A couple facts that I feel I need to tell just in case:

-Unlike in the original, where Hajime is taller than Yue, it's actually the opposite here, with Akira as tall as Meld, and Hinata is as short as Aiko. while Shu is slightly shorter than the other two guys, he's still taller than Hinata.

-When I made this story, I imagined Meld with his anime design rather than the manga one, but feel free to do the opposite if you prefer it that way


After getting "flushed" by Miledi they had emerged out of a lake near town. As they all came to, they realized one of them was missing.

"Wait, where's Shu?"

That question was immediately answered once they saw Shu floating on the upside down with his face submerged in water. Meld quickly went in and retrieved and proceeded to give him mouth to mouth, it was so serious Hinata couldn't even joke about it.

Once Shu's eyes are open Meld's face was filled with relief while Shu's face was filled with...disappointment?

"Why..."

"Huh?"

"Why didn't Hinata do iiiiiiiiiitttttt?!" Shu cried out.

It caused the ever so patient Meld to lose his temper and proceeds to throw Shu back into the lake while yelling. "YOU UNGRATEFUL RABBIT!"

On the way, Shu kept going on and on about the reason he almost drowned was because he saw some weird talking fish, but the others didn't really have the energy or desire to care.

Akira and Shu freezes when they ran into a familiar man on a carriage, who was named Crystabel, the owner of the boutique they went into to buy clothes. The man had great fashion sense and his was very helpful, they couldn't deny that but...

They really felt...scared at how he acts toward them, and his underlings as well. Meld shared that feeling when Crystabel set his eyes on him.

"Oh hello...you." Crystabel gives a wink to Meld, who kinda wanted to jump back into the water now. Regardless, they took Crystabel on his offer.

After they got to the inn, they asked to use the bathhouse for a relaxing bath.

Well, relaxing for Hinata at least, Meld was busy holding the other two in place as they tried to break free and make their way to the women's bath. He would continue to do this even when the three of them went of bed.


The next morning came, and the group headed to the guild first, they were trying to find directions to their next destination. They then meet the same lady they talked to when they sold their monster parts.

"So, you folks are leaving huh?" Catherine asked.

"Yes, we're heading to Gruen's Volcano." Unlike Reisen, this labyrinth was actually already known like Orcus. Meld had said that the volcano is located near the dukedom of Ankaji, located in the dessert.

"Is that so, well here's my advice, why don't you take a detour at Fuhren?" Catherine suggested.

Hinata raised an eyebrow. " Fuhren?"

"It's the biggest business town in the continent, we could stock up on some necessary supplies there, and it's not too far from our path." Meld explained.

"That's fine, I guess." Hinata sighed.

"By the way, we have an escort mission to Fuhren." Catherin said. "You can hitch a ride on their cart."

"Hmm….sure, why not." Hinata looks at her party, and they all looked like they were onboard.

Hinata's SUV can get them there much faster, but a nice, long carriage ride, along with getting some extra cash was almost too good to pass up after the crap Miledi put them through. Not even the impatient Hinata can argue with that.

"Oh, and before you go, take this." Catherin hands Hinata a sealed envelope.

"What's this for?"

"I have a feeling you folks are gonna be quite interesting, if you ever get in trouble with the guild in Fuhren, just give them that."

"And why would they care about a letter from some random old lady?" Hinata narrowed her eyes.

"Oh, don't fret about it, I can assure it'll help." Despite the vague answer, Hinata can tell she was being genuine, after storing the letter, and they prepare to leave.

"Hey, should we say goodbye to that Crysta-"

"NO!" All the guys shouted.

And so they go to meet their client.


"Greetings, I am More Nos, the leader of this trading group." The man introduced himself and shook Meld's hand. "Thank you for accepting my request."

"Yes…you're welcome…" Meld replied, feeling something bad was about to happen.

"I apologize if this seems informal, but about the rabbit boy…are you willing to sell him to me." More said while eying a now nervous Shu. "A cute face, and rare blue hair, I would pay you grea-"

"NO." Meld didn't even think about it for second. "I cannot do that."

"Really? I would be happy to nego-"

"Get on the cart, creep!" Hinata shooed the merchant away.

Shu smiled letting out tears out some tears of joy. "Thanks guys…"

"Don't get the wrong Idea." Hinata corrected.

