Oh hell yeah boys and girls we're back baby! Here's chapter 5 mother fuckers! Erm... Sorry about that...enthusiastic, introduction to the chapter. I'm just so glad to get back to it! Anyways in case you've been wondering where I've been for the last few days I've been working on my second fanfiction "A quirky gamer" so please go check that one out and at least give it a try to see if it fits your fancy, please. But anyways! Now I'm back for the next chapter of "The Unbreakable Shield" and in case you couldn't tell by the chapter name its time for the king and bitch to show their true colours with making fools out of the other three heroes. Well, not completely, but if I told you anymore that would be spoilers so I would just like to thank you for being so patient with me and enjoy the chapter.
In an inn which I don't know the name of(Seriously, I couldn't even find a single reference to the inn Naofumi and the bitch stayed in on the first night)
As we enter the scene, we see best boy Eijiro Kirishima and the bitchy bitch of bitchiness eating dinner at a table in the inn. Kirishima was completely blown away by how tasty the food was and it was quite possibly the best thing he had in his entire life! Well, aside from his dear Ka-san's cooking because that is the best food he has ever tasted.
Around the inn were the three other heroes and their respective party's. Motoyasu was getting drunk off of his own ass while hitting on some girls, Ren was sitting in one of the corners giving off his usual "Piss off and don't bother me" aura, while Itsuki was mingling with his party members and making plans for the possible future.
"So Sir Shield Hero, shall we have a toast to celebrate your first day on the job?" Bitch asked our favourite Shield Hero.
"Sorry Myne, but back where I'm from I'm not allowed to drink alcohol." Kirishima politely declined.
"Aw, that's a shame. You know, Melromarc is a matriarch country so no man would think to turn down a woman's offer of a drink." she said trying to convince him to have it.
"Really? Sorry I'm kinda bad at picking up on these kinds of things. But still I'll have to decline, but maybe sometime in the future?" he replied with a small smile while standing up and scratching the back of his head having already finished his food.
"Very well, Sir Shield Hero." she said giving up on her goal, instead opting to mentally plan her betrayal.
"Welp, I'm off to my room. Stay safe Myne." Kirishima said with a casual wave of his hand which she returned, framing him was going to be more difficult than she thought.
Kirishima's room
After he took off his armour Kirishima laid down on his bed and stretched out his limbs and begun to relax. He was also thinking of the future and what he should do to get ready for the long run, obviously he needed to farm some more to level up, he also needed to find possible ways to get around the weapon restriction of his legendary item and then he thought of something.
Grabbing a couple of copper coins he fed them to his shield and just like he thought it gained a new form, surprisingly it took the shape of a gauntlet with a small treasure box on the back of his forearm.
[Treasurer's Shield Unlocked]
[Treasurer's Shield]
[+5 DEF/+5 MAG DEF][Unique abilities: Calculation Proficiency(small), Fortune Up(small), Void Bank Storage(MAX)][Rarity: Uncommon]
Opening up the small chest he found the copper he fed to the legendary weapon before and he took them out, added them back into the sack of coins, and then put the sack itself into the box and returned the shield to its default form.
Try stealing his money now you damn robbers!
Then Kirishima gave one final yawn before laying down, pulling up the covers, and drifting off to sleep, completely unaware that tomorrow was going to be the worse day of his entire life.
In the morning
Kirishima had a rude awakening in the form of someone pounding on his door, this of course caused him to bolt up out of bed, only to trip on the blanket that somehow got caught around his ankles.
"Ouch!" he yelled in pain as his head hit the floor.
"I'm coming!" Kirishima called out as he untangled himself from the cover and ran over to the door, completely missing the fact that his armour and other equipment was missing, and opened it to find fully armoured guards standing there.
"Uh, do you need anything?" he asked, confused as to why they were here.
"Shield Hero, the king has summoned you to stand before him!" the lead guard responded with a voice a bit more loud than necessary.
"Oh, ok just let me grab my-" Kirishima turned around to grab his gear only to find everything missing from his room where he left it.
"What the hell! Where is all of my stuff!?" he yelled out in a panicked tone, then he felt a hand laid on his shoulder which was the guard who spoke before.
"Shield Hero the king has summoned you, now lets go!" he said while forcefully pulling the redhead out of the room and shoving him forward towards the stairs.
Moving outside Kirishima was roughly shoved into a carriage, hopefully meeting with the king will shed some light on the situation and afterwards he could report his stolen gear.
Inside the throne room
As Kirishima walked into the throne room he was rudely shoved down to the floor, but as he looked up he saw several spears pointed at him, the three heroes standing by the king, all of them were angrily glaring down at him as if he were some sort of villain.
But the most confusing thing was that Myne was with them looking at him with... Fear?
"What's goi-" he was cut off as the king yelled out.
"SILENCE!" this cause Kirishima(and incidentally everyone else) to flinch back at the sheer volume of his voice and caused everyone to become quiet.
