This is a fan fiction of Shield Hero, with elements and characters from Aesthetics of a Rogue Hero and World Break, aria of cursed for a holy swordsman.
It is a mess, it will be quite chaotic, and it was a request from my Beta reader. So if you end up not liking it, remember you have been warned.
Other Franchises will be included.
Junko decided to explain that the way the school checked a new student's information and health condition was to use the artificial spirit of an eight-year-old crow, this was a great example of the result the imperial magical research, the spirit will call on the person by name, and by standing near it, it will check their condition and tell them a prediction of their future occupation.
Ren called it impossible to tell the future, for if the future can be seen it would mean that the very concept of free will does not exist, and everything is predetermined by an outside force or influence. Ren decided to quote something that once made him think and laugh, "In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law? Is it like the hand of god hovering above, at least it is true that man has no control over even his own will."
Naofumi looked at Ren and couldn't help but shake his head as he said that Ren was trying to quote the intro to one of the darkest anime there ever way, Berzerk of all things. At least it made the others realize that they do have things in common, something they didn't have before, which should make working together a hell of a lot easier. As Ren's name was called he went to stand before this bird that was happily smoking his cigar, "Ren Amaki, eighteen, no problem with your health condition, future occupation, army general." Junko mentioned that this was supposed to make people have faith that everything will work out as intended, which is why people always get the prediction of the job they wanted.
The next was Itsuki, he did as Ren and he walked over to this strange creature, "Itsuki Kawasumi, age eighteen, no problems with his health condition, future occupation, freedom fighter." Well, that was not hard to see since in the time he was previously summoned to be the Bow Hero, he had caused and backed many rebellions thinking he had done them a favor by promoting or restoring freedom to the people.
The next was none other than Motoyasu and seeing his two friends do that, he decided to do that as well, "Motoyasu Kitamura, age eighteen, had no problem with his health condition, except for elevated heart rate due to stress, Future Occupation, business owning family man and World changer." Family man didn't make much sense to Motoyasu, he only had four lovers, true they did agree to form a harem with him, but family man means he had kids and currently he had none, and what the hell is World changer he wondered.
The last of the four friends were left, and he could tell that he was left for last for a reason, a reason that was not going to make him happy at all, considering how rotten his luck had been when he was first summoned to be the Shield Hero in a country that hated him for merely being alive, in fact, they had a religion that revolves around hatred and vilification of the Shield Hero, going as far as to call the Shield Hero their version of the Devil, the source of all ill and evil in their world.
As he finally decided to do as his three friends had done he was ready to get closer but the moment he was getting closer the bird in the glass case began to twitch and sweat and tears could be seen forming on the body of the bird, "Naofumi Iwatani, Age Eighteen, no problem with his health condition except for some anxiety, future occupation, World changer."
That is when Naofumi looked at the bird and couldn't help but feel utter rage at being told that, as he demanded that is not a proper future occupation, demanding that the bird look again since it clearly made a mistake. "It doesn't matter if I look a hundred or a thousand times, every single time I looked for Naofumi Iwatani's future occupation it always results in the same, the future occupation of Naofumi Iwatani is a World changer!"
Motoyasu simply said if this thing is the best their magical researchers could come up with, well he wasn't impressed by this apparently defective thing, he pretty much said nothing helpful in the least, and to make matters worse the way that they hyped the entire thing up was a major disappointment.
Upon hearing this the bird looked at Motoyasu with an almost hurt expression, "Look it is not like I didn't try to foretell what would happen in your friend's future, it's not my fault, not even the Oracle of Delphi could figure the future of either of you, it's in constant flux, always changing, nobody would be able to get a clear picture in that whirling vortex of pure chaos. I never had this happen to me in all the years I have been doing this, but for this to happen to me was not even something I could see in my own future, so cut me some slack will you!"
As Motoyasu heard the bird, it made perfect sense that he described his friend as a whirling pool of chaos, no one had been able to predict how he would react or do something before, it was something that frustrated every single person who tried since it always was in a way they would never expect. Raphtalia told him of that one time when he was giving an accessory maker a lift, only to end up getting ambushed by bandits.
She laughed when she told Motoyasu that unlike how the bandits expected, Naofumi was ready to kill them, saying that it would do them no good giving them to the guard because the bandits would use the teaching of that church to turn the whole thing against Naofumi, when they begged for their lives they must have expected him to let them go, but instead much to their shock, he demanded to be given everything they own, down to their underwear.