"Shu, it's not our decision to make, because you're not anybody's property, not even ours, you are your own person, remember that." Meld stated. Shu eagerly nodded his head.


The group had made it about a third of the way when night came and they had to camp out. When they wanted to eat dinner, Hinata just pulled some food from her Treasure Trove and told Shu to cook. And when More saw Hinata's artifact, he was immediately flabbergasted, screaming out "HOW MUCH!"

And of course, Hinata refused all of More's crazy offers

And the next day…

"Hinata! Meld! Enemy attack from the forest, a hundred of them!" Shu suddenly shouted after getting a vision. More's group panicked and was abut to retreat, but…

"Nah, just keep going." Hinata nonchalantly urged.

"Are you nuts?!" The driver asked.

"Just do it. You ready Akira?"

"Ready as ever." Akira said as he stood at the top of the carriage. "Now…Draconic Thunder."

Everyone watched as Akira summoned a giant dragon made of lightning that went on to obliterate all the monsters in one shot. This was done by combining lightning magic with the newly acquired gravity magic. Basically Akira used gravity magic to keep the lightning in an constant shape, which is a dragon. The spell is not limited to lightning for Akira. It is however limited to Meld, who doesn't have an affinity to all magic like Akira.

"It looks like we'll soon arrive." Meld said as he sees Fuhren in the horizon.

"Uhm, excuse me, but can we talk before arriving?" More called out to the party. "Are you sure you're not willing to sell that rabbit boy and the Treasure Trove?"

"…" The party just stares at the man.

"I would pay you enough so that you can live the rest of your lives in luxury, especially for that artifact." More continued his pitch. "And also, keeping such a valuable object can have it's downside. Why something bad can happen to…Huh?"

More stopped when he noticed that Hinata was now gone, the next thing he he knew, his head was pulled back by the hair and saw a black knife, which was dangerously close to his neck, it was being held by a very scary looking Hinata. "Is that a threat?"

"N-NO! I-I was merely….w-warning you, I swear!"

"Well you better do your damn best to make sure it stays that way." Hinata said before pulling he knife away and letting him go.

After that mess, they finally reached their destination.

"Now that we're here, all I have to do is deal with some paperwork, but before that." More takes off his hat and makes a courteous bow. "I apologize for showing such a shameful sight of me."

"Uhh, you do know you're apologizing to the girl held a knife to your neck, right?" Hinata pointed out.

"Hehe, I simply do not wish to be in you bad side, I have a feeling you will go on to do great things."

"Thinking of profits till the end, you really are a merchant." With that, the party bids More farewell and goes into town.

'Maybe taking things isn't so hard.' Hinata thought as she looked at the city.


Yeah, she set herself up with that sentence. The group is currently waiting inside an office belonging to apparently the head of the adventurers guild. Meld looked nervous most likely because he never thought would get in trouble like this. While Hinata sorta felt in place getting called for trouble.

Speaking of trouble, how did they get here?

After setting foot in Fuhren, they decided to have a nice short teatime, and said teatime was ruined when some fat noble bitch appeared and demanded Meld hand over Shu and Akira to be her boytoys.

He said no, then she sent her lackeys, including black ranked adventurers, they probably wouldn't have challenged them if Meld was wearing his armor. Everything after that is pretty much predictable, the boys easily beat the adventurers, while Hinata proceeded to beat the noble bitch with a chair.

The fight was then stopped when a guy from the guild named Tod something came in. There were multiple witnesses that proves Hinata's group was innocent, but Tod asked for everybody's status plates including Shu and Akira, who didn't have any. Like a get out of jail free card, Hinata handed Catherine's letter instead and now, here they are.

"Would you stop freaking out?" Hinata said to the nervous Meld. "Just let me do the talking." That made him even more concerned.

A man eventually came in. "Hello, you may call me Ilwa Chang, branch chief of Fuhren's adventurer's guild." He introduced himself. "I've got to say, Catherine described you all to a tee."

"Just who is that woman?"

"My, you really don't know?" He reveals that Catherine was the secretary of the head branch guild. She was also an instructor that taught half of the branch chiefs, including him. They were all flabbergasted when he showed a picture of a young Catherine.

That was definitely not the same old lady they met. The woman in the picture was much more...potent, yeah let's go with that.

After accepting what the harshness of time can do, they wanted to leave but...

Ilwa presented them with a quest form fo-

"No."

