him.

He noticed us pretty quick and yelled, "Hey everyone! We need to kill the Crew and Captian all at once, can you help me!"

Thinkin for a momen' I nodded, "Yeah we can do that, everyone off the ship!"

Spear Stud looked at me for a momen', before he gave me a stare, "Oh come on man! You are going to get rid of the fun if you nuke this ship."

"What the hell are ya saying!?" I yelled at the Kid while Naofumi was already fleeing, "If we do it we can end this damn wave!"

He looked over to Bitch, who looked both confused and concerned, "Fine."

And with that he also did a retreat. Without much else I did the same, the skeletons lookin confused as I left.

With feet on the ground I turned around and spoke, "I call upon the Lord Above who I have sworn faith to, Before me is a being of pure Evil, an so I ask you to smite this being to salt before me, [Lord's Fury]!"

And just like everytime before I saw a giant cloud of power formin' right before striking the ship with Lordly might. It was big as hell, easily covering every square inch of the thing.

As the spark calmed down I noticed something coming out of the ship, it looked to be a giant ghost worm of some kind.

Soul Eater Lv. 60 HP:25%

SP: 20%

"Sword of Azrael to steal life from the soul eater."

"[Ripple strike] and [big stick policy]. Let Naofumi play defense."

"We better start singing O Say Can You See! as we nuke it."

I gave out a hearty laugh as I saw the monster comin for us, "Ya see that ya fuckin Spear! Nuking things is always the best option!"

"Jim." Naofumi came next to me, "Continue taunting him, but we kind of need to finish the creature off."

"Sounds fine by me." I said hopping off of Cliff while the Boi did the same, "Lets fucking charge!!! [Ripple Strike]!"

And with that we ran down the cannon towards the thing. I threw a few good strikes at it, causin' the bastard to fly down towards me. I of course threw a few more attacks at the fucker, tearing at the health bar before it came within real melee range.

Knowing what to do, I back away to let Naofumi take the hit with his shield. It was kind of a sickening sound of mush trying to crack a tank, but I decided to go in while he took the hit.

I gave it a nice stabbing, the blade rending right through its hide like it was paper. Without much more effort I tore right through whatever neck it had, causing the thing to fall onto the ground with a gushy thud.

"That was too easy." I happily said with a quick few strikes to chop up the body.

"Agreed." The Kid said as he stuffed the head into his shield.

Soul Eater Sword Unlocked (Mana Regen Up L, Ability: Soul Rend)

Just as we finished stuffing the monster into our weapons I noticed somethin', "Hey Nao, is that ship coming towards us?"

As we watched it come I noticed something coming from the damn thing's deck, another fucking Soul Eater.

"Use Ensnare to bring it to the ground and if we have enough sp use smite."

"Save your nukes. Nap hasn't used his, just ripple elemental strike till we build up Mana."

"Then let's just use ensnare."

"Well, ready for round two?" I said turnin to Shield Boi.

"Yeah," He said readyin' his shield, "But isn't it weird for there to be more than one Boss?"

I shrugged, "Dunno, lets kill this one an' see what happens."

"Guess thats as good of a test as any."

With that we went towards the fucker, slicing my [Ripple Strike] at the fucker. When he came over to chomp my head off Nao came over an' block it, giving me a nice chance to stab it in the, I think its a chest.

It flayed around and whipped me with its tail, which I head to quickly parry with my sword. A quick slice at its face, which gave the Boi a chance to hop out of its jaws.

As we backed away I looked over the Boi, "Hey, how bads the fucker hittin ya?"

He took a momen' to look over himself, "No physical damage, but it seems to be draining me of SP and Mana. I'll be fine if one of the TWO IDIOTS GET TO HELPING!" He yelled towards what I noticed were Spear Stud an' Bow standin around.

"Oh," The Spear twirled his weapon, "I'm just waiting my turn. You guys have the fight covered anyways."

Before we could say anythin' more the Soul Eater decided enough talkin, more eatin. Nao, whos fuckin good with his shield turned, "Your not getting close you fuck, [Air Strike Shield]!"

An with that a shile popped infront of it, causin' a little confusion on its face. I wasn' going to give it a chance to think, and jammed my sword right into its eye. I felt my soul shiftin a little, then the fucker bursted into a confetti of golden light.

Just as the second one died, a third popped out of the ship like it was a fuckin factory for them.

"if SP is high enough hit it with direct divine smite and then murderstroke it away from shield with [big stick policy] so he can recover some SP."

"Well back to plan nr.1 Destroy the ship. Shield boy, Spiear stud can ya keep the soul eaters busy while bow and I dismantle the ship?"

"So ghost ship... It might be stupid as its a ghost ship and all but aim your attacks at the Keel (the one part of ships of old thats major pain to replace) if posible."

"Hey Nao, you think you an' Spear can fight this bastard? I'm gonna be chackin da ship."

He looked over to the Spear for a momen', "I will try."

I gave a laughin, "Yeah he's an idiot, but we can fix dat here later." An with that I made a dash for da ship.

The run was pretty uneventful, though I gotta admit somethings off. With that ship close now I threw an attack at the Keel of the thing, an' nothing happened. Lookin' around the ship isn' even hinting at taking any damage.

With a lift I pushed myself to the deck, noticin a small glow comin' from below. It glowed kind of like how the Soul Eaters were, so I'm pretty sure thats where it came from.

Before I could do anythin' remotely to getting below deck though I caught somethin' at the corner of my eye. With a jump I threw myself off to the side as a gust of wind smacked where I was. I wasn' fast enough to dodge it all, an' some small lashes landed on my leg.

"Oh, you were able to dodge." I looked up to see some lady floatin' in the sky. She looked be be wearing some fancy dress an' was as pale as snow. Though whats odd is she seemed to be radiatin' mana, "You are impressive, Sword Hero. But—"

She didn't really finished speakin as two flashes appeared infront of her. I didn' see 'em comin, and I pretty sure she didn' either since she barely dodged the two of them. As the two figures finally came into view, I saw the lady was now sporting a small gash in her arm and a dagger in the leg.