"Savior of the heavenly fowl my ass, this guy is brutal let me tell you, once I made a mistake and stepped a little closer to a particularly chunky Filolial, it's what people call Chocobos in that game series that apparently will go on forever. I didn't know it was Filo at the time or what she really was and she ended up giving me a kick to the nuts so hard it sent me flying up and I ended up landing in a pile of manure, what did this jackass do? Laugh his ass off, then encouraged Filo to do that yet again. I swear had it not been for the healing magic I learned because of this, I would still be walking funny even today. So you have been warned, he is more of a devil than a hero."
Naofumi looked at him with an angry glare and stepped closer to him, "First, I will never allow you to marry my little girl, period, and you want to call me a devil, after what you did? This guy found a cursed seed, the blasted thing was made by a crazy person who wanted to end world hunger, except these damn things are monsters consider people just one thing, fertilizer, how many people died before I ended up fixing the entire mess for you?"
Naofumi then looked at Ren and Itsuki, "Emo prince over here killed a dragon who was minding her own business and living a happy life and left the body to rot, the rotting body caused poisonous gas to spread downwind and kills so many people in a village that was near that mountain, don't get me started on Robin Hood wannabe here, he helped a rebellion made up by people who didn't want to pay taxes, lied through their teeth to him, told him a sob story, after the leader of that place was killed and he left, the rebels became an even worse tyrannical regime that the one he helps end in the first place."
Junko was speechless as were the people around them, even the bird, "Why are we telling you all this because it is very likely your records don't show this, but we are people who have returned after being summoned to another world, and to make matters even more fun we have skills and memories of a past life or several, so in an essence, we are both returnees and saviors. So since you can read our health records be sure to update that in our files, we wouldn't want to miss any classes now would we?"
Naofumi looked at his friends who were shaking their heads, "Hey don't blame me, Motoyasu here started it by telling them of one of the things I did wrong, trying to get this blue-haired beauty to lose interest in me, don't think I didn't know what you were doing, and he decided to share that, I decided to share your screw-ups to make us even, and it helped with us getting properly registered in the Academy records."
That is when a student who we didn't realize was still there, decided to ask something, "Hey, the name is Hiroshi, Hiroshi Miwa, please call me Hiroshi, so Motoyasu, who was the ruler of the place you four got summoned to? A bearded old guy right?" Motoyasu began to laugh as he remembered "King" Aultcray Melromarc.
"No actually it was the nation of Melromarc, and it's a matriarchal monarchy, so the one that actually rules is the Queen, she is a stern, efficient ruler, who knows when to be tough but usually she is fair with her citizens, she had two daughters, Malty and Melty, both who were as lovely as their mother, so yes both princesses and the queen were in a word beautiful. Malty worked with me for a long time as a party member, and Melty, well she ended up in the party of Naofumi and she fell in love with him, not that she was willing to admit it at first."
Hiroshi began to laugh in a way that made some of the women really uncomfortable, "A man after my own heart, please allow me to call you big brother. So big brother, how about I give you a guided tour while I tell you how to reach our dorm building." Motoyasu asked him for any of the local hot dating spots in the city and he had himself a deal, as the group began to follow Hiroshi three of them could swear that he was actually happy that Motoyasu said that.
"So Big Brother, how many girls are you dating?" Motoyasu couldn't help but laugh as he said he is not dating anyone, he actually already is married, to four women, he merely asked because sometimes he likes to take them out on little dates to have fun with them, one at a time, sort of keep the flame of youth burning bright and maintain their matrimonial bliss. "So you take each out on a date, how many women do you plan to marry?" Motoyasu looked at Miwa and began to laugh as he told him at least seven if he can find three more women to join his harem if he was summoned back, well there is this rather nice raccoon girl in that world, but he would be lucky to simply add Malty and the two girls that were in his party.
As they reached the dormitory building, they saw that this building was weird, almost like the entire building didn't match, when they stepped inside it felt like they were in a massive hotel with dozens of floors but once they stepped outside the place looked like your typical three floored building, Hiroshi began to laugh and say that every student had that same look on their faces when they realized that the dormitory is actually bigger on the inside than what it looks like on the outside.