Meld gives a light punch on her head. "He hasn't even said anything! Please continue." He suddenly talked, breaking out of his fear from earlier.

"Uhm, ok..." He begins explaining the details of the quest, a missing person. The adventurer in question was one Will Cudeta, the third son of the noble Cudeta family.

"The quest required them to go through the northern mountains, which is filled with powerful monsters, It's a very dangerous place."

"If it's so dangerous, why are you sending blue rank adventurers?" Hinata tried to get them out of this situation.

"You mean the same people who beat a black rank and a noble with absolute ease?" Ilwa pointed out.

"Even if we were up to the task, we're busy." She said while glaring at Meld, who understood. She might've helped the Haulia, but at least that helped them get to the labyrinths.

"Please. If you do this I will promote you to black rank."

"I don't care about my rank."

"Then I will support you." He did not give up. "I can assure that the guild's influence can be of great help."

Hinata narrows her eyes. "You're trying awfully hard for a noble's favour."

"I am actually close with the Cudetas." He admitted. "I convinced the party to take him along. I simply wanted him to learn but not at the cost of his life."

Hinata internally grinned and Meld could tell. "Alright, how about this. We'll do the quest but you have to give some status plates." She gestures to Akira and Shu. "Also, I'm gonna need access to all of your connections."

"That's too-"

"He's conceding, let's go." Hinata stands up.

"Wait!" Hinata stops after he shouted. "What is it that you intend to do?"

"Nothing big. Just expecting your help when we get in trouble with the church.

Ilwa immediately accepts despite his assistant's concern. Meld knew that the request sounded a bit unreasonable but even he would have to accept that the demands could be helpful...especially with the church. And so it is settled.


The trip took some time, so it was already night when the group had arrived at the city of Ur. After getting a good night sleep they were gonna start searching for Will, the son of the count in the mountains. Upon reading about the city of Ur Hinata was actually genuinely excited when finding out that Ur specializes in making rice. The guys were pleased seeing Hinata so happy over something like eating for nostalgia.

Now they stand in front of one of the restaurants that serves curry. "You guys are gonna love this." Hinata says as they walk in.

"So this is the food Hinata use to eat huh?" Shu asked curiously.

"If Hinata likes it, so do I." Akira stated bluntly.

"Alright, then let's find a table." Meld said.

Just as they had sit down another costumer suddenly rushes out of her chair and goes to their table "Hinata? Meld?" Hinata and Meld eyes widened in shock seeing the short before them it was Aiko Hatayama, the teacher of the heroes that got summoned along with them.

When they received their classes, Aiko had gotten one named Farmer, it was quite rare and useful. While the students practiced combat, she was assigned to help with the crops around the kingdom. To think she would happened be in the same town as Hinata...

Thinking in a rush, Hinata can only thing of one solution, using the menu to cover her face. "Oh, this looks good "

Aiko went and grabbed her shoulder and started shaking. "Don't just ignore me! Your hair looks different but you're still wearing the same clothes as Hinata!"

"S-So what do you guys want for a drink?"

Meld just sighs he stands and Aiko looks at him. "Hello, Lady Aiko, it's good to see you again." After things calmed down and getting their meals Meld can see that Aiko was not alone as he sees some students in the restaurant.

The group in question were apparently students who gave up fighting after his and Hinata's...accident. The group consisted of Yuka Sonobe (Acrobat), Nana Miyazaki(Hydrosophist), Taeko Sugawara(Whip Master), Atsushi Tamai (Cuttlassier), Noboru Aikawa (Axe Warrior) and Akito Nimura (Illusionist).

There was another group that also gave up on fighting but they have chosen to continue to remain in the castle. The group before them are the ones who are trying to help the kingdom in a different way other than fighting.

Hinata, Shu and Akira were scarfing down their curries not paying much attention to Aiko. "Well, all in all, I'm glad that you're ok...but what happened to you after you fell in the labyrinth?

"Some crazy shit" Hinata answered bluntly.

"Ok...what happened to your hair" Aiko asked again.

"Don't really know." Hinata answered bluntly once again.

"Then why didn't you try to comeback to us?!" Aiko asked in a slightly louder voice.

"Because I didn't want to." Hinata replied with a bit of frustration.

"Lady Aiko, our story is a bit complicated" Meld tried explaining.

"And who are these two boys?" Aiko asked now yelling.

"I'm Akira..."