"Ara ara, you should pay more attention." Exe said as she came next to me, "Talking in a battle can lead to one's demise."

"Nn." Was Dolly's response.

The lady's eye narrowed as she touched her wounds, "Dangerous. Very well, it seems you three are too dangerous to mock." She brought out a small fan lookin' thing an' took a prepared stance

"Get into a Martial Arts stance and draw your blade. This one caught ya off-guard, after all."

"Lead the atack by testing out her abilities ans fighting style using some of our lower cost powers. She is no doubt really dangerous as her first strike sugested but we should be fine if we keep our guard up and trust that Exe and Dolly will have our back."

"Fortress ability boost. Don't forget to use the new soul eater sword."

"Okay everyone, lets fight!"

With that I charged at the gal, bringing my sword through for a slice at her chest. The gal opened her fan as I came for her an' somehow blocked the damn attack.

"[Ability Boost, [Greater Ability Boost, [Six Folds Slash]!" Exe yelled as she came in for an attack. I felt the gal move me a little though an' soon I felt a swords diggin into my flesh, "Shit! Jim!"

Just as I was being stabbed by Exe I could see Dolly's Shadow appear behind the Gal. She wasn' surprised now as she brought her fan to block Dolly's attempts at stabbing her.

"You three don't have much cohesion, though you are strong by yourselves. Lucky me, [Four Seasons Gust]." An with that we were all blown away in different directions.

I slammed into a door of the ship, a bad sounding crash sounded as I destroyed it. As I was getting up the Gal's eyes widened, "Tsk, [Summer's Storm]." An' just like that I was again sent flying. This time though I was sent over the edge of the ship and down into the water below.

With a splash I was in the water again, though this time I was bleeding from my wounds. I could hear the faint sound of explosions flying over the surface of the water as I sank down deeper.

With I jolt I tried to start swimming, but my armor was too fuckin' heavy. Damn this is fuckin annoying. Fukcin FUCK!

HP: 75%

SP: 100%

"Get fuckin PISSED."

"Can we use rope sword to get us to safety in any way? Or pray to God Shield sent the bird to get us."

I still can't fuckin believe I got stuck in this lake again. I tried to swim but here it is I couldn't even make a wave as I fell deeper an deeper. Well, that was until I felt my feet touching the bottom.

As I touched the bottom I pushed it as hard as I could, because I'm not going to fuckin let that bitch of a fiend defeate a servant of the lord so quickly. With a thrust I was flung upwards, and with that I kept up the momentum by pushing myself even more.

Soon I broke the surface, quickly enough just to see someone get flung into the water. It wasn' Dolly or Exe, so I didn' even bother as I threw my sword rope into the side of the ship. With a lift I flung myself onto the dock.

As I arrived I saw carnage. It seemed another group entered the fight, but they were fucked up. Just at a glance I noticed that a guy in heavy plate was cut in two while a caster looking gal had her part of her chest shreded and clothes in tater.

Looking at where the fighting was, Exe sliced at the bitch with another of her special moves while Dolly came at her from behind. The gal blocked Exe, but she finally recieved a dagger to the back.

"I'll kill you!" Yelled a small girl as she rushed the Bitch. NOt wanting to be outraged, I joined the girl.

Exe saw us coming and bashed the Bitch with a punch to the stomach, causin the bitch to back up for only a momen'. With a chance I ran right past the little girl, "Take this ya fuckin bitch!" I yelled as I sliced at her. She tried to block with her fan, but I blew through that and gave her a nice slicing of the shoulder.

From behind me the little girl came in with a scream and stabbed the bitch from below. It would've been blocked easily, but I was already stabbing her. The attack went for the stomach, and while it didn' do much I could hear the bitch.

"Guh! GET AWAY [Summer's Storm]!" An with that we were sent flying away. With a quick grab though I kept the little girl from falling over the edge.

The Gal looked worse for wear, but not bloddy as she raised her fan, "Damn it. I just need to kill you already!"

HP: 81%

SP: 100%

"Get out the Crusader King Sword and couch low, but switch to the mid-section mid-swing."

"Try to take advantige of distance expectations once or twice (likely wont work more than that). A shorter sword might be even Azaels (dont know how big it is)"

"As we said last time we talked to the spear. The best and most American solution is to nuke it. Use the smite on her directly and do it with the Soul Eater Sword."

With a quick thought the sword turned to the Souls Eater, "Okay you bitch, I'm your enemy now!"

An with that I put the gal down and charged at the fuckin' bitch. Exe, bein' smart about things, dashed away as I closed the distance.

"Don't come close! [Four Season Shattering Winds]!" An with that she let out a massive gut of wind that rended even parts of the ship. With belief in the lord though I push through it, my armor taking the hit with ease. "You—"

She couldn' get anything else out as I went in for feint. She went over to block with her fan, fooled as I then parried her fan away.

With a tightening of my sword I brought it into the air, "I call upon the Lord above who I have sworn my Faith too!" Her face went pale and I smirked, "May my blade fall this foe before me, [Smite]!"

With my sword lit with the powers of the Lord above, I sliced down upon her. Not seeing anything else she blocked with her free hand, my attack destroying it all the way to her shoulder. Sadly it lost steam after that, giving her a chance to dash away onto the forward arft of the ship.

She was breathin heavily as she now started flying, "You bastard! I will be back, and with my friends." She pointed her fan at me, "I will kill you for this!"

"If your gonna flee, fuckin flee!" I said as I fired my Ripple blade at her. She clicked her tongue as she dodged. With that she flew up into the sky before entering where the rift was opened.

Well, she wasn' the true boss. What the fuck am I suppose to do now?

"What you were going to do in the first place total the ship or go search for answer under the deck as killing soul eaters dose jack shit."

"After find out who were the people killed on the ship deck and offer some posible comfort to survivors. They must feel terible."