"No matter how big it is, each of you will be assigned to a room with a roommate, there is no way to avoid that, in fact, I happen to be lucky to be assigned to be the roommate of my big brother Motoyasu. It shouldn't be such a major problem since we have so much in common. Now is there anything I can help with big brother?" Motoyasu decided to throw caution to the wind and simply say that maybe if he could get to meet either Yunko or the Head of the Disciplinary Committee in private, that would be great.
He looked at Motoyasu and immediately asked why would he want to meet either of them, to which he simply said that Yunko probably is one of the best sword practitioners in their class, so not a bad idea to ask her to spar to improve his combat abilities, something Ren who was listening actually agreed that was a good idea, and the Head of the Disciplinary Committee, well, chances are they eventually will end up getting in some kind of trouble, so becoming friends with her might actually make meeting her later much easier, something Naofumi himself thought was something he would never expect from Motoyasu thinking and planning for what could happen in the future.
As soon as Hiroshi left, all the others went to one of the rooms where they could talk and not be overheard, it was a place that Naofumi created to help him train using his powers. It was a rather dark and drab-looking place but then again this place was a dungeon that Naofumi could summon the entrance and exit to whenever he desired, this place was useful to become more accustomed to his powers and train, as such it was an immense help to him, and much to his surprise Motoyasu could also create a dungeon of his own, he called these powers something that would be odd to other people, he called them gamer powers.
When they explained where they were both Itsuki and Ren had only one thing against it, they were upset that they had a training room like this and they never once shared it with any of them, to which Motoyasu reminded them that before the wishes they had to work alone, thanks to the fact that the amount of experience they obtained would be divided by the number of people that worked together, but thanks to one of their wishes, this was no longer an issue, the other thing is those wishes seemed to still be active in their current world since they were focused on them and the places and people close to them.
"Like I was saying why did you have to lie to him? There was no need, you know damn well, that after Bitch betrayed you, you went nuts and awakened your cursed series lance, as it happened to the others, had I now been able to awaken the blessed series shield, we would all be screwed, thanks to me being able to deal with the negative consequences of using the cursed series I was able to help you awaken your own blessed series."
Ren began to nod his head as he remembered how he went crazy with greed and voracious hunger for experience, it made him crazy with wanting to obtain as much riches as possible or an absolute sociopath that wanted to kill anything to become stronger and become superior to everyone else.
Motoyasu could never forget the effects of the Lust and Envy series, they were horrible and embarrassing, to say the least, he awakened this series after the betrayal of the ladies in his party after the stupid mistake of awakening the Spirit Turtle, and from then he became so depressed that only Filo seemed to care about him, but this caused him to develop a focused obsession of one day making Filo his, to the point for a long time lost the ability to understand the worlds of any other woman other than Filo, and he could only see and think of them as pigs.
Itsuki's desire to be the hero was so maddening that he could still remember fighting in gladiatorial arenas so he could become stronger while supposedly planning to use the money he won to help people, but Bitch and the others decided to use that money instead to live lavish lifestyles, leaving Itsuki with a massive debt, this caused him to lose all motivation to help anyone, and under the effects of the curse of Pride, he would do anything a person asked if it made him the most amount of money.
Naofumi could also remember being consumed by his wrath, an anger that was so deep that even the dead spirit of the dragon which once resided within his shield said that this anger burns hotter than the fire of any dragon's heart. It was through the help of the previous Filolial Queen that he gained some control over it, and it was due to the selfless sacrifice of someone he came to care about that unlocked his Blessed Series. These were memories that none of them ever wished to share.
"Look Motoyasu, you became absolutely horrible to women after you were in the effect of your cursed series, in fact, you used to talk to them as if they were barn animals, that is simply horrible. There is no way in hell Malty, Elena, or Lesty would want to have anything to do with you after what you did to them, so why all the lies?"
Motoyasu told them he wanted to share some of their past in the other world with Hiroshi but since he would never meet any of them, no need to tell them the complete truth, so he instead opted for telling a white lie to make them sound better than how horrible they had been to all of them. "No reason to make them seem like monsters when Hiroshi will never even meet them, and thanks to the wishes we made, they will be just as I told him, honest, caring, and ultimately good people."
The four friends decided to spend a few hours sharing with each other the methods they learned to become stronger, and now that they could understand them better and knew these would actually work, they became better and more efficient to use, the dungeon would allow them once they get summoned to basically form a place they could essentially get unlimited amount of materials they need to improve their weapons.