"And I'm Shu.."

""And we both belong to Hinata.""

"B-Belong?!"

"I told you to stop spouting crap like that!"

Meld watches Aiko racking her brain over the fact her student having two lovers. He also stares at his full plate of curry, the surprise meeting has put his appetite to rest.

"Meld, are you eating? You haven't touched your plate" Hinata asked out of the blue.

"Huh? Uh, no I don't really have the appetite." He said while shoving the plate to Hinata, who just shrugs and starts eating it.

Just then a blonde hared man in armor walked closer, it was one of the templar knights that was appointed to protect Aiko. He punches the table causing Hinata and the others to stop eating. "Watch your manners."

"My manners?" The knight asked, feeling insulted. "If anybody should watch their manners, it's you." The knight points to Shu. "Sharing your table with of beastmen of all things, he might look less disgusting if I cut those unsightful ears of yours." That comment earned him a glare from Akira. "What?"

Akira simply replied "Pathetic." And that made the man snap as he reached for his sword he suddenly he is stopped when he feels a massive blow on his stomach. It was Meld, who had gotten out of his chair and landed a deadly blow on the man in the blink of an eye.

The students were in shock not just at Meld's new strength, but there was also the fact that they never thought the captain would act like this. Meld gently put the man down "Sorry, but I would appreciate it if you did not threaten my comrades." He then stood up and looked at the group and bowed. "I'm sorry to have shown you such a sight."

Meld actually recognized this man as David, a member of the templar knights, who was ordered to protect Aiko. Meld has always known that not many people he worked with didn't like beastmen, but to think it was this bad...Meld glared at the rest of the knights, making sure they get the message.

Shu keeps looking down at the table. "Hey Shu, you ok?" Hinata asked, being genuinely concerned.

"It's fine, I just didn't think people hated my ears so much." Shu admitted sadly while holding his rabbit ears.

"You shouldn't listen to idiots like him." Akira said. "You're ears are adorable"

"Yes, Hinata even said you would be quite popular back in her world." Meld chimed in, that cheered Shu up immediately.

"Not for the reason you think." Hinata mumbled while giggling.

Hinata's classmates who watch the scene before them were bewildered seeing someone like Hinata being adored by two handsome and cute boys, back at Japan the only boy who hung out with her was Seiji.

Hinata finally decides to get up and leave after finishing her and Meld's curry, along with Akira and Shu and makes her way to the exit.

"Wait, hold on, we're not done!" Aiko called out.

"Bite me! Just forget I was even here, don't get in my way, and just stay here with that racist asshole!" Hinata countered as she exits the restaurant with the other two.

"Hinata!" Meld followed them.


Aiko stares out the window of her room, mulling over today's events. Of course it was a joyous occasion, Hinata, who was presumed to be dead is still alive and she is still the same like she was at that day.

Aiko hasn't given up she promised herself that she would bring all of her students home, that includes Hinata even if she did-

KNOCK KNOCK

Aiko turns to the door. "Lady Aiko, may I have a word" Aiko recognizes the voice belongs to Meld and opens the door for him.

The two adults sit across from each other, Aiko had made tea for both of them. "First, I would like to apologize for Hinata's behaviour" Meld started.

Aiko simply waves her hands. "Oh it's fine, truth be told, I'm actually glad Hinata hasn't changed even if she looks like that." Both adults chuckled at the end of that sentence then Meld's face became serious.

"Lady Aiko there is something i must tell you, it's about what Hinata and what we learned in the great labyrinth." Aiko is now hearing wholeheartedly at Meld's story, the truth of Ehit, of how the liberators who tried to stop him were turned into to Mavericks, of how the last remaining liberators created labyrinths as a test to inherit their ancient magic and hopes that someone will finally smite the evil god.

"Then are you and Hinata gonna kill this evil god?!" Aiko asked concerned.

"Oh no, Hinata has stated multiple times she only wishes to clear the labyrinths in order to get home, as for me, I wish to prioritize protecting my kingdom from any threat and should that involve god then so be it, I also wish to put you and your students at rest, I do not wish to put the responsibility of this world on your shoulders"

Aiko was filled with relief and gratitude. Although she and her students were forced to come here, she has grown attached to the people of this world, and she does not wish to abandon them.

"Well it's getting late, I should get back to my room." Meld said as he got up.