Without much prompting I walked over to where the door I broke was, an' gave it more of a kicking! Thing flew to the other side of the wall, revealin a pretty angry lookin purple light.

My sword in Soul Eater form, I marched in down in there flanked by Exe an' Dolly.

"So that's the boss." I said lookin at a skeleton sitting in a chair. It didn' look the like the last one, instead wearin what looked to be some fancy helmet with a brush ontop.

It looked up from it's seat, as if havin a smile on it's face. I didn' waste time as I stabbed through the things ribs. Just as I did, the purple glow went away.

The ship suddenly shook, almost sendin us off our feet. We stood strong however, and soon we felt an impact as well as the sounds of water.

"Wave is over." Dolly said as she peaked out the door.

"FUUU! Itsuki!" I heard someone rushing above and since we didn' have anything else to do, I went up to see.

What I saw was a little girl hanging over the edge with that looked to be a rope, "Dolly go take care of that Wizard."

Dolly suddenly appeared next to the gal, which left me and Exe to grab onto the rope. Without much effort I yanked it, sending a barely breathin' Bow Kid onto the deck.

"FUUU! Thank you sir!" Yelled the little girl as she dashed to the Kid's side.

I turned to Exe, "you think the Kid'll be fine?"

She nodded, "He didn't take much of a beating. Not as bad as you~"

I took a momen' to look over myself, an' while I had a few scars I was fine. Hell, I think the armor was knitting itself before my eyes.

"He was weak then?"

"Fufufu," she looked over at the girl with a calmness, "sadly, he is. She sent him flying in one attack while you took about seven."

"Invite her (and knocked out bow) to your place for training and stuff he and her needs to be stronger (to preven further party wipe unsaid) and you could guide them in your methods. (Also so we can bash Bow right in the nogin with what his stunt caused plus genuine help after we get his head straight he is needed for waves.)"

"Take Bow kid somewhere private and tell him why killing a king without properly setting up a solid form of government is a bad idea. As well as tell him to get protection in case his girlfriend wants ta be in da mood."

"When he wakes up crack him in the balls with a murderstroke. Bonus points for yelling something like "dirty yellow jap" or "Hiroshima!" As we do it."

I looked onto the pitiful person that was the Bow Kid. This kid right here has caused so many of my fuckin issues that its hard to even describe. I'm thankful for the people around me, but fuckin hell did this guy cause one hell of a war.

I reached down and grabbed the kid, the girl next to him looking at me in horror, "FUUUU, W-what are you going to do to I-Itami!?"

I thought about it for a momen', "We are gonna have a private chat about how things are suppose to be done."

She gripped onto her sword and brought it up to me, "I. I. I. Fuuuu….." She dropped it, her face curving as if fascinated with somethin'.

"Gather your remainin' mate over there." I said liftin the Kid, "You'll probly be comin' with me for some proper trainin'."

An so I took the Kid below deck, his eyes barely focusin on me, "Why… this…"

Since we seemed far enough I threw the Kid onto the ground, "WHY! I'll give you a guess."

He mouthed somethin' I didn' hear, "What was that?"

"Why..."

I looked into his eyes, and they were going in two directions. Simply put he was lucid, guess the bitch didn' hold back on her punches. Actually, I'm pretty sure he should be dead if what happened to that armor guy said anythin'.

"Nothing yet." I said pickin' him up, "You will just be comin with me."

With that I walked out of the bottom of the ship, just to see Spear an' Nao comin' abroad. Nao looked pretty ruffled up, but the Stud looked like he was put through a grinder.

"So what was it?" Nao said walkin to me, "And why do you have Itsuki on your back?"

I sighed, "Some kind of spawner or somethin' but it was guarded by some gal."

The Boi blinked, "People siding with the Waves?"

I shrugged, "We are fightin a God, why not some of their followers." And then I noticed the one I was warned about coming aboard. She seemed to take a step back before ducking behind the Stud.

"Oi, you got something against Myne," The guy said, "And you havn't explained Itsuki. Did he get injured or something? I can have one of the girls heal him up."

"Well you see this Kid on my hands did somethin' really fuckin sinful." I jerked him a little, "Ya ever heard of Brusch? Country a little north of here?"

Spear Stud thought for a momen' an nodded, "Yeah, I think I saw a quest to go kill some Skeletons over there."

I couldn' help but smile, "Well you see it wasn' just a small group of skeletons, but a fuckin horde of the bastards. And it was all caused by this guy on my back."

"Really? And what's Itsuki got to do with that?"

"Well ya see dis guy on my back killed the ol' King." The look on the guy's face paled, "He just went up and left right after, sent everyone crazy, and someone thought he had a wonderful idea for damage control. Things happened and would you know it but I'm the Ruler of that nation now. Bow Kid is under arrest for Regicide."

"H-he didn't do it! FUUU!" Yelled the girl as she came at me, but damn she was too slow. I just side stepped her attack an' watched her almost fall into the water.

"Missy, you this guy's girlfriend?"

"Wh-what are you saying!" The girl barked at me.

"I don' plan on killin' dis guy, just givin' him some good ol' fashion discipline. I'll let you come along if ya don' do anythin' to spring him. Den I'll kill ya both."

She took a step back, her legs shakin' like rattle snakes.

I turned to Stud, "As for you're girl, she reminds me of a really bitchy gal I knew from home. Nothin' more, nothin less." I could hear a chuckle comin' out of Nao as I said all dis.

Before he could say anythin' else I turned to Exe an Dolly, "So how did ya two get here? I'm takin it Mrt's got a ride ready?"

"It will be when the Wave is over." An' just as Dolly said, a Black Hole thingy appeared infront of us.

"He must have been watching us~" Exe said as she waited for me beside the portal.

Thinkin for a momen' I turned to Nao, "Hey Naofumi, ya want a one way trip to my place so you don' need to deal with dat King?"

The Boi thought for a momen' before shakin his head, "Sorry but I need to see a friend in the Capital. I'll come right after I pay him a visit."

