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Zeltoble
BANG
A body goes down
"Mom!" Misato yells
"Where the hell is the rest of the money?"
"That's all we have now, leave us alone!"
BANG
"DAD!"
"That's for talking back!"
Misato drops to the ground looking at his dad, he shakes his shoulder… No response. Something touches his forehead.
Click
Misato looks up, seeing the robber and the gun cocked directly on his head.
BANG
"AHH!" Misato jumps up from his sleeping bag wide awake.
"Misato, what is wrong?!" Fitoria asks, in her disguised Filolial form.
Misato sighs "Sorry for startling you… I had a nightmare…" Misato places his palm on his forehead, trying to process his nightmare, breathing heavily
Fitoria stares at the Gun Hero's current state, uncertain of what to do, she hasn't interacted with a human for a long time like this. Fortunately, an idea lit up in her head.
"You should sleep with me," she says without any care about how it sounds without context.
"Uh... I don't think the idea of sleeping together would be a good idea" Misato sweat drops, also phrasing!
"Why not? You would be able to sleep better in the warmth and comfort of my feathers"
"Oh… ok maybe..." Raphtalia and Melty slept in Filo's feathers might be a good idea.
Misato wipes the sweat off of his head and looks at Fitoria.
"Okay let's try" he says, walking over to Fitoria's side.
Misato lays down, head against the warm and fluff of Fitoria's Filolial form. He pulls his blanket over his body. "Good night Fitoria…" He whispers
"Good night, Misato" She whispers back
Thanks to Fitoria, he slept peacefully.
Zeltoble, country of the mercenaries. Fitoria says the next wave is happening there and because of the four heroes being stuck in Melomarc due to possible ignorance, it's up to Misato Morgan the Gun Hero to face the wave.
Misato got plenty of ammunition for his guns and made potions for him to use in a fight but the only thing missing is… Misato looks at his outfit.
"We should go to a blacksmith and buy some armor, can't exactly fight with my home clothes and a large cloak," Misato says looking at his outfit, a black jacket, a gray shirt, and blue jeans, thankfully Fitoria helps repair them after training when they get ripped. The cloak is only made to cover his otherworldly clothing and protection from the weather. Not for battle.
Misato could have used the crafting system to make armor, however, the system was mostly made to craft weapons, especially guns, not armor. His attempts to make armor was uncomfortable, Forrest did not leave any leather material, and there aren't any monsters nearby with that material, so he can't make adjustable leather armor. It would make more sense to find a blacksmith to equip proper protection.
"Yes, I was thinking the same," Fitoria says.
"But how am I going to make the coins? I would need to get them first to inspect and craft it with my gun and even if I wanted to sign up as an adventurer and take a small job, I would probably need to pay a small fee to sign up in the first place." Misato says
Fitoria stops, she stares towards the left.
"Fitoria?" Misato asks, squinting his eyes trying to see what Fitoria sees.
She doesn't answer, turning her body towards the left to some trees. "Hold on tightly Misato…"
"Ok?" Misato says tightening his grip around the rope, even wrapping it around his arm just in case.
Fitoria leans forward and moves
"HOLY SHIT" Misato screams internally as Fitoria runs.
She slows down, stopping at a carriage, four wolves eating a body, and eight more surrounding a man, a little girl holding onto his leg, and blue filolial with a leg wound. So that's why Fitoria ran here; she must have heard of the filolial cries. Misato raises his gun and fires.
Bang
A wolf goes down, the pack turns toward Misato and Fitoria. "Let's do this" Misato says hopping off of Fitoria. Fitoria nods.
A wolf howls and they all attack. Fitoria charges through, breaking the pack's momentum. Misato fires, and two wolves go down with one bullet. Fitoria kicks a wolf, and its body hits the tree, dead. Misato falls on his back, a wolf on top of him trying to bite, he raises his gun and shoots the wolf's throat. It whimpers and jumps back; Misato finishes it off with his fourth bullet.
"KWEH!" Fitoria cries, looking behind Misato
Misato turns around, seeing a larger wolf with two smaller ones by its side. The Alpha is there, it growls and rushes towards Misato. The gun hero moves the gun towards his left hip, his other hand moving the cloak and jacket, revealing a glass ball attached to his belt, a bright light shines on the Alpha and the wolves, blinding them. The Alpha continues its blind charge, and Misato rolls to the side, dodging the attack.