"Wait!" Aiko called out. "I need to tell you something, Seiji and Kaori are still looking for you two, they weren't gonna believe you two were dead until they saw it for themselves"

Meld and Aiko once again chuckle together again "Seiji has it bad for her doesn't he?" Meld asked an obvious question and Aiko simply giggles.

Meld walks to the door still pleased with the conversation until...

"They're working hard with their other classmates working through the labyrinth"

Meld's smile dropped as he took a deep breath, knowing she deserved to know.

"Lady Aiko there's some thing you must know, but first I must ask something." He didn't turn around. "What do you know around the circumstances of our fall?"

Aiko was confused by the question but chose to answer regardless. "Well...one of the magic spells accidentally hit Hinata then, you tried to save her and both of you fell"

"Sorry but that is false." He answered immediately, it's better to get this over with as soon as possible. "It was not an accident that Hinata was shot."

Aiko's world immediately shattered as Meld continued. "I know you would never want to believe it but one of your students did try to kill Hinata of their own volition. Now before you ask, I don't know who it is, Hinata has decided to keep that fact to herself, with that I bid you goodnight." And so, Meld exits the room, leaving Aiko to contemplate what she had just heard.

She places her teacup down with her shaking hands. She didn't know what to do, she wanted to say Meld was wrong, or there was a mistake, but in the short time she knew him, she knows Meld would never lie or joke about something like this, and she also knows he wouldn't say anything like this, unless he was absolutely sure of it.


The group set out in the morning to look for Will when they were stopped by another group one comprised of Aiko and the other students.

"Ok, what the hell is this?" Hinata asked in annoyed toned as if she knew the answer to her own question .

"We're gonna help you in the mountains after all-"

"Not happening." Hinata immediately replied, cutting Aiko off. "You'll slow us down."

"Hey now, you may be fast, but you can't seriously run faster than our horses." Yuka spoke up.

To prove her wrong, Hinata activates her Treasure Trove and brings out her SUV, shocking Aiko the others.

"Now you get it? Now go away, before I run you over"

"Hinata, perhaps we sh-"

"Wait!" This time Aiko cuts Meld off and runs to Hinata before she gets on and drags her away from the group. "Please let us come, Meld gave some serious information last night, and I want to talk about it some more"

"What's there to talk about? Ehit is full of crap, and one of your students is an asshole that tried to kill me."

Aiko still had a hard time digesting the latter but that wasn't gonna stop her. "Look, it's not just that, do you remember Shimizu?"

"Unfortunately yes, freckles and looks like a mess."

"Well he's gone missing and I want to look for him in the mountains if possible."

"I don't care."

"Please, if you help us I promise I'll leave you alone, and I won't try to bring you back."

"You talk like that was an option for you in the first place."

"Nagumo!"

Hinata stares at her teacher for a moment she starts to remember just how stubborn Aiko can get, she knows it well. Hinata lets out a deep sigh. "Fine."

Meld and the other two were shocked at Hinata's word, maybe Aiko affects Hinata more than they thought.

"Uh, I don't think your SUV is gonna fit all of us, so what do we do?" Yuka pointed out .

"Simple." Hinata activated her ring again this time pulling out her motorcycle shocking Aiko's group again. "Meld, you drive the SUV. Akira, Shu, and I will take the motorcycle."

The two boys were immediately joyed by the idea. "Akira, can you drive?"

"Of course my dear, and as I drive you can hold on to me as tight as you can."

"Hey, no fair! Hinata should sit behind me and hold on to me!"

Just when the two boys were about to fight again, but Hinata quickly breaks it up. "Stop it, I'm in the mood for this crap, not that I'll ever be, so I'll sit on the back and I won't be holding on to anyone, is that clear?" The boys pout as they reluctantly followed Hinata's order. Before she gets on the motorcycle she spares a glare onto her classmates who flinched at receiving it.


The group eventually reached the mountain instead if running around looking for two random boys Hinata thought of something more convenient.

After clearing Reisen, Hinata had gotten a plethora of new materials which she has used to make her brand new drones. The drones were modeled after birds, just like Miledi's golem knights, they can fly and have somewhat of an individual mind. The birds eyes were connected to Hinata's goggles which means she can see what they can.

As the birds fly around, Hinata notices something worth checking out. She leads the group to the location she found and there they found multiple weapons or at least what's left of it as every weapon they found was burned to a crisp and most likely the people who owned these weapons. The group found something even more concerning….a footprint, a massive one.