"Alright." I started makin my way towards da door with Bow Kid an' Dolly carryin his injured fellow. I turned over to the Girl, "You comin'?"

"F-FUUUU!" She yelled as the little girl sprinted through the Portal.

With one last wave I stepped through the Portal, ready to get back to work.

What do you guys wanna do with Bow Kid Anyways? Put in the dungeon or something?

"Prison. We'll be the first person he see's. His little girlfriend can come with."

"Set a chair in front of the throne, set the kid down in it, heal his wounds enough where his life isn't in danger, shackle his wrists and ankles to the chair, splash a bucket of water in his face to wake him and have that very important 'talk' in front of his compatriots."

"Give the kid medical and asign Dolly as a minder. Give nurses orders to call you as soon as he wakes up for more than a minute. Let him try to justify himself just to see what he thinks he has done."

"Geas contract (if posible if not good old slave brand) like bone dady tried to do to us. Basicly he will lisen to our training, not try to worm out of this in any way and he will face his punishment by doing work for the people of your country. Also asign someone to his party as a minder. (make shure they wont abuse it preferably someone that would want him to reform/redeem him.)"

"Not dolly her job ends as soon as brand/geass is in place and we know he wont try to worm his way out. (Just to clarify)"

"Our shadow is a good candidate for the training. We should use slave brand. Also since his sin is pride and envy, it might be fitting to beat his bullshit out of him by publicly humiliating him. Perhaps make him walk through the streets full of people who remember what he did."

As I exited the portal I came to the sight of the little girl being stared down by da Baron an' Mrt. Of course the girl is now jibbering about something but I don't really care.

After a few momen's da Baron looked over my ways and grew mother fuckin suprised, "M-my King!" He made his way over and then tried to give me a sucker punch, "You should have came back sooner ya Bastard!"

He hit me hard enough that I dropped the Bow Kid onto the ground and started laughin, "Sorry bout dat Baron, but I got someone you've been wanting for a while." I showed my hand to the Kid.

His eyes lit up, "You finally have the bastard."

"Aye," I turned to Mrt, "You got anything to bind this fucker, like a slave seal or something?"

The skeleton shook his head, "Heroes cannot be bond to something against their will. It was a lesson learned by Siltvelt when they captured the Hero of the Cane and tried to turn him into a slave."

"Well thats a pitty, though we got other things we need to do then." I picked the Kid right back up, "Lets bind this fucker. We got his interrigation an' punishment to do."

I saw the little girl who came along look at me in complete fear as I said all this.

The town square was buzzin with action as people flocked from all over the place to see what the hell was going on. Merchant who were smart were selling ratting fruit while children gathered a hell of a lot of rocks. Anyone who is everyone came to the event of what could be the century, 'The Interrigation and Trial of the Hero of the Bow'.

I stood ontop of a stage with the bastard in chains. I looked over to the Priest that came along, giving him the nod to heal him. As the man finished, the Kid started to speak.

"What… where am I?"

"Itsuki, Hero of the Bow." I bellowed through the crowds, "You are in the land of Brusch, where you commited a crime against the country. You stand trial for commiting Regicide. So I ask you Itsuki, did ya kill my predecessor?"

The Kid blinked for a momen' lookin over the crowds, "I did. I took from this nation the corruption that was their leader!"

My brow rose, "So you say you've done it, but it was justified?"

"Yes!" The kid yelled, "He was taxing the people heavily, taking away what little food they had! With him gone the people will be able to eat!"

The crowd seemed to be shiftin' for a momen' at his words but, "You bastard!" Yelled da Baron as he came onto the stage, "You killed Rudolph! There were no fucking tax hikes! You were lied to!"

"Lied to!?" The kid yelled back, "I-I listened to the people! There were people starving in the streets and now they are full and healthy!"

"That only because over half our people are dead!" The Baron said into the Child's face, "Because you killed the King, the undead decided to take things into their own hands!"

"I-I have nothing to do with that!" Yelled the Kid back, "The man was corrupt! I bet you the undead were just some event that would have happened anyway!"

"Event?" I looked the Kid up an' down, "What the hell you sayin?"

"What, its obvious they were some kind of event. Nothing that large would happen unless one of us were there. If thats why I'm tied up I demand you release me!"

Looking over the crowd people weren't like what they were hearin', hell they were stunned. Just like the times most of 'em have served under me they've waited for the word.

"You are a piece of work arn't ya." I looked over the crowds an' bellowed over everyone, "And please tell the crowd here today; who of the people told you this? How many people told you to do this act?"

The Kids face turned deathly pale as I looked onto him. Since he wasn' going to budge yet I kneeled down to his ear, but spoke so everyone could hear, "Da people here would like to know who sent you."

The Kid mouthed something, just barely auditable.

"Louder! Load enough for God to hear of your Sin."

"I… I WAS PAID BY THE ADVENTURERS GUILD!" He turned to me with a peat red face, "B-but my money was stolen! It was stolen by the Shie—"

He didn' really get a chance to finish that sentence as a stone smashed into his face. Said stone was followed by a hundred somethin rotting Shieldberry Fruits into his face, paintin him a crimson red.

"You are out of touch with reality these are real people with real lives! How could you live amongst them and still think them fakes just pieces in a game board! I sentence you guilty and assign you comunal service and remedial training. You are lucky world needs you alive, for you would have died today."

I turned to see that girl who seemed to want to follow him watch in horror. She would have been held back by Dolly, but it seems she wasn' even budgin'. I patted her on the shoulder before movin onwards to da Baron, "So when we getting started?"

"Tomorrow." He said with a smile I havn't seen for awhile, "For tonight I just want to relax."

"Start drinking for the night."

"Gotta deal with an angry lady."

"The girl just witnesed her hero admiting to be somthing else. Whatever he is he is no hero atleas for now. Maybe when we have finished with them."

"I guess a night of drinkin is before us!" I announced happily before picking up the little girl, "I think one's gonna wanna join us."

"I… I can't believe, hiccup, he did that…Fuuu." Said the little girl named Risha as she downed some smooth going moonshine.