The Alpha shakes its head; it blinks now seeing Misato clearly, it rushes towards the gun hero. Misato smirks and raises his Blunderbuss.
Boom
The shot blows the alpha to pieces. The other wolves whimper at the sight of their leader being killed by the strange loud weapon. Misato points the blunderbuss towards the pack and Fitoria growls at them. Without an alpha, the wolfpack runs away. Misato sighs and reloads the blunderbuss. Fitoria moves towards him, nudging her head against Misato.
"Gweh"
"It's ok Toria, I didn't get hurt," Misato says, petting her head. Fitoria nods and moves towards the injured blue filolial, the child, and the man, possibly her father. Misato walks to them. "You two, okay? He says pulling out some bandages for the filolial.
"Yes, thanks to you," The man says, the girl next to him nods.
"Don't forget Toria, without her I don't think I could have taken them on" Misato leans his head towards Fitoria. Who is busy talking to the blue bird. He finishes wrapping the bandages on the bird's leg and pours a healing potion over it.
The little girl lets go of her father's leg dashing toward the blue bird. "You okay Sapphire?"
"Gweh" Sapphire nods. The girl pets the bird's head, she then looks at Fitoria raising her hand towards the white bird. Fitoria hesitates but then leans her head down. The girl giggles petting Fitoria. Looking up close the girl is blonde. Has green eyes and wears a yellow dress that goes well with her hair
The man walks towards Misato, the man looks to be around his forties and he's starting to bald "My name is Kennedy Rosemary, how may I repay you?" He speaks
Misato looks at the carriage, it's filled with various metal and cloth, and he walks towards it grabbing a piece of cloth. "What are you transporting?"
"Metals for the blacksmith and a cloth for a tailor in Zeltoble. The materials for clothing are tougher than normal clothing, these are for adventurers." The trader says, his voice filled with pride.
Misato looks down at his casual clothing.
"Well, I am in need of clothing and armor to wear for combat, and I do need some coins, enough to sign up as an adventurer and to stay at an Inn for a day. Toria can help pull the carriage to Zeltoble, while Sapphire recovers, we were heading there anyway. How does that sound?"
The trader smiles "It sounds like a good deal, mister...?"
"Oh, I forgot, my name is Mordred, someone who's aspiring to be an adventurer" The gun hero says smiling, he chose his incognito name because it sounds like Morgan, and he doubts he would want to come back once he shows off his weapon in the wave.
"Nice to meet you Mister Mordred!" The girl says "My name is Annabelle; I was traveling with papa and some other adventurers…" She frowns looking at the dead guards.
"We should probably bury them" Misato says
"No, we can't, we can only take the tags on their necks and give it to the guild, there could be merchants and thieves that might take advantage of our current state," Kennedy says with a glare, staring off in a certain direction.
Misato sighs he doesn't know what it's like to be in the Country of Mercenaries, probably not good if they have a coliseum full of slaves to fight each other. "Ok then"
"What were you using back there Mister Mordred?" Annabelle asks, staring at Misato's revolver.
"Yes, what is that weapon it's quite loud and effective" Kennedy asks from the front of the carriage
"It's like a staff that shoots magic instantly." Misato lies. He knows that Faubley has muskets too and if they knew about his guns, they would probably try to claim that he is their country's hero and belongs to them, they would probably try to force him to uplift them, and no other country. He does not intend to be held down. Only until he gets stronger.
"Ahh, you must be from Faubley correct? I heard of weapons that fire smoke and make sounds of thunder."
"Y-yes your correct" Misato says, hopefully, they didn't know his stutter
"It looks so cool; can I hold it?" She asks with stars in her eyes
"Sorry no can do" Misato grimaces
"Aw but why not?" She pouts
"It's not a toy and it's pretty dangerous, might hurt yourself this thing"
"I'll be careful, I promise!"
"Sorry but no, back me up here Toria"
"Gweh" (Fi)Toria nods
"Papa back me up!"
"Sorry, sweetie but if Mordred says it's dangerous…" Kennedy says with a sweatdrop
"Sapphire?"