The group decides to follow the trail of destruction that leads them to a waterfall and as soon as they get there Hinata and Meld immediately sensed a weak presence behind the waterfall and informed the group. Akira then made a path by using wind magic to split the waterfall in half. Hinata was getting tired of the peanut gallery's reactions while Meld assured them they would get used to it.

They all enter and as soon as they do they found the unconscious body of a young man...That Hinata quickly chopped on the head, which made everyone sweatdropped. The young man frantically wakes up. "Are you Will Cudeta?"

"Huh!? Y-Yeah, I am"

The boy, although alive, sustained some injury and was currently getting treatment from Aiko and he told the group of what had transpired. "The monsters just wouldn't stop coming and then it showed up "

"What did?"

"A black dragon." That shook the group.

"A dragon..?"

"Grrr, I don't deserve this! My party died, but I get to live, I mean I'm glad but, but, but.."

Meld was going to stop the boy from having a panic attack but before he could Hinata stepped and slugged Will on the head.

"Shut up already." she ordered.

"Na-" before Aiko could get out her sentence she was stopped by Akira who assured her.

"Your party died and you lived. That's a fact you can't change."

"Yeah, but-"

"Losing your allies is a tragedy, and wanting to live isn't a crime, don't mix those two up."

"..."

"You should never regret having the desire to live."

Will finally calms down and everybody gets out of the cave but not long they exited they all heard it. The roar of a dragon that sends Will back to his fearful state "IT'S HERE!"

Hinata and Meld keeps looking around trying to find the source of this massive energy they're sensing. And then it appeared, the Dragon came down, although it didn't reach the ground the span of it's wings were enough knock the group down, especially Will as he is knocked away from the group. The dragon then dives towards Will seeing this Hinata quickly run and tackles Will getting them away from the dragon's way. Although it had crashed to the ground it was not fazed in the slightest and turns towards Hinata and Will.

"Crap" Hinata runs carrying Will over her shoulder while activating her Treasure Trove "Meld! Round everyone up, it's after Will!"

A massive black shield appears, and she kicks it towards Meld, who catches it . Hinata jumps to behind joining everyone else just as the dragon fires a massive purple beam of fire from its mouth Meld steadily holds the shield while being supported by the others.

As soon as it stopped, Meld orders Aiko to take the other students and Will out of here. Then Akira and Shu leaps with their weapons in hand and attacks the dragon, but it was all for naught. Even with Shu's strength and Akira activating Draconic Thunder, while thrusting his sword into the dragon's body, it still stood strong.

Hinata and Meld quickly learn the same lesson as the dragon's scales withstood Hinata's bullets and Meld's sword. The dragon began to take into the air most likely to go after Will.

"Like hell you are!" Hinata summons two sets of chains from her Treasure Trove and throws both of it up, and the chains start wrapping around the dragon on it's own. Hinata then tosses the ends of the chains she was holding to Akira and Meld. "Guys, pull it down with gravity magic!" The two men follows her orders as the dragon can suddenly feels a massive weight pulling it down.

Though chained, the dragon could still flap it's massive wings. Unfortunately for it, Hinata pulls out her sick as hell railgun and shoots one of it's wings, and Shu also blast it's other wing with a bunch of grenade. Hinata then started running after she picked up Meld's sword and headed towards the back of the dragon.

"Hinata, where are you going?"

"I think I know where this guy's weak spot is." As soon as she makes her way behind the dragon and she's sees the weak spot she was looking for, she readies Meld's sword and stabs right into it.

And then suddenly...

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! STOP! STOP! STOP!" That massive voice quickly stopped everyone in their tracks.

"Did that thing just talked?" Shu asked.

"I find myself confused." Meld admitted.

"Could it be..." Akira wondered. "Are you part of the dragonmen race?"

"They're the people, who can turn into dragons right? But weren't they extinct?" Hinata asked .

"PLEASE, I AM WILLING TO ANSWER ANY QUESTION YOU ASK, JUST PLEASE REMOVE THAT SWORD!"

Hinata kicked the sword deeper causing the dragon to scream again. "You're in no room to make requests asshole, that thing is staying in there until we're satisfied. So why did you try to kill Will?"

"PLEASE, I TOLD YOU I WI-AAAAHHHH!" Hinata started repeatedly punching the sword again.