"Meh, all heroes arnt really heroes." shrugged a content Exe on her forth bottle.

"Hey, arn't I a hero." I said wavin around my drink, "I saved this place an' its lookin' like everyone pretty happy."

"Oh, I guess you did~" Exe said while pouring the little girl another cup, "Where did you go~? You've been gone for two weeks."

I gave a hearty laugh, "I went to the top of Mount Celestine, Exe, an met God himself."

"Oh~" She leaned forward, "What did he tell you to do?"

"Bring order to this place." I made a wave of my hand over the armor, "These are his commands, an' I'm hoping to get everyone to follow 'em"

Exe looked over the writing an' gave a whistle, "Reasonable, but I know alot of people who don't mind adultery and murder."

"Aye, thats what it sounded like," I turned to da little one, "So what happened to you? You were followin the Kid like a fervent follower an' lover, so somethin' must have happened between ya."

The little one nodded, "I-Itsuki saved me f-from a Noble." She undid her cloth before any of us could bother to stop her. On the little girls chest was a Slave Seal just like Scally an' his whore of a wife, "I… was given to the man, a rotten rotten man. He fucked over and over my family till we were almost bankrupt. Then I was taken, the man saying I would be half of their debt."

She looked up to me with a longing look, "I was turned into his slave. The sick man was going to have me k-killed if my family got me back."

"An' I take it the Kid saved ya?"

She grew a small smile, "Yeah…"

I gave a longin' sigh, "Well I guess hes did some good even in dat dream world of 'is."

"Yeah…" She said lookin deeper in 'er drink.

"Well ya know, you could bring him to do reality of bein' a true hero." She looked up at me with a small sparkle in 'er eyes, "He doesn' think this place is real, but I'm sure if someone guided 'im towards bein' a hero he'd work out just fine."

"...R-really?"

"Ha, hell yeah. He just fuckin dumber den shit." She looked at me confused for a momen' so I continued, "He needs to realise dis world is fuckin shit. If he had someone to guide 'is aim I'm sure he could make a sure mark of heroism."

"So," I said stuckin out my hand, "How about you come an' help take care of the guy. We can't have him locked up forever, so with your help we are gonna have him do some good in dis world."

"So… I would be his tutorer?"

"Yeah, though if you done wan' to or need some more people I can easily give ya that."

She just jumped out of her seat and gripped my hand with all 'er strength. It wasn' going to crush it but damn, "FUEEEEE! Thank you! I'm sure Itsuki is a hero down in his heart!"

"Yes yes I'm sure he is. Why don' you go sleep off your drink or somethin'. We'll be workin tomorrow."

"Yes! FUEEEeeeee…." An with that she ran out of the room to where she was gonna sleep.

"Ara ara, what are we going to do with her~" Said Exe as she downed a Moonshine.

I shrugged, "Since she's part of the Kids party maybe she'll get through 'is thick skull. Heres to hoping the dumbass wont be a dumbass anymore." An with that we toasted drinks.

"You know I have been worried about you~" Exe said as she downed a drink, "Is there anything you are willing to do to repay for my worry~?"

"That sounded like a demand for attention and affection. Pull her onto our lap, give her a non-lewd back massage and whisper sweet nothings. Women love that shit."

"Yap. Date night. Take her to a theatre. Preferably one that isn't running a play about either of us."

"Let's also set up a picnic tomorrow for our colleagues. Also, we forgot to get Cliff that big ass bone."

"Ehehe." Well dis is not da best situation, "Why don' we go to da movies?"

"Movies~" She gained a little smile, "I think that would do. Tomorrow night then?"

"Yeah, lets just meet here eh?"

"Fufufu~, that will work."

"Great" An' so I continued to drink the night away until somethin' hit me. They have fuckin theaters here?

The sounds of people workin outside were comin in as we looked onto the throne room. I sat on said throne, da Baron a little worried lookin as he came in.

"Has something happened?"

"Yes my liege." He said with little concern, "But I would wait till Mrt comes."

Speaking of the Devil, a black portal opened in the middle of the throne room, "You are surely an interesting man King Borris." In walked Mrt the skeleton, "To become a Champion yourself, how was entering the interwarp?"

I shrugged, "Went pretty well, met my God an' all. You gonna try gettin' my soul or somethin'?"

"Nah," He said with a wave of his hands, "You see there are only two others, both of whom are much more of a threat. That, and I do not go back on my words."

He didn' seem to be lyin' but what can you say about a Skeleton, "So Baron, I take it dat meeting didn' happen?"

He shook his head, "It has not, I will send word that you have returned from your journey. As for everything else, recovery has been coming into full swing. With the crops coming from the Shieldberry, we will have plenty of fruit for years to come." His expression grew grim, "Though there is one thing…"

He looked over to Mrt, who just shrugged, and then back to me with a sigh, "The King of Faubley, Bobrov the Third, has asked for a tribute."

I sank into my chair, "This was the womanizer, right?"

"Aye, he has demanded this morning that the King of Brusch, Borris the First, pay tribute in the finest women he could give."

"And how worryin' could this be?"

Da Baron shrugged, "I don't really know. Honestly you would be able to walk right into his palace and dethrone the King if you wanted, but a War would be devastating. This could be a bluff, but everyone knows Faubley is the strongest nation."

"Delay and start planning seeds to make a fucking wolf army and modify a bunch to make barbed wire bushes."

"In the meantime have someone develop a repeating crossbow. A big one. That can be fed by big ass belts or drums of arrows. If nobody invented the spring it's time to introduce it."

*Spring likely exists the fucks have guns just not usefull for averige person under the system as they go by % not flat might be the same for crrosbow albet on smaller scale. So be cautios in your expectations on new wepons and other equipmenr they might bring disapointment in form of unusual/high requirements and wierd or ultra speced stat bonuses even if they shouldnt in non rpg world."

"Well, I'm not sending him a gal." I said flatly, "But I wouldn' mind trying to delay him. I'll be making some gal lookin fruit to ship, and while there I'll be raisin' some more of those Wolves."