As they finally decided to go to sleep, they realized that they needed to have a good night's sleep so they could not suffer in their studies. They each went to their rooms, that is where they met their roommates and after introducing themselves, besides Hiroshi who already met Motoyasu, they went to bed on a particularly comfortable bed.
The next day the four friends decided to see if the dorm had a cafeteria, which of course they did, but it was expensive as all hell, which made Naofumi simply buy the ingredients and he went into his dungeon where he cooked the food for everyone, at that moment Naofumi was particularly happy that all his experience and talent when it came to cooking actually was still there for him, which made cooking rather extremely delicious looking meals rather easy for him, it only took him a grand total of five minutes.
The truth is that the person who told them they had to pay so much for the food was an employee of the Cafeteria, but he had a deep hatred of supposed reincarnated heroes. and returnees because thanks to them killing off metaphysical monsters they could rake in the cash and become very well off, while since he couldn't do that had to live on a minimum wage salary. When he heard that those four were both returnees and supposed saviors, he decided to either make them suffer or fleece them for all they were worth by asking them to pay a small fortune for what should be provided to them for free.
Much to his shock, they all declined immediately, and instead, one of them simply bought ingredients from a nearby grocery vendor, the real shock was when he finally returned with trays upon trays of food that looked like stuff that would be good enough to serve in gourmet restaurants. The people around them began to look at them eat their food, and some of them asked if they could taste some of it, the four friends had no reason to deny this, and unfortunately for the person who cooked the food in the Cafeteria, he was one of the people who tasted the food that Naofumi prepared.
The person in question was a man who apparently is a guy who is into extreme forms of physical training, the guy looked like he could put some Olympic weightlifters to shame by the way his body looked. The most shocking part of his personality is that he spoke in a very effeminate tone, loved things that most women would call cute, and when not dressed in his work clothes would wear flowery and colorful clothes, usually in colors that most people thought the man must be gay.
Motoyasu was shocked that instead of being gay, the man suffered a lot growing up, and to become as strong as he did, he ended up using some rather dangerous steroids that ended up making his voice change to what currently was, the stuff was experimental so no medic had any hope of ever reversing the side-effects of those steroids.
The reason he dressed in flowery colors that most women would wear is quite simple, he dressed like that so that idiots thinking he was weak because they thought he was gay would pick fights with him, and those fights were excellent ways for him to work off some of the stress he gets working in the kitchen cooking for a bunch of ungrateful brats who never even thanked him for all the work he does.
Last but not least the reason he loved everything that others consider cute is that he did so in remembrance of his daughter, his precious little girl who died when a metaphysical destroyed their home, so in her memory, he collects these cute accessories, toys, and plushies so that he can place them all in a room that was essentially a shrine he built in her memory. It was the only way that he could deal with the sadness of losing his daughter, after all, his wife died giving birth to his child.
Naofumi hearing this, decided to tell the chef that if he really wanted to make accessories and jewelry for his shrine, the only thing the chef needed to do is bringing him the materials he asked for, and Naofumi would make that stuff for him. Ren offered to help him restock his walk-in freezer to help him have more time to do other things when he had some free time.
Motoyasu offered to help him by repairing and modifying some of his clothes so that they would fit better on him, and Itsuki used the skills he learned from when he was summoned to negotiate for better prices on the stuff he needed to buy so Naofumi could help him. To say, Barret was extremely happy was easy for everyone to see, but then he asked Naofumi why did he go and cook all the food they were eating, and shared it with others.
That is when Naofumi looked at him with a cold look that made Barret back away from him. "Why did I go and buy those ingredients and cook that food? It's quite simple, the guy who is in charge of taking orders told us we had to pay a king's ransom to be able to get food from this place, so not exactly swimming in cash, I had no other alternative but to do as I did."
That is when Barret knew that this was the work of that fucking idiot that always wears that fucking clown makeup, he was pissed to hear that fucking Kefka tried to pull this shit on these students. "Naofumi, I hate to tell you and your friends this, but everything in this academy is free, we don't even ask you for tuition, so, of course, the food is free, you guys are training so you can defeat metaphysical monsters and save thousands of lives. Don't worry about that clown, he will be gone soon enough, and I don't fucking care if he thinks he is untouchable, once the dean hears of this, he will be out on his ass."