"What did I say about requests?"

"Hinata, I believe you should pull it out, I don't think he can answer properly in this state." Akira advised.

"Yes and let's not forget that's my sword. I would rather not have it...in there for too long, I still have to use it after all." Meld awkwardly added.

"Tch." Hinata understanding Akira and Meld reluctantly grabs the sword handle and starts pulling. "W-WAIT NOT SO FA- AAAAAAHHHH" Ignoring the dragon, Hinata simply pulls the sword out with no hesitation.

While Hinata gives the sword back to Meld, who is disgusted by how much cleaning he's going to need to do. The dragon starts being covered in light as it shrinks to a human form as the light fades Aiko's group comes back. The group then sees the dragon's real form, they can see an adult man wearing a black yukata with a white robe there were two horns on his head that also had long black hair. His body seemed to be pretty big even in this form although currently on the ground they can tell he has similar build to Meld. The group watches in shock especially, Hinata for some reason.

"You were so rough even though I asked you to be gentle. My name is Tio Klarus" The now named Tio introduced himself while whispering that first part. He turns to group and bows. "I apologize for causing you all a lot of trouble."

"Ok, now fess up, first of all, why are you even here?"

"I had heard stories of beings summoned from another world, I left my hidden village to investigate. I had arrived here in order to rest. Then as I was resting this black robed man appeared he's skill in dark magic was masterful, I couldn't fight back at all, he ordered me to kill that young man and his companions."

Well that explains why he was here and why he tried to kill Will, but that story just made more questions, mostly about that man manipulated Tio. Meld can see Aiko and the others get nervous and Meld knows well why after all a certain missing student has a specialty in dark magic.

"BULLSHIT" everybody looked at Will "You were being controlled? How do we know that was the truth? She cn be lying just to save her ass" Will shouted.

Despite his outburst, Hinata can understand Tio's story was very... convenient but...

"I am not lying, I swear upon the honor of my race." Tio insisted

"AS IF-"

"He's not lying" Akira spoke up. "The dragonmen are a noble race, they would never try to deceive anyone."

"How do you know of my race?" Tio asked.

"Because I am a vampire." Akira replied

"Oh, I had heard the vampires were all annihilated to think one is standing here before me."

"So what?" Will spoke up again. "She still killed everyone!"

Tio looks down in shame. "It's true, innocent people died by my hands but...that man, I told you about, he is planning to...invade the town with an army of monster." Everybody, except Hinata gasped.

"W-Wait! About that man in the black robe..." One student spoke up.

"Yeah, what can you tell us about him?" Another one asked.

"I only remember seeing a young man with black hair and freckles, actually, he might be around your ages."

"Sensei..." Yuka whispered.

"We don't know if it's Shimizu." Aiko replied.

'It's totally him.' Hinata internally thought. 'Really set yourself up for that one, Hatayama.'

Tio turns to Hinata and Will. "I will accept any punishment you give me, but please first let me help stop him." He pleaded.

"Absolutely not, get ready to die." Hinata immediately replied while pointing her gun. Tio was speechless and Shu felt a sense of nostalgia.

"You would kill me after all I said?!" Tio asked in disbelief.

"Don't care, you tried to fry my ass, now I shoot your head." Hinata gets ready to pull the trigger.

"I don't think you want to do that" Hinata turns to Meld.

"Why?" Hinata asked.

"While it's true he attacked us, he didn't do it of his own volition. The fact that Akira vouch of him is proof enough for me to know that he is telling the truth. Now I ask you, if this person someone you have to kill."

Hinata looks at Tio for a while then internally cursed. 'He doesn't have it either.' Hinata then put her gun away and walks away deciding to summon up her goggles and try to scout for said army.

Meld walks closer to Tio. "Tio, might I ask how many do you think how big this man's army is?"

"I fear, well around 3000 monsters."

Everybody once again gasped except Hinata, who was looking through her goggles who suddenly said. "Add a zero"

Everyone turns to Hinata in confusion. "I found the army. It's way more than 3000, add a zero, and then double it, that makes a total of...60000."


Yes, I decided not to change Tio's name, just because I didn't feel like changing it. Also, I actually changed some ideas of this chapter, like when she met Aiko, I wanted Hinata to yell out "stranger danger" and just try to run, also kinda wanted to make it so that Hinata was the one that beat up David, albeit in a more brutal way.