"So prepare out forces?" the Baron said with a little skeptism.

"Yup. If this comes out to be a war I wanna be ready."

"Very well." Da Baron said writin' some stuff on his paper, "Well that was the worrisome thing for today. Heres to hoping the world is not dumb enough to fall apart."

"Aye!" I said with a cheer aswell.

"Ara ara, what is this you are working on?" Said Exe as she walked into da restin room.

I looked over my creation, a gal-like plant. With a little bit of work on da plant I ended up chuking the idea of usin' just the fruit an' moved onto a whole plant. Gotta say, she came out beautiful with a pretty large rack , ass, an' hourglass shaped body, just…

"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

She couldn' talk a damn. Though the green eyes were a nice touch.

"Dat King from Faubley wants a gal, so I decided to just make him one. In the end I'm pretty sure we'll be be goin' to war soon if hes a dumbass." I said before puttin' the vegitable of a gal-plant on a chair.

"Well~ are you ready to go now~?" She said while leanin a good bit forward.

"Yup!"

We made our way down da streets, Exe leadin me by da hand to da theater. She was dressed in a black skirt with a jacket workin as her top. For me, well I didn' have anythin' better den my armor to wear an' she brought her sword.

As we walked up to the theater, well it was uncanny. I saw movie posters just like home on the walls while the place had a ticket office. It didin' help things that once people saw me, they would open way for me to walk to da booth.

The one runnin' it was a young lookin girl, who turned red as soon as she saw us, "Oh, my Lord! Uh, what movie do you want to watch?"

We were sittin' in what I could describe was a fancy loft hangin' above the 'movie' we were watchin. To my side was Exe, who watched over it all with a smile an' even some laughter. I just couldn' put my mind around what I was seein.

It was like a three dimensional movie bein' played out infront of us. It was kind of obvious no one was on stage, but a bunch of illusions playing out the movie. But they were three dimensional, movin' and actin within what I guess was just a massive illusion.

Had to admit, it'd be eye catchin if I didn think too hard bout it, since doin' it made the movie disappear! I kept on seein a bunch of mages hangin' outback around a small crystal ball that I guess was some projector.

"You are but so beautiful my heart flutters, I would defend you with my life!" Said a man with blonde hair to a bountiful girl.

"But what of the other heroes!? They will kill you for doing this!" The girl was petit, but boxum in every right. What was a little odd was her ears, ones that would belong to a cat.

"They will try, but no spear, sword, bow or even gun may pierce my shield! With it, I shall carve a land where you may be free!"

"Fufufu," Exe simply laughed as she turned to me, "See yourself in that man~?"

"Aye." I brought some moonshine they gave me to drink, "So this was the last Shield?"

She nodded, "Yes, and like you he saw people experiencing misery and protected them against it. Though his fate was ill."

I raised a brow, but she pointed to the scene. Soon the man would build a nation, Siltvelt, and Shieldfeeden. Though that isn't, what it focused on.

"Why does he need so many women!" Yelled the same girl from before, now dressed as a queen, "it's not right!"

"But my mistress," a maid came over to assist the girl, "you cannot bear his child so he must spread his seed."

The Queen rested her face onto the table and cried, but unknown to her all these troubles are from the maid. She, along with a coalition of nobles, set the man up for a harem. The Queen tried to reject it and had his child, who was strangled to death by the wet nurses. Now her maids feed her birth control, so she may never get a child.

Her crying had stopped, "If he cannot be faithful, he will die."

The maid looked wide eyed before she grew a grin, "I heard poison works well, even against a heroes defence. Especially when they are administratored at the right moment."

As I heard this I noticed somethin' behind the illusion, four figures were walking about as if trying to stealth behind the illusion.

They looked just like the Ninjas Dolly fights on a near daily basis.

"Keep an eye on those figures. Nudge Exe and call them out but don't go after them yet."

"I fucking knew it we're getting lincoln'd!"

"Lets set up 2 dummies of ourselves. Once the five man crew gets up here, we ambush them after they attack the dummies."

"Also, make it a pincher attack."

I wrapped my arm over Exe, who for her part was lookin a little confused, "I think da cult church is goin' to Lincon me in this theater."

She was about to say somethin, but I pointed towards da stage. It only took her a momen' before she nodded, "Do you have a plan in mind~?"

"Aye, lets just walk out here in a momen'.'"

I got out a small seed, one of the people seeds I was developin'. A little change to the thing an' soon I got a [Doppelganger] seed. I gave her another poke, an' she gave me a small kiss with a smile. Ah, so she was playin' 'em that way.

We got up from our seats an' went to the hall, watchin' as one of the Ninja's disappeared. We weren't goin' to give him must time though, as I dropped a pair of seeds onto the ground, "Just a drop of your blood Exe, an' well be good."

"Oh~" She did a motion no normal man would have seen, cutting her hand just slightly. A drop of blood soon fell onto the seed, an' in just a momen' a copy of Exe popped up infront of us. Funny enough, it was already clothed just like a video game.

Soon I did the same, causin a copy of me to be made. Exe, with a smile walked up to her clone an' whispered somethin' in its ear. Soon enough it ran onto mine without care, ripping the fake armor into pieces.

I stared in amazement as the two were quick to makin out, "Ara ara, entertained~?"

I looked over to see Exe with a teasin smirk, "Just get in da covers."

She gave another laugh before hidding in the covers opposite of me. We waited there, but soon I had a feelin'. I looked up, an saw a panel just slightly move. It was the Assassin.

After a few minutes of the two not getting much farther then makin out another panel opened. Just as soon as it opened, the two figures got up, tried to make themselves nice lookin, an' went back to their chairs.

We waited, the two panel still not movin from where they were. I couldn' really tell where the story was goin' now, but the sounds of the actors now makin love could be heard. I think it was the Maid an' Shield Hero from my guess, since the maid said somethin' about druggin' the guy before the queen.