"Gwah" Sapphire shakes her head
"Sapphire you traitor… MMMM Fine!" Annabelle moves to a different corner, refusing to look at Misato and Sapphire. Sapphire must have shaken her head because of Fitoria, she was inclined to agree with the Queen.
"Sorry about that, my daughter is a bit spoiled…" Kennedy says rubbing the back of his head
"She's better than some other kids I knew, there was one brat, I swear I thought he would make my ears bleed"
"Ohm then I guess I did pretty well with my child." Kennedy smiles, but it seems off to Misato.
"Although where did your other weapon go? It was wooden and larger than the one you have now." Kennedy asks
"Oh, it's because of this" Misato answers, pushing his cloak and jacket aside revealing a Glass Orb. "It's a magic crystal that allows me to place items like a bag like the heroes did with their items, but unlike the heroes, there's a limit to how many items I can place into the orb"
That's a lie, the glass orb is an item that his predecessor made to flash a bright light, it is there to hide Misato's identity as a hero, if he needs to transform his gun, he will move his weapon near the orb and flash the light and pretend that he's pulling out a different weapon. "Thanks, Previous Gun Hero"
"Incredible, I have never seen anything like this before, do you have any extras? Could I buy one somewhere?" Kennedy says, hands moving towards the glass orb
"Sorry I don't know if you can find anything like this, I just got it from someone else" Half a lie, he doesn't know if a magic crystal like this exists with an inventory function and he got it from someone else.
"Alright then" Kennedy complies, moving on.
They entered Zeltoble, and went to the blacksmith, which is right next to a tailor, apparently the two store owners work together. Make sense, the blacksmith could make the armor and the tailor could make the clothing that goes with the armor.
"Hmm, it feels like something is missing," Kennedy says inspecting Misato's outfit.
"Ya, I think so too" Misato says looking at the mirror. He is wearing some parts of a set of armor made of steel, and he wears a thin chest plate, protecting his torso. He wears some armor for his legs, it covers from his ankles and up to his knee. On his arms are vambraces. Under the armor, he wears a dark green shirt and black pants as padding for the armor. And fingerless gloves to protect his hands. It's good, the armor increased his defense stats without dropping his ability to move and use his weapon but… "I think it needs some flair…"
"What about a cape? You would look heroic!" Annabelle suggests pointing at a cape.
"No, it would get in the way of my weapon, and someone could grab it" Plus its Naofumi's thing
"Scarf?" She says pulling out a scarf
"Nope"
"Butt cape?"
Misato snorts "Nope"
"Hmmm…" Annabelle puts a finger on her chin, looking around, her eyes spotting Misato's otherworldly clothes in the changing room. "What about your black jacket?" pointing at Misato's jacket.
"Maybe…" Misato removes the vambrace and looks at his jacket "It won't fit, but maybe if there was a black jacket similar to what I wore" He looks at the blacksmith, Maria, "are there any black jackets that could go over my armor?"
"No, but Jackie, the Tailor, might, let's go to his store" she says walking out the door. Misato and the others follow Maria.
"Maria, what can I do for you, my dear friend?" Jackie says
"Do you have a black jacket that my customer, Mordred, can wear over his armor?" She says gesturing towards the Gun hero, who is glancing at some of the clothing.
Misato walks down the streets of Zeltoble with the new black jacket over his shoulders, the vambrace placed outside of the jacket. The Glass orb hangs on the left side and Revolver is holstered on his right. The Steel armor contrasts well with the black and dark green clothing he is wearing. He walks down beaming, enjoying his new outfit, while Fitoria follows him, staring at the Gun Hero in amusement.
"I feel like Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil 4." Misato thinks to himself, looking at his jacket and gun." He always liked the idea of wearing armor that is also mixed with clothing and stuff to stand out from the typical armored knight or agile assassin. Annabelle and Kennedy nodded in approval of his outfit when they saw him.
He walks up to the adventurer's guild building and enters. The room is nearly full, everywhere Misato looks, there are adventurers, based on the gear most are categorized as a healer, melee user of different types, mage, archer, and tank.
"Sign up to fight against the wave tomorrow! Even new recruits can join too. Thirty Gold coins for the person or group who kills the Wave Boss!" A man yells holding up a piece of paper. A large group of adventurers is surrounding him, signing up to fight the incoming wave.