"Now, Myne you poor damsel, would you please recount the case for the court to hear, if not its ok, it must've been traumatic for you." the king asked gently to the "victim" which only caused Kirishima to become even more confused.
What case? A court? What was traumatic for her?
"Y-yes, you see last night at the inn, the Shield Hero barged into my room stinking drunk and tried to rape me!" she said shocking Kirishima to his core and caused his eyes to widen and his face to become riddled in confusion.
"You animal!" Motoyasu yelled out in outrage at what his fellow hero had tried to do.
"I'm honestly disappointed in you Kirishima." Itsuki said with a frown while looking down at him.
"..." Ren however remained silent opting to keep up a poker face and analyse the situation calmly.
"The penalty for rape, even attempted rape, is the death penalty. Had you not been one of the Four Cardinal Heroes you would be executed on the spot immediately!" the king said while glaring daggers at Kirishima who was still reeling from what was going on.
After a few seconds Kirishima's brain dealt with the shock and rebooted and caught up with what was going on, he was being accused of attempted rape, with the threat of death, but why would Myne say that? Why! Why was this happening!?
"Do you have nothing to say in your defence Kirishima?" Ren said snapping him out of his thoughts and back to reality, he gulped before replying.
"I-I do, I didn't have anything to drink last night, and all I did before bed was checking my stats and using some materials to get a new form for my shield before I went to sleep." Kirishima explained nervously while mentally thanking him for the wake up call.
"I see, the first part I can testify as I didn't see you drink any alcohol and the fact that your wide awake and aware without a hangover proves that much, the second part however is different as we have no idea whether its true or not aside from the fact you left to retire to your room first." he said while trying to piece together the whole puzzle to get the full story(1).
"Grrr, YOU SERIOUSLY CANT BE TRYING TO DEFEND THIS SCOUNDREL!" Motoyasu cried out in anger at the Sword Hero.
"Of course not, I'm merely trying to gain an understanding of the whole story." he responded calmly to the Spear Hero's accusations.
"ENOUGH!" the king yelled silencing the two heroes and making everyone flinch(again), after he calmed himself he turned towards Ren.
"Sir Sword Hero, do you wish continue to defend the Shield Fiend, if you do not desist then you shall be charged with the same crime under the assumption of being an accomplice!" he said threatening Ren causing him to widen his eyes in shock before closing them and turning away.
"No, I apologise for my lapse in judgement." he said while mentally apologising to the red-haired teen.
"You are forgiven Sir Sword Hero. Now if their are no more interruptions, the Shield Hero's sentence shall be given." the king said without even bothering to acknowledge the facts previously presented to him.
Kirishima during this had his mind racing, was this entire thing just a setup from the very beginning? Was Ren even being honest when he was "defending" him? Or was he really just given the task of giving him false hope that he could get out of this situation? But there was one thing Kirishima did know for sure, and that's he was fucking pissed!
"You can all go to hell..." he mumbled under his breath as his adrenaline starting pumping, and it appears one of the guards noticed him talking.
"What was that you scum?" he asked, glaring at him.
"I SAID YOU CAN ALL GO TO HELL!" Kirishima yelled out as he used his shield and arm to knock the spears away while everyone was surprised by his violent outburst(2).
As the guards regained their senses, they tried to force Kirishima down, only for them to get knocked back by him as he had a thin glowing green aura surrounding him.
But instead of attacking them like they expected him to, he simply turned around and began to walk away without another word. Motoyasu, however, wasn't going to let this fly as he ran up to Kirishima and grabbed his forearm.
"Wait a minute!" he said angrily, but froze under Kirishima's glare once it was pointed directly at him.
"Sorry, but I'm the loser class right? So I need to use every second I got to train to become stronger." he said seriously before yanking his arm out of the Spear Hero's grip and continuing to walk away.
"Hmph, fine, leave! But be aware Shield Hero, we have spread the news of your crime to the people of Melromarc! That is your punishment, don't you ever even think you shall be able to find suitable work here ever again!" the king said in an annoyed and agitated tone.
This caused Kirishima to turn his head, feeding the king the sight of his fierce glare.
"I think I'll live." he replied before he walked out the door, leaving several angry people, a contemplating Bow Hero, and a regretful Ren.
In the streets of Melromarc
As Kirishima walked through the streets all he saw were people staring at him with varying emotions, anger, hatred, fear, disgust, emotions that would normally be directed at a villain...
Speeding up the pace he wanted to reach his intended destination as quickly as possible, the plains outside the kingdom. He needed to farm levels and get stronger because even if he was seen as the villain he will still be the best hero he can be even if the person doesn't want to be saved.
Suddenly he was slammed into a wall causing him to wince at the impact, when he looked at his assaulter he saw it was Erhard, the blacksmith he met the day prior.
"So I heard what you did to that girl you were with, I ought to punch you in the face!" he said while reeling back his fist to do as he said.