After a bit though I could hear some monologin' from the Queen, her words bein' that she was drawing the poison for the unfaithful slob of a husband. I watched as the Assassin started movin. There were now three of 'em, each drawin their knives. Even from here I could tell they were poisoned.

As her talkin finished the husband entered the room an the Ninjas were upon the fakes.

"Blunt our sword and hit them from behind. Let's knock at least one of them out for interrogation."

We waited just one more momen' the dolls doin' their job perfectly. The sounds of the Queen an' Shield fuckin came through the air, an' I saw one of the Ninja pop a scroll. I could just barely hear him, "Op is go."

Next momen' they went in for a stabbin at my double, the three stabbed their sword into my double's back while the last one came down with an upper cut, severin' his head. They didn' even get a momen' to realize it bled green before we were upon them.

"[Six Dimensional Slash]!" Yelled Exe who appeared right behind the bastard. They didn' even have a momen' to spare as each of them received a stab in their back and a case of head lose.

The Ninja who jumped down tried to do somethin' but I was upon him before the fucker could lift a finger, "[Big Stick Policy]!" An' with a smack I sent the fucker hurrling into the back of our booth.

He was out cold, our combined efforts slaughterin 'em. An' with that I looked towards da screen, watching as the Queen poured poison right into the mouth of the hero. An' then I heard an explosion.

I looked over towards Exe, "That was from da Castle wasn' it?"

She nodded, "Someone must really hate you. Though I don't mind a little more spice in our date~"

"You got a twisted sense of a date ya know. Bein' assassinated wasn' in my book."

"Fufufu, you don't realize what it was like in my country." She wiped the blood off of her blade, "It is not a relationship unless someone tries to assassinate one of the lovers~"

"Oh, then we're lovers?"

She gave me a coy smile, "Well you might be my type, and we have been going out. Lets see how the night finishes~" She said while boltin' for the exit.

"I bet it'll be one hell of a night!" I said while runnin behind her.

We made our way through the crowds, people makin way for us as we ran towards da castle. While the streets were confused, it was more of everyone looking for who the fuck did it. Soon we made our way to the castle, an' saw a nice size hole where the dungeons were.

We ran over, lookin inside to see the Bow's little girl layin on the ground. I went right to the gal, her breathin was still there if faint. I poured a small bit of healin right ontop to make sure she stayed that way.

"I did not think we would be doing this today~" I turned to face Exe who grew quite the fiendish smile, "We going Hero hunting?"

"Get someone strong to secure the ninja."

"Welp. We're gonna have to put training itsuki on hold. Or do it while fighting."

"Contact Mrt, if we can. His undead network will catch the assassins in no time."

With a bulb in my head I went into the Castle, searchin' the basement for a certain skeleton. Though I didn' notice it before, there were a pair of corpses right inside the wall. A nice size arrow was in each of their necks, so I'm gonna take a guess an' say Bow Kid got pist off.

We ran our way through the basement, runnin' past ol' cells that havn't been looked at for months. While there was nothing in there, the smell of corpses was still there.

There was a small door at the end of the hall, but before we could enter it out stepped Mrt, "Hold it! I got traps there!"

I started steppin on the break, "Lookin for the Assassins an Bow Kid, you know where the fuck they are?"

"I have been tracking them since they've attacked the dungeons." Mrt said while wavin' a hand an' a portal opened, "The Bow Hero has gone northeast towards while being pursued by atleast two more. Though I am a little worried, the Bow seemed to be off-kilter last time I caught sight of his person."

I looked over at Exe who gave a nod, an' the two of us ran through the portal.

Right on the other side of the portal we popped out infront of a pair of Assassins. They drew out their weapons ready for a fight.

"Fire elemental sword to the neck."

"Plus ability boost and Crusader Kings sword."

"What the h—!" One of them said as I brought my sword towards 'em. I tried to name him in the neck, but he made for a dodge, which made me sever his shoulder.

"Take this!" His friend came in for a slice at my side, but soon he was diced up into little pieces. Behind where he was standin was Exe with a smirk.

"Damn you, you heretic!" Yelled the armless bastard as he picked up his severed limb. He went in for an attack, one that I parried with ease. What was odd was his severed hand never dropped the fuckin sword.

With a simple stroke I cut through the guy's neck, lettin' him drop to the ground. With a little morbid curiosity I quickly sucked up the arm.

Severed Arm Blade Unlocked

I went ahead and burned a scroll that linked me an' Mrt, "Hey, do you know where any more of the fuckers are or the Bow?"

{No I do not. It seems the Bow Hero has activated some kind of stealth, my lower tier undead are not detecting him.}

Well shit.

"How are we gonna track him?"

"We have a helm of truesight we just need to find where Itsuki is. It's possible we can use travelers sword to move fast enough to find him. But as for where to luck. We're gonna have to consider what route someone who thinks the world is a videogame would take in their videogames for a stealth run."

"Lets set up troops to surround the city while we look through the city."

I sniffed the air a little an' got on the Helm of True Sight. It didn' take me more than a minute to see da trail, a bunch of broken twigs an' leaves made it pretty obvious.

"Well, he's goin' North."

"Then towards Faubley~"

An' so we started runnin' towards the North. Me usin' the Traveler's Sword an' Exe with her Martial Arts. We were coverin so much land it was gettin to be fuckin' insane. But I knew we were gettin' closer, but I felt like somethin' worse was about to happen.

"We're getting close to the border." Exe said while readyin' her sword, "He should be close."

"Aye, huh the tracks are stoppin… EXE GET DOWN!" With a Burst of speed I jumped at the girl an' brought her down to the floor. Right where she was an arrow struck the ground and created a crater.

"Tsk, damn you Jim!" I looked to see Itsuki, but it wasn' just him. Through the helm I could see he was radiating something very fuckin' nasty, "I have judged both of you Evil! Leave me be or I will be forced to execute both of you!"

"Switch to a holy sword.."

"Seems ya got somethin' making some decisions for ya. Some mighty bad ones." With a quick shift I turned the Traveler's sword into Azrael's, "Seems I gotta beat the demon out of ya."