Misato moves to the shortest line.
It takes a bit of time, but he finally makes it to the attendant.
"Uh excuse me, sir, I would like to sign up as an adventurer and fight in the waves."
"Oh, alright, fill in the paper about yourself"
"Uh… sorry I can't read this language"
"Oh, you're from a different country, I will fill it in for you. What's your name?"
"Mordred"
"Level?"
"12"
"Age?"
"19"
They continued filling out the information. A few minutes later.
"Sir are you certain that you want to fight the waves alone at your level?"
"Yes, don't worry I have above average damage stats and speed. I'll keep my distance. I use magic."
"Ok then… Be careful, I heard that the first wave in Melomarc was devastating and since Zeltoble has no heroes right now, the battle will be hard"
"Alright, thank you," Misato says, as he walks out of the guild, he sees a group of adventurers staring right at him. One is a man with brown hair swept back, wearing shiny armor and a large slab of metal that he probably calls a sword on his back, and there is something about his face a fist can only love. The rest of the group is unremarkable, so Misato does not focus on them. Nearby from a distance is Fitoria, she shakes her head, which means she thinks they are trouble. "Is there something you need?" He asks the group
"You're a newbie that's level 12, if you don't want to die, join our party." The knight says with a condescending tone.
"Sorry but I decline" Misato says
"What?! You dare decline from our generous invitation?" A female archer says getting close to Misato's face
"Mind your distance" Misato says, stepping back from the rude woman "And cut to the chase, what is it that you want from me, Money?"
"Nah, just giving you a warning, stay out of the way of the Red Lions in the Waves, the Wave boss is ours…" The knight says with a smirk, as if Misato is a child. "Let's go team" The man says walking away from Misato, and the other seven adventurers follow.
They are after something, maybe it's his gun and glass orb? Should have hidden the gun in his jacket. He walks up to Fitoria and hops on her back. He leans his head towards Fitoria's and whispers "Let's go to the Inn that Kennedy showed us but keep your senses alert for anyone with bad intentions with us"
Fitoria nods and takes them to the Inn. A few people stared at him but moved on.
"Welcome! How may I help you?" An old lady asks
"I would like one room ple- Gweh!" Misato jumps at the sound and turns around, seeing Fitoria staring at him. "Oh, and a stable room for Toria here"
"Kweh!" Fitoria cries
Misato turns around seeing Fitoria look directly into his eyes, shaking her head. "Oh, uh never mind about the room for me, I guess I'll sleep with Toria."
"She seems clingy" The lady says with amusement.
"I don't know about that…" Misato says but then thinks "Although, I am surprised at how Fitoria is willing to go with me into Civilization, I guess I do need her protection right now with how fragile I am and there are good people like Annabelle, Kennedy. Unfortunately, she still doesn't want to come with me to Melomarc for any longer than a day or two…"
He feels his stomach growl "Although I will eat something" he says with a hand on his stomach.
"Ok please sit at this table"
"The waves have arrived! Prepare for Battle!"
"Get into formation!"
"Archers draw arrows!"
Misato stares at the army and the incoming wave of monsters. The army might not be strong enough for this wave, they are not united or disciplined for this fight. They have to rely on gladiator slaves and adventurers who are mostly in it for the money for this battle.
"Misato, I sense the wave boss, I will take you to it, but you will have to face it alone, I will only intervene if you are about to die" Fitoria says staring at the Gun Hero
"Right…" Misato says he looks at the sky and from a distance, he sees a large monster slowly crawling out of the wave, taking a deep breath, and checking his ammo counter. The guns in all forms are loaded.
"Alright, I'm ready, let's do this!" Misato yells.
Fitora runs, dodging and kicking various monsters in the way. While Misato took pot shots, gaining whatever exp he could get. The disguised Filolial Queen continues her dash, taking them straight to the Wave Boss.
Author Notes:
Thank you for reading and making it to the end of this chapter, the battle of Zeltoble will begin next chapter and a little bit of the aftermath of the battle. Sorry for the cliffhanger.
Please give me feedback and thoughts on this story! Have a good day!
Hope you like the remaster, made it so on Misato's nightmare, Fitoria would immediately notice.