"So your against me to, huh?..." Kirishima said while narrowing his eyes at the blacksmith, ready to harden his face at a moments notice to give him a nasty surprise.
But then, Erhard just let him go.
"What's wrong? I thought you were gonna punch me in the face?" Kirishima asked confused.
"Sigh, even though I probably should, I'm not gonna." Erhard said scratching the back of his head, not completely believing the story that Kirishima would rape someone.
"Well if you have nothing else to say, I'm off to level up." he said before trying to leave, only to be stopped by Erhard placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Hold on kid, take this." he said taking out a dark red cloak which didn't look new but didn't look very old either.
"How much for it?" Kirishima said while taking the cloak and inspecting it for any kind of trap or magical runes(You never know!).
"Doesn't matter since I'm sure they took your money, but lets say it's on sale, 5 copper." Erhard replied, sure that the redhead would just pay him later, only to be surprised as Kirishima switched the shield's form and took out 5 copper from the small chest on the back of the gauntlet, then he returned it to normal and threw the cloak on while walking away towards the gates.
"Thanks, I guess." he said before he walked out into the wilderness with the guards not bothering to try and stop him.
The plains outside the kingdom
As Kirishima walked Orange Balloons bounced around him and tried to take bites out of him, emphasis on "tried" as his defence was way to high for them to bite through his skin.
Eventually Kirishima thought he was far enough away from that accursed place and immediately hardened his fist and punched one of the balloons, causing it to pop instantly.
He then proceeded to kill the rest of the little annoyances, but he realised he was gonna get no where killing small fry like this so he decided to head into the nearby forest, screw taking it slow and steady he needed something to relieve all this stress and anger!
Running into the forest he hardened his arm and drive by punched a Warthog right in its face instantly crushing the skull and killing it, then he unleashed a massive roar attracting monsters from all over the forest to his location.
Spinning around he blocked another Warthog charging at him with his shield, then punched it right in its face, but it didn't kill it, so he punched it again and again until it was dead.
Turning around, he saw a Bugbear looking at him hungrily and slowly approaching, little did it know it was the prey and the one in front of it was its predator.
About two minutes of monster slaughter Kirishima was found by an Arch Wolf pack which tried to dog pile him, only for him to break out of the pile in his Unbreakable Form and proceeded to beat down and kill each and every single one of them.
He just kept going, and going, and going!
He was unstoppable
He was unbreakable
He felt invincible.
However in his almost mindless slaughter of the monsters of the forest he didn't notice the fact that he never deactivated his unbreakable form and had been in it for almost two hours now(3).
Then he heard a loud thud! Turning around, he saw the cause, a giant orange balloon which was spitting out smaller balloons of all different colours.
No matter, he'll just kill it all the same!
Leaping into the air Kirishima raised one of his hardened hands and brought it down on the giant balloon in a clawing motion with the intention, to kill!
F-f-fucking finally! It took me SO LONG to complete this chapter. Anyways I apologise that this chapter took so long guys but it was kinda difficult when you have to rewrite the entire court scene two fucking times! Sigh, the point is whenever I was almost done with it something happened and I had to rewrite most of it, so yeah. Anyways, I hoped you enjoyed regardless and the next chapter is going to be the aftermath of everything so look forward to that, anyways onto the numbers.
1: In this fanfiction Ren isn't as idiotic as he is in canon and actually suspects that Kirishima could be innocent. But he's to cowardly to go against the king, so yeah.
2: Put yourself in Kirishima's situation, he was unfairly being accused of a crime that he didn't commit and seemingly everyone was against him at the time and his mind was still reeling from everything that was going on at the time, so it's only logical that he's gonna lash out at something or someone at some point.
3: Kirishima's anger was fuelling his prolonged transformation, after all it isn't unheard of in anime for a character to go beyond their normal limits when their fucking pissed.
Now that those are out of the way, onto the reviews.
Magnus9284: Dude fists are a part of someone, they can be classified as weapons but they sure as hell aren't gonna trigger the weapon violation, after all Naofumi used his fists to fight in the first episode of the anime so what makes you think that it's gonna trigger the legendary shield to stop Kirishima from using his fist to punch the shit outta something(or someone).
earthdragoon: Of course dude, Kirishima is the ultimate bro! And I agree that's what makes him lovable but I also think its his whole character in general makes him a lovable guy. -w-
myafroatemydog: Thanks my dude!
guest: It did, but Kirishima will just bounce right back harder than ever and beat the shit outta all the assholes that come his way!
redskin122004: Everyone has their own unique way of writing their stories and everyone has their own opinion, how I write my stories is how I'm comfortable with and if you don't like it well, that's your own opinion which your entitled to, also Malty is a bitch and(Spoiler Alert!) later on she is literally renamed "Bitch" which I find accurate enough that I'm using it long before it comes into play in my story.
Anyways that's it everyone and I hope you enjoyed.