"So be it, [Meteor Shot]!" An with that he fired a massive bolt of energy right towards me. With a swift bash of my sword I blew out the arrow, not waitin' to close the distance.

"Damn you!" He started dashing backwards, pelting me with a couple dozen arrows. I was bein' pelted so much I had to forcus on defendin'.

"I will end you now, [Scatt—!"

"Not today boy~ [Seven Fold Dimensional Slash]"

With a simple swing of her sword one sword became seven, there was no fuckin escape from the attack. So instead of fleein' he swung his bow to da side an' blocked about half the attacks.

"Gah!" He yelped as he ran back from the attack. His entire right side was bleedin' from the attack, even when the aura he had seemed to defend 'im a little. He brought up his bow, "[Scatter Shot]!"

The next momen' Exe was put on the defenceive just like I was, blocking as many of the arrows as she could. With a heave I charged at the now exposed back, causin him to block me instead with his bow.

His eyes widened before yelling, "[Rebound]!" An with that he was sent flying back towards a line of trees. Exe returned to my side, ready to finish this guy off.

"You know," He grew a small smirk, "You fight well for an Evil Doer Miss, why don't I bring you to the side of good." An' he drew back his bow, the aura surroundin' him movin' right into the arrow.

"[Rechtfanatiker]"

"Anyways our plan is not mutch difrent of our usual fight plan. Try to restrain him and close go in for a hit. (Asuming ability boost Fortress are in effect Knock backs a bad thing gives him distance so no big stick.) Smite might be effective against that aura since its dark and all but its kinda slow needing a chant so timing must be right otherwise its a waste of SP."

I charged him just as the attack was sent flying, I was not going to let this fucker get away! "[Fortress]! [Ability Boost]!"

I ran towards the fucker at high fuckin' speeds, but for some reason the fucker never even lost his small smirk from before. Then I had a feeling that something was about to hit me from behind.

"[Seven Fold Dimensional Strike]"

I moved in an instant, coming around to see Exe striking at me. I was in armor though, and I used it along with da sword to block all dem attacks. I was kind of successful, as only three really dug deep into me.

With a quick movemen' I sent Exe flying, as if she was losin' a good amount of her skill. Though as I looked upon the gal I noticed somethin' really bad, that damn curse has spread to her.

"You Bastard!" I yelled an' looked backwards, watching as the guy was now trying to flee. Before I could give chase, I had to turn around an' meet another of Exe's strikes.

Well, this is fucked up.

"To be hornest I have no mutch more of an idea than to try to knock her out or try to out run her as her stats been notably lowered. (Knocking out is risky and time consuming, outruning caries the risk of her stabing us in the back while we track him or further interupting our fight when we confront him again...)"

"I hate to do it as its costly (as in 80% of our SP) but I see no other option than using Lords grace and hoping lords power helps her fight the curse... Its even a long shot that it will even fight/remove the curse in the first place from its description."

"Like allways... Whelp hoping for miracle."

Exe continued her onsought on me, this time tryin' to hit me with simple attacks. Each one brutal an' calculating.

She'd go in for an upper cut, which I had to turn to parry, then she'd switch is to a side slash to clip at my arms.

"Exe, are ya there?" I yelled at her.

She only stared coldly, "Die scum."

An with that she rended a piece of my armor, tearing into my arm.

Well, there really was only one thing I could do, "Oh Lord Above who I have pledged my Faith too."

Her eyes widened, "[Nine Fold Dimensional Slash]!"

I felt all the blades snacking into my body with skill an' persicion, my body hurtin like hell. But, "My Lord, bring upon my flock life so that they will continue fighting in your name, [Lord's Grace]"

As I spoke those last words, light seemed to shine from the moonlit sky, consuming Exe is blessed light. Soon the taint that was on her eroded away like it was never there, and she dropped onto the ground knocked out.

Lookin up, I couldn see the Bow Kid anywhere. He must have crossed into Faubley by now.

Well shit.

"Return to capital along along with Exe send curiers to Shield and Spear (To hold up image as ally) with instructions to give mesige only to heroes directly. Inform them of bows status along with his confesion, unstable mental state, belief that the world is fake and just a game along with his aperent ability to use curse that turns allies to enemies but with lowered stats. In the mean time take care of bows girl she could do somthing drastic..."

"Make sure we carry Exe."

I reached down and picked up Exe, her skin callous from who know how many years shes fought. She was light though, I would've been expectin'.

My enemies have made their moves, and now they have been made clear to me.

The Bow has decided to reject reality. Instead of learning humility from his punishment, the fucker has gotten it in his head that everyone else is evil. He will stop at nothin' to kill me now.

The King of Faubley has demanded my women. He thinks himself on top of the world in that all will buckle under his might. With the Bow in his nation, I cannot play either as a fool.

And that does not include the Heresy that is the Three Heroes Church. They are but a blight upon the world that I will eradicate, using my legend to bring folk into my flock, becoming the shepherd of their hearts and bring them away from sin and heresy.

The world is against me and the nation I have died to construct. Each of these wishes to bring war upon eachother even when the world is facing the Demon God that seeks to destroy their world. We will fight one another, and the winner will become just food for her.

I could feel it in me, that same curse of Sin that corrupted the Bow. He felt the entire world was against him and just 'knew' it was wrong. It was a human emotion.

I began my walk back to the capital.

I will not give into it. I have been blessed by the Lord to bring Order to this realm. Falling to Sin would bring me and the entire world into the damnation we face.

I am the Jim Borris. A man who tries to have a good an' honest life.

I am Jim Borris the Sword Hero. A Hero who will defend the world with my life against the waves.

I am Borris the First, King of Brusch. A King who will defend my lands against all who seek her harm.

Damnation is not the answer, instead I will bring Salvation even if it means war.

I am Holy King Borris, blessed by God to save the world from itself and beyond.Heavenly Series: Blade of the Righteous Saint Unlocked.